4222: Finding Home - Harry and Alex Potter
Title: Finding Home
Perpetrator: Ricochet Phoenix
Sue-O-Meter: Awful (though it could have gotten a worse rating had the story gotten past the first four chapters)
Cover/Banner Art: The cover is the Hogwarts crest.
Summary: “Alex Potter is announced the boy who lived, while Harry is tossed to the shadows. Soon being left to his Aunt and Uncle, he is tossed into a world where the rules of magic was spun differently, and is on the brink of war. WBWL”
Full Name: Harry and Alex Potter
Species: He’s the boy-who-lived-but-isn’t-known-as-the-boy-who-lived and he’s the not-the-boy-who-lived-but-is-identified-as-such.
Hair: “Alex had brown hair similar to his brothers but tinged a fiery red like Lily.”
Eyes: Harry’s twin brother has hazel eyes.”
Markings: Nothing specific.
Possessions: Nothing specific.
Connection to Canon: Sirius and Remus find Harry in the attic, but we’re supposed to believe Harry is “tossed to the shadows” simply because the writer says so. Alex is off being friends with Ron and Neville because he’s just that special, yet his twin isn’t special to him at all. They are playing tag where Alex proceeds to tell his twin touching the hair doesn’t count, and then when Harry tries tagging him again Alex accuses Harry of pushing him. That’s how Harry gets shipped off to his aunt and uncle. The threat is enough to send him into the 07-Ghost world. He ends up raised with the main character of the other fandom, yet gets upset because an adult who doesn’t know his name calls him child. Why? “Dumbledore called him child before. Never by his real name. He felt belittled because of that.” (Stop, please stop.) Back in the other world, Alex wakes up. “He couldn’t say that he hated his brother, but maybe a mild dislike. His brother was weird to him. Foreign. Despite the two being twins he could barely feel any sort of bond between the them.” He’s completely fine when his mother tells him they sent Harry away because his twin brother was jealous of how famous he was, but now he’s thinking Harry is a bad person. The main character of the other series, Teito, has nightmares Harry helps him through. Alex is wondering where his twin was, but there’s a line about how “they were training him to fight He Who Shall Not Be Named, it was his birthright, a blessing from a prophecy” He thinks Harry’s having a better time. Nobody notices Harry is gone for an entire month. Now Harry was sent away because it was the way to keep both twins safe. He is not with his aunt and uncle like Dumbledore planned.
Origin: We have another story where Harry’s twin is mistaken for the child who survived, but because of this Lily and James spoil his brother.
Special Abilities: With this story we always have the problem of Lily and James surviving to spoil Harry’s twin. We also have Harry suddenly become inclined towards books, which he was not before. We’re also supposed to believe parents act in the manner they do in the story. No, scratch that. Nobody acts like they should in this fic. Instead, they act the way the writer wants.
Notes: I don’t get the point of these stories where Harry’s brother is the boy-who-lived. They always forget some major points, such as the fact Lily and James should be dead, but the characters don’t act in a reasonable fashion.
Sample:
Harry Potter was sitting on the wooden floor of the attic, books scattered on the floor. Everybody was celebrating down stairs, because on this day in Godric's Hallow a few years before, Voldemort attempted to kill Alex Potter and his twin. Only on that one night something went wrong, the death spell rebounded and hit the Dark Lord instead. On that day Alex was name the Boy Who Lived.
Soon enough the Potters rose to fame. Realizing their mistake and fearing another attack, they moved to the newly build Potter manor, and placed a fidelus charm with Dumbledore as the secret keeper in order to avoid any more incidents. From that day on Alex, James, and Lily lived a happy live, ignoring their older son Harry. Alex lived a good life being given whatever he wants. The world focusing on the child with the lightning bolt scar on his forehead, one of two. The other on Harry Potter. The older child was soon left to the shadows.
Downstairs a party was thrown to honor the four year old boy. Pumpkins carved in intricate designs or goofy faces, the rooms decorated with autumn decor. Families like the Weasleys and Longbottoms came, along with many of the professors from Hogwarts, as well as the Great Albus Dumbledore. All speaking to the Potters about the events going on in the wizarding world. While Alex played with his friends Neville and Ron.
Harry stood up and walked to the door reaching for the knob. Nope, he didn't want to go down just yet. He went back to his books intending to finish it. It looked like such a lovely day outside. The crisp fall breeze falling through his window, which had been opened by his parents in the morning. The sun was out and there was not a cloud in the sky. He heard his door being opened.
"Padfoot! Moony!" he shouted as he ran to hug his godfather and the werewolf. The two men chuckled as Sirius picked up his godson.
"How are you Harry?" Sirius asked the four year old, smiling.
Harry smiled back, "I'm well" he replied looking at the book on the ground, open.
Perpetrator: Ricochet Phoenix
Sue-O-Meter: Awful (though it could have gotten a worse rating had the story gotten past the first four chapters)
Cover/Banner Art: The cover is the Hogwarts crest.
Summary: “Alex Potter is announced the boy who lived, while Harry is tossed to the shadows. Soon being left to his Aunt and Uncle, he is tossed into a world where the rules of magic was spun differently, and is on the brink of war. WBWL”
Full Name: Harry and Alex Potter
Species: He’s the boy-who-lived-but-isn’t-known-as-the-boy-who-lived and he’s the not-the-boy-who-lived-but-is-identified-as-such.
Hair: “Alex had brown hair similar to his brothers but tinged a fiery red like Lily.”
Eyes: Harry’s twin brother has hazel eyes.”
Markings: Nothing specific.
Possessions: Nothing specific.
Connection to Canon: Sirius and Remus find Harry in the attic, but we’re supposed to believe Harry is “tossed to the shadows” simply because the writer says so. Alex is off being friends with Ron and Neville because he’s just that special, yet his twin isn’t special to him at all. They are playing tag where Alex proceeds to tell his twin touching the hair doesn’t count, and then when Harry tries tagging him again Alex accuses Harry of pushing him. That’s how Harry gets shipped off to his aunt and uncle. The threat is enough to send him into the 07-Ghost world. He ends up raised with the main character of the other fandom, yet gets upset because an adult who doesn’t know his name calls him child. Why? “Dumbledore called him child before. Never by his real name. He felt belittled because of that.” (Stop, please stop.) Back in the other world, Alex wakes up. “He couldn’t say that he hated his brother, but maybe a mild dislike. His brother was weird to him. Foreign. Despite the two being twins he could barely feel any sort of bond between the them.” He’s completely fine when his mother tells him they sent Harry away because his twin brother was jealous of how famous he was, but now he’s thinking Harry is a bad person. The main character of the other series, Teito, has nightmares Harry helps him through. Alex is wondering where his twin was, but there’s a line about how “they were training him to fight He Who Shall Not Be Named, it was his birthright, a blessing from a prophecy” He thinks Harry’s having a better time. Nobody notices Harry is gone for an entire month. Now Harry was sent away because it was the way to keep both twins safe. He is not with his aunt and uncle like Dumbledore planned.
Origin: We have another story where Harry’s twin is mistaken for the child who survived, but because of this Lily and James spoil his brother.
Special Abilities: With this story we always have the problem of Lily and James surviving to spoil Harry’s twin. We also have Harry suddenly become inclined towards books, which he was not before. We’re also supposed to believe parents act in the manner they do in the story. No, scratch that. Nobody acts like they should in this fic. Instead, they act the way the writer wants.
Notes: I don’t get the point of these stories where Harry’s brother is the boy-who-lived. They always forget some major points, such as the fact Lily and James should be dead, but the characters don’t act in a reasonable fashion.
Sample:
Harry Potter was sitting on the wooden floor of the attic, books scattered on the floor. Everybody was celebrating down stairs, because on this day in Godric's Hallow a few years before, Voldemort attempted to kill Alex Potter and his twin. Only on that one night something went wrong, the death spell rebounded and hit the Dark Lord instead. On that day Alex was name the Boy Who Lived.
Soon enough the Potters rose to fame. Realizing their mistake and fearing another attack, they moved to the newly build Potter manor, and placed a fidelus charm with Dumbledore as the secret keeper in order to avoid any more incidents. From that day on Alex, James, and Lily lived a happy live, ignoring their older son Harry. Alex lived a good life being given whatever he wants. The world focusing on the child with the lightning bolt scar on his forehead, one of two. The other on Harry Potter. The older child was soon left to the shadows.
Downstairs a party was thrown to honor the four year old boy. Pumpkins carved in intricate designs or goofy faces, the rooms decorated with autumn decor. Families like the Weasleys and Longbottoms came, along with many of the professors from Hogwarts, as well as the Great Albus Dumbledore. All speaking to the Potters about the events going on in the wizarding world. While Alex played with his friends Neville and Ron.
Harry stood up and walked to the door reaching for the knob. Nope, he didn't want to go down just yet. He went back to his books intending to finish it. It looked like such a lovely day outside. The crisp fall breeze falling through his window, which had been opened by his parents in the morning. The sun was out and there was not a cloud in the sky. He heard his door being opened.
"Padfoot! Moony!" he shouted as he ran to hug his godfather and the werewolf. The two men chuckled as Sirius picked up his godson.
"How are you Harry?" Sirius asked the four year old, smiling.
Harry smiled back, "I'm well" he replied looking at the book on the ground, open.