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what we carry, what carries us by spiderlilies_on_your_hair
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Feb 2026
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Harry Potter is unraveling.
He’s quieter now; more withdrawn, more tired. Between dreams haunted by Tom Riddle, growing isolation, and scars that never truly healed, Harry turns to the only thing that gives him control: art. But even sketching can’t keep the darkness at bay forever. The whispers never stop. The dreams grow darker. And his magic—wild, powerful, and unrefined—starts slipping through the cracks in ways even he can’t control.
Once again, Harry finds himself placed under the reluctant care of Professor Severus Snape for more Occlumency lessons and supervision. Neither of them is prepared for what follows.
Snape expects arrogance. Harry expects cruelty. What they find instead are pieces: of truth, of memory, of each other. As the boundaries between student and professor shift, long-buried trauma surfaces, secrets unravel, and the Horcrux inside Harry begins to take a toll neither of them expected.
Title changed from: someday i'm gonna be somebody people want (June 23, 2025)
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17 Mar 2026
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because i could not stop for death by asheville_1864
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Mar 2026
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In a world where Albus Dumbledore dies too soon, a hungry, dark and brilliant Tom Riddle quickly rises to power. There are no Death Eaters—only the Minister of Magic and his network of favours, debts, and silent threats that keep the world obedient.
Harry Potter grows up in obscurity, with a power he knows not: the ability to stabilize chaos, anchor unstable spells and calm magic. He believes he’s merely good under pressure, and the world believes him even less. But when a high-risk Ministry ritual goes wrong, Harry is marked, and magic itself begins to listen.
(Or: Tom Riddle doesn’t destroy the world, and Harry Potter doesn’t save it. And yet, some magic refuses to stay contained.)
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08 Mar 2026
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Harry becomes close with his next door neighbors (The Williams) on Privet Drive and discovers one of them has cancer. After a summer of increased abuse at the Dursley's, PTSD from the Triwizard tournament, and seemingly being forgotten about by his friends, Harry feels like he doesn't have anything left to live for. In a desparate attempt to help the Williams, he transfers the cancer to himself.
This is a fanfiction of the fanfiction 'recnac transfaerso'. Many details have been changed to make it into a new story. TW for self-harm, disordered eating, suicidal ideation, and cancer.
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- Part 1 of You Could Make This Beautiful
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28 Feb 2026
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It was inevitable, really, that such a thing would fall into Harry's focus eventually.
"It's not happening," Remus tells him, his voice forceful even in his exhaustion.
When the obvious, reassuring agreement he'd expected doesn't come however, his hackles rise.
"Sirius," he says again, low and direct. "It's not happening."
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- Part 5 of Wolfstar rewrite
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01 Feb 2026
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In a world where avoiding your soulmate leads to madness, Harry Potter spends his fifth year barely holding onto his sanity as Umbridge tightens her grip on Hogwarts.
The words etched into his skin promise a soulmate still out there—one who wants him dead.
With his other half impossibly far away, Harry’s mind begins to fracture. Sanity hangs by a thread.
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- Part 1 of Words of Love
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20 Jan 2026