Quote:He's been trapped in the Mirror of Erised all this time, and finally someone has come with the right thoughts in mind to see him.

The Second Flowering of Yggdrasil: An Analysis Of The Norse Resurgence, 1710 Wrote:An additional factor in Berk’s meteoric rise was the combined facts that they had a rapid means of transportation and transit across Europe, and an extremely attractive environment for skilled and trained individuals. It was fairly common for scholars, artists, and craftsmen of all types to emigrate specifically to take advantage of the basic living welfare while they focused on their crafts and studies, and do additional work to gain the supplies and materials they needed in their pursuits. And while some certainly fixated on their own pursuits with dogged narrowmindedness to the exclusion of all else, others leapt at the chance to put their skills to use in order to serve their new home. Many became teachers, passing on knowledge of their crafts, while others used their disciplines more directly in the service of their new state. The resulting human capital flight strengthened Berk and the North Sea Empire significantly, with noted contributions to production, culture, economics, and other areas all coming from people who had made the deliberate choice to emigrate.

Mr_Crocodile Wrote:When Hiccup tamed dragons over on Berk, he changed the world and the course of history, affecting people all over. For some of those people, this change will redirect their entire lives into a new direction. A wandering smith can become a student, and a man with no place in the world can find one, and then find another.

Chapter 1 Wrote:Author Note: I intend this one to be short, like 3 or 4 chapters. We've already wiped out Palpatine so, yeah...

Quote:Nearly 18 years have passed since Akane died in a tragic and senseless accident that redefines Ranma's life. Now a fateful encounter at a coffeeshop far from Tokyo in the months before the pandemic is about to change everything again...

Quote:Hyuuga Hinata dies four years after the Fourth Shinobi War, to protect her Hokage.

She wakes up ten years in the past, the day before Graduation, the day before the spar that would seal her fate as the family disappointment and Hanabi's as the next Clan Head.

She makes changes.

Quote:Certain lives and certain deaths, they are significant enough that when souls pass over before their time, they are reborn into new worlds. Sansa remembering is an anomaly, but The North Remembers and Sansa is of the North; She Remembers.

Sansa thinks very little of this new world, or this new village she is meant to call ‘home’, but she does love her new brother, who shines so brightly the gods must surely have breathed star-fire into his bones when they created him. The first time Naruto tells her he will be Hokage, she does not doubt him– he was born to rule, just as she was. But Konoha does not deserve him, and she will not let them take and take until there is nothing left of her bright brother. She is Sansa Stark, she knows how to rebuild a home from ruins, and the ruins of Uzushiogakure call.

Quote:Ben Kenobi dies aboard the Death Star in the year 0 BBY. He wakes up shortly thereafter in the Jedi temple in the year 41 BBY. Haunted by memories and regret, Ben must forge a new path for himself in the Jedi Order of his youth while navigating the murky waters of time travel. Crafting a better future from bitter experience is hard, but learning to heal is even harder. Major AU.

Quote:He doesn’t want to miss anything from the Realm.

They fought tooth and nail to get back here, after all. He can still remember the rush he’d felt when the light had swallowed them up, and they’d opened their eyes to find themselves strapped back into that same old amusement park ride. Dressed in their old clothes, in their old bodies. He hadn’t realized how much his time in the Realm had changed him physically. The ‘him’ he’d come back to had been a couple inches shorter, a weedy kid who hadn’t had the time to build up any muscles from lugging twenty-plus pounds of armour and a magical shield across a seemingly-infinite stretch of hostile terrain day after day.

Quote:At the Ministry gala held in honour of the first ever Muggleborn Minister of Magic, Harry notices that the star of the evening is nowhere to be seen and goes in search for her.

A 40+ page Harmony Comic!

Quote:The destruction of the time turners in the Department of Mysteries throws Harry, Ron and Hermione a thousand years into the past. There they meet the Founders of Hogwarts, who are not at all pleased about what has happened to their school.

Quote:A young Admiral Naismith finds himself a pawn in a greater game... but who's playing who?

Quote:Harry Potter survived his tangle with the Hungarian Horntail in no small part due a tremendous amount of luck. What would happen if his luck ran out? Hermione and Harry have to work together to survive the Triwizard tournament now that Harry is disabled from the waist down after his run in with the Horntail.

Quote:More than a decade post war and Hermione Granger is little more than a memory. No one has seen or heard from her since the funerals; her friends and loved ones hope she is alive somewhere but have given up on ever seeing the brunette witch again. But Fleur Delacour has a secret; once a year she receives a letter from an unknown sender that makes her feel more alive than she does at any other point in the year. Half a world away Hermione, no longer the bookish know-it-all that anyone from Britain would recognize, finds herself in a chain reaction of events that puts her on a collision course back to Britain and everyone she left behind.

Quote:You cannot choose the family you're born into, but you can choose the family you belong to. An alternate universe Harry Potter setting where a hurt Harry Potter is helped by the Gryffindor Quidditch Team

This story will eventually deviate from canon though the first few years will have more similarities. There will be more of a focus on character interactions and fluff.

Quote:Sansa Stark dies in ice and fire, her thread of Fate severed too soon in the battle for Dawn; she is born again in blood and magic, the Old Gods weaving her anew.

Finding herself in a new world on the brink of magical civil war, scorned for the "impure" blood that runs in her veins, Sansa is determined she will never again be told that she is less than what she is worth. Through pain and suffering, she has learned how to turn righteous rage into armour, into weapons, and with the blessing of the Old Gods she will fight for what she believes in; for her sisters, for herself, and for the Fate of her new world.

Quote:Tom gave him a long, unreadable look. "I think," he said, finally, "that Hermione and I both forget sometimes that you spent your childhood locked in a cupboard."

(08-27-2022, 06:25 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: (And the sex gets rolling by about the end of third year, so IIRC illegal to read in Canada and the EU.)

(08-27-2022, 06:25 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: Also by cheshire_carrol is "The Anti-Heroine." Now, I'm not going to mince words -- it is absolutely a train wreck abomination of a Villain Sue, Hermione In Name Only, edgelordy sex and violence break-fic (as opposed to fix-fic) take on the setting, packed with Snape and Voldemort apologism and Dumbledore and Weasley bashing. (And the sex gets rolling by about the end of third year, so IIRC illegal to read in Canada and the EU.) At the same time, it is a thoughtful, character-driven examination of the personalities and motivations that send it hurtling further and further into the depths, and even as I despise most of the characters' decisions and the justifications they make for them, I can't help but want to continue seeing how it plays out.

Recommended only for those with strong stomachs and/or flexible morals; with warnings for child abuse, torture, murder, general criminal behaviour, underage sex and dangerous kinks, with all but the first committed by the protagonists as well as upon them. I mean it; I really mean it. Shit gets intense.

AO3 index link:
https://archiveofourown.org/works/8132578/navigate

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Quote:Tom gave him a long, unreadable look. "I think," he said, finally, "that Hermione and I both forget sometimes that you spent your childhood locked in a cupboard."

(08-28-2022, 09:48 AM)SilverFang01 Wrote:

(08-27-2022, 06:25 PM)classicdrogn Wrote: Also by cheshire_carrol is "The Anti-Heroine." Now, I'm not

I read that one and the main lesson I learned from it was to pay really close attention to the tags, which is why I don’t recommend it. I do think it would work better as original fiction.

(08-28-2022, 03:42 PM)robkelk Wrote: Unexpected Talent, a Harry Potter one-shot by mp3.1415player (the writer of Taylor Varga).

It's the sort of story that would fit in here quite nicely: makes a single change to canon, explores the ramifications, doesn't coddle the bad guys, and contains a truly atrocious pun.