What if James and Lily had been selfish and taken advantage of the muggle medical system to induce their son at the birth of the seventh month, instead of awaiting their heir's birth on the death of the seventh month - all so that they can avoid their son having to bear the burden of the child of prophecy.

A 23 year old Harry Potter choses to go back in time as Reginald Charlus Potter, the older brother of the boy-who-lived. Follow Reginald as he tries to save those he loves by guiding his younger brother (self) through his Hogwarts years and beyond. How will the wizarding world react and change due to his presence?

The only daughter of the late Lord and Lady daughter is due to reenter the magical world of her heritage, how will this world effect her and how will she effect it?

The Dark Lord has fallen and the entire Potter family is no more, a noble sacrifice in the grand scheme of fate, or so it seems, until Albus Dumbledore hears of a young orphan wizard from Wool's Institution for Juvenile Offenders. The young man is prophesied to do great deeds, but will he bow to fate and accept his role in the magical world's bloodiest war?

His biological parents, the sinners that they are, had killed their biological son. Yet, they took him in without hesitation and loved him like their own, like the biological son they loss too young. They became his parents and he their son. He pledged to repay them. Even in death, if he must.

Gestation is a complex matter, but so are prophecies and fate in general. This tale is following an altered destiny stemming from the smallest chromatic change in the beginnings, which leads to many divergences, but in the end the tale is the same.

What if Harry was not the boy who lived? What if he had instead something or someone to live for? Follow Harry in a different world caused by a different sequence of events leading to a hopefully better life in the end. [ravenclaw-harry&draco;][neville-BWL-hufflepuff]