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“Harry, are you going to explain any of this?" Ron asked. "Or did you go totally senile in that fall?”
Harry didn't know where to start. He looked at the young teenager in front of him, his mind whirring. This was his best friend. He would always trust Ron with any big changes in his life, Harry decided. Regardless of how old he was.
And honestly, Harry needed help right now.
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While hunting horcruxes with Ron and Hermione, a freak accident lands seventeen-year-old Harry Potter back in his thirteen-year-old body. He has to tell someone, and who better to trust than his best friends? Don't worry, though: even this cannot tear their friendship apart.
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- Part 1 of Even This
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A continuation of my fic Even This. Now that Ron, Hermione, and Ginny have joined Harry in 1993, it's time to actually grab hold of this opportunity to fix the future! Though their actions definitely grab the attention of...well, basically everyone. But changing the future is easier with help, right? What could possibly go wrong?
In this pseudo-sequel, each chapter will be told from the point-of-view of one of the non-time travelers. How long does it take Albus Dumbledore to notice that something weird is going on in his castle? How do Molly and Arthur react to the sudden change in their youngest two children? And so on, the story goes. The various POVs will slowly reveal the actions of the time travelers as they strive to save lives...and maybe the whole fate of the wizarding world, while they're at it.
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- Part 2 of Even This
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In their seventh year, they made a promise. Now, when all trust is lost and all promises have been broken, the surviving Marauders are flung back in time to restore the friendship they once had. Easy? Not in the least.
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When a freak accident during the horcrux hunt sends Harry back in time to his third year, those closest to him begin their own battle to find him - and maybe change the future while they're at it.
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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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22 Feb 2026
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If I Believe in Love (It's Because of You) by CelestialSeaWitch
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Dec 2024
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Harry and Hermione are happily settled into marital bliss. They're in for a rude awakening when Harry wakes up one morning to find that his wife is no longer his wife.
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21 Feb 2026
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It’s May 1979 and the Order has just apprehended a pair of mysterious wizards who look remarkably like a Potter and a Malfoy. Naturally, James Potter and Sirius Black are called in to identify the strangely familiar strangers and determine their backgrounds and loyalties.
(This would be a lot easier if their captives weren’t convinced everyone they talk to is dead. It would also be easier if they didn’t spend half their bloody time bickering.)
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“Just ask them questions only they would know the answer to,” Malfoy suggests.
“There’s not a single thing that I know about either of them from the first war that any old Death Eater couldn’t find out.”
“How is that possible?” Malfoy huffs. “He’s your father!”
“Am I or am I not famously an orphan?” Potter snarls.
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Русский перевод: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49365862/chapters/124574398
中文翻译: https://archiveofourown.org/works/49899721Series
- Part 1 of Still Preoccupied... With 1979
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the answer is a question, music to the ears by klesek
Fandoms: Back to the Future (Movies)
27 Jan 2026
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“Sorry,” Marty mumbled, and took a sip from his own drink.
“Jesus Christ,” Dave muttered. “This is a mess. I just wanted to relax today.”
“Sorry,” Marty repeated, sitting back down and putting his Pepsi on the table next to his empty cereal bowl. He reached for the pretzels and opened the bag, shaking a few out into his hand.
Dave shook his head. “No, it’s- well, I guess it is your fault.”
Linda reached over and slapped his arm. “Stop being an asshole.”
“I’m not being an asshole!” Dave exclaimed defensively. “I’m just- I’m being realistic!”
“You’re being an asshole to avoid asking a hard question,” Linda retorted. She sat down again, too, crossing one leg over the other. “Go on. Ask him something weird. It’s like enrichment for him.”
“'He' is right here,” Marty grumbled. They both ignored him.(or: yet ANOTHER marty lets it slip that the movies happened. somewhat of a sequel to my OTHER fic like this, where linda finds out. not necessary to understand, but there are some little continuity things from there you might miss if you dont read that first!)
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- Part 2 of back to the future fics!!
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09 Feb 2026
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COMPLETE. The events at the Department of Mysteries in Harry's fifth year result in him being sent back in time and into his body just before his eleventh birthday. Things are different, however. For every familiar detail there's an inexplicable aberration from the reality he thought he knew. How can he make things right when he hardly understands what's happening around him?
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- Part 1 of Things are Different Here
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