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The Sorting Hat reads his mind only once and knows this one should be in Slytherin. His red hair marks him an outsider amongst the serpants, but what happens when his silver tongue wins over the heart of students, with his father's good looks and charming smile. What happens when Harry Potter, the scholarly serpent with emerald eyes, decides the Wizarding World has grown too stagnant to survive? (Manipulative/Grey Harry Potter) Harry Potter/Harem
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The South Eastern Pearl Temple by CRISPR_Chronicler
Fandoms: Original Work, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
27 Sep 2025
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On Hallowe’en 1981 the world doesn’t just shatter; it rings.
An institute no one names in public hears the spike, arrives without wands, and removes a foreign soul from an infant’s scar by the simplest rule of Hermetic science: as seen, so made. The child breathes. The Overseer files the moment as Past. The rest of wizarding Britain never notices—because they’re meant to see something else.Harry Potter goes to the Dursleys… on paper.
The real Harry grows ten years under the South Eastern Pearl Temple—an abyssal sanctuary that treats magic as a measurable phenomenon. He learns visualization before incantation, breath before flare, precision before praise. Severus Snape, dragged out of grief and installed as witness, becomes the one man the Temple chooses to tell the TRUTH to.Goblins do not kneel; they measure.
At Gringotts, a rite of emancipation recognizes Severus as Lord of the Ancient and Most Illustrious House Regius.This is competence, oathless and exact:
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Cassiopeia Potter-Black has never heard her real name. To the Dursleys, she was only ‘Candace Potts’, a false identity crafted to sever her ties to magic, to family, to everything that made her who she was.
She was as normal as she could be, until a snake starts talking and her whole life falls apart. Cast out from the only home she’s ever known, Cassiopeia stumbles into Diagon Alley and begins to uncover the truth that was stolen from her: she is not Candace. She is the daughter of a murdered legacy, a girl with a name that carries both power and danger. She is Cassiopeia Potter-Black.
The wizarding world thinks it knows the story of the Girl Who Lived. They’re about to find out how wrong they were.
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The art of being a Necromancer or how Harry Potter learned when to and not to raise the dead by fantasy_lover08
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Sep 2025
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Harry Potter was done with everything and everyone. Not only has his only friends abandoned him because he was, unwillingly and unknowingly mind you, entered into the stupid Tournament, but the whole school was calling him a cheater and a fraud! Again! Hexes and curses were being thrown at him left, right and center!
After a tripping jinx that landed him on the bottom of the moving stairs and in the arms of none other than his school nemesis - Draco Malfoy, and the odd Slytherin boy from their year- Theodore Nott, Harry is offered the protection of the two boys, but there is a catch, of course.
Well, lucky for the two Slytherins, Harry's got nothing more to lose and all the more to gain from their little deal. -
The Boy Who got Called a Savage by ActFirst_ThinkLater
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Sep 2025
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Harry Potter is not a passive boy.
Locked in a cupboard under the stairs, overlooked, ignored- he had two choices: submit, or fight back.
He chose fight. Not with fists, not exactly… but with wit, cunning, and a certain… flair for the dramatic. He’s smart. He’s impatient. He’s sassy. And yes, he might just be a little dangerous.
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What if being a Parselmouth isn’t the only thing Harry inherited from Voldemort? What if he also inherited ambition, cleverness, and the refusal to be small?
Magic is messy. Life is messy. And Harry? Well… he’s about to be savage.
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Harry Potter has always been brilliant, charismatic, and unnaturally good at getting people to do what he wants. Raised with love by Sirius Black, he arrives at Hogwarts expecting Gryffindor—only to be sorted into Slytherin, where his natural talents for leadership and strategy finally have room to flourish.
But there's something strange happening at school. Death Eaters find their Dark Marks responding to his presence in ways they don't understand, and the Defense professor seems oddly familiar in a way that makes Harry's skin crawl. When Harry discovers someone is after the Philosopher's Stone, he realizes that his strategic mind and loyal friends might be the only things standing between Hogwarts and disaster.
Some people are born to lead. Harry's just better at it than most—and he has no idea why.
A story about nature versus nurture, the power of love to shape dangerous gifts, and what happens when natural cunning is guided by moral principles.
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- Part 1 of The Heir of Slytherin
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In the hospital wing after the Third Task, Harry realizes that nothing will convince Fudge to accept the truth of Voldemort's return, and decides to take a different approach.
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An intelligent and capable Harry Potter without the burden of an abusive childhood arrives at Hogwarts, and the Wizarding World is thrown for a loop. His adversaries better watch out, for when he or his are threatened, Harry takes no prisoners. Strong and morally grey Haphne. AU.
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Eisoptrophobia by Katherien_0_Corazon
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Owl House (Cartoon)
31 Jul 2025
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Harry Potter. That was the name.
His hair was messy, his sleeves stained with mud, his knees scraped and never healing. And, above him, the air of having crawled out of some narrow and uncomfortable rabbit hole, of being one bad comment away from jumping out of a window and never being seen again. Like someone who was born sick and weak, and grew up fighting, fighting like a mouse in a world too big, too cruel.
If his smile wasn't so cunning and a fierce flash of blue didn't still linger in his eyes, she wouldn't have believed it.
Hypocrite, tyrant, bastard.
How could he, after all, still be alive?
Eisoptrophobia: noun. Irrational, overwhelming fear of seeing one’s reflection in a mirror.
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Harry grimaced and swallowed down a glob of blood, yelping when the metal sliced into the skin of his neck. Vernon chuckled as realization dawned on Harry.
Vernon was holding a knife to his throat.
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An incident at the Dursley’s forces Snape to house Gryffindor’s golden child, The Boy Who Lived. As he cares for Harry, he realizes just how wrong his first assumptions about the boy were. He wasn’t just James Potter’s child, he was Lily’s, too. -
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He was meant to be a sacrifice. Someone who had to die for Voldemort to truly perish. However, what no one accounted for was the brilliance of a mother who loved her child beyond all else. Voldemort took his blood in the graveyard, but he had no idea he had strengthened his biggest enemy in ways he could've never imagined - an enemy who was now out for blood. Powerful!Harry/Daphne/Gabrielle.
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During fourth year Harry faces many things, dragons evil mass murders, and he had to save his boyfriend from drowning. Harry struggles to hide his new boyfriend from his friends and to keep up with his tasks.
Will he make it out alive? Will he snap under the pressure? Who will he lose along the way? Will he be able to get them back?
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- Part 1 of the hidden snake
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The finest brain in wizarding Britain in last 500 years. Harry is a born genius, a prodigy and also the youngest innovator with many inventions and awards to his name. But if he has everything then why is he so cold to everyone? What's this about guilds and...special projects? AU, Genius, Eidetic, Powerful, Cold, emotionless Harry with a grand plan.
Not WBWL, Dumbledore neutral yet a little bashed, elder brother to BWL, smart and Handsome Potter.
Read & Review, Thank you. -
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"I am nothing and everything, I am beyond comprehension. But you feel me nonetheless. You have called on me before, touched me before. In a way, manifested me into being. I am always and never. But you, Harry, have marked me. And so, I, you.”
After a magical outburst that leaves the Dursleys terrified and tilts the world as Harry knew it on its axis, he comes to discover his magic at a much younger age. He thirsts for power and a way to prove himself to the world. Harry now knows that he is more than just a boy cast aside by his relatives; he needs to find a way to forge a path towards the greatness he aspires to. As he embarks on a journey of magical self-discovery and growth, he discovers that there is much more out there than meets the eye. Magic is deeply embedded in every aspect of the universe, from the cores of wizards to the very Earth beneath their feet.
Follow his journey through the wizarding world and Hogwarts as he comes to understand his gifts and his place, whilst meeting friends and enemies alike.
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Her sister was dead. Darling Lily. Dead. Her husband, too. Hunted down and murdered by this Lord Voldemort. Petunia always knew magic was bad news for her sister, yet it captivated her anyway.
Now, she was left with Harry. Darling Harry. Harry Potter. Petunia would not let this child hold the same fate as her sister. No, she would protect him. Just as she tried to protect Lily.
Already with two-year old Dudley, Petunia could see the parallels forming. A muggle child and their sibling, with those bright emerald eyes and a special ability.
She would not let history repeat itself. She would protect her family with her life, as she should have done from the very beginning.
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Petunia sees Harry’s arrival on her doorstep as a second chance. She sees Lily in her nephew and raises her two boys, her two sons, to have the proper relationship she and Lily never had.
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Harry is not waiting for help to come. He spent all summer being forgotten. So he was done. He's attacked by dementors and suddenly they remember he exists? Suddenly they tell him to wait and stay put and things will be handled. Right. Because everyone had done such a good job at taking care of and handling the fucking tournament. No. Harry was done. He was done, and he was going to handle the supposed coming 'wizarding war' on his own terms.
Fuck it. And fuck anyone who gets in his way.
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- Part 26 of Harry Potter One-Shots
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Harry finds himself guided to a room in Grimmauld Place that he's never seen after waking up from one of his regularly occurring nightmares. He learns something about himself that changes the course of his future and everyone else involved in it.
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In which Harry finds himself figuring out what he truly wants in life, drags himself out from underneath Dumbledore's thumb, and changes the result of the war in his own way.
(Title is subject to change)
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Zinnia Potter shocks the magical world when she’s sorted into Slytherin. Her abusive upbringing at the Dursley’s taught her to be clever and resourceful—skills she must put to full use to survive the dangers ahead. With all eyes on her, Zinnia must choose her allies carefully as she discovers what really differentiates good and evil.
A total AU reimagining of the Harry Potter series with reasonable adults, better morality, and a trans protagonist (narrative pronouns will match her identity at the time).
Currently in year 2.
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In Diagon Alley, Harry Potter never meets Draco Malfoy and, instead, meets a quiet boy by the name of Theodore Nott; as a result, he never develops a hatred of Slytherins and, to the shock and horror of much of Hogwarts, he is sorted into Slytherin House. Not knowing who his allies and enemies are, Harry must find a way to survive in the house of the snake... and perhaps solve a few mysteries along the way.
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La vida de Harry Potter sin caricaturizarla.
Por qué Harry es un niño que creció descuidado y no querido, violentado y sistemáticamente abusado.
El conoce de primera mano la crueldad que el mundo tiene para ofrecer, y, puede que por eso decidiera no volverse parte de la maldad del mundo, pero eso no significa que se ajeno a la misma.
Por que cuando un niño crece como Harry lo hizo, no puede ser tan ingenuo como se muestra en las películas, por pura supervivencia, tiene que ser astuto, misma astucia hacia la cual Harry siente aversión, pero, que no le guste esa parte de si mismo no significa que pueda negarla, que deje de saber cosas basado en las habilidades que tuvo que desarrollar creciendo con los Dursleys.
Harry es un chico hambriento de amor y de atención incondicionales, de todo lo que no tuvo en su propio hogar, aterrado de que alguien descubra la verdad de su infancia, por que sabe que las personas no son buenas por naturaleza, que si sale a la luz, se hablara de sus tragedias personales con curiosidad morbosa, o se usara como arma para lastimarlo donde saben que le dolerá.