History FanFic / DumbledoresArmyAndTheYearOfDarkness

* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale/ {{Yandere}}: Hannah Abbot (Neville's future wife) tries to set him on fire and then throws several potted plants at him (one of which suffocates him to unconsciousness, while she does nothing to stop it). All this because of a bad case of PoorCommunicationKills leading her to believe he was making out with Ginny--even though Hannah and Neville aren't even ''dating''. Either [[ValuesDissonance this is supposed to be justified by the "fact" that]] [[UnfortunateImplications girls are just crazy like that]] or [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness a bit of comic SlapStick horribly clashing with the deadly seriousness that violence is portrayed in the rest of the fic]]. It is possible that this is a {{continuity nod}} of sorts to the scene where Hermione sets a flock of conjured birds on Ron, albeit a ridiculously over the top one.

* TookALevelInJerkAss: Neville becomes more and more of a JerkAssStu as the fic goes on. Mostly this is due to the fact that he starts to see himself as a military leader and begins to expect military discipline from his underlings, while the said underlings still see him as their fellow classmate.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: {{Invoked|Trope}}, when Hannah tells Neville that her Aunt has some sickeningly cute collectible china witch figurines. Apparently, "It's like trying to eat half of Honeydukes in one sitting. You can feel your teeth start to rot the second you cross the front door."

** Seamus Finnegan gets turned into this, JK Rowling has said that naming the character "Seamus Finnegan" was pushing it a bit, but Thanfiction takes the Irish stereotype UpToEleven. Example:

%% * {{Understatement}}: "Nah, [the Carrows] make Umbridge look tame." Specifically, it's a line from the original Literature/HarryPotter books which, since this fic is a BloodierAndGorier version turned UpToEleven...

* FunnySpoon: Luna Lovegood can do magic with a spoon replacing her wand. Which she uses to make a picture made from food permanent, instead of [[WhatAnIdiot using it to escape and break her friends out]].

** The stereotyping covers the spectrum: starting with Cho, a Chinese girl who is indistinguishable from her English neighbour; to Parvati and Padma, who are attracted to some superficial trappings of their Indian heritage (e.g. the cooking and Yoga); to Ernie, who swings from "generic British" to "escapee from Theater/{{Brigadoon}}" depending on the chapter; to Seamus, who looks like he wandered in from an Irish epic and the author spends '''every other chapter''' making sure you get that.

%% * CannonFodder: But since every dead character is a person with a name and a backstory, this trope is used to a heartbreakingly sad effect.

** The stereotyping covers the spectrum: starting with Cho, a Chinese girl who is indistinguishable from her English neighbour; to Parvati and Padma, who are attracted to some superficial trappings of their Indian heritage (e.g. the cooking and Yoga); to Ernie, a fully-rounded character who is just happens to be quite Scottish; to Seamus, who looks like he wandered in from an Irish epic and the author spends '''every other chapter''' making sure you get that.

%% * MenActWomenAre: Totally.

[[folder:Tropes applying generally]]

[[folder:Tropes applying specifically to ''Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness'']]

[[folder:Tropes applying specifically to ''Sluagh'']]

[[folder:Tropes applying specifically to ''A Peccatis'' (unfinished)]]

There is an '''extensive''', and ongoing, YMMV discussion concerning themes, quality, CanonDefilement, and sundry other matters.

* DeadFic: Has not been updated since 9th of October 2012, and the author has moved on through at least two or three more fandoms.

* TheCaper: Neville and company pull one of these to retrieve the Sword of Gryffindor from Snape's office, complete with seemingly impossible odds on getting inside. [[AllForNothing They failed and not only that, the sword was fake]]

* TheCaper: Neville and company pull one of these to retrieve the Sword of Gryffindor from Snape's office, complete with seemingly impossible odds on getting inside. [[AllForNothing They failed]]

* TheCaper: Neville and company pull one of these to retrieve the Sword of Gryffindor from Snape's office, complete with seemingly impossible odds on getting inside. [[SubvertedTrope They failed]]

* TheCaper: Neville and company pull one of these to retrieve the Sword of Gryffindor from Snape's office, complete with seemingly impossible odds on getting inside.

%% ** TheHero: Neville
%% ** TheLancer: Seamus/Ginny
%% ** TheSmartGuy: Justin
%% ** TheBigGuy: Ernie
%% ** TheChick: Susan
* FakeUltimateHero:
** Again [[TheHero Harry]] the story seems to always portray his own struggles as lesser than the ones of the D.A. But then again since the fic IS cannon compliant he is the one shouldering the war over Voldemort, the hunt of his Horcruxes and overall the one that actually defeats Voldemort.
** [[DesignatedHero Neville]] and the DA fits this more, while their actions are portrayed as more important. Overall they have no contribution to the final victory. At least until it is time for the final battle and when Neville gets to kill Nagini. He and his group fail to retrieve the Sword of Gryffindor and basically they sit in Hogwarts getting in troubles and trying to get out of them, in overly complicated and rather pointless ways.

* HeelFaceTurn: Renny, son of a Death Eater who joined the D.A. after Voldemort tortured his father for a minor failure. See "NobleBigot".

*** It is of course lost to them, that Dumbledore, genuinely speaking did not have a plan. What he did, was preparing Harry for the actual mission (During sixth year specifically and even before that he counted on harry's nature to guide him). And that he counted on Harry pulling it off, which in the end happened.

%% * FiveManBand:

%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Colin and the younger students]] have one of these, [[RealityEnsues though it]] [[KilledOffForReal doesn't end well]].

** What would the events of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'' look like if you think about them [[RealityEnsues in the context of our world?]] (torture in school, child soldiers, etc.)

* RealityEnsues: Let's face it--those kids never really stood a chance of doing anything but keeping the Death Eaters busy while Harry dealt with Voldemort. Teenagers against adults who have spent the better parts of their lives learning to use magic ''designed'' to inflict pain, suffering, and death? The D.A. is lucky they lasted as long as they did.

* RealityEnsues: From 1997 through 1998, Wizarding Britain was taken over by a far right terrorist group focused on cleansing the magical society of Muggle Borns and impure bloodlines. Even a decade after they were stopped, is it really a surprise that Muggle Borns have left the Wizarding world or are refusing to send their children to Hogwarts for fear the insanity will start all over again?

* {{Deconstruction}}:

!!Tropes applying generally:

!!Tropes applying specifically to ''Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness'':

!!Tropes applying specifically to ''Sluagh'':

!!Tropes applying specifically to ''A Peccatis'' (unfinished):

* DeadGuyJunior: Thanfiction is especially prone to this. IIRC, there are only three kids who ''aren't'' named after dead people, and two were adopted from another country. Of course, there are a [[KillEmAll lot of names to choose from]]...

The tale continues in ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4384697/1/Sluagh Sluagh]]''.[[note]]Destructive, restless spirits of the dead in Irish mythology.[[/note]] It is now five years later, all the survivors have moved on to civilian life, each nursing his and her own trauma scars. Neville is senior Auror and Simon-Wiesenthal-in-residence (so to speak) for the rebuilt Ministry of Magic, tasked with rounding up the remnants of Voldemort's henchmen. For his final assignment, he is dispatched to track down a mysterious serial/vigilante killer in Ireland and ends up fighting an even more sinister and brutal dark lord than Voldemort.

* BloodierAndGorier: This fic series has a LOT of very explicitly described violence, rape, gore, and torture. It's based on ''Literature/HarryPotter'', a ''Children's/Young Adult series''.