History Fanfic / Radiowave

* JerkToNiceGuyPlot: Although Draco never stops being a little bit of a prick, over the years he starts leaning more to the Light side, and starts getting more and more involved with helping Harry Potter and company.

[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20576723/chapters/48848234 Radiowave]] is a {{Literature/Harry Potter}} fanfic written by [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/LunartheDragon/pseuds/LunartheDragon Lunar The Dragon]], starring a Draco Malfoy who, thanks to a unique chance-encounter at the age of six, grows up more questioning of the pureblood ideals he's been raised into. And so the experience and its long-lasting effects end up dragging him kicking and screaming through [[Main/CharacterDevelopment Character Development]] in such a way that [[Main/ForWantOfANail affects the whole Harry Potter series as we know it.]]

* AdaptationExpansion: Radiowave likes to show some wonderful dimensionality in the HP world with its worldbuilding, expanding on the inner workings of the magical world along with weaving [[Main/BritPop popular culture]] [[Main/TheNineties of the era]] into the main characters' interests.

* AnimalMotif: Certain personality traits and characteristics become more relevant when [[spoiler: Draco turns into a snow leopard animagus.]]

* {{Main/Bookworm}}: Although not a Ravenclaw, one of Draco's many hobbies include sitting with his nose in a book, muggle books especially. He ends up forming a book club later on with Eve and Hermione, even.
* BreakTheHaughty: After all his conversations with Max and expanded point of view, Young Draco's [[Main/HeelRealization slow realizations that his family and beliefs have hurt people]] certainly struck a chord with him several times over.
* CaughtOnTape: [[spoiler: [[Main/ClearTheirName Sirius' innocence is proved just in time]] to the Minister of Magic himself when Draco is called upon by a time-travelling Harry and Hermione to photograph evidence of Peter Pettigrew during the climax of the third year.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Many objects, most notably the items Draco recieves from his muggle penpals, tend to turn into this.
* CoolPeopleRebelAgainstAuthority: Draco, Eve, Max and Eric Olsson certainly evoke this trope upon themselves, although in a story about fighting prejudice and tradition, many of the main characters apply.

* DeadpanSnarker: [[Main/WorldOfSnark Everyone is this trope to some degree]], but special mention goes to Eve Hushborn, local Slytherin snarker extraordinaire.
* DelinquentHair: In the middle of fourth year, Eve gifts [[spoiler: Draco]] with one of these before [[spoiler: the Yule Ball.]]
* DismissingACompliment: Draco's issues with all the bigotry and prejudice that he had to unlearn from his upbringing makes it so that he can't comforably accept any compliments or thanks for his actions.
* EstablishingSeriesMoment: Draco Malfoy meeting his american muggle soon-to-be best friend at a [[UsefulNotes/WW2 WW2 museum]] sets the tones of the themes explored throughout the rest of the series.

* FollowInMyFootsteps: Lucius Malfoy is especially pleased when Draco decides to work a summer job at the Ministry of Magic before fifth year, assuming it to be this trope. [[spoiler: It's actually a ploy to keep an eye on the Ministry after the revival of Voldemort, and spy on their moves from the inside.]]
* FuzzTherapy: After [[spoiler: Draco]]'s successful transformation into an animagus, Harry often takes advantage of hugging his furry form [[Main/SecurityCling in moments of high stress.]]

* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Snarky goth Eve and sweet, angelic Leandra are very much [[Main/TomboyAndGirlyGirl a study in contrasts]] and yet [[Main/OppositesAttract very much into each other]] as well. Luna Lovegood and Tracey Davis also apply as a more platonic version of the trope.

* ObliviousToLove: Draco and Harry are both utterly oblivious to their mutual attraction, much to [[Main/EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone's frustration.]]

** Cheerful, hyperactive {{Main/Cloudcuckoolander}} Max Olsson, a nonbinary[[note]]they also identify with the term Two Spirit, due to their Native American heritage[[/note]] American Muggle whom has remained Draco's best friend since the age of six and kept in contact with him over the years via radio, helping Draco recognize and come to terms with the privilege he has grown up with while also exposing him to a different line of thinking than his family's.

** Tracey Davis, a [[Main/CreepyLonerGirl creepy, often morbid]] younger-year Slytherin who is as bizarre as Luna Lovegood, and often tends to freak her housemates out a lot with her random commentary.

* PostHistoricalTrauma: The major point of divergence came from a six-year-old Draco getting lost in a WW2 museum and learning that no, this isn't an awful joke but something that actually happened.

** Leandra Cass, a soft and cherubic Hufflepuff who's as sweet as her house's reputation implies.

* AdaptationExpansion: Radiowave likes to show some wonderful worldbuilding in the HP world, happy to expand on the inner workings of the magical world along with weaving popular culture of the era into the main characters' interests and relevance.
* AnachronicOrder: Although there is a continuity for the main plot, many of the flashback scenes are presented out of order

* {{Main/Cloudcuckoolander}}: Aside from Queen of the Cuckoolanders, Luna Lovegood, Max's hyperactive energy and eclectic expertise make them this trope to a T, noticeable even from a radio broadcast. Tracey Davis also applies, although her [[Main/CreepyChild brand of cuckoolander]] can be pretty offputting to the people around her.

* FuzzTherapy: After [[spoiler: Draco]]'s successful transformation into an animagus, Harry often takes advantage of his furry form [[Main/SecurityCling in moments of high stress.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: Muggle best friend Max and their big brother Eric set Draco on this path over the years.

* IHatePastMe: Draco's own personal boggart turns out to be himself, and with good reason, with what he fears the most is reverting to his old, ignorant ways.

* JerkassRealization: Max delivers these to Draco pretty often when they sense, despite their Muggle background, that Draco's spouting narrow-minded nonsense.

** Cheerful, hyperactive {{Main/Cloudcuckoolander}} Max Olsson, a nonbinary[[note]]they also identify with the term Two Spirit[[/note]] American Muggle whom has remained Draco's best friend since the age of six and kept in contact with him over the years via radio, helping Draco recognize and come to terms with the privilege he has grown up with while also exposing him to a different line of thinking than his family's.

** The Olsson's parents, their bumbling tech-wiz father, and lovely and understanding neuroscientist mother.
** Evangeline 'Eve' Hushborn, a quiet yet sharp-tongued older-year Slytherin who also happens to be muggleborn.