laughs Now this should be interesting indeed. He's going to take a while, likely a good while, to get used to the near-total role and sex reversal aspects and I suspect they'll trip him up more than once along the way.
Just an off thought, would that be "sister wands" in this universe instead of "brother wands"? Still, I wonder what two same-cored wands opposed to one would do? Would there be a stalemate or would numbers and power prevail? The second could make for some very interesting times as the Dark Lady tries to remove the new factor from the situation.
I can see Orestes and Harry becoming very good friends and it's not inconceiveable that Harry could help Orestes improve his relationship with Harri. Too, it'd be -quite- interesting to see Harry and Harri doing a long session comparing their lives and seeing just what differences exist. I suspect it'd be educational for both.
Regarding Harry's "home" worldline, I reckon a sequel or a parallel story would be good there.
Oh, just one thought, would Orestes and Harri be able to give Harry enough pointers that, when he returns, he could improve his relationship with Hermione to the level he'd like it?
Author's response
I believe you can count on that.
Yeah, sister wand. I've noticed that I have to do a lot of pronoun correction on this fic. I would think that the whole Priori Incantatem thing might be dangerous. Remember, it is caused when wands with common cores are forced to do battle they react with the Priori Incantatem, but nothing is said of what happens when wands with common cores are used to work together. It might be rather spectacularly bad...
The reason behind the summer together is to bond the pair of Orestes and Harry. There will be a meeting of the Potters to discuss their lives in detail, I just don't know when yet.
I'm leaning toward a sequel, a Neville or Ron or Hermione(?) centered sequel perhaps.
Within the bounds of the story I want to tell, Harry isn't going home.