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Episode 23 - What If Voldemort Raised Harry Potter Instead?
Jul 9, 2025
What if Voldemort never fell? What if, on that fateful night in Godric’s Hollow, he chose not to kill Harry Potter — but to raise him? Witness the dark and emotional alternate history of Hadrian Potter, told through a haunting narrative of legacy, loss, and rebellion. Subscribe to Echoed Tales for more magical what-if stories, psychological lore, and cinematic wizarding world fiction.
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What if Voldemort never died and raised
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Harry Potter? The world did not burn in
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1981 because it never had to heal. On a
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cold October night in Godric's Hollow,
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the dark lord found the potters. He
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entered the house with calculated steps.
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The wind hissing behind him like a
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serpent's breath. The spell did not
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rebound. Lily Potter didn't throw
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herself fast enough. James had already
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fallen. The prophecy had been fulfilled
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in a different way. Not by death, but by
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domination.
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Voldemort, standing over the crib,
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looked into the boy's eyes. Not
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screaming, not crying, just watching.
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Quiet green eyes locked with red. There
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was something unsettling in the child's
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silence. He raised his wand, but the boy
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did not fear him.
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The boy watched, and for the first time
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in years, Voldemort hesitated.
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Something ancient stirred within him. A
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whisper of immortality, not through
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horcruxes, but through legacy. He
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lowered the wand. The world believed the
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potters were slaughtered, but the truth
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was buried beneath ashes and silence.
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The dark lord took the child. He did not
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call him Harry. That name was soft,
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human, sentimental. He called him Hrien,
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raised in the shadows of Riddle Manor.
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Hrien Potter grew not with warmth but
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with will. There were no lullabibis, no
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hugs, no birthdays,
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only books, duels, and whispers.
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Bellatrix taught him cruelty. Snape
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taught him restraint and Voldemort.
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Voldemort taught him how to speak with
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silence. But Hadrien was not Voldemort.
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Not exactly. He listened, he questioned,
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observed. He watched the way Voldemort
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looked at blood traders. watched the
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pain in Sever's eyes when no one else
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noticed. He read books that should have
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been locked away, and he dreamed of a
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woman with red hair humming in
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candlelight. He did not understand love,
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but he was curious about it. At age 11,
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Voldemort sent him to Hogwarts not to
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learn, to conquer. Hadrien walked
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through the gates with his back straight
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and his heart quiet. The sorting hat
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barely touched his head before
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whispering, "Sly." He took his place
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beside Draco Malfoy, but didn't smile.
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Did not trust anyone. Not yet.
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Dumbledore's eyes widened when he saw
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the boy. Not because of the scar. There
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wasn't one, but because of the eyes.
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Lily's eyes. Hrien was polite. Too
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polite. He answered questions with
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precision. He studied obsessively. He
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knew more curses than any first year had
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a right to. And yet, dot dot dot, he
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read muggle literature. He watched
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Granger in silence. He did not laugh at
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Weasley. He was learning things
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Voldemort never intended. He saw
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injustice in the corridors. Filches,
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abuse, the snears at Muggleborns.
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He felt something stir inside him. Not
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anger, not power, something else, a
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memory. In his second year, he found the
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mirror of arised. Voldemort had warned
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him of foolish artifacts. But the mirror
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showed him something that tore a crack
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in his mind. He saw himself a boy,
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smaller, softer, sitting in a woman's
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lap. A man beside her, laughing,
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smiling. He saw love and he wept. He had
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never wept before that night. He did not
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return to the Slytherin dormatory. He
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stood on the astronomy tower until dawn.
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Voldemort felt the shift. The bond
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between them was fragile, conditional,
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built on lies Hrien no longer believed.
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In his fourth year, Dumbledore spoke to
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him in riddles. Offered no answers, only
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questions. The kind that stuck in your
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bones. Who are you really? What do you
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stand for? In his fifth year, Hrien saw
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Draco attack a younger student, a
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muggleborn. He did not report it. He
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hexed Draco so brutally, Madame Pumpfrey
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cried. That night, he wrote his first
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letter to Dumbledore. I do not know what
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I am, but I know what I am not. I am not
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him. Voldemort raged. Howled tried to
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possess the boy's mind. But something
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inside Hrien was unbreakable. A memory
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of laughter, a flicker of warmth, an
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echo of Lily. In his sixth year, the war
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returned. Voldemort rose fully. Hogwarts
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became a battlefield. Students chose
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sides. Hadrien stood between them. He
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faced Voldemort in the great hall. His
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wand steady. The world watched.
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Dumbledore watched. The dark lord raised
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his voice. You are my legacy, my
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creation, my heir. Hadrien replied
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calmly, "No, you are my past, and I have
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outgrown you." Their dual cracked stone.
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Hadrien did not use Avatadavra.
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He broke the wand that gave Voldemort
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power. He shattered the Horcrux hidden
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in his own blood. He rewrote the
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prophecy. Not with death, but with
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choice. When the dust settled, Hrien
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Potter did not claim a title. He did not
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seek fame. He walked out of the ruins,
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robes torn, eyes clear. He found a quiet
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cottage near a forest, taught defense at
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Hogwarts, planted flowers Lily once
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loved, and every year on the day the
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world almost ended, he lit a candle for
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the parents he never knew, dot dot dot,
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and the monster who raised him, dot dot
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dot, but never truly owned
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