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Harry Potter's encounter with the basilisk in Chamber of Secrets does not leave him unscathed. This is a story about how he adapts, the true test of friendship, and dark mysteries that must be unravelled.
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06 Jun 2026
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When Harry slew the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, venom got in his eyes, mostly blinding him. After an attack shut down the Perenelle Flamel Center where he was learning to adapt, Harry returned to Privet Drive unexpectedly with the threat of an escaped Death Eater dogging his heels. All he wants to do is break free of the Dursleys, but how can he with Professor McGonagall at his side? No pairings.
This is part four of the Venom & Tears Series.
Read Basilisk Eyes first! https://archiveofourown.org/works/16269131Series
- Part 4 of Venom and Tears
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06 Jun 2026
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21/? excellent world building, it has very-long-fanfic syndrome but is well worth rereading.
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A Hunter at Hogwarts by NinjaPandaScholar
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Supernatural (TV 2005)
31 May 2026
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Just after his eleventh birthday, Sam Winchester received a letter dropped off by an owl of all things. Dean Winchester knew two things: First, their dad would absolutely kill a wizard, even if he was family, and second, this Ilvermorny place was not far enough away from their father by any stretch of the imagination.
Harry Potter chose a very important train compartment on his first ride to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. There was a small boy sitting alone in the compartment reading, and this boy had on his person three knives and a bottle of holy water. Harry Potter had found his people.
Severus Snape thought he must be extremely unlucky to be the only faculty member at the school who had a muggle landline phone at his summer residence…unlucky, but also so very thankful. Because after countless shocking, concerning, and frankly bizarre calls from one of his students’ guardians each summer, a Dean Winchester, well, Severus’s life was taking on a completely new and welcome direction.
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What if the protection Lily and James had sacrificed their lives for had unforeseen results? Harry Potter. The Boy-Who-Lived. Blind. But does a wizard need eyes to see?
This Harry Potter can see magic/see with magic and his personality differs from Canon Harry Potter in many ways.
Rated T for now but may change. No Pairings until at least 3rd Year. Slight AU diverging more the older Harry gets.
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Pensieves are dangerous instruments of great power, capable of impossible feats. Mixing blood and memories was a recipe for greatness and disaster.
At the height of the war in Dumbledore's Office, Snape's blood and Harry's blood fall into the basin, entangled with the memories, and it changes the course of the world as those memories come to life. Thrown backwards into 1975, Harry and Snape are forced to adapt to danger and drama from all angles.
Oh, and Harry's eyes absorb that which changed him - one red as blood, the other silver as memories - leaving him completely blind. How will that vulnerability change the way Snape views him?
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Oliver Stone once said: "The first casualty of war is innocence."
Harry Potter was the lone survivor of a plane crash when he was just five years old. Recovered by an unknown militant group, he grows up without innocence as it is the only way to survive. The wizarding world isn't ready for this Savior.
And, once he does return to the wizarding world, it starts to change. The war brought by the Dark Lord escalates and even the Ministry of Magic changes in response. War is encompassing, but where there is darkness there is still hope.
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Inspired by the web comic "Teenage Mercenary" (also known as "Mercenary Enrollment")
Part one of this series was the one-shot inspiration for this full length piece. "Casualties of War" has diverged from the original one-shot.Series
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Harry Potter shows up at Hogwarts very differently than anyone is expecting.
Harry honestly couldn't care less about other people's expectations of him as long as it doesn't impede his newfound freedom or all the color he has found for himself.
Oh, and Harry was sorted into Hufflepuff creating a world of problems for one manipulative headmaster.
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Defensive Magical Practice (How to defeat a Dark Wizard, by a Dark Wizard) by Driftingalongtheshore
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
04 May 2026
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If the Ministry's response to the world's most infamous Dark Wizard being raised from the dead is complete denial, it should be no surprise that they don't even notice when the second most infamous Dark Wizard goes missing.
When Gellert Grindelwald escapes prison after getting a vision of Albus Dumbledore's death, he learns that Hogwarts is looking for yet another Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor. It seems like the perfect excuse to get close to the Headmaster so that he can protect Albus. But with Albus more suspicious than ever and the Ministry determined to get its talons into Hogwarts, how long can he hide his identity?
Albus is thankful to have found a professor who isn't some Ministry puppet. Harry just wants someone to assure him that his dreams don't mean he's losing his mind.
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Deserving of Most Wonderful Things by TheViewFrom81
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Feb 2026
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Sometimes Fate depends on the right people meeting at the wrong time but what’s happens when Chance— and a little bit of accidental magic— get in the way?
Harry Potter meets Luna Lovegood while staying at The Leaky Cauldron six weeks before the start of his third year, making a friend that helps him see that the world doesn’t have to be as dark as it feels sometimes.
That friendship changes everything.
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17 May 2026
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13/? possibly the best fic I've read in a really long time. This speaks to me on many levels.
A story on being cared for by loved ones, on accepting help sometimes, on understanding the difference between what is normal for yourself and what is normal for others. On the intersections of different disabilities and the frustration of bureaucracy and well-meaning idiots.
I love this story with all my heart.
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What if Bellatrix followed Sirius through the Veil? What if they ended up in 1927? What if they raised Tom Riddle?
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16 May 2026
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During a publicity stunt, Harry and five others are sent to another world where a well timed Stupefy made all the difference. As Harry looks for his peers and a way home, another Harry investigates the odd arrival of his doppelganger.
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16 May 2026
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19/?
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A Clash of Ambitions by LitGal
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
01 Feb 2026
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Ned changed as much as he could after being shown the consequences of his mistakes in his first life. The North is stronger, the free folk are south of the wall, the Boltons and Umbers are tied to the Starks more strongly than ever, and now he needs to prepare his family for the fight to come… and hope his nephew Jon will return from Essos before the Night King can threaten the realm once again. Because this time, Ned knows that Jon is the only one who can stop the long night for good.
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Kesīr jī arlī by Herakles
Fandoms: A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
29 Dec 2024
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When the gods of Westeros and the last dragon of Valryia realize the thing that inhabits Bran is evil, they work to fix it by sending a prince back to right the wrongs.
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When Rhaegar takes Lyanna, the North does not join Robert's Rebellion in the traditional sense. Instead, they just... decouple themselves from the rest of Westeros. No one may enter or leave. The breakaway is slow, quiet, and unmistakable. Robert loses his rebellion and his life, and Lyanna loses her own life on the birthing bed giving Rhaegar exactly what he didn't want: another son. Jon grows up in the shadows of his Targaryen Father and prophesied brother.
Still, calamity strikes, and winter comes rolling in from the North. Decades after the rebellion was finally quelled, the Stark children are coming forward to ask for the remains and effects of their ancestors. Rhaegar sees this as an opportunity to tie the realm together once again, but trust is a fragile thing and the North no longer abides by oathbreakers.
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Trying my hand at intrigue this time. Something different, darker, and stranger. Started off as a Rhaegar-Won AU and turned into a full bodied AU with the introduction of all that's been going down in the North. Updates are going to be slow, but that's just life for me these days.
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19 Apr 2026
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Weirwood Daughter by ctrl_issue
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
22 Nov 2025
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When the Long Night comes, Sansa doesn't survive the crypts. Instead of dying, she gets thrown back in time to just after her pet direwolf, Lady, was killed. She now has the option to fix things, armed with the foreknowledge of everything that had happened to her and her family and the realm since she was a maiden. Every House and every Lord is going to become their own Cyvasse piece upon her board as she readies Westeros for the coming Long Night. Let them play the Game of Thrones, she's playing a different game - and she means to win.
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This is going to be a Jonsa story, but it takes a while to get there.
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Valar Botis (All Men Must Endure) by sanva
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
04 Feb 2019
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“But you, Lord Snow, you’ll be fighting their battles forever.” Ser Alliser Thorne
Every time he died his last in that life he awoke again in another at the exact moment of Ghost's birth.
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15 Apr 2026
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"Death"
"You are finally ready, I see"
"Ready for what?"
"To live"
"Wasn't I doing just that?"
"Were you?"Harry had no answer.
(Perhaps that was answer enough. Or perhaps Death just enjoyed being cryptic. Hard to say.)
___{Time-travel AU. Watch as Harry is yeeted into the past, bullies the wizarding world into making sense, and absolutely refuses to follow Dumbledore’s script. Features excessive worldbuilding (someone's gotta fix this mess), slow-burn romance (because trauma-bonding is hot), and a protagonist who treats destiny like Terms & Conditions—unread and promptly ignored. Happy ending optional, sarcasm mandatory.}
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11 Apr 2026
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lovely, vivid, fun. Good enough to read again.
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Look, I’ll be the first to admit that I had never much bought into the whole pearly gates or eternal damnation business. I couldn’t tell you what I was expecting of the afterlife - but it sure as hell wasn't this.
Moody glowered. "What is with you today?"
I grinned back at him. Oh, you have no idea.
You died, the first time, on a random thursday afternoon. Waking up in the body of a young - and very much alive - Moaning Myrtle, you couldn't quite believe your luck. But alas, no rest for the newly deceased. There is work to be done. Between stopping Tom Riddle from opening the Chamber of Secrets, evading the Knights of Walpurgis, and figuring out just why Olive Hornby hates you so much, you’ve got a very busy afterlife.
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07 Apr 2026
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Winter Comes Again by Blushinrosie
Fandoms: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms, A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin
27 Aug 2025
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Two years after the Battle for the Living, the harshest winter in living memory still hasn’t ended. Sansa Stark is desperate to save what’s left of her people, but there’s nothing she can do except hope that they don’t all slowly starve before winter ends.
Well, nothing she can do until the Old Gods hear her desperate plea and send her back to Winterfell months before King Robert stepped foot in the North. Now all the “what ifs” she’s spent contemplating are possible and she’s promised the Old Gods she would do anything to save her family and the people of the North even if that meant staining her honor, allying with old enemies, or entering yet another unwanted marriage.
Or the one in which the Old Gods have zero tact and Sansa is determined to keep the game of thrones from ruining her family or the North.
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Harry Potter is eleven. Sort of. Except he's thirty-one. Or so.
Doesn't matter, really. He can look eleven if he wants. What matters is, he's lived all this shit before. SEEN it, anyway. and aged up. And he will not let it go that way this time.
This time, he's taking care of everything. Nobody's dying. Nobody's living in fear. And nobody's camping and starving for months looking for horcruxes. Harry's destroying the damn things immediately. Like, yesterday. Who knows. Time's a little wonky.Severus Snape is not prepared for adult, unhinged Harry Potter. Neither are Sirius, Remus, Ron, or any of the Weasleys. But that's okay. Harry hopes they won't get too attached. Because. Well. Harry's a horcrux. And all horcruxes have to be destroyed.
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03 Apr 2026