History Fanfic / HarryPotterAndTheLackOfLambSauce

* ForWantOfANail: Gordon Ramsay becoming the new Potions master instead of Horace Slughorn certainly changes things up a bit, though [[InSpiteOfANail not as drastically as you might think]]...

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12805206/chapters/29228961 Harry Potter and the Lack of Lamb Sauce]]'' is a ForWantOfANail fic on Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn that's essentially a crossover between ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' and ''Series/MasterChef'', with the main focus on the ''Harry Potter'' side of things. While some consider it a CrackFic, it also has good characterization and emotional weight.

* CureYourGays: A variation. [[spoiler:After being caught in a discussion on the resistance, Etienne Montmercy casts the Imperius Curse on his transgender son Julien so that he'd be open to an ArrangedMarriage with a scumbag as a [[WantedAGenderConformingChild "woman"]]. When Julien breaks the curse at his nonconsensual marriage ceremony, he gets dragged off and imprisoned in the Saeva Ward for "reconditioning" via being injected with the Draught of Despair.]] It ultimately doesn't work out.

* AutismInMedia: While she is a relatively minor character, Arjuna's mother, Chaaya Belaji, is heavily coded to be autistic in her appearances, being intently focused on what she likes doing, knowledgeable about topics she's passionate about like history and literature, sensitive to high volumes, and having a tendency to be blunt. A DiagnosisOfGod confirms that she has undiagnosed Asperger's syndrome. [[invoked]]

* ArtisticLicenseAnimalCare: Chapter 61 makes a passing mention to Rose putting chocolate pudding on her camera lens to take a picture of her cat, as it's his favourite. Chocolate is toxic to cats, so unless the pudding consists of pet-friendly chocolate substitutes, Mr. Whiskers would realistically have to be sent to the vet, if not the pet cemetery.

-->'''[[spoiler:Arjuna]]:''' To those who defy the Dark Lord –- if you hear this, then it's because the Death Eaters either inside or outside the Ministry have caught up with me, and I either am or will soon be dead.

* NonIndicativeTitle: The title of the fic is a spoof of the [[Memes/HellsKitchen infamous Hell's Kitchen meme]], and at no point in the story does the lack of lamb sauce become a plot point. [[spoiler:The quote in the meme is briefly dropped in the final chapter as a gag, however.]]

* AmoralAttorney: The Bulstrodes run a lawyer practice and are sympathetic to the Death Eater causes and their shady dealings, and caused their actually-guilty clients to be let off the hook after the first war by drawing sympathy to their parenthood. [[spoiler:However, even Europa Bulstrode [[EvenEvilHasStandards is disgusted by]] Yaxley's blatant KangarooCourt procedures, InsaneTrollLogic arguments, and {{sadis|t}}m in wanting to condemn a minor to the Dementor's Kiss in spite of its lack of legality, and overall, both Bulstrode parents value law and order over the Death Eater regime.]]

* PropagandaPiece: ''The Stormer'', the Wizarding World equivalent of ''Der Stürmer'', is a tabloid made to create an Anti-Muggle propaganda. Most of the characters are understandably pissed by this, although that didn't stop it from causing even more discrepancy between Pure-Bloods and Muggleborns.

* ArrangedMarriage: {{Discussed|Trope}} in Chapter 68, where Etienne Montmercy is said to be making plans to invoke this for all Hogwarts students in their seventh year before their graduation, and intends to do this to his son whom he misgenders.

* WouldHurtAChild: The Death Eater-run Ministry, at one point, puts a ''toddler'' in a room alone and when he predictably is unable to take care of himself [[DeathOfAChild and starves to death]], they gleefully call this proof that the blood of Muggleborns is inferior... despite this being what would happen with ANY child that young in that situation, and not just one with a Muggleborn mother.

* WouldHurtAChild: The Death Eater-run Ministry, at one point, puts a ''toddler'' in a room alone and when he predictably is unable to take care of himself [[DeathOfAChild and starves to death]], they gleefully call this proof that the blood of Muggleborns is inferior... [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome despite this being what would happen with ANY child that young in that situation]], and not just one with a Muggleborn mother.

* HeteronormativeCrusader: While Hogwarts is implied to be a safe space for queer students, the Death Eaters are ''anything'' but accepting to those who deviate from the traditional family model of a husband and a wife that submits to him and pops out heirs, and the less said about transgender individuals, the better.

** Several other characters have unconfirmed canonical fates and presumably survived the story in canon, but died in the ''Lack of Lamb Sauce'' continuity. These characters include [[spoiler:Madame Hooch, Michael Corner, and [[NamedByTheAdaptation Hector]] Summerby.]]

* TransTribulations: Julien Montmercy is, for unknown reasons, given the title of Head Girl at Hogwarts in spite of being a trans guy, but this is the least of his problems, considering everything ''else'' that happens after his graduation. For one, there's eventually a sub-plot where [[spoiler:his transphobic father [[CureYourGays mind-controls him into acting his assigned gender at birth]] to marry him off to someone he's uncomfortable with.]] Likewise but on a smaller scale, Noel Harwich is a non-binary student who faces being misgendered by others, though in their case, the people who do so are either InnocentlyInsensitive or eventually overcome their prejudice.

* WouldHurtAChild: The Death Eater-run Ministry, at one point, puts a ''toddler'' in a room alone and when he predictably is unable to take care of himself [[DeathOfAChild and starves to death]], they gleefully call this proof that the blood of Muggleborns is inferior... [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome despite this being what would happen with ANY child that young in that situation]].