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When the scarred girl with bright green eyes and wild black hair was dropped off at Wool's Orphanage by her Aunt, Tom didn't think much of it.
It was only when he came across her, he realised she was just like him.
She had magic.
And that wasn't the only thing they had in common.
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- Part 1 of Never Apart
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Sarah Potter wants, more than anything, to be left alone
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When Harry falls desperately ill with a magical fever, the walls he's built around himself begin to crumble. Ron discovers that caring for his normally touch-averse best friend requires both gentleness and strength he didn't know he possessed.
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- Part 59 of hp sickfics
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Harry was running before he could think, his wand gripped in his hand as he flung himself into the muggles, dragging them to the ground and rolling quickly, getting one knee under himself and then one foot, staggering to standing just before the dragon reached them. There was a cacophony of sound, the dragon’s roar, the screams of the muggles, shouting from behind the dragon. He could see her eyes, pupils just thin slits against the gold, and then only her open mouth, white teeth and crimson tongue, flames curling out of her throat. His mind was clear, for the first time in years.
“I do not exist to die,” he whispered.
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Purpose fulfilled after the final battle, Harry has drifted, following the plan he set before his death, but always feeling like this life did not truly belong to him. After a close encounter with a dragon, Harry realizes that he cannot continue along his old path, and ends up in Romania, chasing the thrill of dragons but finding more than he expected in the company of Charlie Weasley.
This is a story about finding a way to keep living when you no longer know how. It’s also a story about dragons, ancient magic, found family, and hot dracologists.
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"After years of knowing each other, liking each other, even, and months of being together he was sure most people would have expected them to do more than they had. All they had really done was stuff like this, snogging and cuddling and leaving kisses on one another’s bodies. Staying clothed, staying away from especially heated areas or actions. Each time something like this happened Harry felt the pressure to do something more--or to let them do more to him--build and build. It settled in his chest with the weight of a bull, keeping him stuck and unable to breathe."
Being touched is both a painful and beautiful sensation. Harry is worried about things escalating when he isn't ready, so the trio discuss it.
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A touch averse Harry needs medical attention, but there's only one person he'll let touch him.
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Once upon a time, there was something broken and sharp. Barely a being.
Once upon a time, there was something old and powerful. Barely a being.
Once upon a time, there was a door and the old thing walked into it, only to find kin in the small and broken thing.
The old one saw the embers of a being, the promise of an inferno, and it sought to rekindle the fire.
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- Part 18 of Gremlin Squad
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Never Mind the Bollocks by The_Sinking_Ship for shiftylinguini
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
31 Dec 2023
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If someone told Harry six months ago that by autumn he would be single, living on whisky and toast, and dancing the night away with Draco Malfoy, he would have told them to get their head checked.
And yet, here he was.
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See How it Burns (your touch from a distance) by lavender_betrayal
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Sep 2023
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| "I know, and I'll apologise then, as well," Harry's voice was still at a whisper, head tilting to look up at Draco, pressing his cheek against his thigh. His nail dragged down his face, hand splaying to rest there, thumb just below Harry's lip. Harry sort of wanted to kiss it, whisper his apology into skin. |
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An exploration of touch.
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Harry has been through some shit and I think he would not be nearly as well-off as he is in canon. This is a character study (?) of the various ways each year has traumatized him.
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The Ways of Silver by DemaParbat
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, The Sandman (Comics), The Sandman (TV 2022)
15 Nov 2022
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Samhain happened in a flash of green.
The baby didn't cry when his mother decided to sleep on the floor and never wake up again. He didn't cry when the red eyed man shot another pretty light that burned his forehead. He didn't cry when a pair of soft arms lifted him up, hugging him like his mommy used to. He didn't cry when the warm stranger kissed his aching forehead, wrapped a silver necklace around his neck and said it was not his time, not yet. Harry didn't cry when people found him.
He slept, hugging the cold metal of a silver ankh that whispered sweet nothings to him.
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After Harry Potter's darkest secret is revealed via a Boggart in third year he does something drastic. Cursed with the angels gift, an 'I don't care and I quit' attitude and disillusioned to who his real friends are, the fates have changed. WARNINGS OF SUICIDE AND ABUSE. COMPLETE.
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- Part 1 of The Boggart Series
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She walked all the way to the Forbidden Forest every night for five years. Hidden, silent, eager. He was always there, waiting.
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This is just pure touch starved pining. I may or may not be writing from experience lol
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- Part 17 of Unfinished series and works
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" “I’m not a child,” he tells her, his voice somehow both slurred and raspy, and sounding very much like a child even to his own ears.
“Yes, you are,” Hermione replies. Her voice isn’t mean. It isn’t even her usual bossy tone. It is soft. Sad. "--
A study of Hermione and Harry's relationship, starting with Harry's coping (or lack thereof) with Umbridge's detentions in 5th year. Part 3 of the "The Sun Also" series but can be read on its own just fine, if you prefer.
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- Part 3 of The Sun Also
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Tom is a cuddler.
Harry is touch sensitive and uncomfortable with close contact.
Tom is completely infatuated, and so he’s willing to suffer in silence.
Harry is also infatuated, and won’t let that happen.Series
- Part 10 of Tomarry Oneshots
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to some piece i have a right (i pay so dearly) by artsyspikedhair
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Aug 2019
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mr. and mrs. dursley were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. they were the last people you'd expect to find involved in anything strange. petunia evans, however, was no stranger to freakishness, and when a freak wound up on her doorstep, her childhood emotions she had buried along with her last name bubbled up. the freak was going to pay, even if her identity to the outside world was that of a dursley.
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to touch the heart one needs not the body by artsyspikedhair
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
16 Sep 2018
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Ron is curious and worried and more than slightly attracted to Harry, and Harry is honest to the breaking point.
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take the lot and teach them all (to stop being freakish) by artsyspikedhair
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
09 Sep 2018
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Harry knew the only way to avoid punishment would be to bargain. "Please, please Piers, don't tell Dudley's parents what you saw! Please! You can beat me up if you want, or I could pay you - I have money back at the house, I promise! Please..."
"Relax, freak, I don't want your money, and I've already beaten you up often enough that it isn't fun anymore." The frequency of the beatings Harry could attest to, thanks to Dudley's creation of the game 'Harry Hunting'. "But... there is something you could do for me..."
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When Harry was around, Ron was instantly amazing; Superhero to the superhero of the wizarding world.
Still, there were things Ron would rather not know.
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Sequal to Break and Fold, but it can be read on its own if you want. Harry has a lot of baggage. Ron's always been there for him.Series
- Part 2 of The Sun Also