Line #25 Fanfic/HarryPotterAndNoOneInParticular


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2	[[caption-width-right:350: 'No One In Particular' with middle-aged Harry Potter]]
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5	''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ES4VZUIzw Harry Potter and No One In Particular]]'' is the ''[[Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheRestOfTheSentence other]]'' sequel to Fanfic/HarryPotterAndThePortraitOfWhatLookedLikeALargePileOfAsh... and is just as bizarre as its predecessors.
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7	It's 2021. The wizarding world is incorporating Muggle media and technology, and the Ministry of Magic is experimenting with mixed wizard-Muggle settlements. Imagine, if you will, an older ''Franchise/HarryPotter'', middle-aged now, dealing with an [[FantasticDrug addiction to magic potions]], his dead-end job at the Ministry of Magic, his teenage children, his [[SassySecretary snarky assistant]] Mavis, [[HollywoodMidLifeCrisis his midlife crisis]], borderline [[TheAlcoholic alcoholism]], the ongoing wars, and the supposed death of one Hermione Granger, the suspicion that an old friend has become the new Dark Lord, that everyone has [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs secrets and plans and secret plans]]... and how about this mysterious woman whose been plaguing Harry Potter's dreams, the one with a [[AcheyScars crescent moon scar upon her cheek]]? Now imagine it was all in the style of a Main/FilmNoir as written by Creator/DavidLynch. That is ''[[TitleDrop Harry Potter And No One In Particular]]''.
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9	Unlike previous entries in the canon of computer-written Harry Potter fanfiction, ''No One in Particular'' was written mostly with the help of [=GPT2=], rather than Botnik. Co-written and edited by Smashiell, best known for his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avOsvIWJlQk&list=PLexCibCDw1jf1chZwl_LYcUeo0i-zMjtG&index=1 animated adaptation of Portrait of Ash]]. Also notable for being, unlike its siblings, almost coherent. [[MindScrew Almost.]]
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11	You can read the text version [[https://www.wattpad.com/story/246772166-harry-potter-and-no-one-in-particular here]].
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13	The playlist can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1ES4VZUIzw&list=PLexCibCDw1jfyQDkMR4ddbDgYpunaLKro here]].
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17	Beware! Unmarked spoilers ahead!
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20	!!''"Aunt Petunia was sitting in the kitchen with her son Dudley, watching the television and drinking coffee laced with milk from a cow that had died three days earlier."'':
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22	%% * AbortedArc
23	* AdaptedOut: Save for James Sirius and Rose, all of Harry's kids and as well as those of Ron and Hermione are absent (although Ron does allude to Harry having "kids" in the plural).
24	* AddledAddict: Harry is heavily addicted to "[[GRatedDrug magic potions]]", and the effects of the potions are partly responsible for the MindScrew-iness of the fic, while another is the magic and an autoimmune disorder shared by a few characters.
25	* TheAlcoholic: Actually a lot of characters. A minor subplot deals with Ron addressing his alcoholism, Harry's also a borderline alcoholic, Mavis routinely comes to work hungover, and Mr. Painspiel, Harry's boss, apparently drinks scotch in the morning. A "pervasive culture of daytime drinking" thrives in the Ministry of Magic, which boasts numerous cheap in-house bars, and excessive alcohol consumption is considered totally normal.
26	* AlcoholInducedIdiocy: Chapter 4 starts with Harry and Ron, drunk in a goblin bar, refusing to pay for their drinks, dancing on a table, singing a bizarre 80s New Wave song and being heckled by the dumbfounded staff, before Harry grabs Ron and [[SpanishAnnouncersTable slams him through the table]], then throws himself through another one.
27	%% * BackFromTheDead: Voldemort. [[AlternateTimeline No one seems to find this odd]]. He's rather nice now actually.
28	* BadImpressionists: For whatever reason, Voldemort presents his cooking show ''Voldemort's Lamb Farm'' while doing a bad impersonation of Hagrid. It makes just as much sense in context.
29	* BilingualBonus: When we learn Mavis went to Beauxbatons, Harry asks if she speaks French. She proceeds to demonstrate, telling Harry, in several paragraphs of perfect (untranslated) French, about her time at Beauxbatons, during which she spent most of her time crying about merciless bullying for being tall, thin and English. This has little bearing on the plot, if any.
30	* CameBackWrong: Hermione is not dead, but [[spoiler: her new autoimmune disorder shared with Yvette that makes her allergic to magic, and putting her in the dissociative state from a curse that polymorphs her into Mitsuko Burselfly, creating the alter ego 'No One in Particular']] causes her absence.
31	** [[InvertedTrope Inverted]] with Voldemort, who came back as a peace-loving cooking show host who wishes no harm for anyone.
32	* CasualKink:
33	** Neville and Hannah are engaged in an "open marriage" and do not shy away from polyamory, even trying to involve other people in their endeavors.
34	** Harry apparently has a thing for tavern wenches, reading a pornographic magazine with that theme in public.
35	* {{Defictionalization}}: Wondered what Ron's "Crazy Whale" hit single was like? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTHVqlBKVfs Wonder no longer.]] Now featuring [[NonIndicativeTitle 100% less whales]].
36	** And then there's the New Wave hit, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq7IMWqsm4k Nuclear Voodoo by Billy Boglam and the Sooty Bears.]]
37	* CutLexLuthorACheck: Voldemort established himself as a pretty successful cooking show host.
38	* DarkerAndEdgier: In contrast to Rowling's young adult novels, this fanfic is a gritty and somewhat vulgar Lynchian Noir. Aside from descriptions of depressive and washed up mood of characters, there are quite a few erotic scenes and the characters are considerably more foul-mouthed as well.
39	* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Neville Longbottom]] of all people has become an intimidating ([[EvilIsPetty and petty]]) head of a [[TheConspiracy secret crim]][[TheMafia inal organization]] (revived [[spoiler: Ethical]] Death Eaters).
40	* GenderBlenderName: None of Soma's given names have been feminine.
41	* GloryDays: Harry calls his office "Hogwarts", suggesting he's never gotten over his days as TheHero. Made all-but-explicit in Chapter 4.
42	%%* GreatOffscreenWar
43	* HomophobicHateCrime: As opposed to Muggle Britain in 2021, where homosexuality is a non-issue to most people, the wizarding community is suffering a rising tide of homophobia, and [[NoodleIncident ''something'' - heavily implied to be unspeakably unpleasant - was done to Billy Boglan]].
44	* HumanityEnsues: Jules was once [[spoiler: a [[EldritchAbomination Dementor]]]] of all things! ''And he has the scars to prove it.''
45	* LoveDodecahedron: It's not so much a question of who is sleeping together, but a question of who ''hasn't'' slept together.
46	%% * MeaningfulName / {{Troll}}: The two possible interpretations of Soma's "Harry Dursley" introduction.
47	* MyFistForgivesYou: In the second chapter, Ron punches Harry in the face before forgiving him.
48	* NameAndName: The title, not that it's obvious at first.
49	* RememberTheNewGuy: Most of the new characters are given sufficient context for their relation to the canon characters (Mavis is Harry's assistant, for instance), but Yvette is suddenly introduced partway into chapter 3 as though Harry always knew her, even though there's no indication of why he would, especially given she is later revealed to have been [[spoiler:trapped inside Harry's glass rabbit for years before he inadvertently freed her.]]
50	* TheReveal: Turns out [[spoiler: Draco Malfoy was a muggle-born]]. And a [[DesignerBabies Test Tube Baby]] to boot. The [[spoiler: OppositeSexClone of Yvette]]. [[SerialEscalation Yes.]]
51	* SeinfeldianConversation: Harry, Ron, and Soma have a lengthy conversation on the proper mindset to have when drinking real and imaginary tea. It is treated as very serious in the moment, and it ''may'' yet [[ChekhovsGun prove to be plot-relevant]], but it certainly feels like this trope in the moment.
52	* ShoutOut: In chapter 7, Harry recalls dating a [[Fanfic/MyImmortal vampire girl with limpid blue eyes]].
53	* SomeCallMeTim: [[Manga/FoodWars "Soma Yukihira"]] is not her actual name, [[spoiler:, it's actually Hermione Granger]] she just thought it was a better way to address her than as [[TitleDrop "No One In Particular"]] (and only after Harry refused to believe that she was called [[{{Doppelganger}} "Harry Dursley"]]). Her original name was Mitsuko Burselfly.
54	* SplitPersonality: Soma is implied to have one when she confronts Ron in the music shop, however it is confirmed in the final chapters with her dissociative state.
55	* SpyFiction: Lots of hushed conversations, and Harry's boss wants him to infiltrate the [[spoiler: reformed]] Death Eaters. Definitely the "stale beer" flavor.
56	* TheUnpronounceable: One of Ron's cousins was named after the sound a whale makes when it attacks, so it can be safely inferred their name is this.

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