Not sure if you're still looking for hcs, but...
It isn't until nearly ten years later that Harry finds out Sirius and Remus used to date. The revelation comes unexpectedly—Fred brings it up offhandedly during a conversation, like it's common knowledge. Fred goes on to share that, back during the Order of the Phoenix days, while Harry was at school, the adults would often gather after meetings to drink, talk, and reminisce. Sirius and Remus would tell stories—some funny, some deeply nostalgic.
Hearing this, Harry feels an ache of sadness for the moments he never got to share, the version of them he never knew. But Fred offers what pieces he remembers, and in doing so, casually mentions something Sirius once said about Harry’s grandparents’ house.
That offhand comment leads Harry to the house—long forgotten, untouched. No one had ever gotten around to clearing it out in the chaos between James’s parents’ passing and the deaths of Lily and James. It’s like stepping into a time capsule.
Moved by the discovery, Harry decides to restore the house. What begins as a renovation turns into a journey of self-discovery—of reconnecting with the family he lost, of piecing together the life that was left behind. And through it all, he begins to heal, not just from the war, but from the loneliness he’s carried for so long.
(sorry, it's a super slow work day and that one really got away from me...)
Oh bonus Jonas: a conversation that I imagine happening at some point (either while they're in the thick of things or after) and someone casually says something like "don't you wish we could go back to before, when we were kids and things were easier" and Harry's like "no? Things have never been easier for me, I don't have a childhood that I can feel nostalgic about, all I have is a future that I'm fighting tooth and nail for and even that seems fucked"
HARRY MY SON MY BABY
it would be so sadly on-brand for his life to find out all of this stuff about his own life after everyone else smdh - PLEASE give him any and all tools possible to be able to heal as much as he can
also that bonus is very specifically one of my favorite things in fanfic - now that they're all growing into adults in a more peaceful world it creates the time and space for harry to so casually and accidentally reveal to everyone's devastation how totally bleak his childhood was and the extent to which it still affects him
