Title: Shadow-People Singing Ancient Songs
Disclaimer: J. K. Rowling and associates own these characters. I am writing these characters for fun and not profit.
Content Notes: Massive AU (Harry Potter raised by goblins), light angst, present tense, minor character deaths, violence.
Pairing: Background pairings, otherwise gen
Rated: PG-13
Wordcount: This part 4200
Summary: The second part of goblin-raised Harry's sixth year and the first part of his seventh year, wherein Harry deals with teaching Goblin Dueling, working on showing more humans the real way of things, fighting the Ministry, fighting Voldemort, locating Horcruxes, and listening to the mysterious songs sung by the shadowy people in the Realm of Song.
Author’s Notes: This is one of my Samhain to the Solstice fics for this year, a series of fics being posted between Halloween and the winter solstice. It's the sequel to previous fics in the "Realm of Song" series: "Music Beneath the Mountains," "In Their Own Secret Tongues He Spoke," "The Dragon-Headed Door," "More Marvellous-Cunning Than Mortal Man's Pondering," "Harmonies Unconquerable," and “Light To Us Who Wander Here,” and you should read those first. This story will make zero sense without them. The title and quote at the beginning come from J. R. R. Tolkien's poem "A Song of Aryador,” and section titles are called after some of Tolkien’s other work as well.
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