Slytherin's Uncommon Room
Dark ≠ Evil
Light magic is so limited. How could any Muggleborn aspire to more than this? They think of magic as some quick-fix panacea for everything that is wrong with the world. Yet their ancestors murdered witches and wizards as evil incarnate.
Slytherin knew better than to share his secrets with those who couldn't possibly understand that there is no such thing as evil. Understanding Dark magic is the only path to Greatness. Not everyone who is sorted into Slytherin is capable of grasping the true meaning of this concept, but at least they weren't raised to think of the world as being tweely separated into good and evil.
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Recent works
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A Matter of Basilisks and Bones by orphan_account for Malsang
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Aug 2025
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The Chamber of Secrets holds more than a monster's corpse. When Harry Potter finds a forgotten journal from a young Tom Riddle—a diary not of a monster, but of a student discovering the true secrets of Hogwarts—he is drawn into a clandestine partnership with an unlikely ally: Draco Malfoy.
Together, they uncover a history Dumbledore tried to bury, a network of unplottable spaces beneath the school, and the true reason Lucius Malfoy believed the headmaster was the worst thing that ever happened to Hogwarts.
In a vast cavern beneath the Great Lake, they find a legacy twisted by time and prejudice, and the chance to become the keepers of a truth no one else knows.
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- Part 14 of Harry Potter Oneshot
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A Handful of Ashes (A Comedy of Errors) by orphan_account for Malsang
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Aug 2025
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World-weary curio shop owner Elias Thorne's quiet night in Knockturn Alley is interrupted by an anxious Ministry intern named Ethan Vance. Vance reveals a ridiculous problem: a curse is stripping the Ministry of its theatrical flair, and the cure requires a rare substance—powdered phoenix dust.
Elias's talented apprentice, Lena, figures out that the dust can only be obtained by performing a ritual of profound embarrassment using a cursed, opera-singing locket Elias owns. After a mortifying but successful ritual, Elias not only helps save the Ministry from becoming boring but also rediscovers a sense of purpose and hope in his own life.
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- Part 13 of Harry Potter Oneshot
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Enchantment and Obligation: A Tale of Two Wizards in Regency England by dielem
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling, Regency Era - Fandom, Hogwarts Legacy (Video Game)
09 Apr 2024
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Rose Ollivander has always been a good daughter. Attending Hogwarts and graduating at the top of the class is only the beginning. She has been set up for an arranged marriage. One not of love, but of politics and power. To one particular man that she could most definitely live without. Her marriage to Cain Malfoy is full of turns and the unexpected. Cain is dark and twisty, yet she can't ignore the pull she feels to his darkness. Is there more to the former Hogwarts rake than meets the eye?
**This is a romance with original characters based on ancestors of the Malfoy family** -
Дід by Morsmorded
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
13 Aug 2022
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Гаррі Поттер та його запеклий ворог Лорд Волдеморт стали дідусями одного внука. Та якщо Волдеморту значно легше, бо він мертвий, то Поттеру доведеться власноруч виховувати «спадкоємця Слизеріна».
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Greeting Death as an Old Friend by orphan_account for Fayet
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Feb 2019
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Not Everybody ends up at King's Cross.
Severus Snape POV.
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- Part 4 of My Dark-Light Muse