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  1. Public Bookmark 50

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    She pressed her palms against her thighs, steadying herself. The bruises were Fury’s reminders. She wasn’t an agent, not really. She wasn’t free, she was an asset, a weapon, and SHIELD’s property. Just a thing, an object, to be used and thrown away when it wasn’t needed.

    If she had been good, if she had been perfect, he wouldn’t have needed to remind her. She wouldn’t need to hurt.

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    Natasha Romanoff has never known freedom. She has always been somebody else's property: first the Red Room's and now SHIELD's. She was never an agent. She was a weapon. A thing to be owned.

    Natasha Romanoff has spent years as SHIELD’s perfect agent, but perfect came at a price. Every choice, every movement, every obedience was demanded, and the truth of her life is more terrifying than anyone could imagine.

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    28 Dec 2025

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    Cedric Diggory’s death shatters Harry Potter and Privet Drive becomes a battleground he cannot survive. Driven to desperation, Harry attempts to end his own life, but the Prophecy and Death Seals react violently, ripping open a dragel inheritance too powerful to contain.

    Now feral and barely conscious, Harry inadvertently summons Maurice Elswood, his dragel mentor.

    What Maurice finds is worse than expected: a tormented child in halfling form, a dead man, two unconscious humans, and a Torvak hunting beacon hidden in the walls of a suburban home.

    Whisked to Nevarah for safety, Harry must recover from forced inheritance and unravel the truth, before those hunting him strike again.

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    12 Dec 2025

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    "Vernon!" screeched Petunia from the first floor. Vernon jerked from his desk, making his way to the door and opening it with a loud thud.
    He hurried down the hall and stairs,"What woman!?"
    "That child's gone and done it again. I won't stand for this in my house! What if it eats or attacks our poor Dudley?" she whined.
    Vernon glared at the fur ball, grabbing the stick he'd been using to beat the boy and prodding the sodding creature awake.
    "What do you want me to do?" he growled as two hazel and green eyes looked up at him.
    "Throw him out!" she screeched.
    "What about the wizards!"
    "We'll tell them he ran away, or we'll lie and say he was never here. There's no evidence, no papers, nothing. They can't prove anything!" she snapped, grimacing when the creature yawned and it's fangs showed.
    Vernon sighed and picked the creature up by the scruff, heading to the back door and throwing it outside. "If a wild animal is what you want to be, then you can go live like one," Vernon bellowed as he tossed the cub out the door.
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    Harry is thrown from the family Dumbledore left him in. Without him there to start school, Voldemort never returns like Albus thought he would.

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    10 Dec 2025

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    He was smiling. At Tom Riddle. He was going to get murdered before the year ends, he just knows.

    Alternate universe/Post-Hogwarts. warnings: mature themes, drinking, swearing. An adult Harry Potter with all his knowledge and experience is transported to his 23yo body in a universe with no war.

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  5. Public Bookmark 69

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    As the Room of Requirement burns during the Battle of Hogwarts, Harry searches for a way out of the blaze which surrounds him. He thinks he sees one when he stumbles across the Mirror of Erised. Instead, he finds himself trapped inside the mirror with no apparent hope of escape. But, then, he hears a voice - vaguely familiar? - whose owner he cannot see, calling to him from another time, with words that set his whole body alight.

    Back in 1947, Borgin and Burkes has just taken delivery of a mysterious mirror, which claims to show those who look into it what their heart most desires. That can’t be right, because Tom cannot see himself ruling in majesty with Dumbledore’s corpse at his feet. No, all he can see in the mirror is a beautiful, wild-eyed young man...

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    11 Nov 2025