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Theodore Nott has always lived by plans, not risks. Study hard, keep quiet, stay alive. It repeated like a mantra in his head. But the war is over and the wizarding world has no place for the Nott heir trying to make amends. University becomes his salvation. Four years later, he's on track to graduate when he takes one last chance at a study-abroad program in New Orleans. Now he's in a new city, with a new life, and he's taken a risk for once in his careful existence.
Harry Potter stopped planning years ago. The auror program broke him, the wizarding world demanded too much, and the voices of the dead have always been too loud to ignore. In New Orleans, he found freedom and purpose running Beyond the Black Veil, a small shop where he has remade himself as a medium, helping the living speak with the dead in a city where magic and morality blurs. He had no interest in the world he left behind.
Until Theo walks through his door.
Neither expected their paths to collide. Neither expects that grief might be the bridge between them. And neither expects that sometimes, when life and death are balanced just right, love can be a risk worth taking.
Sometimes your past catches up to you.
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It Started By Chance by writeandburn
Fandoms: Stranger Things (TV 2016), IT (Movies - Muschietti)
12 Sep 2025
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It all started by chance, when Bill noticed the black eye Richie was sporting. Then came the downward spiral of social services, finding out you are adopted and have a long lost twin brother, and leaving the town you grew up in to go live with the family that adopted him.
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You mean I didn’t just get stuck with the worst parents on the face of the earth by the fate of conception? You mean they actually chose me just to wish they hadn’t all these years later? You mean I now have two families that don’t want me? It makes sense really. I'm just a big trashmouth. I’m a disappointment. Why would anyone want me?
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The Wheeler's really are polar opposites from the Tozier's. What will it take for Richie to understand he can actually be wanted? How will these boys react to the change in family dynamic? What happens when they both are pining over the same boy? Get ready for a deep dive into the emotions of Richie, Mike, and Will as they navigate these life changes in the last few years of high school. Can they handle it? We'll just have to see.
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The first time Draco visited the Room of Stars, he wasn’t old enough to remember it.
The first time Draco was able to remember the Room of Stars, he wasn’t old enough to understand the secrets it held.
The first time Draco was able to understand the secrets of the Room of Stars, he didn’t quite realize what it meant he would have to do.
The first time Draco realized what he had to do, the Room of Stars was waiting to guide him. But it was no longer just a room. The Room of Stars was the closest thing to Regulus that Draco had. They say never meet your heroes.
But they never warned you not to become them.
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Draco realizes that Regulus abandoned the Dark Lord and set out to destroy the horcrux so that he could be mortal again. Only, Regulus died in the process and the locket was never destroyed. With the help of all the research he left behind in his room, Draco sets out to finish what his cousin started, only to realize that this would be a bigger undertaking than either of the two ever thought.
Along the way, Draco has to find a balance between love, morality, and fighting evil. But not everything is black and white... In the end, what is he willing to lose in order to succeed?
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Seventeen-year-old Will Byers has always had a knack for observation. And his theories on the matter are rarely wrong. So when the rich, new kid finds himself in Melvald's during Will's shift... well, money can't buy a good first impression. That's where Mike Wheeler comes in. If first impressions were on looks alone, he would have passed with flying colors. But they aren't and he didn't. But when Mike's loyalty and attentiveness are persistent, will Will be able to accept the fact that maybe he could be wrong about him? With so many obstacles standing in their way, can these boys find a way to close the distance between them?
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Based on The Distance Between Us by Kasie West... but make it Byler;)
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Day Five: “I’m cold.” “Have my jacket.” (Fluff)
Harry has found solace from the post-war PTSD thoughts that plague him: playing piano at Aberforth’s newly reopened pub. The customers love it, Aberforth invites Harry back every weekend. Regulus Black is very interested in Harry’s music.
Or: Harry unknowingly serenades the patrons at Aberforth’s gay bar and attracts the affection of his godfather’s younger brother. Sirius, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny find this all to be the peak of hysteria.
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- Part 5 of Cultober, witches.
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30 Jan 2026
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The Mystery of Number Twelve, Grimmauld Place by altaiswrites
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
27 Mar 2023
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The world isn’t split into good people and Death Eaters. We all have both light and darkness inside us, but what matters is the part we choose to act on.
As Harry was standing there, eye to eye with Sirius's younger brother, the apparently very much alive Regulus Black, he remembered those words Sirius had said to him a few years back. He asked himself, what had Sirius been thinking of then? Who had he been thinking of? Harry had assumed, that he had basically been talking about himself, and maybe Harry as well, but was that the whole truth?
Which part had Regulus Black chosen to act on?
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In other words, this is a time travel fic, where Harry accidentally ends up almost twenty years back in time, in 1979, where he meets Regulus Black, very much alive. This is going to be a time travel fix-it, kind of.
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29 Jan 2026
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When Harry finds Tom Riddle's diary he does not write 'Hello.' He does not write anything at all. He draws. Tom Riddle falls in love with the artwork.
_________________Sketch by sketch, drawing by drawing, the ink Harry pours into the diary manifests as creations in Tom's monochrome world.
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27 Jan 2026
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“Potter…why is a horcrux of the Dark Lord sitting in your living room in muggle Surrey?” Severus Snape slowly and calmly asked as if he was holding onto his last thread of sanity while waiting for the answer.
“Well, we met back in my second year at school, became friends since I didn’t know who his future self was, he tried to kill me, I killed him, and then he floated around the aether for a couple years,” Harry sighed. It was all so very complex.
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Everyone has had a summer from hell after what happened with the Triwizard Tournament. Literally everyone, even the part of Voldemort's soul that he thought he'd gotten rid of so very long ago. When Harry Potter's worst enemy asks for his help though...well, that pesky saving people thing just really gets in the way.
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23 Jan 2026
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“I think Sirius is trying to say that if my parents find out, they’ll hunt me for sport and use my pelt as a rug.”
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After learning about Remus’ fury problem during the Prank, Severus doesn’t go running off to the Shrieking Shack. He sends Regulus Black instead.
Under the full moon, Regulus comes face-to-face with a monster and becomes one himself.
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07 Jan 2026