I kinda ship Dudley and Silvia...

I hope that becomes a thing

Huh... So I know that in this world the Star Wars movies are real (and presumably the prequels as well, even though timeline wise those wouldn't be out yet as HP takes place in the 90s)

But anyway... I wonder if the Thrawn Trilogy also exists as a book series here...

Was Zahn also a seer?

Within seconds of reading the summery I was highly amused, and I was not disappointed at all, this story is just so ridiculous, yet well crafted that I don’t think a chapter went bye without me laughing (silently)

This is without question the most ridiculous premise and story I've ever come across, and I am loving it.

This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen...
I can't wait to read the rest! :)

Well done! This was well written and fun to read!

I want to go to sleep, but I must know what happens next…

This was quite possibly the most unique Star Wars cross with HP I have ever read. It's well thought out, and well executed. I would love another one like this to be honest. Keep up the great work, and 'May The Force Be With You.'

Honestly any honor Vader has isn’t making him soft. It’s hard to say that when the guy has no qualms with butchering kids and biting entire civilizations to the ground. Incompetence was always met with a swift death and he valued competence to the point that if you failed you might just get away with it.

Thank you for this story - it was well worth re-reading, even if I'm not allowed to comment on the same chapters more than once! One minor point that amused me is that Vernon Dursley apparently believes that the British Empire is still a thing. (Well, okay, there are a few places round the world that are British territories, but it's not as if we're a major world power!) The old joke about who reads different British newspapers ('The Times is read by those who run the country, the Financial Times is read by those who own the country, the Sun is read by those who don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big boobs,' etc) sometimes comments that right-wing papers are read by those who think we should still have the British Empire, and far-right papers are read by those who think we still do have it. Vernon Dursley is evidently in the latter category!

Yes! Dudley redemption - a lot more dramatic than in canon, where the nearest he gets is admitting, 'I don't think you're a waste of space. After all, you did save my life.' (Though as Harry points out, coming from Dudley that's as good as 'I love you.') I like the way that you're developing Dudley's character, before Rowling did.

I know a patronus is described as 'corporeal' if it has a defined shape instead of just being a wisp, but I hadn't realised that they were solid enough to connect with material objects. Mostly, wizards use them for fighting against dementors (needing spiritual energy rather than physical force) or sending messages (whether by talking, or just being seen, like Snape's doe patronus guiding Harry to the sword of Gryffindor). If they were capable of pushing material enemies out of a window, you'd think wizards would call on them more often in times of danger. Oh well, this is AU.

And at the point where this story was written, we hadn't been told about Voldemort having seven horcruxes, but if Voldemort could be permanently killed by something as simple as stabbing him, the wizards wouldn't be still trying to deal with him in the 1990s. I'll assume that, after Harry destroyed the diary, Dumbledore realised that there were likely to be several more horcruxes, tracked them down and in this version managed to destroy them without fatally injuring or poisoning himself (especially if he'd talked to Kreacher), but perhaps, although he knew that there was a link between Voldemort and Harry, he didn't realise that Harry was actually a horcrux.

I suspect that both both Voldemort and Palpatine might turn out not to be as dead as they look - room for a sequel? I once read a fairly dark AU (though ultimately with a happy ending) in which the horcrux in Harry was NOT destroyed, and Snape, waking up after several years in a coma from being bitten by Nagini, finds himself the slave of a crazed dark!Harry who is developing into the next Dark Lord, refuses to believe that Snape was a loyal member of the Order of the Phoenix, and is determined to punish Snape forever, for everything. Thankfully, Harry's friends, who know that Snape is innocent and also know that deep down there is still good in Harry, are working on a way to break the curse on Harry, and in the meantime regularly asking to 'borrow' Harry's slave in order to give him periods of respite from being tortured.

"If only Snape could see this," Vader said disdainfully. "His favourite student has fallen to the Dark Side." Which, of course, is what will happen in canon, too, and Snape is powerless to prevent it, because he can't explain to Draco why becoming a Death Eater is a bad idea without revealing that he, Snape, ISN'T on Voldemort's side any longer - and so the most he can do is to save Draco from the corrupting experience of murdering Dumbledore by killing Dumbledore himself.

Going back to this story, though - oh dear, Draco is naive enough to believe that HE is the one Emperor Palpatine wants as a replacement for Darth Vader? Get a grip, boy! Why would he pick you as anything more than a junior trainee Inquisitor, when he's got Voldemort? Then again, Voldemort is too old and experienced and arrogant to regard himself as Palpatine's apprentice - they're just temporary allies until one of them stabs the other in the back. (Metaphorically speaking, that is - actual stabbing is unlikely to be effective, given that Voldemort has horcruxes and Palpatine has ways of transferring his soul into a cloned body.)

It's been a while since I first read this story, so I'm pretty sure there was a reason that I've forgotten, but I wonder why the Imperials would bother sending an important admiral to recruit Dudley? Okay, he's a lot more muscular and probably has better trained reflexes now that he's started training as a boxer, rather than just being a fat lump, but he's still basically just a thick kid with no particular talents other than bullying smaller children, not to mention being a spoilt brat. Yes, the Imperials might feel that they can use his aggression and (as far as they can see so far) lack of conscience, but there must be plenty of aggressive, impressionable teenagers all over the galaxy to be recruited, preferably orphans who don't have coddling parents. Recruiting magically talented children of Death Eaters as Inquisitors is a way to keep their parents as allies (unless the recruits are treated harshly and complain to their parents), but why bother recruiting a muggle child whose father works for a drill-making company?

So I suspect that this is more to do with wanting to use Dudley as a hostage/bait in order to put pressure on Harry. Much as Harry loathes his cousin, he isn't going to abandon him if he sees Dudley being tortured or threatened with death. But of course, Vernon and Petunia are so proud of Dudley that it won't occur to them to wonder about this, and Dudley thinks it's all a game and is too immature to understand what he's letting himself in for.

I love the way the receptionist at the Ministry of Magic is so calm and unflappable - yeah, there's a Sith lord turning up to investigate claims that another Sith lord is enabling a dreaded and supposed dead Dark wizard to take over the Ministry, normal sort of request, issue four visitor badges...

'Do not mention what you have learned to anyone.' It's a bit late for that, isn't it? Vader has to accept that much of the muggle world on this isolated backwater planet, and wizards from a muggle background, know probably more about him and at least one version of a possible future that awaits him than he knows himself. If he hadn't been so stung by the accuracy of what Harry had said, he could probably have brushed it off with some remark about, 'Do not believe all that you see in vids, young one,' but if he accepts that Earth people's perception of him is pretty much accurate - he really, really needs to rethink his life.