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4	''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12382425/1/Like-a-Red-Headed-Stepchild Like a Red Headed Stepchild]]'' is a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfiction by mugglesftw.
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6	The brainchild of an ImageMacro that circulated the Website/{{Reddit}} Literature/HarryPotter Fanfiction board, the story poses the very important question of what would happen if Harry was born with red hair instead of black? The answer? HilarityEnsues. Quite a few reddit memes and suggestions have made their way into the story, from the basilisk speaking in snek tongue to [[Film/{{Spaceballs}} someone realizing he's surrounded by Weasleys]]. The story toes the line between humor and an out and out CrackFic, though a strong narrative of family being important and Harry overcoming challenges through the aid of the Weasley clan.
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9	!!Provides examples of the following tropes:
10	* AbhorrentAdmirer: [[spoiler:Voldemort towards Sirius, much to the latter's horror and Snape, Lupin, and Tonks' amusement.]]
11	* ActionGirl: Every girl who gets drawn into the Weasley clan ends up being a part of their BadassFamily, especially Hermione who ends up being much more adventurous and willing to bend the rules than in canon. In fact, due to some rather poor journalistic practices and a series of unlikely events, it's looking as though [[spoiler: Voldemort has decided that Hermione is his real archnemesis instead of Harry, which of course only forces Hermione into more and more heroic situations.]]
12	* BadassFamily: The Weasleys (honorary and otherwise) are seen as TheDreaded by the entire school due to their extreme loyalty for one another and the serious harm they can inflict on even the most dangerous enemies that ever dare hurt a member of their brood.
13	* BecomingTheMask: Discussed for laughs after [[spoiler:Sirius]], acting as Voldemort's spy for Dumbledore, manages to break out all of the Death Eaters from Azkaban [[spoiler:[[GoneHorriblyWrong (he only wanted to free Bellatrix at first)]] to get out of a Christmas date with Voldemort.]]
14	--> '''Dumbledore:''' "I am unsure whether I should be impressed that you have single handedly managed to orchestrate and pull off what has to be the most monumentally successful prank of all time all because you find the thought of dating Voldemort horrifying, or be terrified that you may have actually gone over to the other side and have really become the world's most successful and dangerous Death Eater."
15	* BookAndSwitch: Percy hides a wedding planner behind a copy of the morning paper.
16	* BrokenBird: Luna Lovegood thanks to the death of her mother [[spoiler:and the fact that it is she, not Ginny, who ends up with the Diary in year 2]].
17	* ButHeSoundsHandsome: When it's suggested that [[spoiler:Voldemort's resurrection ritual was deliberately sabotaged]], Snape denies the possibility on the grounds that "only a skillful and masterful potions master could ever manage such a thing". [[LampshadeHanging Dumbledore immediately tells him to quit bragging]].
18	* CallingMeALogarithm: Before meeting the family, Harry is called a Weasley by Draco and wonders if it's an insult.
19	* CargoShip: InUniverse; Fred is pretty sure that Oliver wants to marry the Quidditch Cup and projects this desire onto whatever team mate manages to win the game. Oliver admits that he ''does'', but was told it "wasn't strictly legal".
20	* CrashingDreams: Harry dreams that he's kissing Luna and wakes to find Sirius in dog form licking his face.
21	* DastardlyWhiplash: None other than Gilderoy Lockhart becomes one, thanks to some MindRape that makes him believe he's evil. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Voldemort, Lockhart thinks that dressing in black and an EvilLaugh is what constitutes evil. In fact, the mind control was botched in such a way that he [[BecomingTheMask develops the superhuman talents he claimed to have in his books]] and begins a highly successful career as a professional monster hunter. And no-one ever discovers he was ever a fraud]].
22	* DidntThinkThisThrough: Draco has just enough time to realize he was taunting Hermione "I-Beat-Lockhart-In-A-Duel" Granger-Weasley before she breaks his nose and starts kicking him while he's down on the ground.
23	* TheDreaded: By third year, Hermione and, to a lesser extent, the Weasley children in general are feared by the rest of the student body. Lupin has trouble finding someone in his third year class who both isn't a Weasley and isn't terrified of them in some way, to test a boggart.
24	* EveryoneHasStandards: Despite being the straight-laced prefect, Percy thinks History of Magic is so boring that he won't blame his siblings (or Harry) for dosing off during it, and is completely willing to let them borrow his old notes for the class.
25	* ExactWords:
26	** When Fred and George promise to not use their new wands to prank their family members, they start planning wandless pranks instead.
27	** Part of why Voldemort is convinced [[spoiler: Hermione]] is his real nemesis is because she was born at the end of the seventh month of the Chinese calendar.
28	* ExtremeOmniGoat: The goats at the Burrow eat the hats and ties Harry and Luna put on them before the wedding.
29	* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Fred is struck down during the Chess Match in year 1, and pretends to be dead. Percy however, is not fooled.]]
30	* FamilyOfChoice: Besides Harry and the Weasleys, Hermione considers the Weasleys her adoptive family and Luna treats them as a second family.
31	* FieryRedhead:
32	** Ginny Weasley's temper and passion are on display much earlier, as she has no romantic attraction to Harry once he becomes a Weasley in all but name.
33	** Despite not being a natural redhead, after Hermione's hair is turned red, many refer to her as the scariest of the Weasleys.
34	* FluffyTheTerrible: The Basilisk's name turns out to be Supreme Danger Noodle. It is unclear whether someone gave her this name, or she chose it herself.
35	* {{Gaslighting}}: The Weasley children use a more benign form to make their mother think Harry is her son. By the summer after first year, she doesn't find anything odd about there being six children at the table even when Arthur points out there should be five.
36	* HappilyAdopted: While not official (until third year), Harry's quite happy to be a Weasley as he's always wanted a family.
37	* HeadDesk: Hermione bangs her head on the Gryffindor table after reading a ''Daily Prophet'' article about Sirius' escape from Hogwarts.
38	* ImperfectRitual: Voldemort's resurrection [[spoiler:essentially turns him into [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove Yzma]].]] [[AmbiguousSituation It's suggested to be a result either of]] [[spoiler:using Hermione's blood instead of Harry's, or Snape having secretly sabotaged the ritual]].
39	* INeedAFreakingDrink: The ever-increasing amount of Weasleys causes [=McGonagall=] to go through a ''lot'' of calming draughts (and occasionally, some actual alcohol). Snape also joins her for a drink when [[spoiler:he's forced to partner up with Sirius while spying on Voldemort and his followers]].
40	* JerkassHasAPoint: When Snape gives Harry and Ron detention for enchanting snowballs to pelt Draco, Harry admits they ''were'' bullying the other boy.
41	* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Not only does Hermione metaphorically lean on the fourth wall by mentioning the idea of convenient time travel magic that'd promptly be forgotten after that year, she also physically leans on the room's fourth wall as she does so.
42	* MilesGloriosus: Gilderoy Lockhart, naturally. [[spoiler:SubvertedTrope in fact. Due to Voldequirrel's MindRape of the hapless fraud, Gilderoy is BrainwashedAndCrazy, believing that his books are all true accounts, and that he is a very capable and powerful magician. As it turns out, ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve is in effect and Gilderoy does indeed become a capable and powerful HunterOfMonsters.]]
43	* MistakenForGay: Dudley's and Dobby's friendship gets mistaken for romance by Harry and Ron.
44	* MistakenIdentity:
45	** Thanks to the fact that Harry and Ron look rather similar from a distance, [=McGonagall=] believes that it was Ron, not Harry, who caught Neville's Remembrall and makes Ron the youngest Seeker in a century. Harry finds the entire situation hilarious, especially since he and Ron swap places on the team several times with the majority of the school none the wiser.
46	** Later, Dobby arrives at the Dursley's residence and assumes that Dudley is the ChosenOne.
47	* {{Mooning}}: Sirius does it to the Dementors that try to attack the Weasleys and Penelope during a Quidditch match.
48	* MugglesDoItBetter: Fred and George solve the potions puzzle blocking the way to the Philosopher's Stone by pulling out a couple of Muggle fire extinguishers they were saving for a prank and dousing the alchemical fire with foam.
49	* MythologyGag: Hermione still forms S.P.E.W. but this time it stands for "Stop our Professor's Evil Ways" and is formed to prove Lockhart is evil.
50	* NameMcAdjective: Harry refers to the brainwashed Lockhart as "Evil [=McEvilstein=]."
51	* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[spoiler:Hermione]] gets one in the form of the Girl-Who-Hunts-Monsters.
52	* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Draco insulting Harry and Luna about their reactions to dementors results in Harry, Ron, and Hermione beating him, Crabbe, and Goyle to the ground then repeatedly kicking them. Hagrid has to physically pull them off the Slytherins to make them stop.
53	* ObviouslyEvil: Lockhart after being mind-raped into thinking he's evil. [[spoiler:Subverted in that he's not evil at all.]]
54	* OnlySaneMan: Percy tries very hard to keep his siblings in line, at least most of the time. Of course, he does turn out to be NotSoAboveItAll on more than one occasion, especially when Harry is threatened.
55	-->"As Head Boy, I absolutely refuse to be party to any plans that could very well result in you lot blowing up the entire castle."
56	* PaperThinDisguise: Apparently most wizards can't recognize someone if they wear Groucho Marx glasses.
57	* PetTheDog: Snape is considerably less antagonistic towards Harry due to not only the boy looking more like his mother, but also because Harry doesn't really care about his father. After their first class, he tells Harry several stories about Lily, though he always paints James as a horrible bully (to be fair, James was something of a bully in canon).
58	* ProducePelting: When Hermione tells the Triwizard Tournament spectators that Voldemort has returned and Lockhart tries to back her up, the crowd throws conjured rotten food and half-eaten chips at them.
59	* PunnyNames: Saffron Scrivener is a yellow journalist for the Daily Prophet.
60	* RunningGag:
61	** Harry being mistaken for a Weasley naturally. Even the Sorting Hat mistakes him for one.
62	** Someone with red hair claiming to be a Weasley and pretending their real name is someone else. Usually Harry remarking that he's heard Harry Potter is "a real arse, running around with that scar of his". Even other students get confused and wonder why Harry and Hermione Weasley are being referred to as Harry Potter and Hermione Granger.
63	*** Likewise, someone with red hair is thought to be a Weasley by others. Susan Bones starts dying her hair blonde in second year to get away from the jokes about her belonging in Gryffindor.
64	** Gryffindor is at times referred to as the Weasley House due to the entire family being sorted there, honorary or not.
65	* ShipTease: After the events of second year, Luna sometimes ponders changing her last name to Potter (or Weasley since Harry's so insistent he is one).
66	* SirSwearsALot: The gnomes of course. Harry undergoes a Weasley initiation where he must teach the garden gnomes a new swear word.
67	* SneezeCut:
68	-->"You know, every time I start feeling guilty about hexing those Muggles' shrubberies you remind me just why we did it," Mr. Weasley observed. "I can't imagine who thought it was a good idea to leave you with them."\
69	At Hogwarts, Dumbledore sneezed loudly. Professor [=McGonagall=] had to keep herself from saying "I told you so" but was not sure why.
70	* SpannerInTheWorks: The Weasleys accidentally ruin [[spoiler:Lockhart's]] plan to quickly and easily slay the Basilisk.
71	* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
72	-->'''Possessed!Luna:''' Yes, hello, I am Luna Lovegood, first year Ravenclaw and not a dark lord enacting any evil plans. How are you?
73	* TakeThat: During third year, Hermione and Percy mock both the idea of Time Turners and how they negate basically every problem.
74	-->'''Hermione:''' If only there were some convenient method of time travel that would only be relevant to the plot for one year and then we could promptly forget about it, despite time travel being an easy solution to all our problem.\
75	'''Percy:''' That would completely violate any narrative flow and the laws of causality though. Plus, time travel stories always give me a headache.
76	* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Lockhart, by way of MindRape, becomes the skilled HunterOfMonsters he's always claimed to be]].
77	* TranquilFury: Mr. Weasley doesn't take well to realizing how poorly the Dursley mistreat Harry. Besides a moment of shouting, he stays completely calm even as he tells the twins to let gnomes loose in the Dursley garden.
78	* WhamLine: Halloween Year 2:
79	-->'''And that was the problem. No one cared.'''
80	* WholePlotReference: ... Well, "plot" [[NoPlotNoProblem isn't quite the correct word]], but the second half of chapter 30 is [[spoiler:essentially just a game of ''VideoGame/MarioKart''. On dragons]].
81	* YouMeddlingKids: A ''Daily Prophet'' article claims Sirius said this before escaping Hogwarts.

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