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    When Petunia Dursley refused to take Harry in she forfeited his birthright protection, so Dumbledore took the baby to the safest place he knew: Hogwarts.

    The applicable staff (mostly just… not Snape) took Harry in on a rotating schedule as he grew from baby to toddler to child. They traded extra credit for babysitting among the older students, and Harry grew up knowing a few dozen different laps that were safe and warm to nap in.

    This was a Harry who grew up among books, among old transient walls and learned professors. They gave Binns night duty sometimes, and let him talk young Harry to sleep. This was a Harry whose world changed, on principle, daily. The stairs moved. The walls became doors. You had to keep your eyes open–you had to pay attention. So he did.

    He grew up in a school. Knowledge was power, but knowledge was also joy. This was his sanctuary. There was magic in his world from birth.

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    Arthur was lucky to be alive. Ever since he was a child, he had been prepared to drown. He had learnt the axe, faced the rope head on, and had feared the pyre. Yet, his father never threw him to the executioner. He punished him in other ways, forced him to watch his people be beheaded, burnt, suffocated, all while threatening his death at every turn.

    He had magic, and he was lucky to be alive.

    Except, things were changing. A fire, secrets, Morgana. He didn’t know anything, he couldn’t learn, and yet…

    And yet his magic pushed itself forward, and it craved. More than knowing spells, it wanted Merlin, it pulsed in his direction.

    The very life Arthur was just managing to hold together, threatened to pull itself apart. How could he, a man with magic, survive as Uther’s son?

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    “Gwen, it’s terrible,” Merlin said. “He’s polite! He’s kind, even!”

    “And that’s a problem?” Gwen asked, dryly.

    "I’m going to have to go through an entire week serving the perfect Golden Prince, and then go back to my Prince Prat, and I think it’s going to break me, Gwen. He’s going to get me used to it, and then it’ll be back to mile-long lists, and being called stupid instead of spectacular and how am I supposed to handle that?”

    Gwen said, hesitantly, “I thought you liked Arthur?”

    “I do,” Merlin said, sounding even lower than before. “I have to.”

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    When a visiting Prince visits Camelot, and takes Merlin as his servant during his negotiations with The Crown, Merlin finds himself being seen in a way he'd always wished Arthur would see him, and doesn't know what to do with any of it.

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    when arthur announces that the last dragonlord is dead, it seems that all hope is lost. but then uther looks at his servant and realizes he looks oddly familiar

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