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A collection of one shots for 'Change is alright' depicting the life of Harry and his son after the main story. Tom is still haunting the narrative.
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- Part 2 of Change is alright
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The Weight of Names (and All Our Strange Belonging) by notmuchmoretosay
Fandoms: Harry Potter - Fandom, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Fandom
17 Oct 2025
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Married. Baby on the way. Harry Potter is blindsided when he realises he’s in love with Luna Lovegood — only after his Patronus changes on her wedding night.
He won’t cheat.
He won’t run.But he will… unravel, just a bit.
What he knows: Luna loves the world differently to most. She’s never tried to fix him. She’s always just seen him.
What he doesn’t know: She's in a secret polycule with three others — a creature-mad Magizoologist, a reformed Malfoy, and a dying Maledictus.
What he will come to learn: Love is endless, even after trauma and loss. Because there are more ways to love —and be loved— than with just one pair of hands.
Oh, and the kids really shouldn’t be meddling with illegal time-turners…
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You Drew Blood (I Set Myself On Fire) by Pensievable
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Oct 2025
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The stranger who interrupts their duel in the graveyard is the spitting image of an older James Potter, sans the streaks of red in his hair. Except he has Harry’s scar. Their glasses are the same too.
What sets this man apart from the child before him and his parents, however, are his eyes. Voldemort does not see Lily Potter or the Killing Curse reflected back at him. He sees the sparkling golden sand from within a Time Turner instead.
The perfect trophy, Voldemort decides immediately, to commemorate his resurrection.
In which an older, much more experienced Harry Potter accidentally time travels back to his fourth year and decides he's going to give his younger self the father figure he deserved. Too bad Voldemort can't seem to leave him the fuck alone.
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Her scar was burning again.
It never really stopped. It hurt all the time, every day, at least a bit. At this point, waking up with a dull ache or irritating sting meant Hermione was in for a great day. The background level of pain was akin to a dripping tap or beeping smoke detector she had learned to ignore. Days where she didn’t need to take anything to numb the pain and could smile and laugh almost like nothing was wrong. Almost like normal.
Some days were not as good. Some days it throbbed, itched, pulsated and spiked shooting fire in random bursts. Days where she was prone to be short-tempered; snapping at people, impatient and abrasive but still herself. Still held together and coping just fine. Less good days.
Today though, today the fucking thing burned. It was going to be a Bad Day.
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In the autumn of 2011, Harry Potter's daughter starts her first year at Hogwarts. Unfortunately, he doesn't know it.
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Just because the war's over doesn't mean Severus wants anything to do with Harry Potter. When he almost drowns and finds out Harry is the one who saved him, he's forced to realize he might have been wrong about Harry after all.
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Harry gets a lesson in true "Remedial Potions". Snape has no idea why the other man can't concentrate properly.
"Now," Snape said, peering into the cauldron, "We let it simmer. Stirring is finished."
Harry sighed and lay the stirring rod aside. Instinctively, he lifted his shirt tail to wipe the sweat from his eyes. "Brilliant. So… What do we do while we wait?"
Snape merely fixed the younger man with a critical eye.
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Year 3 (Year 1) - Enchanter's Nightshade by HunterRapunzel
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Oct 2025
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There was also a good chance her family would spend a little more time at Potter Manor this year since this was Alex’s first year at Hogwarts.
He’d gotten his letter and was extremely excited to be joining Petunia and their cousins at Hogwarts. Lily was going to join them this year, too, along with some more Weasleys and apparently the children of a couple friends of Uncle Harry’s. She was curious to see who her brother was going to befriend at school and what house he’d be sorted into.
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Enchanter's Nightshade: Spells, witchcraft, sorcery
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- Part 4 of The Magical Flower
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Harry Potter—devoted father, loving husband, and all-around extraordinaire —never expected to be thrown back in time to the days when his own parents were still young and figuring things out. But thanks to an ancient mirror, that’s exactly where he finds himself. Only… is it really the past, or something even stranger?
As if navigating a world he barely recognizes wasn’t complicated enough, his mischievous yet adorable son Albus decides to tag along on this chaotic adventure. Curse his damn luck.
Now, Harry is stuck playing Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher in a Hogwarts he thought he knew—only this time, it’s before his parents even liked each other. Seeing them in person, might be more than Harry can handle.
Together, Harry and Albus must learn to survive this unexpected journey through time—facing challenges, forging new friendships and uncovering heartfelt truths neither of them were prepared to confront.
Meanwhile, the students of Hogwarts and wonder about the origins of their new professor—mysterious, handsome, and definitely unlike anyone they’ve met before.
Join them in this warm, adventurous tale of family, magic, and the messy, beautiful ties that bind past and present.
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“So you're calling him 'Harry' now."
“Pardon?”
“You just called him Harry,” Teddy clarifies. “But whenever he’s actually here, you call him ‘Potter’.”
”Ah.”
Names have power - maybe not in the magical sense, but certainly on a personal level, and how could Draco ever claim that he is deserving of calling Harry Potter by his first name?
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A moment in time, in a life Draco never thought he would live.
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AU where Severus Snape is tasked with retrieving Harry Potter from his relatives in the summer before the boy’s 5th year rather than the other Order members. Also, horcruxes don't exist.
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction based on JK Rowling's Harry Potter series. I do not profit off of this work and it is solely for entertainment purposes.
(I do not support JKR!)
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The most baffling DADA teacher (aka Harry did not sign up for this) by Claunsstar
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Sep 2025
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There is one constant at Hogwarts: One new Defence Teacher every term. Everyone knew it. They also learned to keep their expectations low.
James wasn't sure how the new teacher was able to destroy even the lowest of expectations, but here they were.
Professor Young (or in full: Professor Flynn Ulrich Clayton Kendrick Young) was an idiot who went undefeated. So how was it possible that he still learned from him?Or
Harry has no idea how he ended up in the past and managed to become the DADA teacher at Hogwarts, but he knows one thing for sure: He won’t be one of Dumbledore's pawns, and he won't be pulled into the bubbling war, if that means he has to play the idiot, so be it. He had enough incompetent teachers to know how to play the role.
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Harry doesn't understand why Draco left him the way he did. Without so much as a 'goodbye.' Heartbroken, he started a family with Ginny, though it didn't last.
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Harry has returned to Hogwarts as the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor and teach as his sons and daughter walk the same halls he used to walk with Draco.
SCORPIUS
Scorpius Malfoy has arrived at Hogwarts as part of the Beauxbatons student exchange program. His father has steadfastly refused to talk about his own time in England, and Scorpius is determined to ferret out his history. As Scorpius' health takes a mysterious turn for the worse, Draco and Harry are set on a collision course that will change everything.
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Veil of Shadows ~ Severus Snape X Jade Cassiopeia Lerevep by Mercuryinvenus
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter order of the phoenix
22 Sep 2025
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Light is easy to love. Show me your darkness.
To say Jade Lerevep was a standout among the Slytherins would be a laughable understatement. She was bright-eyed, sharp-tongued, and had a smile that could melt titanium—though she’d never admit how often she used it as a weapon. There was a reason the Hat didn’t hesitate to send her to Slytherin, and it wasn’t just the way she wore emerald like it was stitched from ambition itself. Jade didn’t call herself competitive. She called herself determined. Purposeful. Hungry.So when the owl came from Albus Dumbledore—offering something vague and glittering—she didn’t hesitate. That old glint sparked in her eyes, and the restless ache for something greater stirred in her chest. A chance to work beside the great Albus Dumbledore? That would look exceptional on parchment.
Before her tea could cool, her bags were packed. And she arrived at Hogwarts grinning like sunlight bottled in human form.
What she didn’t expect was the obstacle.
A potion master.
Unsmiling. Impossible. Far too close to Dumbledore.
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The pain of the war has torn Harriet from the love of her life, George Weasley. As she navigates a new career and raising her godson, the thought of him is always in the back of her mind, like a piece of her has been ripped away. Will they find their way back to each other after everything they've been through?
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After-hours in the Restricted Greenhouse, fourth-year Neville Longbottom stumbles into danger no student, or boy, should face alone. Professor Potter saves him from the Seedvine’s harmful embrace — yet the rescue uncovers a secret that will change the course of their night. Between peril and confession, fear and closeness, teacher and pupil find themselves bound together in ways they cannot ignore. A complete story told in two chapters.
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Harry Potter and the Coven of the Augurey by Fanfan118
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
13 Sep 2025
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When an unexpected visitor arrives at the doorstep of the Pottes’ home, it is off to another Hogwarts adventure.
As newly minted Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor and Flying Instructor, respectively, Harry and Ginny discover a whole other side to school life. Their son James has his hands full with his duty as Hogwarts' Head Boy and their daughter Lily is displaying bravery that does little to ease her parents’ stress. Meanwhile, Albus, the middle Potter child, seems to have dark clouds gathering around him, as he carries a secret his family can't understand.
Will the Potter family hold together, not only through the challenges of the school year but when a mysterious group calling themselves the Coven of the Augurey rises at Hogwarts?
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Adequate Friendship, and the Life and Death of Change by JacksWild
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Sep 2025
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Harry struggles to understand why love feels the way that it does. All consuming, heartbreaking, and never exactly right.
When Severus Snape disappears and leaves him to pick up the pieces of the world that was left behind - Harry realizes... sometimes Love is Hard before it is Easy.
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Harry and Hermione aren’t exactly new to tabloid gossip. But this time, maybe the Prophet’s getting closer to the truth.
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the difference between loneliness and being alone by snapdragonseven
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
31 Aug 2025
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after the battle of hogwarts, delphini lestrange is left orphaned and all alone. while reluctant at first, rodolphus takes her in and raises her as his own daughter. of course, he's never had any children and knows nothing about them, but how hard could it be?