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The fic begins with a newly resurrected Voldemort grandstanding in front of his minions and learning that while he was disembodied Harry Potter became the Dark Lord, ruler of all dark creatures.

The horcrux in Harry's scar hadn't quite been as contained by the Blood Wards as Dumbledore planned. Rather than twisting Harry's personality, it darkened his aura. And the dark creatures of the magical world really liked that aura. Gee. Sucks to be a Dark Lord trying to make your comeback.

All truly started when werewolf Jasper Lockwood and his squib wife Allison moved to Privet Drive. One night full moon night Jasper escaped from his cage and found Harry, who had been locked out in the cold night. Instead of doing any harm to the child he kept him warm and brought him home.

The story can be found in FanFiction.Net here. It is a Dead Fic, as the story has not been updated since November of 2017.

Contains examples of:

• Abusive Parents:
  • The Dursleys lock Harry Potter out of their house and shed overnight in winter, dress him in Dudley's worn-out clothes and shoes (neither of which are weather-appropriate), lock him in the cupboard under the stairs, and when they get blackmailed into enrolling him in school, they send him to walk alone three miles to school.
  • Jasper's father treated him as The Un-Favourite due to being the son of a mistress that got pregnant. Once Jasper was bitten by a werewolf, Lockwood Senior threw him out with only the clothes on his back.
• And I Must Scream: After the Dursleys test the Dark Community's patience one too many times (according to Harry's silent analysis on the runework on the Dursleys), the Lich deliberately doesn't destroy their souls because that would have left them brain-dead. Instead the Lich removes the Dursleys' souls without destroying them, so that their minds would be trapped and gibbering inside their heads. The only one spared was Dudley, purely due to him being possibly redeemable.
• And I'm the Queen of Sheba:
  Ally: Two words, Lucifer. Holy. Water.
  Lucifer: I'm behaving!
  Ally: And I'm the sugar plum fairy.
• Apology Gift: In the Flash Forward first chapter, Nott Senior explains to Voldemort that a herd of cattle from the troll clan was given to Harry as a token of sorry after Harry killed the troll in his first year.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When Fudge tells Lucius that the dark creatures cleaned them out and that the Ministry revenues are down 28%, Lucius asks this.
  Lucius: Might I seek clarification, Minister? Which are you more upset about – the loss of tax revenue, or the deluge of dark creatures out of Diagon Alley?
• Asshole Victim: After Dudley Dursley and friends vandalize the gardens of several vampires and try to commit arson at Prudence's Bed and Breakfast, the dark beings of Little Whinging have had enough of the Dursleys. The Lich removes Petunia and Vernon Dursley's souls from their bodies and turns said bodies into zombified puppets so they stop causing trouble. Even Harry is glad that the Dursleys have been dealt with.
• Bad Boss: Voldemort full stop. Nott Senior notes to his 'colleagues' that Harry does not demand humiliation and supplication from his dark creatures but treats them with respect and courtesy.
• Bearer of Bad News: Nott Senior is largely this in the first chapter to Voldemort, having to explain that Harry became the next Dark Lord, and all that.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Bigoted pureblood wizards and biased, high-ranking Ministry personnel wanted nothing more than the removal from Wizarding society of 'unwanted' elements such as werewolves, vampires, hags, other assorted dark creatures and muggleborns. Well, they got their wish, but the exodus caused tax revenue to fall down sharply to the point Fudge is afraid that eventually they will be unable to pay the people working at the Ministry of Magic.
• Been There, Shaped History: Several of Harry's dark beings.
  • The Lich named Mud sunk Atlantis in a fit of pique.
  • Lucifer is the Devil, nothing more needs to be added.
  • Judas the Damned is THAT Judas — Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus.
• Benevolent Boss: Harry is the absolute ruler of all the dark creatures living in Little Whinging but he treats them as family, friend, and neighbours. Nott Senior points it out to his fellow Death Eaters that Harry has never requested that his dark creatures prostrate and humiliate themselves to show reverence.
• Beware the Nice Ones:
  • During his first visit in Diagon Alley Harry comes across a Light propaganda book depicting him as killing a werewolf. He becomes so enraged that he demands the writers get hunted down so they can be tortured by Prudence, his Hag relative, since goblins are not sufficiently cruel.
  • Also, Allison Dorea Black-Lockwood, proper lady, nurturing mother figure, loving wife. Even Lucifer Lightbringer himself does not cross her.
• Big "WHAT?!": The Lich when he finds out that they could remove the horcrux in Harry's scar within 5 minutes when he wasted 3 years making that ritual room for the exact same reason.
• Birds of a Feather: Lucifer and Judas.
• Blackmail: When Harry is sent back to the Dursleys, Allison relies on this to force them to treat Harry like a normal kid and enroll him in school.
• Blatant Lies: When Phineas catches Piers and Dudley about to set the hedgerow on fire, Dudley tries to lie... despite the fact all the evidence points to them.
  Dudley: We didn't do it.
  Phineas: There’s a gas can at your feet, a book of matches in the Orca’s hand, and you’re holding a pair of shears, and I’m supposed to believe you didn’t do anything?
  • When Phineas and Prudence ask if that can of gas Dudley and Piers had belongs to Vernon, Vernon tries to lie and say it's Phineas, but that fails because of the fact Phineas drives an electric car and Vernon's name is on the side of the can.
• Butt-Monkey:
  • Poor, poor Jasper. He escapes his cage and runs into a child during the full moon, which is literally his worst nightmare. Then Judas shows up and proceeds to flirt outrageously with him, Lucifer does the same. He is also Ally's bitch.
  • Arcturus Black gets mocked by Lucius Malfoy, belittled by Allison and bullied by Lucifer and Judas to the point he almost has a heart attack.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: A variation in that while all the dark creatures moving into Little Whinging hate the Dursleys, they still need them around for the blood wards. By the end of Chapter 6, they have the blood wards placed around the Lockwood house while giving Vernon and Petunia a Fate Worse than Death when they piss them off one too many times.
• Children Are Innocent: The Lich seems to believe this since he tells Harry that Vernon and Petunia had a magical 'accident'. He explains to the goblin admiring the rune work on the Dursleys that Harry has a tender heart and should not be exposed to cruelty quite this early.
  • Harry however is sufficiently skilled in magic to be able to tell right away what really happened to the Dursleys. He takes it relatively well, feeling mostly happy that he does not have to live in their house anymore.
• Corrupt the Cutie: According to Lucifer, Lich once had a very pure soul. Lucifer states that corrupting Lich was some of his finest work.
• Cuteness Proximity: They main reason dark creatures are drawn to Harry is his dark aura... but the fact that he is a very, very cute child adds to it.
  • Case to point, even The Hag herself, Baba Yaga dotes on him.
• Daddy's Girl: Prudence Charnel-Potter, a very powerful and terrifying Hag that is close to two hundred years old had a very close relationship to her wizard father Haron Potter and still idolizes him long after his death.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Harry is the one true Dark Lord and yet he is very kind, benevolent and compassionate. Prudence and Lich have to spell out to Allison and Jasper that dark does not have to mean evil.
• Dead Fic: Has not been updated since November 13th, 2017. Part of this is due to the fanbase demanding updates and the author busy with her day-to-day life.
• Death by Adaptation: In the first chapter, it is revealed that MacNair had been given the Dementor's kiss.
  • Greyback was killed and turned into a rug by Baba Yaga.
  • Flint Senior had fallen victim to the compulsion charm on the Gaunt Ring and dies from the withering curse.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • Petunia and Vernon's repeated attempts to abuse and mistreat Harry always caused massive amounts of anger among the dark creatures, especially since Allison has to terrify Petunia into heart attacks to get her to listen to reason. The Lich lampshades this in Chapter 6.
    The Lich: Do you realize, that were it not for the cruelty you showed your only nephew, for the harm you did him, that we would never have been drawn here?
  • When one of the werewolves suggest giving Allison poison to off the Dursleys, Jasper shoots it down as he doesn't want his wife to go to jail for murder or attempted murder, and if the Dursleys expire, chances are Dumbledore would get involved and whisk Harry somewhere else.
  • When Dudley, Piers, Malcom and Gordon decide to head out to destroy the vampire gardens and torch down Prudence's Bed and Breakfast in Chapter 6, they fail to consider that they could easily get the whole town killed by the vampires and werewolves, who outnumber the muggles in the town by this point. Suffice to say, they get caught, and had it not been for the Lich getting the answers and Piers confessing the truth, the four would've gotten the remaining muggles killed.
• Embarrassing First Name: The Lich's actual name roughly translates to Mud.
• Even Evil Has Standards:
  • Judas the Damned, First Vampire, Betrayer of Jesus, with hands and fangs dripping with God only knows how much blood, is disgusted with child abuse.
  • The Lich subjects Vernon and Petunia to And I Must Scream but he does not harm Dudley. In fact all he does is modify the boy's memories and send him to a good boarding school in hopes that he can be redeemed. It is a touch pragmatic since it is a good idea to preserve some of Lily's bloodline.
• Everyone Has Standards: Malcolm and Gordon, two of Dudley's friends, don't mind poisoning plants and cutting down plants. But they draw the line at arson and leave before they get caught.
• Falling Chandelier of Doom: Discussed when Jasper first gets a look inside The Lich's new home in Little Whinging and counts six chandeliers, he notes to himself that each of them could crush a man if they fell.
• The Fashionista: Allison Dorea Black-Lockwood does not leave the house unless her outfit is impeccable and utterly elegant. Lucius Malfoy has this in common with her.
• Fate Worse than Death:
  • In the first chapter, when Voldemort asks what happened to MacNair, Nott Senior reveals that he had been kissed by a Dementor.
  • Vernon and Petunia are subjected to this when pissing off the dark community one too many times.
• Flash Forward: The first chapter is Voldemort's return... and him finding out that Harry Potter is the new dark lord.
• Flat "What": The Lich starts with this before it escalates to the Big "WHAT?!".
• Fluffy the Terrible: The necromancer Lich that sunk Atlantis and was headmaster of Scholomance has the true name of Mud.
• Friend to All Living Things: Harry has no trouble charming even beasts not classified as dark, such as gryffins and dragons in addition to werewolves, vampires, dementors.
• Fur Against Fang: A notable aversion. The vampires and werewolves in Privet Drive are thoroughly dedicated to taking care of Harry, and because of this common goal any friction between the two factions is basically nonexistent. Made especially notable since the trope would usually be played straight in the Wizarding World otherwise.
  • When Kingsley talks to the owner of Lindham’s Apothecary and he describes how the werewolves and vampires were in a friendly rivalry, Kingsley mentally remarks that it would be the day that vampires and werewolves would work together.
• Henpecked Husband: Jasper is Allison's bitch and knows it all too well. He derides whoever said that the male is the head of the pureblood household.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The dark creatures have left mainstream British Wizarding Society due to the prejudice and biased laws against them, such as werewolves being forbidden from even being employed by magical businesses. The Ministry are feeling this Diaspora very keenly in their purse since their revenue has gone down about one third, causing Fudge to want the werewolves, vampires and hags to come back so they can be taxed.
• Insistent Terminology: Harry's name is Hadrian. The Lich will not have a dark lord called Harry.
• It Runs in the Family: The women of House Black tend to be some shade of batshit insane. Arcturus is all too aware.
• Joke and Receive: Allison finds out the Dursleys locked four-year-old Harry Potter out of the house overnight and he got frostbite, so as a concerned neighbor, she goes over to interrogate Petunia Dursley, inquiring after Harry. Allison, not seeing Harry or knowing where in the house he is, says "I note you've not left the house at all this morning, and wanted to confirm YOU gave him the appropriate treatment, and didn't just shove him into a cupboard somewhere." The cupboard statement was supposed to be facetious, but it startles Petunia into a heart attack, and then Dudley begrudgingly reveals that Harry Potter really is in the cupboard under the stairs. Allison is horrified.
• Let Me Get This Straight...: Arcturus Black summarizes Lucius Malfoy's demand to him, "Let me see if I can summarize your request concisely, Mr. Malfoy. You wish for me to disown my grandson, and rightful blood heir, Sirius Orion Black, and instead name your minor son as heir to House Black."
• Light Is Not Good:
  • Dumbledore purposefully places a toddler in an abusive environment and has had Lockhart Mind Rape Mrs. Figg in order to have a spy in Privet Drive.
  • Cornelius Fudge is also a light wizard and he is a disgustingly corrupt and self serving politician.
• Logical Weakness: A magical contract does not bind someone who predates written language even if his true name is written in it, since his name simply cannot be accurately translated or pronounced enough for the contract to function.
• Missing Reflection: Judas the first vampire remarks on how hard it is to floss his fangs when he can't see them in a mirror.
• Mr. Exposition: Mud the Lich has this role. He explains to Jasper that there have been only two true Dark Lords in history. The first was Lucifer and the second is Harry. He also figures out how Harry's aura came to be.
• Mr. Fanservice: Jasper, being a werewolf all too often ends up naked post transformation in front of people he would rather not be naked in front of.
• Odd Friendship: Proper Lady Allison and Hag Prudence.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Everytime Lucifer is mentioned or around the Lich will mention the need to lock up the goats and assorted livestock.
• Only Sane Man: Poor, poor Jasper has this role.
• Our Liches Are Different: First thing, there is only one Lich, The Lich. He makes a point of killing anyone trying to turn themselves into a lich like himself.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: The werewolf of Little Whinging starts as a typical one by Potterverse standards but living in Harry's dark aura empowers and nourishes them to the point were they are able to change at will and there is enough harmony between man and wolf that they are in full control even under a new moon.
• Our Vampires Are Different: Judas the Damned is the very first vampire. Same as with werewolves, proximity to Harry enables them to endure sunlight and cross thresholds without invitation.
• Papa Wolf: Jasper, literally. In order to protect Harry he is willing to take on the First Vampire, The Necromancer Lich. In fact every last one werewolf in the pack is willing to do the same. It is just a bit more emphasized in Jasper since he is Harry's actual foster dad.
• Parental Issues: Judas hated his mother, calling her the old bitch. Lucifer hates his father aka God with the capital G. Is it any wonder that the two of them are fast friends?
• Point of Divergence:
  • When Dumbledore puts blood wards around the Dursleys to contain the horcruxes, it doesn't cause the horcrux to be suppressed, but rather darkens Harry's aura. This becomes prevalent when Jasper and Allison move into Little Whinging when Harry is 4.
  • When Allison uncovers the abuse Harry goes through at the hands of the Dursleys, the Dursleys are forced to adhere to Allison's demands, including enrolling Harry in Primary, while they make sure Harry is given the love and care he needs.
  • When Jasper explains to Anton about the aura that makes his lycan form more tolerable, it leads to the start of a werewolf exodus, which snowballs into a Dark Creature exodus from Britain.
  • The Dursley adults are subjected to And I Must Scream while Dudley is given modified memories and sent to boarding schools and strict summer camps after they piss off the community one too many times.
  • When the Dementors kiss Harry and remove the Soul Jar attached to his scar, it causes a mass ruckus in both the Ministry and the Death Eater ranks. As explained in the Flash Forward by Nott Senior, that was how they found out he wasn't dead, and they found out he made multiple after the Diary Horcrux was destroyed.
  • The resurrection ritual for Voldemort in the Flash Forward is entirely different, involving the ring Horcrux.
• Police Are Useless: Subverted. It's heavily implied that Dumbledore and Lockhart had been obliviating the memories of all the muggles who receive reports of Harry's mistreatment from Mrs. Figg.
• Pragmatic Villainy:
  • Fudge tells Umbridge off on using the word mudblood. Not because he is sympathetic toward muggleborns but because the open prejudice is causing them to leave and stop paying taxes.
  • The Lich spares Dudley partially because they might need someone of Lily's blood alive and well in the future.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: In Chapter 8, when Harry is flying with the Dragons.
  Allison: This. IS. A. WRETCHEDLY. BAD. IDEA!
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • The majority of Britain's dark creatures moving to Little Whinging leave the British Magical Community due to their Fantastic Racism.
  • When Mrs. Figg has her mind fixed up by the Lich, she curses up a storm regarding Dumbledore and moves to the US.
• Selective Obliviousness: Really Lich? You have trained Harry yourself in magic, do you really think he is not able to see and mostly identify the runework that makes the adult Dursleys into your zombified puppets?
• Self-Made Orphan: The Lich, likely Judas had fatally antagonistic relationships with their mothers.
• Silk Hiding Steel: Ally is the very epitome of this trope. She is a squib from House Black, therefore a lady of perfect manners and breeding. She also is very able and very willing to give Petunia daily cardiac arrests and make dark beings far more powerful than her dance to her tune.
• Smug Snake: Lucius Malfoy openly antagonizes Lord Arcturus Black, who is less then impressed and can actually revoke his noble title.
• Son of a Whore: To directly quote Lich, his mother was a streetwalker.
• Soul Jar: Voldemort made six Horcruxes intentionally and one accidentally. The seventh one answers to Harry.
  • This is how they figured out Voldemort was Not Quite Dead and that he made multiple when Harry destroyed the Diary Horcrux in 2nd year.
• Thicker Than Water: The reason Arcturus will not disown Sirius and name a new heir? Sirius is his grandson.
• This Explains So Much: When the Lich explains what the blood wards are doing, Jasper is quick to realize why he's able to turn into a werewolf in daylight and regardless of the lunar cycle.
  Lich: Ah. He’s an idiot then, this Dumbledore. These wards depend on the love and stability of a family, a magical family. The wards have been starving for some time, so they hooked into a magical child. From what I can see, the wards have developed a limited sentience, and became aware they were harming the very person they were designed to protect, so they began siphoning wild magic, but they couldn’t directly use wild magic, because they are blood attuned wards.
  Jasper (realizing what this means): So, rather than take Harry’s own innate power to fuel themselves, the ward fed the wild magic through Harry first, and then harvested it as blood-attuned. All the while, exposing him to wild magic.
  Lich: Precisely. Now, the interesting part, the little prince’s connection to death, which seems to be linked to the sacrificial magic I can find in this ward. Had wild magic only gone through a magical child with no connection to death, then no harm, albeit a stronger than usual neutral magical child with a propensity for higher ritual magic. But, the lad is touched by death, which is a primordial force of order. Order is…
  Jasper: Dark. Still. Structured. You get a Dark Lord.
• Time Abyss: Lucifer has been around since the very beginning. The Lich is somewhere between eight thousand to five thousand, older than cuneiform, the first type of written language. Judas is two thousand years old.
• Tom the Dark Lord: The Lich is extremely disdainful of this, which is why he is very insistent on calling Harry Hadrian.
• Too Dumb to Live: When Dudley and his friends decide to vandalize the vampire gardens and torch down Prudence's bed and breakfast, it ends with Vernon and Petunia reduced to zombified puppets while Dudley is sent to boarding school with modified memories. Even Nott Senior admits that vandalizing vampire gardens is a dumb idea, muggle or not.
• Town with a Dark Secret: Not so secret, but as the muggles leave, Little Whinging is becoming the Sanctuary and Royal Capital of the Dark Lord.