"You can come in!" the tiny green eyed boy in the compartment says immediately after Tom opens the door. He's alone in there. He's still in muggle clothes, unlike Tom, who changed before coming. It's way easier to leave a good first impression on potentially useful people if you look like you belong. /AU, aro/ace Tom, Tom/Harry but not really
Draco is old enough to pick his future queen, but the one he picks isn't as good for him as he thought they would be. /Draco/Tom, aka Taco. Fairytale AU, lots of flower imagery
Roxanne Weasley is eleven when she meets Harry Potter. They sit together in a train compartment and Harry shows her his scar. She's been hearing about him since she was a toddler. Of course she feels a bit star-struck. /Reversed Weasley family, first four years at Hogwarts,
They call it gifted kid burnout. Hermione definitely feels like she's been set on fire and left to char. /Belin fic universe, tw for suicide ideation
When she was young, Helga was taught that life was precious. And she believed it. / Helga falls in love several times.
"You've not seen your Aunt Bellatrix since you were little," Draco's mother tells him. She's wearing one of her billowing white robes, sheer white and feathers around her wrists like giant wings. She's the prettiest mom he knows. He doesn't remember her very well, but Draco is fairly certain that his Aunt Bellatrix is the exact opposite. He is right. /muggle AU, Belin fic universe
Helen Potter shouldn't even be in the tournament. She says she didn't put her name in. He swears her name sounds familiar, but Viktor can't place it. And they said it wrong, the cup spat out the name Harry Potter, which he thinks sounds even more familiar. /Canon divergent fic, shameless Viktor Krum rep.
Harry meets his own personal guardian angel on the way home from Hogwarts the year he graduates./GodAU, someone gave Tom Riddle godhood
The bombs can't have done this, Tom thinks with disbelief, and steps out of his safehouse into a world of dust and fire. / Harry promised Tom that he'd be back, but he isn't yet. And Tom is in a war, alone. Time travel AU, full TW list inside, but spoilers, there is death.
Viktor Krum has never really understood love, despite how easily he falls into it. /Asexual characters in fanfiction, fluff
Ron and Harry don't actually know how to fall in love, but they're trying their hardest. Central America high school AU.
- Beloved Surgeon and Anatomist's famous last words spoken while feeling his own pulse. A series of double dates and conversations between friends, after the war. AU, Voldemort dies before the final battle, so some are still living. Slash and some mentions of rarepairs.
She wants to be that happy, to have that power over others, to demand happiness, instead of just accepting whatever she can get. That's why she gets sorted into Slytherin. /In which Tracey Davis is a half blood in Slytherin, and it is the best thing that ever happened to her. TW for child abuse. Pansy/Tracey. Slytherin girls being good friends.
He's trapped in a book. They're trapped together, in a horcrux formed from a diary. He doesn't know what a horcrux is, but he knows that there's not supposed to be two Tom Riddle's in it. / In which two bits of soul end up in the diary, Lucius Malfoy leaves it in a muggleborn's books instead, and Colin Creevey gains a friend who is bad for him.
Further up there is barely a shiver of the engines, but Ginny prefers it down here, where the magic hums and the gears grind so hard the metal walkways ought the upper decks do have their benefits. The largest of which is blonde and waiting for her. Steampunk AU, Linny, Luna just likes putting stuff in her girlfriend's hair.
Harry makes a lot of promises. And he's the only adult Tom knows who keeps them.
It's going to be Colin's first year trick-or-treating, and their mother still can't leave Dennis alone for long yet, so he has to tag along. Their mother promises she'll hold him so he won't ruin everything for Colin, since Colin is taking his first big Halloween very seriously. Well, it doesn't go exactly as planned. Instead it goes even better.
Susan Bones was born crying. Or that's what her aunt says. Her aunt was one of the only ones there when she was born. The world was unsafe and there was barely anyone left to be there. She was born during war, and the Bones were going extinct, and Susan seemed like new hope. /Character death mentioned.
"You're definitely not a portrait, by the way. At least, not a normal one. I've been reading about them. They can't disappear like you." Tom finds a portrait of a Faerie, Harry finds a magical mirror that can travel back in time. The only disappointment is that he can't actually leave his side of the frame.
"I need company in my flat. I can't survive off of just you and work friends," Pansy tells Draco, and gets herself a puppy, which turns out to be exactly what she needed. Pansy/Parvati, no warnings for once.