18 Bookmarks by OpenWaters
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Twisting of canon starting immediately after OotP and going through HBP. Major canon points in play. As the war escalates, those on both sides find themselves caught between doing what is right and what is easy, and oh, what dreams may come. The Dark must have the Light, and the Light must have the Dark - bone of the father, blood of the mother, the meddling of old fools and the hubris of youth. Whispers of the past meet the potentiality of the future as Harry comes of age in an age of war, where deception is the currency of the day and its cost is highest for those with the most to lose.
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- Part 1 of The Light and The Dark
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- English
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- 162,727
- Chapters:
- 41/41
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28 Sep 2025
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After the events at the Department of Mysteries in June—and all that came after—Harry finds himself once again stranded at Number Four Privet Drive. With only his own thoughts to keep him company, he takes to writing letters to the only person he thinks can help, if only he were still alive to do so.
As it turns out, though, sometimes help can arrive in even the most unexpected of forms too.
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- English
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- 15,575
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 15
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- 251
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23 Sep 2025
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Just before his eleventh birthday, Harry is found in a dark London alleyway. He is subsequently taken to stay in the home of one Severus Snape until he begins Hogwarts. Harry isn't quite sure what possessed him to agree to this arrangement, and Severus has no intention of allowing Potter's unfortunate progeny to get under his skin, but this is a Severitus fic, we all know how it ends.
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- English
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- 217,906
- Chapters:
- 60/60
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- 38
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- 4,474
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23 Sep 2025
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Harry’s post-war “eighth year” back at Hogwarts was supposed to be a time for reflection, healing, and maybe even naps. Instead, he’s sharing a dorm with Draco Malfoy, who owns a cat Harry suspects is planning his demise, criticizes Harry as a pastime, and weaponizes passive-aggression like a Slytherin art form. What begins as a series of petty arguments and suspiciously smug eye contact slowly morphs into something far more dangerous: feelings. Unfortunately, Harry might just be falling in love—out of spite.
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- English
- Words:
- 114,800
- Chapters:
- 34/34
- Comments:
- 221
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21 Sep 2025
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Returning to Hogwarts after the war should have been simple—finish classes, try to heal, and pretend nothing had changed. But nothing is simple where Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy are concerned.
Between late-night study sessions, hesitant truces, and the slow collapse of every wall they’ve ever built, Harry begins to wonder if starting over might be the most dangerous thing he’s ever done.
Or:
Two boys who were never supposed to be anything but enemies, learning how to want, how to hope, and how to love.Bookmarked by OpenWaters
21 Sep 2025
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Checkmate, Dragon by jesterslove for dramionewrites, warmheartcoldshoulder
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Sep 2025
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Harry Potter is sick of losing at chess to Ron Weasley.
Draco Malfoy is sick of everyone underestimating him.
Somehow, this ends with Harry learning strategy, Draco getting flustered, and Ron regretting every smug word he’s ever spoken.
It was supposed to be about beating Ron.
It wasn’t supposed to be about Draco.
…Checkmate.
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20 Sep 2025
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Winter break of Harry’s first year at Hogwarts brings awful memories of his life with the Dursleys and new stresses in the forms of Quidditch rivalry and wizarding biases. Still trying to figure out what Hagrid’s three-headed dog is guarding, Harry’s also struggling to adapt to a world that he didn’t know existed mere months ago. When fighting between the Slytherin and Gryffindor teams gets out of hand, Harry suffers because of it and Snape must help him begin to heal.
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15 Sep 2025
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Harry is poisoned by a Potions experiment while protecting Snape.
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- Part 2 of Chivalry
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- English
- Words:
- 98,090
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Comments:
- 232
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14 Sep 2025
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When Harry appears at the Welcoming Feast wearing a glamor only Snape notices, Snape decides to find out what the glamor is hiding.
You, the guiltless, will pay for your father's sins,
Roman, until you repair the decaying
temples and shrines of the gods, and their
images, filthy with blackening smoke.When you act as servant of the gods, you rule:
from them all beginning, leave them the ending.Horace, Odes, III-6
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- Part 1 of Chivalry
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 25,377
- Chapters:
- 8/8
- Collections:
- 3
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- 115
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14 Sep 2025
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Whispers in the Castle by aspionage, BinteMuhammad
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Jul 2024
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While trying to escape from Dudley and his gang, nine-year-old Harry Apparates himself to Hogwarts instead of the roof of his school. Thrilled by his magical surroundings and the lack of vindictive Dursleys, Harry decides to blend in amongst the students so he can stay in the castle forever.
Meanwhile, Severus tries to make sense of a new, tiny first-year whose name he can't quite place.
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- English
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- 38,929
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 7
- Comments:
- 361
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- 8,830
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11 Sep 2025
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The Wyvern by emmagnetised
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Iron Man (Movies), Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
25 Aug 2019
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Margaret “Maggie” Stark is the newest heir to the Stark legacy, and the bane of Tony’s existence. But once she falls into HYDRA’s hands she becomes the Wyvern: a cybernetically enhanced assassin and operative, programmed to become the greatest weapon of her time.
But the Wyvern finds herself pulled between two missions: to obey, or to avenge herself against a metal-armed Soldier she can barely remember?
Eventual Bucky/OC.
(I'm bad at summaries. Trust me, this story goes places you might not expect)
SHOULD GO WITHOUT SAYING: DO NOT REPOST MY WORK TO OTHER SITES WITHOUT MY PERMISSION
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- Part 1 of The Wyvern-Verse
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 600,260
- Chapters:
- 100/100
- Collections:
- 16
- Comments:
- 3,316
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- 4,440
- Bookmarks:
- 1,234
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- 232,310
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01 Sep 2025
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Set during the summer after Harry's Fifth Year. The fifteen-year-old is struggling to cope with his godfather's recent death, ridden with guilt, shame, remorse, and much internal conflict, depression looming on the horizon. The Dursleys aren't helping things either. Things take a sudden twist for the worse when the Blood Wards around Privet Drive fall, rendering Harry unsafe. What's the solution? Dumbledore arranges for Harry to stay with his most hated person after Voldemort and Umbridge: Severus Snape. In isolation. For two weeks. It goes without saying that neither wizard is pleased, and their feelings of mutual hatred are much reciprocated. And with a ticking sleep-deprived Gryffindor time-bomb, that right there is a recipe for a dangerous concoction.
Angst, hurt/comfort, emphasis on psychology and character developement. Super slice-of-life kind of story where every chapter is one day of the two weeks our two favorite characters have to spend in isolation. And the chapters are LONG. Panic attacks, stress, anxiety all based off of personal experiences. Written in third-person omniscient. Heavy emphasis on internal conflict, feelings, emotions, and learning to cope with life's shit.
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- Part 1 of The Path Chosen
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 192,935
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Collections:
- 3
- Comments:
- 681
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- 2,730
- Bookmarks:
- 695
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- 105,714
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30 Aug 2025
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Rita Skeeter’s Star-Crossed Lovers by wayofthemagicbean
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
27 Mar 2025
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Following the end of the War, and much to their dismay, Harry and Draco find themselves shackled together by the Headmistress during almost every aspect of the rebuilding of Hogwarts, a circumstance which is made even worse by Rita Skeeter’s determination to write an exceptionally juicy story about Harry - even if it means making up the story herself.
*A slow-burn, enemies to lovers Drarry*
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28 Aug 2025
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All the Dust in the World by Lomonaaeren for jtsbbsps_dk
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Jun 2023
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Severus, frustrated that Potter isn’t learning Occlumency, sets him to scrubbing cauldrons and washing floors and doing other such menial work instead. Even he is startled by the freedom Potter finds there.
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- Part 1 of Songs of Summer 2023
- Language:
- English
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- 7,981
- Chapters:
- 2/2
- Comments:
- 186
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26 Aug 2025
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“I must not have heard you correctly, Headmaster,” Severus said flatly.
“You did, my boy. This isn’t only a favour to me, you understand.”
“But there must be trust," Severus insisted. "A bond… or some sort of relationship between mentor and pupil for Occlumency to be taught correctly! The only bond the brat and I share is one of mutual loathing.”
“Now, Severus, you are an adult and a Hogwarts professor. Surely, you can find a way to mend broken bridges.”
Broken bridges? Broken bridges? There had never been a "bridge" to begin with! Not with Potter, the carbon copy of his school bully, who spoke, acted, believed himself so superior to anyone else he might as well be the second coming of his father. There had always only been damp planks slogging down a river which separated them on two opposite banks. No bridge to speak of.
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Summer of Fifth Year. Dumbledore decides Harry should begin Occlumency immediately. Harry and Snape start seeing a lot of each other. Neither is thrilled, especially when they begrudgingly realise that maybe, possibly, perhaps, they might have more in common than they thought.- Language:
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- Words:
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- Chapters:
- 26/26
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- 7
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- 679
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- 2,834
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26 Aug 2025
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Dear Diary: The Freak Under the Stairs by HopelessAndWandering
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Jan 2024
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Harry loses something of great value. He doesn't lose it. It is taken. It is not lost. It has been stolen.
Snape has got something to do with it.
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26 Aug 2025
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When Harry finds an injured Snape on his doorstep and must hide him from the Dursleys, he has no idea that this very, very bad day will be the start of something good.
Harry and Snape are thrown together by annoying relatives, a series of strange dreams, and Voldemort's latest hunt for Harry, but their greatest challenge may well be surviving each other. This will be a long summer unless the two can find a way to work together. A slow-burn enemy-to-mentor story.
Alternate 6th summer (and part of the school year): post-OotP; ignores HBP and DH. No slash, no romance. NOW COMPLETE!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 373,223
- Chapters:
- 61/61
- Collections:
- 37
- Comments:
- 2,572
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- 13,993
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- 4,894
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26 Aug 2025
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Before his third year of Hogwarts has even begun, Harry faces three whole weeks of unsupervised time in Diagon Alley. In that time he takes a trip to Gringotts - and that changes everything.
Burdened with the knowledge that Dumbledore has been blocking his family magic, and manipulating far more than he ever thought possible, Harry doesn't know who he can trust; but he knows he can't keep going that way. There's a whole world of lore and politics and history to catch up on, and the more he learns, the more Harry realises his true place in the world, and how much is being kept hidden from him. All the while, Dumbledore's twinkling eyes are constantly watching, and Harry can't let on how much he knows.
With help from unexpected places, Harry starts on a journey to end the war, and reshape the wizarding world. With how much he looks like James Potter, people have forgotten one important thing about him - he is Lily Evans' son, and she was one hell of a witch.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 746,386
- Chapters:
- 109/109
- Collections:
- 182
- Comments:
- 12,993
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- 79,806
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Bookmarked by OpenWaters
18 Jul 2025