Best Long Time Travel Fanfics
Time Travel fanfics from 50k to 100k words — full novel length with room for slow development. Curated from AO3, ranked by kudos.
Top 20 Long Time Travel Fanfics
Ranked by AO3 kudos. Each fic is tagged with time travel and falls in the 50,000–100,000 words range.
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
Heir Apparent
by MonsieurClavier
When a Voldemort in his thirties encounters a time-travelling, seventeen-year-old Harry Potter, he makes a dangerous—and hilarious—assumption. He assumes that Harry is his son. And his son, of course, deserves the very best.A confused Harry plays along for the sake of self-preservation, but living w
The Devil's White Knight
by orphan_account
When Harry wakes up in an alternate timeline--a timeline where Voldemort was defeated long before the first war--he discovers everything is different. His parents, his godfather, his friends--and him. Harry must deal with the consequences of who he would have been if he had been raised by his pare
Draco Malfoy and the Mirror of Ecidyrue
by starbrigid
All it takes is one look in a mirror and an ill-advised attempt to shatter it, before an embittered Draco Malfoy fresh out of Azkaban is sent back into his body on the day he gets his Hogwarts letter.Suddenly, Draco has an unwanted second chance, with a Sorting Hat that doesn't know what to do with
a turn of the earth
by microcomets
Dean’s your typical half-orphaned, monster-killing 22-year-old until a trenchcoated stranger crashes into his back windshield one September night, claiming he’s an angel that knows him from the future and that he’s on the run. Frigging fantastic. (Or, in which Castiel gets stuck in Dean’s timeline p
Game On, Your Move
by Ailora
Be on guard, my Lord, writes Abraxas Malfoy, the new transfer student intends to kill you.Except Abraxas has terrible penmanship, and kill and kiss look awfully similar in shoddy cursive.Naturally, things escalate. A lot.
if you try to break me, you will bleed
by Dialux
It had been a slash across her chest from a White Walker’s sword that finally ended her life. Sansa’d landed in a puddle of her own blood, and she’d died quickly, quietly. And then she’d awoken with a gasp, trembling, in a bed that had burned under Theon’s betrayal.
At the end of every road
by orphan_account
One would think traveling 52 years into the past would allow Harry some much desired anonymity, but unfortunately the malfunctioning Triwizard Cup spat Harry out on the quidditch pitch in the middle of a game. There's no lying about his provenance while a shiny plaque on the base of the Cup announce
Custodarium
by Tina48
Have you been missing a time travel Tomarry where Harry and Tom are on somewhat equal footing? Where Tom is a plausible budding political leader? Where Harry can stand up to him and their relationship doesn’t seem toxic? Where the surrounding events and characters don’t go unnoticed? I have, so I ga
Altered State
by Ginnyruin
Six years after the Battle of Hogwarts, Auror Hermione Granger activated a mysterious dark object, which unexpectedly sent her decades into the past.Tom Riddle, now known as Voldemort, returned to British wizarding society in 1966 after a decade-long absence. Under the guise of interviewing for the
The Life Before My Eyes
by Anonymous
Luffy smiled, “My treasure? You can have it, if you can find it. But you’ll never be able to.” Blades cut into his neck, and the mighty Pirate King took his last breath. And then he woke up. Or: Pirate King Monkey D. Luffy travels back in time. He decides he's going to mix things up. This sh
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
The White Pawn
by Soupy_George
When eighteen-year-old Draco Malfoy finds himself back at Hogwarts on the eve of Voldemort's infamous return, he is confronted with the most difficult decision he's ever had to make: Relive the 6th year at school he's tried so hard to forget, or do the unthinkable and ally himself with Potter's lot.
Chained
by maquira
Harry accidentally time travels to 1979, where he gets captured by the Order of the Phoenix. There's a catch — from the moment they set eyes on Harry's Dark Mark, they despise him.* “Finally awake… Death Eater?” the man spat spitefully. Harry never would have imagined meeting like this. The words
The Carnivore
by CaptainDegenerate
Trying to survive the meaningless void that is existing in the modern world, your peaceful days are left behind when you find an unconscious man on the street. Dressed unconventionally and clueless about the world you live in, you mistake him for a refugee and decide to take him in for the night. Cu
Second Chances
by TylerReed
Ilya Rozanov's life takes an unexpected turn when a deadly plane crash in 2021 takes his life, right after a fight with his long-time partner, Shane Hollander. Though instead of the afterlife, Ilya is sent back to December 2008, just before his NHL career began, on the very day that he first met Sh
Encore!
by winniebear
Michael Afton was fully prepared for his death. Sadly for him, the universe (or, rather, Charlie Emily) had other plans. What was he supposed to do when offered a chance to rewrite his life?
Z to A
by memoriaeterna
The moment of disorientation was nothing compared to the next thing he saw. He was standing in the midst of an airport, looking directly at a girl with the familiar red leather coat. The mutual recognition was instant. Leipzig. Or, Peter and Wanda sent back in time to stop the inevitable. Good news:
A storm across time
by Overlocked
An accident transports Harry back in time where he endeavors to save as many people as he can.
The Dreams of Youth
by sami
"Mother, I have to go, with or without you. Please come with me.""A-Zhan, you're five years old," she says."With or without you, Mother," he pleads. "Please come with me."Lan Wangji starts again from the beginning.
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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 20long Time Travel fanfics spans 1,589,681 total words. Kudos range from 6,340 on the newest entries to 57,587 on the most established. 70% are marked complete — check the status flag before committing to a longfic. The most common rating is Explicit (9 of 20 fics).
Recurring tags across this list: Time Travel · Alternate Universe - Time Travel · Slow Burn · Fluff and Angst · Romance.
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