This is good very good. I do wonder if Remo will show up more in later parts and what affects otherwise Harry's lack of presence until this point had on other events.
Author's response
- Another Remo appearance? Don't know, maybe. I was going to have Remo take Harry out for a field trip to test out the '37 steps' in the wild as it were, but the chapter was insanely long by my standards
- Other changes from harry not being there, The Weasleys might have won the contest inbetween 2nd and 3rd year, but having just lost Ginny they certainly didn't go to Egypt, so no newpaper photo, and Sirius is still in Azkaban.
- For the tri-wizard, no fourth competitor. Krum took the Dragon contest, Cedric won the 2nd task, and Fleur 'won' the third when her allure had the boys fighting over her.
- Tom reintegrated his body using Fleur's blood, ending up female-ish and has the Veela allure. Fleur is sadly no longer among the living.
- Crouch Jr was tortured to death for getting Tom a 'mixed blood' to do his ritual with...
- With no witnesses to the resurrection Dumbles wasn't painted a loon and traitor 5th year, Umbitch never came to school with her blood quill. Since Harry didn't win the Triwizard, the Twins don't have their shop
- And without Harry to counter balance Draco and his Daddy, Draco basically rules the school with most of the teachers frighted for their jobs and Draco and his 'enforcers' terrorize the students at will...