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Harry Potter and the Freak Parade by The-Caitiff (T)
Hello! I will be your reccer for Harry Potter this month. As I did last time I recced for this fandom, I'm going to try and provide recs that fall into all sorts of categories, from gen to het to slash to moresomes.
Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Harry/Luna, James/Lily
Length: 23,220
Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website: The Caitiff's FFN Profile
Why this must be read: Who doesn't love a funny, cracktastic fic? The-Caitiff starts with the fairly formulaic plot of many post-OOTP independent!Harry fics: friendly and helpful goblins, a Harry that isn't going to take it anymore, an Order of the Phoenix that isn't really that bright, a plotting Dumbledore and a series of fortuitous events. Throw in some romance, a new mysterious 'Purple Lady' and time travel and you have this fantastic fic. Reading this always puts me in a better mood.
After his disastrous fifth year at the Death Eater Boot Camp, err… we mean Hogwarts School of Bewitchery and Manipulations, err… You know where we mean.
Anyway, fifth year sucked. Visions and nightmares gave Harry a horrid temper and he took it out on everyone around him. Since then, he had inadvertently caused his Godfather's death, and discovered a prophecy which meant he might actually need all those friends he had been alienating. A logical breakdown of the situation and how it came about led him to a few conclusions.
1. Dumbledore is an incompetent fool to have let Voldemort gain power in the first place. Did he take a thirty year nap after killing Grindewald or something? It should have been obvious he was evil, the killing people thing is generally a good clue. As are gathering minions and changing your name to something sinister.
2. He had a "power the Dark Lord knew not". Given that Voldemort had studied at Hogwarts and had a stable set of teachers with no one trying to kill him, Harry would never win unless he thought outside the box.
3. Dumbledore is a manipulative bastard. Enough said.
4. Harry needed to train this new power. After he found it.
5. He needed to buy supplies. Training is hard to do if ill prepared.
6. He needed someone to help him. It would be easier if he had someone he could trust to tell him when he was screwing up.
7. He could not trust his overly trusting friends to keep secrets from the incompetent meddling old coot.
Now that he had that sorted out in his mind it was time for action! Oh, and it was also time for pancakes. Pancakes clearly had priority over self preservation, maple syrup is good like that.
Harry Potter and the Freak Parade can be read here
Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Harry/Luna, James/Lily
Length: 23,220
Author on LJ: n/a
Author Website: The Caitiff's FFN Profile
Why this must be read: Who doesn't love a funny, cracktastic fic? The-Caitiff starts with the fairly formulaic plot of many post-OOTP independent!Harry fics: friendly and helpful goblins, a Harry that isn't going to take it anymore, an Order of the Phoenix that isn't really that bright, a plotting Dumbledore and a series of fortuitous events. Throw in some romance, a new mysterious 'Purple Lady' and time travel and you have this fantastic fic. Reading this always puts me in a better mood.
After his disastrous fifth year at the Death Eater Boot Camp, err… we mean Hogwarts School of Bewitchery and Manipulations, err… You know where we mean.
Anyway, fifth year sucked. Visions and nightmares gave Harry a horrid temper and he took it out on everyone around him. Since then, he had inadvertently caused his Godfather's death, and discovered a prophecy which meant he might actually need all those friends he had been alienating. A logical breakdown of the situation and how it came about led him to a few conclusions.
1. Dumbledore is an incompetent fool to have let Voldemort gain power in the first place. Did he take a thirty year nap after killing Grindewald or something? It should have been obvious he was evil, the killing people thing is generally a good clue. As are gathering minions and changing your name to something sinister.
2. He had a "power the Dark Lord knew not". Given that Voldemort had studied at Hogwarts and had a stable set of teachers with no one trying to kill him, Harry would never win unless he thought outside the box.
3. Dumbledore is a manipulative bastard. Enough said.
4. Harry needed to train this new power. After he found it.
5. He needed to buy supplies. Training is hard to do if ill prepared.
6. He needed someone to help him. It would be easier if he had someone he could trust to tell him when he was screwing up.
7. He could not trust his overly trusting friends to keep secrets from the incompetent meddling old coot.
Now that he had that sorted out in his mind it was time for action! Oh, and it was also time for pancakes. Pancakes clearly had priority over self preservation, maple syrup is good like that.
Harry Potter and the Freak Parade can be read here