no place like home [written by dirgewithoutmusic; read by Opalsong]
Title: no place like home
Author: dirgewithoutmusic
Readers: Opalsong
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairings: gen
Rating: Teen
Length: 1:29:16
Size: 82.0MB
Music: Secrets Of The Castle by John Williams
Cover: Opalsong
Summary:
When Petunia Dursley refused to take Harry in she forfeited his birthright protection, so Dumbledore took the baby to the safest place he knew: Hogwarts.
The applicable staff (mostly just… not Snape) took Harry in on a rotating schedule as he grew from baby to toddler to child. They traded extra credit for babysitting among the older students, and Harry grew up knowing a few dozen different laps that were safe and warm to nap in.
This was a Harry who grew up among books, among old transient walls and learned professors. They gave Binns night duty sometimes, and let him talk young Harry to sleep. This was a Harry whose world changed, on principle, daily. The stairs moved. The walls became doors. You had to keep your eyes open-you had to pay attention. So he did.
He grew up in a school. Knowledge was power, but knowledge was also joy. This was his sanctuary. There was magic in his world from birth.
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