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Harry Potter is overwhelmed by the expectations and stress of being the boy-who-lived. Sometimes, he just wants to run away from the wizarding world and take a break. A simple plea in front of the Room of Requirement changes his life for the better and Harry begins a careful balancing act of two identities: The Boy Who Lived and Harry... just Harry (although perhaps a bit more than intriguing than he would like). As Harry's rise in power becomes noticed by the one who ruined his life, anonymity becomes a tricky thing to maintain.
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Harry's life post final battle isn't what he expected it would be, and then he dies, just like that.
He gets a second chance but forgets to read the fine-print, and ends up somewhere in the distant past while his body suddenly looks quite differently.
Now he's stuck as a teenager attending Hogwarts again, where he encounters an old enemy, and surprise, it's not Tom Riddle. All Harry has to do now is survive long enough to build a life for himself that's actually worth living.
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27 Sep 2025
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Children’s hair sometimes changes color as you grow. When he’s young enough for it not to be unusual, but old enough to know he’ll get in trouble for doing something ‘freakish’ again, Harry's hair goes from his father's dark locks to his mother's bright, most-likely-magical red hair.
It changes everything about who he identifies with, who he wants to grow up to be, and who he thinks he is. Instead of having James Potter as his idol, Lily turns out to be a much better influence.
So instead of seeing a scruffy, most-likely-muggleborn boy standing beside him in Madam Malkin's before their first year, Draco only has eyes for the scarlet-haired, green-eyed creature who just walked into his life. Not that Harry will ever notice, given he's trying to simply survive Hogwarts.Story Discord: https://discord.gg/8b7zt5PBHp
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26 Jun 2025
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Revolution of Configured Stars by ReminiscentBells
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Aug 2024
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In another world, Harry Potter was spared. Raised by a Pureblood guardian in Lord Voldemort's Britain, he isn't special and enters his seventh year wanting nothing more than to be allowed to go into Arithmancy research and keep his head down.
But after a chance encounter with a man who later arrives at Hogwarts on behalf of the Ministry, to evaluate the seventh-year students for potential, it looks like it may not be so simple.
Marvolo Gaunt seems to have his eye on Harry. The trouble is, Harry has no idea why.
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10 Jun 2025
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Harry Potter is Voldemort’s horcrux. This doesn’t really impact his life until the first time he meets Voldemort face-to-face. Well, face-to-back-of-Quirrell’s-head-face.
Harry learns he can burn Quirrell’s skin with his bare hands. He knows this is his only opportunity to both survive and save the Philosopher’s Stone. What he doesn’t realise is that by willingly placing his hands on Voldemort’s wraith’s host, he opens himself up to possession.
It isn’t Voldemort’s first choice to possess his fated vanquisher while still weak, but a key magical principle is “like calls to like”. He will do whatever it takes to get his body back… and own Harry Potter afterwards.
What happens during Harry’s school years while unknowingly pulling Voldemort along as a passenger?
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Prologue: Permeability | Year 1 | Chapter 1
Arc 1: Ferromagnetism | Year 2 | Chapters 2 – 14
Interlude 1: Vestigial Scenes | Year 2 | Chapters 15 – 17Arc 2: Geodesic Lines | Year 3 | Chapters 18 – 33
Interlude 2: Supplemental Views | Year 3 | Chapters 34 – 37Arc 3: Distant Simultaneity | Year 4 | Chapters 38 – ?
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10 Jun 2025
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After being haunted by a life spent among the worst kinds of people, his world transforms dramatically when he survives a harrowing ordeal and is discovered by Marius Black, a distant relative.
With a name of his own and the significant legacy as the lost heir to the esteemed house of Black, he is thrust into a realm brimming with expectations and scrutiny. Amidst the challenges he faces, he also encounters a love so intense that it defies comprehension.
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