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Harry Potter died saving everyone. But the world kept turning, and something even worse came. Death drops him off in snowy 1938 London to stop the world from burning once more.
Just one problem. He's got paws instead of thumbs.
In the garden of Wool's Orphanage, Tom Riddle's first friend is a tiny snake. Billy Stubbs kills her with a trowel. Tom takes his revenge - brilliant and vicious, but he's so desperately outnumbered that when his bullies corner him, Harry can't help but intervene. A debt Tom repays by designing a collar that can bind a Grim.
Sometimes the road to redemption is paved with ash.
— a.k.a. a dark time-travel romance following Tom's journey from boy to man, Harry's struggle between justice and mercy, and whether caring can redeem someone - or if it only makes them worse.
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The Gauntlet of Heroes is an annual tournament celebrating the continued existence of magic and the Wizarding World. There's only one rule: no wands.
It's Harry's first time, and he’s angling to take the title from smug bastard Tom Riddle.
But unknown to them both, neither are your garden-variety wizard.
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- Part 1 of mashle creature au
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if it ain't you today (it'll be you tomorrow) by improbas
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Jun 2026
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Criminology Professor Harry Potter is consulting on a string of suicides that aren’t. He doesn’t know that the killer he’s hunting puppeteers the scheme out of pure boredom: sent back home to Britain to cool off on his day job as one of the world's most talented fixers for hire.
Then, one unassuming night, Harry steps out of his shower. He steps into a body that isn’t his, into a motel room that isn’t his, with an even bigger problem that isn’t his either.
Also, he’s bleeding out.
All in all, a pretty awful start to what Tom would someday come to call their first date, and what Harry would call a complete and utter clusterfuck.
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- Part 5 of zhana's dark purge
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Tom Riddle has never done anything he didn’t choose to do. Not the watch on his wrist, not the ring on his finger, and certainly not the prayers. Harry Potter, his best friend since childhood, knows he doesn’t mean any of it. Between them, they don’t keep secrets – not the important ones.
But tonight, when Tom sneaks over at midnight, he finds Harry in the middle of rolling a secret. In a fit of spite, he takes the blunt and smokes it for himself.
He gets very, very high.
And it turns out some secrets are more important than either of them ever knew.
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Harry and Tom were friends once, when they were very small.
Things get in the way, they grow apart, and at the worst possible moment, Harry learns something very important about himself – about his feelings for Tom.
Or: Harry might be the last person to realize he likes men.
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- Part 4 of zhana's dark purge
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ficlets written for tomarrymort events' purge aka you have 24-hours, anything goes, as long as it fits the prompt :3 most of these are written for XL, which is a vicious battle for survival each quarter and has a wc minimum of 500 words as well. it's tons of fun!
more unposted purges can be found on my tumblr under my purge fill tag
i always want to write more than i can... will they ever make it to ao3, tune in to find out?- Words:
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prompt fills for tomarrymort event's valentines gift exchange featuring anatomical hearts ❤️
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Either must die at the hand of the other by Metalomagnetic
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Jun 2022
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Voldemort survives the Battle of Hogwarts because Harry Potter had not been the one to kill him, as the prophecy demands.
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- Part 1 of Either must die
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Tom Riddle is a frightening coil of darkness, cruelty, and greatness, and changing him is Harry’s only hope for saving people he loves. Going back in time, he takes Tom from the orphanage, but his optimism shatters with every year they spend together.
Tom still longs for darkness. Tom stifles him in his possessiveness. Tom is fixated on him to the point of destroying the world just to keep him.
But Harry loves him. And the future changes.
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Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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i scream and i cry. a very deserved ending for a spectacular story.
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A mysterious object in Bellatrix's vault sends Harry, Ron and Hermione spinning into the past and to a Hogwarts like none they know.
Posing as students, Harry catches the eye of the Head Boy, Tom Riddle, who is nothing like the Voldemort of the future. He's charming and sly and manipulative; both brillant and deadly.It isn’t long before they’re tangled in a game more intricate than anything before. A game of heightened stakes, of tension, and the odds are stacked against Harry. With the threads of the future unravelling, can Harry make it out intact? And what is the cost, of truly getting close to Tom?
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Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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THIS WAS **REALLY GOOD**, time travel. iirc abraxas goat.
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Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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IM NOT EVEN DONE AND IM SCREAMING. SCIFI BLEND AU. THE PROSE. THE WB. THE LOVE.
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“Two weeks of sex. That’s what you’re after?”
“Nagini would say two weeks of companionship, but … yes.”
Tom fully expected to loathe everything about his forced holiday to the island known as Paradise, but that was before he met Harry.
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Brazilian Portuguese Translation (Thank you dry_reid!) can be found here.
Chinese Translation (Thank you venishiver!) can be found here.
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Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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chess tom in paradise, purplewitch is an all timer???