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After an operation in Dulvey, Louisiana, to capture Lucas Baker, Harry Potter, BSAA agent, spends some time with the Bakers, enjoying their hospitality. So too are his daughters, one of whom, in another life, could have been their demise...

Xenial in Dulvey is a Harry Potter & Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Crossover One-Shot Fic by Quatermass, where Harry, a BSAA Agent, manages to stop Lucas Baker from unleashing his monstrous Mold creation and apprehend him. As he stays in Duvley to clean things up, he, alongside his adopted daughters Eveline and Delphi, is welcomed to stay at the Bakers.


Xenial in Dulvey has the following tropes:

  • Adaptational Job Change: After the C-Virus pandemic, Harry and Hermione joined BSAA.
  • Adaptational Karma: Harry managed to stop Lucas Baker and arrest him before he could go all out with his Mold experiments.
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: The Bakers, who don't end up becoming a Cannibal Big, Screwed-Up Family thanks to avoiding their canon exposure to the Mold, are a much healthier, happier Deep South family who welcome the Potters in their house.
  • And the Adventure Continues: A darker variant; Harry knows that his respite with the Bakers is just temporary, and that, as BSAA slowly changes for the worse, he learns that he will have one last mission where he will be sent to remote European village where the Mold is oiginated from to destroy its source once and for all.
  • Commonality Connection: Jack can tell that Harry, despite being a young adult, is a former soldier like himself after seeing Harry's eyes.
  • Death by Adaptation: In this fic, many people who are close to Harry, including the Weasleys, are killed during a C-Virus pandemic.
  • Defusing the Tyke-Bomb: It took a lot of effort, but Harry manages to instill a true meaning of family in Eveline as he adopts her.
  • Emergency Transformation: Harry used a blood ritual on Eveline that not only made her fully blood-related to him, but also stopped her Rapid Aging and make her aging normally instead of being Younger Than They Look.
  • Happily Adopted: Harry adopted both Eveline and Delphi, and despite a few bumps on the road, they are happy with seeing Harry as their father.
  • Happy Ending Override: A lot of Harry's friends and their families were killed during the C-Virus pandemic, and he was barred from seeing Teddy by Andromeda for adopting Delphi.
  • In Vino Veritas: During a drunken tirade, Andromeda slips out about Delphi's true parentage in front of her, causing her to run away crying, and requiring some consolation from the fact that Harry killed her birth father.
  • It's All My Fault: Jack and Marguerite blame themselves for Lucas' psychopathy, believing that it stems from their failure in raising him and not noticing it until it's (almost) too late.
  • Jurisdiction Friction: Harry recalls how there was a heated debate between the BSAA, the FBI, and Duvley's local police over whose jurisdiction Lucas Baker's arrest falls into.
  • Sacred Hospitality: The Bakers let the Potters stay at their house as their guests while he guarded them in BSAA's witness protection program.
    Harry: By the way, I should thank your parents again for putting up with me and the other BSAA operatives.
    Zoe: It's no trouble, you understand? My parents are the most hospitable of folks you'll ever find around these parts.
    Harry: I know, I know…I just don't like to impose on them.
    Zoe: And I'm sure they'd disagree with you. Daddy might look askance at you for the way you've been lookin' at me — and don't think I haven't noticed that, but my parents are fond of old-fashioned hospitality.
  • Spared by the Adaptation: Because Lucas was arrested before he could fully experiment with the Mold, the Bakers avoid their canonical Sanity Slippage.
  • Teasing Parent: Jack can't help but notice how Harry and Zoe tend to steal glances at each other, and can't help but poke fun at it.
    Harry: Jack, it's not your fault.
    Jack: I know, son. I really do. But I still think I coulda done somethin' more, if only to raise Lucas right.
    Eveline: …Well, maybe Daddy can be your new son? *Shrugs as all eyes on her* Well…he'd make a much better son than Lucas.
    Jack: *Chuckles* Maybe…well, given the way you've been lookin' at Zoe, one of these days, I'd have to say "Welcome to the family, son", eh?
    Zoe: *Blushes heavilly* Daddy!
  • Title Drop: While assuring Harry that his family didn't impose hers during their stay in their house, Zoe mentions how she learns from her recent college class that Sacred Hospitality originated from Greece under the word Xenial, meaning "Hospitality".
  • Wilfully Weak: Invoked; Harry tells Eveline and Delphi that they can play with Jack, but without their powers.
    Harry: Settle down, girls. You have fun?
    Delphi: Yeah, though I wish I could've used my magic. *Pouts*
    Harry: Delphi, you and Eveline are special little girls, and Jack's an old man. You want to give him a chance, right?
    Jack: Hey, don't you be callin' me old. I can kick your…I mean, hand your rear to you pretty handily.
  • You Remind Me of X:
    • Harry asks Zoe if her uncle, Joe, is related to Chris Redfield in some way, since he managed to destroy one of Lucas' traps with a single punch, like the BSAA Agent is famously known for.
    • Harry can't help but reminisce about the late Weasleys when he sees how accommodating and caring the Bakers are to him and his daughters.
  • Your Head A-Splode: Harry recalls how easy it was to face Lucas' Mold experiments, because Eveline can cause this trope to the monsters thanks to her ability to control and manipulate Megamycete.

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