ned-weasley

[ned-weasly]

Head held high

Hinny, Spiderman AU, rating T

Chapter one: Running

Harry and Ron went to the field after school for their track practice and found Ginny already waiting in the changing room with a teasing smirk on her freckled face.

" Good of you to finally show up - Coach Wood is ready to murder you." she said with a smile on her face.

"Well, it was our turn to clean the chemistry lab, and Slughorn made us scrub everything twice," ron said while quickly discarding his school bag aside after pulling his change of clothes.

"To be fair, he only made you clean twice because you clean the worst than anyone that i ever met, and i only stayed to help because I'm the best," Harry said while tying his running shoes.

Harry moves to open his locker only to find the door off his hinges in his hand. Cheap- ass public school, he thought while trying to put the locker door back together, Ginny gave him a look, and Harry shrugged his shoulders.

"How was i supposed to know you need to use soap?" Ron said with his shirt over his head.

"Because we thought you're not a dumbass," Ginny said harshly, "I don't know what Hermione sees in you, because i know it's not your pretty face or charming personality"

" I don't know either," Ron confessed with a dreamy expression on his face, " I'm the luckiest guy alive"

Both Ginny and Harry snorted while exchanging disbelieving looks.

"What are you doing here anyway? It's the boys' locker room - and mom and dad didn't try seven times for you to be here.

"Who cares? Come on, practice starts in 3 minutes, and that means we are already 2 minutes late," Ginny said right before they heard a yell from the field

" Potter, girl Weasley, boy Weasley quit blabbering and start stretching"

"Yes coach" they all answered while running to the field.

While stretching, Harry caught himself twice staring at Ginny and quickly looking away - she is Ron's sister, he told himself, she's seeing Dean, he repeated to no avail.

Ron went to the jumping pit, and Harry, Ginny, and their teammates to the 4x100 mixed relay, Demelza and Dean, went to the track.

Harry, being the captain of the relay team after Angelina graduation last year, said, "Let's work on the batton passing first a then do a full speed run"

Ginny saluted and said, " No problem, captain." With an emphasis on the captain, Harry blushed, and Dean scowled.

At first,when Demelza and Dean - the first and second runners, and Harry and Ginny the third and fourth runners worked on the baton swap, everything went swimmingly, but when Dean and Ginny started working they immediately started to bicker "I don't need you telling me how I'm supposed to do it," Ginny scolded.

"If you do it the way i tell you, you'll be so much better," Dean said in exasperation. Harry stomach did a little flip, and he thought maybe he should let them continue to fight, but then he decided team chemistry is important and cut them off, "Let's do the full run. Wood, can you time us?"

When Ginny came with the batton with the determined look in her eyes, Harry started to run, the batton exchanged hands perfectly in stride, and Harry felt he never run so fast in his life - up until he stumbled 10 feet before the finish line and rolled several feet landing face down.

"Harry! are you okay??" Ginny yelled before turning Harry over and scanning for injuries.

Harry blushed, and he didn't know if it was embarrassment or from Ginny's touch, and said, "Yeah, I'm fine, just mixed up my feet, i got too excited there"

Wood came over and said , " All right there, Potter?" After Harry nods, he adds more enthusiastically. "Before the fall, you were on the way to breaking the school record! You were flying Potter"

Harry looked at his knees, expecting to find scrapes - only to find them without blemish. weird, he thought i was sure i felt my knees scrape on the track.

Later, in the showers, Harry took off his glasses and expected the fuzziness that came with it, but after a few moments, he discovered that he saw as if he was still wearing the glasses.

He showered and then went to look at the mirror with only a towel on and saw a six-pack in the reflection that wasn't there last time he checked.

When did that happened he wondered, maybe it's connected to what happened yesterday.

Yesterday

It was sunday morning, and all Harry wanted was to stay in bed all day and relax his aching muscles after the gruelling practice that wood put them through the evening before.

All his plans to a well deserved lie-in were ruined thanks to the screams of aunt Petunia. "Where is the breakfast?? we have to leave for a very important meeting with Mr Mason in half hour"

"I'll be right there" harry answered groaning. ever since he was tall enough to reach the stove he was incharge of cooking breakfast to his family - his aunt Petunia, her husband Vernon and their son Dudley.

"That is the least you could do" uncle Vernon said like he said every morning, "Housing you, feeding you , all for the goodness of our heart", he spat like it's somehow Harry's fault that his parents died in a car crash when he was a baby and he needed someone to take care of him.

After breakfast, when Vernon and Petunia were on their way out from the house Vernon yelled "Remember your chores, i except the grass to be cut and the kitchen spotless!"

After cleaning the kitchen and cutting the grass, Harry picked up the mail and saw a letter addressed to him.

In the letter was only a note with an address not far from his school and a short message:

"Your parents left me their life work before they died, it's time you see it"

Harry checked the back to see if there is more but he didn't saw anything there.

Harry thought about telling Ron about this but something stopped him from that - it was his parents work - he needed to see it for the first time by himself.

When Harry got to the building, it was in a back alley,and he saw an old-school sign that said "Marauders-corp", and below that a door with a fingerprint reader to the side.

Harry tried to open the door but it was locked, tried ringing the bell to no answer, and after couple minutes decided to try the fingerprint reader with his right hand.

Suddenly, he felt a sting in his finger and exclaimed "WHAT THE FUCK," but before he could properly curse the door, the machine the letter and Vernon for good measure, he heard a robotic voice that said "Welcome Harry Potter",and a series of clicks; the door opened to reveal a dusty laboratory, with a bunch of test tubes with glowing liquids inside, a few cages with what appeared to be dead spiders inside them, and what look like an incubator with an assortment of different eggs inside.

Ha started to examine the room carefully when he felt a small animal running by his feet - he jumped in fright and knocked over one of the cages, "it was just a rat" he said, trying to calm himself down, "nothing to be nervous about".

Harry tried to put the cage back in his place when he notice the spider was gone - now, Harry was not Ron and he was not afraid of spiders - but he did felt a shiver go down his spine at the thought of a spider that was experimented on roaming free in his proximity.

For the second time that day, Harry felt a sting in his right hand and saw a big green spider the size of an apple mid bite into his flesh, Harry quickly used his other hand to swipe at the creature and he got him to fall on the floor.

Harry sprinted to the door and hurriedly shuts it behind him, and continued to sprint for several blocks until he stopped to take a breath, panting and mumbling to himself - "what the hell, seriously what the actual fuck"

Harry looked at his hand, and saw an ugly reddish-purple color around the bite-mark and thought about going to a hospital to get that checked - but then he remembered the last time he went to a hospital because of an animal bite - when his aunt Marge's dog bit him - and the yelling he got about the hospital bill from Vernon, and decided to sleep on it and only if it gets worse to go see doctor Pomfrey at the school.

Harry barely managed the walk to the bus station, and he would have missed his stop if the bus driver would not have waked him up, "Thanks Stan," Harry said groggily before he walked back to the house, climbed up to his room and didn't even took off his glasses before falling asleep.

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[dream-with-a-fever]

the way some of y’all cling to the idea of a #certain character in this franchise when so many of the traits y’all assign him are so far from the canon sends me…. he’s literally just a spoilt jealous brat, not to mention a classist, discriminatory asshole bully who doesn’t actually learn from his mistakes at all in the series. “but it was his upbringing!” harry had a terrible upbringing but do you see him acting like a whiny, selfish bitch? no! “he had no choice!” baby, he did have choices, he just chose wrong. look at sirius????

he also reinforced his parents’ disgusting views with his behaviour at school, despite being exposed to other ways of thinking (other students, teachers etc). “but he didn’t end up killing dumbledore!” i mean he did try to Many Many times, almost killing katie bell and ron in the process…. so he didn’t care about killing, as long as his ass was safe. oh yeah sorry you’re right, he’s such a good guy! i mean the fact that he didn’t actually care about anyone but himself for the entirety of the franchise certainly tells me a lot more about his character than that one decision not to kill his headmaster but sure! he didn’t actually kill dumbledore so 20 pts to slytherin! woo!

even despite all of this, harry saved his ass MULTIPLE times throughout the series (from as early as PS right up until DH) and he only returned the favour once at malfoy manor, because he was scared if he got it wrong, he would be killed - not because he was trying to protect harry. not to mention he never once shows any gratitude towards him at all for that. that’s why i’ll never understand people who ship #him with characters like harry and hermione. in a hypothetical scenario where you change every single character trait imaginable, then sure it might work, but this saucy enemies to lovers narrative ppl always spout is so hilarious. he is not badass. he is not a broody, mysterious guy. he’s not interesting or remotely interested in anyone but himself. he’s a jealous loser, a massive bully, an attention seeker AND a shit seeker.

there’s nothing redeemable about him. regulus black had a more interesting (slight) redemption arc that him, and his story is an extremely minor part of the books. and thinking hermione would be at all interested in him is laughable??? all his discrimination and nastiness aside — the side he’s on, the way he treats harry and hagrid and the weasley family (!!!) and neville and basically anyone who isn’t pureblood or slytherin — would literally disgust her. hermione literally started an organisation to promote the welfare of other magical creatures, meanwhile #he’s out here calling her kind mudbloods and wishing death upon them like????? you will never get me to like that man, no sir.

[ned-weasly]

#draco is a jealous brat

#draco is a coward

[ned-weasly]

Head held high

Hinny, Spiderman AU, rating T

Read the first chapter here

Chapter 2: Discovering

Harry set half naked, a towel around his lower half, still feeling perplexed on what's happened to his body since the spider bite. He thought of going to Dr. Pomfrey, but what is he going to tell her - that he was bitten by a massive green spider, and then it's magically healed his eyesight, gave him super strength, and sprouted a bunch of muscles out of nowhere - he would sound insane, heck just thinking about it he sounds insane to himself.

He felt a tingle behind his ear before he turned around and caught a towel that Ron threw at him. "Oi, stop moping and get dressed, Hermione is waiting for us to do the English paper for McGonagall- and you know that she already pissed at us that we keep procrastinate instead of doing it when we have the time" Ron said impatiently.

Harry shook off his thoughts about green spiders and mysterious muscles and teased, "Wow, Ron, you are so totally whipped. In a few weeks, you'll start suggesting to hang out in the library, I'll dress quickly so you can go see your girlfriend before you'll lose your mind. "

Ron flipped him off and said, "We'll see how you gonna behave when you'll finally had the guts to ask some chick out", Harry pulled his shirt over his head and said "I asked Cho out! And who are you to talk? The only reason you and Hermione are together is that the twins literally locked you both in until you finally admitted your feelings, and need i remind you the whole Lavender debacle?"

Ron held his hands up and said placatingly, "No need to go there, I'm sure your year-long avoidance of any and all romantic relationship is because you want to focus on school and not because any other reason"

Harry tries not to think about ginny when he said "The only reason i didn't date anyone after the break-up with Cho is that i didn't find anyone that i liked," Ron nodded In exaggeration and said "sure, whatever make you feel better"

Harry swang his bag on his shoulder and said, " I'm ready. We don't want big bad Hermione to be mad at you for being late, do we?" Ron punched him in the arm and said, "Like you aren't also afraid of her too, you asshole," Harry nodded and said, "She really is quite scary, especially when homework is involved".

Harry and Ron went back to school to one of the learning zones inside the library where they saw Hermione typing furiosly on her laptop and five books scattered all over the table, Ron leaned over the table to kiss her and said " hello babe, i see you already started without us", Hermione responded "Well i was here little early so i decided to work little ahead of time," Harry took a look at the books on the table and said "Why do we need all of these books? The paper is only on that one."

Hermoine stopped typing to shoot Harry a look and said passionately, "You can't really understand the book without comparing it to her earlier works and where she drew her influences from, no work of art exist without context, that's why i also have book detailing life in 19th century Britain."

After two hours of work, they finished most of the paper, although Harry wasn't much help, he couldn't concentrate and his thoughts wandered to the events of the last two days - if the spider bite somehow changed him and to what extent, should he go back to the lab to try find out more about the spider, whether to tell Ron and Hermione everything and he even wondered if he imagined it all and he going to wake up from this weird dream in his bed at the attic.

"Harry.., Harry, are you listening?"

Harry snapped out from his wondering and said, "What.. yes, Hermione, that sounds great. You should... yes"

"Harry, you've not been focused all evening, clearly something else on your mind," Hermione said softly, "We are here if you want to talk about it," Ron nodded and asked "is it about what happened in practice? Everybody's falls sometimes, It's not a big deal"

Harry shook his head, "No, it's not about the fall. it's..." Harry stopped talking, not knowing how to continue the sentence. On the one hand, Ron and Hermione are the closest things to a family Harry has ( he never considered the Dursleys his family), and he would trust them with his life. On the other hand, he didn't know all the details yet, and the whole thing sounds like a weird bed time story.

After a few moments of tense silence, Hermione said carefully, " You don't have to tell us anything, and Ron would be happy to talk to you about anything if you embarrassed by me," and shot Ron very meaningful look and Ron hurriedly said "sure, you can talk to me anywhere anytime about anything and anyone "

Harry flushed and said, " No, it's not anything like that. It's just..., i don't know how to tell..., it's really quite ridiculous, unbelievable even..., you'dhave to be a lunatic to believe - " Hermione cut him off "Harry you're rambling, you're not making any sense, help us understand"

Harry thought for a couple of seconds and said slowly, "i don't know exactly how to tell you, i think i need a little time to think everything through, i promise when it'll be too much I'll tell you right away." Ron and Hermione exchanged worried glances, and then Ron put a hand on Harry's shoulder and said "sure man, we'll be here whenever you're ready."

Harry mumbled an lame excuse and quickly gathered his things and said his goodbyes before taking the bus back to the Dursleys, all the way back on the bus he thought and thought, and finally he decided that he needs to see the extent of his abilities before he tell anyone anything, so instead of walking straight home from the bus stop he went to a public park he knew be deserted in this hour.

He went to one of the trees and found a branch he could hang from and tried to do a pull - while Harry was on the track team, his training was more running and less building muscle, he knew he could do 7 pull-ups, he strated to pull himself and discover it was ridiculously easy, and after 20 pull-ups he wasn't even tired.

"I swear that last gym class after like 8 i was spent"

He then stood under a tall branch he would never even try to touch before and tried to jump and touch it. Harry set himself and jumped - he overshot the branch, panicked, and tried taking hold of the branch right above him - he only managed 2 fingers before he felt his fingers stick to the wood, and he hanged in the air while only his fingers holding his weight.

"Wow," Harry mumbled to himself before suddenly he let go and landed in crouch completely unharmed.

Harry walked home, feeling shocked but overall pleased with what he discovered about himself, not knowing he was being watched the whole time.

Deep in an abandoned metro station sat a man in tattered prison uniform - at least he was born a man, but he hasn't spoken to another human being for more than 15 years, and he mostly talks to a different specie these days.

Around the man were hundreds and hundreds of rats - and every now and then, he would turn to one of them and mumbled something under his breath and nodded or shook his head after they squeaked back.

A rat entered the station through one of the sewers pipe and squeaked in the man ear.

"Really, very interesting, the boy did that? I knew that bringing him to the lab was the key."

The man fed the rat a rotting piece of apple, and then he smiled and said,

"It would be perfect closure that Harry Potter would be the final step towards my ultimate goal - after his parents stopped me all those years ago"

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[ned-weasly]

What if Draco was Bellatrix and Lucius's son( in this AU Narcissa doesn't exist)

Bellatrix still goes to prison, and draco grows up without a mom, without siblings in a huge manor with an asshole blood-purist for a dad and a bunch of peackocks.

In this version, lucius is not a super loyal supporter of voldermort - he mostly wants to keep his money and influence - not to fight the order of the phoenix and definitely not to murder and torture muggles, he thinks a ministry that controlled by Voldermort would be in his best intrest - it would improve his social standing and and it would take power back from muggle-born to the pure-bloods.

Bellatrix is the real zealot - she worships Voldermort, believes in his cause all the way, and actually enjoys the murder, torture, and crimes that come with being a death-eater - she cares about that a lot more than she cares about her own child and family.

What does Draco see on platform 9 3/4 before his first year? he sees Molly Weasly hugging all the Weasley kids and showers them with love - he's jealous, so he look down on Ron and tries to have Harry as a friend - before he gets rejected.

All his childhood, Draco hears how it's all the Longbottoms fault that Bellatrix is in prison - it's Neville fault that he never saw his mom, and what Draco does all of the first year? torments Neville as petty revenge for his mother.

Throughout the books, until the 6th book, Draco is a mean person, a bully, and a bigot, but he is not so violent - only after Bellatrix breaks out of Azkaban he get inductes to the death eaters.

Draco struggles in his sixth year - because he is much more like his dad - only want to coast on his name and money without doing a lot of work - he doesn't want to fight in war or to try to murder dumbeldore - he's very afraid and can't bring himself to try to ask for help from either side - he's sure he'll get punished if he asks for help from his mom, abd he doesn't really believe in dumbeldore's cause.

Anyway, i think this AU would be a really interesting explanation to why draco behaves like he behaves (from a total loser bully to a really poor death eater)

[ned-weasly]

I don't think there is a ship i hate more than drarry

Harry values bravery and doing the right thing in the end more than anything else, and draco is the antithesis to those values.

All the way back in the first book, draco chickened out from the wizards duel and is very afraid in the forbidden forest.

Every time we see him later in the books is the same thing - cowerdnes, being mean, bigot and only get into a fight if you outnumer and outpower your opponent.

It's very apparent in HBP where he tries to kill dumbeldore in the most pathic ways there are - a poison and a curse necklace, and when he has the chance to kill him face to face - he lowers his wand.

In the battle of hogwarts, draco has a chance to make a stand - and he gets punched by ron for trying to plead with a death eater.

Harry is a very forgivin person - the two times he and ron fought, he forgave him immediately after he apologized, and he never holds resentment for long except for malfoy and snape.

Harry would never be a friend, let alone in a relationship with someone without a moral bone and without values.

Draco only reedimg scene is in malfoy manor where he doesn't sell the trio out after they were captured - and only because he is too afraid.

Harry, who thinks that neville and luna are cool because they fought with him in the department of mysteries, who hate the death eaters and voldermort would never even want to be in contact with draco.

Drarry is a poor try in the enemies to lovers trope, and can't succeed if any of them is even close to their canon personalities.