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* BathroomBrawl: Sirius and Snape fight in the lavatory, and when Petunia's guests hear it, she claims that it's poltergeists.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Petunia has this reaction when she finds out Marcella, Titus and Hector [[spoiler: knew the truth about Harry and Dudley's parentage]].
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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse; Elvira's murderer cut her up with a scalpel to make it look like Titus killed her because she'd told him he was a doctor, but what he didn't know was Titus is a mind healer, not a surgeon.

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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse; Elvira's murderer cut her up with a scalpel to make it look like Titus killed her because she'd told him he was a doctor, but what doctor. What he didn't know was that Titus is a mind healer, not a surgeon.
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* The title and the chapter titles are all shout outs to various songs, films or books.
* Nancy, Dodger and Charley, Titus's elves, are named after characters in ''Literature/OliverTwist''.

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* ** The title and the chapter titles are all shout outs to various songs, films or books.
* ** Nancy, Dodger and Charley, Titus's elves, are named after characters in ''Literature/OliverTwist''.
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* AmusingInjuries: Tom Riddle gets caught between a herd of centaurs and a mountain troll. Cato thinks it's amusing.


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* BitchInSheepsClothing: [[spoiler: Theodora]].
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* MadScientist: Cassius Mayhew. Cato also becomes this, and Algy has some shades of it.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Mr. Arcos, who first appears early on and becomes more important later.


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* DeliberatelyCuteChild: Cressida "Cressy" Mayhew.


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* EarlyBirdCameo: The centaur colt Cato rescues in the Forbidden Forest? A young Firenze.


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* KarmaHoudini: Tom Riddle killed [[spoiler: Cicero]], Myrtle and countless other people, but he's still running around more than fifty years afterwards.


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* LittleMissBadass: Cressy.


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* MuggleBornOfMages: Mrs. Figg, as in canon. Also Petunia and Catullus "Tully" Mayhew, but in their case their magic is buried rather than absent.

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* AdaptationalHeroism: Petunia.

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* AdaptationalHeroism: Petunia.Petunia, Dudley.


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* CriticalResearchFailure: InUniverse; Elvira's murderer cut her up with a scalpel to make it look like Titus killed her because she'd told him he was a doctor, but what he didn't know was Titus is a mind healer, not a surgeon.


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* ShoutOut:
* The title and the chapter titles are all shout outs to various songs, films or books.
* Nancy, Dodger and Charley, Titus's elves, are named after characters in ''Literature/OliverTwist''.
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* GhostlyGoals: Elvira thinks she must be a ghost because she has unfinished business.
* InstantAwesomeJustAddDragons: Talking dragons, no less.


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* OurGhostsAreDifferent: Elvira, Aillig, and the shades of Lily and Cato, who may not be proper ghosts at all.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Sholto.



* LukeYouAreMyFather: Harry and Dudley discover that, thanks to Lily, [[spoiler: Snape is their father]]. None of them are happy about this.

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* LukeYouAreMyFather: LukeYouAreMyFather:
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Harry and Dudley discover that, thanks to Lily, [[spoiler: Snape is their father]]. None of them are happy about this.this.
** [[spoiler: Sholto is Cato and Theodora's son]]. Subverted in that he knows it, but Petunia doesn't.
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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8864658/1/By-Baker-Street-Station-I-Sat-Down-and-Wept By Baker Street Station, I Sat Down and Wept]] is a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' FanFic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/165664/Deco Deco]].

Petunia divorces Vernon, discovers she's a Squib (sort of), and inherits a manor from a great-aunt, not necessarily in that order. Then she discovers her family were essentially the Wizarding equivalent of [[MadScientist Mad Scientists]], finds the diary of her Great-Uncle Cato Mayhew, has a disturbing revelation about Harry and Dudley's parentage, and tries to keep the boys safe while sabotaging Voldemort's rise to power.

!!This fanfic contains examples of:
* AdaptationalHeroism: Petunia.
* AttentionWhore: Most of the dragons.
* BlatantLies: When Sirius and Snape get into a fight in the bathroom, and Petunia's guests hear the noise they're making, she explains it away as "Poltergeists!"
* {{Doorstopper}}
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Cicero Mayhew and Theodora, both courtesy of Tom Riddle]].
* LukeYouAreMyFather: Harry and Dudley discover that, thanks to Lily, [[spoiler: Snape is their father]]. None of them are happy about this.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Mr. Crouch Sr.
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