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  1. Rec *

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    Harry Potter thought the nightmare ended in the graveyard.
    He thought, after watching Cedric die, after being dragged through blood and fire and Voldemort, that someone, anyone would bring him home.
    He thought there would be family. Safety. Maybe even love.

    Instead, he is dumped at the Dursleys’ doorstep like garbage.
    Told to wait.
    Wait for news. Wait for help. Wait for something that never comes.

    But waiting only makes the cracks deeper. And when the silence is too loud, when the pain and rage and fear finally devour him, something inside Harry snaps.

    What happens when the Boy Who Lived stops trying to live?

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    09 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

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    “Harry Potter.”

    The cold burrowed into his flesh; the scent of cloying death and molding earth clogged his senses.

    “The Boy Who Lived.”

    A strange sense of unimaginable loss and disappointment rose inside of Harry. That brilliant, yet cruel boy could’ve been so much more if he’d not stepped down this bloodied path.

    Terrible, but great. He pitied this creature.

    “Come to die.”

    Harry Potter faced the flash of green light with the bravery of a Gryffindor and the broken heart of a Hufflepuff.


    When Death gives Harry a third option, one that can save everyone he ever cared about, he takes it unflinchingly. Even when that means doing the impossible: falling in love with the enemy, Tom Riddle.

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    23 Dec 2025

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  3. Rec *

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    “Harry, please,” Death says beseechingly. “You haven’t even heard the full punishment yet.”

    “Oh? There’s more?”

    “Tom Riddle will be in your custody for five years,” Death finishes. “Five years is how long that Fate has deemed you should be punished with the presence of your worst enemy."


    A hundred years after the end of the Second War, Harry Potter, Master of Death, unwittingly helps the last fragment of Lord Voldemort’s soul escape Limbo. Now, bound by Fate to Tom Riddle for the next five years, Harry has to coexist with the man he feared the most.


    Or: Auror M.O.D. Harry and Tom Riddle strike an uneasy truce and solve crimes together, and Harry has to decide if his capacity to save everyone includes everyone, really.

    OR: an excuse for Harry and Tom to be a crime-fighting duo like Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, while also trying not to strangle each other.

     

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    21 Dec 2025

  4. Rec *

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    When Harry presented as an Omega after the rest of his classmates, it was a surprise. When he went into his first heat, reacting like a bonded Omega, well unfortunately, some omegas had atypical heats. When he made it out of the graveyard, mostly fine minus the expected trauma, it was a bloody miracle.

    It was too bad that no one recalled that centuries before Bond Marks were called Soul Marks.

    Alternatively, the Locket Horcrux has the perspective Voldemort never did and decides to scrap all of his plans in favor of rebuilding the Wizarding World and putting himself back together as a courting gift to his soulbound omega.

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    10 Dec 2025

  5. Rec *

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    Harry Potter has always been different, and his strange connection to plants marks him as the freak his Aunt and Uncle always claimed he was. The wizarding world was supposed to be an escape, but even there, he must hide the truth of his abilities. His magic doesn’t fit the rules, and secrets have a way of growing wild.

    (If only there was someone who understood...)

     
    A re-telling of the books in which Harry has more than one power the Dark Lord knows not.

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    12 Nov 2025