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James Potter has spent the past two years as the token straight friend in his circle: until he meets Evan Rosier. A story about a kebab shop after 1:00 AM, a football match, a river Evan didn’t mean to fall into, and a love James didn’t mean to find.
What follows is entirely self-indulgent and totally not serious: it's about music, finding where you fit, and my personal vendetta against British gay clubs.
CW: Recreational drug use.
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07 Apr 2026
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"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world..."
George wanders into a bar. Nothing is ever the same.
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- 14/14
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27 Jan 2026
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Harry is about to discover that the steepest learning curve comes after Healer training, and that second chances can be found in unexpected places.
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- Part 1 of Foundations!verse
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- English
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- 87,376
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- 10/10
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17 Oct 2025
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A piece of Voldemort's soul attached to baby Harry Potter that fateful Halloween night. Over the years, the soul piece witnessed how much danger and pain his host was in. How far would the soul go to protect the child he began to care for, especially when the boy started to care for him in return? Oh, just a little over-protective care, some magic training, maybe some necromancy...
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- 49/49
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26 Sep 2025
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Regulus' early Christmas present to James that year is divorce papers.
Inevitable, maybe, but then so is finding their way back to each other.
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- 1/1
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26 Aug 2025
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They met when they were eleven. They fell in love when they were thirteen. When they are twenty-five, they meet again after half a decade. The only thing is — they'll have to sit together throughout an entire flight.
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- 16/16
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21 Aug 2025
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To Live, or Just Exist — That is the Question by Drarrelie for florahart
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
06 Dec 2019
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Living with the Weasleys after the war turns out to be more challenging than Harry could ever imagine. So, when he finally finds some peace and quiet in Andromeda’s cottage, he’s not going to give it up easily. Not even if it means he’s going to have to live under the same roof as that annoying blond git. Now, if only he didn’t have to look so bloody gorgeous it might have been a little easier.
How Shakespeare, a crossword and a sleeping baby can turn enemies into friends, and maybe even friends into lovers.
Drarry Award Nominee for Best Fic 2019 and Best Fic By A New Writer 2019.
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- 6/6
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12 Aug 2025
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It’s that classic crime tale; bad guys that aren’t bad guys, good guys that aren’t good guys. Lines are blurred, boundaries are crossed, and people wind up dead. Often. Remus Lupin and Sirius Black find themselves on very different sides of the law, and yet somehow, something always pulls them together.
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- 19/19
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10 Aug 2025
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Barty Crouch Jr., a sex worker and recreational pianist, has spent too long playing a background character in someone else's romantic comedy. So, after the dramatic end of his eight-year entanglement with Regulus, Barty meets Evan Rosier, a handsome and charming restaurant owner who sets off all his usual alarm bells. However, when Barty begins playing piano for the dinner crowd at Evan's restaurant, he starts to see Evan in a new light. As they become closer, learning to trust each other with the darkest parts of themselves, Barty starts to question what he's even protecting himself from anymore.
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- Part 2 of SUGAR HIGH - Extended Universe
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- English
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- 96,145
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- 10/10
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22 Jul 2025
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AU of PoA. Harry wakes in the night to a voice calling him from somewhere in the castle—and when he follows it, everything changes. Updated every Friday.
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- Chapters:
- 155/155
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18 Jul 2025
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16 Jul 2025
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After Ron and Hermione split up, Harry decided he’d had enough of Grimmauld Place and its charming ambiance of death and despair, so he found a flat in North London.
Draco, haunted by the echoing silence of the Manor, also signed a lease on a flat in North London.
Unfortunately for them, it was the same flat.
Even more unfortunate: their landlord was MIA, the Magical Tenancy Board was a bureaucratic nightmare, and Hermione had appointed herself their Mediator.
Everything was fine. Probably.-
Or: Harry and Draco fall in love over sharing tea, scones, and an escalating schedule of totally platonic dinners that definitely aren’t dates. (Just don’t ask their friends for their opinions.)
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- Part 1 of Well, This Escalated
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- English
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- 146,611
- Chapters:
- 30/30
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- 378
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13 Jul 2025
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Professor Malfoy's world is contained, controlled, and as solitary as he can make it, but when an act of petty revenge goes horribly awry, he and his trusty six-legged friend are thrown into Hogwarts life at the deep end and must learn to live, love and let go.
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- Part 1 of All Life is Yours to Miss
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- 4/4
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28 Jun 2025
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Draco Malfoy leads an ordered but rather unfulfilling life, working in a Ministry basement and residing in his cramped Muggle flat. Feeling underappreciated and horribly lonely, he purchases some special charms that allow him to conjure imaginary friends. Unfortunately, after becoming a suspect in a potions smuggling investigation, Draco is forced to surrender a month’s worth of memories for a Pensieve Probe.
The aurors assigned to bear witness to his most private and embarrassing moments are none other than the Ministry ‘darlings’ Harry Potter and Ronald Weasley.
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- 62,447
- Chapters:
- 11/11
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- 465
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21 Jun 2025
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Ynys Afallach (I Will Give My Love An Apple) by Femme (femmequixotic), noeon (noe)
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 Nov 2018
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Professor Waverley Root's tutorial in the history of magical food is something of a legend at Flamel College. Draco Malfoy wants to apply it to his work in sustainable wizarding agriculture. Harry Potter's taking it for his interest in historical overlap between the magical and Muggle worlds in the West Country. When Root pairs them together, the fireworks (and the apples!) fly. Now if only they can find something original, perhaps they'll make it through to complete their degrees on time.
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11 Jun 2025
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“You want me to come with you on the holiday that you specifically booked for you and your girlfriend?”
“Ex-girlfriend,” Sirius corrects.
Remus looks at Sirius searchingly, and once again, several emotions flicker across his face; only this time, his expression lands on something like hope.
“Yeah. Okay.”
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Sirius is dumped by his girlfriend and drags his best friend on a holiday across Europe. And somewhere between Berlin clubs, Parisian boulevards, and Transylvanian villages, they fall into each other.
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- 15/20
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28 Apr 2025
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James and Regulus are getting married. Sirius and Remus haven't seen each other in six years.
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- 10/10
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- 5
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- 345
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24 Apr 2025
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Sirius plays the game. Even though he makes it all the way to New York City, still he works for his father's company, still he capitulates to his parents' every stupid demand, he thinks: when Regulus, his brother ten years his junior, is old enough and can make his own choices, Sirius can leave all this shit behind. Every day feels like a waiting game, life on pause until the perfect conditions are met and finally he can live the life he wants to live it.
But now Regulus is old enough, and it's still the same old bullshit with no end in sight, and Sirius is drowning. Until one day, a Teaching Assistant crashes his motorcycle at his feet.
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- 12/12
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28 Mar 2025
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During the week of his father's funeral, Sirius Black meets an unusual priest and offers to help write Orion Black's eulogy. At the same time, he's started texting a mysterious bass player from a pop-punk band that he accidentally swapped phones with. Eventually, the conversations between the two start to blur together and Sirius has trouble trying to decide which one he's falling for the hardest.
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- 12/12
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- 24
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26 Mar 2025
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“It’s just not….inviting,” James said gently, a pained look on his face.
Barty eyed the screen, reading over his profile for the tenth time that day.
Barty Crouch, 21
“If you won’t fuck me, your mom probably will.”
Likes: piercings, tattoos, and horror movies
Ask me about: My daddy issues“Seems fine to me,” he shrugged. “I mean…you said to be myself, right? Now, let’s see what idiots are on this Godforsaken app."
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24 Mar 2025