History Fanfic / HarryPotterAndTheMagicOfTheBeasts

* AMindIsATerribleThingToRead: When Dumbledore used Legitimacy on Harry when he first showed up to see what Harry was planning, he saw [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]]. It was enough to force Dumbledore to never read Harry's mind again.

* BeenThereShapedHistory: Mentioned about the Prewitt line in Chapter 16, where one of their ancestors was Jack the Ripper. The reason he got away with murdering prostitutes in both the magical and no-maj world was because the Aurors claimed ''what pureblood would use muggle methods for trivial things''? This also cost the Prewitt line much of their fortune, as the man was the Patriarch of said line and vanished without a will being made. As Harry later explained, every major family branch in the magical world often had one or two members go batshit insane due to whatever is possible, with two cousins from the Potter line being in a three week duel that he has no clue of the reason behind it.
* BerserkButton: Threatening or actually harming those Harry cares about is a good way to get on his shit list. [[spoiler: The French Malfoy branch and the Goyle family learned that the fatal way.]]
** [[spoiler: This also applies to Walden [=MacNair=]. After being sold Hermione by Snape, Harry pays him a house visit and murders him, carving the unity rune on him at Christmas Eve.]]

* BigWHAT: [[spoiler: Pettigrew's reaction when the ritual he used was altered and destroyed over 2000 years ago.]]
* CassandraTruth: Snape knows Harry is behind many of the events in Hogwarts, but the problem is that, as Harry says, if he's right, then he's admitting Potters can do impossible things. If he's wrong, then he's making baseless accusations that are at best, slander, and at worst, harassment. [[spoiler: This costs him a lot of power by the time third year rolls around, with him being a Potions teacher, and nothing more.]]

* CuttingTheKnot: Upon finding out Hagrid has a baby Dragon and knowing the sheer amount of trouble he'd be in, he calls up Hedwig to bring Steve so that he can get the jist of the situation. Once Hedwig flames her, Steve and Noberta away (though with promise to give Hagrid year-round visits to her), it averts the canonical route. [[InSpiteOfANail They are still caught outside after curfew, but Harry's explanation doesn't cost him, Emily, Neville and Hermione any points, only a detention.]]

* GreatEscape: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted.]] Pettigrew's escape is due to Dumbledore and Fudge both claiming that Pettigrew never registered his Animagus form. [[InsaneTrollLogic If he hadn't registered his form, thereby he's not an Animagus.]]

** Lily kicks Dumbledore where the sun don't shine in Chapter 15 when Harry says that the hooded figure cast [[OneHitKill the killing curse]] on him and Emily. [[MamaBear She did not like hearing that Dumbledore was trying to play off the attempted murder of Harry and Emily.]]

* ImperfectRitual: [[InvokedTrope Invoked.]] The IWCO made fake-out books that offered highly evil rituals that could either grant more power, permanently bind someone to you as a slave, and loads more, at least in writing. [[spoiler: When carved down, the runes were altered slightly, as the originals were destroyed when found. When the ritual was done, instead of doing what the description wanted, it would cause grave consequences to the caster of the ritual.]] [[spoiler: Pettigrew finding out he was stripped of his ability to cast spells and was turned into a human-rat hybrid due to the altered ritual means he is for all intents and purposes, as dangerous as a wet sock and more easily identifiable, as the results are permanent.]]
** This also applies to how wraiths are made. As Harry is taught a specific spell to kill wraiths, he explains during the forbidden forest detention and after that wraiths are not misunderstood creatures, but evil wizards that botched one of the most evil rituals, resulting in them being turned into parasitic entities, draining the life force of those they kill or possess. When it failed to kill the hooded figure in the Forbidden Forest, it was clear whoever was attacking the unicorns was still alive.

** Lockhart still ends up getting hit with the backlash of a magic blast due to a bad wand pick. The difference is that he was using Harry's custom-made wand, which results in his [[DeathByAdaptation death.]]

** Dementors are still stationed around Hogwarts due to a prisoner escape from Azkaban, except it's [[spoiler: Pettigrew, not Sirius]].
** Pettigrew still escapes by the end of third year, [[spoiler: but as a human-rat hybrid and due to Dumbledore sending Snape to stall enough for Peter to escape.]]

* ItsAllAboutMe: Dumbledore. He outright refuses to let anyone in on the knowledge he knows (in part because he could end up criminally charged by the ICW), wishes to know all the spells that the ICW let out, but bar anyone else from knowing about it. This type of entitlement constantly has him butt heads with Harry and cost him allies. By the end of third year, much of the staff save Snape doubt Dumbledore's position as the Leader of the Light, Harry's circle of friends do not trust Dumbledore and the Potters have lost a lot of respect for the old man. WordOfGod implies that this will continue on.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The Dursleys were very cruel and obnoxious like canon, verbally abusing Harry and mistreating him like he was a slave. When Steve gets guardianship of Harry transferred from them to him while they were in Romania, he secretly casts boastful and truth telling charms on them, which results in their arrest and incarceration at [[spoiler: Abracatraz]]. For added bonus, even if they get out, they are labeled 'hazardous and deadly' to all magicals, rendering their reputation utterly kaput.

* LookBehindYou: While fighting the Basilisk, Harry tells the Basilisk that a rooster is behind her. The snake has a comical reaction and turns around, while Diary Riddle [[YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe is left dumbfounded that a 1,000 year old serpent fell for such a stupid trick.]]

** Purebloods intentionally put in that rule, as while the Ministry can punish first-gens for casting spells (as they are in non-magical environments), pureblood children can use magic on their property as they are in a magical environment, [[LogicalWeakness making it difficult for the Trace to spot a kid using magic.]]

** Mrs. Granger is this as well. [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Upon finding out about her daughter being petrified by the Basilisk, said Basilisk roaming about and the British Ministry trying to execute her in full view of the student population unless Steve comes to Britain to face death from her daughter and not the school]], she was well on her way to storming up to Hogwarts and setting Dumbledore's ass on fire. Luckily, [[spoiler: Harry used his extensive knowledge on international law and outright threatened Fudge that if he went through with his, he'd be charged with breaking International Law.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: ''Dumbledore''. Throughout the series, he claims that he knows what is best for everyone, but the methods he uses range from immortal, to outright illegal methods. They range from slandering Harry in first year, to removing all the books and courses that would make wizards and witches in Britain independent of him, blocking notes being sent to parents when incidents such as the troll or the Basilisk occurred, to subtly manipulating the return of Voldemort to become the second coming of Merlin. Most of these methods when it's being used against Harry often blows up in his face.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: In Harry Potter canon, the name of the Basilisk is not given. Here, the Basilisk's name is Ivy.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: When Harry finds out Hagrid had a dragon egg, one that was reported missing from the Dragon Reserve he worked and lived at, he called up Steve to get Noberta back to the reserve. When Mcgonagall asked why they were out of bed after curfew, Harry explained that if he didn't follow Hermione, Neville and Emily, Hagrid's home would've burned down and Hagrid would've been arrested for receiving a stolen dragon egg. When the trio backed up Harry's claim, Mcgonagall agrees that Harry was in the right to help Hagrid, along with Hermione, Neville and Emily for being honest, they are still assigned detention for being out after curfew, but no point deductions.

** Dumbledore panics when his plan to mark Harry as a Dark Lord in the making backfired in more ways than one.
** Tarvos has this reaction when he [[SayingTooMuch is found out as a traitor to the troll clan he was in.]]

** Pettigrew is shocked when he's told [[spoiler: the ritual he did has stripped him of the ability to cast spells, rendering him effectively useless in wand combat.]]

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: ''Narrowly averted''. Despite Pettigrew's actions and attempts to end the Potter bloodline, Dumbledore pleads for Sirius to offer Pettigrew a second chance. While it can be speculated that Azkaban is worse than death, it doesn't hide the fact that Peter nearly paid the price of treachery with his life. [[spoiler: When Pettigrew tries to enslave Hermione and Emily to him, only to be turned into a human-rat hybrid incapable of casting spells, Sirius tells Peter that he should have killed him 12 years ago.]]

* SadistTeacher: Snape is a mix of this and [[ApatheticTeacher Apathetic Teacher]]. Between over glorifying the Slytherin students, demonizing the students of the other three houses, blatantly ignoring Malfoy's attempts to sabotage the potion making of other students, he is quite uncaring of the plight of anyone not in Slytherin House. This eventually comes back to bite him in the ass when he antagonizes Harry for things that he believes [[CassandraTruth Harry is responsible for, but cannot prove]], [[spoiler: culminating in him being reduced to a teacher in name only, unable to give or take points, give detentions to students or punish them by the end of second year.]]
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: [[DefiedTrope Defied.]] When Lucius tries to buy Boundless, the Canadian broom service outright tells him that his claim he was under the Imperius holds no sway outside Britain, nor in any other nation.

* TooDumbToLive: Yes, Snape, brag to Harry that he has sold Hermione as a sex slave to Walden [=MacNair=], [[SarcasmMode I'm sure that'll go well.]] Idiot was lucky Harry made him do the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]].

* DidntThinkThisThrough: Dumbledore and Fudge's attempts to either slander Harry or force his guardian to Britain to be hurled into Azkaban, or Draco's attempts to show himself as the top dog often backfires in their faces.
** Draco's attempts to banish a rock at Harry at the insult of [[DisproportionateRetribution not letting Hermione fall to her death or severe injury]] in front of several teachers causes him to lose fifty points and a week's worth of detentions. It didn't occur to him that the staff would be pissed at a deliberate attempt of grievous bodily harm ''at the least'' or that Harry would've spent years flying wherever he was raised at (as at the time, much of the student population was lost as to where he was raised at).
** When Draco challenges Emily to a duel and no-showed, he had expected her to get into trouble. It didn't occur that he should've done this in an area where there would be no witnesses, or that her estranged brother would get vengeance. Sure enough, when the start of Christmas holidays come about, Harry hands Lucius a packet from the ICW demanding half the Malfoy fortune for this ill-thoughted stunt. Since Lucius had lost all connections to the ICW after his French branch was wiped out, he is forced to capitulate.
** Dumbledore has Rita Skeeter and the Daily Prophet create a slanderous hit piece on Harry in the hopes to get him to react violently to cement him as a dark lord in the making. It didn't occur to him that Harry would message Steve to get an investigation into this, nor would it occur that it would unearth that Dumbledore had gifted Rita Harry's ''vault key''. This leads to Dumbledore being suspended from the ICW, the Daily Prophet being disbanded and Skeeter arrested and sent to the Himalayas to serve an 80-year prison sentence for a variety of crimes, including banking fraud.
** Mentioned [[InUniverse In-Universe]] by Steve when Fudge orders Amelia to arrest him, as the last attempt by the British Ministry to arrest an IWCO operative cost Magical Britain enough Galleons to cause a severe economic downturn that took almost 30 years to recover from.
** When Tarvos claims that the Goyles are trustworthy wizards. This was after Harry and Steve murdered all but one member, and the Chief said that he lost a brother to the Goyles 15 years ago. [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Lakjin didn't even know the familial name of them,]] [[SayingTooMuch and Harry and Steve hadn't told them yet.]] Tarvos stupidly outs himself as a traitor, and when he tries to attack Vriska, Harry intercepts it, challenges Tarvos to a fight [[CurbStompBattle and brutalizes him as punishment.]] When Tarvos sees him on Halloween, [[NeverMyFault Tarvos blames Harry for losing everything]] and tries to kill him, only for Harry to lure him out of the castle, blast him over the bridge and get him [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice speared in the chest by a stalagmite.]]
** When Snape confronts Harry over attacking Flint, Harry quickly turns it around and explains that Flint is suffering from Dementor exposure. It didn't occur to Snape to read the hospital report, that Flint had attacked his team for failing to injure or kill Emily, or that if Harry was involved in any aspects (which he is, but Snape cannot prove it) then he would be claiming that the Potter family can do impossible things. By the end of the confrontation, Snape is put on probation, and Flint is kicked off the Quidditch team [[SoreLoser when its found out he attacked his team for their loss in the game.]]
** Lucius' attempts to buy Boundless broom services and have it staffed by purebloods selling the brooms in the Malfoy name fails. It didn't occur to him that they would do a background check, or that the Malfoy family's tendency to follow dark lords, crimes of bribery, Veela Trafficking and discrimination against magical creatures and first-gens (which primarily staff Boundless) would be found out. When Lucius receives the note from Boundless, it's to tell him that they will not be doing business with him and that [[PersonaNonGrata he is permanently barred from investing in, buying or doing business in Canada.]]
** When Dumbledore arranges for Harry and co to have detention in the Forbidden Forest in the hopes that Ron would be able to have Harry perish in an "accident". It didn't occur to him that Harry was far more experienced than most wizards, that Ron was a genuine idiot of the highest caliber, that whatever was hunting unicorns could kill Emily, or that [=McGonagall=] would actually be pissed over her detention (helping Professor Sprout) being overruled. When the report came in, not only were three of the four House Heads, Lily and James infuriated, but Harry outright claiming the hooded figure cast the [[OneHitKill Killing Curse]] on him and Emily is enough to drive Lily into [[MamaBear Dragon Mode]].
** When a group of Aurors try to arrest Harry for murdering Quirrell, it didn't occur to them that Harry might have a license to kill from the ICW, nor did it occur that the reason Harry did that was because Quirrell was ''possessed by Voldemort''. While the last part would be hard to believe, it also doesn't help that the ''Head of the DMLE'' was there, and she could easily vouch for Harry, having seen the possessed teacher.
** Snape's outing of Hermione's Nekomata status in the hopes it would punish Harry for forcing him on Probation again by having him watch Hermione be executed. It didn't occur to him that the other heads would be pissed about it. Especially since Snape called Hermione a [[FantasticRacism half-breed]] and Flitwick (a half-Goblin) would actually view Snape's mannerisms as unprofessional and insulting. Sure enough, by the end of Chapter 20, [[spoiler: Snape is stripped of his ability to assign detentions, give or take points after his stunt falls flat on its ass. [[UltimateJobSecurity The only reason he isn't fired for trying to get Hermione killed is because Dumbledore gave him tenure when he was hired.]]]]
** Fudge's attempts to order the execution of Hermione at the end of second year in front of the whole school unless Steve is brought to Britain to face trial for the murder of purebloods falls flat for three reasons: One, all the purebloods Steve had killed were involved in serious crimes, from Veela trafficking to outright terrorism and were sanctioned by the IWCO, meaning it is an international affair that Britain has ''no control'' over. Two, it is a blatant violation of international law. Said law was signed by all countries, including Britain, over 500 years ago. And three, if he had went through with it, not only would he be removed from office, it would be highly likely that the vast majority of the Fudge Administration would be arrested for various crimes, and most of the purebloods who supported Voldemort would likely be arrested and facing death for their crimes, as Fudge being removed means their main form of protection would be gone. [[spoiler: Sure enough, by the end of this, the Fudge Admin is on thin ice for this stunt.]]
** Intentionally done with Peter and his Animagus form. As Fudge and Dumbledore move Pettigrew to a normal cell, claiming that he never registered his Animagus form. Dumbledore knew Peter had a Animagus form and exploited the fact that Fudge didn't, nor did the Minister believe it wouldn't be done due to him using it for criminal activity. Summed up by Susan in Chapter 21.
---> '''Susan:''' Apparently if you aren't registered as an Animagus, then by default you aren't one. I'd love to know what the fuck Dumbass and Fudge were smoking when they decided that.
** When Dumbledore tries to bar Emily from going to Hogsmeade, he fails to realize that the Potters were not too happy about the magical binding contract to wed her to Lockhart. When Harry mentions that he did nothing about the contract, Dumbledore is forced to fold to avoid any investigations into that mess, knowing he could lose his Hogwarts position if the full truth came out.
** When Snape reveals that Hermione is sold to [=MacNair=] to Harry in a bid to get a violent reaction. It didn't occur that Harry would've learned the [[LaserGuidedAmnesia Obliviate spell]], nor did it occur to him that if this got to the staff, Snape would be fired and arrested for selling a magical creature protected by ICW law. Sure enough, Snape is forced to do the [[Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow Time Warp]] [[spoiler: and by Christmas, Harry [[DeathByAdaptation kills [=MacNair=] in retaliation.]]]]
** Most of Dumbledore's actions backfire in many manners and repeatedly, and his constant attempts to put Ron with Emily fail every step of the way. By the Quidditch World Cup, Ron is currently being closely monitored by the Hogwarts staff for anything suspicious, and Dumbledore is facing a lot of suspicion and scrutiny.
** The Triwizard Tournament is being held at Hogwarts and Dumbledore intends to have Harry's name enter so the kid can be killed off. The problem is that Harry is very adaptive and that if this fails, he'll be in very deep shit. [[spoiler: When this inevitably fails, he will lose his ICW position and probably lose his Chief Warlock and Headmaster positions as well.]]

Currently at 24 chapters (25 if you count the Prologue) with the author on an inconsistent update schedule due to making the next chapters 20,000 words per chapter.

* HaremGenre: Well, this is a harem themed story. However, unlike most harems, it's Harry alongside Luna, Hermione and a group of magical creatures.

* LazyBum: Ron. He finds having to work to get the Potter fortune rather tiring, but due to Emily refusing to even look at him, the likeliness that Ron could come up with a decent plan being next to none means he has to work. [[spoiler: This comes back to bite him in the ass when Narius and Pettigrew put him under mind control due to the sheer laziness Ron has at doing anything that's not [[BigEater eating]] or sleeping.]] Of course, predictably, Ron doesn't learn anything.

** Molly and Ron are firm believers of the light, but desire the Potter fortune due to it being one of the most powerful family fortunes in Britain.

** Before Dumbledore became headmaster, a previous headmaster had put in a bathroom in the medical wing due to a slew of [[PottyEmergency potty emergencies]], and it's heavily implied a lot of them had {{PottyFailure}}s.

** During the Quidditch World Cup attack, the last adult Goyle is left terrified upon realizing Harry was here. It was the last thing he saw before he was brutally murdered alongside his two Death Eater companions.

** The Triwizard Tournament is being held at Hogwarts. [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that whatever Dumbledore has planned will fail so badly, it would be seen as pitiful.]]

** Molly has tried for years to get an arranged marriage between Emily and Ron in an effort to get to the Potter fortune, to no avail. It's highly likely that Molly will resort to love and loyalty potions in order to get the Potter fortune one way or another.

** Ron shows shades of this due to being a firm believer of the Light. He holds outright racist views towards magical creatures like Hermione (and even before, viewed Hermione as a toy for him to get as a reward), shows deep resentment and hatred towards Slytherin students, and despises the ICW laws that protect Hermione. This constantly causes him endless amounts of failure because Emily, her circle of friends and even three of his siblings can see his true colors.

--> '''Harry:''' As for the rivalry between werewolves and vampires, that's largely been done away with. Only a werewolf named Fenrir Greyback and his most loyal followers still keep the rivalry going. Though Nadine and Elora do have a rivalry when it comes to flirting with me.\\

'''Lakjin''': Tarvos, if Devastator trusts this boy, then I will trust him as well... However... I would like to know ''HOW'' you knew the familial name of these wizards, when even ''I'' didn't know.\\

--> '''Harry:''' Now, when I mentioned about certain wand cores harming those who are mismatched, I was referring to a Veela hair in my wand. Veela hair only works flawlessly to those they are ''freely'' given to. If someone steals the wand and tries to use it, the magic of the spell and hair will backfire, harming the caster. Lockhart overpowered his memory charm to hit all three of us, which caused a major backlash, so if slamming spine first into the wall hadn't killed him, the stress on his magical core would have.

''P.S. The one who investigated you, one Steve Feros, says 'Hi'.''\\