Signs of Snow
is a crossover fanfiction between Harry Potter and Star Trek: Enterprise, written by GoWithTheFlo20 on Fanfiction Dot Net.
When Harriet Potter wakes up on her birthday to white hair, blue skin, and antennae of all things, she quickly realizes something is amiss. Having nothing to lose anymore, she decides to jump through the Veil in the hopes she will be led to her father.
On the Enterprise, Shran is still mourning the loss of his human bondmate and their unborn child. Or maybe one of them isn't as lost as he believed...
Contains the following tropes
- Amazon Chaser: For Shran, Lily's ability to knock him flat was a major charm point. He also fondly mentions how his other bondmate Talas almost cut his arm off when she dueled him.
- Bizarre Alien Sexes: Following canon as established by the Star Trek Novel 'Verse, Andorians need four people — each from a different gender — in order to produce offspring. The process is described as long and difficult and the Enterprise's doctor mentions the Andorians suffer from a fertility crisis because of this.
- Body Horror: Harriet turning back to her original Andorian form is nothing short but terrifying and disturbing for herself and people around, with Snape outright craving alcohol when he performs a scan and gets a look at her brand new insides.
- Boldly Coming: Humanity's "true" First Contact with aliens happened when a Terran woman had a time-travel mishap, wound up on an Andorian ship and liked it so much there that she contracted an Exotic Extended Marriage with three of them.
- Crusading Widow: A huge part of Shran's Fantastic Racism towards Tellarites isn't mere cultural posturing — he's genuinely mourning the loss of his pregnant bondmate to their hands. It's deconstructed when he almost ruins peace talks for the sake of avenging Lily and his unborn child.
- Culture Clash: Inevitable since the story aims to explore Andorian society and mores.
- They're extremely communal to the point that families share one bed, eating is done buffet-style and "personal space" is considered as insulting and vaguely obscene.
- Lily was completely nonplussed to learn their kind of "marriage" involves four people, two 'females' and two 'males' and as such Talas, Shran and Thrass were fully okay with sharing her.
- Dangerous 16th Birthday: Sanguinis Mei Virum is blood magic that allows a witch to disguise her offspring as another man's than the biological father. Unfortunately, said offspring's magic will brutally reject the ritual on their seventeenth birthday, often leading to the child's death from shock and exhaustion.
- Explosive Breeder: Shran's opinion of mankind, since their females have a fertile period every month.
- Fantastic Racism: A major plot point — Shran and the other Andorians just won't stop sneering at the Tellarites and the Vulcans, the Tellarites give back as much as they can, and the Ministry of Magic looking at Harriet askew for her blue appearance convinces her to run away.
- First Contact: Earth believes they first met the Andorians on P'Jem with Archer, when it actually happened two decades earlier with Lily Evans. Shran and later Archer feel more prudent to hide this in order to avoid political and diplomatic complications.
- Gene Hunting: After learning that she might still have a living family, Harriet is more than eager to jump into the unknown to seek for her fathers and second mother.
- Imperiled in Pregnancy: The Kumari fell victim to a Tellarite attack when Lily was almost ready to give birth. She was teleported back to her original era in the confusion, leaving her bondmates to believe she died with their unborn baby.
- I Need a Freaking Drink: Snape's reaction when he realizes his beloved Lily used the darkest of blood magic on her own daughter is to regret the immediate lack of firewhiskey.
- Living MacGuffin: Harriet, for so many reasons.
- Starfleet would very much like to examine the first human hybrid to be born, and to learn more about her ability to manipulate the atoms in order to produce "magic".
- On the other side, the Andorian Imperial Command wouldn't quietly let go of a girl who's mainly Andorian, especially with her parents still living and petitioning for her custody. There's also the hinted possibility for her hybrid biology to solve their current fertility crisis.
- The Needs of the Many: Archer is visibly upset about letting the Tellarite Ambassador go scot-free after he admitted killing a pregnant woman for being aboard an Andorian ship, because it would disrupt the current peace talks.
- No Biochemical Barriers: Averted. Harriet's Andorian physiology is unable to cope with the Terran higher temperatures and food, leaving her with a fever and vomiting everything she tries to eat. It was so bad she actually was dying.
- No Name Given: Regarding Shran's unborn child, his bondgroup actually discussed names and picked one. However, Talas's thought-process reveals losing the pregnant Lily traumatized them to the point they couldn't even bear to think of their baby as "Harriet".
- Archer's narrative carefully avoids to ask for Harriet's name, as he wants to deny she ever was on the Enterprise — if he doesn't know anything about her, she can't be used as a casus belli between Starfleet and Andoria.
- No Sense of Personal Space: Andorians have a very communal mentality and react to the mere idea of privacy as it was something gross and insulting.
- Only You Can Repopulate My Race: Andorian reproduction is currently causing a huge crisis as they often need several years to produce one child. Lily mating with a bondgroup and successfully carrying a pregnancy to term immediately after proves that human females could ease and speed the process, alongside Phlox musing that Lily's daughter Harriet potentially is key to solve the problem.
- Parents Know Their Children: Shran and Talas don't even need to hear Harriet speak, her face is enough for them to identify her in spite of mourning her for almost two decades.
- Tragic Keepsake: Losing the Kumari deeply impacts Shran as this is aboard the ship that Lily appeared, fell in love with his bondgroup and later disappeared. Without the Kumari, everything left from her is memories.
- Uneven Hybrid: Harriet is mainly Andorian courtesy of Bizarre Alien Sexes, but she also inherited her green eyes and atomic manipulation from Lily — who carried her to term. At the least, she inherited human mitochondrial DNA but the exact proportion is skeevy.
- Uniqueness Value: In Star Trek: Enterprise's era, Harriet currently is the one and only human hybrid to live. Phlox openly calls her a fascinating case study, while Archer admits Starfleet would immediately want her on their soil if they learned of her existence.
- What You Are in the Dark: Archer's decision to hide Harriet's existence is mainly pragmatic as he's trying to avoid an open conflict between Andoria and Starfleet over the first human-alien hybrid to live. However, he also reflects he's not monstruous enough to rip a teenaged girl away from her traumatized parents who believed her dead for all her life and are obviously terrified by the possibility to lose her again.
