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Smart, Not Brave by BlueMaple
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter - Fandom, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
23 Jun 2025
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In another universe of possibilities where the butterflies are busy, young Harry's destiny changes on the twitch of an unwitting stranger's roving eye...
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“I told you, didn’t I? That he left you on the doorstep?” she says bitterly. “On Hallowe’en night, with a note? A note, telling me that your parents… That my baby sister… Had been murdered? The man lives in some kind of self-narrated fairy tale, boy, and he’s decided that you’re his hero. Well, let me tell you something. Your mother and father were heroes. Your world… It was full, by all reports, of heroes, during that war that they kept going on about, and there are precious few of them… Precious few of them… Who were left alive at the end of it. And he was clear, very clear, wasn’t he, when he left you here with instructions that you be kept safe, at the possible - no, definite - expense of my own family… That it wasn’t over?”
Eleven-year-old Harry says nothing. Petunia Dursley turns her head and looks at him.
“Don’t be brave, boy,” she tells him fiercely. “Your parents were brave. They died. Be smart. Be smart instead, and live. On your own terms. No one else’s. Ever.”
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01 May 2025
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Demons & Deathwalkers: The Dark Lord is a Hufflepuff by river_marrow
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
25 Aug 2023
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On October 31, 1981, Lord Voldemort attacked the Potter home in an effort to kill the Potter twins and fulfill the prophecy. Miraculously, Jack Potter defeated the Dark Lord, weathering the encounter with nothing to show for it but a pale scar. Lily and James also survived their grievous injuries but Jack's twin brother, Harry, was not so lucky; he was the only Potter to lose his life.
The death of their son was devastating enough...but hours later, his body was stolen from the morgue at St Mungo's. No one knows what happened or why his corpse was taken.
Ten years later, Albus Dumbledore descends upon the Potter manor with a Hogwarts acceptance letter in his hand. The address reads:
Mr H Potter
Cell 314
Vauxhall Research Complex
Lavenham, SuffolkThe boy they brought home is not the boy they expected. Harry Potter, lab rat extraordinaire, has demons and sorcerers in his past and an obsession with his parent's ward, Neville Longbottom. When he's sorted into Hufflepuff, the world breaths a sigh of relief...but little do they know that the worst Dark Lords always come from Hufflepuff.
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Sporatic updates!! Read the A/N's on the first chapter before proceeding :)
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12 Mar 2023
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Finding out about his parents' murder at the hand of the Winter Soldier, Captain America's old war buddy, pushes Tony Stark into a very dark place and he turns to the former HYDRA assassin with a burning fury, part of him screaming for revenge.
Finding out that Steve knew and didn't tell him pushes him over the edge and he lashes out against the super soldier, but just as Steve is about to retaliate the Winter Soldier takes Tony by surprise, by knocking Steve out and surrendering.The Asset knows that to be free HYDRA must be crushed, and for that to happen his best chance is the resources of Tony Stark, when Captain America shows up in Bucharest the fragmented memories of who he once was tells him that the Captain will protect him and bring him to the Avengers so the Asset goes with him, but when the Captain is about to attack Iron Man with deadly intent he makes a choice and goes against the voices within.
The Asset neutralizes the Captain and surrenders to Iron Man, hoping that he will be able to convince the man to use HYDRA's own weapon to take them down.- Language:
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20 Feb 2023
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Harry is removed from the Dursley family when he is eight years old, and enters the wizarding world a few years younger and a lot wiser. He discovers a surprising dark heritage, and develops goals that do not involve vanquishing a certain Dark Lord or becoming the Chosen One. Adopted into the Black family, Harry will fight against the expectation that he is to defeat the Dark Lord and instead dedicates himself to protecting the dark legacy that has been left to him.
Eventual Harry Potter/Tom Riddle | Voldemort.
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Bookmarked by Meli_cxp
17 Jul 2022
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Introducing Lord Hari James Potter. Wait--are they allowed to do that?
Features mentors Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Narcissa Malfoy, good Slytherins, doting Draco, and a new friendship.
**Each new chapter will be posted as another is written.
Update 3/14--Edits are complete and chapter 15 is up! Once I've finished writing book 3, I'll get back to posting. I just wanted to give you something to tide you over.Series
- Part 3 of From the Dungeons
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04 Jul 2022