Harry Potter Fic Recs
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anundinefair warning: with very few exceptions, Harry Potter is not the fandom I go to for “good” fic. Harry Potter is where I go when I want to do the literary equivalent of licking coke off a night club floor, or maybe eat twenty-five consecutive bags of potato chips. My recs reflect that: these are not good fics, but these are fun fics.
As ever, suggestions and discussions heartily encouraged!
Fic recs master post here
Abandon [AO3] [ff.net]
Harry is abandoned in muggle London. Tom Riddle finds him. It’s not good. Nothing about this fic is good. I’ve read it seven times. Harry/Tom, complete.
A Black Comedy [ff.net]
Some parts Did Not Age Well, but overall this is a deeply hilarious fic. Harry follows Sirius into the alternate universe on the other side of the arch in the Department of Mysteries. Marauders 2.0 is born. Gen, allusions to a very great quantity of fade-to-black sex nonwithstanding. Complete.
A Long Time Ago [AO3]
Harry Potter is thrown back in time to the founder’s era, shipping happens, Slytherin is there. Weirdly similar to Gelosaþ in Écnesse, but a better version of it, with meatier chapters, more evocative imagery, and better characterizations. Peppered with word choice errors, though. Harry/Salazar, ongoing but updates regularly.
The exception to the "not good, but fun" rule; this fic is very good, but not exactly fun. Part of the boy with the scar series, it's the Snape redemption arc we deserved, where he'd been a double-agent from the start. Desperately heartbreaking, because Snape isn't a bastard and nothing changes. Gen, complete.
