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• Reaching the Shore by Cicadapie

  Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  15 Sep 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Harry Potter Characters
  • Weasley Family (Harry Potter)
  • Hermione Granger
  • Draco Malfoy
  • Severus Snape
  • OC Veronica Ward
  • OC Archibald Ward
  • Neville Longbottom
  • Dean Thomas
  • Theodore Nott
  • Daphne Greengrass
  • Rubeus Hagrid
  • Pansy Parkinson
  • Peeves (Harry Potter)
  • Buckbeak the Hippogriff (Harry Potter)
  • Remus Lupin
  • Sirius Black
  • Voldemort (Harry Potter)
  • Original Characters
  • Coming of Age
  • Enemies to Friends to Lovers
  • New Friendships
  • Mermaids
  • Slow Burn
  • Family Secrets
  • Family Feels
  • father isn't the father
  • Near Death Experiences
  • Drowning
  • Fluffy Romance
  • First Kiss
  • Silly teen romance
  • August: Taylor Swifts Version
  • Denial of Feelings
  • I'm in the wind
  • You're in the water
  • Not Actually Unrequited Love
  • Fleetwood Mac References
  • Book 3: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
  • Book 4: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
  • Eventual Romance
  • Swearing
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Dark Magic
  • Book 5: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
  • Book 6: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
  • Book 7: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
  • Mythology References
  • Song: Slipping Through My Fingers (ABBA)
  • Female rage
  • Girly Fucks Shit Up
  • She fell first
  • he fell harder
  • Canon Compliant
  • Canon Rewrite
  • During Canon
  • Minor Harry Potter/Original Female Character(s)
  • Alternate Universe - Merpeople

  Summary

  "As white as frost, she wore a shawl. Knitted timely and precisely."

  Veronica Ward is an outcast inside her own house, Slytherin. What she lacks in title, wealth, or fame is replaced by her moral obligation to secrecy. She is the last of her kind and must hide her family secrets and their connection to mermaids in a world that does not accept half-breeds. A shawl she wears around her shoulders keeps her scales and tail hidden, yet new secrets arise among the new term at Hogwarts. A murderer on the loose, new friendships that make her question herself, and the constant strain of her mermaid powers growing stronger—

  Questions about her mother’s past become unearthed in the chaos of school life, and she must face the relentless crashing of waves from the past and her ever-growing reality. She must choose to be a Slytherin, a mermaid, a half-breed, or drown in the constant reminder that she will never be human.

  ☆ A LONG FIC ☆
  Years 3-4 completed
  Years 5-7 in progress

  @Cicadapie
  A Harry Potter Fanfiction.
  All OC characters belong to me, and everyone else is canon characters from the books/movies.
  

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