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Thematic list: non-linear HP fics
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So, non-linear HP fics. [info]nopejr piqued my interest, and I thought that a long list might do us all good. I've never thought there would be list with so many fics I liked. Well, this is it

What's accepted:

- as it must be clear from the name, the fics where the narrative is not linear are welcome. Those can include:
- dual / concurrent narratives, i.e. different POVs of the same events. But please no fics where the scenes from different POV just sometimes partly cover each other, like in Cybele's If You Are Prepared.
- past and present side by side, only if it's a repetitive device (happens through the whole fic);
- "variations on a theme" fics where we have several versions of the same events, represented as equal;
- "five things that never happened to..." kind of fics, only if the versions they show us aren't included into the simple, linear narrative. If you like stories of the "five things" type, check this list compiled by [info]secondsilk. Some of them are linear, and so aren't included in this list of mine.
- the fics that have several variations of the ending;
- fics with unmarked alternation of realities, like Oscillate Wildly or Striking Thirteen. I mean, not simply the fics that work with parallel realities, but the fics where the switching of them goes without any "marker of switching" (we don't know we are transfered into a different place/ timeline until we figure it out from the events) and only if as a result the realities are represented as equal (if we left puzzled as for which one is real.)
Please, remember that when those fics don't have clear markings of separate events or POVs, they are often called to confuse readers and so make them pay attention to detail and to think.


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King Draco's code:

- mind that linear narrative and straight timeline are not the same thing! When we are told that "Harry turned his Time-Turner 4 times and appeared in 1976", it's still linear narrative. So, think twice before suggesting a fic with alternate universes. Most of them, as far as I checked, don't qualify.
- non-linear and discontinuous are not the same thing either. If we have a fic where there are scenes from 1978, 1981, 1985 etc, it's not continuous but linear;
- flashback-based fics qualify only if the whole structure is built on this device, as in Shadow's Side Story, and only if it's not marked as recollections.
- no WIPs that have only a chapter or two written;
- no drabbles;
- do not bring fics you haven't read;
- do not bring fics you didn't like;
- do me a courtesy, please, do not leave only a link. I'd appreciate the following info: author, title, pairing, rating, WIP status; how the fic fits here. But if you are certain about some fic but don't remember whose it was or where to find it, just tell me, I'll try and find it on my own.

Fics are sorted in alphabetical order by TITLE (articles excluded, i.e. The Impossible (Fear) is placed under 'I')

Special marks:

# - liked
## - loved
NR - have not read
new - added in the last month or so

These are NOT my recs; it's just a themed listing.

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HP Character Random Facts/Things Meme Fic [and Art] Fest masterlist, the fest is on in [info]iulia_linnea's journal.
I'm not adding the fics from it here not to do the double job. Just go have a look.

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1-2-0-7-0-3, by [info]littleteeth
Draco/Blaise, unrequited Ginny/Harry; R, one-shot. Summary: After-the-war!fic. Harry has killed Voldemort, but the battle continues as the Ministry (headed by Ginny Weasley) carries about witch hunts for supposed "Dark Wizards".

new 30 Short Stories about Harry Potter, by [info]strigoia
Harry/Draco, Harry/Ginny, R, 2 parts and epilogue. Summary: 30 short-short stories about Harry Potter’s life, from all different periods, and not in chronological order. Because sometimes just a glimpse tells more than the whole story. Warnings: Slash, het, angst, violence, disturbing imagery, character death (canon), and generally just running poor Harry through the ringer.

All is Fair in Love and War, by jameschick
HP/BZ, HP/DM; NC-17; chaptered fic. Summary: "Draco sees something that shatters his perceptions of truth and it starts him on a different path. Harry loses his lover to the dark but finds friendship and possibly more in the arms of his enemy." It's not exactly non-linear, but not exactly linear either. It consists of the chapters from different POVs, sometimes the time coincides, sometimes it's flashbacks, sometimes it's linear.

And So Life Goes On..., by [info]nenyaentwhistle (or here) #
HP/SS, HP/DM; R, novel-length. Summary: "Post-Hogwarts story. Five years after defeating Voldemort, Harry now lives believing he is a muggle. He has no knowledge that he was ever a wizard, ever the Boy Who Lived. What happens then when he realizes his life is a farce?" Two interwoven timelines.

and the water runs red, by [info]noticeably
HP/DM, R, one-shot. Summary: "the voices inside your head are never quiet and are always talking to you and they tell you things that you don't understand so you decide that you must write them out because maybe when you see them they will finally make sense to you." Warnings: Angst, blood, character death, insanity, implied abuse at a mental ward, self mutilation.

Apparition Miracle, by [info]losselen
SB/RL; PG; short. Summary: "The purpose of a translation is not to preserve a meaning."

Basic Arithmancy, by [info]zarah5 (or here)
HP/NL. PG-13. HP Slash Wedding Ficathon Entry. Summary: "In which there are two sides to every story."

Beast, by Nope ([info]nopejr) #
Het, HP/GiW; SB/GiW; others; NC-17. No summary given. The fic uses flashbacks (denoted by the Virginia/Ginny switch and tense change.)

Black Gold, by [info]pogrebin
R. Includes some slash and het. Summary: " There is only oil, more precious than gold & certain types of information. It is 1942. While German tanks trundle over White Russia, Gerald Wilkes, traitor to England and adulterer, is about to be betrayed by his wife. A twisted historical chronicle of how Grindelwald lost the War, complete with Marxist Muggle-huggers, shifting tenses, corrupt Archbishops, 3 Acts and a guest appearance by Adolf Hitler."

blood will tell (an argument in ten fits), by Becky M_____ ([info]biichan)
Umbridge/Trelawney; NC-17, one-shot. Summary: Sybill Trelawney tries to lose herself.

The book of avant-garde, by [info]losselen
SB/RL; PG-13; Summary: "the book to transforming the world."

Botched Fate, by Keitalina 'Keiri' Shinra
HP/LV; PG-13. WIP. Scenario: "Harry dies at the hands of Voldemort, but not without casting one last, obviously devastating spell Secret truces, an ongoing war and the miracle brought on by a green-eyed teenager s love for one man and the rest of the world " Non-lenar and non-continuous narrative, it goes backward and forward.

Both Sides Now, by [info]predatrix (or here) #
HP/SS; NC-17. Summary: "PWP. Two viewpoints make up both sides of a story." Dual narration. The text is divided in two columns that show two POVs (on the left is Snape's and the right one is Harry's) during the same scene.

Bring Me to Life, by I Got Tired of Waiting ([info]igtow) (link to the main page; or here)
SS/HP; NC-17. Summary: "Severus and Harry's continuing relationship over the course of more than a century. A Continuation of [info]amireal's Pledges w/ permission." It contains flashbacks and returns to the present time as well, then flashes back again.

Cancrizans 24, by [info]shaychana
SS/various; R, one-shot. Summary: "Cancrizans: a musical palindrome where the second half of the piece is a repetition in inverse from the midpoint. A broken man, a splintered life and a fractured reality a portrait of Severus Snape in drabbles."

Cheer Up, Myrtle! by Cat Samwise
HP/SS; R. Summary: "An upside down tale. What's going on with Myrtle and her bathroom?"

Choose your own (orgy) Adventure, by [info]bookofjude (site is down)
NC-17, SS/RL, RL/PP, RL/SB, RL/JP. Summary: Choose your own Marauders Era adventure with several possible endings and pairings.

Christmas Blessings, by [info]archon_mentha
James/ Lily, Remus/Sirius. PG; four-chapter fic. Summary: "FQF Challenge #47 - It's an apparently innocuous Christmas dinner, but there's a lot more going on underneath the surface than any one person realises." It is Christmas 1979, James, Lily, Peter, Remus and Sirius are lunch together. The same scene is told from each of the Marauders' points of view in turn.

The Coming of the End, by [info]maeglinyedi
DM/LV; NC-17. Non-con, darkfic and character death warnings. Summary: "Voldemort knows just what he'll do with Draco Malfoy." The past happens after the present throughout the whole fic, with switching tenses and POVs.

Contemporary Magical Innovations, by H. Granger, by Kai ([info]kaiz) (or here) #
HP/SS; PG-13; novella. Summary: "The difference between History and What Really Happened." Footnote/commentary-based text. It consists of two intermittent texts. The first one is extracts from 'Hogwarts: A New History, Chapter LXVIII: Contemporary Magical Innovations by H. Granger' written in 2028 that speaks of the events of 2008. The other one is the "usual" fic describing those events in 3d person narration as they happen.

Counting to None, by [info]nopejr #
Het: DM/HrG; PG. Flashback (or flash-forward) type.

Dissonance, by [info]captainjames
Gen (or genish SS/RL); G, one-shot. Summary: "Draco has some “interesting information” for Snape, and it concerns Remus. Misunderstandings ensue."

Double or Nothing, by Calico ([info]ukcalico) #
Fred/George[/Lance Bass], NC-17; novella. Summary: "Exploration of social boundaries. Through porn. (Using redheads and bonus popstar.)" Linear present narration mixed with non-linear flashbacks.

Dream Sequence, by Amalin ([info]monochromal) (or here)
PG-13, HP/DM. Summary: Insanity. "What is dream and what is real? Sometimes it's hard to differentiate."

Eight Times, by [info]fabularasa (link to the main page; search by author or title) #
SS/SB; NC17; novella. Summary: "How many times will it take to undo them both?" It has two interwoven narrative strands, one present, one past, and they catch up with each other in the end.

An Exercise in the Second Person, by [info]thysanotus
RL/SB, RL/SB/JP, unrequited SB/JP; R. Written for the [info]quadrashag Drabble Remix.

Facilis Descensus Averno, by [info]kalichan and [info]rm (link to the first part; further click the "next" button; or go to the comm [info]descensus_hp and browse) NR
Multiple, het and slash, up to NC-17, WIP, mixed-media fic. See the long summary here. Several time-lines, non-linear narration.

Facts, by Michiru Cugami
RW/DM; PG-13; short chaptered fic. Summary: "There's a way to get Draco out of Death Eaters' hands and right under Voldemort's very nose, even. And Ron has to." It is the same rescue scene viewed by five different people.

Fide, sed qui, vide, by Cirque Du Sangre #
SS/DM, SS/LM, SS/HP, DM/LM; NC-17. ~8000 words. Warnings: character death, violence, angst. If you want summary, check the author's notes at the bottom, although mind that they are very spoilery, so I wouldn't recommend it.

Fifty-three Stories About Snape and Black, by Amanuensis ([info]amanuensis1) #
SS/SB; short; humour. Summary: "A parody written for the Intimate Enemies (Snape/Black) FQF, consisting of all 53 challenges, answered." Variations on the theme fic.

Finale: The Options, by zahra ([info]hackthis) #
HP/DM; PG; short. Summary: "One story, three endings." Variations on the theme fic.

Fire and Ice, by [info]dreamfall_ff
HP/SS; PG-13; one-shot, poem-fic. Quote: "He never understood why I love that poem. Was always amused and, perhaps, a bit concerned that I could be so deeply touched by something about the end of the world. I could never explain that it was about us, as surely as if Frost had been watching us as he wrote." The fic switches between past and present without warning.

Fire on Babylon, by victoria p. ([info]musesfool)
Draco/Various (het and slash); NC-17, one-shot. Summary: "I am the last, and now, the only. The omega and the alpha." The story is told backwords.

The five deaths of Harry Potter, by [info]jezzabe #
Gen; R, one-shot. Summary: Our memories lie all the time. Add to that the chaos that erupts in war, and you have an extremely confused version of events.

Five MORE Ways to Make Remus Lupin Cry, by [info]anniesj
RL/SB; PG; one-shot.

Five People Ted Tonks Met in Heaven, by [info]eudaimon
Gen; PG-13, one-shot. A/N: In a recent fic, You and Me and the Rain (Hermione/Tonks), I killed off Ted Tonks. This is what I owed him. I took the title from the novel FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN by Mitch Albom. Illustrated (after a fashion).

Five Things That Never Happened to Harry Potter, by [info]cloudsurfing
HP/DM; PG, one-shot. Summary: "Post-War, the Light won. Variations on a theme."

Five Things That Never Happened to Lily Evans (Potter), by [info]krabapple
Gen; G; one-shot. Summary: "See the title. Five different moments. Five different ways Lily's life might have gone." The fic is formally linear, but each part is from different AU.

Five Things That Never Happened to Severus Snape by [info]darth_stitch
Gen; R, one-shot. Summary: "Five things that wouldn't happen to everyone's favorite Potions Master. Or maybe it would. Some slashy hints of HPSS and SSRL."

Five Things That Never Happened to Susan Bones, by [info]jenna_thorn
Gen; various ratings; one-shot.

Five Wanks that Never Happened, by [info]h_squintwize
NL/HP; R, one-shot. AU Summary: "I've always wanted to write a 'five things' fic, and so here one is. It's five wanks that never happened between Neville and Harry."

Five Ways Remus Lupin Never Raised Harry Potter, by [info]juliette_kelley #
RL/SB; PG-13; one-shot. Summary: "Five scenes. Five different ways Remus Lupin could have raised Harry Potter, but didn t." Notes: Each AU scene follows canon until one particular event happens differently.

Five Ways That Sirius Black Never Returned from the Dead..., by [info]allecto #
Gen; G. As the title says, 5 versions of Sirius' afterlife.

Five Ways to Make Remus Lupin Cry, by Circe ([info]circe_tigana)
RL/SB; R; one-shot.

For Things Not at Hand, by [info]empathic_siren #
SS/HP, R, two parts. Warnings: Character death, but not Harry or Severus. Summary: "What gets you through the despair, the loneliness, the fear? What do you set your sights on? How do you find the courage to hope when all seems lost?"

For Your Life, by [info]agnes_bean
HP/DM, HP/GW implied, PG, ficlet. Summary: Sometimes life is not what you expect. A/N: My last bit from hogsmeade_elite. This fic was written for a challenge where we had to tell the story backwards (the first scene coming after the second, the second after the third, etc. etc.)

Four Moments of Mourning, by Kanzeyori ([info]permetaform) #
HP/DM; DM/RW; PG-13; one-shot. Summary: "Would you die for him? Once for every moment of time?" Structure is based on grammar tenses.

Four Truths and a Lie, by [info]florahart
SS/RL; R, ficlet. A/N: Written in 30 minutes on a bit of a whim, this is five 100-word drabbles, based on the meme that goes around every now and then in which a person tells four truths and a lie and invites others to guess which is the lie.

A Fracture of the Mind's Eye, by Rushlight ([info]rushlight75) ##
Harry/various; NC-17; novella. Summary: "A tragedy at the end of Harry's seventh year makes him redefine his perception of reality."

Ghosts, by [info]switchknife
SS/LM; SS/HP; PG-13; one-shot. Quote: "Snape's often visited by ghosts." Not exactly non-linear, but not linear either.

Give and It Shall Be Given Unto You, by [info]kaiz (or here) #
HP/SS; HP/SS/LM; others implied; NC-17. Summary: "Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable." Warnings are at the bottom, in case you want to see them first. The story uses a dual timeline past/present device, where changes in tense to mark switches between past and present events, some of which happen within the same scene.

the green block: conversation, by [info]vignette00
HP/DM; PG.

The Green of His Eyes, by Rune Scriptor
SS/HP; R, one-shot. Summary: "Snape finds a loop-hole in magic." Warning: Character death.

A Half a Conquest, by Arkady ([info]wired_lizard)
Riddle-centric. R for non-graphic descriptions of sex, BDSM, torture, and rape. Summary: "Patterns repeat through history: Tom was not the first to be haunted by his enemy's former self, and Tom was not the first to preserve his own self. Young Tom Riddle, young Albus Dumbledore."

Harry Potter and the Orb of Slytherin, by mcjazzman32 NR
Het: Harry/Hermione. PG-13. Complete. Post-HBP. Summary: "The world hangs on the courage of one person: Harry Potter. In a struggle between two different kinds of magic, that of love and hate, Harry must find the will to overcome the Evil One." It jumps between two timelines that come together in the middle of the story.

Head Over Feet, by [info]emmagrant01 (lead author) & Co
HP/DM; gen and HP/?? Ratings vary. Summary: "Ten years after the defeat of Voldemort, Draco Malfoy is making a living as a successful con artist -- until the day a mysterious wizard offers him a job Draco finds he can't refuse." Choose your own adventure type of story.

Heartbeat, by Amalin ([info]monochromal)
PG-ish, HP/DM; Summary: "Twisting time, cheating death, tasting tears, missing you." The story is told backwards.

History Repeating, by [info]kleio_the_muse
SS/SB, R, one-shot, taking place partly during GoF, partly right after OotP. Summary: "There are certain things that deserve to be remembered." The fic switches between past and present without warning.

Hoping Victory, by [info]prurient_badger
Percy/Charlie, Percy/Bill, NC-17; one-shot. No summary given.

How It All Began -- A Christmas Story, by dink NR
Gen; G, chaptered fic. Summary: "This story will explain a few things about Christmas, hopefully in an original and convincing way. There are 24 chapters and each chapter will be set in December. The years for each chapter won't necessarily follow in chronological order." Two timelines, but in a non-chronological order.

i said, maybe you're gonna be the one that saves me: five things that never happened to ronald bilius weasley, by Kel ([info]throughadoor) #
Ron/Viktor, Ron/Harry, PG-13; one-shot. It's linear narrative but the parts are from different universes, so it's not that linear, after all.

I've seen how you look at him, by Nancy
SS/depends on ending; R or Adult depending on ending. Complete. Summary: "Someone sees behind Snape's mask, and uses it against him." The fic has several variations of the ending.

The Impossible (Fear), by Libertine ([info]luciusmalfoy) #
SS/HP; NC-17; one-shot. Summary: "Snape's fantasies about Harry are realized, but Lucius is there to tell him just what a mistake it could all be. (Complete)" This fic doesn't offer its reader definite borders of
'versions'; it's "variations on a theme" fic.

It Goes Like This, by [info]snake_easing #
HP/RW; NC-17, one-shot. Summary: "This story is almost 'three things that never happened to so-and-so', except it's the same thing each time--Harry and Ron play on opposing Quidditch teams."

It's Warm Today, by [info]lovessacrifice
SB/RL; PG-13. Summary: "Post OOTP, Remus talks with Harry and reflects on a time with Sirius." Note: This is a mostly nonlinear story. It will make more sense if you consider sentences that have "had" or "then" to be from the past, and those without "had" or with "now" to be in the story's "present" so to speak.

Je n en Connais Pas la Fin Trilogy (PG), by zahra ([info]hackthis): I: Table for Two, II: Things to do When Your Lover is Dead, III: Tea for Ghosts ##
HP/DM; PG; short. Summary: "I don't know the ending". Three versions of a story.

The Joys of Teaching, by [info]srtcfics ([info]tcregan and [info]srichard)
Snape/Bill, Snape/Tonks, Snape/Charlie; NC-17, consists of one chapter (link above) and three endings: The Joys of Teaching - Tonks Ending, The Joys of Teaching - Bill Ending, The Joys of Teaching - Charlie Ending. Summary: "Severus Snape discovers just how difficult it is to teach. A choose-your-own-ending story."

Kamikaze, by [info]naatz
Gennish, Ron-centric, PG-13, one-shot. Summary: Stopping a war in the middle isn't easy when one of the sides isn't as enthusiastic as the other.

Keeping Secrets, by [info]pitchblackrose (or here) #
SS/DM; SS/LM and DM/LM implied NC-17. Summary: "Severus and Draco are at once united and divided by their past." It's not exactly non-linear because there's no usual narrative, but it's not linear for sure, so...

King Tide, by [info]blythely #
Draco/Harry, R; one-shot. Scenes from different timelines in turn.

The Last Wyvern, by Essy #
G; gen; short. Summary: "The Last Wyvern is a fable told by the four founders in an attempt to direct the attentions of their students. Each founder ended the tale at a different point with a different moral and all four versions are recorded here as they appear on page 1267 of Hogwarts: A History."

A Lexicon of Faith and Loss, by victoria p. ([info]musesfool)
SB/RL; R, one-shot. Summary: "Sirius Black and Remus Lupin from A to Z."

Like Breathing, by [info]tartanshell #
HP/DM, implied RL/AM; NC-17; one-shot. Author's notes: Five things that could have been. Some are AU.

The Love Song of Sirius Black, by [info]kaydeefalls #
SB/RL; PG-13; long one-shot. based on and with excerpts from t. s. eliot's "the love song of j. alfred prufrock." The fic is formally linear, but each part is from different AU; the type is "five things that..."

Maps to the Stars' Homes, by [info]lizbee #
Canon ships; PG-13, novelette. Summary: Following the war, Harry buys a plane ticket and leaves, but the memories keep following him.

Maturity, by [info]fluffyllama
SS/RL; R; one-shot. Written for the Intimate Enemies fest. Challenge: No. 12 - The boys have detention together. (Tasogare) Two timelines in turn.

Memento, by Emila-Wan Kenobi ([info]emila_wan) #
SS/HP; NC-17, one-shot. Summary: "Harry has just recovered his memories after being obliviated multiple times."

Memento Mori, by [info]shaychana (or here)
RL/SB, R, one-shot. Summary: "Remus remembers Sirius – a story of love and tragedy." The story goes backwards in time.

new Moments of War, by [info]dracos_doll
Snape/Harry, R, short. Summary: "Trusting in shadows is not an easy thing to do." The story is told backwards.

Neither Here Nor There, by zahra ([info]hackthis) #
HP/DM; PG; short. Summary: "Draco could die in the winter." Variations on the theme fic.

Nettle Soup and Gooseberries (R), by [info]tryfanstone (link to the post where you can comment; link to the fic leads from there) ##
SS/HP, NC-17, novella. Summary: "An old-fashioned romance, this tale concerns the trials and tribulations of the star-crossed lovers Master Harry Potter and Professor Severus Snape, being a tale of some ingenuity and divers complication."

Never Let Me Down Again, by petulantgod NR
Remus/Sirius; NC-17, novel-length. Has alternate epilogues where Remus's paired up with different characaters. Written for [info]pervy_werewolf's Lusty Month of May challenge. This is a series of
one-shots following a single story arc beginning during GoF.

Never Mind, by [info]naatz (or here)
SS/HP; PG-13, one-shot. Summary: \\ the smile looks rotten and evil. He likes it that way. \\ If only Severus could let go and realise what he would gain by doing that.

Nine and Sixty Ways by Go Seaward [info]goseaward #
SS/DM; R, one-shot. Summary: Nine and sixty ways it could have gone for Snape and Draco after the end of HBP.

Oh Night Divine: Five Christmases with Percy Weasley, by Becky M_____ ([info]biichan)
Percy/Penelope, Percy/Lucius; PG-13; one-shot. Summary: "Five Christmases with Percy Weasley and Penelope Clearwater." The story consists of 5 scenes shown backwards.

The Olive Branch, by The Goblet ([info]goblet) (click the "next" button to read the following chapters)
RL/SS; NC-17; chaptered fic; Mpreg. Summary: "Snape was not successfully rescued during the Shrieking Shack incident. Moony had better uses than lunch for the stray two-legger wandering into his territory." Written as a series of flashbacks. Each chapter starts with a flashback to the past and ends in the present where Severus and Remus are being interrogated about the events of the past nine months.

One Honest Heart, by Andreas ([info]kayen) #
HP/DM; R; novella. Summary: "A missing Dementor leaves Azkaban in turmoil. 'That was when the news broke about the other story, the one I would eventually be the only one left to cover. The only one left alive.'" The narrative shifts continuously from past to present and between different POVs and narrative techniques, in the manner of, say, some modern(ist) crime fiction. The pieces coalesce eventually, interacting with each other in ways that aren't always obvious. Ergo, not a piece for light afternoon reading. (crime/thriller/horror)

Oscillate Wildly, by Marks ([info]marksykins) (R-rated version is here) ##
HP/DM; NC-17; novel-length. Summary: "After a particularly gruelling Occlumency session, Harry practically comes apart at the seams and finds himself living partway between two lives. One is his life at Hogwarts. In the other, he's been in a mental institution for the better part of six years. What happens when Harry realises his whole life may be one elaborate fantasy?"

Our Masters in the Flesh, by Penumbra ([info]pen_and_umbra) #
SS/RL; NC-17, long one-shot. Summary: "Masters leave marks, within and without. It's as if I were cleaning the cupboards of my mind and underneath every bag of flour and tin of tea, there is a cockroach."

Oxygen Narcosis, by Nope ([info]nopejr)
SS/SB; R; one-shot. Lake, Giant Squid, Snape and Sirius drowning. The story has a secondary (backwards) narrative.

Paris, by [info]abbycadabra (or here) ##
HP/DM, R; long one-shot. Summary: "So you want us to keep running? To run and hide? Until when, Malfoy? Until they win or lose? Forever?" Repetetive flashbacks.

Polyjuice: Collateral Damage, by Silvia Kundera
HP/DM; one-shot; warning: character death. Summary: "I fake it so real I am beyond fake. [to be read from present to past. white, black, and then gray.]"

Preface, by [info]electricandroid #
LM/DM; NC-17; one-shot. The narrative line is mixed with the quotes from The preface to Dorian Grey by Oscar Wilde.

Pursuing, by Kayelle
HP/SS; R. Short, chaptered. Summary: "When Harry disappears, Severus goes after him." The structure is based on alternating past and present timelines; the present timeline is straight, the past isn't.

Quartet Grotesque by [info]corvus_coronis
Gen, LV/BL, HP/SS; PG-13, one-shot. Mpreg, AU. Summary: "Written for Challenge #1 of the [info]porkish_pixies LJ community "

Reads, by Nope ([info]nopejr) ##
HP/DM; NC-17; darkfic. Summary: "Harry, Draco, Books, Bodies, days in Summer and Winter and the beginning and end of everything and nothing." Three alternating lines of the story, in different styles and fonts.

Red Herring, by Laura Smith ([info]romanticalgirl)
Het: HrG/Fred; NC-17; novel-length. Summary: "Just because there's a last laugh doesn't mean it's funny." The fic has two endings, 'Hopeful Romantic' and 'Hopeless Romantic'.

Regression, by [info]happiestwhen
RL/JP; R. The fic progresses backwards, through sectioned glimpses that jump back through time from Post-PoA back to Marauder-era.

Remus Re-erected, by [info]sheepybunbuns #
HP/RL, also RL/SB in the past; R or NC-17, depends on whether you read NC-17 scenes that are put separately. Chaptered novella. Summary: "Just before Harry begins his 6th year at Hogwarts, Remus unintentionally gets involved in a wind-up designed to make Dudley jealous, and this results in an unexpected intimacy between Harry and Remus. As Remus tries to present the same face to the outside world that he has always shown, whilst having an illicit relationship and falling in love, he finally learns what s important in life and what his priorities really are." Two timelines: every chapter begins in the past that gets compared to the present.

Rococo, by [info]spessartine
Regulus/Various, Sirius/Harry; R, one-shot. Two timelines.

Room Thirteen, by Diana Williams ([info]dkwilliams)
SS/RL, SS/SB, SS/LM, SS/V, SS/DM, SS/HP; NC-17. Summary: "Over the years, Room 13 of The Three Broomsticks sees a wide variety of couples." Two timelines.

Roses Are Red -- A tragedy in five acts, by [info]cluegirl #
Genish, Bellatrix/Rudolphus with a side of Draco/??; NC17 for extremely violent content.

Shadow's Side Story, by Jemma (mind that it's in one file, >1000K) #
SS/HP; NC-17; novel-length. Summary: "Severus Snape presents a conundrum within the canon, as he is a protagonist portrayed as an antagonist. In this novel-style analysis, possibilities are examined and details are reconciled." Author's Notes: In order to understand the story, it is essential that you keep track of the "Fragmentum" dates. The story is divided into chapters of two separate timelines: recent (1997) and past events (beginning with 1963).

Something to Live for, by Accio Snape at A Turn of the Page (you'll need password)
HP/SS; R; novella. Warnings: suicidal themes. Summary: "Harry has lost his will to live and actively tries to commit suicide with Snape as equally determined he not. Bittersweet, it is an accurate portrayal of what goes on in the mind of someone in the throes of incurable depression and the reactions and helplessness of those around them. Contains both endings." The fic has two endings.

Songs to a Sorrowing Heart, by [info]thysanotus
HP/DM, HP/RW; R, one-shot. Warnings: Character death, Catholic themes.

Speed of Pain, by [info]wastedwinky
HP/DM; R, one-shot. Warnings: violence. Summary: "Draco wants revenge, Harry wants absolution." Two timelines.

Striking Thirteen, by Deirdre Riordan #
SS/HP; PG-13; WIP (on hiatus?). Summary: "Friday the 13th has some...interesting effects on magic. Harry deals with the consequences." Unmarked swithes of realities.

The Tale of the Shining Prince, by [info]olympia_m ## (is down; possibly removed)
HP/DM as the main pairing, HP/various, Snape/Lucius, Snape/Lupin, NC-17; novel-length series. A jumble of past/present story fragments told from different POVs.
Sequels can be found here.

Teiresias, by [info]alibi_factory
Gen, PG. One-shot. Draco foretells his own death, then tries to prevent it.

that could have been the beginning of the end if i wasn't already in the middle, by [info]throughadoor
MMWP-era fic; Gen; one-shot. It's four different povs but instead of progressing along a linear timeline with alternating pov, you see the entire timeline from four perspectives in sequence.

that the science of cartography is limited, by [info]dorkorific #
RL/SB; R. Summary: "There is a part of Remus that not only believes, but knows, that Sirius will come back." Two timelines.

That was then. This is now, by Lantana ([info]lantaana)
LM/HP; NC-17; ficlet. Summary: "Things don't always go as planned." Two timelines interwoven.

Thirteen Ways, by Sinope ([info]eponis) (or here) ##
SS/RL; R. Summary: "Lupin and Snape don't have the luxury of new beginnings." The narrative goes back and forth, it's not continuous either.

This is how it goes (Four Ways), by Ociwen
HP/DM; NC-17, one-shot. Summary: "It can go four ways. Post-Hogwarts H/D."

This is My Truth, Tell Me Yours, by zahra ([info]hackthis) #
SB/RL; PG-13; short. Summary: "Summary: There's only one story in the entire world and everything else is a variation thereof." Variations on the theme fic.

This Living Hand, by [info]millefiori #
DM/SS; genish, one-shot; PG-13. Summary: "Snape is determined to keep Draco Malfoy from becoming a Death Eater. Harry is witness to the consequences." Two timelines in turn, 1997-98 and 2006.
A companion story: The Night's Starred Face.

to the lighthouse, by [info]pogrebin
Ginny; PG-13/R-ish; Summary: "She s grown up now, and she doesn t believe in prophecies. You make your own fate, but when she tries to spin out a new future for herself she pricks her finger--"

Two Lost Souls, by Amalin ([info]monochromal)
PG-13, HP/DM; chaptered fic. Summary: "We're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl, year after year..." A collection of seasonal pieces from Draco's point of view spanning just over three years, following the developing relationship of Harry and Draco." The story has an alternative ending.

Un Dieu Anonyme, by [info]switchknife and Variation on Un Dieu Anonyme, by Duinn Fionn ([info]geoviki) #
DM/HP; M and PG-13, AU. Un Dieu Anonyme is WIP (on hiatus). Summary: "A Muggle AU in which Draco Malfoy has all the fame, and Harry Potter is the outcast..." The Variation is the same plot only told from Draco's POV, while Un Dieu Anonyme is from Harry's.

Untitled, by [info]justwallpaper
James/Sirius, PG-13, one-shot.

Upon Once A Time, by Nope ([info]nopejr)
Het: Narcissa/Dean; NC-17; darkfic; one-shot. Summary: "Dean Thomas is an all grown up artiste and, when Narcissa Malfoy attends his gallery opening, painting ensues." Intermittent fragments of different timelines.

The Upper Deep, by [info]atrata (link to part 3; previous parts are linked from there) #
HP/SS; R. Chort chaptered fic, WIP (on hiatus?), 3 of 4 chapters are posted. Summary: "Reality is the stuff of dreams. Or possibly the stuff of poison." Only part 1 is non-linear.

Useless Variations, by blue ([info]egoteabsolvo) (you'll need password)
HP/DM, NC-17. Summary: Aria with Eight Variations.

Vincent, by [info]luciademedici (or on LJ, with author's notes) #
Gen; PG-13, one-shot. Summary: "But I could've told you, Vincent: this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you..." The story is told backwards.

Walking Shadow, by [info]pogrebin
PG-13, one-shot. Summary:" There is a story here, just one thread in the knotted up wool ball of history, stretched out and twisted, curled around a finger like a noose. It is not truth, because it is words, and in the sin of writing down life, it changes. July 31st 2030: for the second time in his life, Harry Potter makes a choice. Truth. Words. Fate. Reality. Magic. And stories themselves. Stylistic metafiction."

Wash Me Throughly, by Thevina ([info]thrihyrne)
RL/RW or RL/SS, depends on the ending; NC-17, one-shot. Summary: "Two years after the War is over, Remus serves as caretaker for Ron while removing an unexpectedly-inflicted curse. Ron finds that he may be grateful to Remus for more than just his healer's abilities, but will he garner the nerve to say anything?"

The Way I Smile, by [info]atrata (or here)
HP/SS; R; one-shot. Summary: "Sometimes you make me feel like I'm living at the edge of the world / "It's just the way I smile," you said."

The Way That You Keep Screaming, by [info]ellis_dilwigger
SB/HP; NC-17, one-shot. Summary: "The truth was not always what it appeared." Warnings: Non-con, breath play, [implied] chan, bondage, bestiality, snuff.

What Dreams May Come, by [info]rushlight75
PG to NC-17. Multiple Harry pairings; long. Warning: you can't know where the path will lead you, so mind the warnings: rape/non-con and dub-con, character death, violence, incest; some parts are pretty dark. This is an interactive novel.

Whatever Life Brings (la vita è bella), by [info]furiosity
HP/DM; R, one-shot. Warning(s): Dark themes, smoking fetish, allusions to drug use, non-linear narrative, present tense. Summary: The war changed everything, the morning paper sings. Friends become estranged and enemies share a bed, the sky falls down and the earth flies up into the empty space it left behind. And then the war is over, but nothing goes back to normal.


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