20 Works by AverageFish
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After Death sends him back in time to his fifth year, Harry finds a book of hand-written poems in the Room of Requirement. If he survives Voldemort's death, Harry promises himself, he'll figure out who the author is and let himself fall in love.
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Percy Weasley and the Chamber of Secrets by AverageFish
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Apr 2023
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His NEWT years are Percy's chance to land himself a Ministry job for when he graduates Hogwarts. Dad's career is on the line over enchanting his Ford Anglia, meanwhile Percy's looking out for his younger siblings—whether they like it or not. Slytherin's beast is endangering the students, and Percy's best friend seems oddly insistent on going to the bathroom with him.
Percy spends his sixth year coming to grips with who he is, and realising that his mum wants him to be someone else.
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On his darkest days, Tom Riddle had written into his diary, "Sometimes, I wish I'd never been born." Ginny put the golden chain around her neck, like a hangman's noose. She took the hourglass in her hands, closed her eyes, and spun.
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Dorothy Rose Dursley is perfectly normal, thank you very much by AverageFish
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Mar 2023
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Dudley Dursley was perfectly normal, thanks very much. Until a giant came in the middle of the night.
Until the Dementors came and tried to suck her soul out.
A trans coming out/coming-of-age story, wherein Dudley gets a chance to become her own woman outside of the ideals her parents taught her.
CW: While there is some stuggle with dieting, losing weight is not the endgame here.Series
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A Public–Private Partnership by AverageFish
Fandoms: Sherlock (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
03 Mar 2023
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“And they’re calling him ‘The Boy Who Lived’? Mycroft asked.
“It’s quite a legacy,” Fudge defended.
Mycroft scoffed. “It’s quite a mouthful.” He watched as Potter’s eyes crinkled.Mycroft prided himself on his intelligence and his control. Right now he knew more than both British ministers and had control over two Harry Potters.
It was like Christmas, his birthday, and Easter combined.Series
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A Dunderhead Walks into a Bar (he meets a hero there) by AverageFish
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
18 Feb 2023
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Severus Snape: the youngest British potions Master in the past century, turning out only the best students from his NEWT classes. Along comes Harry Potter, about to turn his world upside down.
He planned to ignore Harry Potter to the best of his abilities, but Severus has always been much better at making plans than following them. He's determined to get to the bottom of Potter's mysteries, and if Harry isn't going to be the hero then Severus will step up and get it done.
A time travel MoD!Harry story from the PoV of a man who hasn't the foggiest idea what's going on. Betad by Eider Down.
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Another Life, Another Love, Another—oh, whatever by AverageFish
Fandoms: Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Life and Death - Stephenie Meyer
12 Mar 2022
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Izzy Swan, Master of Death, asks Carlisle to be her shrink.
Edward Cullen, master of melodrama, asks his father for advice.
A better love story than Twilight, told from a dad's perspective.
Podfic read by RuneLoreSeries
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Harry Potter and the Semantics of Divinity by AverageFish
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
05 Mar 2022
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Harry Potter's destiny was chosen for him before he could talk. When Lily begged Death to spare her son, Death took his master and raised him with the help of a snake and an angel. Newly eleven and with no social skills, our hero is up for an adventure in self-discovery.
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The Boyfriend by AverageFish
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Twilight Series - Stephenie Meyer
18 Feb 2022
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"I like the trees here," Harry said, his accent placing him far from home. "They keep my wrackspurts away." It was twilight, and he wasn't wearing any shoes.
"You can stay at my place," Charlie said.
One night turned into teaching Harry to use the coffee machine, and then he grew used to fresh pancakes every Sunday.
Until Charlie realized one day, while calling Harry down from the old oak out back, that he didn't want the man to leave.
A medley of FalconLux's The Boyfriend, hctiB-notsoB's I See The Moon, and The_Carnivorous_Muffin's Painting Red Madonnas.Series
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If I Should Have a Daughter by AverageFish
Fandoms: Twilight Series - All Media Types, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
28 Dec 2021
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Rose Potter thought a lot about what she'd name her first daughter: Iris, Heather, Hazel. But the night before the wedding, any future children were torn from her cold, cold hands.
When the venom stripped the magic from her, she could no longer be a witch. Rosalie Hale, Carlisle named her. Bare as a newborn, it took a long time to find out who she was underneath.Series
- Part 3 of AverageFish's Oneshot Collection
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A series of oneshots depicting the tragic life of a boy who was raised wrong but grew up to do the right thing, taking a look at the people who shaped him and the little things that made him human. Despite being the spare heir, Regulus grew into his family's expectations—and beyond.
Betad by Eider Down.Series
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The Fudge family took out an ad in the Daily Prophet for the announcement, as was proper for a family of means:
Callidora and Cornelius Fudge welcome their son and heir to the family.Based on a true story.
(To those versed in Roman history, consider the nomenclature somewhere between nominative determinism and massive foreshadowing.)
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- Part 11 of Deathly Hallows and Drunken Butterflies: Variations on a Theme
- Part 4 of Plot bunnies
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The Voice of Fate (or the Susurration of the Dishwasher) by AverageFish
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
22 Dec 2021
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You died. Game over.
Loading…
No save state found. Files corrupted.Overwriting files. Restarting the game.
Working with Harry's limited 90s-era video game knowledge, there are no lists of stats or easy level-ups. Instead, this is a dark and nihilistic take of what happens when a man learns that 'saving' and 'loading' result in a world without consequences.
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- Part 15 of Deathly Hallows and Drunken Butterflies: Variations on a Theme
- Part 5 of Plot bunnies
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Bleeding out on the floorboards, Severus greeted death as a friend.
He wasn't expecting to wake up.
Stuck in the infant body of Harry Potter, with his addled cousin by his side, Severus is walking a mile in a very different pair of shoes.
A time travel fix-it. The oddest Severitus (Sevitus) you'll ever read. Betad by Eider Down.Series
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Minds Transitioning out of Time by AverageFish for Eider_Down
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
14 Dec 2021
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The reverse of being haunted, like taking a deep breath and pulling the fog off the glass.
It's 1986. Harry Potter, auror, twenty-five, wakes up wearing Severus Snape. Harry promptly kidnaps his younger self and tries to save the world, while Severus is trying to keep his job and maintain the veneer of control he has over his life.
It's 1989. Gellert Grindelwald, prisoner of Nurmengard, one hundred and fifteen, wakes up wearing Albus Dumbledore. He promptly tries to take over the world, while Albus is trying to stop him and maintain the ironclad control he has over magical Britain.
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- Part 14 of Deathly Hallows and Drunken Butterflies: Variations on a Theme
- Part 2 of Plot bunnies
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Tom Riddle went into the Potter home to kill an infant—he woke up face to face with a Dementor. There's a dead Black lying next to him that he can't remember having murdered, but Lord Voldemort has gotten out of worse situations than a spotty memory and a missing wand.
Trapped in Harry Potter's cursed life, Tom is racing against Albus' suspicions and his other self's attempts at a coup. The UK is only big enough for one of them to rule, and Lord Voldemort didn't become a Dark Lord just to take second place.
Betad by Eider Down.
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- Part 10 of Deathly Hallows and Drunken Butterflies: Variations on a Theme
- Part 1 of Plot bunnies
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Not Harry, please not Harry. Take me instead!
And Death granted Lily's wish.
A reincarnation fic.
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- Part 13 of Deathly Hallows and Drunken Butterflies: Variations on a Theme
- Part 3 of Plot bunnies
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Beware the Jabberwock by AverageFish
Fandoms: The Inheritance Cycle - Christopher Paolini, Eragon (2006), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
11 Dec 2021
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(This fic is accessible to people who don't know the fandoms.)
King Galbatorix laughed, eyes twinkling much like Dumbledore’s had. “Yes, Harry. Dragon riders. Come, let me show you this world.”
Something hungry inside him trembled. There’s a place for you here, the King had said.
Harry believed him.
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Three Hallows, a Rat, and Redemption by AverageFish
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
08 Dec 2021
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Peter Pettigrew was always a coward who wanted to be a Gryffindor.
A Peter-raises-Harry/Peter-is-Harry wherein Peter must face the rat he's become before he can claw his way towards redemption.
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“Protect,” said Old-twinkling-magic, holding out a human sapling like an offering.
Whomp reached out and prodded it. It had big ears but thin skin. The human sapling was shaking like a leaf in the wind.
Protect, Whomp decided. Shaking-like-a-leaf patted Whomp’s trunk and gave them some of his magic. It tasted like the animals with sharp teeth from the valley they’d been born in.Remus Lupin's story from the PoV of a tree. Oneshot. Betad. Complete.
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- Part 2 of AverageFish's Oneshot Collection