Best Short Harry Potter Fanfics
Harry Potter novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3 and ranked by kudos.
Top 25 Short Harry Potter Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Mid-length Harry Potter fics — 10,000–50,000 words.
Then Comes a Mist and a Weeping Rain
by Faith Wood (faithwood)
It always rains for Draco Malfoy. Metaphorically. And literally. Ever since he had accidentally Conjured a cloud. A cloud that's ever so cross.
The Standard You Walk Past
by bafflinghaze
On returning to Hogwarts for their Eighth Year, Headmistress McGonagall decided to room Draco Malfoy and Harry Potter together. She may have hoped for a leading example of house unity; the other students fully expected insults and fights. But nothing happened.That was, until Harry sleepwalked into D
you've got the antidote for me
by Kandakicksass
When Harry Potter unintentionally severs their soulbond before it can fully form, Draco Malfoy resigns himself to a slow death and decides not to burden Harry with a soulmate he's made it very clear he doesn't want.He's never been selfless before, but for Harry, he can try.
that’s the art of getting by
by sarewolf
“What do you want me to do?” Remus says, tiredly. All he wants is to curl up on his bed. Smoke a pack of cigarettes. Get drunk. He can’t stop looking at Harry. “Remus...” Dumbledore is gentle. Remus hates when he has that tone. Hates that he knows it will hurt. “There is no one else left.” A bitter
An Issue of Consequence
by Faith Wood (faithwood)
Draco has woken up in an alternate universe. Or he has woken up utterly insane. Nothing else can possibly explain why Harry Potter suddenly seems to think he's Draco's boyfriend.
Hey, Potter
by SunseticMonster
Harry returns to Hogwarts for his 8th year, determined not to let Malfoy get to him. But when the snarky teasing starts up again, Harry finds that returning the jibes with compliments has a far more interesting outcome.
Slithering
by astolat
Draco found the nest down in the Manor’s cellars, while he was clearing them out.
Hungry
by birdsofshore
The first thing Harry knew about it was when he woke up lying on a bed in the hospital wing, with his arm firmly stuck to the scrawny, milk-white arm of Draco bloody Malfoy.
Just a Few Changes (will Keep you Safe)
by Blueseabird2
It's been over five years since Voldemort's defeat when Harry Potter gets pushed through a portal and falls into the Great Hall of Hogwarts. This wouldn't be a problem, exactly, except it's his parents' Hogwarts instead of his own. Thankfully, Hermione and Ron aren't about to let him face this newes
You And Me
by bixgirl1
When Harry sits down with Malfoy, he's really only looking for a reprieve from the constant stares and whispers. (Mostly.) What he gets instead are a series of strange events that lead to a friendship that is something else, questions that nobody knows how to answer, and the realisation that the pe
The Wolf Pack
by dracogotgame
Nobody said achieving your animagus form was easy. Draco could handle being a wolf pup for a while, right? How bad could it be?
The Meaning of Mistletoe
by Endrina
“Just… tell me. Tell me what is going on, Snape.”What was going on was that Severus Snape had no trouble tracking down one Petunia Evans, now Dursley, to a little town in Surrey where he saw how exactly she was treating her nephew. Which somehow led to last night and Severus knocking on Lupin’s door
Porcupine Quills & Potion Spills: The Second Life of Severus Snape
by ShenYuan_did_not_transmigrate_for_this
A time-travel fix-it centered around Severus Snape from before Hogwarts to after.A potions accident sends a discontent and bitter Severus Snape back in time to his childhood years before Hogwarts. Seeing an opportunity to alter the future for the better, Severus' actions bring about more changes tha
The Chamber of Secrets and Half the Adults are Idiots
by Tired_Wandering_Soul
So this is based on a tumblr prompt by Mauraders4evr (https://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/blog/marauders4evr)"Harry Potter AU where Harry is hiding in the cabinet in Borgin and Burkes. And he sees Lucius grab Draco with his cane. And he hears the hiss, “What did I tell you?” And he hears the quiver in
I Must Not Break Harry Potter
by Sweet_Wing_King101
Harry stared down at his bleeding hand, the words 'I must not tell lies' dripping down his skin in blood-red liquid.And snapped.Harry Potter decides he's had enough of the wizarding world throwing him crap. He's going to throw it right back.
The Contract
by elvirakitties
What if Igor was more helpful? What if Harry had a way of stopping his entrance into the tournament?
The Side Effects of Time Travel
by MaryRoyale
Too much loss and too much suffering drove a desperate Hermione Granger to make a bid for a different outcome. Albus Dumbledore had once told her that it was dangerous to meddle with time, but Hermione was willing to sacrifice everything--up to and including herself--to change fate and create a bett
Floriography
by Endrina
Epilogue to "the secret language of plants" series in the form of an advent calendar.
Mine
by mrsaturtle
Alphas and Omegas are a rare thing in Wizarding Britain, particularly after the casualties of war. Hermione suffers from heats, a quarterly occurrence in an Omega's life if she isn't already pregnant. With slim options of Alphas, who aren't married or horrible men, Hermione all but begs Draco Malfoy
We're Not Crazy, It's the Rest of the World...Honestly
by elvirakitties
Dumbledore and the Ministry tossed Harry and Severus into Azkaban the summer before Harry's fifth year..Dementors killed the Dursley's. Ten years later the truth is revealed.
Jealously Isn't Without Consequences
by elvirakitties
Due to a jealous Ron, there is a problem in the DADA class that was using a new potion as part of a new experiment of using potions and defense combined. Harry ends up paying the price.
No Promises
by aobao3
“This still doesn’t mean you can fuck my brother.”“No promises. Especially if he’s pretty.”James has never been more glad that he didn’t promise Sirius something, because god knows that someone who looks like that and apparently a tongue so sharp one phrase alone could sentence you to death by a tho
Influence of Souls
by lecturience
He stared at his journal, a creation into which he had poured his memories and dreams, his heart and … soul. Now, to send it to where it needed to be.
thin white lies
by wotcherremus
Sirius: try to sound more enthusiasticUnknown Number: I’LL MISS YOU SOOOOO BAD. PLEASE HURRY BACK MY HEART IS ACHING WITHOUT YOU ALREADYUnknown Number: Better?Sirius: i just blushedSirius: much better..Unknown Number: I didn’t mean it. Don’t flatter yourself.Sirius: fuck You- - -While on a weekend a
How To Raise A Dark Lord
by elvirakitties
What is Vernon was a good guy and wanted to help Harry? What would happen is Harry was raised by Severus? If the Dark Lord wasn't truly dead?
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About This List
This list of 25short Harry Potter fanfics spans 755,426 total words. Kudos range from 5,912 on the newest entries to 80,548 on the most established. Nearly all (88%) are complete, so you can start any of them without WIP anxiety. The most common rating is Mature (9 of 25 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Hogwarts Eighth Year · Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence · Romance · Time Travel · Humor.
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