History FanFic / SeventhHorcrux

* GladIThoughtOfIt: Harry and Voldemort may be amazing ''schemers'', but they are terrible ''planners''. Both of them try to cover up this shortcoming by allowing other people to draw conclusions or make predictions that cast them in favorable light and then claim that that was exactly what they intended.

* DoubleTap:

** This is actually Harry's basic approach to most problems. One of the best examples is during the Triwizard Tournament. [[spoiler:He vanishes the lake during the second task. The ''entire lake.'']]

--> "Like that would stop him. He would follow us into the girls' loo just to brag about it. I mean, honestly, this is Malfoy we're talking about here. There are two things he mentions in every conversation: his father and his money. If he were the Heir of Slytherin, there would be three things he'd mention in every conversation."

* {{Irony}}: Harrymort views both Hermione and Dumbledore as being far more evil than he is. In Hermione's case he actually finds this worrying considering shes a child and he's a RetiredMonster. In both cases it's mostly just his EvilCannotComprehendGood coming into play. Hopefully.

October 31st was an ordinary day for Voldemort, sitting on his throne chastising his minions' various vices until he was informed about the location of a family that had thrice defied him (he knew; after all, he keeps a list of such things). Months after attempting to dispatch a child of the prophecy he didn't know the entirety of, he finds himself remembering his life as Voldemort, as one Harry Potter.

Upon reflection, now as Harry Potter, he decides to go back to his one true goal, to become the DADA teacher. And thus begins Lord Volde -- I mean Harry Potter's life through Hogwarts.

-->'''Hermione:''' “Ron? What type of spell was that?”
-->'''Ron:''' “A stunner.”
-->'''Hermione:''' “Oh. You, um, you might want to put a little less energy into it next time.”
-->'''Harry:''' “Or…you could not do that.”

-->'''Harry:''' “...and we all know what I did to the moving staircase.”

* NotTheIntendedUse: Ordinarily, Legilimency is used to read minds while Occlumency is used to block it. Harry, however, ''also'' uses Legilimency to block Legilimency. How? He uses Legilimency on the other person, but harder. That way, they read his mind, but he's reading their mind at the time as well, so it doesn't do anything. He thinks this is genius. Hermione is baffled and disgusted.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Harry and Voldemort both suffer from this, as the page quote implies. They're so ignorant to the concept of love that they actually trained to vomit whenever feeling the sensation (as it usually meant Bellatrix slipped him something). As a result, both utterly confounded on many an occasion by feeling human emotions or when other people display them.

** When Ginny suggests that there are three types of Gryffindors--genuinely brave ones, prideful showoffs, and the secretly evil, Harry immediately tries to ChangeTheUncomfortableSubject and denies himself being anything like the last one. The author suggested that Harry was actually right; he's closer to the second type than the third, and Ginny was talking about herself (and possibly Hermione).

* AdaptationalWimp: Umbridge, in an odd way--she isn't really more or less skilled than in canon, but she ends up going up against [[BullyingADragon a much more tenacious, brutal, and skilled opponent]], and as a result fails to really flex her sadism or her privileges as she did in ''Order of the Phoenix''.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: Harry and Voldemort suffer from this.

* BullyingADragon: When Harry (Voldemort) arrives at the Dursleys, they start treating him like they did Harry. The problem is, in a matter of months, he remembers that he's the Dark Lord Voldemort, and begins terrorizing them with wandless magic.
* TheChewToy: Ronald Weasley.

** Or so Harrymort believes. At one point, Luna floats the idea that [[spoiler: Voldemort's soul ''merged'' with Harry's, making an entirely new person who is actually LighterAndSofter than the original Voldemort, but that Harrymort refuses to acknowledge the differences because his memories of being Voldemort are so central to his self-image.]] The author seems to be implying that she's right.

* EvenEvilHasStandards

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Harry and Voldemort both suffer from this, as the page quote implies. Voldemort is so ignorant to the concept of love that he actually trained himself to vomit whenever he feels the sensation (as it usually meant Bellatrix slipped him something). As a result, he's utterly confounded on many an occasion by feeling human emotions or when other people display them.

* FlockOfWolves: By sixth year, Voldemort's inner circle is composed of Sirius Black, Severus Snape, Hagrid, Trelawney, and Lucius Malfoy. The only remaining Death Eaters that [[BadBoss he hasn't killed]] are Malfoy and Fenrir Greyback, the latter of whom is corresponding with Ron about werewolf rights.
* FourEyesZeroSoul: Harry

* KarmaHoudini: Harry.

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Most of Harrymort's "minions" (Friends) are this. Considering he's "retired" he doesn't mind so much.

** Harrymort tends to do this as well. Correctly guessing peoples actions, but completely fumbling on their motives.

* TakeThat: One against the popular Fanon involving magical cores.

* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Harry and Voldemort both suffer from this.

* MythologyGag: "Honestly, who were they expecting? A Hufflepuff?"
** Dumbledore said in the first book the happiest man in the world would see himself as he was if he looked into the Mirror of Erised. In the epilogue Harry sees just that.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: This actually makes up the vast majority of Harry's jerk tendencies. While he can be a {{Troll}} he generally avoids being outright vicious towards his "minions," he simply has an extremely loose grip on the whole empathy/feelings thing along with a nasty case of BrutalHonesty.

* KnowNothingKnowItAll: It's stated that a lot of Voldemort's eccentricities come from this: he's too proud to ever ask questions, and he was raised by Muggles and lacks natural knowledge of the magical world, which leaves him to merely loudly act like he knows what he's talking about and bullshit his way through the rest.

* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Voldemort. He'd actually been getting tired of ruling his Death Eaters (because they were getting really annoying) and was losing interest in ruling Britain by Halloween 1981 (he just saw them as a bunch of sheep).

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Voldemort. He'd actually been getting tired of ruling his Death Eaters (because they were getting really annoying) and was losing interest in ruling Britain by Halloween 1981 (he just saw them as a bunch of sheep).

* CrazyAwesome: [[spoiler:Harry]] in the epilogue is all kinds of this as a teacher. He's EccentricMentor BunnyEarsLawyer to the extreme, but is still good at his job.

* DracoInLeatherPants[invoked]: Parodied and lampshaded in the final non-epilogue chapter with Draco wearing Dragon Hide pants.

* TheDarkArts: Played with. Most people take the term to mean the same thing as its trope, but Harry, Ginny, and most likely Voldemort take it to mean magic kept secret within a family.

* CurseEscapeClause: Required for truly powerful curses. So the [[DeadEndJob curse on the Defense position]] has the escape clause of Dumbledore hiring someone as well-suited to the job as Voldemort had been.