Fanfic / Harry Potter and the Magic of the Beasts

What if Harry had a twin and was named a squib after the attack on Halloween? What if Harry's sister was the Girl-Who-Lived? What if Harry did have magic, a magic so powerful and unique even the Ministry didn't know about it... He is Harry Potter, Lord of All Creatures.

Harry Potter and the Magic of the Beasts is a fanfic made by CreatureHarem84 and details a what if in that Harry Potter was given a power that all didn't know or expect, least of all the Ministry. This sucks for a wannabe second reincarnation of Merlin and a slew of corrupt purebloods who prefer division and racism.

The Fanfic can be found here.

Currently at 25 chapters (26 if you count the Prologue) with the author on an inconsistent update schedule due to making the next chapters 20,000 words per chapter.

Harry Potter And The Magic Of The Beasts provides examples of:

• Abusive Parents: The Dursleys, like in canon.
• Acquired Poison Immunity: In canon, the Wolfsbane Potion would allow a werewolf to retain their mind during a full moon, which would allow them to have human intelligence while in their werewolf form. In this fic, after Harry and Steve piss off a Chimera and get a bezoar from the Goat Head of the Chimera, they decided to see what it would happen when combined with the Wolfsbane potion and tested it on Lupin. The result was that Lupin was cured of his lycanthropy and when the results were published, it became marketable everywhere except Britain.
  • Harry gives Daphne a Chimera bezoar in a bid to cure Astoria's genetic blood curse. Daphne is both shocked and happy that Harry is willing to help their family with the genetic blood curse in their family.
  • When reuniting with Krum, he reveals that he and Steve gave said potion to one of his relatives who was a victim of Greyback's attack.
• Actually Pretty Funny: McGonagall bursts out laughing when Harry tells her how they got past the chess set without making a move.
  McGonagall: Mr. Potter, perhaps you would like to tell the great hall how exactly you got past the chess board without moving a single piece?
  Harry: Well, since wizard chess sets are basically sentient, all it took was a little finesse, some well-timed insults, a pinch of acting and as you would say professor… sheer dumb luck. I wish the British Wizarding World had video cameras. I’ve never seen a literal one-sided fight before.
  • She does it again in Chapter 19 when Harry pulls off the 'Robin Hood' prank on Snape, James and the Bloody Baron, exiting the Great Hall and collapsing into a fit of laughter.
• Adaptational Badass: Apart from being able to speak the languages and use the abilities of all magical creatures, Harry is also quite skilled in spell combat, hand-to-hand combat and is recognized by the ICW as a top potioneer and has a license to kill in defense of himself or others by the age of eleven.
• Adaptational Early Appearance: This is an AU, so this is expected in spades.
  • Charlie Weasley shows up in Chapter 1, when in canon, he showed up in person on seventh year.
  • Delores Umbridge, Amelia Bones, Lucius Malfoy and Cornelius Fudge show up in Chapter 11 of the fanfic, when they would've shown up during Harry's trial (Delores and Amelia) and before his second year and in the middle of second year, respectively.
  • Fleur Delacour and Gabrielle Delacour show up in Chapter 5, when they would've shown up in the Triwizard Tournament.
• Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: In canon, Harry is friends with Ron and views Dumbledore somewhat as a mentor. In this version, Harry outright views Ron as a slob who'll try any trick to get to the top, and Dumbledore as a Dark Lord masquerading as a Light Lord.
  • His relationship with his parents is somewhat strained, due to his parents leaving him with the Dursleys under the basis he became a Squib. Upon finding out what they left Harry to, they attempt to make amends. It has gotten better over time, as before third year's start, he is calling Emily sis.
  • Likewise, his family's relation with Dumbledore is heavily strained due to Dumbledore's inaction in finding Harry, as well as Dumbledore's subtle attempts to persuade them to give up searching for Harry. Unlike with Harry, their relationship with Dumbledore worsens over time due to Dumbledore sinking to more and more depraved methods to get rid of Harry or force Emily under his sphere of influence.
  • As time goes on, the staff start to have doubts about Dumbledore and his 'leader of the light' tendencies. They are aware that every time Harry and Emily are involved in a highly dangerous situation (hunting whatever was attacking unicorns in first year, confronting a basilisk in second year, etc.), that Dumbledore was behind it some way or another.
• Adaptational Species Change: In canon, Hermione, Mrs. Granger and Luna are humans. Here, Hermione is a Nekomata, Mrs. Granger is a Kitsune and Luna is a half elf-fae hybrid.
  • By the end of third year, Pettigrew is turned into a human-rat hybrid, courtesy of a fake-out book made by the IWCO.
• Adaptational Villainy: What Harry views Dumbledore as due to the man's manipulations, infinite second chance spiel that nearly cost Britain two wars, sabotaging the educational standards to force the British wizards to rely on him, and all the attempts to have Harry killed in an accident or deliberately endangering the lives of his students for a "test". By Chapter 19, Harry views Dumbledore as a Dark Lord hiding behind the Light.
• Alternate Universe: This is set 20 years ahead of the canonical events, with everyone sans Voldemort and maybe a few old wizards like Dumbledore, being born two decades later than normal.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: When Dumbledore used Legitimacy on Harry when he first showed up to see what Harry was planning, he saw The Joker. It was enough to force Dumbledore to never read Harry's mind again.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Before Christmas Holidays come up on Harry's first year, he hands Lucius Malfoy a packet that forces him to give up half his family wealth after his son called a duel with Emily and no-showed. If he accepts, he will be down by half his fortune and forced to curtail to a person of lesser blood status. If he refuses, Harry can have this go up higher and eventually leave Lucius and his family with nothing. The fact it's been given by the ICW means Lucius cannot go to Fudge and have this revoked. In the end, he chose the former.
• Arranged Marriage: Dumbledore's attempts to force Emily to confront the Basilisk in second year by force-marrying her to Lockhart with Lucius' cooperation, forgery of James and Lily's signature and the belief she'll do as she said. This luckily fails due to Harry's intervention, Lockhart's stupidity and inability to understand he has to fight a Basilisk, and of course, Harry's custom-made wand.
  • Molly has tried for years to get an arranged marriage between Emily and Ron in an effort to get to the Potter fortune, to no avail. It's highly likely that Molly will resort to love and loyalty potions in order to get the Potter fortune one way or another and hates Ginny being with Neville, despite the fact that Neville is wealthy.
  • Daphne and Astoria's grandfather tried to get them in arranged marriages with Malfoy. Well, until he had an unfortunate incident.
• Ascended Extra: James and Lily Potter (see Spared by the Adaptation), alongside the students of Ravenclaw tower get more of a spotlight compared to canon.
• Asshole Victim: All the Pureblooded bigots and rogue creatures are this in one way or another. Special mentions go to the French branch of the Malfoy family, Lockhart, Quirrelmort, and MacNair.
• Bait-and-Switch: Pettigrew buys a book containing evil rituals and was carving a permanent enslavement ritual to bind Emily and Hermione to him, much to James' and Sirius' horror. When it is finished, instead of binding Hermione and Emily to him as sex slaves, he is turned into a human-rat hybrid. As Harry explains, the ritual Pettigrew used was altered to cause grave consequences to the caster of said ritual. While Pettigrew can Floo, apparate and use Potions, he cannot cast magical spells as the book was made by the IWCO as a fake-out book to more easily identify evil wizards.
• Been There, Shaped History: Mentioned about the Prewitt line in Chapter 16, where one of their ancestors was Jack the Ripper. The reason he got away with murdering prostitutes in both the magical and no-maj world was because the Aurors claimed what pureblood would use muggle methods for trivial things? This also cost the Prewitt line much of their fortune, as the man was the Patriarch of said line and vanished without a will being made. As Harry later explained, every major family branch in the magical world often had one or two members go batshit insane due to whatever is possible, with two cousins from the Potter line being in a three week duel that he has no clue of the reason behind it.
• Berserk Button: Threatening or actually harming those Harry cares about is a good way to get on his shit list. The French Malfoy branch and the Goyle family learned that the fatal way.
  • This also applies to Walden MacNair. After being sold Hermione by Snape, Harry pays him a house visit and murders him, carving the unity rune on him at Christmas Eve.
  • When Narius mentioned sending the Wendigo to kill Elora, Harry becomes so livid that he proceeds to to kick Narius' ass before decapitating him.
• Big "WHAT?!": Pettigrew's reaction when the ritual he used was altered and destroyed over 2000 years ago.
• Cassandra Truth: Snape knows Harry is behind many of the events in Hogwarts, but the problem is that, as Harry says, if he's right, then he's admitting Potters can do impossible things. If he's wrong, then he's making baseless accusations that are at best, slander, and at worst, harassment. This costs him a lot of power by the time third year rolls around, with him being a Potions teacher, and nothing more.
• Chekhov's Gun: When Steve visits Hogwarts in the beginning of Chapter 11, he hands Harry his Potioneer license and another. In Chapter 16, the second license is revealed to be a kill license that allows Harry to use all spells for lethal force bar unforgivables in self-defense of himself or others when Aurors stop him on Platform 9 and 3/4s and try to arrest him for murdering Quirrell.
  • He gets the license upgraded in Chapter 26, allowing him to use Unforgivables in defense of himself or others. This will be used against Fudge when he tries to arrest him and Feros.
• Corrupt Bureaucrat: The Fudge Administration is this in a nutshell. Ranging from arresting or attempting to arrest IWCO operatives, intentionally hurling first-gens into Azkaban even if the case is clearly self-defense, trying to execute a Nekomata for failing to register as a half-breed and the blatant discriminatory practices against first-gens and magical creatures. However, this comes back to bite them in the ass, as by Chapter 24, Fudge and his admin are on thin ice due to a 99% turnover rate for the first-gens incarcerated in Azkaban, the blatant attempt to violate and ignore international law, a slew of laws that Britain passed that was against First-gens and magical creatures, and of course, the numerous attempts to try and have Steve arrested or executed for killing "prominent purebloods".
• Covert Group: The IWCO (and earlier the Grey Guardians) are this in the ICW, acting as a specialized Black Ops team to hunt down evil wizard groups, rogue creatures and either detain or execute them. Steve Feros is a semi-retired IWCO operative that is Harry's guardian.
• Cutting the Knot: Upon finding out Hagrid has a baby Dragon and knowing the sheer amount of trouble he'd be in, he calls up Hedwig to bring Steve so that he can get the jist of the situation. Once Hedwig flames her, Steve and Noberta away (though with promise to give Hagrid year-round visits to her), it averts the canonical route. They are still caught outside after curfew, but Harry's explanation doesn't cost him, Emily, Neville and Hermione any points, only a detention.
• Dancing with Myself: This dialogue.
  Snape: I don't know how you did it, Potter, but I know it was you that caused what happened to Malfoy, and I will find out how.
  Harry: Be that as it may, Snape. Remember that it takes two to tango.
  (Tango music starts up and Snape does a tango dance with an illusionary copy of himself while Harry runs out of the Potions classroom)
• Deadly Gas: One of Malfoy's failed attempts to sabotage Harry and other members of Ravenclaw House as well as the 'traitors' of Slytherin House resulted in his potion dud releasing poisonous gas, forcing Snape to purge the potion and vanish the cauldron.
• Demoted to Extra: Ron Weasley suffers from this, due to his entitled behavior and his creepy advances on both Emily and Hermione (before her Nekomata status is outed).
• Death by Adaptation: Lockhart's attempts to do an overpowered obliviate on Harry, Lily and Neville results in Lockhart getting a fatal backlash due to the wand containing Veela Hair.
  • Walden MacNair is killed in a home visit by Harry in Chapter 24.
  • Goyle Sr. and numerous Death Eaters alongside members of Greyback's pack involved in the Quidditch World Cup attack are killed by Steve and Harry.
• Deconstruction Fic: While many Harry Potter fanfics often touch on the racist elements of the magical world, this series deconstructs Britain's treatment of magical creatures and first gens.
  • Throughout the years Magical Britain has acted like they are in charge of everything and everyone, expecting even foreign first-gens to bow and curtail to them as if they're superior has rendered Magical Britain virtually persona non grata throughout magical society. The only exception to this is Quidditch.
  • It also deconstructs the blatant favoritism Snape has with Slytherin House, with Daphne explaining how Snape refuses to give passing grades to other students for producing perfect or powerful potions because they are of a different house while praising Slytherin students, even if the potion is so horrific, sabotaging all four houses in the process. As a result, Magical Britain is largely staffed by Slytherin graduates that more often than not likely to screw up on a job where lives are on the line, while making it difficult for students of the other three houses to get hired for those positions.
  • The Wrong Boy Who Lived (or Girl Who Lived in this case), is deconstructed to an extent. Unlike most fanfics where the WBWL/WGWL would embrace their fame to a point they developed an ego and overentitled behavior, often resulting in a hard fall that's often fatal; in this one, while Emily is the WGWL, her parents decided to raise her in the non-magical world to avoid being swarmed by reporters, civilians and of course, people who wish to befriend her for their own personal gain. The last part causes no amount of frustration for Dumbledore, as he wants her to befriend and eventually marry Ron Weasley.
• Delayed "Oh, Crap!": Sirius and James has this when Harry hastily explains that Pettigrew and Narius has Ron under mind control and is using him to bring Emily and Hermione to the Shrieking Shack, where the two are hiding. They react normally before their brains catch up to what Harry meant and immediately rush to the Whomping Willow to help.
• Didn't See That Coming: All magical creatures who meet Harry the first time are completely thrown off by him speaking their native tongue, as well as the fact he can do this with all magical creatures.
  • The students also have this reaction when Harry speaks and writes in the language of a magical creature, like pixies, phoenixes or snakes.
• Didn't Think This Through: Has its own page.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In canon, Quirrell burned away due to Harry's protection spell from Lily. Here, he is decapitated by an exhausted Harry after fighting the man on his own due to Dumbledore's manipulations.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Fudge's attempt to execute Hermione if Steve Feros doesn't head up here to be hurled into Azkaban for "murdering prominent purebloods". Why? Because she didn't report herself as a Nekomata to the Ministry.
• Entitled Bastard: The pureblood bigots are this in spades.
  • The Malfoys are a specialized example. Despite their French relatives being executed for trafficking Veela, Lucius being barred from doing business in Canada, losing half their family fortune to a duel Draco called and no-showed among other things, they still act like they are superior to everyone else. By third year, however, the Malfoy name is all but rendered worthless, yet they still act like they are the best of the best.
  • Narius is this as well. As Harry points out, Alucard is Dracula spelled backwards, and the sense of entitlement and delusions of grandeur makes them incapable of understanding that they are in trouble. Narius constantly underestimating Harry and revealing he sent the Wendigo to kill Elora costs him his head.
• Entitled to Have You: Ron is this when it comes to Emily and Hermione before her Nekomata status was outed. Fortunately, Emily has better things to do than be an Entitled Bastard's trophy wife.
  • When alone with Harry, Vriska reveals that Tarvos viewed her as nothing more than a prize, and that she was glad the bastard bit the bullet.
• Everybody Has Standards: The Dementors were largely mellow and left the falsely and unjustly imprisoned alone. The one Harry killed was literally too into the soul eating.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: While Dumbledore believes he's not evil, his failed attempts to disband the IWCO root on his belief that everyone is redeemable. The problem is that not everyone are children, and the adults are responsible for their own choices. It's later revealed by Dumbledore's internal monologue in Chapter 23 that Dumbledore is trying to prevent the extinction of the pureblood lines due to inbreeding by allowing them to get away with as many crimes as they could.
• Evil Is Petty: Snape intentionally leaks out Hermione's Nekomata status to the Ministry as a means to punish Harry for being a massive thorn in his side. This costs him his ability to give or take points or assign detentions.
  • He does this again in Chapter 24, this time claiming that Hermione is as good as sold to Walden MacNair, a known Death Eater. This ends with him getting punched in the face, having his memory of the event removed, and forced to do the Time Warp.
  • Narius sends a Wendigo to kill Elora. Why? Because Dracula refused to wed her to him.
• Fantastic Racism: Magical Britain is this in spades to magical creatures, non-magical people and first-gens. It's also deconstructed as this type of racism and blatant mistreatment of a vast majority of the citizenry has resulted in Magical Britain being excluded from all events, barring Quidditch, due to both the systematic discrimination and nature rendering life for a first-gen or magical creature in Magical Britain very difficult.
  • This is why Hermione has to use glamour charms to hide her status as a Nekomata in the first two years of Hogwarts. If her status came out, the British Ministry would execute her for being a half-breed. Harry showing Fudge the permanent, irrevocable laws of the ICW that protected magical creatures like Hermione is what forces Fudge to back off trying to execute her.
  • Ron shows shades of this due to being a firm believer of the Light. He holds outright racist views towards magical creatures like Hermione (and even before, viewed Hermione as a toy for him to get as a reward), shows deep resentment and hatred towards Slytherin students, and despises the ICW laws that protect Hermione. This constantly causes him endless amounts of failure because Emily, her circle of friends and even three of his siblings can see his true colors. By the time of the Quidditch World Cup, Ron's behavior is being closely monitored by the staff and Dumbledore has too much suspicion on him to try anything overt on Harry.
  • Despite Harry being fairly powerful and brutal to his enemies, Narius believes he's weak compared to him, a superior being. That costs him his head.
  • While he portrays himself as a fair fighter for all, Dumbledore is actually a pureblood supremacist who hides his intentions behind a grandfatherly appearance. Given that he never bothered getting Hagrid's conviction overturned and thought Flitwick, a half-goblin, doesn't deserve his wand for being a 'half-breed', though unlike most of the pureblood bigots, he keeps it hidden.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Slytherin House views the pureblood bigots like this. Apart from learning a mentality that not only sets Magical Britain back from advancing, deliberately attacking students from other houses and giving them a bad name - and Dumbledore and Snape refusing to do a damn thing about it - they are practically hated with complete contempt.
  • Malfoy is viewed as the worst of the worst, as he shows no care or respect for pureblood ideals. Calling a duel and then chickening out is considered the ultimate disgrace among pureblood traditions.
  • Ron is increasingly viewed as this by the student population of Hogwarts, being a Lazy Bum, an Entitled Bastard and acting no different than the Pureblood bigots of Slytherin House.
• Fur Against Fang: Largely averted across the globe, with notable exceptions. When it comes to teasing Harry and flirting with him, both Nadine and Elora use this trope in terms of love.
  Harry: As for the rivalry between werewolves and vampires, that's largely been done away with. Only a werewolf named Fenrir Greyback and his most loyal followers still keep the rivalry going. Though Nadine and Elora do have a rivalry when it comes to flirting with me.
• Great Escape: Subverted. Pettigrew's escape is due to Dumbledore and Fudge both claiming that Pettigrew never registered his Animagus form. If he hadn't registered his form, thereby he's not an Animagus.
• Groin Attack: Harry brutally castrates Tarvos in a flashback on Chapter 12 in a fight after uncovering evidence of Tarvos' treachery.
  • In Chapter 13, Harry does this to Snape with two rogue Bludgers to stop the Bludgers from crushing him. When Snape squeals and Quirrell is knocked out, Harry returns to playing Quidditch.
  • Lily kicks Dumbledore where the sun don't shine in Chapter 15 when Harry says that the hooded figure cast the killing curse on him and Emily. She did not like hearing that Dumbledore was trying to play off the attempted murder of Harry and Emily.
• Harem Genre: Well, this is a harem themed story. However, unlike most harems, it's Harry alongside Luna, Hermione, Fleur, Emma and a group of magical creatures.
• A House Divided: Dumbledore intentionally does this with Hogwarts students, forcing a division between Slytherin House and the other three houses, in order to both produce evil wizards he can 'redeem', and to keep the Light-Dark mentality going for years. This results in a massive overabundance of Slytherin students in major positions like Potioneer and Auror departments, and a massive power imbalance in the magical community of Britain. When Daphne and Tracey enter Harry's friend group, Dumbledore is not pleased.
  • Averted with Harry and his group, whose actions are unifying the non-pureblood supremacists in Slytherin House with the other three.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: The Malfoy family is this in many aspects. First, their entire French branch was wiped out in an IWCO ordered operation for Veela trafficking, costing them half of the family fortune as all assets from the French line were divided up amongst the trafficking victims or their next of kin. Then, Draco pulls the "I challenge you to a duel and no-showed" card, which costs them half their family fortune. All of Draco's attempts to make himself sound or act superior often blows up in his face, and his attempt to sabotage not only those of other houses, but later those in his house he and Snape deemed traitors often backfired in many ways. Lucius' attempts to either demonize Harry or use his position to assert leverage against Hogwarts often backfired in more ways than one, resulting him in being kicked off his Board of Governors position after the Basilisk fiasco, getting one of Voldemort's items destroyed in the process. And to top it all off, he loses a house elf to the oldest trick in the book. By third year, the Malfoy name is, in Harry's words, all but totally worthless now.
• Human Shield: During the prologue, Harry steps in front of Emily, protecting her from the killing curse and banishing Voldemort.
• Hypocrite: Despite claiming that their family respects pureblood traditions, Draco deliberately calling a duel and no-showing comes off as this.
• If I Can't Have You…: When Narius is told by Dracula (Michael) that he cannot have Elora, Narius hires a Wendigo to kill Elora while she's in the states. When Harry fights Narius, Narius rants about how the Wendigo he hired failed to kill Elora. Harry rewards him with a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown, before decapitating him.
• Imperfect Ritual: Invoked. The IWCO made fake-out books that offered highly evil rituals that could either grant more power, permanently bind someone to you as a slave, and loads more, at least in writing. When carved down, the runes were altered slightly, as the originals were destroyed when found. When the ritual was done, instead of doing what the description wanted, it would cause grave consequences to the caster of the ritual. Pettigrew finding out he was stripped of his ability to cast spells and was turned into a human-rat hybrid due to the altered ritual means he is for all intents and purposes, as dangerous as a wet sock and more easily identifiable, as the results are permanent.
  • This also applies to how wraiths are made. As Harry is taught a specific spell to kill wraiths, he explains during the forbidden forest detention and after that wraiths are not misunderstood creatures, but evil wizards that botched one of the most evil rituals, resulting in them being turned into parasitic entities, draining the life force of those they kill or possess. When it failed to kill the hooded figure in the Forbidden Forest, it was clear whoever was attacking the unicorns was still alive.
• I Never Said It Was Poison: This exchange between Harry, The Troll Chief and Tarvos after Harry and Steve uncovers evidence of a wizard group nearby and killed off when overhearing their plans.
  Lakjin: I recognize this crest, I lost a brother when we were younglings to these bastards, they attempted a raid 15 years ago on my village, many fell by my club before they fled.
  Tarvos: You're not seriously going to listen to this boy are you, the Goyles are true examples of trustworthy wizards.
  Harry, thinking: This guy's a fucking idiot, I didn't even give them the family name of these wizards yet, and something tells me no one here ever knew it.
  Lakjin: Tarvos, if Devastator trusts this boy, then I will trust him as well... However... I would like to know HOW you knew the familial name of these wizards, when even I didn't know.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite Harry being more powerful, most of the canon Harry Potter storyline remains the same with one or two differences.
  • Harry is forced to confront a troll in first year to save Hermione and Emily. While Harry ended up seriously injured, he did successfully kill the troll.
  • Harry, Hermione, Neville and Draco get detention alongside Ron and Emily. The difference is that Ron and Draco are punished with point deductions and detention, while Harry, Emily, Hermione and Neville get detention for helping Hagrid with a dragon he got. Minerva would've rather not assigned detention to the four for helping Hagrid with his situation.
  • Harry is forced to confront the hooded figure attacking unicorns, but unlike canon, where Firenze pulls a Big Damn Heroes moment, here he kicks the hooded figure through a few trees and forces it to retreat when Firenze arrives.
  • He is still forced to confront Quirrelmort at the end of First Year to save the Philosopher's Stone.
  • Lockhart is still hired for the DADA position in second year.
  • Ginny is still possessed by Voldemort's diary throughout second year and is forced to release the Basilisk.
  • Lockhart still ends up getting hit with the backlash of a magic blast due to a bad wand pick. The difference is that he was using Harry's custom-made wand, which results in his death.
  • Harry still confronts Diary Riddle and the Basilisk alone, having forced Lily, Neville and Fawkes to leave with Ginny's unconscious body. He defeats Riddle, saves Ginny and frees the Basilisk.
  • Dementors are still stationed around Hogwarts due to a prisoner escape from Azkaban, except it's Pettigrew, not Sirius.
  • Pettigrew still escapes by the end of third year, but as a human-rat hybrid and due to Dumbledore sending Snape to stall enough for Peter to escape.
  • The Bulgarian Minister of Magic does his 'can't speak English' thing, but instead of it being a joke, he does it to people he hates, like Fudge.
  • The Quidditch World Cup is attacked by the Death Eaters, but thanks to Steve and Harry, the bulk of the attackers are killed and detained while the few that were still coherent managed to flee.
• Internal Reveal:
  • Emma reveals her Kitsune and Hermione's Nekomata status and why they use glamour charms to hide in Magical Britain to the Potters, who don't mind their status. The rest of her friend group find out about Hermione's Nekomata status, then the whole school in second year.
  • Lupin reveals his lycanthropy to Harry's group of friends, which Harry, Emily and Sirius all know of. However, when he reveals he knew where Harry was all this time and that his werewolf form was cured by them, this caused Emily and Sirius to be just as surprised as the rest.
  • Harry's entire friend group find out about Luna's half-elf/half-fae heritage and take it nicely, though Hermione knew a lot quicker due to her instinctive animal senses.
• It's All About Me: Dumbledore. He outright refuses to let anyone in on the knowledge he knows (in part because he could end up criminally charged by the ICW), wishes to know all the spells that the ICW let out, but bar anyone else from knowing about it. This type of entitlement constantly has him butt heads with Harry and cost him allies. By the end of third year, much of the staff save Snape doubt Dumbledore's position as the Leader of the Light, Harry's circle of friends do not trust Dumbledore and the Potters have lost a lot of respect for the old man. Word of God implies that this will continue on.
• It's Personal: The troll that Harry killed on Halloween held a severe grudge against him, eager to kill him slow. The next chapter reveals that Tarvos (the name of said troll) was collaborating with the Goyles in a bid to become the next troll chief. When Harry exposed him as a traitor and stops him from harming Vriska, he gives a brutal beatdown to Tarvos. Culminating in a painful castration and banishment, with Harry getting everything Tarvos was supposed to get, including Tarvos' future wife, Vriska.
• Laser-Guided Karma: The Dursleys were very cruel and obnoxious like canon, verbally abusing Harry and mistreating him like he was a slave. When Steve gets guardianship of Harry transferred from them to him while they were in Romania, he secretly casts boastful and truth telling charms on them, which results in their arrest and incarceration at Abracatraz. For added bonus, even if they get out, they are labeled 'hazardous and deadly' to all magicals, rendering their reputation utterly kaput.
• Lazy Bum: Ron. He finds having to work to get the Potter fortune rather tiring, but due to Emily refusing to even look at him, the likeliness that Ron could come up with a decent plan being next to none means he has to work. This comes back to bite him in the ass when Narius and Pettigrew put him under mind control due to the sheer laziness Ron has at doing anything that's not eating or sleeping. Of course, predictably, Ron doesn't learn anything, and the upcoming fourth year, his behavior is being closely monitored by the Hogwarts Staff because he is showing signs of psychopathic tendencies.
• Light Is Not Good: Dumbledore is this throughout the story, devolving into more and more questionable approaches "for the greater good".
  • Cornelius Fudge is also one, acting as a corrupt and self-serving politician who cares less about furthering Magical Britain, and more about keeping the Purebloods in power.
  • Molly and Ron are firm believers of the light, but desire the Potter fortune due to it being one of the most powerful family fortunes in Britain and are insane descendants of Jack the Ripper.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Dumbledore does this when it comes to maintaining his school. He does not want the parents to know how often students face attack at the hands of the pureblood supremacists, hiding of magical artifacts like the Philosopher's Stone in Hogwarts (which endangered the whole student population), and of course, students being petrified by Basilisk attacks or attacked by trolls.
  • Magical Britain is this when it comes to other magical cores. Due to a law passed by Fudge, backed by Lucius, first-gens are forced to rely on unicorn hair, phoenix feathers and dragon heartstrings, meaning that the average wizard in Britain is oblivious to the fact there are other magical cores, or that the magical cores have drawbacks. Lockhart's attempt to use Harry's wand ends with Lockhart killed due to the immense power he put into the Obliviate spell.
    Harry: Now, when I mentioned about certain wand cores harming those who are mismatched, I was referring to a Veela hair in my wand. Veela hair only works flawlessly to those they are freely given to. If someone steals the wand and tries to use it, the magic of the spell and hair will backfire, harming the caster. Lockhart overpowered his memory charm to hit all three of us, which caused a major backlash, so if slamming spine first into the wall hadn’t killed him, the stress on his magical core would have.
• Look Behind You: While fighting the Basilisk, Harry tells the Basilisk that a rooster is behind her. The snake has a comical reaction and turns around, while Diary Riddle is left dumbfounded that a 1,000 year old serpent fell for such a stupid trick.
• Loophole Abuse: The Trace is put on wands that are premade, to prevent students from using magic in no-maj environments. Harry's wand is custom made with Blackthorn and Ebony, as well as having nine magical cores combined in his wand, as a custom-made wand cannot have the Trace on it.
  • Purebloods intentionally put in that rule, as while the Ministry can punish first-gens for casting spells (as they are in non-magical environments), pureblood children can use magic on their property as they are in a magical environment, making it difficult for the Trace to spot a kid using magic.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: Dumbledore plans to off Harry this way via the Triwizard tournament.
• Mama Bear: Lily is this in spades.
  • Mrs. Granger is this as well. Upon finding out about her daughter being petrified by the Basilisk, said Basilisk roaming about and the British Ministry trying to execute her in full view of the student population unless Steve comes to Britain to face death from her daughter and not the school, she was well on her way to storming up to Hogwarts and setting Dumbledore's ass on fire. Luckily, Harry used his extensive knowledge on international law and outright threatened Fudge that if he went through with his, he'd be charged with breaking International Law.
• Manipulative Bastard: Dumbledore. Throughout the series, he claims that he knows what is best for everyone, but the methods he uses range from immortal, to outright illegal methods. They range from slandering Harry in first year, to removing all the books and courses that would make wizards and witches in Britain independent of him, blocking notes being sent to parents when incidents such as the troll or the Basilisk occurred, to subtly manipulating the return of Voldemort to become the second coming of Merlin. Most of these methods when it's being used against Harry often blows up in his face.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When James, Lily and Emily check in on Harry, it's on the day the Dursleys are arrested for a variety of crimes, ranging from embezzlement and fraud, to child abuse and forging criminal records. They immediately return to Dumbledore and force him to order a search for Harry.
• Named by the Adaptation: In Harry Potter canon, the name of the Basilisk is not given. Here, the Basilisk's name is Ivy.
  • The troll Harry fought in first year is named Tarvos.
• Never My Fault: All the pureblood bigots and rogue creatures are this in spades.
  • Snape blames Harry for him being stripped of everything but teaching potions. However, it is his fault for deliberate antagonizing of Harry, intentional sabotage of student grades, ratting out Hermione's Nekomata status in the hopes the Ministry will execute her, and of course, making baseless accusations that Snape cannot prove.
  • Tarvos blames Harry for being kicked out of his troll clan and getting everything he was supposed to have, not caring that he colluded with the Goyle family and when caught, tried to kill Vriska, only to get brutalized by Harry.
  • Draco and Lucius both refuse to admit responsibility for all the humiliation they've brought upon themselves. From losing half their fortune for Draco calling a duel and no-showing, to Lucius' crimes as a death eater. As far as they're concerned, none of what they've done is their fault in anyway whatsoever.
  • Fudge blames Harry and Steve for their failures well as the ICW basically putting the Fudge Admin on thin ice for its stunts. However, the blatant miscarriages of justice on blood status, attempted arrest of an IWCO agent, failed attempt to force Steve to come back to Britain and face trial or they execute a Nekomata, and all the attempts to claim the purebloods killed for serious crimes are 'upstanding citizens' is largely the fault of the pureblood idiots.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: When Harry finds out Hagrid had a dragon egg, one that was reported missing from the Dragon Reserve he worked and lived at, he called up Steve to get Noberta back to the reserve. When Mcgonagall asked why they were out of bed after curfew, Harry explained that if he didn't follow Hermione, Neville and Emily, Hagrid's home would've burned down and Hagrid would've been arrested for receiving a stolen dragon egg. When the trio backed up Harry's claim, Mcgonagall agrees that Harry was in the right to help Hagrid, along with Hermione, Neville and Emily for being honest, they are still assigned detention for being out after curfew, but no point deductions.
• Noodle Incident: Since Harry has lived with a semi-retired IWCO agent since he was six, there has been a slew of noodle incidents in his adventures before Hogwarts and during Hogwarts breaks. Special examples include a nest of pissed off Gargoyles he survived in, using a Khalkotauroi to demolish a building holding scouts belonging to Greyback's pack between first and second year, and of course, the Greek Chimera incident.
  • We do get some inkling of how the Greek Chimera incident played out, as Steve accidently hit a Chimera with a stinging hex aiming at Harry for stealing his wand and turning his clothes into a chicken costume that said 'FREE MEAL'... in the middle of Hydra territory.
• No-Sell: When Goyle Sr. uses the killing curse on Harry, his Dragon durability prevents him from killing the kid, much like Voldemort's attempts when he and Emily were infants.
• Oblivious to Love: A zig-zagged trope. Harry is oblivious to any advances from females unless they get blatantly direct. He is able, however, to tell when girls give advances to other guys, such as with Ginny and Neville. This is due to a quirk all Potter men share, where they excel in everything but one of life's aspects.
• Off with His Head!: What he does to Narius, as payback for hiring a Wendigo to kill Elora.
• Oh, Crap!: This is fairly common when it comes to both purebloods and Dumbledore trying to keep control of the situation.
  • Dumbledore panics when his plan to mark Harry as a Dark Lord in the making backfired in more ways than one.
  • Tarvos has this reaction when he is found out as a traitor to the troll clan he was in.
  • The staff all have this reaction when Harry and the Weasley Twins unite, as Harry is an unrivaled prank master. This becomes more apparent in second year when Harry and the Weasley Twins work alongside Peeves to prank James.
  • Lockhart is shocked and nervous when Harry turns in the pop quiz in the languages of the creatures he supposedly met. He has to forcibly redirect the conversation to pixies to avoid any further embarrassment.
  • Lucius has an 'Oh shit, I'm fucked' moment when the diary Voldemort gave him is handed to him, thoroughly destroyed.
  • Fudge pales when he finds out Hermione is protected under ICW law.
  • The Dementors have this every time Harry is present. Given he killed one of them, it's a justified fear.
  • Snape has this reaction when he's tricked into saying Let's Do The Time Warp Again and is turned into Frank N Furtur.
  • Pettigrew is shocked when he's told the ritual he did has stripped him of the ability to cast spells, rendering him effectively useless in wand combat.
  • Narius has this when he accidently lets slip he sent the Wendigo Harry killed between first and second year after Dracula's eldest daughter because Dracula refused to wed her to him.
  • During the Quidditch World Cup attack, the last adult Goyle is left terrified upon realizing Harry was here. It was the last thing he saw before he was brutally murdered alongside his two Death Eater companions.
• Persona Non Grata: When Lucius attempts to buy Boundless and have it staffed by purebloods selling those brooms in the Malfoy name, the note he receives tells him that they will not be doing business with him, that he is permanently barred from doing business in Canada, and to never contact them again.
  Note from Boundless: Mr. Malfoy
  While we understand that in your British Ministry, you would be able to purchase anything and have a confirmation almost immediately, we at 'Boundless', and many other companies outside Britain have a different policy. Due to an extensive background check, we at 'Boundless' are proud to say, we will NOT be doing business with you.
  Our background check has shown a long history of bribery and discrimination against First-gen's and No-maj's, and a family history of serving 'Dark Lords', and your Imperius defense holds no sway outside of Britain, as well as your familial connection to the now extinct Malfoy family of France, known for trafficking in Veela.
  As a result, we have petitioned the I.C.W. and this letter is to inform you that your family is permanently barred from attempting to invest in or buy any business in Canada, as we heavily employ Mundane-born and other magicals, creatures included, and your demand to fire all of them and only employ purebloods as a condition of purchase is, in few words, 'Absolutely Disgraceful', it has NOT been a pleasure hearing from you.
  Please don't contact us again.
  Signed
  Jason Shrike, 'Boundless' C.E.O and proud First-gen.
  P.S. The one who investigated you, one Steve Feros, says 'Hi'.
  • It's heavily implied that the Malfoy family is also barred from even stepping foot in France. Justified, as the French Branch attempted to sell Jean-Claude's wife and two daughters (one of which was four years old) into sex slavery and was promptly murdered with extreme prejudice for their troubles.
• Point of Divergence: A lot of points.
  • When setting up defenses for their little house, Lily and James ask Flitwick to set up emergency charms and behavioral modification runes to prevent Voldemort from killing them, which works.
  • Harry is removed from the Dursleys by the helping hand of Steve Feros at the age of six, with Steve putting boastful and truth-telling charms on the Dursleys, getting them arrested.
  • Lupin is cured of his lycanthropy due to the Hunter's Will Potion, leaving the man overjoyed and happy.
  • Instead of a meek, shy and underfed kid, Harry is a strong, snarky, and powerful kid, capable of partial shapeshifting - later pure shapeshifting - and is more independent and able to tell manipulations far more easily than canon.
  • During Third Year, Pettigrew and Narius team up to kidnap and enslave Emily and Hermione to Peter, using a book containing evil rituals. Due to the ritual done, Peter is turned into a human-rat hybrid unable to cast spells and more easily identifiable as the book was a fake-out book, and Narius is killed off by Harry.
• Potty Emergency: Harry has one when he wakes up from being snuggled by Hermione and Luna. Fortunately, there's a bathroom in the Hogwarts medical wing.
  • Before Dumbledore became headmaster, a previous headmaster had put in a bathroom in the medical wing due to a slew of potty emergencies, and it's heavily implied a lot of them had Potty Failures.
• Pragmatic Villainy: When Dumbledore opposes Fudge's execution attempt on Hermione, it's not because of his care for his students (he did put her under the Imperius Curse last year), but because if he allowed it, he would lose all remaining trust between him and the Potters.
  • Snape's purging of the dud potion emitting poisonous gas is viewed as this by Harry. After all, it would be very difficult to explain why a whole classroom was killed from inhaling poisonous fumes when Snape should've been observing the students.
• The Prankster: Like canon, the Weasley twins are. Harry is also one, able to prank without getting caught. Whenever Harry pulled a prank, it's for both laughs or to get back at an asshole who deserved it like Snape, the pureblood supremacists or Malfoy. By Chapter 21, Harry has successfully pranked Steve 440 times, while Steve got him back three times.
• Properly Paranoid: James and Lily raising Emily in a semi-sheltered life to avoid being swarmed by the press, people who'd wish to take advantage of her like Dumbledore, or to avoid anyone who escaped punishment (and they know Dumbledore had a hand behind it), who would gladly see Emily dead.
  • James saw Lockhart's creepily gazing upon the first to fifth year Hogwarts students when he came to visit after graduation. He knew to never let his kids near Lockhart. Unfortunately, Dumbledore hired the idiot without checking it through to them, forcing Harry and Peeves to keep Emily away from Lockhart or leaving her alone with Lockhart.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: When Goyle Sr. and two Death Eaters corner James and Lily.
  Harry: GET. AWAY. FROM. MY. PARENTS!
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: Narrowly averted. Despite Pettigrew's actions and attempts to end the Potter bloodline, Dumbledore pleads for Sirius to offer Pettigrew a second chance. While it can be speculated that Azkaban is worse than death, it doesn't hide the fact that Peter nearly paid the price of treachery with his life. When Pettigrew tries to enslave Hermione and Emily to him, only to be turned into a human-rat hybrid incapable of casting spells, Sirius tells Peter that he should have killed him 12 years ago.
  • Subverted, then played straight with Tarvos. Instead of killing Tarvos in their first duel, Harry castrates him for his treachery, resulting in his banishment from Lakjin's clan. In first year, it becomes a straight trope when Harry blasts him over the bridge to his death.
• Running Gag: Every time Snape is forced to do a musical dance or song said by mainly Harry due to a spell Harry put him under.
• Sadist Teacher: Snape is a mix of this and Apathetic Teacher. Between over glorifying the Slytherin students, demonizing the students of the other three houses, blatantly ignoring Malfoy's attempts to sabotage the potion making of other students, he is quite uncaring of the plight of anyone not in Slytherin House. This eventually comes back to bite him in the ass when he antagonizes Harry for things that he believes Harry is responsible for, but cannot prove, culminating in him being reduced to a teacher in name only, unable to give or take points, give detentions to students or punish them by the end of second year.
• Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Defied. When Lucius tries to buy Boundless, the Canadian broom service outright tells him that his claim he was under the Imperius holds no sway outside Britain, nor in any other nation.
  • Played straight in Britain, however.
• Sex Slave: The French Branch of the Malfoy family kidnapped and trafficked Veela to be used for sex purposes, and from the looks of it, they had been doing this for generations, with the British Malfoys enjoying the benefits from this as well. They meet their well-deserved end when they kidnap Jean-Claude's wife and two daughters and he retaliates by sending Steve (with Harry coming along for the ride) to save the kidnapped Veela and ensure that the French Branch of the Malfoy family is extinct.
• Sneeze Cut: When Harry says they need a couple Slytherins to complete their circle, the next scene cuts to Daphne and Tracey sneezing.
• Spared by the Adaptation: James and Lily at the beginning of the story. The unicorn in first year, Ivy in second year.
• Sucky School: Despite Dumbledore's attempts to frame Hogwarts as the best school in all of magical society, his manipulations and self-centered delusions of grandeur have rendered Hogwarts practically one of the worst schools. These range from overworked staff (as Dumbledore juggles three positions and is rarely there), Snape actively sabotaging students from all four houses, and Dumbledore trying to keep parents from knowing about the fates of their children, which can heavily imply he doesn't care about the student population at all. It makes sense that most of the staff is starting to view Dumbledore not as the leader of the Light, but in a Broken Pedestal.
• Talking Is a Free Action: Averted when Quirrellmort does his monologue. Harry exploits this and sends a cutting curse that decapitates him.
• Too Dumb to Live: Yes, Snape, brag to Harry that he has sold Hermione as a sex slave to Walden MacNair, I'm sure that'll go well. Idiot was lucky Harry made him do the Time Warp.
  • Goyle Sr. plans alongside his two companions to rape and murder Lily. Harry viciously murders all three Death Eaters for that.
• Underestimating Badassery: This is a common occurrence to the pureblood bigots and rogue creatures when it comes to Harry and Steve. It's so common, in fact, that whenever the purebloods claim that first-gens or half-bloods are weaker than them, and then they wonder why they're dying out each passing generation.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Dumbledore is on the receiving end of this constantly.
  • Upon finding out he altered the detention for the students, McGonagall chews him out for this, while Lily becomes livid that a possessed man was attacking the unicorns and could've killed her children, unaware that Dumbledore was actually arranging for Harry to die in the Forbidden Forest.
  • When Dumbledore tries to defend both Malfoy and Snape after Hermione's petrification and glamour charm vanished, James outright tells Dumbledore that there's a difference between 'offering help' and 'using a spell only Snape is known to use', while him claiming that Snape has his trust falls on deaf ears.

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