It was a Friday, and things for Frisk had really settled in. The three Dreemurr children spent most days exploring the British countryside around the house, even if they had to be careful of alerting non-magical humans to the presence of monsters.

Toriel and Asgore seemed to be on the precipice of reconciling, though she had not invited him to live with her again yet, in Frisk's opinion it was only a matter of time. After a few days, Lupin had shown up to Asgore's home to stay. Asgore had written to Dumbledore for a way to get in touch with the werewolf after he hadn't shown up the second night, and it got a response, in a way.

But this day, Toriel had invited Asgore to spend the evening with them, as they were to be having other guests. The home was a cornucopia of smells, everything from the required pie to (sadly) the garlicky whiff of snails.

Frisk, Chara, and Asriel had been required to spend the day cleaning up their rooms and other play areas. This probably would have elicited complaints, if they weren't excited about seeing the guests as well.

When the doorbell rang, Chara was quickest to react, but Frisk and Asriel were right on her heels. Standing on the other side of the threshold were the smiling Mr. and Ms. Oxtoby, and Opal.

And over the next few weeks, the Dreemurrs would welcome each of the children that helped saved Asriel, and their families. And Toriel, and the children, would cook dinner for them all, except for the Weasleys. Ms. Weasley had insisted in bringing dishes to share.

They'd talk, they'd eat, they'd play games (Asgore had developed a love of non-magical strategy board games. Ticket to Ride and Dominion were current favorites.) Then they'd talk some more over dessert.

It was the least they could do, and it provided a way for them to make true friends in the human magical world. As much as Frisk looked forward to going back to Hogwarts, she didn't want the summer to end, either.

At the end of the summer, letters came to the Dreemurr household. The first was Frisk's book list and equipment supplies that she would need for the second year at Hogwarts. The second was an invitation for Chara Dreemurr to attend Hogwarts, as well as a list of similar books and supplies that she would need. The third was an invitation for Asriel.


In the depths of the underground, two people stalked the halls. "You're sure about helping me with this?"

"I have to admit, the prospect of other possibilities intrigues me. We haven't been allowed to truly explore time for, well, a long time. And the idea that a magical mishap might make people you forget you ever existed is disturbing."

"I promised him I would never forget. And now I'm making a second promise." Sans looked at the machine, a single eye socket blazing with blue light. "I will put you back together."


Hi. I'm John "TheZorker" Burkhart, and that's "Harry Potter and the Underground's Saviour". This whole thing started with a single scene that I couldn't get out of my mind: The scene of Frisk, on the train, using the 'Stick' that you carry through the game as a wand, repelling a Dementor because it was powered with Toriel's fur.

When I posted that scene, I had no idea if I was going to turn it into a full story. I didn't have any grand plans for it. I wasn't even sure which house I should put her in. I really wanted to put her in Hufflepuff, because how many main characters get put into Hufflepuff? In the end, and after conversations with friends, I slotted her into Gryffindor. While it made other things easier, it still feels like kind of a cop out, but I'm satisfied with it.

After the amazing response I got to the first chapter, I started thinking what I could do to make a full tale out of it. I initially was going to make it more of a 'slice of life' like chapters 2 and 3 were, with a scene of Monster Integration leading into a few Hogwarts scenes. But I just couldn't make it work. Do I have a scene of Woshua literally 'Cleaning up' the ministry of magic? How does that work?

What really made me change gears, though, was a thought that struck me on one of my nightly walks. "What happens when..." I began, and went through several statements. "Learns about Animagi. Learns transfiguration. That the Fat Lady is attacked. Finds out about wizard time travel"... and that stopped me. Because the answer to that last one is, "Goes to find Asriel's soul". I too, am a sucker for Save Fics (and think CourierNew's 'One By One' is quite possibly the best fanfiction I've ever read. The idea that Asgore is going to apologize for the children is found there first. It shows up here because I can't imagine Asgore not doing that anymore.)

That was one of the two moments of perfect clarity that I had. The other was when I was going through the conversation with Sans about Frisk's plan. He wanted to know what I was going to do with the other soul, with Chara's soul. Initially, I thought I might paint her as an adversary, like in One By One. But the thought in the mind, and I'll swear it was in Sans's voice, was, "I thought you said the worst person could change."

So I went over what I knew about Chara, and then tried to figure out what could have made her fall down Mt. Ebott with that attitude (within the Harry Potter universe). When I realized the answer, I was horrified. When I pushed it forward to the scene where Frisk converses with Chara's soul, the only full conversation they ever have, I started to cry myself. That's how I knew I got it right.

And that got me realizing I had a theme. It's 'easy' to decide to save people that want to be saved, that deserve to be saved. But what about the people who don't? What about the Charas, the Dracos, and the Filches of the world (I wanted to have a second scene with him... but just couldn't figure it out). Who saves them? Who convinces them that they can be, or deserve to be helped?

In a way, I was inspired by Pixar's "Inside Out". Specifically, inspired by the way Riley just emotionally shuts down, because nobody came to talk to her. Frisk would have gone to her. Would you? I'd like to think I would have. That is, by the way, why Chapter 24 is titled as a question with a prompt. Did I do enough to convince you to forgive Chara? Chapter 11's reviews were very interesting as they came in.

But where to next? People want a sequel... and I want to give you one. But I think one of the things that made this story so successful was that it wasn't a simple retelling of Prisoner, that it had it's own plot to follow... most of the time. I have ideas for individual scenes and plots within 'Goblet', but no full story. Not even a Gaster plot, despite what I wrote above. But give me time to think about it. I'll take suggestions. I'll also take discussion about what the patronuses (Patronii?) of any of my new characters should be... or what house Asriel and Chara belong in.

In closing, I want to thank the reviewers and the people who private messaged me, pushed me to keep going. Especially you, BL. (I stayed determined, didn't I?) And I want to thank the over three hundred of you that decided this was a fiction worth reading. It is, by far, the most popular thing I've ever written. I'm proud of it. While I'm not quite done. I know my grammar needs work, and my spelling is inconsistent. I'm sure I'll reread this a time or two (a full story edit ended 4/22/17), finding awful typos in each chapter each time. That's me. Still, I hope I've done enough to convert from a follower to favorite. And if I haven't (and you got this far anyway), leave a review, or drop a note why I haven't, so I can improve and do better the next time. Nothing encourages writers like those e-mails from FF.N about new reviews, favorites, and follows, even on works than have been up for a long while.

And check out "Underground Saviour" by CherishedRose on DeviantArt. The idea that I've got fanart of a fan story is amazing to me.

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See you soon.