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On the night of October 31, 1981, Bellatrix made a choice. She chose her family.
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19 Jul 2026
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Petunia wasn't the smart one. Or the pretty one. Or the magical one. But she was cunning, resourceful, and she knew what she wanted from life... and she got it.
So when her nephew turns up on her doorstep one cold November morning, she sees it as the opportunity that it is.
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This was an odd little earworm of a plot bunny that wouldn't leave me alone. I'm much more inclined to shorter works, so it's a bit of a patchwork story.
Note on the tags. Petunia is... Petunia. She is not really 'Nice' or 'Good' but she's not 'Mean' or 'Evil' either. She's a selfish, self-centered woman with a brittle sense of self-esteem and a drive to be recognized as successful in her own right. I tagged it 'Good' because that was the closest I could get to 'not the horrible person from the book, but not really even close to a Molly'.
Also: I will not be tagging every single person who appears in the fic, only those with reoccurring roles. This is not a bashing fic and I've done as best as possible to give rational(ish) 'good intentions' explanations for the canon shenanigans.
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- Part 1 of Harold the Normal
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14 Jul 2026
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A wizard is never late. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to.
But what if one wizard was just a little earlier, and another was just a little later?
Begin, Adopted by the Darkness.Hallow’s Eve, 1981. Sirius Black reaches Godric’s Hollow before Rubeus Hagrid, taking his goddaughter to safety. This is what follows.
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The writer couldn’t find a voice for Harry to fit with their story of a minutes-earlier rescue by Sirius, but writing for Harriet instead made it work.
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24 May 2026
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Sarah Potter wants, more than anything, to be left alone
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- Part 1 of Sarah Potter
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21 Apr 2026
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The summer after first year, Hermione Granger’s parents meet Harry Potter and realize something is deeply wrong.
What follows is not a rescue fantasy, but a reckoning: with institutions that failed, with the limits of protection, and with what it means to raise children in a world that never intended to keep them safe.
Canon divergence beginning in Year Two. Multi-year AU.
Year 2: Chapters 1-29 (COMPLETE)
Year 3: Chapters 30-57- Language:
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14 Apr 2026
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Hermione Granger’s magic begins to change after an encounter in the Department of Mysteries.
When an ancient power awakens in her blood, it binds her to none other than Bellatrix Black and draws her into a world far more complicated than the one she knew before. A world of dangerous bargains, fairy folk, and prophecies that cannot be escaped.
As the war grows closer and the bond between them tightens, Hermione must decide how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice in order to survive.
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07 Apr 2026
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For the Greater Good. That was what Dumbledore told Grindelwald all those years ago. He may have turned away from his dark friend, but Hermione is about discover he never stopped believing in the phrase.
Hermione could change the course of the war, but to do so she must give up everything. How will she cope with having to sacrifice herself for the greater good? Can she go through with it and in the end will she learn to see light even in the darkside? Or is the darkside truly evil, regardless of cookies.
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17 Mar 2026
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Harry Potter defeats Voldemort, but at what cost? Surrounded by the spoils of his pyrrhic victory, he is offered a choice to live once more in a new time away from prophecy or the ministrations of others. Arriving in 1930s Britain, he must overcome the struggles of a new identity steeped in legend as he learns all he can to not only survive but also thrive.
There is a storm coming, and he must be prepared for it when it does.Bookmarked by Red1024
25 Jan 2026
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An accident with a time turner in third year sends Hermione back to 1945 as a ward of the Black family. Sirius Black is horrified to learn that his once great house is in shambles. He thinks his new ward just might be the key to restoring it. She prompts him to take a good, hard look at all of his heirs and make decisions that he never would have considered before.
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19 Dec 2025
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Harry Potter and the Path to Martyrdom by martyrizm
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
31 Dec 2025
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Harry Potter stiffened beneath the soft leather of the Sorting Hat. There was something so intrinsically wrong with the feeling of the cloth on his head that he had half the mind to fling it across the room.
Before he could do anything, the utter wrongness rose to a crescendo until, finally, a voice spoke.
Not Slytherin, ey? Well, we'll have to see about that.
In which Harry Potter is hungry for recognition, power, and success - anything to prove that he is more than his infant self. In turn, he is sorted into Slytherin. Events spiral.
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- Part 1 of Martyr Verse
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03 Dec 2025
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When a tragedy claims two Muggle lives, Bellatrix Black is drawn from her solitude by word of a magical artifact found among the ruins. What she discovers is a child, Hermione Granger, the hidden daughter of her long-lost cousin, Regulus. Determined to protect the last remnant of him, Bellatrix adopts the girl as her own.
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01 Nov 2025
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They expected a hero. They got a Slytherin. Raised by Sirius Black, Harry Potter isn't playing by the old rules. As darkness stirs, he brings a mind sharpened for war and a power forged in secret. Forget destiny; this is about strategy.
Note: The pairing is undecided right now, intially I planned on to go with Harry/Daphne and that's the most probable one right now as well but there are some original characters that might get invovled in also. NOT A HAREM! Only one pairing, just haven't decided on it yet.
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14 Oct 2025
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The Serpent's Eye: The First Fracture by AshenQuill
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Aug 2025
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What if love wasn't enough?
Dumbledore believed that leaving Harry Potter with his mother's blood would keep him safe. He believed that love and sacrifice would be Harry's salvation. He believed in the power of choice, in second chances, in the fundamental goodness of the human heart.
He was wrong about so many things.
This is the story of how a broken boy learned that power is the only protection that matters, and how the wizarding world's savior became something else entirely.
Sometimes the abyss doesn't just gaze back—sometimes it offers exactly what you need.Series
- Part 1 of The Serpent's Eye
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18 Aug 2025
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Cassiopeia Yelizaveta Kuzmina-Black, the cold flame at the heart of the Noble House of Black, has spent a lifetime treading the line between duty and rebellion. A woman of secrets and steel, she returned for a promise. A letter from Lily Evans, sealed in magic and desperation, begged her to protect the boy who might survive the Dark Lord. When Cassiopeia found him—small, silent, and hidden beneath a staircase—she didn’t see the Boy-Who-Lived. She saw a child discarded by the very world that seemed to praise him.
Hadrian Potter-Black was not raised on fairy tales or lies. He was raised by truth, sharpened by discipline, and named not for prophecy, but for legacy. He knows who he is, and what the world expects of him—a child molded to defeat a monster. But Hadrian is no pawn. As his eleventh birthday nears and the letter from Hogwarts arrives, he prepares not to be sorted, but to be studied. Watched. Feared.
Together, Cassiopeia and Hadrian are more than Heir and Guardian—they are a storm the wizarding world does not yet understand. Bound by blood, armed with knowledge, and haunted by the past, they return to Hogwarts not to play their part... but to rewrite the tale.
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22 Apr 2025
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The Shadow That Stole The Boy by EiraMason
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter & Related Fandoms
17 Jan 2026
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Some fates should never be left in the hands of men like Dumbledore.
A boy runs, barefoot and desperate, fleeing the only home he’s ever known. A woman watches, sharp-eyed and furious, as she recognizes what no one else has seen, or what they’ve chosen to ignore.
When Elara Grey takes Harry Potter from Privet Drive, she doesn’t just rescue a child, she shatters a carefully laid plan.
Fleeing England, Elara and Harry find themselves in Paris, where the Flamels introduce them to a world far greater than the one they left behind. No longer just The Boy Who Lived, Harry thrives under the guidance of alchemists, scholars, and warriors. Meanwhile, Elara builds a war chest of knowledge, allies, and power.
But all shadows must return to the light.
When they return to England, Hogwarts awaits, as does Dumbledore, the Ministry, and forces both known and hidden. They expect the same lost boy they left behind.
They are not prepared for the boy who returns, or the woman who will burn their world to the ground before she lets them take him.
She stole him once. She will never let them have him again
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- Part 1 of The Shadow War Chronicles
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22 Mar 2025
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In which the divorce between Bellatrix Black and Rodolphus Lestrange in the late days of March 1979 changes everything in the wizarding world, especially amid a war.
(Formerly titled Midnight Oil)
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- Part 1 of Moonflowers & Ravens
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24 Jan 2025
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On the night of Halloween 1981, a butterfly flapped its wings, and the world changed. Albus Dumbledore made a different decision, impacting the fate of two of the greatest houses of wizarding Britain, and the dominos began to tumble. For instead of the Dursleys, it was Lord Arcturus Black who took Harry in as his own.
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15 Dec 2024
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When Harry is left to his own devices in Diagon Alley after blowing up his aunt marge, he has a lot of questions and no ways to get any answers, so he decides to do what Hermione would and look in a book (make that many, many books). In order to do that though, he has to stop by Gringotts and get money for that, and things like food and such. When Harry arrives at Gringotts though, he suddenly has about a hundred more questions, and he's determined to answer them all, no matter how long it takes.
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15 Dec 2024
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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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08 Dec 2024
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Sirius can't leave his goddaughter Harriet alone in the destroyed cottage, it's too dangerous, even if the Headmaster is probably on his way right now. But he also can't wait any longer, Peter's apparition trail is starting to fade, and he needs to catch the traitorous rat, needs to kill him.
But maybe there's a way.
Sirius' parents are dead, and Grimmauld Place is empty.
- "This is Harriet Potter, Dorea's blood," he said, watching his goddaughter, as Kreacher muttered something about mudbloods, "you will bring her to Grimmauld Place. You will treat her and care for her as if she was an heir of House Black."
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Harriet grows up with the Noble and Most Ancient House of Black. Well, really, with their portraits.
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22 Nov 2024