Twins

AU, time travel, Harry and James are twins, taking place around 1974 or 1975, pairings undecided, minor bashing of characters: Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and a few others. Don't like it, don't read it. Might be slash. Swearing. Possibly a bit of snogging. OOC warning.

Twins. Not what anyone had thought, but things like this can't happen like what others would have thought. Twins, completely different in manner. One brought up in a loving environment to flourish. The other, in the opposite, heaped with burdens impossible to overcome. Neither knowing, that they were twins. Two people, parents, mourning the disappearance of one, yet not telling the other.

You would expect us to be identical, in manner and looks, but circumstances didn't allow for that. One of us was brought up in a loving home, but the parents had a grievance that showed all through his childhood. The other was brought up 20 years in the future, in an abusive home, and never allowed a childhood. He had a mission, if you would, a job. An impossible job for one so young, but he found a way through, nevertheless. One grew up with the best of friends and loved playing pranks. The other grew up trying to survive from day-to-day, never trusting anyone. One loved his family dearly, though they annoyed him. The other ran away at the age of seven, preferring to be on the streets than where he had been placed. One is rather intelligent, but never applies himself. The other is a disguised genius that was done with high-school education before the end of primary school for most others. He went on to attain Masteries in most magical subjects before Hogwarts. Both were famous, though one loved it and the other despised it. I am the other. This is what happened when I went by to my twin after learning who I am and finishing my job, though I will have to redo that now. I was born Harry Potter. My true name is Koli Sigurthr Bergthor Vindr. I am also known as Ormr Hallsteinn. A rather large mouthful, don't you think?

Let me explain…all that you know of me is likely false information. The Harry Potter books are a good read, yes, but that is not my story here. That was what happened in Universe 4031-E. It is not the truth of me, though it may be the truth of what happened to that Harry Potter. I am from Universe 095967-W. No, I don't know why the Universes are named in such absurd fashions. As it is, this is not what happened when I was growing up. It is not how I came to be who I am. It is what happened after all of that, it is what happened when I decided to meet my twin and family. It is what happened when I disrupted the timeline for my own purposes. It is what happened when I met my twin for the first time in nearly 15 years. It is what happened when I took these matters into my own hands, and dealt the future a better opportunity than what had happened when I was growing up there.

I left on July 1st, 1994. I was fourteen, and I was leaving this place. I left the future, and arrived twenty years before when I had been just moments ago. On July 2nd, 1974, I went to try to look up my twin and parents. I located them without undue trouble, and wondered what they would think of me. I do try not to let people's impressions of me get to me, but this is my family, my true family, unlike that farce that I left seven years ago.

I hope they won't be too suspicious, and attempt to question me, because no interrogation techniques work on me, because I am so used to pain, and truth potions have no effect at all. If they do reject me, though, I shan't bother them again, I'll just go on with my life.

A/N: I'm not too sure where this story is going to go, but I thought it might work out nicely, so I'm giving it a shot. Please tell me what you think. About the name thing, his true name is what he uses for rituals and stuff, it represents who he is, Ormr is an alias that he thought was somewhat fitting, but he'll go by Harry Potter, at least until he finds out if his family is going to reject him or not. Harry might seem a bit odd, with his perceptions on life, later.