History FanFic / MakeAWish

* Angrish: What an old prospector lapses into when Harry asks why he doesn't just sell his land to a real estate developer.
-->I was born here, an' I was raised here, and dad gum it, I am gonna die here, an' no sidewindin' bushwhackin' hornswagglin' cracker croaker is gonna rouin me bishen cutter.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Subverted in Mr. Black's entourage. While the Professor, Henchgirl, and the Doctor all play major supporting roles, the Architect and the Mechanic have very small parts, and the Tailor and the Leather Worker are never even seen, while many characters just get a name and one scene and maybe a callback or omake later in the story.

* BerserkButton: When you murder an innocent child, Mr. Black will have no restraint in dealing with you.

** Later in the story, it is believed that one of those civilizations was ''Atlantis''. Since, if they were willing to exile a wizard for being "too weak" (and that was Merlin!), it worries everyone to think what they would do to non-Purebloods... and Mr. Black's hatred towards [[BerserkButton Blood Purists]] [[AssholeVictim is very]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill well-known]].

* [[spoiler:NinjaPirateZombieRobot: Mr. Black becomes a hybrid of vampire and werewolf, plus the fact that his blood is mixed with basilisk venom and phoenix tears, among other things.]]

* [[spoiler:TheCassandra: the shopkeeper at the beginning reveals to Harry when he returns from his vacation that he and many in his very extended family inherited Cassandra's curse, which is what prompts them to do what they can to help the world.]]

* [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You Wouldn't Like Mr. Black When He's Angry]]: {{Invoked|Trope}} and told almost word-by-word by Laetus Lovegood in his paper when he covers the "Black Massacre" in Germany. While the [[KillEmAll magnitude]] of the event was actually out of Black's hands, the [[NeverHurtAnInnocent trigger]] for it was [[BerserkButton very]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable well]] [[TranquilFury within]] [[RageBreakingPoint the definition]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill of the]] [[LudicrousGibs trope]].

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2318355/1/Make_A_Wish Make A Wish]]'' is a Harry Potter fic written by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/686093/Rorschachs_Blot Rorschach's Blot]].

It also has a sequel, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3032621/1/The_Hunt_For_Harry_Potter The Hunt For Harry Potter]]'', by the same author, along with numerous fan-made omakes and sequels that can be found on [[http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/CaerAzkaban/info his Yahoo Group]] or the fanfiction.net community [[https://www.fanfiction.net/community/Black-INK/71873/99/4/1/0/0/0/0/ Black Ink]].

* AnvilOnHead: The sole purpose of the "Acme" spell. The advanced version offers a ten-ton weight and a grand piano as alternatives. The author must have seen at least one Road Runner vs Wile E. Coyote catroon because the name and sole purpose of the spell comes right from there (more specifically Wile E.'s constant failed attempts at catching the Road Runner).

* AnvilOnHead: The sole purpose of the "Acme" spell. The advanced version offers a ten-ton weight and a grand piano as alternatives.

** It's even used to identify him, as only the real Mr. Black responds like that. Harry does because he just wants a vacation, while [[OneDialogueTwoConversations everyone else]] thinks he's being a HumbleHero.

* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: ''[[ContrivedCoincidence Accidentally]]''. In his visit to the Netherlands, Harry spends the day visiting museums and admiring art, and at the end of it he compares the masterpieces to Hogwarts' moving paintings, calling the latter's painters "Amateurs". The surveillance agents tailing him take it to mean that ''he knew they were there all along'', and unwittingly start the belief that Mr. Black is an old professional who [[TheOldestTricksInTheBook knows all of the tricks]]. Later incidents, particularly those in France (he gets fed up with having to stand on a line to see anything right when French Aurors are about to break into his hotel room), further this belief until everyone thinks he might as well be [[TheOmniscient nigh-omniscient]], having [[OlderThanDirt pretty much written the book before books existed]], and is just [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretending he doesn't know because he's got a twisted sense of humor]].

* MundaneUtility: who could have known that a tanning spell could be used to kill a vampire?

*** Death Eaters later begin to balk at the idea of being on the teams sent to kill Mr. Black, while those who are not sent start to take bets on what happens to those who go.

* SideBet: The Death Eaters create a pool on how the next group sent with Wormtail are going to die.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: when Harry is in Amsterdam, he buys (and loves) a bunch of brownies, and he feels "a strange sort of calm". Anyone with a minimal understanding of the city can easily tell why.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse with Mr Black. Everyone thinks that Mr Black is a badass OlderThanDirt wizard who has a very twisted sense of humour and thus likes to play "pranks" on the Law Enforcement officers he meets, such as dropping Death Eaters into a cell while he is being given a tour, and also uses ObfuscatingStupidity to deal with [=LEOs=] that are shadowing him. Actually, Mr Black (Harry) is just as surprised as them whenever Death Eaters appear next to him in increasingly weird situations and does not even know people are tailing him at all.

* ContrivedCoincidence: This happens a ''lot''. [[spoiler:It is implied that these coincidences are actually planned out by the members of a family that can see the future, led by the Diagon Alley shopkeeper that sold Harry his travel hardware. This is better seen with the wizard Wormtail buys the Portkeys from: he always sends them to where Mr Black is going to be or nearby, but in such a way that it is lethal (or almost lethal) for the Death Eaters.]]

* CoolBike: Thanks to [[BornLucky Harry's insane luck at gambling]], he wins one of these in America. [[MadScientist The Professor]] asked if he could modify it, and Harry agreed - his only specific request was [[FlyingCar to have it fly]], but otherwise gave the Professor free reign to add anything he wanted besides of that. The Professor and Henchgirl got [[MadScientist some like-minded friends]], and [[UpToEleven even made a contest out of who could put the most features in]]. After all of that, it could shrink to pocket-size, [[OilSlick drop oil slicks]], [[WeaponizedCar shoot spells]], fly, change license plates, and even has a pooka - a ''[[CoolHorse ghost horse]]'' - bound to it so that it never needs fuel, [[EmpathicWeapon can act by itself if needed]], and occasionally project the [[AnimalBattleAura image of the pooka itself]].

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Several. After [[spoiler: the Lestranges' [[TeleporterAccident gruesome end]]]], Mr. Black earned a reputation of getting 'creative' with people that anger him.

** Later in the story, it is believed that one of those civilizations was ''Atlantis''. Since, if they were willing to exile a wizard for being "too weak" (and that was Merlin!), it worried everyone to think what they would do to non-Purebloods... and Mr. Black's hatred towards [[BerserkButton Blood Purists]] [[AssholeVictim is very]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill well-known]].

* FailsafeFailure: [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] and [[InvokedTrope invoked]]. The wizard who made the Portkeys that the Death Eaters used ''deliberately'' left out [[TeleporterAccident important safety features]] because he doesn't like how they treat him.

* INeverToldYouMyName[=/=]INeverSaidItWasPoison: Accidentally. When he arrives to Marseilles and gets attacked by a Squib serial killer (armed with a magical knife), Harry is interrogated by one Auror, who calls him Mr Black at the end of the interview. Harry jokes about how fast they arrived (not knowing they were following him) and then tells the Auror's healer that the interviewer's technique was so good he does not even remember giving him his name. The Aurors take these quite seriously.
* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: ''[[ContrivedCoincidence Accidentally]]''. In his visit to Netherlands, Harry spends the day visiting museums and admiring art, and at he end of it he compares the masterpieces to Hogwarts' moving paintings, calling the latter's painters "Amateurs". The surveillance agents tailing him take it to mean that ''he knew they were there all along'', and unwittingly start the belief that Mr. Black is an old professional that [[TheOldestTricksInTheBook knows all of the tricks]]. Later incidents, particularly those in France (he gets fed up with having to stand on a line to see anything right when the French Aurors were about to break into his hotel room), further this belief until everyone thinks he might as well be [[TheOmniscient nigh-omniscient]], having [[OlderThanDirt pretty much written the book before books existed]], and is just [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretending he doesn't know because he's got a twisted sense of humor]].
* IReadItForTheArticles: Dumbledore says this when he accidentally reveals he buys the [[Magazine/{{Playboy}} Playwizard]] magazine. Then Tonks reveals she also buys it to practice forms and for the articles, leaving Dumbledore dumbfounded when she mentions one of them.
* ImprobableWeaponUser: when Harry gets attacked by Dementors at Diagon Alley after he returns, instead of using his Patronus charm (which would give up his identity), he just pulls out the "Mr Black" chocolate frog card the Twins made, which sprouts hot chocolate when tapped with a wand. HilarityEnsues.
* IncrediblyLamePun: When Harry is at Paris, trying to enjoy the city's monuments and museums but having to deal with the long queues, he cannot help but think that, instead of "The City of Lights", Paris should be called "The City of Lines".

* MadBomber: Of all people, ''[[TheSmartGuy Hermione]]'' gained this reputation in the sequel. [[InsistentTerminology She is adamant in denying it]], but she shows a trend of solving problems with explosions, be they accidental, 'accidental', or otherwise.

* NotEnoughToBury: Death Eaters and other Blood Purists get hit with this. [[AssholeVictim Hard]]. [[RunningGag And often]]. In Germany, the coroner had trouble [[LudicrousGibs telling the pieces apart]] after Black gives his Russian battle magic a try, a Death Eater attack team was ran over by a train and damaged beyond recognition, the [[spoiler: Lestranges]] had to be mopped up ''and'' picked clean from the [[TeleporterAccident insides]] of a vending machine, another Death Eater team was {{Eaten Alive}} by [[LandDownUnder Australia's]] [[DeathWorld deadly]] [[EverythingTryingToKillYou wildlife]], and let's not forget the bandits that were eaten by a nundu...

** Even more so in the sequel, where Luna, Hermione, and Tonks ''each'' thinks that she's the only sane woman in their trio. [[spoiler: None of them are.]]

** Death Eaters taking a Portkey to some place where Mr. Black is going to be, only to suffer some great misfortune. The only person that always survives is Wormtail.
*** Death Eaters later begin to balk at the idea of being on the teams sent to kill Mr. Black, while those that are not sent start to take bets on what happens to those that go.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: A couple times, someone realizes they're dealing with ''the'' Mr. Black and promptly leave.

** Harry has an urge to sing out "[[Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic The hills are alive!]] [[AccidentalTruth And they're eating people]]"

* SureLetsGoWithThat: a French Auror wizard that can transform into a poodle tells his female partner that the most dangerous people try to look like they are the harmless. The witch asks him if that is why he had her groom him and put a bow around his neck. He says yes this way.
* TeleporterAccident: [[RunningGag Many, many examples]], but the [[CruelAndUnusualDeath prize]] goes to how [[spoiler: the Lestranges die: Apparating inside of a vending machine]]. As usual, it was one part genuine accident, one part [[InvokedTrope pissing off the guy that made the Portkey]], and [[ContrivedCoincidence zero parts fault of Mr. Black]].

** When he returns to England, Harry[=/=]Mr. Black goes to the shopkeeper that sold him what he bought at the beginning to complain at the fact that, even with the bracelet, he got caught in plenty of messes. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments The shopkeeper promptly shows him that he had the SEP field on its lowest setting.]]

* WronskiFeint: Harry takes part of a broom race that goes through a dragon sanctuary, and, just his luck, managed to get nearly every dragon hunting ''him''. He tries to [[BlindedByTheLight use the sunlight to blind them]], but ultimately shakes them off and wins the race with a textbook perfect WronskiFeint against the ground, saving the other racers in the process.
* [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You Wouldn't Like Mr. Black When He's Angry]]: {{Invoked|Trope}} and told almost word-by-word by Laetus Lovegood in his paper when he covered the "Black Massacre" in Germany. While the [[KillEmAll magnitude]] of the event was actually out of Black's hands, the [[NeverHurtAnInnocent trigger]] for it was [[BerserkButton very]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable well]] [[TranquilFury within]] [[RageBreakingPoint the definition]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill of the]] [[LudicrousGibs trope]].

* NotEnoughToBury: Death Eaters and other Blood Purists get hit with this. [[AssholeVictim Hard]]. [[RunningGag And often]]. In Germany, the coroner had trouble [[LudicrousGibs telling the pieces apart]] after Black gives his Russian battle magic a try, a Death Eater attack team was ran over by a train and damaged beyond recognition, the [[spoiler: Lestranges]] had to be mopped up ''and'' picked clean from the [[TeleporterAccident insides]] of a vending machine, another Death Eater team was {{Eaten Alive}} by [[LandDownunder Australia's]] [[DeathWorld deadly]] [[EverythingTryingToKillYou wildlife]], and let's not forget the bandits that were eaten by a nundu...

-->'''Undercover Agent''': And what's your name?
-->'''Mr. Black''': Black.
-->'''Undercover Agent''': (Suddenly very nervous) And might I ask what your first name is?
-->'''Mr. Black''': Mr.
-->'''Undercover Agent''': I see. Excuse me, but I'm afraid I must be going.

* PoisonousPerson: Harry, thanks to the events of the Chamber of Secrets, is perfectly healthy even though his blood still has Basilisk venom running in his blood. The Doctor also discovers that, if poisoned, he will just absorb the poison and become immune to it. When he is in Australia, a bunch of spiders bite him and die almost immediately because of the poison.
* PragmaticVillainy: Plenty of criminals, such as the Roman mafia, are perfectly willing to tone down their most horrible acts... if it keeps Mr. Black from noticing them.
* ReadTheFreakingManual: there are several instances of Harry (or someone else) getting instructions to make something work. [[spoiler:When he returns to England, Harry is less than pleased to be told that the reason he got in so much trouble was because he didn't read the instruction manual for the SEP Field Generator.]]

** Death Eaters taking a Portkey to some place where Mr Black is going to be, only to suffer some great misfortune. The only person that always survives is Wormtail.
*** Death Eaters later begin to balk at the idea of being on the teams sent to kill Mr Black, while those that are not sent start to take bets on what happens to those that go.
* ScareEmStraight: Eventually, there's a ScareEmStraight program started for budding dark wizards that amounts to "Don't or Mr. Black will find you."

** The [[Literature/LifeTheUniverseAndEverything SEP Field.]]
** Another shoutout, this time to Series/DoctorWho, when the Doctor's introducing herself.

** In the sequel, Harry [[Franchise/TheMatrix knows kung-fu.]]
* SideBet: The Death Eaters create a pool on how the next group sent with Wormtail will die.

* WeirdnessCensor: Mr. Black has a bracelet that makes it difficult for people to focus on the details of his person, explicitly called [[BystanderSyndrome a SEP ("someone else's problem") Field]].

* [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry You Wouldn't Like Mr Black When He's Angry]]: {{Invoked|Trope}} and told almost word-by-word by Laetus Lovegood in his paper when he covered the 'Black Massacre' in Germany. While the [[KillEmAll magnitude]] of the event was actually out of Black's hands, the [[NeverHurtAnInnocent trigger]] for it was [[BerserkButton very]] [[ThisIsUnforgivable well]] [[TranquilFury within]] [[RageBreakingPoint the definition]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill of the]] [[LudicrousGibs trope]].

* ConfusionFu: One of the traits that law enforcement find the most perturbing about Mr. Black is his unpredictability. They cannot track him accurately nor tell what he is going to do at any given moment, and that, for someone of his [[ContrivedCoincidence perceived]] power, is incredibly scary.
** The use of simple, easy-to-use everyday utility spells to gain an edge is discussed at length. It starts with the use of a cosmetic spell (for quick ''tanning'') against vampires, and earns Mr. Black the reputation of a tactical genius. After all, those utility spells are plentiful, made to be quick, easy to learn and cast, and any wizard in the world has dozens of them practiced; their use in combat will most definitely catch someone off-guard, since virtually no-one thinks of having a defense against them.
*** Demonstrated when a student at Hogwarts uses a ''BreastExpansion spell'' on a practice duel against a ''guy'' to throw him for a loop, [[GagBoobs upset his balance]], and win the duel. The girl in question was inspired by Mr. Black's use of a cosmetic spell, of which she knows several (from girly magazines), to deadly effect.

** When he returns to England, Harry[=/=]Mr. Black goes to the shopkeeper that sold him what he bought at the beginning to complain at the fact that, even with the bracelet, he got caught in plenty of messes. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny The shopkeeper promptly shows him that he had the SEP field on its lowest setting.]]

* IReadItForTheArticles: Dumbledore says this when he accidentally reveals he buys the [[Magazine/{{Playboy}} Playwizard]] magazine.

* IReadItForTheArticles: Dumbledore says this when he accidentally reveals he buys the [[{{Playboy}} Playwizard]] magazine.

* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: ''[[ContrivedCoincidence Accidentally]]''. In his visit to Netherlands, Harry spends the day visiting museums and admiring art, and at he end of it he compares the masterpieces to Hogwarts' moving paintings, calling the latter's painters "Amateurs". The surveillance agents tailing him take it to mean that ''he knew they were there all along'', and unwittingly start the belief that Mr. Black is an old professional that [[TheOldestTricksInTheBook knows all of the tricks]]. Later incidents, particularly those in France (he gets fed up with having to stand on a line to see anything right when the French Aurors were trying to get into his hotel room), further this belief until everyone thinks he might as well be [[TheOmniscient nigh-omniscient]], having [[OlderThanDirt pretty much written the book before books existed]], and is just [[ObfuscatingStupidity pretending he doesn't know because he's got a twisted sense of humor]].

* GenreSavvy: Death Eaters soon begin to balk at the idea of taking a Portkey with Wormtail, knowing that few to none Death Eaters come back from attacking Mr Black.

* TheDreaded: Mr. Black. Death Eaters would rather go to Azkaban than risk the chance that Mr. Black might kill them in a horribly gruesome way

* BreadEggsMilkSquick: A blood purist newspaper goes out of business due to "falling subscription rates, rising costs of doing business, and the fact the obituary section is larger than the last four issues ''combined''."

** It makes sense in physics, as the displaced air weights more than the contents of the zeppelin, producing buoyancy. Making the zeppelin's bag stay in shape, despite being empty, does require the intervention of a literal wizard - nature abhors a vacuum, after all.

* KnightInSourArmor: Harry

-->'''Mr. Black''': Mister.

* ScareEmStraight: Eventually, there's a ScareEmStraight program started for budding dark wizards that amounts to "Don't or Mr. Black will find you."

* [[spoiler:TheCassandra: the shopkeeper at the beginning reveals to Harry that he and many in his very extended family inherited Cassandra's curse, which is what prompts them to do what they can to help the world.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: InUniverse with Mr Black. Everyone thinks that Mr Black is a {{Badass}} OlderThanDirt wizard who has a very twisted sense of humour and thus likes to play "pranks" on the Law Enforcement officers he meets, such as dropping Death Eaters into a cell while he is being given a tour, and also uses ObfuscatingStupidity to deal with [=LEOs=] that are shadowing him. Actually, Mr Black (Harry) is just as surprised as them whenever Death Eaters appear next to him in increasingly weird situations and does not even know people are tailing him at all.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: what everyone thinks Mr. Black does.

** Harry has an urge to sing out "[[TheSoundOfMusic The hills are alive!]] [[AccidentalTruth And they're eating people]]"

* BreadEggsSquick: A blood purist newspaper goes out of business due to "falling subscription rates, rising costs of doing business, and the fact the obituary section is larger than the last four issues ''combined''."