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Best Dorlene Marauders Era Fanfics

The best marauders era Dorlene (Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes) fanfiction on AO3, curated by popularity. Canon gave the Marauders only fragments and a tragedy, so writers get a nearly blank decade to fill with friendship, rebellion, and love that readers know is doomed — and adore anyway.

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What We Do Today

Marauders Era

by Moe64

During a snowy evening in mid-December, 1979, Albus Dumbledore goes to an interview with a prospective Divinations Professor, not thinking much of it. Needless to say, that meeting changes everything.Sybil Trelawney, plagued with dreams of the future, manages, with her sister's help, to spell her vi

7,914 kudos 178,355 words 59/? chapters General Audiences
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Never Have I Ever had a crush on Remus Lupin

Marauders Era

by ilbaritz

"Never Have I Ever had a crush on Remus," Dorcas says mischievously.Sirius drinks.Lily drinks.James drinks.Marlene drinks.Mary drinks.Peter drinks.Remus gapes, Sirius splutters, everyone laughs. Explanations are in order.

6,581 kudos 8,009 words 1/1 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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Language Lessons

Marauders Era

by MsAlexWP

September 1982The war is over. Voldemort was defeated on October 31, 1981. Regulus Black discovered Voldemort’s horcruxes and informed the Order of the Phoenix, which destroyed them. When Voldemort arrived on Halloween to kill baby Harry, the Order was standing by, ready to kill him first.Almost a y

5,426 kudos 149,620 words 17/17 chapters Explicit
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Clandestine

Marauders Era

by my_castlescrumbling

He was crying. “You can do that?” He repeated, feeling like he was in some sort of dream. And then, Sirius seemed to realize. Because for a twelve-year-old, he was decently smart, and knew him better than anyone. “D’you…d’you want to do that, Reggie? I thought…I thought it was just a game?” But he c

5,151 kudos 142,260 words 46/46 chapters Mature
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Kill Your Darlings

by MesserMoon

Kill Your Darlings: To remove or refrain from using something in spite of one's affection for itYears after Regulus loses his brother they're reunited, and as he struggles to figure out where he fits in Sirius's life he also struggles not to get lost in the impossible feelings he has for Sirius's be

32,541 kudos 303,706 words 28/28 chapters Explicit
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Of His Bones

by MesserMoon

Once upon a time there was a pirate, who fell in love with a king

12,991 kudos 310,617 words 38/38 chapters Explicit
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Staying Strangers

by 3amAndCounting

Sirius get's given a wrong number, Remus definitely isn't being sarcastic, and they should probably agree to stay strangers...* Rated M for a lot of language, some sexual content but nothing too explicit, mainly jokes/flirting.Any TWs should be listed at the start of chapter notes, please let me kno

11,722 kudos 319,368 words 53/? chapters Mature
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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.

10,680 kudos 90,165 words 34/34 chapters Mature
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A String of Consequences

by semistrawberry

The brewing of amortentia in Regulus' potions class, creates a chain reaction few people expected.

8,944 kudos 164,536 words 30/30 chapters General Audiences
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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

8,222 kudos 96,883 words 16/16 chapters Explicit
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En Avant

by bluerosebouquet

Lily Evans dies too young, leaving a three-year-old and a destroyed husband behind.A young man returns to London after many years, with no one and nothing but a love for ballet.A friend group rallies around their sunlight, willing the flame not to die.A story about grief, love lost, and love found.

7,659 kudos 166,811 words 31/31 chapters Explicit
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The Hand That Feeds

by Rollercoasterwords

Marlene McKinnon is a mess. She can’t sleep, she’s almost certainly going to fail all her NEWTs, and she’s 99% sure that if they don’t win the Quidditch Cup this year James Potter will throw himself headfirst off the Astronomy Tower. On top of all that, there’s a war on, yet their professors seem de

6,226 kudos 235,586 words 52/52 chapters Mature
13

edge

by pinkpalaceapartments

a chase gives way to mutual obsession, and it's hard to tell where a cat and mouse game starts and ends when both players are the cat. love is certainly nowhere on the table, but is there not something intimate in the desire for someone else's blood on your hands?or, james works for MI6 and regulus

6,184 kudos 442,178 words 43/61 chapters Mature
14

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

6,152 kudos 30,056 words 8/8 chapters Explicit
15

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.

6,125 kudos 76,272 words 16/16 chapters Not Rated
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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

5,971 kudos 30,367 words 17/17 chapters Mature
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you knew what it was (he is in love)

by mraudersmoon

“As I was saying,” he continued. “James couldn’t pull me-““Says who?” James snorts. “I could totally pull you, mate. You’re just stubborn. I don’t know how you’ve lived with me so long and you haven’t tried to shag me yet.” Everybody in the room lets out a groan in unison, all muttering variations o

5,859 kudos 8,723 words 1/1 chapters Not Rated
18

Changes

by chothocolate

Sixth year brought about a lot of changes for the Marauders.Remus comes back hot.Sirius comes back gay.Peter comes back uncomfortable.And James comes back with a plan.

5,162 kudos 30,703 words 14/14 chapters Mature
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Let's Play a Love Game

by rabidlittlestrawberry

Regulus is sick of his friends not admitting they like each other, so he plans a drinking game with the Slytherins and Gryffindors, thinking he'll be safe from any accidental confessions. It doesn't quite go to plan.orThey all play a risky drinking game with love potions, firewhisky and veritaserum.

4,917 kudos 18,164 words 2/2 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
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This House Could Be A Home

by Fullmoonstar00

Sirius Black has been living with the Potter’s for nearly 2 years and is constantly filled with guilt and regret about leaving Regulus behind. In the summer before the Marauder’s sixth year, Regulus turns up at the house with nowhere else to go and no one else to turn to. Can they forgive each othe

4,501 kudos 53,712 words 16/16 chapters Teen And Up Audiences

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Why Marauders Era Dorlene Fanfiction Works So Well

Marlene McKinnon/Dorcas Meadowes — Two names from the list of the dead became fully realized women in the modern Marauders fandom renaissance, where Dorlene rides sidecar to Wolfstar and Jegulus. Canon gives only their murders, so fic supplies the loud, doomed, brilliant lives.

Marauders Era — Harry Potter fic set during the schooldays of James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew — the 1970s Hogwarts generation. A fandom-within-a-fandom with its own canon of fanon, dominated by Wolfstar and Jegulus and forever shadowed by how the first wizarding war ends.

Characters who are 99% blank canvas with a 100% guaranteed tragic ending are catnip for writers who like to hurt. Canon gave the Marauders only fragments and a tragedy, so writers get a nearly blank decade to fill with friendship, rebellion, and love that readers know is doomed — and adore anyway. That's why marauders era Dorlene fanfiction is one of the most consistently popular combinations on AO3.

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