Fanfic / Harry Potter and the Targaryen Family

Harry Potter and the Targaryen Family is a Harry Potter / A Song of Ice and Fire Crossover fanfiction written by LuckyCheesecake.

In this universe, the Weasley Family does not exist. As such, instead of meeting Ron Weasley on the Hogwarts Express in their first year, Harry instead meets and befriends Visenya Targaryen. The story follows the interactions Harry has with the Targaryen Family, comprising of Duke Rhaegar Targaryen, his wives Elia Martell and Lyanna Stark, and children Viserys, Rhaenys, Aegon, Jaehaerys, Daenerys and Visenya.

Harry Potter and the Targaryen Family contains examples of:

• The Ace: Visenya notes that all of her siblings are outstanding students. In particular, Jon and Dany.
• Adaptational Badass: Harry is pretty skilled in Occulumancy, unlike in canon, as he’s taught by Elia and Lyanna instead of Snape.
  • In addition, the Quibbler is a proper newspaper on par with the Daily Prophet in this fic, and a trusted (albeit quirky) source of information to the liberal wizarding public.
• Awesome, but Impractical: Elia thinks that a station wagon would have been a more practical car than Lyanna’s Ferrari.
• Badass Normal: Eddard Stark, Benjen Stark and Robb Stark are trained soldiers who don’t hesitate to fight Death Eaters despite being muggles. Arya Stark also qualifies.
• Beta Couple: Jon and Daenerys. Rhaenys and Krum. Aegon and Fleur.
• Broad Strokes: Per Word of God, Anything that happens “off-screen” occurs more or less identically to canon.
• Brother–Sister Incest: The Doctrine of Exceptionalism is in effect. Jon and Dany are in a romantic relationship, and nobody (apart from a baffled muggleborn) has any problem with it.
• Big Brother Bully: Viserys is technically an uncle, but he qualifies. A pureblood supremacist, he’s pretty nasty to Jon and Visenya, and in Visenya’s fifth year outright calls them ‘half-breed bastards whom are shaming the family’. Downplayed with his actual sister, Daenerys, who he loves, but is condescending and indelicate to. Particularly after her lover Jon dies. He has a Heel Realisation and gets better in seventh year.
• The Big Guy: Daenerys ‘Stormborn’ Targaryen is one for the Order of the Phoenix as a whole. She even fights Voldemort twice and lives to tell the tale.
• Big Man on Campus: Jaehaerys ‘Jon’ Targaryen. Head Boy, Quidditch star, and exceptionally popular. He becomes Hogwarts’ Triwizard Champion instead of Cedric Diggory.
• Brick Joke: Lyanna’s flying Ferrari’s Self-Destruct Mechanism, which Elia scathingly questions the use of in Chapter Two. It saves Visenya and Lyanna’s lives in the Battle of Seven Potters.
• The Cameo: A couple of them from the Author’s other fanfics:
  • The four main characters of Instead of Secondary School, we went to Hogwarts make passing appearances.
  • Daena the Wanderer from King Rhaenyra I, the Dragonqueen shows up as a guest in Rhaenys’ and Aegon’s double wedding with Viktor Krum and Fleur.
• Cool Car: Lyanna’s flying Ferrari. It can fly, turn Invisible, is Bigger on the Inside, has a submarine mode and has a Self-Destruct Mechanism.
• Dragon Rider: House Targaryen, obviously.
• The Dreaded: Played for Laughs with Elia Martell, who the entire family (even the dragons) are afraid of angering.
  • Head Girl Daenerys is mentioned to have an unparalleled ability to terrify half of Gryffindor into submission.
• Exact Words: Combined with Loophole Abuse. Draco Malfoy challenges Harry to a duel in their first year, and Harry sets ‘No magic’ as the terms. They fight, and when Draco starts getting the upper hand, Harry pulls out a Beater’s Bat and starts whaling on him. As Harry points out, he only said ‘No magic’, not ‘No weapons’.
• Exotic Extended Marriage: Averted. Legally speaking, Lyanna is Rhaegar’s mistress, not his wife. By that same definition, Jon and Visenya are also mentioned to be considered Rhaegar’s illegitimate children. But essentially the only person in the story whom makes a fuss about this is Viserys.
• Fake-Out Make-Out: Visenya strips Hermione and herself down to their underwear and starts passionately making out with her in an empty classroom in order to avoid being caught by the Inquisitorial Squad after Dumbledore’s Army gets busted. Harry is deeply amused that it actually works.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: Many of the boys are mentioned to be staring while Elia and Lyanna dance with each other at the Yule Ball. Quite a few were drooling.
• Good Stepmother: Elia and Lyanna clearly care for each other’s children like their own. When Bellatrix nearly hits Visenya with a killing curse, Elia goes full-on Mama Bear and outright kills Bellatrix for that.
• Happily Married: Rhaegar, Elia and Lyanna.
• Heel Realisation: Viserys has one before the Battle of Hogwarts. Unfortunately, he doesn’t survive it.
• If It's You, It's Okay: Hermione eventually warms up to Visenya in Sixth Year, and enters a romantic relationship with her as well.
• Insult to Rocks: Daenerys has a very low opinion of Professor Umbridge

Daenerys: [Regarding Umbridge] Of the seven DADA teachers I’ve had, she is by far and away the worst of the lot. And I am including Pree and Lockhart in that number!

Visenya: Wasn’t Pyat Pree a pedophile? He kidnapped you in your first year.

Daenerys: And he was still better than her!”

• Jerkass: Viserys. Particularly to Lyanna, Jon and Visenya.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: Visenya. As Harry and Hermione put it:

Hermione: [To Visenya] You’re just easy to please. We know what you like.

Harry: [Listing on fingers] Sex, Quidditch, dragons, more sex, kissing, romantic dates, and sex afterwards, blowing stuff up, food, even more sex—

• Loved by All. Jon. When he becomes Hogwarts’ Triwizard Champion, the entire school cheers for him. Even the Slytherins.

Daenerys: Were Jon still here, would he have tolerated Umbridge’s incompetence or abuses?

Harry: He’d start a riot, throw her out of class, and have himself voted into becoming the new DADA teacher. And then prove so popular and so successful that the students would rally behind him and name him God-King-for-life of Hogwarts.

• Magic Music: Rhaegar Targaryen is mentioned to be a spellsinger. Professor Moody notes that this makes Rhaegar a very effective politician, as his voice makes people think with their genitals when they’re around him. He and a fellow spellsinger, Hufflepuff student Alice Sethi, sing a duet during the Yule Ball, which brings virtually everyone, even Professor Snape, to tears.
• Mama Bear: After Visenya is nearly killed by Bellatrix Lestrange, Elia (up until then a Non-Action Guy) leaps straight into action, unleashing fury beyond even what Daenerys could bring to bear. She and Lyanna successfully kills Bellatrix Lestrange.
• Mythology Gag:
  • “Well, what else could we have done, Professor? Stolen my mother’s car and flown it all the way to Scotland?” Visenya scoffed. “Even if by some miracle half of England didn’t see us flying overhead, we’d probably crash the damn thing into the Black Lake or the Whomping Willow when we tried to land.”
  • When Tale as Old as Time is sung at the Yule Ball, Harry envisions Belle and the Beast dancing in the Great Hall. He notes that for some odd reason, Belle looks like an older and more beautiful Hermione.
  • After the Battle of the Astronomy Tower, Rhaenys is mauled by Greyback and according to Visenya: “You look like someone dragged you kicking and screaming out of bed, before stabbing you half a hundred times with a knife.”
  • Aegon gets his head smashed in by Gregor Clegane during this same battle.
  • When the Death Eaters attack Dragonstone:
    • Oberyn Martell is killed by Gregor Clegane
    • Quentyn Martell was torched by Rhaegal
    • Rickon Stark was shot in the back by Ramsay Bolton
    • Bran Stark was rendered paraplegic
  • Robb Stark’s code name is ‘Grey Wind’, and Lyanna’s is ‘She-Wolf’.
• Non-Action Guy: Elia normally leaves the fighting to Oberyn or her other relatives. Averted in the Battle of Hogwarts, where she successfully kills Bellatrix Lestrange.
• Noodle Incident: Jon apparently once duelled Daario Naharis after he ‘insulted’ Dany’s honour.
• Old Master: Aemon Targaryen is the oldest wizard alive, and still very skilled at magic.
• Polyamory: Rhaegar, Elia and Lyanna are all Happily Married in a three-way-relationship. Harry, Hermione and Visenya start a similar three-way relationship later on as well.
• Practically Different Generations: Viserys and Daenerys. Dany in particular. Harry has apparently caught her calling Rhaegar ‘Father’ more than once.

Visenya: Viserys and Daenerys are technically my uncle and aunt, but they’re so close to our age I consider them siblings.

• Rules Lawyer: Elia is able to represent Harry in his trial for underaged magic despite being disbarred by the Fudge Administration as there’s an old (partially amended but never outright repealed) law that allows for the muggle guardians of a magical child to choose muggle attorneys to represent them under wizarding law, and Elia is apparently a certified muggle (corporate fraud) lawyer.

Umbridge: [Shrieking] Technicalities!

Elia: [Smiling coldly] The law is nothing but technicalities, Madam Umbridge.

Umbridge: You have been disbarred!

Elia: Not by the muggle Bar Association.

• Sadist Teacher: Umbridge. Snape also has his moments.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The dragons Balerion and Norberta immediately fly away after they catch sight of an angry Elia Martell on approach, leaving their riders out to dry.
• Shock and Awe: Daenerys Stormborn uses lightning as her main offensive magic.
• Shout-Out:
  • Tale as Old as Time is sung at the Yule Ball.
  • Dread Empress Malicia is mentioned to rule over Africa and parts of the Middle East.
  • Kaiserin Degurechaff is mentioned to rule over the Eastern Bloc.
  • "By the power of Pertho, Hagalaz, Eihwaz and Thurisaz, I beseech you, thunder of heavens! Fulmen Imperator!”
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: The lodestone of Malfoy Manor’s wards are protected by an alarm that will trigger if any magic passes the threshold. Robb Stark, a muggle, walks right past it and rigs the wards to blow undetected.
• Worth It: Practically the Golden Trio’s catchphrase.