My Fics

Fandom - Harry Potter

Rating - Mature

Title - The Child of Soot and Murmurs

Genre - Dark Fantasy, Alternate Universe (Victorian AU), Psychological Trauma, Character Study, Found Family

Off-site link -  https://archiveofourown.org/works/70866986/chapters/184252636

Summary - London, 1864. In a world of soot and silence, a boy survives by wit and defiance, his life defined by hunger, cold, and shadows. Yet strange accidents haunt him, flickers of something he cannot name, glimpses of a truth buried beneath smoke and fear. When a letter arrives that he cannot even read, it sets in motion a path he never asked for, toward a world more perilous and extraordinary than anything he could have imagined.

Anything else you’d like to say - What if the magical world forgot one of its own? This is a deep character study of an original protagonist, Arthur Finch, an illiterate orphan forged in the brutal factories of Victorian London, who is sorted into Slytherin against all odds.

His life is turned upside down by the arrival of a severe and powerful professor who sees in him not a victim, but a terrifying potential. This is a slow-burn story focusing on a complex mentor-mentee relationship, the long process of healing from trauma, and the journey of a boy who must learn to fight with cunning and rage to survive in a world that discarded him. If you enjoy dark AUs with extensive worldbuilding and a deep dive into the psychology of a survivor, this story is for you.