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Andromeda knew what'd happened the moment she laid her eyes upon Harry - her seventeen year old son whom she never birthed, who's long hair curled in a manner so similar to her own. Harry had never been a crier - he'd become teary eyed, and perhaps the tears would fall, but he wouldn't weep.

And so, when he appeared in their front door - still filthy from the battle she hadn't been part of, to care for her grandson - with his stomach spasming in weak, silent sobs, Andromeda knew what'd happened. When he stood in the doorway, eyes wide and haunted and overflowing with tears like two waterfalls, Andromeda began to shake.

When his haunted expression met hers, and his eyes glanced around the living room where they'd made all their best memories, Andromeda began to cry, too.

"M-Mum..." Harry whispered, jaw shaking. His eyes kept flitting between her and little Teddy, between Ted's armchair and Nymphadora's spot in front of the fireplace. "M-Mum, they're- they're all- they-"

Harry fell to his knees, and if Andromeda hadn't been holding Teddy, she didn't know what her body would've wound up doing. She wanted to scream and rage, she wanted to throw things and destroy, she wanted to curl into a ball and run forward and embrace her son - but she couldn't. Teddy wasn't even a month old.

Andromeda was too weak to stand as her vision blurred beyond recognition. She was hardly aware of Teddy's cries - not when Harry wailed for the first time in his life. Not when she knew the three of them in that room were all that remained of their family.

Professor McGonagall strode to the front of the Hall with the Sorting Hat, her face already fixed in a mask of grim determination. “Albright, Harry!”

A small boy scurried to the stool, and after a few seconds there was delighted cheer as the child named after the Boy-Who-Lived was sorted into Gryffindor.

”Boot, Harry!”

“My younger brother,” Terry Boot introduced him after the younger boy joined him at the Ravenclaw table. “Chin up, Haz, I know you wanted Gryffindor but family tradition outweighs your first name.”

At the front of the room, the Sorting continued.

”Chowdhury, Hari…Clemens, Harry…Dagworth-Granger, Harry…”

The awkward mood in the Hall perked up a bit when the first little girl stepped to the front of the line, but quickly returned when McGonagall called “Ellington, Harriet.”

So it went, dozens of firsties conceived in the joyful aftermath of the First Wizarding War and named for the nation’s young savior, most of them clearly hoping to join him in Gryffindor (there were a few tears and breakdowns when a Harry was sent to Hufflepuff or Slytherin). Occasionally the litany was broken up by a traditionally-named pureblood or a Muggleborn, but overall it was one long parade of Harry’s, Harolds, Henry’s, and Harriets, with the odd ‘Hadrian’ or ‘Hera’ for a bit of spice.

”This is a nightmare,” the original Harry Potter groaned, burying his face in his arms on the table.

”Look on the bright side, Harry,” Hermione said briskly. “At least you’re still the only Harry in our year. Think of those poor kids, all having to sit in the same classes together! And the professors, oh my goodness…”

said draco malfoy.

hermione stared at him suspicously.

"what do you want malfoy?" asked ron.

"tipsy tricksy" said malfoy and two house elves apeared.

"these are the malfoy house elves. tipsy tricksy, whenever granger raises her hand in class you will stick your fingers in the oven is that understood?"

"yes master draco" chorused the house elves before vanishing again with a pop.

See the Beacon used in Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol episode

HARRY. Do you have any ideas of who could have thrown your name in the GOBLET of FIRE????? Asked Dumbledore calmly.

It was me Headmaster. I throw it in. Came the reply. The arrogance of the boy. Claiming that he got through the defenses. Just like his father. Snarled Snape.

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Harry finally got through the party and into the room. He saw Ron face shadowed on his bed. He looked up and said, with tears in his eyes: Mate, we will figure out who put you in this deathtrap. Don’t worry I will be with you every step of the way.
But Ron it was me! Ron looked at Harry with a bitter smile: Don’t worry I understand. You want to be consistent, and don’t want to slip up. Mate I will back you up when you say this, but know that I know the truth.

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No matter who he told, no one believed him. He even caught conversation snippets, from teacher, who were worrying that the shock of being selected must have made him cope this way. The Headmaster even said that he will do his best to find who put his name into the goblet, and to get him out of the tournament.

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He has did it, he has gotten the golden egg from a dragon! With a pretty good score to bout. Now he will be able to convince everyone that it was his choice! And maybe even get himself a girlfriend through the Yule Ball. He already had some ideas…

His inner celebration was interrupted by a widely smiling Dumbledore:

Great news Harry. It turned out it was an impersonator of Professor Moody, working for Voldemort. We even caught the Ex-Dark Lords spirit and none else than Peter Pettigrew. Of course, the ministry is slow, so don’t worry you can spend one more summer with your loving relatives before moving in with Sirius, if you want to.

With this we could dissolve the spell binding you to the tournament. And one other more age appropriate one:
You don’t have to worry about the ball. The original plan was 5th years up, but as a champion you were needed, so we lowered it to 4th. But now that that was solved, we can raise it back again. So, you don’t have to worry about these kinds of things for at least a year.

With that the twinkling eyed grandfatherly smiling Albus, have left the dumbfounded Harry alone.

Per the text, any recommendations? I'd prefer no slash, and as little bashing as possible for any character.

Harold Evans always had a crush on his neighbor Lillian, she was a close friend but not interested in him for dating.

Lillian liked the bad boy type and got herself in a spot of trouble. the boy whom she’d been dating ran out of town and now she was afraid her parents would throw her out.

Harold found her crying and managed to coax the story from her. being an honorable young man he offered to marry her, claim the child as his own and no one would ever know. he may not be who she wanted but they had always been close friends regardless.

7 months later Lillian gave birth to a little girl they named Petunia Evans, a week later Lillian passed way from a post birth infection and Harold now had a newborn daughter that wasn’t really his to raise while trying to work and pay for the home he just bought in Cokeworth.

Rose was a couple years younger than Harold but had already finished school and took on the job of watching baby Petunia while Harold worked. by the time Petunia was 2 years old Harold and Rose had become more, talks about the baby turned to chats over dinner and then occasional outings and then actual dates.

rose had already fallen in love with little Petunia and then in love with Harold. she wouldn’t dream of turning him down when he asked her to marry him. within a year they were married and she officially adopted Petunia as her own.

Two years later when they had a second child it was Rose who suggested the name Lily as a way to quietly honor the woman who gave them Petunia.

they did their best to raise the girls as equal as they could and never told them the truth. to them they were family and that was all that mattered. it had no bearing as far as Harold and Rose were concerned that Petunia shared not a drop of blood with either of them.

it was Rose’s grandfather, her grandmothe’s first husband and her mother’s actual father who had been a wizar. Ominus Gaunt had left his family for the muggle world as soon as he had finished his schooling. it had been hard for him to find work being blind especially since he couldn’t use his wand to help his sight like he could within the magical world. he didn’t agree with his family though and had refused to stay where he feared further torment or possibly death. his elder brother Marvolo had been especially vicious and promised Ominus he’d kill him as soon as he was head of the family.

When he met Rosaline, Rose’s grandmother, he’d fallen quickly in love with her. he’d even told her the truth of his family, magic and what his family would do if they found him. They weren’t married long when Ominus died. Rosaline thought it was damage from curses he’d received from his family growing up.

Rosaline remarried, a muggle like herself. Her second husband was a kind and loving man and had happily adopted Rosaline’s daughter and gave her his name.

Rosaline’s daughter, Rose’s mother, was told the truth of her birth and all about her father when she was older. she hadn’t inherited her fathers magic or his ability to speak to snakes. but Ominus had told her it was possible that any child or grandchild they had may inherit it.

Rose was told about her grandfather when she was older too. not the details as her mother hadn’t thought them importan. Just that magic was real and it was possible to have a witch or wizard in the family. She worried when her daughter Lily showed signs she may have magic, she didn’t want her grandfather’s family to know about the link to them. Thankfully Lily hadn’t seemed to inherit the gift of speaking to snakes so it wasn’t likely anyone would connect her to them.

she meant to tell Lily the truth, but that would mean having to tell Petunia the truth too. Harold and Rose decided together that it wasn’t worth hurting their daughters by telling them they weren‘t sisters by blood. there was already enough issues between the two and they worried it would push Petunia away from the family. They died before they ever got to come clean to their girls and tell them the truth of their separate heritages.

These truths stayed buried until Harry Potter defeated Voldemort and realized he was still a parselmouth. that’s when he began digging through family records. His new semi friendship with his cousin Dudley helped when he was at a loss with the Potter Family Records, Harry needed to look through his mother’s family tree, he knew that it was possible for magic to skip generations and show back up. was it possible his mum had gotten her magic from some distant ancestor?

Petunia wasn’t about to give over what records she had of her family to Harry, but she had no problem with Dudley looking through the dusty old boxes in the attic left over from when her parents had passed away.

..She's actually a Djinn that attached itself to their family during a visit to Bill in Egypt. It calls itself Djinny and the rest of the family are just kind of forced to go along with it.

Please note that this is not a personal attack to anyone who puts Daphne in their fic or those who enjoy reading stories about her.

I just can't like this character at all. Every time she appears in a fic, I automatically roll my eyes. There were instances where I was enjoying a fic, but stopped reading when I realized Daphne Greengrass was going to play a role in the story.

First reason, she was barely in the series, and that's being generous. I can't even remember where her name was mentioned, let alone where she had a dialogue or did something. And yet, she's featured so prominently in so many fics.

Second reason, often times, Daphne feels like a shoe horned OC that the writer put in with the sole purpose of giving Harry a love interest. At least with other ships with Harry, at least the character has traits of their canon self. Because Daphne barely had any role in the series, it feels like at best a poorly written OC, and at worst a Mary Sue. She's the supposed "Ice Queen of Slytherin(I don't even know where this started)", she's a Slytherin but not like others, somehow Harry trusts and falls in love with her immediately despite barely having any interactions.

There. That was my rant against this character. Again, I'm not attacking anyone who enjoys stories with her. I just cannot for the life of me see what the appeal is.

I've seen this in so many fics that I almost thought it was canon.

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I have a few things :

Hermione slave of the weasly

Harry being lord potter-Black-House of the ship

Remus or severus being pedophiles

Weasly twins being decent

Please excuse my grammar, English is not my 1st language

Any pairing or no pairing is fine, just not Slash.

I like the idea of Harry impressing the Marauders. And Please don't recommend Harry being very OC. I once read a fic where every girl falls for Harry and the marauders were impressed by his charming skills.

Thank you!

I understand people want to write what they want to write, I am not judging them, I am here to understand why do they that.

why does it have to be his and not just a side affect of voldemort's soul in him?

why do many writers make lily some descendant of the gaunt family?

seems really weird.

like do they want him to be this special little child, who gets everything handed to him and who the world hates for the perceived evilness of that ability, just so they can feel connected to him or live through him? so they can feel their hero fantasy?

why can't they let lily just be some muggleborn and harry be some half blood, whose life got fucked by chance?

so basically i read of this fic in which snape instead of hagrid goes and harry has killed vernon and is basically a monster because of being an horcrux. does anyone remember the name of the fic?

Just what it says, yes. Want to see Ron “ride or die” Weasley being friends with Harry, while having Hermione critical approach, or even bashing if not too extreme.

Read too many fics with the opposite and need some balance.

Petunia Evans is well-known on YouTube, Instagram and Tiktok, as a lifestyle influencer. She's skilled in gardening, beauty / health (including hair and skincare), and of course cooking and caring for her family. She's at the head of the neighborhood association, and goes to the church every sunday.

Sometimes, she has made video collabs with conservative politicians, as she's promoting "family values".

She's somehow hypocritical, because she promotes "tradwife" lifestyle for other women, but she herself earns a lot of money (through monetized videos, merch...) as a content creator. Occasionally, she even outearns Vernon (her revenues ebb and flow).

She's very proud of her normal yet successful life.

It means that the Dursleys act as a "loving family", at least in front of the neighbors (and the camera). Harry also always had a normal (and well-decorated) bedroom, as Petunia loves to show off her home life.

It also means that she pressured Vernon and Dudley to get thinner, because it just wouldn't do to have an obese husband and son. She also beautified herself as much as she could (through tailored clothes, make-up, possibly some aesthetic surgery...).

In addition, she never allowed Dudley to become a violent, loud and obvious bully, or to act disruptive in school, because (again) it may tarnish her image.

Dudley might still have bullying tendencies, but he would do it in a stereotypical "mean girl" way (spreading rumors, making backhanded compliments and subtly humiliating observations, putting people in humiliating situations "by accident", etc). A subtle, underhanded bully who uses social violence. While acting like "a good kid" and "nice" around adults and authority figures. And being one of the most popular kids in school.

Had a thought and thought I should check if anyone else's brain would have the same thought. If you were law enforcement-adjacent and you found a kid who a) didn't look a thing like his supposed relatives, b) is obviously being mistreated, c) is made to do all the chores around a house, and d) doesn't have a paper trail to the point that it's like he just appeared from nowhere one day, what conclusion may you come to?

I want a fanfic about a female oc in hogwarts, I don’t care about romance just a GREAT LONG story, and not crossovers!! and please good writing nothing bad

Hey guys, would love some reccs on fics with a young/ fresh out of Hogwarts Tom Riddle who has a partner. Ideally he should still be on his evil quest for power etc etc, just with the added pressure of having a partner