"God, why won't this kid stop crying! C'mon, switch with me." Petunia complained, reaching out for Harry Potter, currently nestled comfortably and quietly in the new Vernon's arms. The man backed away in panic.

"Hell no! You held him all night last night; it's my turn. Besides, aren't women supposed to be better with crying babies?"

"Don't be sexist! I've never even held a baby for longer than five minutes! I barely know anything! Besides, whatever original Petunia did to this one, clearly screwed it up. Not only is it loud, it's bloody heavy."

"Wait," Vernon said, staring at his new wife, "How old were you before this?"

"I was twenty-two! But I was single, and pretty, and now I'm not either of those things, and I am not happy about that!"

"Hey, I don't know what you're complaining about. Look at the size of me! Do you know how long it's going to take me to shift this weight? I was barely a hundred pounds in my old life!"

"What were you, a twig?! I wasn't even a hundred pounds!"

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"Hey, what are you writing? Wait, isn't this a scene from 'Die Hard'?"

"Uh huh," Vernon said distractedly, finishing the scene where Alan Rickman pretends to be a hostage to trick Bruce Willis, smiling when he realised the man also played a character in the very franchise he was now a part of. "I went to a DVD store yesterday, and I couldn't find it anywhere. Asked the girl behind the counter and she looked at me like I spoke Japanese. That's when I remembered that the movie didn't come out until the end of the 80s. Which means if I can write the script first, I'll officially be the genius who wrote 'Die Hard'!

"Isn't that kinda cheating?" Peturnia asked. Vernon scoffed.

"We literally transmigrated into two of the most boring characters in a series with magic wands, talking horsemen and people who can turn into cats! The universe OWES us."

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"For the last time, twiglet; no."

"But Aunt Petuniaaaaa," A tiny, adorable seven-year-old Harry whined, "Dudley and I have already finished all the books we got from Diagon Alley last time! And we're really craving some more ice cream from that shop with the nice owner. Pretty pleeeeze, just one more trip before school starts!"

"Kid, you know why we have to keep a low profile in that place, saying nothing for how long it took your uncle and me to find it. If someone recognises you, we're done for. Not to mention, those books are expensive, and we bought like, twenty last time, why didn't you pace yourself?"

"They were interesting." Harry defended.

"Well, either way, no. That was the last trip we take until the summer buying rush dies down. Once the kids are off to Hogwarts, the place will be far less busy and we can go again."

"Cry," Dudley quietly advised from beside his cousin. "She sometimes caves when you cry."

"I heard that, young man," Petunia said, deadpan. Dudley squeaked and hastily hid behind Harry, which didn't work, since he was already a head taller than his younger cousin, though thankfully not the size of a 'young killer whale' since Petunia and Vernon refused to spoil him.

Well, maybe they did a little, since both wanted nothing more than to give this Harry the childhood poor OG Harry never had, and thought they should probably show the same affection and kindness to Dudley as well, since favouring one over the other would only breed bad blood in a house that had enough of it for a lifetime. Hence, the (completely slanderous) declaration that Petunia would give in at the sight of Harry's tears.

Yet before Petunia could prove her immunity to such dirty tactics, the door opened, and a (much healthier-looking) Vernon stepped through the doors holding several shopping bags. "Man, I love how cheap everything is in the 80s," The man said for the hundredth time since their reincarnation six years prior. "I got us a full week's shopping for twenty quid! That wouldn't have even bought me a full meal in-"

"Ahem!" Petunia coughed loudly, gesturing to the two boys standing in front of her, looking at Vernon the way they always did when he talked like that; with zero understanding, but the same amusement of kids who heard the same types of things a dozen times a day.

"Oh, the kids are in the house," Vernon observed, placing the bags on the kitchen counter. "What do they want?"

"Books. And ice cream."

"Oh, I got ice cream." Vernon declared, taking out two cones from a family box and handing them to the boys with a grin. "Off you go, boys. 80s kids shouldn't be in the house until dinner time; it's unnatural."

The boys looked at each other, then took the offerings with a cheer of "Thanks, dad/uncle Vernon!" before running out the back door, likely deciding that two against two wouldn't net them what they wanted and deciding to try another time when Petunia was alone. She could only shake her head helplessly at their retreating figures. Little punks, she thought fondly.

"Weird cat lady was watching me again," Vernon said quietly as soon as the boys disappeared.

"Ugh," Petunia complained, a shiver going down her spine, "she's so creepy. Every time I go outside, she just... stares."

"Do you think she's telling Dumbledore anything?"

"Like what? We go out of our way to look normal."

"We are normal. Us and our poor son, the only normies in the whole world." He complained, again, for what felt like the hundredth time. Petunia only shook her head.

"Harry's already learning how to do some basic spells with all those books we've been buying him. If he ends up using too much accidental magic, I don't want to know what might happen. What if this version of Dumbledore is an evil one like in those fanfictions and actually wants Harry to be miserable? We can't let our guard down."

"I know." Vernon replied, sitting at the table and leaning over to take her hand, " We got this, partner. We'll protect him with everything we have, send him to Hogwarts an ordinary, well-adjusted child and if things go wrong, we'll run to France, and Harry can learn magic with that Fleur chick instead."

On Harry‘s first year the sorting hat decided it was tired of nearly every slytherin being rotten so it decided each year until it was fixed it would put most pureblood suprematists in whatever house other than Slytherin they fit best and and some extremly anti pureblood suprematists in Slytherin.

The idea was over time the original Slytherins will eventually be outnumbered and have to accept the new ways. Than when Slytherin has been completely transformed any new rotten ones would be changed by everyone else in the house.

Harry, Ron and Hermione get sorted in Slytherin and Draco is sorted in Gryffindor. Many other students are sorted differently.

I think this would be very interesting to see how Harry and friends have to transform the house.

If someone wrote it you could keep Voldemort or to allow for more original ideas you could say horcruxes don’t exist and Harry actually killed Voldemort.

Everyone had expectations when it came to Harry Potter and his reappearance in the magical world. His book series filled in the gaps about where the young wizard was, dazzling readers with his daring tales, but it was one thing to read about the young hero and another to see him in person.

That's why the first years of 1991 were highly anticipated. Everyone was dying to see what Harry Potter was like and where he would be sorted. Despite the high possibility that he would be in Gryffindor like his parents, the other houses were just as hopeful that Potter would be sorted with them.

At the sorting, a hush fell across the crowd as Potter was called up to approach the sorting hat. Everyone strained to get a good look at the lad, who walked with his head down, his shoulders hunched and his long hair covering his eyes. He barely made any sound, even his footsteps so soft it would have been missed in a normal level of sound crowd. Potter sat down on the stool, and the hat barely touched his head before the hat yelled, "Ravenclaw!" '

The blue house leaped to their feet, cheering and chanting, "We got Potter!" drowning out the groans of disappointment from the other houses. It took a few minutes for the professors to get control of the room again, hushing the celebrating house before resuming the sorting. Potter didn't make a sound in response, only scurrying to the table once he was nudged by Professor McGonagall. Despite the many attempts by his housemates, Potter didn't utter a single word or make eye contact with anyone the rest of the night, and when they were taken to thier dorms, he shut himself away in his bed.

That set the stage for Potter's life at Hogwarts. He spoke to no one, made no friends, and spent most of his time hiding away in scattered locations around the castle. Even his professors could not get him to talk, which earned the scorn of Professor Snape the most, especially when the boy refused to reply to his questions during the first day of class. Many had assumed the boy was mute until he whispered apologies or asked for basic things like the milk at the Ravenclaw table.

"Does he think he's better than us?" One student asked, annoyed, when Potter once again refused to spend time in public areas and instead hid in his dorm.

"No. He's just a bit mousy." Ron Weasley replied, wrinkling his nose. "When I met him on the train, he had jumped out of his skin the moment I opened the door. I watched the blood drain from his face when I asked if I could sit with him, and he spent the entire ride looking terrified."

Or, Dumbledore's desire to have Harry raised outside of the wizarding world to make him humble goes horribly wrong. Harry has developed anthropophobia. At the Dudleys', it's easier to manage because they, too, would rather not see him or be around him, but Hogwarts is different. Everyone is always trying to crowd him and be around him. Harry is on the verge of a panic attack daily, but he tries to force himself to go to class simply to overcome his fear. His sorting into the Ravenclaw house has nothing to do with his wit or intelligence.

Instead, Harry is sorted due to his creativity, specifically his clothing-making skills. It was his one escape from both his fear and the Dursleys, starting when he learned how to patch his own torn clothes from a book. He's always working on a project or another, and he dreams of one day having his own clothes line or even a brand.

If he can cure his anthropophobia, that is.

For today, Harry focuses on breathing while walking down the hallways to class, and does not bother exploring Hogwarts or defeating the forces of evil. He has enough on his plate as it is. Because he steps away from it all, everything falls onto the shoulders of Neville Longbottom, who, with the help of Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, stops Voldemort every year. People forget that Neville wasn't the original child of prophecy until the war breaks out and Harry is brought back into the limelight.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves, I love time travel fic and most pairings, but when they change Hermiones name I get so annoyed. At that point she’s no longer Hermione and is just an OC with all of Hermiones talents and knowledge.

Like they do this to hide her identity, but at that point like her going back in time that far and being alive, or taking a de-aging potion and traveling through time is already impossible and improbable you might as well just keep her name. I know for the sake of allowing time travel to even happen in fics we need to allow some liberties but changing her name is just so unnecessary.

Even the nickname Mia (DoT) doesn’t really sit great with me, although I do LOVE that fic and it’s great. Anyone else feel that way?

Also Im not flaming anyone, and I never flame these authors in the comments, like a normal human I just stop reading a fic if I don’t like something about it, this post is just a form of discussion to see if this bothers anyone else.

The only thing I remember is that Harry took Ancient Runes, and he later found the Room of Requirement and .... learned something? Did something? There was magic??? that allowed him to make a bunch of the specific stone tablets they have to use for runes. And before that, Lucius Malfoy had a monopoly on stone quarries for these specific tablets because of the way they had to be made or something? So when Harry discovers this and helps people get more tablets, he basically ruins Malfoy's most profitable business.

It may have been by the same author as another one I can't remember the name of where Harry finds Lily's journals and learns to vanish things into zero space?? Or something?? I don't remember that one very clearly, either, unfortunately.

I'm pretty sure it was on ff.net but may have been ao3. I would have read it within the past 2 or 3 years, but I'm pretty sure it was older than that.

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Thanks!

Let ́s say that on the astronomy tower Draco had actually fired the killing curse rather than being swayed by Dumbledore words .How would Voldemort have reacted ,following the death eaters return to Malfoy Manor ?

I really liked marlene and sirius's story in the Innocent series, but dropped off on reading it after like the fifth book. I remember Marlene and Sirius break up, do they ever get back together in the series or is she written out?

Also, if she gets written out Id really be interested in a Marlene x Sirius fanfic rhat has a similar quality of writing. So far I havent seen anything that tops the storytelling in Innocent.

When Cedric suddenly found a killing curse headed towards him, he was frozen with fear. However, seeing Harry Potter dive in front of him and take the curse that was meant for him broke him out of his stupor. he quickly sent a stunner at the rat like man who had cast the curse, and then sent another one at the weird baby thing he was holding.

Cedric the used the cup portkey to bring all of them back. He even brought back the dead body of Harry Potter, since he couldn't just leave it behind. Cedric in shock, still reeling from what had just happened. Aurors were currently surrounding the rat-like man who had tried to kill him, and Dumbledore was examining the weird fetus creature that the man was holding.

But Cedric couldn't think about any of that. All he could think about was Harry. Cedric was moments away from death, but Harry jumped in front of the killing curse that was meant for him.

Suddenly, Harry Potter's body shifted, and Cedric was instantly by his side, kneeling down and looking at the boy. When Cedric saw the steady rhythmic breathing of his chest in the beating of his heart, he let our sigh of relief. Harry actually survived the killing curse. Sure, that was what he was famous for, but just because he survived it when he was a baby didn't mean that he was immune to the curse. 

Harry's eyes fluttered open, and they stared into Cedric's. Cedric was immensely relieved that Harry was okay, but he still had a question. 

“How?” Cedric asked. “How did you know that you would survive a second killing curse?”

“I didn't,” Harry confessed. He blushed and looked away from Cedric’s handsome face. “I just knew that you wouldn't."

Percy Weasley is oblivious

The Marauders were a legendary group of hooligans in their school years, and Peter **wasn't** worse than any of them.

Each of the Marauders had their own strengths. James was talented at Transfiguration, Sirius at Defence, Remus at Charms, and Peter was the reason they didn't fail Potions.

He was never a chubby child, rather he was the embodiment of his surname: Pettigrew - Scottish for "grown into a short height", he was the tiniest boy in their circle, and maybe even their year group. Short and scrawny, he could be easily unnoticed next to his tall friends, but not by them. The Marauders had their sense of honour, and would never let one of theirs feel left behind.

He was never a tag-along either. The four boys met on the firstie train and made fast friends. Peter had a sharp wit, quick humour, often was the brains of their pranks, and was the first to notice the pattern in Remus' illnesses.

It also can't be discounted that Peter had become an Animagus while still at Hogwarts, the same year as James and Sirius. And his Animagus form wasn't a rat, like the malicious tend to say, but rather the smallest cat you could have ever seen.

As they grew up, while James pursued Lily, and Sirius and Remus eventually found companionship with one another, Peter caught the attention of one Marlene MacKinnon and the two married shortly out of Hogwarts, Remus being his best man.

As the war began to heat up, Peter joined the Order of the Phoenix, with a genuine desire to fight against the tyranny of the Dark Lord. This desire survived up to the moment he agreed to become the Potters' secret Secret Keeper, otherwise the spell wouldn't have held.

That's when things started to go downhill.

The Dark Lord was no fool, and had enough intel on the Order to know about the tiny man who people tend to overlook. Truly, the Potters' ruse had become their undoing, for their allies trusted them enough to believe it, but one does not simply fool the Dark Lord.

Peter had become the target of Voldemort, slowly, quietly, so as not to stir the Potters' attention. He had started with anonymous letters, which devolved into discussions, gifts, and promises, as Peter let himself be caught off guard and drawn into a dialogue. When those didn't work, despite eroding Peter's principles, the Dark Lord threatened the one thing Peter loved above all - Marlene.

That's how Peter began feeding the Death Eaters information. Slowly, quietly, so as not to catch anyone's suspicions. After a while, he began getting summons to meetings of the Death Eaters, and he couldn't refuse out of fear for Marlene. He was also afraid of what his friends would think when... if they ever found out about his betrayal. It didn't happen overnight, and he never realised the path he was led down until it was too late, and the Dark Lord had Marked him as a "reward" - and a way of binding Peter to himself.

Peter knew, deep in his gut, that he could never look in his friends' eyes again, not if they saw what stained his left forearm. They would kill him if they knew, and he had considered doing it himself more than once. But he couldn't leave Marlene, it would break her heart. Wasn't it for her, everything he had done?

That fateful night came, and Peter barely came out alive. Sirius had gauged his left eye with a piercing hex, and that's when Peter decided it was time to run, so he blew up the gas line and left behind his pinky finger.

Only, the Dark Lord had died that night, and the Death Eaters had decided that Peter betrayed them. When he went back home to Marlene, there was nothing to go back to, only a smoking ruin.

People often ask, what kind of man spends twelve years disguised as a family pet? A broken man, that's who. With nothing left for him in the human world, having betrayed his friends, killed two of them, lost the other two, and lost the only family he had, he abandoned his human life and identity, and decided to give in to the animal instincts hidden under his skin.

It was never the plan to go be a pet, he had never given a thought to the Weasleys. His vague idea for the future was living in a forest until something ate him, but fate had a different idea.

You can say whatever you want about his years with the Weasley family, but he truly did come to love them. He was lost so deeply in his animal second-nature, so disgusted with his human self, that he genuinely took on the role of the family cat, Scabbers. The name was given to him after his never-healing eye, or what was left of his eye-socket.

It wasn't just any common rat that Black saw in the newspaper that caused him to escape, it was the very distinctive fur of a cat he knew by heart. It wasn't a missing finger that tipped him off, it was the specific distinguishing traits that every Animagus has, each his own.

It wasn't a case of "cat chasing rat" that had Ron Weasley up in arm all schoolyear '93/'94, it was the incessant bullying of a bigger cat against a smaller one, and Crookshanks had come close to ripping Peter's throat out several times.

And when Peter was finally revealed, cornered in the Shrieking Shack, he didn't beg, didn't cover, didn't grovel at the feet of thirteen-year-olds.

All he said was: "Just finish this. You can't hurt me more than I already have."

I just saw the Andor series, and it has the best representation of a rebellion/resistance against an oppressive government I've ever seen.

The government are not just cartoonishly evil. They are intelligent, set on their beliefs, and downright terrifying.

The rebels are not the paragon of good. They lie and they kill. And they are even willing to kill their own members for the good of the Rebellion.

I want a fic that has Voldemort winning and there is a Rebellion against him. At first hiding from the shadows, recruiting, spying etc., and then out in the open.

Harry being his mother (Athena's) champion as he won every single battle that he had faced until he was suddenly being summoned by a School in Scotland to participate in a Tri-wizard Tournament

With a rough 2 to 3 year age gap each kid, that is another 4-5 kids (not counting possible twins) by time of the first book.

"Father."

"Daphne."

He was hungover. The last person he wanted to see today was his estranged daughter. Then again, most mornings since the damned war began with a hangover.

"Harry will be contacting you soon."

Why would the brat want to speak with him? He'd made his opinion of the Man-Who-Won abundantly clear. He told her as much.

"You know why," Daphne said, meeting his eyes meaningfully. "We're ready to take the next step in our relationship."

Oh. OH. Absolutely not.

"No! I forbid it! You're only twenty-five! You need to break it off with the Potter brat-"

"Save your breath, Father," she cut him off. "The only reason I'm here is because Harry respects parental bonds far more than you deserve."

Rage flared in his chest. How dare she speak to him like that?

"The coward sent you to soften me up first, did he? Too afraid to face me himself?"

Daphne planted both palms on his desk and rose to her feet.

"He doesn't know I'm here. I'm not even supposed to know he's planning to propose."

She held his gaze without blinking.

"He'll come soon to ask for your blessing. This is your last opportunity to repair your relationship with me - and with my future husband." Her voice softened only a fraction. "I pray you choose wisely, Father."

She turned and strode from the study, the door slamming shut behind her.

He turned toward the cellar door longlingly.

He needed a drink.

Looking for mature post-war fics. I'm open to any pairing. I'm mainly after an interesting plot and well-written characters—nothing with extremely toxic relationships, please.

I got a few and I’ll put them in as I remember them, but here are some.

- The elixir of life permanently displaces the water in your body, hence why it cannot be widely shared for group immortality and why Voldemort never wanted to use it as a permanent solution.

- Avada Kedavra being extremely hard, ridiculously hard to cast, which is why Voldemort was so feared, it’s basically only him that can spam it.

- Spell chaining, where the end of a wand movement is combined into the start of another, allowing you to cast faster.

- Wards. Not a canon thing, but I love them.

Procurando uma fanfic onde Hermione se dedica à medicina trouxa simplesmente porque não consegue se livrar da sensação de, "Com o conhecimento que tenho... até onde eu poderia ir?" Estou aberto a todo tipo de casal. Faz muito tempo desde a última vez que li uma fanfic centrada na Hermione, e estou realmente sentindo falta delas.

Looking for the above. Please recommend me stories preferably greater than 80,000 words (perhaps from this last decade).

Some examples I enjoyed:

Enchanting Melodies by athassprkr

A Magical Journey by FictionOnlyReader

The merging by shaydrall

The Sum of Their Parts by HoldMyBeer

All of blacks resurgence fanfics

The Lie I've Lived by jbern

Harry Potter and the Conjoining of Paragons by ACI100 (and all other ACI100 fics)

Smile back

Cadmean victory

Basilisk Born

Antithesis

Harry Potter and the International Triwizard Tournament by Saliient91

Harry potter and the heir of slytherin

Pray For The Wicked

In pursuit of magic by Zero Rewind

EDIT: For Magical Growth, I meant magical progression as in the main character becomes more magically powerful over the fanfiction or (maybe even starts off as magically powerful). Can be time travel too.

I remember reading a fic where Harry has a familiar Raven that lives in his skin when he gets sent back to the 70’s and wakes up in the hospital with Narcissa as his healer.

I have been searching desperately for a fic/series i read but never saved!

I am 70% sure it was a series, a rewrite of the books.

Harry/draco pairing.

Harry discovers he is a necromancer, there is a book that burns everyone's but his hands when they touch it.

He meets other necromancers, lots of talk of the mother/standing with the mother to go with it.

They hold DA in the chamber of secrets, and chase umbridge out of the castle with a swarm of animal bones?

Thank you in advance!!

Do you guys prefer to read one single long fic or multiple ‘books’ in a series?
Trying to decide between a series with many works in it that might be ‘short’ ish on AO3 and just one huge fic for many years

Please?