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When Harry wakes in the past, he’s determined to change everything - to save lives, stop the war before it begins, and rewrite the ending for a boy who was never given a chance. But building trust with a young Severus Snape is more than strategy - it’s friendship, and maybe something Harry never expected to find.
Together, they’ll hunt Horcruxes, challenge destiny, and find healing in a world not yet broken.
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Bookmarked by Bucket-O-Flumps (Excuse_the_brainfart)
12 Dec 2025
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The last thing Lily Potter remembers is a flash of green light as she futilely attempts to protect her son from Lord Voldemort. The next thing she knows, she's waking up in her cruel and bitter older sister's house -- in her son's body. With no knowledge of the current time period and no understanding of what sort of magical anomaly caused her dilemma, she must find answers and allies, all while trying to transform her son's life into something more tolerable for when he returns.
Bookmarked by Excuse_the_brainfart
10 Dec 2025
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Interested to see where this goes - nice fresh take on time travel :)
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Harry Potter and Why Would You Keep That In A School? by AvocadosOnToast
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Dec 2025
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A rewrite of Harry Potter where things make a little more sense. Three eleven-year-old kids aren't enough to take down a magical troll, Harry Potter acts like how a real kid would when he learns magic is real, he thinks for himself and his abuse isn't used as a sad backstory to make him a better hero, not every “good guy” is sorted into Gryffindor, and Harry's going to get to act like a normal teenager. Well, as normal as Harry Potter can be.
(Title and summary are subject to change, just getting things posted for now!)
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- Part 1 of Harry Potter But It Makes Sense
Bookmarked by Bucket-O-Flumps (Excuse_the_brainfart)
10 Dec 2025
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When twenty-four-year-old Harry Potter accidentally triggers a dark artifact in Grimmauld Place, he's thrown back to January 1982—into a world where his parents just died and his infant self suffers with the Dursleys. Desperate to adopt young Harry, he strikes a deal with Dumbledore: pose as Harrison Burke, prove his stability as Hogwarts' new DADA professor for one year, and demonstrate he won't vanish back to his timeline.
But proving himself means helping someone unexpected—a young, self-destructive Severus Snape who's barely surviving in the aftermath of Lily Potter's death
Bookmarked by Excuse_the_brainfart
09 Dec 2025
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Five years after the war, Auror Harry Potter touches the Mirror of Erised and wakes up in James Potter's body on the Hogwarts Express—eleven years old, first year, 1971.
Sorted into Slytherin instead of Gryffindor, Harry becomes the unlikely protector of young Severus Snape. He doesn't bully. He doesn't follow house divisions. He sits at the Gryffindor table with his mother and refuses to leave Severus alone.
But changing the past is complicated. Older students notice. Lucius Malfoy notices. And as the years pass, Harry realizes the boy who shadows him everywhere—brilliant, loyal, defensive Severus—has become something more than a friend.
Bookmarked by Excuse_the_brainfart
05 Dec 2025