History Characters / HarryPotter

* YouDoneGoodSonGuy: arguably, to Tonks who is his protege.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Xenophilius shows that Luna came by this trope honestly.
* CuteClumsyGirl (Tonks)

* DoNotCallMePaul: ''[[EmbarrassingFirstName Nymphadora]]'' Tonks

* EmbarrassingFirstName ([[strike:Nymphadora]] Tonks, darnit!)

Nymphadora Tonks

*** [[spoiler:It's possible that Snape thought Lily would be safe under Dumbledore's watch. Afterall, even at his full power, Voldemort did not dare to attack Dumbledore directly.]]

*** Although there ''is'' something [[FetishFuel weirdly erotic]] about his repeated demands to be addressed as "''Sir''" in the books...

** Hell,just book 7 (the second half at least). That chess game was pretty cool, too.

* ConvenientlyAnOrphan

* CreepyChild: ''Heavily'' implied to be this, thanks to a combination of poor social skills and his knowledge of the Dark Arts, which, according to Sirius Black, was disturbingly comprehensive when Snape was eleven years old (and was probably the main reason the other students bullied him). In the series, he occasionally seems to be the grown-up version of this trope; the rest of the time, he comes off as a (moody, depressed, and ''extremely'' emotionally-detatched) adult.

* CreepyChild: ''Heavily'' implied to be this, thanks to a combination of poor social skills and his knowledge of the Dark Arts, which, according to Sirius Black, was disturbingly comprehensive when Snape was eleven years old (and was probably the main reason the other students bullied him). In the series, he seems to be the grown-up version of this trope.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Subverted and played straight. It's pretty obvious that Snape would never ''physically'' harm his students (his threats are empty; anyone whose parents ever threatened to "beat your ass bloody!" and never did could see that in an instant), but he's got no problems tearing them down verbally. [[spoiler: It gets even sadder when you realize that, if he hadn't pushed Lily away and [[WordOfGod she'd fallen for him instead of James]], [[TheAtoner he would have made a very commendable effort to be a better husband and father than Tobias was to Eileen]].]]

**The Snapefen may be scary, but the "Snape is ChaoticEvil and incapable of redemption" anti-fans are so, ''so'' much worse. Their near-glee at the idea of a young child being beaten and yelled at by his father, neglected by his mother, and bullied relentlessly by his peers at school is... [[NightmareFuel Disturbing, to say the least]].

* TallDarkAndSnarky, though the 'tall' part only applies to the movies, where he's played by 6'1 Alan Rickman. In the books, he's shorter than Sirius.)

* BrokenAce: In terms of fighting ability, [[spoiler: Snape would fall somewhere between Voldemort/Dumbledore and ''everyone else.'']] Outside of duels, [[spoiler: he created a slew of potions techniques that make Harry the top of Slughorn's class, several jinxes and hexes, and an extremely powerful curse.]] Even more telling, [[spoiler: [[TheAtoner he also creates a cure years later.]]]]

*** While the feminist designation is ludicrous, it should be pointed out that "appealing" and "compelling are entirely different things. It might help put this in perspective to keep in mind that dear Bella is effectively a female Joker.

* AdultChild: Not really; if anything, he's the grown-up, male version of a CreepyChild.

** However, he was well past his prime by the time these things happened. He built up his reputation with thigs he did when he was younger.

* AdultChild: He wears the same black robes as his students, sleeps close to the Slytherin dormitories, and carries grudges he started in school.
**Uh... He probably wears black robes because he doesn't have to spend a whole lot of time matching them (''plenty'' of men dress by this rule, and their level of maturity has nothing to do with it) and in PrisonerOfAzkaban, [=McGonagall's=] quarters are close enough to Gryffindor Tower that she can hear the ongoing party after Gryffindor wins the Quidditch Cup ''and'' the commotion after Ron sees Sirius Black in his dorm; this implies that ''all'' the Heads of Houses (Snape, Sprout, Flitwick, and [=McGonagall=]) have sleeping quarters close to the Houses. Even his grudges don't fully qualify him as an AdultChild (see DarkAndTroubledPast and JerkassWoobie below).

* FauxActionGirl
** She accompanies Harry to the Department of Mysteries in the fifth book (and fights on a broken leg), re-grouped Dumbledore's Army in DeathlyHallows, fought tirelessly in the Battle of Hogwarts, and even took on [[TheDragon Bellatrix Lestrange]] right in front of Lord Voldemort. [[SarcasmMode Yup, she's useless.]]

* TortureTechnician: The Carrows, deliberately placed at Hogwarts in ''Deathly Hallows'' to scare and beat the next generation into line with Voldemort's way of thinking. Other Death Eaters torture too, but these are the ones who do it ''for a living''.