13 Bookmarks by improbas
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At eleven, Tom Riddle is dead set on flying and deathly afraid of heights.
At seventeen, he is a Hogwarts dropout and a Dark Lord rivaling Grindelwald.
At twenty, he is barely a wizard, robbed of his magic and wracked by Muggle illness. A simple case of consumption shall end him, unless Harry unravels Riddle's mysteries once and for all.
(Or: An AU where Tom and Harry grow up together, fight a war, twist a prophecy, break Quidditch, and fall very badly in love, though perhaps not in that order.)
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- Part 1 of consumption
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 52,422
- Chapters:
- 11/11
- Collections:
- 15
- Comments:
- 412
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- 1,611
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Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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a treasure, literally dying of consumption disease, wonderfully non-linear
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It's been nine years since the Battle of Hogwarts and the wizarding world has been wiped of almost all criminals, thanks to the incredibly hard-working Auror, Harry Potter. With one last remaining Death Eater to catch, they are on the cusp of peace at last.
That is, until Hermione brings reports to Harry concerning a murderous snake whom she believes has something to do with the deceased Dark Lord. She thinks it could be the seventh part of Voldemort's soul, created because he did not know about the (now destroyed) Horcrux that was in Harry. Seven Horcruxes, not seven parts.
Harry finds the snake and feels compelled to assuage some of his survivor's guilt by making the man suffer. He recreates the resurrection ritual, but this time, with a crucial alteration to the ingredients: the flesh of a servant. Without it, the Dark Lord Voldemort has no magic. Harry secretly takes the man prisoner in his home, wanting to hurt him, to force him to divulge where his last Horcrux is, but things begin to rapidly fall out of his control.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 297,088
- Chapters:
- 63/63
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- 1,402
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Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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no magic voldie au, insane novel within a novel, BDSM content - riveting. DARK but highly enjoyable
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Harry Potter was a perfect symbol of the Light. Cursed at birth by a spell that had affected so many of his generation, he overcame his inherent nature, depending on his faith to eventually save the world. He became a beacon of hope, evidence that anyone could be redeemed. Even ten years after the events that had tested the very limits of his willpower, he continued his work. He was determined to find proof of miracles—to see that the Light looked over the rest of the world as it looked over him.
And he eventually found what he was looking for.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 32,800
- Chapters:
- 7/7
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 64
- Kudos:
- 499
- Bookmarks:
- 197
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- 14,967
Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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horror au, religion themes - super yummy build up and Horny AF in the best of ways
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One would think traveling 52 years into the past would allow Harry some much desired anonymity, but unfortunately the malfunctioning Triwizard Cup spat Harry out on the quidditch pitch in the middle of a game. There's no lying about his provenance while a shiny plaque on the base of the Cup announces to everyone he is 'Harry Potter, Hogwarts Champion, 1994.'
Swept up by the ministry and sworn to secrecy by the Unspeakables, Harry is left to navigate the past on his own. Good thing his great-grandparents are willing to take him in - even if they're a little more into blood purity than Harry had expected - and Hogwarts is willing to welcome him back - even if he's a novelty to everyone as the time traveling Champion.
At least Harry will have the familiarity of Gryffindor Tower to ease his homesickness. Or he would, if the sorting hat hadn't put him in Slytherin, where he's forced to share a dorm with none other than Tom Riddle.
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In which Harry is determined to prevent Voldemort's rise, even if he has to stalk, bribe, threaten, and marry Tom Riddle to do it.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 90,346
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Comments:
- 1,418
- Kudos:
- 14,370
- Bookmarks:
- 4,440
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- 290,862
Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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delightful, a young tom falling in love that i could SQUEEZE
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When Petunia first abandons Harry to the cupboard under the stairs, a paroxysmal reaction of magic sends the infant back through time to the relative safety of 1963. Recovered from the site of a magical hailstorm in Surrey, he is adopted into the Potter family.
Or—
Harry Potter is entering his sixth year at Hogwarts. With less than satisfactory OWL results and a war brewing just outside the school walls, he has plenty to contend with . . . the last thing Harry needs is to catch the attention of the rising Dark Lord.
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The unkind reality of time travel, immortality, and fate. Or: the one where Harry ends up in Dark Ages Scotland and makes the best (read: worst) of it.
- Words:
- 23,613
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 831
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He lets himself think about it—what a life without magic, without Voldemort, without this constant looming expectation to perform at the whims of the wizarding world might be like—and he feels little more than relief and an itch to get going already.
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Overcome by grief and guilt after Sirius’s death, Harry leaves the wizarding world behind for a new life across the pond. As an unassuming Muggle, his life is ordinary and unglamorous, but fate eventually has its way of drawing him back to where he’s meant to be.
AU after Order of the Phoenix
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 76,023
- Chapters:
- 16/16
- Collections:
- 17
- Comments:
- 945
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- 7,211
- Bookmarks:
- 2,019
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- 131,311
Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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a fave, excellent harry ran away from destiny au.
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“The only reason any of this is happening at all is because of you. You seek me out. Again and again and again. You bring me back. This isn’t my party at all. It’s yours.”
There was no denying the tension in Harry now and relishing the achievement, Tom pressed even closer, invading Harry’s personal space, nearly making him flatten against the window.
“So tell me, Harry, why do you keep inviting me to play?”
Or, in other words, being dead means jack shit.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 49,570
- Chapters:
- 9/9
- Collections:
- 19
- Comments:
- 542
- Kudos:
- 4,110
- Bookmarks:
- 1,279
- Hits:
- 78,847
Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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yeah. rebirth au. sigh. sob. ; w ; we STAN purplewitch
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“Two weeks of sex. That’s what you’re after?”
“Nagini would say two weeks of companionship, but … yes.”
Tom fully expected to loathe everything about his forced holiday to the island known as Paradise, but that was before he met Harry.
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Brazilian Portuguese Translation (Thank you dry_reid!) can be found here.
Chinese Translation (Thank you venishiver!) can be found here.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 15,407
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
- 18
- Comments:
- 295
- Kudos:
- 3,426
- Bookmarks:
- 767
- Hits:
- 27,795
Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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chess tom in paradise, purplewitch is an all timer???
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- Words:
- 87,384
- Works:
- 2
- Bookmarks:
- 394
Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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IM NOT EVEN DONE AND IM SCREAMING. SCIFI BLEND AU. THE PROSE. THE WB. THE LOVE.
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A mysterious object in Bellatrix's vault sends Harry, Ron and Hermione spinning into the past and to a Hogwarts like none they know.
Posing as students, Harry catches the eye of the Head Boy, Tom Riddle, who is nothing like the Voldemort of the future. He's charming and sly and manipulative; both brillant and deadly.It isn’t long before they’re tangled in a game more intricate than anything before. A game of heightened stakes, of tension, and the odds are stacked against Harry. With the threads of the future unravelling, can Harry make it out intact? And what is the cost, of truly getting close to Tom?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 277,747
- Chapters:
- 51/51
- Collections:
- 28
- Comments:
- 1,476
- Kudos:
- 12,579
- Bookmarks:
- 3,828
- Hits:
- 472,939
Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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THIS WAS **REALLY GOOD**, time travel. iirc abraxas goat.
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Tom Riddle is a frightening coil of darkness, cruelty, and greatness, and changing him is Harry’s only hope for saving people he loves. Going back in time, he takes Tom from the orphanage, but his optimism shatters with every year they spend together.
Tom still longs for darkness. Tom stifles him in his possessiveness. Tom is fixated on him to the point of destroying the world just to keep him.
But Harry loves him. And the future changes.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 266,516
- Chapters:
- 10/10
- Collections:
- 81
- Comments:
- 4,573
- Kudos:
- 26,539
- Bookmarks:
- 7,132
- Hits:
- 905,865
Bookmarked by improbas
09 Mar 2026
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i scream and i cry. a very deserved ending for a spectacular story.
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Either must die at the hand of the other by Metalomagnetic
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Jun 2022
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Voldemort survives the Battle of Hogwarts because Harry Potter had not been the one to kill him, as the prophecy demands.
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- Part 1 of Either must die