1 – 20 of 195 Works in Canonical Character Death
Summary
unlikely - book 1 - baby/kidhood, year one, year two - finished
omitted - year 3 (posting)
necessary - fourth year (outlined, started)
compromised = fifth year
inconvenient - sixth year - outlined
hidden - seventh year - outlined
finally - post war - outlined
Anthology containing:
unlikely
On the thirty-first of October, 1980, Lily Potter filed a magically binding will naming Severus Snape as Harry's guardian. She placed him last on the list to convince James. She placed him first because she meant it.
Snape cannot refuse. He does not decide to become a father. He simply does the things that fathers do, one after another, for twelve years, until the doing becomes the thing, and the thing becomes permanent.
Dumbledore had a plan. Lily had a better one.
Blood was never the magic that protected Harry. It was love.
Book One of Four.omitted
Harry Potter is thirteen years old and can handle himself just fine, thank you very much.
Year Three of The Will. Everyone is keeping secrets. Most of them are about love.Shelves: Harry Potter
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- 186,769
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- In-Progress
Summary
When Harry is expelled from Hogwarts after the Dementor attack, the ancient magic of the school responds immediately, removing his place, his House. Though he’s reinstated after the trial, something is different. Upon his return, the Sorting Hat places him not in Gryffindor, but in Hufflepuff.
Still reeling from Cedric’s death, Harry finds himself surrounded by the very House mourning their lost champion. Will this unexpected shift help him heal or isolate him further? As he navigates new dorms, unfamiliar friendships, and an increase in classes with Draco Malfoy, Harry starts to notice things… including the way Malfoy’s gaze lingers a little too long.
Grief, loyalty, identity, and unexpected connections shape a fifth year that turns everything on its head.
(I do not own any of the characters of Harry Potter, but fuck She who must not be named)
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 89,518
- Status:
- In-Progress
i am the day transcending night Anthology by vazaha_tya
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jun 2026
Summary
I've turned this work into a series because I've realised it made more sense than keeping to one huge work.
The first installation focuses on the summer of Year 4 and the murder mystery. The part featuring the actual school year will come after.
Anthology containing:
the unveiling
In the summer before his fifth year, Harry unveils some family secrets.
This changes things.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 60,796
- Status:
- In-Progress
The red marks we leave around town by dontcallmeliz
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
03 Jun 2026
Summary
It’s Friday and Tim’s taking part in his nightly and favorite hobby, bat and bird watching. He’s far enough to not be spotted, but close enough for them to hear his potential alarmed screams. It always reassures him to know they’re near enough to rescue him, faster than if they notice days later, or more. But they’re detectives, of course they’ll notice and save him quickly.
...Right ?Tim never became Robin. He never had the chance to.
Shelves: DC Comics
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- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 85,361
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Anthology containing:
with eyes like these (who sees anybody else)
Tom Riddle is Slytherin’s poster boy, a humbling tale of hardship and perseverance, a delight to professors and students alike.
Tom Riddle is the unofficial leader of the Knights of Walpurgis, and he's well on his way to plotting a House wide take over.
Tom Riddle is fifteen, nearly sixteen, and he has a lot of plans for the bright future that lies ahead of him, but no idea of who is, or what he really wants to do.
Enter Harry Evans and his merry band of horrible relatives.
[or: a thesis on self-fulfilling prophecies]
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A rewrite of "Ridiculous"with friends like these (who needs anybody else)
Sometimes Harry wonders at the similarities between them. At what point have they diverged, at what point did Harry choose and made himself up in a different shape?
He wonders what would have happened if Riddle hadn’t gone through with the first kill.
The first murder.
[ A companion piece to “with eyes like these (who sees anybody else)” ]
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- archiveofourown.org
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- 257,343
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- In-Progress
Summary
When Harry discovers Malfoy has a crush on him, he has no idea how to react. Fighting with him feels weird now that he knows Malfoy likes it, gets off on it.
When Potter stops fighting with him, Draco doesn't know what to do. Worse, when he starts smiling at him at odd times he finds he likes that better than fighting.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 52,081
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Now Complete!
An ultra slow burn Drarry retelling beginning the summer before fifth-year and continuing through the final battle at Hogwarts.
Harry begins to distrust Dumbledore after the events of his fourth year, turning to an unlikely source for knowledge and information. The Occupation of Malfoy Manor by Voldemort leads Draco down a path that diverges significantly from the rest of his family. An event early on sets in motion a large rift in the Golden Trio, ultimately resulting in irreparable damage. Harry learns what real friendship is and who he can trust while making several self-discoveries along his journey to rid the Wizarding World of Voldemort for good.
There are several plot points from the original source material that remain unchanged and are therefore only referenced and implied. While I don't care for the author's personal views, I enjoy her writing and will not be re-writing anything that happens as they appeared in the books. This fic is long enough as it is! There will be author notes for any chapter that includes or alludes to these scenes.
Please make note of the canonical character death tag and remember what happens in Order of the Phoenix.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 548,789
- Status:
- Completed
Sympathy for the Devil by Just_a_Loth_Cat
Fandoms: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars: Rebels, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
01 Feb 2026
Summary
Following the trail of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Maul arrives too late to take his vengeance, but what he finds instead could reshape the galaxy.
Or, Maul trains Luke, joins the Rebellion, and is haunted by a very familiar ghost.
Complete.
Shelves: Star Wars Fics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 153,096
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Canon divergence butterfly effect series where reading an article with the quote “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic” causes Petunia to treat Harry completely differently. The main pairing is asexual Petunia/Snape.
This is a 4 fic series with titles:
“Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology”
“Clarke’s First Law”
“Clarke’s Second Law” and
“Indistinguishable from Magic”It will be complete when all 4 fics are completed.
Anthology containing:
Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology
A Science Magazine article containing the quote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." changes the course of Petunia Evans' life.
Clarke's First Law
Clarke’ First Law: “When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.”
Severus Snape had a short list of likes: inventing potions, inventing spells, elf-made wine, and causing his robes to billow behind him dramatically. He had a very long list of dislikes. At the top of the list were children and James Potter. He found it to be quite impossible that he would ever find value in anything that combined his two greatest dislikes. Which was what made it so strange that he found himself purposefully seeking out the child of James Potter.
Clarke's Second Law
Clarke's Second Law: “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.”
Harry Potter was a boy-savior who was raised to leave the saving people to the adults. Petunia Evans was a genius inventor and single parent of two boys, one of whom happened to be the Boy-Who-Lived. Severus Snape was a potions professor with mage sight who was progressively becoming more concerned about his student's curse scar and at the same time getting quite close with said student's aunt. Draco Malfoy was a Slytherin student from a dark family with conflicting feelings about his family loyalty and a certain chaotic roommate.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 56,991
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
"WhereamI?"
His words are slurred. He can't remember what was the last thing he was doing. How come he's staring face to face with an unfamiliar kid?
"In the hallway."
"Yeah, which building though?"
The kid tells him the name and his head feels like it’s splitting as memories come back. This is the house where Tim used to live. Damn.
AKA
Jason ends up in wrong time. Meeting the 8 year old Tim and taking care of him is not what he's supposed to do in a situation like this. But that's what happens.Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 65,284
- Status:
- Completed
Ultimately about the fall, the story of a Malfoy in Gryffindor by moony_lovegood
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
04 Jan 2026
Summary
What would have happened if Draco Malfoy had been placed in Gryffindor at the beginning of it all? How would life have been different for the golden trio? A story about what happens when a small deviation leads you down a completely new path. When the difference between fear and hope lies somewhere within falling in love and falling apart.
(Series rewrite starting first year – very and I mean very slow burn.)
- Part 1 of Ultimately about the fall
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 453,337
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Everything had gone to plan, Dumbledore had seen the end of the First Wizarding War. Certainly he had lost more than a few, but Harry Potter was still alive and well. He was currently tucked away in Surrey with his Muggle Family. He could contently wait for the boy to come of age now, and continue the last of the prophecy. Until an owl landed on his desk, providing him with the news he had not expected.
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Regulus Black has survived so long on his cunning and ambition and wit. He wasn’t about to turn himself in to rot in prison, but a letter showing up to his family’s home peaked his curiosity. Who even knew he was still alive?
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Regulus Black raising Harry Potter AU
~Mostly Canon Complaint~
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Rated Mature: For Depictions of Violence, Torture, Implied Assaults etc.
Please Heed Warnings
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We don’t support JKR here, my characters will be queer, non-binary, disabled and diverse and any hate will be deleted.
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If you do not have anything kind to say please move on, this is a passion project in my free time and any hate in the comments will be deleted.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 717,394
- Status:
- In-Progress
The Weight of Names (and All Our Strange Belonging) by notmuchmoretosay
Fandoms: Cursed Child - Fandom, Harry Potter - Fandom
01 Dec 2025
Summary
Harry Potter is fine.
(He’s not…)Married. Baby on the way. Everything is under control.
(It isn’t…)Then he realises he’s in love with Luna Lovegood… on her wedding night.
He won’t cheat, but he will quietly spiral, especially when he learns that Luna and her beast-enthusiast husband are in a secret relationship with another couple, aka. their so-called “reformed” ex-Death Eater boyfriend and his dying Maledictus wife.
Harry is going to handle it all very normally, obviously.
(He won’t…)AKA: Harry being a Hot Mess™ coping with his trauma, raising his child, and accidentally falling for Luna (+3 surprise others).
Also, someone in the wizarding world really needs to stop letting kids meddle with illegal time-turners…𐂂 MAIN BOOK 𓃹 READABLE AS A STANDALONE
- Part 1 of The Hoo-Hoo and the Hare 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 362,467
- Status:
- Completed
Luminous by HopeofDawn
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
23 Jun 2025
Summary
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine."
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“70 …” 68 said slowly, taken off-guard. 70 wasn’t a brother normally inclined towards ghost-tales. “Ben isn’t real. He’s just a baby story--something the tubies like to pretend is real.”70 shook his head, his face set in stubborn lines. “He might not be. No, listen--” he gave 74 a glare when it looked like his brother wanted to interrupt again. “I’ve heard the stories, and they’re always the same. The tubies all know what he looks like. They all know he’s a jetii, before anyone ever told them what a jetii was. You know how the longnecks keep batches of tubies separate. There’s no way any of us, or any of the older vod, could have told them about him. But it doesn’t matter. All the batches know about Ben.”
Shelves: Star Wars Fics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 96,139
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
In 1979, Regulus Black doesn't die in that cave. In 1981, Sirius Black is placed in Azkaban. In 1982, Regulus Black returns home.
In all the years following, their lives—and the lives of those connected to them—will never be the same.
stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires — macbeth
- Part 1 of Asterism
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 962,209
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Time travel / dimension travel Tim. Do not feed any work in this series or any work of mine into ai. Do not use ai in relation to my works. Thank you.
Anthology containing:
tiptoes
Tim wakes up in an alternate dimension. One where he's eleven and living on the streets. One where Batman really does work alone, no Robin by his side. One where Dick is eight years old and the Flying Graysons are still flying.
It would all be much easier to deal with if he remembered how he got there.or
Tim: Older Brother Extraordinaire (eventually)
the second chance man
There's a dark haired boy in a hospital bed.
This is a companion piece and will likely not make sense without context.
in the palms of my hands
Duke is supposed to write about grief for his poetry class. Tim is missing. That should make it easier. It doesn’t.
This is a companion piece and might not make sense without context.
a mile up ahead
Tim is gone. Jason can't do a damn thing about it.
this is a companion piece and may not make sense without context.
the day forgives
Bruce has lost too many children.
this is a companion piece and may not make sense without context
among discarded things
The manor feels different without Drake. Damian grieves.
this is a companion piece and may not make sense without context
the second father
Sometimes, Bruce doesn’t want to know exactly what kind of life Tim has lived.
this is a companion piece and may not make sense without context.
at home, but far
Death is an end, complete, but Tim does not feel gone. Tim does not feel ended. It feels like he could walk into the room at any moment.
this is a companion piece and may not make sense without context
with the other bent birches
Dick lost the person who would jump when he held out his hands. The person who trusted him to catch without exception, without Dick having to fill any role other than brother.
this is a companion piece and may not make sense without context.
clear blue
Dick should probably say something. He should probably tell Jason that he doesn’t want him to get hurt, either. The words won’t come out. Jason still looks small, vulnerable. Jason still looks like a scream.
This is a companion piece and may not make sense without context
on falling
Steph knows there are only so many reasons they could be calling about Tim. It's been years. She still drives back to the manor.
this is a companion piece and may not make sense without context.
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 262,698
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Anthology containing:
The Light and Dark Inside of Us
Malfoy's attention was drawn back to the gargoyle statue—the entrance to Dumbledore's office. Now Harry heard it too. Voices. Malfoy still had a firm grip on his arm and pulled him closer to the office to listen. Harry was about to complain when he recognized Dumbledore's voice.
“It must be done this way, Severus. You gave me your word.”---
Harry and Draco overhear a conversation they probably shouldn't have. Afterward, nothing is the same.
Things Worth Dying For
“We’re not asking anyone to trust blindly. But maybe we can start by not assuming the worst of everyone. Sometimes, hope is all we have,” Hermione said.
“Hope,” Harry muttered. “That’s what I keep telling myself. But some days… it feels like a fool’s game.”
Hermione, seeing his expression, leaned forward. “Hope isn’t weakness, Harry. It’s what keeps us going. And whether or not they deserve it… it’s better than giving up entirely.”
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The war between light and dark intensifies as Harry, his friends and the Order seek to destroy Voldemort’s Horcruxes.
Caught between his choices and doubts, Draco's actions on the other side of the war could either tip the scales—or shatter them entirely.Shelves: Harry Potter
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- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 91,732
- Status:
- In-Progress
Hey there ghosts it’s me, ya Robin by SummerBummin
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
15 May 2025
Summary
Jason’s mind was reeling. “Someone can see us?”
He’d tried everything he could think of to get Bruce and Alfred’s attention since he became a ghost. But even physically floating through their bodies hadn’t elicited a response.
She laughed. “Crazy, ain’t it? I don’t know if he’s a meta or what, but all the ghosts are talking about him.”
If there was someone out there who could see ghosts… then maybe…
Jason had to find him. “Who is he?”
“He’s known by many names… Veil Walker… Reaper… Half-Pint.”
Jason sputtered. “Half-Pint??”
“That’s the wildest shit. It’s a kid. Like a middle schooler.” Delilah threw out one of her hands. “And he’s out here wandering Gotham every night and chatting up the dead.”
Jason could only stare at her. Processing. A kid who could see ghosts... What was this? The Sixth Sense: Gotham edition??
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Jason was murdered by the Joker. Tim can see the dead. They find each other.
- Part 1 of Gotham Sixth Sense AU
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 103,981
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Anthology containing:
Nearly
Sirius doesn't go after Peter Pettigrew on the night that Voldemort kills the Potters, but stays to look after Harry... This means that he is never wrongly accused and incarcerated for the murder of Lily and James, and instead he and Remus Lupin raise Harry as their own.
When it finally becomes time for Harry to start his education at Hogwarts, he has no reason to tell the Sorting Hat not to place him in Slytherin, so he is Sorted into Slytherin and becomes best friends (and later on, more than friends) with Draco.
Parallel
PARALLEL
sequel to NEARLY
companion fic to THE OTHER PARALLEL
---Fighting the Death Eaters in the Department of Mysteries, Harry loses Draco and is running through the Time Room when he stumbles through the door to the adjoining Space Room; for a moment he’s suspended in mid-air in the doorway between the two rooms… His vision goes black and just before he loses consciousness, one thought reverberates through him: ”Draco”
Meanwhile, in the Canon Universe, Harry has just been possessed by Voldemort in the Ministry for Magic and Dumbledore has pressed a Portkey into his hand, saying he’ll see him in half an hour… Now, Canon!Harry is sent through time and space, except… He doesn’t end up in Dumbledore’s office… // Nearly!Harry does, but he’s unconscious and that’s how Dumbledore finds him half an hour later and brings him straight to the Hospital Wing //
The Other Parallel
THE OTHER PARALLEL
Sequel to NEARLY
Companion fic to PARALLEL
---(This fic is about Canon!Harry in the ”Nearly” Universe)
WHAT'S HAPPENED SO FAR:
Draco:
While Harry fought the Death Eater and then threw himself through the ”Bridge” (the doorway between the Time Room and the Space Room), Lucius grabbed Draco and Disapparated to get him (and himself) out of harms way, before Voldemort showed up.Canon!Harry:
Has just lost Sirius, been possessed by Voldemort and sent back to Hogwarts with a Portkey and a promise from Dumbledore that he’ll join him in half an hour, he travels through time and space……and ends up back inside the Department of Mysteries instead of Dumbledore’s office.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 775,897
- Status:
- In-Progress
If You Could, Would You Go Back and Do It All Over Again? by That_One_Computer_Geek (T1CG)
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, DCU, Nightwing (Comics), Red Hood and the Outlaws (Comics), Young Justice (Cartoon)
26 Apr 2025
Summary
Dick Grayson wasn’t meant to be the last one left. He wasn’t meant to stand in the ashes of a world that had been picked clean, with nothing but ghosts and regrets to keep him company. But he fought until there was nothing left to fight for—until even Gotham’s ruins turned silent.
Then, when all hope was gone, a desperate sorcerer offered him the impossible: a second chance. A way back. A chance to rewrite the past before The Light won, before his family fell, before his world crumbled to dust.
Now, he wakes up in his thirteen-year-old body, the weight of an entire lost future pressing down on his shoulders. The halls of Mount Justice are untouched, filled with laughter and life—but all he can see are the names that will one day be carved into headstones. Every choice is a loaded gun. Every secret is a ticking clock. And the people he loves most? They have no idea what’s coming for them.
He won’t let it happen again.
No matter what it takes.
Shelves: DC Comics
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 216,790
- Status:
- Completed