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* BigBrotherInstinct: Harry, taken up to [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edwardian]] levels of frightening in his reactions.

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* %%* BigBrotherInstinct: Harry, taken up to [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Edwardian]] absurd levels of frightening in his reactions.
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%%* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: HilarityEnsues if you take everything written at face value.

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%%* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensues if you take everything written at face value.
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** We're told numerous times Ariana is sweet-natured, but the minute Maria even mildly teases her Ariana starts screaming insults at her and she's not above mocking Harry, Ron or Neville when they annoy her.

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** We're told numerous times Ariana is sweet-natured, [[InformedKindness sweet-natured]], but the minute Maria even mildly teases her Ariana starts screaming insults at her and she's not above mocking Harry, Ron or Neville when they annoy her.
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** InterruptedSuicide: Of course. Probably the best example is when eleven-year-old Ariana jumps off the roof of the school...[[WhatAnIdiot in front of Hermione and Ginny, two skilled witches who always carry their wands with them.]] Hermione just levitated her back up.

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** InterruptedSuicide: Of course. Probably the best example is when eleven-year-old Eleven-year-old Ariana jumps off the roof of the school...[[WhatAnIdiot school... in front of Hermione and Ginny, two skilled witches who always carry their wands with them.]] them. Hermione just levitated levitates her back up.
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Removed complaining/bashing as well as a misued pothole


Over the course of seven fics, Ariana comes to Hogwarts, befriends all the characters that the author likes, discovers she is an "Empath," which therefore makes her VERY SPESHUL AND POWERFULZ, Voldemort (whose main job is to hatch a repetitive plot once a year) decides she's more important than Harry and focuses on alternatively killing her or stealing her powers, and...that's really all there is. Except the author also decided to throw in {{Wangst}} out the wazoo, sappy scenes in which the main cast talks about how they'll be together forever and ever ([[ItsAllAboutMe for Ariana's sake]]), love melodrama...anything to pad the story out to seven fics. Characters are nothing more than OOC doppelgangers, the taming of the Snape occurs... Were you surprised?

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Over the course of seven fics, Ariana comes to Hogwarts, befriends all the characters that the author likes, discovers she is an "Empath," which therefore makes her VERY SPESHUL AND POWERFULZ, "Empath" and Voldemort (whose main job is to hatch a repetitive plot once a year) decides she's more important than Harry and focuses on alternatively killing her or stealing her powers, and...that's really all there is. Except the author also decided to throw in {{Wangst}} out the wazoo, sappy scenes in which the main cast talks about how they'll be together forever and ever ([[ItsAllAboutMe for Ariana's sake]]), love melodrama...anything to pad the story out to seven fics. Characters are nothing more than OOC doppelgangers, the taming of the Snape occurs... Were you surprised?
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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: The cause of a "[[TheSlug Slug Malfoy]]" in part 1, "[[TookALevelInJerkass Hell Malfoy]]" in part 2, and Dumbledore evidently not being Headmaster yet. And that's just the start.

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* RougeAnglesOfSatin: The cause of a "[[TheSlug Slug Malfoy]]" "Slug Malfoy" in part 1, "[[TookALevelInJerkass Hell Malfoy]]" in part 2, and Dumbledore evidently not being Headmaster yet. And that's just the start.

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* TheRival: [[AlphaBitch Maria]] is set up as this to Ariana.



* TheRival: [[AlphaBitch Maria]] is set up as this to Ariana.
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** Oh, yeah, and Voldemort wants kidnap to use her blood for an immortality potion, or so he can erase her will and use her as a political puppet, or various other excuses.

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** Oh, yeah, and Voldemort wants to kidnap her to use her blood for an immortality potion, or so he can erase her will and use her as a political puppet, or various other excuses.
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Over the course of seven fics, Ariana comes to Hogwarts, befriends all the characters that the author likes, discovers she is an "Empath," which therefore makes her VERY SPESHUL AND POWERFULZ, Voldemort (whose main job is to hatch a repetitive plot once a year) decides she's more important than Harry and focuses on alternatively killing her or stealing her powers, and...that's really all there is. Except the author also decided to throw in {{Wangst}} out the wazoo, sappy scenes in which the main cast talks about how they'll be together forever and ever ([[ItsAllAboutMe for Ariana's sake]]), love melodrama...anything to pad the story out to seven fics. Characters are nothing more than OOC dopplegangers, the taming of the Snape occurs... Were you surprised?

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Over the course of seven fics, Ariana comes to Hogwarts, befriends all the characters that the author likes, discovers she is an "Empath," which therefore makes her VERY SPESHUL AND POWERFULZ, Voldemort (whose main job is to hatch a repetitive plot once a year) decides she's more important than Harry and focuses on alternatively killing her or stealing her powers, and...that's really all there is. Except the author also decided to throw in {{Wangst}} out the wazoo, sappy scenes in which the main cast talks about how they'll be together forever and ever ([[ItsAllAboutMe for Ariana's sake]]), love melodrama...anything to pad the story out to seven fics. Characters are nothing more than OOC dopplegangers, doppelgangers, the taming of the Snape occurs... Were you surprised?
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Over the course of seven fics, Ariana comes to Hogwarts, befriends all the characters that the author likes, discovers she is an "Empath," which therefore makes her VERY SPESHUL AND POWERFULZ, Voldemort (whose main job is to hatch a repetitive plot once a year) decides she's more important than Harry and focuses on alternatively killing her or stealing her powers, and...that's really all there is. Except the author also decided to throw in {{Wangst}} out the wazoo, sappy scenes in which the main cast talks about how they'll be together forever and ever]] ([[ItsAllAboutMe for Ariana's sake]]), love melodrama...anything to pad the story out to seven fics. Characters are nothing more than OOC dopplegangers, the taming of the Snape occurs... Were you surprised?

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Over the course of seven fics, Ariana comes to Hogwarts, befriends all the characters that the author likes, discovers she is an "Empath," which therefore makes her VERY SPESHUL AND POWERFULZ, Voldemort (whose main job is to hatch a repetitive plot once a year) decides she's more important than Harry and focuses on alternatively killing her or stealing her powers, and...that's really all there is. Except the author also decided to throw in {{Wangst}} out the wazoo, sappy scenes in which the main cast talks about how they'll be together forever and ever]] ever ([[ItsAllAboutMe for Ariana's sake]]), love melodrama...anything to pad the story out to seven fics. Characters are nothing more than OOC dopplegangers, the taming of the Snape occurs... Were you surprised?
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Tastes Like Diabetes is now a disambig between Sweetness Aversion and Sickingly Sweet. Zero Context Example entries and entries that do not fit anywhere else will be deleted.


Over the course of seven fics, Ariana comes to Hogwarts, befriends all the characters that the author likes, discovers she is an "Empath," which therefore makes her VERY SPESHUL AND POWERFULZ, Voldemort (whose main job is to hatch a repetitive plot once a year) decides she's more important than Harry and focuses on alternatively killing her or stealing her powers, and...that's really all there is. Except the author also decided to throw in {{Wangst}} out the wazoo, [[TastesLikeDiabetes sappy scenes in which the main cast talks about how they'll be together forever and ever]] ([[ItsAllAboutMe for Ariana's sake]]), love melodrama...anything to pad the story out to seven fics. Characters are nothing more than OOC dopplegangers, the taming of the Snape occurs... Were you surprised?

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Over the course of seven fics, Ariana comes to Hogwarts, befriends all the characters that the author likes, discovers she is an "Empath," which therefore makes her VERY SPESHUL AND POWERFULZ, Voldemort (whose main job is to hatch a repetitive plot once a year) decides she's more important than Harry and focuses on alternatively killing her or stealing her powers, and...that's really all there is. Except the author also decided to throw in {{Wangst}} out the wazoo, [[TastesLikeDiabetes sappy scenes in which the main cast talks about how they'll be together forever and ever]] ([[ItsAllAboutMe for Ariana's sake]]), love melodrama...anything to pad the story out to seven fics. Characters are nothing more than OOC dopplegangers, the taming of the Snape occurs... Were you surprised?
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** Taken UpToEleven in a Quidditch game where Maria tricks a bludger into hitting a chaser on the opposing team (who happens to be Ariana's friend). Instead of seeing this as a perfectly legal and rather clever move, Ariana claims this is the lowest thing Maria has ever done.

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** Taken UpToEleven in In a Quidditch game where game, Maria tricks a bludger into hitting a chaser on the opposing team (who happens to be Ariana's friend). Instead of seeing this as a perfectly legal and rather clever move, Ariana claims this is the lowest thing Maria has ever done.
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MST-ing/riffing/sporking + some complaining cleanup


* ArtisticLicenseBiology: During the sixth year, the sporkers point out that when the group are escaping Azkaban and Ariana somehow manages to get tangled up in seaweed, the water being repeatedly mentioned as ice-cold means that there shouldn't be anything long and clingy growing in the sea for her to get caught in.

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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: During the sixth year, the sporkers point out that when the group are escaping Azkaban and Ariana somehow manages to get tangled up in seaweed, the water being repeatedly mentioned as ice-cold means that there shouldn't be anything long and clingy growing in the sea for her to get caught in.



* AttemptedRape: Draco tries to rape Ariana on several occasions. Hilariously, in the fourth year, when he gets Ariana alone, he starts feeling her up, but only touches her sides and back, and starts chasing her around a wooden table. The sporkers note it's almost like the author was too scared to write an actual rape attempt and just settled for Draco creepily whispering in her ear and getting up in her space.

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* AttemptedRape: Draco tries to rape Ariana on several occasions. Hilariously, in the fourth year, when he gets Ariana alone, he starts feeling her up, but only touches her sides and back, and starts chasing her around a wooden table. The sporkers note it's almost like the author was too scared to write an actual rape attempt and just settled for Draco creepily whispering in her ear and getting up in her space.



* DisneyDeath: Ariana drowns and is ''dead'' for at least five or seven minutes. No spells attempted work in reviving her, but [[CPRCleanPrettyReliable CPR]] ''does.'' The sporkers have pointed out in their MST that this is just not possible, as if no ''spell'' could have revived her, then CPR wouldn't have a chance, and if she was ''dead'' for at least seven minutes then she's staying that way. And on the off-chance that she ''was'' revived, then she would have been brain-dead.

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* DisneyDeath: Ariana drowns and is ''dead'' for at least five or seven minutes. No spells attempted work in reviving her, but [[CPRCleanPrettyReliable CPR]] ''does.'' The sporkers have pointed out in their MST that this This is just not possible, as if no ''spell'' could have revived her, then CPR wouldn't have a chance, and if she was ''dead'' for at least seven minutes then she's staying that way. And on the off-chance that she ''was'' revived, then she would have been brain-dead.



* {{Flanderization}}: While Maria once had ''some'' semblance of personality and at least seemed to actually care about her friends, the sporkers point out that in later stories she is completely driven by her hatred of Ariana and now doesn't seem to care about Patty and Kitty at all.

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* {{Flanderization}}: While Maria once had ''some'' semblance of personality and at least seemed to actually care about her friends, the sporkers point out that in later stories she is completely driven by her hatred of Ariana and now doesn't seem to care about Patty and Kitty at all.



* FullNameUltimatum: When Ariana and Ginny do a striptease down to their bikinis after drinking too much butterbeer, Harry and Ron yell at them using their full names - except the author thinks Ginny is short for "Virginia" and also gives her the middle name "Rosemary" and it's never been mentioned in canon if Ginny even has a middle name. Ariana's middle name is apparently "Adora", which was the name her mother used to call herself when she was pretending to be a princess. One of the sporkers point out how weird it is to name your child after your make-believe princess persona you had as a nine-year-old.
* GirlPosse: Patty and Kitty are this for Maria.

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* FullNameUltimatum: When Ariana and Ginny do a striptease down to their bikinis after drinking too much butterbeer, Harry and Ron yell at them using their full names - -- except the author thinks Ginny is short for "Virginia" and also gives her the middle name "Rosemary" and it's never been mentioned in canon if Ginny even has a middle name. Ariana's middle name is apparently "Adora", which was the name her mother used to call herself when she was pretending to be a princess. One of the sporkers point out how weird it is to name your child after your make-believe princess persona you had as a nine-year-old.
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GirlPosse: Patty and Kitty are this for Maria.



* HealingHands: One of Ariana's numerous powers.

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* %%* HealingHands: One of Ariana's numerous powers.



* MakeOutKids: Ariana and Neville - the sporkers even point out they ''never'' do anything else as a couple besides kiss each other constantly and reaffirm how much they love each other. The other couples do this too, but nobody is as bad as those two.

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* MakeOutKids: Ariana and Neville - the sporkers even point out they ''never'' do anything else as a couple besides kiss each other constantly and reaffirm how much they love each other. The other couples do this too, but nobody is as bad as those two.



* MoodWhiplash: The story tends to swing between chapters of pointless "hee-hee, characters having fun!" antics to other chapters that are full of overdone sorrow. Also, the sporkers note that any bad thing that happened seems to be forgotten immediately, with characters cracking jokes right after they escape from mortal peril.

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* MoodWhiplash: The story tends to swing between chapters of pointless "hee-hee, characters having fun!" antics to other chapters that are full of overdone sorrow. Also, the sporkers note that any Any bad thing that happened seems to be forgotten immediately, with characters cracking jokes right after they escape from mortal peril.



* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: HilarityEnsues if you take everything written at face value, as the above sporkers regularly point out.

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* MoralDissonance:
** Whatever Ariana does is good, right, and heroic. Anything and everything Maria does is ''bad'' and sign of her bitchiness...yes, even leaving class as she was told to, instead of standing around and worrying over Ariana.
** Taken UpToEleven in a Quidditch game where Maria tricks a bludger into hitting a chaser on the opposing team (who happens to be Ariana's friend). Instead of seeing this as a perfectly legal and rather clever move, Ariana claims this is the lowest thing Maria has ever done.



** Ariana is allowed to do whatever she wants in the story and she is barely if ever punished - she attacks Maria and Draco several times with her "Empath powers", but when Maria and her friends hit Ariana with a Cheering Charm, they get four months detention, letters home and banned from Hogsmeade for the rest of the year, just as an example.

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** Whatever Ariana does is good, right, and heroic. Anything and everything Maria does is ''bad'' and sign of her bitchiness...yes, even leaving class as she was told to, instead of standing around and worrying over Ariana.
** Taken UpToEleven in a Quidditch game where Maria tricks a bludger into hitting a chaser on the opposing team (who happens to be Ariana's friend). Instead of seeing this as a perfectly legal and rather clever move, Ariana claims this is the lowest thing Maria has ever done.
** Ariana is allowed to do whatever she wants in the story and she is barely if ever punished - she attacks Maria and Draco several times with her "Empath powers", powers," but when Maria and her friends hit Ariana with a Cheering Charm, they get four months detention, letters home home, and banned from Hogsmeade for the rest of the year, just as an example.



** When Maria and her GirlPosse shows up on the Hogwarts Express, Harry and Neville often are inches away from attacking them if they don't leave Ariana alone, it's framed as heroic because they're protecting Ariana, instead of a bunch of near-adult boys threatening to beat up a bunch of pre-teen girls five years younger than them just for childishly insulting one of their friends.

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** When Maria and her GirlPosse shows show up on the Hogwarts Express, Harry and Neville often are inches away from attacking them if they don't leave Ariana alone, it's framed as heroic because they're protecting Ariana, instead of a bunch of near-adult boys threatening to beat up a bunch of pre-teen girls five years younger than them just for childishly insulting one of their friends.
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All the stories have been taken down because the author was tired of people telling her Ariana was a bland powerhouse, but there is an on-going spork of all the fics starting [[http://community.livejournal.com/das_sporking/561.html here]], the sporkers being fortunate enough to still have copies of the original fanfic.

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All the stories have been taken down because the author was tired of people telling her Ariana was a bland powerhouse, MarySue, but there is an on-going spork of all the fics starting [[http://community.livejournal.com/das_sporking/561.html here]], the sporkers being fortunate enough to still have copies of the original fanfic.
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All the stories have been taken down because the author was tired of people telling her Ariana was a MarySue, but there is an on-going spork of all the fics starting [[http://community.livejournal.com/das_sporking/561.html here]], the sporkers being fortunate enough to still have copies of the original fanfic.

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All the stories have been taken down because the author was tired of people telling her Ariana was a MarySue, bland powerhouse, but there is an on-going spork of all the fics starting [[http://community.livejournal.com/das_sporking/561.html here]], the sporkers being fortunate enough to still have copies of the original fanfic.

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* MoodWhiplash: The story tends to swing between chapters of pointless "hee-hee, characters having fun!" antics to other chapters that are full of sorrow. Also, the sporkers note that any bad thing that happened seems to be forgotten immediately, with characters cracking jokes right after they escape from mortal peril.

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* MoodWhiplash: The story tends to swing between chapters of pointless "hee-hee, characters having fun!" antics to other chapters that are full of overdone sorrow. Also, the sporkers note that any bad thing that happened seems to be forgotten immediately, with characters cracking jokes right after they escape from mortal peril.



* OncePerEpisode: Almost every year involves Voldemort kidnapping Ariana.

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Almost every year involves Voldemort kidnapping Ariana.
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* MoodWhiplash: The story tends to swing between chapters of pointless "hee-hee, characters having fun!" antics to other chapters that are full of {{Wangst}}. Also, the sporkers note that any bad thing that happened seems to be forgotten immediately, with characters cracking jokes right after they escape from mortal peril.

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* MoodWhiplash: The story tends to swing between chapters of pointless "hee-hee, characters having fun!" antics to other chapters that are full of {{Wangst}}.sorrow. Also, the sporkers note that any bad thing that happened seems to be forgotten immediately, with characters cracking jokes right after they escape from mortal peril.



* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Maria dares Ariana, who's already dating Neville, to French kiss the next person to walk into their dormitory. It's Harry. She kisses him and there is much {{Wangst}} about how Maria "forced" her to cheat on Neville.

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* NobodyCallsMeChicken: Maria dares Ariana, who's already dating Neville, to French kiss the next person to walk into their dormitory. It's Harry. She kisses him and there is much {{Wangst}} sorrow about how Maria "forced" her to cheat on Neville.
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*** To be fair, in the first story it's a plot point that she can answer any ridiculously hard question Snape throws at her--though this just makes her look like a MarySue rather than "smart."

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*** To be fair, in the first story it's a plot point that she can answer any ridiculously hard question Snape throws at her--though this just makes her look like a MarySue rather than "smart." her.

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* AffectionateNickname: Ariana, Ginny and Hermione decide to give each other nicknames, except they are actually ''longer'' than their names - Ariana becomes "Pathological", Ginny becomes "Ginger snap" and Hermione becomes "Squeaks" (because, according to Ariana, "Minnie" is a nickname from Hermione and it makes her think of Minnie Mouse. Actually Minnie is a nickname for "Wilhemina".)

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* AffectionateNickname: AffectionateNickname:
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Ariana, Ginny and Hermione decide to give each other nicknames, except they are actually ''longer'' than their names - Ariana becomes "Pathological", Ginny becomes "Ginger snap" and Hermione becomes "Squeaks" (because, according to Ariana, "Minnie" is a nickname from Hermione and it makes her think of Minnie Mouse. Actually Minnie is a nickname for "Wilhemina".)



* AuthorAppeal: The author seems to like writing about Ariana gratuitously receiving expensive jewelry for no apparent reason.

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The author seems to like writing about Ariana gratuitously receiving expensive jewelry for no apparent reason.



* BlessedWithSuck: While Ariana's Empath powers are genuinely useful, she rarely gets enough use out of them (see UselessUsefulSpell below) to justify the horrible side-effects:

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While Ariana's Empath powers are genuinely useful, she rarely gets enough use out of them (see UselessUsefulSpell below) to justify the horrible side-effects:



* BodyHorror: At one point, Neville's nose [[{{Squick}} evidently ends up smeared across his face.]]

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* BodyHorror: At one point, Neville's nose [[{{Squick}} evidently ends up smeared across his face.]]



* ChangelingFantasy: An unusual case. After her mother's death, Ariana was raised by a witch named Mita. Ariana immediately dumps her to live with Sirius once he's pardoned, and even comments that it wasn't until she started living with Sirius and Harry that she had a [[UnfortunateImplications real family]].

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* ChangelingFantasy: An unusual case. After her mother's death, Ariana was raised by a witch named Mita. Ariana immediately dumps her to live with Sirius once he's pardoned, and even comments that it wasn't until she started living with Sirius and Harry that she had a [[UnfortunateImplications real family]].family.



* FauxActionGirl: Ariana constantly brags about how strong her Empath powers are, yet as soon as she gets into any real danger she starts sobbing and whining about how she's going to die and faints into someone (usually Neville's) arms.

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* FauxActionGirl: FauxActionGirl:
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Ariana constantly brags about how strong her Empath powers are, yet as soon as she gets into any real danger she starts sobbing and whining about how she's going to die and faints into someone (usually Neville's) arms.



* {{Hypocrite}}: During the sixth year, Ariana's groupie friends ask Ariana why Maria hates her so much. Ariana then goes on to brazenly claim that Maria hates Ariana because Ariana does everything better than her and is jealous, but Ariana then says she never retaliated or let Maria get to her (except for the time she kissed Harry on a dare). This is ''blatantly'' not true, as Ariana responds to Maria's taunts with tantrums, crying to her friends, at one point using it to wriggle out of a serious punishment from Professor [=McGonagall=] and Ariana is always the one who abuses her "Empath powers" to attack Maria with no consequences for Ariana - whereas Maria and her friends hitting her with a spell got them letters sent home, four months detention and banned from going to Hogsmeade for the rest of the year. Ariana also complains that Maria constantly insults her friends and plays pranks on her, yet Ariana has done exactly the same thing which she dismisses as "getting mad sometimes."
** Ariana also tells Maria to watch her language around the first years, then calls her a bitch no more than a few sentences later.

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* {{Hypocrite}}: During the sixth year, Ariana's groupie friends ask Ariana why Maria hates her so much. Ariana then goes on to brazenly claim that Maria hates Ariana because Ariana does everything better than her and is jealous, but Ariana then says she never retaliated or let Maria get to her (except for the time she kissed Harry on a dare). This is ''blatantly'' not true, as Ariana responds to Maria's taunts with tantrums, crying to her friends, at one point using it to wriggle out of a serious punishment from Professor [=McGonagall=] and Ariana is always the one who abuses her "Empath powers" to attack Maria with no consequences for Ariana - whereas Maria and her friends hitting her with a spell got them letters sent home, four months detention and banned from going to Hogsmeade for the rest of the year. Ariana also complains that Maria constantly insults her friends and plays pranks on her, yet Ariana has done exactly the same thing which she dismisses as "getting mad sometimes."
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" Ariana also tells Maria to watch her language around the first years, then calls her a bitch no more than a few sentences later.



* InformedAbility: Apparently, Maria is a very skilled flyer and Quidditch player. But we never see her flying or playing Quidditch before the fact.

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Apparently, Maria is a very skilled flyer and Quidditch player. But we never see her flying or playing Quidditch before the fact.



* InformedAttribute: Ariana and Neville are supposedly madly in love, but it's suspiciously easy for Neville to start mistrusting Ariana just because Maria told him she kissed Harry. (Which wasn't even a lie.)

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* InformedAttribute: InformedAttribute:
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Ariana and Neville are supposedly madly in love, but it's suspiciously easy for Neville to start mistrusting Ariana just because Maria told him she kissed Harry. (Which wasn't even a lie.)



* JerkassHasAPoint: Some of the things Maria says actually make a lot more sense than what Ariana does--for instance, that it's wrong for Ariana to date her professor. She also accurately points out that Ariana can't do anything without abusing her "Empath" powers and she needs her friends to do much of her fighting for her, true on all counts.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: JerkassHasAPoint:
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Some of the things Maria says actually make a lot more sense than what Ariana does--for instance, that it's wrong for Ariana to date her professor. She also accurately points out that Ariana can't do anything without abusing her "Empath" powers and she needs her friends to do much of her fighting for her, true on all counts.



* KarmaHoudini: Maria and her friends try to kill Ariana at breakfast one morning, lock her in a closet on the last day of school and plan to leave her there all summer, et cetera. All they get away with is a slap on the wrist. [[RootingForTheEmpire Not that some of us are complaining...]]

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* KarmaHoudini: KarmaHoudini:
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Maria and her friends try to kill Ariana at breakfast one morning, lock her in a closet on the last day of school and plan to leave her there all summer, et cetera. All they get away with is a slap on the wrist. [[RootingForTheEmpire Not that some of us are complaining...]]



* TheMaidenNameDebate: Since she's Ariana ''Black,'' her mom apparently decided to keep her last name (or maybe change it back when her husband left her). [[FridgeLogic Which is kind of odd]], given how terrified both originally are about people realizing they're related to Sirius.

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* TheMaidenNameDebate: Since she's Ariana ''Black,'' her mom apparently decided to keep her last name (or maybe change it back when her husband left her). [[FridgeLogic Which is kind of odd]], odd, given how terrified both originally are about people realizing they're related to Sirius.



* MoralDissonance: Whatever Ariana does is good, right, and heroic. Anything and everything Maria does is ''bad'' and sign of her bitchiness...yes, even leaving class as she was told to, instead of standing around and worrying over Ariana.

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* MoralDissonance: MoralDissonance:
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Whatever Ariana does is good, right, and heroic. Anything and everything Maria does is ''bad'' and sign of her bitchiness...yes, even leaving class as she was told to, instead of standing around and worrying over Ariana.



* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Ariana suddenly develops her "Empath" abilities in the third year after absolutely no warning. The Locutus Amulet is introduced in the fourth year after Mita is killed, which she gives Ariana in her will, [[FridgeLogic even though you'd think she'd have given it to Ariana long before, as it belonged to Ariana's mother and could have come in very useful.]]

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* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Ariana suddenly develops her "Empath" abilities in the third year after absolutely no warning. The Locutus Amulet is introduced in the fourth year after Mita is killed, which she gives Ariana in her will, [[FridgeLogic even though you'd think she'd have given it to Ariana long before, as it belonged to Ariana's mother and could have come in very useful.]]



* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Oh dear god. Ariana is allowed to do whatever she wants in the story and she is barely if ever punished - she attacks Maria and Draco several times with her "Empath powers", but when Maria and her friends hit Ariana with a Cheering Charm, they get four months detention, letters home and banned from Hogsmeade for the rest of the year, just as an example.

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Ariana is allowed to do whatever she wants in the story and she is barely if ever punished - she attacks Maria and Draco several times with her "Empath powers", but when Maria and her friends hit Ariana with a Cheering Charm, they get four months detention, letters home and banned from Hogsmeade for the rest of the year, just as an example.



* SatelliteCharacter: Harry and his friends, of all people, are turned into this for Ariana. Whether she's around or not, all they ever do is fuss over her.

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Harry and his friends, of all people, are turned into this for Ariana. Whether she's around or not, all they ever do is fuss over her.



* ShoutOut: To Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', as Ron and Hermione dance to "Part of Your World" at their wedding.

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To Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', as Ron and Hermione dance to "Part of Your World" at their wedding.



* UselessUsefulSpell: A rare non-video game example. Ariana's ability to sense emotions doesn't seem to help any time it's particularly needed. She can sense her friends sneaking up on her (some of the time), but always misses when somebody with hostile intentions is preparing to ambush her. She can sense how much Neville loves her, but was completely oblivious to Reginald's feelings until he confessed.

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Ariana's ability to sense emotions doesn't seem to help any time it's particularly needed. She can sense her friends sneaking up on her (some of the time), but always misses when somebody with hostile intentions is preparing to ambush her. She can sense how much Neville loves her, but was completely oblivious to Reginald's feelings until he confessed.



--->'''Ariana:''' "You bitch! You're just jealous that I'm better than you at everything!" Ariana screamed in rage.

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--->'''Ariana:''' "You bitch! You're just jealous that I'm better than you at everything!" Ariana screamed in rage.rage.

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* HotForTeacher[=/=]HotForStudent: After graduating, Neville becomes the new Herbology professor. He and Ariana ''still'' date, which the author tries to justify because they were together before he became a teacher.


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* TeacherStudentRomance: After graduating, Neville becomes the new Herbology professor. He and Ariana ''still'' date, which the author tries to justify because they were together before he became a teacher.
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* ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything: They are mentioned, but never do anything helpful. The one time they are supposed to appear on-screen, Ariana conveniently falls into Voldemort's trap and the rest of the time is spent with her, until she is rescued by the canon characters and the Aurors are never mentioned again.



* SmallAnnoyingCreature: Sprite, Ariana's pet owl, which is intended to be a RidiculouslyCuteCritter and AnimalCompanion is actually this trope. She spends most of her time attacking anybody who is mean to Ariana, playing "pranks" and in one scene she flies around annoying the Hogwarts teachers, divebombing them and even ''dipping Dumbledore's beard in his pumpkin juice'', which of course all the teachers find "uproariously funny".



* [[ThePiratesWhoDontDoAnything The Aurors Who Don't Do Anything]]: They are mentioned, but never do anything helpful. The one time they are supposed to appear on-screen, Ariana conveniently falls into Voldemort's trap and the rest of the time is spent with her, until she is rescued by the canon characters and the Aurors are never mentioned again.

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* InformedAttribute: Ariana and Neville are supposedly madly in love, but it's suspiciously easy for Neville to start mistrusting Ariana just because Maria told him she kissed Harry. (Which wasn't even a lie, technically speaking.)

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* InformedAttribute: Ariana and Neville are supposedly madly in love, but it's suspiciously easy for Neville to start mistrusting Ariana just because Maria told him she kissed Harry. (Which wasn't even a lie, technically speaking.)lie.)
** We're told numerous times Ariana is sweet-natured, but the minute Maria even mildly teases her Ariana starts screaming insults at her and she's not above mocking Harry, Ron or Neville when they annoy her.



** In the second year, Ariana yells at Maria for "forcing" her to kiss Harry. Maria replies she never made Ariana do anything, she accepted the dare and went through with it on her own. Even Ariana has to admit Maria's right about that one. Maria also points out Ariana jumped at the chance to kiss someone who wasn't her boyfriend when she could have easily just refused the dare.



* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Oh dear god. Ariana is allowed to do whatever she wants in the story and she is barely ever punished - she attacks Maria and Draco several times with her "Empath powers", but when Maria and her friends hit Ariana with a Cheering Charm, they get four months detention, letters home and banned from Hogsmeade for the rest of the year, just as an example.

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* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Oh dear god. Ariana is allowed to do whatever she wants in the story and she is barely if ever punished - she attacks Maria and Draco several times with her "Empath powers", but when Maria and her friends hit Ariana with a Cheering Charm, they get four months detention, letters home and banned from Hogsmeade for the rest of the year, just as an example.



** When Maria and her GirlPosse shows up on the Hogwarts Express, Harry and Neville often are inches away from attacking them if they don't leave Ariana alone, it's framed as heroic because they're protecting Ariana, instead of a bunch of near-adult boys threatening to beat up a bunch of pre-teen girls four years younger than them just for childishly insulting one of their friends.

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** When Maria and her GirlPosse shows up on the Hogwarts Express, Harry and Neville often are inches away from attacking them if they don't leave Ariana alone, it's framed as heroic because they're protecting Ariana, instead of a bunch of near-adult boys threatening to beat up a bunch of pre-teen girls four five years younger than them just for childishly insulting one of their friends.



* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Ariana is a milder example of this trope than is usual, but she's making sexual innuendo and snogging her boyfriend repeatedly at age ''twelve'' and she also apparently wears ''lipstick'' as a first year. In the fourth year she also does a striptease with Ginny down to their bathing suits, then excuse it because they got drunk off butterbeer.



* YouMustBeCold: In the fourth story, Harry offers Ariana his sweater after Malfoy's AttemptedRape tears her blouse. Which is sort of a PlotHole; the author apparently forgot that earlier she had [[DressedInLayers been wearing a robe over her clothes]], so she could have easily just put that back on.

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* YouMustBeCold: In the fourth story, Harry offers Ariana his sweater after Malfoy's AttemptedRape tears her blouse. Which is sort of a PlotHole; the author apparently forgot that earlier she had [[DressedInLayers been wearing a robe over her clothes]], so she could have easily just put that back on.on.
* YoureJustJealous: Any time Maria criticises Ariana, no matter how valid it may be, she is always accused of this trope. To quote Ariana herself:
--->'''Ariana:''' "You bitch! You're just jealous that I'm better than you at everything!" Ariana screamed in rage.
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* IdenticalLookingAsians: For a Potions lesson, Ariana partners with Michael Okuda, "a handsome looking Asian boy who reminded Ariana of Cho Chang." She never explains ''why'' he reminds her of Cho Chang, though, so presumably it's just because she's also attractive and Asian. (Incidentally, Cho is four years older than Ariana and Harry doesn't seem to pursue her romantically in this universe, [[PlotHole so how does Ariana even know who she is]]?)


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* RacialFaceBlindness: For a Potions lesson, Ariana partners with Michael Okuda, "a handsome looking Asian boy who reminded Ariana of Cho Chang." She never explains ''why'' he reminds her of Cho Chang, though, so presumably it's just because she's also attractive and Asian. (Incidentally, Cho is four years older than Ariana and Harry doesn't seem to pursue her romantically in this universe, [[PlotHole so how does Ariana even know who she is]]?)
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* ShoutOut: To Disney's ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', as Ron and Hermione dance to "Part of Your World" at their wedding.

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* ShoutOut: To Disney's ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', ''WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989'', as Ron and Hermione dance to "Part of Your World" at their wedding.

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