tearing a world down to build a sanctuary
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“Most people are weak,” Ivan said. It was a long-known truth to him. “They cannot change themselves. Cannot even dream of changing the world. People break and stay broken.”
Charles pursed his lips together.
“But not us?” he croaked.
Ivan inhaled sharply.
“Not us.”
Following the unforeseeable end of the Triwizard Tournament, the most esteemed students of Durmstrang Institute are allowed to join Hogwarts' year as a way to make amends for the chaos. The last remaining Heir of the House of Ognyan, forced under his father's surname, is among those few prodigies chosen.
Following the murder of his best friend, Ron Weasley, as well as the violent decay of his mental state and general life, the disgraced, former savior Charles Potter's life gets a hell of a lot more interesting - especially when he happens to save Ivan Dankworth's sorry arse, a sixth year student who is unpredictable, peculiar, and exceptionally bored with his life.
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- Part 1 of oh, so you know about second chances
- Part 1 of tearing a world down to build a sanctuary
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Albus Dumbledore & All The People Who Didn't Listen To Him by Screamers
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Apr 2025
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From the time Charles Potter was destined as the Boy-Who-Lived to far-past the day Lord Hadrian What's-His-Surname became a poisonous thorn in his side, Albus Dumbledore has had many people in his office, under many different circumstances.
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your mother wouldn't approve of the way my mother raised me by Screamers
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jun 2025
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Ivan looks up, sharing those same blue eyes—the blue of magic, a strong, commanding color drowning out any ideas of it resembling anything but himself—full of a growing belief in his own power. This, Damyan knows, is his legacy. His legacy is five years old and will grow, will develop, will get stronger. So strong that nothing will ever hurt him.
Charles looks up. He knows no words just yet—or, if he does, he chooses not to use them. He is beautiful, the product of James and the love of his life coming together to create someone. A full human being with the future ahead of him. He is four years old. Only four and with a prophecy to his name, a Dark Lord to take on.
Two boys and their families.
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In the gardens of Potter Manor, Ron Weasley is with his best friend.
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Future Lord of Many and harem-haver, Harry Potter meets his parents and twin brother. It's really not that dramatic.
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the monster's gone and your daddy's here by Screamers
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Nov 2024
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When James Potter finds out his son is not the Boy-Who-Lived, he is overcome with the overwhelming urge to smile.
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“There’s a cat with three eyes.”
“Yeah,” he agrees. He mentally counts how many adjectives he’s used so far. Too many, apparently, because the fluffy feline hisses in thesauri-prone anger. “He doesn’t pay taxes either. You’ll find he’s an ungrateful bastard.”
The girl bursts into tears. He doesn’t think it was because he insulted the cat (he is a bastard with a pendant for knocking over chess pieces and trying to use the board as a scratching post), so he settles on it being something else.
Probably the fact she’s dead. That gets most people upset.
Ron Weasley meets Astoria Greengrass in the afterlife.
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“How do we feel about the boy?” James asked, mildly bemused. His Auror robes hung loosely on his thinned form. Ever since they’d been reduced to living in Muggle London, he’d been unable to eat as much as he used to. All he ever did was work, work, work… which was what he usually did, when Lily raised Charles in her image, teaching him everything he needed to know in order to survive in a cruel, evil, fucked-up world, but there was more wine and parties back then. Parties Lily was never invited to. Wine that splattered on their walls. Broken glass. Blood.
Pureblood, Quidditch captain, rich and noble James Potter. The one destined for greatness, for success, for a promotion and an Order of Merlin and the world’s attention and adoration, a light he would never share with her unless she asked prettily. The one who was so valuable that seventeen-year-old Lily Evans had to sign a marriage contract in order to wed.
It was her, the papers say, who ruined him.
The idea made her hungry in the most awful, incurable way possible.
Lily and James Potter discuss their son's boyfriend. (And Lily thinks about a lot.)
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It would have just been his mother and himself this year, a lonely, disappointing Christmas day—and what a tragedy it was, that such a Christmas break during his last year at Hogwarts would be spent like this.
Instead, however, he got a gift like no other. A gift priceless.
Ivan, already eighteen in his last year of Durmstrang, was standing in front of him.
Charles Potter fought for words and when he finally remembered how to speak, it came out as breathless, disbelieving, almost monotone except for the hitch of emotion, of realization.
“You're here.”Series
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He's inside of her. In a way, He’ll always be inside of her.
In which Ginny Weasley gains a diary, loses herself, and then spends the rest of her life trying to find it again.
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- Part 10 of tearing a world down to build a sanctuary
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Lord Voldemort is defeated, somehow, someway, somewhere. Harry doesn't talk. Charles certainly doesn't talk. But the results come and the aftermath…
She sees it, the memory of the reporters at the end of fourth year, the popping of every camera, the slow descent of disdain the reporters take. Now, Charles Potter is silent with rage, something unstable and dark in his eyes, and she feels guilty — she feels bad.
In which Eloise Midgen really didn't sign up for this when got her Hogwarts letter.
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- Part 11 of tearing a world down to build a sanctuary
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“I don’t think he’s coming back today, love.”
“He—he has to. He’s my son.”
“Our son,” he lovingly corrects. “And I said today. I think he will come back… sometime soon. Don't worry.”
Why else would he keep them alive in such a lovely home?
James and Lily, hidden away during the War of Houses.
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- Part 12 of tearing a world down to build a sanctuary
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During one still moment in the war, Ivan meets with Charles on Valentine's Day.
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- Part 13 of tearing a world down to build a sanctuary
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Charles Potter deals with his first crowd after Olysvia is taken. It does not go well.
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- Part 14 of tearing a world down to build a sanctuary
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Twelve years after Ivan Dankworth secured the Wizarding World for himself, and became a Dark Lord in the process, Charles Potter was taken by police forces in Germany.
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The Dark Lord—truly an overdramatic title—Ivan Ognyan decides to indulge his lover.
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How To Stop Your Little Brother From Becoming A Dark Lord by Screamers
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 May 2025
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He opens his eyes.
The year is 1995. The cluttered, overwhelming full view of the Great Hall blinks in his vision—he never thought he'd be back at Hogwarts, truthfully—green and yellow and blue and red. Goosebumps form on his skin, a pricking, sickening sensation forming. He's been here before. He's lived this before. Déjà vu.
Charles Potter stands up.
“I was with him,” he says. Was he always this obvious of a liar? And then, speaking stilted and awkward, headstrong, like he's holding himself at gun point, “He couldn't have done that to Nott, because I was with him, then.”
At the Slytherin Table, Harry sighs and promptly throws his head into his hands. Tamiel pecks curiously at his shoulder. At least, he thinks somewhat sardonically, he's got his Phoenix with him.
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- Part 17 of tearing a world down to build a sanctuary