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Chapters: 1/6 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort Characters: Harry Potter, Tom Riddle | Voldemort Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Alternate Universe - Zombie Apocalypse, Zombies, Guns, Gore, Unethical Experimentation, Minor Character Death, Happy Ending, Zombie Harry Potter, Alternate Resurrection Ritual, Science Fiction Elements, Dubious Consent, Consent Issues, Softcore smut, Body Horror, Pseudo-Necrophilia, Bathing/Washing, Long-Haired Voldemort, Gratuitous Violence, Treating a Zombie as a Body Pillow, Salazar Slytherin's Locket, What if an EVIL WIZARD knew how SCIENCE worked?, Title from a The Killers Song, lots of gore okay, The Male Loneliness Epidemic, no beta whoops, graphic description of violence Summary:
For ten years, zombies have ravaged the British Isles. For ten years, Lord Voldemort has searched for a cure.
The dead fear sunlight. They hide during the day and surround Voldemort's hideout at night. Inside, he scrapes a solitary existence from the bones of an empty city. One day, a zombie with abnormal behavior patterns catches his eye. It is docile, it is still, and most strangely of all it stands in daylight without fear. Voldemort recognizes the zombie-messy hair, green eyes, and a scar-as the corpse of his fated vanquisher. He resolves to capture the zombie as a test subject, but his plans are thrown off completely at an impossible discovery-Harry Potter's heart still beats inside his chest.
After ten years, this may be the break he's looking for in his research.
But, even undead, the Boy-Who-Lived has a way of always disrupting his carefully laid plans.