The Doorbell Rang

They said he had magic, they said he was a Wizard. They were years too late for that revelation. They wanted a savior; they wanted a martyr for their cause. Harry had magic. Harry was a Wizard. But he was no savior, he was no martyr. He'd rather watch the world burn. Or the one where the Wizards came for him and nothing was ever the same.

Some Tags: First Wizaring War Never Ended, Powerful Harry Potter, Powerful Draco Malfoy, Dark Magic, the Dark Arts, Suave Draco Malfoy, Smitten Harry Potter, Harry can feel magic, Good Parent Lucius Malfoy

Excerpt:

“Do you know what you are, Potter?”

Harry licked his lips, glancing at the other people in the room who were very different from these two. They were hostile and angry, their sticks—wands—were still pointing at him, but their hands shook and oh, they were scared of him.

Harry liked that.

Too much.

“I’m a Wizard,” Harry said as a slow smile stretched his lips as he took a step forward, toward the man that was glaring at him from his still kneeling position.

“You. Why did you come? For what purpose do you have here?”

“For you,” the man spat, shaking as he glared at him. “Our lord is looking for you.”

Hi anon! I definitely got a few recs for you, some with morally gray characters as a treat 🙌

Powerful Harry:

Under Pressure by VivacissimoVoce (M, 21k)

Harry Potter has quit magic and left the wizarding world. Draco, a top-notch Tracker, has been hired to find him and save his life.

And One To Play by @tackytigerfic (E, 21k)

Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter are the best team in the Auror Department, even when they're driving Gawain Robards up the wall. When Malfoy is injured on a mission, it causes Harry's magic to go haywire. Meanwhile, a mysterious criminal is draining people's magical cores and turning them into Squibs.

If an Injury Is to Be Inflicted by @shealwaysreads (E, 45k)

Harry Potter disappeared a year after the Battle of Hogwarts, and with him went all hope for true change in magical Britain. Three years later, Draco indulges himself and attends his first Dog Fight—the infamous underground fights with no rules, no referee, and no points system bar blood on the floor. The game was simple: you win, or you die.

REVOLVEVLOVER by @firethesound and @lol-zeitgeistic (E, 46k)

The work Harry does is justifiable. It’s justice. He works for his country, and his country is a republic—the magical side, anyway. It’s not laudable work, it’s not work he’s proud of, but it’s necessary work. Harry has always taken the necessary jobs that no one else has the stomach for. It’s just that he’s never deciphered a kill sheet and seen Draco Malfoy’s name on it.

I Am Not Who I Became by mab_di (E, 93k)

Draco left England after the trials and has travelled the world meeting wizards and Muggles from different cultures and with vastly different relationships to magic, each other, and the natural world. Now he's a fisherman in Finland on commercial vessels. Harry has been struggling since the war and has become a recluse while trying to write his autobiography.

A Sword Laid Aside by @korlaena (E, 128k)

When Draco’s cover is blown during a deep undercover operation and the Ministry is compromised, Ron takes Draco to the only safe place he can think of—Potter. Hiding out with a taciturn Harry Potter, who has been missing from the Wizarding World for almost two decades after a shocking fall from grace, is nothing like Draco thought it would be.

Powerful Draco:

check this hand 'cause I'm marvelous by @lqtraintracks (E, 8k)

Harry's had a crush on Malfoy for months now. But it will take a bar full of his friends, some Firewhisky, wagers made on his behalf, and Malfoy himself to get him to act on it.

you look so fine by michi_thekiller (E, 16k)

In which Draco is a Veela and Harry is his mate. Dark!Humor or Crack!Horror, you decide.

The Foxing Ring by @vukovich (E, 24k)

Harry's got no magic, one good ear, no great dating prospects, and a nice little wand workshop. Draco's got too much magic, a history of biting off ears, no great dating prospects, and a growing fondness for wandmakers. And a very fetching tail.

A Pocket Full of Stones by @amywaterwings (E, 68k)

A curse is spreading through the wizarding world, erasing memories of the war. Harry Potter is on the case! Where Draco is the DMLE’s most wanted dark wizard and Harry is the private investigator tasked with bringing him in. It goes as well as one might expect.

Threshold by @kbrick (E, 126k)

Unspeakable Draco Malfoy finally gets his chance to consult with the Auror Department when a series of mysterious doors covered in runic symbols appear all across the country, only to fade away minutes later. Draco’s eager to help solve the mystery of the doors until he’s partnered with Harry Potter, who still treats him like an enemy.

All Our Secrets Laid Bare by firethesound (E, 150k)

🌟 New Story! 🌟

Rating: T Characters: Pre-Hermione Granger/Harry Potter, Severus Snape, James Potter/Lily Evans, Young Severus Snape, Sirius Black, Alphard Black, Remus Lupin, Rita Skeeter, Peter Pettigrew Warnings: mentions of past/current child abuse, mentions of torture, dealing with PTSD, war, death Summary: A burst of magic in the Department of Mysteries sends three people back in time to the First Blood War. Stuck in the past and immediately placed in the middle of a blood feud between the Potters and Blacks, Harry must hide his magical prowess in order to keep the Blacks at bay, stop the Potters from becoming scared, and keep Voldemort off his back. This backfires spectacularly.

Or: Professor Snape is forced to parent Harry and Hermione while lost in 1977. Chaos ensues.

100 words written for the @drarrymicrofic prompt 'Bones' by Imagine Dragons.

The piece of Voldemort’s soul had been a dampener. 

No one had realized the sheer amount of power that resided in Harry’s body, ‘I can feel it in my bones,’ he'd confessed to Draco when he was wrapped around him in bed one night. 

And power like that was meant to burn iniquity from the world.

Draco stood in awe, watching raw magic crackling around Harry as he gave an impassioned speech on the Ministry’s front steps. Watching as the aurors who’d come to kill him were disarmed with a flick of the wrist. 

Harry was saving the world. Again.

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Contrary to popular belief, most wizards from older lines had creature blood swimming through their veins. However, experiencing a creature inheritance is an incredibly rare occurrence. It can only occur while a witch or wizard is underage, while their magic is still in flux, and only if they survive something devastatingly traumatic that makes their body/magic tap into their creature side, waking it up. Those who experience a creatures inheritance are often painted with the same brush as obsurials - incredibly powerful, but slaves to their instincts.

Even from the earliest age, Harry Potter was considered an exceptionally powerful wizard. He did not go through an inheritance as an infant, suggesting that whatever happened, he was powerful enough that he didn’t need to tap into his creature magics. Nor did he go through an inheritance after the battle for the philosopher’s stone, or after fighting a basilisk, or hundreds of dementors, or after being used to raise Voldemort, or after his godfather was killed, or even in the weeks after facing a lake full of inferi and witnessing the death of his Headmaster.

However, not long before his 17th birthday, something changed. Despite all he had been through in the magical world, nobody thought... nobody listened...

Harry: If Voldemort came back and regained all of his power, he would give me some trouble.

Albus: Would you lose?