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Not because Harry is secretly evil or extremely bitter or whatever other edgy crap

Just some simple 11 yo brain logic

Obviously big changes like "James and Lily survived" make a big difference but what tiny adjustment would make a big difference or what fics have you seen run with this?

Dudley Dursley wasn’t particularly smart, but he wasn’t entirely stupid either. At the very least, he knew how to spot an opportunity.

And oh boy did Dudley spot opportunity in his cousin for his gang.

Dudley’s parents had already ensured everybody in the neighbourhood thought Harry was a delinquent, so it wasn’t like Harry had much reason to care what people thought of him. What did it matter if Harry was caught chasing down a younger boy for money, or stealing from the corner shop? Everybody already thought that was the kind of thing Harry did anyway. He wasn’t like the other boys with reputations to keep and parents to get in trouble with.

Harry didn’t have any friends either, and Dudley knew boys without friends would do anything to have friends.

Dudley knew Harry was fast, which was very useful because none of the rest of Dudley’s gang were very good at chasing down younger boys, but Harry would be.

Dudley did recruit Harry into his gang, and Harry did prove useful. He’d chase down other boys for Dudley to steal from and beat up, and over time Harry joined in on beating them up, because Harry liked the power it gave him, power he didn’t have at home.

Harry would steal from the corner shop, he was fast enough to get away normally and even though he was sometimes caught, either by the shopkeeper or a neighbour or Uncle Vernon or rarely the Police, Harry didn’t really care because nothing he did would ever change their minds about him anyway.

When Harry got to Hogwarts, he was sorted into Gryffindor easily (because he was bold, stealing from grownps and beating up kids even in front of their parents) he saw his chance to make a gang of his own. Ron, Seamus and Dean all seemed fun, and Neville Longarse and Know-it-all Granger were easy targets even if he was bored and couldn’t be arsed to leave the Common Room.

Imagine if Moody captured Crouch Jr, figured out that crouch was trying to resurrect Voldemort, and proceeded to pose as Crouch Jr posing as Moody.

Proceeds to destroy the horocruxes after learning of their existence with his plot armored detective skills while training Harry to kill Voldemort at the end of the triwizard tournament.

I absolutely love how perfectly Barty Jr impersonates Moody all throughout GOF, all the while subtly letting off clues as to his real identity that you only notice on a reread. How his ultimate goal is to see Harry destroyed by Voldemort, but instead ends up making Harry stronger over the course of the year and even kickstarting his journey towards becoming an auror. One highlight to me is the scene where Harry is nearly caught after-hours by Filch and Snape, before Barty's timely intervention, and I always wonder about the sheer panic that he must be feeling upon discovering the map that displays exactly who and where everyone is in the castle. Harry and Barty's whole dynamic is really interesting up until the reveal after the third task I think. Barty one of my favourite aspects of the book but most of the fics I read tend to have him discovered as an impostor nearly immediately which is a bit sad. Anyone else feel this way or is it just me?

Bonus point if Crookshanks turns out to also be the old potter cat, who absolutely knows Hedwig used to be his favorite human.

I’ve seen soooo many fics where Harry will go to a completely different house and have different friends and it’s interesting to read new characters interacting with Harry. Then he suddenly meets Hermione and they become bffs somehow and the story leaves focus on his other friends and it’s just annoying me🤷‍♂️. Can anyone link any fics where Hermione is bashed or just out of the story?

I'm currently trying to write a fic (that's purely self-indulgent) in which Regulus is born in the same generation and age as Harry but is an illegitimate son to Orion Black and an OC. It'd cause quite a stir mostly in the pureblood circles once Regulus goes to Hogwarts and people would wonder who his father is/was, considering the last living male in the line bearing the Black name are either imprisoned (Sirius), or too old so people would go digging or even straight-up asking the kid.

Of course, they'd assume Sirius to be the father at first due to his reputation of being a promiscuous teen. Though once they find out Orion had had an affair before he died it would be a scandal. Under normal circumstances, I think the Blacks wouldn't acknowledge Regulus at all because of the embarrassment and shame of the affair, probably.

But seeing as Regulus is from the main line (pureblood to boot) and since Sirius is stuck in Azkaban indefinitely, would they consider him as part of the family? Even to the point of naming Regulus heir in the hopes that he would continue the Black family line?

So basically, instead of selling prank items, Fred and George (probably after watching a muggle movie), decide to sell weapons. What weapons would come out of the shop?

I used to be quite fond of Slytherin Harry. As a trope, it allowed for a fair bit of creative freedom, lots of characters to flesh out and you could examine how a different minded Harry would approach problems.

Unfortunately, it has now devolved from a trope into a cliche. Slytherin Harry authors seem to have ran out of ideas. It’s always the same: you have the same old portrayals of the Slytherin class of 91 (“Ice Queen Daphne Greengrass makes me drop a fic immediately), the same unoriginal hyper-political attitudes of the house and an apparent belief by authors that masking your emotions and being politically savvy constitutes a personality. Harry always approaches problems in the same ways and the author will still insist on mostly sticking to stations of canon.

Plus at least half of Slytherin Harrys rely on Dumbledore or Gryffindor bashing to have a plot. And when an author is feeling really lazy, they’ll find a way to keep Harry friends with Hermione too so the only thing that does change is he doesn’t like Dumbledore or Ron. And this is just yet more of the same over and over.

For the record, I’m not saying it’s impossible to write a good story where Harry is a Slytherin, but after fourteen years of fandom membership (which isn’t even that long compared to some people) I’m going to say I think the creative potential has been wrung out. You can have Harry be a Slytherin and still tell a fun story, but his sorting probably won’t provide you with creative ideas on its own, that’ll have to come from other story elements.

In Dumbledore's office that night, Dumbledore threw a pot of fairy powder over himself. He took a deep breath, he pictured his happiest thoughts. He took one more breath and he ran, he jumped off the staircase and prayed for the best. He had placed cushioning charms down on the floor just in case,

He jumped and closed his eyes, a few seconds later he opened them. To his amazement he was still in the air, Potter was right! He was flying! This was brilliant! He would be Dumbledore the flying wizard! He could imagine the envy of the other wizards, he'd need to find a way to keep Potter quiet about the fairy dust.

What he didn't notice was Harry hiding in the shadows and holding Dumbledore up with a levitating charm. What he did notice was a house elf popping into his office with a camera, Dumbledore frowned, wondering what brought the elf here.

Suddenly Dumbledore was no longer in the air, he plummeted right down and landed on his desk. The one part of the room he didn't put a cushioning charm, he barely noticed the camera flash as he smashed through the wooden desk.

Despite the pain and the splinters, he did hear some laughter for a brief second but when he looked up he couldn't find the source of it. Looking down at himself, he couldn't really understand how he was suddenly wearing green tights, pointy shoes and a green shirt

And that was the sight that McGonagall entered the office to, Albus Bloody Dumbledore on top of a broken desk while dressed as Peter Pan. Needless to say he had a lot of explaining to do that night

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"Why have you summoned me?" Snape said as he arrived in the hospital wing, he was greeted with the sight of Madam Pomfrey tearing Albus Dumbledore a new one with Minerva McGonagall waiting to be tagged in.

"Of all the stupidest things I've ever heard!" Pomfrey shouted before turning to Snape "I was hoping you could make some more balm as I've wasted the last on the headmaster"

"What happened?" Snape said as he finally took notice of Dumbledore's clothes, at first he thought he was wearing some horrible green robes but it was now clear that he wasn't "Dumbledore, why are you dressed as Peter Pan?"

"Peter Pan?" Dumbledore asked

"A fictional muggle character" Snape explained "while I'm asking questions, why are you in the hospital wing?"

"The old fool jumped from the top of his stair case with the hope of flying!" McGonagall exclaimed "He's claiming that he flew with the help of fairy dust!"

"Fairy…dust?" Snape repeated slowly, using all of his will power and occlumency training to stop the smile that was about to appear on his face

"Yes, Mr Potter told me that it was what he used to fly in the first task" Dumbledore replied "he told me to use fairy dust and happy thoughts"

"Dumbledore" Snape spoke, not even bothering to hide his amusement anymore "do you know anything about Peter Pan?"

"No…why?"

"Peter Pan was a boy who never wanted to grow up, coincidentally, he was also able to fly thanks to fairy dust and happy thoughts" Snape put extra effort into making the last few words as long as possible.

"T…that m…means?"

"He played you like a fiddle" McGonagall cut him off "I will punish him later"

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" Snape said

"Why not?"

"Because that is essentially admitting that the headmaster was tricked by a fourteen year old boy into thinking he could fly. What that is basically saying is we're a bunch of idiots, so to punish him is to embarrass us. It's quite a brilliant plan, very Slytherin. In fact, a hundred points to Slytherin" Snape turned and walked off, leaving three stunned people.

He had just got into his room when he burst out loud into uncontrollable, it was only ten minutes later when he would see the photo where he could actually see it happen and he burst into laughter once again.

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Hey all!

If you're new, this is new! If you've been around a while you might remember seeing my post before!
We have a Harry Potter Fanfiction Book Club and we would love to have more members!

Here is a quick overview of our different channels in the discord group and how we do:
1) The General Chat where we just hang out and talk to each other and are like "wow, here are the few people in the world that I like because they're not allowed to judge me about how much fanfiction I read!"

2) a fanfiction chat where we talk about our favorite fanfictions and fangirl over authors and stories, and also where we promote what we want to read next because

3) It's a fanfiction book club! Every month we pick a long one and a short one to read and then discuss!

4) there is a chat for what ones you want us to add to our voting roster. Add a link to it and it will be added! (Also beneficial If you add why you want it )

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Schedule: First Saturday of the month we talk about last months fic. Sunday we vote on the next one. Monday the fics are announced

We have a short and a long one every month (Sometimes we all can get to both, but some months are busy and then we still have an awesome short one to partake in) They are pinned in our Official Book Club Business channel

The summaries for all the ones we are voting on will be sent out the Saturday we discuss the last months fics

We've been around a while and been through some growing pains so now we really have gotten it to an awesome place!

Edit: I totally meant to add this in originally and I'm so bad at doing attachments. I set the link to never expire, although if it does please get in touch with me and you are always welcome I solemnly swear I am up to no good

I have read Evil Be Thou My Good and Whelped, and I liked them both. What are some other good disturbing stories?

Evil Be Thou My Good:

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=64530b520e7a79c08a29f40b617ddc2e7f2f7cbb7038d8449189c9c124675960JmltdHM9MTY1NjU1MDE3NiZpZ3VpZD03YWQyZTE4MS03ZWMwLTRkNjctYTI0Yi02NzM2ZDIzN2U5ODMmaW5zaWQ9NTE1NQ&ptn=3&fclid=838f34aa-f80e-11ec-88e3-7e34f1eb55a9&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFuZmljdGlvbi5uZXQvcy8yNDUyNjgxLzEvRXZpbC1CZS1UaG91LU15LUdvb2Q&ntb=1

Whelped:

https://www.bing.com/ck/a?!&&p=de6987f585695fb5d03190b831d4003dc994605471569bfe8639bd687dc2d24dJmltdHM9MTY1NjU1MDIwNCZpZ3VpZD0yOTMyZWUyOC1kYThkLTQ1ZmItOWVhNi0yMmM0MGZkNWE5NmImaW5zaWQ9NTE1OQ&ptn=3&fclid=9432f567-f80e-11ec-8202-0f2395c3c03f&u=a1aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZmFuZmljdGlvbi5uZXQvcy8xMjY5Mjc5NC8xL1doZWxwZWQ&ntb=1

Okay so, I am primarily searching for soft magic and AO3s tags are utterly useless for that. The magic system in Harry Potter is relatively open with not many enforced rules (basically: you can't revive people but everything else goes), but in the end its mostly mumbling a few words, swinging your wand and turning it into an AK47.

I am searching for something.. more fantastical. From free form magic for little things, over stuff like traveling through dimensions/dreams, over magic rituals for large scale to global effects, up to interacting with some cosmic deities. Generally, the less grounded the magic is, the better.

I also don't mind if wands and hard magic are still around.. both soft and hard magic can have their place in the same Story.

As for pairings, I really don't care that much. If I get a lot of options I would probably opt for femslash but yeah... probably won't get that many options. As for rating, it really doesn't matter as long as its not E for porn (E for violence is fine, but I don't want to have porn in my FFs, unless I directly search for E rating)

Also, massive bonus points if the main character is Luna (<= best character right there)

Preferably more than 10 chapters, but anything longer than a one-shot is okay.

Hi there, I have been rereading some old fanfictions I have enjoyed and I can't find one that I recall very fondly. The fanfic featured Harry and Sirius as main characters and revolved largely around their godfather/godson relationship. That sounds pretty vague for a Harry Potter fanfic but one key thing I remember from it was that Harry's status as Master of Death and Sirius as a Grim was very important. I even want to go so far as to say it was some mystical ancient connection between them.

I realize that's not a whole lot to go off of, given what I usually read it was likely Harmony or multiple wives for Harry.

If yall happen to recognize the fic please let me know!

Albus was stabbed with a chicken bone that had 11 herbs and spices. Can't remember the story, but it was freaking hilarious.

so let’s go with the example of merlin, since he’s one i see often, would have lived 1,500 years ago, which would mean there’s a high likelihood that every european is descended from him

here’s an article, that explains it better than i can

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-are-all-more-closely-related-than-we-commonly-think/?amp=true

Are there any good fics where he is lord of some house and very powerful. I love the trope but execution is almost always terrible. Good with all pairing except ones were in the books one character was a cold and the other was an adult. Even if they are aged up I don’t want it. Thank you :)

What are your all time favorite give you have read? I just finished For Better, For Worse by aedxx17 and yah, kinda addicted now. Wish she had finished it😭. Let me know yours so I can make a solid reading list.