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Harry was supposed to pick- move on and be with his parents, or go back to finish the battle with Voldemort. But even Dumbledore doesn't know everything, and Harry finds that there are actually a lot more options than those two.
Harry wants more than what he got. He wants a home. He wants a family. He wants a chance to be happy. He isn't sure he deserves all that, but he's going to try anyway. If only to spite Dumbledore and Voldemort's plans both.
OR: Harry Potter wakes up ten years old but with all of his memories from age seventeen. He immediately begins to make Mistakes.
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- Part 1 of time and other illusions
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After his first death, Harry has repeated his life again and again in hopes of achieving a better ending. This time is no different. He awakens from his dreams with a purpose and will stop at nothing to restore balance to the magical world.
His enemy is clear but the path to defeating them is shrouded in mystery. Everyone is being controlled by the puppet master and it's up to him to cut the strings. With so many things changed, will his first year at Hogwarts be the same as it was the first time?
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- Part 1 of The Once and Future King
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After death Harry expected peace, not a second childhood.
An incident long before his birth has left Death waiting for a suitable master. The world must be balanced, after all, and Harry, unwilling participant that he is, finds himself standing squarely on the scales.
Unfortunately, Death has a flair for the dramatic and seems to enjoy making Harry’s life harder than it needs to be.
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A classic time-travel fix-it where old enemies become allies, and a meddling old man has sunk his teeth deeper into the wizarding world than anyone ever realized.
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Hadrian Potter rarely went looking for trouble, but it always seemed to find him.
After discovering the world of magic, facing down a mountain troll, and surviving an encounter with the Dark Lord – resulting in the death of his defense professor at Hadrian’s own hands – Hadrian Potter faces the seemingly insurmountable task of returning to normal life. He must continue to live as if all were well, even after Voldemort sends him a letter offering the chance to find out what the actual goals of Voldemort are and why the Dark Lord waged war on magical Britain decades ago.
Can Hadrian put aside his resentment for the man who killed his parents long enough to learn the truth? What should he do when his friends start to notice that he starts acting strangely, asking questions that no one has the answers to? He's the heir to three Ancient and Noble Houses; he has more to do than just play games. Hadrian has an opportunity to find out why Voldemort targeted him and his family, but is he brave enough, clever enough, to find out without changing the fate of the world as he knows it?
What would change if Harry Potter were a Slytherin and hated Dumbledore more than he hated the Dark Lord?
Part 2 of JLYSB
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- Part 2 of Just Like You've Seen Before (JLYSB)
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There are many moments in our lives that add up to define who we become, and some things that we simply are with or without any choice in the matter. Getting to Platform 9 3/4 by himself and finding a toad roaming the train, one small moment among thousands, really should not matter all that much in the grand scheme of things… Except it does.
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Or, Harry never meets Ron on the the train to Hogwarts and goes to Slytherin instead. This changes everything that it can.
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- Part 1 of A Darker Form of Magic
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On October 31st, twins Charles and Harry Potter were targeted by Lord Voldemort. Charles was wrongly proclaimed as the defeater of the Dark Lord, the Boy-Who-Lived. Cast aside and proclaimed as tainted by dark magic, Harry was sent to suffer at the hands of the Dursleys.
11 years later, a spiteful child is ready to take over the Wizarding World or burn it down trying.
“When he entered the nursery to kill one of them, he did something else. Knowing he might not survive casting the powerful dark magic needed, he had to mark a successor. ” He nodded to Harry, “And when he cast the killing curse onto Charles, it disintegrated him.”Series
- Part 1 of Pariah: Rising from Ashes
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One day, Petunia was considering what to do about her nephew’s clothing. Like magic, a trunk full of clothing was delivered!
Lily’s clothing, from her entire life growing up, but it was free and technically her freaky nephew’s anyway...
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“You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature” - The Song of Achilles
Hadrian is a spear- there's no denying it. He is sharp, he hurts those around him (near or far, it doesn’t much matter) and most of all, he stabs the feet that mistake him for a stick.
Against the clock, Hadrian must learn the difference between living and surviving, love and hate; sacrifice and surrender.
How does a boy reared for war and forged in hate learn to love?
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Feels Like We Had Matching Wounds by orphan_account
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Aug 2023
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When faced with the decision to go back or move on, Harry hesitates. His heart twists in his chest as he glances back at the squalling, writhing fragment of Voldemort’s soul that he’s unknowingly nurtured for almost as long as he’s lived. Harry can still hear Dumbledore's words echoing inside his head, “Something beyond either of our help.” But… Is he really? How many times has Harry heard those very same words whispered among the residents of Little Whinging? How many similarities has he seen between himself and Tom Riddle ever since his second year, ever since he first wrote in that diary, despite Dumbledore’s assurances to the contrary?
Hagrid whisks him away from an abusive home and hexes his cousin for eating Harry’s birthday cake. Dumbledore believes the words of abusive caretakers and sets Tom Riddle’s precious few belongings on fire. If Harry wasn't who he is, then would they have believed the Dursleys over him? Would they have done the same thing to him? He doesn't know. The thought frightens him.
Harry picks up the fragment of Voldemort's soul, cradling the unnatural-looking baby in his arms as he walks forward. He boards the train.
He wakes up in his cupboard.
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Little Whinging, Surrey is a place where individuality goes to die. Row after row of identical houses line the streets with pristine, white picket fences and perfectly pruned hedges and house perfectly normal families. Those who live on Privet Drive are no exception to this.
But there is one little boy who does not fit into that mould.
Little Hari Potter, who has befriended snakes and knows their ways, hears his neighbors whispering of things he wanted them to notice and says, “Aunt Petunia, did you hear? Mrs. Number Six thinks we’re too poor to afford clothes for two children. I heard her talking about asking the neighbors for donations for us. Isn’t that nice of her? I know that I’m a huge burden on you all, so I’m glad that someone is stepping up to help out.”
And that simply will not do. The Dursleys care more for their reputation than anything else, and so things slowly but surely begin to change as a result.
The Hari Potter who arrives at Hogwarts could never sort anywhere but Slytherin.
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- Part 1 of Child of Serpents
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A gift is what Death called it, Harry still isn't really sure about that. After reincarnating and living so many lives, it really shouldn't have come as a surprise to find himself in the middle of the war that had started it all.
The most logical thing to do, of course, is to adopt himself.
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The Do-Over Fic - a chance to do things again, but this time-To Get it Right. But is it really such a blessing as it appears? A jaded, darker, bitter, and tired wizard who just wants to die; but can't. A chance to learn how to live, from the most unexpected source. Story is high on Political intrigue. Dumbledore!bashing slytherin!harry, dark!harry, eventual slash, lv/hp
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- Part 1 of Again and Again
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After the Second Wizarding War stretches on into ruin, Harry Potter performs a dangerous blood magic ritual with Draco Malfoy’s help to go back in time and change the future. Instead of simply traveling back, the spell reincarnates him as Mizar Black-Shafiq, a child born of Lycoris Black, Lord Arcturus Black’s only sister, and Hamza Shafiq.
In the original timeline, Lycoris miscarried after losing her husband to Wane’s Grasp—but Harry’s presence alters fate: one twin dies… and he, with all his memories intact, becomes the surviving son.
Armed with memories of war, loss, and love, Harry must quietly reshape the past. To save a grieving mother. To stop a family’s rot before it spreads. To ensure a future where war never comes.
And this time, he will not be the boy who survived by accident.
This time, he’s the boy who was reborn with purpose.
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What if Peter Pettigrew had been caught?
What if Sirius Black never went to Azkaban?In a single split-second decision, the course of the wizarding world changes. Instead of prison, Sirius Black finds himself raising Harry James Potter—alongside Remus Lupin and, through reluctant necessity (and fate), Severus Snape.
Three men. One child. And a life shaped not by prophecy, but by choice.
Raised with as many last names as parents, Harry grows up loved—fiercely, if not always gently. Trained in magic, politics, memory, and legacy, he learns that to love is not to shield, but to prepare. He isn’t hidden from the dark—he’s taught how to walk through it.
Part I: A childhood of broken men, healing bonds, and quiet resilience. (Chapters 1–28 | 221k words)
Part II: Slytherin Harry at Hogwarts. Ambitious, kind, loyal to a fault, and destined to surprise them all. (Ongoing)Not the Boy Who Lived they expected. And perhaps something more powerful: a boy who was loved.
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Two, perhaps nearly three, years after the fall of Lord Voldemort, the wizarding world begins to heal. But deep in the shadows, Bellatrix Lestrange still burns with the need to prove her loyalty to her vanished master. When fate places young Harry Potter in her path on a cold, storm-lashed night, she prepares to strike the ultimate blow of revenge.
And yet… she doesn’t.In a single moment of clarity, Bellatrix sees not the Boy Who Lived, not the symbol of her master’s downfall, but a child, bruised and neglected, cast away by the very world that claims to worship him. Driven by a twisted blend of vengeance, obsession, and something achingly close to maternal yearning, she steals him from the Muggles’ grasp, determined to shape him into something greater. Her own dark legacy.
As Harry grows under Bellatrix’s fierce and fractured care, molded by the shadows instead of the light, questions begin to stir within him. Who is he really? Savior or weapon? Pawn or player? As the years pass and Hogwarts looms on the horizon, the world teeters unknowingly on the edge of a future rewritten.
One boy. One woman. One night that changed everything.
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Our Choices Seal Our Fate by Drift_between_the_lines
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Oct 2025
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Halloween 1981 did not end with a baby’s scar and a mother’s scream.
Lily Potter stood in the ruins of her home and made a choice. With forbidden magic and relentless love, she banished Voldemort — but the cost was everything. Declared dead, betrayed by those she trusted, she vanished with her son.Years later, the Wizengamot blazes gold. The Most Ancient and Noble House of Black has a new heir. The House of Potter rises. And… is that the Malfoy seat shining?
The world believes a lie. But Lily returns not as a memory — as a storm. With Sirius imprisoned, Harry hidden, and truth buried beneath politics and prophecy, it’s time to reclaim the story.
This isn’t about the boy who lived.
It’s about the woman who wouldn’t die — and the family she refused to lose.---
“I used to think he was a genius. Now I think he’s just another old man who got used to the sound of obedience.” —Lily
“I buried the girl who followed the rules. What came out of that grave is not someone they’ll survive.” —Narcissa -
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The first time Harry performs accidental magic at the age of 6, two things happen simultaneously.
First, the toilet, which Dudley had been trying to push Harry’s head down, vanishes with a pop.
Second, a strange boy with fuzzy edges suddenly appears in the cupboard under the stairs, screaming with terror.
Or: The one where Harry Potter grows up with an invisible best friend named Tom - and how that changes everything.
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Harry willingly walks to face Voldemort for one last time. The moment the Killing Curse hits, he wakes up the day after he and Hermione traveled through time. Gifted this chance, Harry sets out to learn about about what has been denied to him since he lost his parents. Along the way he makes new friends, learns new magic, and carves out his place in the wizarding world.
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Harry overhears a conversation during his fourth year that makes him question some facts and assumptions he’s made. This sets him on a very different path over the rest of his school years as he works to understand more about magic, Wixen society, soulmates, and more.