Time travel fics that are good and worth the read
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When he is eleven, Harry finds a strange mirror in an abandoned classroom. It shows him two boys he doesn't know, but desperately wants to.
When he is seventeen, Harry dies in the forest. He wakes in purgatory and is greeted by Death. Fate and Time give him the chance to change it all and save more than a few people in the process.
Now Harry is back at Hogwarts, befriending black eyed potions prodigies and sharp tongued budding dark lords.
After all these years, he still has an unhealthy obsession with his boys from the mirror and now that he can touch them, he never wants to stop
WIP-Angst, pining, rivals to lovers, polyamory, eventual smut
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Screw the Future and Rewrite Fate by JayLinWrites
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
17 Aug 2025
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Fourteen-year-old him was an idiot. He should've never joined the League of Villains. He wanted to fix society, not end it. How the hell was he supposed to know that Shigaraki would release an army of Nomu across Japan and kickstart the Nomu apocalypse?!
But it happened, and now his friends are all dead (no thanks to him), and the only way to fix this mess is to turn back the hands of time to where this all began. Which means he has to go to UA and get into the Hero Course. The Quirkless, ex-villain, has to become a Hero to save the world.
. . . Yeah, this isn't gonna turn out well.
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Do It All Over (while beating reality to death with a chair) by RarepairKai22
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia (Anime & Manga)
01 Mar 2025
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The battle against Shigaraki and All For One goes awry, but instead of meeting his end, Midoriya Izuku wakes up back as a middle school student on the fateful day he gets his dreams crushed and rebuilt all in the space of an hour.
With One For All humming in his veins (albeit almost completely muted since he is back to his previous noodle self), and a second chance to do things over, Izuku decides to do things better, while giving zero shits to anything and anyone.
He will do whatever it takes to prevent the impending apocalyptic shitshow, even if it means grabbing the nearest chair and beating reality to death in the process.
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When everyone you know and love is dead, is there a reason to keep fighting? Is there a chance that it'll be worth it to survive? How much is too much for one person to handle?
Izuku doesn't have the answer to these questions and he doesn't want to find out.
He's the last man standing. The last line of defense and he knows he doesn't stand a chance.
When given the opportunity to do it all again, how can one quirkless adult with a life full of trauma stuck in his thirteen-year-old body change the future? Will he be able to protect everyone?
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The future is a dark gritty place, painted with cheery overtures of unity and harmony within magical peoples. The truth is far from it.
Harry Potter, after retiring his persona as saviour of the magical world, has been pulled backward through time in order to stave off this ghastly future time.
Unfortunately for everyone around him, he's more than a little broken, and has been for quite a while.
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Harry Potter and the Greatest Show by shadowscribe
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
26 Jul 2022
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The last real thing Harry remembers is standing across from Voldemort and watching the killing curse fly at his face.
Then he visited a fluffy white limbo that somewhat resembles King Cross Station and instead of choosing to move on or go back he does something else entirely.
And wakes up in his cupboard on the morning of Dudley's eleventh birthday.
Because that makes sense.
(No. No it doesn't.)
But Harry is going to roll with it anyway.
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- Part 1 of Look At My Life
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21 Mar 2025
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Chapter 25 (that part is for me)
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Family (Regardless of Blood or Time) by Blueseabird2
Fandoms: 僕のヒーローアカデミア | Boku no Hero Academia | My Hero Academia
05 Feb 2023
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Shouta gets sent back in time and immediately starts putting things into place to take down All for One. More importantly, he also adopts a lot of children, meets friends at the Park, and joins Midoriya Inko on her crusade against society's idiocy. He gets Nezu involved.
(He's also not as alone as he thinks).
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- Part 5 of Dadzawa and Problem Child Works
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17 Jun 2023
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Harry is 38 years old and tired of living. After trying to attempt to his life, the now 10 years old boy need to find his way out of this bullshit. He didn’t choose any of this. Harry will fight, fight hard against death who seemed to surprisingly refuse him.
And when finally he will accept his defeat, now is a new challenge. Use his knowledge to his advantage. He will save as many people as possible. At first, thinking himself alone in this, he will be surprise that a Unlikely relatable potion master will find himself way more close to him than Harry could have ever anticipated
In the middle of his battle against death, Harry will navigate through pain, lose but also many shades of love. To the simple friendship with Ron and Hermione to the intimate and hidden relationship with a certain potion master.
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Long updates.
Each chapter being a whole year and this project being something I’m doing only when I have time, bear with me, this will be a long journey (it already is).When I say ‘part’ it’s just a very long chapters. I could call it arc or even volume. But it will be posted as chapters.
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When an insidious plot is discovered, Harry and Hermione do what they do best, leap without thinking and damn the consequences. Arriving in 1943 as sixth year transfer students. Hadrian and Hermione Peverell try to navigate this new world they have been thrown into. But with baby Dark Lords, current Dark Lords and transfiguration teachers, all slightly too interested in them for their liking, can Harry and Hermione keep their secrets? And what consequences will secrets of the future have on their life in the past?
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A Dead Man's Guide to Reliving Your Youth by Spork_in_the_Road
Fandom Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
20 Dec 2024
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After dying in the forbidden forest at Voldemort's hand--after going to the Kings Cross of his afterlife--Harry is returned to his 11-year-old self with no memories of his life before, just a vague sense of doom and weird knowledge of the wizarding world (and its inhabitants) that he can't quite explain. With only his ever-present sense of deja-vu to guide him into making better choices than last time, Harry embarks on a journey to save the wizarding world once again, and this time save himself as well.
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