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Gabrielle Delacour was saved from the Black Lake by none other than Britain's notorious Harry Potter. Rather than put the boy on a pedestal, the precocious French witch becomes his pen pal, his friend, and then more.
The initial idea was to have the least creepy Gabrielle/Harry story I could, without wildly changing ages or anything. I've read a few fun romance stories with the pairing, but often Gabrielle is aged up or veela shenanigans are story elements.
At first I thought I could keep it tight to canon, but the truth is that as soon as Harry starts talking to, and trusting, people outside his friend group and Dumbledore, things deviate. Not to the extent of my other stories though.
All content is letters between Harry and Gabrielle. Communications mentioned but not shown between these two and other characters are left to the reader's imagination. Some letters between the two are skipped as well, usually for narrative purposes.
'Correspondants' is French for Pen Pals (according to the internet).
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25 Dec 2025
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When Sirius Black falls through the Veil, Harry Potter follows. Rather than death, he is greeted with a chance to start over fresh and live the life he always dreamed of: with a loving family and no scar on his forehead. But trouble always finds a way to disrupt Harry’s goals of peace. (A time-travel/AU fic.)
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13 Dec 2025
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A vessel marred in the hand of the potter.
The war had ended, and they had all returned. But not him.
He'd been left behind.
What remained was a piece for which there was no longer a place.
His reforging came not from the hard-won peace. No. Instead, he found his hope in the past.
While excavating an ancient chamber, he became the one unearthed. Cast into the eve of the First Wizarding War, a relic of the future that would never be.
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08 Nov 2025
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31 Oct 2025
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During the battle at the Department of Mysteries, Harry falls through the Veil and into a mirror world that shouldn't exist, where Neville wears the scar, his parents stand strong and unbroken, and the Malfoys, of all people, sit closest at their table. History runs backward, and Harry's soul is fractured—claimed by something that calls itself a god.
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- Part 1 of Journey Through The Veil
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28 Oct 2025
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Canon divergent AU: Harry Potter died, while Neville Longbottom became the Boy Who Lived and little that followed stayed the same.
Pansy thought being sorted into Gryffindor was rock bottom, until a troll incident had her inexplicably befriending Neville Longbottom and Ron Weasley of all people. Now she's handling toads, stalking suspicious professors through corridors, and discovering that spite makes for terrible life decisions but surprisingly solid friendships.
From Year 1 to Year 7 - a canon rewrite
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04 Oct 2025
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Mystery Work
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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04 Oct 2025
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At 22, five months after the events at Godric’s Hollow, Severus Snape is defined by grief, twisted by guilt, and driven reckless by loneliness.
When an ancient artifact tears open a world where Lily still lives, he is forced to confront the weight of his choices; those he made, and those he didn’t.
There, he must face the ghosts of his past, the consequences of his actions, and the quiet, terrifying realization of what might have been… and something far more dangerous: hope.
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- Part 1 of The Worlds of In Another Life
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03 Sep 2025
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June 1969 was when the word found her - witch - delivered by a strange, disheveled and sharp-elbowed boy called Severus.
In the soot-stained heart of Cokeworth, far from enchanted castles and moving staircases, Lily Evans and Severus Snape stole seven summers from time's stubborn march. Between broken bones and mended grudges, between flowers blooming out of season and roots that refused to take, Lily learns that magic has its limits, but still her hands keep reaching, reaching, reaching.
Lily Evans and Severus Snape - From 1969 to 1975Series
- Part 1 of Septennium
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17 Jun 2025
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In the quiet aftermath of war, Harry and Fleur cross paths once more. What begins as a gesture of comfort slowly unravels the distance between them, revealing buried grief, mutual loneliness, and the quiet gravity of something more than friendship.
A Beautiful Mistake is a slow-burning, emotionally layered exploration of love, guilt, and the spaces in between.
Canon-compliant through Deathly Hallows, then gently diverging.
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17 Jun 2025
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After desperately chasing Sirius through the veil, Harry finds himself thrust back in time, standing in the body of his 11-year-old self but armed with the knowledge of the last 5 years. Now bound by a looming prophecy, Harry must find a way to amass strength to equal a Dark Lord. However, each choice leads to unforeseen and deadly consequences.
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15 May 2025
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Harry and Fleur form a tentative alliance after realising that they’re both kinda screwed for the second task.
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15 May 2025
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Part One (OotP) complete.
Her remains exhumed as part of Voldemort's grotesque resurrection ritual, Lily Potter is inadvertently brought back to life by unknown magic. She is twenty-one, a widow, and mother to a rebellious teenage boy. Bafflingly, her ex-best friend, Severus Snape, is said to have worked tirelessly to protect her son over the years, yet wants nothing to do with her. For his part, Harry Potter, at first overjoyed to have his mother back alive, begins to chafe under her authority and worry she has feelings for the teacher he so despises.
Part Two (HBP + DH) in the works.
After a dramatic summer, Harry vows to focus on Dumbledore’s lessons, not his mother’s love life. Try as he might, he cannot ignore Snape’s increasingly suspicious behavior: covering for Malfoy, pathetically fawning over Lily, and pretending he doesn’t hate Harry. Lily throws herself into teaching and recruitment efforts but frets over Severus and his refusal to disclose the details of the burden Dumbledore has placed on his shoulders.
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15 May 2025
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(Au) Following the events of Eileen Prince's one night stand with a muggle, she is cast out and disinherited from her noble House for the sake of distancing themselves from the scandal. In the heart of this murky underworld, she gave birth to a son. A bastard boy born under the weight of his mother's disgrace, a testament to a night shrouded in secrecy. With no family name to inherit, no legacy to claim, he was a creature of Knockturn Alley, molded by its shadows and forged in its hardships. He was dubbed, with a mixture of derision and a hint of awe, the Prince of Knockturn Alley.
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15 May 2025
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For over half a decade, Harry Potter has lived a quiet, ordinary life with his loving aunt, uncle and cousin. But, when seven-year-old Harry discovers his magical powers while rescuing Dudley from a terrible fall, everything changes.
Together with his adoptive family, Harry embarks on a journey to uncover the secrets of his magical heritage, the truth about his parents and their fate, and the secrets of this new world he has just stumbled into.
[Warning, this fic contains sarcastic snakes and precocious pre-teens.]
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- Part 1 of The Lost Legacy
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15 May 2025
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15 May 2025
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After the war, things never felt quite the same. Now in his final year at Hogwarts, Harry Potter faces a new threat that could destroy the school itself. Amidst Quidditch rivalries, ancient rituals, and growing feelings, he must figure out how to protect his home— before it's too late.
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15 Feb 2025
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Teddy Lupin, being raised by Harry, decides that his dad and Victoire Weasley's widowed mother Fleur might be just what each other needs.
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09 Feb 2025
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09 Feb 2025
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The dance at Westover Hall goes a little differently, Dr. Thorn is a little luckier with his spikes, and everything goes a little bit wrong. Now in the TLO arc!
Basically just exploring the potential between Thalia and Percy.
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09 Feb 2025