History Fanfic / HarryPotterAndTheNightmaresOfFuturesPast

* PyrrhicVictory: The premise that pushes Harry to go back in time. He defeated Voldemort, but not before Voldemort killed everyone Harry knows and loves.

* OpenSecret: By second year, Harry's friends are all aware that there are some things he isn't telling them, but he's told them enough to realise that he only isn't sharing his secrets with them because Snape would learn about it when he reads their minds, giving them extra incentive to learn Occlumency to keep him out.

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-->'''Harry''': I'm sorry.
-->'''Sorting Hat''': Don't be, that was really a clever plan. I still say you would have done well in Slytherin.
-->'''Harry''': Maybe so. Thank you. ''[blasts the Hat]''

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[[folder:G-L]]

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[[folder:M-S]]

--->'''Harry''': She walked up right behind me as I said that, didn't she?
--->'''[=McGonagall=]''': Your grasp of the obvious is as keen as your gift for imitations, Mr. Potter.

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[[folder:T-Z]]

* CareBearStare: Harry uses this on Voldemort in the very first chapter. It even includes the associated light show.

-> '''Dumbledore''': You do understand that you will be effectively resurrecting Tom Riddle?\\
'''Harry''': If I do, it will be a small price to pay for the lives of everyone who died in this war. Fighting him again is nothing, if I have a chance to do it better this time.\\
'''Dumbledore''': Do it better, Harry?\\
'''Harry''': I plan to cheat like Draco Malfoy on a potions exam.

* AdaptationalRelationshipOverhaul: Harry is definitely on different footing with several of the adults from his previous life.

The story opens with an adult Harry finally defeating Voldemort after fighting him and his Death Eaters for about thirteen years. The victory [[PyrrhicVictory is extremely hollow]], however; the war has directly or indirectly claimed the lives of virtually every named character in the series and Harry has lost everyone he ever loved and then some. As a potentially fatal case of depression begins to settle in, however, Harry uncovers theoretical texts in the ruins of Hogwarts that suggest a means by which to travel backwards in time.

With nothing left to lose, Harry gambles his life on a second chance, and hits the jackpot when his spirit merges with his younger self partway through the summer before his first year at Hogwarts. In classic Peggy Sue fashion, "young" Harry then begins subtly altering the timeline to make things better... with mixed results.

On May 13, 2019 the story disappeared from [[Website/FanfictionDotNet FanFiction.net]], with the author clarifying on his website that this was due to an accusation of copyright infringement involving song lyrics (namely, "Weasley is our King", which Harry sings in Chapter 28), though it is still available at other locations and he is appealing to the site directors to undo their decision, The fic has since been made available on various other sites, including:

* GodzillaThreshold: When Ron, Fred, and George [[spoiler:rescue Harry during Chapter 11, Ron is afraid to move Harry for fear of hurting him more. So he breaks the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery by using ''mobilicorpus'' so he can move Harry.]]

* GreaterScopeVillain: The BadFuture Voldemort; his brutal and devastating campaign is the reason why Harry sends his soul back in time to do things right.

** Harry promises Melissa Bulstrode that [[spoiler: if she can get proof of who killed her sister, the Aurors will never find their body]]. She doesn't think he's serious, but after the war he's fought, chances are that he is.

--> She’d put Ginny in charge of him. And given her his wand.

--> '''Hermione''': I'm sorry. You must think I’m mental.\\

** Similarly, Mad-Eye Moody was killed defending Azkaban from the Death Eaters after Harry had started searching for the Horcruxes.

* SwordCane: Lucius Malfoy's cane contains a poisoned blade, which killed Mr Weasley in the past future.

* TalkingInYourSleep: Harry dozes off in the Weasleys' car, and wakes with several of them staring at him. Luna later tells him that he was making death threats and using "[[NarrativeProfanityFilter some words I’m going to have to look up when we get to school]]."

* CutLexLuthorACheck: Basically applies to Rita Skeeter, as Harry deals with the potential threat she poses by basically blackmailing her with his knowledge of her Animagus status and an offer to make her his exclusive journalist. So long as Rita doesn't write anything scathingly against him or his friends, Harry will provide her with at least one interview a year, while also ensuring that she gets first shot if any stories come up involving him; Harry even recognises that it's a good deal for Rita as she gets exclusive insight into one of the most famous figures in the wizarding world.

* LudicrousGibs: One of Harry's flashbacks in Chapter 14 has him casting a ''reducto'' that splatters a Death Eater against the hedgerow behind him.

* MutualKill: Harry recalls finding that Neville and Bellatrix killed each other.

* MobileMenace: Voldemort in the BadFuture was constantly on the move, with Harry often attempting to use Legilimens to find him.

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: Parodied when Madam Pomfrey has Harry under her care for straining his throat, and does "something so ruthless, so diabolical, that he was still
shocked."

* OriginalCharacter: Goldfarb, a goblin who becomes Harry's Guardian of his Vaults and assists Harry with financial matters.
* OutsideContextProblem: [[spoiler:The IRA is able to damage the Hogwarts wards with a bomb]] because the school's defences against non-magical assault haven't been updated since the castle was built; Flitwick makes it clear that he will remedy that while repairing the wards.

-->'''Harry''': Ron, remember when you asked me why I got so angry when Malfoy nicked my letter?[[note]]Malfoy was taking away one of Harry's rare (and thus treasured) experiences of friendship.[[/note]]
-->''(Ron nods)''
-->'''Harry''': Remember when I told you how many Christmases I've celebrated before this one?[[note]]The [[TimeyWimeyBall simplified]] answer is [[AbusiveParents zero]].[[/note]]
-->'''Ron''': Same thing, yeah?
-->'''Harry''': Spot on, mate.
-->'''Ron''': I wasn't trying to Malfoy your Christmas, Harry.

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "Let's test out mum's handiwork, shall we?"

* GodzillaThreshhold: When Ron, Fred, and George [[spoiler:rescue Harry during Chapter 11, Ron is afraid to move Harry for fear of hurting him more. So he breaks the Decree for the Reasonable Restriction of Underage Sorcery by using ''mobilicorpus'' so he can move Harry.]]

** The first time Ron spars wth Ginny, he starts with some [[TrashTalk patronising remarks]], until she gets past his guard and punches him in the gut.

--> Harry cracked a nasty grin and wondered if he was an awful person for taking such delight in their misery. He shrugged. With all he was doing to save people he’d likely never meet, he figured karma owed him a little petty behaviour.

--> '''Harry''': You two must have been going at it at least forty minutes, right? That’s the longest anyone in Gryffindor has lasted so far this year, isn’t it?\\

* BadFuture: Er...Yes? To sum up, when the story begins, Harry has at last defeated Voldemort for good, and the rest of the Death Eaters died with him... but Hogwarts has been leveled, all his friends and family are dead, Diagon Alley is gone, and the Death Eaters had been committing purges of the British Isles at such a scale that the US Military had to step in. The devastation had also spread to continental Europe, which was why the US Military stepped in just to keep Voldemort west of the Atlantic Ocean.

* EmpatheticEnvironment: Hogwarts in the BadFuture is always raining inside after the sack, as if the castle is mourning those who perished defending it.

* EmpathaticEnvironment: Hogwarts in the BadFuture is always raining inside after the sack, as if the castle is mourning those who perished defending it.