1 – 20 of 77 Works in Morally Grey Harry Potter
Summary
There is something crawling in Harry - deep under his skin, burrowed in his chest, hidden in between the gap of his ribs, and since Voldemort decided to resurrect himself a few weeks, it hasn’t fucking left him alone.
You would think he has enough problems, with everything going on.
. . .You should try journaling, the voice suggests for the fifth time, and Harry considers screaming.
Or,
Human horcruxes are not a thing and do not exist. Until Harry Potter, of course. And so, like most things when it comes to Harry Potter, who is to say where the goddamn limit is. As in, when Tom Riddle’s current home (diary) is destroyed, he tries to hitch a ride with the nearest host available: the tiniest sliver of his soul hidden in the kid that just killed him. Two years later, Voldemort is resurrected, and suddenly Harry Potter has to deal with a random voice taking up space in his thoughts, and, oh, he’s also gotten re-sorted into Slytherin, because clearly his life was not complicated enough already.Or, how abused traumatised kids really can win with the power of friendship and found family and no one is ever really alone.
Fuck JKR. TERFs are not welcome here.
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What Goes Around (Comes Around) Anthology by Arkodian
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Oct 2026
Summary
Some of Harry's memories end up in the past and he has to figure out 1. what to do about the shitty things he sees in his future, 2. how this happened in the first place, and 3. if he may just be making it all worse anyway. It doesn't help that his saviour complex apparently travelled back with him.
What he knows is that neither Voldemort nor Dumbledore have his best interest at heart, so he may as well be on his own side - and recruit as many people as possible to help/save.
That means making old and new friends as well as enemies, starting his political career early and messing with the timeline. A lot. After all, he will drag the wizarding world into the next century - kicking and screaming if he has to. And if that's not an excuse to be mayhem personified, Harry doesn't know what is.
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Same Old, Same New
Some of Harry's memories end up in the past and 9-year-old him has to figure out 1. what to do about the shitty things he sees in his future, 2. how this happened in the first place, and 3. if he may just be making it all worse anyway. It doesn't help that his saviour complex apparently travelled back with him.
What he knows is that neither Voldemort nor Dumbledore have his best interest at heart, so he may as well be on his own side - and recruit as many people as possible to help/save.First up: deal with the Dursley Situation and gain some magical allies, if at all possible.
Let's do this.
To Everybody's Disapproval
After having some of his older self's memories unceremoniously dumped into his mind, Harry has changed a few things: Vernon is gone, Harry started learning magic from Walburga Black and he has a snake familiar named Mehen. Things have settled as much as they can - until his Hogwarts letter finally arrives and he has some choices to make.
There's the question of how much he's willing to sacrifice and what to change about the horrible future he has seen. And how much can 11-year-old him change anyway when faced with experienced adults who may be playing their own games to keep control of him and students who seem to hate him?Time to find out and step on some toes in the process. After all, somebody will have to get rid of Quirrelmort and turn this death trap into the semblance of a school. And if Dumbledore won't, Harry will sure try.
One thing is for sure: this time, he won't conform to anyone's expectations but his own.Of Monsters and Men
After a very turbulent start in the wizarding world, Harry finally enters his second Hogwarts year.
Well. If Aunt Petunia will let him go after at least five attempts on his life within the last nine months, that is. There's also the fact to consider that he still has lawyers and Amelia Bones to sic on a boatload of people, Sirius to free, Pettigrew to frame and a diary to steal.With a basilisk roaming the hallways and dementors the grounds of Hogwarts, as well as scheming people like Dumbledore and Tom Riddle to face, maybe staying in the muggle world would be safer. But Harry wouldn't be Harry if he didn't try to use the situation to correct some serious wrongs in the magical world and further his political agenda. At least this time around, he has some semi-competent adults (and paintings) at his back and a bunch of friends to support him in all the crazy endeavours his heart desires.
Besides, there is Dudley's vendetta against one Gilderoy Lockhart to consider. Nobody could pass up on that sort of entertainment.
The Breaking of Glass
Year three at Hogwarts is fast approaching and Harry has high hopes that nothing can be as chaotic as the events he just went through.
But Pettigrew’s trial is coming up, Harry has a sulking horcrux to deal with, and Aunt Walburga wants him to officially take over Slytherin. There’s also the wanna-be murderer trying to kill the Black family and the fact that all family members think Harry is an adult called Mr White.It's the first time Harry has to act mostly without foreknowledge because he certainly didn't hang out with hags and werewolves before and Harry wasn't on (semi-)talking terms with the Malfoys and Nicolas Flamel either.
With political events unfolding, someone should probably get Fudge fired before he drags the ministry back into the dark ages. Killing Theo's father and grandfather looks more tempting by the day too.As usual, nobody else seems inclined to do anything about it. All hands on deck, then! Harry and the chaos squad are rolling out. And they're growing in numbers.
(Updates weekly)
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Oliver Stone once said: "The first casualty of war is innocence."
Harry Potter was the lone survivor of a plane crash when he was just five years old. Recovered by an unknown militant group, he grows up without innocence as it is the only way to survive. The wizarding world isn't ready for this Savior.
And, once he does return to the wizarding world, it starts to change. The war brought by the Dark Lord escalates and even the Ministry of Magic changes in response. War is encompassing, but where there is darkness there is still hope.
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Inspired by the web comic "Teenage Mercenary" (also known as "Mercenary Enrollment")
Part one of this series was the one-shot inspiration for this full length piece. "Casualties of War" has diverged from the original one-shot.Shelves: Harry Potter
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The war is over, but Harry Potter has developed a dangerous obsession with Draco Malfoy. During eighth year, he secretly follows and observes Draco, collecting clues and objects while believing Draco hasn't noticed.
But Draco is far more perceptive than Harry expects. He recognizes the signs of Harry's presence and begins deliberately leaving clues and setting traps of his own. What starts as one sided surveillance becomes a secret game of mutual observation, coded messages, jealousy, and manipulation.
Neither of them will openly acknowledge what is happening. Beneath the unhealthy foundation, however, genuine moments of vulnerability and tenderness begin to emerge, leaving both of them unsure where the game ends and their real feelings begin.
Meanwhile, Hermione quietly notices the strange relationship developing between them, and chooses to keep what she discovers to herself.
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A faulty Time Turner sends Harry 20 years back in time. He is unamused.
*forgot to add but Harry is kind of sociopathic here, so read at your own risk
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Harry steals a Time Turner from a very secret department in the Ministry. Using the Time Turner, he is accidentally sent back 20 years in time, and he is left to procure a new identity and life for himself while wondering how much he can mess with Fate and end up unharmed. Messing with time can be dangerous, but he is Harry Potter after all. Dangerous is his middle name.
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After the war, the Malfoys escaped Azkaban by the thinnest margins: Narcissa’s lie in the Forbidden Forest, Lucius’s cooperation with the Ministry, and Draco’s youth all became evidence in their favor.
Years later, Draco Malfoy lives quietly, far from the public eye and even farther from forgiveness. He has no need for work, no desire for redemption speeches, and no interest in helping the Ministry that once put his family on trial. He spends his days buried in alchemical scrolls, cursed artifacts, and old magic no respectable wizard wants to understand.
Then former Death Eaters begin dying.
No wounds. No wand signatures. No killers.
Only silver scars beneath the skin, the unmistakable mark of Unbreakable Vows turned lethal.
As Head Auror, Harry Potter is forced to bring in the one person who might understand the magic behind the murders.
But as the bodies pile up and sealed records begin to vanish, Harry realizes the Ministry has been keeping more than evidence locked away.
And Draco Malfoy, for all his silence, may know far more than he is able to say.
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For the Greater Good (And Other Bullshit) by Dandalf
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
21 Jul 2026
Summary
Harry wakes up in his cupboard. He's nine years old, he's already lived a full and violent life, and he's thoroughly bored. He destroyed Voldemort once and tried to fix the wizarding world, but that didn't work out. This time he's going to do things differently, starting with knocking out most of Voldemort's Horcruxes before dinner and gaslighting several children.
(In which a jaded, overpowered Harry Potter goes back in time, speedruns his to-do list, and has some fun along the way.)
Shelves: Harry Potter
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Harry knew that accepting the third option presented by death meant living through it all once again. What he didn't expect was how different this path would be without a certain someone trying to make a martyr out of him, rather than the so-called hero media keeps on trying to portray him as.
Current schedule: Bi-weekly updates (I'll try to make it weekly whenever I can).
Current book: Sixth book
English is not my first language.Shelves: Harry Potter
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Harry Potter and The Redo He Did Not Ask For by EmilyRai
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Jun 2026
Summary
After the final battle and a brief period of peace everything goes to shit again. The Wizarding World has always been fickle but Harry hadn't realized they were fickle enough to turn on him so soon after the dust had settled. Forced to flee after once more being labeled as "Undesirable No. 1" Harry manages to evade capture for over 2 years before being brought in for a trial that feels like more of a farce than when he was forced to face the entire Wizengamot for an underage magic charge. He's not surprised by the verdict or even his sentence, what does surprise him is waking up again.
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Two, perhaps nearly three, years after the fall of Lord Voldemort, the wizarding world begins to heal. But deep in the shadows, Bellatrix Lestrange still burns with the need to prove her loyalty to her vanished master. When fate places young Harry Potter in her path on a cold, storm-lashed night, she prepares to strike the ultimate blow of revenge.
And yet… she doesn’t.In a single moment of clarity, Bellatrix sees not the Boy Who Lived, not the symbol of her master’s downfall, but a child, bruised and neglected, cast away by the very world that claims to worship him. Driven by a twisted blend of vengeance, obsession, and something achingly close to maternal yearning, she steals him from the Muggles’ grasp, determined to shape him into something greater. Her own dark legacy.
As Harry grows under Bellatrix’s fierce and fractured care, molded by the shadows instead of the light, questions begin to stir within him. Who is he really? Savior or weapon? Pawn or player? As the years pass and Hogwarts looms on the horizon, the world teeters unknowingly on the edge of a future rewritten.
One boy. One woman. One night that changed everything.
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Nine-year-old Harry accidentally apprentices himself to a necromancer. Things go downhill from there.
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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.
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Since the end of his fourth year, Harry has wanted only one thing: to stay away from Privet Drive.
Luckily, his "family" felt the same way. Between the nightmares and the bullying, he longs to forget what he endured at the cemetery.
Near a skate park in the neighborhood, he meets a boy who will change his future, his way of thinking, and, most importantly, introduce him to his new family.
Harry watched as the boy slowly raised his arm, brought the cigarette to his lips, and took a long drag. He lowered his arm, tapped the cigarette to shake off some ash, and exhaled the smoke, watching it unravel in faint wisps.
A certain magnetism drew him to this boy. Despite his incessant monologue, Harry was the kind of person who would rush headlong into things and think about the consequences later.
Act 01 : Made of More Than Blood : The Rising Dawn
Chapter 01-27
- Part 1 of Made of More Than Blood
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What if Peter Pettigrew had been caught?
What if Sirius Black never went to Azkaban?In a single split-second decision, the course of the wizarding world changes. Instead of prison, Sirius Black finds himself raising Harry James Potter—alongside Remus Lupin and, through reluctant necessity (and fate), Severus Snape.
Three men. One child. And a life shaped not by prophecy, but by choice.
Raised with as many last names as parents, Harry grows up loved—fiercely, if not always gently. Trained in magic, politics, memory, and legacy, he learns that to love is not to shield, but to prepare. He isn’t hidden from the dark—he’s taught how to walk through it.
Part I: A childhood of broken men, healing bonds, and quiet resilience. (Chapters 1–28 | 221k words)
Part II: Slytherin Harry at Hogwarts. Ambitious, kind, loyal to a fault, and destined to surprise them all. (Ongoing)Not the Boy Who Lived they expected. And perhaps something more powerful: a boy who was loved.
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Harry never meant to hurt anyone. He never wanted to cause so much pain. He never looked for trouble.
The problem with Harry was trouble usually came looking for him.
And it always found him.
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Or when Harry loses control and winds down a path darker than he ever thought he’d go down.
Fear and terror grip the wizarding world, as they grapple with the possibility that their once beloved hero is becoming another Dark Lord, whether they like it or not.
Featuring a manipulative Voldemort, a shadow that won't go away, a struggling Order and many bad choices.
- Part 1 of TSOTSC
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When Ron leaves, the silence that follows isn’t peace. It’s pressure.
Then Draco Malfoy arrives wounded, dangerous, and impossible to ignore.
Nestled among the beechwood, lines blur: enemy and ally, need and choice, hatred and heat.
Some things are inevitable.
Others are decided.- Part 1 of Beechwood
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Harry Potter saved the world, but he cannot recognise the life that followed.
Celebrated, paraded, spoken for, he feels more ghost than hero. So he slips away, searching for a place where no one knows his name.In the forgotten corners of Knockturn Alley, among outcasts and fugitives, Harry finds something he did not expect: a truth sharp enough to cut through the silence he’s been drowning in. And as the shadows move around him, one thing becomes clear: the war may be over, but his choices are only beginning.
Or:
The one where Harry goes looking for anonymity, befriends criminals by accident, joins an Azkaban breakout he never meant to be part of, gets tangled in moral grey zones, lies to everyone (including himself), and slowly falls for the blond fugitive he should have handed over to the Ministry.
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Going back, changing everything...
Not so simple, considering no one seems willing to cooperate. But, hey, at least Harry isn't alone in this madness, and truth be told, he's having perhaps a little too much fun upsetting everyone around him. In his defense, returning from the dead always has a certain effect. Going back in time shortly before his fifth year... could be even worse.
Or better.
A matter of perspective.In other words: Harry goes back in time to the summer before his fifth year at Hogwarts with the intention of changing as much as possible. The good news is that he doesn't have to do it alone. The bad news is that it might complicate things a bit.
- Part 1 of Back in Black
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'Tom was bored. It was the start of his Third Year and he was desperate for something, anything to happen.'
Tom may come to regret ever thinking that when the arrival of an adorable yet sociopathic first year Hufflepuff threatens to derail all his future plans before he even makes them. This is the story of how Harry Potter exasperated the Dark Lord into not committing genocide.
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The Heir to the House of Prince
"So you're adopted?
"Supposedly.""So your Dad ... he's not ...?"
"Seems like it."
"Huh." Theo stares at Harry with those grey eyes that look silver in the cauldron smoke between them. "But you're the heir to this ... House of Prince, so he's probably -""Yes. Probably." Harry looks at Theo sharply. "You don't know who he is, do you?"
"No." Theo looks back just as sharply. "If I did, I would tell you. You know I would."
"I do."
Something loosens inside Harry's chest. Something that has been tightening ever since Cedric died. He may not have his friends, or Sirius, or even know who he fucking is anymore, but he has this. At least he has Theo.
Summer of 4th year and Harry's all alone, dealing with his grief and the sudden revelation that James Potter is not his father. Support comes in a strange form. The form of Theo Nott, son of a death Eater. A strange friend who says he'll help him find his true father, whoever this Lord Prince might be.
The Heir to the House of Prince Part 2 - The rise of the Black Prince
Harry dreams.
Beyond the veil, he realises that there is no taste to the air. He stands with the Black Prince and watches the ravens fly in slow circles above a triangle made of shadows.
"I'm dreaming," Harry says.
"You may be," the Black Prince smiles at him.
"Are you?" Harry asks. "Dreaming?"
"It's possible," the Black Prince watches the ravens with soft familiarity. "This is the place where we meet."
Then Sirius' arms are around him. Warm, strong, loving, hugging him from behind with that smell of cigarettes and whisky. "You're a lynchpin in the universe, Harry."
Harry turns with a smile to hug his godfather but Sirius is not there. Bellatrix is leaning over him and Harry is encased in stone, unable to breathe, unable to think through the pain in his hand.
"I expected more."
Harry screams and wakes, but not for long.
The dreams pull him back.The Heir to the House of Prince Part 3 - The Last Necromancer
"And they shall not return from Charon's gate
and tread the mortal paths again
except for the children of Persephone
the twilight flames of nekros
who mark the manteia of the daughters of Nyx.
Beware those who bring the Moirai."
- The Necromancer Prophecy of Ursula Shipton"And his power shall return in England's hour of need, to rid the land of darkness again."
- The prophecy of Merlin"Then Morgana Le Fey took from Death’s own stallions a hair of finest silver and the stallions could be seen no more upon the field of battle, only to the warriors who had seen the steps of Death as she passed. The Fae Queen took from her people a cut of the wood of their Elders and it bled with their tears and berries were formed. Then from the body of Mryddin where he lay, his life spent upon the field of battle, they took a bone from his arm that had borne the sword of the lake. Each part they gave to Death and she fashioned for Morgana Le Fey a weapon of great power."
- Marina Ollivander's Account of the death of Merlin.You're a lynchpin in the universe, Harry.
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