Stories by john.mainer

Hermione Granger recovers Tom Riddle's diary when Ginny throws it away. It is Hermione not Ginny who is taken to the chamber and Harry Potter alone who goes after her. A more angry Harry Potter does not call upon Dumbledore in the Chamber but faces Riddle himself. Many things go wrong, and Hermione is left with Harry as a snake, and Slytherin's own library. What could go wrong?

Fate is often described as a weave, your own will no more than the choice of which threads to tangle yourself upon as you are woven by hands unseen, and forces undreamed to ends that care not for your want, will, or personal survival. Sometimes however, time turns like the pages of a book. Fate walks cautiously around libraries, but it does not always walk carefully enough around

Lilly Potter was an amazing witch and tricked her goblin account manager into a clause requiring them to protect Harry Potter from all curses, compulsions, charms and legal constraints until his legal majority. When Goblin Griphook finds baby Harry a living breathing breach of contract, something must be done!