
by One Thousand and One Aitori
Everyone knows Harry Potter as the Boy Who Lived. Few know that he survived the years that followed because his uncle made the wizarding world believe he had vanished. Rowen Evans—the younger brother of Lily and Petunia—is a former Auror, a brilliant inventor of charms, and a merciless bounty hunter feared across Europe and Asia as the Grey Tiger. On the night Voldemort comes for the Potters, Rowen launches a desperate attack against the Death Eaters. He fails to save Lily and James, but he refuses to let Dumbledore decide Harry’s future. Using a false baby as a decoy, Rowen secretly places the real Harry in Petunia’s care and protects her home with his greatest creation: the Wizard-Repelling Charm. He then disappears from Britain, drawing the attention of the wizarding world away from his nephew. Joined by a newly exonerated Sirius Black, Rowen spends the following years hunting Peter Pettigrew and searching for a cure for the darkness hidden inside Harry’s lightning-shaped scar. Their journey carries them from Europe to India, Southeast Asia, China, and the dangerous streets of British Hong Kong, where escaped Death Eaters soon learn to fear the Grey Tiger’s sword. When Harry’s Hogwarts letter finally arrives, Rowen and Sirius return home and accept positions at the school. But Hogwarts is not the sanctuary it appears to be. Snape seems determined to torment Harry, forbidden creatures guard hidden secrets, and Dumbledore’s mysterious plans place children dangerously close to an unfinished war. Rowen has already lost one sister to Voldemort. He will not allow Harry to become another sacrifice—not for destiny, not for prophecy, and not for the greater good. The Grey Tiger has returned to Britain, and anyone who threatens his family will soon learn why even the Death Eaters fear his name.
No streak history
One state-enhanced oracle order, filtered by each list. Observed Royal Road ranks remain separate ground truth.
Rank updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:28 UTC
Entry forecast updated 2 Oct 2026, 06:28 UTC
Ranking model: rs-public-oracle-state-v1
Forecast model: rs-model-entry-v1
Chart history contains only this ranking model's runs; legacy points are not spliced in.
Coupled 14-day outlook
rs-joint-entry-copula-v1
Any eligible RS entry
6%
Two or more lists
2%
Likely threshold order: Action → Adventure → Main.
Leading bundle: Action (5%).
Estimated from one fitted shared story path; category probabilities are not multiplied as if lists were independent.
Separate entry forecast; this probability does not enter the ranking score.
Overall Rising Stars Shadow RS rank
#7661 of 12,157 · 7611 below RS #50
By genre
beats 90% of similar stories
beats 1% of similar stories
beats 87% of similar stories
Firing on all cylinders
Traffic and conversion are both strong for a story this size. Readers are finding it and sticking — if Rising Stars is the goal, this is the moment to push.
Benchmarks: 8,060 active Royal Road stories, percentiles within the 20–49 chapters band, cohort of 2026-07-02. Conversion is measured as followers gained per 1,000 views over the recent window.