...the Dark Lord will mark him as his equal, but he will have power the Dark Lord knows not... After learning the bitter truth from Snape's memories, Harry decides that if he is going to die, he would do so fighting, wand in hand.

The world was dead. Hadrian James Potter jumps through the veil, looking for a way out. In Castle Black, the unknowing child of a Great prophecy has just been killed by traitors.