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Harry Potter and the Pale Horseman by alexandertheII
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Apr 2020
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There is not much Death cares about. However, when someone violates the Natural Order of things, he does care. And Tom Riddle violates the Natural Order of Life and Death.
But as we know, Death is cunning, and in the end, he will get what he is owed. To realign the world to how it should be, he gives Harry three choices: Stay dead, go on, or go back.
With his 'saving-people-thing' as strong as ever, what could Harry choose but to go back?
Time-travel story, a bit bashy in the beginning. I ported this from FFN and am updating as I work through the old chapters catching all the irregularities dispersed throughout them when they were first published. That means I have 51 chapters ready and just waiting to be published.- Language:
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21 Jul 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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21 Jul 2026
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After the battle for Hogwarts Harry felt numb, he wanted to be alone. Until a letter from Gringotts asks to meet the saviour and internally he dreads the day. Traitors are uncovered and in a bid to try and make things right Harry is allowed back into the past and his 11 year old body by Death, on the promise to fix things. Now, armed with old memories he begins the fall of the Empire Dumbledore built...but he's not alone.
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21 Jul 2026
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"how terrible is it to love something that death can touch. oh, but how beautiful it is to know that death is dying to touch what you love."
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"Tell me the truth, Potter!" Umbridge screeched, "Tell me where Albus Dumbledore is!"
Harry’s head lolled forward as the curse lifted for a moment, his chest heaving as he struggled to breathe.
"Go… to… hell," he rasped, defiance burning in his emerald gaze.
Her face twisted in rage, and she raised her wand again.
"CRUCIO! "
The curse slammed into him again.
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Harry Potter dies. Harry Potter finds himself in the afterlife. Harry Potter finds himself facing Death in the face.
Death has his face.
Death tells Harry he wasn't meant to die, and gives Harry three propositions: go back to life, wait in limbo until battle or go back to the 1940s, and complete the impossible, with the help of his mother and father.
Death tells Harry everyone dies, but not everyone lives.
And Harry...
Harry finds himself with a mission.
Harry will make sure Tom Riddle gets to live his life, for once.
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- Part 1 of everyone dies, but not everyone lives
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21 Jul 2026
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When you can't change time, but you can't go forward, what is left? Hermione learns how to be the protagonist of her own story.
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Bookmarked by Monkeywrench
11 Jul 2026