Where in the World Is Harry Potter?
is the beginning of a trilogy of fanfics by Nonjon dealing with a post-war Harry Potter disappearing, and proceeding to troll all Wizarddom, with special focus on those members of the Order of the Phoenix still pursuing him. Hermione and Tonks are attempting to be the only sane witches, with minimal success as Harry decides to enjoy the childhood denied to him at the amusing expense of everyone involved.
Its first sequel, The Untitled Cheekquel Project, has Harry dragged back into society as the new DADA professor, replacing the ancient alchemist Nicholas Flamel, and giving him the chance to corrupt the next generation of wizards and witches with his trollish mindset.
Its final sequel, You Did WHAT!?, has Harry repaying a favor to Dudley for his help in an experiment. Unfortunately things go very wrong, 4 Privet Drive is now a smoldering crater, and the Dursleys are no longer in their bodies... because now his parents and Sirius are in them. He now has to figure out how to restore the Dursleys, getting to know his parents who never grew up, and are somehow even less mature than he is. Merlin help us all.
Where in the World Is Harry Potter? provides examples of:
- Achievements in Ignorance: Draco accidently creates a horcrux out of his diary by complete accident, creating 'Tibbles'.
- Harry's 'accidental necromancy' is also this, considering actually raising of the dead is supposed to be impossible.
- Ambiguously Gay: One of the running jokes is that Neville keeps being seen as this and protests it, though at times, particularly during the Bachelor Party scene, comes off as a bit hollow.
- Answers to the Name of God: Inverted: Everyone keeps praising him at levels reserved for Jesus, to his massive annoyance. Started as a prank from Snape and Draco and only escalated.
- Animorphism: James (stag) and Sirius (dog) as in canon, with a young boy Harry is helping turning into a cat and Lily into a cow with Harry's help. Harry is as well, though like all other rules of magic he seems to break on a regular basis, he doesn't have any set form.
- Berserk Button: Hermione and her hair. This gets hammered on during the Prank War in YDW.
- Butt-Monkey: Several but nobody moreso than Draco.
- Dark Secret: Parodied all to hell with Draco and 'Sandy'. Draco bleaches his hair, which is naturally sandy blonde.
- Embarrassing First Name: What Harry could have ended up with instead, from Oglethorp Pugsley Potter, to Draco Ignatius Potter, or even Tom Marvolo Potter. The last was something Lily saw on a trophy at Hogwarts, not realizing that it was the name of the last person she saw before she was killed.
- Ethical Slut: Harry seems to be this, with it being discussed with Luna in the second story, and his mother in the third.
- Escalating Friendly War: A prank war is declared between Harry and his parents in YDW, one that goes very badly for the parents' team, despite or rather, because of choosing Nicholas Flamel.
- Fanservice / Fan Disservice: The whole spectrum is played with often, whether from Harry's various hookups to Hermione and Nicholas Flamel, to the below-mentioned Quidditch prank.
- Fun with Acronyms: Luna and, due to a bet, Lily are forced to wear bikinis with the logo of the Puddlemere United Superfan Sisters of Yesteryear. When James mentions them, Harry can't help but think Hermione has competition for worst acronym making..
- Gender Bender: Partial, on Sirius due to a ''venerio'' curse, and most of James's prank war team during a Quidditch match.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: Harry's experiment to help Dudley lose weight ends up blowing up the Dursley home, destroying every magic detector at the ministry and resurrects his dead parents and godfather in the bodies of his relatives. And trying to fix things turns the Dursleys into the first Dementors, including Dudley turning into his friend Bob, before sending them into the distant past.
- Heel–Face Turn: Draco and Severus both did this in the backstory, becoming Harry's spies among the Death Eaters. Both are still Jerkasses, but Harry is keeping them in line.
- I Ate WHAT?!: James eats a piece of dementor shed from Bob, mocking the claims that Bob was a Dementor. Evidently it tasted like boiled feet, according to him.
- Incredibly Lame Pun: "What Are You in For?" "Identity theft." "Maybe you do deserve Azkaban."
- Also, the orphanage that replaced Borkin and Berke’s: the Knockturn Alley Mission. “Dare to Dream.”
- Insistent Terminology: Accidental Necromancy for Harry and Albus, 'brought the dead to life' for the Goblins.
- Legacy Character: Nicholas Flamel was actually the alias of a halfblood who had to put up with Fantastic Racism, so created the alias as a powerful pureblood alchemist and warrior. The title has been passed from person to person, which almost included Dumbledore himself, before choosing Harry as his replacement.
- Manchild: Harry has basically become this as a payback for the abusive childhood he had. His parents and Sirius as well, the former because they died before they could mature, the latter because he never matured anyway.
- Mind Screw: A lot of Harry's pranks involve this. But the biggest one is Albus's experience with Luna and how the conversation he had with Luna changes each trip through an otherwise Stable Time Loop.
- Me's a Crowd: Draco and 'Tibbles' and Harry and Nicholas Flamel. The latter was to maintain the above Legacy Character, the former...
- Mundane Utility: Nicholas Flamel lampshades this when James and Sirius complain about not being able to nail Harry with any of their pranks. All the skills Harry needed to survive and eventually defeat Voldemort and the Death Eaters make him paranoid and skilled enough to avoid and counter his parents' traps with ease. Of course, Having recruited Harry himself in the form of Nicholas Flamel didn't do them any favors either...
- Noodle Incident: Several alluded to, but one of the big ones was when Harry's parents ask how Voldemort died, Harry only replies, "Slowly and in a lot of pain."
- Refuge in Audacity: Harry is accused of committing accidental necromancy (Which he did) but bluffs it out by claiming that his 'undead' parents are actually test subjects for a long-term Polyjuice potion, allowing one to take a normal appearance in case of injuries or the like. The ministry employee becomes exasperated when the 'subjects' begin to complain that he is trying to interfere with the Masquerade of various (probably) fictional groups, even a muggle Illuminati who are trying to keep things secret from Wizards for their own protection, offering to even 'phaser-beam mindwipe' the bureaucrat before the latter storms off in a huff.
- Queer People Are Funny: When Draco undergoes his accident, his blackouts make him afraid that he's going out with a woman. Too Much Information for all who hear about this. Harry even jokes that hooking the twin Dracos up with the Patils wouldn't work because "They have a bit too much vagina for him."
- Screw Yourself: Draco and Tibbles, much to Harry's nausea at the thought.
- Shout-Out:
- A prank Sirius and Harry pull on Hogwarts seems to be heavily inspired by Planet of the Apes, lampshaded when the two plan it and think of releasing some Silly Simians, but eventually replace the apes with house elves.
- The previous holder of the title of Nicholas Flamel was a man named Wesley.
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Squick: A few cases joked about from time to time, including where Harry's name came from. - Take That!: Harry dreams of a pit fight between Dobby and another elf named Dubya, who Dobby thought was "Half elf, half goblin and half tree". (The extra half because of the tree.).
- Dobby: Luckily I won that one. Dobby and Dubya had a wager. The loser had to become president of the uni- [Cut off from screaming in another room]
- Tempting Fate: Bob was actually hoping Harry would invoke this after his accidental necromancy, wanting to see if Harry would say "this could not possibly get any worse" just to see what would happen.
- Toilet Humor: Goblin Whiskey, AKA Goblin Sauce causes human drinkers to fart fire.
