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* In Independent!Harry stories after escaping the Dursleys and getting out from Dumbledore's thumb [[AndYourRewardIsClothes Harry first uses his newfound freedom to get rid of Dudley's hand-me-downs and go shopping for new clothes]], usually at [[{{Goth}} Hot Topic or the local equivalent]].
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* In Independent!Harry stories after escaping the Dursleys and getting out from Dumbledore's thumb [[AndYourRewardIsClothes Harry first uses his newfound freedom to get rid of Dudley's hand-me-downs and go shopping for new clothes]], usually at [[{{Goth}} Hot Topic or the local equivalent]].equivalent]].
* People who would do a better job at raising Harry Pottter than the Dursleys according to fanfiction:
1) Sirius and Remus, 2) McGonagall, 3) Crossover characters, 4) random [[OriginalCharacters OCs]], 5) [[RaisedByWolves wild animals]], 6) Severus Snape, 7) The Malfoys, 8) Voldemort.
* People who would do a better job at raising Harry Pottter than the Dursleys according to fanfiction:
1) Sirius and Remus, 2) McGonagall, 3) Crossover characters, 4) random [[OriginalCharacters OCs]], 5) [[RaisedByWolves wild animals]], 6) Severus Snape, 7) The Malfoys, 8) Voldemort.
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* The Dursleys dump Harry in the woods as a toddler and he's [[RaisedByWolves raised by snakes]], grows up only knowing parseltongue, and becomes an accidental snake animagus.
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* The Dursleys dump Harry in the woods as a toddler and he's [[RaisedByWolves raised by snakes]], grows up only knowing parseltongue, and becomes an accidental snake animagus. Usually a set up for manipulative!Dumbledore, dark!Harry, and for Voldemort to [[PetTheDog Pet The Snake]].
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* Everywhere Else Is Full: A common trope in both the original books and fan fiction. Whoever gets top dibs on Hogwarts Express compartments, it's not main characters. Inevitably, Everywhere Else Is Full, so they'll have to share a compartment with Plot Relevant Character. In the original series, this trope is used to introduce Ron in the first book, Lupin in the third book, and Luna in the fifth book. The exact words "everywhere else is full" are actually spoken by Ron in the first book/[[Film/HarryPotter movie]] and by Hermione in the third movie (not the book version). In the world of fan fiction, it's pretty much reached the level of SharePhrase.
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* Everywhere Else Is Full: A common trope in both the original books and fan fiction. Whoever gets top dibs on Hogwarts Express compartments, it's not main characters. Inevitably, Everywhere Else Is Full, so they'll have to share a compartment with Plot Relevant Character. In the original series, this trope is used to introduce Ron in the first book, Lupin in the third book, and Luna in the fifth book. The exact words "everywhere else is full" are actually spoken by Ron in the first book/[[Film/HarryPotter movie]] and by Hermione in the third movie (not the book version). In the world of fan fiction, it's pretty much reached the level of SharePhrase.SharePhrase.
* In Independent!Harry stories after escaping the Dursleys and getting out from Dumbledore's thumb [[AndYourRewardIsClothes Harry first uses his newfound freedom to get rid of Dudley's hand-me-downs and go shopping for new clothes]], usually at [[{{Goth}} Hot Topic or the local equivalent]].
* In Independent!Harry stories after escaping the Dursleys and getting out from Dumbledore's thumb [[AndYourRewardIsClothes Harry first uses his newfound freedom to get rid of Dudley's hand-me-downs and go shopping for new clothes]], usually at [[{{Goth}} Hot Topic or the local equivalent]].
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** Often a character is turned into a snake and only a parseltongue can understand them.
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* A quintessential example, The Late To Hogwarts Fic: through some contrived effect, a young wizard doesn't get their invitation to Hogwarts at age 11, or is unable to go, until later age (usually when romantic plots would be more ok, so from fourth year up) -- the other way is to introduce a transfer student ([[SelfInsertFic who's usually from the same country/general area and of the same background as the author]], [[WishFulfillment and is very similar to them in all aspects, only better]]). The latter type has the added benefit of 1) making up a new, totally awesome wizarding school 2) enabling the character to have a unique, totally cool wand 3) creating an explanation for unseen-in-Britain, totally super magic 4) allowing the character to have an inherited [[KatanasAreJustBetter katana]]. Details not tying into the character's origins and entrance into Hogwarts usually follow the normal self-insert/wish-fulfilment procedure.
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* For some reason, the characters decide to play the inane children's game [[ParlorGames Truth Or Dare]]. Or alternatively StripPoker. Or INever. Or SpinTheBottle. [[CoitusEnsues The results are pretty much the same either way.]]
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*** One of the sure signs that you're in one of these fics is for someone to mention that Molly asking Ginny what platform they need to get to for the boys to go to Hogwarts; the reasoning being that Molly wouldn't need to ask as she's already sent five sons and is in the process of sending #6, so obviously she was planted there to lure Harry into her devious clutches. The fact that parents all over the world play the Question Game (wherein they ask their kids to answer questions the parent already knows the answer to, because the point isn't what the parent knows, but what the ''child'' knows) never seems to occur to authors of this type of story.
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*** One of the sure signs that you're in one of these fics is for someone to mention that Molly asking Ginny what platform they need to get to for the boys to go to Hogwarts; Hogwarts is a suspicious act; the reasoning being that Molly wouldn't need to ask as she's already sent five sons and is in the process of sending #6, so obviously she was planted there to lure Harry into her devious clutches. The fact that parents all over the world play the Question Game (wherein they ask their kids to answer questions the parent already knows the answer to, because the point isn't what the parent knows, but what the ''child'' knows) never seems to occur to authors of this type of story.
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* Harry's simple courtesies to the goblins of Gringott's mark him as uniquely different from the racist bastards that make up the rest of the Wizarding World, and they throw all their military and economic power behind him.
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* Harry's simple courtesies to the goblins of Gringott's mark him as uniquely different from the racist bastards that make up the rest of the Wizarding World, and they throw all their military and economic power behind him. This despite the fact that the goblins are pretty much always anti-social manipulative bastards in canon.
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** This is often combined with "Harry finds his parents' real will" and the "Summer of Love" mentioned above. Expect Harry to end up as "Lord Potter", "Lord Black", or "Lord Potter-Black". [[RonTheDeathEater In most cases the Weasleys will not be trustworthy, or at least Ginny, Ron and Molly won't be.]] Expect Harry to end up with Hermione, Luna, or some Slytherin girl that's been mentioned three times in five books. [[AuthorAppeal Or all of them at once.]]
*** Along with vast amounts of money and a dozen vaults and countless houses around the world!
*** Along with vast amounts of money and a dozen vaults and countless houses around the world!
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***]] Along with vast amounts of money and a dozen vaults and countless houses around the world!world!
*** One of the sure signs that you're in one of these fics is for someone to mention that Molly asking Ginny what platform they need to get to for the boys to go to Hogwarts; the reasoning being that Molly wouldn't need to ask as she's already sent five sons and is in the process of sending #6, so obviously she was planted there to lure Harry into her devious clutches. The fact that parents all over the world play the Question Game (wherein they ask their kids to answer questions the parent already knows the answer to, because the point isn't what the parent knows, but what the ''child'' knows) never seems to occur to authors of this type of story.
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*** One of the sure signs that you're in one of these fics is for someone to mention that Molly asking Ginny what platform they need to get to for the boys to go to Hogwarts; the reasoning being that Molly wouldn't need to ask as she's already sent five sons and is in the process of sending #6, so obviously she was planted there to lure Harry into her devious clutches. The fact that parents all over the world play the Question Game (wherein they ask their kids to answer questions the parent already knows the answer to, because the point isn't what the parent knows, but what the ''child'' knows) never seems to occur to authors of this type of story.
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* 'Remus is cured of being a werewolf', or less commonly 'the Longbottoms are healed'.
** Often via a potion invented by Snape.
** Often via a potion invented by Snape.
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** And his personality does a complete 180.
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** A 'Marriage Stone' declares two people as 'soul mates'. From there they must be married and live together in private quarters. Bonus points if they hate each other.
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*** Along with vast amounts of money and a dozen vaults and countless houses around the world!
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** A more recent theme is having a 'true prophecy', usually ending in a dark!harry or god!harry story.
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Hair Of Gold requires certain characteristics besides blonde hair. The character needs to be beautiful, good, young, innocent or something thereof. This entry contains insufficient context.
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* The "Founders Fic" is a whole ''Harry Potter'' sub-genre unto itself. Predictably, depending on the author's house preferences, Gryffindor and Slytherin are either IdiotHero or TheCape and either SmugSnake or TallDarkAndSnarky, respectively. Often they're best friends who have a falling-out. Ravenclaw is typically a beautiful BrainyBrunette and sometimes a RichBitch. Hufflepuff has HairOfGold and is a motherly, [[CountryMouse closer-to-Earth farm-girl]] type. Several of these things [[IKnewIt turned out to be canon in one way or another]], but they're all older than their respective confirmations in the books.
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* The "Founders Fic" is a whole ''Harry Potter'' sub-genre unto itself. Predictably, depending on the author's house preferences, Gryffindor and Slytherin are either IdiotHero or TheCape and either SmugSnake or TallDarkAndSnarky, respectively. Often they're best friends who have a falling-out. Ravenclaw is typically a beautiful BrainyBrunette and sometimes a RichBitch. Hufflepuff has HairOfGold is blond and is a motherly, [[CountryMouse closer-to-Earth farm-girl]] type. Several of these things [[IKnewIt turned out to be canon in one way or another]], but they're all older than their respective confirmations in the books.
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*** Eventually the "Reading The Books" fics became a kind of popular subgenre, no longer being limited to the Marauders, nor people from the Marauders time. Though many of them are MSTs, some have crossed them over into Time Travel or Redemption plots - though some of them do fall into the 10% worth reading. The most popular setting now is to have someone send Umbridge the books and fool her into thinking they'll give her leverage against Harry - she then reads the books to all of Hogwarts, though no more than a handful of them are liable to say anything over the course of the series. The Umbridge version has also been done with ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6829906/1/Hogwarts-Reads-My-Immortal here]], complete with [[NarrativeProfanityFilter Umbridge censoring the profanity]]) and ''Fanfic/BecomingFemale'' ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8561343/1/Hogwarts-Reads-Becoming-Female here]]).
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*** Eventually the "Reading The Books" fics became a kind of popular subgenre, no longer being limited to the Marauders, nor people from the Marauders time. Though many of them are MSTs, [=MSTs=], some have crossed them over into Time Travel or Redemption plots - though some of them do fall into the 10% worth reading. The most popular setting now is to have someone send Umbridge the books and fool her into thinking they'll give her leverage against Harry - she then reads the books to all of Hogwarts, though no more than a handful of them are liable to say anything over the course of the series. The Umbridge version has also been done with ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6829906/1/Hogwarts-Reads-My-Immortal here]], complete with [[NarrativeProfanityFilter Umbridge censoring the profanity]]) and ''Fanfic/BecomingFemale'' ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8561343/1/Hogwarts-Reads-Becoming-Female here]]).
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*** Eventually the "Reading The Books" fics became a kind of popular subgenre, no longer being limited to the Marauders, nor people from the Marauders time. Though many of them are MSTs, some have crossed them over into Time Travel or Redemption plots - though some of them do fall into the 10% worth reading. The most popular setting now is to have someone send Umbridge the books and fool her into thinking they'll give her leverage against Harry - she then reads the books to all of Hogwarts, though no more than a handful of them are liable to say anything over the course of the series. The Umbridge version has also been done with ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6829906/1/Hogwarts-Reads-My-Immortal here]]) and ''Fanfic/BecomingFemale'' ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8561343/1/Hogwarts-Reads-Becoming-Female here]]).
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*** Eventually the "Reading The Books" fics became a kind of popular subgenre, no longer being limited to the Marauders, nor people from the Marauders time. Though many of them are MSTs, some have crossed them over into Time Travel or Redemption plots - though some of them do fall into the 10% worth reading. The most popular setting now is to have someone send Umbridge the books and fool her into thinking they'll give her leverage against Harry - she then reads the books to all of Hogwarts, though no more than a handful of them are liable to say anything over the course of the series. The Umbridge version has also been done with ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6829906/1/Hogwarts-Reads-My-Immortal here]]) here]], complete with [[NarrativeProfanityFilter Umbridge censoring the profanity]]) and ''Fanfic/BecomingFemale'' ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8561343/1/Hogwarts-Reads-Becoming-Female here]]).
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*** Eventually the "Reading The Books" fics became a kind of popular subgenre, no longer being limited to the Marauders, nor people from the Marauders time. Though many of them are MSTs, some have crossed them over into Time Travel or Redemption plots - though some of them do fall into the 10% worth reading. The most popular setting now is to have someone send Umbridge the books and fool her into thinking they'll give her leverage against Harry - she then reads the books to all of Hogwarts, though no more than a handful of them are liable to say anything over the course of the series.
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*** Eventually the "Reading The Books" fics became a kind of popular subgenre, no longer being limited to the Marauders, nor people from the Marauders time. Though many of them are MSTs, some have crossed them over into Time Travel or Redemption plots - though some of them do fall into the 10% worth reading. The most popular setting now is to have someone send Umbridge the books and fool her into thinking they'll give her leverage against Harry - she then reads the books to all of Hogwarts, though no more than a handful of them are liable to say anything over the course of the series. The Umbridge version has also been done with ''Fanfic/MyImmortal'' ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6829906/1/Hogwarts-Reads-My-Immortal here]]) and ''Fanfic/BecomingFemale'' ([[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8561343/1/Hogwarts-Reads-Becoming-Female here]]).
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* For some reason, the characters decide to play the inane children's game [[ParlorGames Truth Or Dare]]. Or alternatively StripPoker. [[CoitusEnsues The results are pretty much the same either way.]]
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** Stories in which Hermione alone is sent back in time [[strike:and later falling]] to fall in love with Remus or Sirius or Snape used to be '''very''' popular circa 2005 to early 2007, but have since all but vanished. (It's not a bad concept, as long as that's not ''all'' that happens. Hell, [[BigBad Voldemort]] had been working on his power base for almost thirty years by the [[FanNickname Marauder Era]].)
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** Stories in which Hermione alone is sent back in time [[strike:and later falling]] to fall for some reason and invariably falls in love with Remus or Sirius or Snape used to be '''very''' popular circa 2005 to early 2007, but have since all but vanished. (It's not a bad concept, as long as that's not ''all'' that happens. Hell, [[BigBad Voldemort]] had been working on his power base for almost thirty years by the [[FanNickname Marauder Era]].)
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** Harry is given an impossible list of chores, which is he beaten/raped for failing to complete.
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*** The whole "abuse isn't retconned" isn't always true. In the [[Fanfic/{{Dangerverse}} Dangerverse]], the abuse has been going since at least a few days after Harry ended up at the Dursleys, prompting Remus Lupin and [[OriginalCharacter Hermione's older sister]] to rescue him.
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* There's quite a few fics where the Hogwarts students take a mandatory trip to the U.S. Sometimes they're visiting a wizarding school in the States, and other times it's just a plain old Muggle school.
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* There's quite a few fics where the Hogwarts students take a mandatory trip to the U.S. Sometimes they're visiting a wizarding school in the States, and other times it's just a [[HighSchoolAU plain old Muggle school.school]].
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* Hermione and Draco are Head Boy and Head Girl in their Seventh Year, which means that .
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* In response to the medical finding that Purebloods have become so inbred that they have reduced fertility rates and/or are likely to give birth to Squibs, the Ministry of Magic establishes a Marriage Law which forces Muggleborns (and sometimes half-bloods) to marry pure-bloods. Often the law is actually a ploy enacted by Voldemort supporters/sympathisers still in power to punish or neutralise the heroes of the second Voldemort uprising. Almost always ends up pairing [[UnequalPairing Hermione with Snape]] (since the concept originated as a fanfic-writing challenge on a Snape/Hermione mailing list), but sometimes includes other pairings. Since then, Draco has become the most common.
** Despite Snape beinga half-blood, prior to Half Blood Prince it wouldn't have been entirely unreasonable, given Snape's former Death Eater status, to assume he was a pureblood. The ''Marriage Law'' theme originated during that time period and just kept going after being {{Jossed}}.
** Despite Snape beinga half-blood, prior to Half Blood Prince it wouldn't have been entirely unreasonable, given Snape's former Death Eater status, to assume he was a pureblood. The ''Marriage Law'' theme originated during that time period and just kept going after being {{Jossed}}.
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** Despite Snapebeinga being a half-blood, prior to Half Blood Prince it wouldn't have been entirely unreasonable, given Snape's former Death Eater status, to assume he was a pureblood. The ''Marriage Law'' theme originated during that time period and just kept going after being {{Jossed}}.
** Despite Snape
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*** Oh, and a good number of the Marauder MST fics tend to assume that Marauders are still at Hogwarts and yet somehow find nothing at all odd about more modern things that the books talk about. Not that are many, admittedly...
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** Sometimes it will be discovered he gained legal adulthood and hence 'full access' to the vaults (despite him appearing to already have this in the books) and Potter and Black seats on the Wizengamot because he's in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, despite the fact that the Tri-Wiz [[DidNotDoTheResearch has included plenty of underaged students before]]. It's just this time the school administrators rigged a external age line to keep them out.
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* Harry is framed for some horrendous crime and is imprisoned in Azkaban. Eventually he is either cleared or escapes, but not before the experience grants him an immense powerup, which he mostly uses to enact his revenge on those who betrayed or framed him, as well as defeat Voldemort (if the two aren't one and the same). [[RonTheDeathEater All of his friends will turn on him,]] including Sirius, and often [[DisproportionateRetribution one of them will kill Hedwig and rip up his photo album,]] then laugh about it afterwards. (In other words, ''TheCountOfMonteCristo'' [[AC:[[RecycledINSPACE with Harry Potter characters!]]]]) They're almost always awful.
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* There's a sect of uber-powerful magical people who basically are to wizards what wizards are to {{Muggles}}. They're called Magids in ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'', the Strega in ''FanFic/PawnToQueen'', and the Druids in ''FanFic/TheGirlWhoLived'', but it's all the same basic idea. The Strega and the Druids are especially similar, sharing CantArgueWithElves and AuthorFilibuster tendencies.
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* Harry/Draco stories invented the Male!Veela Fic. May be stretched to apply to other pairings.
** Within the Male!Veela Fic, it's not uncommon for veela!Draco to have a [[StrangledByTheRedString predetermined mate]] (and it's always called a "mate"). These seem to focus more on [[FoeYay Hermione]] or a new character, either way, she'll put up [[BelligerentSexualTension token resistance]] before realizing how [[DracoInLeatherPants awesome and sexy Draco is.]]
* Harry is sorted into Slytherin, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw instead of Gryffindor. Slytherin is by far the most common. Expect [[DracoInLeatherPants Draco]] to be Harry's best friend while most of the Gryffindors, especially [[RonTheDeathEater Ron]], are dumb jocks at best and outright evil at worst.
* Hermione finds out that she's an [[MisaimedFandom adopted pure-blood]] and, of course, drops her adoptive family like a hot potato in favour of the new, improved version. Her new family will invariably be aristocratic and on the same social plane as the Malfoys, often resulting in her [[DracoInLeatherPants befriending Draco]] if not [[{{Shipping}} romancing him]]. Her newfound wealth, especially [[CostumePorn the clothing]], will be described in loving detail. She will get a complete personality transplant, sometimes with the added feature of an UnnecessaryMakeover, causing her to abandon her old friends and more critical reviewers to wonder why the author didn't just use an OriginalCharacter.
** If she's shipped with Draco, there's a good chance it's the result of a marriage contract.
** Occasionally she's revealed to be Draco's twin sister, in which case, she's usually paired with Blaise Zabini.
* The gang, in whole or in part, time-travels to the time of the Marauders.
** Sometimes, they go back to ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4889162/1/Reading_the_Philosophers_Stone read the seven Harry Potter books]]'' to them (excluding Peter). Basically a {{MST}} being performed by the Marauders of the original ''Potter'' books as though they were fiction for the Marauders.
*** Oh, and a good number of the Marauder MST fics tend to assume that Marauders are still at Hogwarts and yet somehow find nothing at all odd about more modern things that the books talk about. Not that are many, admittedly...
** Stories in which Hermione alone is sent back in time [[strike:and later falling]] to fall in love with Remus or Sirius or Snape used to be '''very''' popular circa 2005 to early 2007, but have since all but vanished. (It's not a bad concept, as long as that's not ''all'' that happens. Hell, [[BigBad Voldemort]] had been working on his power base for almost thirty years by the [[FanNickname Marauder Era]].)
*** Similarly, a ([[SlashFic usually]]) female character is sent back in time to redeem Tom Riddle [[RedemptionEqualsSex with sex]]. This probably started as a way for Tom/Ginny shippers to get around the [[DracoInLeatherPants whole him-being-future-Voldemort thing]], but now it's done almost as often with Hermione. And, of course, it was also done with a certain MarySue in ''FanFic/MyImmortal''.
*** A variant was also done in ''Child of Grace'', except that the author skipped the sex and just had the memory Riddle be a nice guy all along, in no way responsible for the evil actions of his present self (ignoring things like by the time he made the journal he had already released the Basilisk).
* In response to the medical finding that Purebloods have become so inbred that they have reduced fertility rates and/or are likely to give birth to Squibs, the Ministry of Magic establishes a Marriage Law which forces Muggleborns (and sometimes half-bloods) to marry pure-bloods. Often the law is actually a ploy enacted by Voldemort supporters/sympathisers still in power to punish or neutralise the heroes of the second Voldemort uprising. Almost always ends up pairing [[UnequalPairing Hermione with Snape]] (since the concept originated as a fanfic-writing challenge on a Snape/Hermione mailing list), but sometimes includes other pairings. Since then, Draco has become the most common.
** Despite Snape beinga half-blood, prior to Half Blood Prince it wouldn't have been entirely unreasonable, given Snape's former Death Eater status, to assume he was a pureblood. The ''Marriage Law'' theme originated during that time period and just kept going after being {{Jossed}}.
** If he isn't ignored entirely, addressing how Hermione ''already'' marries a pureblood has its own common explanations, either Ron insisting that she pump out endless babies just like his mother, Ron [[RonTheDeathEater suddenly turning evil]], or "Ron marrying Hermione to protect her from Draco's marriage contract would make the Malfoys REALLY MAD! Only Snape is strong enough to protect her!"... which doesn't really make any sense. Harry, being not technically Pureblood, is not an option. Sometimes worse options are brought up as possibilities.
** Some Marriage Law fics state that partners will be chosen by the government. One fic even included a statute that the marriage must be proven consummated within a certain window of time.
** This scenario often involves Hermione's [[TimeTravel extensive use of the Time Turner in book three]] making her half-a-year or more older, to make her old enough to qualify for being forced into marriage. (Forgetting/Ignoring that this is kind-of cancelled out by the time she spent petrified in ''Chamber of Secrets'', and that she was only allowed to use it to attend classes that clashed with others (Divination and Muggle Studies), which adds up to two weeks '''at most'''.)
* Harry has a twin, and it's he or she who is the ''real'' Boy/Girl-Who-Lived.
** Alternately, the twin is hailed as the X-Who-Lived, while Harry is both the real Boy-Who-Lived and ignored.
** A ForWantOfANail outcome, where ''Neville Longbottom'' is the Boy-Who-Lived, is explicitly mentioned by Dumbledore and Harry at one point hypothesizes what such a world would be like, practically screaming to be used.
* A distant (in terms of blood or just geography) relative discovers his or her connection to Harry, and rescues/adopts/comes to the aid of Harry. Again, fodder for crossovers.
* Harry is framed for some horrendous crime and is imprisoned in Azkaban. Eventually he is either cleared or escapes, but not before the experience grants him an immense powerup, which he mostly uses to enact his revenge on those who betrayed or framed him, as well as defeat Voldemort (if the two aren't one and the same). [[RonTheDeathEater All of his friends will turn on him,]] including Sirius, and often [[DisproportionateRetribution one of them will kill Hedwig and rip up his photo album,]] then laugh about it afterwards. (In other words, ''TheCountOfMonteCristo'' [[AC:[[RecycledINSPACE with Harry Potter characters!]]]]) They're almost always awful.
* After Voldemort wins (or worse, after a PyrrhicVictory over Voldemort that leaves Wizarding England a depopulated wasteland), Harry [[PeggySue goes back in time in some way]] to his school days so that he can use his foreknowledge to craft a better outcome. Occasionally a different character will do so.
** ''[[AVeryPotterMusical A Very Potter Sequel]]'' has a kind of reversed version of this, with the bad guys trying this to undo the happy ending.
* The "Dursleys abuse Harry" fanfic. In these fanfics, Harry's HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood is [[PlayedForDrama treated much more seriously]]. Expect rape to occur. Other common features of these fanfics:
** This new level of abuse will not be {{retcon}}ned as having been happening all along. Instead, it will start when Harry is [[WhatAnIdiot a grown teenager with wizard friends and a supposedly murderous godfather]]. Usually, Harry arrives back at Privet Drive for the summer and, for whatever reason, the Dursleys immediately decide to start beating/raping him. Often the catalyst is Moody's threats at the end of the fifth book, with Vernon developing a "they can't tell me what to do" attitude in response. Expect the story to begin InMediasRes, with a beaten Harry thinking back on how different the Dursleys have been this summer.
** Vernon is entirely responsible for the abuse. Petunia and Dudley will be mentioned so little you'd think Vernon and Harry were the only people living in the house. If Petunia and Dudley do participate in the abuse, they'll essentially be Vernon's minions. Alternatively, Petunia has a HeelFaceTurn.
** Harry is given an impossible list of chores, which is he beaten/raped for failing to complete.
** Harry is once again forced to live in the cupboard under the stairs.
** Vernon brutally kills Hedwig so Harry can't contact the wizarding world for help.
** Harry is rescued by someone, usually [[DracoInLeatherPants Snape]]. Thus, the abuse may be setup for a HurtComfortFic. Alternatively, it's setup for an evil!Dumbledore fanfic.
* Hermione and Draco are Head Boy and Head Girl in their Seventh Year, which means that .
** The "Head Boy and Girl's private quarters" plot device, where they have to share a suite of rooms, providing lots of forced interaction to fuel sexual tension. Used for Seventh Year Harry/Hermione and Ron/Hermione fics, Hermione/Draco FoeYay, and even fics with a MarySue or GaryStu paired with Harry, Ron, Hermione or Draco, and originated with the once-popular Percy/Penelope ship.
** Most oddly, this is so codified that it seems to have been forgotten that the Head Boy and Girl are actually supposed to be top students. Instead, fanfiction makes it look like the selection of Head Boy and Girl is completely random. No one ever even wonders any more [[SpoiledBrat "How did Draco Malfoy get to be Head Boy?"]]
** This device also turns up a lot in Lily/James fics as well as fics set in the Next Generation (usually with Rose/Scorpius).
* The Yule Ball is restaged despite there being no Triwizard Tournament, sometimes with a HandWave and sometimes without. Hilarity and romantic hijinks ensue. Oh-so common before ''OrderOfThePhoenix'' -- even ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'' used it at one point. Apparently, it took the release of ''Phoenix'' for fanfic writers to finally grasp that the Yule Ball is not something that happens every year. Oddly, ''PotterPuppetPals'' used this years after ''Phoenix'' when Snape writes in his diary about being at the Yule Ball with Lily Evans, although he ''was'' describing a dream he had had.
* Harry and Ginny (or Harry and Hermione, or Harry, Hermione ''and'' Ginny, or Harry and Luna, or Harry/[[LauncherOfAThousandShips Anyone]], or Harry/''[[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy Everyone]]'') discover they have a Soul Bond linking their hearts in eternal Twoo Wuv and their magical cores in eternal BadAss.
* There's a school class which pairs the characters to learn how to be grown-ups, normally by making them live together as a married couple in the Room of Requirement, take care of a magically created baby, and (of course) fall in love. Because putting hormonally fuelled teenagers together, and making a child you plan to ''delete'' in a couple of months, [[SarcasmMode isn't morally wrong. At all.]]
* Hermione, Ginny or a MarySue becomes a maid in Malfoy Manor. Where Draco lives. [[{{Shipping}} Do you see where this is going?]]
* Turns out the Marauders weren't the real pranksters of Hogwarts. Oh no, it was Lily and her band of female friends, who were Just As Good As The Guys If Not Better. Lily joyfully out-pranking the Marauders would seem to contradict the fact that she canonically considered their pranks cruel, but that has not dissuaded anyone.
** Lily's band of female friends appears a lot in the Marauder-era fics anyway, pranksters or not, at least in the Finnish ''Harry Potter'' fandom. Usually, the group includes a beautiful, loud, extremely popular girl and a more soft-spoken, very smart girl, who are paired to Sirius and Remus respectively.
*** Before ''Order of the Phoenix'' revealed more about Arabella Figg she was often portrayed as Lily's best friend and Sirius's love interest.
* Harry's real father is Severus Snape, not James Potter (despite canon repeatedly saying that Harry looks almost ''exactly'' like his father did at the same age. Sometimes this is {{Handwave}}d, more often [[TheyJustDidntCare it's just ignored]].)
** Funny thing about this one. Like the Marriage Law fic, it was initially popularized by a challenge. These fics are often called Severitus fics, after the Severitus Challenge, which was issued in 2001 by, you guessed it, Severitus. The original constraints of the challenge called for Harry's appearance to gradually change to resemble Snape's over the course of the fic, with the idea being that his original appearance was the result of a potion/glamour/whatever. (They also called for Remus to come back to Hogwarts at some point.) The challenge was extremely popular, and the name stuck even after people started to drop some of the requirements. (Sometimes people call just plain old "Snape is Harry's father" fics "Sevitus" fics.)
* For some reason, the characters decide to play the inane children's game [[ParlorGames Truth Or Dare]]. Or alternatively StripPoker. [[CoitusEnsues The results are pretty much the same either way.]]
* One of the male characters is [[GenderBender temporarily/permanently turned into a girl]]. Expect no explanation for why re-applying the same spell wouldn't change him/her back. Often leads to the literary equivalent of a ShoppingMontage after which the story turns into a DeadFic since the writer inevitably didn't have much of an idea beyond "let's make Harry/Ron/Draco/Sirius/the giant squid a girl!" Alternatively this is done [[JumpingTheGenderBarrier to pair him with another male character]] without it being a SlashFic.
* The "Founders Fic" is a whole ''Harry Potter'' sub-genre unto itself. Predictably, depending on the author's house preferences, Gryffindor and Slytherin are either IdiotHero or TheCape and either SmugSnake or TallDarkAndSnarky, respectively. Often they're best friends who have a falling-out. Ravenclaw is typically a beautiful BrainyBrunette and sometimes a RichBitch. Hufflepuff has HairOfGold and is a motherly, [[CountryMouse closer-to-Earth farm-girl]] type. Several of these things [[IKnewIt turned out to be canon in one way or another]], but they're all older than their respective confirmations in the books.
** My kingdom for one, just ''one'' fic where all four of them are portrayed as ''scholars'' who could reasonably found a ''school''.
* RonTheDeathEater, a situation so common it became the TropeNamer for the entire general phenomenon: Ron is so jealous and resentful of Harry that he spontaneously does a FaceHeelTurn. Often a result of Harry/Hermione shippers wanting Ron to DieForOurShip. Alternately Ginny's been dosing the pair with Love Potion to steal Harry's money and fame. Or Hermione's the one doing it.
* Most of the Tom/Ginny fics written by shippers who don't mind the extreme age difference between the two or that Ginny is barely 12 can be summed up as "Tom Riddle has sex with Ginny in the Chamber of Secrets before Harry shows up".
** It's not so much the extreme age difference as the fact that Ginny is barely 12. (And the myriad other ways the 'relationship' would be wrong even if she was older.)
* Harry and/or Hermione go to Australia to retrieve Hermione's memory-wiped parents and complications arise.
* No one starts Hogwarts at the age of eleven anymore. Instead, original characters seem to stop by Hogwarts just for their final year so they'll be old enough for teen romances (and, presumably, so they'll be closer in age to the author). Sometimes there is a HandWave, often along the lines of [[AlwaysFemale she]] already [[MarySue knows everything she needs to]].
* Usually set post-''OrderOfThePhoenix'', Harry stays over at Hermione's house for the summer and notices that she is getting CurvesInAllTheRightPlaces, and they fall in love ([[CoitusEnsues and usually have sex]]) with each other very quickly. To make it even ''clearer'' that the story is a blatant Harry[=/=]Hermione OneTruePairing, there will either be another prophecy uttered or that was hidden so [[ThePowerOfLove The Power Of Their Love]] will defeat Voldemort, or Ron and/or Ginny's characters being [[OutOfCharacter changed]] or [[RonTheDeathEater turned evil]] to remove them as LoveInterests.
** The same basic "Summer of Love after Fifth Year" theme is done quite frequently, with almost every thinkable female character from the series: Ginny, Tonks, Susan Bones, ...
*** And in the case of Tonks, she is usually assigned to be a guard near Harry's house (mainly as an excuse by the author to have her there) and quickly grows sympathetic to his guilt and sadness over Sirius's death. Within the two months before going back to begin his sixth year, they'll have completely fallen in love. The fact that she is six or seven years older than him at this point is often (understandably) brought up by everyone, that is if Harry and Tonks aren't seeing each other in secret.
* Harry actually didn't save Ginny when he destroyed Riddle's diary. She was actually still evil, but didn't let on. This can go two ways. In the unsympathetic route, this becomes [[RonTheDeathEater Ginny The Death Eater]]. And then there's the sympathetic route, which amounts to "Ginny's evil, but that's all right because EvilIsSexy and now she can be [[DracoInLeatherPants Tom]]'s [[WeCanRuleTogether queen]]." (The latter type nearly always finds a way to revert Voldie back to his Riddle-era good looks.)
* Harry discovers his parents' will(s) were never executed (usually because of the machinations of a Manipulative!Dumbledore, and often in the course of receiving his inheritance from Sirius post book five). By various means he corrects this, and becomes filthy rich and a Political Power. (Which is weird, because he's already filthy rich, and he doesn't do anything with it.)
** Sometimes it will be discovered he gained legal adulthood and hence 'full access' to the vaults (despite him appearing to already have this in the books) and Potter and Black seats on the Wizengamot because he's in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, despite the fact that the Tri-Wiz [[DidNotDoTheResearch has included plenty of underaged students before]]. It's just this time the school administrators rigged a external age line to keep them out.
* Dumbledore's a ManipulativeBastard setting Harry up as a sacrifice in order to defeat Voldemort (in more extreme cases with Dumbledore planning to take all the credit afterward). But Harry has managed to get emancipated and come into his own, with all the money and political power he needs to thwart both Dumbles and Riddle. In well-done instances, Harry must race to learn who to trust and what he needs to know in order to save himself before Dumbledore's or Voldemort's plans come to fruition; in poorly-written implementations, Harry effortlessly defangs and counters all opposition, leaving them blinking in stupefaction in his wake.
** This is often combined with "Harry finds his parents' real will" and the "Summer of Love" mentioned above. Expect Harry to end up as "Lord Potter", "Lord Black", or "Lord Potter-Black". [[RonTheDeathEater In most cases the Weasleys will not be trustworthy, or at least Ginny, Ron and Molly won't be.]] Expect Harry to end up with Hermione, Luna, or some Slytherin girl that's been mentioned three times in five books. [[AuthorAppeal Or all of them at once.]]
** In addition to these, Harry sometimes gets a 'magical inheritance' that instantly grants him a SuperpowerLottery of magical talents and abilities, with no effort involved. Expect him to be a Metamorphmagus like Tonks, an Animagus (almost always a Phoenix), and have several other skills and 'lost' forms of magic that nobody else in the series has, such as a Golden Patronus. In most cases, he has to go to Gringotts to receive it, which crosses over with the 'Harry-Is-Nice-To-Goblins' plot-line. Yes, he is informed of and given his [[GodModeSue true power]] and respected by Goblinkind just because ''he remembered Griphook's name''.
** Also very common in these fics is to have Ron, and often Hermione or Molly (but ''always'' [[RonTheDeathEater Ron]]) revealed to only have been friends with Harry on Dumbledore's request. The idea of an eleven year old child pulling off this kind of long-term deception is laughable, and if Hermione is included it reaches the far side of the XanatosRoulette, given how her actual friendship with Harry began. Finally, it's not uncommon for Dumbledore to be paying Ron (and any others involved) with money embezzled from Harry's own Gringott's account, which would only increase the odds of Harry finding out the truth.
* Someone (usually Snape) is [[FountainOfYouth turned back into a baby or a small child]]. He then must be cared for by the other characters or, in some cases, one character in particular. All in an effort to make Snape cuddly.
* In the course of the second task of the Triwizard Tournament, Gabrielle Delacour bonds to Harry and becomes for all magical and legal purposes his wife. Fortunately, due to the vagaries of Veela biology she is not actually the eight-year-old she appears to be, and shortly thereafter undergoes a perfectly normal delayed and accelerated puberty that leaves her physically at her real age of 14 or so. Can be found in both Harry/Gabrielle shipping stories ''and'' Harry/Harem stories.
* Harry discovers he is bound by one or more marriage contracts signed before his birth or in his infancy, requiring him to marry a girl (or girls) he barely knows.
* Harry's simple courtesies to the goblins of Gringott's mark him as uniquely different from the racist bastards that make up the rest of the Wizarding World, and they throw all their military and economic power behind him.
* Matchmaker!Dumbledore. Wise, old Dumbledore understands how right the author's OneTruePairing is and becomes a ShipperOnDeck, dropping irrelevant concerns like killing Voldemort. After all, if ''Dumbledore'' says Draco and Ginny should be together, then obviously it ''must'' be true, right? Naturally, never combined with Manipulative!Dumbledore because manipulation which brings about the author's [=OTP=] is obviously good. Often leads to the "Head Boy and Girl's private quarters" plot.
* In "Sirius lives/is saved" fics, he and Harry will almost certainly team up to become [[GentlemanThief gentlemen thieves]] who [[JustLikeRobinHood steal from the Death Eaters and purity-obsessed families]] to better the wizarding world... and go from [[BlueBlood wealthy]] to [[MoreXThanGod more money than a god.]] Often combined with the Harem fics.
* During the Three Year Summer, it was common to see Arabella Figg turn up as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, typically with a portrayal as the most badass CoolOldLady ever. After ''OrderOfThePhoenix'' established she was a MuggleBornOfMages, this plot died a quick death.
* There's a sect of uber-powerful magical people who basically are to wizards what wizards are to {{Muggles}}. They're called Magids in ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'', the Strega in ''FanFic/PawnToQueen'', and the Druids in ''FanFic/TheGirlWhoLived'', but it's all the same basic idea. The Strega and the Druids are especially similar, sharing CantArgueWithElves and AuthorFilibuster tendencies.
** In a growing number of fics, these uber-wizards are the witches and warlocks of ''{{Series/Bewitched}}''.
* One of the characters (usually Harry or Draco or Hermione) become an animagus or are transfigured into an animal, and hide in plain sight as another character's pet (usually Harry or Draco or Hermione).
* The "what if Voldemort won?" fic. This leads to a DarkFic set in the bleak {{Dystopia}} he has created, but all too often it's just an excuse to set up a kinky {{Lemon}} in which Hermione is forced to be Draco's SexSlave or somesuch. [=Post-=]''DeathlyHallows'', the non-lemon versions tend to instead take place during that book when Voldemort ''did'' win for certain values of the term, but not permanently.
* Diary fics where the diary writes back, like Tom Riddle's. Sometimes this is for a villain's own nefarious purposes, like it was in the one canon example, but sometimes they rely on the premise that these diaries are as normal in the wizarding world as portraits that talk.
** Imagine the advertising for that. 'Hi there, parents. I'd like to put my memories in this book, to live under your daughter's pillow and have her tell me all her secrets, and I'd advise her what to do!'
* A common one is to introduce a MarySue with an additional prophecy. This prophecy usually concerns whether [[DracoInLeatherPants Draco]] sides with Voldemort or Dumbledore, how [[BlackHoleSue only she]] can guide him in this choice, and how Harry's prophecy is entirely dependent on this one. Expect the prophecy to only use vague terms about "light" and "dark" and animal imagery (Draco is usually the "Dragon," while the MarySue is normally the "Phoenix"), despite the fact that the original prophecy didn't bother with obscuring imagery.
* God!Potter is very common. The general outline usually has Harry returning for his next year at Hogwarts after being trained by Elves/Demons/Time Lords and already having powers far more advanced than anyone in the school. Staples include limitless shapeshifting, wandless/wordless magic, "almost Unforgivable" curses, fluency in a secret language and floating runes. They almost always follow the plot of a canon book, but Harry solves each problem with his new powers while hiding his real potential.
* Salazar Slytherin is SealedEvilInACan and the can gets opened. This usually occurs when a fanfic takes place after the defeat of Voldemort and the author needs a new BigBad. Salazar Slytherin in these fics is often just Voldemort with a different name, right down to [[MookCarryover recruiting former Death Eaters as his followers]]. ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'' is probably the TropeCodifier or even the TropeMaker for this plot. ''Hogwarts Exposed'' used it too.
* There's quite a few fics where the Hogwarts students take a mandatory trip to the U.S. Sometimes they're visiting a wizarding school in the States, and other times it's just a plain old Muggle school.
* Everywhere Else Is Full: A common trope in both the original books and fan fiction. Whoever gets top dibs on Hogwarts Express compartments, it's not main characters. Inevitably, Everywhere Else Is Full, so they'll have to share a compartment with Plot Relevant Character. In the original series, this trope is used to introduce Ron in the first book, Lupin in the third book, and Luna in the fifth book. The exact words "everywhere else is full" are actually spoken by Ron in the first book/[[Film/HarryPotter movie]] and by Hermione in the third movie (not the book version). In the world of fan fiction, it's pretty much reached the level of SharePhrase.
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* Harry/Draco stories invented the Male!Veela Fic. May be stretched to apply to other pairings.
** Within the Male!Veela Fic, it's not uncommon for veela!Draco to have a [[StrangledByTheRedString predetermined mate]] (and it's always called a "mate"). These seem to focus more on [[FoeYay Hermione]] or a new character, either way, she'll put up [[BelligerentSexualTension token resistance]] before realizing how [[DracoInLeatherPants awesome and sexy Draco is.]]
* Harry is sorted into Slytherin, Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw instead of Gryffindor. Slytherin is by far the most common. Expect [[DracoInLeatherPants Draco]] to be Harry's best friend while most of the Gryffindors, especially [[RonTheDeathEater Ron]], are dumb jocks at best and outright evil at worst.
* Hermione finds out that she's an [[MisaimedFandom adopted pure-blood]] and, of course, drops her adoptive family like a hot potato in favour of the new, improved version. Her new family will invariably be aristocratic and on the same social plane as the Malfoys, often resulting in her [[DracoInLeatherPants befriending Draco]] if not [[{{Shipping}} romancing him]]. Her newfound wealth, especially [[CostumePorn the clothing]], will be described in loving detail. She will get a complete personality transplant, sometimes with the added feature of an UnnecessaryMakeover, causing her to abandon her old friends and more critical reviewers to wonder why the author didn't just use an OriginalCharacter.
** If she's shipped with Draco, there's a good chance it's the result of a marriage contract.
** Occasionally she's revealed to be Draco's twin sister, in which case, she's usually paired with Blaise Zabini.
* The gang, in whole or in part, time-travels to the time of the Marauders.
** Sometimes, they go back to ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4889162/1/Reading_the_Philosophers_Stone read the seven Harry Potter books]]'' to them (excluding Peter). Basically a {{MST}} being performed by the Marauders of the original ''Potter'' books as though they were fiction for the Marauders.
*** Oh, and a good number of the Marauder MST fics tend to assume that Marauders are still at Hogwarts and yet somehow find nothing at all odd about more modern things that the books talk about. Not that are many, admittedly...
** Stories in which Hermione alone is sent back in time [[strike:and later falling]] to fall in love with Remus or Sirius or Snape used to be '''very''' popular circa 2005 to early 2007, but have since all but vanished. (It's not a bad concept, as long as that's not ''all'' that happens. Hell, [[BigBad Voldemort]] had been working on his power base for almost thirty years by the [[FanNickname Marauder Era]].)
*** Similarly, a ([[SlashFic usually]]) female character is sent back in time to redeem Tom Riddle [[RedemptionEqualsSex with sex]]. This probably started as a way for Tom/Ginny shippers to get around the [[DracoInLeatherPants whole him-being-future-Voldemort thing]], but now it's done almost as often with Hermione. And, of course, it was also done with a certain MarySue in ''FanFic/MyImmortal''.
*** A variant was also done in ''Child of Grace'', except that the author skipped the sex and just had the memory Riddle be a nice guy all along, in no way responsible for the evil actions of his present self (ignoring things like by the time he made the journal he had already released the Basilisk).
* In response to the medical finding that Purebloods have become so inbred that they have reduced fertility rates and/or are likely to give birth to Squibs, the Ministry of Magic establishes a Marriage Law which forces Muggleborns (and sometimes half-bloods) to marry pure-bloods. Often the law is actually a ploy enacted by Voldemort supporters/sympathisers still in power to punish or neutralise the heroes of the second Voldemort uprising. Almost always ends up pairing [[UnequalPairing Hermione with Snape]] (since the concept originated as a fanfic-writing challenge on a Snape/Hermione mailing list), but sometimes includes other pairings. Since then, Draco has become the most common.
** Despite Snape beinga half-blood, prior to Half Blood Prince it wouldn't have been entirely unreasonable, given Snape's former Death Eater status, to assume he was a pureblood. The ''Marriage Law'' theme originated during that time period and just kept going after being {{Jossed}}.
** If he isn't ignored entirely, addressing how Hermione ''already'' marries a pureblood has its own common explanations, either Ron insisting that she pump out endless babies just like his mother, Ron [[RonTheDeathEater suddenly turning evil]], or "Ron marrying Hermione to protect her from Draco's marriage contract would make the Malfoys REALLY MAD! Only Snape is strong enough to protect her!"... which doesn't really make any sense. Harry, being not technically Pureblood, is not an option. Sometimes worse options are brought up as possibilities.
** Some Marriage Law fics state that partners will be chosen by the government. One fic even included a statute that the marriage must be proven consummated within a certain window of time.
** This scenario often involves Hermione's [[TimeTravel extensive use of the Time Turner in book three]] making her half-a-year or more older, to make her old enough to qualify for being forced into marriage. (Forgetting/Ignoring that this is kind-of cancelled out by the time she spent petrified in ''Chamber of Secrets'', and that she was only allowed to use it to attend classes that clashed with others (Divination and Muggle Studies), which adds up to two weeks '''at most'''.)
* Harry has a twin, and it's he or she who is the ''real'' Boy/Girl-Who-Lived.
** Alternately, the twin is hailed as the X-Who-Lived, while Harry is both the real Boy-Who-Lived and ignored.
** A ForWantOfANail outcome, where ''Neville Longbottom'' is the Boy-Who-Lived, is explicitly mentioned by Dumbledore and Harry at one point hypothesizes what such a world would be like, practically screaming to be used.
* A distant (in terms of blood or just geography) relative discovers his or her connection to Harry, and rescues/adopts/comes to the aid of Harry. Again, fodder for crossovers.
* Harry is framed for some horrendous crime and is imprisoned in Azkaban. Eventually he is either cleared or escapes, but not before the experience grants him an immense powerup, which he mostly uses to enact his revenge on those who betrayed or framed him, as well as defeat Voldemort (if the two aren't one and the same). [[RonTheDeathEater All of his friends will turn on him,]] including Sirius, and often [[DisproportionateRetribution one of them will kill Hedwig and rip up his photo album,]] then laugh about it afterwards. (In other words, ''TheCountOfMonteCristo'' [[AC:[[RecycledINSPACE with Harry Potter characters!]]]]) They're almost always awful.
* After Voldemort wins (or worse, after a PyrrhicVictory over Voldemort that leaves Wizarding England a depopulated wasteland), Harry [[PeggySue goes back in time in some way]] to his school days so that he can use his foreknowledge to craft a better outcome. Occasionally a different character will do so.
** ''[[AVeryPotterMusical A Very Potter Sequel]]'' has a kind of reversed version of this, with the bad guys trying this to undo the happy ending.
* The "Dursleys abuse Harry" fanfic. In these fanfics, Harry's HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood is [[PlayedForDrama treated much more seriously]]. Expect rape to occur. Other common features of these fanfics:
** This new level of abuse will not be {{retcon}}ned as having been happening all along. Instead, it will start when Harry is [[WhatAnIdiot a grown teenager with wizard friends and a supposedly murderous godfather]]. Usually, Harry arrives back at Privet Drive for the summer and, for whatever reason, the Dursleys immediately decide to start beating/raping him. Often the catalyst is Moody's threats at the end of the fifth book, with Vernon developing a "they can't tell me what to do" attitude in response. Expect the story to begin InMediasRes, with a beaten Harry thinking back on how different the Dursleys have been this summer.
** Vernon is entirely responsible for the abuse. Petunia and Dudley will be mentioned so little you'd think Vernon and Harry were the only people living in the house. If Petunia and Dudley do participate in the abuse, they'll essentially be Vernon's minions. Alternatively, Petunia has a HeelFaceTurn.
** Harry is given an impossible list of chores, which is he beaten/raped for failing to complete.
** Harry is once again forced to live in the cupboard under the stairs.
** Vernon brutally kills Hedwig so Harry can't contact the wizarding world for help.
** Harry is rescued by someone, usually [[DracoInLeatherPants Snape]]. Thus, the abuse may be setup for a HurtComfortFic. Alternatively, it's setup for an evil!Dumbledore fanfic.
* Hermione and Draco are Head Boy and Head Girl in their Seventh Year, which means that .
** The "Head Boy and Girl's private quarters" plot device, where they have to share a suite of rooms, providing lots of forced interaction to fuel sexual tension. Used for Seventh Year Harry/Hermione and Ron/Hermione fics, Hermione/Draco FoeYay, and even fics with a MarySue or GaryStu paired with Harry, Ron, Hermione or Draco, and originated with the once-popular Percy/Penelope ship.
** Most oddly, this is so codified that it seems to have been forgotten that the Head Boy and Girl are actually supposed to be top students. Instead, fanfiction makes it look like the selection of Head Boy and Girl is completely random. No one ever even wonders any more [[SpoiledBrat "How did Draco Malfoy get to be Head Boy?"]]
** This device also turns up a lot in Lily/James fics as well as fics set in the Next Generation (usually with Rose/Scorpius).
* The Yule Ball is restaged despite there being no Triwizard Tournament, sometimes with a HandWave and sometimes without. Hilarity and romantic hijinks ensue. Oh-so common before ''OrderOfThePhoenix'' -- even ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'' used it at one point. Apparently, it took the release of ''Phoenix'' for fanfic writers to finally grasp that the Yule Ball is not something that happens every year. Oddly, ''PotterPuppetPals'' used this years after ''Phoenix'' when Snape writes in his diary about being at the Yule Ball with Lily Evans, although he ''was'' describing a dream he had had.
* Harry and Ginny (or Harry and Hermione, or Harry, Hermione ''and'' Ginny, or Harry and Luna, or Harry/[[LauncherOfAThousandShips Anyone]], or Harry/''[[APartyAlsoKnownAsAnOrgy Everyone]]'') discover they have a Soul Bond linking their hearts in eternal Twoo Wuv and their magical cores in eternal BadAss.
* There's a school class which pairs the characters to learn how to be grown-ups, normally by making them live together as a married couple in the Room of Requirement, take care of a magically created baby, and (of course) fall in love. Because putting hormonally fuelled teenagers together, and making a child you plan to ''delete'' in a couple of months, [[SarcasmMode isn't morally wrong. At all.]]
* Hermione, Ginny or a MarySue becomes a maid in Malfoy Manor. Where Draco lives. [[{{Shipping}} Do you see where this is going?]]
* Turns out the Marauders weren't the real pranksters of Hogwarts. Oh no, it was Lily and her band of female friends, who were Just As Good As The Guys If Not Better. Lily joyfully out-pranking the Marauders would seem to contradict the fact that she canonically considered their pranks cruel, but that has not dissuaded anyone.
** Lily's band of female friends appears a lot in the Marauder-era fics anyway, pranksters or not, at least in the Finnish ''Harry Potter'' fandom. Usually, the group includes a beautiful, loud, extremely popular girl and a more soft-spoken, very smart girl, who are paired to Sirius and Remus respectively.
*** Before ''Order of the Phoenix'' revealed more about Arabella Figg she was often portrayed as Lily's best friend and Sirius's love interest.
* Harry's real father is Severus Snape, not James Potter (despite canon repeatedly saying that Harry looks almost ''exactly'' like his father did at the same age. Sometimes this is {{Handwave}}d, more often [[TheyJustDidntCare it's just ignored]].)
** Funny thing about this one. Like the Marriage Law fic, it was initially popularized by a challenge. These fics are often called Severitus fics, after the Severitus Challenge, which was issued in 2001 by, you guessed it, Severitus. The original constraints of the challenge called for Harry's appearance to gradually change to resemble Snape's over the course of the fic, with the idea being that his original appearance was the result of a potion/glamour/whatever. (They also called for Remus to come back to Hogwarts at some point.) The challenge was extremely popular, and the name stuck even after people started to drop some of the requirements. (Sometimes people call just plain old "Snape is Harry's father" fics "Sevitus" fics.)
* For some reason, the characters decide to play the inane children's game [[ParlorGames Truth Or Dare]]. Or alternatively StripPoker. [[CoitusEnsues The results are pretty much the same either way.]]
* One of the male characters is [[GenderBender temporarily/permanently turned into a girl]]. Expect no explanation for why re-applying the same spell wouldn't change him/her back. Often leads to the literary equivalent of a ShoppingMontage after which the story turns into a DeadFic since the writer inevitably didn't have much of an idea beyond "let's make Harry/Ron/Draco/Sirius/the giant squid a girl!" Alternatively this is done [[JumpingTheGenderBarrier to pair him with another male character]] without it being a SlashFic.
* The "Founders Fic" is a whole ''Harry Potter'' sub-genre unto itself. Predictably, depending on the author's house preferences, Gryffindor and Slytherin are either IdiotHero or TheCape and either SmugSnake or TallDarkAndSnarky, respectively. Often they're best friends who have a falling-out. Ravenclaw is typically a beautiful BrainyBrunette and sometimes a RichBitch. Hufflepuff has HairOfGold and is a motherly, [[CountryMouse closer-to-Earth farm-girl]] type. Several of these things [[IKnewIt turned out to be canon in one way or another]], but they're all older than their respective confirmations in the books.
** My kingdom for one, just ''one'' fic where all four of them are portrayed as ''scholars'' who could reasonably found a ''school''.
* RonTheDeathEater, a situation so common it became the TropeNamer for the entire general phenomenon: Ron is so jealous and resentful of Harry that he spontaneously does a FaceHeelTurn. Often a result of Harry/Hermione shippers wanting Ron to DieForOurShip. Alternately Ginny's been dosing the pair with Love Potion to steal Harry's money and fame. Or Hermione's the one doing it.
* Most of the Tom/Ginny fics written by shippers who don't mind the extreme age difference between the two or that Ginny is barely 12 can be summed up as "Tom Riddle has sex with Ginny in the Chamber of Secrets before Harry shows up".
** It's not so much the extreme age difference as the fact that Ginny is barely 12. (And the myriad other ways the 'relationship' would be wrong even if she was older.)
* Harry and/or Hermione go to Australia to retrieve Hermione's memory-wiped parents and complications arise.
* No one starts Hogwarts at the age of eleven anymore. Instead, original characters seem to stop by Hogwarts just for their final year so they'll be old enough for teen romances (and, presumably, so they'll be closer in age to the author). Sometimes there is a HandWave, often along the lines of [[AlwaysFemale she]] already [[MarySue knows everything she needs to]].
* Usually set post-''OrderOfThePhoenix'', Harry stays over at Hermione's house for the summer and notices that she is getting CurvesInAllTheRightPlaces, and they fall in love ([[CoitusEnsues and usually have sex]]) with each other very quickly. To make it even ''clearer'' that the story is a blatant Harry[=/=]Hermione OneTruePairing, there will either be another prophecy uttered or that was hidden so [[ThePowerOfLove The Power Of Their Love]] will defeat Voldemort, or Ron and/or Ginny's characters being [[OutOfCharacter changed]] or [[RonTheDeathEater turned evil]] to remove them as LoveInterests.
** The same basic "Summer of Love after Fifth Year" theme is done quite frequently, with almost every thinkable female character from the series: Ginny, Tonks, Susan Bones, ...
*** And in the case of Tonks, she is usually assigned to be a guard near Harry's house (mainly as an excuse by the author to have her there) and quickly grows sympathetic to his guilt and sadness over Sirius's death. Within the two months before going back to begin his sixth year, they'll have completely fallen in love. The fact that she is six or seven years older than him at this point is often (understandably) brought up by everyone, that is if Harry and Tonks aren't seeing each other in secret.
* Harry actually didn't save Ginny when he destroyed Riddle's diary. She was actually still evil, but didn't let on. This can go two ways. In the unsympathetic route, this becomes [[RonTheDeathEater Ginny The Death Eater]]. And then there's the sympathetic route, which amounts to "Ginny's evil, but that's all right because EvilIsSexy and now she can be [[DracoInLeatherPants Tom]]'s [[WeCanRuleTogether queen]]." (The latter type nearly always finds a way to revert Voldie back to his Riddle-era good looks.)
* Harry discovers his parents' will(s) were never executed (usually because of the machinations of a Manipulative!Dumbledore, and often in the course of receiving his inheritance from Sirius post book five). By various means he corrects this, and becomes filthy rich and a Political Power. (Which is weird, because he's already filthy rich, and he doesn't do anything with it.)
** Sometimes it will be discovered he gained legal adulthood and hence 'full access' to the vaults (despite him appearing to already have this in the books) and Potter and Black seats on the Wizengamot because he's in the Tri-Wizard Tournament, despite the fact that the Tri-Wiz [[DidNotDoTheResearch has included plenty of underaged students before]]. It's just this time the school administrators rigged a external age line to keep them out.
* Dumbledore's a ManipulativeBastard setting Harry up as a sacrifice in order to defeat Voldemort (in more extreme cases with Dumbledore planning to take all the credit afterward). But Harry has managed to get emancipated and come into his own, with all the money and political power he needs to thwart both Dumbles and Riddle. In well-done instances, Harry must race to learn who to trust and what he needs to know in order to save himself before Dumbledore's or Voldemort's plans come to fruition; in poorly-written implementations, Harry effortlessly defangs and counters all opposition, leaving them blinking in stupefaction in his wake.
** This is often combined with "Harry finds his parents' real will" and the "Summer of Love" mentioned above. Expect Harry to end up as "Lord Potter", "Lord Black", or "Lord Potter-Black". [[RonTheDeathEater In most cases the Weasleys will not be trustworthy, or at least Ginny, Ron and Molly won't be.]] Expect Harry to end up with Hermione, Luna, or some Slytherin girl that's been mentioned three times in five books. [[AuthorAppeal Or all of them at once.]]
** In addition to these, Harry sometimes gets a 'magical inheritance' that instantly grants him a SuperpowerLottery of magical talents and abilities, with no effort involved. Expect him to be a Metamorphmagus like Tonks, an Animagus (almost always a Phoenix), and have several other skills and 'lost' forms of magic that nobody else in the series has, such as a Golden Patronus. In most cases, he has to go to Gringotts to receive it, which crosses over with the 'Harry-Is-Nice-To-Goblins' plot-line. Yes, he is informed of and given his [[GodModeSue true power]] and respected by Goblinkind just because ''he remembered Griphook's name''.
** Also very common in these fics is to have Ron, and often Hermione or Molly (but ''always'' [[RonTheDeathEater Ron]]) revealed to only have been friends with Harry on Dumbledore's request. The idea of an eleven year old child pulling off this kind of long-term deception is laughable, and if Hermione is included it reaches the far side of the XanatosRoulette, given how her actual friendship with Harry began. Finally, it's not uncommon for Dumbledore to be paying Ron (and any others involved) with money embezzled from Harry's own Gringott's account, which would only increase the odds of Harry finding out the truth.
* Someone (usually Snape) is [[FountainOfYouth turned back into a baby or a small child]]. He then must be cared for by the other characters or, in some cases, one character in particular. All in an effort to make Snape cuddly.
* In the course of the second task of the Triwizard Tournament, Gabrielle Delacour bonds to Harry and becomes for all magical and legal purposes his wife. Fortunately, due to the vagaries of Veela biology she is not actually the eight-year-old she appears to be, and shortly thereafter undergoes a perfectly normal delayed and accelerated puberty that leaves her physically at her real age of 14 or so. Can be found in both Harry/Gabrielle shipping stories ''and'' Harry/Harem stories.
* Harry discovers he is bound by one or more marriage contracts signed before his birth or in his infancy, requiring him to marry a girl (or girls) he barely knows.
* Harry's simple courtesies to the goblins of Gringott's mark him as uniquely different from the racist bastards that make up the rest of the Wizarding World, and they throw all their military and economic power behind him.
* Matchmaker!Dumbledore. Wise, old Dumbledore understands how right the author's OneTruePairing is and becomes a ShipperOnDeck, dropping irrelevant concerns like killing Voldemort. After all, if ''Dumbledore'' says Draco and Ginny should be together, then obviously it ''must'' be true, right? Naturally, never combined with Manipulative!Dumbledore because manipulation which brings about the author's [=OTP=] is obviously good. Often leads to the "Head Boy and Girl's private quarters" plot.
* In "Sirius lives/is saved" fics, he and Harry will almost certainly team up to become [[GentlemanThief gentlemen thieves]] who [[JustLikeRobinHood steal from the Death Eaters and purity-obsessed families]] to better the wizarding world... and go from [[BlueBlood wealthy]] to [[MoreXThanGod more money than a god.]] Often combined with the Harem fics.
* During the Three Year Summer, it was common to see Arabella Figg turn up as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, typically with a portrayal as the most badass CoolOldLady ever. After ''OrderOfThePhoenix'' established she was a MuggleBornOfMages, this plot died a quick death.
* There's a sect of uber-powerful magical people who basically are to wizards what wizards are to {{Muggles}}. They're called Magids in ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'', the Strega in ''FanFic/PawnToQueen'', and the Druids in ''FanFic/TheGirlWhoLived'', but it's all the same basic idea. The Strega and the Druids are especially similar, sharing CantArgueWithElves and AuthorFilibuster tendencies.
** In a growing number of fics, these uber-wizards are the witches and warlocks of ''{{Series/Bewitched}}''.
* One of the characters (usually Harry or Draco or Hermione) become an animagus or are transfigured into an animal, and hide in plain sight as another character's pet (usually Harry or Draco or Hermione).
* The "what if Voldemort won?" fic. This leads to a DarkFic set in the bleak {{Dystopia}} he has created, but all too often it's just an excuse to set up a kinky {{Lemon}} in which Hermione is forced to be Draco's SexSlave or somesuch. [=Post-=]''DeathlyHallows'', the non-lemon versions tend to instead take place during that book when Voldemort ''did'' win for certain values of the term, but not permanently.
* Diary fics where the diary writes back, like Tom Riddle's. Sometimes this is for a villain's own nefarious purposes, like it was in the one canon example, but sometimes they rely on the premise that these diaries are as normal in the wizarding world as portraits that talk.
** Imagine the advertising for that. 'Hi there, parents. I'd like to put my memories in this book, to live under your daughter's pillow and have her tell me all her secrets, and I'd advise her what to do!'
* A common one is to introduce a MarySue with an additional prophecy. This prophecy usually concerns whether [[DracoInLeatherPants Draco]] sides with Voldemort or Dumbledore, how [[BlackHoleSue only she]] can guide him in this choice, and how Harry's prophecy is entirely dependent on this one. Expect the prophecy to only use vague terms about "light" and "dark" and animal imagery (Draco is usually the "Dragon," while the MarySue is normally the "Phoenix"), despite the fact that the original prophecy didn't bother with obscuring imagery.
* God!Potter is very common. The general outline usually has Harry returning for his next year at Hogwarts after being trained by Elves/Demons/Time Lords and already having powers far more advanced than anyone in the school. Staples include limitless shapeshifting, wandless/wordless magic, "almost Unforgivable" curses, fluency in a secret language and floating runes. They almost always follow the plot of a canon book, but Harry solves each problem with his new powers while hiding his real potential.
* Salazar Slytherin is SealedEvilInACan and the can gets opened. This usually occurs when a fanfic takes place after the defeat of Voldemort and the author needs a new BigBad. Salazar Slytherin in these fics is often just Voldemort with a different name, right down to [[MookCarryover recruiting former Death Eaters as his followers]]. ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'' is probably the TropeCodifier or even the TropeMaker for this plot. ''Hogwarts Exposed'' used it too.
* There's quite a few fics where the Hogwarts students take a mandatory trip to the U.S. Sometimes they're visiting a wizarding school in the States, and other times it's just a plain old Muggle school.
* Everywhere Else Is Full: A common trope in both the original books and fan fiction. Whoever gets top dibs on Hogwarts Express compartments, it's not main characters. Inevitably, Everywhere Else Is Full, so they'll have to share a compartment with Plot Relevant Character. In the original series, this trope is used to introduce Ron in the first book, Lupin in the third book, and Luna in the fifth book. The exact words "everywhere else is full" are actually spoken by Ron in the first book/[[Film/HarryPotter movie]] and by Hermione in the third movie (not the book version). In the world of fan fiction, it's pretty much reached the level of SharePhrase.
