#smart harry

[kind-hufflepuff]

HARRY POTTER AS A SHADOW FAIRY OF THE FALL COURT

[alliiepaz]

Harry Potter

Okay so this one, was originally supposed to be a word vomit of ideas but ended up being a rough outline for the beginning. I didn't feel like making up a word vomit specifically for this because I'm mainly just doing copy and paste with small edits for spelling when I notice it, so I'm going to just do this rough outline and then add a few other bullet points with some of my other ideas I have in mind for the story.

Background: The summer holiday is three months, June to September, because I need more time for Harry to work on shit. The thing with Aunt Marge happens two weeks after Harry gets back home from Hogwarts. Harry sees the dog before going on the Knight Bus just like in the book and then sees the dog again immediately the next morning when he goes into Diagon Alley to explore and notices that the dog just seems to follow him around. At first he's kind of wary but eventually decides it's just a big dog.

Sirius  escapes from Azkaban after seeing a picture in the Daily Prophet, but it isn't the picture of Peter with the Weasley's that he sees, it's a picture of Golderoy Lockhart and Harry from the summer before in a new article talking about Gilderoy staying in the Janus Thickey ward at St. Mungo's.

Start: Harry is in Diagon Alley being followed by a big black dog so he decides to just bring it up to his room with him after it follows him around all day.

The next day Harry tells his new dog friend that he's going to the bank because he doesn't have any money and he wants to get some books he's never had the chance to get before and look around Diagon Alley since someone was always with him the last two years and they had always been too preoccupied to let Harry wander. The dog is far more enthusiastic about the idea than Harry expected him to be but takes the dog with him.

Upon entering Gringotts he's stopped by a goblin before he can even get up the teller and the Goblin very coldly tells Harry to follow him as his account manager would like a meeting. Harry is confused because as far as he knows, he doesn't have an account manager but the dog pushes him to follow the goblin with his giant head so Harry stumbles after him.

The Goblin takes him to a room and introduces Harry to his account manager Manager Goblin. Manager Goblin is just as cold as the first Goblin was, and basically tells Harry it's about time he came to do his blood test and claim his heir ring.

Harry is confused and tells Manager Goblin that he had no idea he was meant to do some kind of test as he had never received any kind of correspondence from Gringotts or been asked about it on his last two visits, but he apologizes anyway and asks what he needs to do. Manager Goblin is somewhat surprised by Harry's sincerity and pleased by his politeness and asks Harry, in a slightly less cold tone, why he hadn't come to get his heir ring at 11 like he was supposed to. Harry lets Manager Goblin know that he had no idea he was supposed to and also asks what exactly an heir ring is. Manager Goblin gets irritated again and asks what exactly he did during his first visit. Harry tells Manager Goblin how Hagrid brought him and how Hagrid had his key. Manager Goblin interrupts and is pissed and asks if Hagrid still has Harry's key and Harry tells him he has no idea. He was under the impression he was not allowed to have his key as he's a child. Hagrid had it his first year and last summer Molly Weasley had it and after that trip, he has no idea where it ended up, if Mrs. Weasley still has it or maybe Hagrid does again. Manager Goblin immediately sends out a message to change the lock on Harry's trust vault and have a new key made. Harry goes on to tell Manager Goblin that Griphook was the Goblin who took him to his vault the first time and Manager Goblin is angry because its standard procedure for school aged children coming to open their vault for the first time to see either a family account manager, or a new account manager and then from there he would have taken his blood test and then received his ring. He wasn't meant to be able to get into a sealed family vault without having his bloodline proven.

Harry is confused about these rings and blood test and again asks for clarification and when Manager Goblin tells him like "y'know, heir to the Potter Lordship?" and Harry is like "what lordship?" and Manager Goblin looks like he might cry. Manager Goblin demands to know who Harry's magical guardian is because he is filing an inquiry with the ministry because Harry not knowing all of this is a huge problem, not to mention keeping Gringotts from investing for the Potter family and making more gold for everyone involved.

Harry tells Manager Goblin he isn't sure if his Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon would be willing to speak to him and when Manager Goblin asks why, Harry says they aren't a fan of anything magical, and Manager Goblin is confused until he realizes Harry is speaking about his muggle guardians. Manager Goblin quickly corrects Harry like "no, no child. Your magical guardian" and Harry is like "is that not them?" and Manager Goblin is like "of course not, they're not magical, who taught you about being magic growing up?" Harry gives him a funny look and is like "I learned about being a wizard from Hagrid when he came to deliver my Hogwarts letter" Manager Goblin's brain is  a little broken after that statement and is like "there are literally so many things wrong with that sentence idek what to do"

Finally, Manager Goblin concludes the best way for them to continue on is to just do the blood test because it will have a lot of the information-including who Harry's Magical guardian is-that they need and Harry will finally get his heir ring.

Harry proceeds to take his blood test only to find out that he has a lot more than 1 heir ring, he has 4 (Potter, Black, Peverell, Gaunt). Dog starts jumping up and down while Manager Goblin looks poleaxed. There are also two wills that list him as beneficiary that have yet to be read.

Blood test shows Sirius Black as not only Harry's godfather, but his active magical guardian. Manager Goblin is confused because as Sirius Black has been in Azkaban this whole time he shouldn't be able to be listed as his magical guardian and someone should have brought Harry to Sirius's living relatives and had them signed off as his magical guardian. Harry explains that as far as he knows he was taken straight from Godric's Hollow to the Dursley's, his mother's muggle sister and her husband, and left there. He had never heard anythign about the magical world until he was 11 and Hagrid had to hunt him down to give him his Hogwarts letter and he had no clue who Sirius Black was.

Manager Goblin insists he had to have a magical guardian to take him to a wixen doctor to get his wixen youth vaccines as no muggle could take him. When Harry says he's never gotten any vaccinations, Manager Goblin asks how he go into Hogwarts because you have to provide a full medical record for the school hospital as a boarding school and muggle born or muggle raised children get vaccines in the first week of school. Harry insists he never got his vaccines at school and has never even been to a muggle doctor. As far as he knows his only medical records are from his stay at the end of First year after facing Voldemort and going into Magical exhaustion and last year when he had his arm bones regrown after his quidditch match.

Dog is just staring with his mouth dropped open like a human while Manager Goblin just stares at Harry.

Harry begins to feel uncomfortable after a moment or so and then Manager Goblin says Harry should get for a full health scan done soon. Harry asks if that's something he can get help with there or if he has to go figure it out on his own as he didn't even know magical vaccines were a thing up until about 5 minutes ago. Manager Goblin says yes and no and explains that they can't really help him find a wixen doctor, but they do have their own healers that could give him the medical scan. Harry says that sounds fine and Manager Goblin is surprised that Harry would want their Healers to look at him and tells Harry as much and Harry is just like, I literally have no clue what I'm doing. Harry asks if they can do it now and Manager tells him he needs a magical guardian with him. Harry asks where he can find Sirius Black then and manager has to explain everything with Sirius Black and how he's a convict.

Harry becomes upset that Sirius betrayed his parents and taking pity on the boy Manager Goblin explains how the Goblins believe Sirius may be innocent and tells him their theory about the vaults and Peter being alive since his vault is still connected to his magic. Harry asks if they ever told the Ministry their speculations and Manager Goblin says that someone did but because the Ministry sees creatures as lesser than them, they dismissed Goblin magic as having been faulty and ignored them. Manager Goblin also says he doesn't remember there ever being an official trial for Sirius anyway and that's probably why Sirius is till listed actively as Harry's Magical Guardian, he never officially wen through the sentencing process so he was never removed as guardian, magically.

Harry asks when they can do the health scan and Manager Goblin says since these are special circumstances, if Harry agrees, Manager Goblin will act as his guardian during the health scan so they can do it soon. Harry agrees and Manager Goblin sends off a notice and says he called for a room to be set up but asks to get one more bit of work out of the way while they wait and tells Harry they should have the wills he's mentioned in read as they're most likely his parents'. Harry agrees and Manager Goblin summons the wills to be read.

During the reading there is a section in James's that is directed at Sirius and there are several dog related jokes thrown in and then in Lily's she also makes a couple comments and talks about keeping his big black shaggy ass hair off of her son and Harry just kind of has a click moment and looks over at the dogs standing next to him who looks at Harry like "ah shit" and Harry asks if theres a way to tell if someone is an animagus and it's very quickly revealed that Sirius is there. He explains what happened on with the secret keeper thing and how he saw a picture of Harry and could tell he wasn't being treated right by how small and skinny he was and he needed to come and find Harry and try to help him out.

Harry isn't sure what to think or feel, first he's told this dude got his parents killed, then he's told the goblins don't actually believe that but no one actually know what happened that night, now the guy is here and if Harry is being honest he's kind of terrifying because he's very tall and gaunt with long scraggly hair and a long unkepy beard and he's wearing what Harry assumes was his prison uniform. Before Harry can spiral too hard Manager Goblin  says that with Sirius here, getting the health scan done is much easier. Harry decides to just agree for the moment because he's so overrwhelmed.

Harry is brought to an examination room where it is discovered there's a myriad of health problems Harry has from being abused by his relatives for so long as well as a bunch of minor jinxes and curses on his person, as well as a reading for a foreign magical signature latched onto him and finally, there is some kind of block around his magical core, which is much more powerful than usual for a child his age, especially as a muggle raised wizard, that if not removed, would cause Harry's magic to act up and eventually basically burn him up from the inside. Harry is stressed and scared and Sirius is trying not to rage about finding out he had been right about Harry's home life. Harry obviously has no idea what to do next and Sirius has really not enjoyed watched Harry stumble his way through getting to this point in the day, so he tells Harry he completely understands that Harry has no idea what to think about him as he doesn’t know Sirius and has no reason to believe or trust him, but Sirius would like to start attempting to be the kind of guardian his parents wanted Sirius to be for Harry and asked if Harry would allow Sirius to take it from there. Harry takes a moment to think about it, and something in his gut told him he could trust Sirius, there was something about his eyes, they were a dull grey but Harry had the oddest feeling that once Sirius was cleaned up, fed and rested, they'd be a sparkling and stunning silver, so he agreed.

Sirius talks to Manager Goblin  and Healer Goblin and asks to get a full ritual cleansing done, there at the bank, he personally can't take Harry anywhere as a wanted man, but even if he could, since he has no clue who laid all these curses and the magical binding on Harry's magical core Sirius has no idea who to trust among wizen. Goblins however, once they make a deal, keep it. Especially Gringotts goblins. Healer Goblin bulks a bit at the request, because they don't usually perform magic like this on wixen, let alone wixen children, but manager goblin knows there has been cases in the past where it was done. Manager Goblin tells Sirius it can be done, but there will be a fee, a rather high one, and Sirius says that's fine so long as teres a binding contract for all involved to sign that they will reveal nothing about harry's condition without harry or Sirius's explicit permission and Manager Goblin is like duh bro.

Manager Goblin lets Sirius and Harry know that since they do not usually do this kind of magic on wixen, they will need to bring in two wixen to help, one cursebreaker, and one potions expert. Harry wants to refuse but Sirius explains that everyone involved will be signing an ironclad NDA (come up with name for a magical NDA) and they won't be able to say anything to anyone about anything. Harry is like well alright I guess.

The first wizard to come is Bill Weasley and when Bill introduces himself Harry freaks out, but is soothed when Bill says he's already signed the secrecy contract. The second wizard is Snape, which is just a shit show really since Snape and Sirius hate each other and Snape hates Harry and Harry at the very least strongly dislikes Snape. Eventually the goblins tell all the wizards to get over themselves, Snape has already signed the contract and hes the only one available with healing training and the ability to brew all the potions Harry will need in a way they won't interact badly with each other. The Goblins explain that Bill will do his own quick analysis as his wixen magic may pick up on things the goblin scan did not and Snape will be running another diagnostic scan which will let him know if there's anything Harry is allergic to that he'll have to take into account when brewing the potions for Harry and obviously, his own health scan. Harry and Sirius very reluctantly agree for these other scans to happen.

The Goblins, led by Bill, go through the process of checking for the compulsions and find out that Harry's sweater that he's wearing, is laced with compulsions and charms to make him slightly more pliant and loyal and Bill realizes some of the other magic that's affecting Harry has his mother's magical signiture which breaks his heart and Harry's.

After going through that and being told he can't get the Horcrux out of his head quite yet, but they'll look into how to go about taking care of a Horcrux in a living person.

Next is the second medical scan and Snape keeps a straight face but inside he's in denial and pissed at himself. He tells Harry and Sirius he can have everything made for the first round of potions within a couple hours and asks where they will go. Sirius says he's taking Harry to Grimmauld Place and that the ritual cleansing and what the healing that they can do will all happen there so Harry can be transferred to a room to rest more easily afterwards. Snape nods and  says he'll drop them off personally before dramatically strutting away, his cape billowing behind him just like at school which casues Harry to snort.

The Goblins tell Harry that they should do the ritual to officially cleanse him and then start the healing process right after and keep him asleep for most of it because it won't be pleasant.

Harry is scared and uncomfortable but says alright and Sirius takes Harry, Bill, and Goblin Healer to Grimmauld Place.

Okay so that's what I have mostly planned for a beginning, re-reading it there are already some things here and there I'd like to tweak, but nothing major.

Here are a few more things I've got planned that I'm excited about and I want to know if you guys would be too.

Once Harry's core is unlocked, he begins having regular dreams with some random dude and he ends up figuring out its Merlin (yes, Merlin as in BBC Merlin) and Merlin explains to him that he's meant to be the next in the new generations of gods (right now I'm sticking with the whole Master theme) and Harry is meant to be the Master of Death. That leads into a whole subplot that ends with Harry being immortal and having like, a soulmate.

NottPott, because elph13, lomonaaeren and lonibal have made me absolutely fall in love with the ship.

Black Family bonding/Lucius redemption of a sort. Draco becomes the best big brother/cousin to Harry.

Chronically ill Harry/ED Harry - the abuse from the dursley's will have longer lasting effects.

Harry kind of realizes he just loves pretty clothes and most of the time the prettier clothes are girls clothes so he ends up wearing more feminine leaning fashion and since Sirius and Draco are very secure in their masculinity and Narcissa always wanted a daughter to do makeup and shit with, Harry learns to apprecaite and love skin care, makeup and hair care as a form of self care. Basically, he learns that he feels better when he feels hot and Narcissa especially kind of takes it and runs with it. Maybe leaning more gender fluid Harry than like, femboy Harry. Y'know?

Harry mostly stays friends with a lot of the Weasley's and he tries to stay friends with Ron and Hermione, but as Harry grows and becomes more of himself, they just don't mesh well and they end up not really being very close friends anymore. Harry is probably closest to the twins, but he does keep in contact with Percy and Charlie as time goes on and has no real problems with Ginny once she gets over her crush.

Harry ends up offering a third side to the war that's much more palatable to most people.

Dumbledore bashing, duh

Okay that's all I can think of right now.

Let me know what you think!

[fakesmileinalllive-blog]

I want a fanfic where harry is calculative and ADAPTABLE. Wizzard World want him to be savior? He is. Hogwarts wants a perfect copy of James Potter? There you are. Dursleys want timid and quiet servant? He becomes one.

Harry can become ANYONE he needs.

Like guys, hiw do you think he survived? By adapting to his environment!

Give it to me.

[sitp-recs]

Do you fics that portray Harry as academic/"book smart" or that are not focused on Harry being a man of action/ physically powerful wizard? I crave a trope reversal :)

Hi anon! Ohhh that’s a great one, I’d love to see more academic/researcher Harry in fic. I got a couple recs for you, you might also enjoy my rec list with odd jobs :)

Forget Our Heritage by dwell_the_brave (T, 16k)

When Harry Potter returns to England to take the All Souls Fellowship Examinations, the last person he expects to see in Oxford is Draco Malfoy. After all these years, has Malfoy truly changed?

Faint Indirections by ignatiustrout (T, 30k)

Draco Malfoy is the last person Harry expects to turn up in Boston, Massachussetts. But now he's here, and he won't stop requesting books from the library where Harry works.

The Unplottable Time Conundrum by @writcraft (E, 45k)

When the past starts bleeding into the present at Grimmauld Place, an old academic article pulls Draco Malfoy out of his life of luxury. Haunted by the memory of a fleeting post-war kiss and thrust into the ghostly spaces inhabited by Unspeakable Harry Potter, Draco’s easy life is about to get a whole lot more complicated.

Among Ancient Pines by @graymatters (M, 74k)

Every day, Draco Malfoy tries. With every fiber of his being he tries. But he doesn’t much think about what he’s trying for. In his final term of Healer training, Draco is unfortunate enough to find himself on a plane, the only means of traveling to a small, magical town in rural Alaska. Years of hard work have culminated in an opportunity to work with an experimental wandmaker to study the intersection of Healing and wand theory. When Draco arrives, he doesn't find the wandmaker, but does find his apprentice, who happens to have ridiculously messy hair, a lightning bolt scar, and a definitely-not-charming smile.

Azoth by @lol-zeitgeistic (E, 88k)

Now that Harry is back at Hogwarts with Hermione for eighth year, he realises that something’s missing from his life, and it either has to do with Ron, his boggart, Snape, or Malfoy. Furthermore, what, exactly, does it mean when one’s life is defined by the desire to simultaneously impress and annoy a portrait? Harry has no idea; he’s too busy trying not to be in love with Malfoy to care.

[xx-thedarklord-xx]

The Act of Healing

It didn’t take long to realize that it wasn’t normal—that Harry wasn’t normal. That no one else could see the strange lights and dented auras that surrounded everyone. Harry had learned at an early age to hide it, to tell no one else about it. It worked. At least until he encountered a boy in a robe shop with the largest light he’d ever seen.

But what did it mean?

Preview:

When Harry walked into the robe shop—after Hagrid told him he would be back for him later—he froze at the sight of a boy his age getting measured for a set of school robes. It wasn’t the boy’s appearance that drew his attention, no, it was his light. The light was the biggest one he had ever seen, so bright that Harry had a hard time looking at him. Where Uncle Vernon had scratches, this boy had gouges. Where some people had dents, this boy had holes and craters. “Hello,” the boy greeted him softly. “Hogwarts too?”

AO3

[harmonyandco]

Harry is roped into volunteering at a library and discovers that he really enjoys teaching kids how to read. (He finds it oddly similar to teaching DA and tries not to think too hard about that.) Hermione finds the combination of teacher and daddy Harry to be hot and encourages him to get a degree in early childhood education.

@johnburtonlee

[fanficspringboard]

Almost a Squib

Status: Complete

Wordcount: 47k

Rating: K

Harry has just enough magic to get into Hogwarts and barely enough to pass wand-based subjects like charms and transfigurations. He needs to use his other skills like sharp wit, hand to hand combat, familiarity with potions and inventiveness to make up for his shortcomings in the power department.

The story is a rehash of the 7 years with a unique take on solving challenges through the combination of smarts and technology. Some worldbuilding elements like the Kwikspell correspondence course are brilliant and other rather crude like the liberal use of dungbombs to solve various problems. I wished the fic was less of a crack-story and explored more in depth the capabilities of squibs who can wield magical items and are fluent both in wizarding and muggle culture. In this story being a squib is just a vehicle for showing out of the box thinking and ingenuity without doing into any socio-cultural discourse.

With limited length, there is not much space left for characterization, we rush from one adventure to another. It is expected for the reader to fill in the blanks with their own canon knowledge.

It was a pleasant surprise to see Argus Filch in a more prominent role. I also enjoyed to trope subversion, because we've all read an overpowered Harry story more then once.

It's a light-hearted fic you may want to read for the laughs.

6/10

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Image from Unsplash by Eric Han

[dragonsandwolvesohmy]

Lost! Help!

Harry goes to Diagon Alley and buys a box of broken doorways that lead into expanded spaces via runework. He's going to play around with them, fix/alter the rune work. He has an expanded trunk that he stays in too. He sets his trunk up by the road at one point, near a field or forest.

Also what is the fic where Harry creates a ritual/spell to pull lost money from Digon Alley and gets Gringots drafts too?!?!? This is also Auror's Boys... woops...

Or that fic where Moody raises Sirius, Remus and Harry after going through this witness protection thing with the unspeakables, where they get de aged. I FOUND THIS ONE!!! It's The Auror's Boys by lindajenner. (part of a great series)

Another where Harry's staying in the back room of the Leaky Cauldron, works as a cook? Gets work in the alley. GOT IT!!! Realizations by wishweaver on ff.net. don't know their name on ao3 but know it's there too!

What's the one where Ginny is cheating on Harry with Dean when they're married, and she kills him, only for him to go back in time? Found this one!!! The only sound is the overflow by cartonsofcartoons.

The one where he misses a year because of pirates is Venom Peddler.