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• Why Am I a Horcrux!?! by doctorwhy99

  Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Gen
  • Work in Progress

  06 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Ginny Weasley & Original Character(s)
  • Harry Potter & Original Character(s)
  • Hermione Granger & Harry Potter & Ron Weasley
  • Other Relationship Tags to Be Added
  • Ginny Weasley
  • Original Female Character(s)
  • Original Muggle-born Characters (Harry Potter)
  • Harry Potter
  • Hermione Granger
  • Ron Weasley
  • Weasley Family (Harry Potter)
  • Filius Flitwick
  • Minerva McGonagall
  • Severus Snape
  • Gilderoy Lockhart
  • Colin Creevey
  • Draco Malfoy
  • Basilisk (Harry Potter)
  • Albus Dumbledore
  • Moaning Myrtle
  • Patricia Rakepick
  • Other Character Tags to Be Added
  • Book 2: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
  • Isekai and Transmigration
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Tom Riddle's Diary
  • Horcruxes
  • Memory Loss
  • Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets
  • Trans Female Character
  • Trans Female Harry Potter
  • Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk
  • Manipulative Albus Dumbledore
  • Slytherin's Scriptorium (Hogwarts Legacy)
  • Alchemy
  • Nicolas Flamel's Philosopher's Stone | Sorcerer's Stone (Harry Potter)
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added

  Summary

  Hunter Brooks was a normal guy just living his life. Then one day, he found himself inhabiting Tom Riddle’s first Horcrux, his diary, taking his place as the entity Ginny communicates with when writing in it. With trying to find a way out of this bodiless state, trying to minimize the harm he remembers happening in the story, and trying to recover his lost memories, Hunter has a lot on his plate. Will he persevere, or will the powers that be see his story end with the diary’s?

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  Language:

  English

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