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It wasn’t that the Dursleys abused Harry, really. There were no horrible beatings, no injuries that left marks, nothing like that. But they were cruel with their words, and they controlled his food to the point that some days he thought he might go insane, and Vernon did slap him pretty hard the one time, after Harry dropped a soapy dinner plate and it shattered. Sometimes Vernon flew into rages, but it wasn’t, like, horrible. Harry could always maneuver his way through.
Or, the one where Harry is an American high school student, and Tom Riddle is a whole other kind of villain.
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29 Apr 2026
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“I’m going out.” In his pockets, Harry already had a pack of cigarettes and a lighter he’d swiped from Dudley’s freshly cleaned room.
“Yes, let’s,” Snape stood from the table.
Harry blinked with mock sincerity, “I’m going out to smoke until I’m not hungry like the fucked up little hooligan I am. It’s not really a group activity.”
“We’re going out to eat,” Snape said impassively.
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27 Apr 2026
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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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23 Mar 2026
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Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise by inkstainedsand
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
18 May 2026
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Harry was angry.
Sometimes he thought that’s all he was: a ball of fiery rage, bottled so tightly that it exploded in regular intervals. Every other emotion glossed over. Anger was all he knew.
No, that wasn’t right. He also knew fear. Visceral, suffocating fear.
Or: Severus Snape finds out about the Dursley's
Classic Severus Snape becomes Harry Potter's parental figure fic. Mind the tags!!! I will continue to update them as I update the story.
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19 Mar 2026
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In The Blink Of A Crinkling Eye (Everything Has Changed) by Halfbloodprincess003
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 May 2026
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After a summer spent at the Dursleys with little to no contact with the Wizarding World, Harry is exhausted. He's been attacked by Dementors, his cousin got hurt and just to add insult to injury, Harry is stuck with an angry Vernon Dursley for the rest of the summer. Oh, and he needs to be resorted, because while he doesn't love the drama, the drama loves him.
The Sorting Hat finally gets his way and a newly sorted Slytherin Harry Potter must now navigate new allies, old friendships and new enemies, all while surviving the O.W.L. year, the second most important year of wizarding education.
Maybe getting expelled wouldn't have been so bad after all.
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19 Mar 2026
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When Alice finally gets the letter that tells her she’s been accepted into Emerson, they slowly send her all of the admissions information required as well as the information about her accommodation and her new roommate for freshman year. Someone called ‘Nancy Wheeler’ sounds both pretty harmless and like someone who would be, at the very least, easy to live with if not be friends with. So, going in, Alice isn’t expecting a ‘friends forever’ pact and camp-style braided bracelets, but she also isn’t expecting the girl that Nancy Wheeler ends up being.
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21 Feb 2026
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Just Trust Me (You'll Be Fine) by Baill2012, Charlie2012, liv2012
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016)
12 Feb 2026
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It’d been three months since Billy died and the Byers moved away, and Max was sick of everything. She knew that her friends were trying to help and make her feel better, but she constantly felt like she was drowning in a pool of misery and sadness. Today was one of the worse days.
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15 Feb 2026
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I measure every Grief I meet by candlebreak
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
07 Jan 2026
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She found herself once again staring down the Parker kid in her office. It was a familiar scene. He was curled into the sagging armchair she’d scooped off the curb, feet scuffing against his duffel bag on the floor, arms hunched over the backpack in his lap. Over the past two months and six moves, the boy had quietly trimmed down all of his possessions to fit in those two bags.
“What,” said Rhee, “the fuck.”
Peter shrugged, defensive.
If someone had told her three months ago that this doe-eyed white boy with his cheerful geekery and his pathological adherence to respectful forms of address would be one of her most troublesome cases, she would have laughed them out of the room. Now, she wasn’t laughing.
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Yet another homeless Peter Parker fic feat. a very tired social worker trying to care; badass Ned and MJ; your friendly local trans Spider-Man; an actual real Stark Industries internship; extremely in-depth and realistic depictions of the US foster care, legal, and criminal justice systems; the beautiful disaster that is Harley Keener; dismantling systemic oppression with weaponized empathy; the unshakeable Pepper Potts; a small army of lesbians; hardcore hero Peter Parker; and soo much trauma
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- Part 1 of My Revolution is Born Out of Love
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05 Feb 2026
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“Were you expecting company?” Eddie’s voice pulled her from her thoughts as he drove his van toward her trailer, a frown tugging at his lips at the question.
“No?”
He lifted his hand and waved toward her porch.
She turned her gaze toward the porch where two familiar figures were sitting, deep in conversation. “Holy shit,” she whispered, eyes growing wide.
Will Byers and Jane Hopper were there, on her doorstep.
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- Part 11 of Cry Little Sister
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26 Dec 2025
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Bellatrix Lestrange, Prisoner 93. A history.
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- Part 2 of Families of Stars
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30 Nov 2025
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When Dumbledore arrived at Godric's Hallow following Dumbledore's attack on the Potter's and their two sons, he decides that the Boy-Who-Lived needed to be raised to be willing to be a martyr (something that James and Lily would certainly not do). The following day, Jack Potter was believed to be the Boy-Who-Lived, and Harry Potter was believed to be dead.
Ten years later, eleven-year-old Harry Potter gets his Hogwarts letter, and the lies and deceit begin to be dug up, but much of the damage has already been done, and Dumbledore isn't going to back down easily.
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Another Wrong Boy-Who-Lived story without all of the character bashing (except for Dumbledore) and a Harry who actually acts like a child.
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27 Jul 2025
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Two years have passed since Snape adopted Harry and Draco, and their lives only grow more tumultuous. Between Voldemort’s return, Umbridge’s reign of terror and the general drama of being fifteen, it’s a miracle that Harry’s keeping it together. Despite all of it, Harry would still count himself lucky. After all, he finally has a family...
Until long-buried secrets threaten to destroy everything that he, Snape and Draco have worked for.
Updates weekly.
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- Part 2 of A Patchwork Family
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26 Jul 2025
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The Knight's Gambit by Works In Time-Out (QueerOfTheCastle)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 May 2025
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I've read a lot of time travel fics in this fandom that revolve around Harry, and many that revolve around Hermione, but only a choice few choose to focus on Ron. I've decided to take up the challenge myself.
Ron Weasley is a strategist. When he's thrown back in time to before his first year at Hogwarts, he gets to planning. He's going to win this war before it even starts, whatever the cost to his sanity-- or the sanity of his friends and family, who are more alarmed by the day.
This is a rewrite of the first fic in the series. It will have major differences beginning in chapter 4 - the prologue and first three chapters remain unchanged.
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- Part 2 of The Knight's Gambit
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02 Jun 2025
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Two Sides of the Same Coin by Nerodith
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
23 Apr 2025
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Powder’s life is great. She has two brothers whom she loves as much as she hates them, an uncle who won’t shut up about her dormant potential, a dad who is low-key trying to kick her out, and an incredible boyfriend she wouldn’t exchange for anything in the world. Despite it all, there is a hole in her heart: her sister. So when the opportunity to see her again presents itself, she doesn't hesitate; she opens the portal leading to other dimensions. The last thing she expects, however, is to receive a death sentence from the future.
The characters from the Powderverse (AU from 2x07) react to the canon timeline.
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- Part 2 of Arcane Reaction Fics
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18 May 2025
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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."
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12 May 2025
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Allies to the Order, Andromeda and Teddy build a life together. She deserves a stiff drink. 1974-1981.
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- Part 4 of Andromeda Liberata
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05 May 2025
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Ronald Bilius Weasely dies at the meagre age of eighteen, on the second day of the fifth month, to sparks of green from a madwoman's wand. He’s the last Weasley to die.
Death and Fate are displeased. But they have a plan. All it needs is its King.
“Game, Set, Match.”
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Ronald Bilius Weasley wakes up one morning as an eight year old. Again. With the mark of the Sacred Ones glowing on his skin.
It’s time for a new game - and in this timeline, the Red King will have the upper hand.
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03 May 2025
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Dishonorable Graves by FrostedGemstones22
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins
19 Feb 2026
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Cato entered the Hunger Games one year earlier and is the 73rd Victor.
Katniss and Peeta went into the 74th game together...but only Katniss came out.
While trying to unravel what she might have felt for Peeta in the fleeting time they had and navigate the politics of the Capitol, Cato involves Katniss in a harmless farce to save his own skin.
Unfortunately, this has far-reaching consequences.
Even as a victor, you must eventually ask the question; who is really in control?
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30 Apr 2025
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I Don’t Like Walking Around This Old and Empty House by Viva_La_Bohemia
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Sunrise on the Reaping - Fandom
27 Mar 2025
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“The Games were always vaguely unpolished when the Districts watched it live, some details cut away to, or cut from, when things got a little too far out of the Capitol’s desires. Some of the official death orders didn’t quite make sense. Some of the expressions stitched onto Haymitch’s face had been too undeniably painful for a boy who’d spent most of his days alone in a veritable paradise.”
In a universe a little to the left, Clerk Carmine takes a second to tilt his head at Haymitch Abernathy, and at grief.
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23 Apr 2025
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the hardest battles (are fought in the mind) by Anonymous
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jul 2025
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Harry wishes he was important.
Though, as he shimmies the downstairs toilet window open then contorts his way through it, he thinks he'd settle for being taken into consideration when locking all the doors. Maybe.
He scoffs, as if he'd ever be that fortunate.__________
Abuse isn't as straightforward as Rowling seems to think, it's not something that can be left behind and forgotten, and it's never simple.
Exploration of Harry's relationships to those around him, with a more realistic impact of abuse.
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- Part 1 of not with the sword
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21 Apr 2025