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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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Instead of killing his potential rival, Voldemort decides to take his fate into his own hands by kidnapping Harry Potter to take the young boy under his wing and train him to become his most powerful follower. Of course, he is far too busy being the leader of a movement to raise a child, so it falls to two of his most loyal servants to raise the boy: Bellatrix and Rodolphus Lestrange become the boy's parents, raising him as their own.
Here is a playlist that fits along with the fic, inasmuch as it has fit the themes I'm writing/making notes on - but there are also songs that the characters either like or would like as well. :3
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- Part 1 of L'Étrange Héritier
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It’s the summer of 1995 and Voldemort has returned to life. It’s the summer of 1995 and Voldemort has had his hands grasped around the Ministry of Magic’s throat for the past 12 years. Both of these things are true realities existing simultaneously without anyone’s awareness, until a particular young wizard accidentally finds himself drug into a world that avoided the grim reality he knows, but is teetering on the precipice of falling straight into it. He is caught between two desperations; to return to his home, as brutal as life can be there, and to help this (only marginally) different Order of the Phoenix prepare for inevitable war.
Here is a playlist that fits along with the fic, inasmuch as it has fit the themes I'm writing/making notes on - but there are also songs that the characters either like or would like as well. :3
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Harry Potter and the Saviour Complex by AbsentMare
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
15 Feb 2026
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When a butterfly flaps its wings on one side of the world, it might create a series of events that leads to a hurricane on the other. What might a single and seemingly inconsequential moment do to radically alter the life of a small boy who lives in a small cupboard under the stairs and dreams of a better life than the one he’s known?
Year One at Hogwarts
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When a mother's desperation leaves the blood wards broken and Snape's cover blown, Harry and Snape are forced to spend the rest of their summer together deep undercover in a remote location on a mission for the Order. With nothing but each other's company the enemies are forced to learn that the other is more than what they seem, and that the very foundations of magic may be changing beneath their feet.
[Summary to be edited as more chapters are published!]
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10 Jul 2026
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There are rules to death, and as always, Harry Potter chooses to break them.
Severus is typically unimpressed with the results.(or: Harry brings Severus back from death and into a ten year coma, and things only get messier from there. Turns out binding a dead man's soul to your own isn't the best of ideas.)
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29 Apr 2026
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Part One (OotP) 120k words.
Her remains exhumed as part of Voldemort's grotesque resurrection ritual, Lily Potter is inadvertently brought back to life by unknown magic. She is twenty-one, a widow, and mother to a rebellious teenage boy. Bafflingly, her ex-best friend, Severus Snape, is said to have worked tirelessly to protect her son over the years, yet wants nothing to do with her. For his part, Harry Potter, at first overjoyed to have his mother back alive, begins to chafe under her authority and worry she has feelings for the teacher he so despises.
Part Two (HBP + DH) In progress.
After a dramatic summer, Harry vows to focus on Dumbledore’s lessons, not his mother’s love life. Try as he might, he cannot ignore Snape’s increasingly suspicious behavior: covering for Malfoy, pathetically fawning over Lily, and pretending he doesn’t hate Harry. Lily throws herself into teaching and recruitment efforts but frets over Severus and his refusal to disclose the details of the burden Dumbledore has placed on his shoulders.
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14 Apr 2026
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When Severus Snape dies in the Shrieking Shack, he expects it to be the end.
Instead, he wakes in Godric’s Hollow on the night Lily Potter dies—years younger, with full memory of everything that followed. This time, he doesn’t step back. This time, he takes the child.
With Harry Potter in his care, Snape sets out to change a future he knows too well—one shaped by war, manipulation, and a boy raised to die. But protecting Harry means stepping outside both the Dark Lord’s reach and Dumbledore’s design, and into alliances Snape has never trusted.
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31 Mar 2026
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When Severus Snape reaches his journey's end, he finds himself at a crossroads. A choice that could alter the course of his existence. Severus stands face to face with the jury of the dead and because of it, he finds himself in a bit of a conundrum. "I can relive my life without my memories? What's the catch?"
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29 Mar 2026