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Peter Pettigrew and the Ghost of Christmas James by gonzoclock
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Dec 2023
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Peter loves his friends. Which is why he had to kill them. And now, he's doing- well. Alright. Things didn't turn out exactly as he'd anticipated, but he's making it work. Living his life. As a rat. Mostly trying not to think about things.
Fine. Things could be better.
But he hadn't thought they'd get worse- which is exactly what happens when, three years after James died, he's come back. And for some godforsaken reason, he's decided to make that Peter's problem. (Okay, okay- Peter gets it. He did kill him.) Peter is sure that James is going to turn him in, ruin his life the same as Peter had ruined the Marauders.
But this is James. And he doesn't do any of that.
What was Peter expecting, really?
(Features: A lot of fighting, a lot of forgiveness, and a splash of necromancy. Alright, you got me- rather a lot of necromancy. But come on- we can't just have the ghost of Christmas James show up. Haven't you seen 'A Muppet's Christmas Carol'? There needs to be at least two more ghosts.)
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- 240,773
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- 110/110
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
11 Aug 2025
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a weird, wonderful, hilarious, and surprisingly poignant portrayal of peter pettigrew that manages to redeem the series' most traitorous and cowardly villain. redeeming peter without minimizing or rewriting any part of his betrayal is no small thing; in fact, I thought it impossible before reading this. the rest of the marauders are also given the room to be their terribly flawed and battered selves, and to feel whatever they feel about peter's choices (mostly, and understandably, murderous rage) while on their way to forgiving him. it shouldn't work, and yet it does, thanks in part to some inspired magical world building and a perfect injection of deus ex machina to get everyone safe, sound, and happy as the story ends. meanwhile, harry is, as always, the breath of fresh air the animates all that is good and pure in the world. just by being himself, he makes everyone around him better, which is the best, truest portrayal of harry potter that one can write.
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Zuko choked on a sob and, impossibly, Lu Ten’s ghost gripped his hand tighter.
“I’m here, baby cousin, I’m here.” Said the ghost of Lu Ten, and Zuko felt warm fingers brush gently across his scalp, carding through Zuko’s sweat-soaked hair.
“M’ sorry that you’re dead,” Zuko wept, pressing his head feverishly into the touch, “I miss you. I miss you so much.”
Featuring a still very much alive Lu Ten, the slow revival of Zuko's self esteem, and how ending a war begins at home.
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- Part 2 of see you after we win the war
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- English
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- 76,912
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- 9/9
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
09 Jun 2025
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lu ten survives, and the world shifts towards peace, even as the royal family splinters with zuko stuck in the middle. an excellent what-if that rivals canon in its ability to weave compassion into the very core of the narrative alongside themes of found family, honor, grief, and war
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i knew you before we met, and i don’t even know you yet by fairytiger
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
27 May 2020
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Amidst the row houses, there was a brick building with a single overhead light and an old wooden sign. The Burrow, it read, in loopy scrawl that looked as though it was done by not one, but many hands. And at the door was a boy--no, older than a boy, though not by much--with very red hair.
“You alright?” he yelled.
“Lost,” she yelled back.
The boy held the door open.
Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
29 Jul 2024
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earns the best compliment i can give a non-magic au: the characters are faithfully rendered, warts and all, without the scaffolding of seven books to inform their characterizations. ron and hermione fall for each other slowly and sweetly, with false starts, fond banter, and devotion rooted in mutual respect.
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Harry had just killed a basilisk. Now he was going to die, there is basilisk venom coursing through his veins. His decision to announce that he would take Tom Riddle with him leads to Harry travelling across world boundaries. What unexpected people and events are waiting for him in this new world?
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- Part 1 of A Whole New World of Life
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- English
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- 98,812
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- 34/34
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
16 Jan 2024
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the parts with the potters are excellent; the parts about those left behind could probably be excised, though I do love the ending. nevertheless, I keep coming back to the imagery of james and harry lying on the couch, an exhausted son cuddling with the father he had so long been denied. the familial devotion may be too fluffy for some, but I will never get tired of harry finally getting what he deserves.
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"There were many stories circulating about him, rumours that he was a Dark wizard." – Severus Snape [HBP]
The year is 1990. Lucius decides to take a closer look at Harry Potter. Dumbledore must send his spy to the rescue. Eventual Severitus. No slash. Snape is not Harry's biological father. Covers Hogwarts years. Update: Complete!
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- 78/78
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
14 Jan 2024
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every single thing I look for in a servitus fic, my very favorite genre. harry, sweet, reckless, irrational, but above all good; severus, tortured but trying, devoted to harry even when he wishes it were not so. their happiness is hard fought and well earned, pure and unbreakable.
in other words, perhaps my favorite fic of all time, and certainly in the top 10.
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i think i've seen this film before by magneticwave
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Aug 2020
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It doesn’t occur to Harry until supper that night, while Luna makes a Spanish tortilla with pink and blue potatoes from her garden, that Granger might actually be his friend now. Not just a transferable friend, comfortable with him because she’d grown up with a strangely domestic alternative version of him with short hair, but a real friend. Since he’s not sure how to feel about it, he eats his half of the tortilla in a silent daze and then helps Luna go over the last of the proofs for next week’s Quibbler.
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
31 Dec 2023
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alternate prat harry becomes less of a prat. canon hermione continues to be best friend to harry potter(s).
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
14 Feb 2023
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near saccharine in its sweetness, and yet tempered flawlessly by incisive, austen-esque repartee, time-turning shenanigans, and 19th century tropes (sick beds! love confessions made in the pouring rain! so much pining!). in other words, a near perfect romantic comedy
Love & Other Historical Accidents by PacificRimbaud
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Wherein Pansy Parkinson becomes a spy, Harry Potter gains an informant, and their lives are changed forever.
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- Part 1 of the truth is stranger
- Language:
- English
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- 104,925
- Chapters:
- 25/25
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- 10
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
26 May 2022
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a pansy parkinson with depth and an irrepressible desire to do what's right
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A retelling of the Harry Potter series in three parts.
Part One: Under the Auspices of Generals, set from December 1979 to November 1981, is a canon-compliant story about the first war with Voldemort.
Part two: Unsorted, set from November 1981 to January 1986, is a canon-divergent story about Remus's journey to gaining custody of Harry and Sirius's exoneration.
Part three: Far From Here, set from 1986-2006, is a Wolfstar raising Harry fic meets second war with Voldemort.- Words:
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
11 Feb 2022
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the means are terrible, but needs must, according to dumbledore. what is a cupboard and a few bruises when it comes to saving the world? for remus, much, much too much.
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Harry's life with the Dursleys has never been ideal. He's learned to accept that. Sirius doesn't think he should have to.
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- Part 1 of Dead Men Don't Bleed
Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
09 Dec 2021
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the sirius we all, but especially harry, deserved
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made weak by time and fate, but strong in will by Dialux
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Nov 2019
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In one world, James Potter is wandless when he faces Voldemort.
In another, he’s not.
[Apocalypse AU, where both Potters survive.]
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- English
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- 72,396
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- 5/5
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- 846
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
03 Dec 2021
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It was "Witch Weekly", of all people and organizations, the first to notice and comment on The Boy Who Lived’s absence from the ranks of first years at Hogwarts. The magazine went on to elucubrate that the young hero was studying at a foreign school, possibly Beauxbatons or Holzschuhkäse.
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- English
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- 66,238
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- 11/11
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
22 Nov 2021
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a harry who will escape his abuse, survive the streets, take down a rapist, and never lose that inherently 'harry' quality that compels him to care when he has little reason to. this harry is kind and understanding and helpful in every way until he learns of your fascist bullshit and single-handedly shames you into the light. of course draco can't help but fall in love.
featuring a remus who will emerge as a quiet hero, the only adult whose instincts will prove right and whose methods will bear fruit, though he will receive neither trust nor recognition for either. his doggedness and his capacity for compassion will allow him to approach, engage, and earn trust where everyone else has failed. he is hardly to blame for harry's reprehensible home life on privet drive, and yet he will be the only one to make any overtures to atone for that inexcusable wrong. he earns whatever goodness he can scrounge together and then some.
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She thinks maybe this is what life is supposed to be like: late nights with friends, questionable decisions, a boy who makes her knees weak when he smirks. -- - Collection of drabbles spanning a love story. Fifth in the "Common Stories" series, follows "i await a guardian."
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- Part 5 of common stories
Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
23 Oct 2021
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"We don’t drown. We float. That’s how Muggles used to tell, isn’t it?"
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When Regulus is five, he nearly drowns in the sea off Blackpool.
When Regulus is eleven, his brother befriends a ghost.
It’s not until Regulus is eighteen and ready to die that the Black family’s darkest secret finally unravels. It might, perhaps, change everything.
(A coming-of-age story with mind magic, star charting, pink petit-fours, two diaries, and a ghost.)
[Edit: SPOILERS in the comments.]
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- Language:
- English
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- 63,190
- Chapters:
- 9/9
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- 20
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- 1,211
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
04 Oct 2021
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"It's not a reward, Sirius," says Andromeda finally. "Kindness. It's what you two deserve just for being kids."
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Wherein neither Black boy gets what he deserves, over and over and over again, and a long-buried secret emerges only to be drowned, over and over and over again.
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turncoat: in defense of andromeda tonks nee black by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Oct 2014
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When her little cousin Sirius got disowned too, years later, Andromeda sent him a fruit basket.
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- English
- Words:
- 8,355
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 9
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- 394
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
27 Sep 2021
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a woman who, in her own quiet, careful way, was nothing less than exactly herself: demanding and strong, principled and clever, beloved and loving in a family that punished anything of the sort. a war widow, a grieving mother, and a heroine all the same, her first rescue her own self.
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a life of smoke and silvered glass by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jul 2017
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Albus Dumbledore rose to his feet, smiling at them in that way of his, like he knew something you didn't and he was proud of you for it. "Friends," he began.
The door thudded open and the Marauders burst in, late and pink-cheeked with cold. The headmaster smiled at them, too, and Sirius gave a cheery little salute back.
Severus sunk lower in his chair, staring witheringly over his butterbeer. "You told Potter about it, too?"
"He might as well put all that energy to good use," said Lily. "And, to be accurate, I told Remus."
"But Potter, really?" said Severus.
"He and Black cooked up a jinx that gives you a boil every time you say a slur to a Muggleborn," said Lily. "It was either invite them to Alice's war club or bake them cookies, and I know where my skills lie."
Severus sniffed. "Don't come crying to me if he tugs your pigtails."
"Come crying to me if he pulls yours, and I'll deck him," said Lily.
(Slight AU in which Severus apologizes, tries harder, and stays friends with Lily)
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- Part 15 of boy with a scar
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 27,794
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 34
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- 1,259
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
18 Sep 2021
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dumbledore is a villain and snape is a godfather and james survived lily and did end up better for it
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The fact of the matter is, they need to rent out the spare room. Ba Sing Se isn't cheap. But leave it to Aang to bring back a roommate candidate that’s old enough to be his grandfather.
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Iroh moves to Ba Sing Se, hoping to one day find his long lost nephew. Zuko moves to Ba Sing Se, hoping it will be a good move for the sisters he looks after. They find each other. It just takes some time.
And a lot of new friends.
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- Part 1 of tales of ba sing se
- Language:
- English
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- 10,317
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- 2/2
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
30 Aug 2021
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the modern atla au that will make you cry (in a good way)
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A work exploring Hateno and a makeshift sanctuary.
Her basket's on the table, palms on either side of it. The house dark. Dim.
The door hasn’t closed behind her. Zelda turns her head, peering through windswept hair. Light pours in behind him: his silhouette standing there on the threshold of his own home like a vampire awaiting an invitation. She almost laughs at the sight. The man who cut the Devil to pieces is scared to follow after a woman with a chip on her shoulder? How far they’ve both fallen.
“It’s your house,” she points out.
Permission to enter. He does even though it’s not hers to give. It’s only a few steps, of course. Can’t break the rule. Five feet. Always five feet apart. The door closes.
She wants to break something. An old habit’s under heavy consideration.
- Language:
- English
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- 18,438
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- 2/2
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- 1
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- 76
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
16 Aug 2021
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sassy dorks and their inability to accurately communicate their feelings lead to delicious pining
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everything else left up to you by hippolytas for alamorn
Fandoms: The Queen's Thief - Megan Whalen Turner
25 Dec 2020
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Overnight, it seemed, everyone in the palace had become an authority on childrearing. Attolia didn’t mind it from her attendants, who tended not to advise so much as gossip freely about things their mothers and sisters had said as they cooed at the babies, but from the old baronesses who had dismissed her as unwomanly and unnatural since her coronation, it rankled.
“Phresine tells me you have already dismissed a nurse,” the king said from the bed as Chloe finished wiping off the queen’s makeup and placed her earrings back in their box.
Attolia was silent for a moment.
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- 12,948
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Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
12 Aug 2021
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supremely lovely slice of life aided by copious amounts of Eugenia and Hector
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Or, four times someone suspected that the princess of Attolia was in love with the Mede ambassador, and one time someone knew.
Bookmarked by LurkerForAlways
14 Jul 2021
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pitch perfect characterizations across the board