19 Bookmarks by HesterV
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Sequel to “Growing Up Grimmauld” and “Harry Happens to Hogwarts.” Harry starts his second year at Hogwarts. There’s a basilisk in the pipes that could really use lessons on how to be a predator, Harry’s Great-Grandpa Arcturus is insisting that he follow boring things like “rules,” and the Albus man is still trying to stop Harry happening to everyone he meets. Meanwhile, Grimmauld Place is trying to teach Malfoy Manor to be a better sentient house.
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- Part 3 of Harry of Grimmauld Place
- Part 3 of From Litha to Lammas 2026
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,445
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Comments:
- 767
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- 1,884
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- 219
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- 28,966
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10 Jul 2026
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In December 1977, Regulus Black did something brave. He ran.
With nothing but a wand he couldn’t use, a bag of money, and a desperate hope for survival, Regulus escaped into the muggle world mere days before his Death Eater initiation.
Against all odds, he’s taken in by three muggle artists who live loudly and love fiercely. Through them, Regulus discovers acting. And he’s good at it. Too good.
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Six years later, Sirius and James walk into a London cinema and see Regulus’s face, six feet tall, staring back at them from the screen.
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- Part 1 of The Regulus Star + extras
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 158,755
- Chapters:
- 27/27
- Collections:
- 4
- Comments:
- 1,590
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- 3,640
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- 1,029
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- 91,953
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15 Apr 2026
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Harry doesn't Apparate to the roof of his school when running away from Dudley and his gang, but to an empty Grimmauld Place. The house raises him, with some help from Black portraits, and then Harry happens to everyone else.
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- 116,275
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- 3
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- 1,318
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14 Nov 2025
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AU. Harry accidentally Apparates to an empty Grimmauld Place when he’s nine instead of to the top of the school roof when he escapes Dudley’s gang. The house is empty except for portraits and sometimes a speaking wooden face, and Harry has to kill his own food, and there’s something nasty in the cellars, and some of the portraits are mad. But this is still a vast improvement over the Dursleys.
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- Part 1 of Songs of Summer 2025
- Part 1 of Harry of Grimmauld Place
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 21,260
- Chapters:
- 5/5
- Comments:
- 653
- Kudos:
- 8,545
- Bookmarks:
- 1,532
- Hits:
- 78,514
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01 Oct 2025
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Regulus Black is a world-famous model, drowning under perfection, while James Potter is a champion surfer who never cared for fashion. When James visits Paris for Sirius’s big show, he expects chaos but not Regulus, sharp-edged and hiding something beneath the spotlight.
With their usual photographer out sick, Remus Lupin steps in, capturing moments no one else sees. But James sees them too the exhaustion, the untouched meals, the way Regulus is fading in plain sight.
James has always been good at spotting danger, but saving someone from drowning on land? That’s a whole different mess.
And falling for him? That was never supposed to happen.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 81,760
- Chapters:
- 28/28
- Comments:
- 168
- Kudos:
- 748
- Bookmarks:
- 258
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- 26,122
Bookmarked by HesterV
11 Sep 2025
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Two, perhaps nearly three, years after the fall of Lord Voldemort, the wizarding world begins to heal. But deep in the shadows, Bellatrix Lestrange still burns with the need to prove her loyalty to her vanished master. When fate places young Harry Potter in her path on a cold, storm-lashed night, she prepares to strike the ultimate blow of revenge.
And yet… she doesn’t.In a single moment of clarity, Bellatrix sees not the Boy Who Lived, not the symbol of her master’s downfall, but a child, bruised and neglected, cast away by the very world that claims to worship him. Driven by a twisted blend of vengeance, obsession, and something achingly close to maternal yearning, she steals him from the Muggles’ grasp, determined to shape him into something greater. Her own dark legacy.
As Harry grows under Bellatrix’s fierce and fractured care, molded by the shadows instead of the light, questions begin to stir within him. Who is he really? Savior or weapon? Pawn or player? As the years pass and Hogwarts looms on the horizon, the world teeters unknowingly on the edge of a future rewritten.
One boy. One woman. One night that changed everything.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 603,955
- Chapters:
- 76/?
- Collections:
- 13
- Comments:
- 4,954
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- 4,748
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- 1,772
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- 352,348
Bookmarked by HesterV
20 Aug 2025
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“Not Harry, not Harry, please not Harry!”
“Stand aside, you silly girl… stand aside, now”.
And Lily Potter stepped aside.
Voldemort stared at her.
“... Is this some sort of trick?” he asked softly.
“No". Her voice was flat, lifeless. “You already killed James... If you let me live, then you can have Harry”.
Voldemort’s lip curled - not in amusement, but disgust. His own mother had died for him. Pathetic, yes, sentimental and foolish - but she had chosen to die so that he could live. Lily Potter wasn’t even choosing to care. Surely the child of prophecy deserved a better mother than this! Even he could give the boy to a better family to be raised right!
Voldemort slowly reached down and picked up the child.
He was still staring at him. He was still oddly silent. His eyes were still the colour of the Killing curse and brimming with power.
Yes, Voldemort decided, that was exactly what he’d do.
"You belong to me now" he whispered.
And with a crack like thunder, he turned on the spot, vanishing into the night.Or, the one where Harry Potter is raised by the Lestranges and it goes more or less how you would expect.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 144,341
- Chapters:
- 33/?
- Collections:
- 18
- Comments:
- 1,505
- Kudos:
- 6,928
- Bookmarks:
- 2,375
- Hits:
- 224,194
Bookmarked by HesterV
08 Aug 2025
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Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me? (you should be) by Snoweylily
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
24 Jul 2026
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“No post on Sundays” Uncle Vernon announced happily, “No damn letters today-”
Something came whizzing down the kitchen chimney as he spoke and caught him sharply on the back of the head. The next moment, thirty or forty letters came pelting out of the fireplace like bullets.
“That does it!” he snapped, his beady little eyes focused solely on Harry, “It’s you that they want. And they won’t stop coming after us until you’re… gone”.
Harry didn't like the sound of that.
“But Vernon, we can’t! You heard what that- that despicable old man told us!”
“Don’t worry, pet” Vernon said, his nasty grin triumphant, “I’ll leave him someplace so far away that those freaks will never trace him back to us. There’s an institute up north, for these- these hopeless cases and whatnot - St Brutus's Secure Centre for Boys. I’ll leave him there, and then we can get back to our nice, normal life”.Or, the one where Harry doesn't attend Hogwarts in first year but finds his way to the wizarding world anyway, and this changes everything.
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- Part 1 of WAOLOM
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 846,901
- Chapters:
- 138/?
- Collections:
- 57
- Comments:
- 14,349
- Kudos:
- 24,926
- Bookmarks:
- 5,954
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- 1,340,632
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20 Jul 2025
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13 Jul 2025
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Harry has almost accepted that he won’t be going back to his own time, and he’s working in a small apothecary in Diagon Alley to make ends meet. Then someone tries to blow up his employer’s shop, and that brings him face-to-face with Tom Riddle, who he successfully avoided during his time at Hogwarts.
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- Part 8 of July Celebration Fics 2018
- Part 1 of Earning His Notice
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 6,112
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Comments:
- 180
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- 11,070
- Bookmarks:
- 1,430
- Hits:
- 182,835
Bookmarked by HesterV
14 Jul 2024
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A series of stories where both Harry and Theodore go to Ravenclaw, and how that changes their world.
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- 123,057
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- 3
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- 985
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13 Jul 2024
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After Kevin publicly announces his intention to play for the Foxes, Riko sends Nathaniel Wesninski to convince him to return to the Nest. Unfortunately for Riko, Nathaniel has other plans.
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- Part 1 of Unmaking of Monsters
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 444,047
- Chapters:
- 81/?
- Comments:
- 4,909
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- 14,735
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- 3,395
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Bookmarked by HesterV
24 Mar 2024
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Prequel to Secrets and Honesty. As Neil and Andrew attend and participate in their loved ones' weddings, they gradually realize they might like to have one of their own.
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- Part 2 of Better Together
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16 Feb 2024
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Do I look like I give a fuck? by something_boring
Fandoms: All For The Game - Nora Sakavic
06 Feb 2024
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Andrew wanted to trace the outlines of his face with his hands. His eyes had dark bags under them, they didn’t fit his face, even though they had been there constantly lately. But right now, with the moon as the only source of light, they looked out of place. Like someone had just painted them on his face. Andrew forced himself to look back at the street. He grabbed the wheel as his inside did something he never thought they would.
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Neil has to testify at Nathan's trial, Andrew drives around aimlessly afterward so that Neil can finally sleep and precedes to have some feelings about it...
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08 Feb 2024
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Neil and Andrew aren't on the same professional teams, but that doesn't mean they're any less together. When a photograph gets taken out of context, they decide to go with it, as long as they're both having fun. And they are. Right?
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- Part 1 of Better Together
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 42,780
- Chapters:
- 6/6
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 615
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- 5,163
- Bookmarks:
- 1,065
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- 75,011
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08 Feb 2024
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Draco Malfoy has been missing for three years. Harry is assigned the cold case and finds himself slowly falling in love with the memories he collects.
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- Part 1 of Running on Air
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 74,880
- Chapters:
- 17/17
- Collections:
- 18
- Comments:
- 5,834
- Kudos:
- 71,740
- Bookmarks:
- 23,431
- Hits:
- 1,790,675
Bookmarked by HesterV
31 Jan 2024
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Ginny is sorted into Slytherin. It takes her seven years to figure out why.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 182,687
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 51
- Comments:
- 2,097
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- 12,911
- Bookmarks:
- 6,354
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- 465,536
Bookmarked by HesterV
31 Jan 2024
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Neil uses a pet name for Andrew, much to Nicky's surprise.
I'm too tired to come up with a better summary.
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29 Jan 2024
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“Concussion. My helmet-I...” Jeremy can hear the slight slur of his own words, and tries his best to carefully speak again. “I think I'm okay.”
Jean treats him to a withering glare, unimpressed, before his expression pales slightly, and Jeremy does not have to guess as to why. The backliner pulls his hand from Jeremy's skull, holding it in front of him so he can see as well.
Red.
Slick and bright, coating Jean's fingers.
Or: Jeremy is badly injured, and finds it increasingly difficult to keep his feelings for a certain former Raven under wraps as some interesting facts come to light.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,909
- Chapters:
- 13/13
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 408
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- 1,582
- Bookmarks:
- 416
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- 32,519
Bookmarked by HesterV
29 Jan 2024