Summary:

unlikely - book 1 - baby/kidhood, year one, year two - finished

omitted - year 3 (posting)

necessary - fourth year (outlined, started)

compromised = fifth year

inconvenient - sixth year - outlined

hidden - seventh year - outlined

finally - post war - outlined

Anthology containing:

unlikely

On the thirty-first of October, 1980, Lily Potter filed a magically binding will naming Severus Snape as Harry's guardian. She placed him last on the list to convince James. She placed him first because she meant it.
Snape cannot refuse. He does not decide to become a father. He simply does the things that fathers do, one after another, for twelve years, until the doing becomes the thing, and the thing becomes permanent.
Dumbledore had a plan. Lily had a better one.
Blood was never the magic that protected Harry. It was love.
Book One of Four.

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omitted

Harry Potter is thirteen years old and can handle himself just fine, thank you very much.
Year Three of The Will. Everyone is keeping secrets. Most of them are about love.