History WebVideo / WelcomeBackPotter

* ForWantOfANail: While Harry had met both Ron and Hermione at relatively the same time in canon, here he and Ron ran away to America they don't meet Hermione until many years later.

** Harry Potter in this version basically became a [[Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas Raoul Duke]] if he could talk to snakes and had a stash of gold he couldn't spend.

** Don describes UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball as "like Quidditch, except the rules make sense." It's even acknowledged that both are barbaric because both games' players wind up with brain-damage, though Magic-England had the curtesy to ban the game when it was brought to light.

* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: According to the OpeningNarration, Dumbledore would undo the events of the series by using a time-turner to back and time and fix things so that events would align more with canon.

** Jarry is right that he had no ''actual'' obligation to kill Voldemort, and that putting all your hopes and dreams in a child killing TheDreaded.

Set in an AlternateTimeline where Harry and Ron ran away to America when the pressure of defeating the Dark Lord became to much for The Boy Who Lived, the Ministry of Magic has fallen and the Dark Lord Voldemort has taken over, ready to take over the Muggle-World once he kills his nemesis once and for all. After many years, Hermione, now named Stacey, finds Harry. Now going by Jarry Potter, Jarry and his friend Don Weasley have taken to using their magic to con muggles and neither of them are interested in going back. What's a girl to do?

* ShoutOut: When Stacey emphasizes not saying Voldemort's name, Jarry sarcastically asks Don to "Film/{{Beetlejuice}} me a Bloody Mary, Film/{{Candyman}}."

* VillainsOutShopping: We're introduced to Voldemort playing the pipe-organ.

* {{Deconstruction}}: The series is basically Website/{{Cracked}} making a show based off of the flaws in the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' setting they uncovered in the ''WebVideo/AfterHours'' episode "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDgk8RAckCE Why The Harry Potter Universe is Secretly Terrifying]]". The Wizarding World puts all of their hopes and dreams into a [[TheChosenOne Chosen One]] narrative, and while it scarred Harry for life (literally and psychologically) in canon, here it drove Harry to flee to America where he became disillusioned with the entire Wizarding World, Jarry rightfully pointing out how ridiculous it was for everyone to expect a 12 year-old orphan to kill "Wizard-Hitler" for them. Voldemort succeeded in taking over the Ministry of Magic because the only people who actually put up a fight against his army of {{Evil Sorcerer}}s were ChildSoldiers. It took the Wizarding world a lot longer to find Jarry than it should have because of how technologically primitive Wizards are and Hermione is intellectually stunted in various areas -- like everyday economics, cooking and sex-ed -- because all Hogwarts ever teaches is magic.

** Jarry is right that he had no ''actual'' obligation to kill Voldemort.

** Don describes UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball as "like Quidditch, except the rules make sense." It's even acknowledged that both are barbaric because both games' players wind up with brain-damage.

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* AdaptationalDumbass: While Ron wasn't exactly the most BookSmart of the trio, he was born and raised in a Wizarding Family and was the most intuitively familiar with Wizarding customs of the trio. Here, he's a {{Fratbro}} that does whatever Jarry says compared to the angsty hero from the books and films.

** Harry, here named Jarry, is a jaded drug-addled con-artist who has nothing but contempt for the Wizarding World he was destined to save.

''Welcome Back, Potter'' is a three-part miniseries made by Website/{{Cracked}}, based on the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise with ''Literature/FearAndLoathingInLasVegas'' thrown in.

Set in an AlternateTimeline where Harry and Ron ran away to America when the pressure of defeating the Dark Lord became to much for The Boy Who Lived, the Ministry of Magic has fallen and the Dark Lord Voldemort has taken over, ready to take over the Muggle-World once he kills his nemesis once and for all. After many years, Hermione, now named Stacey, finds Harry. Now going by Jarry Potter, Jarry and his friend Don Weasely have taken to using their magic to con muggles and neither of them are interested in going back. What's a girl to do?

* AdaptationalDumbass: While Ron wasn't exactly the most BookSmart of the trio, he was born and raised in a Wizarding Family and was the most intuitively familiar with Wizarding customs in the trio. Here, he's turned into a {{Fratbro}} that does whatever Jarry says compared to the angsty hero from the books and films.

* VisualPun: At the bar, Stacey's drink has a whole stick of butter in it. Get it? ''Butter''beer?