Harry Potter (Literature) - TV Tropes. Rowling, starting off in the late 1. Blending fantasy with the nearly extinct British Boarding School genre, it was the debut work of Rowling, an ex- schoolteacher. Needless to say, there is a multimedia franchise revolving around them, consisting of a series of films, video games and various other merchandising tie- ins, but at the heart of it are the books. The basic story is simple: Harry Potter is a seemingly normal schoolboy, living with his resentful, abusive aunt and uncle after being orphaned in his infancy, who on his eleventh birthday discovers he isn't really normal at all. His parents were both powerful wizards, and Harry himself is the renowned defeater of Voldemort, would- be Evil Overlord of the wizarding world.

Voldemort had attempted to kill Harry when the latter was only a year old, but for unknown reasons, the curse he cast at the boy afflicted himself instead, killing him.. There are the normal school troubles — bullies, unpleasant teachers, a three- headed dog guarding something mysterious — but nothing serious, until he sees a dark shadow creeping through the forest. Investigating, he eventually discovers that Voldemort didn't truly die. Though his body was destroyed, his spirit clung to life, seeking ways to return from death and resume his campaign of terror. The Harry Potter book series: The spin- off books. Tropes prevalent across the whole series: All was well.

As Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, and Hermione Granger enter their fourth year at Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, new challenges await them, both.

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Status: Complete. Synopsis: After realizing how they're treating Harry and fleeing an abusive Vernon, Petunia sends Harry and Dudley into the care of her childhood acquaintance and only contact in the wizarding world- . Tom Riddle's destiny was, is and will always be in the form of Lord Voldemort. Will a rather sane Voldemort find out, and use, the similarities there are between him and Harry to his favours, and change the wizarding world in a way no one had expected?

All the canon characters are IC (but Ron gets added snark!), the invented dynamics between characters who didn't meet in canon (e. Sirius and Draco) are done brilliantly, and OC Brutus Swift is hilarious. Remus has not yet come onstage, but the hints of Sirius/Remus are handled well. Best of all, Harry and Sirius' relationship gets the time and growth it didn't get in the books, making it Better Than Canon.

Updated very slowly, but luckily not a deadfic. It actually makes more sense than canon in places - for example, an escaped mass murderer who's also a werewolf is a much better reason for the near- paranoid security measures.

Plus, from where it's heading, it looks like it'll be Remus/Sirius, which should have been canon in my opinion. An AU in which Harry has a twin, Connor, who is the Boy Who Lived. Lily and Dumbledore train Harry from an early age to always protect Connor, but then Harry is sorted into Slytherin..

The other one of note is Connor/ Parvati. It makes minor characters from canon into characters that I actually care about. Plus, it's the only fic that has made me cry. Petunia decides to do what she should have been doing all along. Dumbledore had better stay away.

Petunia Dursley is upset. Its interesting, original and shows that Lily's sister actually has a heart. It's over 6. 0 chapters long however it hasn't been updated for a while. Still worth reading. Mass of OC can be tiresome, but it works decently within the premise.

The writing itself is pretty decent ignoring the previously mentioned problems, so it can be worth reading. Upon finding that Harry's address is a cupboard, he sets out to determine what's gone wrong. He decides that the best revenge he can have on James Potter is to help raise his son in a proper way. Snape is mildly amoral in how exactly he deals with Harry's situation, but avoids crossing the line too severely. Both the Wizarding and Muggleborn cultures receive some jabs, including an interesting commentary on how exactly Hermione's know- it- all personality would have distinctly rubbed the Wizarding community the wrong way. Most interesting for me, it features a Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy who somehow manage to be blood purists and yet very likeable in their own way. How different would his life be?

A Darker and Edgier version of what might have been. The author does a very realistic job at everything else, including fleshing out a completely plausible AU. It's a lot bleaker than canon, with several major character dying or going insane. The Fanfiction. Net version, posted above, is free of smut but has sexual references. Definitely interesting and thought- provoking.

And when Sirius Blacks escapes Azkaban in their first year at Hogwarts, how will he help his Godson and daughter in defeating the darkest wizard of all times? While it does feature an OC character, who is a daughter of Sirius Black, I can note that she is from my opinion one of the more competently written Harry Potter OC's that I've read, who like many of the characters in the fic, goes through a lot of enjoyable character development, becoming a great character of her own by the end. The first part of the story, recently completed is over a million words, and time wise it has only finished year Three. Starting very similar to canon minus the addition of Sirius's daughter and the effects of her character's existence, it soon goes completely AU quickly, with Sirius escaping Azkaban in Harry's first year, and Years Two and Three becoming radically different as a result, with Year Three being especially original compared to canon.

While the mother, who is dead throughout all of the fic minus the prologue, isn't by any stretch of the imagination poorly written in the few scenes we get with her, I personally felt her to be unnecessary, as she could have easily been Marlene herself and it wouldn't have made a difference. When she's gets into Gryffindor instead, her whole life takes a different route..

However Bright Star separates itself from the pack by virtue of being not only well written, but of being poignantly emotional at the oddest of times in a way that isn't entirely thoroughly cheap. Lacie's relationship with Hermione, especially is rather interesting for this type of fanfiction. We are told a little more about Hermione's history, which is rather interesting since Rowling never actually investigated the bond between Hermione and her parents and her non- magical peers. Lacie is a really nice OC, and that's coming from someone who doesn't like OCs. The quotes at the front of each 'real' chapter are well- chosen and manage to even make me like them. The English is sometimes a little broken, but nothing that couldn't be fixed with some extra beta'ing, and a sometimes hard to read sentence would be allowed in this good a fic, even by this nitpicker.

Figg that Harry has been mistreated by the Dursleys. On his way to confront Dumbledore over this, he bumps into Severus Snape and they join forces (it's an Enemy Mine situation) to confront the Headmaster and try to persuade him that Harry can have a happy childhood and still stay alive.

A simple choice: Today or Tomorrow? Conceived a day earlier, the Boy Who Lived was never born. He wasn't even a glimmer in his parents' eyes. But she was; Harriet Lily Potter..

Harry; the girl that grew up in a cupboard; the girl with safety- pinned knickers; the girl that was never wanted by the only family she had left; the girl that would give anything for the slightest bit of love. What happens when the shoes of a hero are filled by the feet of a heroine? How does the world change? How do relationships change? How important can one person possibly be? Also, in terms of exploring canon without contradicting it, A Butterfly Effect is one of the most well- reasoned fanfics in existence. A heartfelt seconding of this recommendation here.

A Butterfly Effect is brilliantly plotted, brilliantly written, and possibly the most emotionally real. Harry Potter fic this troper has ever read, and is especially notable for depicting a main character that is both convincingly- female and convincingly- Harry, while avoiding the gratuitous sexism that is so often prevalent in fem! Harry fics. Relationships are just totally out of character for the age group.

I'm talking hints of porn (including an orgasm) while everyone involved is in first year. The people involved are far too young for it to be even remotely romantic, and it's rather disturbing if you think about the context.

The story is unrealistic, and many things are beyond explanation. It's definitely not worth a recommendation.

The author, despite all these flaws, is a good writer. The stylism is good, as is the spelling and grammar. It's just that there are severe problems with the story and all the characters, and as the troper above me stated, there's a myriad of flaws that take a story with the potential for excellence and turn it into precious little more than power fantasies and softcore porn.

Involving eleven year olds. I'm not trying to be rude (Well, okay, I'm being a bit rude), but the author really does have potential - it's just not met here at all. I'm disappointed. Especially since I have yet to find a good Fem! Harry (Femslash nice but not requisite) fanfic that doesn't fall into these traps/is gratuitously sexist.

A Butterfly Effect fleshes out the Potterverse with extraordinary skill and creates an overarching plot that is both gripping and endearing. The changes in the Potterverse characters are all direct results of Harriet's existence.. To say she is a Mary Sue is utterly ridiculous. The dark themes are scarring for all the characters and you can tell from the way they're developing. Furthermore, the sexual themes prevalent in the first 6 of 2. They are now 1. 4.

And honestly, if you don't want to read stories with mature themes, then don't pick up anything with an 'M'/borderline 'NC- 1. It's somewhat odd to criticize a 'Mature' story for being mature. Also, it helps that Harriet doesn't read like a Sue either; she's rather like a blend of the entire trio with a bucketful of teenage angst thrown in to mix things up. And because she reads like a real person, one constantly empathizes with her when tragedy and setbacks befall her. The author takes the tiniest of vague details, such as Dumbledore's slew of apparently- meaningless titles, and creates massive plotlines that weave seamlessly into the existing Potterverse.

Also, another great feature of this story is its inclusion of multiple narrative perspectives, which was a very smart writing choice on the author's part. As we frequently see Harriet's world from the eyes of secondary and sometimes even tertiary characters, we as readers aren't restricted to the viewpoints of an OC whose femininity takes several chapters to get used to.

And so, in summary, I heartily second (fourth?) this recommendation. This fic strikes a bracing dynamic between mushy drama and fierce, brutal action.