Best Short Marauders Era Fanfics
Marauders Era novellas — 10k to 50k words, polished and contained. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 10 Short Marauders Era Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with marauders era and falls in the 10,000–50,000 words range.
Eight's Company
by darkbluedark
The first two nights, Harry sleeps like the dead— or, well, maybe that's not the best comparison, given the number of inferi attacks reported lately.He sleeps like a log. Like a dead log. An un-re-animated dead log. From an everyday, inanimate, non-whomping tree.After that, Harry wakes up screaming
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.
Bearing a Blessing
by Violet_Moons
As he approached, Orion slammed the restroom door open with wandless magic, and the second he crossed the line cast a spell to stop anybody from entering or hearing anything that may be said inside the room. Taking a deep breath- Salazar, he could already smell an distinct omega’s scent wafting thro
Silence After Midnight
by londonlovesss
Does such a thing as a higher being exist in reality? None of the Marauders were particularly religious but after these stark turn of events, they found themselves begging for a higher power to free themselves from their own guilt and internal torment. *** What would happen if James Potter was too l
Everything Has Changed
by moony_to4st
Rewriting (and finishing) my first ever fanfic I wrote on AO3! Very slowburn happy ending fanfic about James and Regulus during their years at Hogwarts!
Shining Stars
by AvidReader0124
A marauders fic told from Regulus and Sirius' POV. This will have a lot of wolfstar, and some jegulus in the sixth year, but James will ultimately end up with Lily This is a fic starting in the marauders 6th year and ending after the first war. I will be updating about every Monday and Friday.
Old friends, long forgotten
by Lanaara
Unnerved, Remus got up and padded softly out to the landing. Standing at the top of the stairs, he could hear them clearly.“…doing here?” Hope Lupin was saying. “How did he even find us?”Lyall didn’t respond, wand pointed resolutely at the door, though his hand shook ever so slightly. Remus studied
Silence Between the Lines
by SparrowHouse
Matilda Belmonte had the world at her fingertips; a prestigious family name, a thriving future and a close knit circle of friends. But when the first war ended, the trauma left her a ghost of herself. With her spirit fractured and her dignity buried in the dust of her best friends home, Tilly finds
Anatomy of an Illusion
by discofishstick
Taken in as Moody's secret ward, Ruby grows up learning how to be human in a world determined to call her a monster. Her bloodline is ancient, volatile, and feared; her magic grows stronger with age, and every lesson in restraint becomes a battle against the fox beneath her skin.
The Mark of the Seer | Year 3 of Bonds Beyond Laughter
by StrixXinXiang
In their third year at Hogwarts, James, Sirius, Remus, Peter, and Fei discover that some secrets are far easier to uncover than to understand. As unsettling visions, dangerous rumors, and growing fears ripple through the castle, the five friends find themselves pulled toward mysteries that seem dete
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About 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.
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.
Common scenarios: Full seven-year epics following the Marauders from the Sorting to the war, or quiet vignettes of Remus and Sirius in the brief peace before everything falls apart.
About This List
This list of 10short Marauders Era fanfics spans 227,810 total words. Kudos range from 1 on the newest entries to 21,893 on the most established. Most entries are ongoing works, so subscribe on AO3 for update notifications. The most common rating is Teen And Up Audiences (5 of 10 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Marauders Era (Harry Potter) · Marauders Friendship (Harry Potter).
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