History Fanfic / KaleidoscopicGrangers

* TheTeam: Ariadne, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny, sometimes brand themselves as the New Marauders, and are rarely seen apart - so rarely that in Chapter 206, ''Like Pulling Teeth,'' [[spoiler:Cormac [=McLaggen=] correctly figures out that Ron's a werewolf almost entirely based on that.]]
** TheLeader: For the most part in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' Ariadne isn't actually TheLeader of the New Marauders; Hermione is. Hermione falls under the category of the Levelheaded Leader, being logical and often more objective. However, this is occasionally a weakness, as she doesn't address her own losses - when bad things happen, Hermione gets things done but doesn't seem to know how to grieve.\\
In combat, however, Ariadne is usually TheLeader. Hermione doesn't kill anyone or anything during the story of ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' while Ariadne is the magical heavy-hitter of the New Marauders, in conjunction with Ginny. This is most obvious in Chapter 265, ''Defensive Lines,'' where [[spoiler:Ariadne explicitly takes command from Hermione, telling the group to stay behind her.]] However, in terms of overall planning, Hermione is TheLeader.\\
Appropriately, as Ariadne and Hermione share this role, they also share a title in Centaur prophecies.
** TheLancer: In combative circumstances where Ariadne has taken the role of TheLeader, Ginny. Ginny is confident where Ariadne is meek, and where a large part of Ariadne's power comes from her precision (which itself is part of her DisabilitySuperpower), Ginny is a brute-force magic user, punching through shields rather than deliberately piercing them.\\
In more general planning terms when Hermione is TheLeader, Ariadne starts off as TheLancer but is replaced by Ron as she becomes more and more anxious and lacking in confidence.
** TheBigGuy: After Chapter 107, ''Fetch,'' [[spoiler:Ron. Ron is the undisputed tank of the group, able to shrug off magic as a werewolf and throw people across rooms nearly effortlessly.]] In Chapter 234, ''The Battle of Evermore,'' [[spoiler:Ron nearly beats fellow werewolf Fenrir Greyback to death with his bare hands, and would have succeeded had he not forgotten that Greyback knew how to fly.]]

** Chapter 316, ''Remember the Pact of our Youth,'' is named for a lyric from Gang of Youths' ''Achilles, Come Down,'' and another lyric appears in the end notes regarding [[spoiler:Ginny's drinking; "Achilles, Achilles, just put down the bottle, don't listen to what you've consumed."]]

** In much the same vein, in Chapter 203, ''He's A Keeper,'' [[spoiler:Hermione asks whose the book was. Where in the movie, Harry is secretive, Ariadne tells her willingly, describing the Half-Blood Prince as "Some edgy twerp’s idea of a cool nickname."]]

* HeroesWantRedheads: Averted, because while Ariadne ''does'' end up with Ginny, Ariadne can't actually see her hair. Ginny even jokes in Chapter 366, ''Mother,'' that she managed to avoid [[DoubleEntendre "does the carpet match the drapes" jokes]] specifically by marrying a blind woman.

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!! Birds of a Feather
''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' has a sequel series, titled ''Birds of a Feather.'' It follows the next generation of the children of the previous main characters, as well as many original characters. The main characters of the first part, ''Flock Together,'' are Persephone [=Granger-Weasley=], the trueborn werewolf daughter of Ron and Hermione, Dominique Weasley, a part-Veela, and Vanya Stryde, a young vampire introduced in ''The Woes of Ectothermy.'' Additionally, the supporting cast includes friend of Persephone's Alpin Faughn. It is described in its summary as "an original story using ''Potter'' as fertilizer, not fanfiction." Unlike ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' it follows multiple point of view characters and has an episodic format.

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* AdaptationNameChange: A very minor one in the example of Vanya; in ''The Woes of Ectothermy,'' her middle name is given as Matilda, but in ''Birds of a Feather'' it is spelled Mathilda.

* AnimalThemeNaming: Tegyd's name is a unisex[[labelnote:?]]Sources vary - ''A Book of Welsh Names'' by Trefor Randall Davies (2016) lists it as a masculine name alongside TEGID, but more common modern usage often ascribes it to women, as does an archived BBC Wales webpage on pronouncing Welsh names.[[/labelnote]] Welsh name (a variant of Tegid) meaning "doe-like beauty" or "beautiful doe." Female goats are called does, befitting the fact that the species of centaur making up half her lineage are derived from goats, not horses.

* BadassLongcoat: Though Ariadne adopted this outfit for teaching late in the ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' epilogue section, this is her near-constant outfit in ''Birds of a Feather'' since she's almost always only seen in her context as a teacher. Ariadne wears a long burgundy coat (that looks black to Persephone due to her colourblindness) over her black dress, which has pockets that are BiggerOnTheInside.

* BadassTeacher: Ariadne Granger has a very different vibe from the perspective of others than her own; where she is quite anxious and humble in her own life in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' in ''Birds of a Feather'' the fact she is in fact incredibly powerful is keenly felt, and when she is introduced Dominique thinks that the word "witch" isn't sufficient to describe her and that perhaps Grand Sorceress or Archmage suit her better. Despite trying to just be a teacher in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' her reputation as an incredibly powerful individual follows her so much that Persephone can ''smell'' how much magic surrounds her and Dominique can feel when she so much as casts a spell. In ''Flock Together'' Episode 2, ''Harvest Moon,'' Chapter 12, ''The Day To Day,'' Jayden Baker says that you shouldn't make her angry because she's the most powerful witch in Britain, and in Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 23, ''A Familiar Tactic,'' [[spoiler:after being informed that Emerson Hegwood is impersonating Peregrine Arkwright she has Hegwood begging for mercy within seconds, mercy she says she does not have (she does actually end up releasing him into Auror custody instead of killing him, but seemingly because she doesn't think he's worth her time).]]

* BeautifulSingingVoice: Just like her Da, Persephone enjoys singing and as such took singing lessons as a young girl - in part because she is a werewolf and inherently finds singing fulfilling, and in part because she is asthmatic and the breathing exercises help. In ''Flock Together,'' Episode 4, ''Petty Politics,'' Chapter 26, ''Curiosities and Cuticles,'' Persephone sings Nightwish's ''Alpenglow,'' followed by part of the folk song ''The Bonny Banks o' Loch Lomond'' and it is remarked that she has a BeautifulSingingVoice. According to narration, she's a mezzo-soprano but can sing soprano as long as it's not for too long, as the latter aggravates her asthma.

* BigEater: Persephone is a never-ending pit when it comes to food and constantly talks with her mouth full. She even carries snacks, getting out a half-eaten bag of cheese Wotsits in ''Flock Together'' Episode 4, ''Petty Politics,'' Chapter 27, ''The Attack.''

* BilingualDialogue: Persephone (and occasionally Alpin and Hermione too) speaking Scots is usually correctly understood by English-speaking people around them, in part because they're normally code-switching in the middle of it and in part because Scots as a language is closely related to English. It isn't always entirely clear though, which Vanya mentions in ''Flock Together'' Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 23, ''A Familiar Tactic,'' when she double-checks with Alpin that "yestreen" does in fact mean "yesterday evening," and Alpin replies that she's learning. Dominique also speaks to her mother in French, and Alpin to his mother in Welsh.

* FamilialFoe: Persephone and Dominique are very hostile to Hunter [=McLaggen=] and Portunus Thynne, who are both members of families who are enemies of the Grangers and Weasleys.

* FantasticRacism: Features relatively heavily in ''Birds of a Feather,'' given the protagonists are all nonhuman and subject to bullying for this.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Though it was established in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' the sequel is where it goes into more detail; Goblins are characterized as a culture to derive from a Nordic culture, and are even sometimes specifically called Nordic Goblins (implying there may be other cultures of Goblins). Their language and names are shown to derive from Old Norse, and Bill Weasley explicitly states they're some of (but not all of) the inspiration for the Norse dwarf myths in their supreme ability as craftsmen.

* FosterKid: Vanya, because she is forbidden from returning to her actual family by the Statute of Secrecy, is in the wizarding foster system, being fostered by a family called the Marshals.

* HomeschooledKids: Dominique and her siblings were all homeschooled for their primary school years due to being visibly nonhuman and, at that time, being incapable of constantly maintaining a human appearance.

* HugeSchoolgirl: Half-Giant Wulfwynn Maine is twice the height of most people around her, and as a result seems to tend to slouch and be very self-conscious.

* InherentInTheSystem: The mere existence of the Statute of Secrecy causes systemic injustices toward some of the nonhuman cast, which ''Birds of a Feather'' explores in more detail than ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers.''
** Because of a decision made by the Department for the Enforcement of the International Statute of Secrecy, Vanya hasn't seen her parents in two and a half years as of the start of the story and unless something changes is legally barred from ever seeing them again. This is the reason for her placement with a foster family, the Marshals.
** Tegyd Humphries personifies the ostracization of those who are visibly nonhuman. Tegyd is one part human and one part caprid centaur, giving her a satyr-like appearance. As a result, she isn't allowed to leave her home or specific wizarding streets without extensive magical disguises, which is both inconvenient and extremely vexing. As a result, Tegyd has barely been in public, taking photos with her human mother on outings is pointless because she doesn't look like herself (having to take multiple doses of Polyjuice Potion just to go and see a movie), and many things assumed to be universal experiences are just not a part of her life - she's never encountered pizza before 2025, for one. Tegyd's ambition, stated when she's introduced, is to climb Mount Everest ''as herself.'' Additionally, the rural village she lives in is on a wizarding reserve, but that reserve isn't exclusive to the nonhumans who live there; they have to share it with a dragon sanctuary as well as a frequently rowdy Quidditch stadium belonging to the Caerphilly Catapults, and drunk Quidditch fans have assaulted Tegyd's friend Blodwen there at least once.
** As a more minor example, Dominique and her siblings were all homeschooled because until very late in their childhoods they could not be trusted to maintain a human appearance for a whole school day.

* InterspeciesFriendship: Dialled up to eleven. Persephone is a werewolf, Dominique is part-Veela, Vanya is a vampire, and there's an entire Nonhuman Club.

* LegendaryInTheSequel: the Granger sisters, and to a smaller extent Ginny. Ginny's a very popular Quidditch player now, Hermione is [[spoiler:running in the election to be Minister for Magic,]] and Ariadne is widely regarded as the most powerful witch in Britain, slated to be Headmistress of Hogwarts in a couple of years (the epilogue of ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' overlaps by about two years with ''Birds of a Feather''). Ron's not though, he's perfectly fine taking the more quiet route of being a generously philanthropic businessman, second fiddle to Hermione in terms of House Granger stuff, and a stay-at-home Dad.

* MeaningfulName:
** [[{{AnimalThemeNaming}} Tegyd's name]] means "the beauty of a doe." Tegyd is part-caprid centaur, and so could be described as a doe.
** Blodwen's name is an ''accidental'' example of one - the author only picked it because it sounded nice, but it means "white or blessed flower." Blodwen, as a PlantPerson of the tree variety and specifically a crab apple tree would have pinkish-white blossoms in spring, and she's imbued with magic.

* MentorArchetype: Ariadne, previously the protagonist, is now the most prominent mentor figure in the story, being simultaneously the BadassTeacher, TheProfessor, and SternTeacher.

* MonsterRightsMovement: In a successor to ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers''' [=SPEER=] and [=THORN=], Ariadne runs the Hogwarts Nonhuman Club.

* MultiEthnicName: In ''Flock Together,'' Episode 6,'' The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 41, ''Results,'' Madam Pomfrey explains that her full surname is in fact Pomfrey-Brzezińska, Pomfrey being her father's surname and Brzezińska being her mother's, her mother having been a Polish Jewish witch who escaped Auschwitz and met Pomfrey's father because the man was a soldier in the British Army - however she goes by just Pomfrey to avoid the discriminatory scrutiny her mother's name would afford her, and in part so she doesn't have to listen to everyone mispronouncing her mother's.

* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: The main characters' yearmate Ariana Evans is believed to be named after Ariadne. She basically confirms as such by looking a little awkward when [[spoiler:Ariadne herself states she doesn't like people being named after her when there are people among the fallen more worthy of that honour such as Remus and Fred.]]

* NeglectedRez: The example present in ''Birds of a Feather'' is a general dumping ground for a few things, and indeed people, the wizarding world can't allow to be public. Notably the aforementioned stadium, as well as a Welsh dragon sanctuary, and the village of Pen ôl y Ddraig, where Tegyd lives with her father's caprid centaur herd, and which she describes as being the [[{{BilingualBonus}} "ass end of nowhere."]][[note]]The name of the town translates to "The arse end of a ''dragon"'' in Welsh.[[/note]] Quidditch fans are noted to thoroughly disrespect the residents of the reservation, who tend to be nonhumans because they're not allowed in public. Tegyd has mentioned that the Sanctuary lacks electrical infrastructure, and that it's notably cold in winter.


* NextSundayAD: The series begins in 2025, while the first chapter was published in August of 2022.

* NobodyPoops: Averted. The series occasionally has the characters going to the toilet even if it's not described much - it's how they meet Myrtle in the second episode, and in the same scene the question of ''what'' [[{{OurVampiresAreDifferent}} vampires]] poop is answered (it's plasma).

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Persephone is the first example of a Trueborn Werewolf in the story, and ''Birds of A Feather'' explores her adolescence as someone who has no available information about how her puberty will progress.
** ExoticEquipment: It's casually mentioned in ''Flock Together'' Episode 2, ''Harvest Moon,'' Chapter 13, ''Taking Wing,'' that Persephone has a baubellum. Otherwise known as a clitoris bone.
** {{Multiboobage}}: Persephone has six nipples, and it is implied that all six will develop into breasts given that all but one of them have budded as of ''Flock Together'' Episode 4, ''Petty Politics,'' Chapter 25, ''Chance Meetings.''
** MyInstinctsAreShowing: Persephone has an extremely strong pack instinct and frequently behaves like a dog.
** In ''Flock Together,'' Episode 5, ''Field Trip,'' Chapter 30, ''An Opportunity,'' it's revealed that Trueborn Werewolves also have thicker nails than humans with more of a true quick, as well as slightly webbed fingers and toes.

* OurCentaursAreDifferent:
** A regular centaur by the name of Thelan, who appeared in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' also appears in ''Birds of a Feather'' as a seventh year helping run the Nonhuman Club.
** ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' commonly introduces "Caprid Centaurs," centaurs who have the lower half of goats rather than horses, as well as goat ears and horns. One recurring character in ''Birds of a Feather'' is Tegyd Humphries, who is half human half caprid centaur, which makes her look like [[FaunsAndSatyrs a satyr of some sort]]. She has the rear legs of a goat, as well as the ears and horns of one, and seems to have the digestive system of one given she is stated to be a ruminant. In ''Flock Together'' Episode 6 ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 37 ''Wearing Many a Cloak,'' Tegyd seems to imply that instead of human breasts she has an udder, which she finds aggravating.

* PenPals: Thanks to this story being set in the 2020s, several of the main characters have phones that work in Hogwarts [[ContinuityNod thanks to advances encouraged by the Grangers]] and text family - Persephone is shown to be in contact with her parents, as is Dominique.

* PlantPerson: In ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' Dryads are sentient trees. One such Dryad attends Hogwarts, a crab apple tree named Blodwen. She is perfectly fine with people eating her apples, and even allows her half goat centaur friend Tegyd to eat her leaves.

* PostModernMagik: ''Birds of a Feather'' is set in the 2020s, when Hogwarts has [=WiFi=] and frequent BYOD usage.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In this era, Hermione as Deputy Minister for Magic. Particularly notable in ''Flock Together,'' Episode 4, ''Petty Politics,'' Chapter 25, ''Chance Meetings,'' where she explains that in fact if she had been able to reverse the decision to keep Vanya from her family, she would have, and did fight to have it reversed - but it's not under her jurisdiction and she can't directly do anything about it. In this, she is a ReasonableAuthorityFigure in both directions; she recognizes the inherent injustice in Vanya's situation, but also points out that she can't do anything about it without blatantly abusing her power, which doesn't become a good thing just because the good guys are doing it.


* ScarsAreForever: Persephone still has the scars from when she was trying to breathe in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 370, ''Little Wolf.''

* SparedByTheAdaptation: Nymphadora Tonks didn't die in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' so she is alive and well in this work. In ''Flock Together'' Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 23, ''A Familiar Tactic,'' [[spoiler:she is shown to be head of the Auror Office, and hold the rank of Chief Constable Tonks.]]

* SpinOffspring: [[OriginalCharacter Persephone]] and [[AscendedExtra Dominique]].

* SummonToHand: Ariadne's wand has an occasional tendency to do this with a blast of lightning when she is startled - in order of what was written, it actually first does it in Chapter 375, ''Ariadne Lily Granger,'' of ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers.'' It's not stated if this is actually a trait of the wand or if it's just Ariadne tending to instinctively summon it with her own magic now that Ginny's been teaching her wandless magic.

* TheClan: Just like in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' the House of Granger features in ''Birds of a Feather'' quite heavily. However, there are a few changes that were made between the end of ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' and the start of ''Birds of a Feather.'' The House has been split between Hermione's main branch and Ariadne's cadet branch, which wasn't established in the prior work, meaning that Persephone is of the First House of Granger. The First House is more Scottish, stated to have altered its heraldry to be blue instead of red, have adopted a tartan, and use crest brooches instead of signet rings. The Second House starts with Ariadne, who is now a Lady, and Delphini is the heiress-apparent, designated Lady Delphini as Persephone's counterpart and wearing a signet ring.

* TokenHuman: Within the core friend group, Alpin is the TokenHuman accompanied by a werewolf, a vampire, and a part-Veela.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In ''Birds of a Feather,'' vampires are shown to be capable of similar, if not identical, VoluntaryShapeshifting to Metamorphmagi, and Jason Tonks teaches Vanya how to use this during ''Flock Together.''
** ShapeshifterBaggage: Averted. In ''Flock Together'' Episode 4, ''Petty Politics,'' Chapter 26, ''Curiosities and Cuticles,'' Jason discusses that Metamorphmagi and vampires have to contend with conservation of mass, and how it can actually be useful to them to have a little excess body fat to put to use.

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* AffectionateNickname: Multiple characters are given nicknames, such as Persephone's 'Seph,' Dominique's 'Dom' or 'Dommie,' and Vanya's 'Van.' Nymphadora Tonks also calls Dominique 'Beaky,' and some people call Vanya 'Twilight.'

* AuthorAppeal: Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 19, ''New Lessons,'' is allegedly so long because the author studied VFX at a university level and was able to channel this knowledge via Jason's Metamorphmagy.

* AsleepInClass: Persephone repeatedly falls asleep in History class in Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts.'' This isn't entirely because she's bored though; she's crepuscular, so her body clock expects her to be asleep during this time of the day.

* BadassBoast: In Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 23 ''A Familiar Tactic,'' [[spoiler:Ariadne boasts that she destroyed the Resurrection Stone by using Dimensional Transfiguration to spaghettify it through a miniature black hole.]]

* BilingualBonus:
** In Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 22, ''Make Some Noise,'' people who speak Welsh will get a joke earlier than other readers, much as Alpin does; the meaning of the name of Tegyd's home town of ''Pen ôl y Ddraig'' is not provided in the footnotes most of the text's non-English text is translated in. Alpin bursts out laughing immediately, because Pen ôl y Ddraig means "The Ass End of the Dragon."
** Also, in Episode 7, ''Cold Snap,'' Chapter 46, ''Atypical Truancy,'' speakers of Finnish may note an element of {{Foreshadowing}} - in a ShoutOut, Persephone is listening to Nightwish's ''Erämaan Viimeinen,'' and the lyrics mentioned translate to "Is this a dream, or death where I can return to where the embers are already giving up under the snow..." [[spoiler:The end of the chapter is about Vanya having fallen into a torpor due to the cold, which would probably have been starting at around the same time.]]

* BreatherEpisode: Episode 2, ''Harvest Moon,'' doesn't really have a plot aside from setting up Persephone's first full moon at Hogwarts and the Nonhuman Club.

* CallBack:
** In Episode 1, ''The Flock,'' Chapter 1, ''Persephone,'' Ron talks about taking naps at Hogwarts, and Hermione mentions incidents of having to elbow Ron awake, which she did multiple times in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers.''
** Vanya often remembers the events of ''The Woes of Ectothermy,'' which is her origin story.
** In Chapter 3, ''Dominique,'' Bill Weasley is shown to still suffer the long-term consequences of having caught [=COVID-19=] in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 371, ''The Pandemic and the Veela,'' and the time Dominique and her siblings spent with Ariadne and Ginny is mentioned.
** In Chapter 5, ''Waverley Dhùn Èideann,'' Persephone recalls having told Alpin she was a werewolf in 2020, as she was stated to have done in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 373, ''Ronald and Hermione,'' as well as how Alpin's family came to visit to assure the [=Granger-Weasleys=] they would not cause them problems.
** In Chapter 8, ''First Day,'' Seamus threatens to do what Gilderoy Lockhart did in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 41, ''Immobulus,'' and release a cage of Cornish Pixies.
** In Chapter 10, ''Born To Be Wild,'' Persephone describes her first full moon as depicted in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 370, ''Little Wolf.''
** In Episode 2, ''Harvest Moon,'' Chapter 13, ''Taking Wing,'' Madam Hooch references how Neville broke his wrist in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 14, ''Up!'' Additionally, the girls meet Myrtle and reference how the Grangers knew her, though Myrtle does not appear to remember the Grangers very well.
** The title of Episode 2, ''Harvest Moon,'' Chapter 15, ''You'll Take the High Road,'' is a reference to the folk song ''Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond'' and is also a CallBack to how in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 357, ''Goddess of Spring,'' that was the first song ever sung to Persephone.
** In Episode 4, ''Petty Politics,'' Chapter 24, ''Being Ourselves,'' Ariadne mentions that Hermione doesn't like capsicum - this was brought up in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 111, ''A Free Man.''
** At the end of Chapter 29, ''The Decision,'' [[spoiler:Hermione announces over the radio that she will indeed be running for the office of the Minister for Magic in 2026 - this section matches word for word the ending to ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers''' Chapter 373, ''Ronald and Hermione,'' but its ending includes Hermione's answer to the reporter's question.]]
** A couple of them in Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 37, ''Wearing Many a Cloak.'' Firstly, Ariadne tells Wulfwynn to give her giant mother Dúntrume her regards; Dúntrume was first mentioned in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 364, ''The Spy's Son'' as being a Giant who gave Hermione a gift for her as yet unborn daughter Hestia, and had a half-Giant child - who evidently was Wulfwynn. Secondly, Ariadne refers back to the Yule Ball of the Triwizard Tournament, particularly the unwelcome attention she got in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 125, ''Unwelcome Attention.'' Additionally, Ariadne alludes to how Lavender thought that Remus Lupin being a werewolf made him more attractive in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 216, ''Diplomatic Relations.''
** A couple in Chapter 38, ''A Moment Frozen in Time.'' Dominique mentions how Hermione's wedding dress was made by a Goblin back in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' Vanya mentions how Dominique said werewolves' minds feel fuzzy to her in Chapter 18, ''The Ghosts' Council,'' and Dominique is loathe to ignore her gut because of what happened in the episode ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts.''
** In chapter 48, ''Darkly Familiar,'' Dominique recalls both how she ate a Doxy in Chapter 11, ''First Prize for Mischief,'' as well as when Victoire ate a mouse in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 371, ''The Pandemic and the Veela.''
** In Chapter 49, ''A Happy New Year,'' Vanya recalls with some distress the last time she entered a torpor, which was the opening scene to ''The Woes of Ectothermy.''
** In Episode 8, ''Summer's Approach,'' Chapter 50, ''Stormy Celebrations,'' Dominique thinks about how she's been warned by her mother not to eat unsuitable food for her species just to fit in among humans, and that it gave her mother horrible stomach aches; this is something Fleur talked about in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers''' Chapter 297, ''Happy Birthdays.''
** In Chapter 52, ''Pull the Rug Out,'' Summer mentions how Ron caught a Bludger in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 207, ''The Lions, The Witch, and The Werewolf.''
** In Chapter 56, ''A Good Talk,'' several. Ron is uneasy returning to Hogwarts because of the events of ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 273, ''The Mistress of Death,'' Persephone worries that Hunter [=McLaggen=] might know she's a werewolf from the fact his father figured out Ron was one in KG Chapter 206, ''Like Pulling Teeth,'' and Hermione recalls Ginny constantly joking about her job title during their last year at Hogwarts. During Persephone's parent-teacher conference, Professor Seong notes her solving Catherine's dilemma in ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' as well as all four instances of Persephone getting into fights. Hermione also recalls Ariadne punching Draco Malfoy in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 91, ''Shopping and Snowballs.''

* TheCommissionerGordon and/or FriendOnTheForce: Because Nymphadora Tonks was SparedByTheAdaptation, she has wound up in charge of the Auror Office, holding the rank of Chief Constable. She's also the mother of a supporting character, Jason Tonks, and friend to [[{{TheMentor}} Ariadne]], so in Episode 3 ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 23 ''A Familiar Tactic,'' [[spoiler:Ariadne nonchalantly calls her for her help cleaning up after someone is caught infiltrating Hogwarts.]]

* ContinuityNod:
** In Episode 1, ''The Flock,'' Chapter 3, ''Dominique,'' Delphini takes an interest in Ginny's motorcycles as she was stated to have in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 375, ''Ariadne Lily Granger.'' In this, the ending of ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' overlaps with ''Flock Together,'' because we know Delphini goes on to learn to ride motorcycles and Ariadne and Nymphadora plan to buy her her first motorcycle later that year.
** In Chapter 6, ''But Where to Put You?'' Brenda Paddison is shown to be the daughter of Jeremy Paddison, Hermione's secretary and whose wife Felicity had been pregnant in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 355, ''The Deep Breath,'' lining up with Brenda's age.
** In Chapter 8, ''First Day,'' Ariadne begins her Transfiguration class in the same way as described in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 360, ''Professor Granger.'' She even gives her speech identically.
** In Episode 2, ''Harvest Moon,'' Chapter 14, ''Welcome to the Club,'' Jason Tonks is in a feminine form, as he is stated to occasionally do in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 375, ''Ariadne Lily Granger.''
** In Episode 4, ''Petty Politics,'' Chapter 24, ''Being Ourselves,'' the fact that Jason Tonks will be taking Animagus Studies comes up; this scene takes place in the week prior to the first scene of ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 375, ''Ariadne Lily Granger,'' where this was also mentioned.
** Similarly, the first chapter of Episode 5, ''Field Trip, An Opportunity,'' includes mention of Ariadne having met Dudley in Chapter 375, as that weekend is between the two episodes.
** In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 37, ''Wearing Many a Cloak,'' the half-giant child of the Gúr’g Dúntrume mentioned in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 364, ''The Spy's Son,'' turns out to be Wulfwynn.

* ChekhovsGun:
** In Episode 1, ''The Flock,'' [[spoiler:Dominique spots a jet black cat with bright blue eyes which seems to be able to teleport at the feet of Hunter [=McLaggen=] in Chapter 7, ''Disparate Houses.'' This cat reappears later as [=McLaggen's=] seemingly unwilling Matagot familiar which he uses to prank the girls during detention, which he is caught doing. This cat reappears to Vanya in subsequent episodes, usually demanding food. The Matagot is revealed to Persephone and Dominique in Episode 7, ''Cold Snap,'' when it attempts to warm a torpor-stricken Vanya and makes sure Dominique and Persephone find Vanya.]]
** In Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' [[spoiler:several clues are laid out immediately that "Professor Arkwright" is not who he claims to be but in fact an impostor. First, Persephone smells a strong smell of ammonia coming off him and his eyebrows are brown despite his hair being blond, both signs his hair was bleached and dyed which Jason notices immediately, his clothes are described as baggy on him, his monocle doesn't fit, Dominique feels a second mind in his office, and he is clearly inept at History.]]
** In Episode 4, ''Petty Politics,'' Chapter 27, ''The Attack,'' Persephone puts her inhaler into her bag instead of into her pocket at the end of a Potions lesson, and this is reiterated again in the middle of the chapter when she is reminded of some English homework left in the bottom of her bag. [[spoiler:This comes up later in the same chapter because Theodore Chambers steals Persephone's bag right before Persephone's asthma is triggered by how cold the air by the courtyard is, resulting in her having an asthma attack and lacking her inhaler to medicate it.]]
** In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Siân Waddle is introduced as having a large thin crate, whose contents are unknown. A few chapters later, it's revealed this is a specially designed magical painting meant to be a stasis device for her cursed patient, Catherine.
** Also in Episode 6, Chapter 40, ''Applications,'' ends with Persephone overhearing Ariadne telling Professor Seong and Miss Waddle that she has something called a "dimensional prison" set up in the lower Dungeons, which were declared off-limits by Professor [=McGonagall=] in the previous episode.
** In the very beginning of Episode 6, the audience is reminded that transfigurative magic doesn't work on werewolves by Chambers trying and failing to apply one to Persephone - this is the trait that Persephone banks on saving Catherine's life.
** In Episode 7, ''Cold Snap,'' [[spoiler:the fact that Vampires slow down in the cold, how cold the Slytherin dormitories are, and that the reason Tabitha didn't turn the heater on in the morning is because they won't be there for long, are all reaffirmed in Chapter 45, ''A Chill in the Air,'' before Vanya enters a torpor because of these factors in Chapter 46, ''Atypical Truancy.'']]

* {{Cliffhanger}}:
** Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 17, ''What a Pain in the Neck,'' ends with [[spoiler:Dominique falling unconscious after the violent disappearance of Professor Binns.]]
** Chapter 22, ''Make Some Noise,'' ends with [[spoiler:Ariadne arriving after being alerted to the noise in her office and yelling for all three occupants to freeze.]]
** Episode 7, ''Cold Snap,'' Chapter 46, ''Atypical Truancy'' [[spoiler:ends with Persephone crying that Vanya's heart isn't beating. However, the notes assure readers that the 'Major Character Death' tag has not been accidentally omitted, so Vanya isn't dead, just in torpor.]]

* CowboyCop: Both Averted and Invoked by Nymphadora Tonks in the same exchange - in Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 23, ''A Familiar Tactic,'' she says that that isn't how the Auror office is "supposed to roll," and her means of teaching her department that is by being a Cowboy Cop ''to the Cowboy Cops.'' Apparently it made the papers that she stunned three of her own officers for this behaviour, and she says she was giving them a taste of their own medicine.

* DCupDistress: In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 37, ''Wearing Many a Cloak,'' Tegyd - who is stated to be "to put it politely, very well endowed" for her age - discusses the drawbacks of being busty at 13. She also laments that she's actually already discussed breast reduction surgery with Madam Pomfrey, and that because of an unspecified reason (implied to be because Tegyd may have an udder because of her caprid centaur ancestry, given she speaks about it in the singular) said surgery wouldn't be viable for her. In particular, the back pain, frequent expense of going up cup sizes and requiring new bras, and especially the unwanted sexualized attention boys, even boys several years above her in the school, give her, get on her nerves.

* DetentionEpisode: Episode 1, ''The Flock,'' culminates in [[spoiler:Persephone and Dominique getting detention with Hunter and Theo.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: In Episode 7, ''Cold Snap,'' Chapter 46, ''Atypical Truancy,'' it's revealed that Ginny is boycotting the 2026 Quidditch World Cup, because it's being held in Nigeria, a country where gay marriage is illegal and in some states punishable by death. This is a pretty clear allusion to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 controversy.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: In Episode 1, ''The Flock,'' Chapter 1, ''Persephone,'' Persephone's speech patterns don't quite match her subsequent ones where she uses the Scots 'A' rather than English 'I.'

* EndOfEpisodeSilliness:
** Episode 4, ''Petty Politics,'' Chapter 26, ''Curiosities and Cuticles,'' ends with a brief moment of Persephone, Dominique, and the other girls of their dormitory as well as Alpin having a karaoke afternoon where Persephone is standing on her bed and "hollering" the chorus to ''I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)'' by The Proclaimers.
** In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 41, ''Results,'' ends with Catherine asking if Persephone is the alpha of her pack, and Persephone, Cedar, and Rowan, all groaning in unison that [[{{AlphaAndBetaWolves}} that's not how it works.]]

* EurekaMoment:
** In Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 22, ''Make Some Noise,'' [[spoiler:Vanya and Dominique realize in the same instant that "Professor Arkwright" must be an impostor and immediately start running.]]
** In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 39, ''Hypotheses,'' Persephone realizes that infecting Catherine with lycanthropy could be a sort of cure to her curse by jumping to her feet and exclaiming ''"Werewolves!"''

* ExactWords: In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 37, ''Wearing Many a Cloak,'' Persephone beats Alpin in a previously deadlocked chess game because they're using wizard's chess pieces which take verbal orders - Alpin tells his king, in Scots, that "you need to move to the side" in order to escape Persephone's check, failing to specify ''which'' side it needs to move in - which, to Alpin's dismay, causes the king to go in the wrong direction and allows Persephone to checkmate him in one move.

* {{Familiar}}: In Episode 1, ''The Flock,'' rival of the main characters Hunter [=McLaggen=] is shown to have a Matagot familiar, seemingly named Lausanne, which he uses to prank Persephone and Dominique with some success until Ariadne notices. However, Ariadne banishes the pet, telling him he shouldn't be able to summon her for an hour or two - and in that time, she meets Vanya, and Vanya feeds her. Later, in Episode 2, ''Harvest Moon,'' [=McLaggen=] is convinced that the girls did something to Lausanne, as he can no longer summon her. However, the matagot continues to visit Vanya, indicating that it has perhaps bound itself to Vanya without her knowledge. Indeed, in Episode 7, ''Cold Snap,'' Chapter 44, ''Curious Returns,'' [[spoiler:the Matagot appears in Vanya's bedroom hundreds of miles south of Hogwarts in Tinworth, and later in the episode]] in Chapter 46, ''Atypical Truancy,'' [[spoiler:it is attempting to warm Vanya up from her torpor, and makes sure Vanya is found by her peers. Ariadne explains that it has clearly been looking for a new master and that Vanya is its preferred option.]] So in Chapter 49, ''A Happy New Year,'' [[spoiler:Vanya accepts its offer and names it Puss.]]

* HanukkahEpisode and ChristmasEpisode: Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' takes place during late December, and the Yule Ball is a prominent feature. It turns out that Hogwarts is also putting up decorations for Hanukkah among the usual Christmas decorations for the Yule Ball, as the holiday coincides with it in 2025, including additional blue and white tinsel, latkes being available as well as Christmas puddings, and a hanukiah menorah in the doorway of the Great Hall. Though, the fact that Hanukkah is not in fact a particularly big holiday in Judaism, and nor is it "Jewish Christmas," is lampshaded by Madam Pomfrey, who, perhaps feeling emboldened by the decor nonetheless, tells Persephone, Cedar, and Rowan that she herself is Jewish and says that the reason it's being so notably represented at Hogwarts is because she mentioned her mother, a Polish Jew who fought in Warsaw and escaped Auschwitz, to Ariadne - the Deputy Headmistress - a few weeks before and Ariadne is as a result going a little endearingly overboard in ensuring Hanukkah is represented too.

* MythologyGag: In Episode 8, ''Summer's Approach,'' Chapter 50, ''Stormy Celebrations,'' Persephone thinks back to Hermione making the same joke she makes in - and is the title of - the standalone piece ''It'll Kill the Vacuum Cleaner.''

* PlotTriggeringDeath: Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' is opened with the sudden seeming destruction of Professor Binns, the ghostly History teacher. Much is made of the fact that that should be a near-impossible feat, but in fact the episode itself swerves to focus on Binns' replacement, Professor Arkwright [[spoiler:being impersonated by a man trying to steal the Deathly Hallows from Ariadne.]] The author has indicated in [[{{WordOfGod}} messages]] that Binns' disappearance is in fact [[{{ChekhovsGun}} "a surprise tool that will help us later."]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' some of the solution to the main conflict of the episode, Catherine's curse of Transmogrificating Lycacomia, occurs offscreen because the main characters are first year students; Persephone comes up with the idea, but it's executed offscreen by Draco while Charlie subdues the Transmogrified girl outside.

* OneMythToExplainThemAll: Averted - in Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 21, ''The Little Things,'' Bill tells Dominique over text that actually, even though the Goblins do account for some of the inspiration for Norse myths of dwarfs, the wizarding world can only take so much credit for mythology, and it's just funny when someone claims wizards are responsible for all of it. He also says that it's more likely that the name Veela was taken ''from'' Slavic folkloric víly and not the other way around.

* RewatchBonus: In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame.'' If you pay attention to the fight in Chapter 35, ''Off-Colour Remarks,'' you'll realise that Vanya probably would have wanted that spell Theodore Chambers threw at her at the end to hit her; ''Calvorio'' is a hair-removing curse, which is exactly the sort of thing that would have saved Vanya some time in Chapter 42, ''Hair of the Dog,'' when she cuts her hair off to regrow it undamaged by straightening using a potion. It's even lampshaded by Myrtle mentioning such spells existing, but that she's forgotten them, in Chapter 42.

* SheCleansUpNicely: In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 42, ''Hair of the Dog,'' Persephone's dormmates are surprised when Persephone gets ready for the Yule Ball and goes to significantly more effort than the rest of them - because she's the heiress of the House of Granger - and cleans up so nicely several people don't recognise her. Persephone finds it funny; she ''can'' get all dressed up, she just normally doesn't.

* ShoutOut:
** Vanya is occasionally nicknamed 'Twilight.'
** In the Hufflepuff Common Room there is evidently a television and a Nintendo console because there are frequently ''Mario Kart'' tournaments going on.
** In Episode 1, ''The Flock:''
*** In Chapter 2, ''Vanya,'' Vanya and Sophie, her foster sister, play the game ''Don't Starve Together'' together. Vanya plays Willow, and Sophie plays Wendy.
*** Chapter 10, ''Born To Be Wild,'' is [[TitledAfterTheSong named after the Steppenwolf song of the same name]].
** The title of Episode 2, ''Harvest Moon,'' Chapter 15, ''You'll Take the High Road,'' is a reference to the folk song ''Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond,'' which is also a CallBack to how in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 357, ''Goddess of Spring,'' that was the first song ever sung to Persephone.
** In Episode 4, ''Petty Politics,'' Chapter 26, ''Curiosities and Cuticles,'' multiple songs are referred to. In order, these are Nightwish's ''Alpenglow,'' which Persephone sings, followed by ''The Bonny Banks of Loch Lomond,'' which she also sings. She also states she has The Proclaimers' ''I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles),'' Sabaton's ''Blood of Bannockburn,'' Wind Rose's ''To Erebor,'' and Halestorm music on her phone, as well as an eight and a half minute version of the Irish folk song ''The Rattlin' Bog,'' which by the description of the lyrics (ending on a subatomic particle) is Seamus Kennedy's version.
** In Chapter 27, ''The Attack,'' when Persephone is threatening Cameron Vexmoor, she tries to judge if she can strangle him with one hand or if she'll need both. Being muggleborn, Bonnie Wood asks if she's trying to Force choke Vexmoor like Darth Vader, and then if they can do that.
** In Episode 5, ''Field Trip,'' Chapter 31, ''The Isle of Arran,'' Persephone compares taking a Portkey to the description of Hyperspace in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' as being "unpleasantly like being drunk" - What's so unpleasant about being drunk? You ask a glass of water. Additionally, the subject of the field trip, Teàrlach the Unsightly, is a blink-and-you'll-miss-it copy of Beldin from ''The Belgariad.''
** In Chapter 34, ''Bonfire Night,'' Ariadne stammers a line heavily and then mutters "Merry Christmas Denis Norden." This is a reference to the ITV television show ''It'll Be Alright On The Night,'' which until 2006 was hosted by Denis Norden and showed a number of bloopers from film sets - actor Rik Mayall occasionally said, in said bloopers, some permutation of "Merry Christmas Denis Norden." Though the show still airs in 2023 when the chapter went up, its viewership is nowhere near what it was when Ariadne would have been a child in the Granger household nearly thirty years prior, and Persephone has no idea who Denis Norden was.
** The episode ''The Girl in a Picture Frame'' is named after a 1641 Rembrandt painting.
** A couple in Chapter 37, ''Wearing Many a Cloak;'' on the radio is playing Queen's ''Thank God It's Christmas,'' as well as Wham!'s ''Last Christmas.'' Additionally, Rowan suggests that Blodwen could go to the Yule Ball as Groot.
** In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 38, ''A Moment Frozen in Time,'' Catherine is reading one of Rick Riordan's ''Percy Jackson'' books. She identifies Persephone's name as being that of a Greek goddess in Chapter 41, ''Results,'' possibly because of this.
** Also in Chapter 41, ''Results,'' Persephone mentions Hermione and Hestia being likely to want to watch the ''Doctor Who'' special, and both [=WhatsApp=] and Discord come up in conversation in regards to a Nonhuman Club group chat.
** In Episode 7, ''Cold Snap,'' Chapter 46, ''Atypical Truancy,'' Persephone is listening to Nightwish's ''Erämaan Viimeinen.'' The lyrics specifically mentioned are also an example of a BilingualBonus piece of {{Foreshadowing}}.
** In Chapter 49, ''A Happy New Year,'' Cedar and Rowan sing ''Fearless Hero'' from the soundtrack of ''Puss in Boots: The Last Wish'' when reminded of it by Vanya naming her ''matagot'' familiar "Puss."

* WholePlotReference: Episode 5, ''Field Trip,'' is explicitly called out in its notes as being inspired by an episode of ''Wolfblood;'' season 1 episode 5 ''Occam's Razor,'' where the class also goes on a field trip to an ancient structure on an island on the day of the full moon and a fair-haired nonhuman falls off of something - however where in the ''Wolfblood'' episode Rhydian fakes his injury to be able to stay on Holy Island for the full moon, Dominique actually breaks her wing.

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There are also several spin-off fics related to Kaleidoscopic Grangers. They are listed below in order of publication:
!! Princess
''Princess'' is a one-shot following a werewolf version of Ariadne Granger completing the third task of the Triwizard tournament. This piece provides examples of:
* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, Ariadne became a werewolf before the Triwizard Tournament, however little of note appears to have changed about her story until the Third Task.
* AnimalAthleteLoophole: When Princess wins the Triwizard Tournament in her wolf form, Minister Fudge is reminded that there is no rule against a transformed werewolf winning the Tournament.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: Princess (Ariadne's wolf form) gets showered in the blood of both an Acromantula and a Blast-Ended Skrewt over the course of the piece, as she fights them physically with her claws and teeth as opposed to spells in the main fic.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Ariadne, in this fic, allows herself to growl and express being a werewolf around those who know, before revealing herself to the entire world by winning as Princess.
* OhCrap: Princess gets very near to biting Cedric Diggory before Cedric's panic makes her realize she is being affected by the maze's mental effect, which causes her to react with fear as she watches it release her.
* PainfulTransformation: Ariadne transforms into Princess during the piece, and the lycanthropic transformation is depicted as being incredibly painful, and details such as the alterations to her spine, limbs, hips, skull, and lungs are described.
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!! Conflicting Schedules
''Conflicting Schedules'' is a longer-running (originally intended to be a one-shot) side fic where Ariadne is both a werewolf and sustained moderate nerve damage during the first task of the Triwizard Tournament. Unlike ''Princess,'' where that version of Ariadne uses the third task to reveal that she's a werewolf, this version of Ariadne tries to get it rescheduled, inadvertently tells Cornelius Fudge, and is both outed and expelled from Hogwarts, along with Ron. This piece provides examples of:
* AffectionateNickname: In the same moment an InSeriesNickname, the banner Hermione and Ginny hold says "ARIADNE GRANGER: THE #1 WHITE-EYED WEREWOLF" instead of "ARIADNE GRANGER: THE #1 TRIWIZARD CHAMPION" which it says in Kaleidoscopic Grangers.
* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, Ariadne was accidentally infected with lycanthropy by Ron on his first full moon, and as a result of the Triwizard Tasks being on full moons, she has not done as well in the Tournament, suffering permanent nerve damage in the First Task. How she completed the second is unspecified. Ariadne attempts to get the Third Task, which would fall during a time she would transform during, rescheduled, and ends up outed to the entire Wizarding world and expelled from Hogwarts.
* DarkSecret: The premise of the spin-off is a werewolf version of Ariadne trying to hide what she is, and failing.
* InSeriesNickname: see AffectionateNickname.
* InterspeciesFriendship: Fleur Delacour's friendship with Ron applies also to Ariadne here, where their shared inhumanity is a point of bonding - Fleur repeats her main fic line of "us non-humans have to stick together," and remarks that the third task of the Triwizard Tournament, where she and Ariadne ally as joint Beauxbatons champions, is humans versus nonhumans.
* BodySnatcher: In Chapter 5, ''Restless Nights,'' Ariadne gets a dream, much like she does in the main fic in the start of her fourth year, but this dream is of Voldemort usurping the body of someone who comes across Marvolo Gaunt's Ring in its hiding place via the ring itself. [[spoiler:Voldemort is pleasantly surprised to find it is Albus Dumbledore whose body and therefore identity he has usurped, before Ariadne wakes up, forgetting the dream.]]
* MeaningfulName: In Chapter 4, ''Princess' Birthday,'' Ariadne chooses to call her wolf Princess, because her family often call her that, and she first named herself after a princess.
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: After being outed, Ariadne is extremely open about being a werewolf, including brawling with Vincent Crabbe for calling her "a broken mutt someone needs to put down."
* OffTheRails: This version of the story completely breaks the storyline which Kaleidoscopic Grangers follows by resulting in Voldemort not returning in a manner Ariadne witnesses, and the New Marauders leaving Hogwarts to attend Beauxbatons in the 2005-2006 school year onward.
* PainfulTransformation: Much like ''Princess,'' Chapter 4, ''Princess' Birthday'' (which is technically canon for ''Princess'' as well, as ''Conflicting Schedules'' diverges from it during the first Triwizard Task) describes a lycanthropic transformation - in this case, Ariadne's first. She is in so much pain she cannot process it, and it describes her change being down to the cellular level.
* ScarsAreForever: Ariadne has numerous permanent scars due to her injuries in the Triwizard Tournament as well as being a werewolf. In Chapter 2, ''One Door Opens,'' it is elaborated on that Ariadne acquired lycanthropy from Ron by accident, and in Chapter 4, ''Princess' Birthday,'' this is properly described as a cut up her right forearm she sustained on Ron's first full moon, where unlike ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' they went with him.
* SuperWheelchair: Ariadne uses a wheelchair augmented with broomstick enchantments which is capable of flight.
* WaistcoatOfStyle: Ron is stated to be very stylish in his Beauxbatons uniform, which includes a waistcoat, and it's stated that he is "quite handsome" wearing it.
* WhamEpisode: Arguably, Chapter 1, ''Conflicting Schedules'' (which was originally the entire fic before the author decided it was an interesting enough premise to continue).
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!! The Woes of Ectothermy
''The Woes of Ectothermy'' is a main story canon piece, which introduces a new character - Vanya, an eight year old recently turned vampire. She is taken in by a woman calling herself Tiffany, and is assisted by an official from a Ministry department the name of which is redacted as it would spoil future events in Kaleidoscopic Grangers (as of when The Woes of Ectothermy was published). ''The Woes of Ectothermy'' provides examples of:
* BadassAdorable: Vanya looks eight years old, and will for the rest of her life, but she is an ambush predator and even when inexperienced and running on instinct, she is capable of relatively effective hunting. Arguably a KillerRabbit.
* ContinuityNod: Jeremy Paddison is mentioned in Chapter 230 of Kaleidoscopic Grangers, ''The World Is Grey,'' which was released after ''The Woes of Ectothermy.'' When he is mentioned in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' he is still in his seventh year at Hogwarts.
* FingerTwitchingRevival: Tiffany and Jeremy notice Vanya is indeed alive seeing her twitch. A vampire in torpor is difficult to distinguish from one that is dead, and the pair were unsure if Vanya was alive.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vanya is a vampire. ''The Woes of Ectothermy'' also sets up what vampires are in the Kaleidoscopic Grangers universe.
** Vampires in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' are not undead; they are ectothermic humanoid hematophages, although one can become one through the same methods as in popular culture. However, when recently turned, they can seem dead, and are often buried by non-magical peers, which can lead to trauma.
** They do not need to consume human blood, as any hemoglobin based blood will do, however they can, and Vanya could be described with the VegetarianVampire trope as she actively avoids doing so even when starving in the opening to ''The Woes of Ectothermy.'' Solid food makes them sick.
** Nor do ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' vampires have a MissingReflection. Vanya figures out she is a vampire seeing her fangs in her reflection.
** They are LongLived, living for approximately four hundred years according to Jeremy Paddison.
** Vampires are vulnerable to the cold, as ectotherms, and can fall into a state called torpor if they get too cold - in this state, they are effectively hibernating involuntarily. If warmed from this state, they wake up again, but they can still freeze to death, and torpor can be indistinguishable from death.
** TheAgeless: Vampires do not age - Vanya will appear to be eight years old for the rest of her LongLived life.
** VoluntaryShapeshifting: Although Vanya does not know how to control it, this is seen in her accidentally giving herself fur once to try to stave off the cold.
** WeakenedByTheLight: Inverted. Vampires in Kaleidoscopic Grangers are not harmed by sunlight, but are vulnerable to the cold as ectothermic life forms. They require external sources of heat, and might even be found basking in the sun for this reason.
!! A Litter of Problems
''A Litter of Problems'' is described as "a crackfic taken seriously," and diverges from ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' during Chapter 261, ''Blue.'' Instead of remaining outside away from Blue, clearly, Ariadne and Hermione were in direct contact with Blue over the full moon, and because Blue - inheriting the knowledge from Ron - recognized Hermione as his mate, he affectionately started licking her face. As a result, Hermione became a werewolf, and over the next full moon, neither of them had Wolfsbane Potion. The pair didn't think about how their wolves would interact, and their feral forms mated, resulting in Hermione being pregnant with a litter of four puppies. A Litter of Problems provides examples of:
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* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: In Chapter 4, ''As Sure as Day Returns to Night,'' Hermione undergoes her transformation without Wolfsbane potion, as taking it would risk her health while she is pregnant. In this, she becomes her wolf - which she named Andromache. However, the AlternateIdentityAmnesia is not total. Though Andromache does not remember anything of substance from Hermione, she does seem to have a very similar personality, and seems to exhibit some signs of Hermione's autism. She even remembers things that are important to her, such as the fact that Ron is her mate and that the Burrow is home. She does not, however, recognize the other werewolves, nor does she recognize what's happening to Ron, which results in her being very concerned when Ron has his own lycanthropic transformation.\\
The end notes for the chapter state that Andromache is still Hermione, she's just lacking the context and knowledge Hermione benefits from, and her priorities are a little different.
* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, Ariadne and Hermione were in physical contact with Blue during Chapter 260, ''Blue,'' and Hermione became a werewolf. The Battle of Hogwarts took place a month later than in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' and Hermione found herself pregnant with puppies.
* BigEater: Justified, both in that Hermione now has an enhanced metabolism that requires this, but also that she is eating for five.
* ContinuityNod: Just like in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' Ariadne goes and visits Nymphadora's newborn baby a week before the full moon on the 20th of April, as she does in Chapter 289, ''A New Life,'' of the main fic.
* BrainsAndBondage: ''[=ALoP=]: Chapter 9.5: The Memory'' confirms that Hermione is pretty kinky - she has previously "sold Ron on bondage and strap-ons." And this is the timeline where, at that point in the story, their sex life got cut in half by Hermione getting pregnant!
* ExpressDelivery: Hermione's pregnancy is progressing faster than a human one, and is estimated to last for four months in Chapter 1, ''The Ultrasound.'' Justified in that lupine pregnancies only last two months and compared to actual wolves, it is the LongestPregnancyEver.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Hermione's puppies continue the theme Ariadne and she established by both having Greek names - the puppies are Artemis, Calliope, Cerberus, and Ariadne II.
* FeelingTheBabyKick: Hermione finds her four puppies to be rather active inside of her, which she [[HandOnWomb uses to help ease the news to Molly]] that not only is there more than one infant, there are four.
* GoodIsNotSoft: In this version of events, it was Hermione, not Ron, who killed Fenrir Greyback for attacking Parvati and Lavender. And she did it with her bare hands and teeth.
* HatesBeingTouched: Hermione is autistic and so HatesBeingTouched, especially when overwhelmed which she practically is constantly in her state in this piece. This conflicts with her new werewolf instincts, which make her want closeness.
* MamaBear:
** Valerie, as in the main story, is very protective of her daughters, and goes so far as to threaten a Healer at Saint Mungo's with the House of Granger's political power should they even slightly leak why Hermione is there.
** Hermione is very protective of her puppies, even before they are born, and isn't pleased when Molly has to take them to weigh them.
* MorningSickness: Hermione spends an hour in the morning of Chapter 2, ''Mama Wolf'' "keeping as much of the last night’s dinner down as she could."
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Hermione growls and whines like a wolf a few times in the fic, and flashes her teeth at Ron when she is stressed.
* MySecretPregnancy: Hermione avoids letting anyone outside of the family know that she is pregnant, due to the nature of the pregnancy being likely to attract nation-wide ridicule given how famous her family is.
* MysticalPregnancy: Because both Ron and Hermione were in their wolf forms during conception, Hermione's offspring are puppies instead of human(oid).
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Hermione and Ron already agreed before the puppies were born that the youngest female puppy would be named after her aunt... and is named Ariadne II. Molly tells Ariadne she probably won't be the last child named after her, which Ariadne isn't happy about.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Hermione killed Fenrir Greyback with her bare hands according to the outline of the events that led to ''A Litter of Problems,'' but this is not shown.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Hermione is one, and the fic goes into how a pair of wolf-form werewolves mating will result in lupine offspring, and the health and societal problems that ensue. Because of how ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' handles lycanthropic AlternateIdentityAmnesia and/or IdentityAmnesia (things that are important or of note can bleed through in both directions), Hermione can in fact remember the conception of the puppies "in far more detail than she wanted to," even though their memories of those nights are fragmentary, and finds it quite embarrassing.
* ReligiousAndMythologicalThemeNaming: Hermione names her wolf Andromache, which is a joke on the original mythology of her own namesake; Hermione blamed Andromache for making her ''barren,'' the opposite of what the story's Hermione blames her Andromache for, which is getting her pregnant in the first place.
* ShoutOut:
** In Chapter 1, ''The Ultrasound,'' Hermione remembers Theoden saying "no parent should ever have to bury their child" from the ''Lord of the Rings'' movies.
** Chapter 3, ''Behold My Future,'' is named after a lyric to the theme tune of the TV show Series/{{Wolfblood}}.
** In Chapter 3, ''Behold My Future,'' Hermione hums ''Roads Go Ever On,'' a walking song from the Lord of the Rings.
** Chapter 4, ''As Sure as Day Returns to Night,'' is also named after a lyric from the Wolfblood theme song.
* ShownTheirWork: Lampshaded in the notes that the author used the Wayback Machine to check the Wikipedia page for Wolf was accurate to the in-universe date.
* TeenPregnancy: Hermione is nineteen, and due to having taken a gap year, also still hasn't finished Hogwarts.
* TheClan: Rather amusingly, because Hermione is the oldest daughter of Dennis and Valerie, she's the heir to the House of Granger, and her eldest child after her is next. As a result, technically, the heir to the House of Granger is ''Lady'' Artemis Granger, a wolf.
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!! Little Red Riding Hood
''Little Red Riding Hood'' is a main story canon piece, which tacks on after Chapter 252, ''Dream On,'' and follows Ron's perspective during the first night he and Hermione sleep together. It is explicit and has a brief sex scene.
* AdaptationExpansion: ''Little Red Riding Hood'' follows a scene only implied to have taken place in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers.''
* BrainsAndBondage: Though Hermione says she doesn't herself enjoy being tied up as it reminds her of when she was Petrified by the Basilisk, she is quick to suggest seeing if Ron likes it later.
* CallBack: There are a few of these - In the new context of knowing Hermione loved him, Ron wonders how much happier he would have been if it had been Hermione to kiss him in Chapter 208, ''When All the World is Warm and Tired,'' and how he would have gone to Professor Slughorn's party in Chapter 211, ''Polite Conversation,'' as Red in a pink bowed collar if she'd asked (the party was on a full moon night). Hermione calls back to Chapter 101, ''Correspondence, Clairvoyance, Aches and Pains,'' when Sally-Anne pointed out her accelerated puberty due to time travel, and says the attention was uncomfortable. There is also a small CallBack to Chapter 154, ''Safe House,'' when Ron says that Hermione makes him feel more like a person sometimes; he alluded to this previously, telling Remus that Hermione can hear high pitched noises too, implying this makes it less unpleasant for him.
* ConfessionTriggersConsummation: Ariadne's suspicion that Hermione and Ron were a case of this in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' is confirmed in ''Little Red Riding Hood.''
* ContinuityNod: As per Chapter 253, ''Founders' Effects,'' Hermione is having trouble sleeping during this piece. Additionally, Hermione uses a Muffling Charm exactly as Ariadne had suspected. Hermione mentions thinking she might be short-sighted which is later confirmed when she gets glasses between Chapters 288 and 289, and she says she'll go and brew contraceptives; Ariadne notices that she's been doing so in Chapter 260, ''Shire. Baggins.''
* EyesAlwaysAverted: Both Ron and Hermione in this piece do not make eye contact, and it is explained as being because Hermione is autistic and finds it socially intense while Ron, as a werewolf, can sometimes see eye contact as hostile.
* TheImmodestOrgasm: It's not stated if Hermione actually has an orgasm, but she is fairly vocal and preemptively casts a Muffling Charm knowing she can be.
* InterspeciesRomance: Ron is a werewolf, Hermione is human. Hermione is conscious of this and does her best to accommodate any ways this may manifest in how he behaves toward her, including sexually.
* MustNotDieAVirgin: Hermione invokes this trope as a 'just in case,' as being fugitives does mean the pair could die.
* MythologyGag: Hermione acknowledging the danger inherent in her getting pregnant, let alone having children, could be considered such a gag given the existence of ''A Litter of Problems.''
* MyInstinctsAreShowing: Hermione is accommodating of the several ways Ron's instincts as a werewolf come up during the piece.\\
First, he tends to rub his cheek on her shoulder in an attempt to scent mark her; he is originally embarrassed when this is pointed out, but Hermione says it's fine and he resumes doing it.\\
His instincts also come up during the brief sex scene; Hermione goes out of her way to ask if he would prefer a position where he is behind her due to these instincts (which it is implied is the case), and afterwards Hermione realises he has the ''instinct'' to remain tied with her out of a canine expectation they be so, but not any physical manifestation of an actual knot. In his mind, it feels like what he should do, but Hermione points out that he's instinctively trying to ensure she gets pregnant. He is startled by this and immediately pulls out, but she assures him that because she will be making and taking a morning-after potion, there is no practically greater risk to him obliging that instinct and that she doesn't mind.
* NaughtyByNight: Hermione is unequivocally shown to be so, surprising Ron with the fact she masturbates regularly and has a surprisingly comprehensive list of things she likes and doesn't like for someone who says she doesn't have a ''comprehensive'' list. She just doesn't often mention this side of herself, as the only person she felt she could be open with aside from Ron himself was Ariadne - her sister.
* NerdsAreSexy: Ron finds Hermione's ability to be just as much a nerd as usual even in the prelude to sex very attractive.
* PostCoitalCollapse: Ron gently pushes so he and Hermione fall sideways into a cuddle after the sex.
* ShoutOut:
** Hermione paraphrases Samwise Gamgee's speech on 'some good in this world worth fighting for' from Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers.
** Ron invokes erotic readings of Literature/LittleRedRidingHood - Hermione doesn't immediately realise he's flirting and discusses the Brothers Grimm version of the story and how she doesn't want him skinned or drowned, before realising what he'd meant. The piece itself is named for this.
* SmellsSexy: Ron can smell that Hermione is aroused.
* TheirFirstTime: ''Little Red Riding Hood'' goes over Ron and Hermione's first time having sex, as a counterpart to ''We Could Be Heroes'' for Ariadne and Ginny.
* TheNoseKnows: Ron's nose, as he is a werewolf, is so sensitive he can smell the change to Hermione's scent when she is aroused.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: The first large chunk of the piece is Ron and Hermione almost competitively giving each other this speech.
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!! This Is the Night
''This Is the Night'' is an alternate universe story where Ginny got infected with lycanthropy as well as Ron - it goes over her first transformation and then an overview of much of her life after it.

* AdaptationExpansion: ''This Is the Night'' actually adds a small amount of detail to the original story of ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers.''
** Remus actually holding Ron down to prevent him from injuring himself is shown, as this is the only instance where his first change is shown (however Ginny helps him).
** A hypothetical Animagus form for Hermione is given: a Grey Fox, ''Urocyon Cinereoargenteus.'' This is actually hinted in Chapter 220, ''Celebrimbor's Shame,'' when Ariadne had a fox tail, and Hermione was described as having a grey tail with a black stripe.
** The events of Ginny's second-to-last year at Hogwarts are expanded on slightly, identifying the night she was sent to the Forbidden Forest as having taken place in early December 2007. It's also specified that she was bound and gagged, although it's possible this was because she was able to resist magical restraint as a powerful witch and a werewolf. It's confirmed instead of speculation that [=McGonagall=] gave her the House of Granger signet ring.
** It is confirmed that Ginny is in fact a Parseltongue, and that she does not use the ability because of her history with the Diary of Tom Riddle.
* AlternateTimeline: In this timeline, Ginny became a werewolf with Ron.
* BittersweetEnding: Ginny is barred from professional Quidditch, which her main fic counterpart got into, but she is slowly finding happiness in Potions work making Wolfsbane Potion. She is also more scarred.
* BloodSplatteredWarrior: Ginny killed Fenrir Greyback in this story, with her "bare and bloodstained hands."
* ContinuityNod: On their first night as werewolves, Remus says many of the same things he said in Chapter 110, ''Full Moon Rising,'' and Chapter 4 of ''Conflicting Schedules, Princess' Birthday.''
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Instead of him being killed at the Battle of Hogwarts, Ginny kills Fenrir Greyback at the Battle of the Astronomy Tower.
* FirstKiss: Ariadne and Ginny have their FirstKiss in the Gryffindor Common Room.
* ForWantOfANail: ''This Is the Night'' overviews a line of how some things change in the story with Ginny as a werewolf.
** Ginny accompanied Ron to see the Triwizard dragons.
** Ariadne and Ginny didn't stick around for the Yule Ball - the full moon was imminent, so they retired to the Common Room and had their FirstKiss there.
** Ariadne became an Animagus in 2005 instead of 2009, and Hermione joined her.
** Ginny killed Fenrir Greyback at the Battle of the Astronomy Tower; thus, he was not present to turn Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil, Hannah Abbott, Toby Quill, and Alexander Vaisey, and as such those five are not werewolves in this story.
* InterspeciesRomance: Ariadne and Ginny becomes one, as Ginny is a werewolf.
* MeaningfulName:
** Subverted; Ginny says she's going to name her wolf form Toni, and then catches Remus off-guard when she explains it's just a pun and short for [=Gin-And-Tonic.=]
** Instead of calling her the Lady of Light, in this version of the story Centaur prophecies call Ginny the Wolven Flame.
* MythologyGag: In this version of the story, Ginny was actually scared of the idea of going into heat as a werewolf and so is glad it's an urban myth, and the narration says that if it weren't her, she may have joked about it. In the original, she ''did.''
* ScarsAreForever: During the attack on the Burrow at New Years of 2007, Ginny's Wolfsbane vial is shattered, and in terror at transforming without it, she accidentally gives herself a long scar down her face. Her scars are present on her wolf form, including her arm ones after the Battle of Hogwarts.
* SiblingTeam: Ron and Ginny are a pack of their own.
* TitledAfterTheSong: This piece is named after the Weird Sisters song ''This Is the Night,'' a verse of which could be considered to be from the perspective of a werewolf. Indeed, in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers''' Chapter 348, ''In Sickness and in Health,'' it is confirmed to be [[spoiler:as Weird Sisters member Herman Wintringham is made a werewolf and in-universe the song was written by him.]]
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!! Rock 'n' Roll Suicide
''Rock 'n' Roll Suicide'' is a small spinoff piece written while the sequel to ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' was being written. The piece diverges from ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' in Chapter 230, ''The World is Grey,'' where when Hermione goes looking for Ariadne when she's late to Herbology, instead of finding Ariadne crying, she finds Ariadne dead after having committed suicide, and having become a ghost.

* [[AlmightyMom Almighty Mum]] / MamaBear: Due to the circumstances of this spinoff, Valerie Granger actually follows through with her habit of threatening Professor Dumbledore if he does not keep her daughters safe, punching him in the face and attempting to stab him with a piece of broken metal.
* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Rock 'n' Roll Suicide'' is the only spinoff to ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' to explicitly depict suicide.
* DeathIsTheOnlyOption: Ariadne does not believe Dumbledore when he tells her she may not have to die, and so in this piece, she actually kills herself seeing no other solution to end the war.
* DeathNotification: Madam Pomfrey has the unfortunate duty of informing Ariadne's parents of Ariadne's suicide - Dumbledore only told them something had gone wrong.
* DiesWideOpen: Ariadne's eyes are still open when Hermione finds her body.
* DisabilitySuperpower: Averted. Ariadne's magical sense apparently stops working when she becomes a ghost.
* DrivenToSuicide: Affected by severe depression after discovering that she is a Horcrux, Ariadne kills herself.
* HesitantSacrifice / HeroicSacrifice: Though Ariadne does commit suicide in this spinoff piece, she is so reluctant to leave behind her loved ones that she comes back as a ghost, and instantly regrets taking her own life.
* ShoutOut: The fic itself is named for the David Bowie song ''Rock 'n' Roll Suicide.''
* StartsWithASuicide: The first line of this piece is Ariadne speaking the incantation for the Killing Curse and killing herself, followed by her confused and then horrified realization that she's become a ghost.
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 1, ''The Worst Case Scenario,'' depicts the premise for the fic, the suicide of Ariadne Granger.
* WorthLivingFor: Ariadne comes back as a ghost because she had so much she wanted to live for.

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!! The Forest of Dean
''The Forest of Dean'' is a small spinoff piece written to explore the concept of KG!Hermione being bitten by Fenrir Greyback while on the camping trip to the Forest of Dean mentioned in Chapter 244, ''Winding Up,'' of ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers.'' It begins in 1998 when Hermione is bitten, and then skips ahead to Hermione's first transformation as a werewolf before skipping to 2001 when Hermione turns eleven and is visited by Professor [=McGonagall=]. It is described by the author as "playing the highlights" due to its time skips.

* AdaptationExpansion:
** In Chapter 11, ''I Want to Break Free,'' Hermione's experience of being petrified is expanded upon; her eyes are improperly focused leading to intense discomfort and she literally can't fall asleep.
** In Chapter 16, ''Commonalities and Differences,'' Remus gives more background to Fenrir Greyback, and explains how the predatory werewolf had to be "clever" to target people before Wolfsbane Potion existed, as it generally goes against how werewolves work in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers.''

* AdaptationalContextChange: Professor Snape's lesson on werewolves in Chapter 17, ''A Page Out of My Book,'' becomes particularly sinister when ''Hermione'' is a werewolf and not just Professor Lupin.

* AdaptationalSkill: In this story, Hermione knows a little taekwondo and had to drop out from classes because she kept accidentally hurting people at practice.

* AdaptationalJerkass:
** Because of the full moon, Hermione has a shorter temper here, which alters things like the Charms lesson where she more angrily corrects Ron which therefore gets discussed differently by Ron himself.
** Remus comes off a bit as this in Chapter 24, ''Matters of Perspective,'' showing more how his perspectives on being a werewolf are affected by his personal trauma and experience during the war; he's actually ''opposed'' to any unified "werewolf culture" and views it as being what Fenrir Greyback sought, taking a more moderate stance.

* [[AlmightyMom Almighty Mum]]: In true Valerie Granger fashion, when Fenrir Greyback bites Hermione in Chapter 1, ''Do You Remember?'' Valerie beats him away with a flaming log multiple times.
** Valerie continues this legacy, giving Lucius Malfoy a vicious TheReasonYouSuckSpeech the instant she meets him at the Quidditch World Cup - and she didn't even know who he was when she started!

* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: As a werewolf, much like other werewolves in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' works, Hermione has near-total - but not ''completely'' total - loss of identity when she transforms into her wolf form, which she dubs Artemis. Given Artemis is trained, Hermione can sometimes accidentally follow commands to sit if she's not thinking about it, and after her first transformation vaguely remembers some of the clattering about in the kitchen and dining room.

* CareerRevealingTrait: If you pay close attention to Chiara Lobosca's letter in Chapter 14, ''Difficult Discussions,'' she notes the sort of things a Healer might about Ginny's concussion.

* ContinuityCameo and/or AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: In Chapter 5, ''A Strange Experience,'' Hermione is passed on a letter from a fellow werewolf who attends Hogwarts and will be leaving before Hermione starts there. From known context, this is clearly Chiara Lobosca - in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' Chiara was introduced late as a Healer with the Brown Foundation, who serves as Persephone's main Healer. Here, what appears to be a [[PenPals pen pal]] relationship is set up in 2000, nearly fifteen years before Hermione and Chiara meet in the main story. Subsequently, Chiara becomes a recurring character and after her outing and sacking she is taken in by the Grangers and hired as a dental nurse in the end of Chapter 18, ''Don't You Let Go.'' Her 1969 [=BSA=] Lightning also makes an early appearance.

* ContinuityNod: As per the exposition in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 358, ''A Father's Fear,'' and Chapter 366, ''Mother,'' Chapter 17, ''A Page Out of My Book,'' ends with Hermione reading that [[{{ContinuityCameo}} Chiara Lobosca]] got exposed as a werewolf and fired from her job at Saint Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries.

* DarkerAndEdgier: In Chapter 4, ''The Wider World,'' Hermione and her family are distraught by the revelation that the wizarding world is so hostile to werewolves, and even come across a book in Flourish and Blotts' titled ''Hunting Werewolves'' (that exists in the movie canon which the ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' universe is based on, appearing in the background in the ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' movie). Afterward, Hermione's parents are extremely worried for Hermione's safety as a werewolf at Hogwarts, and consider moving to Scotland to be nearby so the girls can come home after classes and not spend their time where they are unsafe. Hearing this conversation, Hermione doesn't even want to be a witch.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Mostly averted. Because ''The Forest of Dean'' was written after the end of ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' it averts most instances of EarlyInstallmentWeirdness present in the original story and is consistent with all [[{{Retcon}} Retcons]], including Ariadne using a braille slate and stylus, the partitioning of the Granger girls' respective neurodivergences, and Hermione and Valerie being black. Early installment ''mistakes'' are also lampshaded and fixed, with Chapter 16, ''Commonalities and Differences,'' featuring in its notes a plea for the earlier version of the author to develop a sense of time because the original timeline doesn't make any sense.

* FantasticSlurs: As a joking example, in Chapter 20, ''Open Season,'' Hermione mocks Draco Malfoy for saying "mudblood mutt" instead of the portmanteau ''muttblood.''

* FightingBackIsWrong: Rejected in Chapter 3, ''A Knock at the Door.'' In this version of events, Hermione has even been suspended on occasion for injuring bullies through her [[AdaptationalSkill skill at taekwondo]].

* AGlassInTheHand: In Chapter 17, ''A Page Out of My Book,'' Hermione breaks a pen this way because of her anger at Professor Snape.

* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: In Chapter 11, ''I Want to Break Free,'' Madam Pomfrey has to supervise Artemis after Hermione partially transforms, [[spoiler:breaking her petrification,]] in the Hospital Wing. After Artemis appears confused by her conjuring a dog bed, Madam Pomfrey exclaims "Oh I don't know, I'm a Healer not a magizoologist!"

* InterspeciesFriendship: In this story, Hermione's sisterhood with Ariadne.

* MamaBear: Valerie Granger, before she even knows about magic, fights off a werewolf with a flaming log. Successfully too.

* MeaningfulName:
** Hermione names her wolf self Artemis, after the Greek goddess of wild animals.
** Hermione also names herself when she is transformed but under the effects of Wolfsbane Potion Hecate; Hecate was the Greek goddess of magic and associated with the moon, depicted as triple-bodied - befitting this being Hermione's third persona - and Hecate was frequently shaped as or associated with, often friendly, female dogs. She is also characterized as representing liminal spaces, which aligns with how Hermione thinks of her own Hecate.
** [[{{NamedByTheAdaptation}} Chiara is given a middle name]] in ''The Forest of Dean,'' Bethany. The name Bethany derives from a Biblical place name meaning "house of affliction" or "house of the poor," alluding to Chiara's lycanthropy, career as a Healer, as well as her impoverished state after being fired. However, she probably isn't as impoverished in ''The Forest of Dean,'' as in this timeline she is indicated to be hired as a dental nurse by the Grangers rather than being forced to take low-paying odd jobs to scrounge a living.
** Ariadne suggests the name Apollo for Ron's wolf form sans-Wolfsbane, for the fact that he is pack with Hermione's, Artemis - Apollo being the twin brother of Artemis. Hermione isn't a fan, since she has a crush on Ron and sees it as an inappropriate name since she doesn't see him as a sibling.

* MentorArchetype:
** TheObiWannabe in the case of Remus Lupin - he ''is'' trying to be helpful to Hermione, but his advice and general attitude toward being a werewolf are very much based on his own self-loathing.
** Hermione finds herself appointed as one when Ron becomes a werewolf.

* MythologyGag: In Chapter 26, ''Enjoy the Match,'' Ariadne reacts with some revulsion to the idea of inheriting the House of Black from Sirius because of her relationship to him as his goddaughter - that's exactly what happens when Sirius dies in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers,'' and its sequel, being written at the same time as ''The Forest of Dean,'' often is affected by the politics of it becoming House Granger.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: ''The Forest of Dean'' gives a middle name for Chiara Lobosca, Bethany.

* PenPals: In Chapter 5, ''A Strange Experience,'' a fellow werewolf attending Hogwarts at the time (implied to be [[ContinuityCameo Chiara Lobosca]]) expresses an interest in establishing a pen-pal relationship with Hermione, though neither knows the other's name.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech:
** True to form for Valerie Granger, Valerie gives one to ''the entire Wizarding [=UK=]'' when it comes to acceptance of werewolves in Chapter 21, ''Mould the Clay.''
** Chiara Lobosca gives one of these to Remus Lupin in regards to his - in her opinion - patronizing and overly pacifist moderate stance about cultural unity among werewolves and whether or not it should even happen in Chapter 24, ''Matters of Perspective.'' Though, she does ramble a bit.

* ScarsAreForever:
** Hermione gains a scar on her right wrist where Greyback bit her.
** ''The Forest of Dean'' also establishes that Chiara has four cuts running down one of her cheeks - Chapter 24, ''Matters of Perspective,'' reveals that [[{{SelfHarm}} she gave them to herself]] to remind everyone else of the pain she goes through and what she is.

* ShoutOut:
** In Chapter 4, ''The Wider World,'' Hermione is stated to have liked the ''Goosebumps'' book ''The Werewolf of Fever Swamp'' and given it a prominent place on her bookshelf.
** Chapter 7, ''Castle of Wizardry,'' is named after the third book of ''The Belgariad.''
** Chapter 11, ''I Want to Break Free,'' is named after the Queen song of the same name.
** In Chapter 16, ''Commonalities and Differences,'' the description of a hobbit-hole from J.R.R. Tolkien's ''The Hobbit'' is quoted in reverse in regards to the tunnel under the Whomping Willow.
** In Chapter 18, ''Don't You Let Go,'' Hermione is reading to Ariadne from Chapter 5, ''The Steward and the King,'' of book six of ''The Lord of the Rings,'' which as well as book five falls under ''The Return of the King.'' She is doing so because they recently saw the movie adaptation, whose soundtrack they sing, and the title of the chapter is spoken by Samwise Gamgee in the movie.
** In Chapter 19, ''Calling the Bluff,'' Hermione echoes Obi-Wan Kenobi's line "Well of course I know him; he's me."
** In Chapter 20, ''Open Season,'' Hermione quotes the Seventh Doctor from the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''Battlefield'' of season 26, saying "who said anything about playing chess? I'm playing poker!" Remus doesn't get the reference and exclaims that you don't play poker by going all in the moment your opponent makes a bet.
** The name of Chapter 23, ''So Small a Thing,'' is a reference to ''The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring'' and Boromir's line "it is a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt over so small a thing."
** In Chapter 24, ''Matters of Perspective,'' a number of these are made. Hermione compares Chiara's appearance to that of the late '80s ''Doctor Who'' companion Ace, and Chiara's leather jacket has patches referencing the Sex Pistols and Siouxsie and the Banshees, and she wears a Buzzcocks t-shirt. Additionally, Chiara's jacket has a [=BSA=] patch in the same place as on Ace's. As well as this, Chiara's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech includes a ShoutOut to ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,'' quoting Benny Russell from the episode ''Far Beyond the Stars;'' "Calm never got me a damn thing."
** Chapter 25, ''On a Hot Summer Night,'' is named for the Meatloaf song ''You Took the Words Right Outta My Mouth (Hot Summer Night).''

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: In a ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers''-specific example, similarly to how he becomes a werewolf in the main story, Ron also becomes a werewolf during the same full moon in ''The Forest of Dean.'' However, it is shown to be Hecate who is the likely progenitor of his infection, by playing tug of war with him. Lampshaded in the notes.

* ThemeNaming: Hermione's name for her wolf form, Artemis, follows a similar theme of greek mythology to her own name and [[MeaningfulRename Ariadne's name]]. Her name for her Wolfsbane-affected persona, Hecate, also follows this theme. Ron's wolf form is suggested the name Apollo by Ariadne, as Apollo is Artemis' twin brother.

* TheyHaveTheScent: Averted. Hermione says in Chapter 20, ''Open Season,'' when asked if she can just sniff out Remus that tracking is actually very difficult for her because of her sensory issues, and she can't even do it as Hecate.

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 19, ''Calling the Bluff,'' features Hermione coming out as a werewolf publicly on the radio.

* TheRez: The example present in ''Birds of a Feather'' is a combination [[{{InherentInTheSystem}} Political]] and phlebotonium-hiding Rez - because of the Statute of Secrecy, the Brecon Beacons Wizarding Sanctuary[[note]]Which isn't actually directly named in ''Birds of a Feather'' yet, only that Tegyd is Welsh and lives on a reservation, however it can be traced down due to the location being mentioned in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' as being the location of the Caerphilly Catapults' stadium, which Tegyd also mentions[[/note]] is a general dumping ground for a few things, and indeed people, the wizarding world can't allow to be public. Notably the aforementioned stadium, as well as a Welsh dragon sanctuary, and the village of Pen ôl y Ddraig, where Tegyd lives with her father's caprid centaur herd, and which she describes as being the [[{{BilingualBonus}} "ass end of nowhere."]][[note]]The name of the town translates to "The arse end of a ''dragon"'' in Welsh.[[/note]] Quidditch fans are noted to thoroughly disrespect the residents of the reservation, who tend to be nonhumans because they're not allowed in public. Tegyd has mentioned that the Sanctuary lacks electrical infrastructure, and that it's notably cold in winter.

** In Chapter 56, ''A Good Talk,'' several. Ron is uneasy returning to Hogwarts because of the events of ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 273, ''The Mistress of Death,'' Persephone worries that Hunter McLaggen might know she's a werewolf from the fact his father figured out Ron was one in KG Chapter 206, ''Like Pulling Teeth,'' and Hermione recalls Ginny constantly joking about her job title during their last year at Hogwarts. During Persephone's parent-teacher conference, Professor Seong notes her solving Catherine's dilemma in ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' as well as all four instances of Persephone getting into fights. Hermione also recalls Ariadne punching Draco Malfoy in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 91, ''Shopping and Snowballs.''

* {{Familiar}}: In Episode 1, ''The Flock,'' rival of the main characters Hunter [=McLaggen=] is shown to have a Matagot familiar, seemingly named Lausanne, which he uses to prank Persephone and Dominique with some success until Ariadne notices. However, Ariadne banishes the pet, telling him he shouldn't be able to summon her for an hour or two - and in that time, she meets Vanya, and Vanya feeds her. Later, in Episode 2, ''Harvest Moon,'' [=McLaggen=] is convinced that the girls did something to Lausanne, as he can no longer summon her. However, the matagot continues to visit Vanya, indicating that it has perhaps bound itself to Vanya without her knowledge. Indeed, in Episode 7, ''Cold Snap,'' Chapter 44, ''Curious Returns,'' [[spoiler:the Matagot appears in Vanya's bedroom hundreds of miles south of Hogwarts in Tinworth, and later in the episode]] in Chapter 46, ''Atypical Truancy,'' [[spoiler:it is attempting to warm Vanya up from her torpor, and makes sure Vanya is found by her peers.]]

* BilingualBonus: In Episode 3, ''The Artifacts of Hogwarts,'' Chapter 22, ''Make Some Noise,'' people who speak Welsh will get a joke earlier than other readers, much as Alpin does; the meaning of the name of Tegyd's home town of ''Pen ôl y Ddraig'' is not provided in the footnotes most of the text's non-English text is translated in. Alpin bursts out laughing immediately, because Pen ôl y Ddraig means "The Ass End of the Dragon."

** In Episode 1, ''The Flock,'' [[spoiler:Dominique spots a jet black cat with bright blue eyes which seems to be able to teleport at the feet of Hunter [=McLaggen=] in Chapter 7, ''Disparate Houses.'' This cat reappears later as [=McLaggen's=] seemingly unwilling Matagot familiar which he uses to prank the girls during detention, which he is caught doing. This cat reappears to Vanya in subsequent episodes, usually demanding food.]]

* {{Familiar}}: In Episode 1, ''The Flock,'' rival of the main characters Hunter [=McLaggen=] is shown to have a Matagot familiar, seemingly named Lausanne, which he uses to prank Persephone and Dominique with some success until Ariadne notices. However, Ariadne banishes the pet, telling him he shouldn't be able to summon her for an hour or two - and in that time, she meets Vanya, and Vanya feeds her. Later, in Episode 2, ''Harvest Moon,'' [=McLaggen=] is convinced that the girls did something to Lausanne, as he can no longer summon her. However, the matagot continues to visit Vanya, indicating that it has perhaps bound itself to Vanya without her knowledge.

* PapaWolf: In a fairly literal example of this, in Chapter 321, ''An Inconvenient Process,'' [[spoiler:Ron is shown to behave in an almost fatherly manner toward his werewolf pack, insisting on paying for food now that he can. He also expresses [[OverprotectiveDad distate at Lavender's boyfriend Brayden]], despite having only met him once. Justified in that real wolf packs are family units, and because Ron is identified as the [[AlphaAndBetaWolves alpha (although the trope is averted) of his pack]], he does see himself as having a pseudo-parental feeling of responsibility for them. He isn't in fact a father.]]

* TheRez: The example present in ''Birds of a Feather'' is a combination [[{{InherentInTheSystem}} Political]] and phlebotonium-hiding Rez - because of the Statute of Secrecy, the Brecon Beacons Wizarding Sanctuary[[note]]Which isn't actually directly named in ''Birds of a Feather'' yet, only that Tegyd is Welsh and lives on a reservation, however it can be traced down due to the location being mentioned in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' as being the location of the Caerphilly Catapults' stadium, which Tegyd also mentions[[/note]] is a general dumping ground for a few things, and indeed people, the wizarding world can't allow to be public. Notably the aforementioned stadium, as well as a Welsh dragon sanctuary, and the village of Pen ôl y Ddraig, where Tegyd lives with her father's caprid centaur herd, and which she describes as being the [[{{BilingualBonus}} "ass end of nowhere."]][[note]]The name of the town translates to "The arse end of a ''dragon"'' in Welsh.[[/note]] Quidditch fans are noted to thoroughly disrespect the residents of the reservation, who tend to be nonhumans because they're not allowed in public. No detail has been given yet of the standards of living there, but given Tegyd says that it "bloody sucks" and she is unfamiliar with basic modern staples such as pizza despite contact with her human mother, it can't be good.

** In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 38, ''A Moment Frozen in Time,'' Catherine is reading one of Rick Riordan's ''Percy Jackson'' books.

** A couple of them in Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 37, ''Wearing Many a Cloak.'' Firstly, Ariadne tells Wulfwynn to give her giant mother Dúntrume her regards; Dúntrume was first mentioned in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 364, ''The Spy's Son'' as being a Giant who gave Hermione a gift for her as yet unborn daughter Hestia, and had a half-Giant child - who evidently was Wulfwynn. Secondly, Ariadne refers back to the Yule Ball of the Triwizard Tournament, particularly the unwelcome attention she got in ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' Chapter 125, ''Unwelcome Attention.''

* DCupDistress: In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 37, ''Wearing Many a Cloak,'' Tegyd - who is stated to be "to put it politely, very well endowed" for her age - discusses the drawbacks of being busty at 13. She also laments that she's actually already discussed breast reduction surgery with Madam Pomfrey, and that because of an unspecified reason (implied to be because Tegyd may have an udder because of her caprid centaur ancestry, given she speaks about it in the singular) said surgery wouldn't be viable for her. In particular, the back pain, frequent expense of going up cup sizes and requiring new bras, and especially the unwanted sexualized attention boys, even boys several years above her in the school, get on her nerves.

DCupDistress: In Episode 6, ''The Girl in a Picture Frame,'' Chapter 37, ''Wearing Many a Cloak,'' Tegyd - who is stated to be "to put it politely, very well endowed" for her age - discusses the drawbacks of being busty at 13. She also laments that she's actually already discussed breast reduction surgery with Madam Pomfrey, and that because of an unspecified reason (implied to be because Tegyd may have an udder because of her caprid centaur ancestry, given she speaks about it in the singular) said surgery wouldn't be viable for her. In particular, the back pain, frequent expense of going up cup sizes and requiring new bras, and especially the unwanted sexualized attention boys, even boys several years above her in the school, get on her nerves.

** ''Kaleidoscopic Grangers'' commonly introduces "Caprid Centaurs," centaurs who have the lower half of goats rather than horses, as well as goat ears and horns. One recurring character in ''Birds of a Feather'' is Tegyd Humphries, who is half human half caprid centaur, which makes her look like [[FaunsAndSatyrs a satyr of some sort]]. She has the rear legs of a goat, as well as the ears and horns of one, and seems to have the digestive system of one given she is stated to be a ruminant.