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When In Doubt, Obliviate is a Harry Potter fanfic by Sarah1281 (author of the entertaining Oh God Not Once more!) where in Harry Potter is adopted and raised past Gilderoy Lockhart. Harry gets a magical upbringing and Lockhart gets the Boy-Who-Lived; everyone wins!

Well written and hilarious, this story is currently complete and comes highly recommended.

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This fanfic provides examples of:

• Higher up Proficient and Evil: As in canon, Voldemort convinces Quirrell that "in that location is no expert and evil, but ability and those also weak to seek it". He still believes it after Voldemort's spirit is removed from him — until Dumbledore shuts him down by pointing out the gaping flaws in Voldemort's logic. Ultimately, Voldemort didn't care nigh his philosophy; anything he claimed to believe was entirely cocky-justification for doing any he wanted.
• Developed Fearfulness: Minerva McGonagall points out to Dumbledore that putting an baby Harry on a doorstep without sufficient protection and tracking charms is a surefire manner for someone (similar Lockhart) to kidnap him unawares.
• Affectionate Parody: A lot of the dialogues in the stories take jabs at some of the catechism's premises and of other typical fanfiction settings, and most of it is played for laughs.
  • Lockhart criticizes Hogwart's sorting organization and how it promotes labeling and segregation. This criticism is brought up once more when Harry is first sorted, with Nott theorising that the Hat only pigeonholes the students into the houses at random, to make sure that each house get an equal number of students.
  • Ron angrily confronting Harry about beingness sorted in Slytherin. In most other Slytherin!Harry fics, this falling out would exist played for drama. Here, the dialogue takes a hilarious turn when Harry was able to point out the irrationality of Ron's outburst, and the latter had to resort to an increasingly stupid Insane Troll Logic to support his claim that Slytherin is the evil house.
  • The human relationship between Harry and Snape clearly pokes fun at many fanfic premises where 'Snape becomes Harry'southward mentor and male parent figure after discovering how desperately he's abused by the Dursleys and finding a newfound affection for the child's noble virtues'. To drive this point fifty-fifty farther, Snape goes on a long-winded, and Suspiciously Specific, rant about how the aforementioned scenarios will never happen (to Dumbledore's amusement)—most ignoring the fact that Harry is neither driveling nor is as virtuous as he is in canon due to being raised by Gilderoy Lockhart. Harry, for his part, plays along with this scenario... lying to Dumbledore that Snape is his favourite teacher, so allowing Fred and George to spread the rumour that Snape's friendship with Lily makes him favour Harry, just to infuriate Snape fifty-fifty further.
• Agony of the Feet: Why you lot should never be in the same room as drunkard Gilderoy Lockhart and a bowling ball at the same time. Poor Snape.
• Amnesiacs are Innocent: Averted for Quirrell. After he recovers, he points out that it'd still be absurd to allow him off scot-gratuitous just because he tin't recall his crimes — and in whatever case, he tin can retrieve that Voldemort convinced him he was Above Skillful and Evil. Dumbledore settles for completely destroying his logic for following Voldemort and having him sentenced to 1 year in the dementor-gratis function of Azkaban.
• Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Ron has declared that Snape is "Pure Evil":

  Neville: "Funny. And here I thought that label was reserved for the Night Lord and people who utilise muggle pesticides."

• Black Widow: Blaise's mother; interestingly we get to meet what sort of effect that has on him.
• Butt-Monkey: Poor Moaning Myrtle; she ends upwardly beingness attacked by the basilisk twice, killed the beginning fourth dimension and petrified the second.
• Cassandra Truth: Lampshaded. After Gilderoy Lockhart complained that Sirius believed that Lockhart had erased his memory before taking him to St. Mungo'due south that fateful Halloween night, Harry commented that it was the truth.

  Lockhart: "That just makes it worse. Still, at to the lowest degree no 1 else seems to believe it."

  Harry: "I think information technology's the way he'south phrasing information technology, really. It makes him sound like information technology's but a conspiracy theory."

  Lockhart: "I've never tried the whole Cassandra Truth but it'southward actually working for me."

• Character Evolution: Lockhart has a pocket-sized one, as he goes from glibly noting that he probably couldn't proceed without Obliviating Harry forever, to realising that he doesn't have the heart to Obliviate the male child he'due south raised as his son for eleven years.
• Chekhov'southward Gag: In chapter two, Sirius plans to make every member of the Order of the Phoenix a Portkey to St. Mungo'southward; Lupin and Dumbledore figures he needs a hobby. In chapter vii, it turns out that he succeeded and that Neville'southward parents are fine in this story because they had their Portkeys when the Lestranges and company attacked.
• Compliment Backfire: Ron is so convinced that Slytherin is an evil house that he genuinely thinks information technology'due south a compliment to call Harry "non a true Slytherin". Harry, who doesn't believe in the house stereotype nonsense simply gets bellyaching.

  Hary: "I know that you probably intend that equally a compliment but information technology's really not."

• Compressed Adaptation: The story manages to combine the events of the Philosopher'due south Stone and the Chamber of Secrets into a single yr.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Theodore Nott frequently comes up with wildly improbably theories. Although some of them ends up being right. For example, afterwards the announcement that a troll was loose in the school, Theodore theorized:

  "Considering that the merely things in the dungeon are Snape's classroom and function and the Slytherin Common Room, why was [Quirrell] even in the dungeon in the showtime place? I bet he let the troll in in the offset place."

• Does This Remind You of Anything?: A conversation between them near Harry not taking his school rivalry with Zacharias seriously sounds an awful lot like an argument from a romantic relationship on the rocks:

  Zacharias: "When was the last time you even spoke to me?"

  Harry: "Perhaps October?"

  Zacharias: "Perchance October? *Looks upwardly to sky* Do you lot see what I have to put upwards with?"

  Harry: "Who are you lot talking to? Is it me? Because I don't really-"

  Zacharias: "Oh, never heed; why are you lot ignoring me?"

  Harry: "Information technology's been awhile then I'grand not sure, only didn't we already accept the talk virtually how I tin can't possibly be ignoring yous while I'm talking to yous?"

  Zacharias: "Aye, we did, but y'all haven't sought me out in ages!"

  Harry: "I have never sought y'all out."

  Zacharias: "And that's another affair!...I shouldn't always be the 1 who has to do the seeking out. That doesn't actually put united states on equal footing, does it? It makes information technology seem like you have better things to exercise while I don't."

  Harry: "Well, when yous put it that manner-"

  Zacharias: "And it's really not fair! Why practise you never seek me out? Do you bask making me do all the piece of work?"

  Harry: "I really don't; why would I seek you out? All you ever do is yell at me that I'm not paying enough attention to you!"

  Zacharias: "Well, you're not."

  Harry: "I talk to you whenever you're around."

  Zacharias: "It's not enough."

  Harry: "Fine, I'll play along. Just what do you want from me that I'm not giving y'all?"

  Zacharias: "I want...I want someone who glares at me when he happens to see my optics. I want someone who calls me by my last name. I desire someone who might hex me in the hallway just because or who I could hex with people thinking I'one thousand an ass. I want someone to laugh at all of my failures and try to downplay my victories so that I might do the same to them. I want someone whose friends I can hate and who will hate all of my friends. I want someone that no 1 but Snape would recall of partnering me with for a project because information technology will but cause issues. I was a rival. Is that really so much to inquire?"

  Harry: "I-I guess not, but just if the other party wants that, too, and I'd actually hoped yous would have understood by now, Zacharias, that that'due south not what I want."

• Doting Parent: For all his faults, and his less than selfless reasons for taking him in originally, Lockhart is really a expert father figure.
• Everyone Has Standards: Lockhart will memory wipe you and have credit for your achievements simply seducing a student (legal or non) is "morally bankrupt".
• Fate Worse than Death: For the Slytherins, having "Gryffindor detentions" (which are apparently worse than being forced to scrub cauldrons).
• For Want of a Nail: Lockhart happens to run into Sirius the night Harry'southward parents are killed and finds out where Harry is before Obliviating him and taking him to St. Mungo'southward. Thus, Sirius wasn't able to carry out his plan to murder Pettigrew, and the latter was caught, thus preventing Sirius from wrongfully beingness sent to Azkaban. Besides, because Sirius was acquitted, he provided his allies with emergency portkeys (fearing that they would be targeted by Expiry Eaters like James and Lily), which the Longbottoms used to escape from Bellatrix Lestrange. With his parents intact and salubrious, Neville grows up to be a confident and self-bodacious human being. And considering he'south a proper, not-lackey peer to Draco, the latter grows upward with notably less entitlement and more common sense.
• Friendly Enemies: Hermione and Daphne Greengrass; so friendly in fact that the only reason they are rivals in the kickoff place is that they agreed to be rivals so not to go caught upwards in the antics of existence in a real rivalry.
• Caput Desk: Sirius starts banging his head on the wall when Remus repeatedly accuses him (and James and Lily) of keeping him Locked Out of the Loop due to him being a werewolf.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power: Yous might think that Obliviate is a spell with extremely limited use, just become it in quick plenty on an opponent and they'll be knocked out cold. As Quirrelmort found out the hard manner. Add that Lockhart is a master of the spell and very intelligent besides, and you have an opponent yous'll regret underestimating.
• Hypocritical Humor: When faced with the Devil's Snare, Neville proceeds to set it alight in revenge for it trying to kill him. Ron points out that it's a plant. Hermione points out that the fire should be extinguished (existence a magical fire) so that they don't come back to an inferno. Neville agrees figuring that the plant should exist dead or at least too afraid to assault them when they come dorsum:

  Ron: "Unless it wants bloody vengeance, too."

  Neville: "Please, Ron. Information technology's a institute."

• Firsthand Self-Contradiction: During the Sorting Hat'southward vocal:

  Zacharias: Why is that hat singing? Hats should not sing.

  Harry: I'm with you lot.

  Zacharias: Information technology's a lovely and time-honored tradition, you heathen.

• In Spite of a Blast: Harry and Lockhart stop Voldemort in forepart of the Mirror of Erised but the Chamber of Secrets withal gets opened.
• Impale It with Burn: The Devil'southward Snare.
• Leaning on the Fourth Wall:

  Harry: "Well, you know how Snape and my mother used to be close friends?"

  Daphne: "I'chiliad pretty sure that there are Muggles who have heard this by now."

• Loophole Abuse: Lockhart says Cuthbert Binns cannot be fired considering he's got tenure and the law about tenure doesn't care is the employee with tenure is alive or not because nobody expected a deceased person wanting to continue a task.
• Manchild: Sirius. Despite existence in his 30's (non that he'll acknowledge it), if forced to get into a book store, he will become to the children's section and read in order to amuse himself and was up at iv on Christmas morning in gild to open up presents.
• Mistaken for Gay:
  • The other students theorize that when Zacharias Smith and Ernie MacMillan were defenseless in the Trophy Room at midnight that they wanted "a little lone fourth dimension" (they were actually waiting for Harry and Draco to prove up for a duel).
  • And, apparently, some of the adults gossip virtually how close Remus Lupin and Sirius Black are.

• Morality Pet: It would seem like raising Harry does wonders to Lockhart'due south own personality. Although he's nonetheless a vain man who enjoys attention and flattery, he is not equally much as a coward or as flippant nearly letting his students get into harm'south way as he is in catechism. He does genuinely see Harry equally his own after all, and he doesn't want his son, and his friends, exist in danger. He's also a lot more subtle (and therefore less obnoxious) in flaunting his fame than his canon analogue, likely because he'south had to stay off the radar for ten years in order to heighten Harry in secret.

• Muggles Do It Ameliorate: The offset items that Harry buys for Hogwarts are ordinary school supplies (i.e. notebooks, pens, etc.) instead of the Wizarding worlds' parchment and quills.
• Mythology Gag: While wondering how sometime is "sometime plenty" for Harry to be told virtually the Horcrux fragment in his scar, Dumbledore muses that if he's not careful he might talk himself into putting it off until Harry'southward seventeen. In catechism, he did just that, not telling Harry about the prophecy until he was forced to and fifty-fifty then not mentioning the Horcrux thing until literally hours before the crucial moment.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Lockhart comes beyond as shallow and superficial, simply is actually pretty intelligent and cunning, such as when:
  • He out argues Dumbledore in the legality surrounding how Harry should have been raised.
  • He's made a successful career despite being a muggleborn and but being very good at one spell (memory modification) and decent at glamour spells.
  • He was a Ravenclaw and therefore had to solve a riddle every time he wanted to enter his dorms and knows all nearly Rex Hedwig from off the top of his head.
  • He is very practiced at deducing facts and thought of looking up the Dursleys' address in the phonebook; something that no other wizard in the series had thought to exercise.
• Papa Wolf: When Dumbledore tries to retrieve Harry and put him with the Dursleys, Lockhart makes the old man dorsum off by presenting a very good legal statement as to why information technology was not a adept idea to identify Harry with people who hate magic, and why Dumbledore's attempts to put Harry in the Dursleys' care will fail.

• The Rival: Invoked and Parodied. Patently, this is a Hogwarts/pureblood custom, where one must make up one's mind who their best friend and arch-rival would exist on their kickoff Hogwarts train ride, and this relationship is supposed to carry on for life (also, the relationship has to be declared on the train, or else information technology would not have complied with the "proper procedure", and is therefore invalid). Zacharias Smith decides to claim Harry equally his rival, but Harry is having none of it, and doesn't really treat the former any differently from other students. Zacharias complains that Harry isn't even willing to snark at his expense, while Harry wonders if all Pureblood parents would give their children a pep-talk near finding their arch-rival.
• Running Gag:
  • Other characters wondering how Snape manages to make his robes whip around him dramatically when he enters.
  • The Hufflepuff House being an in-universe Acceptable Target, and is generally seen as a belongings place for the losers, with a stupid proper noun to boot. Even Neville didn't want to exist sorted in there.
  • Blaise can't remember the name of his current stepfather. Taken Up to Eleven in the last chapter when this chat occurs:

  Blaise: "Do any of you guys know a Peter? I got a letter this morning saying that he died so, if you do, sorry. Unless you didn't like him in which case, public sad and private congratulations."

  Tracy: "Peter was your stepfather."

  Draco: "How much of our chat were you listening to?"

  Tracy: "I don't really care about your conversation, Draco, I but sensed that Blaise was having trouble keeping rail of his various stepfathers once again."

  Blaise: "Is it that time of year already?"

  Pansy: "There is no fashion that your stepfathers meet you before the hymeneals."

  Blaise: "They don't always meet me afterwards."

• Screw the Rules, I Have Supernatural Powers!: Lockhart; the powers being a very powerful retention charm.
• Secret-Keeper: Only Harry knows the existent reason why Lockhart is so successful.
• Seinfeldian Conversation: Happens all the fourth dimension, especially with the Slytherins. Apparently Draco walking in covered in blood and chicken feathers isn't plenty to cease a discussion about whether or not Godot may accept shown up after the play ended, or what it had to exercise with Quantum Leap. (He'due south actually a bit upset to be ignored like that.)
• Spared past the Adaptation: Frank and Alice Longbottom aren't tortured into insanity because Sirius made them an emergency Portkey. Quirrell isn't killed in the fight for the Philosopher's Stone, just Obliviated, and spends a year in the non-dementor-infested office of Azkaban for his crimes.
• Stations of the Canon: Despite almost none of the original causes of the original event remaining in place, a student still gets trapped in a restroom with a troll on Halloween and has to exist rescued by their housemates. The only difference is that it'southward Blaise this time instead of Hermione.
• Stop Being Stereotypical: Usually inverted for laughs. Even though the sorting system is oft criticized, many of the and so-chosen critics would often call out on each other for not behaving like the stereotypical behaviour of their corresponding houses enough.
• Have That!: To the Twilight series in chapter 25. We get a clarification of a book that sounds suspiciously like Twilight if a few details were swapped. Also, Hermione finds them sexist.

  "... this is a romance series and so the other part is merely mushy and angsty drivel."

• That Man Is Dead: "Far from beingness seen equally the barely competent Muggleborn he had gone to Hogwarts as, people looked at him and saw a heroic and legendary celebrity with a killer grin and a mysterious past."
• The Talk: Lockhart had an interesting one with Harry:

  "Now Harry, I know you lot might have urges and remember that you lot know what you're doing just every child you accept is a huge financial burden so make absolutely sure that y'all desire them and don't just take them past accident. And retrieve that the wizarding public will gauge you for everything yous do and quite a bit that yous won't exercise so please wait until yous're married to reproduce and definitely wait until yous're twenty. Remember, anything you do reflects on me besides."

• The Teetotaler: Lockhart usually; he doesn't like the taste and doesn't want to give away the clandestine to his success or human activity like an idiot.
  • I Demand a Freaking Potable: In order to deal with Christmas with Sirius (and his hostility).
  • Intoxication Ensues: The problem with his not drinking is that Lockhart kind of sucks at information technology. And that led to Snape getting his feet smashed with a bowling ball.
• Token Good Teammate: Harry and Daphne Greengrass are probably the few Slytherins that don't have prejudice confronting Muggleborns; Ron, in detail, declares Harry an exception to his "Slytherin = Evil" bias.
• The Unfettered: "... a consummate and utter lack of regard for trifles like 'truth' and 'integrity', and memory charms were really the hole-and-corner to all of Gilderoy's not inconsiderable success."
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Draco covered in blood and chicken feathers. The Slytherins go on their chat when he enters and still don't mention it until he points it out.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Neville and Draco of all people. They don't bandy near together due to their differing houses, but they know each other well plenty to be on first name basis (it is implied that the Malfoys accept at least a civil relationship with Augusta Longbottom), and their usual banter is far from hostile.
• What Measure out Is a Non-Homo?:
  • No one is concerned over the fact that the troll at Hallowe'en was killed; they simply worry nearly Pansy because she reduced its head to lurid by swell its lodge into it about a dozen times.
  • While nether the third floor corridor and Ron kills the (unconscious) troll in the aforementioned way Pansy did, he wonders if he'll get into the newspaper too. Only Hermione points out that a troll is still a living creature.
• When All Y'all Have is a Hammer…: Lockhart's magical capabilities are mostly limited to memory charms. And yet, it's surprisingly effective; it works on trolls and Dark Lords.

• With All Due Respect: "Professor, by the time that anyone knew that I had been facing the troll it was already dead and so information technology's perfectly reasonable for my father non to be as well worried almost something that didn't happen after the fact."

• Worth It:
  • When Lockhart points out that, had Sirius killed Pettigrew, he would exist arrested for information technology in spite of what Pettigrew did to deserve it, Sirius says "It would have been worth information technology".
  • Neville tries to fit in the Gryffindor stereotype better after Malfoy complains that he's non Gryffindor plenty. He does this by deliberately falling off his broom during their first Riding lesson, and gets his wrist broken. When Harry gets to him, Neville happily declares, "Worth information technology."
  • Harry himself likewise invokes this reaction after he gets detention from Snape later trolling the Potions master by telling everyone that he (Snape) is his favourite teacher.

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