Grandfatherly Dumbledore or Dumbledore as mentor to Harry
This is the list that goes together with the one before about Manipulative Dumbledore, kind of its counterpart. It will contain Dumbledore being grandfatherly towards Harry or his mentor. Or fics where they simply have a positive relationship.
For the most part Harry/Snape-fics where Dumbledore plays an important role (as catalyst, master-manipulator or whatnot) belong in my Dumbledore in Harry/Snape-fics-list though I might add one or two if Dumbledore very actively mentors them during the fic.
1) Dumbledore actively mentoring Harry
Fics where Dumbledore is actively teaching and mentoring Harry
2) Dumbledore acting grandfatherly towards Harry
Fics where Dumbledore's behaviour towards Harry is mostly grandfatherly or where he actually is Harry's grandfather - by blood or adoption
3) Dumbledore and Harry simply have a positive relationship
Fics where Dumbledore isn't that much of a mentor or grandfather but their relationship is clearly positive.
Or fics where I don't really know (or remember) the extent of their relationship.
## I absolutely love this fic. It's really outstanding and original.
# Great fic, definitely worth a read.
NR I haven't read the fic, NRC not read completely
new Fic has been added recently
When you rec stories for this list, please don't leave just a link. To put them up in this list I also need a Summary and what kind of relationship Harry and Dumbledore actually have. Status (WIP, Complete, Hiatus, Abandoned or One-shot) and Rating would help as well!!!
Thanks. :-) And thank you everyone who contributed to this list.
- No abandoned or badly written stories, please.
1) Dumbledore actively mentoring Harry
The Awakening of a Magus by the-dreamer4. ##
Post-GoF. Mostly gen. Harry's powers suddenly awaken.
PG-13. WIP.
The Granger Defense by aaran_st_vines. #
Harry/Hermione. Everyone knows Muggles are defenseless against Death Eaters - or are they? The action starts days after the end of Harry Potter fifth year at Hogwarts. Dumbledore decides to train a select group of volunteers to become the shining twentieth century versions of Emperor Charlemagne’s Paladins. The fighting is fierce, and that’s before they take on Voldemort and his Death Eaters. New heroes arise, and students come from around the world to join the training. Harry learns he is the heir to the last Spell Monger, and nearly goes to Azkaban because of his inheritance. Will he ever realize just how much his most faithful friend means to him?
WIP. PG-13.
Great Scott, Potter, This is War by aaran_st_vines. #
Harry/Ginny. Just a few days after Harry Potter stumbled back to number four, Privet Drive, Death Eaters attack the family of one of his two best friends. Will she and her parents survive? Will Dumbledore succeed in creating his noble and powerful student warriors, the Paladins? How can Harry prepare to defeat Voldemort, while he’s so wrapped up in fighting Cornelius Fudge and the Daily Prophet? Will anyone believe it’s a good thing that Harry becomes a Spell Monger, a practitioner of the reviled long dead craft of banging together new magic for personal profit? Even more important, will Harry ever find love?
WIP. PG-13.
Harry Potter and the Veil of Mystery by Semprini. #
Harry/Ginny, Hermione/Neville, Ron/Pansy. Sixth year. After Harry's success with the DA Dumbledore makes him the DADA-teacher during his sixth year.
PG-13. Complete.
Sequels Harry Potter and the Ring of Reduction Seventh year. Phoenix Intuition. (This takes place five years later and I didn't like it.)
Harry Potter and the Years of Rebellion: Part 1 - Childhood's End by full_pensieve.
Harry/Hermione. Sirius Black’s last will and testament is sanctioned during the summer prior to Harry’s sixth year. Harry wins his freedom from the Dursleys, but the price for that freedom is ever growing. Many of JKR’s minor characters come to the foreground, in this dialogue-heavy tale of sons and daughters rebelling against their parents, followers rebelling against leaders, authority figures bumbling, governments crumbling, walls between worlds tumbling, and heroes rebelling against their fates.
Harry is Dumbledore's Apprentice during Sixth Year.
Complete. PG-13.
Sequels Harry Potter and the Years of Rebellion: Part 2 - Discoveries and Harry Potter and the Years of Rebellion: Part 3 - Sixth Year. WIP.
In the Crosshairs by Dragon Voldemort. NR.
Harry/OFC, Ron/Hermione. They are in their sixth & seventh years at Hogwarts; they are main targets of sinister designs, rogue doubles frame them at every step. Can they even cope? How does this affect the struggle against Voldemort?
(While some things from OotP may be used, only follows canon till GoF.)
Rather darkish with lots of deaths.
WIP. NC-17.
The Refiner's Fire by Abraxan. #
Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Remus/Tonks. Sixth year. After a rare magical illness Harry becomes outstandingly powerful. He has to deal both with teenage-problems and more importantly with many plots by Voldemort and his Deatheaters to kill him.
R. Complete.
Sequel The Time of Destiny, ficlets taking place during the epilogue On Second Thoughts and A Fox's Tale, one-shot sequel A Very Harry Christmas.
Towards Tomorrow by SSHenry.
Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione. Post-OotP. Harry's back at the Dursley's and is hearing voices that have nothing to do with Voldemort. Hermione spent the Summer with Krum, but will that be enough to spur Ron into telling her how he really feels? And what secrets is Ginny hiding?
PG-13. Complete.
Prequels Summer of the Serpent and The Forgotten Girl. Ginny-centric, post-CoS.
Life Is But a Dream.
Sequels Today the Tempest, Facing Future: The Revenge of the Lime Green Bowler Hat and Facing Future 2: Underhill.
2) Grandfatherly Dumbledore
Birthday Surprises by Lolly Phoenix.
Harry receives a rather unusual 17th birthday present from the Headmaster. A present that changes anything and everything: three green-eyed babies.
Complete. PG-13.
Daddy's Favorite by Dzeytoun.
Severus Snape has long complained about Albus Dumbledore's favoritism toward Harry Potter. Usually his voice is alone. But is he the only one who feels that way, or is he just the only one who voices the opinion? Here is how several people view the relationship between Dumbledore and Harry in the wake of Harry's fifth year.
R. Complete.
Guardianship by Wulfric Gryffindor.
After OotP Harry asks to stay with the Headmaster instead of returning to the Dursleys.
WIP. PG-13.
Hand-Me-Down Clothes by quillitch. #
AU: By Merlin Albus! That boy must be moved! What if Dumbledore took Harry away from no.4 Privet Drive, with its perfectly pruned shrubs and colour coordinated flower beds, to somewhere he could call home...
PG-13. Complete.
Harry Potter and his Family by Karlynne. ##
After OotP Harry finds out that Dumbledore and McGonagall are actually his grandparents. Can he learn to trust again?
Complete. PG-13.
Harry Potter and the Guardians of Power by teacherbev. #
Starts mid-year during OotP. (Rest of OotP and HBP doesn't happen.) Harry gets kidnapped by Voldemort and thinking "Merlin, save me" with all his power and magic behind it, manages to transport himself and Severus back in time to Merlin and the Founders. Severus as mentor to Harry.
Complete. PG-13.
While it's more of a Snape as mentor, both Harry and Severus have a good relationship with Dumbledore. And after Snape adopts Harry, Dumbledore adopts Snape, so Harry becomes Dumbledore's adopted grandson.
The first couple of chapters aren't too well written and the author went a bit overboard with Harry being the Heir of all four Founders, Merlin, a multiple elemental, a metamorphmagus,... But nonetheless the fic is quite outstanding: it has the most original way to deal with captured Deatheaters and the greatest prank ever played on Dumbledore!
Harry Potter and the Heir of the Four Founders by Mione5. NRC
It's Harry's fifth year and things aren't going well at the Dursley's or Hogwarts. New powers, a prophecy and Snape!
Complete. PG-13.
Sequel Harry Potter and the Curse of Count Krutormvik.
Snape, Sirius and Dumbledore as mentors and guardians. Dumbledore is also related to Harry.
Here Be Monsters by Dzeytoun. NR
Albus Dumbledore has lived a very long time. But in the summer following Harry's fifth year, events occur to change his existence forever. For in that long summer, Dumbledore must come to grips with a force greater and more terrible than the strongest magic -- love.
Complete. PG-13.
Sequels Psalm of the Wolf, Womb of Lilith. Abandoned.
He's My Son by Wulfric Gryffindor.
AU. Harry being raised at Hogwarts by Dumbledore.
WIP. PG-13.
Like a Grandson by Wulfric Gryffindor. NR
It's a couple of weeks after Harry's fifth year, in his required letter to Dumbledore, he leaves a certain imprint. Can Dumbledore help him with this?
WIP. R.
The Potter Chronicles by mathiasgranger. NR
What if Dumbledore took Harry in when he was 10 to get him acclimated to the wizarding world before Hogwarts? This is definitely AU but the main points from Canon are used.
Series. Four stories are complete and the author intends to continue the series soon. PG-13.
The Refiner's Fire by Abraxan. #
Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione, Remus/Tonks. Sixth year. After a rare magical illness Harry becomes outstandingly powerful. He has to deal both with teenage-problems and more importantly with many plots by Voldemort and his Deatheaters to kill him.
R. Complete.
Sequel The Time of Destiny, ficlets taking place during the epilogue On Second Thoughts and A Fox's Tale, one-shot sequel A Very Harry Christmas.
Resonance by GreenGecko darkirony. ##
Gen. After Harry defeats Voldemort in his Sixth Year, Snape adopts him.
Complete. PG-13.
While it's mostly Snape mentoring Harry, Harry and Dumbledore do have a positive relationship.
Sequels Revolutions and Resolutions WIP.
Six Years to Life by Laume. #
Snape is revealed as a spy and Voldemort tries to make him see the error of his ways by turning him into a six year old and sending him back to Hogwarts. Meanwhile, Harry escapes the Dursleys...
Complete. PG-13.
Sequels Six Years to Life: Son of Hogwarts and Six Years to Life: There and Back Again.
Snape's Invisible Friend by teacherbev. ##
AU: Harry rescues himself as a baby and chooses Snape as his protector, why no one knows because the toddler isn't telling and no one can see him but Snape. Snape adopts Harry who grows up at Hogwarts with Dumbledore as "grandfather" and McGonagall as "grandmother".
Complete. PG-13.
Sequels Growing up Snape and Shaun Snape, Age 8. (Another sequel is planned but not yet begun.)
Unlocking Harry Potter by sarini. #
Harry/Charlie. Severitus. Post-OotP.
Complete. R.
Sequels Finding the Key, Closing the Door.
Prequel Release the Wolves.
Web of Lies by Star Polaris. ##
After GoF Dumbledore takes in a sick Harry. To keep him safe, they pretend that Harry is actually Dumbledore's grandson Alec.
Complete. PG-13.
Sequel Web of Lies: Revelations.
When Nightmares are a Good Thing by Rhiane Raine. #
After OotP Harry finds out that McGonagall and Dumbledore are actually his grandparents. Why did they reject his mother and him?
PG-13. WIP.
3) Simply a positive relationship between the two of them
The Founders' Heir by Renatus. #
After OotP Harry gets attacked by Voldemort at Privet Drive and vanishes, only to reappear several months later. He has spent those months in the time of the Founders, learning new magics and has been given a special duty, to deal with Voldemort.
WIP. PG-13.
Dumbledore isn't actually much of a mentor to Harry but as Dumbledore is an Heir, too, they used to be friends back in time.
Harry Potter and the Emerald Tablet by Lady Alchymia. #
Harry/Cho, Harry/Susan. After OotP Remus becomes Harry's guardian. (While it's more Remus as mentor, Harry and Dumbledore have a positive relationship.)
PG-13. Part 1 Complete, Part 2 WIP. (You need to register at the forum to be able to read the fic.)
Harry Potter and the Secret Sanctuary by Farfumsane. ##
Harry/Susan, Harry/SallyAnn Perks, Harry/OFC, and (eventually) Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione. Harry and Co’s 6th year is filled with new powers, places, experiences and faces. HighPower!Harry.
WIP. PG-13.
Dumbledore and Harry have a positive relationship (though not that much of a mentor-relationship so far) and Dumbledore intends to take on Harry as apprentice lateron.
Harry Potter and the Year of Discovery by dbzdragonlanceman.
Harry/Ginny. Sixth year.
PG-13. Complete.
Sequel Harry Potter and the Spirit of Time.
Kimberjingle's Fics. NR.
In diverse places I've read that Kimberjingle's fics are usually Harry/Draco with Harry having a good relationship with Dumbledore. For some reason the summaries are just off-putting to me and I've never read a single word by her. (If anybody can give me good enough summaries that also include a bit about the relationship between D and Harry, I'll gladly put up links + summaries for the fics singly.)
Those Words, Alone No More by Mikee.
Harry has withdrawn into himself, and immersed himself in his studies. He has witdrawn so far into himself that he is in danger of losing himself. Who will help him? Mention of abuse. Mention of slash, although that is not central to the story.
WIP. PG-13.
Primarily Snape taking care of Harry but definitely a good relationship with Dumbledore as well.
Trinity by Katling swordkat. ##
Harry/Ginny, Ron/Hermione. Harry now knows what he has to do - find and destroy the Horcruxes and Voldemort. Ron and Hermione refuse to leave his side and they choose to become something that the Dark Lord will fear...the Trinity.
PG. Complete.
While Dumbledore doesn't play that much of a role in this fic, their relationship is definitely positive.
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