Pairings: Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald (Harry Potter)
As Albus Dumbledore made final preparations for his next great adventure, there were certains things that could not remain unsaid.
Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (None)
Content Warnings (optional): War
Genre: Angst, General, Hurt/Comfort
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 17 Aug 2021 ·
Updated: 17 Aug 2021 ·
Words: 6084 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 6 ·
Likes: 3 ·
Reads: 1071
Series: None
In the haze of summer and the fever of dreams, Albus Dumbledore learns his Number One lesson: love doesn't always conquer everything.
Characters: Aberforth Dumbledore, Albus Dumbledore, Antioch Peverell, Ariana Dumbledore, Bathilda Bagshot, Cadmus Peverell, Elphias Doge, Fawkes, Gellert Grindelwald, Ignotus Peverell, Kendra Dumbledore, Original Female Character, Other Character, Percival Dumbledore
Pairings: Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald (Harry Potter), Unlisted Pairing
Representation: Gay, LGBTQIA+
Story Type: Novella (under 50,000 words)
FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (Sexual Content, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Breakups, Child Death, Homophobia
Genre: Angst, Dark, Drama, Fluff, General, Humor, Hurt/Comfort, Romance
Tropes: Destructive Romance, Dysfunctional Family, Friends to Lovers, Friendship, Love Hurts, Origin Story, Secret Relationships
Incomplete ·
Published: 08 Jul 2021 ·
Updated: 09 Jul 2021 ·
Words: 2232 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 2 ·
Likes: 2 ·
Reads: 796
Series: None
When Albus Dumbledore refuses to come quietly and escapes the Ministry's clutches in a flash of light, he goes to the only place they won't look for him: the tallest tower of Nurmengard.
Written for hotel california’s most overused line challenge!
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): None
Genre: Angst, Drama
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 15 Dec 2020 ·
Updated: 16 Dec 2020 ·
Words: 2144 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 7 ·
Likes: 5 ·
Reads: 22
Series: None
banner by me

2 bets. 10 days. Endless shenanigans.
{Brooklyn 99 meets How to Lose a Guy in 10 days}
written for MuggleMaybe's [Blank] Meets [Blank] challenge
2019 pogs winner for best dialogue | june 2019 sitewide story of the month
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, James Potter I, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Lily Evans Potter, Marlene McKinnon, Mary Macdonald, Peter Pettigrew, Remus Lupin, Sirius Black
Pairings: Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald (Harry Potter), James Potter I/Lily Evans (Harry Potter), Remus Lupin/Sirius Black (HP)
Representation: Ace/Aro, Anxiety, Bisexual/Biromantic, Gay, Lesbian, LGBTQIA+, Person of Color, South Asian
Story Type: Challenge Entry, Novel (50,000+ words)
FFT Groups:
Completed ·
Published: 13 Apr 2019 ·
Updated: 07 Aug 2020 ·
Words: 72161 ·
Chapters: 11 ·
Reviews: 97 ·
Likes: 53 ·
Reads: 1318
The sun rises and it smiles cold.
(It is the last day of summer.)
Completed ·
Published: 29 Jun 2020 ·
Updated: 29 Jun 2020 ·
Words: 617 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 10 ·
Likes: 4 ·
Reads: 958
astronomical twilight (def.): the last stage of dusk before night
- palm-against-palm and wood between, elm and silver lime and Veela hair and dragon heartstring and there is no difference, nothing at all between us -
Completed ·
Published: 27 Jun 2020 ·
Updated: 27 Jun 2020 ·
Words: 823 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 5 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 1045
Banner by hullo @ TDA | 2009 fic

What beauty there was in your confidence. What purity in your certainty. What clarity in your purpose.
All of it, always, contained within every freckle of your face.
Completed ·
Published: 15 Nov 2019 ·
Updated: 16 Nov 2019 ·
Words: 1277 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 2 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 1126
Series: None

When one door shuts - oh, but there is always another possibility, always another future; another hundred, another thousand, and it is maddening to know fragments of them all but never enough, never enough to be more than a sickly, sweaty, sleepless mess.
I blink, and -
(Gellert Grindelwald is expelled.)
Impossible banner by grumpy cat @HPFT
Completed ·
Published: 13 Oct 2019 ·
Updated: 13 Oct 2019 ·
Words: 545 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 12 ·
Likes: 6 ·
Reads: 1115
It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
In 1924, Albus buys a dreamcatcher in San Francisco and is reminded that melancholy, for him, is a mistake.
Completed ·
Published: 01 Apr 2019 ·
Updated: 02 Apr 2019 ·
Words: 2587 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 7 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 1435
Albus Dumbledore faces Gellert Grindelwald at Nurmengard. The last time he would speak to his only equal, the love of his life.
Completed ·
Published: 27 Mar 2019 ·
Updated: 28 Mar 2019 ·
Words: 806 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 2 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 876
Series: None
Gellert Grindlewald. Draco Malfoy. The Augery. They all had families. Lives. Childhoods.
Completed ·
Published: 17 Jan 2019 ·
Updated: 19 Jan 2019 ·
Words: 1087 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 8 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 33
Series: None
Wings arc from your body as you begin to soar, rising and curving towards the sun as it filters down towards you through the ink-blue sky.
Water fills your lungs in a steady drip, drip, drip, and you are drowning instead.
|| FROGS 2017 Winner: Best Description ||
Completed ·
Published: 05 Apr 2017 ·
Updated: 15 Aug 2018 ·
Words: 5207 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 8 ·
Likes: 4 ·
Reads: 117
Gellert Grindelwald gets a lot more than he bargained for when he visits Great Aunt Bathilda.
Written for Crimson Quill's New Beginnings Challenge
Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (Domestic Abuse)
Content Warnings (optional): None
Genre: Drama
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 08 May 2018 ·
Updated: 08 May 2018 ·
Words: 1208 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 5 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 906
Series: None
Could you write a Gellert Grindelwald Broadway Songifc, you ask?
Well, of course I can!
An awful price for sometimes nice… what was Gellert Grindelwald really made of?
For Moonylupin's Broadway Song Challenge. (from 2010: my first fanfic)
Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (None)
Content Warnings (optional): Breakups
Genre: Angst, Drama
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 12 Mar 2018 ·
Updated: 12 Mar 2018 ·
Words: 3418 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 1 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 1011
Series: None
The first night they spent together, was the first time Ablus admitted outloud what he'd always kept to himself.
Rating and Advisories (required): Teen Audiences (Sexual Content)
Content Warnings (optional): None
Genre: General
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 14 Jan 2018 ·
Updated: 14 Jan 2018 ·
Words: 698 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 2 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 657
Series: None
credit aurevoir @ tdas

We are all prisoners in some form, some physically but others mentally bound by our own sanity, anger, guilt and regret.
3rd Place: Best Friends/Family at FROGs '18
Winner: Best Minor Character at POGs '18.
Completed ·
Published: 07 Dec 2017 ·
Updated: 07 Dec 2017 ·
Words: 2095 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 13 ·
Likes: 3 ·
Reads: 90
'You and I, Albus, we would have turned the world to ashes and risen together, phoenixes, standing high above the ruins, ready to take our rightful places and rule.'
For MuggleMaybe's The Literary Quotes Challenge
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Slurs, Sexual Content, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Breakups, Discrimination, War
Genre: Angst, Dark, Drama, Romance
Tropes: Family, Fate/Prophecy, Friends to Lovers, Friendship, Law/Politics, Love/Hate Relationships, Star-Crossed Romance
Completed ·
Published: 02 Jul 2017 ·
Updated: 02 Jul 2017 ·
Words: 2576 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 6 ·
Likes: 4 ·
Reads: 100
Series: None
"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends,” Albus Dumbledore once said. He, more than anyone, knew the truth of that.
Quote from page 221 of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by JK Rowling.
Completed ·
Published: 05 Mar 2017 ·
Updated: 06 Mar 2017 ·
Words: 261 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 5 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 1228
Series: None
That summer was your fairytale, Albus, your flight from reality.
This is your story.
Yours, and sometimes his.
For Laura
Completed ·
Published: 27 Jan 2017 ·
Updated: 27 Jan 2017 ·
Words: 2680 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 2 ·
Likes: 2 ·
Reads: 1520
Series: None
Beautiful Banner by badlandr @ TDA
His lips tingled with the phantom of Gellert's kisses.
Completed ·
Published: 27 Jan 2017 ·
Updated: 27 Jan 2017 ·
Words: 741 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 1 ·
Likes: 0 ·
Reads: 1209

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.
- Dante Alighieri
Incredible banner by mockingjay @TDA
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (Self-Harm, Slurs, Substance Abuse, Violence)
Content Warnings (optional): Addiction, Bullying, Discrimination, Dying/Grieving, War
Genre: Angst, Dark, Drama
Tropes: Destructive Romance, Established Relationship, Fate/Prophecy, Forgiveness, Friendship, Law/Politics, Love Hurts, Love/Hate Relationships, Religion
Completed ·
Published: 22 Jan 2017 ·
Updated: 26 Jan 2017 ·
Words: 9478 ·
Chapters: 3 ·
Reviews: 5 ·
Likes: 3 ·
Reads: 343

Albus Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald fight two very different duels.
Written for the Game On Volume II Collab at HPFF
Ominous banner by Enigma @ TDA!
Completed ·
Published: 14 Dec 2016 ·
Updated: 15 Dec 2016 ·
Words: 1003 ·
Chapters: 2 ·
Reviews: 4 ·
Likes: 2 ·
Reads: 599
Series: None
In the interrogation chamber of MACUSA, Gellert has a revelation.
For the 'HPFT Archive Grand Opening Drabble Challenge'.
Rating and Advisories (required): All Audiences (None)
Content Warnings (optional): None
Genre: Microfiction
Tropes: None
Completed ·
Published: 30 Nov 2016 ·
Updated: 30 Nov 2016 ·
Words: 199 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 9 ·
Likes: 7 ·
Reads: 1484

History is written by the victors, to their specifications. Not all of history fits within them.
These are those parts which do not.
For Elisabeth.
Stunning banner by asami sato @TDA
Characters: Albus Dumbledore, Bathilda Bagshot, Gellert Grindelwald, Kendra Dumbledore, Original Female Character, Original Male Character
Pairings: Albus Dumbledore/Gellert Grindelwald (Harry Potter), Unlisted Pairing
Representation: Lesbian, LGBTQIA+, Mixed Race, Native American
Story Type: One-Shot, Other (inc. plays, diaries, etc)
FFT Groups:
Rating and Advisories (required): Mature Audiences (None)
Content Warnings (optional): Breakups, Cheating, Discrimination, Homophobia
Genre: Drama, General, Romance
Tropes: Careers, Family, Friends to Lovers, Friendship, Love Hurts, Origin Story, Questioning Identity, Secret Relationships
Completed ·
Published: 14 Nov 2016 ·
Updated: 14 Nov 2016 ·
Words: 8780 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 6 ·
Likes: 3 ·
Reads: 64

Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.
- Homer, The Iliad
Beautiful banner by clarity. @TDA
Completed ·
Published: 12 Nov 2016 ·
Updated: 12 Nov 2016 ·
Words: 5860 ·
Chapters: 1 ·
Reviews: 1 ·
Likes: 1 ·
Reads: 58
Series: None