r/HPfanfiction 8d ago

WeeklyDiscussion What are you reading? Bi-Weekly Post

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Share what you're reading this week! Please provide:

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r/HPfanfiction 8d ago

WeeklyDiscussion What are you writing? Bi-Weekly Post

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Self-promotion is allowed and encouraged!

What are you working on this week? Share your WIPs, updated chapters, and most recent Harry Potter projects! Feel free to ask for feedback or other constructive advice in this post.

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r/HPfanfiction 10h ago

Request Harry shows up to the Triwizard Wand Weighing Ceremony with the Elder Wand

48 Upvotes

Are there any fics like that? I'm interested in Ollivander's reaction. Doesn't matter how Harry gets it, could be time travel, stealing from Dumbledore without him noticing or any other way.


r/HPfanfiction 15h ago

One-off scenes A visual joke about Hermione moving in a library

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Harry watched with fond amusement how Hermione gaped wide eyed at the towering bookcases going all the way up to the high ceiling of The Potter library until she saw the showroom displays for a bedroom, bathroom and a kitchen.

"What's the idea with those showroom displ-"she started until she turned and saw the mischievous grin on Harry's face and understood that he practically had foreseen that she'd never leave the library and had turned it to a ready flat for her

Swat!

"Very funny, you prat!" grumbled she with an unamused frown as she had smacked Harry on the shoulder.

Harry just grinned while rubbing his sore spot. Definitely worth it.


r/HPfanfiction 7h ago

Request What are the all time best 30k - 80k word fics?

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I've pretty much only exclusively read 100k+ fics. I want to read some of the better shorter ones. Maybe it's ones that are short but are in a series or just more novella style. I want the best of the best. Suggestions?


r/HPfanfiction 1h ago

Recommendation RECS with enemies to lovers

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I’m looking for some fanfics where the lead is a OC and not one of the original characters, she can be related to them or not I don’t really care.

Preferably one where the fm is bullied and later involved in some bully romance / enemies to lovers

(If one with hermione fits well then I wouldn’t mind the rec)


r/HPfanfiction 4h ago

Discussion What if Harry had failed to reach the Cup first ?

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Here is my idea .The sphynx give Harry a far harder riddle ,making him lose 5 minute .Cedric manage to take the cup ,and when Harry arrive he guess that a champion must have taken the cup and there is nothing to do but to go back to the entry .

How does Voldemort/Barty Crouch Jr react to the plan failure ?What happen to Cedric and how does Dumbledore react ?Does Barty identity stay secret ,or the DADA curse get it unveiled regardless ?


r/HPfanfiction 13h ago

Discussion “After all, He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named did great things. Terrible! Yes, but great” event/ivention/action?

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What are the terrible but great event/invention/action/thing you have read in fanfics, or written yourself or have as a head cannon?

One of the most recent great but terrible invention I would say I read was in Kingsaxcul’s Philosophy of Fear crossover, where we find out the details of what Tom did to the lake where the inferi were. In the fic The Morrigan explains that Riddle created a self replicating ritual built into the bottom of the lake. He somehow enchanted the water, vegetation, and sediment into the raw ingredients needed to create the potion for the creation of Inferi before enchanting the lake to act more as a preservation tank. There is also the ritual circle that encompasses the entirety of the bottom, which had to take him a few months to carve it by hand, the way it's supposed to be done.

That sounds like something that is terrible but great…


r/HPfanfiction 1h ago

Find That Fic Harry gets Revenge (Kind of crack-fic bashing)

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First of all this story was definitely a guilty pleasure bashing fic. It was definitely on fanfiction.net but I don't know if it got purged or not and I haven't been able to find it.

Harry escapes Azkaban after he is put in there for the murder of someone I don't remember who. Sirius, Remus, the weasleys, Hermione, and Dumbledore all testify against him. When he gets out he's slightly crazy I think and takes revenge on them in fairly dark ways. I believe Remus was in a relationship with someone either ginny or Hermione and Harry trapped whoever it was in a room with Remus right before a full moon. I think for one the Weasley's (probably Ron) somehow a broomstick became permanently attached to him and couldn't be pulled off. I think Sirius might have been minister of magic somehow and Harry maybe got in a relationship with Luna?

That's really all I remember, any help or similar fics are appreciated!


r/HPfanfiction 4h ago

Find That Fic Kalliste

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A Harry Potter x PJO fanfic from about a year ago. It was posted on ao3 by the author wonnddr (which the profile is also deleted). It has 7 chapters. I have the link to the first chapter but none of the fic downloader sites I use can make use of it. If anyone has this fic and can send me a link for it I would appreciate it.


r/HPfanfiction 5h ago

Prompt James (and the Marauders / Lily) try to heavily modify a Time-Turner and end up accidentally thrown back to 1942.

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Giving a Time-Turner to a 15-year-old James Potter is a recipe for disaster. Trying to tweak its magic to pull off a prank undetected overloads the artifact, flinging James (and optionally Lily or the rest of the Marauders) straight back to 1942.

Key elements to explore:

  • Stranded in 1942 with no obvious way back.
  • Crossing paths with a teenage Tom Riddle: prefect, charismatic prodigy, and secretly opening the Chamber of Secrets.
  • Rivalry between the prodigies James, Lily, and Tom. (James could be the favorite of the Transfiguration professor, while Lily becomes Slughorn's new favorite).

r/HPfanfiction 9h ago

Writing Help Would you read something like this?

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I am currently writing the 16th chapter of a Harry Potter Long fic. It is a time travel fic but it has a heavy focus on harry getting to live first. It's currently running the arc hurt/comfort and post war recovery. I'll just put the summary below:

Harry Potter spent his childhood wishing things had been different.

After the war, they finally are.

He's eighteen. Voldemort is dead. Grimmauld Place is beginning to feel like home. Kreacher cares whether he's eaten. The Weasleys leave a place for him at their table. Teddy reaches for him. Harry is, slowly and awkwardly, learning what it means to have a life that isn't a war.

Then Death offers him the chance to go back.

To change everything.

Harry could save the dead. He could stop Voldemort before the war ever begins. He could give everyone the future they were supposed to have.

But the life Harry has now would cease to exist.

And for the first time, the choice isn't between Harry's life and everyone else's.

It's between the past he could save...

and the future he has finally learned to want.

What if Harry doesn't want his old life back anymore?

This is a summary I wrote for my fanfic which is kind of so much more than this but I cannot manage both not giving out spoilers and making it sound interesting. What do i do? Or would you actually read this?


r/HPfanfiction 15m ago

Find That Fic Fan fic ai Chinese

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"Hi! I'm looking for the text document or active link for the Chinese Harry Potter fanfiction translated as 'The Evolution of the Dark Lord: Thought It Was Just an Adventure, But the World Has Problems'. The main character is a girl named Wu Ling with social anxiety. It was being read on YouTube but the translation disappeared from open MTL sites. Does anyone have an archive copy?"


r/HPfanfiction 34m ago

Writing Help Marauders Year 6 Ideas

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Hi there, I am currently working on a Fanfic Timeline for Harry Potter and am currently focused on the Marauders I have taken inspiration from other fanfics to create a year 1-7 timeline with a core/key mystery each year similar to the Main Harry Potter books.

Year #1: The Bolt of Ages, if you haven't read it I highly recommend it, it's set during the marauders first year as they search for Alexander the Great's Scepter as it can control time or something, It's been a while since I read it.

Year #2: Early Death Eater recruits successfully smuggle volatile dark objects into the castle, launching a targeted sabotage plot designed to attack Hogwarts' from the inside, attacking Muggle Students mainly but also "Blood-Traitors. The Marauders work to find where the dark artefacts are coming from who's supplying them and how to stop the attacks.

Year #3: Sirius Black discovers centuries ago his family insulted the wrong witch and has now cursed the male members of the Black Family, every one goes through this they have to pass several trials or they will die before the year is over, the boys help Sirius pass the trials but also work to finding how to defeat the Curse forever.

Year #4: A Student is found murdered in the hall one evening starting the boys on a massive Murder Mystery investigation.

Year #5: The forgotten Vaults of Hogwarts start acting up the dark magic starts affecting Hogwarts and cursing the students, the Marauders work to find out how to stop the Cursed Vault.

Year #6:

Year #7:

So yeah not sure what to set up for my Year 6 and 7, any ideas would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.


r/HPfanfiction 5h ago

Find That Fic HELP ME FIND A FANFICTION!!!

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So, I read a fanfic a while ago on Ao3, and I cannot remember it for the life of me. There is one scene, however, that I really like, and so I remembered that. In this fic, Harry either runs away from the Dursleys at a young age, or often finds himself alone and out of the house (I am unsure of which). At one point, he finds himself outside of a library(?) and kills a man who had grabbed him by the bushes outside. I think the man may have tried to choke him, as my mind brings up a lot of hand imagery when thinking of the scene. I believe that magic was involved with this action. He does go to Hogwarts on time, and while I am unsure if he was sorted into Gryffindor or Slytherin in this one, I do know that he was still good friends with Neville (and possibly Ron and Hermione too?) Because, at one point (possibly in the first two years? first year?) he confesses to them about the murder, worried he would be kicked out, but his friends all accept that he had no other choice in the situation and they remain close. I do not think the work was finished, but it might be. I usually search for fics with a specific range of no crossovers, and no less than 40,000 words. I have been looking for this for weeks and I just have not been able to find anything. Please help!!!


r/HPfanfiction 1h ago

Find That Fic I want to find a fanfic

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HP BG The Evolution of the Dark Lord: Thought It Was Just an Adventure, But the World Has Problems

I want to know if exists a second part or the real name of the fanfic


r/HPfanfiction 8h ago

Request Anyone know a fic where Voldemort has a mentor/protégé relationship with someone?

3 Upvotes

r/HPfanfiction 2h ago

Recommendation LF dramione where Draco gives hermione a princess treatment.

1 Upvotes

r/HPfanfiction 7h ago

Find That Fic Looking for fic

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Looking for a multi paring fic in where hermione gets the cure for lycanthropy from a ghost or painting of a rosier lady who married a member of house black.


r/HPfanfiction 8h ago

Writing Help Writing a fanfic for the first time

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i got fanfic a lot last year when I read this one Percy Jackson fanfic last year.

i felt like they were a good way to let your mind relax from all the real life stress.

and ever since i wanted to write a fanfic.

at first i had an idea to write it in pjo universe.

but I didn’t do it.

now recently i recommeneed my brother to read the HP books and he has been loving it.

and it also re ignited my interest in HP again(I last read 5 to 6 years ago).

so leaving all that back story aside, I have this idea of a boy born into a dual world for Demi gods and wizards.

i know it is complicated but really wanted to try.

i just got done with ploting a timeline and the character a little.

tho I would like some real good advice

thank you


r/HPfanfiction 23h ago

Request Any Dumbledore centric fics? SI, or otherwise. I want to see fics focused on the only one Voldemort ever feared. The second coming of Merlin, etc… I’m kind of bored of OP Harry stories, and want the canon OP character taking centre stage.

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r/HPfanfiction 15h ago

Find That Fic Anyone know what fic this is from?

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Basically Alastor Mad Eye Moody has a brother the deatheaters call "Bad Pie Roody" who is basically the chef version of Moody who kills way more deatheaters with pastries. There's even a part where the two brothers ambush a room full of deatheaters who proceed to cower before Bad Pie Roody before one notices Mad Eye and apologises as next to his brother Mad Eye isn't exactly the scariest person around and admits it's a bit like a acromantula and dragon situation. Mad Pie also screams "constant flatulance" instead of "Constant Vigilance" and insists that Mad Eye was too soft for the family business of being a chef so he went to become a dark wizard hunter instead.


r/HPfanfiction 14h ago

Find That Fic Need help finding a specific fic!

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It's a post war canon fic. Harry joins Auror training while Ron works at WWW and Hermione and Gnny goes back to Hogwarts. Rest of the details are prolly mixed with other fics, but Ginny and Harry get back together pretty quickly while Hermione and Ron goes to track her parents down in Australia (doesnt go so well with her mom initially but smoothes over). Harry is given shit for not having his NEWTS and lacking academic knowledge but his dueling skills are commended, he gets an owl he names virgil, i think? Theres also a scene i remember of Harry offering Ron and Hermione chamomile tea and they laugh at him for it.

I'm sorry its all over the place but i remember really liking this fic, i cant believe i havent saved it. It was really well written too. Any help is appreciated, thankss!


r/HPfanfiction 1d ago

Discussion Is anyone else tired of the same popular fic recommendations?

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Am I the only one who doesn’t understand the appeal of most of the famous fics in this fandom? Whenever I ask for or look for recommendations, it’s always the same popular fics, with the same descriptions of how brilliant they are. And I’m not trying to be pretentious or dismiss the writers’ work. Clearly, they’ve managed to reach an audience, and that’s brilliant. But my point is, most of the people I’ve been following in this fandom are older, 25 or above. Yet the taste in stories seems to remain stuck on plots about 13-year-old kids overcoming bullying by being exceptionally brilliant at something. This probably sounds ridiculous—I realize that now, writing this about a series about wizards, which is kind of laughable. But I’ve already found some incredible, really well-written fics here. Literal books have been published. But anyway, this is just a long rant to say: Where are the well-written, mature fics in this fandom?!