#Voldemort knows Harry is a horcrux

[iamnmbr3]

So it’s kind of implied that the accidental part of Harry and Voldemort’s connection is one sided - i.e. that they’re both connected but only Harry gets flashes of Voldemort’s life without actively trying to go into his mind but not the other way around. But imagine if it was both ways and Voldemort who has so long been cut off from humanity and from normal mortal life sometimes randomly got to experience Harry going about his daily business and doing normal things like eating and talking to people and feeling the sun.

[izharmilgram]

harry for the epic @toast-ranger-to-a-stranger

[myokk]

In honor of waking up to see that my two favorite fanfics updated (what are the odds when they update like once every few months🥹🙏) I had to draw my favorite snake🐍

This is How You Lose the Time War - fleabagshair

Blood and Gold - @obsidianpen

[starchaserdreams]

Regulus Black could have been the main character of Harry Potter if Rowling weren't a coward

I mean think about it. He was the only person in the 70s/80s who knew about the horcruxes the dark lord was making

He was the only person who knew how to take down the series' main villain and she made him an afterthought with a poorly fleshed out story

He could have been *everything*

[moonsstan]

We were singing this song in english class today and all i could think if that the song is really regulus and pandora while trying to destroy the horcrux 😔

[strawberrybyers]

now do i believe that because will was kept alive and still has a connection with the mindflayer that there’s a chance he will be used as a pawn like in s2 but more intensely and could be viewed as a “villain”? well, yes. i think the chance a character who is still connected with the villain for a reason we don’t know has a very high possibility of “playing both sides”. remember mike said will can be like a spy?? a spy can play the role of the enemy but not to help the enemy but to create an illusion in order to fully dismantle the enemy’s plans.

now do i think the show will end with will dead or being taken by the upside down to be doomed to an eternity of evilness? um, no. i don’t think will will be a villain in a way that most are thinking. the mindflayer has had a plan with will and there’s a reason for it, but i don’t believe for a second that the show will end with will dying or that he’ll become fully evil. i believe it’s like a harry potter and voldemort situation. voldemort had different horcruxes and harry was one of them. voldemort tried to kill harry, but it didn’t work so harry pretended to be dead in order to fight voldemort and kill him which killed the bond that they had. i think it’s going to be a very similar thing between the mindflayer and will.

[sk1fanfiction]

Maybe controversial opinion but I think Hinny would be better and more well loved if it was less 'best friend's sister/brother's best friend' and more about 'trauma bonding due to being personally victimized/having a personal connection to Voldemort'

[lets-talk-ships]

WHAT IF

The reason Voldy was so adamant on killing Harry himself was because it would make him immortal. There is this headcanon, right, that killing V made Harry immortal since according to the prophecy Harry could only die by V's hand. What if Voldemort thinking on this line of thought decided that if kills Harry himself, he will be immortal regardless of his horcruxes being destroyed or not. He could have thought better not to keep all my eggs in the same basket.

[wparker6804]

I just realised.... someone at some point is going to breathe that in...

[predatoryseasnail]

The Origin of a Name

So we all know that Tom's nickname name translates to "flight of death" in French.

Which is ironic because he fancied himself immortal, having made his Horcruxes. And it was a nickname he received/made not long after Hogwarts, i.e. not long after he made his first Horcrux and believed himself immortal (He just didn't use it openly until a decade later).

So little Tom was doodling with his name, trying to make something that was in no way reminding of his Muggle heritage, and also remembering the French he glanced at when he learned that it was sort of a "pure-blood" language tradition.

And little Tom, believing himself to be newly immortal, stumbles upon an anagram , a smush of vol-de-mort that means death flies. He sees it as fate, that death flies from him because he is just that powerful as a student.

And he needs to be seen as noble, that he is descended from pure blood, that as a descendant of Slytherin he is the true lord of darkness.

And thus, the name Lord Voldemort was born.

[nidamae-approvedhpfanfics]

In third year, Harry decided to quit Divination, following Hermione. Having to take a substitute course, he end up choosing Ancient Runes and find himself to be quite gifted. Smart Harry. Slightly manipulative.

Rated M for later subjects and language.

Harry Potter, M, English, Adventure & Humor, chapters: 18, words: 145k+, favs: 20k+, follows: 8k+, updated: Dec 30, 2009 published: May 21, 2009, Harry P., Luna L.

My Review:

This completed story spans years 3 - 6 with a brief end of life bit that's as unique as the whole of the story. Don't miss out on this gem.

Fast paced and engaging, it doesn't feel as long as it is.

[ivory--raven]

What does Lord Voldemort want?

Well, immortality. And not just immortality - if living forever was the only point he would've done as Harry suggested and make his horcrux a pebble and tossed it into the Channel - but immortality in the flashiest, most dramatic way he can think of. Seven horcruxes, in the most historically significant vessels Hogwarts has to offer. Voldemort doesn't actually seem to care much for world domination - he's focused on Britain - and within Britain he cares most about Hogwarts. The only place he felt at home, according to Dumbledore. On a personal level, by choosing the vessels he did, he's connecting himself with the Founders, with the school. It's also very much a statement, though not one necessarily intended to be understood - "I am more powerful than anyone else who would lay claim to these, threatening me is threatening Hogwarts and the lagacies of its Founders." If anyone does get close enough to destroying Voldemort to know what his horcruxes are, this is the message they receive. In order to kill Voldemort, the artifacts had to be destroyed.

The "threatening me is threatening Hogwarts" undertones feel significant. That's the attitude of an autocrat. When Charles Taylor (ex-President of Liberia who is currently in prison for war crimes) was faced with the prospect of losing power, he threatened that the country would suffer "murder, mayhem, and rape" (source: documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell) without him. During the 2nd Liberian civil war during which Taylor was fighting with LURD, there was murder, mayhem, and rape of civilians by both sides. This was the war Leymah Gbowee famously started her movement for peace in.

So when Voldemort makes his flashy choice, his dramatic method of securing immortality... he's trying to secure his power at the same time.

[moderndayamymarch]

side eyeing the person who said there are parallels between regulus black and tom riddle. and I just don’t see it?

regulus is the favorite younger son of an old-money wizarding family. who easily and enthusiastically subscribed to the family beliefs in wizard-nazism until having a moment of conscious based on his connection with the family house elf.

tom riddle (while his mother comes from a noble, old house) isn’t raised in that world. he grows up poor in a muggle orphanage with no familial love/support. not to mention his family had by that time lost all their money/respectability. riddle is also not as easily led and based on context clues, much more charming and intelligent (sorry regulus fans). unlike regulus though, he displays 1. no conscious and 2. no genuine connection to anyone. regulus is able to do a brave and selfless act because of his love for kreacher. and most importantly, regulus is able to do the one thing riddle is scared of most: die. regulus willingly sacrifices himself to try to destroy the locket.

I think it’s more interesting that regulus has no parallel’s to riddle, yet he was the only person aside from dumbledore that was able to figure out that riddle was using horcruxes (slughorn doesn’t count because riddle all but told him).

anyway, riddle’s parallels are to harry, dumbledore, and snape. to me those four and their connection are kinda the heart of the story.

[maslows-pyramid-scheme]

I really dislike the 'Bellatrix/Voldemort' ship, it reinforces a depressingly common misogynistic attitude/suspicion: namely, that a woman in a position of power must be in a sexual relationship with her superior.

[dramaticals]

DRAMIONE FIC RECS + WHY YOU SHOULD READ THEM — 100k+ words edition

hogwarts: a home by coralcollective — reimagined horcrux hunt. draco is so down bad for hermione and the smut is crazyyy. theo/hermione friendship. pansy is the breakout character and you'll love her. there's nsfw art and inappropriate use of the malfoy signet ring. please check the tags! (it says incomplete on ao3, but it's only missing epilogues so don't be afraid of starting it)

word count: 372,978

chapters: 67/70

the commoner's guide to bedding a royal by olivieblake — god, this fic!!!! it's a modern royal au and the ensemble of characters make this whole world feel so alive. it's inspired by will/kate and harry/meghan and it's sooo cute. theo and daphne were the breakout characters and i love them dearly. if you're looking for a lighthearted romcom-esque, occasionally angsty (because duh!) fic, this is it!!! i probably read this in two days which is insane considering the word count, but that should just tell you how lovely this whole fic was. there's a second part to this if you're itching for more afterwards (and it's just as good!)

word count: 503,570

chapters: 45/45

draco malfoy and the mortifying ordeal of being in love by isthisselfcare — honestly if you haven't read this yet..... this is god tier. a CLASSIC. this should be taught in the schools. hermione's a magical researcher / healer and draco's one of the best aurors out there. he's assigned to protect hermione because she's in the midst of a big discovery. hermione's not happy about it and draco isn't either. slow burn!! idiots in LOVE!! forced proximity!!!!! EMBEDDED ART!!! honestly this is the fic that made me want to learn how to bind which is so serious and if you haven't read this yet you need to.

word count: 199,548

chapters: 36/36

the disappearances of draco malfoy by speechwriter — this is my new canon. it's a deathly hallows rewrite where draco accepts dumbledore's offer to fake his death and go into hiding with the order. enemies to friends to lovers. i honestly can't even remember what happened in canon because this is IT for me.

word count: 289,780

chapters: 33/33

this world or any other series by olivieblake — includes clean (book one) and marked (book two). anything by olivieblake should be a must-read, i swear to god. this one starts as a year 6 slow burn. draco and hermione are assigned partners for potions and it all snowballs from there. olivie writes so beautifully and her characterizations for hermione / draco are so good. slight warning for marked: this destroyed me and i pretend it doesn't exist, but it's still a must-read.

word count: 118,892 & 178,268

chapters: 31/31 & 39/39

rights and wrongs series by lovesbitca8 — you want fluffy dramione? read the first two parts of the rights and wrongs series. you want dark and heavy dramione? read the auction, an alternate universe of the fluffy dramione, where voldemort wins and they all get auctioned off to death eaters. please check the tags for the voldy wins au! all three were chef's kiss and coming from someone who isn't a fan of dark aus, reading the first two helped me get through the auction because you know where draco's coming from / what's in his head. you can just read the auction without reading the first two parts unless you like catching parallels and having more depth / context (which i very much love).

word count: 174,911 & 160,297 & 325,876

chapters: 36/36 & 24/24 & 41/41

[stolenviolet]

Hi there!

I adore your baby Death au and I'm kind of invested in the 'lore'. If you don't mind me asking, is Nagini still alive? How do her and Death get along? (assuming he knows she's a horcrux)

Love your art btw! <3

They get along just fine.

Some 'Lore': Because Harry and Nagini are living horcruxes and will therefore die eventually (in some capacity), Death doesn't really see them as a threat to his plan of keeping Voldemort mortal.

So now Death has a man-eating pet snake who also doubles as a babysitter, yay!