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Just like the many amazing Slytherin Harry Potter fics, this is my take on what would happen if Harry Potter was just a little bit smarter, a little bit crueler, and acted a little bit more like the Slytherin we knew he could be.
Takes inspiration from too many stories to count, but includes tropes like Slytherin Harry, awesome goblins, Dumbledore bashing, and Harry destroying any machinations laid out for him simply by existing and giving things a second thought. He refuses to be anybody's puppet.
After Harry was introduced to the wizarding world, some red flags were raised and questions left unanswered, so he decided to ditch his babysitter and return to Diagon Alley unsupervised. Harry returned to the bank and found that Dumbledore had been manipulating everything from behind the scenes. Eager to leave the Dursleys behind, Hadrian - he learned his name was - will do whatever it takes to get out from under Dumbledore's thumb, even if it means walking a darker path than expected of the Wizarding world's Savior.
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- Part 1 of Just Like You've Seen Before (JLYSB)
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24 Apr 2026
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putting the fun in dysfunctional by chaoscookiescrimes
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Feb 2022
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The problem with dismissing and at best barely tolerating squibs and muggleborns is that the wizarding world never realized that every muggleborn has at least one squib ancestor in the last two generations or that these squibs still carry the family magic they are unable to wield. The totems are sought out either during a ritual at age seven or during extensive meditation. Usually, because of the nature of children, they never focus enough on these totems to befriend them and for them to claim them in return.
There are sometimes though when a child has nothing but time to spend. One such time occurs when Harry Potter, the child of a muggleborn and a pureblood, a child who had never lived with them long enough to be taught that he’s a Potter and therefore wasn’t taught to expect a gryphon. When he falls into a healing coma enforced by his own body at age four, he has no expectations, so he doesn’t subconsciously seek any singular totem above any others- the usual reason only one family magic is accepted. He attracts them all and he’s curious enough, lonely enough, to befriend every animal that visits him in his mind, no matter how faint they are or how distant. It changes more than his state of loneliness.- Language:
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21 Apr 2026
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Getting it Right, the Second Time Around by Blood_and_Honey
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Oct 2023
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Harry Potter goes to his death willingly, ready to end the war as the sacrificial lamb he was raised to be. When he is offered a surprising choice, he decides to take the path not paved with expectation and greed, hoping that against all odds, maybe this time, he can get it right
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20 Apr 2026
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The Black family, while infamous for the great number of their members rotting in cells on Azkaban Island, were a known force to be reckoned with. So, when Sirius Black escapes a mere three months after his initial arrest on that fateful night of October 1981, the people of the wizarding world finally get to see this power put into action. Family is blood, after all.
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17 Apr 2026
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A bond forms between Harry and Charlie the first time they meet.
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15 Apr 2026