Magical Methods
This collection has been created to gather Harry Potter fics that really delve into the mechanics of magic. This can be from the author(s) giving more background into canonical magic, creating their own, going into detail about Magic as a sentient force, expounding on creature culture, etc. The possibilities are literally endless because MAGIC! All pairings and ratings are welcome, though my personal finds will skew Hermione-centric.
(Open, Moderated)
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Harry Potter: Durmstrang Year One by Faithless_3105
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Nov 2025
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Many had called Igor Karkaroff a weak man over the years but few would call him stupid; self serving yes, but not stupid. That very nature was what brought him to a sleepy suburb of Surrey in July 1991. You see he knew that Harry Potter would now be old enough to attend a school, he'd done the maths, and while the whole of wizarding Britain assumed that the boy would attend Hogwarts, like all good British wizards should, Igor thought he might offer the boy an alternative to try to persuade the young 'saviour' to his school. He could already imagine the coup it would be to pull that feather right from under Dumbledore's nose and, luckily for him, Harry Potter doesn't even seem to need that much persuading.
Join Harry as he learns to be a wizard in a very different magical environment and see the changes that can happen when you are free to make your own choices in life.
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- Part 2 of The Durmstrang Years
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Hermione grows up as a maths whiz instead of a bookworm and tests into Arithmancy in her first year. With the help of her friends and Professor Vector, she puts her superhuman spellcrafting skills to good use in the fight against Voldemort.
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- Part 1 of Arithmancer-Verse
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Winter's Tale by Entwinedlove
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Captain America (Movies)
12 Apr 2019
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To the Wizarding World, Muggle-borns don't exist. To the mundane world, it's wizards themselves that don't. Hermione Granger lives in the shadowy spaces of both.
A Time Travel epic with a tragic love story. Or maybe an epic Love Story that spans several tragic lifetimes. (Or maybe even a story of the life of some goats. Tangentially.)
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- Part 1 of Winter's Tale 'verse
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Remus Lupin took his last breath.
Hermione Granger forgot how to breathe.After she collapsed on the third floor of the castle, screaming in agony, neither Madam Pomfrey nor the healers from St Mungo’s could diagnose what ailed the Golden Girl.
And so, the war was won, but Hermione was alone. Harry was dead, along with half of the Weasley clan. When she’s taken in by Sirius Black, truths are uncovered. Now armed with the weight of a vow and a bond, Hermione knows what must be done.
The world was broken, and so were they. But she could fix it; She could save them all.
She could save him.
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- Part 2 of Keeper of the Moon
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New Blood -- Hermione Granger and the Obstacle Course by artemisgirl
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Dec 2020
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Sorted into Slytherin with the whisper of prophecy around her, Hermione refuses to bow down to the blood prejudices that poison the wizarding world. Carving her own path forward, Hermione chooses to make her own destiny, not as a Muggleborn, a halfblood, or as a pureblood... but as a New Blood, and everything the mysterious term means.
((Short chapters, done scene by scene))
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- Part 1 of New Blood
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The Revenge of Hermione Grindelwald by AsMuchAsIWish
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types
15 Oct 2022
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Hermione Granger had saved the Wizarding World.
She had saved everyone she cared about, everyone they cared about, and all the others no one else cared about. She, the Mud-Blood of the Century, fought long and hard for seven years, learning everything she could to stop the dark forces that rained hell on the world she loved. She saved lives and kept others alive, though she never took any. She saved Sirius Black; she saved Fred and George Weasley; she saved Severus Snape. Hell, she even saved Draco and Lucius Malfoy from a dark life in Azkaban. Hermione Granger did the Wizarding World a service she didn't have to do.
And this is how the repay her?
THIS is how they repay all the good she's done in the world?
She could forgive hiding things from her -- hell, it wouldn't be the first, but tricking her into following their plans? Dousing her with potions and removing things from her mind? Was setting her up to be bound for eternity with men she didn't truly know, nor even like, somehow BETTER than the others?
No, that's not how this works. How dare they treat her like this? Trick her, lie to her, abuse her.
Fine. She'll ruin their lives, just like they tried to do to hers.
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Hermione's parents had always wanted a son and were incredibly disappointed to be saddled with a daughter. Of course they never abused her, she always had food and clothing, but they never gave her any sort of acknowledgement or love. When tragedy strikes the Granger family what will happen to Hermione. Alone in the world, what can Hermione do wielding only magic and considerable wits.
Very eventual Draco/Hermione (On Hiatus)
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This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.
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Magic is a tricky thing. There must be a balance between Light and Dark magic. Apparently nobody stopped to think that killing Voldemort might upset that already delicate balance. Now nature is requiring Hermione to pay the price in order for balance to be restored. Doing otherwise, means death.
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Salazar Slytherin woke up in the body of a three-year-old boy with the most ridiculous head of black hair & a runic scar carved into his forehead. The last thing he recalled was dying. Now it is over 900 years in the future. There are a million things to deal with between new inventions, lost knowledge, missing spirits, & parasitic dark lords.
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- Part 1 of Ouroboros
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Hermione Granger receives a unique educational opportunity, which has some very unexpected consequences.
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- Part 1 of Shield and Star