Stories by PardotKynes

Follows canon in first year and starts to diverge as Remus disabuses Harry of the conditioning that he received from the Dursleys to disregard his own wellbeing, until, in November 1994, Harry, Remus and Sirius move to the USA. After graduation from Ilvermorny and obtaining masteries, Harry and Hermione return to the UK to start a secret school for muggleborns. 1 chapter/year.

Albus Dumbledore has prevented Harry from living. Now he's 11 and he won't allow it anymore. Although he's ignorant of the prophecy, it nevertheless guarantees that if Harry starts living, Voldemort must die. In canon everything that can go wrong, does go wrong. In this story things go right. Or: In this reality, Hagrid picked a different line in Gringotts, being helped by a gob...

Faced with the challenge of on the one hand wanting to protect Harry from the Dursleys, but on the other hand needing the Dursleys to think Harry doesn't enjoy visiting her, she teaches Harry to dissemble. As a result, Harry is self-reliant but willing to ask for help, and hasn't been conditioned to blame himself if anything goes wrong. All 7 years.

Harry Potter's most obvious trait was that he disliked his unearned fame by surviving thanks to his mother's protection. In this conversation with the sorting hat, Harry is slightly less intimidated, and discusses with the hat which house would fit best for him.

The Dursleys beat something out of Harry, but it wasn't magic. Antihero Harry. A story saying how canon Dumbledore courted disaster with his unwarranted optimism, his inability to foster leadership in the next generation, his secrets and unwillingness to share power.

Post owls know where to find people, even if they don't have a human body, and try to hide in Albania. And Hedwig is a very smart owl.

"Chop off his head." When Dumbledore admits to having caused the death of Sirius and tells Harry he can do to him what he wants, Harry takes him at his word.

Harry Potter finds a contraption. He has no idea what it is, but he tries it out anyway. Turns out it's a time-turner.

AU. A chance remark by the potions professor that the Liquid Luck potion doesn't generate luck, but balances concentrated luck for the one taking the potion with diffuse bad luck for everybody else sets Hermione on a frantic project to create a potion that balances the concentrated luck with concentrated bad luck for Voldemort and co..