I've been a long-time fan of the Harveste Addams series by Kyaru-chan and have read it multiple times over the years.

For those unfamiliar: it's a dark, twisted crossover where young Harry is adopted by the Addams Family after murdering the Dursleys.

The tone is very Gothic, with a strong emphasis on macabre humor, unconventional morality, and Addams-style weirdness.

It's not just a surface-level crossover — the Addamses actually shape Harry’s entire personality, magical development, and worldview in deeply compelling (and disturbing) ways.

That said: Are there any other Harry Potter fanfics with a similar tone, theme, or crossover idea — especially ones that involve the Addams Family?

It doesn't even need to be CanonHarry, it could be a FemHarry!, or an OC character altogether.

What I'm especially looking for:

° Addams Family crossovers (bonus if Harry is adopted by or raised among them)

° Dark or gothic reinterpretations of Harry's upbringing

° Fics where Harry embraces the weird, the creepy, outright Dark or morally grey paths

° Unique mentor/adoption fics that explore dark humor and found family dynamics

• Gothic aesthetic, dark comedy, or horror-leaning reinterpretations of the Wizarding World

Completed or decently long WIPs are a plus

Bonus points if:

It's on AO3 or FFN

The Addamses are well-written and in character (not just props for Harry's edge)

There's decent writing quality — doesn’t have to be professional, but not pure crack or completely unedited.

To clarify: I already know about the Harveste Addams series itself — I’m looking for similar or spiritually adjacent works, whether or not they're direct Addams crossovers.

Would love any recommendations, including AO3, FF.net, or even Reddit rec lists.

Thanks in advance!

HARVESTE ADDAMS (Ao3) https://archiveofourown.org/series/51538

I recently read Darkly Dreaming Harry by LineApe and enjoyed its unique take on Harry as a genuine psychopath-cold, calculating, and utterly detached from normal human emotion, much like Dexter from the TV series.

The fic’s blend of horror, dark humor, and psychological insight is fascinating, especially the way Harry manipulates those around him and views the world through such an alien lens.

Unfortunately, the Fic was last updated (if I am reading this right) 11-29-2010.

What I’m Looking For:

• Fics where Harry is a true psychopath, sociopath, or otherwise emotionally detached, and uses his intelligence to manipulate or control others.
• Bonus points for stories where he collects “minions” from among his classmates (especially Hermione, Ron, or even Slytherins), brainwashes them, or treats them as pawns/pets.
• I especially enjoy fics where Harry is condescending, treats others as tools, or explores power dynamics in twisted, creative ways.
• Any genre welcome: time travel, possession, AU, or canon divergence.
• Dark humor or a chilling, introspective narrative style is a huge plus.

Examples of What I Like:

• The way "Darkly Dreaming Harry" explores Harry’s internal monologue and his cold logic.
• Scenes where Harry manipulates or “collects” people (like the Luna scene with true names, or potential for making Hermione his “pet”).
• Fics where Harry’s relationships with Ron, Hermione, and others are fundamentally altered by his lack of empathy.

Questions for Discussion:

• Do you know of any other fics that capture this kind of dark, psychological Harry?
• Are there stories where Harry actively builds a network of minions or “pets” among the students, especially Hermione or Ron?
• What are your favorite portrayals of manipulative, condescending, or sociopathic Harry?
• Have you seen any fics that blend this with time travel, possession, or other twists?

Just finished binging this 179 k word beast that's at 38 chapters. It's drarry set in 8th year slice of rebuilding life after the end of the war. Multiple POVs are featured.

Highly recommend because it features themes of psychological damage of emotional neglect, physical abuse, and the difficulties a mental health journey can take. Wonderful media example of how therapy should look like with beautiful quotes that 'recovery isn't linear'.

The relationship built between the boys is so realistic in its ability to layer intricate details together that is required for a strong healthy relationship that I genuinely perceive it as a wonderful blueprint for how a relationship can work out. Bittersweetness is the best word I can give for a full sum of this work due to the sweetness this author takes to depict the highs with realistic depictions of bitterness that would occur in any relationship.

I know that it's HIGHLY unlikely to ever happen, but does anyone else wish there were MARVEL-style crossovers between different Harry Potter fanfiction universes?

For example:

• Ariadne Granger from the fic "Kaleidoscope Grangers (https://archiveofourown.org/works/24597805/chapters/59417392)" meeting Harry Potter variants like:
  • Harrison from "The Nightmare Man (https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10182397/1/The-Nightmare-Man)"
  • The Harry from The Downward Spiral Series
  • Miyamoto Yusuke from "893"
  • Harveste Addams from the Harveste Addams Series
  • The Harry from the "Sarcasm and Slytherin " Series
  • The Harry from the "Dodging Prison and Stealing Witches " series
• Or different Harry Potter variants crossing over and interacting with each other

I think it would be really fascinating to see the various interpretations and versions of Harry Potter and the Wizarding World colliding in a shared multiverse.

The potential for interesting interactions, comparisons, and storylines seems endless.

Even if it's just a fun thought experiment, I'm curious to hear if anyone else has imagined a "Potterverse" multiverse and what that might look like.

Let me know your thoughts.

Hello, community members.

I'm on the lookout for fanfics that explore the concept of Victor Von Doom's death and subsequent reincarnation as Harry Potter, but without any initial memories of his previous life.

I'd PREFER a story set in a merged Marvel and Harry Potter universe where both sets of characters coexist, but it also can be a story thats set ONLY in the HP Universe.

Additionally, it would be interesting if, later on, memories of his past life as DOOM start to resurface.

Any recommendations fitting this criteria would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

This is SO GOOD and hilarious. Harry, Tom, Albus, Grindelwald, and the marauders are trapped in a Fae realm. They’ve time travelled from when they’re each in the 16-18 range. So in their respective universes - Harry has defeated LV, Tom has 1 Horcrux, Ariana is still alive, and the marauders are 5th years. Or maybe 6th.

Anyway it’s amazing and laugh out loud funny and you should read it. Cracked treated seriously.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/39323223

This story has one, but rather painful, problem: it ends unfinished after 45 chapters (221,852 words; last update Nov 15, 2012), which is quite painful.

Aside from that, the story is excellent: Harry after returning from the Heavenly King Cross station freaks out that he is The Master of Death (whatever it means), that he would be hunted forever by to-be-Dark-Lords and decides to pretend to be dead and hide in the Muggle world.

Fifteen years later he is provoked to reveal himself (and he is also hunted down by the Head of DMLE Hermione Granger), and then they are trying to work out from there. Everything resolves nicely, Hermione becomes the Minister, the whole Britain starts to unite in fighting against The Great Evil™, I was expecting Ginny finally finding out she was completely misused by the evil, all good stuff … and, that’s it. Oh, well.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11003645

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11003585

It's one of the first things I would expect from a site like this. I know that J.K. Rowlings views are very controversial to put it mildly, but:

1. The fandom/books are not the author
2. Harry Potter will become a part of the Fediverse at some point anyways - better to support it early on and shape its developing rather than having a company build a H.P. social network on top of the fediverse, which will be to our disadvantage
3. In terms of potential users, this could be huge for the threadiverse
4. We are in the Fediverse: defederation is always a possibility

Or was it just never tried before / no one wanted to yet?

I have written some time ago this prompt about Ginny’s troubles learning to live in the high-society:

I generally like “Long Live The Queen” by offsides, It is unashamedly a muggle-wank story, if you like them, a story I would consider classic in the trope. However, I have been disappointed with its (arguably rather small and generally unimportant in the overall story) romantic subplot: in the beginning, Harry and Ginny finally find an understanding (and sharing a first kiss), then the story happens, Sir Harry is suddenly buddy-buddy with the Queen, high-society flying, and what he does in the romantic arena? He dumps all his old friends (including but not limited to Ginny) and he says that he has to start to build his friends network again. I really believe that not just Bat-Bogey hex, but good ol' fashioned kick in the balls was deserved there.

I was thinking about the similar situation (Harry gets to be unbelievably important), but he doesn’t leave Ginny and they together try to navigate the new waters they found themselves in. I was thinking about mostly Ginny-centered story, where she struggles with her being originally a working class farm girl picking up eggs from their hens in the morning to private dinners with Queen and Royal Household. I was thinking for example about her becoming a friend of then (1995, just before their divorce) Lady Diana and her common sense and her ability to keep cool would help the princess to sail through better than how she in the real life did. Or something like that. And yes, of course, all small jokes about Harry and Ginny struggling with the order in which to pick forks and similar stuff.

It was two years ago, when I wrote this, and since then I have met only one story which at least distantly resembles this prompt: “The Commoner Queen” by Pilargirl. The summary describes it pretty decently: “AU. A 1000 years ago, a plague extinguished 3/4 of Britain's magical population, including 3 of the 4 founders; Godric Gryffindor remained and founded a new world, with a monarchy that would last for years to come. Now, Ginny Weasley is the Holyhead Harpies' star Chaser and a simple commoner, but Harry James Potter of Evans and Gryffindor, Prince of Wales, has his eye on her.”

It is very AU and I really don’t like much any kind of royalist!universe, because it clashes horribly with the original bourgeois spirit of the canon, but when working with this kind of prompt some kind of upper class/aristocracy is necessary. And at least it is not Hermione-is-pureblood racism whitewashing type of story.

It is nice that the length of the story is pretty reasonable (21 chapters more or less just exhaust everything which is available) and the story doesn’t waste MUCH space on nonsense.

However, the principle conflict I wanted to have: Ginny working her way out of la merde des poulets towards being an upper-class lady is well preserved. Thank you.

I came across this story, and thought it was worth linking as a cautionary tale

https://news.sky.com/story/lord-of-the-rings-sequel-must-be-destroyed-after-tolkien-estate-wins-copyright-case-against-writer-13033765

There have been a lot of questions on another site I am on about making money from Fanfiction, and after reading this story -- the guy was forced to pay $134,000 in damages and destroy all his work -- I think that we have a more or less definitive answer.

And the definitive answer is no -- it is not worth trying to make money from fanfiction :)

Taken from somewhere else, seems interesting.

A review from someone else:

"Wow wow wow, I just finished reading the Ever Upward series. What an absolutely wonderful and magical fic series.

The quick gist is Harry runs away from the Dursleys around 8 years old and is taken in by the Basilisk under Hogwarts. He spends the next years secretly exploring the castle, the forest, the lake all while making friendships with the beings he meets everywhere he goes and getting hilariously tangled up in inter-species-nation affairs. As time goes on Harry becomes a pivotal point of revolution for the rights of non-wizard beings.

First off: I cannot speak highly enough of the magical world building. More so than any author (including Canon) I have never gotten so caught up in the places that Harry travels and the creatures and beings he meets there. Especially so in his journeys deep into the forest, I can only describe it as magical. There is such an intense feeling of wonder and awe that carries out of the text. The systems and conventions and languages the author creates for each nation of beings feels fleshed-out and authentic.

The other highlight and really the core theme of the book is Harry's friendships he builds throughout the series. I don't want to spoil anything but this fic did something that few others I've read have done, which is make me care about every character in a massive cast. Each one feels unique and individual and Harry's relationship with each of them is so genuine and charming. The characters are all just absolute joys. Canon characters are written well.

The story itself is very far from canon while not feeling out of place in the HP world. There are some classic canon beats but even those get a very fresh twist. Some characters definitely act out of character but they are eased into that over time.

Take heed of the "queer themes" tag as it gets very queer prominent as time goes on, especially the final 2 books. There's nothing graphic, it makes sense in the plot, and it's much less ham-fisted than fics I've read like Lack of Lamb Sauce but be aware if that's not your cup of tea.

I think the peak of the series is somewhere in the center when Harry is just getting to go on adventures with his friends and things are less politically complicated. It's not to say that the rest drags on or that it's poorly written. It's just that the early wonder and adventure is so well done it always had me excited when the author returned to those kinds of things for a quick break later on.

Absolutely wonderful fic series. Easily Top 10 for me, probably Top 3."

Does anyone else ever feel that they have run out of ideas?

That they are just telling the same story over and over again with only the most minor of variations?

I've been stuck on the same chapter of the same story for two and a half months, trying to figure out what to write next because I've written every variation before, sometimes twice.

Should I just give up?

This is a really fun adventure story! The tales of Regulus the BAMF cursebreaker. Reg is a (legally dead) Gringotts cursebreak and works out tricky puzzles. Also later becomes a nanny for baby Harry. Exciting and generally wholesome story. A little bit of pining in the Sev/Reg relationship, but they figure it out. Updates regularly!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41160495/chapters/103180302

One of the best characters in the first Fantastic Beasts film, Modesty Barebone, was left alone in her old childhood home, abandoned both by all adults and her brother Credence (who turned into Obscurial, so he was really not in a shape to take care for her), and never mentioned again (AFAIK).

Let me start here small story as a prompt:

She didn’t even know why she took pieces of the wand with her when she left for her old childhood home. When Credence exploded and left she was completely washed in pure magic. She thought in the first moment, that she is going to die, that the explosion is going to kill her. But nothing like that happened. Credence’s magic recognized her and protected her even when the whole building collapsed around her. Showered with magic, she saw weird fragments of stories in front of her eyes, she heard sounds she couldn’t hear, she was flying in the middle of the room for a moment, she lost consciousness in the end.

When she woke up, she was in the ruins of the building, hidden in the hole in the wall just the size for her to comfortably fit in. After the experience of the pure magic surrounding her, she was not even surprised when she found out that pieces of the wand Mary Lou broke were together again and the wand was pleasantly warm in her hand.

So, that is how it was: abandoned and lost little witch with her wand in the middle of New York with nobody knowing about her, without any food and without any money …

That’s it. I would like somebody to continue with this story. Little (eight years old) girl living on streets of New York, who has wand (well hidden, because she knew from the experience with the New Salem Philanthropic Society that many people could hurt her), but not much else. She will have to learn how to live on streets with the children gangs of New York, and perhaps later she will meet somebody who will teach her to use her magic. Something like a cross-over between HP universe and Oliver Twist.

Inspired by the linked prompt, but I have never seen anybody to pick it up and do it justice.

Frickles talks Harry Potter fanfiction, writing it, and more!

(Author of A Malignant Ruse Harry/Daphne, A Discordant Pattern, etc)

There are new chapters of this awesome story! I would never believe that Petunia fixing the story in the Marauders’ time could be such fun! Beautiful mixing of the Muggle and Magical world! Really recommened!

Frickles updated today, and I wanted to post him here since his stories are fun reads and especially 'A Malignant Ruse' happens to be very popular. Personally I like this one (The Discordant Pattern) and two others even more, despite having obsessively read that story (AMR) all in one go some time ago.

I’ve been trying to move entirely away from Reddit’s hpfanfiction, but user growth here is slow. Anyone have ideas? Do we need more posts of recs? Links on author Discords or popular Ao3 fics?

Anyone else working on promotion?

His writing is layered, exciting and detailed. I remember reading his story Shadow of Angmar back in 2015 on a Blackberry with a keyboard of all devices (though I know an author who's written chapters on there 👀). The time periods, various characters and settings had a real and obviously intentional, 'Fellowship of the Ring' feel to them.

It sits at more than two hundred thousand words, and I await an update. His crack-fic HP and the Elves Most Fabulous was pretty funny when I read it years ago now.

Link in case you haven’t read it. http://archiveofourown.org/works/33170455

He was smiling. At Tom Riddle. He was going to get murdered before the year ends, he just knows.

Alternate universe/Post-Hogwarts. warnings: mature themes, drinking, swearing. An adult Harry Potter with all his knowledge and experience is transported to his 23yo body in a universe with no war.

This fic is 10x hilarious. Harry is an underemployed government drone studying for his Masters. Well written, hilarious, totally novel story. BAMF Harry.

Any recs for something similar?