Harry/Piers

Harry/Piers is a Harry Potter rarepair involving Harry and Piers Polkiss, Dudley Dursley's Muggle best friend.
== Appeal & Trends in Fanworks ==
* Possibility of Piers discovering Harry's magic
* Conflict/angst over being attracted to your childhood tormentor (or tormentee)
* Enemyslash dynamics
* Potential for redemption of Piers, who did his most concrete wrongdoing when he was eleven years old or younger
* Piers is closeted and/or has internalized homophobia, but makes a pass at Harry because Harry is [also] a "freak"
==Prevalence==
As of September 2016, a handful of Harry/Piers fanfiction is on FanFiction.Net, but no stories are actually marked with the pairing for filtering. There is only one story on Archive of Our Own tagged Piers Polkiss/Harry Potter, although there are at least a couple of other stories containing the pairing that do not have the tag.
Harry/Piers fanworks can be difficult to search for. The traditional method of indicating pairings using characters' initials is not generally used for Harry/Piers works, as "HP/PP" could represent works pairing Harry with Pansy Parkinson, Peter Pettigrew, or Parvati or Padma Patil in addition to Piers. Thus in cases where the pairing is indicated in a fanwork header, it is usually written out "Harry/Piers" or "Harry/Piers Polkiss".
==Example Fanworks==
===Fanfiction===
* Poor Dudley by srichard (2004) — Harry/Piers with side Dudley/Piers, set at the Dursleys during the summer holidays. Piers uses his Smeltings stick as a sex toy. Rated NC-17.
* Beyond the Pale by Spinereader (written Nov 2004, posted Feb 2007) — Harry/Piers, set the summer after Order of the Phoenix. Piers stays overnight at the Dursleys and sneaks into Harry's bedroom.
* What Might Be Done by loupgarou1750 (LoupGarou) (2005-2012) — Harry/Snape with brief Piers/Harry. During the summer holidays, Piers makes a pass at Harry, who rebuffs him.
* A Walk in the Park by tubazrcool (2009) — AU summer holidays when Harry and Piers are fifteen. Piers regrets his part in bullying Harry as a child, and is determined to discover what Harry is hiding.
* Brave New World by excentrykemuse (2009,Mentioned as inspiration in the author's notes of Admired From Afar by Violet44, published 13 December 2009. According to excentrykemuse's FanFiction.Net profile, she started publishing fics in 2009: "I thank all of my fans who have read my fics since 2009." (Profile updated 10 December 2014; accessed 14 September 2016.) now offline) — Harry/Piers canon divergence AU in which the Dursleys left Harry at an orphanage and he and Piers meet on Harry's eleventh birthday and agree to get married when they grow up. Written for Kamerreon's Rare Slash Pairing Alphabet Challenge.
* Reminiscent by Magiciseverything (2013) — Ficlet. A grown-up Piers menaces Harry, and they both get off on it.
* Charlotte the Great and Powerful by Evandar (2015) — Genderswapped Harry with various het pairings; Harry/Piers is the focus of the first section of the story, when the two star in a Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs play at their primary school.
===Fanart===
* Crack Pairing by Wasserspiegel (2011) — Sketch of a flirtatious Harry and an alarmed-looking Piers.
==Resources==
* Piers Polkiss/Harry Potter tag at Archive of Our Own
* Harry P. & Piers P. filter at FanFiction.Net
==References==
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Category:Harry Potter Relationships Category:Slash Pairings