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It Started With The Number 3 (and stayed that way) by blurredink
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Nov 2025
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Another take on WHAT-IF Harry got rid of Voldemort in fifth year? Oh yeah and WHAT-IF he just so happened to fall in love with certain twins? In disguise. Under a wrong name, that is. Shenanigans ahead.
Also a take on self-discovery and gender fluidity.(Or the one in which Harry gives the headmaster the finger and decides to go exploring the Wizarding World on his own.)
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- 28/?
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21 Jun 2026
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The Boy Who Lived, The Brightest Witch and The Boy Who Wasn't by dragonfly117
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
12 Apr 2025
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A single conversation between Hermione and Neville in November of their fourth year changed the course of Harry's friendships forever. Eventual HHr.
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- 38/?
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18 Jun 2026
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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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17 Jun 2026
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I'll hold you when things go wrong by cloudlesslysky
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 May 2019
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Ron has always struggled with insecurity and jealousy since he was a child.
However, Ron has grown up. And while he loves his mother, if she's making him choose between her and Harry...
Well, Ron knows where he stands.
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16 Jun 2026
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"Every Potter who died on a Potter's Field always returned to the living."
The dead are watching.
The dead have always been watching.
And when their Master jumps through time back to his fourth year and is promptly killed, they answer his call.- Language:
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- 9/?
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16 Jun 2026
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In another universe, the Daily Prophet’s slander might’ve gone unnoticed and used only as lining for an owl cage but in this one, Harry Potter reacts differently to the realisation that he’s once again isolated, neglected, and left to fend for himself. The summer after 4th year, as he’s plagued by nightmares, reality, and everything in between, Harry makes a decision—things will be different. He’ll make it so.
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A story about growing up, realising & utilising one’s power, and loads of godson-godfather bonding. Harry finds out he can do a lot more than he’s been allowed to so far, and takes complete advantage of it.
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- 14/?
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16 Jun 2026
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a home for you (for me) by padfootastic for ImpishTubist
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
31 Mar 2022
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As far back as Harry could remember, Sirius had always been there in his life. From every skinned knee to the most irrelevant milestones like winning the ‘Best Milkshake Competition’ in Muggle Primary.
To him, Sirius was just as much a parent as Dad was, and no matter what it looked like on paper—that he was only a godfather—he knew how deep their bond was.
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Or, Harry Potter wants to become Harry Potter-Black. James is supportive and Sirius is overwhelmed.
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15 Jun 2026
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When Harry gets quickly bored of staying in Diagon's main alleyway, he devises a plan to explore the rest of the alley, to the exasperation of Tom the Barman.
He never thought he'd discover a mild version of a rare magical skill and gain a passion in rune craft while doing it, but he can't really complain as it eventually gets him a boyfriend too.
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- Part 1 of From Dawn to Dusk
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- 82,406
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- 25/?
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15 Jun 2026
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“Have you heard of changelings, Líle?”
Lily tightened her hold on little Harry, wrapped snugly in his favourite blanket and carried in the crook of her arm. She looked the old washerwoman in the eye and bared her teeth in some semblance of a smile.
Unbeknownst to many, the Potters have an old relationship with some unlikely Folk of Godric's Hollow, specifically the Good Neighbours from the woods beyond the little village. One day in October, as Samhain and their impending death approached, Lily Potter went to the Neighbours to seek protection for Harry, and the course of history is changed.
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- Part 1 of A Friendly Neighbourhood Wizard
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- English
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- 37,465
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- 11/?
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14 Jun 2026
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Harry brews a potion that will show him the face of someone he can be happy with.
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- Part 2 of Songs of Summer 2023
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13 Jun 2026
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12 Jun 2026
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“Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!”
“Stand aside, you silly girl… stand aside, now”.
And Lily Potter stepped aside.
Voldemort stared at her.
“... Is this some sort of trick?” he asked softly.
“No". Her voice was flat, lifeless. “You already killed James... If you let me live, then you can have Harry”.
Voldemort’s lip curled - not in amusement, but disgust. His own mother had died for him. Pathetic, yes, sentimental and foolish - but she had chosen to die so that he could live. Lily Potter wasn’t even choosing to care. Surely the child of prophecy deserved a better mother than this! Even he could give the boy to a better family to be raised right!
Voldemort slowly reached down and picked up the child.
He was still staring at him. He was still oddly silent. His eyes were still the colour of the Killing curse and brimming with power.
Yes, Voldemort decided, that was exactly what he’d do.
"You belong to me now" he whispered.
And with a crack like thunder, he turned on the spot, vanishing into the night.Or, the one where Harry Potter is raised by the Lestranges and it goes more or less how you would expect.
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11 Jun 2026
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Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? (you should be) by Snoweylily
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Jun 2026
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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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- Part 1 of WAOLOM
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- 135/?
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11 Jun 2026
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Theodore Nott did not believe the hype about Harry Potter.
And then Potter summoned a corporeal stag the size of his trust issues.Now the stag won’t leave, Potter won’t stop rambling, and Theo might be developing a completely manageable, definitely-not-deranged fascination.
It’s fine.
He’s fine.
Everyone is lying.- Language:
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- 5/?
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08 Jun 2026
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Whispers in the Castle by aspionage, BinteMuhammad
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Jul 2024
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While trying to escape from Dudley and his gang, nine-year-old Harry Apparates himself to Hogwarts instead of the roof of his school. Thrilled by his magical surroundings and the lack of vindictive Dursleys, Harry decides to blend in amongst the students so he can stay in the castle forever.
Meanwhile, Severus tries to make sense of a new, tiny first-year whose name he can't quite place.
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08 Jun 2026
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After the end of the Triwizard Tournament, Harry is alone and struggling to find a way to hang on to his sanity when an unexpected boon walks into his house and kidnaps him to Gringotts. The Most Noble House of Nott is attacked and Theodore is left with nothing but ashes, a single gemstone, and the burning fire of something bigger than himself lodged forever in his soul. Lucius Malfoy suffers a momentary lapse in sanity and raises his wand against the Dark Lord. The lines between light and dark, good and evil, blur together and disappear entirely. All the while, Harry goes searching for who "Just Harry" is and keeps coming back to a dark-eyed Slytherin he never thought he'd call his friend...
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- Part 1 of The Living Library
- Language:
- English
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- 514,529
- Chapters:
- 36/?
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- 6
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08 Jun 2026
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Sworn to the Gryffin by VerdantGremlin (Riverwitch20)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Jun 2026
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Fred here. If you are reading this, congratulations on either excellent taste or criminal behaviour. This is the documented history of how my twin brother and I accidentally acquired a small feral celebrity, discovered he had been living on spite and crumbs, and responded in the only reasonable manner: emotional attachment, light surveillance, and increasingly reckless loyalty. There will be schemes, deeply intelligent observations (mine), poor decisions (usually also mine), and the ongoing mystery of why adults keep failing children so consistently. If at any point you think we are overreacting about Harry Potter, you are wrong.
George here, writing because Fred can’t be trusted unsupervised with narration. Let me be clear: if Harry Potter so much as sighs in a suspicious manner, I will notice. If someone hurts his feelings, I will know. If someone hurts him, I will become difficult to prosecute. He has the tragic habit of acting like crumbs are feasts and kindness is charity, which is frankly offensive to me personally. So yes, we fuss. Yes, we hover. Yes, we would cheerfully commit several light felonies for his wellbeing. That is called love, and if you’ve got a problem with it, form a queue.
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07 Jun 2026
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Heir Of Fire and Ice by VerdantGremlin (Riverwitch20)
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Jun 2026
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07 Jun 2026
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Harry and his friends are back for their second-year. Harry just wants to brew potions, build inter-house unity and join the quidditch team. If only someone or some thing wasn't threatening Muggle-born students.
A Hufflepuff reimagining of The Chamber of Secrets
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- Part 2 of Cyrn Aur
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- 82,883
- Chapters:
- 17/23
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06 Jun 2026
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06 Jun 2026