5 Bookmarks by obviouslyanxious
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The hound and the shrike. The beast and the bird. The one that bites and the one that impales. Can't they, in the dark of the world's long night, curl together in the same hollow and share the same warm breath, each holding the other's hidden thing in its mouth, neither swallowing nor letting go? Can't they keep each other's secrets?
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Knight Will Graham is traveling to a tourney when he stumbles upon a young man who asks to be his squire.
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21 May 2026
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Everyone called him the Boy Who Lived, but what they didn't realize was, well, he didn't. Death just kept returning him because he found the child fascinating for some strange reason. What happens when Death's best friend happens to be a mortal that finds it hard to stay living? Well, if he has to make sure people know to leave his Harry alone, that's just what he's going to do.
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26 Oct 2025
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Love is either a tree or a poison. It is either something that someone nurtures and grows and protects, so it will stand in the strongest of storms. Or, it is something that is never granted or returned and it begins to devour a person's body and soul till nothing's left but a husk.
Voldemort has been reduced to a husk. He had no ability to love until he is trapped as the remainder of his soul tethers itself to a little boy that he was supposed to have killed. A boy that will grow up and just might be the only thing that can save him if he doesn’t get them both killed first.
Harry grows up without much, just the shadowy thing that seems to want to protect him from his abusive Aunt and Uncle. It’s vicious, brutal, and claims to hate him. But Harry thinks that it loves him just a little bit. Even if its touch seems poisonous.
A story told in 3 Parts
Before / Year 1 (1-16)
Summer / Year 2 (16 -24)Translation Links inside:
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- Part 1 of Holly and Yew
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- 24/24
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08 Jun 2025
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Harry does not give up the Horcrux when he dies.
Can goodness be a hero’s tragic flaw?
Moved by compassion, he embraces it instead.
Can forgiveness be a gift unconsciously granted?
What follows next, he could not predict. He’s not sure he ever really had a choice in the matter.
Can love exist, even flourish, in a heart that does not give its consent?
The world Harry wakes up to is not like the one he remembers.
This is a horror story.
And his captor is neither the same as he was, nor as different as he would like.
This is a love story.
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- 39/39
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- 28
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31 May 2025
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Harry gets hit by a killing curse and instead of dying travels to a different reality where he is the bratty husband of the Minister of Magic Tom Riddle. Harry realizes that his husband actually hates him and can barely tolerate his scandalous and petty behaviour and married him only for political connections with the Potter family. That's all good since he doesn't like Riddle either. Tom, on the other hand, is confused by his pureblood husband's new and strange behaviour.
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- 13/15
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Bookmarked by obviouslyanxious
19 May 2025