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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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- 96,866
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- 27/?
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30 Sep 2025
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Severus Snape Was a Pessimist by NinjaPandaScholar
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
18 Apr 2022
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With the war gearing up to begin again, the Dark Lord running rampant, and a ministry official wearing (shudder) pink taking over the school, Severus Snape just knows this year will be one of the worst in his life. At least there’s the mystery of the new History professor to keep him distracted. Why does the new professor simultaneously terrify and intrigue him? And what’s with his strange friendship with Potter? Should he be concerned the man might be an assassin? Should he help him?
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- English
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- 21,788
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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11 Sep 2025
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An Open Book, With a Torn Out Page by nachocheese26
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies), Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
03 May 2021
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They should’ve come for us already.
I’m scared to even hope that maybe Snow canceled the Games. Or at the very least postponed them.
According to the clock, it’s eleven in the morning when the door to my room finally opens.
Effie comes in, her eyes filled with tears.
I sit up. “What happened?”
She looks between me and Peeta. With her voice shaking, she says, “There was an accident…well, no, it wasn’t an accident…District Twelve…it’s all gone.”
Catching Fire AU
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- Part 1 of An Open Book With a Torn Out Page
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- English
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- 189,541
- Chapters:
- 46/46
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- 916
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08 Jul 2025
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Pockets of belonging by Bergen
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
28 Jul 2025
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Peter never made any plans to run away, until the day he leaves. It isn’t an idea that slowly creeps up on him. He just stands over the sink one day in early spring, watching his father’s bright red ashtray bob up through the soap bubbles, and feels an overwhelming urge to get the hell out of this place.
Two years later. Tony Stark has been keeping his identity as Iron Man a secret, successfully hiding behind his spoiled, rich asshole persona. It’s isolating, but he doesn’t even like people anyway, so it’s fine, he’s fine, he’s great. And then he gets saddled with a new intern, who isn’t just hiding secrets: he’s barely holding it together.- Language:
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- 100,003
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- 19/19
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16 Jun 2025
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give you my wild by melissaeverdeen13
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
01 Nov 2022
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a look into katniss and peeta's life as they grow back together after the war; their experiences with friendship, love, and parenthood.
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- 204,726
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- 34/34
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06 Jun 2025
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Inevitability by Xerxia
Fandoms: Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
21 Mar 2025
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For Prompts in Panem farewell tour Day 2: What if? What if Peeta and Prim hadn't been reaped? Inspired by the canon line ‘this would have happened anyway’.
(Contains lines directly lifted from, and paraphrased from, The Hunger Games trilogy, as well as scenes from the books reenvisioned. 'cause that's kind of what fanfiction is. Thanks Susanne Collins.)
Trigger warning: child abuse, canon-typical violence. Rated M.
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- 46,471
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- 6/6
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14 May 2025
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In the end, they're all just parts of a whole. A character by character exploration of 18 members of the next generation.
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- Part 1 of Pieces Universe
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- English
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- 74,910
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- 19/19
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22 Feb 2025
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Harry dies. And then he wakes back up- only, he's eleven again, and waiting to be sorted.
Except, it's not his sorting. He's found himself in 1971, and he has absolutely no idea what to do. He's friendless and wandless and the constant sight of his eleven-year-old parents and his parents' eleven-year-old friends walking around and laughing and being alive is not helping him feel any less alone.
But he's not alone. Because as it turns out, he's not the only one that's come back.
Far from it.
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30 Jan 2025
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What I wanted to write was a quick one-shot that explored the idea of Harry being the biological son of Voldemort, only Voldemort doesn't know he has a son and is also as evil as ever. Meanwhile, Harry is just a charismatic kid with a snake and ridiculously powerful magic.
It turned into a series rewrite.
Here's book four.
Features: a Harry Potter that has a bad feeling about this one, an Oliver Wood who's just heard of this new show called Friends and he's about to make that everyone else's problem, a Tom Riddle that has a REALLY bad feeling about this one, a Draco Malfoy that has done really pretty admirably not being dragged into the narrative for the last couple books if you really think about it, and both Sirius and Remus who are just. They're doing their best, they really are.
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- English
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- 52,679
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- 25/?
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30 Jan 2025
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and Also a Snake is There by gonzoclock
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Jul 2023
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What I wanted to write was a quick one-shot that explored the idea of Harry being the biological son of Voldemort, only Voldemort doesn't know he has a son and is also as evil as ever. Meanwhile, Harry is just a charismatic kid with a snake and ridiculously powerful magic.
It turned into a series rewrite.
Here's book three.
Features: pretty much everyone having a horrible year. Really, I'm trying to think of someone who has a good year and I can't think of ONE.
Also features: Harry Potter discovering teenage rebellion (and Merlin capitalizing on that fact); Remus Lupin being the best damn DADA Professor Hogwarts has ever seen; Ron Weasley living in the state we call denial and making it everyone else's problem; Hermione Granger planning a murder; Sirius Black, who just wanted to kill ONE RAT, how has it spiraled this badly; a catastrophic miscommunication; Tom Riddle trying to keep his idiot relative alive (it should not be as hard as it is but here we are); and a Theodore Nott that's- well. You'll see.
(Alternative title: Draco Malfoy and the Almost Entirely Off-Screen Adventure, Except For When He Wants to Bother Harry)
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- English
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- 122,567
- Chapters:
- 54/54
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- 15
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28 Jan 2025
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Snake by gonzoclock
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
13 Jan 2023
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What I wanted to write was a quick one-shot that explored the idea of Harry being the biological son of Voldemort, only Voldemort doesn't know he has a son and is also as evil as ever. Meanwhile, Harry is just a charismatic kid with a snake and ridiculously powerful magic.
It turned into a series rewrite.
Here's book one, I guess.
Features Harry Potter trying to keep his friends from doing crimes, a tired Remus Lupin spontaneously adopting a traumatized child with absurd magical capabilities, Severus Snape doing the bare minimum which is still somehow more than what Dumbledore is capable of, and Harry's friends' growing exasperation with Harry's terrible decision-making skills.
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- English
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- 108,948
- Chapters:
- 36/36
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- 62
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21 Jan 2025
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The Medium Between Life and Death by NinjaPandaScholar
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Sep 2022
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There were very few things in Harry Potter's life that he was certain of. There was one absolute certainty though; he'd felt it in his bones for as long as he could remember. He, Harry Potter, was dead. The living people around him might not believe, but the dead sure did. Oh well, it doesn't impact his life much. Besides, it's nice to get help with his schoolwork from his parents.
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- English
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- 250,915
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- 44/44
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- 79
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11 Jan 2025
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A month after the Battle of Hogwarts, war-scarred, pre-Auror recruit Harry has a new target: Antonin Dolohov, the man who killed Remus Lupin.
When a tip from Malfoy leads Harry, Ron, and Hermione into an ambush, however, Harry’s Master of Death power awakens and sends him— and Malfoy— to the time of Dolohov’s first murder in 1978. As Harry and Draco struggle to find their way home while (re)doing their seventh year at Hogwarts, Voldemort is at the height of his power in the First Wizarding War. And, despite not being born yet, he’s still targeting Harry. Harry and Draco fight for their lives and their future, burdened with the knowledge of what will happen to everyone around them.
The Marauders, on the other hand, are more concerned with pranks, love, and N.E.W.T.s than the war outside the castle.
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- English
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- 76,371
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- 11/?
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02 Jan 2025
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Thou Shalt Have No Tournaments Before Me by Lomonaaeren
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Jan 2023
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Sequel to “Confusion Is Mine, Saith the Lord.” Harry has a great summer, but it seems fourth year is going to be more complicated, what with more people trying to be his minions, the Ministry intent on using him, Quidditch canceled, and revelations coming out about his personal life that Harry doesn’t care for. Oh, and the Ministry wants him to grant permission as Lord Slytherin to hold a death tournament at Hogwarts. Harry doesn’t see why he should do that.
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- Part 7 of From Samhain to the Solstice 2022
- Part 2 of This Lord Business
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- English
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- 34,527
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- 7/7
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04 Dec 2024
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Sequel to “Princeps” and “Potens.” Harry has gained the loyalty of many of the young Slytherins, and others he never expected. Now he attempts to find and destroy Voldemort’s Horcruxes and protect and teach his students while avoiding Time’s plans—and his followers’—to make him into a Lord.
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- Part 11 of From Samhain to the Solstice 2020
- Part 3 of Princeps
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- English
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- 44,388
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- 7/7
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30 Nov 2024
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made weak by time and fate, but strong in will by Dialux
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Nov 2019
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In one world, James Potter is wandless when he faces Voldemort.
In another, he’s not.
[Apocalypse AU, where both Potters survive.]
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- English
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- 72,396
- Chapters:
- 5/5
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- 820
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10 Nov 2024
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Placed with the Dursleys Harry will be safe, but Dumbledore would still like to have someone nearby to keep an eye on him. Someone mild and unassuming and unlikely to upset the Dursleys. Really, there's only one good choice.
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20 Oct 2024
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James Potter, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, (pause for breath) and the Prisoner of Azkaban by gonzoclock
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
30 Dec 2022
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At the end of first year, Harry pocketed the Philosopher's Stone- in a secret pocket that everyone else missed.
Now, two years later, Harry is in his third year, his friends are having the time of their lives in Hogsmeade, there's an escaped mass murderer running around, and Harry is going stir-crazy. Fortunately, the twins have a solution! Although- they're going to need something in return, and it needs to be good.
Good thing Harry kept that Stone, huh?
And then things go completely bat-shit crazy.
(featuring the Marauders vs 1993, an exhausted Professor Lupin, a bewildered Harry Potter, and an opportunistic Hermione Granger)
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- English
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- 32,696
- Chapters:
- 17/17
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- 79
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- 1,250
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07 Oct 2024
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Hogwarts, to welcome you home by gedsparrowhawk (FaceChanger)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Sep 2016
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“You understand, Professor,” Harry began, after a moment, “that I don’t have my N.E.W.T.s. I never even finished seventh year. Between everything, I never had a chance the first time around, and then afterwards there didn’t seem to be much point. Hermione argued for it, of course, but I was so tired of Britain. So technically, I am completely unqualified for the position.”
“Quite a way to begin an interview, Mr. Potter,” McGonagall said, dryly.
Or, three years after the war, Harry Potter becomes Hogwarts' newest Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
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- English
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- 11,146
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 3
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- 737
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- 21,860
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25 Sep 2024
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He's My Boy by notapartytrick
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
16 Jul 2025
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May Parker's life, as seen through her changing relationship with her nephew.
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17 Sep 2024