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Day 23 of the HPRecFest Part 2

A soulmate fic

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Day 9 of the HPRecFest part 2

A rarepair fic

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Hola! Just wanted to ask if you're interested in writing/reading sirry?

I find your insights pretty amazing. I have some ideas and situations to put them in, but don't have the will to do it all alone.

Interested? Would love to know.

Thanks!

Hola! I'm always interested in reading sirry, but I admit I would struggle to find the time to write it :/

I'm glad you like my insights! I love to read other people's metas and perspectives but I never really dare to write my own. I'm a typical lurker.

I'd be down to brainstorm if you want, and see where we can go from there. I'm pretty psyched to see other sirry fans out there. I've been shipping them for years and while there was a good amount of fanfiction, I don't think it was popular enough to generate discussions.

One scenario that I would love to see and which would further illustrate how their characters are like two sides of the same coin would be to have Harry sorted in Slytherin. You'd have the first Black in Gryffindor and the first Potter in Slytherin in generations.

More Sirry recs

✨ Hello from the Other Side / 14k / Minister Potter has ninety-nine hundred problems. He never would've expected Sirius Black to suddenly become one of them, but when every person lost to the veil is suddenly returned, Harry deals with public opinion, rehabilitation, and long-forgotten feelings as he works to provide a future for a new segment of magical society.

✨ Until you set your old heart free / 8k / Harry turns sharply on his heels, swinging Teddy into the air once more, and as Teddy collapses into a giggly mess at his back, Harry looks at him, and he smiles and… Oh.

Oh, fuck.

He’s in so much trouble.

In which Sirius Black survives the war, adopts Teddy Lupin, and refuses to fall in love with Harry Potter.

✨ What Adults Do / 26k / After Harry breaks it off with Ginny, Harry moves in with Sirius, promising only to stay until he's back on his feet. Between Harry and Sirius lingers unresolved emotional hurt that neither are willing to address.

When Sirius arrives home one night following a bad full moon, Harry insists on stitching him up. Sirius, however, is embarrassed to receive help from his godson, and Harry is tired of being treated like a child.

✨ The Persistence of Memory / 19k / Sirius comes back out of the veil, but he's not the Sirius that Harry remembers. But Junior Auror Potter plans to be there for Sirius in a way Sirius wanted to be for him. And that's all it is, at first.

Harry is 21, Sirius is 18.

✨ the harvest of sunlight / 5k / It takes two decades and one divorce for Harry to learn three things.

Sometimes home is a person.

Sometimes it’s not the person you think.

And sometimes you have to take the long way there.

✨ Don’t sound like no sonnet / 25k / Harry has a high school diploma and no clear plan for the future. Sirius has a checkered past and a motorcycle. They meet on the first day of a very eventful summer.

✨ periculum / 25k / Harry needs someone to take control.

Or maybe he just needs Sirius.

✨ Pigment / 5k / Sirius makes a promise to Harry during the war. Three years later, he keeps his word.

Time travel Sirry

This is definitely my guilty pleasure. Sirry feels very taboo at times, (especially if you have a Marauders background lol), but god I love it. Their dynamic is usually so explosive and breath-catching, ughh. The yearning, the anger, the trauma!

Anyways, here are some of my favorite time travel fics. If you’re new to the ship I’d recommend starting with Chained, you’ll be hooked in no time.

Enjoy!

✨ and I Looked Back on a Broken World / 183k / “This is the most stupid thing you’ve ever done!” Hermione yells after Harry. Then she blinks. They’re no longer at Grimmauld Place and, sitting huddled together on a familiar four-poster bed with red hangings, are four teenaged boys, staring avidly at them. Well, this is just brilliant, she thinks. “And you didn’t even get the year right!”

Or: the one in which Harry is done with the war and thinks it’s time he got something he wanted for a change. He misses his godfather, goddammit.

Hermione’s and Harry’s friendship is top-tier. Plus, I’ll always have a soft spot for Harry interacting with the Marauders. Must read.

✨ Chained / 66k / 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 “I can explain” were stuck on the tip of his tongue. But all that came out was a soft, strangled, “Sirius.”

The Sirry fic by excellence. Simply mind-blowing. If you’re gonna read any of these fics, let it be this one.

✨ The Man Out of Time / 23k / Harry gets hit with a piece of the veil, and falls into Sirius's past. And back again.

Loosely inspired by The Time Traveler's Wife.

I loved the dynamic between Harry and Sirius. It’s pretty different from other Sirry fics, which I enjoyed a lot. Plus, the drama? Cheff kiss.

✨ Time Turned Back / 182k / Broken and angry after losing Sirius fifth year, Harry recklessly puts himself in harms way, dragging Hermione along for the ride. Now they are stuck in another time with some all too familiar faces. Will the time with lost loved ones heal Harry or end up doing more damage?

✨ The Laws of Defence / 60k / The one where Harry gets sent back to 1977 to finish off Voldemort before he could get started, but he didn’t anticipate having to mark homework in between hunting horcruxes. Again.

✨Shattering Timelines / 80k / After realizing the war destroyed almost everything he ever cared about, Harry sets out to find a way to go back in time to save his family and fix it all. Even if it means destroying his timeline in order to protect his family.

✨ dogged / 11k / "I'm handsome," Sirius says, hugging his pillow in the dark. "I'm smart. I'm strong. I'm charismatic. I have experience with tons of people, who wanted to shag me and liked me a lot. I defend him, I admire him, I've been nice to Sniv-- Snape, lately--"

James groans. "Go the bloody fuck to sleep!" Peter, the lucky sod, is dead to the world and lets out a loud snore.

"I need Professor Evans to give me a chance," Sirius continues. "I could be so good for him. He needs someone like me. He's so--" Sirius yelps as a Stinging Hex hits him in the face from the direction of Remus' bed

✨ Better im the Morning / 20k / When Harry sacrifices himself to protect the ones he loves most, Voldemort's Killing Curse sends him hurtling back in time to 31 October 1981, but he arrives too late to save his parents. A grieving Harry decides to rescue Sirius Black from a future of misery and imprisonment and brings Sirius to hide in the Hut-on-the-Rock.

Momentarily, Harry and Sirius try to forget all that they've lost.

SIRRY

(Meaning Sirius and Harry)

✨ Time travel Sirry

✨ More recs (a mix of multiple tropes)

I ship both Snarry and Sirry, and one of the main compelling aspects of it is the journey Severus and Sirius have to take to finally see Harry as his own individual, separate from his parents completely, and love him for it.

Something about the men who turned Harry's life upside down...