I'm working on a fanfic that involves time travel. (No Harry dying in the final battle and death simply offers a new chance, Voldemort has been dead for a long time here) And I need a fanfic pair! I have four options, and I'll let you choose!

 

I find the lack of Harry/Molly Weasley, or /Rita Skeeter, or even /Apolline Delacour on your list a problem.

 

To be blunt, polls like this are not well received. Write what you want to write, and if you don't have a specific plan for a relationship, don't have one at all. Shoehorning one in is just pandering to shippers as are polls like this.

 

Where is Harry/Daphne ;-;

Harry/Narcissa is one we don't see much of, though Harry/Bellatrix probably has a bigger fanbase. Andromeda and Amelia Bones aren't spicy enough so they are out. Hmm...

 

[x] Harry/Lily Evans

 

Well, if you are determined to write Dodging Prison and Stealing MILFs, you might want to consider the immense potential for a riveting tale of revenge, redemption and moral conflict that a Harry Potter/Petunia Evans ship would have.

 

I see Taure is a fellow man of culture.

 

You forgot to mention when he's leaving from and when he's arriving. You say "long after Voldemort died", but how long exactly? A year later after the dust settles and Harry's bored? When he's 25 and in his prime, or 150? Does the story occur during canon time? Marauder time during the first war? Pre-Marauders time when they're in school (cringe)? What body is he using, his old self? His young self? Someone else's? This kind of "details" can play into the pairing fitting your story best.

Without knowing all that, I will have to go with the OTP of all time-travel pairings: Harry/Ariana (which obviously is not cringe at all). When Harry prevents her death Dumbledore does not change his ways, and thus you can have Evil!Manipulative!Greater-Good!Dumbles while staying canon-compliant! How amazing.

More seriously, I'm adding my real vote to Ched and Erotic Adventures' "don't shoehorn romance if it doesn't need it."
Frankly, I'm mystified that there could be a serious (read: not PWP) story that can go Harry/Bellatrix as easily as Harry/Amelia. Seems to me they would make for very different settings. So option one, you have one scenario that is empty enough to go both ways and a few others, and option two, you intend to build your story around the pairing, which is always a bad sign for non-romance plot.

Maybe you're of the rare few not from either category, but I thought I would elaborate on why this kind of poll is a bit of a red flag.

 

So you're team Lily then?

 

I think this is not the way to decide on pairing. Perhaps a way.

If you're writing romance, then it's fine, and you go with the pairing you want to explore, but if there's a larger plot of any other genre, the chosen pairing will influence it quite a lot - What I'm saying is that if you choose pairing before fleshing out the story, it will influence the main plot in a way that you'll need make Harry go through some sub-plot where he's about to meet your chosen lady.

Like, if it will be Hogwarts, dating Slytherin or Hufflepuff is one question, then you have other's perception of a relationship (which is usually bad in ff, if Slytherin is chosen). If at a later stage, Amelia will include some Auror work, whereas Black sisters will go through a route closer to Black family Malfoys or such, all depending on what you're about to write.

I just think if you start writing the story with a pairing in mind, it constantly blocks the natural flow of the story. IT would be one thing if you were dead set on a particular one because that would've shown us that you already have some plot in mind. This way, though, you'll have to adjust tens of thousands of words just to fit a pairing - which if not the idea of the story - is redundant.

Ultimately, write anything you want, but do focus on the main plot.

 

I only ship Harry/Romilda, so I voted at random it landed on Bellatrix.