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Episode 23 - What If Voldemort Raised Harry Potter Instead?
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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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