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Spite and Normalcy
By: Venus Ink (AO3 | Tumblr)
Ship: Tom Riddle | Voldemort/Harry Potter (Tomarry | Harrymort)
Last Updated: 2020-05-12
Summary: Here we arrive in a world where the Potters had two children rather than one, and Petunia’s quest for normalcy didn’t leave her married to Vernon Dursley. When Lavinia Potter is reluctantly sent to Petunia for the safety of her twin brother Oliver, the elder of the Evans sisters feels a connection to the rejected child, and her wish to one-up Lily returns in the form of raising her child to become the best she could be. Lavinia Potter comes to Hogwarts ready to take it by storm, with an aunt who loves her, a lifetime of preparation, the happiness to make it, and the guts to get it done.
Opinion: This fic is so good and I love it so much. Female Bisexual Harry is a gift. And this baby deserves nice things. Actually, all these babies should have nice things. Lavinia is a hard worker and has earned her happiness. There is “Character Bashing” but it doesn’t feel too out of character for them. Except Petunia. It’s more like calling characters out on questionable behavior, unlike canon. Take Hermione, she was canonly academically jealous easily but Harry was a biased narrator, her friend, and an underachiever. Lavinia is not her friend or an underachiever and we see her acknowledging when Hermione is being jealous of her academic achievements. That said, Dumbledore, Lily, James and Oliver (OC BWL Twin) aren’t coming out great but they aren’t evil.