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We could have been that heaven by Drops_of_Nightshade
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Oct 2025
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“Have you killed someone, Harry?”
“Yes.” His voice was barely above a whisper.
“Do you regret it?”
Harry stared at Tom helplessly across the table.
“I don’t know.”
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Knockturn Alley, 1950.
Tom Riddle, poster child for wasted potential, is working at Borgin and Burkes. To most he is just a sales representative, but to the inhabitants of the Alley, he is the man who rules Southside.
Harry James has no papers and no past. He is the new server at The Black Cat pub, twenty years old but with the battle reflexes of a veteran.
Tom wants to know who the real Harry James is. Harry wants to go home and leave old ghosts behind him.
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Harry Potter and the Real Dark Lord was the Friend(s) We Made Along the Way by QueenOfStormySkies (girlwithagreenribbon)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 May 2025
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Peter Pettigrew messes up his attempt to resurrect Voldemort, bringing back sixteen-year-old Tom Riddle as well.
This of course becomes Harry Potter’s problem.
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"Well, here we are." Sirius pushed open the door with a grand sweep of his arms. “Home sweet Hell.”
Sirius had bad memories of Grimmauld Place, tainted by his own less than stellar family. But for Harry, whose summers had previously involved being locked away either in a cupboard or Dudley's second room--with bars on the windows, no less--it was perfect.
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With Sirius free from Azkaban and taking up his role as Harry's guardian, Voldemort pursuing a political path to power rather than bloodshed, and a defense teacher that isn't actively trying to kill him for once, Harry has high hopes for his third year at Hogwarts. It'll be nice to sit back and be a kid for once.Only Harry's life is never so simple, and he soon finds himself facing a myriad of new challenges: school bullies and new family dynamics, horcruxes all but falling into his lap, his deja-vu brain giving him mixed signals, and hidden murmurs arising from old Death Eater circles that may pose a threat to him regardless of his tentative alliance with Voldemort. Things seem destined to never be easy, but if there's one thing Harry knows by now, it's that he won't have to do it alone.
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16 Jun 2026
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Part 3 of A Dead Man's Guide to Reliving Your Youth
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Getting grabbed around the ankle at the last second by a screaming Uncle Vernon? Not great.
Kicking Vernon in the face while Fred shouted, “Floor it!”, thus resulting in the Dursley patriarch falling out a window?
Genuinely a top 10 moment in Harry’s life.
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After dying and being thrown back into his 11 year-old body with limited access to his memories from his past life, Harry's had to get by with only his ever-present sense of deja-vu to keep him from making the same choices (and mistakes) as he did before. But now that he's more connected than ever with his sixth-sense, the barriers that kept his past from him are breaking down. Dreams and visions are bombarding him more frequently, and just in time. The Chamber of Secrets has been opened, and as his deja-vu brain keeps saying, "It's not happening like it did last time."Series
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16 Jun 2026
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Part 2 of A Dead Man's Guide to Reliving Your Youth
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It was a bone-deep almost-ache when he opened his eyes and spotted the light flitting through the slats of his cupboard, both a familiar sight and at the same time distant like an old memory. It was a twist in his chest when he sat up, expecting—strangely—to hit his head on the sloped ceiling only to pause when he realized, of course, that he was far too short for that to happen.
Harry was struck with a strong sensation—which had no apparent reason at all—that he should not be here.
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In which Harry Potter returns to his 11 year-old body after “dying” in the Forbidden Forest, given a second chance to change the ending of his story and the fate of the wizarding world. Except with the memories of his previous life buried deep in his subconscious, Harry must rely on his ever-present sense of deja-vu to guide him down a different path.Series
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16 Jun 2026
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Part 1 of A Dead Man's Guide to Reliving Your Youth
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Harry spends the whole summer before fourth year feeling restless. He chalks it up to the weird dreams he's been having, assuming Voldemort is responsible. And for some dreams, that's true - but what about the other ones? The ones that feel... familiar?
Back at school, things change one morning in September, when he and three other students wake up with the memories of the four Hogwarts founders in their heads. They don't know why they've returned, or how it happened, but they know one thing - they changed the Wizarding World before, and they're going to do it again. It's about time they shook things up a bit.
Tagged underage for Harry/Cedric (14/17)
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Harry finds a better life with the basilisk, but that doesn't mean it's easy. From inter-being feuds, to bloody prophecies, to elven unrest, Harry is in the eye of a hurricane that will change the wizarding world forever.
Involving thestrals, merfolk, house elves, centaurs, acromantulae, and various other friends, denizens, and allies.
This series is: Queer in a multitude of ways. Morally complex. A massively canon-divergent AU. Filled with oc's and non-oc's. A story about relationships, love, trust, friendship, healing ... and revolution.
There are seven novel-length fics, plus a prologue (to leap and love the fall) and two longer stories (with courage unyielding and the gentle sunlight). The short story collection to journey on contains shorter stories set within the main timeline. All are posted in the correct reading order.
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Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back. Harry's curiosity leads him to exploring the Chamber a bit more thoroughly before he leaves for the Summer. What he finds there gives him a new responsibility beyond just himself and a lifelong satisfaction in the choices he makes from there on.
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Harry Potter knew he wasn't normal.
Normal children had bedrooms, not a cupboard under the stairs.
Normal children played with toys, not with the small garden snakes in the grass.
Yeah, Harry wasn't normal; he was magic.
But he isn't the normal type of magical person either.
Being normal was overrated and wasn't fun, anyway.
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- Part 2 of Ad Meliora (Toward Better Things)
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The Headmaster's Quarters by capricious__capricorn
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Jun 2026
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The war is over.
Voldemort is dead.
Harry Potter has survived things that should have killed him, done things he never thought himself capable of, and come out the other side of all of it in one piece.
He should be celebrating.
He isn't.
There is one thing he can't leave alone. One face he keeps seeing. One name that sits in his chest like something unfinished.
So Harry does what Harry has always done; he acts.
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When Harry Potter's Hogwarts letter raises red flags for Severus Snape, he delivers the letter instead of letting Dumbledore handle it. Severus does not see a miniature James Potter when he encounters the scrawny child, drowning in clothes that don't fit and holding himself carefully away from his aunt like she might strike him at any moment. Severus is reminded only of himself.
Severus's choice to rescue Harry might damn him when Voldemort returns, or it might change everything.
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Harry Potter didn't mean to raise the dead, but he did. Harry Potter didn't mean to break shit with his uncontrollable magic, but he did. Harry Potter didn't mean to lust after Severus Snape, but he did.
Struggling with uncontrollable power surges, crushing guilt, and self-destructive tendencies, Harry isolates himself. Snape becomes his reluctant anchor. As Death Eater remnants resurface, the two form a tense, complex, and deepening relationship built on questionable foundations but result in mutual dependence.
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01 Jun 2026
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At the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry resurrects Severus, Fred, Remus and Sirius.
He struggles to contain his power, trauma forces him to lose control of it.
And only Snape seems to be a stabilising force through it all.37/37/??
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After his pod is destroyed by human bomb testing, a lonely young siren named Harry drifts near new shores and witnesses a group of cruel children throw a young Tom Riddle off a cliff into the sea. Harry rescues the drowning child and brings him to a hidden sea cave, where the two lost souls form an immediate, profound bond.
What begins as innocent connection slowly spirals into dark obsession, possessive desire, and a dangerous relationship as Tom grows into Voldemort, claiming his siren completely.
—This story will start off soft and will get very dark following Voldemorts resurrection. This will be canon Tom/Voldemort.
—Smut chapters will be marked with 💕in the chapter title. Darker smut with be marked with 🖤Bookmarked by MinuteDifference
30 May 2026
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Young Tom is saved by Harry, a siren that has lost his pod.
Tom is instantly obsessed, because he is Tom.28/34/??
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The first time Harry walks into a room to discover Riddle and Voldemort mid-duel, he walks right back out the door.
In which a young Tom Riddle travels through time and discovers a future where Voldemort has won. -
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Dumbledore leaves a small, lonely Harry on Severus' doorstep.
In the aftermath of Lily’s death, Severus is hollowed out—adrift, abandoned, and painfully unprepared to care for the child she left behind. Little Harry is fragile, warm, and far too alive in a world that has already taken everything from him. With no idea what to do, Severus turns to the last person he ever imagined asking for help… and yet, somehow, the first person his mind reaches for.
Remus Lupin—solitary werewolf, grieving the loss of his friends, carrying the quiet devastation of Sirius’s imprisonment.
Together, they learn how to keep a child alive. How to survive the nights, the memories, the ghosts of what they once were. In the slow, fragile act of caring for Harry, they remember a time when they were young, when the future was unwritten and warmth still lived in their chests.
Perhaps that warmth has not vanished after all. Perhaps, even now, it can be rekindled—soft and trembling—against the darkness that has settled into their lives.
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Severus Snape has always valued control.
Over his work.
Over his environment.
Over himself.So when an unexpected line of thought begins to intrude—persistent, illogical, and increasingly difficult to ignore—he does what any rational man would do:
He treats it as a problem to be solved.Unfortunately, some conclusions are far less cooperative than others.
And Sirius Black has always had a talent for making matters worse.
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Tom gets his first ever Christmas gift.
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- Part 2 of hp shorts
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20 May 2026
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Little Harry writes to Voldemort and it's cute.
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Beyond What is Right (to What is Wrong) by itsevanffs
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Apr 2020
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"Swore we'd stamp it out of him! Wizard indeed!" Unfortunately for everyone involved, the Dursleys succeeded.
Harry is an Obscurial who's been doing his best to hide from the Wizarding World. With virtually no grasp on his magical abilities, he leaves destruction in his wake. A newly resurrected Voldemort investigates.
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20 May 2026
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Reads like a fairy tale
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"I think I want to take over Britain." Harry said, smiling into the chilled breeze as the sun set. "How about it?" He glanced over at Tom, still sitting by his side.
"We could." Tom replied, "But it would be hard."
"Not if we worked together." Harry said, "Grindelwald was alone. You were alone before. This time, we'll be together." Tom examined him closely, his hazel eyes gazing into Harry's green for a long searching moment.
"Alright." Tom said finally, a smile gracing his face. "Let's do it."
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Crossroads offers Harry and Tom another chance at life, sending them back to 1988 where they both wake up as 8 years olds. Chaos ensues as they try their best to navigate their second chance.
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The Death Eaters Healer by Snarry5evr for WeAreTheLuckyOnes
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Oct 2021
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How did being kidnapped by the wizarding world's biggest mob end up with Harry falling in love?
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16 May 2026
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Harry finds himself the reluctant healer of the Death Eaters gang.