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Harry just wants to have a quiet life and get along with everyone. He wants to be normal, and accepted. Being “normal” for the Dursleys yielded great results in improving his standard of living, and as he heads off to Hogwarts he still retains that impulse to keep his head down and blend in. Of course, life isn’t as simple as that, and Harry is a magnet for trouble. And what does "normal" really mean, anyway? The pure-bloods in his group of friends think he should learn more about their culture and religion if he wants to fit in.
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Bookmarked by AverageFish
06 Feb 2026
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Excellent series, awaiting update (author is currently Doing Other Things), summary of fic in Part 7.
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Voldemort was dead.
The war was won.
All was well.Then our hero woke up and it was the morning of his eleventh birthday.
Oh, did I say hero? I meant Severus Snape. Severus Snape woke up and it was the morning of his eleventh birthday.
This had not been the plan.
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31 Dec 2025
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Absolutely adore this fic. Heartily recommend to all Snape fans.
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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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When the Dursleys throw Harry out the summer before his second year, Harry decides to take his cue from Newt Scamander's suitcase and start making a home of his own. The only problems are that something capable of petrifying half-kneezles and humans is loose in Hogwarts and he's far too busy to read any books.
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- Part 2 of Undesirable Relations
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For Teddy Lupin, Harry Potter would become a Dark Lord. For Teddy Lupin, Harry Potter would take down the Ministry or die trying. He should have known that Hermione and Ron wouldn't let him do it alone.
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18 Nov 2025
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Torn from his own time and thrust into the past, Harry has been trying to build a life for himself. But the first war with Voldemort is just beginning, and despite his best efforts to keep his head down, he’s being pulled right into the middle of it. As the war grows worse and days grow darker, Harry will have to decide how far he’s willing to go to see a brighter future.
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- Part 2 of Invictus
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17 Nov 2025
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15/?
really enjoyed this. Reminded me of Eider Down/Second String -
The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted by MyDearLadyDisdain
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Oct 2023
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COMPLETE. After an inexplicable case in Surrey, Sherlock is after the strangest criminal he's ever encountered: a mass murderer, that has eluded the authorities for almost 14 years. Unfortunately, Sherlock Holmes is the only one that can see right away that this Harry Potter character is completely innocent. And hang on, is that tea set floating?
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29 Oct 2025
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absolutely lovely. worth a reread.
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Harry is "rescued" from the Dursleys by a necromancer with glowing acid-green eyes and strange tattoos. His new mama isn’t the most affectionate, but she makes up for it by teaching Harry all sorts of exciting dark magic like crafting horcruxes and speaking to the dead. Despite this, he reckons he turned out just fine.
In which the adults don’t hang the weight of the world on one child’s shoulders, Harry gets to be a perfectly normal Hogwarts student (with only a few near-death experiences, a reasonable amount of murder, and his mass-murderer godfather hiding in his trunk), and the author spends a good portion of his time ignoring the plot for exploring magical theory and the power of friendship.
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- Part 1 of harry gets a little murder as a treat
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Have you been missing a time travel Tomarry where Harry and Tom are on somewhat equal footing? Where Tom is a plausible budding political leader? Where Harry can stand up to him and their relationship doesn’t seem toxic? Where the surrounding events and characters don’t go unnoticed? I have, so I gave writing one a try.
“The war is over and the Wizarding Britain has been slowly rising from the ashes. Harry just wishes none of it ever happened – what will he do when he’s given a chance to change the past? Was Dumbledore right about “the power he knows not” after all?“
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Bookmarked by AverageFish
01 Oct 2025
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lovely, canon compatible characterisation of Tom as a non psychopath
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The long and drawn out battle against Voldemort and the Death Eaters left Harry Potter feeling empty, and the aftermath of it did little to change that. Seeing the hypocrisy of the survivors of the Order of the Phoenix, and how little the thoughts and words of the former Boy-Who-Lived mattered to either the general population or to his former allies, the young man distanced himself from Wizarding Britain, eventually disappearing all together. After several years, the situation in Magical Britain only continued to deteriorate, while all attempts to locate the Last Potter proved fruitless for both friend and enemy alike. Across the channel, a young woman completing her education in Beauxbatons continues her efforts to find the man that had once saved her life. Undaunted by the naysayers, Gabrielle Delacour tries to balance out finding her future career and the missing man, though she isn't the only person searching for the Hero of the Second Blood War. All the while a shadow moves about the French Countryside, trying to live out a life in peace and anonymity that was denied to them throughout much of their life, though it might be denied to them once more, if certain people have their way, for good or ill.
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Maria, a modern-day teacher, inexplicably finds herself transported back to 1990, inhabiting the body of Marlene McKinnon, a primary school teacher in the world of Harry Potter. She grapples with her new identity and the implications of teaching alongside Harry and Dudley Dursley. Discovering Marlene's secret past as a witch and her engagement to Sirius Black, Maria uncovers a hidden life and a potential connection to the wizarding world.
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Better to bind your brow with willow (--And follow, follow until you die,) by llamallamaduck
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Jun 2025
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It is no great miracle, Blaise thinks, that he ended up in Dorne sooner rather than later after his ignoble and dramatic jump.
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- Part 3 of Set in ASOIAF/GOT
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At 21, Harry Potter died again and woke up as the 16 year old Heir of the Nott family.
His new father's a homicidal maniac, it's the height of World War II, and he might have to share a dorm with the guy who killed him the first time.
He's been through worse.
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23 Aug 2025
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ch 18/?
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Sequel to The Stars are Different Here. Harry enters his second year at Hogwarts, but the more he adjusts to this alternate world, the more he must face its differences to the reality he left behind. Now that Voldemort knows his secret, not to mention persistent rumours of unusual activity at the Shrieking Shack, it's bound to be another eventful year.
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- Part 2 of Things are Different Here
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When he’s ten, Orion recognizes Slytherin’s locket in the drawing room, lost amongst other nicknacks and cursed items, knowing better than to touch it.
He stares for a long while, wondering how he could’ve forgotten, before turning on his heel.
He remembers the story. How can he not? But it’s fragmented and jumbled in his head, blurring with what he knows of this life and the details he does recall don’t concern him.
There’s only so much one can remember about a book read a lifetime ago.
Orion has no interest in getting involved.
He’s got a life. A name. A duty to his family.
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- Part 2 of My Harry Potter stuff
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Bookmarked by AverageFish
23 Aug 2025
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Ch 25
Protagonist ist sometimes cruel and cold, but is written very well. Pulls off child's emotions and logic well, with a hint of madness
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Really, if Mr. Potter wasn't such a good cook, she'd feed him to a Dementor.
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Harry's Master of Death, Rita's a time traveller, and there's a six-year-old Boy Who Lived to take care of.
(Rita would like her life back. Thanks.)
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- Part 3 of Speak Now (Taylor's Version) Project
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There's still a lot to explore and experience in a world full of magic even if you never become a main character. In Hufflepuff house, you'll make friendships that will last a lifetime. Also, we have a table of infinite snacks. Gen/Friendship.
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After something of an interesting start to the summer, Harry and Theo find themselves in the safe confines of Snape’s home. To bad the school year can’t hold the same peace that they’d found then. The Triwizard Tournament has come back once more, and with a new threat waiting in the wings, even the spirits of the dead are worried that Harry might join them and become one.
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- Part 4 of A Darker Form of Magic
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31 Jul 2025
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Ari figures that finding herself in the world of Harry Potter with memories of things that haven't happened yet is a big enough plot deviance that she might as well go ahead and change everything else.
Now she has to plot several rescues, look for at least one competent adult, and find the nearest library. Hopefully before anyone figures out just how much she knows.
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Harry realises something when he is nine years old that changes his life forever. Follow Harry as he drifts through life, simply happy that he can see the sky.
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26 Jun 2025
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This is gorgeous and almost philosophical. It made me appreciate my own life more.