Oddities - Chapter 1 - IStillPlayWithLegos - Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling [Archive of Our Own]
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
The Potter’s loved their son with a fierceness that not even the most loyal of Death Eaters could match. They would raze the very heavens to keep him safe. They would ruin those who might look sideways at their firstborn child.
No one needed to know the kind of Wizardry Lily and James were beginning to learn or how brilliant a tutor Sirius Black was of Dark Magic. He understood the need to protect Harry and was quick to swear an Unbreakable Vow in his Godson’s name. No one needed to know the exact number of tiny scars left on Lily’s breast. Or that there were four extra imprints when compared to that of an adult set of teeth. No one needed to know about the black mark they discovered on the underside of Harry’s tongue. One that refused to be covered by glamours or transfiguration. One that, no matter how hard they searched, they couldn’t find a way to hide.
After all, what was the magic of a Wizard compared to that of Deaths?
Evidently, not enough. Because Death still took Lily and James on October 31st, just as Fate commanded.