History Fanfic / Hypotheses

** Theodore Nott, the almost nonexistent son of a Death Eater in canon, and outright criminal in ''Cursed Child'', who becomes here Harry's FirstFriend. The two remain very close all their lives.
** Percy Weasley is painted in a much more likable light than in canon. He goes to visit Arthur at St Mungo with muggle novels, gives a sympathetic MotiveRant after the family shuns him at Christmas about how he worked hard to get his position and feels bad for desiring more in life than an overcrowded home and second-hand clothing. He gives licences to the twins for their products, actively spies the Death Eater-controlled Ministry and protects his family from behind the scenes, going as far as paying for his now jobless father. To the point that accusing him of hiding behind the powerful away from risk has become his BerserkButton.

* AdaptationalVillainy: No redemption for the Malfoys here. Lucius remains a stauch Death Eater to the bitter end, and Draco gleefully hops the bandwagon, without the canon second-thoughts and EvilIsNotAToy. [[spoiler: He even kills Dumbledore himself.]]

* AggressiveNegotiations: During Book 7, when Harry and Telensk visit [[spoiler: the Ministry and Gringotts]], they are first very polite, but when they can't get what they need with just diplomacy, they fight and generate chaos in their wake.

* ArchnemesisDad: Mr Nott is this for Theodore since he is a Deatheater, and [[spoiler: murdered his wife to prevent her from reporting him to the Ministry. Theodore was the first to find his mother's body.]]

* BattleButler: Sarah's parents have hired several of them to work in their manor. It does not end well for the [[spoiler: Deatheaters]] who tried to attack the house. To be honest, though, one of the butlers is an Igor and the housemaid is a vampire.

** Do not, even in joke, imply that Snape is training his students into future Deatheaters. A slap is the least you're likely to receive.
** Go ahed if you feel brave enough, and accuse Percy Weasley of catering to the Minister and never fighting the Death Eaters after they took over, while he spent the last year doing spywork and cover resistance. Go ahead, and expect one hell of a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech...

* CanonForeigner: There are several OCs in the serie, the most frequently seen being Pierre Telensk, the co-headmaster of Durmstrang, Sarah Cobbyte, one of Harry's fellow Slytherins and a Muggle-born, Maximilian Expea, the first Muggle in centuries who manages to learn magic rather than be born with it, and Lucy Zabini, Blaise's younger sister.

* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Remus' death]] happens much sooner than in the original books. Other characters who do not survive this series are [[spoiler: Lucius and Drago Malfoy, Pius Thicknesse, Mundungus Fletcher and Dolores Umbridge]].

** [[spoiler: Snape]] also gets a burial to remember, with all the Slytherin students, part of the other houses and the staff of both Beauxbâtons and Durmstrand attending.

* GreeneyedMonster: Draco Malfoy, oh so much. Certain he would have the respect if not the loyalty, of House Slytherin, he quickly gets a rival in the person of Harry, who attracts more followers as years pass, regularly comes second or third to Muggleborn students, and also comes to understand that Snape is more on the Boy-Who-Lived's side. Frustration and jealousy accumulate until he reaches the breaking point in sixth year and [[spoiler: has no problem murdering Dumbledore.]]

* HypercompetentSidekick: Sarah assumes the role of the high-studying student for Slytherin (in fact, she starts off rather Sueish, until it's reined in as the series [[GrowingTheBeard grows the beard]]), first as a counterpart to Hermione, before they become friendlier as the story progresses. By the fifth book they're teaching...
* InsistentTerminology: Sarah ''always'' uses "born of Muggles" rather than "Muggleborn", since the second expression seems to imply that this category of magic-users were born as muggles before suddenly becoming wizards/witches (i.e. Max, and that took him ''a lifetime''). She is even more insistent after Umbridge's stay in Hogwards.

* MeaningfulName: Sarah's full name is Sarah Salmissra Cobbyte. Nothing to run away very fast, but it's no surprise she joined Slytherin, even though she's muggle-born. One of her ancestors was named Petrolith Cobra; [[spoiler: he was petrified by a Gorgon...]]

* OhCrap: There are many, but the moment when Sarah realises that Telensk [[spoiler: is not human, but a dragon with a millenium-long grudge against her familly]] certainly takes the cake.

** Scrimgeour also delivers one to Tonks and Kingsley at the end of book 6, reminding them that they swore an oath to him as aurors, and that he does not like seeing his subordinates withhold crucial intelligence from him. As a punishment, he decides to pay them exactly what they're worth to him, i.e. nothing (in a ShoutOut to a first-season episode of ''Series/LieToMe'').

--> '''Blaise:''' Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff can afford every infraction and just get a slap on the wrist. We of Slytherin must endure contempt for all because of a few black sheeps. We fought alongside other students, at least the ones brave enough to do their duty, and yet, you bastards in red, blue and yellow yell for us being all fired because some junior deatheaters come from the green. Three of them were actually Ravenclaws, and yet no one demands payback on their house. But I'm not surprised. Our "kind little pals" wanted to throw us out since 1000 years. Well, guess what, assholes? ''You won.'' Ladies and gentlemen, the House of Slytherin takes its leave.
* ScrewYouElves!: Used against the magical society (at least, the british one) by Telensk (since he's a [[spoiler: dragon]], he may be a bit hypocritical there), Harry Potter and Sarah Cobbyte, the three pointing it as stagnant, racist and corrupted.
--> '''Sarah:''' I don't intend to waste my time and energy for the magical society. At least the british one. A justice worthy of a banana republic, corrupted civil servants (if at least it was in MY favor...), institutionalized racsim and specism, the fact that Muggles are treated as inferiors and leeches, even though it's the wizards who leech on the muggles... [...] [The wizards] "borrowed" the printing press, phonograph, car, gas lighting and tons of other stuff to their neighbors, and what did the muggles get in exchange? Nothing, except the right to get the brain erased and manipulated every time they have the bad luck of seeing womeone waving a wand. They also have to suffer the consequences of wizard wars without having a single idea of what is happening. In addition to all this, I'm not going to support a system who treats women like it does, who doesn't let a married woman have a job unless she's a widow and her kids are old enough to fend for themselves, or at least go to school. Social services? Zero! And don't get me started on your so-called medicine! I've wasted enough of my time with you all.

* SoulJar: When Gryffindor killed him, Salazar's soul did not leave for the after-life, but was instead trapped in one of his portraits, a small woodden statue, which remained the only one not destroyed afterwards. Breaking the statue would release Salazar's soul, either to go on with his journey to the afterlife, or to be reincarnated.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Harry becomes good enough at Transfiguration to transform himself, though [[MorphicResonance only polyjuice potion can remove his scar]].

* ArmorPiercingSlap: In Book 5, right after Sirius claims that Snape trains his Slytherins to become Death Eaters, the professor slaps him. For a moment, Sirius is too stunned to add another word.

** Scrimgeour also delivers one to Tonks and Kingsley at the end of book 6, reminding them that they swore an oath to him as aurors, and that he does not like seeing his subordinates withhold crucial intelligence from him. As a punishment, he decides to pay them exactly what they're worth to him, i.e. nothing (in a ShoutOut to a first-season episode of LieToMe).

* ButtMonkey:
** Harry and his team tend to consider Ron Weasley as this during their first three years in Hogwarts, before they reach an agreement.

* CoolOldGuy:
** Maximilian Expea is seventy when he joins Hogwarts and becomes an immediate favourite of the other students thanks to his easy-going personality and the wonderful stories he tells.

* *GoOutWithASmile: [[spoiler: Snape]], "who had never smiled much during his life, had died with a smile on his lips."

* HotTeacher:
** Amda Sinistra is considered as such by many male students and a few females as well.

--> '''Percy:''' What do you want?! Tell me that I came at the last time?! That I took my sweet time to choose?! Tell me, asshole, is it ''you'' who paid, every month, the debts my father accumulated at Gringotts after he was fired?! Is it you who hexed the twins' shop so that no Death Eater or their toadies could get in while they took back their surplus?! Is it you who gave datas to Snape, fearing to get caught every second?! Is it you who destroyed the Muggle-born files to save them from being arrested?! Is it you who had to clean up behind Voldemort after Scrimgeour got slaughtered?! By the way, where were you ''then''?! Hidden at Black's?! YOU WERE A MINISTRY AGENT, UNDER THE ORDERS OF THE ''MINISTER''!! HE WAS THE ONE WHO TRAINED YOU, WHO MADE YOU TAKE YOUR OATH AS AN AUROR!! YOU'RE A LIAR, A PERJURY AND A COWARD !! AND YOU DARE TRY AND ACCUSE ME?!

* RunningGag:
** Theo always have trouble with his food (particularly eggs and jam).
* Also Sarah and her omnipresent sunglasses.

* SoulJar: When Gryffindor killed him, Salazar's soul did not leave for the after-life, but was instead trapped in one of his portraits, a small woodden statue, which remained the only one not destroyed afterwards. Breaking the statue would release Salazar's soul, either to go on
with his journey to the afterlife, or to be reincarnated.

* SoulJar: When Gryffindor killed him, Salazar's soul did not leave for the after-life, but was instead trapped in one of his portraits, a small woodden statue, which remained the only one not destroyed afterwards. Breaking the statue would release Salazar's soul, either to go on with his journey to the afterlife, or to be reincarnated.