Gen Fic Recs
An Aunt's Love by
Emma Lipardi
Main Characters: Harry, Petunia
Rating: R
Genre: General, Drama
Summary: Harry comes home from school and Petunia is upset at the change
in her nephew. Petunia decides to do what she should have been doing
all along. Dumbledore had better stay away. Petunia Dursley is upset.
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The Awakening of a Magus by
the-dreamer4
Main characters: Harry
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, 5th year AU
Summary: PostGoF. Harry: NewPowers,NewLook. But the powers of
a Magus aren't so easy to control, and they don't make life easy.
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Note: One of the original Super!Harry stories, and also one of the best.
Everyone must read this story at least once. Unfortunately, it's a WIP
that hasn't been updated since September of 2006.
Cat!Harry by
Hijja
Main characters: Harry, Minerva, Mrs. Norris, Crookshanks, Severus
Rating: G
Genre: Humor
Summary: Harry is training to become an Animagus in a surrounding
appropriate to his soon-to-be species. Now if they could
just keep out the pesky Death Eaters...
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Claustrophobia by
Celebony
Main characters: Harry, Weasleys
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst
Summary: Harry's childhood comes back to haunt him.
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Family Night by
Celebony
Main characters: Harry, Severus, Remus
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst
Summary: As Hogwarts starts a quarterly Family Night, Harry
is determined take part. Facing the heartache of looking in all
the wrong places, he'll have to discover the true meaning of family,
and that sometimes it comes from where you least expect it.
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Go With the Tide by
Tantz
Main characters: Harry, Snape
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama, Action/Adventure
Summary: HPFA Winner of the Best JKR Character Portrays, for Severus Snape!
Snape retrieves an injured Harry from the Dursleys -- only
this time, the damage is more permanent, and Snape is not
prepared to be cuddly.
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Sequel: Go With the Tide II: Seeing is Believing
Gold and Silver, Fire and Ice by
Ankha
Main characters: Harry, Snape, Dumbledore
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama, Angst
Summary: Harry's in trouble and who comes to save him, Snape!
Yes the dear old Potions Master. But soon they're both embroiled
in a sea of uncertainty. What is the Star of Hope and
how can it defeat Voldemort? Can the new family survive?
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HandMeDown Clothes by
Quillitch
Main characters: Harry, Minerva, Albus
Rating: PG
Genre: Action/Adventure, Humor, AU
Summary: What if Dumbledore took Harry away from no.4 Privet
Drive, with its perfectly pruned shrubs and colour
coordinated flower beds, to somewhere he could call home...
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Note: Fabulous, there are no other words to describe this story.
Harry Potter and the Gaurdians of Power by
teacherbev
Main characters: Harry, Snape
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action/Adventure, Humor
Summary: After being ambushed and kidnapped, Harry and Snape
escape... Snape becomes a mentor. Nominated for best action adventure at Quills!
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Note: PDF, ebook, mobipocket available on author's homepage!
Make a Wish by
Rorschach's Blot
Main characters: Harry
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Humor, Action/Adventure
Summary: Harry has learned the prophesy and he does not
believe that a schoolboy can defeat Voldemort, so he decides
that if he is going to die then he is first going to live.
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Note: If you read this, you will laugh yourself to pieces.
My Soul's Dearest Wish by
shedoc
Main characters: Harry, Weasleys, James & Lily, Dumbledore, etc.
Rating: R
Genre: Humor, Action/Adventure, Angst
Summary: Harry unexpectedly gains a set of parents at the tender
age of 16. You can figure out the rest.
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On the Wings of Magic by
Bil
Main characters: Harry, Minerva, Severus
Rating: PG-13
Genre: General, Drama, 6th year AU
Summary: Harry understands some hard truths, Minerva
and Severus are drawn in.
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The Owl Chronicles by
Mouse
Main characters: Severus
Rating: G
Genre: Humor, Fluff
Summary: A Muggle Studies field trip is forced upon Snape and his
associates. No matter how daunting the Muggle world might be for the
teachers, it isn't capable of being worse than the students themselves!
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Potter's Revenge by
Lady Foxfire
Main characters: Harry, Vernon
Rating: G
Genre: Humor
Summary: Harry finally turns 17 and has now been granted his inheritence.
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Redefining Summer by
loralee1
Main characters: Harry
Rating: PG-13
Genre: General, 6th year AU
Summary: Summer at the Dursleys has always meant Harry is
overworked, under fed, and lonely, all Harry wants is a normal
summer, what he gets is anything but normal.
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Redemption by
Krtshadow
Main characters: Harry, Sirius, Remus
Rating: PG
Genre: General, 5th year AU
Summary: Harry Potter has spent six years in Azkaban.
Now, Dumbledore, Black and Lupin are here to retrieve him,
now certain of his innocence. Will they be too late to save
Harry's sanity? And if so, what does this mean for the world?
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Note: This is the one story I read over and over and over again.
Somewhere I Belong by
ShadowArwen
Main characters: Harry, Snape
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Angst
Summary: Severus Snape discovers a hidden truth about Harry's
home life. And decides to take matters into his own hands.
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Sequels: Somewhere I Belong II
Somewhere I Belong III
A Tabby and her Kit by
Uber Grasshopper
Main Characters: Harry, Minerva, Albus
Rating: PG
Genre: Drama, Romance, AU
Summary: Minerva stubbornly defies Dumbledore's command and rescues
baby Harry Potter from his uncaring relatives. How will she handle
raising him without the help of Hogwarts?
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Time to Live by
Loralee1
Main characters: Harry
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action/Adventure, 6th year AU
Summary: After defeating Voldemort Harry decides it's time for
him to live his own life.
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The Weasley Plot by
Loralee1
Main characters: Harry, Weasleys
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Action/Adventure, 6th year AU
Summary: The Weasleys beleive family comes first, even if they
are not blood, Arthur must choose his course what is right
or what is easy, Harry Potter or Albus Dumbledore.
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You Broke Him, You Fix Him by
TeacherBev
Main characters: Harry, Snape
Rating: PG-13
Genre: General, Humor
Summary: After a brutal Occlumency lesson has disasterous consequences,
Dumbledore insists that Snape fix Harry and take his place at the Dursleys.
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