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When Harry Potter proposes to Ginny Weasley after an on and off relationship spanning five years, the last thing he expects is to be broken up with for the sake of Ginny's career ambitions. While most people would have a good cry and get on with life, Harry decides he's not ready to give up. If sophistication is what Ginny wants, then sophistication is what Harry will deliver. And who better to help him with some good old-fashioned self-improvement than his old classmate, ex-friend, and unrequited crush, Tom Riddle, or as he's known these days, Lord Slytherin.
"I know it’s an unusual request—” Harry started.
“I’ll do it,” Tom interrupted, resting his hand over Harry’s, their ring fingers overlapping. “I’ll make a husband out of you, Harry.”
“You will?” Harry asked, guarded hope fluttering in his chest.
“Of course,” Tom promised, flashing a charming smile.
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19 Feb 2026
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During the Battle of Hogwarts, Tom and Harry get stuck in the Mirror of Erised, an alternate world where Harry works as a cook and Tom is a mechanic, and they are dating. They grew up together in an orphanage and have been inseparable ever since. Although they don’t remember anything, Harry has nightmares about Voldemort. As they slowly begin to remember, the mirror shatters, sending them back to the real world, where they find themselves in the midst of a battle, but now with a lifetime of memories of loving each other.
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How to steal someone's heart and piss off Dumbledore in the process by oldangrymagpie
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Feb 2026
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Harry somehow ends up in the past, he can only go to Dumbledore for help.
They decide the smartest course of action is to have Harry take 'Dumbledore' as his last name and pretend to be Dumbledore's son.
Tom is confused as to how an obviously gay man, with no known partner or interest in forming a family, has suddenly spawned a whole teenager.
But he sees how he looks and decides it doesn't matter that much.Alternative title: 'Albus Dumbledore experiences karma' but in like a fond way.
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16 Feb 2026
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"I must say Harry," Voldemort admitted softly, rounding the tombstone, pale fingers trailing over the headstone of his father's grave. "I did not expect it to be you."
Harry shrugged, the piercings lining his ear catching the moonlight and drawing Voldemort's warbright gaze as a teasing smile stretched his face. "What can I say? People rarely expect much of me. Oh, before I forget — here."
Hands moving on instinct, Voldemort snatched the object tossed at him, eye twitching as droplets splashed upon his face. Lowering his hands, he glared at the impetuous boy, then looked down. Emotion abandoned him, jaw clenching, knuckles whitening as he took in his...his...
"This is..." he began, trailing off numbly as soul-deep horror clawed its way to his (arguably non-existent) heart.
"Your Diary?" Harry offered, brushing the mildew off the top of a headstone and taking a seat. "Yes."
"Why is it wet?!"
"Ah. Er...heh," rubbing the branching lightening-silver scars across his neck, Harry coughed. "Funny story that. Turns out, Veriteserum doesn't evaporate. It just...kind of... absorbs."
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10 Feb 2026
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Harry Potter, trapped on a camping trip with his muggle uncle and cousin, finds himself accosted by a strange boy in the woods. The boy’s name is Tom Riddle, and he’s determined to escape his relatives. Harry vows to help Tom, but before they can get to safety, Morfin, pursuing Tom, catches up with them. Panicked, Morfin grabs them both.
Harry and Tom grow closer throughout their ordeal, acting as each other’s support as they plan to escape. When freedom finally comes, the bonds forged in captivity have far-reaching consequences.
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08 Feb 2026
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Harry Potter doesn't have to be an Auror to know that gifts from his dear 'Aunt' Bellatrix come with horrific hidden curses. He just didn't expect a trip to a spa to be so fraught with hidden dangers.
Massively AU. Smut and worldbuilding. Please read the tags!
"I mean," Harry continued, forcing himself to stand straight and not fidget. "I'm not exactly clear on how this works. My Aunt arranged the portkey for me and her letter was… not exactly forthcoming with details. Your—" Coworker? Golem? "— receptionist mentioned something about a Sylvan package, but I missed what that entailed.""Of course," the man replied smoothly, taking a step closer and lowering his hands as he saw Harry relax. "I apologize for the confusion. The constructs who staff certain positions here are good at their jobs, but sometimes there's no replacement for a human touch." The corners of his eyes crinkled slightly as his smile broadened, the faint feathering lines the only sign that time had touched him. "My name is Tom. I'll be your spa attendant and your masseuse. It’s a pleasure to meet you, Mr. Potter."
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02 Feb 2026
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The Boy-Who-Lived is dead and the world has rolled on without him. Voldemort's victory over magical Great Britain is complete, but traces of the war linger on.
Ten years later, Harry Potter is just trying to survive each day as it comes. He knows the rules; he keeps his head down and he does his best to blend in with the muggles. He keeps his magic locked up tight and doesn't stay in the same place for too long.
Harry's not trying to win a war, he's just trying to escape it.
Magic rolled over him, a crackle of heat sliding over his skin and the tinny taste of metal and juniper coating the back of his mouth. It was a crushingly familiar weight, pinning him in place with an iron hand that made a small voice in the back of his head begin to scream, setting his skin prickling and crawling. Seclusion wards, Harry thought, automatic and numb. Walls raised to keep prey in and competing predators out.
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02 Feb 2026
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It's summer, just weeks after Voldemort's demise- or downfall or whatever pleases you to call it. Sure Hermione and Ron are alive, and yet so many more have died. The Weasley family? Just Ron, George, and Molly now...
Maybe it's selfish to focus on the small picture at a time like this, but Harry can't help but feel it was all a bit anti-climactic.
What's really changed? What did those students die for? What did Remus and Sirius die for? What did he die and come back for? Their Wizarding population is reeling from having been cut into less than half; meanwhile another fanatic madman recruits muggleborn survivors to kill the rest. What have they really achieved?
After a night of typical teen revelry, Harry wakes up with a hangover and a choice. Maybe he would've protested if his head wasn't killing him but it's too late now- it's 1974 and he's a pipsqueak again. The Knights of Walpurgis are making waves in the political arena... while in the shadows, a mysterious character that goes by the name Lord Voldemort is seeding revolution.
16/02: Rating has officially changed to Explicit, for the author to depict certain plot points starting in Chapter Fifteen. These scenes will be indicated in notes.
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01 Feb 2026
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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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01 Feb 2026
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Harry Potter disappears when he is four years old and the wizarding world believes him dead. But when his name comes out of the Goblet of Fire, Harry returns in a storm of lightning; a grown man raised in a world of violence, more powerful than anyone could imagine, and the worst thing of all? He doesn't care two knuts about the wizarding world.
Naturally, Voldemort is intrigued by this new and improved adversary.
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29 Jan 2026
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A Darkness by Any Other Name by river_marrow for Abiadura
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Oct 2023
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Despite everything, Harry understood their fear.
It had happened so gradually that he couldn’t be sure when it began. At first, no one had even noticed anything…or at least if they noticed, they didn’t think it was that strange. Wixen aged more slowly than muggles, after all; so what if Harry still looked seventeen on his thirtieth birthday?
In which Harry is thrown through the Veil, reunited with his long lost godfather, and confronted with the leader of the muggleborn uprising - Dark Lord Voldemort.
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19 Jan 2026
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Harry's reputation is insignificant after traveling to 1942. Free from his Boy Who Lived label and determined to alter his future, Harry soon encounters other labels. Some that are just as imposing as being The Chosen One.
In which everyone believes a Time-Traveling-Harry is mad. Unfortunately for Harry, being mad is a rather attractive quality to a budding dark lord.
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At the Battle of the Department of Ministries, Harry falls through the Veil instead of Sirius. Thrust back in time to the summer of 1943, he attempts to survive with no memories, no allies, and the attention of two obsessive dark wizards.
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17 Jan 2026
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The Hitwizard's Temporal Tapestry by Moonlight_Speckled_Stars
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Jun 2024
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After being a hitwizard for 17 years, Harry is tasked with killing a group of Cultists who plan to destroy the timeline. When the magic goes wild, he is sucked into their ritual and ends up in an alternate timeline where his parents are alive and Tom Riddle is the Minister for Magic. With no connections and no history, he would make the ideal hitwizard, however, what will he do when he catches the eye of one Minister Riddle?
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16 Jan 2026
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“How the fuck am I supposed to save him?! In case you didn’t notice the Great Hall full of my dead friends, I don’t exactly have the greatest track record of being people’s guardian angel!”
“Have you ever considered, Harry Potter, that perhaps what Tom Riddle needs is not an angel, but a friend?”
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In which Harry Potter is sent back in time to save his loved ones from their fates by saving Tom Riddle from his. Only...that does not look a thing like Harry expected it to
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11 Jan 2026
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Tom is finally coming into his own. That is to say, a blossoming, handsome, and talented wizard with a reputation that sells it.
Harry would say that the puberty-wrought growth spurt has affected his big head and inflated ego the most.Not only does Harry have to deal with Tom's budding narcissism, but he's also suffering from a mild case of amnesia. Not that he understands the severity of how Very Bad this is for a [time traveler] like him.
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- Part 6 of Tom Riddle and the Time Stumbler
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11 Jan 2026
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10 Jan 2026
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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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10 Jan 2026
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The Ministry sees fit to meddle at Hogwarts in an attempt at curtailing rising pureblood sentiments, to try and lure prospective recruits away from the Dark Lord Nott.
Unsurprisingly, the Heir of Slytherin is stuck together in a room with the Chosen One.
...the worst part is probably that it bloody works.
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09 Jan 2026
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Either must die at the hand of the other by Metalomagnetic
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Jun 2022
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Voldemort survives the Battle of Hogwarts because Harry Potter had not been the one to kill him, as the prophecy demands.
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- Part 1 of Either must die
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Bookmarked by RustyRed
07 Jan 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
This one didn't make me feel good at all, but it did get me choked up a few times 🤔