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  1. Rec *

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    Harry is eleven when he is handed a letter and told he is a wizard. Not only that, but he learns his parents are still alive, though incapacitated. This Harry Potter has no scar, no fame, and his horrible childhood is not the result of some grand plot but of an error in administration. Harry is eleven and his life is looking up. He has magic, a family, and a goal.

    He will become the greatest healer Hogwarts has ever seen.

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    09 Dec 2025

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    Fall, 1967. In the quiet chaos of Sugar and Spellcraft Bakery, Walburga Black lay dead on the floor, her life ending at precisely 2:47 PM. Her sons, Sirius and Regulus, stand over her lifeless body, their reactions as different as night and day: one masked in cold fury, the other trembling with barely contained grief. Juliet Taylor looked upon the scene feeling both anxious and exhilarated. Her plan worked. Walburga Black is dead, and with her death, the next stage of Juliet’s carefully laid plans begins.

    Regardless of the changes she already made, Juliet is unprepared for interest Arcturus takes in her after she tried and failed to save Walburga. As Orion offers to help her research her family connections, she was both thrilled and terrified that her choices were already starting to change the future.

    Yet, later in the evening, as she was ascending the steps of her new townhome, Juliet was hit with the sudden urge to cry. It was stupid really, as Walburga Black did not deserve her tears, but Hope Potter had never learned to stop feeling sorry for people in either of her lives.

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    30 Nov 2025

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    “And what did you say your name was?” He asked softly.

    “I’m Harry Potter.” The recognition Harry had been waiting for leapt into Sirius’ eyes. Though, not one of jubilation, one of horror.

    “What?” He breathed. “That’s not possible.”

    This fic will be a dimension-hop story where Harry discovers a parent's love for the first time, healing from his past, and some wild plot reveals/Horcrux hunting mania. Takes place right when Bill/Fleur wedding is crashed.
    ATTN: this is an action/adventure fic there will be little to no romance…you have been warned

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    The title is inspired by that scene at the end of Order of the Phoenix after [SPOILER ALERT] Sirius dies:

    "Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human-"
    "THEN-I-DON'T-WANT-TO-BE-HUMAN... I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE-"
    "You do care," said Dumbledore. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."
    [Order of the Phoenix/pg 824/J.K. Rowling]

    *updates are like a couple times a year, I’m ashamed to say. Not abandoned but progress is slow!

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    28 Nov 2025

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    There is a world where a prophecy goes unheard. A world where a boy is never orphaned, where he grows up safe and loved, rather than in a cupboard under the stairs.

    But in that world, Harry Potter died in 1991—killed in what became known as the Hogwarts Express Massacre, along with every child who was supposed to attend Hogwarts that year. The war did not end, but it shifted, forcing both sides to set aside their differences against two common enemies: Gellert Grindelwald and Albus Dumbledore.

    Seven years later, during a memorial for the children lost that day, the dead return. But not as ghosts. They are flesh and blood. They are seven years older and ripped from a world that's only just beginning to recover from its own war.

    And the families who mourned them must now face the mirrors of the children they lost—and the strangers they’ve become.

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    20 Nov 2025

  5. Rec 84

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    Any work at sea was dangerous because of the merfolk and you had learned early to be wary, to watch the water and the fish and to react fast the second something felt even a smidgeon off to you. You had no desire to get attacked again, to add to the scars you already carried on your body.

    Mers were monsters in your opinion and the less you had to do with them the better - right up until the day you met one of the most dangerous mers of your life. A siren with eyes bluer than the sky and sea combined and hair the color of shimmering frost. Where others saw a divinely beautiful creature all you saw was death smiling back at you.

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    15 Nov 2025