#harry gets adopted

[selfish-thunder]

I’ve got another idea.

Okay, so I love those fics that have Harry trying to use his Parselmouth on either (or both) the basilisk and the dragon in the first task of the Triwizard Tournament, with varying degrees of success. And a lot of the time, talking to the dragon kinda works, right? Like, it’s not direct communication, more like two people who are just above beginner’s level in learning the other’s language, and both languages are derivative of another one, so even if they don’t fully understand they can kinda piece together what the other is saying?

So, let’s say it’s like that. And of course, dragons aren’t born like squishy humans who take forever to learn to even roll over; they immediately start walking, flapping their wings, and hiccupping sparks, right?

AU

FIRST YEAR Harry, of course, doesn’t realize yet that he’s a Parselmouth–he doesn’t even know what Parseltongue is and just assumed being able to talk to that snake in the zoo was just a wizard thing.

So, they’re in Hagrid’s hut, Norbert(a) is born, and Harry hears something that sounds an awful lot like, “Food? Hungry? Momma?” or whatever a newborn dragon would try to communicate.

Harry tries to tell Hagrid he thinks the dragon is hungry, he might want to feed it, but the others are confused because it sounds to them like Harry is hiss-cooing or something to the dragon. (Hagrid thinks it’s adorable.) But anyway, however it comes about, it becomes obvious in the time between the dragon being born and Charlie’s friends coming to get them, that Harry can, in fact, understand the dragon and speak to it.

It’s not perfect, but he’s able to communicate to the dragon not to set something on fire or that they need to try to eat the rats as they’re being weaned off the whiskey/blood mix thing. No one thinks it’s a perk of Parseltongue because hello, he’s talking to a dragon, and isn’t this incredible? It must be some kind of ancient inheritance thing.

So, when they write to Charlie, they naturally have to ask him if he’s ever heard anything like that, so instead of just coming to collect the dragon, Charlie comes, too, and they witness this incredible thing. (So does Draco, in the shadows, of course.)

Charlie is super excited and reaches out to every expert he can, and he convinces McG to let him bring Harry out to a dragon range to be evaluated, and they try to keep this new, rare ability under wraps, but some of the assessors blab, and Draco wrote to complain to his father who goes on his own investigation, etc. At any rate, it becomes A Thing.

While Dumbledore steps in to ensure Harry goes back to the Dursleys, the obsessed dragon crowd refuse to be refused outright and secures Harry a camp-like thing at a dragon resort (because they think it’s clearly Harry’s destiny to become, like, the Ultimate Dragon Trainer, and Harry thinks dragons are cool and likes the sound of getting away from the Dursleys for a few weeks).

Their letters don’t get through that summer, though, and Charlie hears from his brothers that they haven’t heard from Harry either, so it’s Charlie who goes to check on him and finds him locked up with bars on his windows. Unlike Ron, Fred, and Geroge, Charlie is a grown-ass adult with his own connections now, which go beyond Dumbledore’ reach because the wealthy dragon resort that’s so interested in Harry is in a goddamn different country with a whole different magical government, and also, ain’t nobody wants to get on the bad side of a self-sufficient DRAGON RESORT that has a ton of dragons that aren’t just roaming their countryside thanks to them.

So, a new arrangement is made. Harry will return to the Dursleys, under strict Romania supervision (I imagine it's some seasoned, scary-looking dragon tamer who demands to stay in the house with them, taking over the guest room, like… ahhhh chef’s kiss) just long enough to satisfy the protection spell, but for the rest of the summer, Harry stays at the resort. Charlie becomes his unofficial guardian, kinda, and: enter, a bunch of OC dragon tamers who are awesome and very protective of their little dragon-speaker.

Second year goes a little differently. First there’s Draco, who hates Harry more than ever over this, but while he knows he’ll never get a dragon-in with the Weasleys, there’s still a slight chance with Harry (and goddamnit, dragons are his NAME’S SAKE, if anyone deserves free access to any dragon they want, it’s HIM), so he tries to become less of a bother. Harry’s still outed talking a different language during duel club, and some people are still suspicious, but most people know about his dragon-ability and wrongly assume the opposite of what it actually is (ie, he can kinda talk to snakes because he can talk to dragons), and Harry only tells Ron and Hermione that the snake was actually a lot easier to understand.

Go to next summer, when his new dragon-tamer-family learn about the events of second year, they firstly, throw a fit because they should have been informed their charge was in danger, and secondly, go and collect the basilisk because like hell are they going to let something like that just rot somewhere. So, figuring out how to destroy Horcruxes later becomes, like, SUPER easy and accessible.

Charlie’s the one who tells Harry about Sirius Black when he escapes, and he straight up tells Harry everything, about Black being his godfather and betraying his parents, all of it, so Harry goes into third year fully informed. He, of course, does not see the grim that summer. But he doesn't spent the year an emotional wreck, just getting a little bit of the info at a time, do with that as you will.

Harry arrives to school with a signed permission slip for Hogsmeade, and even though McGonagall still wants to refuse him because of Black, members of his dragon-tamer family just happen to be in the area for that year for ‘business’ or whatever (aka, protect Harry because ain't nobody said shit to them last year) and escort him to Hogsmeade anyway.

(“With all due respect, Professor, I once had a Peruvian Vipertooth grab my leg and toss me over a hill, and I still got back up and got the collar on her. You think Black scares me?”)

Most of their patronuses are dragons, except for one tamer whose patronus is a chipmunk, and funnily enough, it’s the most powerful patronus of all of them.

Draco doesn’t insult Buckbeak because he wants to prove to the tamers and probably Potter that he can, in fact, handle himself with larger magical creatures. He becomes Hagrid's best, most dedicated student.

I mean, COME ON,  imagine how the whole series can go differently.

Maybe the tamers get hilariously invested in the Scabbers/Crookshanks feud. It's the tamers, maybe, that figure out Scabbers fucking Pettigrew.

Different dragons have to be imported for the first task because Romania would be too biased - or they change the first task altogether because Harry's a known dragon-speaker.

They would DESTROY Umbridge.

Death Eaters vs Dragon Tamers. Dragon Tamers in the Order. Sirius lives because a Tamer was there in the Department of Mysteries to save him. Sirius not going out of his mind being stuck at Grimmauld because he can go to the resort where no one outside the Order recognizes him/cares.

Draco not becoming a Death Eater because he wants to become a Dragon Tamer.

DRAGONS AT THE BATTLE OF HOGWARTS. USING THE GRINGOTTS DRAGON INSTEAD OF GRIPHOOK TO BREAK INTO (AND OUT OF) GRINGOTTS.

THE POSSIBILITIES

[xx-thedarklord-xx]

Sam's Weekly Wrap Up 3!

Week three is done! | Week One | and | Week Two |

Secrets Undone (the Lightning Order) It started out as a secret. Their love was hidden just between the two of them until it became a revolution. One where Harry and Draco would change the world. He just had to pass his O.W.L examinations first.

Imaginary Playground Draco owns the biggest toy store in Diagon Alley, and he makes all of the wooden toys himself. Business is good, but his favorite part of the day is when his favorite customer brings in their father, even if that father is Potter.

Memos of Originality Harry owns a publishing company, and his best employee is Malfoy, who sends daily updates from home, but doesn't realize that Scorpius sends his own daily updates to Harry through the Floo every morning. And Harry? Well, he knows exactly what to do with them.

Not Needed Harry Potter went missing the night the Potter’s died. The Magical world looked for him but to no avail. No Hogwarts letter was ever sent, no messy mop of black hair appeared on the first day of school. To the rest of the world he was as good as dead.

A shame that no one counted on adoption.

Gift of Love Christmas Eve, sneak attacks, a mild prank war and a gift filled with so much love that Harry knows it's the best Christmas he'll ever have.

Darkest Shadows Shadows. Shadows were everywhere. They followed Harry, whispered to him, promised him the world. All he had to do was use them, control them, guide them—become them. Harry became the shadows but also mastered them at the same time.

[dark-elf-writes]

So I see you've reblogged the new AU struggle post 4 times in a row... mind sharing the new AU with the class?

It’s not a full au yet but I am kicking around an idea for a hp/pjo crossover potentially one with Percy and Harry being raised as brothers where they go to camp at the same time (Harry is ten to Percy’s twelve for reasons) but with Harry being the son of a minor goddess he doesn’t get claimed when Percy does only to find out some children of Hecate and their bloodlines have a secret society complete with a school so Harry is going from secret summer camp to secret school and PLEASE could people just stop making prophecies for five seconds?

[helenadurazzo]

Ask My HPMA OCs

Genna is the MC and a Muggle Born Gryffindor with a sense for adventure. She is the daughter of Andrew and Eleanor Raleigh, although doesn’t have the best relationship with the latter

Sandy is a curious Ravenclaw with a love for old dusty books. She is the daughter of Jacob and Angelica Durazzo and often finds herself babysitting her three younger brothers.

Rex is a suspicious Hufflepuff and the son of Nathaniel and Izumi Graham. His father left before his sister was born and his mother left him and his sister at an orphanage shortly after she was born.

[jyou-no-sonoko19]

For Disco Elysium re-players,

[goggles-mcgee]

I was reading your latest PFO and I realised something. Charlie tells everyone, including the dragons, about the gossip. And like every HP fic let's pretend that these dragons are intelligent enough to understand human language. Now, imagine Harry in the first stage of the tournament. He has to face the dragons and he's so freakin nervous about it. He's filled with dread. And then he starts mumbling things like "I wonder if this is the kind of emotion Snape feels like whenever he saw my Dad with Mom" and the dragon who was just about to roar/spit fire at him s t o p s. THE DRAGON IS INVESTED TOO!!! AND HARRY NOTICES!!! And then Harry just starts chatting with the dragon in front of everybody where they can all hear it.

Okay that would be great but consider.....they do understand human language but it's only some words. Like they get the gist but it's not a direct translation to their mother tongue. So they understand but still rely on human body language more than anything since there are so many human tongues.

I would like to think that Harry, the little bastard he is, instead of actually trying in the Tri-Wiz tournament, he purposefully tries to get the least amount of points. First challenge he legit just sits in front of the dragon and is just like, I wonder if parseltongue works with dragons? Guess we're gonna find out!

It does but it's like speaking to someone who is not fluent and has an accent. The dragon finds it adorable and is just like, "Ah yes. This is now my hatchling."

Harry is ecstatic and just absolutely blabs about the whole Potter Family Opera to Feng who in turn tells all the other nesting mothers and when they go back to Romania they tell all the other dragons.

Charlie starts to learn Parseltongue just so he can keep Feng up to date and because Harry sends letters to Feng for Charlie to read. (Harry tries his best to write the parseltongue translations phonetically)

The dragons are all hooked on the drama too.

[347-emeraldbitch]

Percy: Ron!!! You invented poor Harry to join us this summer?

Ron: Of course I did. He’s never been on holiday. He’s so excited.

Percy: But I thought you liked Harry? Why would you introduce him to more of us? Hasn’t he suffered enough!?!

Ron: He’s used to you by now. I don’t think it could be worse.

Percy: Rude, but Ronald it’s family reunion summer!!! You’re dragging him to meet our stuffy pure blood relatives?!?!?

Ron: . . . . I’ve made a mistake. He will never forgive me.

[ozzinbloggin]

This is what they call a Character Establishing moment.

ASM #37

[foundfamilyhq]

[the-herdier]

Thinking about the AU/headcanon in my head where Cuno grows up to be an officer specializing in child abuse cases/cases involving kids in general again :)

[xx-thedarklord-xx]

Not Needed

Harry Potter went missing the night the Potter’s died. The Magical world looked for him but to no avail. No Hogwarts letter was ever sent, no messy mop of black hair appeared on the first day of school. To the rest of the world he was as good as dead. A shame that no one counted on adoption.

Some tags: Falling in Love, Getting Together, Smart Harry Potter, Bookworm Harry Potter, Magically Powerful Harry Potter, Harry Stays Out of the War, Anal Sex, Bottom Harry, Top Draco Malfoy, Draco Runs Away

Ao3

Gifted to @brainrot-has-overtaken-me

[pissfaggit]

Ngl I lost my shit when he shot the control panel aksksjdjskkagk 😂😂 and I had to include them running out of the bar like looney tunes characters

[leenamorrigan]

This seems to be a recurring theme

It's not like Leena's the only child she has left or anything

[dark-elf-writes]

Hello!

For your HP x AC the ancestors still have all their abilities right ? Would they see/sense something isn't right with Ron's rat?

I don’t know what’s funnier, one of the ghosts turning on Eagle vision and trying to piece together why a rat is showing as an enemy or Desmond having Ron and Hermione at his place for like Harry’s birthday doing the same thing.

Either way the rat is not to be trusted.

[incorrect-fanfiction-quotes]

Malfoy: Have you no shame!?

Harry, who traded his dress robes for Ron’s for the Yule Ball: Absolutely none.

Harry: Ron does though, so. We switched.

Edit: OH MY GOD. THE CHAOS. WHAT IS EVEN HAPPENING ANYMORE?

[boogiewoogieweeb]

it's all fun and games typing up a silly, rickety little au idea in the tags of someone else's post and then suddenly you find yourself expanding on the world-building and plotting out interconnected stories for characters you swore would only make background appearances and your brain is On Fire with the need to write even when you know you can't commit to yet another doomed wip