History Fanfic / HarryPotterAndTheMotherWhoLived

** Thanks to involvement at the trial of [[spoiler: Peter Pettigrew]], Barty Crouch appears a whole book early.

* ForWantOfANail: When you start at the top of Harry's story and change such a big thing, the changes big and small will only begin to pile up.
** Harry is much more emotionally prepared for Hogwarts, thanks to a much more loving environment growing up.
** Since he's not treated like a shame, Harry took up football (soccer) as a child, showing that he always was inclined towards sports.
** With Harry visiting Godric's Hollow on Halloween, when he returns, he defeats the troll only with Hermione. This means that it takes much longer for Ron and Hermione to become actual friends rather than acquaintances through Harry.
** With Harry being escorted around in Year 2, Dobby's big plan to stop Harry from reaching Hogwarts isn't sealing off Platform 9 3/4, but decoupling the train car he's in.
** As Sirius was actually a citizen in good standing, Peter Pettigrew is captured [[spoiler: during the Weasleys' vacation]], leading to his trial taking up the opening focus for "book 3".
** As the rightful caretaker for all of James's possessions, Lily doesn't give Harry his trademark invisibility cloak until 3rd year.
** Since Lily discouraged Harry from taking Divination, it's [[spoiler: Parvati]] who hears Trelawney's new prophecy.
** Due to different positioning at the Quidditch World Cup, [[spoiler: Barty Crouch Jr.]] doesn't cast the dark mark during the initial riots. Though it's implied that as a result he does something even worse instead.
** Since [[spoiler: Winky died rather got fired]], Hermione becomes concerned about house elf treatment at Hogwarts, but doesn't found SPEW because it was a concern rather than an outrage.

* RotatingPOV: There are many points of view in this fic, from Lily to the golden trio to Hufflepuffs to Cho.

Halloween, 1981. Lord Voldemort goes to Godric's Hollow to kill the only one who could defeat him. Like before, he dispatched James Potter. However, as a "favor" to Severus Snape, he only incapacitates and tortures Lily Potter. Then he turns his wand on Harry Potter. You know the story from there: curse rebounds, found in the rubble, Harry rescued. But now with Lily still very alive despite everything, Harry Potter grows up for 11 years among Muggles with a single mom. A chance at a normal life before going off to Hogwarts. Then after 11 years, it was finally time. And while Harry is just excited to learn magic, the presence of Ms. Evans will slowly change this world into one with unexpected changes.

* ActionGirl: Lily decides that for her post boarding school life, she'll become an Auror, and so begins training to become just as good a witch as she was before, if not even better.

* TheStationsOfCanon: As this is a retelling of the Harry Potter series, not everything is going to change just because there's one extra person present. That being said, because there's some twisting of the fine details, some things are gradually changing because Lily's influence is moving pieces around.

* DemotedToExtra: As Lily is Harry's stable connection to family, the Dursleys are reduced to the odd mention, though Petunia does appear for a guest appearance in Lily IV.

* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Peter Pettigrew gets [[spoiler: Avadakadavrad by Snape in the 3rd year, trying to get Harry's blood]].

Harry Potter and The Mother Who Lived is a ForWantOfANail fic in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' universe by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Gracques/pseuds/Gracques Gracques]] on Fanfiction.net and Archive of our Own.

->'''Harry''': ''Well, I made a strange dream. I was living with Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, and they forced me to sleep in their cupboard under the stairs.''
->'''Lily''': ''You call this a dream? I'd say it was a nightmare.''

** [[spoiler: Winkie]] is murdered at the Quidditch World Cup.
* DemotedToExtra: As Lily is Harry's stable connection to family, The Dursleys are reduced to the odd mention, though Petunia does appear for a guest appearance in Lily IV.

** As Sirius was actually a citizen in good standing, Peter Pettigrew is captured [[spoiler: during the Weasley's vacation]], leading to his trial taking up the opening focus for "book 3".

* PolitenessJudo: Lily brings up the Malfoy's estranged niece as another relative who also made auror as a way to force them to grit and smile during the Quiddich World Cup. Cutting their ego to acknowledge the part of the black family they tried to disown.

->'''Harry''': ''Well, I had a strange dream. I was living with Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, and they forced me to sleep in their cupboard under the stairs.''

** With Lily going to the ministry in Harry's first year, Rufus Scrimgimour, Kingsley Shacklebolt and Cornelius Fudge all appear early.

* BigDamnHeroes: Lily has a dramatic one near the end of Sorcerer's Stone when she comes in to duel Quirrel and save Harry.

** [[spoiler: Winkie]] is murdered at the Quiddich World Cup.

** Harry is much more emotionally prepared for Hogwarts thanks to a much more loving environment growing up.
** Since he's not treated like a shame, Harry took up Football (Soccer) as a child, showing that he always was inclined towards sports.
** With Harry visiting Godric's hollow on Halloween, when he returns he defeats the troll only with Hermione. This means that it takes much longer for Ron and Hermione to become actual friends rather than acquaintances through Harry.

* LoveDodecahedron: Rather than Harry's more limited perspective, seeing inside several students heads creates all kinds of webs of attraction, friendship, crushing and desire. So much so that there's a joke from Parvati and Hannah going into book 3 of trying to match up people in their year to poke fun at how things will only get more complicated.

Halloween, 1981. Lord Voldemort goes to Godric's Hollow to kill the only one who could defeat him. Like before, he dispatched James Potter. However, as a "favor" to Severus Snape, he only incapacitates and lightly tortures Lily Potter. Then he turns his wand on Harry Potter. You know the story from there: curse rebounds, found in the rubble, Harry rescued. But now with Lily still very alive despite everything, Harry Potter grows up for 11 years among Muggles with a single mom. A chance at a normal life before going off to Hogwarts. Then after 11 years, it was finally time. And while Harry is just excited to learn magic, the presence of Ms. Evans will slowly change this world into one with unexpected changes.

!! With the series ongoing spoilers will be off through "book 2" and will be at least 1 book behind as things update.

* AdaptationExpansion: With the Rotating POV employed in the story structure, people from other houses get much more attention then before.

Halloween, 1981. Lord Voldemort goes to Godric's Hollow to kill the only one who could defeat him. Like before, he dispatched James Potter. However, as a "favor" to Severus Snape, he only incapacitates and lightly tortures Lily Potter. Then he turns his wand on Harry Potter. You know the story from there: curse rebounds, found in the rubble, Harry rescued. But now with Lily still very alive despite everything, Harry Potter grows up for 11 years among muggles with a single mom. A chance at a normal life before going off to Hogwarts. Then after 11 years, it was finally time. And while Harry is just excited to learn magic, the presence of Ms. Evans will slowly change this world into one with unexpected changes.

->'''Hary''' ''Well, I made a strange dream. I was living with Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon, and they forced me to sleep in their cupboard under the stairs.''

** Thanks to the old familial connections, Remus and Sirius are mentioned right in the first chapter.
** With Lily going to the ministry so early, Rufus Scrimgimour, Kingsley Shacklebolt and Cornelius Fudge all appear early.

* AmbiguouslyEvil: Snape. While still held as a spy who came to Dumbledore for help, the facts of Lily's survival actually makes his alignment even more murky on how he feels about changing himself.

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* ActionGirl:
** Lily decides that for her post boarding school life, she'll become and Auror, and so begins training to become just as good a witch as she was before, if not even better.
* AdaptationExpansion:
** With the Rotating POV employed in the story structure, people from other houses get much more attention then before.

** Thanks to involvement at [[spoiler: Peter Pettigrew]]'s trial, Barty Crouch appears a whole book early.
** Cho Chang gets a POV in book 1 for that game harry missed against Ravenclaw.

* AdaptationalKarma:
** Since Lily was able to vouch for him, Sirius Black only spent a month in Azkaban. A great step up, and allowing him to be an actual godfather for Harry for most of his life.

* DeathByAdaptation: Since they weren't allowed to cheat with the Time Turner in this version of events, [[spoiler: Buckbeak is actually executed]]

** Harry is much more emotionally ready for Hogwarts thanks to a much more loving environment growing up.
** Since he's not treated like a shame, Harry took up Football (Soccer) as a child, showing that he always was sport inclined.

** With Harry being escorted around in Year 2, Dobby's big plan to stop Harry from reaching Hogwarts isn't stopping the barrier, but decoupling the train car.

* ShoutOut: The author is actually a big fan of the Franchise/AssassinsCreed games, and so in examining wizarding history, they'll occasionally throw in references to the games.

** And the [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate Frye Twins]] were also a wizard pair.

* LoveDodecahedron: Rather than Harry's more limited perspective, seeing inside several students heads creates all kinds of webs of attraction, friendship, crushing and desire. So much so that there's a joke from Parvati and Hannah going into book 3 of trying to match up people in their year to poke fun at how things will only get more complicated.