HPFF Recommendation List by Anon (8-5)
HPFF Recommendation List by Anon (8-5)
HPFF Recommendation List by Anon (8-5)
=ALSO RECOMMENDED=
The Denarian trilogy (Adventure/Crossover(Dresden files), 250k words in average,
Complete)
Description: By the age of seven, Harry Potter hated his home, his relatives and
his life. However, an ancient
demonic artefact has granted him the powers of a Fallen and now he will let noth
ing stop him in his quest for power.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3473224/1/The-Denarian-Renegade
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3856581/1/The-Denarian-Knight
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4359957/1/The-Denarian-Lord
Browncoat, Green Eyes (Crossover(Firefly)/Sci-fi, 298k words, Complete)
Description: Two years have passed since the secret of the planet Miranda got br
oadcast across the whole 'verse in
2518. The crew of Serenity finally hires a new pilot, but he's a bit peculiar.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2857962/1/Browncoat-Green-Eyes
Lessons with Hagrid (Humor, 4k words, Complete)
Description: Snape kicks Harry out of 'Remedial Potions', but as we know from Th
e Philosopher's Stone, there is
another Occlumens in the school good enough to keep out the Dark Lord.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7512124/1/Lessons-With-Hagrid
A Mother In Law's love (Humor/Parody/Adventure, 43k words, Complete)
Description: Harry gambles desperately and travels back in time to save Ginny. U
nfortunately, not everything goes as planned. A twist on the classic Soul Bond t
ale.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4905771/1/A-Mother-In-Law-s-Love
So Sue Me (Humor/Parody, 44k words, Abandoned)
Description: A take on Harry's first year starting with him getting his letters.
Add a lot of sarcasm, stir, and
serve cold.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3003214/1/So-Sue-Me
Runemaster (Adventure/Humor, 149k words, Complete)
Description: In third year, Harry decided to quit Divination, following Hermione
. Having to take a substitute
course, he end up choosing Ancient Runes and find himself to be quite gifted.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5077573/1/RuneMaster
The Sniper (Adventure, 12k words, Complete)
Description: Harry is expelled after the hearing in Courtroom 10. His wand snapp
ed, an angry Harry choses his own
path forward. First person story focusing on Harry's effort to find his own plac
e.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3918135/1/The-Sniper
Awaken Sleeper (Crossover(Dresden)/Adventure, 178k words, In Progress)
Description: For years Harrison Potter has been in a mental institution living d
reams of magic, wizards, and dark
lords. Eventually the dreamer has to awaken. His reality has to be accepted as f
antasy.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4183715/1/Awaken-Sleeper
Journey through the Dark (Drama/Adventure, 68k words, Abandoned)
Description: Spurned by everyone, Harry accepts Bagman's help, taking the 1st st
ep towards greatness.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6044969/1/Journey-Through-the-Dark
When In Doubt, Obliviate (Humor, 114k words, Complete)
Description: Harry gets a magical upbringing, Lockhart gets the Boy-Who-Lived...
everybody wins!
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6635363/1/When-In-Doubt-Obliviate
Growing Up Black (Drama, 234k words, Part 1 Complete)
Description: What if Harry had been rescued from the Dursleys at age six and rai
sed as the heir of the Noble and
Most Ancient House of Black?
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6518287/1/Growing-Up-Black
Wizard for Hire (Adventure, 29k words, In Progress)
Description: Do you have a problem that needs fixing? Who better to call than Ha
rry Potter, savior of the wizarding world?
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7993653/1/Wizard-for-Hire
Two: No one cares. Why? Because Daniel Potter is the Boy Who Lived.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2900438/1/Unsung-Hero
Now Hiring: Committee for the Disposal (Humor, 3k words, Complete)
Description: The summer after Harry's fifth year, Albus Dumbledore, newly reinst
ated Chief Warlock of the Wizengamot, must deal with an interesting end to a bor
ing day.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3292245/1/Now-Hiring-Committee-for-the-Disposal
The Weapon (Drama, 300k words, Complete)
Description: After Sirius's death, Harry devotes himself to learning magic in a
desperate attempt to protect the people he loves.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5333171/2/The-Weapon-Revised
They Shook Hands (Adventure/Friendship, around 400k words, Complete)
Description: Suppose Draco Malfoy introduced himself before he started acting li
ke an ass. What if he had asked
Harry's name before insulting Hagrid?
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7659033/1/They-Shook-Hands-PostCanon-Revision-Year-O
ne
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7786722/1/They-Shook-Hands-PostCanon-Revision-Year-T
wo
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7949779/1/They-Shook-Hands-PostCanon-Revision-Year-T
hree
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8120562/1/They-Shook-Hands-PostCanon-Revision-Year-F
our
Ectomancer (Adventure/Mystery, 103k words, Abandoned)
Description: Falling through puddles and magic gone haywire are just a few of Ha
rry's newest problems. With the
Ministry falling apart and Voldemort unearthing ancient secrets, will Harry unco
ver the truth in time?
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4563439/1/Ectomancer
What Would Slytherin Harry Do? (Humor/Adventure, 44k words, Complete?)
Description: An ongoing series of one shot stories exploring how Slytherin!Harry
would have handled key moments from the books.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3559907/1/What-Would-Slytherin-Harry-Do
What Lies Beneath (Psychological Thriller, 101k words, Complete)
Description: The diary left more than battle wounds. Voldemort's ingenuity plann
ed for more than Harry initially
assumed. The time has come when he must pierce the shades of grey that colour th
e Wizarding World.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3688693/1/What-Lies-Beneath
A Champion's New Hope (Adventure/Romance, 274k words, Complete)
Description: Beginning during the Goblet of Fire, Harry looks to different frien
ds for support after both Ron and
Hermione refuse to believe that he did not put his name in the Goblet. Including
one unexpected friend: Daphne
Greengrass.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5244813/1/A-Champion-s-New-Hope
To Shape and Change (Adventure, 232k words, In Progress)
Description: Snape goes back in time, holding the knowledge of what is to come i
f he fails. No longer holding a
grudge, he seeks to shape Harry into the greatest wizard of all time, starting o
n the day Hagrid took Harry to Diagon Alley.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6413108/1/To-Shape-and-Change
k.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2793402/1/Dumbledore-s-Payback
Me, Myself and I (Drama, 65k words, Complete)
Description: Harry has had a hard life, harder than anyone knows, even himself.
What happens when Snape finds out
that Harry's mind couldn't take the strain and fractured, leaving the BWL with M
PD?
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2266187/1/Me-Myself-and-I
Wand And Shield (Crossover(Avengers)/Adventure, 224k words, In Progress)
Description: The world is breaking; war and technology are pushing on the edge o
f the unbelievable, and S.H.I.E.L.D. desperately attempts to keep the peace. The
soldier and the scientist are not the only lights that push back against the da
rkness, however; magic will encompass the world again as the last wizard makes h
imself known.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8177168/1/Wand-and-Shield
A Study in Magic (Drama/Crossover, 436k words, Complete)
Description: When Professor McGonagall went to visit Harry Watson, son of Mr. Sh
erlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, to
deliver his Hogwarts letter, she was in the mindset of performing a familiar if
stressful annual routine.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7578572/1/A-Study-in-Magic
Timely Errors (Drama, 130k words, Complete)
Description: Harry Potter never had much luck, being sent to his parents' past s
hould have been expected.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4198643/1/Timely-Errors
The Substitute (Drama/Adventure, 35k words, Complete)
Description: The magical contract made by the Goblet of Fire inadvertently sets
underway events that change
everything you thought you knew about the boy-who-lived. (Depressing and a bit d
ark.)
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4641394/1/The-Substitute
C'est la Vie (Adventure, 107k words, In Progress)
Description: A year after the war ends, Fate takes the opportunity to toss her f
avourite hero into a different
dimension to repay her debt. A new life in exchange for having fulfilled her pro
phecy. Harry just wants to know why he has no say in the matter.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8730465/1/C-est-La-Vie
The Potter Family Grimoire (Adventure/Drama,19k words, Complete)
Description: Harry Potter has an unprecedented amount of freedom the summer befo
re his Third Year. He stumbles into an odd shop in Diagon Alley that will change
his life forever.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5101357/1/The-Potter-Family-Grimoire
Beyond the Scars (Drama/Adventure, 43k words, Complete)
Description: Harry Potter abandons his friends and flees in a desperate attempt
to follow a training regime
Dumbledore asked him to follow, prior to his death. But as Harry goes through th
e motions, he finds that the true
enemy is not Voldemort, but himself.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3525286/1/Beyond-the-Scars
His Own Man (Adventure/Friendship, 147k words, Abandoned)
Description: In the station between Life and Death Harry makes a different choic
e. Now he's eleven again, no one is turning out the same way, the Sorting Hat wo
n't Sort him, the Malfoys are looking at him strangely, and - it's time for anot
her visit.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5453054/1/His-Own-Man
The Innocence of Guilt (Adventure, 156k words, Abandoned)
Description: Harry Potter was sentenced to Azkaban prison. However he never went
there. Who is James Pathertrory and what has he got against the Death Eaters?
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2412808/1/The-Innocence-Of-Guilt
Harry the Hufflepuff + Sequel (Humor, 50k words, Complete)
Description: Luckily, lazy came up in Petunia's tirades slightly more often than
freak, otherwise, this could have
been a very different story.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6466185/1/Harry-the-Hufflepuff
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7330591/1/Harry-the-Hufflepuff-2
Reach the Open Space (Drama, 10k words, Complete)
Description: After defeating Voldemort, Harry Potter was about to become the mos
t adulated wizard in the History of Wizardkind. But he ruined it all. And he's d
amn proud of it.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3212519/1/Reach-the-Open-Space
Antithesis (Drama, 7k words, Complete)
Description: Nineteen years later, life was going great for Harry Potter. He had
everything he had ever wanted.
Friends, a wife, children. It was perfect. Then he opened his eyes...
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3943025/1/Antithesis
Allure Immune Harry (Humor/Romance, 9k words, Complete)
Description: Harry had no idea why the boys in the Great Hall drooled over thems
elves as the students from Beuxbatons made their entrance, but he knew better th
an to let an opportunity slip. He hurriedly stole Ron's sandwich. It tasted glor
iously.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8848598/1/Allure-Immune-Harry
Journeyman Potter & Master Potter (Adventure/Drama, 120k&80k words, Complete)
Description: It wasn't the first time everyone thought Voldemort was dead...
http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/Journeyman_Potter/index/
http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/Master_Potter/index/
(They are sequels for Apprentice Potter above, by the way, and slightly worse)
Incorruptible: the Dementor's Stigma (Drama, 264k words, Complete)
Description: A year has passed since the dead started returning to life, and the
fate of the world depends on the
best and the worst of humanity, the wizards and the Muggles, with politics and t
he undead in between.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7539141/1/Incorruptible-The-Dementor-s-Stigma
Fair Trade (Drama, 8k words, Complete)
Description: Harry confronts Voldemort with an alternate reason for some of the
Dark's Lord's failures, and offers to help him out, for a price.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4818951/1/Fair_Trade
The Book of Dobby: Per Arcana ad Astra (Humor/Adventure, 42k words, Abandoned)
Description: Harry Potter has had enough, and now - with a little help from his
friends - he's decided to bring the fight to the Death Eaters in a way they cann
ot understand. Turn out those lights! Don't you know there's a war on?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5093023/1/The-Book-of-Dobby-Reboot-Per-Arcana-ad-As
tra
ons against giving in to malice. [Great class scenes and character development]
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2527087/1/With-Malice-Aforethought
The Third Wizarding War: The Story of Miles Brand (Drama/Suspense, 26k words, Co
mplete)
Description: The story of a Muggle-born criminal, a Pureblood supremacist, and a
n ex-Auror on the run during the
Third Wizarding War.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6536945/2/The-Third-Wizarding-War-The-Story-of-Mile
s-Brand
Business (Suspense/Drama, 12k words, Complete)
Description: The Dursleys didn't raise Harry Potter to be a very good boy.
http://archiveofourown.org/works/1113588
Common Sense (General, 107k words, Complete)
Description: My odd ideas file. Little snippets that don't quite merit their own
stories. Some funny; some less so.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4019373/1/Common-Sense
Harry Potter and the Enemy Within (Drama, 173k words, Complete)
Description: In his sixth year at Hogwarts, Harry's mental link to Voldemort is
stronger than ever. Can Snape teach him to control the nightmarish visions? And
is their connection the key to ending Voldemort's reign?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3417954/19/Harry-Potter-and-the-Enemy-Within
Just a Random Tuesday (Humor, 58k words, Complete)
Description: A VERY long Tuesday in the life of Minerva McGonagall. With rampant
Umbridgeitis, uncooperative Slytherins, Ministry interventions, an absent Dumbl
edore and a schoolwide shortage of Hot Cocoa, it's a wonder she's as nice as she
is.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3124159/1/Just-a-Random-Tuesday
HPParody (Humor, 10k words, Complete)
Description: Here's a Harry that has normal male nightmares, wasn't abused by hi
s Uncle, can't cook, hates being
called 'pup', did NOT try to commit suicide, doesn't stutter when Sirius is ment
ioned, sure as hell isn't the Heir
to the founders and Merlin.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2951377/1/HPParody
Fantastic Elves and Where to Find Them + The Handbook of Elf Psychology (Adventu
re, 38k words, Complete)
Description: After the Dursleys abandon six year old Harry in a park in Kent, Ha
rry comes to the realization that he is an elf. Not a house elf, though. A fores
t elf. Never mind wizards vs muggles; Harry has his own thing going on.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8197451/1/Fantastic-Elves-and-Where-to-Find-them
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8509020/1/The-Handbook-of-Elf-Psychology
The Amplitude, Frequency and Resistance of the Soul Bond (Romance/Humor, 34k wor
ds, In Progress)
Description: A Love Story that doesn't start with love. A Soul Bond that doesn't
start with a kiss. Love is not
handed out freely. Love is earned. When Harry and Ginny are Soul Bonded, they di
scover that love is not initially included.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9818387/1/
The Prince That Was Promised (Drama/Crossover(A song of Ice and Fire), 93k words
, In Progress?)
Description: He remembered being Harry Potter. Dreamed of it. He dreams of the G
reat Other too, a creature of ice and death, with eyes red as blood and an army
of cold, dead things. He is only the 2nd son of the King, a 'spare',
but that changes when things rather left in the dark come to light, and Westeros
is torn asunder by treachery and
ambition. Winter is coming... but magic is might. [more of a GoT fanfic than a H
P fanfic, so read GoT first]
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9215879/1/The-Prince-That-Was-Promised
Harry Potter: Game of the Year Edition (Adventure, 37k words, In Progress)
Description: Harry Potter dies in the graveyard of Little Hangleton. GAME OVER.
Start new game?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8052743/1/Harry-Potter-Game-of-the-Year-Edition
The Havoc Side of the Force (Crossover(Star Wars)/Adventure, 66k words, In Progr
ess)
Description: I have a singularly impressive talent for messing up the plans of v
ery powerful people - both good and evil. Somehow, I'm always just in the right
place at exactly the wrong time. What can I say? It's a gift
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8501689/1/The-Havoc-side-of-the-Force
Mirror, Mirror (Suspense/Adventure, 205k words, In Progress)
Description: What happens when Ron Weasley find himself in a parallel universe w
here Harry Potter became a Slytherin?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4843238/1/Mirror-Mirror
Number Games (Romance/Drama, 14k words, Complete)
Description: Ron Weasley, an aging quidditch player in the middle of possibly th
e biggest game of his life, looks back at the places where his life changed for
the better and the worse. Book 7 compliant but not epilogue compliant.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5987922/1/Number-Games
A Little More Time (Drama, 123k words, Complete)
Description: Was it possible to save two lives without altering history? Was it
possible to given them a future twenty years after they had supposedly died? Ted
dy Lupin thought so...
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3688609/1/A-Little-More-Time
That Which Holds The Image (Crossover(Doctor Who)/Horror, Complete)
Description: Harry Potter faces a boggart that doesn't turn into a Dementor or e
ven Voldemort, but into a horror from his childhood. Now the boggart isn't even
a boggart anymore. There's no imitation. That which holds the image of an Angel,
becomes itself an Angel.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7156582/1/That-Which-Holds-The-Image
Ice Princess (Romance, 15k words, Complete)
Description: Building a romance from a fanon cliche turned on its head.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5864749/1/Ice-Princess
Travel Secrets (Adventure, 150k words, Sequels in Progress)
Description: Harry Potter is living an unhappy life at age 27. He is forced to g
o on an Auror raid, when the people he saves are not who he thinks. With one las
t thing in his life broken, he follows through on a plan for Time-travel, back t
o his past self. Things were not as they once seemed.
https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4349156/E4mj
How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Lord V (Adventure/Humor, 60k words, Aban
doned)
Desription: Nuclear war breaks out and Voldemort casts a spell to stop time. He
and Harry alone are left to defuse the missiles and prevent the war. Voldemort's
radiophobic. Oh joy.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3542099/1/How-I-Learned-To-Stop-Worrying-And-Love-L
ord-V
Retroactive (Humor/Adventure, 8k words, Complete)
Description: Harry takes a chance in hope of saving Sirius from the Veil, assist
ed by Luna and some stolen Time Turners. Working with Luna comes with its own co
mplications, though.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7086910/1/Retroactive
Escapologist Harry (Humor, 6k words, Complete)
Description: Harry runs away at age four. After bringing him back, Dumbledore's
attempts to keep him at Privet Drive gets progressively more ridiculously extrem
e with each of his escapes
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9469775/1/Escapologist-Harry
The Adventures Of Harry Potter, the Video Game: Exploited (Humor/Adventure, 43k
words, In Progress)
Description: Harry Potter catches Voldemort's AK to the noggin only to find out
that his life is a video game and he forgot to save. So what does he do? Does he
return on Hard mode and work for the challenge? Heck No! Harry uses every explo
it, grind, or underhanded tactic he can get his hands on. His life may be a vide
o game, but nobody plays Harry Potter; Harry's going to exploit the system.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9708318/1/The-Adventures-Of-Harry-Potter-the-VideoGame-Exploited
A Promise From her Boy (Drama, 20k words, Complete)
Description: It did not occur to Harry Potter to wonder why his Snowy Hedwig was
so much more affectionate than the other owls. It did not occur to him he would
ever need to care. That's why she waited to tell him.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8766329/1/A-Promise-From-Her-Boy
insurgere (Drama, 6k words, Complete)
Description: Hufflepuff is the house of the leftovers, the losers, the forgotten
. Well, Tom Riddle thinks, it's time to change that.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5846518/1/insurgere
Harrry Potter and the Witch Queen (Adventure, 138k words, In Progress)
Description: fter a long war, Voldemort still remains undefeated and Hermione Gr
anger has fallen to Darkness. But despite having gained great power in exchange
for a bargain with the hidden Fae, she is still unable to defeat the Dark Lord.
As a last resort, she sends Harry back in time twenty years to when he was eleve
n, using a dark ritual with a terrible sacrifice.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8823447/1/Harry-Potter-and-the-Witch-Queen
With Strength of Steel Wings (Adventure, 383k words, In Progress)
Description: How much difference can upbringing make on a possible future? A you
ng Harry Potter, abandoned on the streets, is taken in by a Muggle with a myster
ious motive. This one event will set in motion a slow but inevitable flood of ch
ange, and both Magical and Muggle worlds will never be the same.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9036071/1/With-Strength-of-Steel-Wings
Court Ordered Diet (Humor,41k words, Complete)
Description: Events are wrapping up at Privet Drive. How will Harry finish thing
s with his cousin? Based on a real news story, Dudley Dursley is ordered by the
court to lose weight as a part of his punishment for his delinquence.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2436772/1/Court-Ordered-Diet
Harry Potter and the Guardian Wand (Adventure, 189k words, Complete)
Description: Dumbledore's dead. On the train ride home, cars are at a standstill
, the electricity is out, fires burn unchecked from Scotland to London, and chao
s reigns in muggle Britain. Somehow Harry has to survive this new world while de
stroying Voldemort.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6719282/1/
The Deception Series, Year 1: Discovery (Adventure/Fantasy, 46k words, In Progre
ss)
Description: Magic. It was fantastical, complex, and the only part of his herita
ge that he could be certain of. An AU to Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Ston
e, where Neville Longbottom is the Boy-Who-Lived and Harry Potter was thought to
have died Halloween 1981.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9627828/1/The-Deception-Series-Year-1-Discovery
The Arithmancer (Adventure/Friendship, 75k words, In Progress)
Description: Hermione grows up as a maths whiz instead of a bookworm and tests i
nto Arithmancy in her first year. Then, she befriends Harry Potter and finds an
opportunity to put her superhuman spellcrafting skills to good use.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10070079/1/The-Arithmancer
Faery Heroes (Adventure/Humor, 208k words, In Progress)
Description: Harry, Hermione and Luna get a chance to travel back in time and pr
event the hell that England became under Voldemort's rule, and maybe line their
pockets while they're at it.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8233288/1/
The Horcrux Within (Adventure/Drama, 110k words, In Progress)
Description: When harry is fighting Voldemort for the Philosopher's Stone, he ma
kes the horrible discovery that he is keeping Voldemort alive by hosting a fract
ion of his soul. What is the rest of Harry's time at Hogwarts when he knows that
he has to die?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7505602/1/
Stunning Shifts (Adventure, 78k words, In Progress)
Description: During a publicity stunt, Harry and 5 others are sent to another wo
rld where a well timed Stupefy made all the difference. As Harry looks for his p
eers and a way home, another Harry investigates the odd arrival of his doppelgan
ger.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7534131/1/
I'm Still Here (Drama, 131k words, In Progress)
Description: The second war with Voldemort never really ended, and there were no
winners, certainly not Harry Potter who has lost everything. What will Harry do
when a ritual from Voldemort sends him to another world? How will he manage in
this new world in which he never existed, especially as he sees familiar events
unfolding?
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9704180/1/