History Fanfic / TheMagicOfTorchwood

* AnythingThatMoves:
** John Hart and the poodle are regularly mentioned.
** Jack, naturally - both of them.

* BadassAdorable: Team Torchwood as kids.

* MistakenForGay: Jack is scandalized that anyone thinks he would restrict himself to [[AnythingThatMoves one gender]].

* NoteToSelf: Jack to Team Torchwood before they go back in time, then Gwen in the Adam chapter to assure herself not to worry about her lost memory.

* OhCrap: Everyone in the April Fools chapter.

** Also [[spoiler: Umbridge]]. The narration of [[spoiler: her arrest]] includes this gem:

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking:
** Dumbledore, Jack and Voldemort - the former and latter are exceptionally powerful wizards, while Jack is a formidable fighter and an immortal.
** Harry to a certain degree as head of the DA, as he's the single most able duellist in their membership, if not the school.

* FiveManBand: There are a couple of these.
** Harry and Friends.
*** TheHero: Harry
*** TheLancer: Jack, who doubles as a BigBrotherMentor.
*** TheSmartGuy: Hermione/Ianto
*** TheBigGuy: Ron
*** TheChick: Hermione
** Team Torchwood.
*** TheHero: Jack. He [[{{Lampshade}} lampshades]] this to Harry after the Graveyard, saying he can play the hero to his team when he wants to.
*** TheLancer: Gwen/Owen
*** TheSmartGuy: Tosh/Owen (the latter skilled in potions and medical knowledge)
*** TheBigGuy: Ianto, as the most skilled wizard out of all of them.
*** TheChick: Gwen
*** TokenEvilTeammate: Draco (for a given value of evil).

* NoodleIncident: A given with Jack, such as a time John Hart wore a suit during a murder trial (so significant that the two Jacks agree to use that when choosing a face for the one responsible for a dark event in Jack’s fake childhood). Jack aside, a few examples of these taking place at Hogwarts are also mentioned, such as the time James and Sirius somehow turned the Slytherin table in the Great Hall into a herd of badgers, or how Sirius is listed as a "sex offender" for streaking at a Quidditch match when he was nineteenth (something Jack notes he might have done himself).

* WeaponOfChoice: Jack's Webley and Owen's fork.
** For everyone, their wands.
* WhamEpisode: Chapter 113.

** There are semi-frequent references to ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray,'' with Jack being compared (or comparing himself) to the titular character. Dumbledore takes it UpToEleven, trolling Jack from beyond the grave by referring to him in his will as 'Jack Dorian Harkness'.

* AscendedExtra: Archie, head of Torchwood 2.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Dumbledore, Jack and Voldemort. Harry to a certain degree as head of the DA.
* AnythingThatMoves: John Hart and the poodle is regularly mentioned. Jack [[note]]refers to both past and present Jack, who will be otherwise distinguished if a trope applies to only one of them, of course.[[/note]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Ianto. Just because he happens to be in Hufflepuff and is apparently harmless doesn't mean he isn't extremely dangerous, especially when he shows just how easily he could poison the entire school.
** Everyone smart is absolutely terrified of Ianto.
** Jack. People underestimate him at their peril.

* CloudCuckoolander: Luna.
** Actually, This is how Luna is portrayed in a LOT of Fanfics, and the movies too, if I'm remembering right...

* CreepyChild: Team Torchwood tend to come off as this to those not in the know thanks to their being OlderThanTheyLook, their [[BlackComedy sense of humour]] and their habit of communicating without apparently saying a word. As a result, Draco Malfoy at one point internally notes that he'd learned from experience that the funnier Team Torchwood find something, the less he wants to know what it is.

** A brief one features when Narcissa is appointed as Harry's "counsellor" by Umbridge in response to [[spoiler:accusations that Dumbledore has abused Harry]]; Narcissa makes it clear that they both know nothing happened and she doesn't like Umbridge any more than Harry does.

* FriendlyEnemy: When Harry is forced to attend a ‘counselling session’ with Narcissa Malfoy in response to [[spoiler:claims that Dumbledore sexually abused him]], they both agree that they aren’t exactly on the same side, but at least Narcissa won’t ask Harry awkward questions about something he never wants to think about even if it never happened.

** There are semi-frequent references to ''Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray,'' with Jack being compared (or comparing himself) to the titular character.

* SuperReflexes: Jack.
* SuperSpeed: Jack, connected to his SuperReflexes. He's not exactly the Flash, but he moves a fair bit faster than should be possible.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: InUniverse. Jack jokes lightly about Dumbledore's attempts at getting in his head, after the third task, comparing it to sexual assault. Then Harry sort of curls up and says Voldemort essentially {{mind rape}}d him.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Jack's Torchwood contract includes the phrases "''high-risk situation''", "''dangerous artifact''", "''hostile forces''" and "''terrible flirt.''"

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Jack, by his refusal to [[spoiler: let Harry die in order to destroy the last horcrux]] accidentally kicks off a monumentally awful BadFuture.
* NoodleIncident: A given with Jack, such as a time John Hart wore a suit during a murder trial (so significant that the two Jacks agree to use that when choosing a face for the one responsible for a dark event in Jack’s fake childhood). Jack aside, a few examples of these taking place at Hogwarts are also mentioned, such as the time James and Sirius somehow turned the Slytherin table in the Great Hall into a herd of badgers.

* EveryoneHasStandards: Someone even Jack won't do? Umbridge. Owen and Tosh revel in the incredibility of this.

* TeamMom: Gwen and Mrs Weasley.

** Dumbledore, postmortem. Jack has never taken a middle name, so Dumbledore, aware of Jack's immortality, having a firm grasp on Jack's personality, and with tongue apparently firmly in cheek, gives Jack one when leaving him his Tarot cards in his will: [[Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray Dorian.]] Jack, recognising the reference, is not amused.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Slytherin Theodore Nott is opposed to the pure-blood philosophies of his house because such a philosophy led to his squib sister being killed when she was four years old and most records of her existence subsequently erased; add in the fact that Nott is able to see Thestrals...

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Jack and Harry get out of taking photographs of the Triwizard Champions when Jack sarcastically claims to be a vampire and Harry protetss that he's allergic to the smoke used in flash photography (Krum refuses to be photographed without all four champions and Fleur just leaves); ironically, Skeeter prints these claims as true rather than realise Jack and Harry were just joking.

* NoodleIncident: A given with Jack, but a few at Hogwarts are also mentioned, such as the time James and Sirius somehow turned the Slytherin table in the Great Hall into a herd of badgers.

* OneSceneWonder: Agatha Harkness, whose sole appearance has her effortlessly put several Death Eaters in their place with some well-chosen words, scare Jack into a Hogwarts carriage, and reveal that she's discovered quite a lot about him, and before departing, hints that she knows about [[Series/TorchwoodMiracleDay Three Families]] and something of their plans, enough to know that it's likely a fate worse than any she could cook up for Jack (who she blames for descendant's death. [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident Apparently the training accident, the night after Jack kissed the original Jack in public, was no accident).]]

* OperationJealousy: Ginny tries to pull one on Harry via Jack. Jack sees straight through this, and gives her some fatherly advice. Ginny and Harry hook up. [[ChessMaster Just as]] [[TheMatchmaker Jack planned]].
* PreAsskickingOneLiner: An awesome one in chapter 94, when Jack takes on Voldemort.

* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: On a few occasions the Torchwood team make reference to films that will only come out in the future, such as ''Film/MenInBlack'' or ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', but fortunately on both occasions there is a more 'conventional' explanation (Hermione assumed Jack was referring to the original comics and some Ravenclaws assumed it was just a reference to the original myth).

* ShoutOut: Torchwood One are working on ''Project: Rebirth''. And Jack has mentioned in the past that they tried to build a supersoldier out of him in the 70's. [[HilarityEnsues Apparently it went hilariously wrong.]]

* NoodleIncident: A given with Jack.
* NoteToSelf: Jack to Team Torchwood, then Gwen in the Adam chapter.

** Most reviewers when they find that Voldemort is looking for. [[spoiler: The Immortality Gate]].

* PopCultureOsmosisFailure: On a few occasions the Torchwood team make reference to films that will only come out in the future, such as ''Film/MenInBlack'' or ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', but fortunately on both occasions there is a more 'conventional' explanation (Hermione assumed Jack was referring to the original comics and some Ravenclaws assumed it was just a reference to the original myth).

In [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7151727/1/The_Magic_b_Of_bTorchwood_b The Magic of Torchwood]], Team Torchwood (Jack, Ianto, Owen, Tosh, Gwen, continuity compatible until after 'Adam') find an unusual artifact, which de-ages them to 11 years old. Then they receive a NoteToSelf from Jack, which says that they are about to experience something wonderful. The artifact, a crystal, takes them to Jack's apartment during the Summer of 1993, whereupon they receive Hogwarts letters. Let the magic begin...

* BiTheWay: Jack, since no alien species have turned up to provide credence to his [[AnythingThatMoves omnisexuality]]. Then again, [[spoiler: he did flirt with the dragon...]]
** Ianto Jones.
** Theo Nott.
** Draco Malfoy.
*** In a bonus scene, Jack describes Draco as straight, even while seducing him.
*** This would make Draco's interest in Jack an IfItsYouItsOkay situation, not a BiTheWay.
** Harry. Sort of. He's perfectly happy to kiss Jack just to see what kissing is like, but Jack dissuades him because Harry is LikeASonToMe.

** Possibly Sirius Black.

* BadassAngster: Jack. Harry. Ianto.

** Harry

* DoubleAgent: [[spoiler: Ianto becomes one]].

* GoodIsNotSoft: Team Torchwood.
** Jack and Owen generally fall under GoodIsNotNice as well, depending on their mood.
*** This is kind of Torchwood's hat in the original show, so it's not all that surprising.

* MisterSeahorse: [[spoiler: John Hart.]]

* OddFriendship: Team Torchwood, particularly Jack, and Sirius Black.

* PreAsskickingOneLiner: An awesome one in chapter 94.

* ScaryBlackMan: Kingsley, according to Gwen.
** [[WordOfGod It helps that the author has admitted imagining him as Samuel L. Jackson.]]

* SheCleansUpNicely: Gwen.

* ShoutOut: Torchwood One are working on ''Project: Rebirth''. And Jack has mentioned in the past that they tried to build a supersoldier out of him in the 70's. Apparently it went hilariously wrong.

* TakeThat: Several small implied ones.
** Hermione and Ron belong together, according to the Clarity Concoction.

* WordOfGod: At times, though like her colleague Creator/NimbusLlewelyn, she tends to use ExactWords. A ''lot.'

* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: Jack's warnings and hints as to how horrifyingly dangerous he can be.
** He's backed it up on several occasions.
** He can cast the Killing Curse. This is not something easily done, and it requires a certain sort of hatred.
*** Even [[spoiler: John Hart]] is impressed, and disturbed.

Having started as a fairly standard crossover between the two fandoms, following the path of the Harry Potter books, it becomes considerably more complex, with the addition of several unexpected characters, including [[spoiler: Salazar Slytherin]]. More generally, Team Torchwood don't immediately get involved with Harry and company, and have their own goals and their own adventures, and they still work with the non-magical world, usually via Jack's past self.

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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Carol]].

--> She didn't even try to resist. In fact... she was crying. It might almost seem sad, if it weren't for the fact that she so deservedly brought this fate upon herself.

* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Ianto delivers one in Chapter 2
-->'''Ianto''': Ladies, gentlemen... and Jack

--> Ladies, gentlemen... Weasley.

* BlackComedy: Team Torchwood are prone to this, particularly Ianto.

* CreepyChild: Team Torchwood tend to come off as this to those not in the know thanks to their being OlderThanTheyLook, their [[BlackComedy sense of humour]] and their habit of communicating without apparently saying a word, with Draco Malfoy's inner monologue at one point remarking that he'd learned from experience that the funnier Team Torchwood find something, the less he wants to know what it is.

* DoingInTheWizard: [[spoiler: John Hart]]'s explanation of magic as understood by the 51st century. [[spoiler: Yes, John Hart is a wizard, and a powerful one. Tremble ye mortals!]]

* EnemyMine: A less serious one between Ron and Malfoy when dealing with Umbridge.

* FakingTheDead: Team Torchwood pull this on [[spoiler: Draco Malfoy]].
* FantasticRacism: By a number of wizards towards muggle-borns.

* FiveManBand: A couple of these.

* HiddenDepths: It takes a special kind of hatred to cast the killing curse, with Lucius Malfoy grudgingly admitting that he can't do it. Jack can, which ever renowned sociopath John Hart expresses shock at.

* MadScientist: Salazar Slytherin, of the more benevolent variety.

** Theodore Nott.

** Harry, Ron, and Hermione before breaking into Gringotts. [[spoiler: which is hijacked slightly by John Hart trying to preserve the timeline]].

* OperationJealousy: Ginny tries to pull one on Harry via Jack. Jack sees through this, and gives her some fatherly advice. Ginny and Harry hook up. [[ChessMaster Just as]] [[TheMatchmaker Jack planned]].

** One of the songs that [[spoiler: John Hart]] enchanted the senior Slytherins to sing in the equivalent of ''Deathly Hallows'' (others including songs in flawless 18th century French, then Latin, about how their parents were siblings and 'something disgusting about House Elves'), is [[{{Literature/Discworld}} The Hedgehog Song]], perhaps better known by its constant refrain [[BestialityIsDepraved "But the Hedgehog can never be buggered at all."]]

** Dumbledore. Jack has never taken a middle name. So Dumbledore, knowing of Jack's immortality, having a firm grasp of Jack's personality, and with tongue apparently firmly in cheek, gives Jack one when leaving him his Tarot cards in his will: [[Literature/ThePictureOfDorianGray Dorian.]] Jack, recognising the reference, is not amused.

* WordOfGod: Inevitable when the author is a troper.
** Be warned, like her colleague Creator/NimbusLlewelyn, she tends to use ExactWords. A ''lot.''
** ContrivedCoincidence also figures heavily.

** One of the songs that [[spoiler: John Hart]] enchanted the senior Slytherins to sing in the equivalent of ''Deathly Hallows'' (others including songs in flawless 18th century French, then Latin, about how their parents were siblings and 'something disgusting about House Elves'), is [[Series/{{Discworld}} The Hedgehog Song]], perhaps better known by its constant refrain [[BestialityIsDepraved "But the Hedgehog can never be buggered at all."]]

* GuileHero: Jack and Ianto, Harry is becoming one under Jack's tutelage. Draco.

* HalfHumanHybrid: Hagrid, Madame Maxime. Jack jokingly suggests that Snape is half Dementor and Owen claims Derrin Harper is part name stealer. part mountain troll.
** [[BrickJoke It's later revealed]] that [[spoiler: John Hart]] is in fact the one who is half [[spoiler: Dementor]] by way of genetic engineering before birth.

** One of the songs that [[spoiler: John Hart]] enchanted the senior Slytherins to sing in the equivalent of ''Deathly Hallows'' (others including songs in flawless 18th century French, then Latin, about how their parents were siblings and 'something disgusting about House Elves'), is [[{{Series/Discworld}} The Hedgehog Song]], perhaps better known by its constant refrain [[BestialityIsDepraved "But the Hedgehog can never be buggered at all."]]

* HiddenDepths: It takes a special kind of hatred to cast the killing curse, with Lucius Malfoy grudgingly admitting that he can't do it. [[NightmareFuel Jack can]], which ever renowned sociopath John Hart expresses shock at.