one: the man i ought to be

In a world of magic -- clock towers that control time and a strange disease where unrequited love can murder you -- Harry Potter sticks to what makes sense: whatever his father tells him. He takes after the family tradition, which is maintaining and repairing their district's clock tower.

Death, the spirit residing in the clock tower Harry's a mechanic too, begins to fall in love -- but Harry Potter is not gay. He's very much not. Because his father's not, and is he not a living example of like father, like son?

And it's fine. Harry's views hurt Death and his best friend, Ron Weasley, but it's fine. James is happy.

It's fine.

And then Death gets sick.