THE OFFICIAL RECORDS TRAILER,
edited by me!

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JUST CLOSE YOUR EYES,
YOU'LL     BE     ALRIGHT,
COME MORNING LIGHT,
YOU AND                 I'LL BE
SAFE       AND        SOUND

HOLD ON TO THE MEMORIES,

No matter where a person goes in life, the cold, prying, unforgiving hands of death have been there before. Marking some place, leaving it forever etched with the remnants of what used to be. Death is an inescapable part of life and no matter how many times a person tried to run from it or, simply, pretend it didn't exist, death was going to catch up. Death would always find a way, the others never stood a chance. Yet, everything in life comes with a balance. The immune system is balanced so it doesn't react to everything entering the human body, nor does it ignore the pathogens invading. The human body secretes potassium only when sodium uptake occurs by cells, the same goes for the opposite, a simple one-in, one-out situation. Everything in life has balance because it needs the balance to exist. There could be no day without night, no moon without the sun, and there could be no death or darkness without life or light to counteract it. Sure, death etched its memory into every crevice of this earth that light and life may not be able to reach. But, the light will forever try to find a way, for its ultimate purpose is to get rid of the darkness. For every person that this darkness festered and grew within, there was going to be someone that light oozed out of. Someone who had only the best hopes for what the world could be, someone who had faith in humanity and believed in people being able to do better. A person who wanted to see the best in everybody else to try and bring their light to the surface. And the people who were seeping darkness from their pores wanted the opposite, they wanted to alter the minds of the people around them and bring them forward.

The problem is — the darkness is so alluring. Because the darkness pokes and prods at the very thing that hurts a person the most. Darkness points out a persons deepest flaws, as if they had never seen them before, and reopens the cut. It presses and presses until suddenly a person breaks and understands all of the bad things in the world. Until a person breaks and can only see the world for the things the darkness has done — not the things that the light has done. It was for this reason that the war hit the wizarding world as hard as it did. Lord Voldemort was unassuming — a charming man that knew how to read people and convince them to join his side. Convince them to understand that what he was doing was right (even if the person did not fully agree with his fight). He knew to choose the people that society had looked at as outcasts — to pull and choose people that had never been chosen before, people that always wanted to be someone's first choice. Tom Riddle was not born into the light, no, he was born into the darkness and from the darkness he grew. Slowly, though rather quickly before he met his demise, he brought others down with him. Yet, there will always be a light to try and outshine the darkness. That's what the Order of the Phoenix was — a group of witches and wizards that wanted nothing more than to restore the wizarding world to what it was. What it deserved to be, a safe place for anyone and everyone to exist within. Witches and wizards that were willing to place their lives on the line and fight for the community and a world that they wanted for their children, siblings, family, and anything in between to experience.

It only seemed fitting that Lord Voldemort would lose the battle, at least initially, to two vessels that exude the light and only the light. The entire wizarding world knew Harry Potter as the boy who lived, the one-year-old who survived a killing curse that lead to Lord Voldemort's demise. Everyone knew of how James and Lily Potter met their fateful deaths that night of Halloween in 1981, people mourned their loss while celebrating the war being over. Only, Remus John Lupin didn't have much to celebrate. Three of his best friends had died, their son orphaned and almost killed, his other best friend locked up in Azkaban for selling them out. That would be enough for anyone to understand his pain, to understand that he wasn't celebrating. Except, thirty minutes before the Potter's home was attacked, the Lupin home had been attacked. And Remus came home, after hearing about James and Lily, with his nearly-four-year-old daughter in tow to find a similar scene. His heart sank then. He knew what he was coming in to see — he was preparing himself for it, for the sight of his wife and his youngest daughter dead. And then he heard the soft sobs and cries of his youngest child, crying out for her mother and it hit him then. Two children had survived the killing curse thrown by the wand of Lord Voldemort.

No one was able to stop the word of Harry Potter getting out — by the next hour every single person in the wizarding world knew of who Harry Potter was. Remus Lupin didn't want that for his daughter, he didn't want this legacy to follow her around, he decided to keep it from the world. To keep the fact that not just one baby had survived the killing curse and received the famous lightening bolt shaped scar, but two had.

Evelyn Fawn Lupin had been okay with that, she saw the attention that Harry got when they were in first year and how it grew after that, she was okay with being able to blend into the shadows. To be a fly on the wall watching and listening as everything happened. It gave her the chance to worry about things that a teenager should worry about — crushes, her classes (she's second in her class and proud to say it), and quidditch (that's a sore topic, though, since that means she shares the sky with Potter who she tries to avoid at all costs). Only, fourth year changed everything. One of her best friends dies at the hands of Peter Pettigrew and the only person there was Harry Potter (the fact that something always ties back to him did not fall on deaf ears to Evelyn). Fourth year is the year that everything changed, Lord Voldemort had returned and that meant that Evelyn Fawn Lupin couldn't just ignore the fact that she was someone that he wanted to kill.

Someone that he had tried to kill.

And it meant that she couldn't ignore the reason as to why he tried to kill her — the very powers that bubbled beneath her skin just ready to jump and be set free. A curse placed onto her family (the Dumbledore family) many generations back that at least one Dumbledore woman would be afflicted with. A power that Lord Voldemort would want with him and never against him, a power that he feared. And Evelyn Fawn Lupin couldn't ignore that part of her anymore. That meant revealing the truth about what happened to her on Halloween night of 1981, that meant telling Harry Potter that he wasn't alone in a category he thought he was always going to be alone in.

Which, is funny if you think about it, because somehow they've always been tied together. Like two stars within a constellation, two twin flames, Harry Potter and Evelyn Lupin had always been placed together by the universe. Even in the most cruel of ways. After all, that's why Lord Voldemort chose the two, they were prophesied to be his downfall.

Not much unlike an invisible string tying two people together, Harry Potter and Evelyn Lupin had been linked to one another by the universe itself. Whatever that means. Two souls don't just find each other and complete each other by accident, though, they'll find that out on their own. They have to. They need to.

In the end, they'll need each other to finish the battle they began at the age of one. Or else.

THEY WILL HOLD ON TO YOU.

EVELYN FAWN LUPIN
portrayed by chloe grace moretz

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ADDITIONAL CAST
Andrew Garfield ... Remus Lupin
Logan Lerman ... Sirius Black
Emma Stone ... Juniper Scamander-Lupin
Adelaide Kane ... Harper Longbottom
Elizabeth Lail ... Arabella Flora Lupin
Quintessa Swindell ... Juliette Duvall
Ella Purnell ... Coraline Longbottom-Black
Lana Condor ... Lucia Romola
Freya Mavor ... Celeste Sommers
Jacob Elordi ... Atticus Sommers
[As Written] ... Aspen Dumbledore-Scamander
[As Written] ... Newt Scamander

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AUTHORS NOTE

... who WOULDVE THUNK. not me. that's for damn sure. a tlom and a records ressurgance??? in 2023??? what's in the damn air like ...

alas !! as you guys may have gathered from my disclaimer and the fact that I treated that like an authors note and stated most of my plans ... I guess we can summarize here what the major differences are and what I'm hoping to do:

— the curse of firesong is still here and Evelyn is more aware of it & the things it does (aka Remus, Newt, and Aspen actually keep Evelyn in the loop)
— Evelyn and Harry do know each other and interact more than I've let on (though not much they are on the same quidditch team and in the same house there is NO way they've never spoken) (Evelyn just doesn't like him) (or so she thinks)
— Arabella is only 3 years older than Evelyn meaning she's 18 going on 19 at the start of this fic ... she and Tonks are NOT together at the start of this fic.
— Newt and Aspen mentions much earlier on into the fic (real) (they deserve it, best grandparents ever)
— One thing that will never change is Remus Lupin's love for his two daughters that man would do anything for them and vice versa

Summarizing again, I just hope to be able to write something that's like an anthology to girlhood and what it was like being a teenage girl through Evelyn's eyes and the growth she is forced through and the things she is put through. Who woulda thought ... not me, but I'm excited to bring them back and to be able to (hopefully) form that connection with writing again because I haven't had that spark and that connection in forever (school broke me bruv).

Overall, updates will probably be slow for the start. I want to prewtite some things and get back into the groove of everything. I also have to get back into the groove of not being in school, a new job (still applying and interviewing rn for these), and studying for the mcat!! But I promise that I am trying to update and will be writing — it may just take some time to do so!

DISCLAIMERS
1. I do not own any of the plot lines and or characters created for Harry Potter (fuck JK Rowling tho she deserves absolutely no rights) (trans people are valid, trans women are women, trans men are men, and that's that on that). Any and all other characters and plot lines that are not seen in these books/movies are my own, please don't steal.

2. This book may contain some of these things: violence, blood, gore, death, drugs, alcohol consumption, sex (they are underage and minors in this if you guys think me, a 21 year old, is writing smut about MINORS please backpedal) (this story will contain no smut nor any reference to smut) (sex in this context relates to the fact that it may be brought up in conversations between characters but there will be no smut written or alluded to for characters who are minors), crude language, mental health, etc. Please do not interact with this material if it will mess with your mental health!

3. Everyone say thank you to sanktham for texting me like "yo ... Logan Lerman as an age accurate Sirius fancast" and me going "IVE THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE, YES". (This is our one brain cell working its job between us fr)

DEDICATIONS
to the hogwarts founders: ownthelight, angeIeyes,
findtheforce
to the milfs: halosnite, foxgIoves, fxllmoons, awfulmoons, bananapopsicIes
and to my many other friends whom I love and appreciate: spacemania, silksenses, sombersuns, arsvenal, aethrastic_dreamxx, bayports, luckyvirgo, elfaouly, bokuroos, xonceuponatimex, dunbonnet, protectremus, sanktham, luckyvirgo, REGULUSBLVCK, svperboy!

thank you for reading,
RECORDS.

p.s: stream this amazing edit by kenoobi

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