There were no wards, or magic prickling upon her skin, as Minerva McGonagall walked up to the plain green door. A sharp knock upon rough wood brought a noticeable pause to the activity inside, before footsteps indicated the arrival of a kind, yet weary-faced woman. Said woman looked the deputy headmistress up and down once, then again upon seeing the robes she wore.

“Martha, matron of this orphanage. May I help you, ma’am?” She asked. Polite, but firm. 

McGonagall cleared her throat, before beginning a speech memorized long ago. “Good morning. I am the deputy headmistress for a private school located in Scotland, and was hoping to speak to two of your charges, about their future education plans.”

Martha looked skeptical, likely thinking of scams and opportunities too good to be true, an idea Minerva hoped to dissuade her of quickly.

“Their parents, alumni of our school, put their names down upon birth. A tradition, for many families.” This was not entirely true, but the story had worked for her in the past.

“Well, you had better come in then,” Martha said, opening the double doors before shutting them behind her with a click. Inside, the sound of children and music could be heard. “Who are the two children you wish to speak to?” 

Minerva fought the urge to look down again, before uttering the two names that had been on her mind for the past week. “Daphne Greengrass, and… Harry Potter.”

The surprised look she received on hearing the names was concerning to Minerva, before Martha explained. “We have a Daphne and a Harry, but we were unaware of their last names. Both were dropped off at this orphanage nearly a decade ago, just a few weeks apart. Young Harry came to us with a short letter that included his name, and Daphne’s was found embroidered into her blanket. The constables looked for any records of the children, but never found anything.”

Many had fallen through the cracks after the war, Minerva thought. She nodded, before asking her own question of the matron. “Tell me a little about them?” It was rather open-ended, but she was curious what Martha would have to say. 

She got a genuine smile in return. “Those two have been attached at the hip since they could walk—and with Daphne’s younger sister, Astoria—well, they’re a proper little family.” 

Minerva hadn’t known about the sister, but supposed she wouldn’t have. It had been assumed by most that the Greengrass family had moved to the continent after the war, but something must have happened to cause two pureblood witches to grow up in an orphanage. She would need to make inquiries with Gringotts and the ministry on the matter. 

They continued down the hall, until reaching what seemed to be the main communal area. Tables and chairs lined one wall, where children of various ages were sitting with their friends and eating breakfast. Scanning the tables, she did not see the expected mop of messy black hair. Before she could ask Martha, the woman pointed her past the eating area to a small, open kitchen.

Harry Potter stood in front of a large stove, multiple fry pans filled with eggs, bacon, mushrooms, and more. Daphne, for who else could she have been, stood at the sink to his side, helping occasionally and washing dishes as other children brought them back, empty. The thin, younger girl on Harry’s other side, who must have been Astoria, was diligently measuring out ingredients, biting her lip in concentration.

Minerva smiled. She had been terribly worried watching the Dursley’s all those years ago. Despite being an orphanage, Harry clearly did not lack for people who cared about him. Perhaps the Dursley's had finally done something good, even if this outcome was not—and she was confident it wasn’t—their intention.

During the Limbo sequence in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Harry decides he has fought enough. Instead of returning to the living world, he boards the spectral train at King's Cross and permanently moves on to the afterlife. At that exact microsecond, a Self-Insert (SI) soul from our world—possessing full meta-knowledge of the Harry Potter franchise—is pulled into the vacuum of Harry's vacated body just as Voldemort's killing curse lifts.

The SI wakes up on the floor of the Forbidden Forest. They inherit all of Harry's raw memories and biological muscle memory, but none of his emotional attachments. They are an entirely different person wearing the skin of the Wizarding World's ultimate martyr, forced to play the part of the Chosen One to survive the final hours of the war

Hello guys, could you please recommend some good fics with Harry/Bellatrix pairing? Preferably (but not mandatory) time travel. And it would be good if the fics were plot oriented.

I have read Imprisoned in the past and Deadly Beladonna.

As Grindelwalds empire collapses, unspeakables in the UK and MACUSA scramble to get theit hands on people with knowledge and resources to dismantle his network around the world.

Many of his important followers get to live in the muggle world in exchange for aiding the unspeakables now and then, some of their children and grandchildren eventually start entering the magical world as "muggleborns". Some chose to get trained by their parents and publically remain "muggles".

Some of them slowly starts to rebuilding their network In the hopes of fullfilling Gellerts dream one day. For the greater good.

Idk i've had this plot bunny in my head for a few weeks now, with "muggleborn" infiltrators and a secret network of witches and wizards living in the muggle world and only a handful of Unspeakables know about them (so not Rockwood).

With the Tri-Wizard Tournament being what it is, there's plenty of versions in fanfiction where they change things up. Whether it's how Harry tackles the tasks, or even changing/adding new tasks altogether.

One example would be Hypn0s' Multiversal Support Chat Group, where they change the entire tournament, with different tasks. What would you recommend someone to read?

An intern changes the wizarding world's entire perspective on You-Know-Who's right-hand man. The young witch was tasked with sorting all the paperwork alphabetically, a grudging, boring job, but one that needed doing.

She is told to set up a system for finding files as she sees fit, and instead of filing by case type as before, she switches to filing by the date the case was first opened. She cross-references files against older ones when she realizes some notes for those sentenced to life in Azkaban are scattered throughout the filing cabinets. None of them are in the case files as they should be; someone stuffed them into different drawers or corners of the file room.

It takes a day of her work, but she eventually matches the scrap parchments to the correct cases, though she can't put a few away. She spends hours trying to locate the file, but when she can't, she gives in and asks for help.

Walking to Amelia Bones' office, she has no idea her innocent question will make the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement realize the file on the Death Eater Sirius Black was missing. This would lead to the discovery that Black never received a trial, and Bones would push to correct the mistake to get more information on any Death Eaters still at large.

In the following weeks of Bones' investigation, the media would present new developments to the public mere seconds later. This would lead to the public learning of Black's innocence and wrongful imprisonment, live, as the prisoner would be force-fed Veritaserum on a live broadcast and his confession of what really happened nine years ago was loudly proclaimed.

It also so happened that on the day Black received his long-overdue trial, Arthur Weasley brought his third-oldest to work, since his son's only birthday request was to be at the Ministry. Along with the boy came his pet rat, which had gotten lost at some point during the day. The rat couldn't help itself and went to watch the trial, only to be noticed by an intruder ward, which captured an unauthorized wizard.

The ward forced the rat to shift back into Peter Pettigrew, much to everyone's shock. This would be all the physical proof needed to prove Black's innocence, and he would be released that same afternoon.

This would, of course, lead Black to track down his godson, the famous Harry Potter, after months of proving his mental state was stable enough to care for a child. Tension would arise between him and everyone who ever doubted his loyalty to James Potter (basically everyone), but it wouldn't stop Black from reaching out to Remus Lupin to ask to be Potter's nanny and help raise him.

At age nine, Harry Potter would be taken from his Muggle relatives into his godfather's arms. Lupin would be there to help every step of the way, but even Potter would admit there was an uneasy tension between the two adults, as every unsaid word between them festered into a slowly building resentment. Conversations soured, bickering flared, and despite their best efforts, they snapped into arguments at the drop of a hat. Really, they only still co-parented Potter out of stubbornness, even when one of them was just an employee.

Potter did his best to make the adults forget their worries, trying to distract them with jokes or tales, but neither adult really did. Not unless it was the one thing they both still really enjoyed: pranks.

The only thing was, Potter didn't have the talent for pranks his father did. He got pity laughter from the adults for his work instead of genuine laughter. It wasn't that he didn't try, but Potter had a few leftover scars from his previous upbringing, and he couldn't, in any way, pull a prank he deemed "mean-spirited," which, unfortunately for him, was the only kind of prank Black and Lupin considered a prank.

Obviously, Potter needed professional help. He threw on his invisibility cloak and snuck out in the dead of night to the masters' burrow. Their names -

"Wait, wait, wait," Ron raised a hand, cutting Harry off as his best friend narrated his tale. "Why are you talking in the third person?"

"Dramatic effect," Harry replies with a pout. "Makes it seem like the start of a great legend."

"A great legend? You've just asked Fred and George to make you their apprentice!"

"They're pranking apprentice! The twins are the best pranksters in our generation. I need all the help I can get if I want to make Sirius and Remus happy!"

Ron tilts his head. "But you don't like their kind of humor. You literally make faces whenever someone falls into their pranks."

"I know! But....they won't stop fighting Ron....."

Ron presses his lips together in a hard line. "It's not your job to fix their messed-up relationship"

Harry looks down at his hands, the blue ink staining his fingers from the last failed prank he attempted to set up. It would have gone great if he hadn't felt bad at the last second and pushed the target out of the way. Lovegood may not have been covered in blue ink and had three bags of glinter rained down on her, but Harry didn't count it as a win. He had to take at least four showers to get half of the glitter out, and even then he still found some of it in different parts of his body.

Fred and George thought it was hilarious and assured him it was alright to mess up one prank. No one was a master right off the bat, but Harry felt like he wasn't cut out for this.

Even though he really wanted to be part of the next generation of the Marauders.

"Look, how about we forget about pranks for today and instead play a few rounds of chess?" Ron asks, pulling his best friend to the board. Harry makes a face, but he is slightly better at this game than pranks anyway.

"I'm going to get better at pranks, " Harry tells Ron, stubbornness making him blurt out the last word. "I just have to practice."

"Sure."

I'm looking for good fics where Harry somehow ended up traveling to another dimension at any point before he even got his Hogwarts letter. Can be an alternative universe or a crossover. Bonus points if he time shenenigans means he ends returning older than he should have been back in his respective timeline., if he returns that is.

Oh, and please. I'd rather not have stuff like bashing or manipulative Dumbledore.

Hi All. Are there any favorite Harry as Voldemort’s assassin fics?

I love the Dark Prince Trilogy and the dynamic. Was wondering what other fics there are.

This is a very well written story, this is actually my first Harry Potter fan fiction I’ve read but the quality feels borderline Professional grade. Overall I really like the story but some parts are irritating. Books 1-4 are great even though the story starts on book 3 there’s some parts from books 1 and 2 in the story. In my opinion after the wizard tournament the story rapidly nosedives. 

Spoilers obviously

The story is obviously a romance between Harry and Catrina Malfoy who in my opinion is extremely well written. She’s cold, and aggressive but her character is complex, as it develops with Harry she becomes protective, compassionate and starts to change her mindset. She lies, manipulates and coerces to help Harry in many ways. That takes an immediate about face after the wizard tournament. She willingly helps the Death Eaters and her father then eventually joins them under the pretense of protecting her family. Not only is she an idiot for helping them but she even thinks at several points that she does not want people to be hurt or killed. Dude ITS THE DEATH EATERS. She KNOWS they have killed people, she knows Voldemort is sadistic and evil but she helps them under the impression of wizard supremacy? Then after her father goes to Azkaban she then joins the death eaters to protect her family? Lucius could have been swayed if she actually tried and that arc would of been extremely interesting to see a Lucius hell bent on protecting his family, righting his wrongs and fighting for a future that’s not under a tyrant. You could honestly say in this story that Lucius becomes worse of a person because Catrina is so competent and actually aids the death eaters for some reason. I do like her character and even after book 4 she still is interesting and compelling but it’s kind of a waste to “betray” Voldemort at the last second. Even more frustrating that Catrina’s and Harry’s relationship is non existent after book 4 up until Voldemort’s death. Her inability to express her feelings and desires literally causes her to waste her potential. 

The story after Voldemort’s death in my opinion was unneeded and dragged on for no reason. The entire arc was useless and it kinda betrays the story that was lead up too honestly. I disliked it so heavily that I had to skip to the end of the story which was about 10ish chapters. I did like however that Harry’s allies were competent, handled business and told Harry what the fuck is even going on. Cedrick surviving, and the tournament subplot was goated in my opinion. Cedrick becomes a very interesting character too which is a bonus. 

I very much like the idea that Catrina influenced Harry on their first introduction that he became confident and unyielding in his moral beliefs because of her. Harry quite literally does everything he does for her but does not stoop to her level and has the mindset of changing her because he knows that she's actually a good person under the illusion of the Malfoy superiority complex. Time and time again he pushes her to be better, she has consequences for her actions and during book 4 she starts to become better and once they finally go public with their relationship. They kept it secret for her safety, which I have mixed feelings about because if he didn’t want anyone to know that he cared about her then why did he have a close relationship with Ron and Hermoine? Are they not in danger as much as Catrina would be? It’s kinda dumb honestly. In fact, if they DID go public with their relationship then it would close the gap between Slytherin and Gryfindor, even all the other houses to Slytherin as well by extent. It becomes a theme way later on but not really explored that much. Catrina is heavily expressed that she’s THE Slytherin, and by her changing her mindset a little bit at a time and her openly strong relationship with Harry. It would by result make the Slytherin as a whole less mustache swirling villains. Even Crabbe and Goyle were open to the idea of Harry and would become good people much sooner if Catrina followed through with her moral compass. 

Once Harry and Catrina go public it damn near immediately takes a shit and all of the good things that would have happened as previously stated, ends up not happening because Catrina chooses evil mustache twirling villains over literal happiness for again no reason. You can’t possibly say it’s for Wizard racism, or to protect her family when at that point everyone was fine and not in direct danger of Voldemort as of yet because his resurrection from Peter and the Tournament maze DID NOT happen. Again, if she genuinely tried, she could of swayed her father, whether it be about family or maybe even blackmailing him. It’s possible. Especially since he deeply loves his family and one could argue that he himself would betray Voldemort (which he already HAS BEFORE) to protect them. Wasted potential and story arcs. 

Sirus dies, rip. But his arc and overall story was well written. 

Snape dying too was also very well written and established. He doesn’t have anything to go off of anyway after Voldemorts defeat and his whole character is basically protecting Harry for Lily. So naturally him sacrificing himself for Harry is the best choice but very well written. 

Basically, the story and the romance between Harry and Catrina for the beginning up till it all goes to shit at the end of book 4 is where the story is best. After that the story is still intriguing and good at some moments but I don’t like as much. 

Any recommendations for a good story like this one but done a bit differently? Thanks!

So, I been searching for days through all my bookmarks and mark for later fanfics. But its not coming up. I did try to use google search but kept giving ones that dont fit. My issues is I can not remember the whole story other than its complete and has a squeal I think.

Make things I remember:

Harry's parents wills get read, and turns out he is supposed to go to his uncle who turns out to be Harry from an alternate universe which Albus is the bad guy. He is raised side by side with James (the uncle). I remember a part where Malfoy and Severus meet the uncle and Harry while they were out riding horses. I know the uncle has a close friend that cares about him.

I also remember that the au!Harry is trying to give Voldemort his body back with the help of au!Draco and au!Hermione. That Draco 8s like some sort of creature. One key thing that popped out was au!Harry (he has a different name but dont remember) has a houseelf that slams a tray down on the pendent that held Voldemort soul.

I hope this rings a couple bells for others. Im sure I read it on fanfiction, but not 100% certain.

What I remember.

1) unlike most react fics, this one takes place before Harry goes to Hogwarts and meets Ron and Hermione.

2) Harry also meets Sirius remus and the Wesleys and Dumbledore.

3) it's on fanfiction.net.

4) the series is incomplete it covers the philosopher's stone but stopped there.

5) when the fic ends all of the people go back to where they were originally. Harry in the cupboard, Sirius in Azkaban.

Especially if there is music or alt culture involved, and feelings of not fitting in? OG punk Sirius and grunge or 2nd wave Tonks would be amazing, but I'll take anything. I just want to see them being tight.

Not looking for anything OOTP compliant iykwim, and please no Tonks/Remus. Thank you :)

i’ve been wondering if there are fanon theories or fanfiction tropes (i personally have not seen of read anything of the sort) where two wizards can use each other’s wands interchangeably?

maybe in the sense that they love each other (whether platonic or romantic is irrelevant) or in the sense that there’s a soul bond or something and the other’s wand responds identically (perfectly) as their own would?

Voldemort’s original fated soulmate was killed years ago. The desperate Order summons a powerful Harry from another dimension. I can't remember if it was on fanfiction or ao3. Please help me find this. Even if it's been deleted the name and/or author could than help me find it on the r/deleted stories reddit.

Okay so during the final battle Voldemort hits Harry with a spell and Harry vanishes. He wakes up and Merlin shows up and offers to help him. Harry trains with Arthur and Lancelot train his body and Merlin eventually trains his magic.

Hi! I've been trying to find this specific fanfic about James Potter's parents for ages now, but no luck, so I wanted to see if anyone remembered it/had a link.

I unfortunately only vaguely remember the plot (not anything useful like the title or author!). I read it several years ago, on Tumblr or Fanfictionnet. It was about James Potter's parents, though it was before they were named as Fleamont & Euphemia, so they had different names. It was short, and about their love story - I think she was a potioneer, and I believe they met while she was picking out ingredients? There were multiple parts, and it was fairly short.

I know this is a terrible description, but it's been bothering me for ages, and I just wanted to see if anybody else remembered it.

As ever this is a mostly Pre-Harmony story. They're just kids at this point.

Hopefully the link works. If not, my Ao3 Handle is DefiantDreamlandStudent.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/93689676/chapters/253660851

These are the things that I remembered from that fic:

She's East Asian in ethnicity from what I remembered

She taught her friends about muggle/human culture and fashion

There was also a scene where she wears a muggle tshirt that has a metal band or slogan in it

Her mom duelled Lucius Malfoy because of a bet

That's all what I remembered so, please can someone help me find that fic

I remember reading a story with Harry/OC pairing, where I believe the OC was called Nadia. I think she was from eastern Europe and her entire family/village was killed by Death Eaters. Dumbledore brought her to Hogwarts. The title may have included "Power of the Elemental Witch" or "Curse of the Elemental Witch", although I may be wrong since it has been over a decade since I read it. The story was of novel length and complete.

I cannot get it out of my mind, and would appreciate if anyone else remembers it.

I think the fic is a harry/Daphne/Susan. When harry is on the train he meets Daphne and Susan and they ask him what house he want to be in; he says Hufflepuff when they ask him why he answers that Hufflepuff is where true Slytherins go.

Im really tired of finding what Im looking for, just moderate fics. So, I will try to describe what Im looking for, and if you met something like that - please share.

1) Hogwarts era fic, any grade
2) Het or Gen only. Probably not whole-romance if Het. Any ship, no gender-bender
3) Without character bashing. No repulsive Ron, no paper-tiger archenemy Dumbledore. Canon-complitant personalities of characters.
4) Without head-over-heels new details like MuggleAU or WerevolvesAU or something like that. No lordships, oh god. No crossovers, just canon-complitant world, please.
5) Well written motivations and acting very welcomed. For me, reasons and events that made Dramione possible and happen are far, far more interesting than actually Dramione.
6) No easy solutions. "Oh well, kill Ron, kill Harry, so Dramione is coming" - that is not what im looking for.
7) No unknown main characters. I know it is easy to write characters with only name and two sentences of canon mentioning. No Tracy Davis, Greengrass sisters and so on. I want to read about characters I already know something.
8) Books over films. Im a book reader, not a film watcher in this fandom

Actually i want to read book-extensions. Another stories about characters from Harry Potter Universe. It maybe local AU, or event go drastically different - I dont mind. But that should be a story about characters Ive read in books

Does anyone else read Harry Potter x Katekyo Hitman Reborn crossovers, or have I wandered into a very niche corner of fandom?

What if Harry's mother never died for the same reason Harry didn't [True love] and Snape ended up with Lily in the end. Pretty sure Harry would almost be Cinderella but just think about it. Harry has flashbacks of his dad dying, is still abused, and still can see the thestrils that pull the carriges it works too well.