In another life, Rory Hulne pleads with Harry to use his fortune to save the family home from being sold to developers, growing increasingly outraged at Harry's utter apathy.The question sticks with Harry, and despite ignoring its context, it tortures him throughout his remaining lives, eventually leading to his betrayal of Vincent. In Harry's third life, Franklin Phearson breaks down and berates Harry, asking him "What is the point of you?" when Harry is both unable and unwilling to help him.Ancient Tradition: The Cronus Club were actually founded in the 18th century, but thanks to time-looping they've managed to bootstrap themselves into ancientness.The question of whether Harry truly managed to go with the plan in his next life or if Vincent managed to somehow prevent it, since thanks to the book he now knows everything, will never be answered. Ambiguous Ending: The story ends with Harry dying and Vincent getting the book.The website for the book can be found here. This is all well and good until, while on the deathbed of his eleventh life, Harry is warned by a little kalachakra girl that the world is ending, and he must stop it from doing so. Harry is a kalachakra (or ouroborus, the names are used interchangeably), a member of a select few people who, upon dying, simply return to when they were born with all the memories and knowledge of their past lives. Except he does this a lot more than most regular people. A 2014 sci-fi book by Claire North (pseudonym of British author Catherine Webb), "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August" is about the titular protagonist Harry August.
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