Judah Wrote:Harry Potter and the Boy Who Lived by The SantiAh, that brings up an entire category of cliches we haven't even covered yet:
Ff.net description for this one doesn't have much to do with the actual story. Slytherin Genuis!Harry has a twin brother in Gryfinndor and really starts to hate Hogwarts. He gets the permission of his parents (alive James+Lily) to transfer to Durmstrang where he befriends Viktor Krum and a pureblood dark witch. Her family is a big anti-light enemy that Harry's parents would hate (if they knew about it). The author goes through multiple years at a dark arts centric Durmstrang, very in depth. I think the author stopped at the end of year three. http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5353809/1/H ... -Who-Lived
Harry isn't the Boy-Who-Lived, Neville is.
Harry has a twin brother/sister who is the Sibling-Who-Lived.
Harry has a twin brother/sister whom everyone thinks is the Sibling-Who-Lived, but it's really Harry.
Same as above, but Harry is ignored or even abused as everyone fawns over the sibling.
Then there are the female Harries. "Harriet" is not an unexpected name for them, but for some reason "Rose" is almost as common.
And while we're on the topic of names: The Grangers. Unnamed in the source material, but like late Mrs. Soun Tendo, the fanficdom has bestowed names on them. The most common set is annoyingly meta, calling them "Daniel" and "Emma" after two child actors whom almost no one has ever heard of. (And at least one author got cutesy with the idea and named his Grangers "Emmett" and "Danielle".)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.