This is definitely my guilty pleasure. Sirry feels very taboo at times, (especially if you have a Marauders background lol), but god I love it. Their dynamic is usually so explosive and breath-catching, ughh. The yearning, the anger, the trauma!
Anyways, here are some of my favorite time travel fics. If you’re new to the ship I’d recommend starting with Chained, you’ll be hooked in no time.
Enjoy!
✨ and I Looked Back on a Broken World / 183k / “This is the most stupid thing you’ve ever done!” Hermione yells after Harry. Then she blinks. They’re no longer at Grimmauld Place and, sitting huddled together on a familiar four-poster bed with red hangings, are four teenaged boys, staring avidly at them. Well, this is just brilliant, she thinks. “And you didn’t even get the year right!”
Or: the one in which Harry is done with the war and thinks it’s time he got something he wanted for a change. He misses his godfather, goddammit.
Hermione’s and Harry’s friendship is top-tier. Plus, I’ll always have a soft spot for Harry interacting with the Marauders. Must read.
✨ Chained / 66k / Harry accidentally time travels to 1979, where he gets captured by the Order of the Phoenix. There's a catch — from the moment they set eyes on Harry's Dark Mark, they despise him.
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“Finally awake… Death Eater?” the man spat spitefully.
Harry never would have imagined meeting like this.
The words “I can explain” were stuck on the tip of his tongue. But all that came out was a soft, strangled, “Sirius.”
The Sirry fic by excellence. Simply mind-blowing. If you’re gonna read any of these fics, let it be this one.
✨ The Man Out of Time / 23k / Harry gets hit with a piece of the veil, and falls into Sirius's past. And back again.
Loosely inspired by The Time Traveler's Wife.
I loved the dynamic between Harry and Sirius. It’s pretty different from other Sirry fics, which I enjoyed a lot. Plus, the drama? Cheff kiss.
✨ Time Turned Back / 182k / Broken and angry after losing Sirius fifth year, Harry recklessly puts himself in harms way, dragging Hermione along for the ride. Now they are stuck in another time with some all too familiar faces. Will the time with lost loved ones heal Harry or end up doing more damage?
✨ The Laws of Defence / 60k / The one where Harry gets sent back to 1977 to finish off Voldemort before he could get started, but he didn’t anticipate having to mark homework in between hunting horcruxes. Again.
✨Shattering Timelines / 80k / After realizing the war destroyed almost everything he ever cared about, Harry sets out to find a way to go back in time to save his family and fix it all. Even if it means destroying his timeline in order to protect his family.
✨ dogged / 11k / "I'm handsome," Sirius says, hugging his pillow in the dark. "I'm smart. I'm strong. I'm charismatic. I have experience with tons of people, who wanted to shag me and liked me a lot. I defend him, I admire him, I've been nice to Sniv-- Snape, lately--"
James groans. "Go the bloody fuck to sleep!" Peter, the lucky sod, is dead to the world and lets out a loud snore.
"I need Professor Evans to give me a chance," Sirius continues. "I could be so good for him. He needs someone like me. He's so--" Sirius yelps as a Stinging Hex hits him in the face from the direction of Remus' bed
✨ Better im the Morning / 20k / When Harry sacrifices himself to protect the ones he loves most, Voldemort's Killing Curse sends him hurtling back in time to 31 October 1981, but he arrives too late to save his parents. A grieving Harry decides to rescue Sirius Black from a future of misery and imprisonment and brings Sirius to hide in the Hut-on-the-Rock.
Momentarily, Harry and Sirius try to forget all that they've lost.
I think it's time to fetch a midwife...
AND YOU LEFT JAMES OUT IF IT'S FOR HIM TO FAINT AGAIN!
OH MY GOD
"Are you enjoying this?!"
Second chapter is uuuuup ✨
My submission for the @tomarrybigbang of 2024. Thank you to all the mods that helped organize this fest 💕
Explicit, 4.4k, Chapter 1
Summary:
Harry Potter is done.
He's been in the past for months now, working undercover as a poorly paid waiter in The Lounge: Britain's magical elite's favorite restaurant. He's more than ready to wrap things up, get the fuck out of 1953 and hug his godson again.
Enter, Tom Riddle: Dark Lord in The Making and Arsehole Extraordinaire. (And owner of The Most Fuckable Mouth Harry's seen since his days of shameless debauchery he was young.)
Impulse control has never been a strong suit of his, and this mission is proving to be the most difficult one yet.
My parter for this fest was the talented @00queasy00, who did this beautiful art!
✨ It beats me black and blue but it fucks me so good / 21k / "You haven't called me for a while."
Draco shrugs, holding his head up high.
"Yes. And?"
"And. I know exactly what that means."
Draco raises a single brow, blinking slowly. He looks unimpressed. "It means I've forgotten you exist. It means I'm completely and utterly over you, no matter how much your overinflated ego tries to convince you otherwise. It means -
'It means you haven't been properly fucked in ages."
✨ In Your Arms, Rests My World / 24k / Harry presses his mouth to Malfoy's forehead; he wants to tell him that he'll never leave, that he wouldn't dream of it.
"You make me feel safe, Potter" Malfoy whispers. "You keep me safe."
✨ Expectant / 62k / After he accidentally gets Malfoy pregnant on a drunken fuck at a club, Harry doesn't anticipate that it'd be just as easy to fall in love with him.
✨ Stain of Silence / 28k / After the war, Draco serves out his sentence in Harry Potter's house.
✨ For a Given Value of Normal / 23k / Realizing he's gay is one thing. This unholy mess with Malfoy is something else entirely.
In which Harry tries to negotiate the path from self-loathing to some sort of happiness, and in the process learns that Malfoy runs a shop, reads Muggle philosophy, and is a dirty rotten liar.
Well, that last one isn't really a surprise.
✨ You open always (petal by petal) / 65k / Harry's not the kind of person who pays for sex. He really isn't. Until he is.
✨ Inside your Mind / 36k / Goyle's taken it upon himself to act as Malfoy's personal, one-man guard and Harry can't help but feel like it's only making the bullying worse.
✨ as the plant that never blooms / 7k /
"Something's wrong," Potter says again. "You have to take my wand. Stun me. Then call Ron."
✨ The Illusion that One Can Get Things Right / 119k / Blindsided by Ginny's sudden departure from his life, Harry struggles to care for his family-replete with a new baby.
The situation plummets from disarray to pandemonium just as Draco Malfoy arrives to drop Scorpius off for a visit, because of course it does.
✨ Never Mind The Bollocks / 118k / If someone told Harry six months ago that by autumn he would be single, living on whisky and toast, and dancing the night away with Draco Malfoy, he would have told them to get their head checked.
And yet, here he was.
✨ Nights With You / 58k / Draco is mortified when moments prior to departing for the most anticipated destination wedding of the year, he is cruelly dumped. But when he learns that Harry Potter has, at long last, split with his horrible boyfriend, Draco is certain his luck has changed. Never a man to squander an opportunity for revenge and what would probably be a spectacular shag), Draco vows to make Potter his for the weekend.
Now all Draco has to do is convince him.
And for another monthly fic recommendation…Drum rolls….
DRARRY
(The art was done by the talented @littlewinnow)
And The Illusion that One Can Get Things Right
119k, Complete, Explicit
The synopsis: Blindsided by Ginny's sudden departure from his life, Harry struggles to care for his family—replete with a new baby. The situation plummets from disarray to pandemonium just as Draco Malfoy arrives to drop Scorpius off for a visit, because of course it does.
IT WAS SO SO SO CUTE
James, Albus, Lily and Remy stole my heart. The friendship between the Potters and the Malfoys felt so natural and tender ugh, I loved every chapter with them on it. Seeing Harry try to do his best as a recently single father, trying to give his kids the love and attention they crave after Ginny left WITHOUT neglecting his other duties? Juggling with the needs of a newborn baby, two moody teenage kids and an adorable ten year old girl? Poor guy was STRUGGLING.
And then, so organically you can’t help but be in awe of the author’s skills, Draco and Scorpius enter their lives: restoring the natural order of things with small gestures and every day domesticity. IT MADE ME MELT 💕
I loved the way Draco helps Harry carry the heavy burden on his shoulders, all without losing that iconic Malfoy sass. AND THEN THEY START FALLING IN LOVE 😭 So slowly and naturally, like it was meant to happen from the start. STOP IT 😫❤️
This fic felt like a warm hug, so tender and fluffy and spicy at the same time. One hundred percent recommended.
james love, are you humping the wall?
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