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FOUND: https://archiveofourown.org/works/2761430/chapters/6191972?__cf_chl_f_tk=rw0yuxN2NRLb4t3t_.JPCiiyJBw1vGHSMWVZHkfmKHg-1783336879-1.0.1.1-qEdOVI1EyHndX1NRTfkaGGEDTW_Pt2NILgdN0Pcd6D0

Trying to find a crossover fic I remember reading a few months back, but my Ao3 history is huge, it'd be a nightmare to crawl back through looking for it.

Essentially, Harry is adopted and he is actually a dragon- the son of Smaug from the hobbit.

I think he ends up traveling with the 13 company of dwarves and Bilbo and eventually persuades Smaug to give the mountain back...

Does anybody know this fic or am I doomed to endless scrolling through my history where I will inevitably get distracted by another fic and go off on a tangent.

Has anyone else found a great FanFiction but was put off by one small detail?

For example, I’ve recently read “Jinxing the Unforgivables” by BeepKeeper on FFN. It’s a great story and is well written, but I am not a fan of GayHarry stories. Are there any fics that you found interesting but have that one little thing you didn’t like?

Here’s a link to the story I listed above:

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12903175/

I’m looking for a fic where Harry is a young adult and an Auror; he discovers that his parents and Dumbledore are alive and learns that he also has two sisters. I think he finds this out because his entire Gringotts vault was stolen, and then he uses a spell—researched alongside Hermione—to send his consciousness back to the past; knowing everything already, he plans to empty his Gringotts vault little by little.

“He accused me of being ‘Dumbledore’s man through and through.’”

“How very rude of him.”

“I told him I was.”

Dumbledore opened his mouth to speak and then closed it again. Behind Harry, Fawkes the phoenix let out a low, soft, musical cry. To Harry’s intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore’s bright blue eyes looked rather angry, and stared hastily at his own knees. When Dumbledore spoke, however, his voice was quite steady. “I am very touched, Harry,” he said. But he didn’t look happy. 

When Harry left his office, Dumbledore called Ron over. “Good evening, Mr. Weasley. Lemon drop? I hear your family is very good at manipulating people.”

“Yes, professor Dumbledore. My sister Ginny is so worried that Harry is going to fall in love with her and she doesn’t think she’s worthy of it, so if it happens she plans to lie to him that she used a Love Potion on him so that he won’t want to talk to her anymore. And back when Harry was about to start his first year at Hogwarts, my mom didn’t want the family to befriend him cause she thought he deserved better friends than poor people like us, so she pretended to not know what the platform number is in the hopes that Harry would think she’s stupid and not talk to her. But it didn’t work since Harry didn’t know how to get on the platform, so it backfired horribly and caused him to befriend us.”  

“Very clever, Ron. That makes you perfect for an assignment I’d like to give you. Harry told me earlier today that he was really loyal to me, and I’m worried that won’t end well because I’m going to die at the end of the school year and send Harry and you and Miss Granger out hunting Voldemort’s Horcruxes by yourself. With how much he likes me he’s probably going to waste a lot of time mourning me when I die, and also will be too unconfident in himself to think about how to find Horcruxes without me there. So in order to ensure that doesn’t happen and Harry lets go of his love for me for the greater good, I need you and Miss Granger to convince Harry that I’m actually a manipulative asshole who left him with the Dursleys for no good reason, stole money from his vault, caused Voldemort’s turn to evil, and more malicious stuff like that. That way, he won’t like me anymore and won’t be distracted from his destiny by his attachment to me.”

“That sounds great Professor, but I do have a request. Once me and Hermione are done bashing you and manipulating Harry to hate you, do you mind it if I manipulate him into hating me too? After how badly I treated him when his name came out of the Goblet of Fire, I’m worried that I might do something wrong and desert him on this Horcrux hunt you want him to do, and Harry deserves a better friend to accompany him than that.” 

As Hagrid brought Harry to London and Diagon Alley to get him ready for his first year at Hogwarts, Harry looked over his list of textbooks he needed to buy. One book in particular quickly caught his attention. A Beginner's Guide to Brewing Potions by Lily Potter.

Harry really didn't know anything about his parents. Just mean and probably inaccurate comments from the Dursley's considering all they had lied about. Now he knew his mum had a job writing potions textbooks, apparently while hiding from a dark wizard.

At the book store Harry picked up not just A Beginner's Guide to Brewing Potions, but also An Intermediate Guide to Brewing Potions and An Advanced Guide to Brewing Potions, both also by his mother. Hagrid didn't say anything about them not being on his list, but did give him a pat on the back. Harry spent as much of the rest of the summer as he could looking at his new textbooks. At least half that time was spent looking at the ones his mother wrote. He wanted to be good at potions like her.

He also started to wonder what his dad did and what his favorite type of magic was.

Years later while exploring the castle Harry came across an old potions textbook that belonged to his mother, and was full of corrections and notes in the margin.

Going into his sixth year Harry would be quite surprised to see yet another book by his mother on his school supplies list. A Guide To Dark Magic and Defense by Lily Potter.

Richard Williams. Born in Manchester, sorted into Ravenclaw. A perfectly ordinary student. The only way he could be more unassuming is if he were sorted in Hufflepuff.

However, there was something odd about Richard. Both of his parents were squibs, all 4 of his grandparents were wizards, and all 8 of his great-grandparents were muggles.

In a less bigoted world, his family tree would be nothing more than a quirky statistical anomaly.

In this world however, his family history was forced out of him after a few upper-year slytherins tried to bully him.

Initially, they didn't give it much thought. A little mudblood trying to come up with a reason to be left alone.

The infighting would come later.

"He should count, no?"

"Of course he shouldn't count! You're not a pureblood if you know how closely related to a muggle you are!"

"By that criteria, we'd have to exclude 9 out of 10 people in Slytherin! Weren't the Malfoys muggle nobility?"

It didn't happen overnight, but the rift of the pureblood faction began that day. Not by moral improvement of its members, but by truly thinking about the definition of an inherently unscientific idea.

I've only read a single fanfic in my life and I'm looking to reread it.

A deeply traumatized Harry gets sorted into Hufflepuff and Snape eventually adopts him. It's very similar to The Best Revenge, except Snape gets rid of the Horcruxes halfway through Harry's second year, Harry, Hermione (sorted into Ravenclaw), Draco, and Neville become the Golden Four, and there's a specific nickname for the Hufflepuffs (something like "the Nest" or "the Burrow", shocked I remember this much.

I thiiiiink it's on Fanfiction dot net? I searched AO3 fairly thoroughly and couldn't find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

"You're a wizard, Harry!"

It was amazing. A giant man gave him an invitation letter from a magic school, it had his name on it and everything.

Mr. Harry J. Potter, attic bedroom of a small farm on the edge of Surrey

He had always known there was something different about him, what with all the strange things that kept happening when he was scared or angry... Now he knew what it was.

He went with the giant to Diagon Alley and claimed his inheritance, got his first wand, cast his first spell. Heard the story of how his partner really died, instead of his mom dying during his birth and his father walking into the woods never to be seen again.

Except, the man kept getting details wrong. Everyone kept getting details wrong.

His second name was Jacob, not James. His parents names were Jeremy and Lianne. His green eyes were from his father, and his scar was from when his cousin Dorry dared him to smash his face against the window.

"Are you sure you have the right Harry Potter?" he asked Hagrid.

"Of course, there's no other Harry Potter! You look just like your father, I couldn't be wrong." the man said, which was also wrong. He looked like his uncle, and nothing like his father, who had been his uncle's half-brother.

He couldn't get through to the man, nor could he disappoint his family, who were so relieved he'd finally learn to control the strangeness around the farm, and they didn't have to keep inviting an exorcist (which never did anything for him anyway).

So he went to Hogwarts.

Maybe the Diary gets him instead of Ginny. Maybe the fleeing shade of Voldemort possessed him after it escaped Quirrell’s body. Maybe it happened 3rd year whilst the Golden Trio were distracted by the Sirius situation.

All I know is it could be very awesome

Toward the end of the summer before Harry's fourth year at Hogwarts, Sirius Black made an effort to reconnect with his cousin Andromeda Tonks and her family. This leads him to introducing Harry to Tonks and they quickly become friends.

Months later, Harry is entered into the Triwizard Tournament. During the next Hogsmeade visit he meets with Tonks, so she can help him prepare for the Tournament. While discussing his skills in defense against the dark arts, Harry mentions that Mad Eye Moody taught him how to resist the imperious curse. When asked to elaborate, Harry says that he's been casting the spell on the students. Tonks then explains that being the Hogwarts defense professor doesn't make him casting Unforgivable curses on students legal. By the end of the afternoon, Tonks and a team of aurors have arrested Mad Eye Moody. That's when they discover that he's really Barty Crouch Jr.

Tonks explains her connection to Harry as distant relatives connected by Dorea Black and Charlus Potter.

Without Barty Crouch Jr's arrest everyone acknowledges that Harry didn't enter the Triwizard Tournament himself. Without interference from Brarty Crouch Jr, Harry still does fine in the Tournament but doesn't win.

So I’ve been reading a Harry gets Grindelwald’s memories fic and the concept agreed with me. Please recommend similar fics.

Ron ran into the great hall and looking in, he saw he was too late. Harry was standing in the middle of hall, drinking a potion of Veritaserum. Clearly, the isolation had gotten to him.

Hermione had told Ron because she thought he was the only one who could talk him out of it, since he was the one he missed the most. As Ron watched, he felt horrible. Why didn't he just believe that didn't Harry put his name in the Goblet of Fire.

This was going to be tough to watch.

"Now, ask me if I put my name in the Goblet of Fire." Harry announced.

"What's a secret you've only told your friends?" A Slytherin yelled.

"That I'm bi." As the words left his lips, Harry immediately felt himself die a little inside. This was a terrible idea.

"What's something you'd never tell anyone?" A different Slytherin asked.

"That the hat wanted to put me in Slytherin. Well, I could have done both but Slytherin and Giffinydor were the main two." Harry said. Once again, he felt a piece of his soul leave him.

Ron finally snapped out of his daze. He needed to stop this. "Did you put your name in the Goblet of Fire?" He yelled across the Hall, because he knew Harry wouldn't leave till he cleared his name.

Voldemort had spies throughout the Ministry.

Dumbledore had at least one spy in the Death Eaters, and probably more in the Ministry.

Why wouldn't the Muggle government have its own competent spies in the magic world?

Once Voldemort fell, they would have at least been to a few of the public trials, where the Azkaban Death Eaters would claim that Voldemort would be back.

Also, they would read the Prophet and see that, not only did Harry Potter survive the killing curse, but would also have the names of his parents. That would be investigated, and the Dursleys would pop up on their radar.

A quick covert investigation of the Dursleys would have Harry grabbed by the Muggle government and raised with a family in the know. He would be checked out in a medical way, where the horcrux would be found and (hopefully) removed.

It also would lead to at least research into what it was and how to find the rest.

Harry himself would grow up in a loving muggle (or more likely muggle-born) home (probably under a pseudonym). He would be trained in magic (early magic studies either in the UK or abroad) and survival skills (in a group like the Boy Scouts). He'd be (at least) somewhat prepared to reenter the magical world.

All this while Dumbledore is freaking out from losing The-Boy-Who-Lived...

I saw someone on tt looking for fics where Harry ends up traveling as his adult self to the marauder era and being a professor of some sort. In their request he specifically ended up defending Severus against the marauders and like.... Me too!? I also want that fic pls I'm begging

My grandma told me tonight that she’s been watching Harry Potter AI What If videos on YouTube. I would much prefer that she reads something written by a real person, and she’s not built for Wattpad.

A little background - she’s 73, Roman Catholic, and doesn’t really get gay people. She’s not homophobic, she just doesn’t really get it. I’ve had to explain transgender people to her on multiple occasions. So, unfortunately, I can’t start her out with a Drarry fic, and there can’t be any smut either.

I just really don’t want her watching AI slop, but I have to start her slow and most of the HP fanfic I read is gay, and we’ve gotta ease her into that.

Dumbledore sighed. This... this was a huge problem. It was his own fault really, it made sense at the time, putting Harry with the Dursleys. Now, looking back on it, putting Harry in a family that hated magic was a bad idea. Of course he'd end up like this. He was pathetic.

Harry was horribly anxious.​ Couldn't even talk to the boy he sent to spy on him in the carriage! Although, he had striked up a friendship with Ron Weasley. His family were poor, he could probably pay them to spy on Harry for him. He also striked up a friendship with the Longbottom boy and a muggle-born named Hermione.

Though, strangely enough, all of them were like Harry. Not in the sense that they were all first years. No, in the fact they were terribly shy.

Neville ​made sense, he heard the rumors of him being a Squib early on and being a pure-blood family, his cousins would definitely say, or do, something to prove he's magic. He could also imagine why Ron's like it, having 5 older brothers, and then a younger sister couldn't have been easy to stand out. Hermione, being a muggle-born, he had no idea but a quick letter to her parents would figure that out.

Either way, it was annoying. Harry needed to be brave to face Voldemort one day, and he's far from it now. Maybe forcing him to join the Quidditch team would help.

Looking for a fic I read perhaps a year back, where there are two SI’s. One I believe is names Cassandra Malfoy? And the other is a muggleborn. Both are sorted into Ravenclaw, and are, iirc, 3. Year when Harry starts (which is when the fic starts). Cassandra (if that is her name) is very ambitious and wants to use her magic for the greater good of the world, while the male SI is less ambitious but still brilliant. Iirc they both get involved in the conflicts in Yugoslavia, using their powers to help the civilians there. The male SI also ends up in the TWT. Apart from that there’s some Lovecraftian stuff with regards to Azkaban and how the two got there. Hopefully some of you can find it, it was brilliantly written and very funny

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