History Fanfic / TheParselmouthOfGryffindor

* BavarianFireDrill: Dumbledore's cool insistance that ''clearly'' he wasn't doing anything wrong by intruding on a crime scene, and he really should get going home or he'll miss tea time, convinces the distraught Durmstrang defenders to let him go. Downplayed in that Dumbledore really has a lot of authority and influence, allowing him to pull this off so successfully; it was just null and void in this particular situation.

** She also blackmails Lucius Malfoy in order to ensure he will stop trying to manipulate Fudge.
* Lucius Malfoy is on the receiving end of an unusual twist on this trope in ''Fanfic/TheParselmouthOfGryffindor'', as he is officially a free man — but at the mercy of Hermione, who calls upon him whenever she needs large amounts of money for a scheme. For a nicer variant, there's also Grindelwald whom Dumbledore makes the Defence Professor in Fourth Year, so that his talent is not wasted, and in the hope that it'll be his first step on the way to redemption.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in Chapter 44, where Snape and Dumbledore get into a hissy-fit over whose backstory is ''more tragic'' [[spoiler:and therefore has the right to use the Resurrection Stone first]]. Hermione is not pleased, and insists on solving the dilemma with actual reasons.

* KnightOfCerebus: The Acromantula Army's attack is portrayed much more seriously than most other events in the story, and is the only time [[spoiler:someone dies in the story so far, although only nameless RedShirts.]]

* DarkAndTroubledPast: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied]] in Chapter 44, where Snape and Dumbledore [[ItMakesSenseInContext argue about whose backstory is ]]''[[ItMakesSenseInContext more ]]''[[ItMakesSenseInContext tragic]].

* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 50 mostly sees the heartwarming, somewhat sad reunion of Lily with Harry and Snape. Then at the very last moment, crashing down comes Mad-Eye Moody saying that [[spoiler" every Death Eater in Azkaban has escaped]].

* SummonBiggerFish: Barty Crouch Jr. [[spoiler: Fiendfyre]] to destroy [[spoiler: Azkaban and the Dementors]].
* SuperSmoke: Maximilian, being a Boggart, can do this; indeed, that is how Boggarts usually shapeshift — they turn into smoke and then reform into a new shape, and part of his [[TrainingTheSGiftOfMagic training]] involved learning how to shapeshift ''without'' the intermediate. He can also use this ability to seemingly "vanish" by scattering the particles that make up the fog.

* TokenEvilTeammate: Lucius Malfoy ends up working for Hermione Granger. That does not mean he has any sort of [[HeelFaceTurn moral compass]] — he's just [[PragmaticVillain obeying]] because Voldemort is out of the picture and ''she'' has got enough on him to send him to Azkaban if he disobeys.

* LockedRoomMystery: The overnight disappearance of Professor Igor Karkaroff, who had been hiding out in the extremely protected Iron Tower of Durmstrang Institute.

* BlatantLies: Disguised as Jester White with a PaperThinDisguise, Sirius Black denies having even ever ''heard'' of such a person as Sirius Black. To Snape. Who just saw him put on the disguise.
* BlindIdiotTranslation: An in-universe example: many of the characters who originally spoke English and learned Parseltongue the slow way (or the other way around) struggle to render English phrases in Parseltongue and translate them literally, losing all meaning. For instance, Tsh trying to express "girlfriend" only comes up with an expression that literally means "female friend".

* {{Blackmail}}: Hermione not-so-reluctantly blackmails Mr Filch with the secret of his being a {{Squib}} so that he'll permanently lay off her and her friends' backs.
** She also blackmails Lucius Malfoy in order to ensure he will stop trying to manipulate Fudge.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: While trying to figure out just where [[spoiler:the Dementors]] are going after [[spoiler:Azkaban has been destroyed]], Hermione figures out they're all headed to Hogwarts.

* PlaceBeyondTime: The state of being one enters ''while'' turning a time-turner, sometimes known as the Land of Never Time, the Void Between the Worlds or the Time Vortex, is akin to this.

* LoopholeAbuse: A notable case is how Hermione gets around Tom Riddle's orders to the Basilisk. He forbids her to "take any such initiatives as befriending a muggle-born child" ever again, and she replies by ''ordering'' the Basilisk to be friends with her — [[CrowningMomentOfFunny so it's not actually the Basilisk taking an initiative anymore]].

** Dumbledore does, however, tell her that this has its limits - the Prophecy involving Harry and Voldemort, at least at first sight, does not seem to have any loopholes that would allow Hermione to save and rehabilitate Voldemort.

** Hermione insists that a comically-reluctant Harry [[Series/BBCSherlock wear the ruddy hat]]. (Somewhat ironic in that, from their personalities, you'd expect ''Hermione'' to be the unwilling hat-ee…)

* MoodWhiplash: * Chapter 50 mostly sees the heartwarming, somewhat sad reunion of Lily with Harry and Snape. Then at the very last moment, crashing down comes Mad-Eye Moody saying that every Death Eater in Azkaban has escaped.

[[ForWantOfANail What would happen]] if Hermione Granger, the original series' BadassBookworm, had been born with Parseltongue (the gift of innately knowing the Language of Snakes) and lived with it her entire life? The result is a Hermione who starts her studies of magic with a much more open mind when it comes to wizardly weirdness, a more… ''flexible'' attitude to breaking the rules, and a mission to make wizards understand that snakes are people too. [[LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces And boggarts. And goblins. And house-elves.]] [[OverlyLongGag And portraits. And gargoyles.]] Be wary, reader, for you are in for a ride that features such highlights as dragon-riding spiders, Voldemort the Silver Monkey, and lots, lots and lots of ruthless RulesLawyer[=ing=].

* NakedOnRevival: Realizing this would be the case with the Resurrection Ritual, Hermione has Dumbledore cast a preemtive Modesty Charm above the Cauldron before they go through with it.

* ThresholdGuardians: Since solvable trials seem to be wizards' idea of good protection, the Third Floor Corridor naturally gets some living one on top of the enchantments from First Year when it gets upgraded in 1992. They include a Sphinx, an Acromantula, a Gargoyle, and, most recently, [[spoiler: Sirius Black]].
* TeleFrag: One of the rules to using a Time-Turner is to never use it somewhere where something happened to be at your arrival point. Hermione has to carefully plan out where she can safely go back in time without ending up inside something/someone.

* TimeyWimeyBall: Time-travel magic only exists thanks to a loophole in the rules of the universe, and so while ''theoretically'' it ought to allow you to change the past, in ''practice'', magic does its best to [[TrickedOutTime manipulate probability]] so that the result is a StableTimeLoop. The farther back in time you go and the more efforts you make to change the past, the more unstable space-time becomes until you're either obliterated or kicked back to your home time period. As a result, it's advised to never travel back to any time you've already traveled back to, so as to keep new factors to a minimum.

* RealityEnsues: The story very nearly turns this into a KarmicDeath for Hermione. She's usually a CrazyAwesome RulesLawyer who has achieved such things as [[AlmightyJanitor running the country through carefully-worded letters]] and turning [[note]]one part of [[/note]]Voldemort into a [[EverythingsBetterWithMonkey silver monkey who cannot hurt anyone]]. But when she [[spoiler: butts heads with the protections layered by Voldemort on his Horcruxes]], and thinks she can [[spoiler: get through them]] with a few seconds' basic LoopholeAbuse… turns out she [[GoneHorriblyWrong can't]], because [[spoiler: the ol'Turban]] closed ''that'' loophole before it even was one, and it's a wonder she manages to [[spoiler: come BackFromTheDead]] afterwards.