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"You're dead, Potter... I'm going to make you pay..."
Draco swore his revenge on Harry for Lucius's imprisonment, and Harry all but laughed at him. But Draco is planning more than schoolyard pranks this time. The old rivalry turns deadly when Draco abducts Harry for Voldemort. It's the perfect plan, guaranteeing revenge, power, and prestige, all in one blow. But when Draco's world turns upside down, the fight to save himself and Harry begins, and the battle will take them both through hell and back. If they come back.
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18 Sep 2025
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A mysterious object in Bellatrix's vault sends Harry, Ron and Hermione spinning into the past and to a Hogwarts like none they know.
Posing as students, Harry catches the eye of the Head Boy, Tom Riddle, who is nothing like the Voldemort of the future. He's charming and sly and manipulative; both brillant and deadly.It isn’t long before they’re tangled in a game more intricate than anything before. A game of heightened stakes, of tension, and the odds are stacked against Harry. With the threads of the future unravelling, can Harry make it out intact? And what is the cost, of truly getting close to Tom?
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18 Sep 2025
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While still at uni, Arthur Pendragon meets two people who become his best friends. He falls in love with one of them... but marries the other. This isn't his story to tell; it's Merlin's. And Merlin will always remember that he met Arthur first.
(Modern setting. Angst. Arthur/Gwen --> Arthur/Merlin).
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12 Jul 2025
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The Boy-Who-Lived is dead and the world has rolled on without him. Voldemort's victory over magical Great Britain is complete, but traces of the war linger on.
Ten years later, Harry Potter is just trying to survive each day as it comes. He knows the rules; he keeps his head down and he does his best to blend in with the muggles. He keeps his magic locked up tight and doesn't stay in the same place for too long.
Harry's not trying to win a war, he's just trying to escape it.
Magic rolled over him, a crackle of heat sliding over his skin and the tinny taste of metal and juniper coating the back of his mouth. It was a crushingly familiar weight, pinning him in place with an iron hand that made a small voice in the back of his head begin to scream, setting his skin prickling and crawling. Seclusion wards, Harry thought, automatic and numb. Walls raised to keep prey in and competing predators out.
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02 Jun 2025
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the pleasure, the privilege by asterismal (asterisms) for trashgoblinwizardparty
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
19 Dec 2019
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It begins with Vernon Dursley's body, dead across the table.
In which Voldemort is dosed with amortentia, and nothing is better for it.Series
- Part 1 of and it never goes out
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02 Jun 2025
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Merlin’s days and evenings blur together into one long, overheated, mess. He is tired.
Which is why it is perfectly understandable that he got confused.
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01 Jun 2025
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“I’m an activist, Mr. Morgan,” Merlin explains.
“I see that,” Knight Gwaine says.
“I want this place to exist here forever. Forever and ever and ever.”
“You mean until King Arthur climbs out of it?”
“Yes,” Merlin says. “But after that, too, since I’m not like, 100% positive that he’s going to know what a fish ladder is. I figure we’ve got to do some work on that and probably his English before we let him go off into the wild.”
“Right. Obviously, the English. But what happens if someone tries to put another body in the lake while you’re here?”
Merlin doesn’t have an answer to that.
(Three women's bodies are dumped into a lake, and detective Gwaine Morgan is assigned the case. He does not anticipate said lake to be guarded by a local 12 year-old and is even less prepared for what happens when the 12 year-old becomes his murderer's next target.)
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09 Feb 2025
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The trees above him are hissing a warning when he shakes from his stupor.
It hadn’t been long. He didn’t think so, anyways. There were no webs on his jacket and no moss at his boots. The distant calls of horns and shouts barrel closer. He blinks and becomes the pointed tusk of a boar. Breathes and is the pummeling rush of horse hooves. A second and now wrapped inside flesh again with wilting petals in his hand.
All at once, a hunt is around him.
A boar charges, skidding around, screaming as dogs latch on its ankles. There’s shouts and confusion and he cannot think to move. It’s not his instinct to avoid danger.
Then a hand is under his arm, pulling him up and back—he drops the flowers—even as a spear is thrust unevenly forward and gives an ugly gash to the creature’s side. There’s noise and wind and the boar is taken through the side. It dies roughly.
He slowly eases himself out of the man’s hand, turning to see bright eyes and golden hair and a face younger than the one he wears.
— Merlin is Myrddin and Arthur is a Prat and Magic is Weird —
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07 Feb 2024
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Merlin's addicted to Craigslist, Arthur's looking for love in all the wrong places, and with a little help from their friends, they manage to get it together.
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20 Jan 2024
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Merlin wakes up in a strange room after a night of self-pitying drunkenness. Next to the bed is a card saying 'DON'T PANIC'.
Starring Merlin trying to fight a lamp post, Arthur being a good Samaritan, and Cavall just being good.
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20 Jan 2024
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Merlin never thought getting Arthur drunk on his stag night would be anything but hilariously embarrassing for Arthur. What he never expects is a drunken confession that makes him rethink the last ten years of his and Arthur's friendship, the amount of alcohol a person should be allowed to drink, and the wedding that's taking place in less than twenty-four hours.
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07 Jan 2024
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There's just something about Arthur Pendragon. People can't quite put their finger on it.
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- Part 1 of the brave man with the sword
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27 Dec 2023
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It has been less than a week since Merlin came back to Camelot with damaged vocal cords and an agonizing throat. A patchwork of bruises, colours of the sky during a storm and violets in full bloom have appeared on Merlin’s throat. Some of them are the shape of fingers. Others are vague, and meander across his skin with all the direction and purpose of clouds.
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04 Dec 2023
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Hold On a Little Longer by Spork_in_the_Road for ChipsandChicken
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
01 Nov 2018
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It’s almost midnight when James says it, the thing that will consume their thoughts for the next five months.
“Well it’s simple, isn’t it?” he says, eyes bright and cheeks flushed. It’s the look of a man who’s maybe a bit manic, a bit desperate. “We’ll defy Voldemort a fourth time and the prophecy won’t apply to us anymore.”
**In which the Potters and the Longbottoms both try to outsmart the prophecy before their sons are born**
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- Part 6 of October Spook-Fest: 31 Days of Prompts
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27 Nov 2023
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Merlin uses a transportation spell to take him to somewhere safe. The spell works.
That is, unfortunately, a bad thing.
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19 May 2023
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Merlin will never be entirely able to explain his thoughts and actions of that day, but he will remember standing there; Gwen in his arms, his lips still tingling with her kiss, and only the hungry beast of desire left in his mind—that he wants her, and he ought to want her, and she belongs to him—
And then Arthur stares him in the face, steel in his hand and betrayal in his eyes, and the fog clears.
And Merlin has no idea what he’s just done.
Or: Instead of Lancelot, Morgana enchants Merlin and Gwen to betray Arthur together on the eve of their wedding.
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- Part 6 of Liz's Merlin Bingo 2023
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29 Apr 2023
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Arthur was having a terrible day.
Merlin had been late (a phenomenon so common it hardly bore remarking upon) and had nicked all of Arthur’s sweetmeats, training was called off due to a light drizzle his knights insisted on calling a thunderstorm, Merlin dropped half of Arthur’s armor on his foot, and now there was apparently a murderer in the castle.
And, what’s worse, Merlin had disappeared and hadn’t been seen in hours.
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03 Apr 2023
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There's a reason Arthur tries not to think about the future.
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01 Apr 2023
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Tell me all the things that make you feel at ease by rageynerd for Aki_Rain
Fandoms: Merlin (TV)
21 Dec 2021
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When you meet your soulmate, you'll know it as soon as they say your name.
You're branded. For life.
Merlin had always pictured meeting his soulmate as being the happiest moment of his life. He certainly did not expect to be wishing with everything in him that it wasn't this arrogant bully.
When his stupid heroic instincts end up saving Arthur's life, Uther appoints Merlin to be his personal servant-- and Merlin resolves that Arthur can never know about the way their souls and destiny have bound together.
He would die first.
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- Part 6 of Rageynerd's 12 Days of Tropemas
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16 Mar 2023
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in the earth beneath our feet (the dead are immortal) by justprompts
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
02 Mar 2022
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Black spins around to James, wild-eyed, pointing at him with a shaky finger and says, "You're, you're alive! And, and my hair - they're, they're so soft!!"
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Sirius accidentally travels back in time to his eleven year old self, and it turns out that he's not the only one who has.Series
- Part 3 of and several bad jokes later
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Bookmarked by darkbluedark
27 Feb 2023