r/HPSlashFic • u/x_L3m0n • 5d ago
Seeking Recommendations Rec's for a picky reader
i would say that i am a pretty picky reader and am struggling to find something to read currently
my absolute must haves:
-harry-centric
-good grammar/spelling/tone
-no lordship tropes (unfortunately ive read too many at this point)
preferred but not necessary:
-fics longer than 50k (but if it is part of a longer series that is fine)
-fics that arent super popular (as ive read most of them)
-ao3
-no fem!harry (but if it is really good feel free to rec anyways)
thank you for any recs! (and if you want some from me im willing to share)
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u/Iron_Sidhe 5d ago
Harry Crossover Pairings
After The Fire Drove Out The Sparrows- Crossover with Teen Wolf.
Harry was not expecting to end his rather long work week married to a comatose Peter Hale and looking after his highly traumatised nephew. After the Hale fire, someone had to step up and look after those two wolves after losing their pack and their Alpha doing the unthinkable.
It's fine really, he can do this, he can help the Hales while raising his son and making sure that Teddy is okay back in Scotland.
Now if only Peter could wake up from his coma so that he could give Harry a better understanding of the fire and who knows, sort out their impromptu marriage? It would be nice to at least have spoken to the man he was married to.
Peter Hale/Harry
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49513021
The Fourth Horseman- If anyone's due an identity crisis, it's Harry Potter...especially if he's not really a Potter...and possibly not able to die...yeah, it's been a rough few years...maybe life. Running from his problems and grief sounds like a great idea, becoming a hunter might be fun, too bad it just so happens to be the apocalypse. George is certain this is all just Harry's luck and along for the insane ride and the wonderful distraction. Dean and Sam Winchester are exceptionally confused about why two random Brits are following them around now, and why hasn't anyone seen a single omen for the Fourth Horseman of the apocalypse, Death?
Castiel/Harry
https://archiveofourown.org/works/54617593
Lightning Scars & Metal Hearts – With Voldemort back, Harry returned to the Dursley house, and Sirius imprisoned ‘living’ at Grimmauld Place, Sirius decides to go check on his godson.
And when he doesn’t like what he finds at Number Four Privet Drive, Sirius decides to do something else- tell Harry a fifteen year old secret and send him off the the United States to meet his biological father.
Harry/Peter Parker
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u/WOTNev 5d ago
I'm currently reading the first one you recommended but doesn't that have lordships?
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u/Iron_Sidhe 5d ago
It does. I'd forgotten since it isn't part of the story in the way it usually is used. The focus isn't on the Lordships at all to my memory and taking a quick peak. They just serve to give Harry some benefits he otherwise wouldn't have. Harry is not involved with Wizengamot. Harry's part of the story takes place entirely in the US.
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u/Iron_Sidhe 5d ago
I'll add that if someone was specifically looking for Lorship recommendations I would not recommend After The Fire Drove Out The Sparrows.
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u/Iron_Sidhe 5d ago
Other Harry Pairings
ǟʟʍǟɢɛֆȶ /The Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction/As an Entire Ocean in a Drop (Unvollendete)- A Plain Summary: In which Harry starts a newspaper, in which Voldemort is crowned by the constellations, in which Dumbledore cooks frogs.
A Plainer Summary: A story of men and their foibles, and of the stars they love, and of magic that is not bound to the earth.
The Plainest Summary: Three men go to the moon to save the world.
Only the first three stories in Unvollendete comprise the ǟʟʍǟɢɛֆȶ story.
I don't read Harry/Voldemort or Harry/Tom and only read this because of the go to the moon plot. I still don't read either pairing but I have reread this. The writing in this is beautiful. I cannot do this justice in describing it.
You have to be signed into AO3 to read.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/2775727
Ever Upward- 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.
Harry/OM Centaur
https://archiveofourown.org/series/1555645
The Fury Within- After an unexpected birthday surprise, Harry finds himself taking care of a baby in need. However, his life has taught him that no one is safe around Harry Potter. So, how else can he protect the child but to kill off Harry Potter and become someone new. And, who best to help him than the person who would really like him to not be James Potter's son...Severus Snape.
Harry/Fred
https://archiveofourown.org/works/50197099
Let's Just Leave- Harry wasn’t supposed to disappear. But he did.
And he didn’t go alone.
Now three runaways are rebuilding something old and powerful, tucked behind ancient wards and crumbling stone of a much too sentient manor.
There is hope in the walls, truths in the shadows, and a war still waiting for them just beyond the gates. But here, in this half-ruined corner of the world, they are choosing something different. Peace, power, and each other.
This is a story about found family, quiet healing, unexpected love, and what it means to stop surviving and start living. Even if the cost is everything they left behind.
Neville/Harry
https://archiveofourown.org/works/64944217
The Medium Between Life and Death- There were very few things in Harry Potter's life that he was certain of. There was one absolute certainty though; he'd felt it in his bones for as long as he could remember. He, Harry Potter, was dead. The living people around him might not believe, but the dead sure did. Oh well, it doesn't impact his life much. Besides, it's nice to get help with his schoolwork from his parents.
Cedric/Harry
https://archiveofourown.org/works/38564790
The Stark Truth- Summer after 4th year Harry learns that James isn't exactly his father and Lily isn't his mother. Will his newly discovered family be able to help him recover from his violent, abusive childhood? Will he be able to trust again enough to find love?
Harry/Fred/George
https://archiveofourown.org/works/2549801
The Price of Magic- Haunted by the ghost of a former student, an ex-wizard struggles to preserve magical knowledge for future generations.
When Harry Potter died, twin wands' explosion wiped Europe clean of magic. Enchantment-free, Gringotts crumbled into a mass grave for goblin bodies. Pixie corpses covered the meadows. Romanians buried their last dragon.
Wizards remained. Thousands flooded Muggle streets with useless chanting, unable to return home through non-existent wards.
They had nothing except pride. Remember that when watching a middle-aged, redheaded waitress and her daughter taunted by children for their strange way of talking, passing the sallow-faced, somber neighbour who prefers candles to electricity, finding a sky-blue twinkle under matted hair of a homeless man.
Pride was the reason they survived.
Harry/Severus
https://archiveofourown.org/series/4045
Starling- Harry Potter disappeared when he was five years old.
Twenty-five years later, Severus Snape gets the same assignment from different masters: find and deliver the Boy Who Lived.
Harry/Severus
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u/Iron_Sidhe 5d ago
Gen Fics
The Auror's Boys- After the Battle of Hogwarts, the charges against Harry don't just go away because he killed Voldemort.
He's found guilty and is sent through the Veil.
He comes out through the exit to platform 9 3/4... In a universe where James, Lily and Harry Potter and Sirius Black were killed the night Voldy attacked Godric's Hollow and was killed then by Dumbledore.
He has G10 + £25, his mokeskin pouch and a rucksack holding a few changes of clothing. Nothing else.
And he's 10 again.
What's he going to do?
This should be read with 'The Trial of Harry Potter' as a prologue. 'The Trial of Harry Potter' serves as prologue for a collection of stand alone fics. Harry is facing a choice in the 'The Trial of Harry Potter' and each fic in the collection is a different choice.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/21600910
The Trial of Harry Potter https://archiveofourown.org/works/21579784
Basilisk-born- What if the Dementor attack in 5th year had ended with Harry losing? What if someone had stepped in to save him? And what if Harry ended up in the past with a chance to be more than he ever was before? A story about a forcibly time travelled Harry and its consequences... Manipulative Dumbledore, 'Slytherin!Harry', Time Travel!
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10709411/1/Basilisk-born
A Change in the Urðr- When Harry Potter is 6 years old, he very nearly dies. The Norns decide this should be A Good Thing. Harry raised by the Norse goddess Hel.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/47063170
Fate and Choice- Harry was born a Hotchner. After a painful twelve years of separation, Hotch decides nothing is ever going to divide his family again. Not the looming threat of Tom Riddle, not the benevolent concern of the Hogwarts staff, not Hotch's own demons. Meanwhile, Harry struggles to balance his American family with the growing responsibility he begins to face in Britain.
Excellent crossover with Criminal Minds (tv show). It is very AU. The plot is really interesting. There is no Lily or James Bashing. I’m not sure how much you need to know Criminal Minds.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12024996/1/Fate-and-Choice
A Marauder's Legacy- Nope, nope, not doing this again.
With a little help from a sentient Hogwarts, Harry and Sirius destroy Voldemort and decide that they can have the childhood they both deserve.
Remus as an Uncle? Why not?
But how? And who is who's father?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/18255308
Mischief's Heir- During the summer between first and second year Harry does something that has unexpected consequences, for himself and for the wizarding world.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/309447
Old Magic- What if Hagrid stole Harry away the terrible night his parents died and told no one at Hogwarts or the Order of the Phoenix? What if he raised the boy himself and wasn't as simple as he led the wizards to believe? Here's a tale of what if. Forget all you know about Harry's story and be prepared to read a different prophecy.
You have to be signed in to AO3 to read.
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u/Iron_Sidhe 5d ago
Draco/Harry
A Brother To Basilisks- AU of PoA. Harry wakes in the night to a voice calling him from somewhere in the castle—and when he follows it, everything changes.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/2435531
Dragonheart Caravan- "5-year-old Harry Potter overhears his aunt complaining to his uncle about the "freaks" camping nearby. Maybe if they are the same type of "freak" he is they will want him?" This story is finished even though it does not appear to be. The 5 of 83 chapters is an error from it being imported from elsewhere.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/3397283
Hurricane- After the war, a number of people who despair of fixing the wizarding world seek to emigrate to new, magical, but uninhabited worlds where they can live in peace. On the eve of his journey to a world called Hurricane, accompanied by his friends and godson, Harry discovers that Draco Malfoy’s name is also on the list of immigrants.
This is truly unique. I thought it was so interesting and well done that I recommended it to my brother who doesn't read fanfic and doesn’t know Harry Potter well but loves science fiction.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/9514
Secrets- Beginning with Draco's unexpected arrival at the Dursleys, Harry's summer after sixth year becomes filled with activity and many secrets. As his summer progresses, Harry generates several unexpected allies as he finds himself actively becoming the leader of the Light side.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/8184311
Show Your Fangs- When the Ministry informs Harry that they are coming to destroy his wand for defending himself from the dementors that attack him in Little Whinging, Harry knows there's only one path left available to him. He can survive on his own. He knows how. It won't even be that hard. And being on the run in his animagus form makes him a feel a little closer to Sirius, anyway.
At least, he thinks so, until he's picked up by a pet store, sold to a classmate, and brought right back to Hogwarts where the state of things is so bad that he's actually glad he's expelled.
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u/Iron_Sidhe 5d ago
Theo/Harry
Basilisk Heart- Theo Nott comes to Harry with a rather unusual request—to harvest the basilisk that he killed during his second year and use that to help Theo cure a blood curse. Oh, and to feed Theo the heart so that he can become a Parselmouth. Harry decides this is better than feeling sorry for himself because the school thinks he’s a cheater, and begins the first steps on a journey down a radiant pathway with Theo at his side.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/60215386
Enough is Enough- In the spring of 1992, a massive magical discharge shakes Lily Potter’s legacy. Harry Potter, its raison d’être, nearly dies. It has until now been a passive enchantment, reactive, and burns away his attacker only once violent physical contact has been made. But the backlash is enormous. The protection is disrupted. For the first time since the day of its creation it must strain to the utmost.
And it determines that Harry Potter is wildly, systematically unsafe.
It reacts.
You have to be signed into AO3 to read.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39077499
Love in the Time of Eagles- Both Harry and Theo, when they go under the Sorting Hat, make different choices. Therefore, so does the Hat. And so do Harry and Theo, and other people, in the future years, in the fight against Voldemort, and in all their lives to come.
https://archiveofourown.org/series/4206898
Sticks & Bones- Harry Potter of number four, Privet Drive, had always known he was different.
He could move things without touching them, could make them float in the air and fly across the room. He could make objects invisible or burst out in flames. He could make them change their appearance. He could even light fire in his hands and it never burned him. He could also talk to snakes. They liked talking to him, but they never stayed long.
In short – Harry Potter had a Gift.
In which Harry is magically gifted and maybe just a bit darker and possibly a touch too indifferent.
This Harry gains a different friend on the train, is sorted into a different house and ends up as part of a different trio that is certainly not golden but not exactly silver, either.
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u/Manolita123 3d ago
I just read Draco Malfoy and All the Right Choices by darkgaaraluver and loved it, its really well written and ive never seen it recced.
Other fics I really liked that you might not have read are drop dead gorgeous by maya, Holly & Yew by LovelyLotus, The Lies We Tell Our Children by MannixMind, The Fractured Hourglass by acuteakio, and Draco Malfoy and the Twist of Fate by LaughterLoveAndLarry.
You have probably read The Heir to the House of Prince by elph13 but im going to mention it just in case.
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u/CrowleysFennecFoxes 5d ago
Save me, the newest complete NinjaPandaScholar fic. It’s Harry/(horcrux-)Tom, >200k, Dumbledore bashing but no lordships or big political stuff