Harry Potter and the Monster King
Disclaimer: I do not own anything I'm borrowing from, but since I make no profit, it doesn't matter.
Intro:
Small changes can make a world of difference.
Now, aunt petunia changing Harry's name (in her mind, at least) from freak to monster should seem small and insignificant. But that was what made a great difference in her nephew's life. They had taken to calling him monster, so the three-year old thought that was what he was, and took no shame in it, thinking that to be a horrid little monster was the greatest thing in the world.
(To who reads this: I'm sorry about the prologue, its kind of useless, but I figured that I couldn't let Harry just miraculously be three with no explanation. The real story starts a chapter from now. And also, I may have warped the timeline, for Harry is born, 1990, if it makes any difference to the original timeline, I'm not sure. Various Xovers, mainly Nightmare Before Christmas and alludes to Charlotte's web, xover timeline is after the events of the Nightmare Before Christmas movie)
Story will be clueless!Dumbledoor rather than evil!Dumbledoor
Prologue
Our story began on a late night, a seemingly innocent one, for all the solemnity of recent events. Most of the wizarding world was celebrating the victory of the-boy –who-lived. The only one who had no reason to celebrate was too young to recall any of this, the boy-who-had-the-misfortune-of-a-hyphenated-name.
Anyway, long story short, he gets dumped off at his only remaining relatives, who happen to hate his parents, because some idiot headmaster had absolutely no insight into human character, and believed in giving people way, way too many chances thought it was a good idea, against the better judgment of his second in command. Nothing of relevance happens for another 15 months.(give or take a few months)
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Necessary vocab relearning: In the next chapter, the word horrible and/or terrible will mean wonderful. (Such as in the start of Nightmare Before Christmas, when Jack Skellington says something to the effect of "I believe this Halloween was our most horrible yet." in a cheerful voice.) So horrible is meant to have a positive connotation.
Also, this will not be cannon, because to be quite frank, everyone is a total idiot in cannon. J.K. Rowling, small children are not as dumb as you make harry out to be, and if forced into a situation where they practically have to raise themselves, they mature quickly. My harry will have normal abilities for an intelligent child of his upbringing, but he will not be super!Harry in any way (to the best of my ability). He'll only be a NotARetard!Harry the two can be similar, but, I assure you, they are different.
Warning: Updates will be sporadic and slow at best. It's the best I can do.