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They Shook Hands tells the overplot of the Harry Potter series using the Slytherin characters. I couldn’t find the sort of story I wanted to read. I still haven’t found anything that comes close. Canon events still happen, just not in the same manner. I do not introduce wildly out of place elements to the plot. I don’t suddenly send the plot spiralling off into strange new directions. There will be no new systems of magic, mages, elementals, Lordships, harems, or Tolkien elves. I have tried to write a realistic, canonesque story. My characters are not Junior Death Eaters. Every canon incident of their bad behaviour is present here. They are bullies. They are mean. But they’re not evil.
The functional POD is that the Malfoys have a child before Draco, and their development is slightly different. By the time Draco meets Harry, he's realised the value of friendship and is more open of a person. The POD for Harry is when he meets Draco in Madam Malkin's. In TSH, unlike canon, he introduces himself to Draco. They shake hands and decide to be friends. The story is distinct from other Harry-in-Slytherin fics because it doesn't turn on Harry being sorted to Slytherin but rather on Harry becoming friends with Draco.- Words:
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20 Jun 2025
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Of Detentions, Green-Eyed Babies, and Dashing Slytherins by terlzylp
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Jun 2025
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Harry Potter wasn’t a fairy-tale prince. He was a Slytherin with good hair and a talent for chaos. Ginny Weasley didn’t fall in love at first sight — she fell in detention. And she never quite got back up.
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20 Jun 2025
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Andromeda Black was raised to be the perfect middle child — a blend of Bellatrix’s fierce loyalty and obsession with purity, and Narcissa’s pristine poise and perfection. But loyalty gets complicated at Hogwarts, especially when Bellatrix becomes consumed by blood supremacy and a rising figure called "Voldemort" — and when a Muggle-born boy named Ted Tonks begins to mean more to her than he should.
"Andromeda—you have his mark?!"
He lets go of her wrist like it burns.
"Ted, I didn’t—"
"You're just like your sister. Just like all of them."
He turns before she can say another word.Bookmarked by MagnificentBookworm
20 Jun 2025
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The Ghosts of the Gotham Opera house by Unctrlablyalt (tay_tay19)
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe
17 Aug 2024
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In the aftermath of the battle atop the Statue of Liberty, Peter Parker is thrust into a new reality where he's a stranger without an identity. Homeless and displaced in the alleys of Gotham, he must navigate a city overrun by crime to forge a new path.
Meanwhile, Gotham's shaking with the arrival of Red Hood. Fueled by years of grudge holding and a burning desire to settle the score with his old man, he's back in town and ready to cause chaos. But as he grapples with memories and family ties he thought he'd left behind, keeping that vengeance alive gets trickier than he ever imagined.
When they stumble upon each other amidst the shattered remains of the Gotham Opera House, an unlikely bond forms. Amid the wreckage, they forge a peculiar friendship, joining forces to navigate the tangled web of obstacles ahead.
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- Part 1 of The Ghosts of Gotham
- Part 2 of Unctrlablyalt's Multiverse of Madness
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19 Jun 2025
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Lucius Malfoy has spent years desperately searching for a way to remove his Mark. Now, he’s out of time. Salvation - of a kind - comes from the resurgence of an ancient House, under a very familiar name, that could potentially overwrite the Dark Lord’s claim with its own. Of course, swearing his House into vassalage to a fourteen-year-old boy with diametrically opposed values and plenty of reason to dislike his family is far from ideal, but…well, Lucius has always been a practical man. Harry Potter is better than an insane, vengeful Dark Lord, and if that ancient lineage comes back into play? Well, perhaps his family will simply be the first among many; and this, an opportunity to secure a position of high favour...
Harry Potter does not like Lucius Malfoy, and trusts him even less. The last thing he wants is to bind their families together. But Malfoy is a convincing man and his offers and arguments end up sounding so very sensible. He doesn't want Malfoy’s resources and wealth to end up in Voldemort’s hands either, and if Malfoy is truly offering to help him with the things that are important to Harry in return, well…when has anyone else ever really done that before?
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15 Jun 2025