History Fanfic / TheBoyWhoDiedALot

%%* RealityEnsues

* SuicideIsPainless

* ThatDidntHappen

* InfantImmortality: Defied, as Harry dies numerous times starting when he was eleven.

* AnxietyDreams[=/=]BadDreams: Snape gets continuous dreams of Lily dying, which later change to Harry dying in them.

Harry’s always been known as The Boy Who Lived. Only Severus knows that this is a lie. After Harry Potter dies in his first year during his detention in the Forbidden Forest, Severus Snape is given the time-turner to prevent his death. But messing with time and death has its price and the universe seeks to correct it. In the meanwhile Snape has to deal with Harry's adventures and somehow keep him alive.

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Snape basically mind-rapes Harry with a Dark spell to make Harry immune to the Imperius curse.

-->Snape: Three hours from now, the Dark Lord will kill Harry Potter and rise again! Is that a future you wish to protect?
-->Firenze: Mars is unusually bright tonight. It is written.
-->Snape: You don’t believe that. You never have and you never will. You’re not like the rest of your kind, or you would never have assisted me last year. Mark my words, now: I will keep this from happening, with or without your help.

--> [=McGonagall=]: I don’t suppose you’d care to explain to me how you came by Mr Potter’s blood?

* [[spoiler:EarnYourHappyEnding: Snape has to cross the DespairEventHorizon and the alienation of his allies in order to fulfill Dumbledore's wishes and to protect Harry before he finally gets to live.]]

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: How the now sentinent Ford Anglia communicates.

* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Averted; when Harry got too close to Buckbeak the first time, he was attacked and killed. Snape drugs Buckbeak to be more docile.

&&* HugAndComment

* Snape, against his nature, lends a helping hand and a shoulder to cry on when Harry was suicidal and protects him from Umbridge by reassigning the detentions. Harry [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe ends up falling in love with him]], to Snape's horror.

* BalancingDeathsBooks: Because Snape prevented Harry's death in the Forbidden Forest, the universe tries to correct itself by killing Harry in many [[UndignifiedDeath undignified deaths]] that Snape undoes each time with the Time-Turner. Firenze warned Snape that this would happen before he saved Harry the first time.

* CassandraTruth: After Ron accidentally kills Harry by exploding his lungs, Snape tries to convince the faculty to replace Ron's wand as he tells it is dangerous and likely to get others killed. They don't believe him or think he's over-exaggerating. Or when he tries to find out who sabotages the bludger, he gets accused of being the saboteur.

* ClusterFBomb

* EveryoneHasStandards

* TheFourLoves

* GoneHorriblyRight: Snape, against his nature, lends a helping hand and a shoulder to cry on when Harry was suicidal and protects him from Umbridge by reassigning the detentions. Harry [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe ends up falling in love with him]], to Snape's horror.

* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold
* HarmfulToMinors
* HeroicBSOD
* HeroWithBadPublicity

* HoistByHisOwnPetard
* HomoeroticDream
* HugAndComment
* IDidWhatIHadToDo
* IHatePastMe

* ItsProbablyNothing: When Snape tries to go forth with Madam Hooch with his suspicions that the balls were sabotaged, [[FailedASpotCheck she says nothing can get past her wards]].

* InternalReveal
* IntergenerationalFriendship
* InterruptedIntimacy
* InterruptedSuicide
* JustFriends
* KickTheDog
* LaserGuidedAmnesia
* LaserGuidedKarma

* LetsWaitAwhile
* LikeFatherLikeSon
* LiteralGenie
* LockedOutOfTheLoop
* LoveHurts
* TheManyDeathsOfYou
** AccidentalMurder: Ron killed Harry several times with his broken wand, first by exploding his lungs.
** DeathByDespair
** DiedInYourArmsTonight:

* MayDecemberRomance
* MindRape

* MiseryPoker
* MoralityPet
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone
* MistakenForPedophile
* NearRapeExperience
* NeverTheSelvesShallMeet
* NotSoDifferent
* NotSoStoic
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome
* OhCrap
* OnlyMostlyDead

* OnlySaneEmployee

* PeggySue: Snape

* PoisonousFriend
* ProphecyTwist
* ProperlyParanoid
* RealityEnsues
* RetroactivePreparation

* SaveScumming

* SlashFic

* WhamLine

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue

* YouShallNotPass

Harry’s always been known as The Boy Who Lived. Only Severus knows that this is a lie. After Harry Potter dies in his first year during his detention in the Forbidden Forest, Severus Snape is given the time-turner to prevent his death. But messing with time and death has its price and the universe seeks to correct it. In the meanwhile Snape has deal with Harry's adventures and somehow keep him alive.

* GenreSavvy: Snape does have his moments.

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* AManIsNotAVirgin

Found [[http://snape-potter.dreamwidth.org/312641.html here]] and [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/670548 here]]

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Snape basically mind-rapes Harry with a Dark spell to make Harry immune to Imperius curse
** Snape grows immune to the Lust-Dampening Potion
* ActionSurvivor: Both Snape and Harry

* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Snape never got over Lily's rejection and death [[spoiler: later develops feelings for a older Harry]] while Harry didn't realize he had a crush on Cedric before it was too late.
* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated: Averted, when Harry got too close to Buckbeak the first time he was attacked and killed. Snape drugs Buckbeak to be more docile.
* AnxietyDreams[=/=]BadDreams: Snape gets continuous of Lily dying, which later change to Harry dying in them.

-->Snape: Three hours from now the Dark Lord will kill Harry Potter and rise again! Is that a future you wish to protect?

-->Snape: You don’t believe that. You never have and you never will. You’re not like the rest of your kind, or you would never have assisted me last year. Mark my words, now: I will keep this from happening, with or without your help

* BatheHerAndBringHerToMe: Snape asks Voldemort to give him Draco after he kills Dumbledore to spare Draco getting killed for his failure. He regrets when he finds a terrified Draco in his bed and he earns the ire of the Malfoys.

* BloodMagic: Through Harry's blood, Snape can track Harry. It is also very Dark magic
* BodyguardCrush: Snape ends up slowly falling in love with Harry after fifth year
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Played with, while the brainwashing of Harry helps him move past his grief and suicidal thoughts Snape only did it so Harry would forget that he came out and confessed his feelings for ''Snape.''
* BrokenPedestal: Snape is so horrified that Dumbledore [[spoiler: is willing to let Harry to get rid of the Horcrux]] that Snape ''kills'' him in anger.
* CallingTheOldManOut: See BrokenPedestal

* CelibateHero: Enforced by Severus himself, he gives himself the Lust-Dampening Potion to mute his libido.
* CerebusSyndrome: After the Goblet of Fire the fic becomes a less funny and more dramatic
* CharacterDevelopment: Slowly Snape slowly begins to develop empathy.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Subverted, Snape does not believe in this in least.

* CrackFic: The story's basis was a crack fic, only CerebusSyndrome during 4th year when the author decided to expand the concept

--> [=McGonagal=]: I don’t suppose you’d care to explain to me how you came by Mr Potter’s blood?

* DarkHumor: Very dark as the first half of the story plays Harry's death as comedy
* DarkestHour: After Harry dies for the first time while everyone is mourning or traumatized or his death, [[JerkassHasAPoint Snape points out]] that this means Voldemort's back and now they're screwed because the only person that can stop him is dead.
* DeathByFallingOver: Harry dies several times because of this: the first time was because the stairs moved right before he reached the stop step. The second time was when he trips over his shoelaces after kissing Ginny
* DeathIsCheap: With the time-turner, Snape enforces this trope for Harry
* DefrostingIceQueen: Snape slowly defrosts for Harry
* DespairEventHorizon: Harry crosses this in the summer after the Triwizard tournament, without Snape's interference, the trauma over Cedric's death, the defamation of his reputation by the Ministry, his torture under Umbridge and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking missing Quiddich tryouts]] become too much for Harry and he takes his own life.
** Snape himself starts to this when he Oblivates Harry into forgetting his coming out and fully crosses it when Harry goes on the run and Snape alienates all his allies.

* [[spoiler: EarnYourHappyEnding: Snape has to cross the DespairEventHorizon and the alienation of his allies in order to fulfill Dumbledore's wishes and to protect Harry before he finally gets to live.]]
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Snape is horrified when he realizes that Harry [[SheIsAllGrownUp is all grown up]] and is actually quite looking.

* GenreSavvy: Snape does have his moments
* GoneHorriblyRight: Snape, against his nature, lends a helping hand and a shoulder to cry on when Harry was suicidal and protects him from Umbridge by reassigning the detentions. Harry [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe ends falling in love with him]] to Snape's horror.
** Snape ''thinks'' he did this when Harry casts the Sectumsempra curse on Draco due deliberately tampering with Harry's mind during his Occulmency training.
* GoodIsNotNice: Snape

* TheHeroDies: A lot

* IJustWantToBeFree: The Ford Anglia
* ItsProbablyNothing: When Snape tries to go forth with Madam Hooch with his suspicions that the balls were sabotages, [[FailedASpotCheck she says nothing can get pass her wards]]
* IneptMage: Ron's status as one becomes lethal as his casting through his broken wand kills Harry multiple times

** DrivenToSuicide: Harry throws himself off the Astronomy tower
** PlotAllergy: Harry died twice due to an incense Trelawney bought
** SlashedThroat: Harry's first death was due to Quirellmort slashing his throat after the former spotted him drinking unicorn's blood

** WhenTreesAttack: How Harry dies the second time, the Whomping Willow caves it the roof of the Ford Anglia killing both Ron and Harry.

* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Since the Time-Turner is out of commission it allows for more flexibility and actually allows for timeline changes as opposed to causing a StableTimeLoop.
* OutWithABang: A nonsexual variant in which Harry trips on his shoelaces and fall down the stairs after kissing Ginny

* PlotArmor: Played with, to Snape's annoyance the only time Harry is the ''least'' likely to die is when he's fighting Voldemort

* RippleEffectProofMemory: While Firenze doesn't have this, due to his gifts he can tell right away Snape is from the future.

* SentientVehicle: Snape turns the Weasley Ford Anglia into this so it would back away from the Whomping Willow on time to spare Ron and Harry. It was angry after Snape dumped it into the lake afterwards, but forgave him when Snape promised it to take it to the Arctic tundra in exchange for saving Ron and Harry from the Acromantulas

* [[spoiler: SecondLove: Harry for Snape]]
* SecretDiary: Snape kept a log detailing how Harry dies in the various timelines, he eventually burns it.

* StableTimeLoop: DiscussedTrope, what Snape feared what would happen at first, but other the time-turner does let him change time.

* StupidSexyFlanders: Harry grows up very nicely much to Snape's ire.

* [[spoiler: TeacherStudentRomance: Snape and Harry decide to give each other a chance after they both survive the Battle of Hogwarts and after Harry graduated.]]

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Snape tries to help Harry by counseling him himself, but it doesn't really help in long run as Snape ends up undoing his own efforts.
* TraumaCongaLine: The years were not kind to Snape

* UnscrupulousHero: While Snape's goal of preventing Harry's death is noble, he did it only because he initially saw Harry as a valuable pawn and does many unethical things to ensue his desired outcome. As he grows to care for Harry as a person, he slowly comes to realize the severity of his actions.

* WeakWilled: Before Snape's intervention, it is actually extremely easy for Harry to fall under the control of the Imperius

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Snape admits to himself and to Harry that Harry is a better person than gives him credit for.
* YouAreNotAlone: Snape goes against his nature to help and support Harry when the latter was suicidal. He even makes sure that Harry gets counseling and doesn't get detention for Umbridge.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Snape [[spoiler: nearly]] means his end when Voldemort attempts to kill him to gain ownership of the Elder Wand.

* ScrewDestiny:

* ScrewYourself

* SecondLove
* SecretDiary
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong

* SuppressedRage:
* StepfordSnarker
* StupidSexyFlanders
* SympathyForTheHero
* TheTalk
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal
* TeacherStudentRomance

* ThereAreNoTherapists
* TraumaCongaLine

* UnscrupulousHero: While Snape's goal of preventing Harry's death is noble, he did it only because he initially saw Harry as a valuable pawn and does many unethical things to ensue his desired outcome.

* AdultFear

* UnrequitedLoveSwitcheroo
* UnscrupulousHero
* WasTooHardOnHim

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre
* YouAreNotAlone

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness

* GambitPileup

* GenreSavvy
* GoneHorriblyRight
* GoodIsNotNice

* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Played with, while the brainwashing of Harry helps him move past his grief and suicidal thoughts Snape only did it so Harry would forget that he come out and confessed his feelings for ''Snape.''

* CallingTheOldManOut
* CassandraTruth: Snape tries to convince the faculty to replace Ron's wand as he tells it is dangerous and likely to get others killed. They don't believe him or think he's over-exaggerating. Or when he tries to find out who sabotages the bludger, he gets accused of being the saboteur.

* DarkHumor
* DarkerAndEdgier

* DespairEventHorizon: Harry hit this in the summer after the Triwizard tournament, without Snape's interference, the trauma over Cedric's death, the defamation of his reputation by the Ministry, his torture under Umbridge and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking missing Quiddich tryouts]] become too much for Harry and he takes his own life.

* DoubleStandardRapeMaleOnMale: In fourth year, Draco cast the Imperius curse on Harry and ordered him to give him oral sex as a joke. Draco is terrified when Harry complies and accidently kills him to get away. Snape is horrified at Draco.
* DownerBeginning: "The first time Harry Potter died, he was eleven years old."
* DueToTheDead

* EarnYourHappyEnding
* EatingTheEyeCandy

* {{Gayngst}}

* TheHeroDies

* BrokenPedestal

* CassandraTruth: Snape tries to convince the faculty to replace Ron's wand as he tells it is dangerous and likely to get others killed. They don't believe him or think he's over-exaggerating. Or when he tries to find out who sabotage the bludger, he gets accused of being the saboteur.

* CerebusSyndrome: Over time the fic becomes a less funny and more dramatic
* CharacterDevelopment
* ChildrenAreInnocent

* ComingOutStory
* CooldownHug

* DefrostingIceQueen
* DevotedToYou

* DullEyesOfUnhappiness:

* MiseryBuildsCharacter

* PeggySue

* AllLoveIsUnrequited
* AllAnimalsAreDomesticated
* AnxietyDreams[=/=]BadDreams:

* BlackComedy
* BlessedWithSuck

-->[=McGonagal=]: I don’t suppose you’d care to explain to me how you came by Mr Potter’s blood?
* BodyguardCrush: Snape ends slowing falling in love with Harry after fifth year
* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Played with

Harry’s always been known as The Boy Who Lived. Only Severus knows that this is a lie. After Harry Potter dies in his first year during his detention in the Forbidden Forest, Severus Snape is given the time-turner to prevent his death. But messing with time and death has its price and the universe seeks to correct it. In the meanwhile Snape has deal with Harry's adventures and somehow keep him alive.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Harry's absurd luck throughout the backs is actually Snape manipulating events behind the scenes so Harry would live. The first being when Severus convinces Firenze to perform his BigDamnHeroes.
* BeingTorturedMakesYouEvil: After Harry nearly kills Draco with Sectumsempra, Snape fears that Harry is slowly turning Dark due to Severus mind-raping with Legilimency.

* CrackFic: The story's basis was a crack fic, only CerebusSyndrome when the author decided to expand the concept

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: Snape basically mind-rapes with a Dark spell to make Harry immune to Imperius curse

** Snape goes immune to the Lust-Dampening Potion

* AnxietyDreams