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FalconPain
Since: Feb, 2015
wingedcatgirl
MOD
(Holding A Herring)
2023-01-25 16:55:06
That's the one!
Suddenly I'm... still rotating Fallen London in my mind even though I've stopped actively playing it.

Harry Potter fanfic amounting to a series of "this would have been a much more realistic response" vignettes. Pretty sure it was listed under Reality Ensues before that got renamed and cleaned up (magic being involved should have disqualified it). Main thing we remember (probably the first thing the fic addresses but we're not 100% on that) is the basilisk being treated as a weapon of mass destruction, and they evacuate the school immediately.
One of the later chapters might have brought up the whole "you can be your own secret-keeper so it's fucked that Pettigrew even got a chance to betray the Potters" thing (but not done anything about it because this would have been in the seventh year), but that might be a different fic.