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1->''"At least I didn't write ''Celebrian!"''
2->-- Eliza Diawna Snape
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4Before [[FanFic/MyImmortal Ebony]] and Rose Potter were even mere [[PlotBunny plot bunnies]], ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fans often cited another name when asked to give an example of an OC SelfInsert. That name is Eliza Diawna Snape.
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6The ''Eliza'' Trilogy, written in 2000, is considered a classic ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' {{fanfic}} often mentioned in the same breath as ''FanFic/TheDracoTrilogy'' and ''FanFic/PawnToQueen''. While it was very popular and much praised in its heyday (it was often praised for having writing that was as good as and even ''better'' than Rowling's), it has been CondemnedByHistory - or, rather, by our anti-perfection instincts.
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8The trilogy is centred around the titular character and her identical twin sister Diawna Eliza Snape, the half-American daughters of Severus Snape and recent transfer students to Hogwarts, and the prophecy that they are linked to.
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10[[AC:The trilogy includes:]]
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12* ''[[http://www.scribd.com/doc/6984190/eBook-Harry-Potter-JK-Rowling-7-Harry-Potter-and-the-Story-of-Eliza Harry Potter And The Story Of Eliza]]''
13* ''[[http://www.scribd.com/doc/7023998/Harry-Potter-and-the-Return-of-Eliza Harry Potter and the Return Of Eliza]]''
14* ''Harry Potter and the Prophecies of Dredloris''
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16Copies of all three stories can be found (in .doc format) [[http://web.archive.org/web/20061130053443/http://www.students.uni-mainz.de:80/sprec000/Ablage/Liesmich.html here.]] Summaries of the [[OriginalCharacter OCs]] more sueish points can be found [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100306151915/http://community.livejournal.com/deleterius/359286.html here]] and [[https://web.archive.org/web/20100306151920/http://community.livejournal.com/deleterius/904424.html here]].
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19!!This fanfic provides examples of:
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21* BedTrick: A G-rated variant; [[spoiler:Diawna kisses Draco several times while pretending to be Eliza. Draco profusely apologizes to the real Eliza when she's resurrected but she makes it clear he didn't know]].
22* BitchSlap: Diawna is fond of doing this to her sister. Eliza lies about the mark on her cheek, saying she ran into a door. [[spoiler:Later Diawna tries the same thing on Harry in book two, taking off her invisibility cloak to smack him. He recovers and proceeds to beat her in a duel, that ends within minutes]].
23* CainAndAbel: Zigzagged. Diawna started bullying Eliza when the latter had a HeelFaceTurn and impersonates her at various points to manipulate her friends. However, the narrative establishes that Diawna doesn't want her twin sister ''dead'' and actually takes time to say goodbye to her on the day before they both turn sixteen, knowing one of them will perish before midnight. Eliza scoffs thinking this is another trick and doesn't want to believe her sister is capable of sorrow or remorse. [[spoiler:It turns out that Diawna wasn't so loving as to let Eliza's shade float around and put ample repellent so as to impersonate her without interference. Eliza also shows no angst about her sister receiving the Dementor's Kiss and being able to take over her body as a result, showing the Cain was still there]].
24* ChekhovsGun:
25** Eliza is revealed to be [[spoiler:Voldemort's granddaughter, with her mother being Deloris Riddle, and she "borrows" a necklace from the old house where their family lived. It turns out Voldemort used a similar necklace to become a shade before he confronted the Potters, which was how he became a spirit possessing others.]]
26** Eliza's diary also becomes a plot point in book two. Snape [[spoiler:had it as a TragicKeepsake and suspected Draco when it went missing]]. It turns out [[spoiler:Diawna stole it so that she could imitate her sister perfectly]].
27* CreepyChild -- Wyrren borders on this. At one point, she says she prefers dead people to living people.
28* DisproportionateRetribution: Mentioned by Harry and Hermione of all people when they learn [[spoiler:Draco asked Fudge to punish Diawna with the Dementor's Kiss. It's a FateWorseThanDeath, and Draco admits he did it because Diawna tricked them by giving them hope Eliza was alive, not because of the kidnapping, the attempted murder, and taking a good portion of the school hostage. Harry said it was cruel and no one deserved that, but is oddly not traumatized when Wyrren shows them Eliza's body]].
29* DoesntKnowTheirOwnChild: PlayedForDrama. Snape said he could only tell Eliza and Diawna apart as babies because of their nail polish. [[spoiler:This is how he fails to realize that the Eliza in book two is actually his other daughter, Diawna]].
30* ElephantInTheRoom: Sirius refuses to talk about [[spoiler:his wife Cecillia]]. We find out it's because [[spoiler:Cecillia killed herself after Sirius was put in Azkaban]].
31* EvenEvilHasStandards: Unlike her mother, Diawna doesn't want Eliza dead. Sure, she wants to control her twin sister who's become good, but she hesitates when realizing she could perform PsychicAssistedSuicide via the Imperius Curse. Diawna then dawdles over it until Dumbledore breaks the curse.
32* EvilDetectingDog: Animagus rather. Diawna poses as Eliza and tries to put Hermione under the Imperius Curse. Sirius happens to be prowling nearby and saves Hermione, because he could smell this girl was different.
33* IdiotBall: Lampshaded in book two; [[spoiler:Harry, his friends and Draco say they were idiots for not realizing that Diawna was impersonating her sister because it was the most obvious explanation for Eliza's supposed resurrection. Wyrren had an excuse in that Diawna blocked her powers and made sure to put enough shade repellent around so the real Eliza couldn't come and intervene, but she also said multiple times that she didn't resurrect Eliza and she couldn't, unless she killed herself or turned Eliza into a zombie]].
34* ISeeDeadPeople -- Wyrren becomes a necromancer when she starts seeing Lily's ghost.
35* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Most of the time, ''someone'' can tell when Diawna is trying to impersonate Eliza. [[spoiler:In book 2, it takes a ''very'' long time for Draco to realize that something was wrong with the resurrected Eliza; Diawna reveals that she stole her sister's diary from Snape to figure out how to play the part]].
36* KidsAreCruel -- Eliza transfers to Hogwarts due to death threats made by the kids in their old school, including her own sister.
37* LeftHanging: Sadly, the fic ended on the cliffhanger that [[spoiler:wyrren accused Lasi the vampire of draining someone, with Harry defending him; we also learn that Sirius's wife Cecillia killed herself after Sirius was imprisoned]].
38* MementoMacGuffin -- Eliza "borrows" a necklace from her parents' old house in Hogsmeade. It's revealed that [[spoiler:the necklace turns the wearer into shade after they die, and Eliza took it because she wanted to subvert her own death eventually]].
39* {{Necromancer}} -- Wyrren starts seeing ghosts and talking to them.
40* NewTransferStudent
41* NiceJobFixingItVillain: After kidnapping a fair amount of the student body, [[spoiler:his mother, and baby sister]], Diawna [[spoiler:delivers a message to Harry to come to the Chamber of Secrets, alone, and fight her. He does, and she has an invisibility cloak to give her an advantage, but then she takes it off to smack him. It turns out Harry has TookALevelInBadass and defeats her soundly]].
42* OffingTheOffspring:
43** During one invasion on Hogwarts, Deloris attempts to do this to Eliza as punishment for her turning traitor. [[PapaWolf Snape]] steps in to stop his ex.
44** [[spoiler:Voldemort kills his daughter Deloris when she annoys him one time too many with her prophecies. Not even Diawna mourns her]].
45* OutOfCharacterAlert: Eliza has been calling her father "Severus" as a matter of formality. She then calls him "Dad" during a playful snowball fight in the Great Hall. [[spoiler:It's the first hint that Diawna is talking]].
46* PetTheDog:
47** Before they both turn sixteen, Diawna decides to talk peacefully with Eliza and say goodbye to her before one of them dies. Eliza assumes it's a trick, as usual, and thinks she will be dead before midnight. Diawna admits it's not a trick and she wishes their mother hadn't made the prophecy.
48** [[spoiler:Diawna while disguised as Eliza acknowledges Snape as her father]].
49* PowerCrystal -- Eliza's necklace has the power to [[spoiler: "grant a second life after death"]].
50* SelfInsertFic -- The description of the twins matched up almost completely (save for a few modifications where the characters looked better) with pictures of the author that were floating around at the time. "Eliza Diawna" is also a variation on the author's real name: Elizabeth Dawn.
51* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Eliza decides to take charge of the prophecy that will lead to either her or Diawna dying, one's "soul perishing in agony," and the other "living happily ever after". She, like Hermione, figured out that it would be ExactWords because death doesn't kill the soul. [[spoiler:So she obtained a shade necklace that would preserve her soul after death, while Diawna assumed she would be the twin to live happily ever after. The way things turn out, Diawna receives the Dementor's kiss, which leaves her body an EmptyShell for the shade Eliza to take over]].
52* SelfMadeOrphan: Attempted; [[spoiler:after her mother dies, Diawna poisons Snape while disguised as Eliza. Later she drugs him with the Draught of the Living Dead and takes him hostage]].
53* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Hermione and Eliza have the same approach to Deloris's prophecy about the twins. One Hermione gets over her ArbitrarySkepticism, she points out [[spoiler:Eliza's soul didn't perish, just her body, and Diawna working for Voldemort isn't living happily ever after]]. It turns out [[spoiler:Eliza reached the same conclusion and proactively got a shade necklace to prepare for when Diawna's soul perished]].
54* ThemeTwinNaming
55* TwinSwitch -- [[spoiler: Diawna pretends to be Eliza and attends Hogwarts in her place in the second book. Draco only realizes it when he busts her for stealing various library books because he knows Eliza would never do that]].
56* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: When Harry figures out that [[spoiler:Diawna was impersonating Eliza during their sixth year, she destroys Gryffindor Tower and leaves a taunting message for him to fight her in the Chamber of Secrets. Having taken a good portion of the student body hostage, he doesn't have a choice but to comply. Thing is that Diawna spends most of the fight toying with him, and even tries putting an Imperius Curse on him. She apparently didn't know that Harry learned how to shake that off two years ago; after he calls her a sneaky fighter, he gets irritated and knocks her out]].
57* WhatTheHellHero: The Gryffindors understandably call out Eliza for threatening another student with a knife in book three and losing a hundred points as a result, even if said student was drowning Draco with water magic. Parvati also tells her off for sneaking out again, getting caught, and losing more points.
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