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Eyes in the Darkness
As Aunt Marge floated off into the night, Harry ran out of Privet drive with everything he owned. Heart pounding, he hid in the shrubs next to the old retaining wall that was his closest hiding place. When the starving dog across the way darted into his arms as aurors arrived, what else could Harry do but wrap them both up in his invisibility cloak?
- GenresFan Fiction
222 pages, ebook
First published June 20, 2022
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meyari
7 booksThis is the pen name of Meyari McFarland for her fanfiction and non-professional works.
Meyari McFarland also has written original/pro stories. Check her profile to find them.
Meyari McFarland also has written original/pro stories. Check her profile to find them.
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February 9, 2024
URL: https://archiveofourown.org/works/397...
Author: Meyari McFarland
Author: Meyari McFarland
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March 10, 2024ep: gay relationship
cw: unchallenged fatphobia, violence, incarceration, grief, mental health issues
Not much to say tbh.
cw: unchallenged fatphobia, violence, incarceration, grief, mental health issues
Not much to say tbh.
December 23, 2023
A brilliant twist on evil!Dumbledore and cursed!Harry, with thrills and feels, clever headcanons, and a warm and satisfying resolution. I don't want to spoil the reveals (How long will it take you to figure out the source of the ominous chapter-heading epistolary passages?), so I'm not saying much that's specific ... oh, other than that when Harry's schoolmates do enter the picture (they're not central protagonists for most of the story), the removal of a particular hidden influence causes surprising changes to their personalities.
I decided to round my 4.x★ up admittedly partly because this seems to be the only entry on Goodreads for Meyari McFarland's fanfiction, and there are at least several more longfics that equally deserve starry entries (including a fairly new one that surprisingly, and quickly, drew me into enjoying cute, cracky, sweet, and ruthless house elf PoV, syntax included! That's "A Puckish Turn of Fate", available at either https://archiveofourown.org/works/484... or https://quantumbang.org/a-puckish-tur... — w/hand-drawn art by Muzu Sage on Quantum Bang).
Oh, speaking of Quantum Bang art, Eyes in the Darkness has a cover, too, this one by Izzy Hound: https://quantumbang.org/eyes-in-the-d...
Additional QB 2022 [and AO3] info for EitD:
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Hurt/Comfort, Mystery, Paranormal/Supernatural, Suspense
Relationship(s): Gen
Content Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence – Domestic and/or Against Children, child abuse (canon), illegal imprisonment (canon), Dumbledore bashing, mental health issues (multiple), memory modification (involuntary and voluntary), ritual magic, PTSD, C-PTSD, Harry is so very tired, Sirius is so messed up, dark curses
Word Count: 94,810
I'd add tags for Desi!Harry, and minor WolfStar (since although the story as whole isn't a romance, readers avoiding any slash should be aware it's not 100% "Gen").
A few more meyari fanfic recs, posted here to show part of why my 2023 GR totals have been low:
♦ The Great Doctor McKay https://archiveofourown.org/works/46368 = 23.75K of clever, intense Stargate: Atlantis angst with an eventual McShep happy ending, and lots of Whovian allusions. Part 1 is McKay PoV; part 2 is Sheppard PoV, mostly blaming himself for McKay's apparent horrible death.
♦ Calling https://archiveofourown.org/works/56535 = 31.5K, eventual-McShep again, in a fascinating take on just-post-"Enemy at the Gate" sentient!Atlantis, loving and scary and exasperating, with John swept along by her decisions and demands. Oh, and Dave Sheppard's involved, too, seizing upon John's ~joke~ of "leading the Cult of Atlantis" — fun!
♦ A Certain Level of Society https://archiveofourown.org/works/249... = 129K of evil!Dumbledore vs. good[ish]!Dursleys: "When one Harry Potter is delivered to the hands of his oh-so-Squib Aunt, Petunia Dursley, it would seem that he would grow up ignorant, abused and desperate for anything that could save him from the mundane world. But squibs aren't what they seem, and neither is the magical world. What Harry discovers on his first trip to Diagon Alley changes far more than anyone might have expected."
♦ The Power of One Word https://archiveofourown.org/works/333... = 89.6K, pre~Drarry (12yo), with evil!Dumbledore & evil!Dursleys vs. Arcturus Black, goblins, et al. Brilliant paradigms, feels, and plot. (CW: implied/referenced sexual abuse; not a major element.)
"... He needed those letters, no matter what Dobby said or did. But…
…It was a trap. Saying 'no' to that trap has a power beyond anything Harry has ever known. There's a greater freedom in 'no' than in anything Harry has ever learned.
For Draco Malfoy, though, saying 'yes'?
Changes everything."
Not everything meyari writes is to my taste, but she sure can write!
(...though I do wish she'd learn that magi is the plural form of magus, or simply mage. There's no such thing as "a magi", as she keeps writing. 😖 Minor, but annoying, especially since I wound up rereading so soon — which, incidentally, I did in the background to other tasks, since no "need to know" held me tight to tear through it in my usual one evening.)
I decided to round my 4.x★ up admittedly partly because this seems to be the only entry on Goodreads for Meyari McFarland's fanfiction, and there are at least several more longfics that equally deserve starry entries (including a fairly new one that surprisingly, and quickly, drew me into enjoying cute, cracky, sweet, and ruthless house elf PoV, syntax included! That's "A Puckish Turn of Fate", available at either https://archiveofourown.org/works/484... or https://quantumbang.org/a-puckish-tur... — w/hand-drawn art by Muzu Sage on Quantum Bang).
Oh, speaking of Quantum Bang art, Eyes in the Darkness has a cover, too, this one by Izzy Hound: https://quantumbang.org/eyes-in-the-d...
Additional QB 2022 [and AO3] info for EitD:
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Hurt/Comfort, Mystery, Paranormal/Supernatural, Suspense
Relationship(s): Gen
Content Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Violence – Domestic and/or Against Children, child abuse (canon), illegal imprisonment (canon), Dumbledore bashing, mental health issues (multiple), memory modification (involuntary and voluntary), ritual magic, PTSD, C-PTSD, Harry is so very tired, Sirius is so messed up, dark curses
Word Count: 94,810
I'd add tags for Desi!Harry, and minor WolfStar (since although the story as whole isn't a romance, readers avoiding any slash should be aware it's not 100% "Gen").
A few more meyari fanfic recs, posted here to show part of why my 2023 GR totals have been low:
♦ The Great Doctor McKay https://archiveofourown.org/works/46368 = 23.75K of clever, intense Stargate: Atlantis angst with an eventual McShep happy ending, and lots of Whovian allusions. Part 1 is McKay PoV; part 2 is Sheppard PoV, mostly blaming himself for McKay's apparent horrible death.
♦ Calling https://archiveofourown.org/works/56535 = 31.5K, eventual-McShep again, in a fascinating take on just-post-"Enemy at the Gate" sentient!Atlantis, loving and scary and exasperating, with John swept along by her decisions and demands. Oh, and Dave Sheppard's involved, too, seizing upon John's ~joke~ of "leading the Cult of Atlantis" — fun!
♦ A Certain Level of Society https://archiveofourown.org/works/249... = 129K of evil!Dumbledore vs. good[ish]!Dursleys: "When one Harry Potter is delivered to the hands of his oh-so-Squib Aunt, Petunia Dursley, it would seem that he would grow up ignorant, abused and desperate for anything that could save him from the mundane world. But squibs aren't what they seem, and neither is the magical world. What Harry discovers on his first trip to Diagon Alley changes far more than anyone might have expected."
♦ The Power of One Word https://archiveofourown.org/works/333... = 89.6K, pre~Drarry (12yo), with evil!Dumbledore & evil!Dursleys vs. Arcturus Black, goblins, et al. Brilliant paradigms, feels, and plot. (CW: implied/referenced sexual abuse; not a major element.)
"... He needed those letters, no matter what Dobby said or did. But…
…It was a trap. Saying 'no' to that trap has a power beyond anything Harry has ever known. There's a greater freedom in 'no' than in anything Harry has ever learned.
For Draco Malfoy, though, saying 'yes'?
Changes everything."
Not everything meyari writes is to my taste, but she sure can write!
(...though I do wish she'd learn that magi is the plural form of magus, or simply mage. There's no such thing as "a magi", as she keeps writing. 😖 Minor, but annoying, especially since I wound up rereading so soon — which, incidentally, I did in the background to other tasks, since no "need to know" held me tight to tear through it in my usual one evening.)
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