1 – 20 of 22 Works in Godric Gryffindor
Summary
History is a geometry of scars, and the Tower was cut in half long before the boy arrived.
The Myrddin Cycle is a sprawling epic that spans the brutal origins of the 9th Century to the halls of Hogwarts. It explores a world where magic is not a whimsical gift, but a volatile anomaly—a "Tear" in the fabric of reality that demands a heavy price from those who dare to mend it.
From the salt-sprayed longships of the Viking Age to the desperate survival of a boy who was never meant to be, this series chronicles the rise and fall of the Founders, the true nature of the Avalon, and the legacy of a man named Merlin whose shadow stretches across a thousand years.
"To build a sanctuary, one must first survive the slaughter. To save the future, one must first reconcile with the ghosts of the past."
Works can be read as standalones, but together they reveal the full architecture of the world.
Anthology containing:
Myrddin: The Tower Cut in Half
In 1997, magic is a secret. In 837, it is a death sentence.
Privet Drive goes quiet—and reality tears anyway. Harry steps out of a cupboard and into smoke, chanting, torchlight, and mud.
The smell of bleach is replaced by the copper tang of blood. The silence is broken by a language he does not understand.
Harry Potter wakes up in the Kingdom of Mercia. There is no Dumbledore to guide him. There is no Voldemort to hunt him. There is only the biting cold, the unintelligible tongue of the locals, and the terrifying realization that he is utterly, completely alone.He wants one thing: survive long enough to find a way home.
And the longer Harry stays alive, the more the legend starts writing itself around him.
The Gate of Avalon
"I kill wolves," Helga said, lowering the axe. "I do not kill dogs."
Godric is the King’s Hound—a berserker bound by a leash of blood and magic, desperate for the silence of the grave. Helga is Ragnar Lothbrok’s disowned daughter—a healer with a warrior’s hands, denied Valhalla by her own father.
When a skirmish in the Scottish mist leaves them both alive, they find themselves pulled into a current stronger than any king’s command.
Meanwhile, Salah ad-Dīn flees a crumbling Baghdad with a compass that points to the underworld, and Rowena von Brounsweig carries the weight of a thousand books in a single diadem. All paths converge in the North, where the veil is thin, and the dead are starting to organize.
The world is a geometry of scars. From the salt-sprayed decks of longships to the limestone halls of Mercia, the pieces are moving toward a single, rocky outcrop in the Scottish mist. They do not know they are "Founders." They only know they are the ones who refused to break.
A prequel to Myrddin: The Tower Cut in Half. Can be read as a standalone.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 318,592
- Status:
- In-Progress
Harry Potter and the Legend of the Founders by Leonore4
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
05 Jul 2026
Summary
Harry James Potter has always had a knack for getting into trouble. But when he wakes up with the memories of Salazar Slytherin, it's a bad day even by his standards. Worse still: Nothing anyone says about the founder of Slytherin is true. In reality, it's much, much worse. How is he supposed to tell his friends this? Especially when they're slowly starting to remember too?
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 91,897
- Status:
- In-Progress
Harry Potter and the Return of the Serpent Lord by Leonore4
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Aug 2025
Summary
The moment the Death Curse struck Harry Potter's forehead and carved a scar into the toddler's skin, something else happened. In that moment, when the line between life and death blurred and time had no name, little Harry saw something he was perhaps never meant to see. He saw his former life. And Salazar Slytherin awoke.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 225,793
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Salazar Slytherin woke up in the body of a three year old boy with the most ridiculous head of black hair & a runic scar craved into his forehead. The last thing he recalled was dying. Now it is over 900 years in the future. There are a million things to deal with between new inventions, lost knowledge, missing spirits, & parasitic dark lords.
- Part 1 of Ouroboros
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 665,266
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
I've read a lot of time travel fics in this fandom that revolve around Harry, and many that revolve around Hermione, but only a choice few choose to focus on Ron. I've decided to take up the challenge myself.
Ron Weasley is a strategist. When he's thrown back in time to before his first year at Hogwarts, he makes a plan to fake his death and go kill Voldemort and all his horcruxes on his own. After all, he knows all of the opposition's moves already, and they know nothing about his. What could possibly go wrong?
- Part 1 of The Knight's Gambit
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 48,127
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
The future is murky and prone to shift. The best laid plans are never fool proof. When Harry woke abruptly to an incredible surge of magical power, the destiny he thought lay before him suddenly changed.
With the looming threat of Voldemort ever present, the future of three of the magical worlds most powerful noble families have been ensnared by the machinations of a different yet just as dangerous enemy. With the support of those who came before him, Harry must uncover the truth behind the betrayals he'd faced, and do whatever he could to make things right.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 440,272
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
Pursued by Death Eaters while the Wizarding war rages on, Harry is thrown a thousand years into the past, leaving his friends to lead the fight against Voldemort's growing forces. Lost in an unfamiliar world, he meets a legend. He discovers the man behind it. From there, everything changes.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 262,033
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Anthology containing:
The Boys of Crowhill
The note pinned to his collar read 'Harry J Potter - please accept'. The Dursleys had left him with nothing else but a pillow sack with half a sleeve of McVities biscuits, a mealy apple, and ten pounds.
The Seal of Solomon
The small black diary was a curious thing. The edges of the pages curled as if someone had thumbed them knowingly for years, but the yellowed pages were blank and untouched. Harry traced the faded gilt name embossed on the cover: TM Riddle.
The Labyrinth
The labyrinth stretched out as far as the horizon, vanishing in mist. Harry swallowed hard. It was time.
Tales From Crowhill
In Which The Path Taken Has Many Detours.
The Spellkey
The end is the beginning.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 866,985
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Anthology containing:
It's Not Just A Stick: A Wand Crafter's Story
Harry Potter was introduced to 'magic' and magic wands earlier than canon by his primary schoolteacher Miss Honeybloom. It was also during that class, he was introduced to and became lifelong friends with a certain Miss Hermione Granger. Armed with a burgeoning knowledge of wandcrafting, an inquisitive best friend and a supportive aunt and uncle; magic awaits!
It's Not Just A Stick: New Year's Growth
Harry, Hermione, and their friends are back for their second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Now that Dumbledore has been removed from his position of headmaster, it's up to Minerva and her staff to rebuild the school to its former glory while pressing ahead to modernize for the future. There's also a growing disquiet in the school. Rumors of a hidden chamber, a monster lying in wait to purge the school of the unworthy, and a evil specter of the past controlling an unwitting victim.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 211,767
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
After blowing up his Aunt Marge Harry spend the rest of the summer before his Third Year in Diagon Alley. Having heard about Inheritance Test he decided to take one only learns about the betrayals from his friends. Only to find out that what they had done caused even more harm they could imagine.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 112,497
- Status:
- Completed
Finding Home by dearjayycee
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Apr 2021
Summary
Harry comes into a surprised creature inheritance on the night of his 16th birthday. With it comes hope, love, and more family than he ever expected. His creature status changes everything, and secrets start to be revealed. His view on who he is and who he can trust is altered, and his eyes are opened to the true meaning of the war.
But along with that Harry learns the true meaning of love.
- Part 1 of Home Verse
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 146,244
- Status:
- In-Progress
Merlin: A Hogwarts History by Mamalazzer
Fandoms: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Merlin (TV)
23 Aug 2020
Summary
After spending the better part of a thousand years as a professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Merlin had given up hope that he would ever see Arthur again. Then Christmas 1993 happened and Sybil Trelawney wheezed out a prophecy about the return of the Once and Future King.
As ecstatic as Merlin is about the news, he wishes it wasn't because they were slowly approaching the end of all times, with magic itself beginning to fade from the land. Merlin also wishes Sybil had warned him how much more of a brat Arthur would be as a modern teenager, especially because this incarnation of him - terrifyingly - seems to have magic, too.
Somewhere in the Forbidden Forest, Merlin can hear Kilgharrah laughing at him.
Featuring nosy portraits with too much time on their hands, reincarnated knights with a penchant for Quidditch and such a supreme amount of Pendragon prattishness that it is practically a character on its own.
Shelves: Merlin, Harry Potter, Crossovers
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 86,031
- Status:
- Completed
The Elvenqueen by pristineungift
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
10 Feb 2019
Summary
One person can make a difference: sometimes large, sometimes small. This is the story of a young witch who died under mysterious circumstances and woke up in a completely different world - a world she would change just by existing. Follow the journey of Hermione Granger as she walks the path to becoming Hermione Thranduiliel, the Elvenqueen.
- Part 3 of Harry Potter AUs & Crossovers
Shelves: Crossovers, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 74,551
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
In September of 1971, Severus Snape finds a forgotten portrait of the Slytherin family in a dark corner of the Slytherin Common Room. At the time, he has no idea that talking portrait will affect the rest of his life.
On 31st July 1995, Harry Potter disappears from Little Whinging a few minutes after midnight. The means of his departure are unfathomable, and the Order's only relief in their concern is the fact that Voldemort was not responsible.
The rest of Wizarding Britain is too busy tearing down their Wizarding Savior via the press to be much concerned, at least until certain Slytherin allies decide that enough is fucking well enough.
Anthology containing:
Of a Linear Circle - Part I
In September of 1971, Severus Snape finds a forgotten portrait of the Slytherin family in a dark corner of the Slytherin Common Room. At the time, he has no idea that talking portrait will affect the rest of his life.
Archived Author's Notes:
The amount of geek research that went into this story basically ups its hit points to ridiculous levels.
I do not consent to my work being reposted or used in any unofficial apps or other websites. This work is not posted for anyone's profit.
To find and read the rest of OaLC. this Very Big Story, I'm flamethrower on Squidge at Squidgeworld. I'd direct-link you, but by AO3 doctrine, no one is allowed to use direct links to anywhere for anything unless it's another AO3 work. Hop over to the dot-org site and search for me; I'll pop up right away.Of a Linear Circle - Part II
In September of 1971, Severus Snape finds a forgotten portrait of the Slytherin family in a dark corner of the Slytherin Common Room. At the time, he has no idea that talking portrait will affect the rest of his life.
By December, Nizar has been free of a portrait's boundaries for a little over a month. Just in time for things to start to get interesting: he is less than impressed by Death Eaters, agrees with Sirius Black that 12 Grimmauld Place should possibly be burned to the ground, and learns a few things he'd really prefer to avoid.
Of a Linear Circle - Part III
Harry Potter's fifteenth birthday starts off just like all the others...for the first few seconds, at least. The gift he receives changes his entire life.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 365,702
- Status:
- In-Progress
Talk Sense to a Fool and He Calls You Foolish by Theriechenbachevent
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Merlin (TV)
29 Jan 2017
Summary
When Arthur finds out about Merlin's magic, he does the only thing he can think of. He banishes him. Circumstances force Merlin to live as a woman to avoid recognition, and he wanders through the Kingdom of Camelot, looking for a new purpose in life.
He finds it in 4 small children. Thrown away by their parents for gifts they had no choice in recieving. Merlin realizes his true calling is to spread the knowledge that magic means no harm.
Some time later, his path crosses with Arthur again. But with the memory of betrayal so fresh in their minds, can they over come the prejudices built over years of distrust and hatred?
***EPILOGUE POSTED***
Shelves: Merlin, Harry Potter, Crossovers
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 100,505
- Status:
- Completed
Time Paradox Revolution by phoenixjustice
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Obsidian Trilogy - Mercedes Lackey & James Mallory
27 Jul 2016
Summary
Post-DH in the beginning, with spoilers for the whole series. Then set pre Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone.
He had lived. The boy into the man. The future appeared pretty as a rose and hid its true self, its thorns, well. He had one chance; and so he gave up everything he had to change everything he knew.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 87,466
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Harry's life changes when the Dursley's take drastic measures at the beginning of Harry's sixth year summer. With that catastrophic event, it leads to a whole new dimension with a domino effect of events Dumbledore Bashing. WARNING SLASH! Rating Subject to Change.
- Part 1 of Living My Life
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 78,079
- Status:
- In-Progress
Summary
Caught in the backlash of Voldemort's Killing Curse, Harry is thrown through time to a world so very different from his own.
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 131,502
- Status:
- Completed
Summary
The night before Quidditch try-outs in the Trio's fifth year, a mysterious magical accident takes place in the Gryffindor common room, transporting Harry, Hermione, Ron and Ginny back over a thousand years in time to a century of discord, persecution and tumult, where they lose their memories of their own time and become the Founders of Hogwarts.
When another such occurrence returns them to a time they can no longer think of as their own, Godric, Helga, Salazar and Rowena must defeat Voldemort and overcome the divisions within the school they founded, while simultaneously trying to uncover the reason for their time-travel.Some elements have been borrowed, with permission, from the work of Wicked Witch of the North on fanfiction.net, who has since closed her account.- Part 2 of What's Past is Prologue
Shelves: Harry Potter
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 64,172
- Status:
- In-Progress
Eternal Guardian Anthology by SootyOwl
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Merlin (TV), Harry Potter - Fandom
09 Nov 2013
Summary
Prequel story for 'Ancient Relics'. Merlin has spent the three hundred years since Arthur's death hiding in the shadows waiting for the return of the Old Religion. Now, after a tragic event, he has found four unique individuals who may just be the ones he has been waiting for. The ones who can end his torturous immortality and restore the glory of Camelot. Founder's Era.
Anthology containing:
A New Purpose
Ancient RelicsShelves: Harry Potter, Merlin, Crossovers
- Site:
- archiveofourown.org
- Words:
- 510,568