Harry Potter The HP Fic Recommendation Thread

Shirotsume

Shirotsume

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I think it was me saying that Harry would be the Hero, rushing in and protecting others by the seat of his pants, Hermione the thoughful one- the smartest, but also the worst at flying by her pants (skirt?) because she needs time to think and ponder, and finally Ron as the Bro, calming down Harry and livening up Hermione.




That said, I found something out recently that makes Ron's character make a lot more sense. She was planning on killing him off around 'half way through the books.'

Which is late three/early book 4ish. Perhaps killed by werewolf!lupin, or during the World Cup?

It explains why his character development was never finished, never fleshed out, why he never grew up, perhaps even some of his attitude before the first task.


Would make a damn interesting AU at that.




EDIT: Also, time for a reccomendation, some nice crack.

https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10685852/1/On-a-Pale-Horse

tl;dr: Dumbledore summons a hero that has conquered Voldemort, feeling that Harry Potter just isn't cutting it.

His massive summoning ritual gets... another Harry Potter, of course. Unfortunately, the Deathly Hallows of THAT Harry Potter's universe actually make you Death, and he has been Death for several millenia now- and Death has been an insane troll psychopath for just about... every single one of those years.

Thus begins the friendship of 16 year old Harry Potter and the troll death god Harry Potter.

Worth reading just for Harry kicking Death in the shin.
 
chronodekar

chronodekar

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Shirotsume said:
I think it was me saying that Harry would be the Hero, rushing in and protecting others by the seat of his pants, Hermione the thoughful one- the smartest, but also the worst at flying by her pants (skirt?) because she needs time to think and ponder, and finally Ron as the Bro, calming down Harry and livening up Hermione.




That said, I found something out recently that makes Ron's character make a lot more sense. She was planning on killing him off around 'half way through the books.'

Which is late three/early book 4ish. Perhaps killed by werewolf!lupin, or during the World Cup?

It explains why his character development was never finished, never fleshed out, why he never grew up, perhaps even some of his attitude before the first task.


Would make a damn interesting AU at that.
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That reminds me of something else, JKR made a big fuss about how "people died" in her stories. The only 2 I remember - Cedric and Dumbledore, were so .. well, it just didn't have the kind of impact it was meant to have, I think. Are there any fanfics which take that concept? As in; show what how death impacts people?

-chronodekar
 
da_fox2279

da_fox2279

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Renegade by 1991Kira
Summary: They expected him to be a Paragon of Virtue, a Champion of the Light, the personification of all that is good and noble in their world...they were wrong. Series of one-shots involving a darker Harry Potter.

Darker, but still basically good. A LightGrey!Harry, one who's willing to do what it takes to end Voldie and start fixing Wizarding Britain.

Worth a look, if nothing else.
 
Shirotsume

Shirotsume

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https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11302568/5/Renegade

"They expected him to be a Paragon of Virtue, a Champion of the Light, the personification of all that is good and noble in their world...they were wrong. Series of one-shots involving a darker Harry Potter."

The first chapter is OK, a bit wish-fulfillment, the third chapter is way over the top, but the second chapter and especially the fourth chapter are amazing. You can read each chapter on its own, and you should, if nothing else, read chapter four.

This is how you make a man.

EDIT: Holy shit, how long has da_fox's post been there? I swear to god chrono's was the post above mine when I filled this out...
 
da_fox2279

da_fox2279

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On a Pale Horse by Hylian
Summary: AU. When Dumbledore tried to summon a hero from another world to deal with their Dark Lord problem, this probably wasn't what he had in mind. MoD!Harry, Godlike!Harry, Unhinged!Harry. Dumbledore bashing.

A Harry who became Death after uniting the Hallows is summoned to another universe to deal with Voldemort... Unfortunately for the people who summoned him, this Harry is several millennia old, and more than slightly unhinged...

Obliviously Arrogant!Troll!Death!Harry... My life is complete.
 
da_fox2279

da_fox2279

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SEG-CISR said:
Quite a repost page we've got here, eh?

I'll third both recommendations though.
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Shit, was Pale Horse recc'd before? I didn't realize... I thought I found it through an author's ffnet favs.

My bad. Sorry, folks.
 
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Ashaman

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daniel_gudman said:
Without Hermoione around to steal all his potential parts, Ron would get to actually keep his character identity and remain a total bro.

Everybody always talks about how useless Ron is, but that's really a problem with the author, not with the character.

I remember when I read Book Four, I thought it was weird that Ron didn't believe Harry when he said he was framed as the champion. Yeah the kid's jealous, but come on.
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I know I'm really late to this party, but I just wanted to add something to this.

In GoT, Ron's doubts that Harry didn't want to be in the Tournament are slightly more justified than people give it credit for.

Obviously Ron's jealousy is a leading contribution, theres no denying that.

But I think most people miss the fact that the main topic of conversation between the two ever since the 4th year started has been about how awesome it would be to get into the Tournament.

From Ron's perspective, they've literally spent the last two months ploting ways of getting into the Tournament, only for one of them to actually do so, then turn around and say its all a mistake and he never really wanted it.

IIRC, Harry was having dreams about getting into the Cup and winning Cho's heart with his glorious victories.

Its no wonder Ron was suffering from a serious disconnect, because up until it actually happened and reality insued, Harry really was acting as though he wanted it.

Less than 4 weeks later, the reality of it hit Ron and he apologized.

He's still guilty of not trusting his bro when Harry needed him to, but there was more to it than just Rons jealousy to justify it.

On a later note, Ron suffered from a lack of focus later on, and most of his greatest moments began happening off screen.

Seriously. Instead of seeing Ron doing great stuff, we just begin hearing vague allusions to it.
 
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namelis

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I thought Harry said he was glad he was to young to enter when it was announced at the opening feast Ron disagreed and talked about how great it would be although I may have the order backwards
Then later Harry descided if I have to be in it im going to win
 
daniel_gudman

daniel_gudman

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I liked the approach in Seventh Horcrux, where Harry really did enter himself... like a thousand times, because he assumed the Goblet chose champions by random lottery and wanted to improve his presumed odds. ("You had your 200 chances, Ron, so I don't want to hear you complain.")
 
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namelis

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I just got done checking and twice it was brought up and Harry imagined what it would be like but he never said anything one way or the outher. The 3rd and final time when entering is mentioned someone says no one from hogwarts had entered there name yet harry said if it was him he'd have entered last night when no one was around to watch
 
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Ashaman

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namelis said:
I just got done checking and twice it was brought up and Harry imagined what it would be like but he never said anything one way or the outher. The 3rd and final time when entering is mentioned someone says no one from hogwarts had entered there name yet harry said if it was him he'd have entered last night when no one was around to watch
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namelis said:
I thought Harry said he was glad he was to young to enter when it was announced at the opening feast Ron disagreed and talked about how great it would be although I may have the order backwards
Then later Harry descided if I have to be in it im going to win
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Admittedly, my memory is fuzzier than it should be after making such a claim.

But at the very least, after a very breif check, whenever the topic did come up, Ron began to gush over the idea; meanwhile Harry agreed with his friend but didn't say anything.

So yeah, the force of my post has taken a hit, but the general point still stands.

Ron thought Harry wanted it - which is a reasonable assumption to make, because, up until reality insued, Harry did want it on some level.
 
Shirotsume

Shirotsume

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This is a horrible analogy in many ways, but I always felt the best way to put it into perspective was to think of it as sex and rape.

Yeah, sure, sex is great, I can't think of many 14 year olds that would disagree. I imagine that a lot of 14 years talk about how they want to have sex. That doesn't make Ron any less of a douchebag about the issue when his friend gets forced against his will. 'Wanting it' indeed.

Obviously, these are fictional characters, and instead of rape it's attempted murder, but the parallels are there. Some things are pretty cool if done properly. Having a third party force you to do it against your will for their own purposes is significantly less cool, to say the least.
 
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Karnath

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Having a deranged dark wizard after you is not too great. Having something you cannot quite explain after you in a strange world where the kindest fate would be finding yourself on the wrong end of a sword makes that first thing seem like child's play. Geralt/Yennefer, Harry/? Rated M. Because there's no other way to write a Witcher story.
https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11301154/1/Wake-the-Black-Wolf

Saw this in the favorites of one of the authors I follow, was pleasantly surprised, only 15k words, but was only published 3 days ago.
 
chronodekar

chronodekar

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Does anyone have any gender-bent recommendations? Specifically ones where Hermione is a boy? Don't really care for the rest of the cast, but am interested in stories where they portray bushy-hair as a boy. Might be the equivalent of a wizard-geek, I like to think. Oh, and please, no slash.

Why am I looking for the such? I've got an idea in my head - how would the golden trio be if Ron & Hermione were of different genders - and I need some references. Came across a plot where Ron became a 'Verionica' , so now all that's missing for me is Hermione.

-chronodekar
 
Shirotsume

Shirotsume

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If I'm remembering my Shakespeare correctly, you may want to do a search for Leontes Granger.

Hermione was the queen of Sicily in The Winter's Tale, and Leontes was the king.
 
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namelis

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I thought about recommending that but didn't because while genders are reversed so are gender roles so he's not going to read about a male version of her he is going be reading about the same person who happens to have different sexual equipment
 
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preb34

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I recommend The Accidental Animagus, With Strength of Steel Wings, Delenda Est, and Vox Corporis. There are plenty more I've read, but those are some of my favorites (With Strength of Steel Wings being my absolute favorite).
 
da_fox2279

da_fox2279

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Harry Potter and the Garden by rumblestiltsken
Summary: Harry has a power the Dark Lord knows not, and this time it is weaponisable. Who needs the power of love? A Comedy!Punshot.

Just... try it out. It's worth the time, for the chuckle.
 
Shirotsume

Shirotsume

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da_fox2279 said:
Harry Potter and the Garden by rumblestiltsken
Summary: Harry has a power the Dark Lord knows not, and this time it is weaponisable. Who needs the power of love? A Comedy!Punshot.

Just... try it out. It's worth the time, for the chuckle.
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I've recommended it before here, and I'll recommend it again. Seconded.
 
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tigros40208

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God I should have seen that ending coming. Got a good chuckle out of me. Worth the quick read.
 
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Ordieth117

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I too found that to be a wonderfully punny punch-line. I think there was just enough set-up to give the joke without boring me. I do feel that it could be grown into a bigger, flourishing story and still be enjoyable. I'd be interested to see what other changes from canon would bear fruit due to that idea. What sort of love would blossom from it? Would there be any decidedly thorny conflicts? Would Harry find a way to stay mobile, or would he set down roots?
 
da_fox2279

da_fox2279

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Not a fic, but for anyone interested, Daniel Radcliffe did a 20 Questions with Playboy. It's actually fairly funny.
 
iiradned

iiradned

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There are a couple of chapters of a new fic by Brennus on ff.net called Abraxas. It is a 6th year centered on Harry absorbing the Horcrux in his scar.
 
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