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Title: Xerosis
Author: Batsutousai/batsutousai
Beta: Shara Lunison/tsuki_no_suzu & magickmaker17/magickmaker17
Rating: T
Pairings: Voldemort/Harry (post-Harry/Ginny)
Warnings: SLASH, AU, character death, semi-super!Harry, Dark!Harry
Summary: Harry's world ends at the hands of those he'd once fought to save. An adult-Harry goes back to his younger self fic. Semi-super!Harry

Disclaim Her: Because people keep mentioning it: Yes, I've seen A Very Potter Musical. It was amusing. Once. Didn't care enough for it to watch the second season. (Is that enough to put an end to all the Pigfarts jokes?)

A/N: Super-duper, amazing, HUGE thanks to larawander5(LJ)/larawander5 for helping me figure out the shape of the community on the moon.

For WitheredWings(FFN) and anyone else worried about whether or not the mundanes/muggles would see the moon colony: Okay, so the moon rotates a little bit on its own axis, and it also rotates around the Earth. At the speeds of its rotation, only about 55-ish% of the moon will ever face the Earth. THERE IS A SIDE OF THE MOON WHICH NEVER FACES THE EARTH. It is often, incorrectly, referred to as the 'dark side' of the moon. The 'dark side' of the moon is ever changing, depending on the moon's position in relation to the sun. What, in fact, you should call that side is the 'near side', and that's the side the magical population are colonising.
Harry did mention the possibility that the addition of gravity to the moon might change its rotation, but because the gravity is controlled by magic instead of the moon's velocity, this will not change.
So, in short, the mundanes will never see the magical colony unless they send a probe/shuttle/whatever out into space and fly around the moon to see. They will, eventually, start noticing the environmental changes to the moon – clouds, dragons, etc – but that is partially addressed in this chapter.

( Chapter Ten, Part One – Ice Inside Your Soul )

Chapter Ten, Part Two

Chapters:
Pro - If We Could Only Turn Back Time / 1 - Long Road
2 - Never As It Seems ||| 3 - The Bad Man, the Sad Man ||| 4 - Armies of Robbers and Thieves
5 - Fear Falls Like Rain ||| 6 - Rage Like Fire ||| 7 - Born From Conflict
8 - Reach Any Star ||| 9 - Cold Fields ||| 10 - Ice Inside Your Soul
11 - King of Anything

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Title: Xerosis
Author: Batsutousai/batsutousai
Beta: Shara Lunison/tsuki_no_suzu & magickmaker17/magickmaker17
Rating: T
Pairings: Voldemort/Harry (post-Harry/Ginny)
Warnings: SLASH, AU, character death, semi-super!Harry, Dark!Harry
Summary: Harry's world ends at the hands of those he'd once fought to save. An adult-Harry goes back to his younger self fic. Semi-super!Harry

Disclaim Her: Have I mentioned recently how much I love you people? Like, seriously. Love ya.

A/N: There were a couple of questions about how the professors found out about Harry et al using the RoR: The simple answer is that it's really, really strange to see a group of Slytherins traipsing around on the seventh floor on a weekend. The long, more in depth answer is, the portraits reported back to the professors that a group of students was disappearing down the hallway where the Room of Requirement is. I know some of you will then go: But how would the professors even know about the RoR? Well, think of it this way: It's really, really suspicious that students vanish down there; Tom Riddle found it as a student without the help of a house-elf and with how much stuff is in there, he can't have been the first; and if the house-elves know about it, the professors likely do as well.

A lot of you were really hopeful about the reactions to the ward stone in Hogsmeade, but that section was giving me most of my trouble, so it's mostly been cut out and glossed over. Sorry about that. *shame*
But there's some Tom/Harry interactions and it's longer than ten thousand words to make up for that!


( Cold Fields )

Chapter Nine, Part Two

Chapters:
Pro - If We Could Only Turn Back Time / 1 - Long Road
2 - Never As It Seems ||| 3 - The Bad Man, the Sad Man ||| 4 - Armies of Robbers and Thieves
5 - Fear Falls Like Rain ||| 6 - Rage Like Fire ||| 7 - Born From Conflict
8 - Reach Any Star ||| 9 - Cold Fields ||| 10 - Ice Inside Your Soul
11 - King of Anything

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Title: Xerosis
Author: batsutousai
Beta: tsuki_no_suzu & magickmaker17
Rating: T
Pairings: Voldemort/Harry (post-Harry/Ginny)
Warnings: SLASH, AU, character death, super!Harry, Dark!Harry
Summary: Harry's world ends at the hands of those he'd once fought to save. An adult-Harry goes back to his younger self fic. Super!Harry

Disclaim Her: Bloody... All of a sudden, I know exactly how many people are familiar with Sailor Moon. For the record, I've watched bits and pieces of a dozen episodes and very much do not care for it. Anything in the last chapter that you related to that anime was completely your own doing.

A/N: Re: all the comments on my improper use of Japanese grammar last chapter: Yeah, I know, I took Japanese for a year and have studied it on my own for something like seven years – Shara is also extremely good at it, having studied it for four years of uni, one of which involved studying abroad in Japan for the whole year. But this is Luna and a magical creature that she made up. Nothing says it should have been correct. *grumbles*

For those of you who didn't like the magical population moving to the moon/suggested an alternative to living on the moon most often involving an alternate dimension? BORING. They're going to the moon. My story. (And, yes, you can read the BBC Sherlock reference in that, if you'd like. If you don't know what I'm talking about, for shame.)
For those of you who gave me suggestions for their move to/living on the moon: Thank you? But I've mostly got that figured out thanks to Shara. And some of your ideas were humorous, though very few were already in my head for use in this fic. ^.^"

This chapter starts with Voldemort, because so many of you missed him last chapter. This should win a couple of chuckles.


( Chapter Eight, Part One - Reach Any Star )

Chapter Eight, Part Two

Chapters:
Pro - If We Could Only Turn Back Time / 1 - Long Road
2 - Never As It Seems ||| 3 - The Bad Man, the Sad Man ||| 4 - Armies of Robbers and Thieves
5 - Fear Falls Like Rain ||| 6 - Rage Like Fire ||| 7 - Born From Conflict
8 - Reach Any Star ||| 9 - Cold Fields ||| 10 - Ice Inside Your Soul
11 - King of Anything

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Title: Xerosis
Author: batsutousai
Beta: tsuki_no_suzu & magickmaker17
Rating: T
Pairings: Voldemort/Harry (post-Harry/Ginny)
Warnings: SLASH, AU, character death, super!Harry, Dark!Harry
Summary: Harry's world ends at the hands of those he'd once fought to save. An adult-Harry goes back to his younger self fic. Super!Harry

Disclaim Her: So... usually my chapter titles are stolen from song lyrics – I have this long document on my computer with two to six word phrases from songs I listen to and I just pick something from that list – but this title was inspired by something Penelope Garcia quoted in Criminal Minds – I'm only a little obsessed – and it just... It was awesome. I kind of want to use the whole quote somewhere in this fic, 'cause it's just that awesome.
Erm... /CM gush

A/N: Responses below to some questions I got multiple times:

Muggle/Mundane killings not wise: No, killing a group here or a group there isn't really the brightest idea Harry's ever had, but he's not at his most sane, either, you'll have to recall, and he's working with Voldemort, who also isn't all that sane. A lot of the person-by-person killing is based on simple bloodlust or because that's how the Death Eaters and Harry's groups have worked in the past. They're guerrilla fighters. (And for the suggestions I heard, I've seen those before in other fics, so I'm leery of using them and getting called out for stealing ideas. Especially since I know an author personally who used one of them.)
Also, you have to keep in mind that the normal members of society would never have been willing to fight back against the mundanes without some proof of what they're capable of. So letting them find out about the magical world and start fighting back was something of a necessary evil, even if it does paint a giant target on their society's back.

Harry/Luna? Jesus, people. Harry and Luna are friends, not potential lovers, for all that they're insanely close. Harry honestly has no thoughts towards romance at this point in time, and Luna is a bit young to think much about it.
And the related question: When's the HP/LV(TMR) happening? When the boys are good and ready. It's not in their characters to jump right in, and they've both got other things on their plates. When it happens, it'll be largely by mistake. There will likely be some angst. Yadda, yadda... XD

( Chapter Seven, Part One – Born From Conflict )

Chapter Seven, Part Two

Chapters:
Pro - If We Could Only Turn Back Time / 1 - Long Road
2 - Never As It Seems ||| 3 - The Bad Man, the Sad Man ||| 4 - Armies of Robbers and Thieves
5 - Fear Falls Like Rain ||| 6 - Rage Like Fire ||| 7 - Born From Conflict
8 - Reach Any Star ||| 9 - Cold Fields ||| 10 - Ice Inside Your Soul
11 - King of Anything

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Title: Xerosis
Author: batsutousai
Beta: tsuki_no_suzu & magickmaker17
Rating: T
Pairings: Voldemort/Harry (post-Harry/Ginny)
Warnings: SLASH, AU, character death, super!Harry, Dark!Harry
Summary: Harry's world ends at the hands of those he'd once fought to save. An adult-Harry goes back to his younger self fic. Super!Harry

Disclaim Her: I apologise in advance for any misstatements made about the British government during this time-period, but politics and I very much do not get on, so much of what I found went right over my head. I did my best. Please feel free to rant at me if it makes you feel better. (Also do keep in mind that I'm American, so the British system is, at times, inconceivable to me.)

A/N: So, originally, I completely forgot about putting anything in about Terry's brother or Barty-stalking. And then you people were like, "OMG, BARTY-STALKING!" or "Please show what Harry does to Terry's brother?" and I was like "*sigh* Okay..." So those scenes are for you guys. Because I love you. (And because Barty is too much fun. XD)

( Chapter Six, Part One – Rage Like Fire )

Chapter Six, Part Two

Chapters:
Pro - If We Could Only Turn Back Time / 1 - Long Road
2 - Never As It Seems ||| 3 - The Bad Man, the Sad Man ||| 4 - Armies of Robbers and Thieves
5 - Fear Falls Like Rain ||| 6 - Rage Like Fire ||| 7 - Born From Conflict
8 - Reach Any Star ||| 9 - Cold Fields ||| 10 - Ice Inside Your Soul
11 - King of Anything

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Title: Xerosis
Author: batsutousai
Beta: tsuki_no_suzu & magickmaker17
Rating: T
Pairings: Voldemort/Harry (post-Harry/Ginny)
Warnings: SLASH, AU, character death, super!Harry, Dark!Harry
Summary: Harry's world ends at the hands of those he'd once fought to save. An adult-Harry goes back to his younger self fic. Super!Harry

Disclaim Her: The spells you don't recognise that Harry uses in this chapter are ones I made up. They were created for my Abandon re-write, but since I was stuck without my Latin dictionary and needed a spell, I just stole them from those notes. Yes, you can use them yourself, but credit where credit is due. And all that.

A/N: So, everyone wanted to know what Harry's boggart was. Erm, you know, I never really thought about it all that much, which is why it wasn't in there. Bit of a throw-up between the end of the world and the mundane who shot him. (Not that he fears the mundane, specifically, but he fears failure, and both of those represent that. The end of the world is pretty obvious, but the mundane represents Harry's failure to survive.)

( Chapter Five, Part One - Fear Falls Like Rain )

Chapter Five, Part Two

Chapters:
Pro - If We Could Only Turn Back Time / 1 - Long Road
2 - Never As It Seems ||| 3 - The Bad Man, the Sad Man ||| 4 - Armies of Robbers and Thieves
5 - Fear Falls Like Rain ||| 6 - Rage Like Fire ||| 7 - Born From Conflict
8 - Reach Any Star ||| 9 - Cold Fields ||| 10 - Ice Inside Your Soul
11 - King of Anything

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Title: Xerosis
Author: batsutousai
Beta: tsuki_no_suzu & magickmaker17
Rating: T
Pairings: Voldemort/Harry (post-Harry/Ginny)
Warnings: SLASH, AU, character death, super!Harry, Dark!Harry
Summary: Harry's world ends at the hands of those he'd once fought to save. An adult-Harry goes back to his younger self fic. Super!Harry

Disclaim Her: Did you hold your breath? If yes, why aren't you passed out on the floor? If no, enjoy the obnoxiously long chapter. O.o

A/N: If any of you wondered why I keep picking on Barty? He's Shara's second favourite Death Eater, after Sev, and since I was having such a time fitting Sev in anywhere... XD
So, yes, lots of Barty. Also, Lucius will be popping in and out a bit 'cause he's also fun.

FOR THOSE OF YOU WORRIED ABOUT LUNA NOT BEING PROTECTED FROM VOLDIE: Go back and read the start of last chapter again. Specifically the list of ten students Harry protected.
Seriously. You lot are almost as bad as the people who keep asking what the pairing is going to be. *rolls eyes*


( Chapter Four, Part One – Armies of Robbers and Thieves )

Chapter Four, Part Two

Chapters:
Pro - If We Could Only Turn Back Time / 1 - Long Road
2 - Never As It Seems ||| 3 - The Bad Man, the Sad Man ||| 4 - Armies of Robbers and Thieves
5 - Fear Falls Like Rain ||| 6 - Rage Like Fire ||| 7 - Born From Conflict
8 - Reach Any Star ||| 9 - Cold Fields ||| 10 - Ice Inside Your Soul
11 - King of Anything

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Title: Xerosis
Author: batsutousai
Beta: tsuki_no_suzu & magickmaker17
Rating: T
Pairings: Voldemort/Harry (post-Harry/Ginny)
Warnings: SLASH, AU, character death, super!Harry, Dark!Harry
Summary: Harry's world ends at the hands of those he'd once fought to save. An adult-Harry goes back to his younger self fic. Super!Harry

Disclaim Her: Wait, isn't Voldie back? XD

A/N: The whole Trace being on the wizard/witch instead of their wand has always bothered me a bit. I mean, I guess it makes sense in the grand scheme of things, but if that's how it worked, why did the Ministry record Dobby's use of magic as having been Harry's fault? I dunno, it's just one of those little plot holes that Jo forgot to fill. (And the films confuse this even more, having Hermione fix Harry's glasses in Diagon and having Harry practising magic under his bedsheets at home.)
So, in this world, the Trace is on the wand and muggleborn homes have wards around them that catch any magic used within a certain area around the house. It's assumed magical parents can control their offspring, and even if they can't, at least they can keep things from getting out of control.

To lluvia, Harry did swallow a few souls who knew Mandarin, but as stated back in the prologue/first chapter when Death was explaining the gift, it takes many souls to learn a complete language, as Harry only gets bits and pieces of knowledge from each soul, rather than everything they know. So it would be more correct, perhaps, to say that he knows some Mandarin and Li is teaching him more of it.

When I first started writing this chapter, I groaned to myself a bit 'cause there wasn't really anything planned for this year. I thought, 'This chapter is going to be sadly short,' and then it sort of got away from me and it's actually almost a full thousand words longer than last chapter. *facepalm* Maybe you'll all luck out and next chapter will do the same thing, but don't hold your breath. XD
Actually, on second thought, do hold your breath. It'll amuse me.

( Chapter Three, Part One - The Bad Man, The Sad Man )

Chapter Three, Part Two

Chapters:
Pro - If We Could Only Turn Back Time / 1 - Long Road
2 - Never As It Seems ||| 3 - The Bad Man, the Sad Man ||| 4 - Armies of Robbers and Thieves
5 - Fear Falls Like Rain ||| 6 - Rage Like Fire ||| 7 - Born From Conflict
8 - Reach Any Star ||| 9 - Cold Fields ||| 10 - Ice Inside Your Soul
11 - King of Anything

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Title: Xerosis
Author: batsutousai
Beta: tsuki_no_suzu
Rating: T
Pairings: Voldemort/Harry (post-Harry/Ginny)
Warnings: SLASH, AU, character death, super!Harry, Dark!Harry
Summary: Harry's world ends at the hands of those he'd once fought to save. An adult-Harry goes back to his younger self fic. Super!Harry

Disclaim Her: Bats would like to point out to Harry that his friends are only eleven and perfectly malleable if he'd like to keep them as his friends once he's started killing off all the muggles. Not that Harry's quite that far gone.

A/N: A reviewer – dalistar123 – asked what Harry looks like. Uhm, basically a lot like he would in the books, just a little bit taller and with nicer glasses. He found a way to tame his hair a bit, so it actually lies flat, especially over his forehead. Nothing else really special. (Well, when he uses his dementor power his eyes light up and, to those under his influence, he takes on a very demonic tone.)

To Amy, thanks for the word on the NHS (I want to live in Britain!! ;.; ). From the info I could find on it, I'm not one hundred percent certain that Harry could have gotten the vouchers, and since he wanted nicer frames, he'd likely have had to pay at least something out of pocket.
For your question on the pairing, please refer to either the story summary or the line at the top of any chapter labelled 'Pairings'.

For everyone wondering about the title: It means something along the line of 'abnormally dry skin or eyes'. I picked it, in part, to symbolise Harry's inability to cry, which was mentioned a few times last chapter and will probably come up again later. Really, I picked that title because I have a fic title for every letter of the alphabet except 'X'. And that is the honest truth.

( Chapter Two - Never As It Seems, Part One )

Chapter Two, Part Two

Chapters:
Pro - If We Could Only Turn Back Time / 1 - Long Road
2 - Never As It Seems ||| 3 - The Bad Man, the Sad Man ||| 4 - Armies of Robbers and Thieves
5 - Fear Falls Like Rain ||| 6 - Rage Like Fire ||| 7 - Born From Conflict
8 - Reach Any Star ||| 9 - Cold Fields ||| 10 - Ice Inside Your Soul
11 - King of Anything

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Title: Xerosis
Author: Batsutousai/batsutousai
Beta: Shara Lunison/tsuki_no_suzu
Rating: T
Pairings: Voldemort/Harry (post-Harry/Ginny, with suggestions of Ron/Hermione & Albus/Scorpius)
Warnings: SLASH, AU, character death, super!Harry, Dark!Harry
Summary: Harry's world ends at the hands of those he'd once fought to save. An adult-Harry goes back to his younger self fic. Super!Harry

Disclaim Her: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

A/N: This story basically follows the books, including the Crapilogue. Then it goes AU. XD
I like this cliché, sorry. I've sort of played in it before, I suppose, when I wrote Déguiser, but this is coming at things from a slightly different angle from that fic, though retaining the pairing.

I'm sorry, in advance, for the super!Harry. There I was, writing along, and the next thing I knew, he had MAD SKILLZ. *headdesk* So.... yeah.

On that note... I don't really like the start of this fic. I fought with it a great deal and almost scrapped it entirely a few times, but you sort of need something about where Harry's coming from and why he decided to change things in this cliché, so... Beh.

( Prologue - If We Could Only Turn Back Time )

( Chapter One - Long Road )

Chapters:
Pro - If We Could Only Turn Back Time / 1 - Long Road
2 - Never As It Seems ||| 3 - The Bad Man, the Sad Man ||| 4 - Armies of Robbers and Thieves
5 - Fear Falls Like Rain ||| 6 - Rage Like Fire ||| 7 - Born From Conflict
8 - Reach Any Star ||| 9 - Cold Fields ||| 10 - Ice Inside Your Soul
11 - King of Anything

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