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Harry & Dudley flee an abusive Vernon - to Severus Snape. Severus finds a home for himself & the boys with dragons and hunt the Horcruxes from there. The dragons - especially one - become their allies. Tom R is VERY different.
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3 Slytherin Marauders is an AU Harry Potter fanfiction written by severusphoenix, found here.

Petunia Dursley, Dudley Dursley, and Harry Potter leave 4 Privet Drive and — after Petunia recovers from being shot — take shelter on a dragon reserve, thanks to Severus Snape. With help from Lucius and Draco Malfoy, Rosmerta, Tom Riddle, ex-Auror Hugo Savage and a dragon named Yvane, they start hunting Voldemort's Horcruxes.


3 Slytherin Marauders provides examples of:

  • Abusive Parents: Vernon Dursley, like in canon. Unlike in canon, Petunia is not abusive.
  • The Atoner: Dudley and Petunia Dursley, Severus Snape, Lucius Malfoy, Tom Riddle, Aunt Marge.
  • Awful Truth: When confronted by Dora regarding his cover story Tom just can't bear to lie to her and tells her the truth about his origins.
  • Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: Tom is terribly embarrassed about being sorted into Gryffindor — the house of "goodie-two shoes" and "cannon fodder".
  • Badass Family: Harry, Snape, Rosemerta, Dudley, Petunia, Lucius, Draco, Tom, Dora, Beth, and Victoria become one through adoption or marriage.
  • Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Scrimgeour's faction of Aurors.
  • The Bait: The Aurors have Lucius the "Death Eater traitor" spend a night in lockup in order to lure more Death Eaters out of the woodwork.
  • Bavarian Fire Drill: Draco throws a tantrum and Lucius demands the Ministry workers stop whatever they're doing and assist him so that Arthur Weasley can sneak in to find evidence that Rufus Scrimgeour and Dolores Umbridge are plotting to steal Harry away from his family.
  • Bears Are Bad News: Dudley's patronus is a bear.
  • Best Friends-in-Law: Snape and Lucius; Snape adopts Harry and Lucius marries Petunia and adopts Dudley.
  • Big Brother Instinct: Tom with Harry, Dudley, and Draco.
  • Big "NO!": Tom when he's sorted into Gryffindor. In a more dramatic example, Snape when Harry's name comes out of the Goblet of Fire.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Dumbledore. He hides behind his "kindly old grandfather" persona but he dumped Harry at the Dursleys and paid Vernon to abuse him so he can later swoop in and "rescue" Harry and indoctrinate him so that he will gladly die for the greater good.
  • Bond Creatures: The house elves. Also Yvane.
  • Break the Haughty: Lucius while on the run from the Ministry.
  • Bullying a Dragon: Literally, when a Death Eater attacks a dragon that befriended Harry. He got his Just Desserts (though the dragon later complained that he gave her indigestion).
  • Byronic Hero: Snape snarks that Sirius is just a poor "misunderstood Byronic Hero."
  • Captain Obvious: In Chapter 116, Draco called Dudley that, prompting Dudley to call him "Lieutenant Sarcasm".
  • Calvin Ball: Harry, Dudley and some friends play water polo with a frisbee and rules thought up as they go along.
  • Double Standard: When Dumbledore is manipulating everyone around him for a good cause, he gets called out for it. When Snape and Lucius do the same, they get applauded for it.
  • Drowning My Sorrows: After learning the truth about the Dark Lord, Lucius gets very drunk... and stays that way for a very long time.
  • Engineered Heroics: Dumbledore. He's engineering a catastrophe when he leaves Harry with the Dursleys so he can "save" him later.
  • Evil Counterpart: Inverted since Tom is Voldemort's Good Counterpart.
  • Exact Eavesdropping: Dora overhears Dumbledore and Moody's speculation that "Tom" is the Dark Lord's son.
  • Fan Boy/Fangirl: Dudley and Marge are big fans of Doctor Who.
  • Freudian Excuse:
    • Tom was molested at the orphanage.
    • Lucius had a terrible relationship with his father.
  • Future Me Scares Me / Evil Me Scares Me: Tom is horrified when he learns what Voldemort has done.
  • Good Is Not Dumb: Arthur Weasley thinks up a diversion that impresses Lucius Malfoy.
  • Grave-Marking Scene: After venting about his abandonment issues, Tom leaves flowers on his father's grave. Voldemort stumbles across the flowers and can't figure out who would give that S.O.B. flowers.
  • Groin Attack: When her ex showed up and threatened Harry, Rosmerta hit him with a hex that does this.
  • Happily Adopted: Harry, Tom, and Beth by Snape and Rosemerta. And Lucius and Petunia get married so Dudley and Draco become step-brothers, and after finding her they adopt Lucius's daughter Victoria as well.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Lucius Malfoy, after learning that the Dark Lord is a lying Hypocrite.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Two especially stand out.
    • Yvane presses Tom into using his Animagus form to save Harry at the graveyard, at the cost of his consciousness passing on.
    • Tom, unfortunately, had to sacrifice himself to break the last Horcrux - his own body. Thanks to the return of the Elder Wand, Death is happy to return him on Dumbledore’s prompting.
  • Hold Your Hippogriffs: Tom remarks that a lecture in History of Magic "set the kneazle among the jarveys".
  • Hoist by His Own Petard:
    • Lucius covertly hexes Hermione for annoying him. He accidentally hexes himself as well.
    • Vernon gets himself killed via drunken road-rage.
  • I Need a Freaking Drink: Lucius, on more than one occasion. Snape, when Petunia's owl-carried letter pleading for help reaches him.
  • I Want Grandkids: Voldemort, of all people, when he learns of Tom's existence.
  • Identical Grandson: Snape makes everyone (even Dumbledore) think that Tom Riddle is Voldemort's son to explain the resemblance.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: Lampshaded with Tom Riddle. When some of the Weasley clan meet Tom they assume him to be an arrogant, wealthy, pure-blood Jerkass. They later find out he grew up in an orphanage and is overcompensating.
  • Insistent Terminology: Dumbledore and other members of the Hogwarts staff often uses words like "pranks" and "schoolboy spirits" for what normal people know as "bullying."
  • Irony:
  • I Wished You Were Dead: The moment that kicked off the plot was when a girl named Lila verbally tore into Dudley for being such a bully to Harry, capping it off by wishing that he and his family would die. In a later chapter, while investigating the boys' disappearance, Dumbledore comes across Lila, who is clearly upset by the whole affair.
  • Jerkass: Mad-Eye Moody, Vernon Dursley and Sirius Black. Remus Lupin has shades of this as well.
  • Just Desserts: McNair learns too late why you don't meddle in the affairs of dragons...
  • Justified Extra Lives: The Deathly Hallows, the three gifts of Death to the clever Peverell brothers. Returning these items becomes a plot point on two occasions.
    • Harry ends up dragged along with Sirius into the Veil. This is remedied with Harry’s invisibility cloak and the Resurrection Stone (which Harry had planned to use to talk to his parents for Christmas.) This also solves the plot line of Harry’s Horcrux scar.
    • After the final battle, Dumbledore forfeits the Elder Wand back to Death in exchange for Tom, who stepped in front of an Avada Kedavra to sever his link to Voldemort.
  • Knight Templar:
    • Albus Dumbledore. He encouraged and paid for Vernon to abuse Harry in order to turn Harry into a weapon that would be completely loyal to him and would be okay with dying.
  • Like Father, Like Daughter: Lucius and Victoria.
  • Literal Split Personality: Voldemort and Tom Riddle, previously known as the diary Horcrux.
  • Living with the Villain: Tom with everyone. Though he's made a Heel–Face Turn it would still be very messy if his true Back Story was known.
  • Long-Runners: Started in 2009 and finally finished in 2015.
  • Loophole Abuse:
    • The Goblins inform Tom that he can't completely empty out Voldemort's Gringott's vaults... so they leave him a single Knut.
    • Fugitives can seek asylum at Gringott's because "Gringott's customers are allowed to count their gold for as long as they like."
  • Luke, You Are My Father: Exploited when Snape and Lucius pass off Tom as Voldemort's son. Later played straight when Lucius discovers Victoria, a little girl that bears an uncanny resemblance to him.
  • Miscarriage of Justice: Scrimgeour throws Snape and Lucius into Azkaban without even charging them of any crime. One would think the Ministry would no longer try to do something like that after Sirius Black was cleared.
  • Must Have Caffeine: Snape. As Harry says, "World's Best Father - After Three Cups Of Coffee".
  • Noodle Incident:
    ...[R]egistering one's [Animagus] form was really just [...] ensuring the wizard knew the magic well enough that ministry obliviators and curse breakers would not be summoned to a muggle's garden to deal with a partially transformed flamingo - one time of that was more than enough.
  • Odd Friendship: Tom with Percy Weasley and Hugo Savage.
  • One-Winged Angel / Scaled Up: Tom's animagus form is a huge black dragon.
  • Tabloid Melodrama: it seems the staff of the Daily Prophet has nothing better to do than stalk an 11-year old boy.
  • Talking to the Dead: Harry and Snape visits James and Lily's graves at Godric's Hollow. Later Tom resolves some of his emotional issues after he visits and vents at his father's grave.
  • Was It All a Lie?: Lucius loyally served the Dark Lord and believed in his cause. Then Lucius learns that the Dark Lord is a half-blood himself...
  • Waving Signs Around: "FREE SNAPE! FREE MALFOY!"
  • We Can Rule Together: Voldemort started making plans to get Tom under his thumb and accept his place as his heir from the moment he found out about his existence.
  • Worthy Opponent: Lucius felt this way about Frank Longbottom.
  • You Are What You Hate: Voldemort is a half-blood himself. Rufus Scrimgeour, who is very suspicious of Slytherins, is a former Slytherin..

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