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    “This is where you’ve been living?” Potter asked quietly.

    And as if it were a paid actor, a rat appeared from one side of Draco’s living room, paused in the middle of the floor to look up at them, then disappeared through a hole in the opposite wall.

    “Why?” Potter turned to him with wide eyes.

    Draco shrugged. “Told you my family didn’t want me to join the Aurors. And it’s not that bad, I promise.”

    On cue, the rat reappeared from the hole in the wall, and sprinted in the direction of Draco’s tiny bathroom.

    “Right!” Weasley said loudly. “Well! That’s that decided then. I think you’re coming to live with us, mate.”

    And that was how Draco ended up living at number twelve Grimmuald Place.

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    Draco and Harry were friends. That's all they were, and Draco needed to learn to be grateful for that fact, no matter how much he wanted to reach out and touch Harry at every opportunity.

    Friends. It would have to be enough.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    Severus Snape had made his choices long ago and would never forgive himself. He lives a life of regret for what he has done and resentment for what has been done to him. Sirius Black has escaped from Azkaban, but the horror of his wrongful imprisonment cannot be forgotten. Every day he faces a battle that no one else can ever truly understand, but love for Harry and hope for a better world and the family they'll someday be gives him the strength to keep fighting with an open heart. Harry Potter has always had too much asked of him but he's never had to fight alone. While being forced by Dumbledore to learn Occlumency from Snape over the summer, he realizes that he's had a protector in the professor all along. With the discovery of common ground between them, nothing will ever be the same again.

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    26 May 2026

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    Alright, I might have a saving people thing, Harry thought as for the second time in his life he found a man locked inside a magical trunk.

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    17 May 2026

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    Confined together for a summer, will Harry Potter, Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy find some common ground? Or is the headmaster's latest nefarious scheme destined for failure? AU between 5th and 6th years. Non-slash

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    17 May 2026

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    With a sound like a giant bubble bursting, Harry vanished – ripping a chunk of the fence and the earth beneath him into a swirling void.

    Dudley and his gang froze, staring at the empty space where the other boy had just been – confusion clear across their faces.

    Harry Potter had gotten away.

    (Far away, in the humid forests of Albania, a shadow of a man – a mere sliver of soul, the faint spectre of the once-feared Lord Voldemort – felt a violent pull on his magic. He could not resist – could not fight it. In an instant, he was drained, erased, and snuffed out like a candle.

    Thus, one prophecy found its end, while another – far away and elsewhere – had only just begun.)

    Or: Harry never apparates to the top of the school roof in a feat of accidental magic. Instead, he rips through time and space and – after a few twists and turns – lands squarely in the metaphorical lap of a Dark Lord in his prime, becoming Voldemort’s least favourite plot twist.

    Tom, however, eventually comes to appreciate the pint-sized troublemaker he has been saddled with.

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    13 May 2026

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