Sisyphus
Sisyphus is a Harry Potter fanfic by esama, in which Harry gets a second chance to relive his life after dying in the final showdown against Voldemort. Seeing his predicament as a blessing, he eagerly decides to make changes in order to save those he had loved and lost, but not all goes according to plan...
When Harry wakes up in his almost-eleven year old body, it is both a blessing and a curse. There he is, in the hut on a rock, his aunt screaming at him, his uncle glowering at him, with Dudley blubbering something in the back - and suddenly he has the chance to make things right. He can save Remus and Tonks and Fred - he can save Sirius, save Cedric, save everyone. |
Compare Oh God, Not Again for another take on a Peggy Sue Deconstruction Fic. In fact, it may help after this one.
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- Beige Prose
- Blessed with Suck - Harry quickly comes to view his situation as this.
- Darker and Edgier
- Death Is Cheap
- Death Seeker - Harry, by the end. Oblivion Seeker would be a more accurate term, as death is meaningless and an utter curse for him.
- Deconstruction Fic - Against the popular 'Superpowered Harry goes back in time to the start of his Hogwarts years' genre.
- Diabolus Ex Machina - Whenever Harry tries to change something for the better or otherwise act differently, sooner or later he ends up dead for his troubles and at the start of another loop.
- Downer Ending - And everything starts again.
- Fate Worse Than Death / High Octane Nightmare Fuel - Harry is condemned forever to relive his life, even when he finally GETS IT RIGHT. There is no escape.
- Groundhog Day Loop
- Lighter and Softer - The loops that Harry spends pranking Hogwarts, some of them with Fred and George.
- Mind Screw
- Peggy Sue / Set Right What Once Went Wrong - What Harry wants to do. Averted, hard.
- Shoot the Shaggy Dog - Harry finally defeats Voldemort, goes on to marry Ginny and have a family, and dies of natural causes in his old age. If you think that the loop is finally broken, you are wrong.
- The Many Deaths of You - Shadowgate would be impressed by the myriad ways that Harry meets his demise, several of which are repeat offenders:
- Voldemort (at least four times)
- The Basilisk (more than four times)
- Quirrell (at least three times)
- Dementors (more than four times)
- Overdosing on potions
- Suicide (more than twice)
- Fenrir Greyback
- The Ring Horcrux (twice)
- Being literally stabbed in the back
- Toxic smoke
- Being mauled to death by Remus
- Executed by (presumably) the Ministry of Magic
- A backfired spell
- Walking through the Archway of Death
- Burning himself and the Dursleys alive
- Burning the Forbidden Forest down with himself in it
- Being killed by Dumbledore himself
- Putting himself into a coma and later being taken off life support
- Old age.
- You Can't Fight Fate