Top 10 signs that you are a Potter Sue I'd like to dedicate this to
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pottersues who's cataloging of various types of Potter Sues has helped me come up with...
Top 10 Signs of a Potter Sue
(note: these are not in any particular order.)
1. Clothes Make the Girl - A Potter Sue never has to worry about dress code. She will invariably be dressed as either goth, or more likely as if she was born and raised inside a Hot Topic.
Bonus Points if she's wearing a shirt for a band that wasn't formed yet (bear in mind, the actual novels take place between the years 1991 and 1998)
2. Dyeing to See You - A Potter Sue almost never has regular colored hair. Their hair will either be a magical color naturally or else it is dyed (normally pink). Hermione Sue will likely dye her hair as part of an attempt to justify her personality shift.
Bonus Points if it changes colors.
3. Eloquent Expository of Exquisite Epidermose- A Potter Sue's hair never has "black straight hair" or "curly blonde hair." Instead they have "A river of darkness that cascaded down her back, swaying hypnotically at her waist." or "Golden rings that shimmered hypnotically in the light." Similarly, tattoos and special colored eyes fall under this section.
Bonus Points if it's described as hypnotic.
4. God Bless the USA - A Potter Sue is American. 'Nuff said.
Bonus Points if she never shuts up about it.
Even more Bonus Points if nobody else shuts up about it either.
5. Rare species - A Potter Sue is almost always partially another race. If it's elf, they can be full blood, but normally all other races are half blood. Common ones include: Elves, Vampires (half if from birth, full if bitten but in control of their hungers), fae/fairies, demon, angel, veela, and dragon.
Bonus Points if they made up a creature that is obviously one of the aforementioned (Eternals = elves, Angelics = Angels, etc)
6. Unique power - A Potter Sue always has a special power. The most common one is wandless magic: i.e. being able to cast normal magic without the need of a wand. If combined with #5 they will invariably have access to a racial magic (Elven sorcery, blood magic, etc) that is so much more powerful, you wonder why she's bothering to learn regular magic at all. There are other powers that are also popular. If she is in Slytherin, expect her to be a parselmouth. If her defining element is that she's "free spirited" (i.e. allowed to get away with anything, will usually beat up Draco with no explanation) she will be a metamorphagus. Other popular ones include invisibility, teleportation (different from apparation and normally immune to the shield), fire-summoning, and more.
Bonus Points for rare pets like griffons and unicorns (or wyverns and dragons for the Slytherin girl) which also counts here.
7. Destiny - Often linked to 5 and/or 6, the girl has some level of destiny that normally surpasses Harry's or else rides just below him and means that she's going to be the one doing all the work in order for Harry to do his part. Unlike Harry, she knows all about it.
Bonus Points if it's totally dark and oppressive (such as having to confront an evil ten times worse than Voldemort) but she's perfectly okay with it.
8. Prodigy - Not only will she ace everything, including beating out Harry and Hermione for top grades (which they will be totally okay with, unless Hermione is vilified, in which case she will be extremely petty about it. If she beats Harry in broomriding, he'll just be happy for the team and probably turned on) but she will have mastered a forbidden magic. The top four are: Animagus, Aparation (
Bonus Points if she can do it in the school), Unforgivable Curses (Slytherin-only for the most part) and something completely new (which overlaps with #6 a bit).
Bonus Points if she taught herself.
9. Rides with Titans - Assuming she doesn't ride a unicorn to school or fly using her golden wings, she will sit with Team Harry on the train. If she gets to school another way, she will meet them at the opening feast. Either way, she will immediately be assimilated into their group and become best friends with all three (Ron or Hermione may be kicked out of the team depending on the writer)
Bonus Points if Draco is included in the team
10. Pepper-Jack Cheese. The character will have an out-of-place obsession with something that has no purpose to the story but is clearly a platform for the author to announce how much they like this thing. Made even more painful if it is a Hermione Sue who is suddenly (yet explained as always being) obsessed with something that should be rather foreign to her (such as the american Pepper-Jack Cheese).
Bonus Points if she won't shut up about it, or if everybody is equally obsessed.
11. Full Markings - Chances are they have a scar (generally showing they survived something like Harry did) or a birthmark (which is linked to their destiny.) Birthmarks are never a round mole, or a slightly raised blobby piece of skin, and the scar will never be a slightly raised white line from an old whittling accident, or a splash of white skin from an acid burn. Instead it is a simple discoloration or thin red line that happens to perfectly form a lightning bolt, or a star.
Bonus Points if the scar is from surviving an unforgivable curse (see #6) or the birthmark is a mark of destiny (see #7)
12. It's all Relative - Most Potter Sues are related to somebody in the story line. The most common ones include the Potters (usually his long lost twin), the Blacks (only because being a Potter would take Harry out of the love triangle), the Snapes, the Malfoys, the Dumbledores, and the Riddles.
Bonus Points if they are related to more than one of the previous. Weasley's are surprisingly rare, dispite being a lot more believable.
13. Once you go Muggle, you never go back baby - Strongly connected to Pepper-Jack Cheese, Mary Sue's are always obsessed with muggle items. It doesn't matter if they are Muggle-born, wizard born, born two thousand years ago, or are Draco's even more evil twin sister, they will watch muggle DVD's, listen to muggle bands on muggle Ipods. and go to muggle dance clubs.
Bonus Points if they do this from Hogwarts (or
in Hogwarts when dealing with muggle technologies) There would be bonus points for time line violations (liking movies, bands etc that hadn't come out in the corresponding year) except for they
always violate it.
