History Fanfic / HogwartsSchoolOfPrayerAndMiracles

* CreatorsCultureCarryover: A strange case that hews closer to the original trope name “We All Live in America”. The government in the setting is explicitly Congress, as opposed to the Parliament that British government actually is.

* CreatorCultureCarryover: A strange case that hews closer to the original trope name “We All Live in America”. The government in the setting is explicitly Congress, as opposed to the Parliament that British government actually is.

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The notoriously greasy Severus Snape is now the "ruggedly handsome Mr. Snape". [[AuthorAppeal With chest hair. There are too many passages about his chest hair.]]

** Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia, who believe God is dead from reading [[UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins "the Dawkins".]]

* OurAngelsAreDifferent: They're [[BeautyEqualsGoodness "beautiful people"]] with wings, yellow halos and white robes. And they deliver mail to Hogwarts.

* AffablyEvil: The BigBad of the story, Voldemort, is treated nothing like his canon counterpart. Instead, he's basically a lobbyist who is pushing for the separation of Church and State, and the only reason it's evil is because the main characters are stating that somehow he will make it legal to feed Christians to lions. We never actually see what bill it is that Voldemort is trying to pass through Congress, but he's hardly an evil warlock hellbent on condemnation of the muggle world and instead more of a hardcore atheist who is perfectly fine interacting with the United States Government. And when Voldermort finally ''does'' reveal himself, he's not even evil. He's basically just an atheist and the characters shout angrily at him while refusing any of his explanations where he outright states he isn't doing what they insist he is. It becomes clear after some time that none of them will listen to reason, and he simply walks back to his car. Quite the far cry from canon Voldemort who would level a parking lot of people just because he was annoyed with an underling.

* ArtisticLicenseReligion: Even many Christians have criticized certain aspects of the story's portrayal of Christian doctrine and the faith's character, the scope of prayer and miracles, etc. Many Catholics have furthermore stated that it misrepresents their faith (allegorized as Slytherin) such as the author conflating an icon (an object that otherwise holds religious value by what it represents, such as a statue of Jesus Christ or a necklace bearing a Cross, but has no religious value on its own) vs an idol (an object that, in itself, is holy and worshipped and may even be considered a body for a godly entity).

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The notoriously greasy Severus Snape is now the "ruggedly handsome" "Mr. Snape". [[AuthorAppeal With chest hair. There are too many passages about his chest hair.]]

* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Hermione is Dumbledore's daughter in this fic.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The story outright sets itself both at Privet Drive and Hogwarts castle, both of which are located in Europe (Hogwarts in Scotland and Privet Drive in England), however they make constant reference to the US Constitution, Congress, Freedom of Religion, and southern hospitality. The characters keep making a big deal out of Voldermort trying to pass a bill through Congress that would basically outlaw Christianity, but none of that would affect Harry or the school in any way ''given they don't even live in that country''. This would be the equivalent of a fanfiction about ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'' being concerned about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brexit Brexit]] despite the film being placed in New York, USA.

''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10644439/1/Hogwarts-School-of-Prayer-and-Miracles Hogwarts School of Prayer and Miracles]]'' is an attempt at rewriting the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books from an American evangelical Christian standpoint. It was written in 2014 by Grace Ann, also known by her username, "proudhousewife."

* AdaptationalAttractiveness: The notoriously greasy Severus Snape is now the "ruggedly handsome" "Mr. Snape." [[AuthorAppeal With chest hair. There are too many passages about his chest hair.]]
* AffablyEvil: The BigBad of the story, Voldemort, is treated nothing like his canon counterpart. Instead, he's basically a lobbyist who is pushing for the separation of Church and State, and the only reason it's evil is because the main characters are stating that somehow he will make it legal to feed Christians to lions. We never actually see what bill it is that Voldemort is trying to pass through Congress, but he's hardly an evil warlock hellbent on condemnation of the muggle world and instead more of a hardcore atheist who is perfectly fine interacting with the United States Government. And when Voldermort finally ''does'' reveal himself, he's not even evil. He's basically just an atheist and the characters shout angrily at him while refusing any of his explanations where he outright states he isn't doing what they insist he is. It becomes clear after some time that none of them will listen to reason, and he simply walks back to his car. Quite the farcry from canon Voldemort who would level a parking lot of people just because he was annoyed with an underling.

* AuthorAvatar: [[spoiler:Voldemort. Maybe.]]

* {{Chickification}}: Minerva and Hermione become victims of this. Minerva goes from strict but kind teacher to Dumbledore’s placid blonde {{Housewife}} and Hermione is Harry’s SatelliteLoveInterest, whose main attributes aside from that are [[PinkMeansFeminine loving pink]] and her constant offers to cook and clean.

** Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia, who believe God is dead from reading [[{{UsefulNotes/RichardDawkins}} "the Dawkins."]]

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: If the final chapter dialogue from Voldemort can be believed, he was never plotting to "make Christians illegal" like the characters thought. Frustrated by overt Christian-fundamentalism-insulting atheists, he created a Reddit troll account and posted poorly spelt phrases mocking religion and how he would write to Congress to get the religion outlawed. Apparently the characters took his ridiculous threats to heart and assumed he was absolutely serious. When he tries to prove that this was all just him mocking Christian fundamentalism, he simply gets shouted down and everyone stops listening to him while verbally battering his character. Ultimately he's forced to leave, having accomplished nothing and with the characters refusing any of his reason by simply dismissing it all with conjecture.

* TheWarOnStraw: A kinda weird use of it. At first, especially within the first two chapters, it's used very obviously. Petunia is treated as an unreasonable atheist who believes solely in evolution, and she's given zero chance to defend her position despite claiming to know so much about it. However, in the final chapter this is weirdly flipped on its head where Voldermort, the defacto villain and atheist of the story, is the ''most'' reasonable character and tries to show he's not a bad guy while absolutely none of the religious cast give him even a moments thought, openly berating his atheism and supposed acts before basically trying to pray his evil away. Whether this was intential is entirely based on the YMMV argument of this being a TrollFic.

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: If the final chapter dialogue from Voldemort can be believed, he was never plotting to "make Christians illegal" like the characters thought. Frustrated by overt Christian fundamentalism insulting atheists, he created a Reddit troll account and posted poorly spelt phrases mocking religion and how he would write to Congress to get the religion outlawed. Apparently the characters took his ridiculous threats to heart and assumed he was absolutely serious. When he tries to prove that this was all just him mocking Christian fundamentalism, he simply gets shouted down and everyone stops listening to him while verbally battering his character. Ultimately he's forced to leave, having accomplished nothing and with the characters refusing any of his reason by simply dismissing it all with conjecture.

* SettingUpdate: Rowling's original setting was ''very much'' British. This adaptation is clearly set in America-characters go on about the First Amendment and Hogwarts has lessons on constitutional history.

* {{MST}}:
** One can be found [[https://www.deviantart.com/storygirl000/gallery/65459979/Utter-Tripe-Reviews here]], courtesy of ''Fanfic/UtterTripeReviews''.
** Another version exists [[https://www.wattpad.com/story/60502436-hogwarts-school-of-prayer-and-miracles here]] on Website/{{Wattpad}}, featuring annotations from the author who reposted it.

A Pokemon story with similar ideas to this one was published in 2021, titled ''Fanfic/PokemonGospelVersion''.

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The story outright sets itself both at Privet Drive and Hogwarts castle, both of which are located in Europe (Hogwarts in Scotland and Privet Drive in England), however they make constant reference to the US Constitution, Congress, Freedom of Religion, and southern hospitality. The characters keep making a big deal out of Voldermort trying to pass a bill through Congress that would basically outlaw Christianity, but none of that would affect Harry or the school in any way ''given they don't even live in that country''. This would be the equivalent of a fanfiction about ''Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them'' being concerned about the unemployment problem plaguing England despite the film being placed in New York, USA.

* PositiveDiscrimination: The portrayal of Dean Thomas. It's subtle at first. The adverb "articulately" is often attached to his speaking, but it's easy to miss any meaning here because the story is so overloaded with {{Said Bookism}}s. It finally becomes blatant when the narration mentions that "not a single word was mispronounced" when he said, "that's right."

* TheMoralSubstitute: {{Invoked}} as the author's stated reason for writing:

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The story outright sets itself both at Privet Drive and Hogwarts castle, both of which are located in Europe (Hogwarts in Scotland and Privet Drive in England), however they make constant reference to the US Constitution, Congress, Freedom of Religion, and southern hospitality. The characters keep making a big deal out of Voldermort trying to pass a bill through Congress that would basically outlaw Christianity, but none of that would affect Harry or the school in any way ''given they don't even live in that country''. This would be the equivalent of a fanfiction about "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" being concerned about the unemployment problem plaguing England despite the film being placed in New York, USA.

A Pokemon story with similar ideas to this one was published in 2021, titled ''Fanfic/PokemonGospelVersion''

* ArtisticLicenseGeography: The story outright sets itself both at Privet Drive and Hogwarts castle, both of which are located in Europe (Hogwarts in Scotland and Privet Drive in England), however they make constant reference to the US Constitution, Congress, Freedom of Religion, and southern hospitality. The characters keep making a big deal out of Voldermort trying to pass a bill through Congress that would basically outlaw Christianity, but none of that would affect Harry or the school in any way ''given they don't even live in that country''. This would be the equivalent of a fanfiction about "Fantastic Beasts and Where They Live" being concerned about the unemployment problem plaguing England despite the film being placed in New York, USA.

* TheWarOnStraw: A kinda weird use of it. At first, especially within the first two chapters, it's used very obviously. Petunia is treated as an unreasonable atheist who believes solely in evolution, and she's given zero chance to defend her position despite claiming to know so much about it. However, in the final chapter this is weirdly flipped on its head where Voldermort, the defacto villain and atheist of the story, is the ''most'' reasonable character and tries to show he's not a bad guy while absolutely none of the religious cast give him even a moments thought, openly berating his atheism and supposed acts before basically trying to pray his evil away. Whether this was intential is entirely based on the YMMV argument of this being a TrollFic.

A Pokemon story with similar ideas to this one was published in 2021, titled ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13978926/1/Pokemon-Gospel-Version Pokemon Gospel Version]]''

* AffablyEvil: The BigBad of the story, Voldemort, is treated nothing like his canon counterpart. Instead, he's basically a lobbyist who is pushing for the separation of Church and State, and the only reason it's evil is because the main characters are stating that somehow he will make it legal to feed Christians to lions. We never actually see what bill it is that Voldemort is trying to pass through Congress, but he's hardly an evil warlock hellbent on condemnation of the muggle world and instead more of a hardcore atheist who is perfectly fine interacting with the United States Government.
** When Voldermort finally ''does'' reveal himself, he's not even evil. He's basically just an atheist and the characters shout angrily at him while refusing any of his explanations where he outright states he isn't doing what they insist he is. It becomes clear after some time that none of them will listen to reason, and he simply walks back to his car. Quite the farcry from canon Voldemort who would level a parking lot of people just because he was annoyed with an underling.

* AuthorAppeal: proudhousewife is quite fixated on "Mr. Snape" and his chest hair.
* AuthorAvatar: [[spoiler: Voldemort. Maybe.]]

* BrokenAesop: One of the messages the author desperately tries to hammer in during the author's notes is that sorcery and witchcraft are bad, and that's why she's rewriting the story. That said, the prayers that make food appear and perform actions around the school are much more akin to magic rather than religious faith, and God is treated as a magic wand who conjures whatever they need by just praying for it. People who dislike the moral will point out how they're just using sorcery with a religious coat of paint over it, and those who like the moral will be able to testify that praying does not magically fill a table with cooked bacon
* {{Chickification}}: Minerva and Hermione become victims of this. Minerva goes from strict but kind teacher to Dumbledore’s placid blonde {{Housewife}} and Hermione is Harry’s SatelliteLoveInterest, who’s main attributes aside from that are [[PinkMeansFeminine loving pink]] and her constant offers to cook and clean.

* FlatEarthAtheist: God answers prayers all the time in this story, doing stuff that very clearly can't have been done by humans, like teleporting people around, conjuring up food on a table or [[spoiler: altering someone's entire personality]]. Taking this into account, the atheists in this story end up being this, as the existence of God is self-evident.

** Voldemort also claims to be [[spoiler: using his Reddit account to parody this trope, but the "good guys" don't believe him...]]

* InNameOnly: Basically every single character, but the Dursleys and Voldemort are some of the most glaringly obvious examples. The Dursleys are a nice, loving family, Petunia is a career woman, and Voldemort is [[spoiler: an internet troll mocking atheist stereotypes by deliberately posting exaggerated versions of them on his Reddit account.]]
* InstantExpert: Harry somehow knows the Bible inside out from the moment he converts to Christianity, referencing a specific passage as the reason why he won't hold the Dursleys' treatment of him against them despite the fact that the narrative leaves absolutely no time in which he could have read it. He is also shown time and time again to be a far better Christian than anyone else in the story and clearly understanding the will of God perfectly, as demonstrated in [[spoiler: Harry and Draco's "pray-off".]]