History YMMV / PartiallyKissedHero

** The Dementors are depicted as showing far less restraint than they do in canon, with one attempting to kiss Harry for no apparent reason. [[spoiler:Though when Harry uses them to kiss criminals and Dumbledore, [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality this is not portrayed as something evil]]]].

** Many readers think that Harry gets corrupted by the bit of Voldemort’s soul that gets freed by the Dementor’s Kiss.
** The commenters on Blog/DasSporking had a field day when Luna is able to [[spoiler:age Blinky the basilisk from infancy to adulthood in two seconds]] just by placing a hand on its head and saying, “Believe.” Considering her prior actions, they promptly read this as her being [[MadeOfEvil so purely evil]] that Dark magic exuded from her very being to give a Dark creature a power-up. (A later chapter suggests it was just the unpredictability of fairy magic [[ContrivedCoincidence just happening to give them a beneficial result]], and that she couldn’t do it again at will.)
* ArcFatigue: The author interrupts his own narrative to dive into a series of side plots and digressions that have absolutely nothing to do with the central story, including time travel, the Space Race, and a fight with vampires. Several of the story’s reviewers used the phrase “gone off the rails,” while other reviewers claimed the author has “lost sight of the original plot”. Most events in the story are never relevant or referenced again, meaning that Arc Fatigue can set in very rapidly as the reader starts to see the story as an unrelated series of vignettes.

** Blog/DasSporking nicknamed [[DesignatedHero this version of Harry]] "Harrymort", Hermione "Herminion", or "Herbomination" after she [[RealityIsOutToLunch corrupts a Muggle park just by being there]], and Luna is "[[NotAsYouKnowThem Not!Luna]]", or "[[PunnyName Luna Nogood"]], or "Lunatrix". Trelawney becomes Treelawney, and Queen Alice is called Queen Malice. To the point that they are ''[[InsistentTerminology never]]'' called their actual names after Harry absorbs Voldemort's soul, and the girls join up with him. On the [[DesignatedVillain villain]] side, [[RonTheDeathEater Dumbledore]] becomes "[[Franchise/StarWars Darth]] Dumbledore", or "Dastardore", or "Darth Dumb", as a remark about his competence (or lack thereof).

* RonTheDeathEater: ''Like you wouldn’t believe''.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: A common criticism of the story. Of the three main factions in play, Dumbledore is hideously, disgustingly evil and Lionheart spells it out repeatedly at length (and does the same for his more important cronies, especially Snape); Harry doesn't have the same length of a rap sheet, but his (and Luna's, and to a certain extent Hermione's) obsessive pursuit of power by any means (to the point of willingly employing [[MadLove Bellatrix Lestrange]]) and fondness for brutally excessive DisproportionateRetribution and [[PayEvilUntoEvil paying evil unto evil]] makes it hard to see him as remotely heroic; and Voldemort is, well, ''Voldemort.'' Add in the fact that Lionheart's take on wizarding Britain has it as a horribly corrupt CrapsackWorld, that Harry is associated with TheFairFolk who have no problem with initiating an apocalyptic nuclear war or turning a hundred women into brainwashed dryads for Harry's harem, and there's just very little reason left to root for any of these people or care about the outcome of their conflict.

** A lot of readers see the actions of the [[DesignatedHero protagonists]], like genocide and rape, as utterly repulsive and write {{Revenge Fic}}s where they are villains. Especially Harry.

* WhatAnIdiot:
** Dumbledore is brought to the Hospital Wing because three of his students, Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle, have been Confunded and are raving about a [[OxymoronicBeing Muggle Dark Lord]] named Colonel Sanders.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Dumbledore, the greatest wizard on Earth, to recognize the obvious signs of a Confundus Charm, and also, since he is unusually familiar with Muggle culture and reads Muggle newspapers, to do the research on Colonel Sanders and learn that he is a now-deceased fast food magnate (assuming he didn't already know that), and thus conclude that this is someone's idea of a prank.\\
'''Instead:''' He takes it completely seriously, actually believes that Colonel Sanders is a new threat to his power, and is caught off-guard enough for [[spoiler:Malfoy to stab him with a chicken bone spiked with basilisk venom]].
** Harry, Hermione and Luna have exorcised Professor Binns, leaving History of Magic without a teacher. Luckily for them, they are able to Transfigure Moaning Myrtle into his likeness so that she can fill in for him. On her first day teaching, she shows the students ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' films, claiming that they are about the ancient history of the magical world.\\
'''You'd expect:''' A Muggle-born student to recognize the story and call out this bullshit, if not in class, then at least fill in their pureblood counterparts once class is dismissed. You would also expect that at least one non-Muggle-born would think something's fishy, since the "history" shown is clearly incompatible with their world.\\
'''Instead:''' Everyone buys it hook, line and sinker. Even the ''teachers''. Even ''[=McGonagall=] and Dumbledore''.\\
'''The result:''' Harry and the others are emboldened to try it with ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}'', leading to a panic as wizards come to think that [[TheMasquerade the Statute of Secrecy]] has been breached, [[MugglePower and the Muggles are fighting back]].
** Harry and his harem flood the Ministry in order to destroy the records of who is pureblooded, leaving [[InnocentBystander the archivists]] (and others) there to drown. Nothing blocks the exit, which is a door that opens inward to safety.\\
'''You'd expect:''' The archivists to pull the door open and escape, long before the room floods enough to make that impossible.\\
'''Instead:''' Both archivists frantically try to push the door open, and, even if one grants that they were panicked, it boggles the mind that they never even ''attempted'' to open it the other way.\\
'''The result:''' They drown, and [[TooDumbToLive the narrative blames them for their own stupidity]].\\
'''What's more:''' These are witches. Even if they are too panicked to pull the door open or blast it down with magic, shouldn't they be able to cast a Bubble-Head Charm to save themselves? It's unlikely that they would forget that in a matter of life or death.
** Dumbledore has reunited with [[spoiler:his lover Grindelwald]], and the two of them have gathered an army and come to the River Styx, intending to become invulnerable by dipping themselves in its waters. The only snag in this plan is that anyone, or anything, who touches the Styx unprotected loses all their memory and skills, and thus drowns within minutes, while at the same time burning to a crisp. After [[WeHaveReserves losing several henchmen]], they eventually discover how to gain the river's protection without losing their memories and dying.\\
'''You'd expect:''' Dumbledore would not experiment on any of his Horcrux clones, since they are far too valuable to risk. If he absolutely must give them the protection, then only test it on one of them, not all four, and be prepared to make a replacement if things go south.\\
'''Instead:''' He tests the final agreed-upon protections on his clones first, and loses four Horcruxes within minutes without Harry having to lift a finger.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** According to [[SarcasmMode the superior intellect that is Jared Ornstead]], one can buy ''napalm'' at a ''furniture store''! And have it ''mail ordered''!
** The story acts like the destruction of Turkey will completely cut off the world's oil supply. It's barely in the top ''fifty'' oil-producing countries. Even taking into account [[spoiler:that most other Muslim-majority countries are being destroyed at the same time]], number 1 and number 4 on the list are ''the United States'' and ''Canada'', respectively.

** One chapter is devoted to the history of Beauxbatons (or at least Ornstead's take on its history). Well, it ''claims'' to be about Beauxbatons, though the first half of the chapter is devoted to explaining that the Greco-Roman gods were actually wizards. Beauxbatons is ''never'' referenced again.

** Chapter 9. [[spoiler:Snape tries Legilimency on Harry, only for Harry to rebound the effects at him, making him claw out his own eyes, breaking his mind, and finally exploding his head, all while he’s screaming in complete agony the whole time]]. [[HarmfulToMinors This is in front of a class full of third year students.]]

** The demonization of Dumbledore is so extreme that he becomes a mustache-twirling villain... literally. He’s also unable to tell the difference between literal shit and a Michelangelo sculpture.

* EightDeadlyWords: Everyone is so horrible they have no problem with torture, genocide and rape, even the heroes. Especially the heroes. So often, readers have nobody to root for.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Ornstead loads Dumbledore with such an over-the-top rap sheet and ([[DastardlyWhiplash literally]]) mustache-twirling level of villainy (even before it becomes literal) that it's pretty much impossible to take seriously.

* KarmicOverkill: Casting a castration hex is apparently punishable by [[spoiler:ten years forced pregnancy, along with a permanent sex change if the offender were not female at the time he cast it]]. Our “heroes” endorse this.

** Draco Malfoy is probably supposed to be seen as an obnoxious, dickish SmugSnake who brings the bad things that happen to him on himself, but he goes through so much horrible shit that the reader can't help but feel sorry for him.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Ornstead loads Dumbledore with such an over-the-top rap sheet and [[DastardlyWhiplash mustache-twirling]] level of villainy (even before it becomes literal) that it's pretty much impossible to take seriously.

** The supposedly DirtyCop that tries to stop Hermione when [[spoiler:her fairy powers turn a city park into an EldritchLocation]]. We are only informed that he is corrupt, and his actions instead read as one who wants to prevent anybody from getting hurt.

** The goblins, who, despite being turned into [[GreedyJew a hodgepodge of the worst antisemitic stereotypes]], are not directly shown to commit any of the evil acts the narrative claims they do constantly, and wind up [[spoiler:the targets of a genocidal war once Voldemort takes over the Ministry]], which the narrative [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming blames on them closing down Gringotts]], glossing over that they only do so because Harry had effortlessly robbed them blind without even realizing it. The goblins have a legitimate grievance against the wizards, and did nothing wrong here.

* NarmCharm: Dumbledore, by sheer coincidence and for a number of convoluted and unrelated reasons, taking on the exact resemblance of ''Snidely Whiplash'' is just so gloriously idiotic that it crosses the line into being hilarious.

* RonTheDeathEater: ''Like you wouldn’t believe:''

** The Dursleys are far more abusive to Harry than they ever were in canon, giving him horrible injuries and starving him.

** The Dementors are depicted as showing far less restraint than they do in canon, with one attempting to kiss Harry for no apparent reason. [[spoiler:Though when Harry uses them to kiss criminals and Dumbledore this is not portrayed as something evil]].

** Many readers think that Harry was corrupted by the bit of Voldemort’s soul that gets freed by the Dementor’s Kiss.

** The story acts like the destruction of Turkey will completely cut off the world's oil supply. It's barely in the top ''fifty'' oil-producing countries. Even taking into account [[spoiler:that most other Muslim-majority countries are being destroyed at the same time]], No. 1 and No. 4 on the list are ''the United States'' and ''Canada'', respectively.

** Luna is also awful, because she encourages Harry to continue when even he realizes he has gone too far. By Chapter 91, no less than Voldemort thinks her acts should be rewarded, and somehow the author still denies that she is even morally grey, let alone black.

** [[spoiler: Dryad]] Trelawney, when she goes back in time. She thinks of killing a baby just because he will be evil in the future, and [[spoiler:nukes Moscow]]. Undermining the human civilization is something she does on purpose, and we are supposed to root for her. {{Downplayed}} however, as she is [[spoiler: brainwashed by the three monsters above!]]
** Queen Alice. She has her childish fun at the expense of actual humans, thinks nukes are no big deal and abuses the power she has over Muggles. She has become nothing more than a childish dictator, like Harry really wants to become. By Chapter 99, she starts advocating for the ''forced resettlement'' of entire populations of people (and [[EvilReactionary the reestablishment of medieval feudalism]]) as a remedy for disasters that ''she caused''.
** In general, the protagonists torture and kill anyone who stands in their way, [[spoiler:want to end the human world and will do so through RealityWarping and nuclear weapons, have as a primary goal to gather more and more power, and their leader has a harem of sex slaves. In any other work of fiction, they would be portrayed as irremediably evil]].

* EightDeadlyWords: Everyone is so horrible they have no problem with torture, genocide and rape, even the heroes. Especially the heroes. So, often readers have nobody to root for.

** A lot of readers see the actions of the [[DesignatedHero protagonists]], like genocide and rape, as utterly repulsive and make stories where they are villains. Especially Harry.

** Soon after this, Harry and company go on a culling in the Forbidden Forest to remove all of the Dark creatures from it. Their march through the wood is fairly easy and unchallenged, until they meet Aragog's coven, a thousands-strong horde of Acromantulas. The heroes are nearly overwhelmed in a sea of giant spiders and are nearly killed, until Harry drops a DeusExMachina bomb on them. It's even more impressive as Harry was riding a basilisk, their mortal enemy that they are stated to be so terrified of that they won't even speak of it. And even more impressive as [[spoiler: the basilisk, despite doing the most damage to the spiders until Harry has to burn the forest, is one of the casualties!]]
** Chapter 79 is widely considered one of the best chapters for this reason. Dumbledore finally finds out that Harry is his new enemy, and actually manages to defeat him and his army in a fight, even outsmarting them initially. [[spoiler: It took an even bigger DeusExMachina for Harry to manage to even escape and kill him (the latter isn't a really big setback to Dumbledore), but he was already exposed and got enough damage. [[PyrrhicVictory He even considers it a defeat.]]]]

** By extension, Hermione and Luna, who go along with all of Harry's actions. Luna is the more egregious of the two, as she outright tells Harry that he did the right thing by [[spoiler:condemning the Dursleys to eternal torture]].

* TheWoobie: A spell cast upon [[spoiler:Snape]] causes him to horribly torture [[spoiler:Draco Malfoy in the Slytherin common room]], in front of, among others, first year students. The timing is such that Memory Charms can’t be used on any of the kids. Regardless of the trauma, somehow [[spoiler:Draco]] lives, and apparently Jared Ornstead thinks it’s just deserts for him to be [[spoiler:turned into a woman, and forced into a breeding program in which he has to bear ''twenty-four children'' to Crabbe and Goyle. They get killed before this happens, but that doesn't void the contract, instead defaulting to him having to marry their fathers, who think that ''beating their wives'' ensures conception]], and is forced to allow the other purebloods to torture and abuse him repeatedly because thanks to Harry's machinations he has no title, no money, no last name and no family. Thus, it’s understandable why he is more than willing to [[spoiler:become a fanatical killer like Bellatrix to escape the breeding contracts so that he can’t be raped or abused anymore]]. If that were not enough, [[spoiler:Narcissa]] says at one point that, [[spoiler:“All three of them [[[ParentalIncest Lucius]], Rabastan and Rodolphus] were far more interested in Draco than they ever were in [her] or Bellatrix.”]]

** Harry, who's ''supposed'' to be as pure as his canonical self, but with a boost in power and the knowledge of Voldemort on Halloween 1981. Between the main page and the [=YMMV=] items, it's pretty clear [[DesignatedHero how]] [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide it]] [[FaceHeelTurn comes]] [[TheSociopath off]] in practice.

'''You'd expect:''' Dumbledore would not experiment on any of his Horcrux clones, since they are far too valuable to risk.\\

** The DirtyCop that tries to stop Hermione when [[spoiler:her fairy powers turn a city park into an EldritchLocation]]. We are only informed that he is corrupt, but his actions instead read as one who wants to prevent anybody from getting hurt.

** The goblins, who, despite being turned into [[GreedyJew a hodgepodge of the worst antisemitic stereotypes]], are not directly shown to commit any of the evil acts the narrative claims they do constantly, and wind up [[spoiler:the targets of a genocidal war once Voldemort takes over the Ministry]], which the narrative blames on [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming them closing down Gringotts]], glossing over that they only do so because Harry had effortlessly robbed them blind without even realizing it. The goblins have a legitimate grievance against the wizards, and did nothing wrong here.

** Soon after this, Harry and company go on a culling in the Forbidden Forest to remove all of the Dark creatures from it. Their march through the wood is fairly easy and unchallenged, until they meet Aragog's coven, a thousands-strong horde of Acromantulas. The heroes are nearly overwhelmed in a sea of giant spiders and are nearly killed, until Harry drops a DeusExMachina bomb on them. It's even more impressive as Harry was riding a basilisk, their mortal enemy that they are stated to be so terrfied of that they won't even speak of it. And even more impressive as [[spoiler: the basilisk, despite doing the most damage to the spiders until Harry has to burn the forest, is one of the casualties!]]
** Chapter 79 is one of the best chapters for this reason. Dumbledore finally finds out that Harry is his new enemy, and actually manages to defeat him and his army in a fight, even outsmarting them initially. [[spoiler: It took an even bigger DeusExMachina for Harry to manage to even escape and kill him (the latter isn't a really big setback to Dumbledore), but he was already exposed and got enough damage. [[PyrrhicVictory He even considers it a defeat.]]]]

'''You'd expect:''' Dumbledore, the greatest wizard on Earth, to recognize the obvious signs of a Confundus Charm, and also, since he is unusually familiar with Muggle culture and reads Muggle newspapers, to do the research on Colonel Sanders and learn that he is a now-deceased fast food magnate, and thus conclude that this is someone's idea of a prank.\\

* RootingForTheEmpire: The immense length of the fic and the horribly abusive and later outright evil actions of the central characters makes it easy to hope that one of their enemies will knock them down to size. Of course, by the time one is a certain depth in, it is more than clear this won't happen:

** The commenters on Blog/DasSporking had a field day when Luna was able to [[spoiler:age Blinky the basilisk from infancy to adulthood in two seconds]] just by placing a hand on its head and saying “Believe.” Considering her prior actions, they promptly read this as her being [[MadeOfEvil so purely evil]] that Dark magic exuded from her very being to give a Dark creature a power-up. (A later chapter suggests it was just the unpredictability of fairy magic [[ContrivedCoincidence just happening to give them a beneficial result]], and that she couldn’t do it again at will.)
* ArcFatigue: The author interrupts his own narrative to dive into a series of side-plots and digressions that have absolutely nothing to do with the central story, including time travel, the space race, and a fight with vampires. Several of the story’s reviewers used the phrase “gone off the rails”, while other reviewers claimed the author has “lost sight of the original plot”.
** Most events in the story are never relevant or referenced again, meaning that ArcFatigue can set in very rapidly as the reader starts to see the fanfic as an unrelated series of vignettes.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: One chapter is devoted to the history of Beauxbatons (or at least Lionheart's take on its history). Well, it ''claims'' to be about Beauxbatons, though the first half of the chapter is devoted to explaining that the Greco-Roman gods were actually wizards. This chapter is ''never'' referenced again.
* CanonDefilement: Probably intentional, given the header to chapter one.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Lionheart loads Dumbledore with such an over-the-top rap sheet and [[DastardlyWhiplash mustache-twirling]] level villainy (even before it becomes literal) that it's pretty much impossible to take seriously.

** Luna is also awful, because she encourages Harry to continue when even he realizes he has gone too far. By Chapter 91, Voldemort thinks her acts should be rewarded, and somehow the author still denies that she is even morally grey, let alone black.
** Rounding it off, once Hermione orchestrates the [[spoiler:”turn innocent witches into Harry’s sex slaves” plot]], she’s as bad as the above two.
** [[spoiler: Dryad]] Trelawney, when she goes back in time. She thinks of killing a baby just because he will be evil in the future and nukes Moscow. Undermining the human civilization is something she does on purpose, and we are supposed to root for her. Somewhat downplayed, as she is [[spoiler: brainwashed by the three monsters above!]]
** Queen Alice. She has her childish fun at the expense of actual humans, thinks nukes are no big deal and abuses the power she has over Muggles. She is basically a childish dictator, like Harry really wants to become. By Chapter 99, she starts advocating for the ''forced resettlement'' of entire populations of people (and [[EvilReactionary the reestablishment of medieval feudalism]]) as a remedy for disasters that ''she caused''.
** In general, the protagonists torture and kill anyone who stands in their way, [[spoiler:want to end the human world and will do so through RealityWarping and nukes, have as a primary goal to gather more and more power and their leader has a harem of sex slaves. In any other work of fiction, they would be portrayed as irredeemably evil.]]

** Surprisingly, ''Draco'' is one! Even though he is really vilified by the narrative, he is actually ''more'' sympathetic than his canon counterpart.
** The DirtyCop that tried to stop Hermione. We are only informed that he is corrupt, but his actions are actually pretty sensible.
** [[spoiler:The Muslims. According to this fic, they deserve to be nuked for their religion.]]
** The goblins, who, despite being turned into [[GreedyJew a hodgepodge of the worst antisemitic stereotypes]], are not directly shown to commit any of the evil acts the narrative claims they do constantly, and wind up [[spoiler:the targets of a genocidal war once Voldemort takes over the Ministry]], which the narrative blames on [[UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming them closing down Gringotts]], glossing over that they only do so because Harry had effortlessly robbed them blind without even intending to do so. The goblins have a legitimate grievance against the wizards, and did nothing wrong here.
* DracoInLeatherPants: '''''Bellatrix Lestrange''''' of all people gets this treatment, and even the narration treats her sympathetically. Ironically, Lionheart tends to go on rants in the author's notes about this trope being applied to [[DamnedByFaintPraise less horrible]] individuals like [[{{Jerkass}} Draco]] or [[AmbiguouslyEvil Snape]].
* EightDeadlyWords: Everyone in this fic is so horrible they have no problem with torture, genocide and rape, even the protagonists. Especially the protagonists. So, often readers have nobody to root for.
* FridgeBrilliance: Of ''course'' Harry turn evil— the whole story gets kicked off by him ''[[DrunkOnTheDarkSide absorbing a piece]] [[ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil of Voldemort’s soul]]''. This would be much more interesting if the author appeared to realize it,.

** Sybil Trelawney could be treated with some sympathy due to her brainwashing, until [[spoiler: she brainwashes the Russians to nuke their own capital and then castrates a child with a waffle iron.]]

** Luna's increasingly inexplicable relations to various fantasy characters. ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'' and ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' were pushing it, but by the time Lionheart brings in ''Film/ChittyChittyBangBang'', it's pretty much impossible to take seriously. And that's before a throwaway line revealing that '''''ComicBook/{{Batman}}''''' exists in this universe. And later, after [[spoiler: the biggest war crime of his heroes]], he introduces Barney the Dinosaur like nothing happened.

** Chapter 9. [[spoiler: Snape tries Legilimency on Harry, only for Harry to rebound the effects at him, making him claw out his own eyes, breaking his mind, and finally exploding his head, all while he’s screaming in complete agony the whole time.]] [[HarmfulToMinors This is in front of a class full of third year students.]]
** Which is nothing compared to what [[AssholeVictim the Dursleys and Draco get]]. Even though they are not good people, you can't help but feel genuinely sorry for them. [[spoiler: Nobody deserves to be raped for ten years straight or be forced to eat and be eaten by their relatives forever.]]
** Entire parts of Earth [[spoiler:get obliterated by nukes and the author doesn't shy away from showing the results.]]

** Ron gets off rather lightly compared to other characters Lionheart doesn’t like, but he’s nonetheless portrayed as a self-centered, obnoxious boor who only pretended to be friends with Harry, partly because Dumbledore recruited him to do so, and partly for his own selfish reasons. In Chapter 91, [[spoiler:he openly becomes a Voldemort sympathizer in the hopes of receiving a sex slave]].
** The Dursleys are treated as being far more abusive to Harry than they ever were in canon, giving him horrible injuries and starving him.

** The Dementors are depicted as showing far less restraint than they do in canon, with one attempting to kiss Harry for no apparent reason. [[spoiler: Though when Harry uses them to kiss criminals and Dumbledore this is not portrayed as something evil.]]
** Lucius Malfoy and the Lestrange brothers are stated to be child molesters in this fic. While they were pretty awful people in {{canon}}, there's no evidence that they did anything like that.
** Draco Malfoy is said to have set up a younger boy to undergo a forced sex change and then be raped repeatedly. While Draco is an asshole, there's no evidence that his canon self is capable of such a thing, and indeed, the one time canon!Draco was asked to commit a genuine act of evil (as opposed to just being a {{jerkass}}), he couldn't go through with it.

* RootingForTheEmpire: The immense length of the fic and the horribly abusive and later outright evil actions of the central characters makes it easy to hope that one of their enemies will knock them down to size. Of course, by the time you're a certain depth in, it's more than clear this won't happen.

** As mentioned in Das_Sporking, if [[spoiler:the Death Eaters did not rape anyone at their spare time, they would be more likable than Harry's forces.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The concept is fascinating and the story actually seems to play it out... but then you realize the author doesn’t intend for Harry to be DrunkOnTheDarkSide, and he really is supposed to be the hero, and his morality really is supposed to white as the driven snow.

** Dumbledore is supposed to be repulsively evil, but ends up being so pathetic he doesn't make readers hate him, but instead pity him or laugh at him. He unintentionally comes off as more of an underdog than Harry, and the punishment he gets through is too far for any crime he might have committed. (Which in canon consists of putting Harry's life at risk to stop Voldemort and not firing Snape who is abusive.)
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Harry, who's ''supposed'' to be as pure as his canon self, but with a boost in power and the knowledge of Voldemort circa Halloween 1981. Between the main page and the [=YMMV=] items, it's pretty clear [[DesignatedHero how]] [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide it]] [[FaceHeelTurn comes]] [[TheSociopath off]] in practice.
** By extension, Hermione and Luna, who go along with all of Harry's actions. Luna is the more egregious of the two, as she outright tells Harry that he did the right thing by [[spoiler:condemning the Dursleys to horrific torture]].
** Alice, Luna's grandmother, is also supposed to have the mentality of an innocent child. In practice, she is a horrible person who [[spoiler:nukes the Muslims in cold blood.]]

** Harry and his harem flood the Ministry in order to destroy the records of who is pureblood, leaving [[InnocentBystander the archivists]] (and others) there to drown. Nothing blocks the exit, which is a door that opens inward to safety.\\

* TheWoobie: A spell cast upon [[spoiler:Snape]] causes him to horribly torture [[spoiler:Draco Malfoy in the Slytherin common room]], in front of, among others, first year students. The timing is such that Memory Charms can’t be used on any of the kids. Regardless of the trauma, somehow [[spoiler:Draco]] lives, and apparently Perfect Lionheart thinks it’s just deserts for him to be [[spoiler:turned into a woman, forced into a breeding program in which he has to bear ''twenty-four children'' to Crabbe and Goyle. They get killed before this happens, but that doesn't void the contract, instead defaulting to him having to marry their fathers, who think that BEATING THEIR WIVES ensures conception]], and forced to allow the other Purebloods to torture and abuse him repeatedly because thanks to Harry's machinations he has no title, no money, no last name and no family. Thus, it’s understandable why he is more than willing to [[spoiler:become a fanatical killer like Bellatrix to escape the breeding contracts so that he can’t be raped or abused anymore]]. If that were not enough, [[spoiler:Narcissa]] says at one point that, [[spoiler:“All three of them [[[ParentalIncest Lucius]], Rabastan and Rodolphus] were far more interested in Draco than they ever were in [her] or Bellatrix.”]]

** Alice, Luna's grandmother, is also supposed to have the mentality of an innocenf child. In practice, she is a horrible person who [[spoiler:nukes the Muslims in cold blood.]]

** Queen Alice. She has her childish fun at the expense of actual humans, thinks nukes are no big deal and abuses the power she has over Muggles. She is basically a childish dictator, like Harry really wants to become. By Chapter 99, she starts advocating for the ''forced resettlement'' of entire populations of people as a remedy for disasters ''she caused''.
** In general, the protagonists torture and kill anyone who stands in their way, [[spoiler:want to end the human world and will do so through RealityWarping and nukes, have as primary goal to gather more and more power and their leader has a harem of sex slaves. In any other fic, they would be portrayed as irredeemably evil.]]

** Queen Alice. She has her childish fun at the expense of actual humans, thinks nukes are no big deal and abuses the power she has over Muggles. She is basically a childish dictator, like Harry really wants to become.

* FridgeBrilliance: Of ''course'' Harry crosses the MoralEventHorizon (and then [[CrossesTheLineTwice circles around]] and crosses again... and again... and again...)— the whole story gets kicked off by him ''[[DrunkOnTheDarkSide absorbing a piece]] [[ThisIsYourBrainOnEvil of Voldemort’s soul]]''. This would be much more interesting if the author appeared to realize it, though. See also TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot.

** Dumbledore is way past this to the point of ridiculousness, apparently from long before the start of the story.
** Harry crosses it in Chapter 9, when he kills [[spoiler:Snape]] for the first time. [[MindRape The way]] [[YourHeadASplode he murders him]] is too brutal. This marks the transition from him merely being a [[PossessionSue Possession Stu]] twisted out of character to a full-on VillainProtagonist in the eyes of everyone except the author.
** [[EnfantTerrible Luna]] crosses it with the premeditated murder of [[KinslayingIsASpecialKindOfEvil her uncle]], ''despite'' the victim being [[AssholeVictim Lucius Malfoy]].
** Hermione crosses it with the [[spoiler:”turn women into dryad slaves against their will” plan]].
** The Fairy Queen, if she wasn't already over the line, officially crosses it by rewarding Harry [[spoiler:with a happy childhood via CosmicRetcon]] in response to him [[spoiler:creating said dryad slaves]].

** Alice crosses it by turning a human into a rope for her amusement, forcing Trelawney to take an unknown potion without her consent, and threatening the Queen of England with the Jabberwock.

** Voldemort crosses it by declaring every pureblood family must force a child to get pregnant to repopulate the pureblood families. This measure gets a lot of support from everyone except the readers.
%%** Ornstead himself crosses it by justifying [[spoiler: the nuking of a real group of people to extinction. Not only is it in a far bigger scale than the aforementioned atrocity, but he takes such perverse glee in describing how civilization will be destroyed as just punishment for abandoning absolute monarchy, meaning he actually believes this in real life and that his professed libertarian beliefs were a lie. Even many fans of him called him out for that.]]

* CriticalResearchFailure: The parts of canon that aren't deliberately rewritten tend to fall under this. For example:
** Dumbledore and Snape seem easily fooled by muggle-related materials, which is supposed to be because they're purebloods. Both of them are actually ''half-bloods'', which Lionheart should know given that this fact was literally the title of one of the books. Lionheart ''finally'' seems to remember that Tobias Snape was a Muggle [[spoiler:by the time Trelawney goes back to the past.]]
** There are repeated references made to Harry having "almost died" of the Dementor's Kiss that starts the story. The Dementor's Kiss is explicitly not fatal, as established at length in ''Prisoner of Azkaban''.
** Most severe of all seems to be the repeated inference that Lily's sacrificial protection would stop the Killing Curse indiscriminately. Per canon, that works by perpetrator, not the method they chose, meaning it would only be effective against Voldemort, and no one else. And even against Voldemort, due to basically being made of willing sacrifice, this protection most likely can't be leeched from Harry and used for other people.
** He also makes mistakes about other canons, such as assuming that [[Franchise/StarTrek Trekkies]] can speak the Vulcan language, which has never been fleshed out, and despite even people totally unfamiliar with ''Star Trek'' knowing that [[NerdsSpeakKlingon it’s Klingon that the Trekkies claim to speak]].

* CowboyBeBopAtHisComputer: The parts of canon that aren't deliberately rewritten tend to fall under this. For example: