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Warding the air around me is a bit excessive, surely.
Hello, horcrux. Tom Riddle, was it?
The air around them turned cold. Them meaning Harry and a book. Harry laughed at himself for having even a linger of doubt and absentmindedly cast a warming spell.
Or, Harry finds Tom's diary in Salazar Slytherin's office. Romance ensues.
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Harry finds a better life with the basilisk, but that doesn't mean it's easy. From inter-being feuds, to bloody prophecies, to elven unrest, Harry is in the eye of a hurricane that will change the wizarding world forever.
Involving thestrals, merfolk, house elves, centaurs, acromantulae, and various other friends, denizens, and allies.
This series is: Queer in a multitude of ways. Morally complex. A massively canon-divergent AU. Filled with oc's and non-oc's. A story about relationships, love, trust, friendship, healing ... and revolution.
There are seven novel-length fics, plus a prologue (to leap and love the fall) and two longer stories (with courage unyielding and the gentle sunlight). The short story collection to journey on contains shorter stories set within the main timeline. All are posted in the correct reading order.
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Draco Malfoy and the Heir of Slytherin by starbrigid
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Jul 2020
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Draco Malfoy never asked for a second chance, nor did he particularly want one. But he found himself in his old body at eleven, and after a year at Hogwarts, he has a plan for the year before him: keep to himself, find Dobby, improve relations with fellow Slytherins to cordial but distant, get over this stupid obsession with Harry Potter, and no more jokes about controlling a Malfoy mountain troll. No one else thinks they're funny. And no more cursing people- well, only as many people as necessary...
Draco Malfoy has never been very good at following plans.
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- Part 2 of The Mirror of Ecidyrue
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The most powerful witches and wizards are all Pureshapes, transforming into beautiful, larger-than-life creatures. Most change before their fifteenth birthday, but Harriet Potter is fifteen and one month, and still nothing. Little does she know, becoming a Noshape is not what she needs to be worrying about...
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Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back. Harry's curiosity leads him to exploring the Chamber a bit more thoroughly before he leaves for the Summer. What he finds there gives him a new responsibility beyond just himself and a lifelong satisfaction in the choices he makes from there on.
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While trying to escape Death Eaters in the Ministry of Magic Harry has an accident that sends him back in time. Twenty years in the past he must learn how to live life. Surrounded by family that had long been dead will he take the chance he was given or hide away to prevent further heartbreak?
And why in Merlins name was Sirius Black so attractive as a teenager?
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The voices Harry heard, those no one else could, were the only ones that spoke kindly to him growing up. They had spread their whispers across the world to rescue him and at last, found a way; by creating a queen of serpents. The birth of the Basilisk triggers a permanent change in Harry's life, as he enters a world of magic that could be his greatest hope or his worst nightmare.
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Bookmarked by Akeginu
12 Mar 2023
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Harry hatches a basilisk, is taken in by the tonks family and goes to hogwarts; with the help of his familiars he discovers plots and more…
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Just a Few Changes (will Keep you Safe) by Blueseabird2
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Sep 2022
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It's been over five years since Voldemort's defeat when Harry Potter gets pushed through a portal and falls into the Great Hall of Hogwarts. This wouldn't be a problem, exactly, except it's his parents' Hogwarts instead of his own. Thankfully, Hermione and Ron aren't about to let him face this newest form of trouble by himself. Even more fortunately, Hermione says they're in a different dimension entirely.
Harry has a castle full of living ghosts, his best friends by his side, and three to six months to make just a few changes. Starting with a snake.
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Bookmarked by TakeThyBeak
27 Apr 2023
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It's been over five years since Voldemort's defeat when Harry Potter gets pushed through a portal and falls into the Great Hall of Hogwarts. This wouldn't be a problem, exactly, except it's his parents' Hogwarts instead of his own. Thankfully, Hermione and Ron aren't about to let him face this newest form of trouble by himself. Even more fortunately, Hermione says they're in a different dimension entirely.Harry has a castle full of living ghosts, his best friends by his side, and three to six months to make just a few changes. Starting with a snake.
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Harry (with Ron and Hermione along for the ride) immediately endears himself to students, staff, and school itself. Plus makes a wonderful not-monstrous snake-friend who *loves* looking after the hatchlings and playing in pipes. Harry decides since it's a different universe he's allowed to meddle and sets out with his friends to defeat the Dark Lord all over again. Not that hard when they know what they're doing. And might as well work on student prejudices, students' self-preservation skills, and general life advice that will hopefully spare a lot of future pain and struggle.Really sweet and cathartic, and a bit funny.
> Just a Few Changes (will Keep you Safe) by Blueseabird2
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As Harry Potter slays the Basilisk in the Chamber of Secrets, blood and venom get in his eyes, mostly blinding him. While Harry learns to adapt, he makes some new friends. But this is more than a story of adaptation and friendship as there are threats... and Harry isn't the only one with a past that haunts him.
10-20-2021 I've started recording a podcast of this fanfic, find it on spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/0F1WFCHXmZs68LObsQORbhSeries
- Part 1 of Venom and Tears
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The Avengers all know that Tony Switches into a cute little housecat.
What they don't know is the Switch he trained himself to repress.
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no place like home by dirgewithoutmusic for Elennare
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jul 2015
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When Petunia Dursley refused to take Harry in she forfeited his birthright protection, so Dumbledore took the baby to the safest place he knew: Hogwarts.
The applicable staff (mostly just… not Snape) took Harry in on a rotating schedule as he grew from baby to toddler to child. They traded extra credit for babysitting among the older students, and Harry grew up knowing a few dozen different laps that were safe and warm to nap in.
This was a Harry who grew up among books, among old transient walls and learned professors. They gave Binns night duty sometimes, and let him talk young Harry to sleep. This was a Harry whose world changed, on principle, daily. The stairs moved. The walls became doors. You had to keep your eyes open–you had to pay attention. So he did.
He grew up in a school. Knowledge was power, but knowledge was also joy. This was his sanctuary. There was magic in his world from birth.
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- Part 3 of boy with a scar
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Bookmarked by onecentwriter
31 Mar 2024
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I CRIED READING THIS. Oh my god
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Severus Snape and the House of Slytherin by seekeronthepath
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 May 2025
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Bookmarked by Origami_Roses
07 May 2024
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P2: headcanon created vs natural basilisk. give credit if applicable. Chamber, library annex, portrait snake catalog, parselscript
P3 ch15 AN: excellent essay on ethics, moral responsibility, forgiveness and acceptance. Apply to many fandoms. (Several good mini-essay AN)
P5: The dog in the night
P6: Hogwarts, A History (as told by the portraits of those who lived it)
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Harry finds a better life with the basilisk, but that doesn't mean it's easy. From inter-being feuds, to bloody prophecies, to elven unrest, Harry is in the eye of a hurricane that will change the wizarding world forever.
Involving thestrals, merfolk, house elves, centaurs, acromantulae, and various other friends, denizens, and allies.
This series is: Queer in a multitude of ways. Morally complex. A massively canon-divergent AU. Filled with oc's and non-oc's. A story about relationships, love, trust, friendship, healing ... and revolution.
There are seven novel-length fics, plus a prologue (to leap and love the fall) and two longer stories (with courage unyielding and the gentle sunlight). The short story collection to journey on contains shorter stories set within the main timeline. All are posted in the correct reading order.
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- 4,646
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Lily and James Potter were both intelligent people, so is it such a surprise that they made plans of their own in addition to the many Dumbledore enforced upon them?
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Bookmarked by Origami_Roses
23 Aug 2024
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Friendly basilisk
Founders’ Heirs and spaces
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Harry Potter and the Monster of Gryffindor by Cloud_Portagate for Ethril, Aleph (Immatrael)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
23 Apr 2023
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In which one word makes all the difference.
Instead of calling Harry 'amigo', the boa constrictor calls him 'wizard'. And in so doing sets about a cascade of events which sees Harry Potter starting Hogwarts with a pet snake. A snake hatched beneath a toad from a chicken's egg in the attic of the Leaky Cauldron. How does Hogwarts cope with two basilisks?
Inspired by a prompt I found on tumblr, but I can't remember the originator.
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Curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought it back. Harry's curiosity leads him to exploring the Chamber a bit more thoroughly before he leaves for the Summer. What he finds there gives him a new responsibility beyond just himself and a lifelong satisfaction in the choices he makes from there on.