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Another Life, Another Love, Another—oh, whatever by AverageFish
Fandoms: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Life and Death - Stephenie Meyer
12 Mar 2022
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Izzy Swan, Master of Death, asks Carlisle to be her shrink.
Edward Cullen, master of melodrama, asks his father for advice.
A better love story than Twilight, told from a dad's perspective.
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When Harry defeats Voldemort, all those marked by Voldemort lose their magic. Snape decamps to the United States, where he becomes a fry cook in a diner. Five years after Voldemort's defeat, Harry comes to him for advice. AU, obviously, as Snape was still alive when I wrote this story.
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The British Government accidentally clones Sherlock Holmes. Which brings a baby to 221B Baker Street.
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- Part 1 of Nature & Nurture
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Magic was not the only secret hidden in Harry's ancestry. With nothing more than an old clue and a desperate wish, Harry travels through unfamiliar places and braves unknown danger to find his family.
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Never A Monster He Couldn't Love by luteoflorien (jenniewrennie13)
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien
21 Dec 2023
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Newt’s found himself a new creature at the seashore. This creature is an extremely intelligent humanoid with a voice like a fallen angel, speaks a glorious, graceful language that Newt has never heard before, and suffers extensive scarring to the hands. He’s old, how old Newt isn’t sure, but despite the language barrier it’s clear that he’s deeply depressed and he has a disturbing tendency to believe himself a danger to all around him.
Newt just thinks he’s the last of an endangered species who’s been on his own for far too long.
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A Blaze Across Time by alutea
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
10 Apr 2023
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At the end of his life, Harry is given the chance to alter the course of the dark reality his son Albus and Albus' friend Scorpius create when they use a Time-Turner to save Cedric Diggory's life. With the hindsight bestowed by a lifetime as Auror, Head of the DMLE, husband, father, and friend, he will make very different choices as a seventeen-year-old wizard to try and save the people and the world he loves.
But if he has to do it all over again, simply defeating Voldemort won't be good enough: there's a never-ending scroll of tragedies to avert and one newly-installed Headmaster of Hogwarts to talk around (if he manages to get a word in edgewise before getting hexed). The good news is, as always: he's not fighting alone.
**This story contains major spoilers for Cursed Child and minor ones for Fantastic Beasts but does not require knowledge of either.**
I've been informed that if I wish to avoid reader inconvenience, I should add a disclaimer regarding the possibility of head explosion while reading this story. You are hereby warned and advised to proceed with caution; the author is not liable for damage to persons or property induced by the contents herein. ^_^
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Bookmarked by AverageFish
23 Jun 2024
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Beautiful, in a way that makes me want to be the author's friend. Occasional soapbox asides, includes nonbinary OC Sol of the Yaxley line. Complete.
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Harry Potter and the Pathways of Possibility by viciousmouse
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
31 May 2026
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Having surprisingly survived his confrontation with Voldemort in the aftermath of the Triwizard Tournament, Harry now finds himself in the unprecedented situation of having an open-ended future. He hasn't planned for this, and isn't used to a life without a purpose through war. How does living an ordinary life work out for everyone else?
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- Part 5 of Harry Potter and the Ticket Backwards
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Bookmarked by AverageFish
25 Feb 2025
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Really great. I heartily recommend the whole series. 8/?
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Harry Potter really didn’t plan on living past his fated confrontation with Lord Voldemort. When the latent basilisk venom and phoenix tears in his blood started making dramatic changes to his body, he wasn’t that concerned. It’s not like he was going to live long enough for it to be a problem anyway.
Even if he had planned to live past the final battle, then he could never have guessed the struggle awaiting him on the other side, or that he’d become a magnet for those with nowhere else to go like the snarky house elf, the grumpy phoenix, the injured vampire, or the stray werewolf that showed up on their doorstep…oh, and the egg. You can’t forget the egg; that’s the most important, more than anyone or anything else on the planet. Harry will do whatever it takes…literally whatever, even light the fire and watch the world burn, all for the sake of the egg.
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All Hail the Dark Lord, Or Something Idiotic Like That by NinjaPandaScholar
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Feb 2024
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Harry Potter had a plan...it wasn't a very good plan, but at least it was simple.
Step 1: Don't die from the insanely difficult ritual
Step 2: Cause as much chaos to the timeline as possible before getting killed and/or arrestedAs it goes, it was really simple...until it became clear he wasn't traveling back in time alone. Now the whole plan has to change.
Step 1: Don't die from the ritual
Step 2: Kill off current Dark Lord
Step 3: Establish following to become new Dark Lord
Step 4: Overthrow Ministry
Step 5: Cause as much chaos to the timeline as possible
Step 6: Keep boyfriend alive and not mad at himIt was a work in progress, but plans hadn't worked out well for Harry in the past regardless. Oh well, it's not like he could make things worse...
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Harry Potter and the Ticket Backwards by viciousmouse
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
12 May 2020
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When the most powerful magics collide due to Harry Potter's desperate, last sacrifice, he creates for himself a chance to fix up the wrongs in his world. Yet going back in time isn't everything that he expected: Voldemort is a threat, but it is Harry himself who no longer fits comfortably in the world. Time has changed him, he just hasn't yet figured out how.
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- Part 1 of Harry Potter and the Ticket Backwards