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Harry Potter and Daphne Greengrass are Cousins

So I had an idea just pop into my head and thought I would share it. So here it is. Essentially James wasn't an only child growing up (so this is an AU, obviously). He had an older sister who fell in love with and married the man who would become the father of Daphne Greengrass.

This relation doesn't change how the war shakes out overall and James and Lily still die. The one major difference however is that the Greengrasses won't under any circumstances leave Harry solely in the Dursleys care. Harry lives with them because the blood protections are very real and by Harry living with members of his maternal family, they can be maintained until he comes of age just as Dumbledore claimed and the Greengrasses verified.

As such, his paternal aunt cuts a deal with Dumbledore to obtain regular visitation rights. This proves to be a huge boon to Dumbledore, Harry and the Dursleys as one of the first things she does is get the curse scar checked out by specialist whose expertise is dealing with and cleansing dark magic from wounds. This results in the horcuxes being discovered a decade early and because it's fresh (and Voldemort disembodied) relatively simple to remove from Harry.

The Greengrasses provide financial assistance to the Dursleys in raising Harry. They provide them with resources on how to raise a magical child, which reduces tensions in the Dursley home, Also, just having someone regularly checking up on Harry prevents them from engaging in the practices they did in canon. This results in Dudley not being spoiled to the degree he is, and Harry gets to grow up relatively happy. Harry and Daphne also grow up together and are BFF's by the time they're due to attend Hogwarts.

So here are a few questions here. What effect does this have to the canon plot? Because of their involvement in Harry's life, Albus knows about Voldemort's horcruxes (and has presumably started the search a decade earlier) and knows he is alive out there somewhere. Harry has had the scar removed, so need not be sacrificed for Voldemort's ultimate defeat and Harry is aware of magic already and grew up a relatively happy child. How much is butterflied? Also, what do folks think Dumbledore would've done to make use of that extra time?

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2024/05/05
18:30 UTC

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A dark Harry that takes Hermione under her wing.

I think it was an addams family cross, but it could have been styled like that. Fem harry meets Hermione on the train and gives her a makeover and etiquette tips, before they both end up in Slytherin. It had a very Harveste feel to the story.

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2024/05/05
18:12 UTC

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Looking for a weird fanfic where the Wizarding World is empty

I'm looking for a fanfic I read a couple years ago where Harry discovers magic early but only ancient runes. It turns out that all other magic is frozen or something? He makes it to Hogwarts and it's completely empty, the stairs and portraits aren't moving, and in the Headmasters office he finds a letter detailing why they had to freeze Magic.

I can't remember anything else about it but I really want to see if they updated it

2 Comments
2024/05/05
18:04 UTC

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What would be a good team name for Harry, Neville & Luna?

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2024/05/05
17:14 UTC

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Fanfics where Harry and dick grayson are friends/Brothers?

I recently read Learning to fly by xXxSapphireWolfxXx and it got me hooked? I'm looking for completed or fanfics that are long

Edit:or where harry is friends with the members of the Batfamily(no harem bullshit)

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2024/05/05
17:14 UTC

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Vampires are visible in most mirrors, even silver ones. There's only one specific mirror that a vampire, who has lived long enough, can't see himself in: the Mirror of Erised.

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2024/05/05
16:40 UTC

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"It's free real estate"- says Fleur as she slaps the Ford Anglia

Fleur and her m̶i̶n̶i̶o̶, friends. Yes, friends. Don't forget it, Fleur, even if they're annoying.

Fleur and her friends, looked confusedly towards the part of the forest, which was closest to their Carriage. Bushes were trembling, birds were flying away and squirrels were running from whatever frightened them.

They slowly took a step back, wands ready for whatever monster would emerge.

Instead...

...it was the most beautiful thing that Fleur have ever seen. A beautiful piece of craftmanship, free of any dirt that should have accomulated on it from a trip in the forest.

Strange, never before felt urges began to awaken in her. She didn't know yet what it was, but it connected to the car.

She held her breath, as the Ford Anglia slowly rolled forward, as if showing off it's cleanliness. Something growled in Fleur at the sight of it.

The car continued to roll forward, till it was just a few feet away.

As if to greet them (or taunt her), it flashed it's light. Then it sped off, doing who knows what.

The girls behind Fleur looked at each other.

"That was strange, even for this horrible school. What do you think, this..." Sabrina said to the others, bit Fleur was no longer listening.

She looked in the direction the car disappeared. She now had a mission. To hell with the Tournament. To hell with her studies. Her nature was calling to her. The veela ready to come out.

!She's gonna shit on that car, even if it took her the full year to achive it.!<

10 Comments
2024/05/05
16:18 UTC

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What would Voldemort see in the Mirror of Erised?

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2024/05/05
16:15 UTC

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Partners in crime fics??

basically any fics that have the main pair have a partners in crime by set it off kinda vibe!!! preferably w harry but i dont really mind either way :3 i'll read anything if the ship is legal <3

2 Comments
2024/05/05
16:02 UTC

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Help finding a harry Potter Fanfiction

it is on fanfction.net

what I do remember is that one Vernon Dursley Dies in a fire but a young harry (Probably Fem Harry)saves Petunia and Dudley they live in an apartment, Dudley and Harry are friends, Harry meets the Malfoys in the alley when McGonagall takes them and it does some Dumbledore Bashing. Harry gets a cat and at Hogwarts get sorted into Ravenclaw and Dumbledore tries to do a resorting but Harry has Narcissa Malfoy become their Magical Guardian also I do somewhat remember that Marge is a>!Bitch!< (that was a swear word so if you have a problem don't unspoiler it) and Ripper kills her cat

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2024/05/05
15:28 UTC

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Prompt: An average day in Severus Snape's life (OotP and HBP)

He wakes up at 6:55, having managed approximately 2 hours of sleep. The Dark Lord had summoned his Death Eaters last night, and the meeting had gone on for hours. It could totally have been an owl. 

His head throbs from the lack of sleep, and his knees still ache from all the kneeling. All this late night skullduggery had been so much easier when he was twenty one. 

He manages a quick shower and heads to the Great Hall by 7:30. Pouring himself a cup of coffee, he morosely contemplates the day ahead. He has a full timetable: the first year Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws, then his sixth year NEWTs batch, and finally, a double period with the fourth year Gryffindors and Slytherins after lunch. He decides against conducting any practical sessions; no doubt those blasted students will take advantage of his weakened state and blow the castle sky-high. Fortunately, he has had the foresight to prepare some surprise quizzes for this exact scenario. He can imagine the panic he is going to cause when he hands out the exams. The thought brings a smile to his lips. 

Done with breakfast, he is just about to head down to the dungeons when, out of the corner of his eyes, he sees the newly appointed Headmistress heading for him. He briefly considers making a run for it before accepting his fate; she knows where his office is, unfortunately. 

Resigned, he allows himself to be escorted up to the Headmistress' office. It is every bit as horrible as he had imagined it would be: grotesque kittens all over the walls, lurid pink decorations, and, worst of all, frills. Against his will, he finds himself thinking fondly of Lockhart. Simpler times.

The Headmistress offers him tea and simpers on about the virtues of Fudge and the hunt for Dumbledore. He pretends to sip and makes all the appropriate noises while he waits for her to get to the point. After fifteen minutes of mind-numbingly imbecilic small talk, she shows her hand: the toad wants to him to hand over his own personal store of Veritaserum, a potion that takes a bloody month to brew, so that she can interrogate Potter about his wrongdoings. 

He suppresses the urge to glare at her and tells her to come to down to his storerooms before lunch. Back in his office, he dilutes a drop of Veritaserum thousand-fold and sets it out for the Headmistress. The concoction will inspire honesty, but it will not compel Potter to reveal anything he is determined to protect. She is unlikely to notice unless she tests it on a willing subject. 

The morning passes by in a blur. As expected, the pronouncement of a surprise test causes a gratifying amount of hysteria. One little Ravenclaw firstie passes out in shock. It's the little moments like these that make teaching such a rewarding profession. 

Umbridge comes by around lunch and takes the little vial. He goes through his fourth coffee of the day while he waits for his afternoon class to finish their exams. Afterwards, as he is marking the papers in his office, Dumbledore's silvery phoenix soars in with a message. His presence is needed at the Order this evening, to brief them all regarding last night's Death Eater meeting.

He has a sinking feeling that the Dark Lord, once he hears of this, will also expect a summary of the Order meeting. 

He takes ten points from Gryffindor to cheer himself up, and returns to grading papers. He's been at it for barely fifteen minutes when Warrington arrives. Apparently, Montague has missed his afternoon classes and no one has any idea where he is.

Incidentally, Warrington has a tiny, silver I pinned on to his robes. Severus briefly wonders why, before dismissing the thought. He does not need more things on his plate right now.

A thorough interrogation of the fifth and sixth year Slytherins does not yield any information as to Montague's whereabouts, which is concerning. His belongings are still in his dorm room, so it seems unlikely he was planning to leave. Additionally, Montague had made plans for a friend's birthday around teatime, which he has now missed.  An inspection of the castle's wards suggests that Montague is still within the boundaries of the school, so abduction is unlikely. 

Severus deeply, sincerely, prays that this is not a repeat of the Bathroom Transmigration Incident of '86.

Normally, in a situation like this, Severus would head for the Headmaster. Dumbledore has an innate sense of the castle's students and would have tracked Montague down within minutes. Unfortunately, thanks to Potter and his little fan club, Dumbledore has left the school and is, apparently, living life on the lam. Ignoring a mild pang of envy, Severus consoles himself by taking another ten points from Gryffindor and makes his way to Minerva's office.

By 7 'o' clock, Montague has still not turned up. The new Headmistress is running around fighting fireworks and is entirely useless. Minerva and Severus have penned a letter to Montague's parents, who will arrive at Hogwarts tomorrow. As the Deputy Headmistress and the Slytherin Head, they will need to meet the Montagues and reassure them that the teachers are doing their best to locate their son. Severus is dreading that particular conversation - the only thing he despises more than his students are their accursed, thrice-damned parents.

All the teachers have been alerted as to the missing student. The situation is looking more and more like '86. Sprout and Flitwick are leading search parties into the bathrooms.

At 8:30, Severus makes his apologies to Minerva, who will cover for his absence with the new Headmistress. He skips dinner and heads for Grimmauld Place. He does not particularly care about the Order meeting right now, but Dumbledore will be there and will need to know about the missing student.

It is past midnight when he returns from Grimmauld Place. He is about to head to bed when he remembers the huge pile of uncorrected tests on his desk.

(This doesn't even include the Occlumency lessons.)

(Next comes HBP, where he has to do all the same double agent stuff, plus watch Malfoy, while also creating an entirely new syllabus from scratch.) 

(He isn't entirely certain if he killed Dumbledore out of purely altruistic reasons.)

(Death came as something of a mercy to Severus Snape. No more students! No more lesson planning!)

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2024/05/05
14:47 UTC

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Searching for a fic where Harry's magic manifests as a girl.

I vaguely remember reading a fic where Harry's magic becomes a girl who becomes his friend. His magic works very differently. Was a very cool premise. Does anyone know the fic?

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2024/05/05
14:18 UTC

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After defeating Voldemort, Harry Potter suddenly finds himself on the doorstep of Eleanor West’s Home for Wayward Children

Crossover with Seanan McGuire’s Wayward Children series, beginning with Every Heart a Doorway

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2024/05/05
13:52 UTC

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Nbwl Ravenclaw harry fic

I read this fic a long time ago but couldn't find it. Harry is not the bwl. His parents are still dead and he lives with dursleys. He's sorted into Ravenclaw and is a loner. He steals the philosopher's stone in the 1st year. Little bit trope-y. Daphne and Tracy try to form a alliance with him. Thats all I remember. Plz help me find it.

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2024/05/05
12:53 UTC

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Hogwarts Field Trips

So in real schools they sometimes take you on feild trip and given the wizarding world's many many ways to cut down on travel time you'd think that would be possible, at least for the older students.

Some ideas:

History of Magic: Going to visit the sites of various historical battles.

Study of Ancient Runes, going to see Runes in context to assist understanding of how they were used originally (whether this is just magic Latin class or the fanon version where Rune Magic is a thing).

Care of Magical Creatures: Magical Creature Safari. Basically everything they study in canon CMC is captive to one degree or another. Observations of wild magical creatures could be beneficial (this kindof assumes whatever they want to see doesn't live in the Forbidden Forest.)

General: Careers field trips. See a day in the life of x job.

Could be a good setting for a slice of life fic.

2 Comments
2024/05/05
12:29 UTC

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Harry/ tonks

I remember one of the first fics I read it was a harry/tonks paring but was kinda a slow burn between them

Only other details I remember was that ginny and Hermione was dating as a side paring and tonks referred to them and gin and tonic

I've never been able to find it and this is probably a long shot tbh

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2024/05/05
12:05 UTC

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LF Harry takes control fics

Looking for fics where harry end up taking over, whether that's founding a new nation, teaching over Wizarding Britain, etc. I am not looking for fics where Harry is just an unstoppable force of magic and political power right from the start.

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2024/05/05
11:17 UTC

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Neville is actually good at potions when Snape isn't involved

I enjoy the idea of Snape being such a terrible teacher that him being one is actively making his students worse at potions.

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2024/05/05
10:36 UTC

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Luna Lovegood: Telepathic Synesthesia and the Phoenix Force?

• Synethesia- the production of a sense impression relating to one sense or part of the body by stimulation of another sense or part of the body.

• Telepathy- the purported vicarious transmission of information from one person's mind to another's without using any known human sensory channels or physical interaction

Popular portrayal of telepathy has the telepath "hearing" the thoughts and/or "inner voice" of other people. However, what if the telepath's perception of their "telepathic sense" did not translate to an "auditory" equivalent but rather a "visual" experience or expression. In more plain words, what if a telepath's sense had them "seeing" thoughts not hearing them, and not seeing them as in seeing a text transcript for them to read, but as shapes or even something resembling creatures.

Proposal: Luna Lovegood has telepathic Synesthesia. Her mind translates the "sound" of the "inner voice" of the people around her into "visual cues" that she can "see". Malevolent mischief such as that felt by bullies amused by tormenting a victim, and the thoughts/plans to go with them could have similar shape/appearance to the mischievous thoughts of pranks (and mistletoe could be a popular enough prank to inspire a social association with mischief) and thus in general "Nargles" can be a range from malevolent to benevolent, but mischievous and "generally harmless". Thus Luna's ambivalence towards her treatment, and writing it off as "Just nargles". Sadistic thoughts could have a completely different form/shape, and thus a different "creature", and Luna is unconcerned so long as it is just nargles she sees around her housemates.

Wrackspurts are described as "making the brain go fuzzy" among other things, associated with confusion and not thinking clearly. Perhaps even impaired judgement as a whole. When a person's thoughts are going in circles, or clouded by stress and/or confusion they may take on the "shape" of wrackspurts to Luna, or rather Luna came to label that shape/"creature" as Wrackspurt.

I am not sure about blibbering humdingers, I remember them obviously, but not their contextual references. But my personal interpretation has me associating the name with the "butterflies in the stomach" feeling a person, especially young teens dealing with hormones and "firsts", experiences around their (first) crush. The anxiety of apprehensive attraction. The thoughts that go along with that feeling are what I personally would apply to the "blibbering Humdinger" label, though I expect the person would also have wrackspurts if they have not confessed their feelings, and that the wrackspurts may clear up if the person's crush accepts their feelings/confession.

Now that enough background has been set, time to get to the actual Prompt. Luna Lovegood activated her X-gene during the trauma of seeing her mother's death. Seeing her mother's thoughts ... dim? dwindle? fade away or fade into the "distance" (on a non-physical, perhaps Astral, plane?)- not sure how to describe in language a synesthetic visual of telepathic sense. Anyways Luna saw her mother injured and dying on the physical plain, and metaphysical "saw" her thoughts dying and recognized them as the last bits of her mother. She reached out (accidental magic, newfound telepathic ability, physically, some combination of all three) to try and pull them back and/or followed them calling for them to not go, not leave her behind. The Phoenix Force finds her and binds to her to pull her back. Fawkes, recognizing/sensing the Origin Force/Creator of his species Flames to Luna's side and brings Albus along with him. Albus discovers the foreign presence in Luna's mind and walls it off. (Perhaps he has been studying Harry's condition for too long, the foreign presence- aka Tom's soul fragment that Dumbledore has experience with is a hostile/malevolent one that Lily's protection has walled off so Dumbledore decides to similarly wall off this presence in young Luna- after all she too has been found with a foreign presence within her after having her mother die before her, the similarities may have had Dumbledore acting before/without thought or investigation. This could be further backed if the experiment that killed Pandora was one she had been doing for Dumbledore/he had sought her help to find a way to remove the fragment of Tom from Harry['s scar] so he may worry [or know] that Pandora had been working on horcruxes or phylacteries or soul jars or some such artifacts and the foreign presence in Luna came from one of those.)

So yes, this is basically an X-men .. I guess cross-under is the better term. The plots and some elements of Marvel/X-men are applied mixed into the Wizarding World/Harry Potter stories. But it isn't a cross-over with x-men characters.

Some things to consider:

• Beyond the telepathic Synesthesia explanation for Luna's "creatures" and insight into people, what other psionic abilities does she have/gain from hosting the Phoenix Force, both before and after eventual unwalling, and does Luna go "Dark Phoenix"?

• Is Hogwarts still a general population Wizarding school, or is it a Charles Xavier Institute type deal run by Albus- or does Albus have a "Dumbledore House for the gifted" in Hogsmeade that sends its students to Hogwarts like the x-teens in Xmen Evolution were sent to Bayville High School while hiding their mutant identities

• How closely to the X-men in powers should the HP mutant characters follow, and who among the HP cast should be Mutants?

• Is the whole world magical, or is there still the mundane/muggle world making the "mutant" factor of the Wizarding World take on even more factors- divide on multiple levels, purebloods already think they are superior to muggles much like magneto purports that mutants are better than regular humans in x-men, if mutants are solely a wizarding phenomena (and for this story I think I would prefer it to be such- though as squibs are still peripherally part of the Wizarding World, mutant squibs with powers but no active magic can be a thing) then you have purebloods who look down on them due to their existing ingrained superiority complex, mutants that feel their powers make them superior to all magicals- even purebloods (mutant squibs cast out by pureblood families particularly drawn to this idea?), mutants who feel they are superior to magicals and mundane and should rule them all, mutants who feel they should go into even further hiding/create an even further Statute of secrecy/govern and hold themselves separately from mundane magicals, and even more viewpoints (all just with having mutants be a magical world issue, not including having any muggle mutants which would add a whole new set of issues, as they'd be a potential to breach the Statute of Secrecy- though a late story plot may have squibs or squib-descendents [aka muggleborn, if you want to go that route for muggleborn, which would give more potential individuals for the demographic] abandoned to the muggle world emerging as mutants and thus alerting the muggle world that something is going on)

• Are Animagus actually mutants? Or is the animagus process possibly a succesful, if variable, mutate process

• Was the original Order of the Phoenix similar to "X-men: First Class" as in it was the first gathering of mutants into a team by Albus?

• We're James and/or Lily Mutants? Did Lily's power allow her to save her son? Is Harry's "lingering protection" a remnant of his Mother's power? Is the fact that it is lingering due to Harry's own power?

• If Harry is a mutant, what power does he get (and is it original or tie in to the x-men) and is it active from the night he was orphaned (maintaining Lily's protection?) or does it emerge later (Quirrel's ashing, during or after Basilisk, Dementor exposure, etc) and whenever it emerges how do the Dursleys react (is it what leads to the "freak" label even more so than magic itself)?

• Is Voldemort a mutant? If not then the whole "power he knows not" could easily be that Harry's X-gene mutated. Could also explain Voldemort's rituals and changed appearance if he is one.. or if he isn't: they could have been attempts to become or emulate being a mutant/he made himself a mutate/enhanced instead but still doesn't "know" the "power" of being a mutant.

• Should Albus survive the Voldemort issue.

• If the muggle world both exists, and does not have mutants, does it still have mutates/enhanced? Examples being Captain America, Hulk, Spiderman, the Lizard, and tech-enhanced like Iron Man, Doc Oct, and hybrid like Hob-/Green Goblin? (If so, I would use the MCU timeline as a guideline for when they start emerging on the world stage: 2010 and beyond for the most part, and have the main mutant/magical plot follow the Harry Potter timeline in the 1990s. That would make Harry 29 in 2010 and thus he and his friends would be old enough to be considered and treated as adults should they become involved with any Marvel type issues. (This could also be a sequel fic, it is also a way to possibly explain the lack of x-men in canon MCU and yet still have them having existed if you want to have actual canon x-men mutants/characters exist: they could all be hidden/a part of MACUSA- the American Magical world, though with my original start point of Luna being the Host of the Phoenix Force that would necessarily change Jean Grey's character to a degree in that there would be no "Dark Phoenix" plot line for her [and honestly she had a role before/without being the host of the Phoenix force- and if you really wanted you could still have her develop pyrokinesis independent of the Phoenix Force, and even other psionic abilities if you like the character enough and want to play up her being more than just telepath/empath/telekinetic powerhouse]. Personally I would prefer that inclusion of greater Marvel plots happen after the Harry Potter plot, and that the HP Mutants described here fully replace any/all X-men roles in Marvel, but that is my preference as noted in the whole point of this prompt. [Oh, and for Wanda and Pietro Maximoff in the X-men vs MCU: the twins are a witch and squib, or two squibs with Wanda's "magic" being so different to HP magic- it could be different due to self discovery/self taught or because it is a mutant power- they were captured by Hydra and experimented on and enhanced. Perhaps if Wanda is a witch she was seen doing accidental magic, perhaps Hydra had Squibs who caught them, or simply SHIELD being so high up just was made aware of the magical world and thus Hydra was too and they had been capturing and experimenting on magicals with only the maximoff twins surviving])

• Is Voldemort really the prime antagonist, or should Grindelwald be brought back to parallel the Xavier/Magneto divide with the Albus/Grindelwald divide? If Grindelwald is brought back, does that necessitate Albus surviving past Voldemort's defeat or make Voldemort's defeat a more trivial concern/plot point? If Albus does die is Grindelwald introduced before or after his death, and was it known that Grindelwald survived?

• If Grindelwald is the bigger/ongoing threat (with/once Voldemort's defeated) will he have had amnesia and/or changed his name in reference to the retcon for Magneto's names (Erik Lehnsherr and MAX Eisenhardt), also how much parallel should be drawn between Gellert Grindelwald and Magneto given that some references to Gellert (canon or fanon?) have Gellert working with the Nazis while Magneto was a Jew caught in the Holocaust? Do you change Gellert's backstory such that he had conflict with the Nazis and that started his "Magicals should rule Muggles" campaign/war? With the whole "history written by the victors" deal being responsible for the "Grindelwald worked with Nazis" aspects? Or do you just entirely distance yourself from the Xavier/Magneto aspect and connection to Nazis (and the similarity in how Magneto's treatment of non-mutants matches the nazi's treatment of the jews and that whole social commentary) and instead focus on the HP pureblood to muggle and have Grindelwald have a similar mutant to magical view but a backstory of being half-blood or even muggle- or squib-born and thus having been the oppressed?

The X-gene is the Magic Gene

• No X-gene: Muggle

• Latent X-gene: Squibs/Minimals

• Active X-Gene: Magicals/Mundane

• Mutated X-Gene: Mutants(? Different name?)

• Latent Mutated X-gene: "canon x-men" type mutants

• Active Mutated X-gene: Magicals with additional abilities/powers/etc (yes this would include Nymphadora Tonks' Metamorphagus ability, and yes Mystique/Raven Darkholme should be related to the Black Family- perhaps a particularly powerful/long lived ancestor, I believe some stories have her centuries old if not older after all)

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2024/05/05
09:42 UTC

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The search for a “wrong BWL” fic that has faded into obscurity…

I’ve been trying to find this story that I read many, many years ago on ffn.

Summary: Harry has a twin who is believed to be the Boy-Who-Lived… and the twin is a massive jerk. Harry is all but neglected, relative to his brother. James & Lily are alive. It begins the September before the brothers are beginning their sixth year.

Details I can remember:

• Harry has some kind of garden snake as a familiar/pet, that he found in the yard one day.

• I believe the brother is in Gryffindor and friends with Ron.

• At the beginning of the story, Hermione and Harry are not friends, but are both loners who eventually bond in their studies and as prefects of Ravenclaw. (I think Harry is a prefect, I might be misremembering.)

• Harry and Hermione enter into a relationship.

• The brother gets jealous of Harry, and uses a potion or magic necklace or something to control Hermione for a time, until Harry frees her from his clutches.

•After which I think Harry duels his brother, and they each take on Animagus forms to fight.

The tone of the story was angsty, and I remember reading it as a teenager. I’m now much older. If you have any questions that might help in a search, do not hesitate to comment.

Please someone help, it’s driving me nuts for some reason. I’ve looked through tons of community story collections about “wrong BWL,” “evil BWL,” etc. but it eludes me.

3 Comments
2024/05/05
09:18 UTC

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Time travel

Ive read harry potter, the wanderer in time. I was wanting to read more stories like that if anyone has recommendations on some. Thank you!

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2024/05/05
06:52 UTC

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Looking for a Sirius/Hermione Marriage Law fic

I read it in 08/09 on ff.net. It was a marriage law story, and I remember a scene where Sirius gives Hermione a Black family ring that his mother had put a curse on it to kill anyone who wasn't pure blood. Hermione survived, but I think she loses her memories of her time with Sirius. Any help would be much appreciated!

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2024/05/05
06:51 UTC

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Looking for a HP/DM story

I am more than 90% sure this fic is in ff.net The main pairs are HP/DM and SB/LVM. The Harry here is kinda unhinged, influenced by Voldemort, as he is raised by Sirius and Tom. Draco is kinda submissive but firm in nature here. In the name of love, HP is a real lunatic and possessive one here. Kindly find that fic.

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2024/05/05
05:07 UTC

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Have a telekinetic connection with an object?

Do you think a character could have a telekinetic connection with an object, like a book, or an eye? And how?

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2024/05/05
04:57 UTC

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Fiction from the Wizarding World.

Has anybody done original fiction and presented it as something the Wizarding World reads? I can see a common romantic trope being a muggleborn suitor being revealed to be a lost child of a pureblood family, maybe even one thought to have died out.

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2024/05/05
03:52 UTC

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Author Insert Fics

I'm outlining an author insert fic and was wondering if anyone had read any good ones, or ones that could have been great except for a few choices the author made. Happy with any classification, English is the only language I know well enough to read fluently in.

For reference, my story has me becoming Harry Potter at the start of HBP and is intended as a mechanism for disrupting the narrative. It will also try and deal with the realities of suddenly finding yourself in someone else's body and losing everything you previously had.

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2024/05/05
03:16 UTC

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History should be one of the most popular classes.

On my to-do list for stories is one where History is everyone's favorite class. I don't know if that's a whole story premise, but it might be a subplot or even an interesting anecdote or recurring mention in the story.

The reason is Magic. Assuming Binns is not the professor and you have a competent wand-wielder, they could be putting on demonstrations of some of the most interesting points in history! Imagine learning about a Giant War by watching Illusions, transfiguration with animation charms or something like that where you can actually watch the small versions of giants fight! Even something with wizard's chess pieces.

Under that idea, who's a good replacement History professor, and what would be some cool historic moments to teach classes by letting them see it?

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2024/05/05
02:55 UTC

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Whats a canon complaint after the war fic that you took as head canon?

Like a full after the war events thats canon friendly and “seems about right”

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2024/05/05
02:02 UTC

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LF a Marcus/Oliver fic

So I'm pretty sure it took place during Chamber of Secrets and I think Oliver was a muggleborn in it. I can't remember if they were dating or it was a friendship that was getting close to them dating

But yeah I'm pretty sure Oliver was a muggleborn in it because IIRC he starts acting nervous with the muggleborns getting petrified and Marcus doesn't know why he's acting that way so he's all confused and (I think) Percy ends up telling him

It's something like that. Not sure if it's on ffnet or ao3 but I'm leaning towards ffnet

Thank you in advance!

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2024/05/05
01:52 UTC

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Lf Jily travelling to the future- like these

Recs for Lames/Jily travelling to the future, any time.

I have read some around this idea, like one where all marauders travel to a time when the II war is at its peak, it's one sided Drarry, with serious HP- Harry had to kill Remus after Voldy tortures him by delivering children to him at full moon, Neville is scarred, Voldy also marks Harry with dark mark as humiliation, and only Minerva and Snape knows that the new members of the order are James, lily sirius and Remus, in fact they hide it from HArry and HArry believes them only at word of snape that they are only helpful to the cause.

Theres also this one when they travel to post II war era, that was a Jily-bashing fic where james tries to usurp everything Harry had, and harry becomes the Chief warlock. I am okay with bashing fics if you have any.

So any where any of maruader(s) travel forward in time.

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2024/05/05
00:57 UTC

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