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In the sterile, cookie-cutter world of Privet Drive, Harry Potter is a "freak" whose only refuge is the dirt beneath his fingernails.
While his relatives, the Dursleys, view his forced gardening as a menial chore, Harry finds a rare, rhythmic peace in the soil. This quiet obsession leads him to the school library, where he bypasses children’s stories for heavy tomes on Botany, Eastern Medicine, and Toxicology. He begins to see the world not as a suburban wasteland, but as a vast, living pharmacy of potential cures and lethal secrets.
Or where Harry learns to harness and develop his potential earlier, with the assistance of an old lady who has just moved into the peaceful neighborhood of Privet Drive.
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Wicked is the Blood by MandoVet
Fandoms: Addams Family - All Media Types, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
17 Jul 2026
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When seven-year-old Harry Potter speaks to a serpent in the London Zoo, he doesn’t just unlock a door; he draws the attention of someone watching. Morticia Addams, matriarch of the famously macabre Addams Family, recognizes the signs of suppressed magic and wounded potential. Upon discovering the boy’s name and the cruelty he’s endured, she makes a decision with all the grace and finality of a guillotine.
Harry Potter is coming home with them.
Raised among poison gardens, swordplay at breakfast, and cousins who play with guillotines instead of toys, Harry finds something in the Addams manor he never knew existed: a family that not only accepts the dark, strange parts of him, but celebrates them. Under the watchful eyes of Morticia and Gomez, alongside Wednesday, Pugsley, Thing, and the rest of the delightfully eerie household, Harry grows into something the wizarding world never expected.
Confident. Unafraid. Powerful.
So when Hogwarts finally comes calling, they are not prepared for this Harry Potter, and he is no longer alone... -
Harry Potter and the Hunt for Happiness by Gimlili
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
12 Jul 2026
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If Harry's going to do it all over again it's going to be for him and him alone.
He's done living for other people, this time he's living on his terms.
This time he will find a way to be happy.
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"The truth, it is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution." -- Albus Dumbledore to Harry Potter
When he first visits Gringotts, Harry is given a letter left for him by his mother before her death. The contents will challenge his sense of self and teach him the value of Secrets.This is a Work In Progress. It is not finished. It may never be finished. Read at your own risk.
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- Part 20 of W.I.P. Collection
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To Hide From Sight by dionysus_and_wine
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan
08 Jul 2026
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Percy could see more than other people ever since he could remember. The world of Greek gods, heroes and monsters awaited him every night, bleeding into the waking world. He promised himself that he would never speak of his visions, but can he keep this secret when he barely holds himself together, surrounded by strangers?
Or: Clarisse thinks that in all nine years of her life she never met a stranger kid than Percy. It’s alright though, he’s hers now and she will bite off the ankles of whoever dared to mess with him.
Or: Apollo is going to tear out all of his hair if he doesn't find his baby prophet. Now.
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