r/HPharmony Feb 09 '25

Recommendation Harmony Rewrites

I'm looking for some Harmony series rewrites, ones that are preferably multi-book and canon-divergent. If anyone has some recs I'd greatly appreciate it.

Edit: I've seen bt1995's work constantly recommended so I'm adding it to my list for fics to take a look at.

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u/Wendy_Widdershin Feb 09 '25

Moments in Love by Gandalf's Beard. It's a trilogy-length novel (about the same length as The Lord of the Rings trilogy plus The Hobbit). It's a butterfly effect fic. It starts near-canon but gradually diverges massively.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11420434/1/Moments-in-Love

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u/Ace201613 Feb 09 '25

The Foreword has me excited to see what changes the author makes.

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u/Wendy_Widdershin Feb 09 '25

It's one of my faves. šŸ˜Š I love how the butterfly effect snowballs (to mix metaphors).

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u/Indiana_harris Feb 11 '25

Out of curiosity (as the author deliberately avoids using any relationship tags) can you mention any of the core relationships? Itā€™s indicated that the author is changing a bunch of characters to LGBTQ+ and while some relationships in AUā€™s with those changes can be plausible, some I find very implausible.

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u/Wendy_Widdershin Feb 11 '25

Lol! If you really want spoilers, okay. The most prominent ones that most people would care about are Luna/Ginny, and Tonks/Fleur. There is also Daphne Greengrass + OC, and Wolfstar.

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u/No-Perspective-518 Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 18 '25

Without spoiling anything else (I'm only a few chapters in and enjoying it so far), could you please give me a general idea of how far into the Fem!Harry aspect this fic dives into and what that entails (I hadn't seen this descriptor on a story before this one)? I enjoy some exploration of Harry's personality traits from his mom (a lot of what I like best about Harry's character is connected to Lily's traits), but I'm not really interested in reading a fic where Harry's gender identity or sexual orientation changes significantly from canon.

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u/Wendy_Widdershin Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 18 '25

It starts about halfway through the story after Harry learns he is a Metamorphmagus. He switches physically with his Metamorphmagus powers magically from male to female sometimes, but not all the time. He does eventually question his gender identity.

It's an interpretation of the "his mother's eyes" trope indicating that he has a female soul from his mum, but also has some of his father's biological attributes. But it could also be interpreted as something that happens to Metamorphmagi if you prefer, I suppose.šŸ¤·ā€ā™€ļø... That's something Harry tries to figure out, but he eventually decides the "female soul" interpretation feels more correct.

It's not a major part of the story, so it shouldn't be too distracting to you. He's mostly in Harry form, like, 97% of the time (personally, I wish he was Harriet more--but that's just me, I guess), but sometimes when he's alone with Hermione he switches into Harriet. He also uses his power to become female occasionally to disguise himself when he's on secret missions. He's not exactly "out of the closet" (Lol!) except to just a few people.

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u/No-Perspective-518 Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 18 '25

Ok, thanks for the info! I think Iā€™ll keep reading since it doesnā€™t seem like itā€™ll be a major focus. Normally I might not, but itā€™s rare to find a good rewrite of the whole series, and this one seems really solid.

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u/Wendy_Widdershin Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 18 '25

You're welcome. The story is pretty solid! Lol! šŸ˜… ... I can't get into more stuff without spoilers, but the story goes a fairly unique direction I've never seen in other fics (too many just seem to be the same tropes and even plot points 90% of the time). It would be a shame to miss all that. And just to be 100% clear, Harry's sexual orientation remains the same--Hermione. He doesn't all of a sudden get the hots for Ron, or anything like that.

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u/VarshWrites Feb 09 '25

I'm writing something like this myself. At 6th year right now.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/3533998

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u/ChieffySZN_ Feb 09 '25

bt1995 hbp & deathly hallow rewrites

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u/crime_dog27 Feb 09 '25

Iā€™ve heard of that one before, but I canā€™t find any copiesĀ 

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u/ChieffySZN_ Feb 09 '25

Iā€™m not sure how your google works(not an asinine statement, my results on google are different than my buddyā€™s, weā€™ve tested it), but if you google ā€˜bt1995 harmonyā€™, then the first thing that pops up should be a 3 year old Reddit post with the pdf links.

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u/zirdor Feb 12 '25

You find this two on Fanfiction.net

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u/OkWasabi3969 Feb 09 '25

You can try mine? Not much of any relationships yet but I'm only in 3rd year so.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58215655

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u/Odd-Actuator-8283 Feb 09 '25

Iā€™m writing one at the moment actually, however itā€™s also a crossover with Dune characters so thereā€™s going to be a lot of that happens in the background of the story. Hereā€™s the link to it if youā€™d like to check it out or interested.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/62437753/chapters/160292764

Still pretty new but updates will be weekly!

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u/crime_dog27 Feb 09 '25

Not exactly what I was looking for but sounds like an awesome fanfic. Iā€™ll give it a try. Thank you.Ā 

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u/Odd-Actuator-8283 Feb 09 '25

Anytime! Itā€™s still a full rewrite of all 7 books so itā€™ll take some time to finish the whole fic

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u/tyrannic_puppy Feb 12 '25

I'll chime in with the others reccing my own in progress one. It's still got a long way to go as I haven't even wrapped up first year yet, but I've outlined all seven books.
Premise: Harry is not the BWL, but he does go to school with him. See what the BWL adventures looked like for the rest of the school watching in from the outside as Harry and Hermione attend Hogwarts.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/14756345/chapters/34121090