Oh God Not Again!

Fanfiction
Title:	Oh God Not Again!
Author(s):	Sarah1281
Date(s):	13th September 2008 - 23rd December 2009
Length:	150,710 words
Genre(s):	Parody
Fandom(s):	Harry Potter
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External Links:	Fanfiction.net link Ao3 link
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Oh God Not Again! is a Harry Potter fic by Sarah1281, and features Harry going back in time to live through the entirety of his Hogwarts years once again, but this time with all the knowledge of his future self.

Summary

So maybe everything didn't work out perfectly for Harry. Still, most of his friends survived, he'd gotten married, and was about to become a father. If only he'd have stayed away from the Veil, he wouldn't have had to go back and do everything AGAIN.

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A Tumblr post uploaded on 18th June 2018 recommending the fic has reached over 109k notes on the site:

[susiephone]
do yourself a favor and read “Oh God, Not Again!” by Sarah1281

• it is a harry potter fanfic from like 2009, 160k words, 50 chapters
• basically, adult Harry accidentally goes back in time and wakes up on his 11th birthday again, but with all his memories of the future intact
• (the way he travels back makes no sense whatsoever but it doesn’t really matter)
• harry decides upon 3 goals:
• fuck up as much shit as possible
• make a shitload of money
• save some lives or whatever
• it is
• H I L A R I O U S
• his go-to explanation for how he knows what’s going to happen?
• he has a psychic scar
• (hermione is SO PISSED about this)
• (neville’s like “either he’s psychic, or he’s the greatest conman alive”)
• everyone just sort of assumes harry’s insane and he doesn’t do much to dispute this
• harry also decides to make it his mission in life to LOSE the house cup every year
• “snape is my sole ally”
• he also goes out of his way to befriend neville, ginny, and luna earlier this time, so they’re part of the gang throughout and it’s great
• even draco is a friend!
• (kind of)
• (when harry’s not spreading a rumor that draco’s the lovechild of narcissa and snape, anyway)
• harry’s motivation for everything he does in this story is basically, “oh, this will be hilarious”
• either that or, “it’s probably a tax deductible”
• because the way lockhart is written in this story is also amazing and harry ends up teaming up with him to merchandise The Boy Who Lived so he can have cash to burn
• (so he gets a LOT of shit done via bribes)
• it gets to the point where harry is able to convince everyone that he’s not the heir of slytherin…. because if he was, he’d have found a way to make money off of it
• and everyone’s like “yeah ok that checks out”
• in this timeline, neville’s boggart isn’t snape…. it’s harry as the minister of magic
• harry also decides to make sure cedric lives by quizzing him constantly on what to do if he ends up in a graveyard
• harry: by the way, that reminds me – cedric. graveyard.
• cedric, not even really listening: run like hell.
• the sheer magnitude to which harry does not give a fuck in this timeline is truly awe-inspiring
• he mouths off to everyone, and i mean everyone. lockhart, snape, the dursleys, malfoy, friggin’ voldemort
• everyone is like “what… what the fuck, harry”
• (though by the end of first year it’s more like “… *deep sigh* … fine.
• snape is so angry
• it’s fucking hysterical and just about everyone ends up better off
• here’s the link
• thank me later

Responses & Reviews

Honorable mention: Oh God, Not Again by Sarah1281, which I actually only came to hear of because of tumblr. The concept (grown up Harry Potter returning to his 11-year-old body and reliving Hogwarts with all his memories intact) is absolutely brilliant, and the execution does NOT disappoint.

Inspired Fanworks

• Witness Protection And Social Media by Flockpack

Further Reading

• Fic Recs: 10 Amazing Works Of Harry Potter Fan-Fiction On AO3, ^{Archived version} by Kath Leroy, at ScreenRant