Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, nor any related trademarks nor copyrights.

Warning up front: This fic is going to be dark. I don't mean "ooh I'm angsty Harry watch me become a new Dark Lord and rule over my evil empire" dark, I mean that most or all of the chapters are going to involve things like Harry dying far too young and not getting any sort of second chance or do-over, or Voldemort winning and everything going to Hell. These are not happy stories. Children will die, and good people will suffer terrible fates. I used the "Tragedy" tag for a reason. You have been warned.

Each chapter in this fic is going to be a separate tale, but all on the same theme: Things go horribly wrong. In essence, I'm going to go into various times and ways that everything in the Harry Potter canon could have fallen apart with very little change. I'm not talking about the ones where Harry was nearly killed in the canon, because those are obvious. These will be the less crisis-driven ways that Harry Potter could have broken, failed, or fallen. I will also at least mostly try to avoid scenarios that have been done extensively by others (such as Malfoy and his ilk retaining/regaining power after the Battle of Hogwarts).

There are a lot of possibilities here, to be honest. Harry had way too much loss, pressure, and abuse heaped on him throughout his entire life, and got barely anything in terms of support or comfort from those around him. He was also surrounded by people that, for the most part, very much did not have his best interests in mind.

At least some of these stories will contain at least some of the fallout, but the intent is more to point out what I consider highly plausible ways that canon could have gone horribly wrong with only minimal changes.