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Harry didn't expect for Dudley to come back into his life, but now that he is, Harry isn't sure if he can ever forgive how he was treated growing up.
As Harry's chosen family grows, he lets go of all the negative feelings he's been holding inside for his whole life.
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04 Jul 2026
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Harrys' been saying yes his whole life, maybe its time he learns to say no.
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03 Jul 2026
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Blackbird Singing in the Dead of Night by inkstainedsand
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Jun 2026
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“Expect signs of PTSD,” the social worker warned him, “Extreme mood swings, risky behavior, aggression, and self-harm are all things to look out for. I would recommend counseling.”
Severus hasn’t seen any of that yet. Harry is extremely polite, neat, and personable. He likes gardening and football. He helps make grocery lists and cook dinner.
He knows there is more: clues that he’s missing and behaviors he’s overlooking, hints that Harry is struggling more that he’s letting on, but overall, Harry seems remarkably well-adjusted. It’s unnerving.
Because Severus knows that Harry spent a significant portion of his childhood confined to a single cupboard under the stairs. He knows that Harry was not fed consistently and did not have clean clothes that fit him. That he was hit.
By all accounts, Harry should be struggling. In the eight years since Severus first met Harry as an infant, his parents died, he was raised in an abusive household, and then forced to live with an estranged family friend he didn’t remember.
It worries Severus that he’s not seeing it, like Harry could be drowning right in front of him and he wouldn’t even know.
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30 Jun 2026
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When six‑year‑old Harry’s accidental magic overwhelms the Dursleys, Severus Snape becomes his temporary guardian.
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30 Jun 2026
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For five years, the wizarding world believed Harry Potter was dead.
A forged obituary. A fake death certificate. A grieving family standing beneath carefully constructed lies. Even Albus Dumbledore accepted the story and walked away, believing the Boy-Who-Lived had perished before ever reaching Hogwarts.
But Harry Potter was never dead. He just wished he were.
He was locked beneath the stairs. Beaten bloody for every mistake. Starved until hunger became ordinary. Taught that magic made him a freak and that survival meant silence. For years, he endured, kept alive under impossible odds.
Then Dudley hits him one final time.
There’s a crack of impossible magic, a burst of air, and suddenly Harry is lying in the woods at the feet of a pale angelic, blond boy with silver eyes, and for a moment Harry thinks he's finally died and gone to heaven.
Draco Malfoy doesn’t know who the broken boy is. He only knows someone hurt him badly enough that he flinches from kindness and looks at the sky like he’s seeing freedom for the first time.
And Draco refuses to leave him there to die.
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28 Jun 2026