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Vanyel is given another choice after defeating Leareth. He can go back in time to when he first came to Haven and first fell in love with Tylendel, root out the enemy, and prevent Valdemar from ever facing the war that had plagued it for nearly twenty years. A different chance to serve Valdemar and save its people from destruction.
But he can't save himself from the grief of seeing old friends (and lover) alive after all this time. And how will they react to him, now more than twice his age, hair silvered, and more powerful than anything they could've expected out of a once skinny boy exiled from Forst Reach?
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01 Mar 2025
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In your arms I shall not fear the night by Swimmer963
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
20 Apr 2018
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This is a rationalfic take on "The Last Herald-Mage", inspired by HPMOR and other works. Accessible regardless of whether you've read the original series. Though far from perfect, the characters are trying to do their best with the information, intelligence, and skills they have. Unfortunately, their enemies are also doing that, and sometimes even reasonable decisions can turn out badly.
[Meta note: this starts out a bit slow, and book 1 is kind of a different genre from the rest. In particular, the rationalist content is fairly subtle at the start, and the effective altruism themes come out a lot more towards the end of book 2 and early book 3. If you’re moderately enjoying book 1 but a little bored, try sticking it out until the end of book 2.]
Ashamed of him, Vanyel's father sends his disappointing son to live with his strict aunt, the Herald-Mage Savil. Although he knows things will change, Vanyel dramatically underestimates just how different his life is about to become. Sparks fly as he discovers both love and magic.
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- Part 1 of A Song for Two Voices
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- English
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- 91,488
- Chapters:
- 18/18
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- 2
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15 Oct 2024
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Knives in the dark by AirgiodSLV for SpiritsFlame
Fandoms: Valdemar Series - Mercedes Lackey
05 Dec 2022
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Tylendel doesn’t offer last chance to turn back, even in his thoughts. He’s fairly sure that if he did, Vanyel would turn around right here and head straight back to Haven.
Vanyel groans and rubs at his face. “We’re nearly there now. Are you ready to face the Ashkevron hordes?”
“With you beside me?” Tylendel says. “I can face anything.”
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- Part 3 of Last light on the horizon
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- English
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- 25,208
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- 1/1
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14 Oct 2024
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Shadows and Light by not_poignant
Fandom: Fae Tales - not_poignant, Guardians of Childhood - William Joyce, Rise of the Guardians (2012)
23 Feb 2017
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18 Mar 2024
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Home is where the heart(s) is (are), but what about when you no longer know where you fit in to the story?
Feeling rather out of place once he gets back to his own Universe, the Master has to figure out just who he is now, while also being the only person aware of both the Doctor's slowly collapsing Timeline, and Death's dissapearance.
Note: The author of this is no longer interested in the Harry Potter fandom, however they will continue to update this until it is finished, this may take a few years, however, as it depends on when they have the inspiration to write it.
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- Part 3 of The Master (of Death)
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- English
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- 5,257
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- 3/?
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10 Jan 2024
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I Promise I Won't Leave You This Time by IReallyHateMyself
Fandoms: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood & Manga, Fullmetal Alchemist - All Media Types
16 Jul 2025
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"So let me get this straight," Roy leaned back in his chair as if the physical toll of processing this information was too much. "You were thirteen yesterday, but you fused with your future self and now look eighteen, the military is full of monsters, we need to kill the Fuhrer to save the country, and you've apparently time-traveled to tell us all this."
Edward grimaced. "I didn't time-travel on purpose, and I'm fucking twenty-eight, you bastard."
Roy cracked the smallest smile at the retort, and the expression shot an arrow straight through Edward's chest. Shit. He didn't know it was possible, but his heart was breaking more and more each time Roy looked his way.
"I see your fond nickname for me hasn't changed over the years." He chuckled.
Edward felt something inside him break. The realization barely hit him at that moment; Edward was completely and unequivocally *still* in love with this man.
Fuck.(AKA time travel fic where Roy and Ed DID end up together originally, but it didn't work out so well. Edward is hurting, Roy is trying, and both are trying to not make the same mistakes-- though it's an extra challenge considering Edward won't tell anyone what even happened in the future--)
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- English
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- 106,637
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- 15/?
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13 Dec 2023
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After two years of murder attempts and terrible summers, ominous letters from the Ministry and adults who act like they care but never actually do anything, Harry decides to grab the basilisk by the horns. In the few weeks he has before school begins, Harry learns more about himself, his family, and his role in the magical world. When third year starts, he just hopes he's ready.
[A canon retelling starting in PoA through DH, with a Harry that's just a bit more perceptive, a Sirius with changed priorities, and a caring Theo]
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- Part 1 of There Is Hope For Us
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- English
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- 255,350
- Chapters:
- 37/37
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14 Sep 2023
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The Little Details Matter Most (Your Heartbeat Against Mine) by Otaku6337
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
31 May 2022
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Harry is there. Harry is there, flushed, hair as wild as usual, a dark sort of halo, eyes flashing, and he is wearing Theo's robes. The fabric hangs beautifully, thick and flattering without giving away the surely too-sharp ribs, and the vines sway upon his sleeves as he moves, gleaming like sun-spun glory under the many candles of the Hall. It's gorgeous. Harry is gorgeous.~~~
Theo does not know how to do things in half-measures. So when he begins to notice the little details of Harry Potter, it becomes more than that far too quickly, from asking the House Elves to send him extra food, to exchanging notes, to gifts, to, well, to quite simply more.
Perhaps even to falling in love, or the beginning of it.
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- Part 196 of Ota's One-Shot Wonders
- Part 4 of Ota's HP Fic Stuff
- Language:
- English
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- 6,579
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 39
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- 2,395
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- 471
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- 17,733
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09 Sep 2023
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When Harry gets quickly bored of staying in Diagon's main alleyway, he devises a plan to explore the rest of the alley, to the exasperation of Tom the Barman.
He never thought he'd discover a mild version of a rare magical skill and gain a passion in rune craft while doing it, but he can't really complain as it eventually gets him a boyfriend too.
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- Part 1 of From Dawn to Dusk
- Language:
- English
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- 82,406
- Chapters:
- 25/?
- Comments:
- 2,552
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04 Sep 2023
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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?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 374,785
- Chapters:
- 52/?
- Collections:
- 16
- Comments:
- 1,521
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- 6,653
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- 2,677
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- 391,429
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01 Sep 2023
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Harry Potter had been an unwanted freak in the Dursley home, so when an opportunity arises for them to be rid of him, is it any wonder they jump on it? Harry finds himself trapped and experimented on like a lab rat by those that wield the strange power he's come to suppress. When he finally escapes, he carries with him a secret that must be kept so, lest he find himself shown as the freak he had always been told he was.
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- Part 1 of Dark Wings and Friendly Neighbors
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All he saw was blood. Gushing, gushing and gushing. Dark rivulets of streaming crimson flowed rapidly and painted the desecrated ground.
He tried to form the words, watching in horror as he felt his entire world crumble. He screamed in rage and pain, his expression wild, his gaze feral. He lifted his arms and commanded a magic so ancient and dead.
“Arise.”And the army of the dead heeded his call.
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Machiavellianism ~ is a personality trait centered on manipulativeness, callousness, and indifference to morality.
After Voldemort's defeat, Harry discovers that his friends were never really his friends and finds that those he once called enemies were now his allies. After having the Wizarding World turn its back on him, Harry falls to an unjust death, and is given a second chance to live again, to play by his rules, to become who he was meant to be and to make all those who wronged him pay dearly.
A time travel story that features a jaded, bitter and dark Harry Potter.
*Translations in Spanish and Portuguese are available to readers.*
*No comments allowed because of hate, blatant disrespect, and immature readers*- Language:
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- Words:
- 133,415
- Chapters:
- 17/?
- Collections:
- 25
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- 1,247
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09 Aug 2023
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Or how Death lost Harry Potter's soul, had a small mental break and took a vacation.
A vacation as the Boy Who Lived. Because irony.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 455,300
- Chapters:
- 42/?
- Collections:
- 16
- Comments:
- 1,567
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- 5,875
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- 1,891
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- 213,614
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27 Jul 2023
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Harry Potter is adopted by a retired chemistry professor causing him to become an accidental potions prodigy. Navigating the world of wizards with a strong home base allows Harry to ask important questions like, 'why don't we learn math?' and 'why hasn't everyone read Hogwarts: A History?' and most importantly, 'Why does everyone treat squibs so terribly?"
____"What would have happened if I didn't bounce? Might've died, I suppose."
- Language:
- English
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- 96,866
- Chapters:
- 27/?
- Collections:
- 61
- Comments:
- 4,339
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- 5,350
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17 Jul 2023
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A Darkness by Any Other Name by river_marrow for Abiadura
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Oct 2023
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Despite everything, Harry understood their fear.
It had happened so gradually that he couldn’t be sure when it began. At first, no one had even noticed anything…or at least if they noticed, they didn’t think it was that strange. Wixen aged more slowly than muggles, after all; so what if Harry still looked seventeen on his thirtieth birthday?
In which Harry is thrown through the Veil, reunited with his long lost godfather, and confronted with the leader of the muggleborn uprising - Dark Lord Voldemort.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 29,750
- Chapters:
- 15/?
- Comments:
- 343
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- 2,443
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- 945
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09 Jul 2023
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Making it work by PurpleArcher
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Princess Diaries - All Media Types
11 Feb 2025
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arranged marriages suck. Mia and Harry have to see if they can make it work despite everything going against them.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 35,381
- Chapters:
- 14/?
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 292
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- 1,199
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- 443
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- 33,812
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25 Jun 2023
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Not as Grimm as it Seems by WhisperingDarkness
Fandoms: Grimm (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
29 Mar 2022
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For a moment Harry started, surprised at the first sign of any sort of non-muggle presence in this world...
Collection of related drabbles/snapshots about Harry in the world of Grimm.
- Language:
- English
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- 30,128
- Chapters:
- 44/?
- Collections:
- 13
- Comments:
- 1,178
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- 4,524
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- 1,580
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- 82,384
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22 Jun 2023
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It's just a bit of mischif by Astra_Mellivora
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
05 Mar 2024
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Harry leaves the wizarding comunity in Britain in order to protect his godson, deciding that going to New York might be a good idea. He did not expect to come across a group of, so called, superheros while having a walk. He certanly did not expect that they would ask for his help to deal with a certain trickster god. It seems that no matter where he goes, trouble really likes to find him.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 41,536
- Chapters:
- 12/?
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 298
- Kudos:
- 4,714
- Bookmarks:
- 1,548
- Hits:
- 91,865
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20 Jun 2023
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Day by Day (Swept Away) by rebelcongeriem
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Twilight Series - All Media Types
05 Jul 2024
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The one in which Harry decides to play magizoologist in Chile and ends up meeting a pair of vampires who promise him both a family and a place to belong.
He accepts...eventually.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,428
- Chapters:
- 5/?
- Collections:
- 12
- Comments:
- 259
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- 3,426
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- 1,171
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17 Jun 2023
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Pacify:
1. To allay the anger or agitation of
2. To reduce to a submissive stateHe would do his duty. He would save Draco, if he could. He would protect the students, if and when the school fell to the Deatheaters. And Potter. As far as he was concerned, Potter could have whatever he wanted, now. What was the point of trying to tell him no if he was going to be sacrificed on the pyre of the greater good? If Potter wanted to learn, Severus would be his teacher. If he wanted a master, then Severus would make him submit. And if he wanted a lover... well. Severus would love him. And that was it. Anything else was a waste of time. And there was so little of that.
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A complete reimagining of books six and seven (plus), running parallel to canon. And then a SHARP DIVERSION FROM CANON.
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From a reader: "Basically, Pacify is like, you know how in canon both Harry and Severus are pushed and pushed and pushed by external forces/emotional manipulation until they are backed into a corner? Pacify is...what if they were backed into the same corner?"
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- 8
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16 Feb 2023