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Seeing is Believing by WhisperingDarkness
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
31 Oct 2014
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The one in which Gandalf is nowhere to be found, Bilbo spends more time talking to a Ranger than eating his dinner, Aragorn has to deal with a secretive hobbit and Elladan wishes fervently that his twin and Lord Glorfindel, and, while he's at it, an army of elves was by his side.
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Searching For Something You Can't Reach by enoby_w
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Marvel Cinematic Universe
03 May 2023
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Harry Potter has a ghost in his head. It speaks in Russian, goes silent for weeks at a time and he has no idea how it got there. He’s going to try and talk to it. It is, after all, his ghost. And now more than ever he could use a friend.
The Winter Soldier has a ghost in his head. It speaks in English, never shuts up and he has no idea how it got there. He doesn’t mind the ghost. It is, after all, his ghost. And it wants to know how to hotwire a car.
“You know what, what do I know? I’m just a guy with a gun and a ghost in my head.”
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The Beacon of the Barrows by Kattungefisk, orphan_account
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
13 Sep 2024
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When Emma Smith went to England, she expected to be spending her month working on her dissertation - not falling through barrows, joining hobbits on a quest, and getting a shake-down by the heir of Isildur. No one ever said a PhD was easy.
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Harry’s date with Voldemort at the conclusion of the Triwizard Tournament didn’t go quite as planned. Fate steps in with a ‘unique’ opportunity, offering Harry the chance to live and mature in the past. For a while, anyway.
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Magic was not the only secret hidden in Harry's ancestry. With nothing more than an old clue and a desperate wish, Harry travels through unfamiliar places and braves unknown danger to find his family.
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Harry Potter really didn’t plan on living past his fated confrontation with Lord Voldemort. When the latent basilisk venom and phoenix tears in his blood started making dramatic changes to his body, he wasn’t that concerned. It’s not like he was going to live long enough for it to be a problem anyway.
Even if he had planned to live past the final battle, then he could never have guessed the struggle awaiting him on the other side, or that he’d become a magnet for those with nowhere else to go like the snarky house elf, the grumpy phoenix, the injured vampire, or the stray werewolf that showed up on their doorstep…oh, and the egg. You can’t forget the egg; that’s the most important, more than anyone or anything else on the planet. Harry will do whatever it takes…literally whatever, even light the fire and watch the world burn, all for the sake of the egg.
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All Hail the Dark Lord, Or Something Idiotic Like That by NinjaPandaScholar
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Feb 2024
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Harry Potter had a plan...it wasn't a very good plan, but at least it was simple.
Step 1: Don't die from the insanely difficult ritual
Step 2: Cause as much chaos to the timeline as possible before getting killed and/or arrestedAs it goes, it was really simple...until it became clear he wasn't traveling back in time alone. Now the whole plan has to change.
Step 1: Don't die from the ritual
Step 2: Kill off current Dark Lord
Step 3: Establish following to become new Dark Lord
Step 4: Overthrow Ministry
Step 5: Cause as much chaos to the timeline as possible
Step 6: Keep boyfriend alive and not mad at himIt was a work in progress, but plans hadn't worked out well for Harry in the past regardless. Oh well, it's not like he could make things worse...
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A Blaze Across Time by alutea
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
10 Apr 2023
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At the end of his life, Harry is given the chance to alter the course of the dark reality his son Albus and Albus' friend Scorpius create when they use a Time-Turner to save Cedric Diggory's life. With the hindsight bestowed by a lifetime as Auror, Head of the DMLE, husband, father, and friend, he will make very different choices as a seventeen-year-old wizard to try and save the people and the world he loves.
But if he has to do it all over again, simply defeating Voldemort won't be good enough: there's a never-ending scroll of tragedies to avert and one newly-installed Headmaster of Hogwarts to talk around (if he manages to get a word in edgewise before getting hexed). The good news is, as always: he's not fighting alone.
**This story contains major spoilers for Cursed Child and minor ones for Fantastic Beasts but does not require knowledge of either.**
I've been informed that if I wish to avoid reader inconvenience, I should add a disclaimer regarding the possibility of head explosion while reading this story. You are hereby warned and advised to proceed with caution; the author is not liable for damage to persons or property induced by the contents herein. ^_^
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- Chapters:
- 102/102
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Bookmarked by AverageFish
23 Jun 2024
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Beautiful, in a way that makes me want to be the author's friend. Occasional soapbox asides, includes nonbinary OC Sol of the Yaxley line. Complete.
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When the Dursleys throw Harry out the summer before his second year, Harry decides to take his cue from Newt Scamander's suitcase and start making a home of his own. The only problems are that something capable of petrifying half-kneezles and humans is loose in Hogwarts and he's far too busy to read any books.
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- Part 2 of Undesirable Relations
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The Case of the Man Who Was Wanted by MyDearLadyDisdain
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
18 Oct 2023
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COMPLETE. After an inexplicable case in Surrey, Sherlock is after the strangest criminal he's ever encountered: a mass murderer, that has eluded the authorities for almost 14 years. Unfortunately, Sherlock Holmes is the only one that can see right away that this Harry Potter character is completely innocent. And hang on, is that tea set floating?
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- Chapters:
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Bookmarked by AverageFish
29 Oct 2025
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absolutely lovely. worth a reread.