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A Lantern For the Dead (Beneath Black Water) by DrowsyCactus, SleepyCupey
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Jun 2026
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When Auror Harry Potter dies at thirty-six in what may quite possibly be the stupidest way imaginable, he expects peace at last.
Instead, something ancient drags him screaming beneath black water.
He wakes in 1940s Britain wearing the face of Caelum Attilius de la Cerda — a beautiful, Slytherin boy who threw himself from a rooftop only days before.
Now trapped in the middle of Grindelwald’s war, Harry finds himself tangled in aristocratic pureblood politics, buried family scandals, and the horrifying aftermath of the boy whose body he inhabits. Worse still, Tom Riddle has taken an interest in him.
But something else followed Harry from the future.
Something cold.
Something watching.
Because Death has finally come to collect what belongs to it — and it is not pleased to have been denied.
Or:
Harry Potter dies tired and wakes up as a dead boy in Tom Riddle’s Hogwarts during the height of Grindelwald’s war. Unfortunately, both Death and Tom Riddle decide he’s interesting.