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The fiasco that is Harry's life could be summed up in two words — Avada Kedavra. Those words have haunted him for as long as he can remember, endangering him with their very existence. He'd resigned himself to a life without a soulmate, to pain and sorrow... but then the Blacks happened. Or, one Black in particular.
Whose idea was it to let a Black woman invent time travel, anyway?
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11 Dec 2025
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Horror strikes him down where he stands, then. He sways, stumbles to put his back to the living room wall. Harry is woozy in disbelief, watching the two words slashed into his chest in livid red just like the scar on his forehead. ‘AVADA KEDAVRA.’
He knows those words, the first he can remember, his earliest memory. It feels like he hasn’t breathed in minutes. When he comes back to the moment, he finds that perhaps he hasn’t. Harry gasps for air like a fish does for water, and doesn’t find it. His back has slid down the wall somehow and his hands grip his head, hair clenched in fists.
Then he realizes he’s actually panting, a ringing in his ears, blocking out whatever it is people are saying to him. Hermione crouches in front of him where he can’t possibly miss her, palms settling gently on his knees.
“Harry,” she’s saying. “Harry, it’s going to be alright.”
How?
How can it ever possibly be alright again?
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In a world where the first words you ever speak to your soulmate appear once both soulmates have turned seventeen, Harry receives a bit of bad news.
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In which Harry fashions himself into a war bride.
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28 Nov 2025
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How to Succeed in Dark Wizardry (Without Really Trying) by technically_direct
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
03 Aug 2025
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Ron maybe accidentally-on-purpose becomes a dark wizard, and everything changes.
(a canon rewrite, with a bit of a twist)
(also this is not a 'Ron is Evil, actually' fic so if that's what you're expecting, maybe give this a skip)- Language:
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- 21/?
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27 Nov 2025
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A mysterious object in Bellatrix's vault sends Harry, Ron and Hermione spinning into the past and to a Hogwarts like none they know.
Posing as students, Harry catches the eye of the Head Boy, Tom Riddle, who is nothing like the Voldemort of the future. He's charming and sly and manipulative; both brillant and deadly.It isn’t long before they’re tangled in a game more intricate than anything before. A game of heightened stakes, of tension, and the odds are stacked against Harry. With the threads of the future unravelling, can Harry make it out intact? And what is the cost, of truly getting close to Tom?
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24 Oct 2025
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Voldemort knew slowly, but surely he would spoil Dumbledore's plans of crafting his vanquisher.
You are going to lose old man.
Voldemort realises Harry is his Horcrux during their fight for the Philosopher's Stone.
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09 Oct 2025
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Many things are different and many are the same as Harry begins his fifth year at Hogwarts.
Here, living with Dursleys that aren't just neglectful but outright abusive made Harry unable to withstand more than a few weeks of Trelawney's "predictions" back in his third year. Instead, he took Ancient Runes, and uncovered that he had a prodigious knack for runic magic, which opened the door to the darkest of rituals and the magic of mind and soul. A year later, Harry uncovered something horrible within himself - a parasite.
So, when Voldemort sends him dreams of corridors and doors, Harry sends him pieces of hell in return.
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- Part 1 of The Dreamweaver
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27 Sep 2025
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The Protagonist by duplicity for DreamingofSleeping
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
05 Oct 2021
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Voldemort is mad about being reduced to a plot device. He decides he needs to marry Harry so he can be the main character of the story.
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- Part 19 of duplicity's One-Shots
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23 Sep 2025
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Still drowning his sorrows years after cutting ties to the magical world, Harry Potter meets a handsome stranger at his regular bar who asks one too many prying questions about the past. Talks of vengeance and violence always hit a tad too close to home as the stranger invades every aspect of his life with shocking speed.
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The stranger has arranged himself comfortably on the faux-leather sofa, hands draped across the backrest and one foot placed on the smudged glass coffee table in front of them as if he owns the place. The lights above highlight meticulously groomed black hair, a few slick strands falling effortlessly in place.Oh no. Harry is far more attracted than he should be to someone with a past as violent as his own.
It takes a few more sips before Harry finds his tongue again. ‘’Sshhooo…’’ he slurs, then coughs. ‘’So what’s your plan then? Hangin’ out here till this guy arrives and stab ‘im?’’
‘’That was one option,’’ the stranger replies, playing around with an unlit cigarette. Harry follows the movement with rapture. ‘’But I’ve been told multiple times that there are things far worse than simply ending it. I suppose I’ll take him up on those words.’’
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21 Sep 2025
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A familiar yet mysterious cat shows up at Privet Drive Number 4 in the summer of 1985. It's different than Harry remembers. Perhaps a bit too different.
Perhaps a touch too dead.Harry does not grow up completely alone, for he has a wonderful companion in Tom, his lovely pet who just so happens to possess a new cat every couple of years. Somehow, not everyone Harry meets finds Tom as lovely as he does.
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- Part 1 of Harry Potter and his Tomcat
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- 18/18
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21 Sep 2025
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Harry Potter has always been different, and his strange connection to plants marks him as the freak his Aunt and Uncle always claimed he was. The wizarding world was supposed to be an escape, but even there, he must hide the truth of his abilities. His magic doesn’t fit the rules, and secrets have a way of growing wild.
(If only there was someone who understood...)
A re-telling of the books in which Harry has more than one power the Dark Lord knows not.- Language:
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20 Sep 2025
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Time Loop AU
Harry dies during the final battle with Voldemort, but instead of going back to the battle, he wakes up back in the graveyard in his 4th year. Confused with everything, Harry dies, only to wake up at the graveyard again. And again. And again.
(And again.)
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- Part 8 of October Spook-Fest: 31 Days of Prompts
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17 Sep 2025
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In which Tom Riddle finds himself lost, alone, and hurt in the middle of Knockturn Alley, and stumbles upon a peculiar place called Harry's Snake Shop.
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- Part 223 of HP Works
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11 Sep 2025
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Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? (you should be) by Snoweylily
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
12 Dec 2025
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“No post on Sundays” Uncle Vernon announced happily, “No damn letters today-”
Something came whizzing down the kitchen chimney as he spoke and caught him sharply on the back of the head. The next moment, thirty or forty letters came pelting out of the fireplace like bullets.
“That does it!” he snapped, his beady little eyes focused solely on Harry, “It’s you that they want. And they won’t stop coming after us until you’re… gone”.
Harry didn't like the sound of that.
“But Vernon, we can’t! You heard what that- that despicable old man told us!”
“Don’t worry, pet” Vernon said, his nasty grin triumphant, “I’ll leave him someplace so far away that those freaks will never trace him back to us. There’s an institute up north, for these- these hopeless cases and whatnot - St Brutus's Secure Centre for Boys. I’ll leave him there, and then we can get back to our nice, normal life”.Or, the one where Harry doesn't attend Hogwarts in first year but finds his way to the wizarding world anyway, and this changes everything.
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08 Sep 2025
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After the infamous massacre of the Potters, young Harry Potter went missing. It doesn't really help that years later he turns up again, a bit darker, stranger and more erratic than anyone had hoped for. But Harry hardly cares, since in the end it's his decision on which side he will fight; Dark, Light or no side at all.
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26 Aug 2025
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"My murderer," Tom croons to him, Harry's pulse racing beneath his grip.
"You'll never know the irony of that," Harry rolls his eyes.Harry Potter is a time-travelling, furious mess and he is going to kill the Dark Lord. Like most of his plans, things do not work out.
Tom should not be so obsessed with his would-be murderer.- Language:
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25 Aug 2025
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Harry had thought, perhaps foolishly, that the end of the war would mean the end of Voldemort.
He had been so very, very wrong.
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23 Aug 2025
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There was another student here.
Tom recognized him vaguely—while transfer students were not necessarily uncommon due to the war, they were rare enough to at least make an impression. This particular transfer student was in his year, sorted into Ravenclaw after an impressively long hat stall. He looked like he might be descended from the Potter line, but he did not share the surname so his lineage was of no particular interest to Tom. Nothing about him was of particular interest to Tom, in fact, and yet here he stood, holding the book that Tom had come here to find.
It would be a good time to turn away. The Restricted Section was restricted for a reason—only books documenting extremely dangerous or extremely advanced magic were stored here.
Tom’s feet, however, suddenly felt as if they were made of lead. It wasn’t magic keeping him tied down, but something far more mysterious like curiosity or even fate. In any case, the delay was all it took for the Ravenclaw to lift his chin and meet Tom’s eyes.
This Ravenclaw, Tom realized, had eyes as blindingly green as the Killing Curse.
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17 Aug 2025
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Until he befriends a grass snake in his aunt's garden, Harry believes his relatives when they say there is no such thing as magic. Looking for a place to belong, he ventures into an elusive world shackled by age-old prejudices and fear of a man who may or may not be his father. What he finds is more than he expected, but less than he hoped.
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- 31/?
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15 Aug 2025
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Harry Potter and the Hunt for Happiness by Gimlili
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Nov 2025
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If Harry's going to do it all over again it's going to be for him and him alone.
He's done living for other people, this time he's living on his terms.
This time he will find a way to be happy.
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07 Aug 2025
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Before making his final attempt to get the Horcrux memory from Slughorn, Harry drinks the entire bottle of Felix Felicis. Later that night, when he and Dumbledore view the memory, the potion is still in effect.
His luck persists just long enough for everything to change.
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06 Aug 2025