Best Epic Time Travel Fanfics
Time Travel fanfics over 100,000 words — the long-form treatment of the trope. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 20 Epic Time Travel Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with time travel and falls in the over 100,000 words range.
Oh God Not Again!
by Sarah1281
So maybe everything didn't work out perfectly for Harry. Still, most of his friends survived, he'd gotten married, and was about to become a father. If only he'd have stayed away from the Veil, he wouldn't have had to go back and do everything AGAIN.
The Darkening of Your Soul
by Maeglin_Yedi
Harry is betrayed. Harry gets a second chance to do it all over again.There is just one catch. If Harry gets to keep his memories from his previous life, so does Voldemort.
Harry Potter and the Shadowed Light
by WritingbyAnnie
After the final battle Harry learns some unsettling truths about himself and those who he trusts the most. Forced to come to terms with the revelations, Harry decides to get even with those who've wronged him and embrace who he his by going back to when it all started.
Harry Potter and the Greatest Show
by shadowscribe
The last real thing Harry remembers is standing across from Voldemort and watching the killing curse fly at his face.Then he visited a fluffy white limbo that somewhat resembles King Cross Station and instead of choosing to move on or go back he does something else entirely.And wakes up in his cupb
you belong to me (i belong to you)
by Child_OTKW
“What I find absolutely fascinating,” Riddle said, stalking closer, “is you.” He marched forward, backing Harry up until he was pinned to the cool wall of the common room. “Do you know why?” “No. And I’ll be honest here, Riddle, I don’t particularly care.” The taller boy grinned at him, small
throw me a goddamn rope - just enough to hang myself with
by mutalune
Shouta’s plan had been ill-defined and desperate from the start, but he figures the important shit boiled down to, “Change as little as possible, make sure Midoriya doesn’t get himself killed, and stock up on lychee jelly pouches because that flavor got discontinued three years from now.” Keeping it
My Time
by DebsTheSlytherinSnapeFan
Harry Potter finds himself hurtled back through time, landing back to just after World War 2 ended, more accurately, on the doorstep of Grimmauld Place...SLASH, MPREG Orion Black/Harry Potter Death meddles in the Master Of Death's fate once again...he must be awfully bored!
A Shot in the Dark
by Silver_pup
When he opens his eyes again, he finds himself in his old bed in his old home in his old body. Is this death? Or a trick of magic? Either way, Bilbo recognizes a second chance when he sees one, and this time his adventure with Thorin is going to go a bit differently.
Blood and Gold
by ObsidianPen
The true Time-Turner was slammed savagely into Hermione's throat. It shattered against her neck, bits of glass and gold piercing into her skin. The last thing she saw before blackness consumed her was a plume of metallic dust and vitreous fragments, tiny prisms dancing behind her eyelids.(In which H
Lynchpin
by ShanaStoryteller
He can’t get Jin Guangyao’s words out of his head. If he’d only believed in Wei Wuxian, if he’d only been willing to stand up for him, could it all have been avoided?
The Debt of Time
by ShayaLonnie
When Hermione finds a way to bring Sirius back from the veil, her actions change the rest of the war. Little does she know her spell restoring him to life provokes magic she doesn't understand and sets her on a path that ends with a Time-Turner.
Terrible, But Great
by Isalise
“Harry Potter.” The cold burrowed into his flesh; the scent of cloying death and molding earth clogged his senses. “The Boy Who Lived.” A strange sense of unimaginable loss and disappointment rose inside of Harry. That brilliant, yet cruel boy could’ve been so much more if he’d not stepped
Draco Malfoy and the Wheel of Hecate
by starbrigid
Whatever Draco does in the past, it seems he is unable to change much for the better. But he hasn't given up trying, and in the year where Voldemort rises again, he will stop at nothing to ensure he prevents it, leading him down a dangerous path. Standing in his way is not only the force of evil and
Viridian
by SilvermistAnimeLover
"So why should I be the one to go?! You’re the teacher! The Hero!! What good could someone like me do?!”“Izuku.” The man’s voice was harsh, and made the younger man’s eyes focus on his friend. His eyes softened. “It must be you. You’re not who you were back then. You aren’t useless. Remember this: Y
Draco Malfoy and the Talon Brand
by starbrigid
A man is dead at Draco Malfoy's hands, and the consequences will reverberate for Sirius, for Harry, for the wizarding world entire, and, most of all, for Voldemort. It is not so easy, though, to forsake his parents and his old friends in Slytherin, as he is forced to choose what he will become and w
Aphelion
by TimaeusKosmou
Harry gets hit by a killing curse and instead of dying travels to a different reality where he is the bratty husband of the Minister of Magic Tom Riddle. Harry realizes that his husband actually hates him and can barely tolerate his scandalous and petty behaviour and married him only for political c
Before the Storm
by orphan_account
“Go.” She said, not quite yelling but suddenly intense as she herded Harry back, away from the pillar and towards the tracks. “Go now, boy, or you’ll miss your train!” He looked behind his shoulder, there was a train....he hadn’t heard it approach. The doors were open and waiting, and for no good re
Wants and Needs (Well, Mostly Wants)
by Rhiw
Tim wakes up inexplicably in his two-year-old body. Which: odd. But just think, how many people would kill to have an opportunity to redo their life! And Tim has so much he wants to change, so much he wants. He wants to feel important to Bruce. He wants to be Dick's favorite. He wants Jason (his chi
Satellite
by SpicyReyes
A rogue alchemist, desperate to restore the alchemy of the famous Fullmetal Alchemist, pushes Truth into playing a new game - one that has Edward Elric waking up on the floor of his house where a transmuted abomination should have been, just in time to save his younger self and brother. He might hav
Lightning Only Strikes Once
by fiona_249
Consumed by grief, Clarke climbs Lexa's tower, not really thinking through what she plans to do. But any plans get taken away when she's struck by lightning, mysteriously transporting her back to before any of it happens. Back in her cell on the Ark, Clarke remembers exactly what went wrong - and my
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About Time Travel
Characters travel through time, either to change events, escape danger, or by accident. Romance may span different time periods or involve changing the past.
The excitement of different time periods, the complexity of temporal paradoxes, and the possibility of fixing past mistakes or finding love across time.
Common scenarios: Going back to fix mistakes, accidentally traveling to the past/future, meeting historical figures, changing timeline for love.
About This List
This list of 20epic Time Travel fanfics spans 4,937,918 total words. Kudos range from 18,968 on the newest entries to 84,348 on the most established. 50% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Mature (9 of 20 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Time Travel · Time Travel Fix-It · Alternate Universe - Time Travel · Do-Over · Master of Death Harry Potter.
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