Harry Potter's False Starts

Series Metadata

Listing Series

• Rightfully Yours by Helenth

  Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

  • Explicit
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  25 Jul 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Harry Potter & Tom Riddle | Voldemort
  • pre Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort
  • maybe
  • Harry Potter
  • Vernon Dursley
  • Petunia Evans Dursley
  • Tom Riddle | Voldemort
  • Not Canon Compliant - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Abusive Dursley Family (Harry Potter)
  • Dursley Family Dies (Harry Potter)
  • Gun Violence
  • Possessive Voldemort (Harry Potter)
  • Kidnapped Harry Potter
  • Order of the Phoenix Bashing (Harry Potter)
  • Pre-Relationship
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending

  Summary

  What would happen if Harry was too slow to repel Dementors with his Patronus and Dudley paid the price? As always, Voldemort has opinions.

  Pre-relationship or -mentorship fic.

  Series

  • Part 2 of Harry Potter's False Starts

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,198

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  2

  Kudos:

  65

  Bookmarks:

  7

  Hits:

  692

• Me, Ourselves, and Them by Helenth

  Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  08 Aug 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Harry Potter & Tom Riddle | Voldemort
  • Horcrux & Harry Potter
  • Horcrux & Voldemort (Harry Potter)
  • Harry Potter
  • Tom Riddle | Voldemort
  • Horcrux (Harry Potter)
  • Albus Dumbledore
  • Book 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Canon Divergence - Battle of the Department of Mysteries (Harry Potter)
  • Harry Potter is a Horcrux
  • Voldemort Finds Out Harry Potter is a Horcrux
  • ScarCrux | The Piece of Voldemort's Soul in Harry Potter's Scar
  • Trope Subversion
  • Imaginary Friends
  • Moral Ambiguity
  • Psychopathology & Sociopathy
  • Psychological Horror
  • Dehumanization
  • this is not as bad as tags made it out to be
  • Possessive Tom Riddle | Voldemort
  • Unhealthy Relationships
  • Codependency
  • Ambiguous/Open Ending
  • Voldemort Wins the Second Wizarding War (Harry Potter)
  • eventually

  Summary

  When Voldemort possesses Harry at the Ministry of Magic, they both discover something equally terrible and astonishing. It shouldn't really be much of a surprise to Harry.

  What if Harry was not who he thought he was? Trope subversion.

  Series

  • Part 3 of Harry Potter's False Starts

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,613

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  4

  Kudos:

  75

  Bookmarks:

  5

  Hits:

  731