History FanFic / SeventhHorcrux

* AdaptationalHeroism: It's established early on that Voldemort actually disliked his time as a Dark Lord, does not buy into pureblood rhetoric, lacks a fair bit of his original counterpart's sadism and cruelty, and shows a surprisingly dynamic soft side. He maintains his extreme selfishness and disregard for human life, though.

* VoodooShark: Parodied. Draco shows up near the end of the story wearing dragon hide pants and no shirt. Why dragon hide? To protect him from the fire. Why isn't he wearing a shirt? Because it burned away in the fire, of course! This is the first and only mention of Draco being caught in a fire, naturally.

* DracoInLeatherPants: [[invoked]] Parodied and lampshaded in the final non-epilogue chapter with Draco wearing Dragon Hide pants. Also {{discussed|Trope}} in the omake/[[TheRant author musing]] collection, where the author figures this pattern exists partly because canon Draco is ''so'' unlikeable that writing him accurately looks too much like [[RonTheDeathEater bashing]].

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: As the story goes on it's clear that Harry (and by extension, Voldemort) is just plain insane. His incomprehensible way of thinking and misinformation about several things leads to several misinterpretations of people's actions and reputations. For one thing, Harry never figures out that Gilderoy Lockhart was a fraud and instead views his poor teaching skills as radical (and, thus, effective) techniques that force students to take initiative in their defense studies. This causes him to see Lockhart as the biggest threat to him finally having the DADA position, and setting an Acromantula on the man, who promptly kills him.

* AcceptableTargets[[invoked]]: The Dursleys and Hufflepuffs. Also, Dolores Umbridge.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Voldemort. It's established early on that he actually disliked his time as a Dark Lord, does not buy into pureblood rhetoric, lacks a fair bit of his original counterpart's sadism and cruelty, and shows a surprisingly dynamic soft side. He maintains his extreme selfishness and disregard for human life, though.

* AllCrimesAreEqual: Harry believes that much of the reason Hermione tends to do incredibly illegal things despite being the most law-abiding of the group is that Hermione has this view on rules--that is to say, she considers "don't cheat on your test" to be about equally important to "don't kidnap and try to murder somebody." Consequently, she is very difficult to push into doing anything "against the rules", but once you have pushed her to do that, she has no restraints on what she'll do next.

** Umbridge spends fifth year trying to torment Harry in a similar fashion to the original book, but her efforts completely fail due to Harry subverting her torture methods.

* AmbiguousDisorder: Voldemort displays a staggering level of inability to understand that other people aren't selfish, underhanded egotists like him engaged in a dozen secret plots. Even for someone who doesn't quite get love, he should at least be able to grasp love and friendship and other things ''intellectually''. It borders on some rather strange form of autism or Asperger's.

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The aforementioned AmbiguousDisorder is one thing, but as the story goes on it's clear that on top of that, Harry (and by extension, Voldemort) is just plain insane. His incomprehensible way of thinking and misinformation about several things leads to several misinterpretations of people's actions and reputations. For one thing, Harry never figures out that Gilderoy Lockhart was a fraud and instead views his poor teaching skills as radical (and, thus, effective) techniques that force students to take initiative in their defense studies. This causes him to see Lockhart as the biggest threat to him finally having the DADA position, and setting an Acromantula on the man, who promptly kills him.

** Ginny is shown to have enjoyed her time with Tom Riddle, and picked up many of his tendencies - which causes her to fall in love with Harry, [[InSpiteOfANail just like in canon.]]
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** Ginny, due to not having ever rejected Tom Riddle, ends up becoming essentially her generation's equivalent to Bellatrix, desperately fangirling over Harry's blatant evil and doing everything she can to get his attention.
** Hermione has this played for comedy, where Harry perceives her as a terrifying dark lord in the making despite not being any more evil than in canon. Most of Hermione's wicked feats are direct references to things she did in canon; it's just that [[EvenEvilHasStandards Harry is willing to call her out on them.]]

* NotSoDifferent: Harry and Voldemort. Repeatedly.

* InSpiteOfANail: It's practically played for comedy that, despite the massive changes in the story's world and characters, things still end up being broadly recognizable from a canon perspective and TheStationsOfCanon are mostly kept intact. One of the largest is that Harry still ends up in Gryffindor--in canon, he actually was a "True Gryffindor"; here, he decided that trying to build an empire from Slytherin didn't work once, so why try again? Additionally, he still marries Ginny, despite (or perhaps because?) both of them are significantly different in personality.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Harry and Voldemort suffer from this. The biggest example is probably claiming Ron was mauled by Lupin as a werewolf - initially, Harry deliberately throws this in to liven up the telling, but it doesn't take long before even he thinks Ron is actually a werewolf.

* CrackPairing: [[invoked]]Though most of the actual pairings in the story are fairly canon-compliant, Harry and Voldemort's inability to understand love leads to them assuming that any strong relationship that they don't understand fully is probably a love affair, while they miss blatantly obvious romantic tension. This leads to oddball pairings like Draco/Hermione, Fleur/Hermione, and Snape/Sirius being brought up.

* MundaneSolution: Harry spends weeks trying to circumvent the age line around the Goblet of Fire, through methods like levitating them in, using winds to blow them in, experimenting whether the Goblet detects your physical age or your mental age, or even using advanced ancient rune rituals to teleport the paper in. However, it turns out the age line does ''not'' protect against simply crumpling the paper into a little ball and tossing it in.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Hermione correctly guesses that Harry has Voldemort's memories, she's wrong in how he got them (through the scar link).

* AddictiveMagic: Turns out Harry is addicted to the Imperius due to casting it on himself so often.

* TheChewToy: Ronald Weasley. Funnily, the author points out that he's probably broadly happier and better-adjusted than canon due to more properly understanding his place in the world.