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Okay, sure, it\'s the TropeNamer, but do we \'\'really\'\' need a whole section on Harry Potter delving into such excruciating detail? Can\'t we just cut the whole thing and put an entry at the top of Literature saying, \
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Okay, sure, it\\\'s the TropeNamer, but do we \\\'\\\'really\\\'\\\' need a whole section on Harry Potter delving into such excruciating detail? Can\\\'t we just cut the whole thing and put an entry at the top of Literature saying, \\\"HarryPotter is the TropeNamer. Let\\\'s just say it happens a \\\'\\\'lot\\\'\\\'.\\\"?
Edit: Hell with it, I pulled it. Original stuff is here:
[[folder:Harry Potter]]
* The TropeNamer, Ron Weasley. Since DracoInLeatherPants is often a result of Draco/Hermione shippers, Ron is turned ragingly evil and joins the Death Eaters to oppose the now-good Draco. There are various arguments as to why a FaceHeelTurn on Ron\\\'s part is plausible (and of course counter arguments to all of them), with some being more cogent than others. [[WordOfGod Rowling herself]] has admitted there were parallels between Ron and Peter Pettigrew. What the fanfic authors usually get wrong is that they have Ron joining Voldemort for revenge or other petty reasons.
** The biggest problem with the Ron/Peter Pettigrew parallels? Is that while Ron \\\'\\\'could\\\'\\\' theoretically make a FaceHeelTurn, he ultimately \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\'. This, by the way, is a recurring minor theme in the Potterverse - the difference between good and evil is the choice to reject dark impulses and urges. All of the characters have weaknesses that could theoretically lead them to turn evil, including Harry and Hermione. The reason this trope page exists is because of the DoubleStandard propagated by certain segments of the FanDumb: Harry, Hermione, Draco and Snape\\\'s weaknesses make them \\\"human\\\" and \\\"complex\\\", while Ron\\\'s equally human weaknesses are treated as proof that he\\\'s teetering on the edge of becoming more evil than Voldemort, Umbridge, the Dementors and AdolfHitler put together.
** The Grangerverse, a group of fans who believe that Hermione Granger is the true hero of the books (making Harry Potter himself something they call a \\\"frontkick\\\", meaning he\\\'s a {{Sidekick}} even though his name is on the cover) do this as a matter of course, because their favorite character is far too good for Ron Weasley. Usually, Ron ends up being a semi-literate attempted rapist thug whose best features are his lack of comprehension and his atrocious table manners.
** In fact, just about any time Draco gets a HeelFaceTurn, whether he gets with Hermione or not, Ron will be the IdiotOfTheWeek who rants and raves about Draco being \\\"the enemy\\\". Granted that Ron is canonically the most hotheaded and reflexively anti-Slytherin of the Gryffindor Trio, you can still overdo it, and many fanfic authors do.
** [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/harry-and-hermione-s-badly-written-secret-nws-t591.htm \\\"Did you know [Ron] tried to rape last year?\\\"]] [[RapeIsTheNewDeadParents Presented entirely matter of fact and never referenced again.]] (Link {{NSFW}}.)
** \\\'\\\'FanFic/DarkSecrets\\\'\\\' presents [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/in-which-draco-rescues-mary-sue-from-ron-the-death-eater-nws-t594.htm an example of literal Ron the Death Eater,]] though it\\\'s for the sake of the [=Draco/=]MarySue ship rather than Draco/Hermione. Also not work safe.
*** The sequel \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3244398/1/ Betrayed Revenge]]\\\'\\\' is more of the same, with the true gem of \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'[[CanonDefilement Hermione becoming a Death Eater]]\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'. After revealing her treachery to Harry, she \\\"disappeared\\\" [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and is not seen again]], and probably never will be due to the author having a \\\"[[DeadFic horrible case of writer\\\'s block]]\\\".
** Subverted in [[http://www.potionsandsnitches.net/fanfiction/viewstory.php?sid=1208 Secret of Slytherin]], in which Ron is the only one of the Trio to fully accept Draco\\\'s genuine HeelFaceTurn:
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\': (to Ron) I mean, most of the time, it\\\'s one of the things I like best about you, that things are so... simple for you. But Malfoy\\\'s been raised for this, trained for it. He told me once that a murder is just taking control of someone in a final sort of way, like it was nothing. I knew he\\\'d be a Death Eater then, a murderer. I should\\\'ve listened to my instincts.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hermione\\\'\\\'\\\': Oh, Harry. We all could have guessed it, but we didn\\\'t want to believe it of him...
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ron\\\'\\\'\\\': You two sure do turn on a knut, don\\\'t you?
** Also subverted in the first chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3559907/1/What_Would_Slytherin_Harry_Do What Would Slytherin Harry Do?]]\\\'\\\', where it \\\'\\\'looks\\\'\\\' like Ron has joined Umbridge\\\'s inquisition until Harry reveals near the end of the chapter that he was actually a DoubleAgent.
* Ginny Weasley gets portrayed as a shrewish whore a lot. Sometimes it\\\'s ship-related and sometimes the author just doesn\\\'t like her. Harry/Hermione fics in particular almost invariably cast her as an evil, deceitful bitch trying to steal Harry. Since the same pairing tends to make Ron evil, as noted above, these fics often vilify the whole Weasley family.
** And the proof that Ginny haters have of her being a [[{{Ghostbusters}} \\\"slore\\\"]] is that she dated three boys (not at the same time, and the last one ended up being her husband) within two school years. Whereas Hermione is a paragon of purity -- no, she would \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' date anyone just to get attention. Viktor and Cormac? Who are they?
*** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4079609/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Marriage_Contracts Harry Potter and the Marriage Contracts]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the archetypical example of Ginny Weasley as the VillageBicycle. Ron also gets the standard sexist JerkAss treatment re: Hermione, even though Harry is paired with someone else.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Molly:\\\'\\\'\\\' Ginny, you\\\'ve got to calm down. Minerva has caught you four times with different boys.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ginny:\\\'\\\'\\\' That just goes to show that she\\\'s not as informed as she thinks. She missed five others, Mum. Look, with everything I\\\'m doing for you, you can cut me some slack. That pathetic half blood upstairs must be a eunuch. I haven\\\'t managed to get a bit of action out of him.
** The Weasleys in general are prone to this sort of treatment. In {{Alternate Universe Fic}}s in which the Hat put Harry in Slytherin, Draco will usually be put in leather pants and the Weasleys will suddenly become the biggest assholes in the world. Often, it is Ron who gets the worst of it with the rest of his family acting little to no different (especially the twins), though there have been instances where \\\'\\\'all of them\\\'\\\' will look upon and treat Harry with disdain just because he\\\'s not a Gryffindor.
* In general, whether or not Ron will immediately become a complete psychopath is determined solely by what house Harry is sorted into, or as noted further above if Hermione is with \\\'\\\'\\\'anyone\\\'\\\'\\\' else. That is, anything but Gryffindor (mostly Slytherin, but he\\\'s still usually a huge JerkAss if Harry is in one of the other two houses) or Hermione being in love with anybody besides him = [[ItsAllAboutMe It\\\'s All About Me]], AxCrazy Ron. In the latter case, he will more than likely [[IfICantHaveYou want to murder her rather than let anyone else have her]].
-->When Ron Weasley was sorted Harry looked up. Ron gave him a look of deep hate and Harry knew that his short-lived friendship was over.\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4885698/1/Harry_In_Slytherin Harry in Slytherin]]\\\'\\\', Chapter 1
** In the same story mentioned above, Ron assaults Hermione at their first flying lesson, and in his second year nearly \\\'\\\'kills her\\\'\\\' with a lethal spell. He is expelled from Hogwarts for this, but ends up being accepted as a student at Durmstrang (which is often referred to in fanfic as the dark, evil school, despite Viktor Krum being shown in two books to \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' be part of the stereotype). Chance of him later becoming a literal example of this trope: 100%. Hermione herself also \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'murders Draco Malfoy\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', and completely gets away with it (with absolutely no remorse from her, Harry or anyone) because Dumbledore [[WhatAnIdiot doesn\\\'t bother to check her wand]] [[WallBanger because \\\"she was such a sweet girl\\\"]].
* It\\\'s not just the Slytherin!Harry fics, or even the Draco fics. There is an entire \\\'\\\'subgenre\\\'\\\' of fanfic where Harry\\\'s \\\"chest monster\\\" turns out to be because [[{{Yandere}} psycho stalker]] Ginny is dosing him with love potion. Often they also throw in that Ginny got the potion from her mother, who is secretly an ambitious shrew hoping to enrich herself by having her daughter marry Harry and then inherit all his money if/when Harry dies fighting Voldemort. Things like Ron having been hired by Dumbledore to spy on and manipulate Harry are very frequent in such fics as well. Oddly, even in the worst fics of this example Arthur Weasley and the older Weasley brothers (especially the twins) still remain honest, well-meaning people (except Percy, but he\\\'s an asshole in the canon, so it\\\'s not like he\\\'s any different). It\\\'s just Molly and her two youngest that get their characterizations done over.
* It\\\'s especially interesting when Ron gets this, but Ginny [[PossessionSue does not]]. Cue their relationship going straight to what would be CainAndAbel levels if the author hadn\\\'t seemingly forgotten that they are brother and sister. Sometimes she goes so far as to not even care if he dies, which, of course, has the intended effect of making her look like a sociopath. Even if he did join the Death Eaters, become eviler than Voldemort and tried to ruin the author\\\'s OneTruePairing, you\\\'d think Ginny would still experience some angst over his death.
** In \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes one]]\\\'\\\' PeggySue fanfic, Ginny poisons all of her children and tries to do the same to Harry, to \\\"have the Potter fortune and fame\\\" all to herself. Once in the past, Harry [[RetGone prevents Ginny from ever existing]] by secretly sterilizing Molly Weasley after Ron is born (who is actually \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' evil here, for once). Because Ginny is apparently [[ObviouslyEvil pure evil from birth and unredeemable]].
--->The Deathly Hallows Epilogue was truly unsatisfying. Here\\\'s the rest of the story that begins about two years after the DH Epilogue. [[{{Understatement}} Not for Ginny enthusiasts.]] Character Deaths. Time Travel. Avenging!Harry. - Author\\\'s Note, \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes Time to Fix the Mistakes]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** There is also [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/727010/1/The_Seekers a HPCC fic]] (pre - [=OotP=]) where Ginny goes evil when Harry and Cho hook up - The remains of Tom\\\'s personality resurface.
** A very large portion of SlashFic with Harry in the main pairing has its authors vilifying Ginny in any number of the ways detailed above. This has become increasingly common in fic written post-Deathly Hallows: ironically, it\\\'s \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' true in fics that try to conform to canon up to and including the epilogue. Needless to say, the things they make Ginny do to shatter the obvious happiness Harry feels at the time of the epilogue are often downright heinous.
*** What\\\'s particularly odd is these fics almost always contain the canon next generation, so apparently the fanfic authors don\\\'t mind the kids; it\\\'s just the women they don\\\'t like. Unfortunate implications, indeed.
** A rather bizarre version of all of this is done in \\\'\\\'[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TheGirlWhoLived The Girl Who Lived]]\\\'\\\'. The series started out with Rose and Ginny being best friends and fellow Druidesses (with behavior that invoked other...implications). On the other hand, while Ron basically fulfilled most of his uses at first, most of his good moments were eventually handed off to Hermione or Neville or Rose, leaving Ron to look like a lazy idiot who begged Rose in vain to let him copy her homework while she rolled her eyes and condescendingly told him to do it himself. The author also appeared to take care to leave Ron out of any discussions of Rose\\\'s power or knowledge or plans and tried to make his bad moments (like when he fights with rose in GOF) appear to be genuinely wounding instances which gives Rose the opportunity to [[DisproportionateRetribution strike back]]. The twins appeared to be on \\\"minion\\\" status as well, kissing her hand when they met her, Percy was outright hated, and the Wesley parents were hardly mentioned, with Rose stating at one point that she had five parental figures \\\"if [she] could count Mrs. Wesley\\\". After rewriting \\\'\\\'Order of the Phoenix\\\'\\\' however, Ginny appeared to lose favor with the author and by extension Rose and was replaced more or less with Luna. In the brief amount of time she is shown, Ginny is painted as a shrew who picks on Fleur wrongly and is yelled at by Rose for it (Mrs. Wesley gets the same treatment).
** Which makes sense, since \\\'\\\'Half Blood Prince\\\'\\\' was also when it became apparent that Ginny and Harry would hook up and the author was a confirmed Harmonian (Harry/Hermione shipper). The author also wrote on his profile on one website that the Ron/Hermione relationship made no sense because they argued, which would explain the Ron abuse.
* Stories in which [[WronglyAccused Harry is framed for a crime he didn\\\'t commit]] and sentenced to [[strike:[[TheCountOfMonteCristo the Chateau d\\\'If]]]] [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] for life tend to have this happen to just about \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' of the characters except usually Snape, Neville, Luna and [[strike: a random Weasley or two]] the Weasley Twins and ([[strike:almost]] \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' Ron, and sometimes at least one of the older brothers who are [[FlatCharacter barely mentioned in the series]] immediately becomes Harry\\\'s new [[BigBrotherMentor best friend]]). Common murder victims include Neville, Hagrid, Ginny, and the Dursleys. Those who were supposedly his closest friends and trusted adults will suddenly denounce him as being evil on par or worse than Voldemort (if not [[RuleOfTwo joined with him]]), exaggerate or \\\'\\\'[[MaliciousSlander outright lie about his past misdeeds]]\\\'\\\' (often in the [[KangarooCourt Wizengamot]]), [[KickTheDog assault or torture him]] (sometimes by illegal curses or means that should get \\\'\\\'them\\\'\\\' thrown into Azkaban), and destroy/break/burn all of his prized possessions, \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' [[BreakTheCutie the photo album with pictures of his parents inside]]. Rarely, they may also go to the extreme of \\\'\\\'[[MoralEventHorizon brutally killing Hedwig right in front of Harry just to spite him]]\\\'\\\'. Despite all of this, they will act like nothing has happened and ask for forgiveness nearly the very \\\'\\\'moment\\\'\\\' Harry is proven without a doubt to be not guilty, almost always by Voldemort [[EvilGloating telling everyone the full details of how he set up Harry and turned everyone against him]], even though there is usually [[WhatAnIdiot still no solid evidence of Harry\\\'s innocence]].
** The second chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3871941/2/Betrayed_Having_a_Father_Sixth_Year Betrayed Having a Father: Sixth Year]]\\\'\\\' has many of the betrayal examples listed in the entry above (and is also a DeadFic, which many \\\"Harry is Betrayed\\\" fics end up as). Close to the end (after Harry\\\'s \\\"trial\\\"), Ron, Hermione, Remus and Sirius suddenly hack up into [[CompleteMonster cruel, vengeful demons without an ounce of decency or mercy]]. One of the worst and most clichéd examples, but nearly \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' fanfics of this type [[FollowTheLeader follow the same basic template]] with few variations:
*** Someone (usually Ron) screaming that Harry\\\'s a bastard or traitor after finding out about the murder(s) or by [[TheCorpseStopsHere discovering him at or near the scene of the crime]].
*** Harry watching helplessly as his photo album is reduced to ashes (again, usually by Ron and sometimes followed by a BigNo). Usually, he\\\'s also cruelly mocked by his house-mates at the same time.
*** If Sirius is alive, most of the time he will be on the side of the accusers despite the \\\'\\\'same thing\\\'\\\' once happening to him! [[IncrediblyLamePun Seriously]], [[strike:most]] all of the \\\"good\\\" characters will become [=Ron The Death Eater=] or {{Anti Hero}}es in these stories without exception.
*** As for Harry, being locked away in a hellish, dark, damp prison patrolled by monsters that [[EmotionBomb feed on emotions]] and [[GhostlyChill make everything extremely cold around them]] will do [[WallBanger great wonders for him]], in the process becoming a GodModeSue who turns out to be more powerful than everyone else combined and (very often) destroys Voldemort [[BoringInvincibleHero with no effort whatsoever]].
*** In the extremely uncommon instances where Harry \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\' become a OneManArmy, once released from Azkaban he\\\'ll invariably turn into a depressed, [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal individual]] and [[DeusAngstMachina some of those who betrayed him will only hate him all the more, especially Ron]]. They may also go as far as labeling Harry a [[EvilSorcerer Dark Wizard]] and look for (or invent) \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' reason to try and put him back in prison, even though he \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'did absolutely nothing wrong and was found innocent!\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'
*** [[http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/Betrayal_of_the_Best_Kind/index.php At least one fic averts most if not all of those tropes]]. Must have something to do with it being among the first. \\\'\\\'Betrayed\\\'\\\' also largely averts it, but [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1106246/1/From_the_Abyss The oldest one I can find]] already has it all.
* This also tends to occur with regards to Albus Dumbledore, whose canonical status as TheChessmaster tends to be [[ManipulativeBastard twisted]] and put through a strainer darkly until he stops being \\\'\\\'Dumbledore\\\'\\\' and starts being [[strike:Umbridge]] [[CompleteMonster Voldemort]] with a beard. This tends to be especially prevalent in fanfiction that addresses (and usually overemphasizes) Harry\\\'s abuse at the hands of the Dursleys, in which this strange man completely unlike Dumbledore everyone is addressing as Dumbledore for some reason seems content to send Harry into the mouth of Hell (because protection from the EvilOverlord trying to kill him is best when placed over a house \\\'\\\'full of people trying to kill him\\\'\\\') and [[EvilLaugh mwa-ha]]-ha into his bowl of lemon drops rather than give them a [[DeathFromAbove stern talking to]].
** [[MyImmortal WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING MOTHERFUCKERS!?!]]
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4240771/1/Partially_Kissed_Hero Partially Kissed Hero]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the single most extreme example of this, presenting Dumbledore as a megalomaniacal psychopath who secretly controls all of Wizarding Britain while hiding under the false front of a kind grandfatherly headmaster, to the point where Voldemort is an almost entirely irrelevant sideshow.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry:\\\'\\\'\\\' Think, Hermione! If you wanted to rule the wizarding world, what would you want that Dumbledore doesn\\\'t already have?!?
*** Though that fic pretty clearly no longer takes itself seriously, since Harry has convinced Dumbledore that it\\\'s actually Colonel Sanders (Yes, That Colonel Sanders) behind it all.
**** [[MahouSenseiNegima Albireo?]]
** The very first \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\' fanfic, \\\'\\\'Fanfic/{{Harry Potter and the Man of Unknown}}\\\'\\\', did this to an extent. While not ObviouslyEvil and maintaining the pretense of his canon personality, Dumbledore was nonetheless revealed to have given Harry to the Dursleys over his mysterious uncle (the AntiHero protagonist) and his reason for doing so was fairly dumb.
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3183672/1/Harry_Potter_The_Dark_Wraith Harry Potter: The Dark Wraith]]\\\'\\\' features said character as a horrendously evil man who [[YourSoulIsMine steals souls to get stronger]] and ([[BellisariosMaxim somehow]]) become immortal. Psychopath Ron (as mentioned above) also quickly emerges after being rejected by Hermione, who then immediately blames Harry for it and wants to kill him. The story wastes no time in derailing both of these characters as {{Complete Monster}}s, it does so in the \\\'\\\'first chapter\\\'\\\' alone. [[SoBadItsGood Sadly]], [[DeadFic it has not been updated since 2007]].
* A notable inversion appears in the fanfic, \\\'\\\'The Lie I\\\'ve Lived\\\'\\\', where Harry actually expected Dumbledore to turn out like this, but was downright surprised to find Dumbledore avert it by stopping himself after realising the extent of his actions thus far. Then he apologised.
* On that note, the Dursleys\\\' canonical abuse of Harry (neglect counts, folks, and even if it didn\\\'t, Petunia swung a frying pan at his head and Vernon was one accidental-magic attack from killing Harry in \\\'\\\'[=OotP=]\\\'\\\') is Flanderized into anything from regular beatings to \\\'\\\'rape\\\'\\\'. This is usually either to make Harry [[TheWoobie more pitiable]] (and usually [[DracoInLeatherPants Snape]]\\\'s the one to rescue him) or to make Dumbledore into a [[ManipulativeBastard mustache-twirling evil bastard.]]
** Oftentimes, it\\\'s established that the Dursleys have just started treating Harry this way, which, it is frequently pointed out, makes no sense at all. Logically, if they were going to beat him, they would have done it when he was seven rather than wait until he\\\'s a teenager when he\\\'s not only physically stronger, but has wizard friends who will no doubt rescue him if he doesn\\\'t show up at Hogwarts.
** For possibly \\\'\\\'the\\\'\\\' most extreme and idiotic example of the above, look no further than \\\'\\\'Fanfic/ASadStory\\\'\\\':
--->\\\"The family is going out to dinner\\\" he began \\\"You will stay here, but you will be somewhere where you can\\\'t make any trouble\\\" He said as he grabbed Harry by the neck and dragged him to the garden Shed. [[{{Narm}} He padlocked the door with at least 20 locks.]]
** One such Dursleys abuse fic which started off by imitating {{J K Rowling}}\\\'s casual scene-setting prose, resulting in [[{{Narm}} unintentional hilarity]] somewhat along these lines: \\\"Harry was not having a good summer. Uncle Vernon had started beating him and had brutally murdered Hedwig before his eyes. He couldn\\\'t wait to get back to Hogwarts.\\\"
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2101001/1/Child_of_Grace Child of Grace]]\\\'\\\' uses this, along with \\\"alternate universe female Harry\\\" and \\\"Ron hates Harry for not being in Gryffindor\\\", bringing us Holly Potter, a girl who swings between being a PuritySue and a JerkSue and who begins the tale sitting out in the snow while the Dursleys are inside eating dinner. She is quickly established to be skinny, frightened by anyone touching her, heavily black and blue under her clothes from the beatings, and will \\\'\\\'curtsy\\\'\\\' to all strangers because the Dursleys had had such manners \\\"all but beaten into her\\\".
* Similarly, Lucius Malfoy, who is \\\'\\\'already\\\'\\\' plenty evil, often turns out to be an abusive bastard who beats Draco, giving the latter a FreudianExcuse. Narcissa tends to be cast as a battered housewife in this scenario. Blame [[FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy Cassandra Claire]]. There\\\'s an irony to this in the canon, because by the end of the series, the Malfoys\\\' love for each other is pretty much their \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' canonically redeeming qualities. Earlier examples can perhaps be excused, though, as their family mechanics were not deeply explored before we see Narcissa weeping over her son and husband\\\'s fates in \\\'\\\'Half-Blood Prince.\\\'\\\'
* James Potter is often the subject of this- while canonically he \\\'\\\'was\\\'\\\' a {{Jerkass}} as a teenager, he was also a fiercely loyal friend and (later) devoted family man who gave his life to protect his wife and son. James the JerkJock who is personally obnoxious and is nasty to people he doesn\\\'t like is canon- James the abusive user who has minions instead of friends and spends his days doing nothing but thinking of new ways to hurt people (in other words, Tom Riddle 2.0) is not. Also, the fact that Lily (who previously wanted nothing to do with him) married him implies that he at least somewhat grew out of it, as does some dialogue from Remus Lupin (generally the most levelheaded and reliable of the Marauders).
** This is kind of helped by the fact that he was the childhood nemesis of Snape, a major recipient of DracoInLeatherPants treatment; as such, while it\\\'s fairly clear that James could be a cruel bully to Snape when they were growing up, this can be exaggerated to CompleteMonster levels in order to make Snape more sympathetic.
* In DarkFic or RevengeFic, this sometimes happens to \\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\' himself as well whether he joins forces with Voldemort or not, to the point where he becomes little more than a [[AGodAmI cruel blend of Voldemort, Snape and Bellatrix Lestrange]], which the author \\\'\\\'[[MisaimedFandom expects the readers to sympathize with and root for]]\\\'\\\'. Apparently, having Harry becoming a psychotic, sadistic murderer on par or worse than Voldemort is what should have happened in canon post-Order of the Phoenix. Often, these stories are rife with the Manipulative Dumbledore and Abusive Dursleys examples explained above as an excuse for Harry to go to TheDarkSide. Not surprisingly, one of his worst victims is [[strike:usually]] always Ron, even if he \\\'\\\'didn\\\'t\\\'\\\' turn against Harry.
-->\\\"Diffindo.\\\" And his right arm was gone, blood spurting from the stump. Ron screamed again. Harry smiled sardonically, not even bothering to move as blood started seeping toward his feet. - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3572996/12/Traitorous Traitorous]], Chapter 12\\\'\\\'
** It was hilariously parodied in \\\'\\\'The Unwritten\\\'\\\' comics. The comics are about a son of a writer who got famous after creating a series of novels very [[CaptainErsatz similar]] to \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\'. The first two start with fragments of those books, and the third with a fragment of {{Frankenstein}}. The first page of the fourth issue shows Harry\\\'s counterpart slaughtering Ron\\\'s and Hermione\\\'s counterparts in a really terrible way, only to have it turn out on the next page that it\\\'s a DarkFic.
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2963321/1/Oedipus_Flower Oedipus Flower]]\\\'\\\' asks what Harry would be like without a fragment of Voldemort\\\'s soul inside of him. He ends up having sex with his sister and his mother, willingly, both separately at the same time. He murders his father and his brother as well, but takes the time out to mind-rape some poor girl into having sex with James several times as well. I\\\'m not sure on the details, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel I was too fucking freaked out to understand it all.]] In short, Harry, without Voldemort\\\'s soul, is \\\'\\\'\\\'EVEN WORSE\\\'\\\'\\\'.
* \\\'\\\'FanFic/MyImmortal\\\'\\\' has some very atypical examples of this. For example, [[strike:Snape]] Snap and [[strike:Lupin]] Loopin, who hardly ever meet this due to being two of the most popular characters in the fandom, are turned into a troublesome duo despite [[{{Understatement}} not being on great terms]] in the {{canon}}. Oh, and they\\\'re also both pervy pedophiles who in general resemble the canon characters in name only and [[RougeAnglesOfSatin sometimes not even then]].
** And of course, Tara does this to Dumbledore too - after finding out that [[strike:Voldemort]] Volfemort has Draco \\\'bondage\\\', Dumbledore refuses to help because he \\\"never liked him anyway\\\".
*** But it\\\'s justified, because Dumblydore is trying to be all goffik, with a black bread and all! FridgeLogic dictated that, but think about it.
*** Even though he \\\"cried wisely\\\" when he thought that Draco committed suicide.
*** Again, this is atypical for \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' fanfiction. Although Dumbledore is often Death Eatered, as noted above it\\\'s usually by turning him into a ManipulativeBastard. \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' goes the opposite route, turning him into a capricious, senile moron (it\\\'s even noted he has Alzheimer\\\'s at one point). Come to think of it, Dumbledore\\\'s portrayal in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' is actually rather similar to the \\\'\\\'PotterPuppetPals\\\'\\\' version of him except that in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' he\\\'s [[DesignatedVillain inexplicably regarded as a villain]].
** Oddly, despite having nearly every cliche you\\\'ll find in bad \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' MarySue fic, it avoids doing this to the two most popular targets, since both Ron and Ginny are apparently friends with the MarySue. (Although in Ginny\\\'s case, you might have missed the fact that she was even IN the fic, since her name is only mentioned twice and spelled as \\\"[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Jenny]]\\\" the first time.)
* In most fanfic where Harry has a sibling, and is not or mistaken not to be the Boy Who Lived, James and Lily Potter end up being examples of this trope to the point where the Dursleys look like saints. They belittle, abuse and/or ignore him while heaping praise upon Harry\\\'s brother or sister, who is usually also a huge JerkAss that flaunts his or her status at every opportunity. Often, the three of them despise Harry for the mere fact that he exists, and more so if he befriends the wrong people (Snape, the Malfoys, or any Slytherin in general). Ron is usually portrayed as little more than a Gryffindor equivalent of Malfoy who often hates and mocks Harry for no reason at all. And \\\'\\\'\\\'heaven forbid\\\'\\\'\\\' if Harry ends up sorted into \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' house besides Gryffindor.
-->\\\"I can not believe that you were put in Huffelpuff! You have disgraced your family and their fine Gryffindor heritage. We would have even preferred Ravenclaw over this. You will not be coming home for the Christmas holiday, that is your punishment.\\\" \\\'\\\'Mr. & Mrs. Potter\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2488516/1/The_Chronicles_of_Merlin_The_Return The Chronicles of Merlin: The Return]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** A particularly irritating examples appears in the Sacrifices Arc by Lightning of the Wave, wherein Lily Potter puts the KnightTemplar back in KnightTemplarParent by acting like the hellish product of an orgy between [[{{Noir}} Altena]], [[{{Supernatural}} John Winchester]] and [[MySistersKeeper Sara Fitzgerald]]. She raises Harry to be a TykeBomb with no personality beyond \\\'protect [his twin brother] Connor, don\\\'t outshine Connor, die for Connor if you have to\\\' because Connor is the Boy-Who-Lived and [[SarcasmMode if one of your children is famous, it\\\'s okay to turn the other into a]] ChildSoldier [[SarcasmMode because no one will notice!]]
* Face it, \\\"Wrong Boy Who Lived\\\" stories are pretty much a hodgepodge of every single example above and then some. Dumbledore is at best a WellIntentionedExtremist who chooses the wrong child because he thinks the scar on him or her is something Voldemort would be more likely to mark someone as his sworn enemy with, even though Voldemort was just going there to kill all the Potters outright. Sometimes, even if Voldemort doesn\\\'t attack them, Harry\\\'s brother or sister is still called \\\"The Boy/Girl Who Lived\\\" even though this makes [[TheyJustDidntCare absolutely no sense whatsoever]].
* Snape has a large fan following, but there\\\'s still a vicious group of haters out there doing everything in their power to make him look like a bigger asshole than he already is, including degrading his love for Lily and his requests for Voldemort to spare her as a desire to keep her \\\'\\\'as a sex slave\\\'\\\'. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3807777/1/Harry_Potter_and_The_Acts_of_Betrayal There\\\'s even a fic]] that has him \\\'\\\'raping female students and then erasing their memories of the incident.\\\'\\\' Often in \\\'Super Powered Harry\\\' fics, Snape will attempt to use legilimency or even outright attack Harry or one of his friends. Harry will then use his ultra amazing superpowers to defeat and utterly humiliate Snape in front of everyone. Snape is usually revealed to still be a Death Eater and then either gets killed horribly or goes to Azkaban for life. It\\\'s more often than not the former.
* And just to round out the entire cast, Lily Potter has earned a small but rabid {{Hatedom}} for daring to [[spoiler:choose James over Snape.]] It\\\'s not RonTheDeathEater to disagree with her choice or her actions, but the fic and essays portraying her as an evil, stuck-up, abusive, shallow demon spawn because she [[spoiler:didn\\\'t love Snape back (even though he at one point called her \\\"mudblood,\\\" the wizarding equivalent of the N word) definitely is. Many of these fans don\\\'t stop to consider that this might have an indirect RonTheDeathEater effect on Snape as well, because if Lily is as horrible as they say she is, what does it say about Snape that he liked her so much?]] The true WallBanger is when people argue that she has no concept of love or selflessness, even though \\\'\\\'her very first act in the book\\\'\\\' is to sacrifice her life for Harry\\\'s.
** Surprise surprise, the yaoi fandom has it out for Lily too... she must be evil to marry James and take him away from the Marauder orgies, after all.
* The level of Remus Lupin hatred coming from Snape rabid fans is becoming scarier and scarier. Apparently, he was [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453025.html#cutid1 an horrible bully as well as completely not trustworthy]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453894.html a bad father who will pass his lycantrophy so he shouldn\\\'t have reproduced]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/454954.html an ungrateful bastard who kept making Snape suffer]] and/or [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/456087.html?#cutid1 an evil pervert who *raped* poor Sevvie-kins, thus he\\\'s a pedophile too]].
* MNightShyamalan [[http://twitchfilm.net/news/2006/07/m-night-shyamalan-wants-to-direct-final-harry-potter-film.php apparently believes this too]].
[[/folder]]
Edit: Hell with it, I pulled it. Original stuff is here:
[[folder:Harry Potter]]
* The TropeNamer, Ron Weasley. Since DracoInLeatherPants is often a result of Draco/Hermione shippers, Ron is turned ragingly evil and joins the Death Eaters to oppose the now-good Draco. There are various arguments as to why a FaceHeelTurn on Ron\\\'s part is plausible (and of course counter arguments to all of them), with some being more cogent than others. [[WordOfGod Rowling herself]] has admitted there were parallels between Ron and Peter Pettigrew. What the fanfic authors usually get wrong is that they have Ron joining Voldemort for revenge or other petty reasons.
** The biggest problem with the Ron/Peter Pettigrew parallels? Is that while Ron \\\'\\\'could\\\'\\\' theoretically make a FaceHeelTurn, he ultimately \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\'. This, by the way, is a recurring minor theme in the Potterverse - the difference between good and evil is the choice to reject dark impulses and urges. All of the characters have weaknesses that could theoretically lead them to turn evil, including Harry and Hermione. The reason this trope page exists is because of the DoubleStandard propagated by certain segments of the FanDumb: Harry, Hermione, Draco and Snape\\\'s weaknesses make them \\\"human\\\" and \\\"complex\\\", while Ron\\\'s equally human weaknesses are treated as proof that he\\\'s teetering on the edge of becoming more evil than Voldemort, Umbridge, the Dementors and AdolfHitler put together.
** The Grangerverse, a group of fans who believe that Hermione Granger is the true hero of the books (making Harry Potter himself something they call a \\\"frontkick\\\", meaning he\\\'s a {{Sidekick}} even though his name is on the cover) do this as a matter of course, because their favorite character is far too good for Ron Weasley. Usually, Ron ends up being a semi-literate attempted rapist thug whose best features are his lack of comprehension and his atrocious table manners.
** In fact, just about any time Draco gets a HeelFaceTurn, whether he gets with Hermione or not, Ron will be the IdiotOfTheWeek who rants and raves about Draco being \\\"the enemy\\\". Granted that Ron is canonically the most hotheaded and reflexively anti-Slytherin of the Gryffindor Trio, you can still overdo it, and many fanfic authors do.
** [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/harry-and-hermione-s-badly-written-secret-nws-t591.htm \\\"Did you know [Ron] tried to rape last year?\\\"]] [[RapeIsTheNewDeadParents Presented entirely matter of fact and never referenced again.]] (Link {{NSFW}}.)
** \\\'\\\'FanFic/DarkSecrets\\\'\\\' presents [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/in-which-draco-rescues-mary-sue-from-ron-the-death-eater-nws-t594.htm an example of literal Ron the Death Eater,]] though it\\\'s for the sake of the [=Draco/=]MarySue ship rather than Draco/Hermione. Also not work safe.
*** The sequel \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3244398/1/ Betrayed Revenge]]\\\'\\\' is more of the same, with the true gem of \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'[[CanonDefilement Hermione becoming a Death Eater]]\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'. After revealing her treachery to Harry, she \\\"disappeared\\\" [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and is not seen again]], and probably never will be due to the author having a \\\"[[DeadFic horrible case of writer\\\'s block]]\\\".
** Subverted in [[http://www.potionsandsnitches.net/fanfiction/viewstory.php?sid=1208 Secret of Slytherin]], in which Ron is the only one of the Trio to fully accept Draco\\\'s genuine HeelFaceTurn:
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\': (to Ron) I mean, most of the time, it\\\'s one of the things I like best about you, that things are so... simple for you. But Malfoy\\\'s been raised for this, trained for it. He told me once that a murder is just taking control of someone in a final sort of way, like it was nothing. I knew he\\\'d be a Death Eater then, a murderer. I should\\\'ve listened to my instincts.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hermione\\\'\\\'\\\': Oh, Harry. We all could have guessed it, but we didn\\\'t want to believe it of him...
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ron\\\'\\\'\\\': You two sure do turn on a knut, don\\\'t you?
** Also subverted in the first chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3559907/1/What_Would_Slytherin_Harry_Do What Would Slytherin Harry Do?]]\\\'\\\', where it \\\'\\\'looks\\\'\\\' like Ron has joined Umbridge\\\'s inquisition until Harry reveals near the end of the chapter that he was actually a DoubleAgent.
* Ginny Weasley gets portrayed as a shrewish whore a lot. Sometimes it\\\'s ship-related and sometimes the author just doesn\\\'t like her. Harry/Hermione fics in particular almost invariably cast her as an evil, deceitful bitch trying to steal Harry. Since the same pairing tends to make Ron evil, as noted above, these fics often vilify the whole Weasley family.
** And the proof that Ginny haters have of her being a [[{{Ghostbusters}} \\\"slore\\\"]] is that she dated three boys (not at the same time, and the last one ended up being her husband) within two school years. Whereas Hermione is a paragon of purity -- no, she would \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' date anyone just to get attention. Viktor and Cormac? Who are they?
*** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4079609/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Marriage_Contracts Harry Potter and the Marriage Contracts]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the archetypical example of Ginny Weasley as the VillageBicycle. Ron also gets the standard sexist JerkAss treatment re: Hermione, even though Harry is paired with someone else.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Molly:\\\'\\\'\\\' Ginny, you\\\'ve got to calm down. Minerva has caught you four times with different boys.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ginny:\\\'\\\'\\\' That just goes to show that she\\\'s not as informed as she thinks. She missed five others, Mum. Look, with everything I\\\'m doing for you, you can cut me some slack. That pathetic half blood upstairs must be a eunuch. I haven\\\'t managed to get a bit of action out of him.
** The Weasleys in general are prone to this sort of treatment. In {{Alternate Universe Fic}}s in which the Hat put Harry in Slytherin, Draco will usually be put in leather pants and the Weasleys will suddenly become the biggest assholes in the world. Often, it is Ron who gets the worst of it with the rest of his family acting little to no different (especially the twins), though there have been instances where \\\'\\\'all of them\\\'\\\' will look upon and treat Harry with disdain just because he\\\'s not a Gryffindor.
* In general, whether or not Ron will immediately become a complete psychopath is determined solely by what house Harry is sorted into, or as noted further above if Hermione is with \\\'\\\'\\\'anyone\\\'\\\'\\\' else. That is, anything but Gryffindor (mostly Slytherin, but he\\\'s still usually a huge JerkAss if Harry is in one of the other two houses) or Hermione being in love with anybody besides him = [[ItsAllAboutMe It\\\'s All About Me]], AxCrazy Ron. In the latter case, he will more than likely [[IfICantHaveYou want to murder her rather than let anyone else have her]].
-->When Ron Weasley was sorted Harry looked up. Ron gave him a look of deep hate and Harry knew that his short-lived friendship was over.\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4885698/1/Harry_In_Slytherin Harry in Slytherin]]\\\'\\\', Chapter 1
** In the same story mentioned above, Ron assaults Hermione at their first flying lesson, and in his second year nearly \\\'\\\'kills her\\\'\\\' with a lethal spell. He is expelled from Hogwarts for this, but ends up being accepted as a student at Durmstrang (which is often referred to in fanfic as the dark, evil school, despite Viktor Krum being shown in two books to \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' be part of the stereotype). Chance of him later becoming a literal example of this trope: 100%. Hermione herself also \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'murders Draco Malfoy\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', and completely gets away with it (with absolutely no remorse from her, Harry or anyone) because Dumbledore [[WhatAnIdiot doesn\\\'t bother to check her wand]] [[WallBanger because \\\"she was such a sweet girl\\\"]].
* It\\\'s not just the Slytherin!Harry fics, or even the Draco fics. There is an entire \\\'\\\'subgenre\\\'\\\' of fanfic where Harry\\\'s \\\"chest monster\\\" turns out to be because [[{{Yandere}} psycho stalker]] Ginny is dosing him with love potion. Often they also throw in that Ginny got the potion from her mother, who is secretly an ambitious shrew hoping to enrich herself by having her daughter marry Harry and then inherit all his money if/when Harry dies fighting Voldemort. Things like Ron having been hired by Dumbledore to spy on and manipulate Harry are very frequent in such fics as well. Oddly, even in the worst fics of this example Arthur Weasley and the older Weasley brothers (especially the twins) still remain honest, well-meaning people (except Percy, but he\\\'s an asshole in the canon, so it\\\'s not like he\\\'s any different). It\\\'s just Molly and her two youngest that get their characterizations done over.
* It\\\'s especially interesting when Ron gets this, but Ginny [[PossessionSue does not]]. Cue their relationship going straight to what would be CainAndAbel levels if the author hadn\\\'t seemingly forgotten that they are brother and sister. Sometimes she goes so far as to not even care if he dies, which, of course, has the intended effect of making her look like a sociopath. Even if he did join the Death Eaters, become eviler than Voldemort and tried to ruin the author\\\'s OneTruePairing, you\\\'d think Ginny would still experience some angst over his death.
** In \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes one]]\\\'\\\' PeggySue fanfic, Ginny poisons all of her children and tries to do the same to Harry, to \\\"have the Potter fortune and fame\\\" all to herself. Once in the past, Harry [[RetGone prevents Ginny from ever existing]] by secretly sterilizing Molly Weasley after Ron is born (who is actually \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' evil here, for once). Because Ginny is apparently [[ObviouslyEvil pure evil from birth and unredeemable]].
--->The Deathly Hallows Epilogue was truly unsatisfying. Here\\\'s the rest of the story that begins about two years after the DH Epilogue. [[{{Understatement}} Not for Ginny enthusiasts.]] Character Deaths. Time Travel. Avenging!Harry. - Author\\\'s Note, \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes Time to Fix the Mistakes]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** There is also [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/727010/1/The_Seekers a HPCC fic]] (pre - [=OotP=]) where Ginny goes evil when Harry and Cho hook up - The remains of Tom\\\'s personality resurface.
** A very large portion of SlashFic with Harry in the main pairing has its authors vilifying Ginny in any number of the ways detailed above. This has become increasingly common in fic written post-Deathly Hallows: ironically, it\\\'s \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' true in fics that try to conform to canon up to and including the epilogue. Needless to say, the things they make Ginny do to shatter the obvious happiness Harry feels at the time of the epilogue are often downright heinous.
*** What\\\'s particularly odd is these fics almost always contain the canon next generation, so apparently the fanfic authors don\\\'t mind the kids; it\\\'s just the women they don\\\'t like. Unfortunate implications, indeed.
** A rather bizarre version of all of this is done in \\\'\\\'[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TheGirlWhoLived The Girl Who Lived]]\\\'\\\'. The series started out with Rose and Ginny being best friends and fellow Druidesses (with behavior that invoked other...implications). On the other hand, while Ron basically fulfilled most of his uses at first, most of his good moments were eventually handed off to Hermione or Neville or Rose, leaving Ron to look like a lazy idiot who begged Rose in vain to let him copy her homework while she rolled her eyes and condescendingly told him to do it himself. The author also appeared to take care to leave Ron out of any discussions of Rose\\\'s power or knowledge or plans and tried to make his bad moments (like when he fights with rose in GOF) appear to be genuinely wounding instances which gives Rose the opportunity to [[DisproportionateRetribution strike back]]. The twins appeared to be on \\\"minion\\\" status as well, kissing her hand when they met her, Percy was outright hated, and the Wesley parents were hardly mentioned, with Rose stating at one point that she had five parental figures \\\"if [she] could count Mrs. Wesley\\\". After rewriting \\\'\\\'Order of the Phoenix\\\'\\\' however, Ginny appeared to lose favor with the author and by extension Rose and was replaced more or less with Luna. In the brief amount of time she is shown, Ginny is painted as a shrew who picks on Fleur wrongly and is yelled at by Rose for it (Mrs. Wesley gets the same treatment).
** Which makes sense, since \\\'\\\'Half Blood Prince\\\'\\\' was also when it became apparent that Ginny and Harry would hook up and the author was a confirmed Harmonian (Harry/Hermione shipper). The author also wrote on his profile on one website that the Ron/Hermione relationship made no sense because they argued, which would explain the Ron abuse.
* Stories in which [[WronglyAccused Harry is framed for a crime he didn\\\'t commit]] and sentenced to [[strike:[[TheCountOfMonteCristo the Chateau d\\\'If]]]] [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] for life tend to have this happen to just about \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' of the characters except usually Snape, Neville, Luna and [[strike: a random Weasley or two]] the Weasley Twins and ([[strike:almost]] \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' Ron, and sometimes at least one of the older brothers who are [[FlatCharacter barely mentioned in the series]] immediately becomes Harry\\\'s new [[BigBrotherMentor best friend]]). Common murder victims include Neville, Hagrid, Ginny, and the Dursleys. Those who were supposedly his closest friends and trusted adults will suddenly denounce him as being evil on par or worse than Voldemort (if not [[RuleOfTwo joined with him]]), exaggerate or \\\'\\\'[[MaliciousSlander outright lie about his past misdeeds]]\\\'\\\' (often in the [[KangarooCourt Wizengamot]]), [[KickTheDog assault or torture him]] (sometimes by illegal curses or means that should get \\\'\\\'them\\\'\\\' thrown into Azkaban), and destroy/break/burn all of his prized possessions, \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' [[BreakTheCutie the photo album with pictures of his parents inside]]. Rarely, they may also go to the extreme of \\\'\\\'[[MoralEventHorizon brutally killing Hedwig right in front of Harry just to spite him]]\\\'\\\'. Despite all of this, they will act like nothing has happened and ask for forgiveness nearly the very \\\'\\\'moment\\\'\\\' Harry is proven without a doubt to be not guilty, almost always by Voldemort [[EvilGloating telling everyone the full details of how he set up Harry and turned everyone against him]], even though there is usually [[WhatAnIdiot still no solid evidence of Harry\\\'s innocence]].
** The second chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3871941/2/Betrayed_Having_a_Father_Sixth_Year Betrayed Having a Father: Sixth Year]]\\\'\\\' has many of the betrayal examples listed in the entry above (and is also a DeadFic, which many \\\"Harry is Betrayed\\\" fics end up as). Close to the end (after Harry\\\'s \\\"trial\\\"), Ron, Hermione, Remus and Sirius suddenly hack up into [[CompleteMonster cruel, vengeful demons without an ounce of decency or mercy]]. One of the worst and most clichéd examples, but nearly \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' fanfics of this type [[FollowTheLeader follow the same basic template]] with few variations:
*** Someone (usually Ron) screaming that Harry\\\'s a bastard or traitor after finding out about the murder(s) or by [[TheCorpseStopsHere discovering him at or near the scene of the crime]].
*** Harry watching helplessly as his photo album is reduced to ashes (again, usually by Ron and sometimes followed by a BigNo). Usually, he\\\'s also cruelly mocked by his house-mates at the same time.
*** If Sirius is alive, most of the time he will be on the side of the accusers despite the \\\'\\\'same thing\\\'\\\' once happening to him! [[IncrediblyLamePun Seriously]], [[strike:most]] all of the \\\"good\\\" characters will become [=Ron The Death Eater=] or {{Anti Hero}}es in these stories without exception.
*** As for Harry, being locked away in a hellish, dark, damp prison patrolled by monsters that [[EmotionBomb feed on emotions]] and [[GhostlyChill make everything extremely cold around them]] will do [[WallBanger great wonders for him]], in the process becoming a GodModeSue who turns out to be more powerful than everyone else combined and (very often) destroys Voldemort [[BoringInvincibleHero with no effort whatsoever]].
*** In the extremely uncommon instances where Harry \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\' become a OneManArmy, once released from Azkaban he\\\'ll invariably turn into a depressed, [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal individual]] and [[DeusAngstMachina some of those who betrayed him will only hate him all the more, especially Ron]]. They may also go as far as labeling Harry a [[EvilSorcerer Dark Wizard]] and look for (or invent) \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' reason to try and put him back in prison, even though he \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'did absolutely nothing wrong and was found innocent!\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'
*** [[http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/Betrayal_of_the_Best_Kind/index.php At least one fic averts most if not all of those tropes]]. Must have something to do with it being among the first. \\\'\\\'Betrayed\\\'\\\' also largely averts it, but [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1106246/1/From_the_Abyss The oldest one I can find]] already has it all.
* This also tends to occur with regards to Albus Dumbledore, whose canonical status as TheChessmaster tends to be [[ManipulativeBastard twisted]] and put through a strainer darkly until he stops being \\\'\\\'Dumbledore\\\'\\\' and starts being [[strike:Umbridge]] [[CompleteMonster Voldemort]] with a beard. This tends to be especially prevalent in fanfiction that addresses (and usually overemphasizes) Harry\\\'s abuse at the hands of the Dursleys, in which this strange man completely unlike Dumbledore everyone is addressing as Dumbledore for some reason seems content to send Harry into the mouth of Hell (because protection from the EvilOverlord trying to kill him is best when placed over a house \\\'\\\'full of people trying to kill him\\\'\\\') and [[EvilLaugh mwa-ha]]-ha into his bowl of lemon drops rather than give them a [[DeathFromAbove stern talking to]].
** [[MyImmortal WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING MOTHERFUCKERS!?!]]
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4240771/1/Partially_Kissed_Hero Partially Kissed Hero]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the single most extreme example of this, presenting Dumbledore as a megalomaniacal psychopath who secretly controls all of Wizarding Britain while hiding under the false front of a kind grandfatherly headmaster, to the point where Voldemort is an almost entirely irrelevant sideshow.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry:\\\'\\\'\\\' Think, Hermione! If you wanted to rule the wizarding world, what would you want that Dumbledore doesn\\\'t already have?!?
*** Though that fic pretty clearly no longer takes itself seriously, since Harry has convinced Dumbledore that it\\\'s actually Colonel Sanders (Yes, That Colonel Sanders) behind it all.
**** [[MahouSenseiNegima Albireo?]]
** The very first \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\' fanfic, \\\'\\\'Fanfic/{{Harry Potter and the Man of Unknown}}\\\'\\\', did this to an extent. While not ObviouslyEvil and maintaining the pretense of his canon personality, Dumbledore was nonetheless revealed to have given Harry to the Dursleys over his mysterious uncle (the AntiHero protagonist) and his reason for doing so was fairly dumb.
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3183672/1/Harry_Potter_The_Dark_Wraith Harry Potter: The Dark Wraith]]\\\'\\\' features said character as a horrendously evil man who [[YourSoulIsMine steals souls to get stronger]] and ([[BellisariosMaxim somehow]]) become immortal. Psychopath Ron (as mentioned above) also quickly emerges after being rejected by Hermione, who then immediately blames Harry for it and wants to kill him. The story wastes no time in derailing both of these characters as {{Complete Monster}}s, it does so in the \\\'\\\'first chapter\\\'\\\' alone. [[SoBadItsGood Sadly]], [[DeadFic it has not been updated since 2007]].
* A notable inversion appears in the fanfic, \\\'\\\'The Lie I\\\'ve Lived\\\'\\\', where Harry actually expected Dumbledore to turn out like this, but was downright surprised to find Dumbledore avert it by stopping himself after realising the extent of his actions thus far. Then he apologised.
* On that note, the Dursleys\\\' canonical abuse of Harry (neglect counts, folks, and even if it didn\\\'t, Petunia swung a frying pan at his head and Vernon was one accidental-magic attack from killing Harry in \\\'\\\'[=OotP=]\\\'\\\') is Flanderized into anything from regular beatings to \\\'\\\'rape\\\'\\\'. This is usually either to make Harry [[TheWoobie more pitiable]] (and usually [[DracoInLeatherPants Snape]]\\\'s the one to rescue him) or to make Dumbledore into a [[ManipulativeBastard mustache-twirling evil bastard.]]
** Oftentimes, it\\\'s established that the Dursleys have just started treating Harry this way, which, it is frequently pointed out, makes no sense at all. Logically, if they were going to beat him, they would have done it when he was seven rather than wait until he\\\'s a teenager when he\\\'s not only physically stronger, but has wizard friends who will no doubt rescue him if he doesn\\\'t show up at Hogwarts.
** For possibly \\\'\\\'the\\\'\\\' most extreme and idiotic example of the above, look no further than \\\'\\\'Fanfic/ASadStory\\\'\\\':
--->\\\"The family is going out to dinner\\\" he began \\\"You will stay here, but you will be somewhere where you can\\\'t make any trouble\\\" He said as he grabbed Harry by the neck and dragged him to the garden Shed. [[{{Narm}} He padlocked the door with at least 20 locks.]]
** One such Dursleys abuse fic which started off by imitating {{J K Rowling}}\\\'s casual scene-setting prose, resulting in [[{{Narm}} unintentional hilarity]] somewhat along these lines: \\\"Harry was not having a good summer. Uncle Vernon had started beating him and had brutally murdered Hedwig before his eyes. He couldn\\\'t wait to get back to Hogwarts.\\\"
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2101001/1/Child_of_Grace Child of Grace]]\\\'\\\' uses this, along with \\\"alternate universe female Harry\\\" and \\\"Ron hates Harry for not being in Gryffindor\\\", bringing us Holly Potter, a girl who swings between being a PuritySue and a JerkSue and who begins the tale sitting out in the snow while the Dursleys are inside eating dinner. She is quickly established to be skinny, frightened by anyone touching her, heavily black and blue under her clothes from the beatings, and will \\\'\\\'curtsy\\\'\\\' to all strangers because the Dursleys had had such manners \\\"all but beaten into her\\\".
* Similarly, Lucius Malfoy, who is \\\'\\\'already\\\'\\\' plenty evil, often turns out to be an abusive bastard who beats Draco, giving the latter a FreudianExcuse. Narcissa tends to be cast as a battered housewife in this scenario. Blame [[FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy Cassandra Claire]]. There\\\'s an irony to this in the canon, because by the end of the series, the Malfoys\\\' love for each other is pretty much their \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' canonically redeeming qualities. Earlier examples can perhaps be excused, though, as their family mechanics were not deeply explored before we see Narcissa weeping over her son and husband\\\'s fates in \\\'\\\'Half-Blood Prince.\\\'\\\'
* James Potter is often the subject of this- while canonically he \\\'\\\'was\\\'\\\' a {{Jerkass}} as a teenager, he was also a fiercely loyal friend and (later) devoted family man who gave his life to protect his wife and son. James the JerkJock who is personally obnoxious and is nasty to people he doesn\\\'t like is canon- James the abusive user who has minions instead of friends and spends his days doing nothing but thinking of new ways to hurt people (in other words, Tom Riddle 2.0) is not. Also, the fact that Lily (who previously wanted nothing to do with him) married him implies that he at least somewhat grew out of it, as does some dialogue from Remus Lupin (generally the most levelheaded and reliable of the Marauders).
** This is kind of helped by the fact that he was the childhood nemesis of Snape, a major recipient of DracoInLeatherPants treatment; as such, while it\\\'s fairly clear that James could be a cruel bully to Snape when they were growing up, this can be exaggerated to CompleteMonster levels in order to make Snape more sympathetic.
* In DarkFic or RevengeFic, this sometimes happens to \\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\' himself as well whether he joins forces with Voldemort or not, to the point where he becomes little more than a [[AGodAmI cruel blend of Voldemort, Snape and Bellatrix Lestrange]], which the author \\\'\\\'[[MisaimedFandom expects the readers to sympathize with and root for]]\\\'\\\'. Apparently, having Harry becoming a psychotic, sadistic murderer on par or worse than Voldemort is what should have happened in canon post-Order of the Phoenix. Often, these stories are rife with the Manipulative Dumbledore and Abusive Dursleys examples explained above as an excuse for Harry to go to TheDarkSide. Not surprisingly, one of his worst victims is [[strike:usually]] always Ron, even if he \\\'\\\'didn\\\'t\\\'\\\' turn against Harry.
-->\\\"Diffindo.\\\" And his right arm was gone, blood spurting from the stump. Ron screamed again. Harry smiled sardonically, not even bothering to move as blood started seeping toward his feet. - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3572996/12/Traitorous Traitorous]], Chapter 12\\\'\\\'
** It was hilariously parodied in \\\'\\\'The Unwritten\\\'\\\' comics. The comics are about a son of a writer who got famous after creating a series of novels very [[CaptainErsatz similar]] to \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\'. The first two start with fragments of those books, and the third with a fragment of {{Frankenstein}}. The first page of the fourth issue shows Harry\\\'s counterpart slaughtering Ron\\\'s and Hermione\\\'s counterparts in a really terrible way, only to have it turn out on the next page that it\\\'s a DarkFic.
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2963321/1/Oedipus_Flower Oedipus Flower]]\\\'\\\' asks what Harry would be like without a fragment of Voldemort\\\'s soul inside of him. He ends up having sex with his sister and his mother, willingly, both separately at the same time. He murders his father and his brother as well, but takes the time out to mind-rape some poor girl into having sex with James several times as well. I\\\'m not sure on the details, [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel I was too fucking freaked out to understand it all.]] In short, Harry, without Voldemort\\\'s soul, is \\\'\\\'\\\'EVEN WORSE\\\'\\\'\\\'.
* \\\'\\\'FanFic/MyImmortal\\\'\\\' has some very atypical examples of this. For example, [[strike:Snape]] Snap and [[strike:Lupin]] Loopin, who hardly ever meet this due to being two of the most popular characters in the fandom, are turned into a troublesome duo despite [[{{Understatement}} not being on great terms]] in the {{canon}}. Oh, and they\\\'re also both pervy pedophiles who in general resemble the canon characters in name only and [[RougeAnglesOfSatin sometimes not even then]].
** And of course, Tara does this to Dumbledore too - after finding out that [[strike:Voldemort]] Volfemort has Draco \\\'bondage\\\', Dumbledore refuses to help because he \\\"never liked him anyway\\\".
*** But it\\\'s justified, because Dumblydore is trying to be all goffik, with a black bread and all! FridgeLogic dictated that, but think about it.
*** Even though he \\\"cried wisely\\\" when he thought that Draco committed suicide.
*** Again, this is atypical for \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' fanfiction. Although Dumbledore is often Death Eatered, as noted above it\\\'s usually by turning him into a ManipulativeBastard. \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' goes the opposite route, turning him into a capricious, senile moron (it\\\'s even noted he has Alzheimer\\\'s at one point). Come to think of it, Dumbledore\\\'s portrayal in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' is actually rather similar to the \\\'\\\'PotterPuppetPals\\\'\\\' version of him except that in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' he\\\'s [[DesignatedVillain inexplicably regarded as a villain]].
** Oddly, despite having nearly every cliche you\\\'ll find in bad \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' MarySue fic, it avoids doing this to the two most popular targets, since both Ron and Ginny are apparently friends with the MarySue. (Although in Ginny\\\'s case, you might have missed the fact that she was even IN the fic, since her name is only mentioned twice and spelled as \\\"[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Jenny]]\\\" the first time.)
* In most fanfic where Harry has a sibling, and is not or mistaken not to be the Boy Who Lived, James and Lily Potter end up being examples of this trope to the point where the Dursleys look like saints. They belittle, abuse and/or ignore him while heaping praise upon Harry\\\'s brother or sister, who is usually also a huge JerkAss that flaunts his or her status at every opportunity. Often, the three of them despise Harry for the mere fact that he exists, and more so if he befriends the wrong people (Snape, the Malfoys, or any Slytherin in general). Ron is usually portrayed as little more than a Gryffindor equivalent of Malfoy who often hates and mocks Harry for no reason at all. And \\\'\\\'\\\'heaven forbid\\\'\\\'\\\' if Harry ends up sorted into \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' house besides Gryffindor.
-->\\\"I can not believe that you were put in Huffelpuff! You have disgraced your family and their fine Gryffindor heritage. We would have even preferred Ravenclaw over this. You will not be coming home for the Christmas holiday, that is your punishment.\\\" \\\'\\\'Mr. & Mrs. Potter\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2488516/1/The_Chronicles_of_Merlin_The_Return The Chronicles of Merlin: The Return]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** A particularly irritating examples appears in the Sacrifices Arc by Lightning of the Wave, wherein Lily Potter puts the KnightTemplar back in KnightTemplarParent by acting like the hellish product of an orgy between [[{{Noir}} Altena]], [[{{Supernatural}} John Winchester]] and [[MySistersKeeper Sara Fitzgerald]]. She raises Harry to be a TykeBomb with no personality beyond \\\'protect [his twin brother] Connor, don\\\'t outshine Connor, die for Connor if you have to\\\' because Connor is the Boy-Who-Lived and [[SarcasmMode if one of your children is famous, it\\\'s okay to turn the other into a]] ChildSoldier [[SarcasmMode because no one will notice!]]
* Face it, \\\"Wrong Boy Who Lived\\\" stories are pretty much a hodgepodge of every single example above and then some. Dumbledore is at best a WellIntentionedExtremist who chooses the wrong child because he thinks the scar on him or her is something Voldemort would be more likely to mark someone as his sworn enemy with, even though Voldemort was just going there to kill all the Potters outright. Sometimes, even if Voldemort doesn\\\'t attack them, Harry\\\'s brother or sister is still called \\\"The Boy/Girl Who Lived\\\" even though this makes [[TheyJustDidntCare absolutely no sense whatsoever]].
* Snape has a large fan following, but there\\\'s still a vicious group of haters out there doing everything in their power to make him look like a bigger asshole than he already is, including degrading his love for Lily and his requests for Voldemort to spare her as a desire to keep her \\\'\\\'as a sex slave\\\'\\\'. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3807777/1/Harry_Potter_and_The_Acts_of_Betrayal There\\\'s even a fic]] that has him \\\'\\\'raping female students and then erasing their memories of the incident.\\\'\\\' Often in \\\'Super Powered Harry\\\' fics, Snape will attempt to use legilimency or even outright attack Harry or one of his friends. Harry will then use his ultra amazing superpowers to defeat and utterly humiliate Snape in front of everyone. Snape is usually revealed to still be a Death Eater and then either gets killed horribly or goes to Azkaban for life. It\\\'s more often than not the former.
* And just to round out the entire cast, Lily Potter has earned a small but rabid {{Hatedom}} for daring to [[spoiler:choose James over Snape.]] It\\\'s not RonTheDeathEater to disagree with her choice or her actions, but the fic and essays portraying her as an evil, stuck-up, abusive, shallow demon spawn because she [[spoiler:didn\\\'t love Snape back (even though he at one point called her \\\"mudblood,\\\" the wizarding equivalent of the N word) definitely is. Many of these fans don\\\'t stop to consider that this might have an indirect RonTheDeathEater effect on Snape as well, because if Lily is as horrible as they say she is, what does it say about Snape that he liked her so much?]] The true WallBanger is when people argue that she has no concept of love or selflessness, even though \\\'\\\'her very first act in the book\\\'\\\' is to sacrifice her life for Harry\\\'s.
** Surprise surprise, the yaoi fandom has it out for Lily too... she must be evil to marry James and take him away from the Marauder orgies, after all.
* The level of Remus Lupin hatred coming from Snape rabid fans is becoming scarier and scarier. Apparently, he was [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453025.html#cutid1 an horrible bully as well as completely not trustworthy]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453894.html a bad father who will pass his lycantrophy so he shouldn\\\'t have reproduced]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/454954.html an ungrateful bastard who kept making Snape suffer]] and/or [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/456087.html?#cutid1 an evil pervert who *raped* poor Sevvie-kins, thus he\\\'s a pedophile too]].
* MNightShyamalan [[http://twitchfilm.net/news/2006/07/m-night-shyamalan-wants-to-direct-final-harry-potter-film.php apparently believes this too]].
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Okay, sure, it\\\'s the TropeNamer, but do we \\\'\\\'really\\\'\\\' need a whole section on Harry Potter delving into such excruciating detail? Can\\\'t we just cut the whole thing and put an entry at the top of Literature saying, \\\"HarryPotter is the TropeNamer. Let\\\'s just say it happens a \\\'\\\'lot\\\'\\\'.\\\"?
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[[folder:Harry Potter]]
* The TropeNamer, Ron Weasley. Since DracoInLeatherPants is often a result of Draco/Hermione shippers, Ron is turned ragingly evil and joins the Death Eaters to oppose the now-good Draco. There are various arguments as to why a FaceHeelTurn on Ron\\\'s part is plausible (and of course counter arguments to all of them), with some being more cogent than others. [[WordOfGod Rowling herself]] has admitted there were parallels between Ron and Peter Pettigrew. What the fanfic authors usually get wrong is that they have Ron joining Voldemort for revenge or other petty reasons.
** The biggest problem with the Ron/Peter Pettigrew parallels? Is that while Ron \\\'\\\'could\\\'\\\' theoretically make a FaceHeelTurn, he ultimately \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\'. This, by the way, is a recurring minor theme in the Potterverse - the difference between good and evil is the choice to reject dark impulses and urges. All of the characters have weaknesses that could theoretically lead them to turn evil, including Harry and Hermione. The reason this trope page exists is because of the DoubleStandard propagated by certain segments of the FanDumb: Harry, Hermione, Draco and Snape\\\'s weaknesses make them \\\"human\\\" and \\\"complex\\\", while Ron\\\'s equally human weaknesses are treated as proof that he\\\'s teetering on the edge of becoming more evil than Voldemort, Umbridge, the Dementors and AdolfHitler put together.
** The Grangerverse, a group of fans who believe that Hermione Granger is the true hero of the books (making Harry Potter himself something they call a \\\"frontkick\\\", meaning he\\\'s a {{Sidekick}} even though his name is on the cover) do this as a matter of course, because their favorite character is far too good for Ron Weasley. Usually, Ron ends up being a semi-literate attempted rapist thug whose best features are his lack of comprehension and his atrocious table manners.
** In fact, just about any time Draco gets a HeelFaceTurn, whether he gets with Hermione or not, Ron will be the IdiotOfTheWeek who rants and raves about Draco being \\\"the enemy\\\". Granted that Ron is canonically the most hotheaded and reflexively anti-Slytherin of the Gryffindor Trio, you can still overdo it, and many fanfic authors do.
** [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/harry-and-hermione-s-badly-written-secret-nws-t591.htm \\\"Did you know [Ron] tried to rape last year?\\\"]] [[RapeIsTheNewDeadParents Presented entirely matter of fact and never referenced again.]] (Link {{NSFW}}.)
** \\\'\\\'FanFic/DarkSecrets\\\'\\\' presents [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/in-which-draco-rescues-mary-sue-from-ron-the-death-eater-nws-t594.htm an example of literal Ron the Death Eater,]] though it\\\'s for the sake of the [=Draco/=]MarySue ship rather than Draco/Hermione. Also not work safe.
*** The sequel \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3244398/1/ Betrayed Revenge]]\\\'\\\' is more of the same, with the true gem of \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'[[CanonDefilement Hermione becoming a Death Eater]]\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'. After revealing her treachery to Harry, she \\\"disappeared\\\" [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and is not seen again]], and probably never will be due to the author having a \\\"[[DeadFic horrible case of writer\\\'s block]]\\\".
** Subverted in [[http://www.potionsandsnitches.net/fanfiction/viewstory.php?sid=1208 Secret of Slytherin]], in which Ron is the only one of the Trio to fully accept Draco\\\'s genuine HeelFaceTurn:
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\': (to Ron) I mean, most of the time, it\\\'s one of the things I like best about you, that things are so... simple for you. But Malfoy\\\'s been raised for this, trained for it. He told me once that a murder is just taking control of someone in a final sort of way, like it was nothing. I knew he\\\'d be a Death Eater then, a murderer. I should\\\'ve listened to my instincts.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hermione\\\'\\\'\\\': Oh, Harry. We all could have guessed it, but we didn\\\'t want to believe it of him...
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ron\\\'\\\'\\\': You two sure do turn on a knut, don\\\'t you?
** Also subverted in the first chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3559907/1/What_Would_Slytherin_Harry_Do What Would Slytherin Harry Do?]]\\\'\\\', where it \\\'\\\'looks\\\'\\\' like Ron has joined Umbridge\\\'s inquisition until Harry reveals near the end of the chapter that he was actually a DoubleAgent.
* Ginny Weasley gets portrayed as a shrewish whore a lot. Sometimes it\\\'s ship-related and sometimes the author just doesn\\\'t like her. Harry/Hermione fics in particular almost invariably cast her as an evil, deceitful bitch trying to steal Harry. Since the same pairing tends to make Ron evil, as noted above, these fics often vilify the whole Weasley family.
** And the proof that Ginny haters have of her being a [[{{Ghostbusters}} \\\"slore\\\"]] is that she dated three boys (not at the same time, and the last one ended up being her husband) within two school years. Whereas Hermione is a paragon of purity -- no, she would \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' date anyone just to get attention. Viktor and Cormac? Who are they?
*** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4079609/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Marriage_Contracts Harry Potter and the Marriage Contracts]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the archetypical example of Ginny Weasley as the VillageBicycle. Ron also gets the standard sexist JerkAss treatment re: Hermione, even though Harry is paired with someone else.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Molly:\\\'\\\'\\\' Ginny, you\\\'ve got to calm down. Minerva has caught you four times with different boys.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ginny:\\\'\\\'\\\' That just goes to show that she\\\'s not as informed as she thinks. She missed five others, Mum. Look, with everything I\\\'m doing for you, you can cut me some slack. That pathetic half blood upstairs must be a eunuch. I haven\\\'t managed to get a bit of action out of him.
** The Weasleys in general are prone to this sort of treatment. In {{Alternate Universe Fic}}s in which the Hat put Harry in Slytherin, Draco will usually be put in leather pants and the Weasleys will suddenly become the biggest assholes in the world. Often, it is Ron who gets the worst of it with the rest of his family acting little to no different (especially the twins), though there have been instances where \\\'\\\'all of them\\\'\\\' will look upon and treat Harry with disdain just because he\\\'s not a Gryffindor.
* In general, whether or not Ron will immediately become a complete psychopath is determined solely by what house Harry is sorted into, or as noted further above if Hermione is with \\\'\\\'\\\'anyone\\\'\\\'\\\' else. That is, anything but Gryffindor (mostly Slytherin, but he\\\'s still usually a huge JerkAss if Harry is in one of the other two houses) or Hermione being in love with anybody besides him = [[ItsAllAboutMe It\\\'s All About Me]], AxCrazy Ron. In the latter case, he will more than likely [[IfICantHaveYou want to murder her rather than let anyone else have her]].
-->When Ron Weasley was sorted Harry looked up. Ron gave him a look of deep hate and Harry knew that his short-lived friendship was over.\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4885698/1/Harry_In_Slytherin Harry in Slytherin]]\\\'\\\', Chapter 1
** In the same story mentioned above, Ron assaults Hermione at their first flying lesson, and in his second year nearly \\\'\\\'kills her\\\'\\\' with a lethal spell. He is expelled from Hogwarts for this, but ends up being accepted as a student at Durmstrang (which is often referred to in fanfic as the dark, evil school, despite Viktor Krum being shown in two books to \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' be part of the stereotype). Chance of him later becoming a literal example of this trope: 100%. Hermione herself also \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'murders Draco Malfoy\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', and completely gets away with it (with absolutely no remorse from her, Harry or anyone) because Dumbledore [[WhatAnIdiot doesn\\\'t bother to check her wand]] [[WallBanger because \\\"she was such a sweet girl\\\"]].
* It\\\'s not just the Slytherin!Harry fics, or even the Draco fics. There is an entire \\\'\\\'subgenre\\\'\\\' of fanfic where Harry\\\'s \\\"chest monster\\\" turns out to be because [[{{Yandere}} psycho stalker]] Ginny is dosing him with love potion. Often they also throw in that Ginny got the potion from her mother, who is secretly an ambitious shrew hoping to enrich herself by having her daughter marry Harry and then inherit all his money if/when Harry dies fighting Voldemort. Things like Ron having been hired by Dumbledore to spy on and manipulate Harry are very frequent in such fics as well. Oddly, even in the worst fics of this example Arthur Weasley and the older Weasley brothers (especially the twins) still remain honest, well-meaning people (except Percy, but he\\\'s an asshole in the canon, so it\\\'s not like he\\\'s any different). It\\\'s just Molly and her two youngest that get their characterizations done over.
* It\\\'s especially interesting when Ron gets this, but Ginny [[PossessionSue does not]]. Cue their relationship going straight to what would be CainAndAbel levels if the author hadn\\\'t seemingly forgotten that they are brother and sister. Sometimes she goes so far as to not even care if he dies, which, of course, has the intended effect of making her look like a sociopath. Even if he did join the Death Eaters, become eviler than Voldemort and tried to ruin the author\\\'s OneTruePairing, you\\\'d think Ginny would still experience some angst over his death.
** In \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes one]]\\\'\\\' PeggySue fanfic, Ginny poisons all of her children and tries to do the same to Harry, to \\\"have the Potter fortune and fame\\\" all to herself. Once in the past, Harry [[RetGone prevents Ginny from ever existing]] by secretly sterilizing Molly Weasley after Ron is born (who is actually \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' evil here, for once). Because Ginny is apparently [[ObviouslyEvil pure evil from birth and unredeemable]].
--->The Deathly Hallows Epilogue was truly unsatisfying. Here\\\'s the rest of the story that begins about two years after the DH Epilogue. [[{{Understatement}} Not for Ginny enthusiasts.]] Character Deaths. Time Travel. Avenging!Harry. - Author\\\'s Note, \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes Time to Fix the Mistakes]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** There is also [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/727010/1/The_Seekers a HPCC fic]] (pre - [=OotP=]) where Ginny goes evil when Harry and Cho hook up - The remains of Tom\\\'s personality resurface.
** A very large portion of SlashFic with Harry in the main pairing has its authors vilifying Ginny in any number of the ways detailed above. This has become increasingly common in fic written post-Deathly Hallows: ironically, it\\\'s \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' true in fics that try to conform to canon up to and including the epilogue. Needless to say, the things they make Ginny do to shatter the obvious happiness Harry feels at the time of the epilogue are often downright heinous.
*** What\\\'s particularly odd is these fics almost always contain the canon next generation, so apparently the fanfic authors don\\\'t mind the kids; it\\\'s just the women they don\\\'t like. Unfortunate implications, indeed.
** A rather bizarre version of all of this is done in \\\'\\\'[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TheGirlWhoLived The Girl Who Lived]]\\\'\\\'. The series started out with Rose and Ginny being best friends and fellow Druidesses (with behavior that invoked other...implications). On the other hand, while Ron basically fulfilled most of his uses at first, most of his good moments were eventually handed off to Hermione or Neville or Rose, leaving Ron to look like a lazy idiot who begged Rose in vain to let him copy her homework while she rolled her eyes and condescendingly told him to do it himself. The author also appeared to take care to leave Ron out of any discussions of Rose\\\'s power or knowledge or plans and tried to make his bad moments (like when he fights with rose in GOF) appear to be genuinely wounding instances which gives Rose the opportunity to [[DisproportionateRetribution strike back]]. The twins appeared to be on \\\"minion\\\" status as well, kissing her hand when they met her, Percy was outright hated, and the Wesley parents were hardly mentioned, with Rose stating at one point that she had five parental figures \\\"if [she] could count Mrs. Wesley\\\". After rewriting \\\'\\\'Order of the Phoenix\\\'\\\' however, Ginny appeared to lose favor with the author and by extension Rose and was replaced more or less with Luna. In the brief amount of time she is shown, Ginny is painted as a shrew who picks on Fleur wrongly and is yelled at by Rose for it (Mrs. Wesley gets the same treatment).
** Which makes sense, since \\\'\\\'Half Blood Prince\\\'\\\' was also when it became apparent that Ginny and Harry would hook up and the author was a confirmed Harmonian (Harry/Hermione shipper). The author also wrote on his profile on one website that the Ron/Hermione relationship made no sense because they argued, which would explain the Ron abuse.
* Stories in which [[WronglyAccused Harry is framed for a crime he didn\\\'t commit]] and sentenced to [[strike:[[TheCountOfMonteCristo the Chateau d\\\'If]]]] [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] for life tend to have this happen to just about \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' of the characters except usually Snape, Neville, Luna and [[strike: a random Weasley or two]] the Weasley Twins and ([[strike:almost]] \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' Ron, and sometimes at least one of the older brothers who are [[FlatCharacter barely mentioned in the series]] immediately becomes Harry\\\'s new [[BigBrotherMentor best friend]]). Common murder victims include Neville, Hagrid, Ginny, and the Dursleys. Those who were supposedly his closest friends and trusted adults will suddenly denounce him as being evil on par or worse than Voldemort (if not [[RuleOfTwo joined with him]]), exaggerate or \\\'\\\'[[MaliciousSlander outright lie about his past misdeeds]]\\\'\\\' (often in the [[KangarooCourt Wizengamot]]), [[KickTheDog assault or torture him]] (sometimes by illegal curses or means that should get \\\'\\\'them\\\'\\\' thrown into Azkaban), and destroy/break/burn all of his prized possessions, \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' [[BreakTheCutie the photo album with pictures of his parents inside]]. Rarely, they may also go to the extreme of \\\'\\\'[[MoralEventHorizon brutally killing Hedwig right in front of Harry just to spite him]]\\\'\\\'. Despite all of this, they will act like nothing has happened and ask for forgiveness nearly the very \\\'\\\'moment\\\'\\\' Harry is proven without a doubt to be not guilty, almost always by Voldemort [[EvilGloating telling everyone the full details of how he set up Harry and turned everyone against him]], even though there is usually [[WhatAnIdiot still no solid evidence of Harry\\\'s innocence]].
** The second chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3871941/2/Betrayed_Having_a_Father_Sixth_Year Betrayed Having a Father: Sixth Year]]\\\'\\\' has many of the betrayal examples listed in the entry above (and is also a DeadFic, which many \\\"Harry is Betrayed\\\" fics end up as). Close to the end (after Harry\\\'s \\\"trial\\\"), Ron, Hermione, Remus and Sirius suddenly hack up into [[CompleteMonster cruel, vengeful demons without an ounce of decency or mercy]]. One of the worst and most clichéd examples, but nearly \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' fanfics of this type [[FollowTheLeader follow the same basic template]] with few variations:
*** Someone (usually Ron) screaming that Harry\\\'s a bastard or traitor after finding out about the murder(s) or by [[TheCorpseStopsHere discovering him at or near the scene of the crime]].
*** Harry watching helplessly as his photo album is reduced to ashes (again, usually by Ron and sometimes followed by a BigNo). Usually, he\\\'s also cruelly mocked by his house-mates at the same time.
*** If Sirius is alive, most of the time he will be on the side of the accusers despite the \\\'\\\'same thing\\\'\\\' once happening to him! [[IncrediblyLamePun Seriously]], [[strike:most]] all of the \\\"good\\\" characters will become [=Ron The Death Eater=] or {{Anti Hero}}es in these stories without exception.
*** As for Harry, being locked away in a hellish, dark, damp prison patrolled by monsters that [[EmotionBomb feed on emotions]] and [[GhostlyChill make everything extremely cold around them]] will do [[WallBanger great wonders for him]], in the process becoming a GodModeSue who turns out to be more powerful than everyone else combined and (very often) destroys Voldemort [[BoringInvincibleHero with no effort whatsoever]].
*** In the extremely uncommon instances where Harry \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\' become a OneManArmy, once released from Azkaban he\\\'ll invariably turn into a depressed, [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal individual]] and [[DeusAngstMachina some of those who betrayed him will only hate him all the more, especially Ron]]. They may also go as far as labeling Harry a [[EvilSorcerer Dark Wizard]] and look for (or invent) \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' reason to try and put him back in prison, even though he \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'did absolutely nothing wrong and was found innocent!\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'
*** [[http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/Betrayal_of_the_Best_Kind/index.php At least one fic averts most if not all of those tropes]]. Must have something to do with it being among the first. \\\'\\\'Betrayed\\\'\\\' also largely averts it, but [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1106246/1/From_the_Abyss The oldest one I can find]] already has it all.
* This also tends to occur with regards to Albus Dumbledore, whose canonical status as TheChessmaster tends to be [[ManipulativeBastard twisted]] and put through a strainer darkly until he stops being \\\'\\\'Dumbledore\\\'\\\' and starts being [[strike:Umbridge]] [[CompleteMonster Voldemort]] with a beard. This tends to be especially prevalent in fanfiction that addresses (and usually overemphasizes) Harry\\\'s abuse at the hands of the Dursleys, in which this strange man completely unlike Dumbledore everyone is addressing as Dumbledore for some reason seems content to send Harry into the mouth of Hell (because protection from the EvilOverlord trying to kill him is best when placed over a house \\\'\\\'full of people trying to kill him\\\'\\\') and [[EvilLaugh mwa-ha]]-ha into his bowl of lemon drops rather than give them a [[DeathFromAbove stern talking to]].
** [[MyImmortal WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING MOTHERFUCKERS!?!]]
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4240771/1/Partially_Kissed_Hero Partially Kissed Hero]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the single most extreme example of this, presenting Dumbledore as a megalomaniacal psychopath who secretly controls all of Wizarding Britain while hiding under the false front of a kind grandfatherly headmaster, to the point where Voldemort is an almost entirely irrelevant sideshow.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry:\\\'\\\'\\\' Think, Hermione! If you wanted to rule the wizarding world, what would you want that Dumbledore doesn\\\'t already have?!?
*** Though that fic pretty clearly no longer takes itself seriously, since Harry has convinced Dumbledore that it\\\'s actually Colonel Sanders (Yes, That Colonel Sanders) behind it all.
**** [[MahouSenseiNegima Albireo?]]
** The very first \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\' fanfic, \\\'\\\'Fanfic/{{Harry Potter and the Man of Unknown}}\\\'\\\', did this to an extent. While not ObviouslyEvil and maintaining the pretense of his canon personality, Dumbledore was nonetheless revealed to have given Harry to the Dursleys over his mysterious uncle (the AntiHero protagonist) and his reason for doing so was fairly dumb.
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3183672/1/Harry_Potter_The_Dark_Wraith Harry Potter: The Dark Wraith]]\\\'\\\' features said character as a horrendously evil man who [[YourSoulIsMine steals souls to get stronger]] and ([[BellisariosMaxim somehow]]) become immortal. Psychopath Ron (as mentioned above) also quickly emerges after being rejected by Hermione, who then immediately blames Harry for it and wants to kill him. The story wastes no time in derailing both of these characters as {{Complete Monster}}s, it does so in the \\\'\\\'first chapter\\\'\\\' alone. [[SoBadItsGood Sadly]], [[DeadFic it has not been updated since 2007]].
* A notable inversion appears in the fanfic, \\\'\\\'The Lie I\\\'ve Lived\\\'\\\', where Harry actually expected Dumbledore to turn out like this, but was downright surprised to find Dumbledore avert it by stopping himself after realising the extent of his actions thus far. Then he apologised.
* On that note, the Dursleys\\\' canonical abuse of Harry (neglect counts, folks, and even if it didn\\\'t, Petunia swung a frying pan at his head and Vernon was one accidental-magic attack from killing Harry in \\\'\\\'[=OotP=]\\\'\\\') is Flanderized into anything from regular beatings to \\\'\\\'rape\\\'\\\'. This is usually either to make Harry [[TheWoobie more pitiable]] (and usually [[DracoInLeatherPants Snape]]\\\'s the one to rescue him) or to make Dumbledore into a [[ManipulativeBastard mustache-twirling evil bastard.]]
** Oftentimes, it\\\'s established that the Dursleys have just started treating Harry this way, which, it is frequently pointed out, makes no sense at all. Logically, if they were going to beat him, they would have done it when he was seven rather than wait until he\\\'s a teenager when he\\\'s not only physically stronger, but has wizard friends who will no doubt rescue him if he doesn\\\'t show up at Hogwarts.
** For possibly \\\'\\\'the\\\'\\\' most extreme and idiotic example of the above, look no further than \\\'\\\'Fanfic/ASadStory\\\'\\\':
--->\\\"The family is going out to dinner\\\" he began \\\"You will stay here, but you will be somewhere where you can\\\'t make any trouble\\\" He said as he grabbed Harry by the neck and dragged him to the garden Shed. [[{{Narm}} He padlocked the door with at least 20 locks.]]
** One such Dursleys abuse fic which started off by imitating {{J K Rowling}}\\\'s casual scene-setting prose, resulting in [[{{Narm}} unintentional hilarity]] somewhat along these lines: \\\"Harry was not having a good summer. Uncle Vernon had started beating him and had brutally murdered Hedwig before his eyes. He couldn\\\'t wait to get back to Hogwarts.\\\"
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2101001/1/Child_of_Grace Child of Grace]]\\\'\\\' uses this, along with \\\"alternate universe female Harry\\\" and \\\"Ron hates Harry for not being in Gryffindor\\\", bringing us Holly Potter, a girl who swings between being a PuritySue and a JerkSue and who begins the tale sitting out in the snow while the Dursleys are inside eating dinner. She is quickly established to be skinny, frightened by anyone touching her, heavily black and blue under her clothes from the beatings, and will \\\'\\\'curtsy\\\'\\\' to all strangers because the Dursleys had had such manners \\\"all but beaten into her\\\".
* Similarly, Lucius Malfoy, who is \\\'\\\'already\\\'\\\' plenty evil, often turns out to be an abusive bastard who beats Draco, giving the latter a FreudianExcuse. Narcissa tends to be cast as a battered housewife in this scenario. Blame [[FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy Cassandra Claire]]. There\\\'s an irony to this in the canon, because by the end of the series, the Malfoys\\\' love for each other is pretty much their \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' canonically redeeming qualities. Earlier examples can perhaps be excused, though, as their family mechanics were not deeply explored before we see Narcissa weeping over her son and husband\\\'s fates in \\\'\\\'Half-Blood Prince.\\\'\\\'
* James Potter is often the subject of this- while canonically he \\\'\\\'was\\\'\\\' a {{Jerkass}} as a teenager, he was also a fiercely loyal friend and (later) devoted family man who gave his life to protect his wife and son. James the JerkJock who is personally obnoxious and is nasty to people he doesn\\\'t like is canon- James the abusive user who has minions instead of friends and spends his days doing nothing but thinking of new ways to hurt people (in other words, Tom Riddle 2.0) is not. Also, the fact that Lily (who previously wanted nothing to do with him) married him implies that he at least somewhat grew out of it, as does some dialogue from Remus Lupin (generally the most levelheaded and reliable of the Marauders).
** This is kind of helped by the fact that he was the childhood nemesis of Snape, a major recipient of DracoInLeatherPants treatment; as such, while it\\\'s fairly clear that James could be a cruel bully to Snape when they were growing up, this can be exaggerated to CompleteMonster levels in order to make Snape more sympathetic.
* In DarkFic or RevengeFic, this sometimes happens to \\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\' himself as well whether he joins forces with Voldemort or not, to the point where he becomes little more than a [[AGodAmI cruel blend of Voldemort, Snape and Bellatrix Lestrange]], which the author \\\'\\\'[[MisaimedFandom expects the readers to sympathize with and root for]]\\\'\\\'. Apparently, having Harry becoming a psychotic, sadistic murderer on par or worse than Voldemort is what should have happened in canon post-Order of the Phoenix. Often, these stories are rife with the Manipulative Dumbledore and Abusive Dursleys examples explained above as an excuse for Harry to go to TheDarkSide. Not surprisingly, one of his worst victims is [[strike:usually]] always Ron, even if he \\\'\\\'didn\\\'t\\\'\\\' turn against Harry.
-->\\\"Diffindo.\\\" And his right arm was gone, blood spurting from the stump. Ron screamed again. Harry smiled sardonically, not even bothering to move as blood started seeping toward his feet. - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3572996/12/Traitorous Traitorous]], Chapter 12\\\'\\\'
** It was hilariously parodied in \\\'\\\'The Unwritten\\\'\\\' comics. The comics are about a son of a writer who got famous after creating a series of novels very [[CaptainErsatz similar]] to \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\'. The first two start with fragments of those books, and the third with a fragment of {{Frankenstein}}. The first page of the fourth issue shows Harry\\\'s counterpart slaughtering Ron\\\'s and Hermione\\\'s counterparts in a really terrible way, only to have it turn out on the next page that it\\\'s a DarkFic.
* \\\'\\\'FanFic/MyImmortal\\\'\\\' has some very atypical examples of this. For example, [[strike:Snape]] Snap and [[strike:Lupin]] Loopin, who hardly ever meet this due to being two of the most popular characters in the fandom, are turned into a troublesome duo despite [[{{Understatement}} not being on great terms]] in the {{canon}}. Oh, and they\\\'re also both pervy pedophiles who in general resemble the canon characters in name only and [[RougeAnglesOfSatin sometimes not even then]].
** And of course, Tara does this to Dumbledore too - after finding out that [[strike:Voldemort]] Volfemort has Draco \\\'bondage\\\', Dumbledore refuses to help because he \\\"never liked him anyway\\\".
*** But it\\\'s justified, because Dumblydore is trying to be all goffik, with a black bread and all! FridgeLogic dictated that, but think about it.
*** Even though he \\\"cried wisely\\\" when he thought that Draco committed suicide.
*** Again, this is atypical for \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' fanfiction. Although Dumbledore is often Death Eatered, as noted above it\\\'s usually by turning him into a ManipulativeBastard. \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' goes the opposite route, turning him into a capricious, senile moron (it\\\'s even noted he has Alzheimer\\\'s at one point). Come to think of it, Dumbledore\\\'s portrayal in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' is actually rather similar to the \\\'\\\'PotterPuppetPals\\\'\\\' version of him except that in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' he\\\'s [[DesignatedVillain inexplicably regarded as a villain]].
** Oddly, despite having nearly every cliche you\\\'ll find in bad \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' MarySue fic, it avoids doing this to the two most popular targets, since both Ron and Ginny are apparently friends with the MarySue. (Although in Ginny\\\'s case, you might have missed the fact that she was even IN the fic, since her name is only mentioned twice and spelled as \\\"[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Jenny]]\\\" the first time.)
* In most fanfic where Harry has a sibling, and is not or mistaken not to be the Boy Who Lived, James and Lily Potter end up being examples of this trope to the point where the Dursleys look like saints. They belittle, abuse and/or ignore him while heaping praise upon Harry\\\'s brother or sister, who is usually also a huge JerkAss that flaunts his or her status at every opportunity. Often, the three of them despise Harry for the mere fact that he exists, and more so if he befriends the wrong people (Snape, the Malfoys, or any Slytherin in general). Ron is usually portrayed as little more than a Gryffindor equivalent of Malfoy who often hates and mocks Harry for no reason at all. And \\\'\\\'\\\'heaven forbid\\\'\\\'\\\' if Harry ends up sorted into \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' house besides Gryffindor.
-->\\\"I can not believe that you were put in Huffelpuff! You have disgraced your family and their fine Gryffindor heritage. We would have even preferred Ravenclaw over this. You will not be coming home for the Christmas holiday, that is your punishment.\\\" \\\'\\\'Mr. & Mrs. Potter\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2488516/1/The_Chronicles_of_Merlin_The_Return The Chronicles of Merlin: The Return]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** A particularly irritating examples appears in the Sacrifices Arc by Lightning of the Wave, wherein Lily Potter puts the KnightTemplar back in KnightTemplarParent by acting like the hellish product of an orgy between [[{{Noir}} Altena]], [[{{Supernatural}} John Winchester]] and [[MySistersKeeper Sara Fitzgerald]]. She raises Harry to be a TykeBomb with no personality beyond \\\'protect [his twin brother] Connor, don\\\'t outshine Connor, die for Connor if you have to\\\' because Connor is the Boy-Who-Lived and [[SarcasmMode if one of your children is famous, it\\\'s okay to turn the other into a]] ChildSoldier [[SarcasmMode because no one will notice!]]
* Face it, \\\"Wrong Boy Who Lived\\\" stories are pretty much a hodgepodge of every single example above and then some. Dumbledore is at best a WellIntentionedExtremist who chooses the wrong child because he thinks the scar on him or her is something Voldemort would be more likely to mark someone as his sworn enemy with, even though Voldemort was just going there to kill all the Potters outright. Sometimes, even if Voldemort doesn\\\'t attack them, Harry\\\'s brother or sister is still called \\\"The Boy/Girl Who Lived\\\" even though this makes [[TheyJustDidntCare absolutely no sense whatsoever]].
* Snape has a large fan following, but there\\\'s still a vicious group of haters out there doing everything in their power to make him look like a bigger asshole than he already is, including degrading his love for Lily and his requests for Voldemort to spare her as a desire to keep her \\\'\\\'as a sex slave\\\'\\\'. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3807777/1/Harry_Potter_and_The_Acts_of_Betrayal There\\\'s even a fic]] that has him \\\'\\\'raping female students and then erasing their memories of the incident.\\\'\\\' Often in \\\'Super Powered Harry\\\' fics, Snape will attempt to use legilimency or even outright attack Harry or one of his friends. Harry will then use his ultra amazing superpowers to defeat and utterly humiliate Snape in front of everyone. Snape is usually revealed to still be a Death Eater and then either gets killed horribly or goes to Azkaban for life. It\\\'s more often than not the former.
* And just to round out the entire cast, Lily Potter has earned a small but rabid {{Hatedom}} for daring to [[spoiler:choose James over Snape.]] It\\\'s not RonTheDeathEater to disagree with her choice or her actions, but the fic and essays portraying her as an evil, stuck-up, abusive, shallow demon spawn because she [[spoiler:didn\\\'t love Snape back (even though he at one point called her \\\"mudblood,\\\" the wizarding equivalent of the N word) definitely is. Many of these fans don\\\'t stop to consider that this might have an indirect RonTheDeathEater effect on Snape as well, because if Lily is as horrible as they say she is, what does it say about Snape that he liked her so much?]] The true WallBanger is when people argue that she has no concept of love or selflessness, even though \\\'\\\'her very first act in the book\\\'\\\' is to sacrifice her life for Harry\\\'s.
** Surprise surprise, the yaoi fandom has it out for Lily too... she must be evil to marry James and take him away from the Marauder orgies, after all.
* The level of Remus Lupin hatred coming from Snape rabid fans is becoming scarier and scarier. Apparently, he was [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453025.html#cutid1 an horrible bully as well as completely not trustworthy]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453894.html a bad father who will pass his lycantrophy so he shouldn\\\'t have reproduced]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/454954.html an ungrateful bastard who kept making Snape suffer]] and/or [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/456087.html?#cutid1 an evil pervert who *raped* poor Sevvie-kins, thus he\\\'s a pedophile too]].
* MNightShyamalan [[http://twitchfilm.net/news/2006/07/m-night-shyamalan-wants-to-direct-final-harry-potter-film.php apparently believes this too]].
[[/folder]]
Edit: Hell with it, I pulled it. Original stuff is here:
[[folder:Harry Potter]]
* The TropeNamer, Ron Weasley. Since DracoInLeatherPants is often a result of Draco/Hermione shippers, Ron is turned ragingly evil and joins the Death Eaters to oppose the now-good Draco. There are various arguments as to why a FaceHeelTurn on Ron\\\'s part is plausible (and of course counter arguments to all of them), with some being more cogent than others. [[WordOfGod Rowling herself]] has admitted there were parallels between Ron and Peter Pettigrew. What the fanfic authors usually get wrong is that they have Ron joining Voldemort for revenge or other petty reasons.
** The biggest problem with the Ron/Peter Pettigrew parallels? Is that while Ron \\\'\\\'could\\\'\\\' theoretically make a FaceHeelTurn, he ultimately \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\'. This, by the way, is a recurring minor theme in the Potterverse - the difference between good and evil is the choice to reject dark impulses and urges. All of the characters have weaknesses that could theoretically lead them to turn evil, including Harry and Hermione. The reason this trope page exists is because of the DoubleStandard propagated by certain segments of the FanDumb: Harry, Hermione, Draco and Snape\\\'s weaknesses make them \\\"human\\\" and \\\"complex\\\", while Ron\\\'s equally human weaknesses are treated as proof that he\\\'s teetering on the edge of becoming more evil than Voldemort, Umbridge, the Dementors and AdolfHitler put together.
** The Grangerverse, a group of fans who believe that Hermione Granger is the true hero of the books (making Harry Potter himself something they call a \\\"frontkick\\\", meaning he\\\'s a {{Sidekick}} even though his name is on the cover) do this as a matter of course, because their favorite character is far too good for Ron Weasley. Usually, Ron ends up being a semi-literate attempted rapist thug whose best features are his lack of comprehension and his atrocious table manners.
** In fact, just about any time Draco gets a HeelFaceTurn, whether he gets with Hermione or not, Ron will be the IdiotOfTheWeek who rants and raves about Draco being \\\"the enemy\\\". Granted that Ron is canonically the most hotheaded and reflexively anti-Slytherin of the Gryffindor Trio, you can still overdo it, and many fanfic authors do.
** [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/harry-and-hermione-s-badly-written-secret-nws-t591.htm \\\"Did you know [Ron] tried to rape last year?\\\"]] [[RapeIsTheNewDeadParents Presented entirely matter of fact and never referenced again.]] (Link {{NSFW}}.)
** \\\'\\\'FanFic/DarkSecrets\\\'\\\' presents [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/in-which-draco-rescues-mary-sue-from-ron-the-death-eater-nws-t594.htm an example of literal Ron the Death Eater,]] though it\\\'s for the sake of the [=Draco/=]MarySue ship rather than Draco/Hermione. Also not work safe.
*** The sequel \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3244398/1/ Betrayed Revenge]]\\\'\\\' is more of the same, with the true gem of \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'[[CanonDefilement Hermione becoming a Death Eater]]\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'. After revealing her treachery to Harry, she \\\"disappeared\\\" [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and is not seen again]], and probably never will be due to the author having a \\\"[[DeadFic horrible case of writer\\\'s block]]\\\".
** Subverted in [[http://www.potionsandsnitches.net/fanfiction/viewstory.php?sid=1208 Secret of Slytherin]], in which Ron is the only one of the Trio to fully accept Draco\\\'s genuine HeelFaceTurn:
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\': (to Ron) I mean, most of the time, it\\\'s one of the things I like best about you, that things are so... simple for you. But Malfoy\\\'s been raised for this, trained for it. He told me once that a murder is just taking control of someone in a final sort of way, like it was nothing. I knew he\\\'d be a Death Eater then, a murderer. I should\\\'ve listened to my instincts.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hermione\\\'\\\'\\\': Oh, Harry. We all could have guessed it, but we didn\\\'t want to believe it of him...
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ron\\\'\\\'\\\': You two sure do turn on a knut, don\\\'t you?
** Also subverted in the first chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3559907/1/What_Would_Slytherin_Harry_Do What Would Slytherin Harry Do?]]\\\'\\\', where it \\\'\\\'looks\\\'\\\' like Ron has joined Umbridge\\\'s inquisition until Harry reveals near the end of the chapter that he was actually a DoubleAgent.
* Ginny Weasley gets portrayed as a shrewish whore a lot. Sometimes it\\\'s ship-related and sometimes the author just doesn\\\'t like her. Harry/Hermione fics in particular almost invariably cast her as an evil, deceitful bitch trying to steal Harry. Since the same pairing tends to make Ron evil, as noted above, these fics often vilify the whole Weasley family.
** And the proof that Ginny haters have of her being a [[{{Ghostbusters}} \\\"slore\\\"]] is that she dated three boys (not at the same time, and the last one ended up being her husband) within two school years. Whereas Hermione is a paragon of purity -- no, she would \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' date anyone just to get attention. Viktor and Cormac? Who are they?
*** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4079609/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Marriage_Contracts Harry Potter and the Marriage Contracts]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the archetypical example of Ginny Weasley as the VillageBicycle. Ron also gets the standard sexist JerkAss treatment re: Hermione, even though Harry is paired with someone else.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Molly:\\\'\\\'\\\' Ginny, you\\\'ve got to calm down. Minerva has caught you four times with different boys.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ginny:\\\'\\\'\\\' That just goes to show that she\\\'s not as informed as she thinks. She missed five others, Mum. Look, with everything I\\\'m doing for you, you can cut me some slack. That pathetic half blood upstairs must be a eunuch. I haven\\\'t managed to get a bit of action out of him.
** The Weasleys in general are prone to this sort of treatment. In {{Alternate Universe Fic}}s in which the Hat put Harry in Slytherin, Draco will usually be put in leather pants and the Weasleys will suddenly become the biggest assholes in the world. Often, it is Ron who gets the worst of it with the rest of his family acting little to no different (especially the twins), though there have been instances where \\\'\\\'all of them\\\'\\\' will look upon and treat Harry with disdain just because he\\\'s not a Gryffindor.
* In general, whether or not Ron will immediately become a complete psychopath is determined solely by what house Harry is sorted into, or as noted further above if Hermione is with \\\'\\\'\\\'anyone\\\'\\\'\\\' else. That is, anything but Gryffindor (mostly Slytherin, but he\\\'s still usually a huge JerkAss if Harry is in one of the other two houses) or Hermione being in love with anybody besides him = [[ItsAllAboutMe It\\\'s All About Me]], AxCrazy Ron. In the latter case, he will more than likely [[IfICantHaveYou want to murder her rather than let anyone else have her]].
-->When Ron Weasley was sorted Harry looked up. Ron gave him a look of deep hate and Harry knew that his short-lived friendship was over.\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4885698/1/Harry_In_Slytherin Harry in Slytherin]]\\\'\\\', Chapter 1
** In the same story mentioned above, Ron assaults Hermione at their first flying lesson, and in his second year nearly \\\'\\\'kills her\\\'\\\' with a lethal spell. He is expelled from Hogwarts for this, but ends up being accepted as a student at Durmstrang (which is often referred to in fanfic as the dark, evil school, despite Viktor Krum being shown in two books to \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' be part of the stereotype). Chance of him later becoming a literal example of this trope: 100%. Hermione herself also \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'murders Draco Malfoy\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', and completely gets away with it (with absolutely no remorse from her, Harry or anyone) because Dumbledore [[WhatAnIdiot doesn\\\'t bother to check her wand]] [[WallBanger because \\\"she was such a sweet girl\\\"]].
* It\\\'s not just the Slytherin!Harry fics, or even the Draco fics. There is an entire \\\'\\\'subgenre\\\'\\\' of fanfic where Harry\\\'s \\\"chest monster\\\" turns out to be because [[{{Yandere}} psycho stalker]] Ginny is dosing him with love potion. Often they also throw in that Ginny got the potion from her mother, who is secretly an ambitious shrew hoping to enrich herself by having her daughter marry Harry and then inherit all his money if/when Harry dies fighting Voldemort. Things like Ron having been hired by Dumbledore to spy on and manipulate Harry are very frequent in such fics as well. Oddly, even in the worst fics of this example Arthur Weasley and the older Weasley brothers (especially the twins) still remain honest, well-meaning people (except Percy, but he\\\'s an asshole in the canon, so it\\\'s not like he\\\'s any different). It\\\'s just Molly and her two youngest that get their characterizations done over.
* It\\\'s especially interesting when Ron gets this, but Ginny [[PossessionSue does not]]. Cue their relationship going straight to what would be CainAndAbel levels if the author hadn\\\'t seemingly forgotten that they are brother and sister. Sometimes she goes so far as to not even care if he dies, which, of course, has the intended effect of making her look like a sociopath. Even if he did join the Death Eaters, become eviler than Voldemort and tried to ruin the author\\\'s OneTruePairing, you\\\'d think Ginny would still experience some angst over his death.
** In \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes one]]\\\'\\\' PeggySue fanfic, Ginny poisons all of her children and tries to do the same to Harry, to \\\"have the Potter fortune and fame\\\" all to herself. Once in the past, Harry [[RetGone prevents Ginny from ever existing]] by secretly sterilizing Molly Weasley after Ron is born (who is actually \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' evil here, for once). Because Ginny is apparently [[ObviouslyEvil pure evil from birth and unredeemable]].
--->The Deathly Hallows Epilogue was truly unsatisfying. Here\\\'s the rest of the story that begins about two years after the DH Epilogue. [[{{Understatement}} Not for Ginny enthusiasts.]] Character Deaths. Time Travel. Avenging!Harry. - Author\\\'s Note, \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes Time to Fix the Mistakes]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** There is also [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/727010/1/The_Seekers a HPCC fic]] (pre - [=OotP=]) where Ginny goes evil when Harry and Cho hook up - The remains of Tom\\\'s personality resurface.
** A very large portion of SlashFic with Harry in the main pairing has its authors vilifying Ginny in any number of the ways detailed above. This has become increasingly common in fic written post-Deathly Hallows: ironically, it\\\'s \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' true in fics that try to conform to canon up to and including the epilogue. Needless to say, the things they make Ginny do to shatter the obvious happiness Harry feels at the time of the epilogue are often downright heinous.
*** What\\\'s particularly odd is these fics almost always contain the canon next generation, so apparently the fanfic authors don\\\'t mind the kids; it\\\'s just the women they don\\\'t like. Unfortunate implications, indeed.
** A rather bizarre version of all of this is done in \\\'\\\'[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TheGirlWhoLived The Girl Who Lived]]\\\'\\\'. The series started out with Rose and Ginny being best friends and fellow Druidesses (with behavior that invoked other...implications). On the other hand, while Ron basically fulfilled most of his uses at first, most of his good moments were eventually handed off to Hermione or Neville or Rose, leaving Ron to look like a lazy idiot who begged Rose in vain to let him copy her homework while she rolled her eyes and condescendingly told him to do it himself. The author also appeared to take care to leave Ron out of any discussions of Rose\\\'s power or knowledge or plans and tried to make his bad moments (like when he fights with rose in GOF) appear to be genuinely wounding instances which gives Rose the opportunity to [[DisproportionateRetribution strike back]]. The twins appeared to be on \\\"minion\\\" status as well, kissing her hand when they met her, Percy was outright hated, and the Wesley parents were hardly mentioned, with Rose stating at one point that she had five parental figures \\\"if [she] could count Mrs. Wesley\\\". After rewriting \\\'\\\'Order of the Phoenix\\\'\\\' however, Ginny appeared to lose favor with the author and by extension Rose and was replaced more or less with Luna. In the brief amount of time she is shown, Ginny is painted as a shrew who picks on Fleur wrongly and is yelled at by Rose for it (Mrs. Wesley gets the same treatment).
** Which makes sense, since \\\'\\\'Half Blood Prince\\\'\\\' was also when it became apparent that Ginny and Harry would hook up and the author was a confirmed Harmonian (Harry/Hermione shipper). The author also wrote on his profile on one website that the Ron/Hermione relationship made no sense because they argued, which would explain the Ron abuse.
* Stories in which [[WronglyAccused Harry is framed for a crime he didn\\\'t commit]] and sentenced to [[strike:[[TheCountOfMonteCristo the Chateau d\\\'If]]]] [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] for life tend to have this happen to just about \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' of the characters except usually Snape, Neville, Luna and [[strike: a random Weasley or two]] the Weasley Twins and ([[strike:almost]] \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' Ron, and sometimes at least one of the older brothers who are [[FlatCharacter barely mentioned in the series]] immediately becomes Harry\\\'s new [[BigBrotherMentor best friend]]). Common murder victims include Neville, Hagrid, Ginny, and the Dursleys. Those who were supposedly his closest friends and trusted adults will suddenly denounce him as being evil on par or worse than Voldemort (if not [[RuleOfTwo joined with him]]), exaggerate or \\\'\\\'[[MaliciousSlander outright lie about his past misdeeds]]\\\'\\\' (often in the [[KangarooCourt Wizengamot]]), [[KickTheDog assault or torture him]] (sometimes by illegal curses or means that should get \\\'\\\'them\\\'\\\' thrown into Azkaban), and destroy/break/burn all of his prized possessions, \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' [[BreakTheCutie the photo album with pictures of his parents inside]]. Rarely, they may also go to the extreme of \\\'\\\'[[MoralEventHorizon brutally killing Hedwig right in front of Harry just to spite him]]\\\'\\\'. Despite all of this, they will act like nothing has happened and ask for forgiveness nearly the very \\\'\\\'moment\\\'\\\' Harry is proven without a doubt to be not guilty, almost always by Voldemort [[EvilGloating telling everyone the full details of how he set up Harry and turned everyone against him]], even though there is usually [[WhatAnIdiot still no solid evidence of Harry\\\'s innocence]].
** The second chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3871941/2/Betrayed_Having_a_Father_Sixth_Year Betrayed Having a Father: Sixth Year]]\\\'\\\' has many of the betrayal examples listed in the entry above (and is also a DeadFic, which many \\\"Harry is Betrayed\\\" fics end up as). Close to the end (after Harry\\\'s \\\"trial\\\"), Ron, Hermione, Remus and Sirius suddenly hack up into [[CompleteMonster cruel, vengeful demons without an ounce of decency or mercy]]. One of the worst and most clichéd examples, but nearly \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' fanfics of this type [[FollowTheLeader follow the same basic template]] with few variations:
*** Someone (usually Ron) screaming that Harry\\\'s a bastard or traitor after finding out about the murder(s) or by [[TheCorpseStopsHere discovering him at or near the scene of the crime]].
*** Harry watching helplessly as his photo album is reduced to ashes (again, usually by Ron and sometimes followed by a BigNo). Usually, he\\\'s also cruelly mocked by his house-mates at the same time.
*** If Sirius is alive, most of the time he will be on the side of the accusers despite the \\\'\\\'same thing\\\'\\\' once happening to him! [[IncrediblyLamePun Seriously]], [[strike:most]] all of the \\\"good\\\" characters will become [=Ron The Death Eater=] or {{Anti Hero}}es in these stories without exception.
*** As for Harry, being locked away in a hellish, dark, damp prison patrolled by monsters that [[EmotionBomb feed on emotions]] and [[GhostlyChill make everything extremely cold around them]] will do [[WallBanger great wonders for him]], in the process becoming a GodModeSue who turns out to be more powerful than everyone else combined and (very often) destroys Voldemort [[BoringInvincibleHero with no effort whatsoever]].
*** In the extremely uncommon instances where Harry \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\' become a OneManArmy, once released from Azkaban he\\\'ll invariably turn into a depressed, [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal individual]] and [[DeusAngstMachina some of those who betrayed him will only hate him all the more, especially Ron]]. They may also go as far as labeling Harry a [[EvilSorcerer Dark Wizard]] and look for (or invent) \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' reason to try and put him back in prison, even though he \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'did absolutely nothing wrong and was found innocent!\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'
*** [[http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/Betrayal_of_the_Best_Kind/index.php At least one fic averts most if not all of those tropes]]. Must have something to do with it being among the first. \\\'\\\'Betrayed\\\'\\\' also largely averts it, but [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1106246/1/From_the_Abyss The oldest one I can find]] already has it all.
* This also tends to occur with regards to Albus Dumbledore, whose canonical status as TheChessmaster tends to be [[ManipulativeBastard twisted]] and put through a strainer darkly until he stops being \\\'\\\'Dumbledore\\\'\\\' and starts being [[strike:Umbridge]] [[CompleteMonster Voldemort]] with a beard. This tends to be especially prevalent in fanfiction that addresses (and usually overemphasizes) Harry\\\'s abuse at the hands of the Dursleys, in which this strange man completely unlike Dumbledore everyone is addressing as Dumbledore for some reason seems content to send Harry into the mouth of Hell (because protection from the EvilOverlord trying to kill him is best when placed over a house \\\'\\\'full of people trying to kill him\\\'\\\') and [[EvilLaugh mwa-ha]]-ha into his bowl of lemon drops rather than give them a [[DeathFromAbove stern talking to]].
** [[MyImmortal WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING MOTHERFUCKERS!?!]]
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4240771/1/Partially_Kissed_Hero Partially Kissed Hero]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the single most extreme example of this, presenting Dumbledore as a megalomaniacal psychopath who secretly controls all of Wizarding Britain while hiding under the false front of a kind grandfatherly headmaster, to the point where Voldemort is an almost entirely irrelevant sideshow.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry:\\\'\\\'\\\' Think, Hermione! If you wanted to rule the wizarding world, what would you want that Dumbledore doesn\\\'t already have?!?
*** Though that fic pretty clearly no longer takes itself seriously, since Harry has convinced Dumbledore that it\\\'s actually Colonel Sanders (Yes, That Colonel Sanders) behind it all.
**** [[MahouSenseiNegima Albireo?]]
** The very first \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\' fanfic, \\\'\\\'Fanfic/{{Harry Potter and the Man of Unknown}}\\\'\\\', did this to an extent. While not ObviouslyEvil and maintaining the pretense of his canon personality, Dumbledore was nonetheless revealed to have given Harry to the Dursleys over his mysterious uncle (the AntiHero protagonist) and his reason for doing so was fairly dumb.
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3183672/1/Harry_Potter_The_Dark_Wraith Harry Potter: The Dark Wraith]]\\\'\\\' features said character as a horrendously evil man who [[YourSoulIsMine steals souls to get stronger]] and ([[BellisariosMaxim somehow]]) become immortal. Psychopath Ron (as mentioned above) also quickly emerges after being rejected by Hermione, who then immediately blames Harry for it and wants to kill him. The story wastes no time in derailing both of these characters as {{Complete Monster}}s, it does so in the \\\'\\\'first chapter\\\'\\\' alone. [[SoBadItsGood Sadly]], [[DeadFic it has not been updated since 2007]].
* A notable inversion appears in the fanfic, \\\'\\\'The Lie I\\\'ve Lived\\\'\\\', where Harry actually expected Dumbledore to turn out like this, but was downright surprised to find Dumbledore avert it by stopping himself after realising the extent of his actions thus far. Then he apologised.
* On that note, the Dursleys\\\' canonical abuse of Harry (neglect counts, folks, and even if it didn\\\'t, Petunia swung a frying pan at his head and Vernon was one accidental-magic attack from killing Harry in \\\'\\\'[=OotP=]\\\'\\\') is Flanderized into anything from regular beatings to \\\'\\\'rape\\\'\\\'. This is usually either to make Harry [[TheWoobie more pitiable]] (and usually [[DracoInLeatherPants Snape]]\\\'s the one to rescue him) or to make Dumbledore into a [[ManipulativeBastard mustache-twirling evil bastard.]]
** Oftentimes, it\\\'s established that the Dursleys have just started treating Harry this way, which, it is frequently pointed out, makes no sense at all. Logically, if they were going to beat him, they would have done it when he was seven rather than wait until he\\\'s a teenager when he\\\'s not only physically stronger, but has wizard friends who will no doubt rescue him if he doesn\\\'t show up at Hogwarts.
** For possibly \\\'\\\'the\\\'\\\' most extreme and idiotic example of the above, look no further than \\\'\\\'Fanfic/ASadStory\\\'\\\':
--->\\\"The family is going out to dinner\\\" he began \\\"You will stay here, but you will be somewhere where you can\\\'t make any trouble\\\" He said as he grabbed Harry by the neck and dragged him to the garden Shed. [[{{Narm}} He padlocked the door with at least 20 locks.]]
** One such Dursleys abuse fic which started off by imitating {{J K Rowling}}\\\'s casual scene-setting prose, resulting in [[{{Narm}} unintentional hilarity]] somewhat along these lines: \\\"Harry was not having a good summer. Uncle Vernon had started beating him and had brutally murdered Hedwig before his eyes. He couldn\\\'t wait to get back to Hogwarts.\\\"
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2101001/1/Child_of_Grace Child of Grace]]\\\'\\\' uses this, along with \\\"alternate universe female Harry\\\" and \\\"Ron hates Harry for not being in Gryffindor\\\", bringing us Holly Potter, a girl who swings between being a PuritySue and a JerkSue and who begins the tale sitting out in the snow while the Dursleys are inside eating dinner. She is quickly established to be skinny, frightened by anyone touching her, heavily black and blue under her clothes from the beatings, and will \\\'\\\'curtsy\\\'\\\' to all strangers because the Dursleys had had such manners \\\"all but beaten into her\\\".
* Similarly, Lucius Malfoy, who is \\\'\\\'already\\\'\\\' plenty evil, often turns out to be an abusive bastard who beats Draco, giving the latter a FreudianExcuse. Narcissa tends to be cast as a battered housewife in this scenario. Blame [[FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy Cassandra Claire]]. There\\\'s an irony to this in the canon, because by the end of the series, the Malfoys\\\' love for each other is pretty much their \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' canonically redeeming qualities. Earlier examples can perhaps be excused, though, as their family mechanics were not deeply explored before we see Narcissa weeping over her son and husband\\\'s fates in \\\'\\\'Half-Blood Prince.\\\'\\\'
* James Potter is often the subject of this- while canonically he \\\'\\\'was\\\'\\\' a {{Jerkass}} as a teenager, he was also a fiercely loyal friend and (later) devoted family man who gave his life to protect his wife and son. James the JerkJock who is personally obnoxious and is nasty to people he doesn\\\'t like is canon- James the abusive user who has minions instead of friends and spends his days doing nothing but thinking of new ways to hurt people (in other words, Tom Riddle 2.0) is not. Also, the fact that Lily (who previously wanted nothing to do with him) married him implies that he at least somewhat grew out of it, as does some dialogue from Remus Lupin (generally the most levelheaded and reliable of the Marauders).
** This is kind of helped by the fact that he was the childhood nemesis of Snape, a major recipient of DracoInLeatherPants treatment; as such, while it\\\'s fairly clear that James could be a cruel bully to Snape when they were growing up, this can be exaggerated to CompleteMonster levels in order to make Snape more sympathetic.
* In DarkFic or RevengeFic, this sometimes happens to \\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\' himself as well whether he joins forces with Voldemort or not, to the point where he becomes little more than a [[AGodAmI cruel blend of Voldemort, Snape and Bellatrix Lestrange]], which the author \\\'\\\'[[MisaimedFandom expects the readers to sympathize with and root for]]\\\'\\\'. Apparently, having Harry becoming a psychotic, sadistic murderer on par or worse than Voldemort is what should have happened in canon post-Order of the Phoenix. Often, these stories are rife with the Manipulative Dumbledore and Abusive Dursleys examples explained above as an excuse for Harry to go to TheDarkSide. Not surprisingly, one of his worst victims is [[strike:usually]] always Ron, even if he \\\'\\\'didn\\\'t\\\'\\\' turn against Harry.
-->\\\"Diffindo.\\\" And his right arm was gone, blood spurting from the stump. Ron screamed again. Harry smiled sardonically, not even bothering to move as blood started seeping toward his feet. - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3572996/12/Traitorous Traitorous]], Chapter 12\\\'\\\'
** It was hilariously parodied in \\\'\\\'The Unwritten\\\'\\\' comics. The comics are about a son of a writer who got famous after creating a series of novels very [[CaptainErsatz similar]] to \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\'. The first two start with fragments of those books, and the third with a fragment of {{Frankenstein}}. The first page of the fourth issue shows Harry\\\'s counterpart slaughtering Ron\\\'s and Hermione\\\'s counterparts in a really terrible way, only to have it turn out on the next page that it\\\'s a DarkFic.
* \\\'\\\'FanFic/MyImmortal\\\'\\\' has some very atypical examples of this. For example, [[strike:Snape]] Snap and [[strike:Lupin]] Loopin, who hardly ever meet this due to being two of the most popular characters in the fandom, are turned into a troublesome duo despite [[{{Understatement}} not being on great terms]] in the {{canon}}. Oh, and they\\\'re also both pervy pedophiles who in general resemble the canon characters in name only and [[RougeAnglesOfSatin sometimes not even then]].
** And of course, Tara does this to Dumbledore too - after finding out that [[strike:Voldemort]] Volfemort has Draco \\\'bondage\\\', Dumbledore refuses to help because he \\\"never liked him anyway\\\".
*** But it\\\'s justified, because Dumblydore is trying to be all goffik, with a black bread and all! FridgeLogic dictated that, but think about it.
*** Even though he \\\"cried wisely\\\" when he thought that Draco committed suicide.
*** Again, this is atypical for \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' fanfiction. Although Dumbledore is often Death Eatered, as noted above it\\\'s usually by turning him into a ManipulativeBastard. \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' goes the opposite route, turning him into a capricious, senile moron (it\\\'s even noted he has Alzheimer\\\'s at one point). Come to think of it, Dumbledore\\\'s portrayal in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' is actually rather similar to the \\\'\\\'PotterPuppetPals\\\'\\\' version of him except that in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' he\\\'s [[DesignatedVillain inexplicably regarded as a villain]].
** Oddly, despite having nearly every cliche you\\\'ll find in bad \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' MarySue fic, it avoids doing this to the two most popular targets, since both Ron and Ginny are apparently friends with the MarySue. (Although in Ginny\\\'s case, you might have missed the fact that she was even IN the fic, since her name is only mentioned twice and spelled as \\\"[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Jenny]]\\\" the first time.)
* In most fanfic where Harry has a sibling, and is not or mistaken not to be the Boy Who Lived, James and Lily Potter end up being examples of this trope to the point where the Dursleys look like saints. They belittle, abuse and/or ignore him while heaping praise upon Harry\\\'s brother or sister, who is usually also a huge JerkAss that flaunts his or her status at every opportunity. Often, the three of them despise Harry for the mere fact that he exists, and more so if he befriends the wrong people (Snape, the Malfoys, or any Slytherin in general). Ron is usually portrayed as little more than a Gryffindor equivalent of Malfoy who often hates and mocks Harry for no reason at all. And \\\'\\\'\\\'heaven forbid\\\'\\\'\\\' if Harry ends up sorted into \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' house besides Gryffindor.
-->\\\"I can not believe that you were put in Huffelpuff! You have disgraced your family and their fine Gryffindor heritage. We would have even preferred Ravenclaw over this. You will not be coming home for the Christmas holiday, that is your punishment.\\\" \\\'\\\'Mr. & Mrs. Potter\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2488516/1/The_Chronicles_of_Merlin_The_Return The Chronicles of Merlin: The Return]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** A particularly irritating examples appears in the Sacrifices Arc by Lightning of the Wave, wherein Lily Potter puts the KnightTemplar back in KnightTemplarParent by acting like the hellish product of an orgy between [[{{Noir}} Altena]], [[{{Supernatural}} John Winchester]] and [[MySistersKeeper Sara Fitzgerald]]. She raises Harry to be a TykeBomb with no personality beyond \\\'protect [his twin brother] Connor, don\\\'t outshine Connor, die for Connor if you have to\\\' because Connor is the Boy-Who-Lived and [[SarcasmMode if one of your children is famous, it\\\'s okay to turn the other into a]] ChildSoldier [[SarcasmMode because no one will notice!]]
* Face it, \\\"Wrong Boy Who Lived\\\" stories are pretty much a hodgepodge of every single example above and then some. Dumbledore is at best a WellIntentionedExtremist who chooses the wrong child because he thinks the scar on him or her is something Voldemort would be more likely to mark someone as his sworn enemy with, even though Voldemort was just going there to kill all the Potters outright. Sometimes, even if Voldemort doesn\\\'t attack them, Harry\\\'s brother or sister is still called \\\"The Boy/Girl Who Lived\\\" even though this makes [[TheyJustDidntCare absolutely no sense whatsoever]].
* Snape has a large fan following, but there\\\'s still a vicious group of haters out there doing everything in their power to make him look like a bigger asshole than he already is, including degrading his love for Lily and his requests for Voldemort to spare her as a desire to keep her \\\'\\\'as a sex slave\\\'\\\'. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3807777/1/Harry_Potter_and_The_Acts_of_Betrayal There\\\'s even a fic]] that has him \\\'\\\'raping female students and then erasing their memories of the incident.\\\'\\\' Often in \\\'Super Powered Harry\\\' fics, Snape will attempt to use legilimency or even outright attack Harry or one of his friends. Harry will then use his ultra amazing superpowers to defeat and utterly humiliate Snape in front of everyone. Snape is usually revealed to still be a Death Eater and then either gets killed horribly or goes to Azkaban for life. It\\\'s more often than not the former.
* And just to round out the entire cast, Lily Potter has earned a small but rabid {{Hatedom}} for daring to [[spoiler:choose James over Snape.]] It\\\'s not RonTheDeathEater to disagree with her choice or her actions, but the fic and essays portraying her as an evil, stuck-up, abusive, shallow demon spawn because she [[spoiler:didn\\\'t love Snape back (even though he at one point called her \\\"mudblood,\\\" the wizarding equivalent of the N word) definitely is. Many of these fans don\\\'t stop to consider that this might have an indirect RonTheDeathEater effect on Snape as well, because if Lily is as horrible as they say she is, what does it say about Snape that he liked her so much?]] The true WallBanger is when people argue that she has no concept of love or selflessness, even though \\\'\\\'her very first act in the book\\\'\\\' is to sacrifice her life for Harry\\\'s.
** Surprise surprise, the yaoi fandom has it out for Lily too... she must be evil to marry James and take him away from the Marauder orgies, after all.
* The level of Remus Lupin hatred coming from Snape rabid fans is becoming scarier and scarier. Apparently, he was [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453025.html#cutid1 an horrible bully as well as completely not trustworthy]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453894.html a bad father who will pass his lycantrophy so he shouldn\\\'t have reproduced]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/454954.html an ungrateful bastard who kept making Snape suffer]] and/or [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/456087.html?#cutid1 an evil pervert who *raped* poor Sevvie-kins, thus he\\\'s a pedophile too]].
* MNightShyamalan [[http://twitchfilm.net/news/2006/07/m-night-shyamalan-wants-to-direct-final-harry-potter-film.php apparently believes this too]].
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Okay, sure, it\\\'s the TropeNamer, but do we \\\'\\\'really\\\'\\\' need a whole section on Harry Potter delving into such excruciating detail? Can\\\'t we just cut the whole thing and put an entry at the top of Literature saying, \\\"HarryPotter is the TropeNamer. Let\\\'s just say it happens a \\\'\\\'lot\\\'\\\'.\\\"?
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[[folder:Harry Potter]]
* The TropeNamer, Ron Weasley. Since DracoInLeatherPants is often a result of Draco/Hermione shippers, Ron is turned ragingly evil and joins the Death Eaters to oppose the now-good Draco. There are various arguments as to why a FaceHeelTurn on Ron\\\'s part is plausible (and of course counter arguments to all of them), with some being more cogent than others. [[WordOfGod Rowling herself]] has admitted there were parallels between Ron and Peter Pettigrew. What the fanfic authors usually get wrong is that they have Ron joining Voldemort for revenge or other petty reasons.
** The biggest problem with the Ron/Peter Pettigrew parallels? Is that while Ron \\\'\\\'could\\\'\\\' theoretically make a FaceHeelTurn, he ultimately \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\'. This, by the way, is a recurring minor theme in the Potterverse - the difference between good and evil is the choice to reject dark impulses and urges. All of the characters have weaknesses that could theoretically lead them to turn evil, including Harry and Hermione. The reason this trope page exists is because of the DoubleStandard propagated by certain segments of the FanDumb: Harry, Hermione, Draco and Snape\\\'s weaknesses make them \\\"human\\\" and \\\"complex\\\", while Ron\\\'s equally human weaknesses are treated as proof that he\\\'s teetering on the edge of becoming more evil than Voldemort, Umbridge, the Dementors and AdolfHitler put together.
** The Grangerverse, a group of fans who believe that Hermione Granger is the true hero of the books (making Harry Potter himself something they call a \\\"frontkick\\\", meaning he\\\'s a {{Sidekick}} even though his name is on the cover) do this as a matter of course, because their favorite character is far too good for Ron Weasley. Usually, Ron ends up being a semi-literate attempted rapist thug whose best features are his lack of comprehension and his atrocious table manners.
** In fact, just about any time Draco gets a HeelFaceTurn, whether he gets with Hermione or not, Ron will be the IdiotOfTheWeek who rants and raves about Draco being \\\"the enemy\\\". Granted that Ron is canonically the most hotheaded and reflexively anti-Slytherin of the Gryffindor Trio, you can still overdo it, and many fanfic authors do.
** [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/harry-and-hermione-s-badly-written-secret-nws-t591.htm \\\"Did you know [Ron] tried to rape last year?\\\"]] [[RapeIsTheNewDeadParents Presented entirely matter of fact and never referenced again.]] (Link {{NSFW}}.)
** \\\'\\\'FanFic/DarkSecrets\\\'\\\' presents [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/in-which-draco-rescues-mary-sue-from-ron-the-death-eater-nws-t594.htm an example of literal Ron the Death Eater,]] though it\\\'s for the sake of the [=Draco/=]MarySue ship rather than Draco/Hermione. Also not work safe.
*** The sequel \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3244398/1/ Betrayed Revenge]]\\\'\\\' is more of the same, with the true gem of \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'[[CanonDefilement Hermione becoming a Death Eater]]\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'. After revealing her treachery to Harry, she \\\"disappeared\\\" [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and is not seen again]], and probably never will be due to the author having a \\\"[[DeadFic horrible case of writer\\\'s block]]\\\".
** Subverted in [[http://www.potionsandsnitches.net/fanfiction/viewstory.php?sid=1208 Secret of Slytherin]], in which Ron is the only one of the Trio to fully accept Draco\\\'s genuine HeelFaceTurn:
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\': (to Ron) I mean, most of the time, it\\\'s one of the things I like best about you, that things are so... simple for you. But Malfoy\\\'s been raised for this, trained for it. He told me once that a murder is just taking control of someone in a final sort of way, like it was nothing. I knew he\\\'d be a Death Eater then, a murderer. I should\\\'ve listened to my instincts.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hermione\\\'\\\'\\\': Oh, Harry. We all could have guessed it, but we didn\\\'t want to believe it of him...
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ron\\\'\\\'\\\': You two sure do turn on a knut, don\\\'t you?
** Also subverted in the first chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3559907/1/What_Would_Slytherin_Harry_Do What Would Slytherin Harry Do?]]\\\'\\\', where it \\\'\\\'looks\\\'\\\' like Ron has joined Umbridge\\\'s inquisition until Harry reveals near the end of the chapter that he was actually a DoubleAgent.
* Ginny Weasley gets portrayed as a shrewish whore a lot. Sometimes it\\\'s ship-related and sometimes the author just doesn\\\'t like her. Harry/Hermione fics in particular almost invariably cast her as an evil, deceitful bitch trying to steal Harry. Since the same pairing tends to make Ron evil, as noted above, these fics often vilify the whole Weasley family.
** And the proof that Ginny haters have of her being a [[{{Ghostbusters}} \\\"slore\\\"]] is that she dated three boys (not at the same time, and the last one ended up being her husband) within two school years. Whereas Hermione is a paragon of purity -- no, she would \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' date anyone just to get attention. Viktor and Cormac? Who are they?
*** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4079609/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Marriage_Contracts Harry Potter and the Marriage Contracts]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the archetypical example of Ginny Weasley as the VillageBicycle. Ron also gets the standard sexist JerkAss treatment re: Hermione, even though Harry is paired with someone else.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Molly:\\\'\\\'\\\' Ginny, you\\\'ve got to calm down. Minerva has caught you four times with different boys.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ginny:\\\'\\\'\\\' That just goes to show that she\\\'s not as informed as she thinks. She missed five others, Mum. Look, with everything I\\\'m doing for you, you can cut me some slack. That pathetic half blood upstairs must be a eunuch. I haven\\\'t managed to get a bit of action out of him.
** The Weasleys in general are prone to this sort of treatment. In {{Alternate Universe Fic}}s in which the Hat put Harry in Slytherin, Draco will usually be put in leather pants and the Weasleys will suddenly become the biggest assholes in the world. Often, it is Ron who gets the worst of it with the rest of his family acting little to no different (especially the twins), though there have been instances where \\\'\\\'all of them\\\'\\\' will look upon and treat Harry with disdain just because he\\\'s not a Gryffindor.
* In general, whether or not Ron will immediately become a complete psychopath is determined solely by what house Harry is sorted into, or as noted further above if Hermione is with \\\'\\\'\\\'anyone\\\'\\\'\\\' else. That is, anything but Gryffindor (mostly Slytherin, but he\\\'s still usually a huge JerkAss if Harry is in one of the other two houses) or Hermione being in love with anybody besides him = [[ItsAllAboutMe It\\\'s All About Me]], AxCrazy Ron. In the latter case, he will more than likely [[IfICantHaveYou want to murder her rather than let anyone else have her]].
-->When Ron Weasley was sorted Harry looked up. Ron gave him a look of deep hate and Harry knew that his short-lived friendship was over.\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4885698/1/Harry_In_Slytherin Harry in Slytherin]]\\\'\\\', Chapter 1
** In the same story mentioned above, Ron assaults Hermione at their first flying lesson, and in his second year nearly \\\'\\\'kills her\\\'\\\' with a lethal spell. He is expelled from Hogwarts for this, but ends up being accepted as a student at Durmstrang (which is often referred to in fanfic as the dark, evil school, despite Viktor Krum being shown in two books to \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' be part of the stereotype). Chance of him later becoming a literal example of this trope: 100%. Hermione herself also \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'murders Draco Malfoy\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', and completely gets away with it (with absolutely no remorse from her, Harry or anyone) because Dumbledore [[WhatAnIdiot doesn\\\'t bother to check her wand]] [[WallBanger because \\\"she was such a sweet girl\\\"]].
* It\\\'s not just the Slytherin!Harry fics, or even the Draco fics. There is an entire \\\'\\\'subgenre\\\'\\\' of fanfic where Harry\\\'s \\\"chest monster\\\" turns out to be because [[{{Yandere}} psycho stalker]] Ginny is dosing him with love potion. Often they also throw in that Ginny got the potion from her mother, who is secretly an ambitious shrew hoping to enrich herself by having her daughter marry Harry and then inherit all his money if/when Harry dies fighting Voldemort. Things like Ron having been hired by Dumbledore to spy on and manipulate Harry are very frequent in such fics as well. Oddly, even in the worst fics of this example Arthur Weasley and the older Weasley brothers (especially the twins) still remain honest, well-meaning people (except Percy, but he\\\'s an asshole in the canon, so it\\\'s not like he\\\'s any different). It\\\'s just Molly and her two youngest that get their characterizations done over.
* It\\\'s especially interesting when Ron gets this, but Ginny [[PossessionSue does not]]. Cue their relationship going straight to what would be CainAndAbel levels if the author hadn\\\'t seemingly forgotten that they are brother and sister. Sometimes she goes so far as to not even care if he dies, which, of course, has the intended effect of making her look like a sociopath. Even if he did join the Death Eaters, become eviler than Voldemort and tried to ruin the author\\\'s OneTruePairing, you\\\'d think Ginny would still experience some angst over his death.
** In \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes one]]\\\'\\\' PeggySue fanfic, Ginny poisons all of her children and tries to do the same to Harry, to \\\"have the Potter fortune and fame\\\" all to herself. Once in the past, Harry [[RetGone prevents Ginny from ever existing]] by secretly sterilizing Molly Weasley after Ron is born (who is actually \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' evil here, for once). Because Ginny is apparently [[ObviouslyEvil pure evil from birth and unredeemable]].
--->The Deathly Hallows Epilogue was truly unsatisfying. Here\\\'s the rest of the story that begins about two years after the DH Epilogue. [[{{Understatement}} Not for Ginny enthusiasts.]] Character Deaths. Time Travel. Avenging!Harry. - Author\\\'s Note, \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes Time to Fix the Mistakes]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** There is also [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/727010/1/The_Seekers a HPCC fic]] (pre - [=OotP=]) where Ginny goes evil when Harry and Cho hook up - The remains of Tom\\\'s personality resurface.
** A very large portion of SlashFic with Harry in the main pairing has its authors vilifying Ginny in any number of the ways detailed above. This has become increasingly common in fic written post-Deathly Hallows: ironically, it\\\'s \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' true in fics that try to conform to canon up to and including the epilogue. Needless to say, the things they make Ginny do to shatter the obvious happiness Harry feels at the time of the epilogue are often downright heinous.
*** What\\\'s particularly odd is these fics almost always contain the canon next generation, so apparently the fanfic authors don\\\'t mind the kids; it\\\'s just the women they don\\\'t like. Unfortunate implications, indeed.
** A rather bizarre version of all of this is done in \\\'\\\'[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TheGirlWhoLived The Girl Who Lived]]\\\'\\\'. The series started out with Rose and Ginny being best friends and fellow Druidesses (with behavior that invoked other...implications). On the other hand, while Ron basically fulfilled most of his uses at first, most of his good moments were eventually handed off to Hermione or Neville or Rose, leaving Ron to look like a lazy idiot who begged Rose in vain to let him copy her homework while she rolled her eyes and condescendingly told him to do it himself. The author also appeared to take care to leave Ron out of any discussions of Rose\\\'s power or knowledge or plans and tried to make his bad moments (like when he fights with rose in GOF) appear to be genuinely wounding instances which gives Rose the opportunity to [[DisproportionateRetribution strike back]]. The twins appeared to be on \\\"minion\\\" status as well, kissing her hand when they met her, Percy was outright hated, and the Wesley parents were hardly mentioned, with Rose stating at one point that she had five parental figures \\\"if [she] could count Mrs. Wesley\\\". After rewriting \\\'\\\'Order of the Phoenix\\\'\\\' however, Ginny appeared to lose favor with the author and by extension Rose and was replaced more or less with Luna. In the brief amount of time she is shown, Ginny is painted as a shrew who picks on Fleur wrongly and is yelled at by Rose for it (Mrs. Wesley gets the same treatment).
** Which makes sense, since \\\'\\\'Half Blood Prince\\\'\\\' was also when it became apparent that Ginny and Harry would hook up and the author was a confirmed Harmonian (Harry/Hermione shipper). The author also wrote on his profile on one website that the Ron/Hermione relationship made no sense because they argued, which would explain the Ron abuse.
* Stories in which [[WronglyAccused Harry is framed for a crime he didn\\\'t commit]] and sentenced to [[strike:[[TheCountOfMonteCristo the Chateau d\\\'If]]]] [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] for life tend to have this happen to just about \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' of the characters except usually Snape, Neville, Luna and [[strike: a random Weasley or two]] the Weasley Twins and ([[strike:almost]] \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' Ron, and sometimes at least one of the older brothers who are [[FlatCharacter barely mentioned in the series]] immediately becomes Harry\\\'s new [[BigBrotherMentor best friend]]). Common murder victims include Neville, Hagrid, Ginny, and the Dursleys. Those who were supposedly his closest friends and trusted adults will suddenly denounce him as being evil on par or worse than Voldemort (if not [[RuleOfTwo joined with him]]), exaggerate or \\\'\\\'[[MaliciousSlander outright lie about his past misdeeds]]\\\'\\\' (often in the [[KangarooCourt Wizengamot]]), [[KickTheDog assault or torture him]] (sometimes by illegal curses or means that should get \\\'\\\'them\\\'\\\' thrown into Azkaban), and destroy/break/burn all of his prized possessions, \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' [[BreakTheCutie the photo album with pictures of his parents inside]]. Rarely, they may also go to the extreme of \\\'\\\'[[MoralEventHorizon brutally killing Hedwig right in front of Harry just to spite him]]\\\'\\\'. Despite all of this, they will act like nothing has happened and ask for forgiveness nearly the very \\\'\\\'moment\\\'\\\' Harry is proven without a doubt to be not guilty, almost always by Voldemort [[EvilGloating telling everyone the full details of how he set up Harry and turned everyone against him]], even though there is usually [[WhatAnIdiot still no solid evidence of Harry\\\'s innocence]].
** The second chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3871941/2/Betrayed_Having_a_Father_Sixth_Year Betrayed Having a Father: Sixth Year]]\\\'\\\' has many of the betrayal examples listed in the entry above (and is also a DeadFic, which many \\\"Harry is Betrayed\\\" fics end up as). Close to the end (after Harry\\\'s \\\"trial\\\"), Ron, Hermione, Remus and Sirius suddenly hack up into [[CompleteMonster cruel, vengeful demons without an ounce of decency or mercy]]. One of the worst and most clichéd examples, but nearly \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' fanfics of this type [[FollowTheLeader follow the same basic template]] with few variations:
*** Someone (usually Ron) screaming that Harry\\\'s a bastard or traitor after finding out about the murder(s) or by [[TheCorpseStopsHere discovering him at or near the scene of the crime]].
*** Harry watching helplessly as his photo album is reduced to ashes (again, usually by Ron and sometimes followed by a BigNo). Usually, he\\\'s also cruelly mocked by his house-mates at the same time.
*** If Sirius is alive, most of the time he will be on the side of the accusers despite the \\\'\\\'same thing\\\'\\\' once happening to him! [[IncrediblyLamePun Seriously]], [[strike:most]] all of the \\\"good\\\" characters will become [=Ron The Death Eater=] or {{Anti Hero}}es in these stories without exception.
*** As for Harry, being locked away in a hellish, dark, damp prison patrolled by monsters that [[EmotionBomb feed on emotions]] and [[GhostlyChill make everything extremely cold around them]] will do [[WallBanger great wonders for him]], in the process becoming a GodModeSue who turns out to be more powerful than everyone else combined and (very often) destroys Voldemort [[BoringInvincibleHero with no effort whatsoever]].
*** In the extremely uncommon instances where Harry \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\' become a OneManArmy, once released from Azkaban he\\\'ll invariably turn into a depressed, [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal individual]] and [[DeusAngstMachina some of those who betrayed him will only hate him all the more, especially Ron]]. They may also go as far as labeling Harry a [[EvilSorcerer Dark Wizard]] and look for (or invent) \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' reason to try and put him back in prison, even though he \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'did absolutely nothing wrong and was found innocent!\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'
*** [[http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/Betrayal_of_the_Best_Kind/index.php At least one fic averts most if not all of those tropes]]. Must have something to do with it being among the first. \\\'\\\'Betrayed\\\'\\\' also largely averts it, but [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1106246/1/From_the_Abyss The oldest one I can find]] already has it all.
* This also tends to occur with regards to Albus Dumbledore, whose canonical status as TheChessmaster tends to be [[ManipulativeBastard twisted]] and put through a strainer darkly until he stops being \\\'\\\'Dumbledore\\\'\\\' and starts being [[strike:Umbridge]] [[CompleteMonster Voldemort]] with a beard. This tends to be especially prevalent in fanfiction that addresses (and usually overemphasizes) Harry\\\'s abuse at the hands of the Dursleys, in which this strange man completely unlike Dumbledore everyone is addressing as Dumbledore for some reason seems content to send Harry into the mouth of Hell (because protection from the EvilOverlord trying to kill him is best when placed over a house \\\'\\\'full of people trying to kill him\\\'\\\') and [[EvilLaugh mwa-ha]]-ha into his bowl of lemon drops rather than give them a [[DeathFromAbove stern talking to]].
** [[MyImmortal WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING MOTHERFUCKERS!?!]]
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4240771/1/Partially_Kissed_Hero Partially Kissed Hero]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the single most extreme example of this, presenting Dumbledore as a megalomaniacal psychopath who secretly controls all of Wizarding Britain while hiding under the false front of a kind grandfatherly headmaster, to the point where Voldemort is an almost entirely irrelevant sideshow.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry:\\\'\\\'\\\' Think, Hermione! If you wanted to rule the wizarding world, what would you want that Dumbledore doesn\\\'t already have?!?
*** Though that fic pretty clearly no longer takes itself seriously, since Harry has convinced Dumbledore that it\\\'s actually Colonel Sanders (Yes, That Colonel Sanders) behind it all.
**** [[MahouSenseiNegima Albireo?]]
** The very first \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\' fanfic, \\\'\\\'Fanfic/{{Harry Potter and the Man of Unknown}}\\\'\\\', did this to an extent. While not ObviouslyEvil and maintaining the pretense of his canon personality, Dumbledore was nonetheless revealed to have given Harry to the Dursleys over his mysterious uncle (the AntiHero protagonist) and his reason for doing so was fairly dumb.
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3183672/1/Harry_Potter_The_Dark_Wraith Harry Potter: The Dark Wraith]]\\\'\\\' features said character as a horrendously evil man who [[YourSoulIsMine steals souls to get stronger]] and ([[BellisariosMaxim somehow]]) become immortal. Psychopath Ron (as mentioned above) also quickly emerges after being rejected by Hermione, who then immediately blames Harry for it and wants to kill him. The story wastes no time in derailing both of these characters as {{Complete Monster}}s, it does so in the \\\'\\\'first chapter\\\'\\\' alone. [[SoBadItsGood Sadly]], [[DeadFic it has not been updated since 2007]].
* A notable inversion appears in the fanfic, \\\'\\\'The Lie I\\\'ve Lived\\\'\\\', where Harry actually expected Dumbledore to turn out like this, but was downright surprised to find Dumbledore avert it by stopping himself after realising the extent of his actions thus far. Then he apologised.
* On that note, the Dursleys\\\' canonical abuse of Harry (neglect counts, folks, and even if it didn\\\'t, Petunia swung a frying pan at his head and Vernon was one accidental-magic attack from killing Harry in \\\'\\\'[=OotP=]\\\'\\\') is Flanderized into anything from regular beatings to \\\'\\\'rape\\\'\\\'. This is usually either to make Harry [[TheWoobie more pitiable]] (and usually [[DracoInLeatherPants Snape]]\\\'s the one to rescue him) or to make Dumbledore into a [[ManipulativeBastard mustache-twirling evil bastard.]]
** Oftentimes, it\\\'s established that the Dursleys have just started treating Harry this way, which, it is frequently pointed out, makes no sense at all. Logically, if they were going to beat him, they would have done it when he was seven rather than wait until he\\\'s a teenager when he\\\'s not only physically stronger, but has wizard friends who will no doubt rescue him if he doesn\\\'t show up at Hogwarts.
** For possibly \\\'\\\'the\\\'\\\' most extreme and idiotic example of the above, look no further than \\\'\\\'Fanfic/ASadStory\\\'\\\':
--->\\\"The family is going out to dinner\\\" he began \\\"You will stay here, but you will be somewhere where you can\\\'t make any trouble\\\" He said as he grabbed Harry by the neck and dragged him to the garden Shed. [[{{Narm}} He padlocked the door with at least 20 locks.]]
** One such Dursleys abuse fic which started off by imitating {{J K Rowling}}\\\'s casual scene-setting prose, resulting in [[{{Narm}} unintentional hilarity]] somewhat along these lines: \\\"Harry was not having a good summer. Uncle Vernon had started beating him and had brutally murdered Hedwig before his eyes. He couldn\\\'t wait to get back to Hogwarts.\\\"
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2101001/1/Child_of_Grace Child of Grace]]\\\'\\\' uses this, along with \\\"alternate universe female Harry\\\" and \\\"Ron hates Harry for not being in Gryffindor\\\", bringing us Holly Potter, a girl who swings between being a PuritySue and a JerkSue and who begins the tale sitting out in the snow while the Dursleys are inside eating dinner. She is quickly established to be skinny, frightened by anyone touching her, heavily black and blue under her clothes from the beatings, and will \\\'\\\'curtsy\\\'\\\' to all strangers because the Dursleys had had such manners \\\"all but beaten into her\\\".
* Similarly, Lucius Malfoy, who is \\\'\\\'already\\\'\\\' plenty evil, often turns out to be an abusive bastard who beats Draco, giving the latter a FreudianExcuse. Narcissa tends to be cast as a battered housewife in this scenario. Blame [[FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy Cassandra Claire]]. There\\\'s an irony to this in the canon, because by the end of the series, the Malfoys\\\' love for each other is pretty much their \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' canonically redeeming qualities. Earlier examples can perhaps be excused, though, as their family mechanics were not deeply explored before we see Narcissa weeping over her son and husband\\\'s fates in \\\'\\\'Half-Blood Prince.\\\'\\\'
* James Potter is often the subject of this- while canonically he \\\'\\\'was\\\'\\\' a {{Jerkass}} as a teenager, he was also a fiercely loyal friend and (later) devoted family man who gave his life to protect his wife and son. James the JerkJock who is personally obnoxious and is nasty to people he doesn\\\'t like is canon- James the abusive user who has minions instead of friends and spends his days doing nothing but thinking of new ways to hurt people (in other words, Tom Riddle 2.0) is not. Also, the fact that Lily (who previously wanted nothing to do with him) married him implies that he at least somewhat grew out of it, as does some dialogue from Remus Lupin (generally the most levelheaded and reliable of the Marauders).
** This is kind of helped by the fact that he was the childhood nemesis of Snape, a major recipient of DracoInLeatherPants treatment; as such, while it\\\'s fairly clear that James could be a cruel bully to Snape when they were growing up, this can be exaggerated to CompleteMonster levels in order to make Snape more sympathetic.
* In DarkFic or RevengeFic, this sometimes happens to \\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\' himself as well whether he joins forces with Voldemort or not, to the point where he becomes little more than a [[AGodAmI cruel blend of Voldemort, Snape and Bellatrix Lestrange]], which the author \\\'\\\'[[MisaimedFandom expects the readers to sympathize with and root for]]\\\'\\\'. Apparently, having Harry becoming a psychotic, sadistic murderer on par or worse than Voldemort is what should have happened in canon post-Order of the Phoenix. Often, these stories are rife with the Manipulative Dumbledore and Abusive Dursleys examples explained above as an excuse for Harry to go to TheDarkSide. Not surprisingly, one of his worst victims is [[strike:usually]] always Ron, even if he \\\'\\\'didn\\\'t\\\'\\\' turn against Harry.
-->\\\"Diffindo.\\\" And his right arm was gone, blood spurting from the stump. Ron screamed again. Harry smiled sardonically, not even bothering to move as blood started seeping toward his feet. - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3572996/12/Traitorous Traitorous]], Chapter 12\\\'\\\'
** It was hilariously parodied in \\\'\\\'The Unwritten\\\'\\\' comics. The comics are about a son of a writer who got famous after creating a series of novels very [[CaptainErsatz similar]] to \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\'. The first two start with fragments of those books, and the third with a fragment of {{Frankenstein}}. The first page of the fourth issue shows Harry\\\'s counterpart slaughtering Ron\\\'s and Hermione\\\'s counterparts in a really terrible way, only to have it turn out on the next page that it\\\'s a DarkFic.
* \\\'\\\'FanFic/MyImmortal\\\'\\\' has some very atypical examples of this. For example, [[strike:Snape]] Snap and [[strike:Lupin]] Loopin, who hardly ever meet this due to being two of the most popular characters in the fandom, are turned into a troublesome duo despite [[{{Understatement}} not being on great terms]] in the {{canon}}. Oh, and they\\\'re also both pervy pedophiles who in general resemble the canon characters in name only and [[RougeAnglesOfSatin sometimes not even then]].
** And of course, Tara does this to Dumbledore too - after finding out that Draco is \\\"in bondage\\\" with [[strike:Voldemort]] Volfemort, Dumbledore refuses to help because he \\\"never liked him anyway\\\".
*** But it\\\'s justified, because Dumblydore is trying to be all goffik, with a black bread and all! FridgeLogic dictated that, but think about it.
*** Even though he \\\"cried wisely\\\" when he thought that Draco committed suicide.
*** Again, this is atypical for \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' fanfiction. Although Dumbledore is often Death Eatered, as noted above it\\\'s usually by turning him into a ManipulativeBastard. \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' goes the opposite route, turning him into a capricious, senile moron (it\\\'s even noted he has Alzheimer\\\'s at one point). Come to think of it, Dumbledore\\\'s portrayal in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' is actually rather similar to the \\\'\\\'PotterPuppetPals\\\'\\\' version of him except that in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' he\\\'s [[DesignatedVillain inexplicably regarded as a villain]].
** Oddly, despite having nearly every cliche you\\\'ll find in bad \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' MarySue fic, it avoids doing this to the two most popular targets, since both Ron and Ginny are apparently friends with the MarySue. (Although in Ginny\\\'s case, you might have missed the fact that she was even IN the fic, since her name is only mentioned twice and spelled as \\\"[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Jenny]]\\\" the first time.)
* In most fanfic where Harry has a sibling, and is not or mistaken not to be the Boy Who Lived, James and Lily Potter end up being examples of this trope to the point where the Dursleys look like saints. They belittle, abuse and/or ignore him while heaping praise upon Harry\\\'s brother or sister, who is usually also a huge JerkAss that flaunts his or her status at every opportunity. Often, the three of them despise Harry for the mere fact that he exists, and more so if he befriends the wrong people (Snape, the Malfoys, or any Slytherin in general). Ron is usually portrayed as little more than a Gryffindor equivalent of Malfoy who often hates and mocks Harry for no reason at all. And \\\'\\\'\\\'heaven forbid\\\'\\\'\\\' if Harry ends up sorted into \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' house besides Gryffindor.
-->\\\"I can not believe that you were put in Huffelpuff! You have disgraced your family and their fine Gryffindor heritage. We would have even preferred Ravenclaw over this. You will not be coming home for the Christmas holiday, that is your punishment.\\\" \\\'\\\'Mr. & Mrs. Potter\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2488516/1/The_Chronicles_of_Merlin_The_Return The Chronicles of Merlin: The Return]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** A particularly irritating examples appears in the Sacrifices Arc by Lightning of the Wave, wherein Lily Potter puts the KnightTemplar back in KnightTemplarParent by acting like the hellish product of an orgy between [[{{Noir}} Altena]], [[{{Supernatural}} John Winchester]] and [[MySistersKeeper Sara Fitzgerald]]. She raises Harry to be a TykeBomb with no personality beyond \\\'protect [his twin brother] Connor, don\\\'t outshine Connor, die for Connor if you have to\\\' because Connor is the Boy-Who-Lived and [[SarcasmMode if one of your children is famous, it\\\'s okay to turn the other into a]] ChildSoldier [[SarcasmMode because no one will notice!]]
* Face it, \\\"Wrong Boy Who Lived\\\" stories are pretty much a hodgepodge of every single example above and then some. Dumbledore is at best a WellIntentionedExtremist who chooses the wrong child because he thinks the scar on him or her is something Voldemort would be more likely to mark someone as his sworn enemy with, even though Voldemort was just going there to kill all the Potters outright. Sometimes, even if Voldemort doesn\\\'t attack them, Harry\\\'s brother or sister is still called \\\"The Boy/Girl Who Lived\\\" even though this makes [[TheyJustDidntCare absolutely no sense whatsoever]].
* Snape has a large fan following, but there\\\'s still a vicious group of haters out there doing everything in their power to make him look like a bigger asshole than he already is, including degrading his love for Lily and his requests for Voldemort to spare her as a desire to keep her \\\'\\\'as a sex slave\\\'\\\'. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3807777/1/Harry_Potter_and_The_Acts_of_Betrayal There\\\'s even a fic]] that has him \\\'\\\'raping female students and then erasing their memories of the incident.\\\'\\\' Often in \\\'Super Powered Harry\\\' fics, Snape will attempt to use legilimency or even outright attack Harry or one of his friends. Harry will then use his ultra amazing superpowers to defeat and utterly humiliate Snape in front of everyone. Snape is usually revealed to still be a Death Eater and then either gets killed horribly or goes to Azkaban for life. It\\\'s more often than not the former.
* And just to round out the entire cast, Lily Potter has earned a small but rabid {{Hatedom}} for daring to [[spoiler:choose James over Snape.]] It\\\'s not RonTheDeathEater to disagree with her choice or her actions, but the fic and essays portraying her as an evil, stuck-up, abusive, shallow demon spawn because she [[spoiler:didn\\\'t love Snape back (even though he at one point called her \\\"mudblood,\\\" the wizarding equivalent of the N word) definitely is. Many of these fans don\\\'t stop to consider that this might have an indirect RonTheDeathEater effect on Snape as well, because if Lily is as horrible as they say she is, what does it say about Snape that he liked her so much?]] The true WallBanger is when people argue that she has no concept of love or selflessness, even though \\\'\\\'her very first act in the book\\\'\\\' is to sacrifice her life for Harry\\\'s.
** Surprise surprise, the yaoi fandom has it out for Lily too... she must be evil to marry James and take him away from the Marauder orgies, after all.
* The level of Remus Lupin hatred coming from Snape rabid fans is becoming scarier and scarier. Apparently, he was [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453025.html#cutid1 an horrible bully as well as completely not trustworthy]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453894.html a bad father who will pass his lycantrophy so he shouldn\\\'t have reproduced]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/454954.html an ungrateful bastard who kept making Snape suffer]] and/or [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/456087.html?#cutid1 an evil pervert who *raped* poor Sevvie-kins, thus he\\\'s a pedophile too]].
* MNightShyamalan [[http://twitchfilm.net/news/2006/07/m-night-shyamalan-wants-to-direct-final-harry-potter-film.php apparently believes this too]].
[[/folder]]
Edit: Hell with it, I pulled it. Original stuff is here:
[[folder:Harry Potter]]
* The TropeNamer, Ron Weasley. Since DracoInLeatherPants is often a result of Draco/Hermione shippers, Ron is turned ragingly evil and joins the Death Eaters to oppose the now-good Draco. There are various arguments as to why a FaceHeelTurn on Ron\\\'s part is plausible (and of course counter arguments to all of them), with some being more cogent than others. [[WordOfGod Rowling herself]] has admitted there were parallels between Ron and Peter Pettigrew. What the fanfic authors usually get wrong is that they have Ron joining Voldemort for revenge or other petty reasons.
** The biggest problem with the Ron/Peter Pettigrew parallels? Is that while Ron \\\'\\\'could\\\'\\\' theoretically make a FaceHeelTurn, he ultimately \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\'. This, by the way, is a recurring minor theme in the Potterverse - the difference between good and evil is the choice to reject dark impulses and urges. All of the characters have weaknesses that could theoretically lead them to turn evil, including Harry and Hermione. The reason this trope page exists is because of the DoubleStandard propagated by certain segments of the FanDumb: Harry, Hermione, Draco and Snape\\\'s weaknesses make them \\\"human\\\" and \\\"complex\\\", while Ron\\\'s equally human weaknesses are treated as proof that he\\\'s teetering on the edge of becoming more evil than Voldemort, Umbridge, the Dementors and AdolfHitler put together.
** The Grangerverse, a group of fans who believe that Hermione Granger is the true hero of the books (making Harry Potter himself something they call a \\\"frontkick\\\", meaning he\\\'s a {{Sidekick}} even though his name is on the cover) do this as a matter of course, because their favorite character is far too good for Ron Weasley. Usually, Ron ends up being a semi-literate attempted rapist thug whose best features are his lack of comprehension and his atrocious table manners.
** In fact, just about any time Draco gets a HeelFaceTurn, whether he gets with Hermione or not, Ron will be the IdiotOfTheWeek who rants and raves about Draco being \\\"the enemy\\\". Granted that Ron is canonically the most hotheaded and reflexively anti-Slytherin of the Gryffindor Trio, you can still overdo it, and many fanfic authors do.
** [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/harry-and-hermione-s-badly-written-secret-nws-t591.htm \\\"Did you know [Ron] tried to rape last year?\\\"]] [[RapeIsTheNewDeadParents Presented entirely matter of fact and never referenced again.]] (Link {{NSFW}}.)
** \\\'\\\'FanFic/DarkSecrets\\\'\\\' presents [[http://www.whygodwhy.org/new-releases-f1/in-which-draco-rescues-mary-sue-from-ron-the-death-eater-nws-t594.htm an example of literal Ron the Death Eater,]] though it\\\'s for the sake of the [=Draco/=]MarySue ship rather than Draco/Hermione. Also not work safe.
*** The sequel \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3244398/1/ Betrayed Revenge]]\\\'\\\' is more of the same, with the true gem of \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'[[CanonDefilement Hermione becoming a Death Eater]]\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'. After revealing her treachery to Harry, she \\\"disappeared\\\" [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse and is not seen again]], and probably never will be due to the author having a \\\"[[DeadFic horrible case of writer\\\'s block]]\\\".
** Subverted in [[http://www.potionsandsnitches.net/fanfiction/viewstory.php?sid=1208 Secret of Slytherin]], in which Ron is the only one of the Trio to fully accept Draco\\\'s genuine HeelFaceTurn:
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\': (to Ron) I mean, most of the time, it\\\'s one of the things I like best about you, that things are so... simple for you. But Malfoy\\\'s been raised for this, trained for it. He told me once that a murder is just taking control of someone in a final sort of way, like it was nothing. I knew he\\\'d be a Death Eater then, a murderer. I should\\\'ve listened to my instincts.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Hermione\\\'\\\'\\\': Oh, Harry. We all could have guessed it, but we didn\\\'t want to believe it of him...
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ron\\\'\\\'\\\': You two sure do turn on a knut, don\\\'t you?
** Also subverted in the first chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3559907/1/What_Would_Slytherin_Harry_Do What Would Slytherin Harry Do?]]\\\'\\\', where it \\\'\\\'looks\\\'\\\' like Ron has joined Umbridge\\\'s inquisition until Harry reveals near the end of the chapter that he was actually a DoubleAgent.
* Ginny Weasley gets portrayed as a shrewish whore a lot. Sometimes it\\\'s ship-related and sometimes the author just doesn\\\'t like her. Harry/Hermione fics in particular almost invariably cast her as an evil, deceitful bitch trying to steal Harry. Since the same pairing tends to make Ron evil, as noted above, these fics often vilify the whole Weasley family.
** And the proof that Ginny haters have of her being a [[{{Ghostbusters}} \\\"slore\\\"]] is that she dated three boys (not at the same time, and the last one ended up being her husband) within two school years. Whereas Hermione is a paragon of purity -- no, she would \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' date anyone just to get attention. Viktor and Cormac? Who are they?
*** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4079609/1/Harry_Potter_and_the_Marriage_Contracts Harry Potter and the Marriage Contracts]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the archetypical example of Ginny Weasley as the VillageBicycle. Ron also gets the standard sexist JerkAss treatment re: Hermione, even though Harry is paired with someone else.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Molly:\\\'\\\'\\\' Ginny, you\\\'ve got to calm down. Minerva has caught you four times with different boys.
---->\\\'\\\'\\\'Ginny:\\\'\\\'\\\' That just goes to show that she\\\'s not as informed as she thinks. She missed five others, Mum. Look, with everything I\\\'m doing for you, you can cut me some slack. That pathetic half blood upstairs must be a eunuch. I haven\\\'t managed to get a bit of action out of him.
** The Weasleys in general are prone to this sort of treatment. In {{Alternate Universe Fic}}s in which the Hat put Harry in Slytherin, Draco will usually be put in leather pants and the Weasleys will suddenly become the biggest assholes in the world. Often, it is Ron who gets the worst of it with the rest of his family acting little to no different (especially the twins), though there have been instances where \\\'\\\'all of them\\\'\\\' will look upon and treat Harry with disdain just because he\\\'s not a Gryffindor.
* In general, whether or not Ron will immediately become a complete psychopath is determined solely by what house Harry is sorted into, or as noted further above if Hermione is with \\\'\\\'\\\'anyone\\\'\\\'\\\' else. That is, anything but Gryffindor (mostly Slytherin, but he\\\'s still usually a huge JerkAss if Harry is in one of the other two houses) or Hermione being in love with anybody besides him = [[ItsAllAboutMe It\\\'s All About Me]], AxCrazy Ron. In the latter case, he will more than likely [[IfICantHaveYou want to murder her rather than let anyone else have her]].
-->When Ron Weasley was sorted Harry looked up. Ron gave him a look of deep hate and Harry knew that his short-lived friendship was over.\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4885698/1/Harry_In_Slytherin Harry in Slytherin]]\\\'\\\', Chapter 1
** In the same story mentioned above, Ron assaults Hermione at their first flying lesson, and in his second year nearly \\\'\\\'kills her\\\'\\\' with a lethal spell. He is expelled from Hogwarts for this, but ends up being accepted as a student at Durmstrang (which is often referred to in fanfic as the dark, evil school, despite Viktor Krum being shown in two books to \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' be part of the stereotype). Chance of him later becoming a literal example of this trope: 100%. Hermione herself also \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'murders Draco Malfoy\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\', and completely gets away with it (with absolutely no remorse from her, Harry or anyone) because Dumbledore [[WhatAnIdiot doesn\\\'t bother to check her wand]] [[WallBanger because \\\"she was such a sweet girl\\\"]].
* It\\\'s not just the Slytherin!Harry fics, or even the Draco fics. There is an entire \\\'\\\'subgenre\\\'\\\' of fanfic where Harry\\\'s \\\"chest monster\\\" turns out to be because [[{{Yandere}} psycho stalker]] Ginny is dosing him with love potion. Often they also throw in that Ginny got the potion from her mother, who is secretly an ambitious shrew hoping to enrich herself by having her daughter marry Harry and then inherit all his money if/when Harry dies fighting Voldemort. Things like Ron having been hired by Dumbledore to spy on and manipulate Harry are very frequent in such fics as well. Oddly, even in the worst fics of this example Arthur Weasley and the older Weasley brothers (especially the twins) still remain honest, well-meaning people (except Percy, but he\\\'s an asshole in the canon, so it\\\'s not like he\\\'s any different). It\\\'s just Molly and her two youngest that get their characterizations done over.
* It\\\'s especially interesting when Ron gets this, but Ginny [[PossessionSue does not]]. Cue their relationship going straight to what would be CainAndAbel levels if the author hadn\\\'t seemingly forgotten that they are brother and sister. Sometimes she goes so far as to not even care if he dies, which, of course, has the intended effect of making her look like a sociopath. Even if he did join the Death Eaters, become eviler than Voldemort and tried to ruin the author\\\'s OneTruePairing, you\\\'d think Ginny would still experience some angst over his death.
** In \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes one]]\\\'\\\' PeggySue fanfic, Ginny poisons all of her children and tries to do the same to Harry, to \\\"have the Potter fortune and fame\\\" all to herself. Once in the past, Harry [[RetGone prevents Ginny from ever existing]] by secretly sterilizing Molly Weasley after Ron is born (who is actually \\\'\\\'not\\\'\\\' evil here, for once). Because Ginny is apparently [[ObviouslyEvil pure evil from birth and unredeemable]].
--->The Deathly Hallows Epilogue was truly unsatisfying. Here\\\'s the rest of the story that begins about two years after the DH Epilogue. [[{{Understatement}} Not for Ginny enthusiasts.]] Character Deaths. Time Travel. Avenging!Harry. - Author\\\'s Note, \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3802762/1/Time_to_Fix_the_Mistakes Time to Fix the Mistakes]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** There is also [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/727010/1/The_Seekers a HPCC fic]] (pre - [=OotP=]) where Ginny goes evil when Harry and Cho hook up - The remains of Tom\\\'s personality resurface.
** A very large portion of SlashFic with Harry in the main pairing has its authors vilifying Ginny in any number of the ways detailed above. This has become increasingly common in fic written post-Deathly Hallows: ironically, it\\\'s \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' true in fics that try to conform to canon up to and including the epilogue. Needless to say, the things they make Ginny do to shatter the obvious happiness Harry feels at the time of the epilogue are often downright heinous.
*** What\\\'s particularly odd is these fics almost always contain the canon next generation, so apparently the fanfic authors don\\\'t mind the kids; it\\\'s just the women they don\\\'t like. Unfortunate implications, indeed.
** A rather bizarre version of all of this is done in \\\'\\\'[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/TheGirlWhoLived The Girl Who Lived]]\\\'\\\'. The series started out with Rose and Ginny being best friends and fellow Druidesses (with behavior that invoked other...implications). On the other hand, while Ron basically fulfilled most of his uses at first, most of his good moments were eventually handed off to Hermione or Neville or Rose, leaving Ron to look like a lazy idiot who begged Rose in vain to let him copy her homework while she rolled her eyes and condescendingly told him to do it himself. The author also appeared to take care to leave Ron out of any discussions of Rose\\\'s power or knowledge or plans and tried to make his bad moments (like when he fights with rose in GOF) appear to be genuinely wounding instances which gives Rose the opportunity to [[DisproportionateRetribution strike back]]. The twins appeared to be on \\\"minion\\\" status as well, kissing her hand when they met her, Percy was outright hated, and the Wesley parents were hardly mentioned, with Rose stating at one point that she had five parental figures \\\"if [she] could count Mrs. Wesley\\\". After rewriting \\\'\\\'Order of the Phoenix\\\'\\\' however, Ginny appeared to lose favor with the author and by extension Rose and was replaced more or less with Luna. In the brief amount of time she is shown, Ginny is painted as a shrew who picks on Fleur wrongly and is yelled at by Rose for it (Mrs. Wesley gets the same treatment).
** Which makes sense, since \\\'\\\'Half Blood Prince\\\'\\\' was also when it became apparent that Ginny and Harry would hook up and the author was a confirmed Harmonian (Harry/Hermione shipper). The author also wrote on his profile on one website that the Ron/Hermione relationship made no sense because they argued, which would explain the Ron abuse.
* Stories in which [[WronglyAccused Harry is framed for a crime he didn\\\'t commit]] and sentenced to [[strike:[[TheCountOfMonteCristo the Chateau d\\\'If]]]] [[TheAlcatraz Azkaban]] for life tend to have this happen to just about \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' of the characters except usually Snape, Neville, Luna and [[strike: a random Weasley or two]] the Weasley Twins and ([[strike:almost]] \\\'\\\'never\\\'\\\' Ron, and sometimes at least one of the older brothers who are [[FlatCharacter barely mentioned in the series]] immediately becomes Harry\\\'s new [[BigBrotherMentor best friend]]). Common murder victims include Neville, Hagrid, Ginny, and the Dursleys. Those who were supposedly his closest friends and trusted adults will suddenly denounce him as being evil on par or worse than Voldemort (if not [[RuleOfTwo joined with him]]), exaggerate or \\\'\\\'[[MaliciousSlander outright lie about his past misdeeds]]\\\'\\\' (often in the [[KangarooCourt Wizengamot]]), [[KickTheDog assault or torture him]] (sometimes by illegal curses or means that should get \\\'\\\'them\\\'\\\' thrown into Azkaban), and destroy/break/burn all of his prized possessions, \\\'\\\'especially\\\'\\\' [[BreakTheCutie the photo album with pictures of his parents inside]]. Rarely, they may also go to the extreme of \\\'\\\'[[MoralEventHorizon brutally killing Hedwig right in front of Harry just to spite him]]\\\'\\\'. Despite all of this, they will act like nothing has happened and ask for forgiveness nearly the very \\\'\\\'moment\\\'\\\' Harry is proven without a doubt to be not guilty, almost always by Voldemort [[EvilGloating telling everyone the full details of how he set up Harry and turned everyone against him]], even though there is usually [[WhatAnIdiot still no solid evidence of Harry\\\'s innocence]].
** The second chapter of \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3871941/2/Betrayed_Having_a_Father_Sixth_Year Betrayed Having a Father: Sixth Year]]\\\'\\\' has many of the betrayal examples listed in the entry above (and is also a DeadFic, which many \\\"Harry is Betrayed\\\" fics end up as). Close to the end (after Harry\\\'s \\\"trial\\\"), Ron, Hermione, Remus and Sirius suddenly hack up into [[CompleteMonster cruel, vengeful demons without an ounce of decency or mercy]]. One of the worst and most clichéd examples, but nearly \\\'\\\'all\\\'\\\' fanfics of this type [[FollowTheLeader follow the same basic template]] with few variations:
*** Someone (usually Ron) screaming that Harry\\\'s a bastard or traitor after finding out about the murder(s) or by [[TheCorpseStopsHere discovering him at or near the scene of the crime]].
*** Harry watching helplessly as his photo album is reduced to ashes (again, usually by Ron and sometimes followed by a BigNo). Usually, he\\\'s also cruelly mocked by his house-mates at the same time.
*** If Sirius is alive, most of the time he will be on the side of the accusers despite the \\\'\\\'same thing\\\'\\\' once happening to him! [[IncrediblyLamePun Seriously]], [[strike:most]] all of the \\\"good\\\" characters will become [=Ron The Death Eater=] or {{Anti Hero}}es in these stories without exception.
*** As for Harry, being locked away in a hellish, dark, damp prison patrolled by monsters that [[EmotionBomb feed on emotions]] and [[GhostlyChill make everything extremely cold around them]] will do [[WallBanger great wonders for him]], in the process becoming a GodModeSue who turns out to be more powerful than everyone else combined and (very often) destroys Voldemort [[BoringInvincibleHero with no effort whatsoever]].
*** In the extremely uncommon instances where Harry \\\'\\\'doesn\\\'t\\\'\\\' become a OneManArmy, once released from Azkaban he\\\'ll invariably turn into a depressed, [[DrivenToSuicide suicidal individual]] and [[DeusAngstMachina some of those who betrayed him will only hate him all the more, especially Ron]]. They may also go as far as labeling Harry a [[EvilSorcerer Dark Wizard]] and look for (or invent) \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' reason to try and put him back in prison, even though he \\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'did absolutely nothing wrong and was found innocent!\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'\\\'
*** [[http://draco664.fanficauthors.net/Betrayal_of_the_Best_Kind/index.php At least one fic averts most if not all of those tropes]]. Must have something to do with it being among the first. \\\'\\\'Betrayed\\\'\\\' also largely averts it, but [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1106246/1/From_the_Abyss The oldest one I can find]] already has it all.
* This also tends to occur with regards to Albus Dumbledore, whose canonical status as TheChessmaster tends to be [[ManipulativeBastard twisted]] and put through a strainer darkly until he stops being \\\'\\\'Dumbledore\\\'\\\' and starts being [[strike:Umbridge]] [[CompleteMonster Voldemort]] with a beard. This tends to be especially prevalent in fanfiction that addresses (and usually overemphasizes) Harry\\\'s abuse at the hands of the Dursleys, in which this strange man completely unlike Dumbledore everyone is addressing as Dumbledore for some reason seems content to send Harry into the mouth of Hell (because protection from the EvilOverlord trying to kill him is best when placed over a house \\\'\\\'full of people trying to kill him\\\'\\\') and [[EvilLaugh mwa-ha]]-ha into his bowl of lemon drops rather than give them a [[DeathFromAbove stern talking to]].
** [[MyImmortal WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING MOTHERFUCKERS!?!]]
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4240771/1/Partially_Kissed_Hero Partially Kissed Hero]]\\\'\\\' is perhaps the single most extreme example of this, presenting Dumbledore as a megalomaniacal psychopath who secretly controls all of Wizarding Britain while hiding under the false front of a kind grandfatherly headmaster, to the point where Voldemort is an almost entirely irrelevant sideshow.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Harry:\\\'\\\'\\\' Think, Hermione! If you wanted to rule the wizarding world, what would you want that Dumbledore doesn\\\'t already have?!?
*** Though that fic pretty clearly no longer takes itself seriously, since Harry has convinced Dumbledore that it\\\'s actually Colonel Sanders (Yes, That Colonel Sanders) behind it all.
**** [[MahouSenseiNegima Albireo?]]
** The very first \\\'\\\'HarryPotter\\\'\\\' fanfic, \\\'\\\'Fanfic/{{Harry Potter and the Man of Unknown}}\\\'\\\', did this to an extent. While not ObviouslyEvil and maintaining the pretense of his canon personality, Dumbledore was nonetheless revealed to have given Harry to the Dursleys over his mysterious uncle (the AntiHero protagonist) and his reason for doing so was fairly dumb.
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3183672/1/Harry_Potter_The_Dark_Wraith Harry Potter: The Dark Wraith]]\\\'\\\' features said character as a horrendously evil man who [[YourSoulIsMine steals souls to get stronger]] and ([[BellisariosMaxim somehow]]) become immortal. Psychopath Ron (as mentioned above) also quickly emerges after being rejected by Hermione, who then immediately blames Harry for it and wants to kill him. The story wastes no time in derailing both of these characters as {{Complete Monster}}s, it does so in the \\\'\\\'first chapter\\\'\\\' alone. [[SoBadItsGood Sadly]], [[DeadFic it has not been updated since 2007]].
* A notable inversion appears in the fanfic, \\\'\\\'The Lie I\\\'ve Lived\\\'\\\', where Harry actually expected Dumbledore to turn out like this, but was downright surprised to find Dumbledore avert it by stopping himself after realising the extent of his actions thus far. Then he apologised.
* On that note, the Dursleys\\\' canonical abuse of Harry (neglect counts, folks, and even if it didn\\\'t, Petunia swung a frying pan at his head and Vernon was one accidental-magic attack from killing Harry in \\\'\\\'[=OotP=]\\\'\\\') is Flanderized into anything from regular beatings to \\\'\\\'rape\\\'\\\'. This is usually either to make Harry [[TheWoobie more pitiable]] (and usually [[DracoInLeatherPants Snape]]\\\'s the one to rescue him) or to make Dumbledore into a [[ManipulativeBastard mustache-twirling evil bastard.]]
** Oftentimes, it\\\'s established that the Dursleys have just started treating Harry this way, which, it is frequently pointed out, makes no sense at all. Logically, if they were going to beat him, they would have done it when he was seven rather than wait until he\\\'s a teenager when he\\\'s not only physically stronger, but has wizard friends who will no doubt rescue him if he doesn\\\'t show up at Hogwarts.
** For possibly \\\'\\\'the\\\'\\\' most extreme and idiotic example of the above, look no further than \\\'\\\'Fanfic/ASadStory\\\'\\\':
--->\\\"The family is going out to dinner\\\" he began \\\"You will stay here, but you will be somewhere where you can\\\'t make any trouble\\\" He said as he grabbed Harry by the neck and dragged him to the garden Shed. [[{{Narm}} He padlocked the door with at least 20 locks.]]
** One such Dursleys abuse fic which started off by imitating {{J K Rowling}}\\\'s casual scene-setting prose, resulting in [[{{Narm}} unintentional hilarity]] somewhat along these lines: \\\"Harry was not having a good summer. Uncle Vernon had started beating him and had brutally murdered Hedwig before his eyes. He couldn\\\'t wait to get back to Hogwarts.\\\"
** \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2101001/1/Child_of_Grace Child of Grace]]\\\'\\\' uses this, along with \\\"alternate universe female Harry\\\" and \\\"Ron hates Harry for not being in Gryffindor\\\", bringing us Holly Potter, a girl who swings between being a PuritySue and a JerkSue and who begins the tale sitting out in the snow while the Dursleys are inside eating dinner. She is quickly established to be skinny, frightened by anyone touching her, heavily black and blue under her clothes from the beatings, and will \\\'\\\'curtsy\\\'\\\' to all strangers because the Dursleys had had such manners \\\"all but beaten into her\\\".
* Similarly, Lucius Malfoy, who is \\\'\\\'already\\\'\\\' plenty evil, often turns out to be an abusive bastard who beats Draco, giving the latter a FreudianExcuse. Narcissa tends to be cast as a battered housewife in this scenario. Blame [[FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy Cassandra Claire]]. There\\\'s an irony to this in the canon, because by the end of the series, the Malfoys\\\' love for each other is pretty much their \\\'\\\'only\\\'\\\' canonically redeeming qualities. Earlier examples can perhaps be excused, though, as their family mechanics were not deeply explored before we see Narcissa weeping over her son and husband\\\'s fates in \\\'\\\'Half-Blood Prince.\\\'\\\'
* James Potter is often the subject of this- while canonically he \\\'\\\'was\\\'\\\' a {{Jerkass}} as a teenager, he was also a fiercely loyal friend and (later) devoted family man who gave his life to protect his wife and son. James the JerkJock who is personally obnoxious and is nasty to people he doesn\\\'t like is canon- James the abusive user who has minions instead of friends and spends his days doing nothing but thinking of new ways to hurt people (in other words, Tom Riddle 2.0) is not. Also, the fact that Lily (who previously wanted nothing to do with him) married him implies that he at least somewhat grew out of it, as does some dialogue from Remus Lupin (generally the most levelheaded and reliable of the Marauders).
** This is kind of helped by the fact that he was the childhood nemesis of Snape, a major recipient of DracoInLeatherPants treatment; as such, while it\\\'s fairly clear that James could be a cruel bully to Snape when they were growing up, this can be exaggerated to CompleteMonster levels in order to make Snape more sympathetic.
* In DarkFic or RevengeFic, this sometimes happens to \\\'\\\'\\\'Harry\\\'\\\'\\\' himself as well whether he joins forces with Voldemort or not, to the point where he becomes little more than a [[AGodAmI cruel blend of Voldemort, Snape and Bellatrix Lestrange]], which the author \\\'\\\'[[MisaimedFandom expects the readers to sympathize with and root for]]\\\'\\\'. Apparently, having Harry becoming a psychotic, sadistic murderer on par or worse than Voldemort is what should have happened in canon post-Order of the Phoenix. Often, these stories are rife with the Manipulative Dumbledore and Abusive Dursleys examples explained above as an excuse for Harry to go to TheDarkSide. Not surprisingly, one of his worst victims is [[strike:usually]] always Ron, even if he \\\'\\\'didn\\\'t\\\'\\\' turn against Harry.
-->\\\"Diffindo.\\\" And his right arm was gone, blood spurting from the stump. Ron screamed again. Harry smiled sardonically, not even bothering to move as blood started seeping toward his feet. - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3572996/12/Traitorous Traitorous]], Chapter 12\\\'\\\'
** It was hilariously parodied in \\\'\\\'The Unwritten\\\'\\\' comics. The comics are about a son of a writer who got famous after creating a series of novels very [[CaptainErsatz similar]] to \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\'. The first two start with fragments of those books, and the third with a fragment of {{Frankenstein}}. The first page of the fourth issue shows Harry\\\'s counterpart slaughtering Ron\\\'s and Hermione\\\'s counterparts in a really terrible way, only to have it turn out on the next page that it\\\'s a DarkFic.
* \\\'\\\'FanFic/MyImmortal\\\'\\\' has some very atypical examples of this. For example, [[strike:Snape]] Snap and [[strike:Lupin]] Loopin, who hardly ever meet this due to being two of the most popular characters in the fandom, are turned into a troublesome duo despite [[{{Understatement}} not being on great terms]] in the {{canon}}. Oh, and they\\\'re also both pervy pedophiles who in general resemble the canon characters in name only and [[RougeAnglesOfSatin sometimes not even then]].
** And of course, Tara does this to Dumbledore too - after finding out that Draco is \\\"in bondage\\\" with [[strike:Voldemort]] Volfemort, Dumbledore refuses to help because he \\\"never liked him anyway\\\".
*** But it\\\'s justified, because Dumblydore is trying to be all goffik, with a black bread and all! FridgeLogic dictated that, but think about it.
*** Even though he \\\"cried wisely\\\" when he thought that Draco committed suicide.
*** Again, this is atypical for \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' fanfiction. Although Dumbledore is often Death Eatered, as noted above it\\\'s usually by turning him into a ManipulativeBastard. \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' goes the opposite route, turning him into a capricious, senile moron (it\\\'s even noted he has Alzheimer\\\'s at one point). Come to think of it, Dumbledore\\\'s portrayal in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' is actually rather similar to the \\\'\\\'PotterPuppetPals\\\'\\\' version of him except that in \\\'\\\'My Immortal\\\'\\\' he\\\'s [[DesignatedVillain inexplicably regarded as a villain]].
** Oddly, despite having nearly every cliche you\\\'ll find in bad \\\'\\\'Harry Potter\\\'\\\' MarySue fic, it avoids doing this to the two most popular targets, since both Ron and Ginny are apparently friends with the MarySue. (Although in Ginny\\\'s case, you might have missed the fact that she was even IN the fic, since her name is only mentioned twice and spelled as \\\"[[RougeAnglesOfSatin Jenny]]\\\" the first time.)
* In most fanfic where Harry has a sibling, and is not or mistaken not to be the Boy Who Lived, James and Lily Potter end up being examples of this trope to the point where the Dursleys look like saints. They belittle, abuse and/or ignore him while heaping praise upon Harry\\\'s brother or sister, who is usually also a huge JerkAss that flaunts his or her status at every opportunity. Often, the three of them despise Harry for the mere fact that he exists, and more so if he befriends the wrong people (Snape, the Malfoys, or any Slytherin in general). Ron is usually portrayed as little more than a Gryffindor equivalent of Malfoy who often hates and mocks Harry for no reason at all. And \\\'\\\'\\\'heaven forbid\\\'\\\'\\\' if Harry ends up sorted into \\\'\\\'any\\\'\\\' house besides Gryffindor.
-->\\\"I can not believe that you were put in Huffelpuff! You have disgraced your family and their fine Gryffindor heritage. We would have even preferred Ravenclaw over this. You will not be coming home for the Christmas holiday, that is your punishment.\\\" \\\'\\\'Mr. & Mrs. Potter\\\'\\\' - \\\'\\\'[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2488516/1/The_Chronicles_of_Merlin_The_Return The Chronicles of Merlin: The Return]], Chapter 1\\\'\\\'
** A particularly irritating examples appears in the Sacrifices Arc by Lightning of the Wave, wherein Lily Potter puts the KnightTemplar back in KnightTemplarParent by acting like the hellish product of an orgy between [[{{Noir}} Altena]], [[{{Supernatural}} John Winchester]] and [[MySistersKeeper Sara Fitzgerald]]. She raises Harry to be a TykeBomb with no personality beyond \\\'protect [his twin brother] Connor, don\\\'t outshine Connor, die for Connor if you have to\\\' because Connor is the Boy-Who-Lived and [[SarcasmMode if one of your children is famous, it\\\'s okay to turn the other into a]] ChildSoldier [[SarcasmMode because no one will notice!]]
* Face it, \\\"Wrong Boy Who Lived\\\" stories are pretty much a hodgepodge of every single example above and then some. Dumbledore is at best a WellIntentionedExtremist who chooses the wrong child because he thinks the scar on him or her is something Voldemort would be more likely to mark someone as his sworn enemy with, even though Voldemort was just going there to kill all the Potters outright. Sometimes, even if Voldemort doesn\\\'t attack them, Harry\\\'s brother or sister is still called \\\"The Boy/Girl Who Lived\\\" even though this makes [[TheyJustDidntCare absolutely no sense whatsoever]].
* Snape has a large fan following, but there\\\'s still a vicious group of haters out there doing everything in their power to make him look like a bigger asshole than he already is, including degrading his love for Lily and his requests for Voldemort to spare her as a desire to keep her \\\'\\\'as a sex slave\\\'\\\'. [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3807777/1/Harry_Potter_and_The_Acts_of_Betrayal There\\\'s even a fic]] that has him \\\'\\\'raping female students and then erasing their memories of the incident.\\\'\\\' Often in \\\'Super Powered Harry\\\' fics, Snape will attempt to use legilimency or even outright attack Harry or one of his friends. Harry will then use his ultra amazing superpowers to defeat and utterly humiliate Snape in front of everyone. Snape is usually revealed to still be a Death Eater and then either gets killed horribly or goes to Azkaban for life. It\\\'s more often than not the former.
* And just to round out the entire cast, Lily Potter has earned a small but rabid {{Hatedom}} for daring to [[spoiler:choose James over Snape.]] It\\\'s not RonTheDeathEater to disagree with her choice or her actions, but the fic and essays portraying her as an evil, stuck-up, abusive, shallow demon spawn because she [[spoiler:didn\\\'t love Snape back (even though he at one point called her \\\"mudblood,\\\" the wizarding equivalent of the N word) definitely is. Many of these fans don\\\'t stop to consider that this might have an indirect RonTheDeathEater effect on Snape as well, because if Lily is as horrible as they say she is, what does it say about Snape that he liked her so much?]] The true WallBanger is when people argue that she has no concept of love or selflessness, even though \\\'\\\'her very first act in the book\\\'\\\' is to sacrifice her life for Harry\\\'s.
** Surprise surprise, the yaoi fandom has it out for Lily too... she must be evil to marry James and take him away from the Marauder orgies, after all.
* The level of Remus Lupin hatred coming from Snape rabid fans is becoming scarier and scarier. Apparently, he was [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453025.html#cutid1 an horrible bully as well as completely not trustworthy]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/453894.html a bad father who will pass his lycantrophy so he shouldn\\\'t have reproduced]], [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/454954.html an ungrateful bastard who kept making Snape suffer]] and/or [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/456087.html?#cutid1 an evil pervert who *raped* poor Sevvie-kins, thus he\\\'s a pedophile too]].
* MNightShyamalan [[http://twitchfilm.net/news/2006/07/m-night-shyamalan-wants-to-direct-final-harry-potter-film.php apparently believes this too]].
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