A work by one acgoldis of AlternateHistory.com, not to be confused with another fanfic by the name of Hogwarts Exposed (which is NSFW). Can be found here
if you're a member of said site. It focuses on what happens when Harry Potter is seen by a Muggle camera flying by on a broomstick, which starts off a chain of events leading to his secret wizarding world getting exposed. Stuff happens.
For those without membership to AH.com, the first six chapters can now be found here as a regular fanfic, with permission from the author, who has finally completed the timeline.
Tropes in this timeline:
- Absurdly Sharp Blade: Just about any enchanted bladed weapon.
- Alternate History: The world of Hogwarts Exposed is DEFINITELY different from the world we know and love. For example, there's an earlier War on Terror, complete with an invasion of Afghanistan. With magic.
- Alternate History Wank: By merit of mostly using Harry Potter rules for magic, or rather, lack thereof.
- Alien Space Bats: Of course, we all know that there is no such thing as magic, right?
- Attending Your Own Funeral: Hermione in Update 500.
- Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Many historical/religious figures are/were wizards.
- Back from the Dead:
- Voldemort with his many Horcruxes. And Hermione in Update 500.
- There are ghosts that somewhat show this trope.
- Rebecca Nurse, Salem Witch Trial victim.
- Prophet Samuel of the Old Testament.
- Big Eater: Merpeople in cold water, due to Bizarre Alien Biology.
- Creator's Culture Carryover: The entire story is written with the United States in mind and most changes, social transformations and advances are done in here (The Maskarade break was done by the President Clinton). Going to ridiculous levels with the Magic World since all the spells, weapons, institutions and abilities are exactly the same regardless of Nation or Culture.
- Disney Death: Hermione dies in the last battle. Or did she?
- Doorstopper: The author has written two hundred chapters and is expecting more. Mind you, each update is a thousand words long on average. In fact, he expects to finish the work in three years, assuming he writes one update every day-and-a-half.
- Easily Forgiven: Nobody makes a fuss of how wizards had been constantly messing with peoples minds or any other curtailing free will, assaulting, bartering, or terrorist enterprise (including hacking and inserting malicious viruses into the internet, censuring mail, bugging telephones lines around the country, attacking military bases etc...). And in fact wizards are made out as the victims of the story.
- It's not like everyone forgave them so easily. That's one of the reasons X for Humans groups gathered such a following, and actually managed to force the wizards to police themselves by rather extreme means.
- Evil Sorcerer: Voldemort. Some of his underlings are more...up to date.
- Expy: Reverend Pitmoss is actually described as a more violent Fred Phelps. Which is ironic, considering that Fred Phelps actually exists in-universe.
- Flying Car: Proudly brought to you by Arthur Weasley and the Bentley company.
- For Want Of A Nail: Harry and his entourage, while en route to a safehouse on broomsticks, get caught on tape by muggles filming a TV commercial for the Super Bowl. The recording spreads and soon millions have seen a boy on a broomstick flying by in the background.
- From Bad to Worse: Death Eaters + Al Qaeda. Or, in other words, magic + terrorism.
- Hidden Elf Village: about a dozen very large islands, not to mention the canon hidden places in Muggle countries like Hogwarts.
- Humanity Ensues: A frequently used Trapanandan spell.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: One Obliviator manages to wipe the memories of 95 percent of a Super Bowl stadium's occupants, totaling to over 70 thousand people. Besides the time it would take to do this even with apparition and how to do it in secret, Strong bear should have died by Magic depletion by the 1% of the population...if he was an extremely strong Wizard.
- Magic A Is Magic A: It's discovered that magic is powered by dark energy, and being a wizard is a genetic thing.
- Magitek: Various projects attempt to combine the best aspects of magic and technology. Flying cars that run on magic instead on oil? Already there. Space travel? Working on it. Military applications, on the other hand, are largely unprecedented.
- No Such Thing as Wizard Jesus: Played with. Some biblical characters associated with miracles turn out to be wizards, but not Jesus himself.
- Nuclear Option: After New York City and Miami are hit by nuclear devices, President Clinton orders the USS Alabama (SSBN-731) to launch Trident missiles on Pyongyang, North Korea.
- Nuke 'em: What Death Eater-sponsored Al Qaeda does to London. As well as New York and Miami, with a follow up counterattack on North Korea.
- Our Liches Are Different: Horcruxes. 'nuff said. It's worth saying that the mythical Ur-Example of lichdom, Koschei the Deathless is preparing his return...
- Power Limiter: Unbreakable Oaths are forced on the wizards. Though theoretically Muggles could also take those, but so far no-one demanded that.
- Poor Communication Kills: The breaking of The Masquerade starts with Harry thinking Lupin would Obliviate a film crew who unknowingly catches them on film, but it's later revealed that Lupin didn't know about the shoot, and everything escalates from there...
- Reassigned to Antarctica: After the return of Voldemort is irrefutably proven, minister of magic Cornelius Fudge gets sacked and reassigned as an ambassador to Togo.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: The Hapsburg and Romanov families were at least partially wizards.
- Selective Obliviousness: There are a few tech-savvy wizards whose job it is to stay aware of the Muggle world have knowledge of all of these things, even having a magical computer virus on hand. The common wizard doesn't know what a television or the Super Bowl is.
- Semper Fi: The 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit participates in the Battle of Buyan Island. Also, United States Marines stand watch over Hermione's casket. Hermione befriends a female Marine helicopter pilot before the Final Battle.
- Starfish Language: Mermish. Dolphish.
- Take Over the World: Voldermort wants to rule the world, after all. But not just the wizarding world this time.
- United Nations: International Confederation Of Wizards. It's based in Atlantis, and it is very, VERY powerful.
- The Unmasqued World: The very premise is that the Statue of Secrecy is irreparably broken and the fallout from the two worlds having to acknowledge each others existence.
- Western Terrorists: Britain For Humans and America For Humans. Basically any anti-wizard group based in the West.
