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looking for time travel fic recs

but of people from the past traveling forward. for example, i remember reading a great one where sirius and james time travelled to the future and met james-sirius and teddy lupin

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2024/05/03
22:48 UTC

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WW2, Dumbledore, and Grindelwald

Any fic that has these three elements

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2024/05/03
22:48 UTC

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Merlin Cross Fanfictions!

I am craving some Merlin x Harry Potter crossovers. I prefer if the world is Harry Potters, but I am also curious if a time travel type deal even exists. The idea of Harry or company stumbling through magically restricted Canelot is interesting. Thank you all!

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2024/05/03
21:49 UTC

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HP/PJO Fanfic

Hello, first time posting here. I’m looking for a fanfic that I cannot for the life of me find (it might’ve been deleted or something). I can only remember certain details, but it was a crossover between Percy Jackson and HP.

• There’s another Son of Poseidon and tricks Annabeth into cheating with Percy (tacky, I know.)

• Percy abandons camp for Hogwarts

• He duels with a student that is revealed to be a Death Eater and claims Dark Magic is not real

• Dumbledore is actually evil and is plotting with Grindelwald

• Percy’s love interest is Daphne Greengrass

• Thalia eventually comes to Hogwarts to try and talk with Percy

• Good bit of swearing and mature themes

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2024/05/03
20:46 UTC

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Anyone interested in making/joining a Tedromeda Discord server?

Greetings potterheads :) I have been reading a lot of underrated Tedromeda (Ted Tonks x Andromeda Black) fanfics, and was wondering if anyone would be interested in making and running a discord server. I am unaware if such a thing already exists (if it does then please someone send an invite!); but if it doesn't, I'd really love to make a community and hang out with readers who have similar taste.

Let me know! Either comments or DMs

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2024/05/03
20:45 UTC

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Remus/OC diary fic

I’ve been trying to find a fic from at least a decade ago, if not longer, it was originally on fanfiction.net

The premise is the OC is given a diary by her mother to write in, and she has back and forth conversations with the Marauders in writing, the font changed from bold, italics etc to signify who was writing. Eventually she and Remus end up together.

I get the feeling the OC was called Lizzie but I’m not sure? The title had ‘The Diary Of [OC’s name]’ in it, but I can’t remember much beyond that, and one scene where she sneaks into the boys dormitory?

Probably a long shot, but you never know!

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2024/05/03
20:37 UTC

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Looking for positive Ron Weasley portrayals

Something that I've noticed is that most stories have been written to show Ron in a very negative light. I'm curious what are peoples favorites that portray him positively, or even something more interesting than the lazy, petty bigot that has become quite common. Thanks!

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2024/05/03
20:36 UTC

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Prompt: Hermione from another universe arrives during HBP.

Harry Potter finds himself caught between two versions of Hermione Granger: the familiar friend he's always known and an alternative Hermione from a parallel universe. This alternate Hermione is both pragmatic and empathetic, having loved a version of Harry who perished in her reality during the Battle in the Departament of Mysteries. She managed to escape to Harry's universe using a unique, one-use artefact shortly after his demise.

Now, Harry must navigate the complexities of this situation. One Hermione is his steadfast companion, while the other harbors feelings of love for him. Despite her willingness to make morally grey decisions, this alternate Hermione's primary concern is Harry's happiness.

Both Hermiones are similar and yet different because of their experiences.

How the presence of this alternative Hermione will affect the dynamic of the trio during their sixth year at Hogwarts and their romantic interests?

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2024/05/03
20:26 UTC

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Wizards have outdone muggles

I’m tired of wizards being in disbelief of muggles having gone to the moon. I need a subversion where wizards going to the moon is just an astronomy field trip and maybe a couple other planets too.

Not just in space travel, but in their own fields of study. Arithmancy goes into more complex stuff than muggle. Potions covers chemistry material more advanced than the mundane field knows.

I want to see wizards being truly magical and not just a society set 200 years back with magic.

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2024/05/03
20:17 UTC

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Severitus

Any ff with reincarnated/transmigrated Harry in an alternative world as Severus's son?

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2024/05/03
18:42 UTC

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Numbers in the Wizarding World

Do you or do you not believe in canon numbers regarding population? Value of currency? Number of villages/magical places? And of course number of magical schools. Anything else I don’t mention?

Regarding population. I like to think that we see a population of around 100,000 wizards and witches in magical Britain. I also like to think of statistic that 1 to 2% of census data is wrong in the real world. WHY? The muggleborn population being inconsistent lol.

Value of the magical world currency is so inconsistent that you need a lot of extra world building to justify why the wizarding world runs/requires money. I overall like to think that Harry’s Tournament was around 100,000 US dollars and not the 25,000 it’s stated in canon as being.

I like what Hogwarts Legacy did by arguing many magical villages existed and I have extended that in my headcanon by expanding it to the whole of magical Britain. I like to think 5 or 8 smaller villages circle a Hogsmeade size town all around the isles. (This expands for other magical nations.) I have my own headcanon on why.

I have seen this done in other fanfics but I like the idea that Hogwarts and the schools we see in canon are the elite schools. The best of the best. I know this adds a layer of complexity but I also can accept that a good part of the population hires at home tutors which is also hinted in canon I believe.

What is everyone thoughts on this or anything else number wise?

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2024/05/03
18:38 UTC

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Is "Avada Kedavra" effective against dragons and other similar magical creatures?

I've seen this scenario portrayed both ways in fanfiction. In some stories, "Avada Kedavra" works on dragons, while in others, the dragons' magical resistance prevents the spell from killing them outright.

What do you think? Which do you prefer?

Personally, I like the second option because if "Avada Kedavra" worked, it would make battles quite dull.

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2024/05/03
18:36 UTC

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Looking for story in the Harry Potter universe but with a wolf of wall street or goodfellas style story about somebody scamming muggles out of their money

Maybe something after the series. The bad guys would be the Ministry who now operates much more aggressively after the Voldemort years.

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2024/05/03
17:42 UTC

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Any good fanfics like Learning to Fly by xXxSapphireWolfxXx

It was such a good fanfic, the only bad thing i can say about it that it hasnt been updated since october

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2024/05/03
17:37 UTC

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Fanfic idea that came to me

As a fan of both Harry Potter and the Naruto franchise, often thought of what if Harry was more like Sasuke and became revenge driven against Voldemort and the Death Eaters. This is a shortened version.

Year 1: Harry stared at Hagrid after he finished telling me about the man who killed his parents. A man named Voldemort. He was glad he was dead and didn’t want to believe he was still out there. ————

“Ah…” said the sorting hat into his ear. “Full of ambitions to right what’s wrong and full of cunning to do it.” “Not Slytherin,” Harry said. “Not Slytherin, eh? Well, you will need help by like-minded individuals. Gryffindor is out as they will only get in your way and the same can be said of Hufflepuff. Ravenclaw might work for you but you are driven more for knowledge for yourself instead of knowledge sake. I’m sorry Mr. Potter but better be… SLYTHERIN!”

————

Harry walked into the next chamber but what he saw wasn’t Snape, it wasn’t even Voldemort. It was Quirrell. “What it can’t be you, I thought it was…” “Severus?” Harry didn’t like the look on his face. “Yes, he does seem like the type does he? Always sticking his overly long nose in places it doesn’t belong. He thought he could catch me alone to stop me but what he doesn’t know is that I’m never alone.” “Use the boy!” Said a high sinister voice. “Come here Potter, NOW!” Yelled Quirrell.

————-

Harry looked into the face of Voldemort on the back of Quirrell’s head. Harry stared in shock before he drew his wand. He was going to kill him right here, right now. The ensuing battle ended when Harry found he could turn hurt Quirrell when touching him. He heard the screams and found himself enjoying the sound. He was finally going to kill that monster.

———

I have to go to work so I’ll edit this later with the other years. In the meantime, tell me what you think of the snippets so far?

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2024/05/03
17:26 UTC

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Lily comes back from the dead (somehow) and murders the Dursleys

Because she found out (or had watched, from the afterlife) how they treated Harry

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2024/05/03
17:03 UTC

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"We thought we would spare him some heartbreak..."

"Albus, what did you tell Hagrid about James and Lily," Minerva asked.

"Well... we couldn't just tell young Harry that James really was a vagabond and good-for-nothing fellow after his parents disowned him. And Lily was too much into those mentally stimulating potions."

"..."

"Better have him thinking as real heroes who were onto saving the world."

In an AU where James and Lily were really what the Dursleys claimed then to be.

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2024/05/03
17:00 UTC

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Sirius Black's son (The forgotten Heir on Ao3)

Arcturus Black whom everyone called him a squib his whole life, was sent to Walburga Black, his grandmother after his father's imprisonment. Shortly after Walburga 'mysteriously' dies Arcturus lived with the Malfoys untill the age of 11. He wasn't even supposed to live past his tenth birthday. Everyone always assumed he was a squib but the day he received his Hogwarts letter, he also received his death threat by Lucius Malfoy who wanted to kill him before he gets to Hogwarts. Why would Lucius Malfoy want a harmless 11 year old kid dead? Why did everyone hide Arcturus away his whole life and mistreat him? How did Walburga suddenly die? What went so wrong with Arcturus that years later made him a dangerous treat to everyone in the community? You can read it in the link here

https://archiveofourown.org/works/54070945/chapters/136891348

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2024/05/03
16:59 UTC

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Neither Harry nor Voldemort expected that "the power the Dark Lord knows not" was the result of Harry accidentally snorting in time-turner sand. That's right, by a bizarre accident, Harry gains the ability to stop time.

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2024/05/03
15:49 UTC

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Looking for fan art of a character in Crimson Rivers

Warning some Crimson River spoilers ahead! If you have not read past Chapter 38: Unconvinced, tread lightly!

I am looking for fan art of McGonagall! I just found out she has tattoos which is incredible! And really want to see fan art of her but don't want to look it up myself for fear of spoilers! I am only on Chapter 38! So thought I'd ask if there is anyone who has finished the fic and is willing to look, or knows of some, it would be greatly appreciated!

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2024/05/03
14:37 UTC

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Reading popular fics while they were (are) updating

So i'm reading now for the first time Manacled (Dramione fic i'm sure everybody here know and heard of). I started reading HP fanfiction only this year although i've read books and seen movies quite long ago. I've heard of the most popular fics here but never considered reading them. This year at some point i decided to give a try to reading Manacled (now i'm more than halfway through it) because i've heard of this fic so much already and absolutely everyone kept recommending it to me. Some say that even if you don't know HP you should read it anyway. So my question is how was it to read it back when the author still updated it. Did it become this popular instantly or did it gain popularity after it was finished ? Was there discussion among fans about it on Tumblr or Twitter about everything that was going on there and all of cliffhangers ? How was it for you to experience it all in real time ? Or did you experience it similar with other the most popular HP fics ? I'm so interested to read you answers.

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2024/05/03
14:37 UTC

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Please help me find a Jegulus fanfic

Hi folks,

I have desperately been looking for this Jegulus fanfic which I forgot the title off. The main plot is Regulus and James are hooking up a specific amount of time (forgot the number) but they end up catching feelings and James even get a gift for Regulus..

It’s not much but it’s all I can remember. Pretty sure it was on AO3. TIA

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2024/05/03
14:01 UTC

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Scorpius Malfoy head canon - his life and times

Ravenclaw, like his mother, and very bookish. His parents had told him about the second wizarding war while growing up, and they had warned him that many would judge him due to his family name, but he could challenge their assumptions by being a better person than his father and grandparents. Close with his Greengrass cousins, aunts and uncles, but not his Zabini relatives, who were estranged from the rest of the family due to still being pure-blood supremacists.

Closely resembles his father but has his mother’s lime-green eyes. Like his mother, he possesses a strong sense of right and wrong: more than the war itself, it had been Astoria who had helped Draco become a better person.

He and his cousin Laurel Greengrass first met Albus Potter, Lucy Weasley and Rose Weasley on the train ride to Hogwarts, where he made fast friends with Albus and Lucy. Rose, on the other hand, was less eager to open up to him even if she was coldly polite. Laurel, on the other hand, quite got on with both Lucy and Rose, though Albus - for reasons not apparent to Scorpius’ eleven year old self - seemed to struggle to make eye contact with Laurel.

Scorpius and Rose were both sorted into Ravenclaw, Albus and Laurel into Slytherin, and Lucy into Gryffindor. Scorpius was initially met with much hostility from the other boys in his dorm, including Lawrence Wood, whose father he would much later find out had once been a Quidditch rival and enemy of his own father. It also didn’t help that there were no muggle-borns in his dorm, so no-one to prove he wasn’t a bigot, and indeed, no-one who hadn’t grown up knowing of the Malfoys. Even Piers Edgecombe, who had had family members in league with the Dark Lord, was scathing, as his own father had wanted nothing to do with it.

Albus, Scorpius and Lucy became much like Harry, Ron and Hermione had once been, always by each other’s sides. Rose was closer to her dormmates, as was Laurel (who was generally unimpressed by Albus’ lack of confidence when around her), whilst the rest of their families were in other year groups and had their own friends. Oh it wasn’t that Albus or Lucy had trouble fitting in - no they both had other friends as well - but the three of them simply gravitated towards each other.

Scorpius became a chaser for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team during fourth year, and it was now that he really began making friends in his own house. People like Lawrence Wood and Piers Edgecombe were finally willing to see him for who he was, but he remained closest with Albus and Lucy, the latter of whom he was now going out with. Lucy and Albus also played for their own house teams - though Albus only later - and they always found it a good laugh playing Quidditch on opposite sides, though they refused to go easy on each other.

Eventually, Albus and Laurel got together, once Albus had mustered up the necessary confidence, and the Malfoy and Potter couples held a joint wedding on 22/12/2024, after Lucy discovered she was pregnant. She gave birth to twins, whom they named Albus and Gemini, whose godparents were predictably Albus and Laurel. Scorpius and Lucy would later become godparents to the Potters’ first son Tiberius.

Although Scorpius started auror training, he pulled out about half-way through, wanting a quieter life when Lucy became pregnant again, and he joined his wife in the Experimental Charms Committee.

They had a total of twelve children, and yes, Camus, Augustus and Narcissus did turn out to be blood purity bigots, but they loved all of their children all the same, and Lucy and Laurel eventually joined the Hogwarts Charms Department, as they both wanted to be there for their grandchildren’s education.

Scorpius still even in his old age loves Quidditch, and even muggle activities like pool and bowling. His feisty wife has always encouraged him to go out and see as much of the world as possible, and he couldn’t have chosen a better life partner.

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2024/05/03
13:58 UTC

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Looking for good fanfiction that takes place immediately after the battle of hogwarts.

Any thoughts on this? Would like something that picks up while Voldy's body is still warm :)

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2024/05/03
13:22 UTC

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Good regulus fics???

Looking for recommendations for good regulus fanfics, with him as a student at hogwarts! please something WELL written

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2024/05/03
12:39 UTC

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Am I the only one who can't go back to cannon?

After reading so many fanfictions I find myself unable to go back to cannon because of my constant comparing of fanfic and cannon is any one else like this?

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2024/05/03
11:00 UTC

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Godslayer

Death's eyes followed Harry Potter's form, as he went onto his next great adventure. The contract, which they formed, in his hand.

That same contract was in Death's hands too. It looked down at it and shook its head. As old as he was, he still couldn't figure out the mortals.

Always looking for the next adventure and never enjoying the now. Always impulsive. Plus who would form a contract with an immortal being without even questioning every word in it?

God-slayer and Gods-layer is definitely not the same...

(A 2 sided idea, in which Harry goes onto his next life, wanting to be a harem protagonist and instead he has to battle and kill them. Or he's ready to finally fight the gods, and instead he has to seduce them)

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2024/05/03
09:18 UTC

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looking for a really well written but incredibly fucked up fanfiction

I've been desperately trying to reread some of the better fanfiction I briefly recall and I can only remember one specific rape scene. The only thing I remember about the fic is that it's a harry centric time travel fic and that professor slughorn catches 7 senior slytherin boys raping a 5th year hufflepuff muggleborn girl.

This is like a 5 paragraph excerpt from a 200k+ word fanfiction I think. Does anyone have a link to this fic?

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2024/05/03
09:12 UTC

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Death Eaters alias

I remember reading GoF, that Voldemort prohibits most of the Death Eaters to know each other's identities so he can gain better control on them. So I decide to come up with some nicknames that the Death Eaters could possibly use while referring to each other. It is also another way to intimidate the public while concealing themselves. Most of the nicknames are generated from their etymology, personality, or origins:

Severus Snape: (Mr.) Prince (Since he already calls himself Half-Blood Prince without people knowing)

Lucius Malfoy: (Mr.)Tiberius (Lucius Tiberius is King's Arthur Roman rival in Arthurian legends. Interestingly, Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley are rivals too)

Bellatrix Lestrange: (Lady) Eris (Eris is the goddess of strife and discord in Greek Mythology, which suits Bellatrix's character too)

Corban Yaxley: (Mr.) Raven (The name Corban could be seen as a variation of Corbin, which is derived from the French surname from the root word "Corbeau", meaning Raven, and this name also fits people with a "raucous voice". It happens that movie version of Corban Yaxley has a very raucous voice too.)

Peter Pettigrew: Wormtail (as how he refers himself when he’s a Marauder)

Walden Macnair: The Hollow (Mr.) Knight (Inspired by his attempt to behead Buckbeak)

Alecto Carrow: (Mr.) Limos (Starvation in Greek)

Amycus Carrow: (Ms.) Algea (Pain in Greek)

Antonin Dolohov: (Mr.) Rus (For his Russian origin)

Roldophus Lestrange: (Mr.) Wolf (Roldophus menas wolf in Latin)

Rabastan Lestrange: (Mr.) Viper (Rabastan could be derived from the Arabic name Rastaban, meaning head of the serpent)

Igor Kakaroff: (Mr.) Ingvar (Igor is derived from the Scandinavian name Ignvar)

The aliases of the Carrows siblings aren’t exactly relevant to their character except how they take pleasure on torturing people. I wonder do you have any ideas for other DE members too, such as an alias for Barty, Augustus, Mulciber, Avery, Rookwood etc.)

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2024/05/03
09:11 UTC

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OC families in HP fics?

I have been wondering about it but are there some original-inserted whole pure-blood, magical or muggle families in HP fics? Like an entire old rich family in the HP world which was not in the canon? And we get to see their pov on the HP events?

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2024/05/03
09:06 UTC

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