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Harry kills his Defense Against the Dark Arts professor at the end of 1st year. Somehow, this leads to him traveling through time to the year 1971 and being dropped, alone, into an abandoned house in Cokeworth. He has only himself to rely on, as always, but there is a silver lining: he gets to meet a younger version of his mother, who is apparently best friends with a young Professor Snape. Unbelievable.
Featuring: Everybody's childhood trauma, a lot of pining, and hopefully, eventually, a happy ending :)
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21 Mar 2026
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Students flood King's Cross Station to board the Hogwarts Express to school on 1 September like every other year since 993 AD. It is an expected and anticipated moment in wizarding Britain, just as the boost in sales across all retail places, but especially those on Diagon Alley, spikes hugely every August. This year, however, something has changed, and several students approached the barrier between Platforms 9 and 10 to begin the 1975-76 school year, only to arrive on the platform twenty years in the future.
How will they manage to find a place for themselves in a world in which they are already adults, perhaps working somewhere, perhaps already dead, their passing long since mourned? And how will the world they've entered welcome a group of Doppelgängers and ghosts?
Here is a playlist for the fic, and you'll likely see a lot of similarities between the songs in it and the referenced material in the work.
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17 Mar 2026
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Following the disastrous Third Task, Harry begins to notice two things about himself. First: his appearance has begun to change. Second: something is very, very wrong. The Cruciatus shouldn't continue to be causing him pain this far out from having received it, should it?
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23 Dec 2025
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The attack at Godric’s Hollow didn’t kill Harry Potter, but it left him with a permanent spinal cord injury. While the Wizarding World celebrated, the Potters faced a harsh new reality. Unable to cope with the demands of raising a paraplegic son, James Potter abandons his family, leaving Lily to pick up the pieces.
She finds unexpected support in Severus Snape, who steps in to provide the medical care, structure, and fatherly love Harry desperately needs. This story follows Harry’s childhood as he navigates a magical world ill-equipped for wheelchairs, preparing for Hogwarts not as the Boy Who Lived, but as a determined boy who must fight for his dignity and his place in a world built for those who can walk. -
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Harry finds a better life with the basilisk, but that doesn't mean it's easy. From inter-being feuds, to bloody prophecies, to elven unrest, Harry is in the eye of a hurricane that will change the wizarding world forever.
Involving thestrals, merfolk, house elves, centaurs, acromantulae, and various other friends, denizens, and allies.
This series is: Queer in a multitude of ways. Morally complex. A massively canon-divergent AU. Filled with oc's and non-oc's. A story about relationships, love, trust, friendship, healing ... and revolution.
There are seven novel-length fics, plus a prologue (to leap and love the fall) and two longer stories (with courage unyielding and the gentle sunlight). The short story collection to journey on contains shorter stories set within the main timeline. All are posted in the correct reading order.
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12 Dec 2025