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Magical Diary: Horse Hall is an OtomeGame released by [[http://www.hanakogames.com Hanako Games]] in 2011.

** When Jacob's "fathers" are mentioned in Virginia's path, it comes up very casually and might not even be noticeable.

* Foreshadowing: If you manage to acquire certain amounts of magic points before the events, some of Ms. Potsdam's lectures can be considered foreshadowing ''at least'' for [[spoiler:Damien's path]], and possibly a few others'.

* TwoTeacherSchool: The only instructors we ever see are [[SternTeacher Professor Grabiner]] and [[CoolTeacher Professor Potsdam]].

** [[TroubledButCute Damien]]. Alienated from his [[{{Muggles}} muggle]] parents? Check! Bullied at school due to his mysterious, demon parentage? Check! Believed to be a vicious {{Casanova}} - while really just LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces and getting his trust betrayed constantly for his trouble? Check! [[spoiler: Too bad it's an act he puts on, specifically designed to invoke this trope.]]

* ShoutOut: The school play is ''[[LittleShopOfHorrors The Small Place of Purchase of Frightening Things]]''.

*** Bonus points for one of the characters from Butterfly Hall having literal butterfly wings.

* AnimalMotifs: Deliberately invoked by the faculty of Iris Acabedemy. All students are assigned a house when they enroll;

** To be fair, it's certainly much better than the alternative that the player character brings up.

* GayOption: No Hanako Games title would be complete without this. In this case both Ellen and Virginia fulfill the [[SchoolgirlLesbians role]] officially. Pastel would fulfill this too, and only exempt because you can't really date her.

* TheTalk: Something of a RunningGag. Professor Potsdam will sometimes open a class sounding like she's about to lead into [[TheTalk the talk]], only for it to turn out to be something unrelated. She does eventually get round to it, kinda.

* JerkassHasAPoint: For all of Damien's flaws and problems, it's safer to listen to his warnings. Your first encounter with him in the gym, where he tells you to attend at least the first lecture of every class and not trust the professors? [[spoiler:You need a minimum of one point in every colour to avoid getting detention after the first two weeks, and a minimum of ten to avoid being kept behind for summer school. And Potsdam ''definitely'' isn't telling you everything. He also gives the first hint you'll get about Initiation.]] His suggestion to study blue magic during Initiation week? [[spoiler:Successfully using blue magic (which requires a total of thirty or more points in it) will get a whopping ten merits in the first exam - more than you can get from any other option.]] His warning not to use Spirit Sight during the Dark Dance? [[spoiler: Doing so will turn you blind and cause Grabiner to give you detention and take ten demerits from you - twenty, if you'd mentioned the Dance to Grabiner prior to attending it.]] It doesn't excuse his later actions, of course.

* GayOption: No Hanako Games title would be complete without this. In this case both Ellen and Virginia fulfill the [[SchoolgirlLesbians role]] officially.

* DepravedBisexual: [[spoiler: Damien. If you don't romance him, he'll go after a freshman boy instead.]]

* EveryoneIsBi: Gender appears to be completely irrelevant when it comes to romance here; not only can characters be romanced either way but no one comments on this to indicate that it's at all unusual, and other [=NPCs=] date both genders as well. Most obvious with [[CoolBigBro William]], [[TroubledButCute Damien]], or Ellen if you pursue her.

* TheDumbledore: Potsdam. Basically, a female version of the man himself.

* TheDumbledore: Potsdam, natch.

* AnimalMotifs: Deliberately invoked by the faculty of Iris Academy. All students are assigned a house when they enroll;

* WhatTheHellHero: Happens very late into Damien's path if you try to appeal to Potsdam [[spoiler:to let him back in for the May Ball]]. She not only refuses but very gently chews you out for even asking, pointing out that what he did might have been ''technically'' legal, but [[spoiler:he still nearly killed you]] and he'd be expelled for that alone even if his deed isn't on the books as being expulsion-worthy (and if it isn't, she'll ''add it''). On top of that, you realize - too late - that you just got told off in front of the entire school, and Virginia and Ellen ''very'' quickly find out. They are [[UnderStatement not happy]] to hear that you're even talking with Damien again after what he did to you, and refuse to listen to any justifications. They even kick you out of the room for good, only letting you back at night so you can sleep and their very justified fury carries all the way into the final exam - which they ''will'' deliberately throw [[spoiler:unless you promise to break up with him right then and there. And breaking that promise deprives you of your magic - refusing to make it at all means that your entire ''Hall'' is so disgusted with you that the only option for you is to be moved to Snake Hall. "Perhaps the girls there will be more understanding of your choices."]]

* {{Masquerade}}