Turning of the Times (джен)

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A few things to declare right off the bat, because I know if I don’t I will end up having comments about it later.First: Though this is not a ship fic, it does feature characters with romantic entanglements. They are less a point than in canon, but they are there. Several characters also identify as queer, even characters that you might not interpret as such in the canon. Luckily for me, I am a fanfiction writer, not JKR, and I do not have to obey the established canon if I don’t want to. Although I do not intend to write anything that disagrees with the canon, my interpretation probably differs from yours. TL;DR: romance in this story is highly low-key.Second: this fic eventually contains Death Eaters and Death Eater related, sometimes graphic violence, which may include characters being tortured and characters being forced to act in ways they would not on their own. The list of people doing awful shit/arguably standing by some awful shit includes many characters, and also Harry. This is a fic that sees Harry backed into some pretty awful corners, and he is definitely traumatized by a lot of what is happening. I don't mean this in a hurt/comfort genre way, I mean this in a, how far can you push a person before they break type way. Unfortunately with the need to re-write the first several chapters (as well as the whole story, but that is a matter for another time), the shift in tone to darker matter happens rather gracelessly. Consider yourself warned.If you would like me to label for any specific warnings, let me know. Some (but not all) additional CWs include offscreen and/or onscreen: suicide, unhealthy eating habits, domestic violence, fantasy racism, systematic oppression, sometimes all-too-relevant political situations, graphic on-screen torture, abuse that is literally impossible to speak about, child abuse, unhealthy relationships between adults and minors including discussions of pedophilia, homophobia, destruction of safe spaces, characters with trauma/their own specific triggers/who develop new trauma and triggers, sensory overstimulation, disassociation, on-screen character death, animal death, children being trained to participate in many of the previous behaviors, coercion of main characters into participating in many of the previous listed behaviors, ... and more, that I will try to come back and list here. Third: as mentioned above, this fic is in dire need of a rewrite. A second draft, you might say. Of my writing, it's not a story I'd ever recommend to anyone myself. It's highly self-indulgent in terms of being built for specific trope subversions, and I started writing it rather than leaving it in the planning stage because I knew it would push the limits of what I had experience in writing (see all those warnings above). I've gone through several phases of wanting to delete the whole thing, but I know there are some readers who quite enjoy it, and I wouldn't want to take a fic from them. Besides, multiple shitty sites have ri