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* {{Arc Words}}: Severus's oft-repeated "Lie to others. Never lie to yourself."

* {{Alliterative Name}}: Arrosa Alverez
%%* {{Angrish}}: Snape, when he finds out about [[spoiler: Harry dabbling in the Dark Arts]].
%%* {{Anyone Can Die}}: [[spoiler: Molly Weasley, Remus Lupin]].
%%* {{Babies Ever After}}: Averted for Snape and Hermione, played straight for everyone else.
* {{Berserk Button}}: Do not tell Hermione that she has no reason to get involved in the war against Voldemort and do not insult Snape in front of her.
** Out of everything that sets off [[HairTriggerTemper Harry]], Snape manages to set him off the most often.
** Snape does not take the news that [[spoiler: Harry is dabbling in the Dark Arts]] well. He takes his belief that [[spoiler: Hermione was being kind to him in order to manipulate him]] even worse. He also really does not like people insulting Hermione around him.

* [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim Break Her Heart To Save Her]]: Snape tries. It doesn't work.

* {{Chekhovs Armoury}}: The baby book. [[ChekhovsArmy The House-elves]].[[ChekhovsBoomerang The linking charms books]]. [[ChekhovsGunman Healer Alverez]].
* {{The Chessmaster}}: Dumbledore and Voldemort, {{lampshaded}} by Ron.
%%* {{Chess Motifs}}
* {{Chronic Hero Syndrome}}: Hermione. Just ''Hermione''.

%%* {{Cry Into Chest}}: Snape and Hermione during the end of Chapter 34.
%%* {{Dark Is Not Evil}}: Three guesses. The first two don't count.
%%* {{Deadly Prank}}: Starts the plot.
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Severus mainly, though Hermione can get pretty snarky.
** Also [[CoolOldLady Alverez]].

* {{Elemental Powers}}: A very rough example, but due to the concept of Affinity, several characters get an elemental touch to their magic:
** {{Playing With Fire}}: Harry
** {{Shock And Awe}}: Hermione
** {{An Ice Person}}/{{Making A Splash}}: Snape
** {{Fire Ice Lightning}}

* {{Everyone Can See It}}: EVERYONE, even the House-elves.
* {{Exact Eavesdropping}}
* {{Expy}}: InUniverse example. Snape compares himself to [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Mordred]], Dumbledore to Myth/{{Merlin}}, and Voldemort to Myth/KingArthur.
** Arithmacy is this to psychohistory, according to {{Word of God}}.

* {{Freudian Trio}}: Besides the {{canon}} one, we have:
** The Id: Harry
** The Ego: Hermione
** The Superego: Snape
** And:
*** The Id: Voldemort
*** The Ego: Snape
*** The Superego: Dumbledore
* {{Fun With Acronyms}}: [[ContinuityNod Hermione's]] penchant for terrible acronyms. (S.N.O.R.T.)
* [[spoiler:{{First Name Basis}}]]: It took til chapter 42. Yes, it's a spoiler.

* {{Happiness in Slavery}}: House-elves, of the type 3 varity.
* {{The Heart}}: Ron
* {{Hoist By His Own Petard}}: Said verbatim by [[spoiler:Alverez when Dumbledore is angry at Hermione for 'acting like a Gryffindor']].
%%* {{Inelegant Blubbering}}: Hermione
* {{Irony}}:
** {{Dramatic Irony}}: Crops up a lot in regards to S.N.O.R.T.
--> '''Snape''': Children are always so sure that others are interested in their little lives and secrets. As if a seventeen year old girl had secrets that I'd be interested in.
** Situational Irony: Hermione's [[spoiler: plan of getting the House-Elves to help protect members of the Order ends up earning her her own House-elves and then Snape ends up almost being killed because of it]].
* InternalReveal: In the first chapter, Dumbledore tells Minerva how he prevented Sirius' expulsion from Hogwarts after one of his prank nearly got Snape killed.
* {{Last Name Basis}}: Huge turning point when Severus finally drops the "Miss".
* [[spoiler: Love Confession]]: [[spoiler: Chapter 42]].
* {{Love Epiphany}}: [[spoiler: The end of chapter 28, for Hermione.]]
* {{Love Hurts}}/{{Love Is A Weakness}}: Snape believes this.
* {{Meaningful Name}}: The chapters ''Blitzkrieg'', ''Endgame'', and ''Queen to Queen's Level Three''.
* {{Mood Whiplash}}: ''Questions and Answers'' starts out rather funny and sweet. Then the {{wham line}} happens...

* {{The Neutral Zone}}: [[spoiler: Hermione [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inadvertent prompting]] caused Hogwarts to become this.]]

** Vector as well.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Hermione and S.P.E.W.

** Snape has several of these moments to show just how much he has begun to care about Hermione.
** Harry's {{hair trigger temper}}.
* [[OurElvesAreDifferent Our House-Elves Are Different]]: There's a lot of expansion on House-elves and their culture.
%%* {{The Power Of Love}}
* {{Power Strain Blackout}}: Hermione, after making a [[EquivalentExchange powerful, charmed]] item.
* {{Protective Charm}}: Quite a few of plot significance.
* {{Psychic Link}}: Snape and Hermione's Affinity allows them to feel the other's magic.
* {{Punctuated For Emphasis}}: Reset. The. Board.
** WILL. BE. PAID.
** Where. Is. Snape?
** [[spoiler: I. Did. Not. Kill. Molly. Weasley.]]
* {{Relationship Upgrade}}: [[spoiler: Chapter 45]].
%%* {{Rule Of Three}}
* [[spoiler:{{Second Love}}]]: [[spoiler: Hermione for Snape.]]
* SelfDeprecation: Snape on those that have chosen to follow Voldemort:
-->"People are fools."
** He also says that people who have practiced dark magic are idiots.

* {{Significant Anagram}}: Devrom Dollort

* {{Take That}}: The writer calls Rowling out on a number of things she thought were silly, such as Harry's complete 180 in regards to Snape after find out [[spoiler:that he loved Lily]], and the Golden Trio roughing it in the woods.
* {{Teacher Student Romance}}: Though interestingly enough, it starts off as an {{Intergenerational Friendship}}.
* {{Unnecessary Makeover}}: InUniverse example. Harry and Ron are not happy about Lavender and Pavarti dressing up Hermione.
%%** {{She Cleans Up Nicely}}: The reaction of everyone else.
%%* {{Vitriolic Best Buds}}: Dumbledore and [[spoiler: Alverez]].

** Dumbledore.
* {{Wham Line}}: [[spoiler: "I think Harry is dabbling in the Dark Arts"]].
** They are all dead.
* [[WhamEpisode Wham Chapter]]: Chapter 31: And So It Begins ends with [[spoiler: The Minister of Magic being assassinated, Voldemort installing a puppet Minister, and the news that Aurors are being sent to Hogwarts]].

* {{What the Hell Hero}}: Almost all the major characters get hit with one at some point.
%%* {{You Are Not Alone}}

* [[BetterThanSex Better Than Christmas]]: Hermione claims that Snape asking her to answer a question is this.
* {{Big Bad}}: [[IncrediblyLamePun You-Know-Who]]
* {{Birds of a Feather}}: Snape and Hermione

* {{Inelegant Blubbering}}: Hermione

** {{She Cleans Up Nicely}}: The reaction of everyone else.
* {{Vitriolic Best Buds}}: Dumbledore and [[spoiler: Alverez]].

* {{You Are Not Alone}}

* {{Angrish}}: Snape, when he finds out about [[spoiler: Harry dabbling in the Dark Arts]].
* {{Anyone Can Die}}: [[spoiler: Molly Weasley, Remus Lupin]].
* {{Babies Ever After}}: Averted for Snape and Hermione, played straight for everyone else.

* {{Chess Motifs}}

* {{Cry Into Chest}}: Snape and Hermione during the end of Chapter 34.
* {{Dark Is Not Evil}}: Three guesses. The first two don't count.
* {{Deadly Prank}}: Starts the plot.

* {{The Power Of Love}}

* {{Rule Of Three}}

* {{The All Solving Hammer}}: [[SpotOfTea Tea]]. No, really. Ginny, Herminone, and Albus have all (at least once) offered tea as the best solution to ''[[PowerStrainBlackOut whatever problem]]'' ''[[LoveHurts is]]'' ''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt presented]]''. Lampshaded by [[DeadpanSnarker Severus]].

* {{Expy}}: InUniverse example. Snape compares himself to [[KingArthur Mordred]], Dumbledore to [[KingArthur Merlin]], and Voldemort to [[KingArthur King]] [[EvilCounterpart Arthur]].

* {{Not So Different}}: [[spoiler: Snape and Harry]]

* {{The All Solving Hammer}}: [[SpotOfTea Tea]]. No, really. Ginny, Herminone, and Albus have all (at least once) offered tea as the best solution to ''[[PowerStrainBlackOut whatever]]'' ''[[BadDreams problem]]'' ''[[LoveHurts is]]'' ''[[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt presented]]''. Lampshaded by [[DeadpanSnarker Severus]].

* {{Shades Of Conflict}}:
** Grey vs. Grey and Black: Dumbledore even says that many of Voldemort's followers follow him based on old loyalties and fear. The Order and many of the other protagonists are biased when it comes to any house but Gryffindor and [[spoiler: Harry is using dark magic]].