Title: Of Lordlings and Lullabies (Third in the Fireflies Verse)
Author: ExcentrykeMuse
Series: Fireflies Series
Fandom: Harry Potter Series
Pairing(s): Harry/Octavian, Lucrece/Lucius, Troy/Dionysia
Word Count: 62k
Rating: M – Mature
Warnings: rape, death, time travel, imperius curse, manipulation, pureblood politics, political correctness (or lack thereof), underage relationships (15/13)
Summary: Time was displeased. Harry Potter had died and Octavian, his soulmate, was left widowed with their children. Time would have to be repeated and changed. But where? Should Octavian stay with La Princesse and something in that timeline altered? Or should Lucrece have told her parents of the pregnancy? That was a possibility… A rewrite of Of Princes and Fireflies where Octavian is raised by his grandparents, Lord and Lady Prince, as the Prince heir.
Notes: Originally written as 2014 NaNoWriMo entry and left unfinished (my dog died, which was the inspiration for Prospera being poisoned, and I couldn’t write without my writing buddy).
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Notes
In “Of Princes and Fireflies,” Octavian has an owl (given to him by his father Lucius) named Prospère, the French for Prospero. here, in “Of Lordlings and Lullabies,” Octavian’s cat has the female form of the name, Propsera. Prospero is the name of the shipwrecked magician in Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Illegitimacy is a main theme of the ‘Fireflies verse. Octavian is illegitimate in “Of Princes and Fireflies” and here in “Of Lordlings and Lullabies” he is hiding as the legitimate (and legitimately born) heir of Troy, Lord Prince. The fact that Octavian (spoiler) later becomes pregnant without being married is therefore more horrifying because Octavian knows exactly what will happen to his daughter as an illegitimate child.
In “Of Princes and Fireflies,” Octavian and Harry’s daughter is named Romola Lux or Romola Luce. Here, Octavian’s future child has a different father so the child has a different name Lavinia Rose so as not to be confusing.
When I wrote “Of Princes and Fireflies” (2009) and “Of Horcruxes and Kings” (2010), I not yet developed the characters of Lacerta Malfoy and Iolanthe “Io” Malfoy, the younger sisters of Draco Malfoy. I imagine, since they are here in “Of Lordlings and Lullabies,” that (spoiler) Lucius obliviating Lucrece also changed the timeline for the Malfoy family. Children, who might not have been born otherwise, were now in the cards.
When I was originally writing “Of Lordlings and Lullabies,” the primary song I listened to was “I Know Places” by Taylor Swift. I imagined Harry and Octavian having to hide their relationship from the Princes and the Malfoys.
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