Best Long Harry Potter Fanfics
Harry Potter fanfics in the 50k–100k range — full novel length without the multi-week commitment. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 25 Long Harry Potter Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Harry Potter fics — 50,000–100,000 words.
Running on Air
by eleventy7
Draco Malfoy has been missing for three years. Harry is assigned the cold case and finds himself slowly falling in love with the memories he collects.
Tea and No Sympathy
by who_la_hoop
It's Potter's fault, of course, that Draco finds himself trapped in the same twenty-four-hour period, repeating itself over and over again. It's been nearly a year since the unpleasant business at Hogwarts, and Draco's getting on with his life quite nicely, thank you, until Harry sodding Potter step
Full circle
by tetsurashian
(aka 'how to survive endless rebirth with your so-called soulmate')Harry and Tom’s souls are tied together. Which is why they’re in this endless loop of rebirth. At some point, they stopped caring and just started fucking with people.(cracky humor with a hint of seriousness and plot, my specialty)
Right Hand Red
by lq_traintracks (lumosed_quill)
Harry felt Malfoy's breath on his lips as they came together over the bottle, hands firmly planted on the floor as though they each needed their familiar soil, refusing to cross into enemy territory. Except that Malfoy no longer felt like his enemy. Malfoy felt inevitable.
Another Mind Game
by May_May_0_0
Harry’s occlumency reveals his disturbing home life which sets off a chain reaction that cannot be undone. Snape finds himself begrudgingly caring about the bespectacled boy, Harry discovers what it's like to have adults who care, and Hermione finds herself becoming an accidental crime lord. Draco M
A Big Black Sky
by alexmeg
Draco shifts his head as he turns to look at Scorpius, his cheek touching the pillow. "Did you know that…" He pauses, his throat convulsing, and it sounds audible in the silence, besides Michael's steady, even breathing from the other bedroom. Scorpius is staring back at him, in wait of something ne
The Same, But Different
by SomewheresSword
Harry spends the whole summer before fourth year feeling restless. He chalks it up to the weird dreams he's been having, assuming Voldemort is responsible. And for some dreams, that's true - but what about the other ones? The ones that feel... familiar?Back at school, things change one morning in Se
Dear Cousin, Love Regulus
by LLAP115
Letters from his deceased cousin caused Draco to realize that he had choices, starting with the choice to be someone else, to be who he wanted to be.The road to self-discovery was difficult and navigating that path in the shadow of Harry Potter was its own challenge but maybe, just maybe, his friend
The Meaning of Dandelions
by Endrina
The stupid hat was stupid and refused to help Harry. The whole school and its division in houses was stupid too, and the teachers.Harry was in Hogwarts, but he didn't want to be. He wanted to go back home.
Draco Malfoy and the Year When Everyone Suddenly Paid Attention to Him
by DracoWillHearAboutThis
By the start of his sixth year at Hogwarts, Draco had sort of gotten used to slipping under the radar of his fellow students. It was a natural side-effect of being a member of the closest circle of The Boy Who Lived, newly dubbed The Chosen One. So it was a bit of an understatement to say that he wa
Yeah, My Boyfriend's Pretty Cool (But Not as Cool as Me)
by paintmegrey
James and Regulus are nominated for the same award. The media starts calling them rivals.In truth, James is honest to god so hot for Regulus, but he just loves stirring up the Media. Chaos ensues.
occulta proditione
by goldenhjp
Harry was betrayed by the very people he used to call family. The minute he was killed, he assumed he would finally get to see his mother and father in the afterlife. He didn't know that he would somehow appear in the past, in his fourth year, heartbroken by the p
Just what the doctor ordered
by WrappedUp
This is the story of how Sirius Black finds a dog. Except, it's not really that. This is the story of how Sirius Black finds a dog and meets a skilled veterinary surgeon with crinkly eyes and dimples in his cheeks. Except, that's not really it either. This is the story of how Sirius black finds a do
A storm across time
by Overlocked
An accident transports Harry back in time where he endeavors to save as many people as he can.
That Awful Boy
by paracosim
Petunia lets slip a twenty-year-old secret, and Harry is sent to Spinner's End to study Occlumency early. Severus Snape can see no way in which this could end in catastrophe.
Breaking the Mold
by Komodo_Butterfly
Everyone knew Severus' future. Everyone knew he'd become a death eater, maybe get his mastery in potions and eventually die at his master's hand. But what if they didn't know Severus as well as they thought they did? Rather than conform to the role people expected him to play, Severus takes action.
Flight 143
by thebiinbitch
They met when they were eleven. They fell in love when they were thirteen. When they are twenty-five, they meet again after half a decade. The only thing is — they'll have to sit together throughout an entire flight.
A Twisted Second Chance
by kingof_princes
Severus Snape was ready to embrace death, bleeding out on the cold floor of the Shrieking Shack after Nagini's deadly attack. He had made peace with his end—relief, even, at the thought of escaping a life of torment and regret.So why, in the ever-twisted fabric of fate, did he wake up in his fifteen
The Harry Potter Conundrum
by JasminSky
Summary: Death always had a strange sense of humour, so when his Master was hit by the killing curse courtesy of his “best friends” he brought him back through time to the one he loved beyond everything but who had been ripped from him during the war. What Death however hadn’t put into consideration
The Goblet of Fire and Jesus Fucking Christ! What the Actual Fuck is Wrong with You People?!
by Tired_Wandering_Soul
Goblet of fire AU. This is gonna be fun.
Princes of Silver and Gold
by sifshadowheart
The Next Great Adventure wasn't quite what Harry had expected. First, he hadn't thought he'd be reborn as a baby. Let alone to a family of dragon-mad royals.
Love They Haven't Thought Of Yet
by Anonymous
Boy Who Lived, Saviour of the Wizarding World, Defeater of Grindelwald, never received his Hogwarts Letter. Five years later, a 16-year-old Harry Potter is found on the streets of London and immediately sent to Hogwarts, where he catches the eye of one Professor Tom Riddle. When Harry is sorted into
Against all Odds
by Maril
“Oh no, please, no!” Percival interrupted him, obviously knowing what the older man was talking about. “I read about it, it´s irreversible and binding…” His horrified eyes glanced at Newt before he closed them. “Mercy fucking Lewis–”“Percival Galahad Graves!”“– he´s just a child!” Percival hissed, g
I love you, I love you(r k)not
by melanie_bxx
When Draco unexpectedly shows up at Harry’s doorstep, injured and in his pre-heat, Harry finds no reason not to help him. It wouldn’t mean anything to him after all. Or so he believes.
Merlin: A Hogwarts History
by Mamalazzer
After spending the better part of a thousand years as a professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Merlin had given up hope that he would ever see Arthur again. Then Christmas 1993 happened and Sybil Trelawney wheezed out a prophecy about the return of the Once and Future King.As ecsta
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About This List
This list of 25long Harry Potter fanfics spans 1,943,005 total words. Kudos range from 4,741 on the newest entries to 71,189 on the most established. 76% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Mature (9 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Slow Burn · Alternate Universe · Master of Death Harry Potter · Reincarnation · Child Abuse.
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