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The last thing Severus can remember is overhearing a prophecy in a dingy, goat-scented pub. Now there’s a James Potter clone with Lily’s eyes, a much aged Minerva McGonagall, and an infuriatingly familiar woman with frizzy hair all saying he is not a loyal Death Eater. Looking in a mirror proves that he is, indeed, suddenly pushing fifty. All in all, not his best day.
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27 Jul 2026
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Fun structure slowly revealing past events leading up to the present. I don't try particularly hard to solve mysteries as I read, happy to just let it happen. But even if I were trying, I don't think I could have guessed the resolution. It's creative, not contrived. As for characters, I love mentor to colleague arcs with Snape and researcher/academic Hermione. Luna is a minor character but her parts made me burst out laughing multiple times.
Binge read.
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Some stories in life repeat in the same old patterns. Until they change.
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24 Jul 2026
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Lily remembered her sister, how there had been a time she was curious and delighted about magic, before it slowly sank in that she could look and not touch.
The last thing Petunia had said to Lily before she died was a chilly goodbye, ending a holiday dinner where they'd had a shrieking row in the entryway. Petunia had said 'freak' and Lily had hissed 'better than this, better than this being my whole fucking world, Tune, do you even see yourself, are you happy--'
And now here was Dudley Vernon Dursley fussing himself to sleep as Lily walked the halls of the Godric's Hollow house. His tiny soft hands with their tiny soft fingernails curled under her chin, the same way Harry's always had.
She passed James, who was gently bouncing his way up the hall the opposite way. "I think he's asleep," James mouthed over Harry's tousled head. His hair was the same mess, his head bent down as he peered at his sleeping son.
Lily stopped where she stood, her nephew heavy on her chest, her husband smiling, her sister buried. "James," she said. "How are we going to do this?"
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- Part 12 of boy with a scar
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23 Jun 2026
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the family evans by dirgewithoutmusic for darkersoltice
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
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What if, when Petunia Dursley found a little boy on her front doorstep, she took him in? Not into the cupboard under the stairs, not into a twisted childhood of tarnished worth and neglect—what if she took him in?
Petunia was jealous, selfish and vicious. We will not pretend she wasn’t. She looked at that boy on her doorstep and thought about her Dudders, barely a month older than this boy. She looked at his eyes and her stomach turned over and over. (Severus Snape saved Harry’s life for his eyes. Let’s have Petunia save it despite them).
Let’s tell a story where Petunia Dursley found a baby boy on her doorstep and hated his eyes—she hated them. She took him in and fed him and changed him and got him his shots, and she hated his eyes up until the day she looked at the boy and saw her nephew, not her sister’s shadow. When Harry was two and Vernon Dursley bought Dudley a toy car and Harry a fast food meal with a toy with parts he could choke on Petunia packed her things and got a divorce.
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- Part 4 of boy with a scar
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25 Sep 2024
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The whole "boy with a scar" series is fantastic. dirgewithoutmusic accomplishes so much in these brief one-shots, like an artist who can convey a bustling city street with a handful of sketched lines. We get whole worlds filled with complex characters, stories brimming with heart. While I'd certainly read more fic set in these worlds, what dirgewithoutmusic gives us is complete and whole.
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"Are you going for the course?" Lovegood asked. "You have the NEWTs.”
“What course?” Draco said, then, “No, don’t be ridiculous,” when he realized she meant the notice pinned up on the board he’d been staring at: Applicants To The Introductory Mediwizard Course For The Coming Term Shall Present Themselves In The Chief Mediwizard’s Office By August 24th.
“Oh, I thought you might,” she said. “Well, goodbye.” And off she wandered again in her addled way.
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- Part 3 of Astolat Sampler
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22 Sep 2024
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A fascinating exploration of the deleterious effects of dark magic and the world of healing arts. Draco is perfect and his road to redemption quite realistic. This is one of my comfort stories that I come back to again and again.