Fourteen Days
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34 chapters · 240,485 words · ≈ 16 h 2 min · updated · 31 readers
About the story
Contents
- 1.
Prologue
Hermione pulls Harry out of the Auror office, takes his magic and leads him through an archway in the Department of Mysteries — into a world where Neville was the Boy Who Lived and James and Lily are alive. One dinner, and a plea she should have refused.
- 2.
Enchanted Forest, Part 1
A night spent memorising someone else's notes, a portkey to France, and eight miles on foot through the most dangerous forest in the world. That evening, sorting photographs of a life they never lived, they finally ask why each chose their work.
- 3.
Enchanted Forest, Part 2
James tests his son with a trick question; Lily asks about the wound Hermione won't discuss. And at night the path to the fairy colony opens only to those willing to split up — where Harry kisses her with no audience to perform for.
- 4.
Enchanted Forest, Part 3
An air current carries Hermione off into the trees, and the dream turns into a nightmare where Harry can only watch. By morning: a jousting festival, fortified wine, and a father who confiscates her portkeys so she'll finally relax.
- 5.
Forgotten City, Part 1
A guide whose name Hermione keeps mangling leads them along an invisible path over the void — to floating mountains, thousands of dragons, and tiny fire lizards that choose people by the quiet strength in their hearts.
- 6.
Forgotten City, Part 2
Harry steals a letter from his parents' room and learns about the wound Hermione never mentioned. The row that follows finally lets her say how he has punished her for years for disagreeing — and he answers with something long overdue.
- 7.
Forgotten City, Part 3
A box of photographs gives up someone else's youth: another Harry, another Hermione, and one picture that leaves them both awkward. Then she lifts her shirt and shows the thing that kept this family from speaking for two years.
- 8.
The Tear, Part 1
The next Wonder is the Tear in the Veil, where the living speak with the dead. James doesn't hesitate — and past the Sphinx wait a hall of crooked pillars and an endless tunnel of strangers' memories, with a three-hour queue.
- 9.
The Tear, Part 2
At the archway itself Harry conjures a bench and goes no closer: the voices call and he holds. Later, in a Cairo bazaar of face-thieves and merchants hawking enchanted emeralds, his Auror instincts turn out to be no exaggeration.
- 10.
The Tear, Part 3
Over lunch Hermione finally admits what this trip has cost her: the work she built her life on. And that evening, on a palm leaning over the oasis, James tells his son what Sirius said to him about survivor's guilt.
- 11.
Fall's End, Part 1
Above the Venezuelan forest, a waterfall emerges from the clouds, its foot hidden in strange mist. Today Hermione must hand the lead to James: only an Animagus can guide them toward the next Wonder.
- 12.
Fall's End, Part 2
James is taking longer to return from the mist, and waiting for his next set of coordinates grows unbearable. They can hear the waterfall now, but every step toward Fall's End takes its toll on the family.
- 13.
Fall's End, Part 3
After the mist, Hermione needs food and sleep to recover her strength. But no diagnostic spell can settle the other shock: she and Harry have kissed, and even the simplest touch has become difficult.
- 14.
Giant's Gulch, Part 1
Hermione finally lets herself set the itinerary aside and rest. Ahead lies a sanctuary of exotic creatures and friendly giants; for now, a quiet talk with James reveals how much his familiar jokes conceal.
- 15.
Giant's Gulch, Part 2
Beyond a narrow gap in the canyon wall lies Giant's Gulch, a sanctuary for rare magical creatures. Hermione explains why giants guard it, while James manages to turn even the walk there into a performance.
- 16.
Giant's Gulch, Part 3
James recognises an Auror's training in Harry's movements and raises his wand at the man he believed was his son. Harry must explain the truth about another world in the middle of a duel, without hurting his father.
- 17.
Giant's Gulch, Part 4
Over a belated dinner, the family searches for words to begin its hardest conversation. The war took different paths in their two worlds, and Neville's story casts familiar names and lives in an unfamiliar light.
- 18.
Giant's Gulch, Part 5
Now it is Harry and Hermione's turn to tell the story of their world. To Lily and James, their son's school adventures sound very different: behind each victory is a child who had to face far too much, far too young.
- 19.
Giant's Gulch, Part 6
Harry and James compete to catch rides on Erumpents while their giant guide laughs at every tumble. After a difficult night, laughing with his father comes easily; understanding why Hermione keeps looking away does not.
- 20.
Hidden Depths, Part 1
Hermione is perfectly polite and painfully distant, and Harry is trying to find his way back to her. Another Wonder, intricate calculations and questions about the future await, but even breakfast is full of things left unsaid.
- 21.
Hidden Depths, Part 2
Over a simple dinner, Hermione decides to tell Lily and James one more secret: her engagement to Harry is a fiction. After everything his parents have seen on the trip, the explanation about friendship and pretending is hard to accept.
- 22.
Hidden Depths, Part 3
The underwater city welcomes the travellers with a busy harbour and a market full of rare wonders. Hermione and James test each other's knowledge of Transfiguration, but even here she cannot forget what Harry said the night before.
- 23.
Song of the Stars, Part 1
A Portkey takes the family from the ocean floor to a hidden island among Norway's mountains. There is time before darkness and the Song of the Stars, but Hermione has something important to tell them—and James already knows what it is.
- 24.
Song of the Stars, Part 2
The night path leads toward the Northern Lights, whose music only witches and wizards can hear. Lily remembers hearing it as a child, and a conversation about Petunia helps Harry reconsider his past and what makes a family.
- 25.
Song of the Stars, Part 3
It is the fourteenth day, and Harry cannot sleep after his conversation with his father. Over cooking and cups of tea, he and Lily compare the trip's Wonders and enjoy a few ordinary moments before tomorrow's return.
- 26.
Journey Home
Under the stars, the family shares more stories: Quidditch matches, Lily and James's wedding, and Harry's earliest days. With Hermione beside him, the approaching goodbye is easier to bear, but their remaining hours pass far too quickly.
- 27.
Home, Part 1
Harry wakes on the Department of Mysteries floor, his scar back in place and his own wand inside his robes. He and Hermione are home, in their own bodies, and she needs to know whether the feelings from that other world have come with them.
- 28.
Home, Part 2
Hermione is quiet on the walk home, and Ron desperately wants to know what she is thinking. Their conversation begins with her work and her future, but behind his awkward questions is a familiar jealousy of Harry he thought he had overcome.
- 29.
Home, Part 3
Hermione is summoned to Kingsley to answer for bypassing the Department of Mysteries' security. Her supervisor is disappointed and the Minister is furious, but she has a plan—if she can hold her nerve long enough to explain it.
- 30.
Home, Part 4
Ron wakes on Harry's sofa after an evening when even enlarging the furniture proved difficult. Between hazy memories and pointed jokes, the two friends have to work out how to be there for each other after everything that has happened.
- 31.
Home, Part 5
While Hermione researches with Professor Vector, Harry has become a familiar visitor at Hogwarts. Inside its gates he can escape the newspaper gossip; today's visit begins with Hagrid and a detour toward Neville's greenhouses.
- 32.
Home, Part 6
Another attempt at cooking ends in sticky dough and a search for someone to blame. Harry, Hermione and Ron trade jokes about kitchen disasters and dating as they settle into a friendship reshaped by their cancelled weddings.
- 33.
Epilogue, Part 1
In April, Harry and Hermione return to the Tear with Ron. The familiar archway stirs more memories than Harry can put into words, and before stepping into the darkness they need a moment to face everything it brings back.
- 34.
Epilogue, Part 2
Years later, Giant's Gulch has become an annual destination: Teddy races through the sanctuary with Morph, who changes shape to keep up. Harry and Hermione watch from a shady tree, choosing a moment to share some family news.
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