Edit: I'll also take any dimension hopping fic recommendations. I made a thread a long time ago https://forums.darklordpotter.net/showthread.php?t=19176 and I've poured over most of the stuff mentioned in there. Hopefully there are new fics that have come out since then that I have missed.

Alright, my memory on this one is sort of fuzzy.

Basically, for some reason Harry gets sent to a new universe (maybe he died in his original one). He takes over the body of the Harry Potter who is there. The thing is, the "Harry" that he takes over was retarded or something- it had something to do with some magical disease. Maybe he got a really bad case of dragon pox that left him brain damaged or something.

He doesn't instantly take over- there's some transition period where sometimes our Harry is in control of the body and sometimes the AUHarry is in control, but after a brief time our Harry wins, and the old Harry is completely gone.

Lily and James are both alive, and they find the sudden recovery of their son strange. They find a hidden diary written by our Harry (with some brief bits written by the AUHarry in writin lik dis cuz he is dum), where Harry basically reveals that he's a dimension traveler and that their real son is now dead. They think he might have some mental health problems (split personality/hallucinated memories) left over from whatever magical disease he had, but they get him checked out and he's fine. So they realize their son is gone and Harry really is a dimension traveler. Harry doesn't know that they know and he feels guilty about usurping their love and affection while their real son has 'died' because of him.

That's about all I remember. AUHarry wasn't able to attend Hogwarts, but since he appeared to become miraculously cured they start to send him.

 

All Good Things

 

The other one that sounds similar, is Awaken Sleeper, by watermage. That's a DF xover though.

 

Thats it. Pity it hasn't updated since I last read it.

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I'm still on the lookout for new good time/dimension travel fics, btw.

Here's one I just found that's decent: http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5396819/1/Time-Warp

Basically, Harry wakes up as a 10 year old with all his memories. Blah blah blah - only it turns out Draco is in the exact same situation (though he doesn't want to change anything). Don't worry- it's not slash, and Harry and Draco don't suddenly become friends or anything.

It doesn't take itself too seriously. It's not great, but it's not bad either. I'm probably going to post it in Almost Recommendable.

 

It's a Ginny pairing, is it not? Half the stories of this genre would be so much better if Molly and Arthur stopped with their 6th kid.

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Still, the story is funny enough for a read once.

Good find.