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Harry kills his Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at the end of 1st year. Somehow, this leads to him traveling through time to the year 1971 and being dropped, alone, into an abandoned house in Cokeworth. He has only himself to rely on, as always, but there is a silver lining: he gets to meet a younger version of his mother, who is apparently best friends with a young Professor Snape. Unbelievable.
Featuring: Everybody's childhood trauma, a lot of pining, and hopefully, eventually, a happy ending :)
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21 Mar 2026
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Students flood King's Cross Station to board the Hogwarts Express to school on 1 September like every other year since 993 AD. It is an expected and anticipated moment in wizarding Britain, just as the boost in sales across all retail places, but especially those on Diagon Alley, spikes hugely every August. This year, however, something has changed, and several students approached the barrier between Platforms 9 and 10 to begin the 1975-76 school year, only to arrive on the platform twenty years in the future.
How will they manage to find a place for themselves in a world in which they are already adults, perhaps working somewhere, perhaps already dead, their passing long since mourned? And how will the world they've entered welcome a group of Doppelgängers and ghosts?
Here is a playlist for the fic, and you'll likely see a lot of similarities between the songs in it and the referenced material in the work.
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- 3/?
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17 Mar 2026
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Following the disastrous Third Task, Harry begins to notice two things about himself. First: his appearance has begun to change. Second: something is very, very wrong. The Cruciatus shouldn't continue to be causing him pain this far out from having received it, should it?
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- 60/?
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23 Dec 2025
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The attack at Godric’s Hollow didn’t kill Harry Potter, but it left him with a permanent spinal cord injury. While the Wizarding World celebrated, the Potters faced a harsh new reality. Unable to cope with the demands of raising a paraplegic son, James Potter abandons his family, leaving Lily to pick up the pieces.
She finds unexpected support in Severus Snape, who steps in to provide the medical care, structure, and fatherly love Harry desperately needs. This story follows Harry’s childhood as he navigates a magical world ill-equipped for wheelchairs, preparing for Hogwarts not as the Boy Who Lived, but as a determined boy who must fight for his dignity and his place in a world built for those who can walk. -
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Harry finds a better life with the basilisk, but that doesn't mean it's easy. From inter-being feuds, to bloody prophecies, to elven unrest, Harry is in the eye of a hurricane that will change the wizarding world forever.
Involving thestrals, merfolk, house elves, centaurs, acromantulae, and various other friends, denizens, and allies.
This series is: Queer in a multitude of ways. Morally complex. A massively canon-divergent AU. Filled with oc's and non-oc's. A story about relationships, love, trust, friendship, healing ... and revolution.
There are seven novel-length fics, plus a prologue (to leap and love the fall) and two longer stories (with courage unyielding and the gentle sunlight). The short story collection to journey on contains shorter stories set within the main timeline. All are posted in the correct reading order.
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12 Dec 2025
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Canon compliant (minus the obvious) epic including the worst of canon Snape’s traits. Can Harry love a cruel, jaded man, one who joined the Dark Lord, bullied children, and was in love with his mum?
And how does brave, noble, PTSD-ridden Harry Potter fare against a man so intelligent that he fooled the greatest Dark wizard of the age?
Love does not cure Snape. He is who he is.
Now, Harry is alone with Severus Snape—his crooked teeth, curtain of greasy hair, cold, sneering lips, insulting mouth, glittering eyes, and silky voice—trying to trust first and ask questions later.
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14 Nov 2025
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When he arrives at Hogwarts, Harry Potter is not at all the boy everyone wants him to be. Harry does not speak, he does not make eye contact, he does not cast spells, he makes no magic at all. Not until he explodes in a hurricane of Dark magic, nearly leveling the entire Forbidden Forest with his uncontrollable fury.
Dumbledore and the professors of Hogwarts are horrified.
As the parasitic magic continues to consume the shy and skittish Boy Who Lived, it becomes up to his reluctant Head of House, Severus Snape, to determine exactly what’s wrong with the boy he loathes so very much — before it is too late.
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The summer after Harry's fourth year has become the worst of his life. The haunting memories of Cedric's death and Voldemort's revival were terrible enough on their own, but then came the strange visions of Death Eaters, the worsening pain in his scar, and the uncontrollable emotions that don't feel like his own. After fleeing Privet Drive, he finds himself stuck in an isolated cottage with his most hated professor: Severus Snape.
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Snape mentors Harry, no slash.
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Tension's Empathy: The Wanderer's Curse by yarrowmirth
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Mar 2024
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“It has recently come to our attention that we cannot trust everyone in the Order with your well-being.”
“You mean…a traitor?”
“Yes. The Headmaster is cleaning up internally, and in the interim you are to stay away, even from people you think you can trust."In the wake of Sirius’ death, Harry must go into hiding in the muggle world with Snape. Surrounded by forces that are desperate to either kill or preserve him, Harry weighs the value of his own life.
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Bookmarked by lightlessbird
08 Oct 2025
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Harry Potter: Bruised veteran of too many heartbreaks; cynical, jaded drunkard; Wardwright, war hero, recluse, and part time matchmaker. Next target -- Severus Snape, who has a lot to learn about love.
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- English
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- 101,164
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- 16/16
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Bookmarked by lightlessbird
01 Oct 2025
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Sequel to Harry Potter and the Dark Enigmas.
Harry’s relationship with Severus Snape is almost perfect with all the sarcasm, quips, adventurous sex, and surface level arguments he could want. What’s not perfect is Harry’s work life. The Aurors have discovered a secret: Dark Wizards around the world gather for one night a year to showcase inventions, share valuable secrets, and swap sacred ingredients—a mysterious hidden black market called The Serpent Road. With Auror numbers down, it would be suicide to infiltrate it… but they intend to try.
Before he enters the lion’s den, Harry has another milestone to attend: Dudley’s wedding. If Harry has to see Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon again, revenge is a dish best served Snape.
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Contains custom chapter title artwork and crafted with love.
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- Part 2 of Enigma Tower
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- 28/28
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Bookmarked by lightlessbird
01 Oct 2025
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Delve into an unofficial 8th book as Harry and Hermione return for their seventh year. Harry struggles with the aftermath of the Battle of Hogwarts, death of loved ones, and maintaining relationships. Failing classes and avoiding friends, he questions his decision to be an Auror and his future place in the Wizarding world. A sullen Draco rallies and returns to Hogwarts, putting on a brave face for the redemption of his family. Ron is fumbling at the ministry while Hermione practically teaches Transfiguration in light of a suitable teacher. But Harry’s most challenging task is not playing frenemies with Malfoy like it’s to win the House Cup, it’s grasping for confusing closure when a door is just opening.
This ‘8th year’ Hogwarts book takes place directly after Deathly Hallows and hits all the normal points of school: feasts, school life, Hagrid, Hogsmeade, Weasley chaos, Christmas, Rita Skeeter scandals, exams, the House Cup, and culminates in resolving an end of year mystery. Mostly cannon compliant minus the obvious. Relationship simmers, twists, and erupts. Book becomes quite explicit. Snape remains Snapishly Snape.
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- Part 1 of Enigma Tower
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- English
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- 227,546
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- 43/43
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01 Oct 2025
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Third story in the "Like None Other" universe. During his final year at Hogwarts, relationships will splinter as Harry confronts secrets long-buried and faces the greatest challenge of them all.
Warning -- the comments can contain massive spoilers so proceed with caution!
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- Part 3 of Like None Other
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- 88/?
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11 Sep 2025
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What could have happened between Lily and Severus if he had said the right thing outside the Gryffindor Common Room. This story is AU. Everything you recognize belongs to JKR everything else is me. Rating is for violence, language and adult content.
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- 369,999
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- 50/?
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25 Aug 2025
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"Perhaps a man who wants to redeem himself in the memory of the mother would, in turn, give comfort to a child." Dumbledore grinned at the other man's unbidden expression of shock. "But when said like that, it hardly encompasses the depth of emotion when I see you have cradled Harry Potter to sleep after a nightmare." Severus scowled. "I was not cradling him."
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When Harry blows up Aunt Marge during the summer, Dumbledore is much quicker to react. Snape finds him far before the Minister does, but his plan of dropping him off with a lecture and half a dozen additional summer assignments doesn't work out.
In which Harry spends the summer at Spinner's End.
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Coming of age in the declining northern borough of Cokeworth wouldn’t be easy for any eight-year-old boy. For reasons that defied logic, being named ‘Harry Potter’ only seemed to complicate matters.
Second in the Storm Surge Series.
Sequel to Grease & Lightning.
HP&SS friend/mentor/Severitus-style fic. No slash.
M rating is for language and violence/gore.
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- Part 2 of Storm Surge