13 Works by improbas
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Harry Potter died saving everyone. But the world kept turning, and something even worse came. Death drops him off in snowy 1938 London to stop the world from burning once more.
Just one problem. He's got paws instead of thumbs.
In the garden of Wool's Orphanage, Tom Riddle's first friend is a tiny snake. Billy Stubbs kills her with a trowel. Tom takes his revenge - brilliant and vicious, but he's so desperately outnumbered that when his bullies corner him, Harry can't help but intervene. A debt Tom repays by designing a collar that can bind a Grim.
Sometimes the road to redemption is paved with ash.
— a.k.a. a dark time-travel romance following Tom's journey from boy to man, Harry's struggle between justice and mercy, and whether caring can redeem someone - or if it only makes them worse.
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The Gauntlet of Heroes is an annual tournament celebrating the continued existence of magic and the Wizarding World. There's only one rule: no wands.
It's Harry's first time, and he’s angling to take the title from smug bastard Tom Riddle.
But unknown to them both, neither are your garden-variety wizard.
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- Part 1 of mashle creature au
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if it ain't you today (it'll be you tomorrow) by improbas
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Jun 2026
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Criminology Professor Harry Potter is consulting on a string of suicides that aren’t. He doesn’t know that the killer he’s hunting puppeteers the scheme out of pure boredom: sent back home to Britain to cool off on his day job as one of the world's most talented fixers for hire.
Then, one unassuming night, Harry steps out of his shower. He steps into a body that isn’t his, into a motel room that isn’t his, with an even bigger problem that isn’t his either.
Also, he’s bleeding out.
All in all, a pretty awful start to what Tom would someday come to call their first date, and what Harry would call a complete and utter clusterfuck.
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- Part 5 of zhana's dark purge
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Tom Riddle has never done anything he didn’t choose to do. Not the watch on his wrist, not the ring on his finger, and certainly not the prayers. Harry Potter, his best friend since childhood, knows he doesn’t mean any of it. Between them, they don’t keep secrets – not the important ones.
But tonight, when Tom sneaks over at midnight, he finds Harry in the middle of rolling a secret. In a fit of spite, he takes the blunt and smokes it for himself.
He gets very, very high.
And it turns out some secrets are more important than either of them ever knew.
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Harry and Tom were friends once, when they were very small.
Things get in the way, they grow apart, and at the worst possible moment, with tensions running high, Harry learns something very important about himself – about Tom.
Or: Harry might be the last person to learn that he likes men.
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- Part 4 of zhana's dark purge
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love in a different shape (looks a lot like dying) by improbas
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Apr 2026
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“Immortality is a funny thing,” the boy says. His tone is light and yet Tom senses the chastisement in it. “There are those who deserve it, those who do not, and those for whom it is nothing more than a curse.”
“I deserve it,” Tom blurts, immediate and without hesitation. He is not normally so impulsive, but the boy’s attitude – serene yet loaded with insult – pricks him sharply.
The boy does not take offense. Instead he merely asks: “Which one do you think I am?”
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- Part 3 of zhana's dark purge
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a bewitching temptation, a beguiling harlot by improbas
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Apr 2026
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Harry Potter arrives at Hogwarts as a transfer student – mysterious and very rare. Tom is intrigued, but he is a busy man: NEWTs, the Knights of Walpurgis, and a secret campaign to convince every Lord and Lady of the Sacred Twenty-Eight to hand the keys to the kingdom to the rightful Heir of Slytherin.
So he delegates. He sends his Knights to investigate the newest addition to their House.
And he loses his Knights one-by-one.
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- Part 2 of zhana's dark purge
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In which Tom Riddle pays a great deal of money for the worst shag of Harry Potter’s life, and then has the audacity to ask for notes.
a hp kinkmeme fill for: bad vanilla sex
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my flat is a temple (and i am the god it was built for) by improbas
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
07 Mar 2026
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Someone keeps breaking into Tom Riddle’s flat.
Every trap he sets is dismantled with ease. Beside each one, a snarky note.
Somehow it becomes the most entertaining game Tom has played in years. And he would like to know – very badly – just who he’s playing with.
a.k.a. Undersecretary Tom is being stalked in his own home by Master of Death Harry.
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Tom Riddle, age ten at best, has brought himself to a small-town library for a very important project.
Harry is the librarian unfortunate enough to be on shift tonight.
A fun little fill for the purge prompt: Accidental Baby/Child Acquisition.
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- Part 1 of zhana's dark purge
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flowers of flesh and blood by improbas for houndsofheaven
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Feb 2026
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Harry’s dying (mostly), and Tom refuses to let go.
A dark Valentine’s romance about how far Tom is willing to go to keep what is his.
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- Part 2 of a very tomarry valentines
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A heartbeat haunts Tom Riddle.
It leads him to a boy who awakens a hunger he has never learned to deny.
Some connections are fated – and some are fatal.
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- Part 1 of a very tomarry valentines
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Harry is a detective.
He’s a busy man and he’s very good at his job. He works for Godric City’s most dangerous precinct and the people even call him the city’s Golden Boy for his efforts.
Unfortunately, Voldemort also keeps himself quite busy. The rising crime lord wants to check off seemingly every crime in the books and grows his evil criminal empire by the day. With special thanks to him, Harry’s life is a hell of a lot harder.