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Harry Potter and the Burden of the Snake by RedCherryCake
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Sep 2026
Summary
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities,” - Albus Dumbledore
What if Harry made the choice not to ask the sorting hat to put him in Gryffindor?
The lines have been redrawn. His best friend Ron is in Hufflepuff, Hermione has joined Ravenclaw, and Harry is forced into co-inhabitance with Draco Malfoy and Theodore Nott.
But trauma doesn't disappear just because the child now holds a wand. Haunted by the Dursleys, Harry turns to ancient magic to survive Hogwarts' depths, only to discover the cost of such power.
Lightly based on SuperCarlinBrother’s “What if Harry was in Slytherin” video.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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To Harry,
By the time you get this, I’ve most likely passed into the Great Beyond. It’s what I get for working as an Unspeakable, but don’t worry! I loved every minute of it—and honestly, that’s probably a lot more minutes than you realize. If I’m still alive, though, we should have tea tomorrow. Assuming this arrived at its intended time on your 55th birthday.
Harry Potter was supposed to be done.
He had survived Voldemort, the Ministry, the press, several educational disasters, and far too many adults with plans.
Thrown back into 1991 with all his memories intact, Harry decides he has absolutely no intention of following the script. Privet Drive is first on the chopping block. Gringotts is next. After that, he'll need Remus Lupin, Hermione, Ron, and one boa constrictor with delusions of grandeur.
Harry knows the future.
Unfortunately, the future knows how to bite back.
- Part 1 of Again, With Witnesses
Shelves: Harry Potter
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Nunc Coepi: Book I
Everything was going well for Harry. Voldemort had been defeated, he was freshly out of the auror training program, he'd been becoming friends with Draco, he was dating Ginny again, and he had a fairly good social life. He was finally content for the first time in years.
Of course, that is when everything typically goes wrong for Harry. A mishap with a time-turner sends him back to his first year at Hogwarts. With no idea how to get back, and no idea how badly he could mess up his own past, he finds himself doing his best to repeat his past.
Only problem is there's so much he wants to change.
Nunc Coepi: Book II
Having decided that they would not be keeping events the same, Harry and Draco enter their second year faced with the choice of how exactly to change the past. Worried too many differences will create an unrecognizable future, their decisions will need to be carefully considered.
If only Harry was ever careful.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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Harry hadn't meant for them to get trapped in a time loop. He had cast the spell, hoping it would immobilise Malfoy. It wasn't his fault he didn't know what the spell did, it was the Half-Blood Prince's. If he had labelled his notes correctly, Harry wouldn't be in this mess, and he wouldn't be stuck with Malfoy of all people until they figured out how to get unstuck. Which was becoming clear wouldn't be any time soon.
Follow as Harry and Draco realise they only have each other, and when the repeating week becomes boring and predictable, find ways to make it a lot more interesting.
OR Instead of almost killing Malfoy in his sixth year, Harry gets himself and Draco stuck in a time loop.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- 82,622
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“And who are you to defy Lord Voldemort?”
“Ronald Weasley. And you’ll have to go through me before you get to Harry!”
Eighteen-year-old Ron stumbles into gathering the Deathly Hallows. Eleven-year-old Ron wakes up after a sad dream, in a world that's different from his expectations.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- 143,774
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Fifth year is supposed to be about O.W.L.s and surviving Umbridge. Instead, Harry’s biggest problem is puberty betraying him. Ron gets taller, Neville gets sturdier, and Harry stays exactly the same. Then Draco Malfoy walks past him half undressed, and Harry’s entire life falls apart. With Sirius offering the least helpful advice in history, and Malfoy suddenly impossible not to notice, Harry has to survive hormones, humiliation, and the slow, painful realisation that he might actually like the worst possible boy.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- 44,838
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- Completed
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Daphne Greengrass has secrets — lots of them. In the summer before her fourth year, she decides it might no longer be worth her while to keep them and she takes a gamble on the Boy Who Lived. Luckily for her, following Pettigrew's escape, Harry has spent the summer channeling his anger and frustration into taking a good hard look at the state of Magical Britain and his place in it. Harry has problems; Daphne has ideas. An unexpected alliance blossoms, spelling chaos for the plans of one Albus Dumbledore and changing the fate of the wizarding world forever.
Featuring a stolen Wizengamot seat, worryingly competent Death Eaters, family secrets, Sirius's animagery agenda, midnight wanders, the Chamber of Secrets, Percy Weasley's redemption, an efficient owl post, and more snark than anyone knows what to do with.
Starts very close to the events of Book 4, diverges increasingly thereafter.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge." -Tuli Kupferberg
A tradgicomedimance (?) with our boys Harry and Theo breaking the shackles of wizarding society and carving out their own space
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When Patterns Are Broken
After two years of murder attempts and terrible summers, ominous letters from the Ministry and adults who act like they care but never actually do anything, Harry decides to grab the basilisk by the horns. In the few weeks he has before school begins, Harry learns more about himself, his family, and his role in the magical world. When third year starts, he just hopes he's ready.
[A canon retelling starting in PoA through DH, with a Harry that's just a bit more perceptive, a Sirius with changed priorities, and a caring Theo]
New Worlds Emerge
One-shots from When Patterns Are Broken. Afterstories. Contains spoilers for the main story by necessity.
Thanks to whoever had this idea, I couldn't stop thinking about it, so here you go :)
The Wrong Hole
Halloween 2008
A wholesome family ritual gets interrupted by an old annoyance
Shelves: Harry Potter
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Evitative
In the summer before his fifth year at Hogwarts, Harry is drawn to a room in Grimmauld Place. Like the Gryffindor he is, he enters the room without fear. The room is a library, and Harry is surprised to find that he’s eager to learn.
Then he gets the bad news: he’s been accidentally expelled from Hogwarts, and he needs to be sorted again. Everyone is confident that he’ll go straight back to Gryffindor, but with what he's been learning, Harry’s not so sure.
Redivider
In the summer before his sixth year at Hogwarts, Harry decides to take his own words to heart - it is time to let the Gryffindor go. As he tries to navigate the world with the eyes of a Slytherin, he surprises everyone with what he discovers he’s capable of.
After all, Slytherins use any means to achieve their ends, even when they are not a fan of the means.
The sequel to Evitative.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- archiveofourown.org
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- 335,966
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- In-Progress
Harry Potter & Seven Years of Chaos Anthology by JessalynMichele, Severitus812 (JessalynMichele)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Jul 2025
Summary
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Obliviate
What if Harry understood his “freaky accidents” when he was young and began controlling them? How would this impact his first year at Hogwarts?
*Warning for: child abuse, implied sexual assault of a minor, and descriptions of violence.Sectumsempra
Harry Potter enters his second year at Hogwarts surrounded by power, allies, enemies, secrets that whisper to him from the castle walls, and a past that won’t give him any peace.
Severus Snape prepares himself for another year of keeping the most chaotic student he has ever had the (mis)fortune of meeting alive.
Welcome to the Chamber of Secrets.
Veritaserum
Does Snape really think that Harry is worried about another mad man after him?
He can handle himself, thanks.
Changes in the gang and at Hogwarts are running rampant as Snape tries to deal with a ward who he believes may be struggling with more than just his copious amounts of past trauma, Harry wants everyone to leave him alone and let him find Sirius Black for a 'friendly chat', Susan fantasizes about what she'll do if she even so much as sees one hair of Sirius Blacks head near her best friend, Hermione and Theo just want to read... alone... together..., and Remus Lupin wonders what on Earth happened to James' son to create the chaotic child he now meets.
Welcome back to Year 3.
Tres Mortes
Harry feels great, honestly. He’s got a loyal group of friends, big plans for the future, and he thinks he’s finally gotten the hang of how other people show emotions and how to use those emotions to get what he needs.
Plus now there’s an exciting tournament happening, Snape’s darkening mark means Harry might get his chance for revenge on Voldemort sooner rather than later, and the new Defense Professor is an absolute bloodthirsty genius.
So Harry’s great.
It’s just that Severus Snape is not doing so great. He worries if his ward will survive a year filled with danger, masked enemies, and changes happening quickly within the student body.
Welcome back to Year Four.
Let’s see some chaos, yeah?The Grey Force
Harry Potter has magical power that has never been seen before, an ever growing gang of powerful and brilliant allies, and enough cunning and strength to face whatever comes his way this year.
Unfortunately, Harry Potter also has mental illness, a tendency for idiocy, powerful enemies, and a reckless streak that has taken at least ten years off Severus Snape’s lifespan so far- so Severus enters the year with more reservations than his foolish ward does.
Alliances will be tested, lines will be drawn, and Hogwarts is beginning to feel like a battlefield more than a school.
Which, in Harry’s opinion, is perfectly brill.
Welcome to Year Five.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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After the war, many came back to restart their 7th year or better, their 8th year at Howgarts. After both his parents ended up in Azkaban, Draco Malfoy has no choice but to go to school. And that's when he discovers his Veela heritage. Him? A Veela? And attracted to none other than Harry Bloody Potter?? What a way to start the year...
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- archiveofourown.org
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- Completed
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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
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- archiveofourown.org
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- 48,127
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- In-Progress
Partners, Professionally. - A Drarry Fanfic by withluvchloemarie
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Dec 2024
Summary
Forced to partner as Aurors after the war, Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy clash at every turn, their shared history steeped in resentment and unresolved pain. But as reluctant allies become something closer to friends, old wounds and hidden struggles begin to surface.
When their professional partnership begins to blur into something more, they'll have to confront not only their pasts but also the undeniable pull between them. Healing isn't easy-but sometimes, the person you least expect can change everything.
*I do not own Harry Potter*
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- archiveofourown.org
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- 98,470
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- Completed
Harry Potter and the Ticket Backwards Anthology by viciousmouse
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Aug 2024
Summary
Anthology containing:
Harry Potter and the Ticket Backwards
When the most powerful magics collide due to Harry Potter's desperate, last sacrifice, he creates for himself a chance to fix up the wrongs in his world. Yet going back in time isn't everything that he expected: Voldemort is a threat, but it is Harry himself who no longer fits comfortably in the world. Time has changed him, he just hasn't yet figured out how.
Harry Potter and the Best Laid Plans
While returning to his past has been more of a challenge than Harry expected, he has still managed to find time to make sure his young friends are looked after. But Harry is beginning to realise that juggling his past and his future is more difficult than he expected, and controlling the timeline is more complicated than he thought.
Sequel to Harry Potter and the Ticket Backwards.Harry Potter and the Tracks of Time
While Harry's brave and desperate plan to fix the past is forging ahead, he is forced to admit that things are not going to plan. Struggling with the guilt of his mistakes and the weight of his ignorance, Harry also has to juggle some new, heavy responsibilities as everything seems to be creeping out from under his control. Follows on from Harry Potter and the Best Laid Plans.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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“Ugh,” Harry’s stomach grumbled, “Do you serve food?”
Her expression turned immediately apologetic, “We do, but unfortunately reservations are required,”
“Potter? Is that you?” Harry turned to look over his shoulder and froze.
Approaching him, a polite frown on his brow, was Draco Malfoy.
He’d always stood a few inches taller than Harry, but he suddenly seemed exceptionally tall and regal in his baby pink, velvet suit jacket, his smart black trousers and his crisp white shirt and matching white bow tie. His hair, though cut short at the sides and around the back, was longer and coifed back stylishly at the top. Did he… did he find Malfoy attractive?
Oh. Oh, Merlin no.
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Harry would never have believed the difference that just one long weekend could make.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- 57,113
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A series of fics where Harry Potter discovers that he is a stolen Malfoy child in second year, and everything changes from there.
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How Like Hatred
Harry has learned that speaking in Parseltongue makes some people hate him and others fear him. He had not learned that it would make Draco go straight to his parents and tell them that he has reason to suspect “Harry Potter” is actually his missing twin brother. As far as Harry is concerned, life would be a lot better if he was the Heir of Slytherin.
A Name Like Henry
Sequel to “How Like Hatred.” When Harry goes back to school after Christmas holidays as Henry Malfoy, he has to cope with friends, professors, and just about everyone else having an opinion on his new name and appearance. And that’s not to mention his smotheringly overprotective family.
A Godfather Like Him
Sequel to “How Like Hatred” and “A Name Like Henry.” Harry comes home for the summer, and it really is a relief to be at Malfoy Manor with his parents and brother—at first. But then he finds out a secret that they’ve been keeping from him, and gets the news that Sirius Black has broken out of Azkaban. Plus he has to go a Mind-Healer. Harry isn’t sure which one is worst, frankly.
A Year Like This
Harry goes back to Hogwarts for his third year, after a charged summer with his family. Sirius Black is still out there somewhere, the Ministry thinks it’s a good idea to send Dementors to the school, Dumbledore has things he wants to talk to Harry about, and Harry still doesn’t really know how to react to the notion that his father was once a Death Eater and his mother would literally kill to protect him. Also, Draco is a very, very annoying brother.
A Path Like Frost
Harry continues down the path that sees him being both a Gryffindor and a member of the Malfoy family, striving to find and hold an uneasy balance that changes constantly.
A Darkness Like Fire
Coming back from the graveyard isn’t simple. Harry struggles to recover as his family, both Malfoy and Black, gathers around him and begins the hunt for the Horcruxes.
Like Clouded Endless Stars
Sequel to “A Darkness Like Fire.” Harry returns for his fifth year at Hogwarts, still bearing the burden of having killed someone. The burdens waiting for him at the school may make that one seem small.
Blood Like Silver
The Malfoys have destroyed four Horcruxes, including the one in their son, and are beginning the fight against a resurrected Voldemort. Harry and Draco return to Hogwarts in a blaze of rumors. Meanwhile, others lay their own plans.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- archiveofourown.org
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- 151,056
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- In-Progress
In This Life We Lived (A Harry Potter 7-Year Adventure) by AnotherNerdAsUsual
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
02 Dec 2023
Summary
(NOW ON BOOK 4) IN ANOTHER LIFE: EVERY WIN WAS COSTLY
The year that Harry gets chosen as a twizarding competitor-but he won't be the only one thrust into fate-deciding obstacles.Read as Fred Weasley crosses paths with a stranger, again and again, until it appears they're not quite strangers anymore and the one in question makes the jokester feel a different kind of funny.
Explore the depths of Percy Weasley and learn what Mirabella knows: That he's not as perfect as his family thinks.
Dive in as Draco Malfoy tugs the leash that bounds him just enough to finally stray toward the light he wishes to follow and gain warmth from.
Wrack your brains with Will Granger as he watches the people closest to him turn from subjects he knew best to puzzles he can't seem to put together anymore.
Learn as Freya Weasley learns that what she feels like isn't truly what she is, smile as she finally comes to terms with what she'll never be...
And let your heart shatter with hers as she's forced to accept the reality of what she needs to become.
Because there'll be consequences if she can't.
Let the Twizarding Tournament and all the Challenges along with it BEGIN.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- archiveofourown.org
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- 238,603
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Both Harry and Theo, when they go under the Sorting Hat, make different choices. Therefore, so does the Hat. And so do Harry and Theo, and other people, in the future years, in the fight against Voldemort, and in all their lives to come
- Part 3 of From Samhain to the Solstice 2023
Shelves: Harry Potter
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- 46,360
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Other People's Choices
AU. The Sorting Hat doesn’t just let the Sword go when it falls on Harry’s head in the Chamber, but also Sorts him again, this time into Slytherin. Harry is furious and terrified, and the adults aren’t helping much.
Wolf's Choice
AU of GoF. Harry begins his summer with horrific visions that come true much faster than he was expecting. He’ll have to rely on his circle of friends, both his guardians, and all his allies to cope with the results.
Once There Were Mothers
Once, before Theodore Nott, Blaise Zabini, and Draco Malfoy learned of the existence of evil, there were mothers.
Shelves: Harry Potter
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"they made you into a weapon and told you to find peace” - unfinished poems iii // Sarah Z
Anthology containing:
Harry Potter and the Power of Proper Communication
After the Christmas argument about Harry's Firebolt, Hermione decides that she's not putting up with the boys' sulking anymore, and she's going to do something about it. What happens next is a testament to the strong bonds forged through people actually talking to each other, the desperation involved in keeping your best friend alive and in one piece, and the desire to build a better, safer world for him to live in, no matter what the objections from the adults.
In other words, the risk in manipulating things to create child-soldiers is that they will decide that you, too, are also something to protect themselves against.
Revised, Edited, and Rewritten: After a lot of feedback about how the writing got better as this fic went on, I've been taking a break, not just to have the burn-out breakdown from IRL work, but also to rewrite some of the earlier chapters (mostly 1-5) hoping to improve on what was already there, and add things I wish I'd thought of the first time.
Updated So Far: Chapters 1, 2, and 3 - an additional chapter inserted after Chapter 3 - and 4 (which is now Chapter 5, I guess)A Pride of Lions
As crazy as it is to live the Trio’s lives, it’s equally wild to view it from the outside. Some even find it entertaining.
Snapshots from the Staff Room…
It’s every teacher’s goal for their students to outgrow them. To learn more, discover, innovate…
The staff of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, 1993, weren’t prepared to see it happen so soon, in students so young, nor to see it occur so suddenly and so completely.
Some are proud to see it at all, some ponder what it means, but others… others feel the hot swell of shame…
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A series of differing perspectives from the teachers of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, during Harry Potter's Third Year.
Grimmauld Summer
“I think the only reason I never lost my mind is that I knew I was innocent. That wasn’t a happy thought, so the Dementors couldn’t suck it out of me… but it kept me sane and knowing who I am…”
Sirius Black doesn’t exactly have much in his life right now to be happy about, but that’s alright – that only means that it’s real, and no one can take it away from him.
In which Sirius is probably not alright, but he’s all Harry’s got, and Harry doesn’t have time to wait for Sirius to wallow. The only thing he can do is keep going and do the best he can.Shelves: Harry Potter
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- archiveofourown.org
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- 141,921
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