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Harry’s life has become an endurance run, through the remnants of his stressful divorce, his strained relationships with his children, and his increasingly complicated job. Yet it seems what’s going to complicate it most is saving Scorpius Malfoy’s life. Since Scorpius is underage, Draco assumes the debt—and he is determined to pay Harry back. Now if only he could find something Harry actually wanted.
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24 Aug 2025
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A series of "what if" rewrites of Harry Potter, books 1-7. Cross-posted from tumblr (ink-splotch).
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20 Aug 2025
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Percy met Audrey during a trying summer for Percy. Their relationship developed and eventually, they married and had children. This is a look at their story set over the course of events of the war and afterwards.
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- Part 2 of Escape
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- English
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- 213,863
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- 49/?
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20 Aug 2025
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AU. Harry was born with a power the Dark Lord knows not: the magic to see into shadows, to walk the shadows, and to send the shadows everywhere. This changes his life rather dramatically.
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- Part 18 of July Celebration Fics 2018
- Part 1 of Shadow Magic
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- 48,243
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- 7/7
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15 Aug 2025
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10 Aug 2025
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On Halloween 1994, Harry learns his mind isn't his own. On Samhain morn, he vows to question everything. Armed with logic and an unlikely ally, Harry makes a last ditch bid to reclaim his life. The goal: survive at all costs.
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- Part 1 of The Well Groomed Mind
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- English
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- 107,464
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- 18/18
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09 Aug 2025
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Harry Potter and the Greatest Show by shadowscribe
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Jul 2022
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The last real thing Harry remembers is standing across from Voldemort and watching the killing curse fly at his face.
Then he visited a fluffy white limbo that somewhat resembles King Cross Station and instead of choosing to move on or go back he does something else entirely.
And wakes up in his cupboard on the morning of Dudley's eleventh birthday.
Because that makes sense.
(No. No it doesn't.)
But Harry is going to roll with it anyway.
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- Part 1 of Look At My Life
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- English
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- 177,701
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- 25/?
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08 Aug 2025
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Argus' life was a largely thankless one (unless you counted the thanks of the paintings he maintained), working on keeping a thousand year old castle from falling down around the ears of students who didn't care. He had his cat, his work, his books, and a constant boil of self hatred and resentment to get him by.
And then a sixth year handed him a letter from her aunt, thanking him for acting as conservator of Hogwarts and calling him Dr. Filch. It was the first time he had been called Doctor since he started at the castle. He had little choice but to write back, after that.
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06 Aug 2025
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baby birds and other adventures by dirgewithoutmusic
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
24 Feb 2017
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Harry did not know this and would not know this until Mrs. Granger mentioned it casually over a Christmas dinner years and years later-- but she and Mr. Granger reported the Dursleys for child abuse and neglect, over and over.
The reports got lost-- minds scrubbed down, papers vanished-- but they kept calling in reports. They considered kidnapping. They couldn't imagine why the wizarding world might want to keep their chosen one somewhere so toxic, why they might want to keep this underfed child and his messy hair with those people.
"My mother left me a blood protection spell," said Harry, whose scar had not ached in years. He poked at his mashed potatoes under the focused attention of Mrs. Granger's stern little forehead wrinkle. "I had to live with family, blood family."
"Then they should have made them treat you right," Mrs. Granger said, as though it was that simple.
Mr. Granger gave Harry another helping of peas.
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- Part 11 of boy with a scar
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05 Aug 2025
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Everyone knew that magical and muggle things don't mix. Funny, how they'd just assumed that would always mean the muggle things would break. A century after Voldemort's defeat, magic is losing ground, and the one solution might already be out of their reach.
Entry for the April 2016 Rough Trade 'Second Chances' challenge.
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- 32/32
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05 Aug 2025
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Neither Can Live While the Other is High by ScaredyCrow
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Jan 2021
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Murtlap essence gets expensive, so the DA seeks out other forms of pain relief to help those who suffer through detentions with Umbridge. While searching through the Forbidden Forest, they stumble upon a patch of an odd, non-magical plant called “cannabis.”
Elsewhere in the British Isles, Voldemort prepares for an important meeting.
Or: Harry doesn’t know what weed is, and Voldemort suffers the consequences.
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- English
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- 1/1
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02 Aug 2025
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A single flap of a Butterfly's wings can cause a thunderstorm on the other side of the world. Or, rather, a single interpretation of a phrase can save a whole lot of people, especially if that interpretation is made by a particularly stubborn house-elf.
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Arcturus Black III says the wrong thing (or maybe the right thing) to his house-elf, and this changes the future of his family and the Wizarding World.Bookmarked by discordantsteele
01 Aug 2025
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The one where Hermione needs Harry to be safe.
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Harry. Harry wasn’t safe.
Harry needed to be somewhere safe this summer. He had watched Cedric die. Watched Voldemort return. Been tortured. Seen his dead parent return while he duelled the man who murdered his parents. All during a tournament he was forced into and consequently vilified for by his peers and Britain’s wizarding world.
Harry needed to be somewhere where he could be sad and angry and scared and not alone and safe.
Where was safer than Hogwarts?
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Formerly titled What Would Hermione Do?
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- 122,718
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- 34/34
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30 Jul 2025
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When he learns that flying anywhere near a Dragon is a recipe for suicide, Harry tries a last minute change of tactics, one designed to use the power of the Bureaucracy forcing him to compete against itself. Little does he know that his solution is its own kind of trap.
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- 3/3
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28 Jul 2025
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Just a Few Changes (will Keep you Safe) by Blueseabird2
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Sep 2022
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It's been over five years since Voldemort's defeat when Harry Potter gets pushed through a portal and falls into the Great Hall of Hogwarts. This wouldn't be a problem, exactly, except it's his parents' Hogwarts instead of his own. Thankfully, Hermione and Ron aren't about to let him face this newest form of trouble by himself. Even more fortunately, Hermione says they're in a different dimension entirely.
Harry has a castle full of living ghosts, his best friends by his side, and three to six months to make just a few changes. Starting with a snake.
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- 4/4
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26 Jul 2025
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The end of the world has come. Millions dead, magic waning, Hermione Granger and Charlie Weasley are the last people left in Britain—left to pick up the pieces of their once great civilization. Why were they spared? Who is responsible for the death of a nation? These are the mysteries left as a legacy for two lost and lonely people.
2023 Re-edit and re-up!
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- 26/26
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05 Jul 2025
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The day the Minister is killed, Percy is filling out paperwork at his desk.
The day Voldemort dies, Percy has successfully retained his life and his job. Unfortunately, his ability to trust anyone ever again and his family count among the things he's lost.Series
- Part 22 of One-shots of AUs
- Part 6 of Author's favorites
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- 3,097
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- 1/1
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- 32
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25 May 2025
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After two hundred and forty years, Harry Potter thought that he'd seen it all, until he is transported back to 1977. In the midst of Voldemort's first rise to power and both sides of this war won't let him sit this one out.
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- 96,594
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- 37/37
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25 May 2025
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After her husband is unfaithful and her cookie-cutter perfect world is turned on its head, Petunia Evans Dursley finds herself in her old hometown, full of regrets and feeling that her life has been without purpose. Before she can quietly take her own life, she is given an impossible offer by a long-dead figure from the magical world: return to the past, and rewrite her own history. Seeing it as a chance to make up for her biggest regret, Petunia accepts and finds herself in the middle of a Wizarding war she knew little about, protecting the younger sister she tried to forget by seeking help from the one person in the magical world she knows how to find.
A what-if story beginning in the latter years of the first war against Voldemort, where an unlikely alliance turns into an even more unlikely romance, and the bonds that bloom from it will change the course of Wizarding history.
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- Part 1 of The Flowers Series
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 296,908
- Chapters:
- 47/47
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- 15
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15 May 2025
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After the disastrous events at King's Cross Station at the end of Harry and Hermione's second year, Harry's been expelled from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and is now on the run. Hunted by the Ministry of Magic and Albus Dumbledore alike, Harry must somehow learn to survive alone while at the same time continuing his magical education.
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- Part 3 of The Cupboard Series
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- English
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- 104,124
- Chapters:
- 31/31
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30 Nov 2024