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Nine-year-old Harry accidentally apprentices himself to a necromancer. Things go downhill from there.
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What kind of illithid colony chose not to cull an illithid as outrageously aberrant as the Emperor? How did it relearn the secret to building nautiloids, long-lost technology from the age of illithid dominion? Who was the Absolute, before it was the Absolute?
Tav remembers. They are one of the last thralls of the original colony, from before the madness seized the brain. Soon, they will be reborn as another nameless illithid, another cog in a senseless machine, no past, no present, no future. But then the voice of the Absolute falls silent. The nautiloid crashes. And Tav remembers what was lost.
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Tobel has an excellent life (for a slave). He belongs to the headmaster of the only imperially sanctioned school for dreamweavers, and his biggest worry is planning the upcoming graduation ceremony—that is, until someone goes and murders his master, shattering their psychic link. Now he has three days left to live, but imminent death and a covert murder investigation are no excuse for slacking off. After all, that graduation isn't going to plan itself.
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After her stroke, Duke Stelmane begins to receive a mysterious visitor in private. They are always cloaked, hooded, intimidating. As far as her attendants can tell, they have been up to nothing more nefarious than playing common games to pass the time. Why, then, the secrecy?
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Keep My Candle Burning by keepmycandleburning
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Thorne & Rowling
13 Aug 2024
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An intensely canon-compliant humanized Voldemort's POV of his life throughout both wars, with flashbacks to his younger years. Centered around his relationship with Bellatrix, and his journey with love, family, and grief, but very all-encompassing and inclusive of everything and everyone I could think of.
The Voldemort we see in words—from Dumbledore, from Harry—is not the Voldemort we see in actions. How do we bridge the gap between the Voldemort that Dumbledore claims has no idea what friendship is and the Voldemort that calls his Death Eaters his family when they’re not even present? gives Bella a piece of his soul? drags her by hand out of the Ministry? is clearly liked as a person at least somewhat by his followers? has at least one person willing to physically care for him for nearly a year? has multiple people willing to go to Azkaban for life for the chance to have him back?
Voldemort is not the person Dumbledore thinks (or claims to think, so that Harry will kill himself) he is at all, but is a human being with human emotions and human thoughts and human relationships, however unique.
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- Part 1 of Keep My Candle Burning
- Part 1 of My Favorites
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Bookmarked by Cauchy
28 Jun 2026
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Something is alarmingly different about Harry Potter's magic and he's hoping that no one else notices. It is left to him to figure out why before it endangers him or anyone else, and keep it secret from those who'd want to use it for their own purposes.
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Bookmarked by Cauchy
23 Jun 2026
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There were rumours. Mere whispers, spoken in the dark alleyways of Knockturn Alley and its underbelly slums, of a boy, or perhaps a young man, with green eyes and a strange affinity for the dead. A necromancer of some sort. Some said he lured people in to steal their souls. Others said that he would make the dead speak and reveal secrets thought lost - for a price, of course.
Voldemort did not know what the truth was, and he did not care to know. The only thing Voldemort was concerned with was if the boy would prove useful.
(And putting an end to this maddening obsession).
___Harry was not particularly happy to find himself in the past, wearing somebody else’s skin, and without a single knut to his name. And he was even less enthusiastic to learn that he had caught Voldemort’s attention. But he would make do, as he always has done.
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- Part 1 of iywtdiwb Universe
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Bookmarked by Cauchy
26 Sep 2025
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Harry Potter and the Freedom of Submission by RedMyst
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
05 Feb 2024
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Harry Potter's destiny had been written for him before he was even born; he was to become the noble hero, the vanquisher, the knight in shining armour, the martyr - the symbol. He'd never had a choice.
Shortly after his fourth year, he realises that he does have a choice after all. A choice that will change the fate of the world forever.
Well, the world can go to hell. Harry makes his choice.
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- 6/?
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Bookmarked by Cauchy
14 Jun 2025
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It's Barty's life mission to serve the Dark Lord to the best of his abilities.
Barty Crouch Jr.-centric one-shots.Bookmarked by Cauchy
14 Jun 2025