What's Left of the Living

A ten-year-old Harry Potter is locked out of the Dursley house and ends up being bitten by an unknown werewolf with unclear motives. Somehow, this ends up being both the best and worst thing ever to happen to him.Remus Lupin wakes up for the first time in nine years and is horrified by what he sees. Making amends is never easy, but nothing in his life ever has been.

I've been working on this project for about six months now, and I can honestly say it grew entirely out of my control. Not only has this become my longest single fic, I've also started planning multiple sequels. As in plural. To give you an idea how much this fic has utterly taken over my life, it hit 80k words in about three months. The only reason it didn't reach an even higher word count is because I got sidetracked with multiple oneshots within the same universe. My bedroom wall has been plastered with sticky notes of plot points, character notes, and future scenes for months.After six months, I think I'm finally ready to start posting it. Fair warning, the plot, such as it is, is painfully slow at times. I was writing more for fun than anything else, which means I just wrote whatever I most enjoyed. Future installments, should they ever come to pass, will likely be more plot-driven.01/10/2024 - I'm still slowly working on completing this fic. I can't seem to stop myself from going back to already posted chapters and making minor edits; I suppose that's what I get for posting an unfinished first draft. I struggle with this fic a lot. I love writing it, but HP as a fandom has been soured by JKR, and writing fic for it feels... uncomfortable.