Line #43 FanFic/TwoHouseholds


1	''Two Households'' is a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' AlternateUniverseFic written by mad_martha. It can found [[http://archiveofourown.org/series/8496 here.]] This series differs from the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' canon in two ways. Firstly, Harry is Sorted into Slytherin instead of Gryffindor. Secondly, Peter Pettigrew is captured by Sirius when the latter breaks into the Gryffindor dormitories. As such, Wormtail does not escape and Sirius is eventually exonerated.
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3	Two Households is quite long, containing 14 individual fanfics and a map of the Black manor. The series as a whole is very detailed, including details on Wizarding politics and introducing new magical disciplines.
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5	!!Tropes found in this series include:
6	* AllTheOtherReindeer: Harry is a social pariah in Slytherin for most of his stay at Hogwarts. As the 'king' of Slytherin, Draco Malfoy makes sure that Slytherin is ''not'' a welcoming place for Harry.
7	* {{Ambadassador}}: Henry Potter Sr., Harry's grandfather, was a well-respected diplomat that had connections all over Europe.
8	* AbusiveParents: While the Dursleys were explicitly neglectful and emotionally abusive in canon, they aren't stated to have physically abused Harry. Not so much for Two Households, where Harry mentions that Vernon beat him as a child.
9	** Sirius's parents were both abusive towards their children. Sirius's father used his unique Animation abilities to create terrifying automatons to monitor and threaten his children. His wife wasn't much better.
10	** It's implied that Lucius Malfoy is not a good father to Draco.
11	** Implied with almost ''all'' of the patriarchs of the Pureblood families as most of them have been rendered unstable by centuries of inbreeding, though not all of them.
12	* AnArmAndALeg: Severus Snape survives the Battle of Hogwarts, but loses his right arm.
13	* AnimateDead: Although it's possible to Animate corpses, it is considered a Dark Art and is thus taboo
14	* ArmedWithCanon: Wizards have their own version of the Bible in which all parts condemning magica are removed
15	* AscendedExtra: Sirius and Remus are major viewpoint characters in this series, as is Ron. Blaise Zabini and Millicent Bulstrode also have more relevance as Harry's sort-of-friends and Housemates.
16	* BabyFactory: ALL purebloods are treated this way, especially firstborn males who are pretty much legally required to continue the family line, regardless of their personal wishes.
17	* BadassTeacher: [=McGonagall=], who saves Remus and Sirius from bigoted curse-happy wizards by a sheer awesome DeathGlare
18	* BewareTheNiceOnes: Remus is usually the calm, sensible one that reins in his more hot-tempered partner, Sirius. However, he has limits and can get pretty scary when sufficiently angered (or if it's close to the full moon).
19	* BestialityIsDepraved: One of the secret rooms in the Black mansion turns out to be a Secret Museum (a collection of obscene artwork and literature), which ranges from titillating to shocking and/or disgusting. One item in the museum is a statue of the god Pan having congress with a goat
20	** The Black's bath house has a large Roman mural on the wall depicting a huge orgy involving men, women and animals. Being a magic artwork, it's actually supposed to MOVE, but Remus put a spell on it with the motivation that just the imagery was perverse enough without adding movement to it. Yeah, the Black family before Sirius came along weren't just evil, they were gross too
21	** Discussed regarding the statue of [[Myth/GreekMythology Pan]] having sex with a goat in that[[DoubleStandard it's okay]] because Pan is a god
22	* BigFancyHouse: The Rose House, the ancestral mansion of the Potter family. Unlike Grimmauld Place or the Black mansion, it has been properly kept by a staff of house elves, awaiting the day Harry came of age to inherit the place.
23	* BloodMagic: This type of magic is generally frowned upon, but is sometimes used to secure powerful wards. Grimmauld Place and the Black Manor both have extremely powerful wards protecting them that are anchored with blood.
24	* BlueAndOrangeMorality: While Harry ''does'' possess a sense of morality, it frequently puzzles other people. He views friendship as a constant trade of favours. The thought that people might want to help him just because they like him puzzles him. He's also perfectly willing to employ underhanded methods to get what he wants, but will never make excuses if caught.
25	* CatsAreMagic: Rosebud, Ron's kneazle, is fiercely intelligent and can teleport at will.
26	* TheChainsOfCommanding: After Harry becomes the [[ReluctantRuler reluctant new 'king' of Slytherin]] in his seventh year, he quickly runs into a lot of problems. Harry needs to deal with not only Malfoy and his cronies, but also every Slytherin that causes trouble. Dumbledore and the other professors hold Harry personally responsible for the actions of his Housemates; any punishments that they would suffer will also fall on Harry
27	* ChurchOfSaintGenericus: The Church of Holy Bones, which is part of the larger Wizard Orthodox Church
28	* ChurchgoingVillain: Most [[ANaziByAnyOtherName purebloods]], including the [[AbusiveParents Black]] [[TheDarkArts family]]
29	* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: Religious magic requires the practioner to ''actually'' believe there's gods/angels/demons to call upon. If the belief is too weak, the magic will backfire
30	* [[ClingyJealousGirl ClingyJealousGuy]]: Harry is subconsciously very possessive of his loved ones. He takes an immediate dislike to anyone that might interfere with his relationships with Ron or his family.
31	* CoolOldGuy: Petaurius Pettifer, Henry Potter Sr.'s best friend. He teaches Harry the art of dueling and introduces Harry to his obligations as the ''paterfamilias'' of the Potter family. He's one of the few people that Harry respects.
32	** Henry Potter Sr himself was this, though Harry never had a chance to meet him as he died shortly after Harry's birth.
33	* CombatPragmatist: Harry casts first and asks questions later. He's willing to use underhanded tactics and strike unsuspecting opponents. It's justified because he's being trained to fight Voldemort, who certainly won't fight honorably.
34	* CorruptPolitician: The Wizengamot is mostly populated by members of the First Families. Unfortunately, that means that the Wizengamot is filled with pureblooded elitist snobs that are only interested in accumulating power. Those that seek actual, positive change (like Dumbledore and Pettifer) are in the minority.
35	** Made worse by the fact that the positions are ''inherited'', and thus virtually guaranteed to go to inbred lunatic wizards who don't care about anything other than pureblood politics.
36	* CreepyCathedral: The Holy Bones church sponsored by the Black family. It's decorated with human bones on the inside, including the bones of children. Somewhat justified since, like a few Muggle churches, the bones are simply relics rescued from cemeteries and catacombs threatened by development, and there is nothing sinister about the origin of the remains.
37	* CuteKitten: Rosebud, Ron's baby Kneazle. Granted, kneazle's aren't ''technically'' cats, but close enough for this trope
38	* DamningWithFaintPraise: The only good thing that Remus can think of to describe Grimmauld Place was it wasn't haunted
39	* DeadpanSnarker: Harry is extremely snarky, possibly even more so than in canon
40	-->'''Blaise''': (talking about the ''Sunday Prophet'') Do you want the cartoons section?\
41	'''Harry''': No thanks. I like my humour to be funny.
42	* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Many characters hold homophobic and/or elitist views that would not fly in modern Muggle society.
43	* EnemyMine: The opposition to Voldemort means that this is how the Order of the Phoenix works. It's membership includes Christians and pagan wizards, as well haughty purebloods, talented muggleborns, criminals and Aurors. Not the sort of people that would normally work together.
44	* EtTuBrute: [[spoiler: Father Marius betrays The Order of the Phoenix and hands Harry over to the Death Eaters.]]
45	* TheFace: Harry becomes this for Slytherin after usurping Malfoy's position as 'king'. [[TheLancer Zabini]] reminds Harry that the latter must make himself available and visible to his House if he wants to stay in power. He is also the go-to guy for any problems with his Housemates
46	* FantasticRacism: The wizarding world is not kind to werewolves. They are banned from many jobs, forcing them to find whatever work they can (legal or not). They are not allowed to live among Muggles (preventing them from getting a more mundane job) and cannot inherit anything in the event that a family member dies
47	** Many purebloods hold Muggleborn or mix-blooded wizards in disdain. That's not even getting into how they feel about Muggles... This is actually becoming a problem in-story, as the purebloods childish obsession with intermarriage is causing them to go extinct. The only reason Wizard Britains caste-like social system hasnt collapsed already is that wizards tend to live longer than Muggles.
48	* FlatEarthAtheist: Voldemort is mentioned as being an atheist, despite, as Harry points out, the very concept of some magic requires incantations that call on demons, angels and other higher beings. After some thinking, Harry concludes that it's more likely that Voldemort is a HollywoodAtheist who thinks that if God is real, then he/she doesn't care one way or another about humans, which is more or less Harry's own position, though less founded on psychosis and narcissism
49	* ForWantOfANail: Harry shook Draco Malfoy's hand on the Hogwarts Express, causing Ron to storm off in a huff. Because of this, Harry was disinclined to share a House with Ron, resulting in the Sorting Hat placing him in Slytherin
50	** Also, Peter Pettigrew was captured and tried by the Ministry of Magic. This allowed Sirius to be exonerated and return to his life with Remus Lupin. He later adopts Harry, taking custody of his godson from the Dursleys
51	* {{Golem}}: In this version, Voldemort's new body isn't a true rebirth, but instead a magical construct, which is specifically compared to a golem. [[spoiler: It's destroyed through a magical backlash during his final battle with Harry, reducing Voldemort to ash]]
52	* GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke: The pureblood ideology of the First Families have come back to bite them in the ass in a major way, as many branches are not giving birth to healthy children. In the Potter line, James was something of a miracle as all his older siblings had died within a few years, and his own son being born healthy was mostly due to Lily's muggle origin. As anyone with a passing understanding of biology could tell you, a genetic pool needs as much fresh material as possible, not delusional fantasies about supremacy.
53	* GoodIsOldFashioned: Pettifier
54	* GratuitousLatin: Members of the Wizard Orthodox Church are called Omnis Arcanum Christians, which means All Secret Christians in Latin.
55	* HairTriggerTemper: It may be partially blamed on his age, but Harry is a very prickly person. It's not uncommon for him to stomp off in a rage at the slightest provocation.
56	** Sirius is also prone to losing his temper.
57	** Remus gets very short-tempered and confrontational close to the full moon.
58	* HappilyAdopted: Harry, eventually. At first, he's quite happy to be away from the Dursleys. However, he frequently finds himself at odds with Sirius, who has a bad habit of sticking his foot in his mouth around his godson. Eventually, Sirius learns not to treat Harry like James's replacement and Harry loosens up around his godfather
59	** On the other hand, he has always gotten along with Remus. It helps that Remus got to know Harry as a professor before adopting him
60	* HappinessInSlavery: As canon, house elves although a few wizarding families are greatly abusive
61	* HatesEveryoneEqually: Harry views the majority of humanity with suspicion and mistrust, with very few exceptions. He expects just about everyone to have an ulterior motive and for every favor to come with a hidden string. Blaise Zabini even half-jokingly calls Harry a misanthrope
62	* TheHecateSisters: The White Goddess pagan wizards worship
63	* HeirClubForMen: By Wizarding law, male heirs take precedence over any female heirs in matters of inheritance. While women ''can'' inherit if no other suitable male candidates can be found, they will always be the last resort
64	** Once Sirius takes his place as the ''paterfamilias'' of the House of Black, he is required to produce an heir. Since he's in a committed relationship with Remus, he finds himself in a difficult situation. [[spoiler: He ends up making an arrangement with Pettifers granddaughter, and has a daughter with her who is raised by him and Remus. He also adopts Narcissa's second son as his own after she reveals Lucius might not be his father]]
65	* KarmaHoudini: Draco gets a minor case of this as his attempted murder of Ron has no real consequence in the long run, since Dumbledore agrees to let him back into Hogwarts after he fails to learn enough German for Durmstrang. The Order is more concerned with denying Voldemort as many followers as possible, and permanently expelling and isolating Draco would drive him right into Voldemorts arms.
66	* IdiotBall: Draco Malfoy gets hit with this hard in the seventh fic, when he crafts a trap spell set up with a static Sectumsempra, considering he would be the main suspect after his attempted murder of Ron. Exaggerated when Harry decides not to report him
67	* INeedAFreakingDrink: Remus after Harry tells of the depraved dreams Voldemort sends him
68	* InterruptedBath: Susannah Black, the ghost of a teenage girl that haunts the Black mansion, has the unfortunate tendency to spy on Harry whenever he's undressing, and at one point, [[CaughtWithYourPantsDown catches him in the bath while he's polishing his broom.]]
69	* TheLancer: Blaise Zabini acts as Harry's number two in their seventh year. Zabini supports Harry in his bid for Slytherin 'kingship', often providing him with advice
70	* MadonnaWhoreComplex: GenderInvertedTrope. When Harry and Ron reveal to Sirius, Remus and Pettifier about the Black Manor's secret erotic museum, the discussion is practically this trope
71	* MarionetteMaster: Wizards that possess the power of Animation can control puppets and automatons. Harry, Flitwick, and Sirius's father are all very powerful Animators.
72	* MoralGuardians: Hogwarts' Board of Governors used to be composed of these. At one point, they had demanded segregated school houses because many of them didnt want their daughters consorting with lower class boys, and were only thwarted because both the Sorting Hat and Hogwarts itself wouldnt co-operate, and even then they still forced the school to use ridiculously conservative Quiditch uniforms for the girls for several years.
73	* MoralityPet: Ron is the only person that Harry is unequivocally nice to
74	* MyBelovedSmother: A minor and humorous example. Maffy, Harry's House Elf nurse who cared for both him and his father when they were infants, insists on treating Harry as an overgrown toddler. She likes to fuss over him whenever he visits her (not that he minds).
75	** Molly Weasley. While she isn't intolerable, she wants certain things for her children, and doesn't really approve of Ron and Harry's relationship, though she doesn't outright try to break them up
76	* NayTheist: Harry and Voldemort are this as they believe that if there are gods, then they must be the [[JerkassGods jerkass variety]]
77	* NoSocialSkills: Spending his formative years with the Dursleys did a number on Harry's social skills. His years of isolation at Hogwarts didn't help either. Harry has a lot of trouble making meaningful interpersonal relationships with others. He tends to rebuff any friendly overtures with pointed sarcasm, alienating potential allies and isolating himself
78	* NouveauRiche: Pettifer has this opinion of the Malfoys
79	* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Any attempts at changing the status quo in the Wizengamot is shot down by the elitist purebloods in attendance (read: basically all of them)
80	* ParentsAsPeople: Although Sirius and Remus try their best to support Harry, they do mess up sometimes. Sirius has a difficult time accepting Harry as a Slytherin at first and frequently compares Harry to James. Remus tries to intervene between the two, but can only do so much.
81	* PerversePuppet: Sirius's father, Mercurius Black, was a powerful Aniamtor given to experimentation. He created many horrifying automatons while alive and set them around Black Manor to spy on his kids. Although these contraptions didn't have minds of their own, they were programmed by Mercurius to attack people (including his own sons). A few of them are still roaming around inside the sealed off parts of the mansion decades after his death.
82	* PetTheDog: Although he's rude to pretty much everyone, Harry never fails to show kindness to House Elves. He always makes sure to thank them for their help and show his appreciation
83	* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Averted. The Board of Governors was composed of MoralGuardians who did not want their daughters to be around [[UnusualEuphemism lower class]] boys and thus created a dress code that included corsets and bloomers and there was even an attempt to have segregated Houses but [[MalevolentArchitecture Hogwarts]] did not cooperate. When Dumbledore became headmaster, the dress code ended
84	** Exaggerated with the fact that [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Professor Binns]] was one of the professors who supported segregation
85	* PretentiousLatinMotto: The Potter's family motto is ''Fides et Fortitudo Vincerrunt'' [[note]]Faith and Fortitude Conquer[[/note]]
86	* RagsToRiches: Harry discovers that he is the ''paterfamilias'', or the family head, of the Potter family. The Potters are one of the First Families, the top crust of the Wizarding world. That means that he not only has a manor of his own, but also many investments and a whole lotta money.
87	* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Voldemort engages in gang rapes on women with his Death Eaters and forces Harry to watch through their Horocrux bond. He doesn't even care about the sex (Sirius thinks that his inhuman status probably means he is no longer capable of normal sexual activity anyway), he just sadistically enjoys the trauma it causes Harry and hopes it will corrupt Harry's own view of sex.
88	* RealMenLoveJesus: Sirius and Remus are members of the Wizard Orthodox Church, [[SubvertedTrope mostly]] because of societal expectation
89	* RelationshipUpgrade: Harry and Ron become romantically involved.
90	** Remus and Sirius are handfasted (wizard equivalent of a civil union) and have been living together for years before Sirius was sent to Azkaban. They resume their relationship after Sirius is exonerated.
91	* ReligionIsMagic: Certain elements of magic require the practioneer to call upon saints, angels and in the case BlackMagic demons and devils for spellcasting
92	* ReluctantRuler: In his seventh year, Harry decides to step up and take over as the 'king' of Slytherin. He only does so to prevent Draco from becoming 'king' again, but is not happy about it.
93	** Harry is this as the head of the House of Potter, making him essentially royalty. He has no interest whatsoever in the position, but feels obligated to take up his place.
94	* RoyalInbreeding: The First Families are considered nobility in the Wizarding world. Inbreeding is very common among them, since many First Families are obsessed with keeping their bloodlines 'pure'. This has caused a significant decrease in fertility in recent years, with many families dying out from lack of heirs.
95	* TheStoic: It's noted that Harry has an impressive poker face. He has a fierce temper, but can appear outwardly calm with effort.
96	* SecretOtherFamily: Not an ''entire'' family, but one of the epilogue stories reveals that Harry's grandfather had secretly remarried after the death of his first wife, with a ''muggle'' woman, whom he shared an entirerly separate life with that no one knew about, with the exception of the two house elves still living at the house. It's quite a shock for the family when Harry accidentally stumbles across the estate via a hidden portkey.
97	* SinisterMinister: [[spoiler: Father Marius turns out to be this, his genial personality is a complete facade, he's actually a pureblood supremacist and incredibly bigoted and corrupt. The epilogue reveals than when he's finally caught by the Aurors six years after Voldemort's deaths, his only defense is a series of religiously based racist rants.]]
98	* TallDarkAndSnarky: Sirius and Harry (although Harry's still growing).
99	* TookALevelInJerkass: Harry is much less friendly and compassionate in Two Households. He's very prickly and sarcastic, as well as self-serving and reserved. For much of the series, Ron is his only friend. Harry tends to snap at people, alienating them and preventing them from getting closer
100	** Fred and George Weasley are very hostile towards Harry. They are prejudiced against Slytherins and assume that Harry is a typical snobby Slytherin (not that Harry's cantankerous attitude helps). Ginny Weasley is influenced by the twins's opinion of Harry, turning her crush on Harry into intense resentment
101	* {{Understatement}}: Pettifer's reaction to the Black Manor's secret museum is that it's in poor taste
102	* WhatsInItForMe: The basic mindset of Slytherins in general. They tend to have a very mercenary mindset, trading favours and allegiances as needed.
103	* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: After Harry starts a riot in the Slytherin common room (with the help of Draco Malfoy), Dumbledore finds it necessary to teach his student about responsibility. Since Harry is 'king' of Slytherin, he will be held personally responsible for the actions of his Housemates. Any punishments meted out to his fellow Slytherins will also affect him.
104	* WineIsClassy: Pureblood families put a ''lot'' of importance on high-quality wine and champagne, to the point that it's actually a topic during Harry's coming-of-age party. Harry, being all of 17 at that point, has little experience with alcohol of any kind.
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