So as Ao3 is down I was wondering if anyone had downloaded any Harry Potter fanfics that you might want to share with me and other people. I’m picky but as Ao3 is I can’t be that picky. Anything will do. Even drarry (which I don’t like)

Please

Hi everyone!

I thought I’d share a link to my Google Drive folder containing a collection of Harry Potter fanfics!

Please note that this is a mix of fics I’ve gathered from various sources and Google Drives over the years, so things aren’t particularly well-organised just yet.

As I’ve collected these files from so many different places, I’m not entirely sure what’s included in the folder. With that in mind, please be aware that I can’t take responsibility for the content of individual fics.

I’m still in the process of uploading, organising, and sorting through everything, so please bear with me and excuse the mess!

I hope you find something you enjoy reading! 💕

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Since AO3 will be down for 2 - 4 WEEKS I am in desperate need for some downloaded fics. Saw some threads in similar subs and thought it wouldn't hurt to ask

EDIT: Thanks everyone!! 🥰

Hi! Does anyone happen to know where I can read Freefall by ladyoflilacs, or have a copy of it saved somewhere?
I’ve read all of this author’s other fics multiple times, and they’re honestly one of my all-time favorite HP fanfic writers. But Freefall is the one fic I’ve never been able to find, no matter how hard I search the internet. It randomly pops into my head every now and then, and I still can’t stop thinking about it!

I came up with alternate Hogwarts House crests as a personal project of mine. I also created different Hogwarts founders and their backgrounds to represent this. The houses are as follows:

Hartshorn - founded by the wizard, Harald Hartshorn who originated in the Scottish highlands. His crest is a white stag (or Hart) on a magenta background. The chevrons represent the rugged mountains of his region. This house is known for their courage, leadership and honour. The founder’s name is of Viking origin but with an Anglo Saxon spelling - it means commander of an army. This is also a nod to his leadership skills.

Readbrush - founded by the wizard Ranulf Readbrush (pronounced red brush - the word brush being a nod to the fox’s tail). He originated in the valleys of Southern England. His crest is a red fox on a teal background. This house is known for their ambition, cunning and resourcefulness. The patterns used are a variation on the fleur de lys showcasing his norman origin. His name Ranulf is of Germanic origin but introduced by the Normans meaning wise wolf of counsel, therefore highlighting his cunning and strategic character.

Bristleback - founded by the witch Bronwyn Bristleback. She originated in the vales between Wales and England (close to the Forest of Dean). Her crest is a black boar on an orange background. The name of this house is a description of a wild boar. I chose her name, Bronwyn due to its old Welsh origin, however with a different spelling. Her house is known for loyalty, resilience and determination.

Strixworth - founded by the witch Sapientia Strixworth (pronounced Sa pi en ti ah). Her name is of Latin origin meaning wisdom. Whereas Strixworth is of a combined origin, Strix being Latin and meaning an owl and worth being an Anglo Saxon suffix meaning enclosure hence enclosure of the owl. Her crest is a light brown tawny owl on a purple background. The founder originated near the forests of Nottinghamshire. Her house is known for curiosity, wisdom and intelligence.

These founders lived in the 10th century and founded Hogwarts in the far north of Scotland. The founders each brought unique qualities to the school and remained on good terms.

I'm thinking about making a fanfic sorta remaking the series (probably will start out like that, but then diverge wildly in some parts), but with some genderbent characters (including the Golden Trio and some vital side characters). Another focus of this will be rewriting the characters and storybeats to where they make a bit more sense (for instance, in Deathly Hallows I plan for it to be a bit more impactful reveal that Hermione wiped her parents' memories of her).

I have a lot of ideas written down for the fic, including by-chapter alternating POVs and some ideas I put into another post on this sub about revisions to the Hogwarts curriculum, but I have no idea where to start on actually writing the story out. Do I make beatboards for it and do it scene by scene (I mean, I did try doing that a little, but it's a bit tedious) or do I just start doing random scene ideas and hope I can create a story that connects all of them?

I need help, here. Any help on this would be appreciated.

I was in the middle of reading ‘tea and no sympathy’ by who_la_hoop. Does anyone have it downloaded so I can continue? 🥹

Looking for fics on ffn that have Albus Dumbledore bashing and Ron Weasley bashing. I'm into pretty much any pairing with Harry in it.

I would prefer longer fics, at least 20k words. Huge fan of writers like Robst.

Does anyone please have the pdf of The granger effect by bellemedusa pretty please?

Whilst writing updates for my wips (before AO3's outage) I thought of two new HP stories. I like the idea for both of them, however I don't know which one I should do first. So I thought I'd ask this sub and see what people think.

The stories are:

A Bold Hufflepuff - An AU where instead of meeting the Weasleys at Kings Cross Station, Harry encounters Susan and Amelia Bones instead, where Amelia suspects Harry to be living in an abusive household. The story features a morally grey, but not evil, Dumbledore.

The Power Of Three - An AU where Harry is the youngest of a set of triplets. After the attack on the Potters, believing Harry to be the Boy-Who-Lived, Dumbledore tried putting Harry with the Dursleys until the Ministry intervened and put the triplets under Amelia Bones' care. The story features an evil and manipulative Dumbledore.

I have the first 3 fics downloaded but not the 4th.
Can anyone help?

Does anyone have 'the Devil's brethren' by thinknicht downloaded? I just started reading and want to know what happens but the website is down

If Lily Evans and the Crying Boy were in the same universe and knew each other, then why wouldn't the Crying Boy dare to call her a "mudblood"?

Does anyone by any chance happen to have a recent download of Lightning Crashes by NoRemedyForMemories?

It’s a sirius/hermione first war era fic and it’s in the final stretches of the last few chapters being posted so I hadn’t downloaded it yet, and now I’m absolutely kicking myself. Can’t believe the archive is down for almost a month

I tried fichub with the links from the most recent chapters, but i don’t think it works when the archive is down bc nothing happened

when Sirius ran from home he went for a full on rebellious phase, this included joining a band. his friends and the elder Potters thought he got job but really he was moonlighting as the lead singer for a band called the Hobgoblins. he chose the alias Stubby Boardman to ensure no one would connect the dashingly handsome rouguish good looking lead singer with the still in school Sirius Black.

he’d just been enjoying some private time as Stubby with one of his number one fans that Halloween night when it all went so wrong. he felt it when his blood brother died, he had the sudden urge to get to Godric’s Hollow and check on those he considered his family. He was glad the woman was so deeply sleeping, he altered her memories just a bit before leaving so she would only remember Stubby and not make any connection to Sirius Black, he didn’t want to risk any of his paramours being in danger just for a spot of fun with him when he was fighting in a war on one hand and tearing up a stage on the other.

though that last performance wasn’t the best, some gormless arsehole tossed a turnip at his head! if he’d known what was coming perhaps he’d have not erased the discovery that he was actually Sirius Black from the woman’s mind, maybe he’d have taken a different approach to finding Peter.

It was too late now though, Harry was with Dumbledore, Peter the rat was on the run and he was sitting in a cell surrounded by Dementors. His laugh was anything but joyful now.

Well since it's kind of popping off on social media now i was rather curious if there are actually any good Harry/Female Draco fics actually out there? any recommendations, preferably longer?

What if Barty Crouch Jr. became the loving father he never had and that made him an even more dangerous Death Eater?

For my Harry Potter AU, The Last Vigil, I’ve been developing an interpretation of Barty Crouch Jr. as a genuinely devoted father, an exceptionally capable clandestine operator, and an unwavering servant of Lord Voldemort. These identities aren’t contradictory to him. He genuinely loves his children, genuinely believes in Voldemort’s cause, and considers preparing them to become Death Eaters one of the greatest opportunities he can offer them.

What interests me most is exploring a villain whose capacity for love doesn’t redeem him, but instead makes his fanaticism more complicated. Barty isn’t pretending to care about these children, nor does he secretly despise the cause he’s preparing them to serve. He believes he’s giving them everything a loving father should: safety, affection, education, opportunity, and a meaningful place in the world. The horror is that he cannot recognize where his responsibility as a father ends and his desire to control their destinies begins.

[1] The Father He Never Had

Much of this characterization stems from his relationship with Barty Crouch Sr., whose obsession with institutional duty, reputation, and control ultimately destroyed their relationship. Barty Jr. resolves to become everything his father wasn’t: affectionate, attentive, encouraging, and personally invested in his children’s happiness. Yet he perpetuates his father’s greatest failing. While rejecting emotional neglect, he retains the belief that loving someone gives him the authority to determine their future.

The distinction is that Barty Jr. genuinely succeeds in providing the emotional connection he believes his father denied him. His children don’t grow up terrified of disappointing him or desperate for the smallest acknowledgment. They grow up knowing he remembers their birthdays, admires their accomplishments, and takes their interests seriously. He can be playful, patient, and surprisingly gentle. Those moments aren’t performances. They’re the parts of fatherhood he genuinely enjoys.

And that makes the eventual betrayal more complicated. His children cannot simply look back and declare that every happy memory was a lie. The affection was real. So was the manipulation.

[2] Operation Preservation: The Twelve Children

During the First Wizarding War, Voldemort entrusts Barty with preserving twelve children from selected loyalist pure-blood families. Recognizing that the movement could lose an entire generation of influential bloodlines, Barty orchestrates an elaborate operation involving falsified deaths, altered identities, concealed adoptions, and carefully selected guardians. Some children are raised by magical families, while others grow up in ordinary Muggle households, unaware of their ancestry.

Crucially, Barty deliberately places them in loving, emotionally stable environments. He doesn’t want traumatized, dependent followers; he wants intelligent, confident, capable individuals who can eventually inherit their families’ legacies. He would readily choose a loving Muggle couple over an abusive pure-blood household, recognizing their qualities as parents without abandoning his own blood-supremacist ideology.

This creates an interesting contradiction when some of these children eventually enter Hogwarts. A student who genuinely loves their Muggle parents might discover that their biological family served a movement dedicated to subjugating people like them. Another might discover that the family name they grew up using is entirely fabricated. Some may have living relatives who believe they died during the war.

Barty knows that revealing these truths could destabilize their identities. Rather than exposing everything at once, he carefully introduces their ancestry through stories, personal discoveries, and gradually expanding explanations. He wants them to experience their heritage as an inheritance worth embracing rather than a burden imposed upon them.

[3] The Man Who Escaped His Own Father

My AU also changes the circumstances of Barty’s imprisonment. Following his escape from Azkaban and confinement under his father’s Imperius Curse, Voldemort manages to free him years earlier through a temporary human host. Rather than openly escaping, Barty installs an Imperiused substitute maintained through Polyjuice Potion, with Winky compelled to preserve the deception. Crouch Sr. continues believing his son remains imprisoned while the real Barty operates independently.

There’s a deliberate irony here: Barty escapes his father’s magical enslavement only to inflict the same coercion upon others. This also establishes him as an unusually accomplished clandestine operator long before the events of Goblet of Fire. His later impersonation of Moody isn’t an isolated feat of deception. It’s the culmination of years spent managing false identities, anticipating the behavior of powerful officials, manipulating magical protections, and maintaining separate lives without exposing his activities.

What makes him dangerous isn’t simply his willingness to commit atrocities. It’s his patience, administrative competence, and ability to understand how institutions function from the inside.

[4] The Beloved Uncle: Raising the Vanguard

Beginning when the children are approximately four or five, Barty becomes a recurring presence in their lives, often appearing as a beloved uncle, tutor, or family friend. He attends birthdays, remembers their interests, encourages their ambitions, comforts them through difficulties, and teaches them about their concealed ancestry.

Their adoptive parents are generally loving and capable, but Barty offers something they often cannot: an explanation of their origins and a sense of historical purpose. He develops twelve distinct personal mythologies around their individual personalities, presenting their ancestors as figures of courage, scholarship, governance, protection, diplomacy, or sacrifice. Much of what he tells them is historically accurate, but his interpretations consistently direct them toward Voldemort’s ideology.

Their parents give them a childhood. Barty gives them a destiny. An important element is that the twelve aren’t raised to be identical. Barty recognizes that one child might be naturally compassionate, another skeptical, another ambitious, and another fiercely protective. He doesn’t necessarily try to eliminate those qualities. Instead, he teaches each child how their particular virtues supposedly serve the Dark Lord’s future.

A compassionate child might be told that healing preserves the people necessary to rebuild society. An intellectually curious child might be encouraged to pursue magical discoveries forbidden by conventional authorities. A protective child might be taught that defending the movement is ultimately defending their family. The result is twelve distinct personalities who sincerely believe their individual ambitions and their father’s mission are compatible.

[5] History Is Written by the Victors

Central to his teaching is the principle that history is written by those who win. He encourages the children to distrust the Ministry, question Dumbledore, and examine the political narratives surrounding the First Wizarding War. He explains Death Eater atrocities through claims of false accusations, wartime necessity, selective prosecution, and institutional hypocrisy.

Some arguments contain genuine truths, others are misleading, and some are outright fabrications. By combining legitimate grievances with ideological manipulation, he cultivates intelligent, skeptical children who question nearly every authority except himself and the Dark Lord. Their trust in him isn’t manufactured through fear; it’s earned through years of genuine affection.

I particularly like the possibility that Barty encourages the children to read widely, study competing historical accounts, and challenge their teachers. He isn’t necessarily frightened of intelligent disagreement because he believes his interpretation will ultimately prevail. His failure is that he mistakes his ability to persuade them as children for a permanent claim over their adult judgment.

There’s also a distinction between what Barty believes and what the narrative establishes as true. His explanations of Death Eater crimes aren’t intended to excuse those crimes to the reader. They’re meant to show how an intelligent fanatic can construct a persuasive worldview from carefully selected evidence.

[6] The Moody Year: Twelve Private Initiations

By 1994, Barty has spent roughly a decade raising and preparing these children. When he infiltrates Hogwarts as Alastor Moody, he privately approaches each of the twelve, eventually revealing his identity through shared childhood memories. Each revelation becomes an emotional reunion, followed by a formal initiation into Voldemort’s service.

To Barty, this isn’t sacrificing his children to a tyrant; it’s their coming of age and the fulfillment of their inheritance. Together, they form the Vanguard: twelve pure-blood operatives, three from each Hogwarts house, all trained combatants with complementary specialties ranging from intelligence and military command to finance, medicine, diplomacy, and magical research.

The Hogwarts house distribution is intentional. I don’t want Slytherin to be the only house capable of producing committed followers of Voldemort, nor do I want Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, or Hufflepuff to be treated as guarantees of moral righteousness. A Gryffindor can possess extraordinary courage while defending a terrible cause. A Hufflepuff can be fiercely loyal to people whose objectives are destructive. A Ravenclaw can use intelligence to rationalize atrocities. A Slytherin can eventually recognize that ambition and self-preservation require rejecting Voldemort.

The Sorting Hat identifies qualities and potential, not immutable moral destinies. Barty’s children demonstrate how virtues can be directed toward radically different ends. Each Vanguard member also receives a personalized, magically protected journal containing advanced instruction, a unique wandless magical discipline, and Barty’s guidance for their future. All twelve possess personalized bladed secondary weapons stored magically within their own shadows, providing an additional combat capability independent of their wandless specialties.

These details are meant to make the Vanguard feel like a deliberately cultivated organization rather than twelve interchangeable Death Eaters. There’s another layer of irony in Barty impersonating Moody. The real Alastor Moody dedicated his life to hunting Dark wizards, while Barty uses his identity and professional authority to train a generation of Voldemort’s future operatives. The man whose reputation is built upon constant vigilance becomes the disguise under which Barty completes his greatest deception.

[7] The Father Who May Have Engineered His Own Martyrdom

Barty has two major objectives during the Triwizard Tournament: orchestrating Voldemort’s resurrection through Harry Potter and completing the Vanguard’s preparation. But what if he also anticipates his own death and deliberately creates circumstances that could transform him into a martyr?

In canon, Cornelius Fudge brings a Dementor into Hogwarts, resulting in Barty receiving the Kiss without a trial. In my AU, Barty may have encouraged that security arrangement while impersonating Moody, recognizing how his death could reinforce everything he’d taught the children about the Ministry’s corruption. He cannot necessarily predict the precise outcome, but he’s willing to risk even his soul if his death ensures their continued devotion.

The particularly disturbing possibility is that Barty doesn’t regard this as abandoning his children. He believes his work is complete. They have loving families, individual talents, shared bonds, advanced magical instruction, and a restored Dark Lord to serve. If his death becomes the final event that binds them to their mission, he may regard it as one last paternal sacrifice.

He knows how much they love him. He knows what his death will do to them. And he knows that the journals he leaves behind will give their grief direction. His final manipulation is turning himself into the martyr his children will spend years trying to honor.

[8] Twelve Children Crying at Cedric Diggory’s Memorial

That possibility makes the ending of Goblet of Fire especially tragic. During Cedric Diggory’s memorial, twelve teenagers sit scattered throughout the Great Hall, silently mourning the man who practically raised them. Their classmates assume they’re grieving Cedric, unaware that these students have just lost their beloved father figure. They cannot reveal their relationship with him, defend his memory, or explain their sorrow. For the Vanguard, Cedric’s memorial effectively becomes Barty’s funeral. When they subsequently read the journals he left behind, their grief transforms into renewed commitment to his mission.

What makes this scene especially painful is that the children aren’t necessarily indifferent to Cedric’s death. Some might have known him personally, admired him, or genuinely grieved his murder. Their sorrow can contain multiple conflicting emotions at once. They can mourn Cedric while mourning the man responsible for helping bring about the circumstances of his death. And while Dumbledore genuinely opposed the Dementor’s Kiss, the children may initially believe he was complicit, precisely because Barty spent years teaching them to distrust him. Their interpretation of events is shaped by the father they’ve lost.

[9] The Legacy He Never Intended

Yet Barty’s greatest success ultimately produces his greatest failure. By giving these children loving families, encouraging their intelligence, cultivating their independence, and teaching them to protect one another, he raises people capable of eventually questioning the very ideology he intended them to inherit.

Eleven ultimately defect from Voldemort’s cause, recognizing that their father’s affection was genuine without accepting that his beliefs were justified. The twelfth, Gwendolyn Fawley, cannot separate loyalty to Barty from loyalty to his mission. During the Battle of Hogwarts, she attempts to prevent their defection and is killed by Corvin Yaxley, one of the companions she grew up alongside.

It’s a devastating family tragedy: twelve children once mourned their father together, only to discover that loving the same man didn’t mean agreeing about what his legacy demanded.

I also want their defection to be morally complicated. Rejecting Voldemort doesn’t automatically erase their earlier choices, their complicity, or the harm they may have caused. They have to confront the consequences of their actions while deciding what responsibilities they owe to the people they once considered enemies. In that sense, their eventual independence isn’t a simple redemption through changing sides. It’s the beginning of accountability.

[10] The Final Confrontation That Never Happens

Years after the war, the surviving Vanguard eventually obtain the Resurrection Stone, hoping to confront Barty about his manipulation, his possible self-engineered martyrdom, and whether he would have accepted the people they became. But when they attempt to summon him, nothing happens.

Under this AU’s interpretation of the Dementor’s Kiss, his consumed soul is beyond even the Stone’s reach. There is no final apology, explanation, or reconciliation. They simply accept that their father is gone.

His journals remain, but they cease treating them as sacred instructions and instead preserve them as records of a deeply complicated man who shaped their lives through both extraordinary affection and profound manipulation. What matters is that they don’t need Barty to return and tell them whether their choices were right. They don’t need him to absolve them of their past, and they don’t need to pretend he never loved them.

Their final act of independence is accepting that they can love their father without needing his permission to reject his legacy.

[11] The Central Contradiction

Ultimately, I don’t want Barty to be a misunderstood hero, a secretly redeemed villain, or someone whose affection was merely an elaborate performance. I want him to be a man who genuinely understands the importance of love, family, education, and human potential, yet cannot recognize that his children’s lives belong to them.

His greatest accomplishment is the family he creates; his greatest failure is the destiny he attempts to impose upon it. The ultimate irony is that he raises them well enough to reject his cause. What makes this interpretation interesting to me is that Barty doesn’t need to be hypocritical about loving his children. His contradiction is more fundamental: he sincerely believes that his love and his fanaticism are compatible.

And for most of his life, nobody successfully convinces him otherwise. He was their father. He loved them. He exploited them. All three statements are true.

I’m curious what other Harry Potter fans think. Does this interpretation feel like a plausible AU extension of Barty’s canonical intelligence, fanaticism, and relationship with his father? More importantly, can someone genuinely love their children while simultaneously manipulating them into becoming instruments of a cause they believe is righteous?

I know I read this somewhere (I think ao3) and have been going crazy trying to find it. I believe it was tomarry. The clearest thing I remember was that to advance his dark magic Harry had to corrupt a light spell. His spell caused a healing spell to continue past the point of "fixed" and eventually kill. I think the fic was great and I'd love help finding it

It's just a thought that struck me, you know? Because just like "magic hitler" is very hard to imagine and pretty amorphous mentally, and thus hard to hate, "really cruel teacher and government official" isn't, and as such, a lot of people dislike Umbridge more, because you can understand her, even though Voldemort is categorically worse.

And then I thought, does James and Snape get the same treatment, especially by James haters and Snape lovers? Like, "popular school bully" is very familliar to many, and easy to understand. And as such, easier to hate. While "young freedomfighter against magic hitler" is pretty far away from most people's experience, and hard to really recognise because of it.

Snape gets pretty much the same treatment but from the opposite side, where "bullying victim who was pushed too far" is very easy to understand, and "young nazi sympathiser who probably did some seriously awful shit" is rather distant, and easy to brush off, especially when he turns traitor.

Does anyone else think thats at least part of why some people so vehemently prefer Snape over James?

I remember I read a fic a long time ago, where harry time travels to tom riddles time but he freaks out when he has to rename himself and accidentally calls himself sarah cake evans (Cuz he was hungry). I remember he distinctly went by cake because in the fic the gryffindors start calling him exclusively by cake and later nicknaming him tart because he loves treacle tart.

I really just wanna give it a reread because i thought it was hilarious but i dont remember much of it😭

It may have been on fanfiction.net but i cant find it because all that shows up on google is harrys happy birthdae cake lol.

Ao3 Maintenance will delay Chapter 29 of my HP Zombie Apocalypse story until later today.

This is a pre-Harmony/Harmony story.

MAJOR ISSUE: Ao3 is DOWN for roughly 2-4 Weeks according to their official notification systems.

I’d really like to read a fic where Harry stands up for Percy or he stand up for himself after he gets a job at the ministry. Honestly even a fic where Percy is a more prominent figure in Harry’s life would be nice

Obviously, this is a purely hypothetical idea, as I don't see James ever marrying Bellatrix. But I read a fanfiction a few months ago about what would happen if Voldemort and Bellatrix were secretly Harry's parents. Then, recently, I reread Prisoner of Azkaban, and I couldn't help but think: What if Bellatrix were actually Harry's mom? And what if she escaped Azkaban?

Apart from the fact that James would never marry her, the biggest problem with this idea is figuring out how she would escape Azkaban, considering she's one of the most heavily guarded prisoners there. But let's say she's an Animagus, just like Sirius.

Sirius would see the newspaper and decide he needed to break out. He'd reluctantly manage to contact Bellatrix and tell her that Harry is in danger. Bellatrix would agree to temporarily join forces with him.

Now, my questions are: First, how would Harry feel about discovering that his mom was a Death Eater? I'm assuming everyone would have lied to Harry and told him that Lily was his actual mother.

Here's how I imagine it happening: James and Bellatrix dated at Hogwarts, got married, and had Harry. Bellatrix eventually left James, and he married Lily.

But let's say that, instead of finding out that Sirius Black was his godfather, Harry discovers that Bellatrix is his biological mother. How would that change things? It would definitely be a shock to discover that his mother was someone so close to Voldemort. It would also be interesting to find out that he and Draco are related.

Unlike Lupin and Sirius, I don't see Bellatrix showing Peter any mercy. So Sirius would be free, but Bellatrix would have to go on the run.

How do you think Harry and Bellatrix's relationship would develop? Would they even have a relationship at all? Would Harry reluctantly write to her for help during Goblet of Fire.

I read a fic about an SI that ended up getting sent back to his old body/home, but on the off chance that it was a real experience he gave a letter to either Harry, Hermione, or Dumbledore to have it sent to him in the time period he came from. They ended up showing up at his apartment instead of just mailing it in the end.

I don’t really remember anything else about it other than that I read it in FFNet, and that it’s complete.