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5-->-- '''Harry Potter'''
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13A trilogy of [[TheMusical musical]] [[AffectionateParody parodies]] of the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books that were written and performed by Creator/TeamStarKid. The plots mash together elements from all the books in the series, telling the overall same story, but in a different order. Despite this, the musicals are very much their own work, with unique subplots and ''very'' unique takes on the characters--so unique that a character page can be found [[Characters/AVeryPotterMusical here]]. They run on RuleOfFunny and {{Rule of Cool}} almost exclusively, and definitely aren't afraid to take RefugeInAudacity.
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15''A Very Potter Musical'' (performed and later released in July 2009) begins with Harry's second year at Hogwarts. Professor Quirrell, the new Defence Against the Dark Arts teacher, reinstates the House Cup Tournament, and a champion from each House is chosen to compete. But when Voldemort uses the tournament to fulfill a plot to return to his body, things take a turn for the grim for Harry and his friends, who must find and destroy Voldemort's Horcruxes before it's too late. The story takes most of its elements from books 1, 4, 6, and 7.
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17''A Very Potter Sequel'' (performed and released in July 2010 after the video of the show was first premiered at Infinitus, a ''Harry Potter'' convention) begins immediately after the events of the first story, when Lucius Malfoy decides to use a time turner to go back to Harry's ''first'' year at Hogwarts and kill him before he can defeat Voldemort. As Harry, Ron, Hermione, Malfoy and the rest of the characters meet for the first time, Sirius Black escapes from Azkaban and the Ministry of Magic responds by sending Dolores Umbridge to the school to watch out for Harry, and Remus Lupin also comes to Hogwarts to take up the job of Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. Its story is mostly from books 1, 3, and 5.
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19Creator/TeamStarKid announced plans for [[http://wizardinglife.com/2010/11/starkid-interview-starship-coverage-a-very-potter-threequel/ a third Very Potter Musical]], or ''A Very Potter Senior Year''. However, the availability of Creator/DarrenCriss (who plays Harry and writes the majority of Creator/TeamStarKid's music) was in question since he was cast as a regular on ''Series/{{Glee}}'', [[http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/darren-criss-and-team-starkids-harry-potter-threequel-wont-happen-this-summer and the project was indefinitely postponed]]. Though a full scale production couldn't be rehearsed and performed, a reading of the script featuring music, costumes, basic props, staging, choreography, a narrator (who describes settings and other visual elements the team wasn't able to put together) and a huge cast of Creator/TeamStarKid actors was presented at [=LeakyCon=] 2012. In other words, they did everything they could to make it as much of a full scale production as they could, and succeeded. The script, soundtrack, and video of the reading were released in December 2012, while the play itself was released in March 2013. Borrowing mostly from books 2, 6, and 7, the story is about Harry's seventh and final year at Hogwarts.
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21The script for a fourth play, ''[[ChristmasSpecial A Very Potter Christmas]]'', was written and has been read at some conventions and been made available for some fans who donated to the Kickstarter of the [=StarKid=] show ''Firebringer''. It involves a Marauders-era court case over what houses the ''{{Franchise/Ghostbusters}}'' would be sorted into, and doesn't specifically parody the events of any book.
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24!!''A Very Potter Musical'' and its sequels provide examples of the following tropes:
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27!!!A Very Potter Musical (AVPM)
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29* AccidentalMisnaming: Voldemort keeps mispronouncing Draco's last name, which casually maims Draco's gigantic ego.
30* AdmiringThePoster: Everyone vocally admires Dumbledore's Zach Efron poster and despair when [[spoiler:they're forced to destroy it because it contains Voldemort's soul.]] In the sequel, Dolores Umbridge prefers Taylor Lautner and at one point strokes her poster of him.
31* AffectionateParody: Most definitively so. Though occasional shots are taken at parts of the source material, the general tone of the show and its sequels are celebratory and emphasize the fun and community of the Franchise/HarryPotter series and its fandom.
32* AirVentPassageway: The plan to get the Death Eaters into Hogwarts is to sneak them through the Hogwarts air vent, a sillier version of their invasion plan in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince The Half-Blood Prince]]''.
33* AlmostDeadGuy: Subverted when [[spoiler:Snape]] dies just before divulging important information. Except that that was the [[ItMakesSenseInContext important information]]. [[spoiler:Harry was supposed to die.]]
34* AlterEgoActing: Joe Moses now has [[https://www.youtube.com/user/thejoemoses a YouTube channel]] where he interviews people in-character as a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} version of Severus Snape.
35-->''"Join me next week, where my guest will be a pterodactyl."''
36* AmbiguouslyJewish: Dumbledore, Molly, the exposition newsies, and some of the extra Death Eaters all have stereotypically Jewish New York accents, but little evidence of Judaism beyond that
37* AndYourLittleDogToo: PlayedForLaughs in this exchange, where Harry Potter enrages Voldemort by telling him he especially made sure to destroy his Zac Efron poster.
38-->'''Harry''': I've destroyed all your Horcruxes!\
39'''Voldemort''': ''(gasps)'' Even my Zefron poster?\
40'''Harry''': ''Especially'' the Zefron poster.\
41'''Voldemort''': [[LargeHam Curses, Potter! I'll kill you for that!]]
42* ArtisticLicenseSpace Okay, all the stuff with Pigfarts is just pure RuleOfFunny, but for the sake of being nitpicky; despite Draco's statement to the contrary, Mars has an atmosphere. It's not one humans could breathe in, being mostly carbon dioxide, but hey.
43** His tuants towards Harry also have Draco say "traversing the galaxy for inter-galactic travels to Pigfarts" While you'd thechnically be "traversing the galaxy" when flying to Mars, it would definitely not be a an "inter-galactic" journey.
44* AssKicksYou: When Draco tries to horn in on Harry and Ron's ManHug, Ron pushes him out like this.
45* AsYouKnow: Lampshaded when Quirrell explains the events of the opening scene to Voldemort, the man who's attached to the back of his head. Voldemort is not amused.
46-->'''Voldemort:''' I know, Quirrell! I hear everything you hear!
47* AttendingYourOwnFuneral: Ginny wishes to fake her own death and attend her funeral with the InvisibilityCloak to watch people cry.
48* BetaCouple: Like in the books, Ron and Hermione serve as a secondary couple to compliment the other main characters in a relationship, Harry and Ginny.
49* BettyAndVeronica
50** Harry (Archie), Ginny (Betty), and Cho (Veronica)
51** Cho (Archie), Harry (Betty), and Cedric (Veronica)
52** Hermione (Archie), Ron (Betty), and Draco (Veronica)
53** Voldemort (Archie), Bellatrix (Veronica), and Quirrell (Betty--JustFriends though… [[invoked]][[HoYay maybe]]).
54* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Snape and Molly Weasley both attempt this when the kids are captured by Bellatrix, though only the latter is actually successful.]]
55* BookEnds: "Back to Hogwarts" is the opening song and is also played over the credits.
56* {{Bowdlerization}}: The original version of the musical posted to [=YouTube=] (titled ''H.P. the Musical'') contained even ''more'' raunchy jokes than the current version, which were cut to discourage Warner Bros from potentially suing the theater company. Of course, [[invoked]][[KeepCirculatingTheTapes the original can still be found online]]. It includes such gems as:
57-->'''Dumbledore:''' Severus Snape and I share a kind of love that I don't think you will every fully understand, Harry. I would give him the clothes off my back. I would share my bed with him. If a snake bit him, I would suck out the poison. Even if [[{{Foreshadowing}} that snake happened to accidentally bite him on the wiener]].\
58''(several scenes later, after Snape takes a snake to the… well, trouser snake)''\
59'''Harry:''' Well, someone's gotta suck out the poison.\
60'''Ron and Draco:''' Ohh… no. Nope. No.\
61'''Snape:''' I wish Dumbledore were here…\
62'''Harry:''' Okay, I mean, well--Hermione, do your thing.\
63'''Ron:''' No, no, no, no! I think we should just let Snape die--sorry--and go on with our lives.
64* BreakingTheFourthWall
65** Snape points to the audience and adresses them directly at the begining of the show.
66** This trope rears its head a few times, the most JustForFun/{{egregious}} example being Ron getting a snack ''from one of the musicians.''
67** An almost literal example is in Act 2 when the students barricade the door to the castle. ''Voldemort just walks around it.''
68** He about a minute later then threatens one of the musicians when they're playing sad music to make him feel remorse.
69--->'''Harry:''' There's gotta be one person, one thing in your life that you miss that you regret. ''(sad music plays)''\
70'''Voldemort:''' Well… Maybe there's one… NO! ''(points wand at musician, who raises his hands in surrender)'' There isn't!
71* ButtMonkey: Hufflepuff House as a whole is routinely ignored, only to be brought up to mention how unnecessary and stupid it is.
72-->''"What the hell is a Hufflepuff?"''
73* CallingYourAttack: Most of the spells used are performed, not by saying magic words, but by saying the name of the spell.
74-->'''Goyle''': "I can't believe I couldn't figure out that the countercurse was just ''Unjellify!''"
75* CatchPhrase
76** Ginny's "Wowee! Harry Potter!"
77** Snape's "What the devil is going on here?"
78** "Did somebody say (name of the character)?"
79** And there's always Snape's, "That's ABSURRRRRD."
80** Draco consistently delivers the word "Mars" as ''"Maaaaaaaaaaars."''
81** "(Number--usually twenty) points from Gryffindor." Even when it's Draco's fault.
82** And "Jelly-legs Jinx!"
83* CastingGag: The casting had some gag moments for people in the [=UMich=] theatre department, notably that Creator/LaurenLopez had previously played a "little British boy" in the Langs' parody of Film/TheLordOfTheRings. There's also the fact that Nick Lang met Jaime Lyn Beatty because Creator/DarrenCriss had done a dramatic one-man show with Jaime playing TheLostLenore who only appeared in the form of photos of their past relationship, which made casting Jaime as Darren's love interest (Ginny) but having her be [[invoked]]TheWoobie and him be InnocentlyInsensitive this time HilariousInHindsight.
84* CharacterDevelopment: A surprising amount of it (Harry, Draco, Ron, Ginny, Voldemort…), and part of what makes the show not just a good parody but a great story.
85* ChekhovsClassroom: Snape's pop quiz about Portkeys fully explains what they are, how they work, and that even a dolphin could be made a Portkey, foreshadowing the Dolphin Portkey Voldemort uses at the end of Act 1. Snape blatantly [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope in his next question.
86-->'''Snape:''' Can anybody tell me what {{Foreshadowing}} is?
87* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler:The part of Voldemort's soul inside Quirrell allows Voldemort to survive at the end of the play.]]
88* ChicAndAwe: The song "Granger Danger" begins with Ron talking about how ugly Hermione is, only for her to walk into the room mid-sentence and stun the room with how SheCleansUpNicely. This song was actually the inspiration for the entire play.
89* ClarkKenting: Dumbledore's fake brown beard (which he pops on over his own beard…) makes him utterly unrecognizable to every other cast member.
90* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: No shortage of them. Malfoy's assured belief in Pigfarts, Dumbledore's obsession with Zac Efron, and Snape's... general demeanor make them stand out as especially out there.
91* CoconutSuperpowers
92** Floo Powder consists of running in a circle shouting "Floo Powder Power!", while Portkeys are running in a circle shouting "Portkey!"
93** Disapparating involves shouting "Disapparate!" and running offstage while everyone looks confused about where you went.
94--->''"Magic. Ahh."'' ''(shields eyes)''
95** The Jelly-Legs Jinx works similarly.
96--->''[[RunningGag "I can't believe the counter-curse was just 'Unjellify!'."]]''
97** In the films, the conjoined Voldemort/Quirrell was portrayed using CGI. In this show, it's portrayed by… the two actors standing back-to-back beneath a gigantic robe.
98* CompositeCharacter: Cho and Malfoy take the place of Fleur Delacour and Viktor Krum during the House Tournament. Draco also semi-fulfills the Victor Krum role by getting into a love triangle with Hermione and Ron during the Yule Ball. Draco has some elements of Luna Lovegood.
99** Snape takes the place of Peter Pettigrew by cutting his hand off for Voldemort's sake.
100** Quirrell fulfills the role of Barty Crouch Jr by setting up a Portkey during the Triwizard Tournament in a bid to bring Voldemort to power.
101** Lavender Brown and Pansy Parkinson become Ravenclaws in order to give Cho her GirlPosse, taking the role of Cho's friend Marietta Edgecombe.
102* CounterpointDuet: "Granger Danger", with Draco and Ron singing about their realization that faux-ugly Hermione was BeautifulAllAlong and [[SheCleansUpNicely Cleans Up Nicely.]]
103* CreatorInJoke:
104** The concept of Pigfarts started as a random RunningGag Nick Lang came up with when talking about Harry Potter with his friends, with Pigfarts as the name of a hypothetical [[TheMockbuster knockoff cash-in series]] playing [[invoked]]FollowTheLeader with Harry Potter.
105** The basis of the musical was said to be three specific obsessions the Langs had as Harry Potter fans: the [[FanPreferredCouple Draco/Hermione ship]], the idea of "Pigfarts", and the question of how Quirrell and Voldemort sleep.
106** A number of in-jokes specific to the actors scattered throughout the show, like Devin Lytle always being cast as a SouthernBelle, or Harry and Ron's [[HeterosexualLifePartners bromance]] thanks to Creator/DarrenCriss and Joey Richter being real-life roommates. (Or, for that matter, Hermione's sexual preference being "Waiting Until Marriage" in the sequel, with Bonnie Gruesen being a devout Catholic in real life.) On a meta level, this is responsible for much of the [[invoked]]HumorDissonance on the original Website/YouTube recording, especially in the opening number -- this was originally a college production where much of the humor just came from the audience seeing people they knew dressed up as Harry Potter characters.
107** The RunningGag of Cedric bringing up that Hufflepuff House is good at "[=FINDing=]" things is from an in-joke about Jim Povolo's superhero alter ego being "Findor", whose [[MundaneUtility surprisingly useful superpower]] was [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the ability to locate lost objects]]. [[invoked]][[WhatCouldHaveBeen Originally]] Hufflepuff House specializing in "Finding" was going to be an actual fleshed out joke about HeartIsAnAwesomePower but there was no time to flesh it out beyond just being Cedric's CatchPhrase.
108* CreatorThumbprint: Although Darren Criss got most of the attention and glory for the show, he is quick to point out that A.J. Holmes was the actual musical director on the show and he considers Holmes a much more technically skilled composer and instrumentalist than he is. The way it worked out, Holmes wrote the more complex, properly Broadway-style songs ("Different As Can Be", "To Dance Again") sung by Voldemort and Quirrell while Criss' off-the-cuff pop-rock songs are sung by Harry and the kids. In Criss' view, this worked out, establishing this parody as a PerspectiveFlip where Voldemort is the real protagonist who faces an adult personal dilemma and undergoes growth while Harry and his friends are the FlatCharacter antagonists.
109* CrosscastRole: Draco Malfoy, a LargeHam, paradoxically a walking RunningGag and very funny. Crabbe as well. Also, technically, [[TwoMenOneDress one third of the Hungarian Horntail]].
110* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: [[spoiler:Pigfarts exists as Malfoy said and has been a closely-guarded secret for hundreds of years.]]
111* CurseCutShort: Mostly averted, but used in one scene when Harry's frustrated and tries to drop an f-bomb.
112-->'''Draco:''' [[CaptainObvious But [Snape]'s not doing anything.]]\
113'''Harry:''' That's because he's dead you dumb motherf…
114* DarkReprise
115** Inverted. "Different As Can Be" was peppy enough the first time, but the reprise is absolutely euphoric (even though they're singing about murdering Harry.) It's really more of a subversion. "Different As Can Be" was a song about a quirky relationship between two people who just happen to be villains. The reprise is about the happiness of them learning to get along, except they still just happen to be evil.
116** A more straight example of the "sarcastic echo" variant occurs during Draco's solo in "Back To Hogwarts". Everyone else is thrilled to be back, but he's switching the solo melody to a minor key and singing about his future takeover of the world. Needless to say, it's played for laughs.
117-->''Next year, you bet, gonna get out of here,\
118The reign of Malfoy is drawing near\
119I'll have the greatest wizard career\
120And it's gonna be ''totally awesome.''\
121Look out, world, for the dawn of the day\
122When everyone will do ''whatever I say!''\
123And Potter won't be in my way\
124And then I'll be the one who is'' totally awesome!
125* DescriptionCut: Done several times when Dumbledore assures people of Snape's true allegiance, only for him to do something incredibly sinister.
126* DevilInPlainSight:
127** Done for laughs with Quirrell's turban, which is obviously hiding a man under it.
128** Snape in general, but especially in Act 2 [[spoiler:after Snape cuts off his hand to resurrect Voldemort, replaces it with a literal HookHand, and yet remains teaching at the school]].
129* DidNotDoTheBloodyResearch: Draco, one of the few characters that actually had a British accent, makes character vow to fold his knickers. Although knickers means pants in the US, in Britian it's used to refer to [[WholesomeCrossdresser ladies underwear]].
130* DidntThinkThisThrough: The trio vow to turn every spell they know against Sirius Black. They're first-years, so those spells are just things like ''Lumos'' and ''Alohomora''.
131* DistantDuet: "Missing You" between Harry and Quirrell, who are both singing about different people.
132* DopeSlap: Ron uses an unusual DopeSlap where he slaps his hands together right in front of Ginny's face whenever he berates him. Apparently he gets it from his mother, who can do it so well that it cascades down her line of children.
133* DoubleEntendre
134** Sadly censored from the current version.
135-->'''Hermione:''' Shh! Someone's coming.\
136'''Ron''': IT'S NOT ME, I SWEAR!
137** Lampshaded by Crabbe.
138-->'''Crabbe:''' I thought I heard a DoubleEntendre.
139** Though there's also one that wasn't cut:
140-->'''Lavender:''' Professor? Can, like, a person be a Portkey?\
141'''Snape:''' No, that’s absurd. Because then if a person were to… ''touch'' themselves… ''(looks at Ron)''
142* EconomyCast: All the students that aren't Gryffindors or Draco double as miscellaneous death eaters. Draco and Cho Chang are also the dragon Harry fights. Molly and Pansy are the same actress, Cedric reincarnates as Cornelius Fudge, Goyle is also [[spoiler:Rumbleroar]], and the newspaper-sellers are Bellatrix, Cho, Lavender Brown, and Goyle.
143-->'''Hermione:''' Snape just happened to pick you out of hundreds if not ''five'' possible Gryffindors.
144* EpicRocking: "Goin' Back to Hogwarts" is almost ten minutes long.
145* EqualOpportunityEvil: Unlike their movie counterparts, the Death Eaters have much more women and other minorities among their ranks.
146* EverybodysDeadDave
147** Hogwarts' professors are largely absent at the play, outside of one reference at the end that reveals they all died off-screen.
148--->'''Harry:''' Hey guys, well, I guess all the professors are dead, so… Butterbeers on me!
149** Mrs. Weasley casually lets her son know that every single member of the Order of the Phoenix is dead.
150--->'''Molly:''' I came down here with the rest of the Order; Lupin, Tonks, Mad-Eye Moody, Sirius, and your brother Fred.\
151'''Ron:''' Oh awesome, where are they?\
152'''Molly:''' They're all dead.
153* EspeciallyZoidberg:
154-->"Even my Zefron poster?" "ESPECIALLY your Zefron poster!"
155* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Zac Efron is so handsome that Harry, Ron, Draco, Dumbledore, and Snape all fight over who loves him. All this just from the sight of a poster.
156-->''"Everyone knows that ''I'' like Creator/ZacEfron the most!"''
157* EveryoneIsBi: One could assume this about almost all of the male characters. Every male character gets at least one HomoeroticSubtext moment with another male character. The only named and not one-scene male character who escapes this is probably Cedric. In the sequel, the Sorting Hat's lover, the Scarf of Sexual Preference, confirms that Harry is ''metrosexual'', and Hermione is ''waiting 'til marriage'', while Ron is ''bi-curious'' and Dumbledore is ''gay as the 4th of July''.
158* EvilBrit: The nice guys keep the actors' American accents and the bad guys have fake British ones to show their snootiness.
159* ExtraExtraReadAllAboutIt: The opening of Act 2.
160* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Dumbledore apparently survived the killing curse and moved to Mars.]]
161* FalseReassurance: Voldemort promises the students of Hogwarts that he will reward them for surrendering by enslaving them.
162-->'''Voldemort:''' I'm willing to offer you positions in my new world order… ''(aside)'' …as my slaves.
163* FinalLoveDuet: The very end of the show, when [[spoiler:Quirrell and Voldemort are reunited and run into each others arms]]. PlayedWith in that it's not the two of them singing, but the rest of the company.
164* FirstNameBasis: You know how Voldemort usually insists everyone call him "Dark Lord" or something to that effect? Quirrel's the exception.
165-->'''Voldemort:''' Okay, just relax with the "Dark King…" I watch you wipe your butt daily. You can call me Voldemort. We're there. We've reached that point.
166* FootPopping: Ginny does this during her and Harry's first kiss.
167* {{Foreshadowing}}: Considering the play wastes no time in {{lampshading}} the practice of {{foreshadowing}} with Snape's pop quiz on Portkeys and dramatic devices, it's impressive just how much effective foreshadowing there is:
168** Voldemort has an inexplicable love of Zac Efron. [[spoiler:The poster of Zac Efron in Hogwarts was so beloved by Voldemort he put part of his soul into it.]]
169** Malfoy's reference towards Hermione being Ron's "stupid Mudblood girlfriend" foreshadows the budding relationship between Ron and Hermione.
170** After the whole "Dark King" business, Quirrell stutters and calls the Dark Lord "my Voldemort." [[spoiler:The play ends with Voldy and Quirrell reuniting as lovers.]]
171-->'''Voldemort:''' We're there! We've reached that point!\
172'''Quirrell:''' Yes [[HomoeroticSubtext my… Voldemort.]]
173** Early on, Dumbledore says "Have you ever seen my room? I've got some pretty kickin' posters." Late in the plot, his Zac Efron poster becomes a prominent part of the dialogue.
174* ForgottenFallenFriend: [[spoiler:Cedric is barely mentioned after his death.]]
175* FreudianSlip:
176** When Snape gives Dumbledore the [[invoked]][[BigLippedAlligatorMoment bomb sandwich]].
177--->'''Snape:''' Here you are, Headmaster. Bomb appetite! I mean, ''bon appetite''!
178** Quirrell when talking about a Deathday party, nearly says "Nearly headless [[AmbiguouslyGay dick.]]" (May have been unintentional.)
179* FriendshipMoment: Many, ''many'' between Voldemort and Quirrell. Ron and Harry have one after the Horcrux is destroyed, and Ron and Hermione coming to join in on the "Not Alone" song counts as well.
180* GainingConfidenceSong: Hermione's solo "The Coolest Girl" is about her status as a "loser", starting with her softly singing about her isolation from her peers and ending with her belting that she doesn't care; ''she'' knows she's awesome.
181* GirlPosse: Cho is almost constantly followed by her fellow Ravenclaws, Lavender and Pansy.
182* GoodIsNotNice: The heroes are still heroic but act like major douchebags in their time off, while Voldemort himself is actually a very personable guy when he's not putting on a threatening façade.
183* GottaGetYourHeadTogether: Draco sings this during "Granger Danger".
184* GroinAttack: Snape gets bitten in the gonads with a snake, in a twist of his original death.
185* HamToHamCombat: Act 2, part 2 has Draco, Voldemort, and Snape together on one stage--this scene was the original inspiration for the trope, in fact.
186* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen
187** Despite being mentioned, Hagrid never appears onstage.
188** A couple other characters get this treatment as well (i.e. The Patil twins).
189** Moaning Myrtle is referenced in both musicals. She seems to be the ultimate standard against which uncoolness is measured.
190** Lupin, Tonks, Made-Eye Moody, Sirius, and Fred, are mentioned but are already dead by that time.
191* HeterosexualLifePartners: Quirrell and Voldemort [[spoiler: in the first musical, at least]].
192* HilarityEnsues
193** Even ''off-stage'' it's implied to happen, like when Harry suggests he and Ron go see Hagrid. Ron goes right on-the-nose and predicts incredible hijinks will ensue.
194--->'''Harry:''' Hey Ron, let's go hang out with Hagrid; he can teach us how to dance and we can get in our dress robes!\
195'''Ron:''' Well that could only lead to disaster and hilarity. Let's go!
196* HistoricalInJoke: "So you're UsefulNotes/ThomasJefferson and I'm your Sally Hemings, is that it?!"
197* HufflepuffHouse: Hufflepuff's lack of characterization and significance is so extreme that the Headmaster of Hogwarts has no idea what it is. Lampshaded of course! Ravenclaw also gets this treatment but nowhere near to the extent of Hufflepuff.
198-->'''Cedric:''' Hufflepuffs are particularly good finders!\
199'''Dumbledore:''' What the ''hell'' is a Hufflepuff?
200* HypocriticalHumor
201** Harry tries to stand up to Draco, who immediately orders his [[TheBrute brute]] to defend him, dives under a bench (''hanging under it upside down'') and declares "Not so tough now, are you, Potter?"
202** Quirrell mocks Harry while manipulating him via the Imperius Curse, [[HumiliationConga for looking like a girl]]. It would be funny enough with [[SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan Quirrel's prior characterization]] if not for the fact that moments later, Voldemort spins him as part of their dance routine.
203** When Voldemort laughs at Malfoy's potential plan to get into Hogwarts before hearing it he tells him mockingly that the idea better not be a giant slide or a trampoline… Because they've already tried that and know it doesn't work.
204** Ron chews out Harry for not listening to his problems, while thoroughly ignoring Harry's problems.
205* IAmSong: "Different as Can Be"
206* IgnoredEpiphany: [[spoiler:Voldemort, during his final confrontation with Harry Potter. He even breaks the fourth wall by pointing his wand at the guy playing the emotional background music and thus silencing him.]]
207* IMeantToDoThat: {{Word of God}} says this is the reason Draco rolls around on the floor. He strikes a pose to look cool, messes it up… then tries to make the messing up look like part of the plan.
208* ImprobableAge: Despite the romantic subplots and the fact that his actor is obviously college age, Harry says, on multiple occasions, "I'm just a twelve-year-old kid!" It probably references that it's supposedly happening during Harry's second year. For those who haven't seen the movies, it's also a reference to the obvious difference between the actor (Creator/DanielRadcliffe)'s age and that of Harry, the character he plays. Take a look at the obvious five-o-clock shadow on that "15"-year-old kid.
209* {{Improv}}: There was no written score for this show. All of the incidental music on the piano was just A.J. Holmes improvising based on what was happening onstage. Darren Criss credits Holmes' accompaniment with being the show's unseen narrator and making the tone of the show.
210** There were a number of moments improvised every night, now forgotten because the recorded performance is the one that went down in history. For instance, in every show a different set of adjectives was used to describe Cho in the line that is now remembered as "Superfoxymegaawesomehot!"
211* InadvertentEntranceCue: PlayedWith, in that the arrogant Malfoy happily walks in and announces himself as soon as Hermione insults and demeans Malfoy's friends. It isn't clear if Malfoy actually heard what she said or if he just blindly hoped someone would say something appropriate as he entered.
212-->'''Hermione:''' Now let's go leave these big, baby, childish jerks alone.\
213'''Draco:''' ''(swooping in)'' Did someone say DRACO MALFOY?
214* InappropriatePride: Draco Malfoy introduces himself to Harry in the form of one of these on the basis of wanting to make friends, which manages to offend basically ''everyone'' in Gryffindor house in one fell swoop.
215--> '''Draco:''' My name is Draco Malfoy. I am a racist, I despise gingers and mudbloods, I hate Gryffindor House, and my parents worked for the man who killed your parents. Do you want to be my friend?
216* IncomingHam
217** Snape in every scene he appears, most memorably "WHAT THE DEVIL IS GOING ON HEEREEEE?!?!".
218** Draco's "Did someone say DRACO MALFOY?" (No one had.)
219** Dumbledore makes his entrance by sustaining the word "Welcome" for an impressively long time.
220** "Did somebody say… Ron Weasley?"
221* IncrediblyLongNote
222** As stated above, this is how Dumbledore starts off his intro song.
223** Quirrel sings a long note in "Different as Can Be" on the phrase "And Creator/JaneAusten novels!", which is held while Voldemort sings a LongList of evil things he wants.
224--->''"And goblins and werewolves, a fleet of Dementors and giants and Thestrals and all my Death Eaters!"''
225* InfoDump:
226** Lampshaded by Snape in his "pop quiz".
227-->'''Hermione:''' Professor, what is the point of this quiz?\
228'''Snape:''' Oh no point at all, just important information that EVERYONE should know… ''(points to the audience)'' Especially YOU.
229* InstitutionalApparel: Once he's imprisoned in Azkaban, Quirrell wears black-and-white horizontal stripes and a ball and chain.
230* ItsNotYouItsMyEnemies: Lampshaded, of course. Harry tells Ginny they can't be together because his enemies will try to hurt her, referencing Film/SpiderMan1 to explain himself. Ginny objects to the comparison, which leads to a discussion of every movie in the ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy''.
231-->'''Ginny:''' Yeah but the whole point of ''Film/SpiderMan2'' was that Peter and MJ could be together.\
232'''Harry:''' Yeah but the whole point of ''Film/SpiderMan3'' is that that all goes to shit! And I don't want my life to be like ''Film/SpiderMan3''! I hated that movie.
233* IWantSong:
234** "Get Back to Hogwarts" has elements of inspirational Disney ballads, especially Draco's part about how he hopes to leave Hogwarts and gain everyone's respect.
235** Draco tries to sing a more standard one about Pigfarts, but MusicalisInterruptus prevents us from hearing more than a couple lines.
236* {{Jerkass}}: Ron, Dumbledore, and even Harry to a subtler extent display some (hilariously) jerkish behavior, especially toward Hermione and Ginny. However, it's all for humor and a major part of why the play works… it's much more poignant when they do act nice. Ron in fact acknowledges this behavior:
237-->'''Ron:''' I know I've been a real {{jerkass}} lately…
238* JokersLoveJunkFood: Exaggerated with Ron, who even in a parody show where everyone is comedic is still considered the comic relief of the trio, and who is seen eating Muggle snacks every time he is onstage, including a giant Hersheys bar and Double Stuff Oreos. At one point, he arrives at Dumbledore's office in a huff because he was rushed, doesn't have a snack, and was missing ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace, so the pianist behind him breaks the fourth wall and hands him a package of Twizzlers, which Ron attributes to the magic of Hogwarts.
239* LargeHam: Voldemort, Draco, and ''especially'' Snape are decidedly over-the-top compared to the rest of the cast. Dumbledore slips into this occasionally.
240* LateArrivalSpoiler: The musical spoils a bunch of major plot points in the series. Probably the best example of this is during Mrs. Weasley's scene where she kills Bellatrix, who just killed Snape, and then proceeds to spoil almost every major death from the books in a single line.
241* LeaningOnTheFurniture: Draco, whenever he's not just lying on the ground.
242* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: The sappy music the pianist plays before Voldemort threatens him.
243* LoveTriangle: The show has a couple with Ron and Draco being in love with Hermione, pining from afar. The other relationship is slightly more complicated with Ginny liking Harry who likes Cho who is dating Cedric. It's resolved once [[spoiler:Harry realizes he loves Ginny back]]. Bellatrix and Voldemort are previously involved before Voldemort loses his body, and an attempt is made to rekindle the relationship that fails due to Voldemort's new, ahem, [[HomoeroticSubtext friendship]] with Quirrell.
244* MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber:
245** The EpicRocking song of "Gotta Get Back to Hogwarts," which brilliantly sets up the [[invoked]]AlternateCharacterInterpretation, humor, and some plots. Harry, Ron, and Hermione are returning to Hogwarts, Harry meets Ginny who instantly falls for him but he's interested in Cho, who is dating Cedric. Malfoy arrives and teases them and reveals his motive of finally beating Harry. The gang all gather and ride the Hoqwarts express to Hogwarts where they are greeted by Dumbledore. And all in all there's a general agreement that this year's going to be [[CatchPhrase totally awesome]]. And this is all just the opening number.
246** Also, later in the show, Ron and Hermione lead the entire cast in TheSongBeforeTheStorm to say that "Voldemort is Going Down."
247* MeadowRun: A couple happily reunites in a slow-motion run towards each other at the very end of the second act. The members of the couple are [[spoiler:Quirrell and Voldemort]].
248* MeaningfulEcho
249** "You're Harry Potter! You're the Boy Who Lived!"
250** Also, "You never tell a girl that you like her, it makes you look like an idiot."
251* MediumAwareness: From time to time, characters will refer to parts of the stage, or interact with the band.
252* MemoryRestoringMelody: Downplayed. In "Those Voices", Harry is drawn to the Mirror of Erised when he hears familiar singing that Hermione and Ron can't hear. He sees his parents for the first time since he was a baby in the Mirror, not quite recognizing them, but knowing he knows them somehow because of the song. Sirius Black appears and explains those are his parents, and reveals he sees and hears the same thing because he loved Harry's parents like family, proving it by singing the same melody back to him.
253* MilkingTheGiantCow: Parodied by having Quirrell do it turned around, while Voldemort is singing during "Different As Can Be".
254* MisfitMobilizationMoment: In song form! "Voldemort Is Going Down" serves to rally all the twelve-year old students of Hogwarts against the rising forces of Wizard Hitler himself.
255* MoodWhiplash: Several, most of them from Act 2.
256** There's also, late in Act 1, the scene where Quirrel [[spoiler:is betrayed by Voldemort and tortured by Bellatrix, punctuated with jokes about "She's All That".]] ''Ouch.''
257** Most of the deaths are with humor undercutting the scene to try to avoid this but you will get major whiplash during Dumbledore's. Immediately following is a comical scene that leads up to probably the saddest song in the show: "Missing You". Your neck will ache. Hell, that song itself is an epic MoodWhiplash. Harry's verse is excellent at conveying his loneliness, while Quirrell's part is mainly played for laughs.
258** Right before Harry's HeroicSacrifice, he has the most heartwarming, tearful FriendshipMoment, which lapses into comedy.
259-->'''Harry:''' You guys are my best friends, and I love you all. [[ButtMonkey Except you, Draco, I can't fucking stand you.]]
260** A notable one is when Voldemort kills [[spoiler:Harry]], the mood surprisingly dark and dramatic for the play. It goes back to humour the minute the kill is over.
261* MoralGuardians: After the musical became popular, its creators edited a few lines out of it to tone it down to a more PG-13 tone. Some of the trope entries here refer to the old version of the play.
262* MrExposition: Dumbledore and Snape at times; Rita in the sequel is a very glaring example given how awkwardly forced it sounds in context.
263* MundaneMadeAwesome: Neville uses the boring Disarming Spell to pants Malfoy.
264* MusicalisInterruptus: Draco tries to launch into his own song twice, one about Pigfarts and one his own VillainSong. He gets cut off both times.
265* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Ginny is repeatedly pushed to the side whenever she tries to insert herself with Harry and his friends.
266[[/folder]]
267
268[[folder:Tropes N-Z]]
269* NinjaPirateZombieRobot: If Malfoy is to be believed----Pigfarts is a wizard school on Mars and the headmaster is a wizard lion named Rumbleroar. Who can TALK. And lets good students ride on his back. [[spoiler:Malfoy should be believed, because he's right.]]
270* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Draco and Snape are the only ones with vaguely British accents. Many characters have funny UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents, though. Considering that certain props and allusions make it clear that this version is set in the present day, and "freshman year" is mentioned, it can be assumed that the musical both modernizes and Americanizes the books in order to create humor. Snape and Draco [[RuleOfFunny aren't exactly trying either]]--Snape in particular sometimes sounds less like he's British and more like he's constantly passing a kidney stone. Joe Walker's "Voldemort voice" also seems to slide in and out of a British accent at random.
271** ArtisticLicenseGeography: It wasn't until well into the production process that someone pointed out Dumbledore has a NASA spacesuit -- NASA being a US government agency -- despite the whole play supposedly being set in Britain.
272* NotHisSled:
273** [[spoiler:Dumbledore]] somehow survived the Killing Curse and is revealed to be FakingTheDead.
274** The final scene reveals that another character who died in the books is alive. [[spoiler:Voldemort had an eight Horcrux that nobody else knew about and lost his duel with Harry on purpose in order to be with Quirrell.]]
275* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler:Voldemort and Dumbledore both turn out to be this. Voldemort claims it's because part of his soul remained with Quirrell. Dumbledore's survival and subsequent travel to Pigfarts is unexplained.]]
276* NowOrNeverKiss: Ron and Hermione partake in one after the Death Eaters invade Hogwarts. They ''really'' go for it.
277* ObliviousToLove
278** Harry, unfortunately for poor Ginny, hasn't spent a second thinking about her romantically. Even though she is smitten with him, Harry sees no problem with showing her a love song he wrote for another women and then ditching her.
279** Hermione has no idea Draco has a crush on her. At one point she even overhears him openly state he wants her only for her to go off and hook up with Ron. [[spoiler:Not so oblivious: we find out in the sequel Draco already confessed his love to her, and she told him she can do better.]]
280* OddCouple: The experienced, callous, and sociopathic Voldemort is forced to work with the naive, girly, and bookish Quirrell in his attempts to conquer the world. They sing a wacky duet about it called "Different as Can Be."
281* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Dumbledore found and destroyed 5 horcruxes prior to telling Harry about them.
282* OhCrap: When Hermione finally stops taking his ridicule, Ron is completely mortified and steps off.
283-->'''Hermione:''' You know, every day everyone is trying to put me down, and on the one day I actually feel like a person, YOU'RE TRYING TO RUIN IT!\
284'''Ron:''' ''(taken aback)'' Holy shit.
285* OhMyGods: The characters here either swear with the fantasy-conscious "Oh my wizard god!" or the less FourthWall-wary "Oh my Rowling!"
286* OriginalCastPrecedent: Sometimes played straight (Lupin's mustache and Lucius' long blond hair, for instance, are carried over from [[Film/HarryPotter the films]]) and sometimes subverted (Neville is blond, as the book character is according to [[invoked]]WordOfGod, rather than dark-haired like in the movies).
287* OverlyLongGag: Nick Lang says this is Darren Criss' specialty when it comes to comedy, citing the "Ginny/Cho Chang" song as the ur-example.
288* PainfulRhyme: Intentionally in Harry's song "Ginny", which packs as many forced rhymes for Ginny into one verse as possible ("take you out to dinny", "take you up to Winni-peg"). The punchline, of course, is that he ends up singing the song to Cho Chang without changing any of the other words.
289* PaperThinDisguise: Dumbledore's beard (worn over his normal beard), Quirrel's turban, and the sparkly, hot pink Invisibility Cloak, which almost covers the Trio's shoulders.
290** Dumbledore's beard returns in Senior Year.
291* ParodyMagicSpell: "Unjellify" is the countercurse for the Jelly Legs Jinx.
292* PhraseCatcher:
293** Hermione repeatedly gets in trouble for the most ridiculous reasons, only to be met with a highly sarcastic [[ButtMonkey "Thanks, Hermione."]]
294** "I can't believe the countercurse was just Unjellify!"
295* PlayingWithPuppets: Voldemort and Quirrell Imperio Harry into dancing during the song "To Dance Again".
296* ThePowerOfRock: Similar to the books, Harry [[spoiler:defeats the Hungarian Horntail by playing it a song on his summoned guitar]].
297* PrecisionFStrike: Harry undermines a very sincere and sweet moment with one of the play's few f-bombs. "I love you all. Except you Draco, I can't fucking stand you." The F word is bleeped in the current version, but the effect remains.
298* {{Pun}}: A big one regarding the bomb sandwich:
299-->'''Hermione:''' Is that sandwich ticking?!\
300'''Dumbledore:''' I'd say it's "licking". ''Finger'' licking good!
301* ProductPlacement: Parodied, with Ron and Harry's obsession with Red Vines, complete with TagLine -- "Red Vines, what CAN'T they do?" Hilariously, this was [[invoked]]{{Defictionaliz|ation}}ed in the wake of the show's success, with Red Vines actually hiring Joey Richter and Creator/JoeWalker to do a series of promo videos [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXDP3gOgiZY with exactly that tag line]].
302* RaceLift
303** Cho Chang is a southern white girl and not, like you would expect from the books and her name, an Asian girl.
304** Likewise, Lavender Brown is now an Asian girl.
305** Bellatrix is played by a black actress, but it doesn't alter how the character is portrayed.
306** Ironically, ''Harry himself'' is a RaceLift since (unbeknownst to many fans) Creator/DarrenCriss is half-Filipino, which makes the joke about Cho Chang's race extra funny once you know.
307* RashPromise: Played for laughs. Draco and Voldemort in this parody seal Draco's promise to kill Dumbledore with an Unbreakable Vow. Draco takes the opportunity to add a last-minute provision that Voldemort has to be his slave for a whole day. To add insult to injury, this is apparently NOT the first time someone has done that to Voldemort, yet he keeps making Unbreakable Vows on a whim!
308* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Harry delivers a scathing one to Voldemort at the end.
309-->'''Voldemort:''' No! There isn't! The joke's on you Potter, I don't care about anybody!\
310'''Harry:''' I know. And that's why you're such a piece of shit.
311* RecycledSoundtrack: Ginny's song "Harry" was first heard on the Web series WebVideo/LittleWhiteLie as "Sami", and was released on Creator/DarrenCriss' EP ''Human'' under that title with those lyrics.
312** "Not Alone" was originally written by Darren Criss as a submission for an Series/AmericanIdol songwriting contest, as an attempt to mimic the style of Music/{{Adele}}.
313* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder:
314** Draco asks if he's at fault and everyone in the room with him firmly confirms that he is at fault.
315--->'''Draco:''' Could you really say that what happened was my fault?\
316'''Ron:''' Yes.\
317'''Hermione:''' Yeah.\
318'''Harry:''' Absolutely.
319** Quirrel asks a question in the middle of his lecture to help transition into another subject, only for Hermione to answer him in a display of her nerdiness.
320--->'''Quirrel:''' But where does this competition come from and what are the roots of the tradition?\
321'''Hermione:''' The House Cup Tournament began with the first generation of Hogwarts students.\
322'''Quirrel:''' That was a rhetorical question…
323* RomanticFalseLead: Bellatrix to Voldemort. To a lesser extent, Cho to Harry.
324* RousingSpeech: Ron makes one to Dumbledore's Army leading up to [[TheSongBeforeTheStorm "Voldemort Is Going Down"]].
325* RunningGag: Several, most of which are repeated in the sequel.
326** "Thanks, Hermione."
327** Ron eating in almost every scene.
328** Malfoy rolling around inexplicably
329** '''Schlong'''bottom
330** "I'm bleeding!"
331** "You never tell a girl that you like her, it makes you look like an idiot!"
332** Pigfarts.
333** ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace''
334* SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale: Draco wants a "galaxy-traversing rocketship" to get to Mars. It's… sort of unnecessary to need a ship which can traverse the ''entire galaxy'' when you're going to a planet in ''the same solar system as Earth''. Though it's really in Malfoy's character, to have pointlessly over-the-top things to say he's better than everyone else.
335* SecondYearProtagonist: The musical translates a lot of the British boarding school aspects to a more American-style high school. In the first play, Harry, Ron, and Hermione are sophomores, with Ginny as the new freshman learning the ropes from her brother and his friends. The sequels avert this, however; ''A Very Potter Sequel'' goes back to Harry's freshman year via TimeTravel, while ''A Very Potter Senior Year'' takes place exactly when you'd guess.
336* SexinessScore: PlayedForLaughs when Draco Malfoy is singing about [[HotLibrarian Hermione Granger]] while mocking the [[invoked]]HollywoodHomely trope that's applied to her [[Franchise/HarryPotter in canon]].
337-->'''Draco:''' You know who I think is the ugliest girl in school? That Hermine Granger! You know what I would give her OnAScaleFromOneToTen? 1 would be the ugliest and 10 pretty... I would give her an 8... 8.5... or a 9... Not, not over a 9.8 cause there is always room for improvement. Not everyone is perfect, like me. That's why I'm holding out for a 10. Because I'm worth it!
338* ShaveAndAHaircut: The sting is played when one of the musicians [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaks the fourth wall]] and hands Ron a snack.
339* SickeninglySweethearts: Cedric and Cho are this to Harry, though Ron seems to find their public displays of affection rather cute.
340* SlouchOfVillainy: Possibly what Draco is constantly attempting to do by leaning on every surface. The sequel implies that he's actually trying to replicate his dad's style of dancing around.
341* SmoochOfVictory: After defeating Voldemort, Harry and Ginny have a moment of wild abandon. Ron is totally okay with it.
342* StealthPun: Draco spends a lot of time crawling and slinking around. One might call it… slitherin'
343** When Quirrel is asked by the dementor about his friend, he replies "No, that's behind me now…"
344* StockFemurBone: [[spoiler:Snape]] throws one into a cauldron to resurrect Voldemort.
345* SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion:
346** One gag has Harry test out a love song he wrote for Cho by singing it to Ginny. The song rhymes perfectly when Harry sings with Ginny, but his wordplay on "guinea" just doesn't work as well with "Cho Chang." Despite the obvious dissonance, Harry thinks the song sounds wrong with Ginny's name and is incredibly proud when he sings it with Cho's name.
347-->''"You're tall and fun and pretty, you're really really skinny… ''Cho Chang!''"''
348** From Quirrell and Voldemort's duet "Different As Can Be":
349-->''"When I rule the world, I'll have flowers!"''
350-->''"When I rule the world I'll have… snakes!"''
351* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial: Draco would never, ever take Hermione to the Yule Ball. Ever. Not even if they were the last couple on Earth and she looked so beautiful in her ballgown that every time he looked at her he got butterflies in his tummy. Not even then.
352* TheSongBeforeTheStorm: "Voldemort Is Going Down" is performed by Dumbledore's Army as they prepare their last stand against the Death Eaters.
353* TakeThat: Towards the original work.
354** The play skips over the Horcruxes sub-plot and characters make several jabs at the concept in general.
355--->'''Draco:''' You know, I thought that destroying a Horcrux would be harder.\
356'''Ron:''' Yeah. When you think about it, Horcruxes are just stupid.
357** Hermione mentions that without Dumbledore's will and medallion, they would have to spend months camping around England hunting Horcruxes, the exact plot of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows''. Harry cuts her off and tell her that would be stupid.
358--->'''Ron:''' If I had a Horcrux, I would drop it in the bottom of the ocean. Or I would put it in a pyramid with King Tut and all of his jewels. Or I would blast it into space with a monkey who knew nothing about Horcruxes.\
359'''Hermione:''' Or it could be hidden somewhere around the mundane British countryside. Our search could entail months of depressing camping, breaking into Gringotts, and drinking boatloads of Polyjuice Potion.\
360'''Harry:''' Well, the medallion says that's dumb, so we're not gonna do that.
361** Quirrell has a subtle one at the Triwizard Tournament from the book… in reference to there being ''two'' teams from Hogwarts:
362-->'''Hermione:''' Kind of like a Triwizard Tournament!\
363'''Quirrell:''' Yes, sort of like the Triwizard Tournament, except no, not like that at all… There are four houses, how can it be the Triwizard Tournament with ''four teams''?
364** There's digs at other works too, such as when Harry says he never wants his life to be like ''Film/SpiderMan3''.
365* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Subverted. In the graveyard, Voldemort accidentally freed Harry from the Full-Body Bind by making him tap-dance under the Imperius Curse, and then forced him to lay prone on the ground. Harry realizes as the Death Eaters argue about framing Quirrel that they forgot to immobilize him again. The Portkey is also still activated. He grabs Cedric's body and the punch ladle, before Bellatrix and Voldemort can stop him.
366* TalkingTheMonsterToDeath: In this case, singing: When Harry confronts the Hungarian Horntail he summons his guitar and sings "The Dragon Song" to lower its guard… and then promptly [[WrestlerInAllOfUs puts it into a headlock, counts to three and declares victory.]]
367* ThisIsForEmphasisBitch: In addition to a paraphrase of Mrs. Weasley's famous line, we get "Voldemort out, bitches!"
368* TitleDrop: Not with the play, but with the company and, perhaps accidentally, the company's Website/YouTube account. When Draco is going on about Harry having a rocketship he says, "Moonshoes Potter? ''[=StarKid=] Potter''."
369* TruckDriversGearChange: The end of "Missing You" features one.
370* TwoTeacherSchool: The only teachers Hogwarts seems to have are Snape, Quirrell, and Headmaster Dumbledore. And all end up leaving the school by act 1, leaving the school staffed by off-screen professors who don't get much of a chance to do anything.
371-->'''Harry:''' Well, looks like all the professors are dead so… Butterbeers on me!
372* TwoActStructure: Despite the light-heartedness of the whole show, there's a noticeable change in tone for the second act that comes from following the events of the books. This somewhat mirrors the events in the final book, where the first 25 chapters (roughly just more than half of the book) encompass nearly nine months, and the last 11 chapters comprise two days of action.
373* UnholyMatrimony: Voldemort and Bellatrix maintained a malicious matrimony, though it's seriously strained due to Voldemort's guilt over betraying Quirrell.
374%%* VitriolicBestBuds: Voldemort and Quirrell are a mild version of type two.
375* VillainsOutShopping: Voldemort's first scene has him bickering with Quirrell about laundry.
376* VillainSong
377** Voldemort inaugurates his newly restored body with a song where he and his Death Eaters' revel in the opportunity for Voldemort to once again use his darkest power: [[spoiler:dance.]]
378** Draco's solo during "Goin' Back to Hogwarts" ("This year you bet I'm gonna get outta here / the reign of Malfoy is drawing near"), though not really any other times he sings, as he's nicer by that point.
379* VisualPun: Another possible interpretation of what it is Malfoy's always doing: "slitherin'".
380* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: When Harry hears that his greatest power is love, he finds it incredibly underwhelming.
381-->'''Dumbledore:''' Harry, do you know what a love shield is?\
382'''Harry:''' No, but it sounds kinda fruity.
383* WhatIsThisFeeling: Draco during "Granger Danger". Ron goes through it too but it's not nearly as noticeable.
384* WhatWouldXDo: "What would Harry do?" and "What would Zac Efron say at a time like this?" (Answer: [[Film/HighSchoolMusical We're all in this together!]])
385* WorldOfHam: Save maybe for Harry and Hermione, every character is either constantly chewing scenery or at least occasionally nibbling it.
386* WritingAroundTrademarks: The script doesn't bother with this in the show itself -- which became an issue when the show went viral, necessitating a special deal with Warner Brothers -- but the title is the result of wrangling with the [=UMich=] Theatre Department after they said they couldn't put "Harry Potter: The Musical" on the posters.
387* YouNeedToGetLaid: When he hears that Quirrell hasn't dated, Voldemort swears to Quirrell they'll take a night on the town and get Quirrell some "bitches."
388-->'''Voldemort:''' Quirrell, we are going to get you laid.
389[[/folder]]
390
391!!!A Very Potter Sequel (AVPS)
392[[folder:Tropes A-M]]
393* AccidentalMisnaming:
394** During their first year, nobody can get Hermione's name right, and the variations they come up with are quite hilarious. Harry finally gets it right while assuring Hermione that they really are friends, only to forget it again immediately once he realises this.
395** Lucius apparently doesn't know how to pronounce Draco's name. Unless, of course, Lucius is pronouncing it correctly and Draco is getting it wrong.
396* ActorAllusion
397** Darren Criss refers to his actual hobby of covering Creator/{{Disney}} songs.
398---> '''Harry:''' ...I make weird covers of Disney songs, [[SelfDeprecation who does that?]]
399** Harry also gets sorted as [[CampStraight Metrosexual]] which is quite amusing considering how CampStraight Darren Criss actually is.
400** Both in ''A Very Potter Sequel'' and ''Theatre/MeAndMyDick'', Nicholas Joseph Strauss-Mathathia's character leaves in the end of the play, and even uses the exact same piece of dialogue: "I could travel the world. I've always wanted to see Venice."
401* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance: Due to the first play using elements from first book in Harry's final year, this one uses the plot of third book in Harry's first year. Meaning Harry gets Lupin as a teacher and meets Sirius Black two years early. Dolores Umbridge is sent by the Ministry to protect the school from Black even though she doesn't appear until book five.
402* AffectionateParody: [[invoked]]WordOfGod says that Hermione's song "The Coolest Girl" is supposed to be a send up to female power ballads that every girl uses as an audition song à la [[Theatre/LesMiserables "On My Own"]] and [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 "Part of Your World"]].
403* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: PlayedForLaughs; Lily thinks James is a total jerk, which women find incredibly charming.
404-->'''Lily:''' You're such an asshole… that's so charming.
405* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:Draco to Hermione, which fails.]]
406* ArcWords: The idea of "Going Back to Hogwarts" goes from a callback to the original musical, to an allusion to all the time travel, to a final speech about returning to Hogwarts each year that highlights the specialness of ''Harry Potter'' and [=StarKid=] fandoms themselves.
407* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Draco introduces himself by listing his most despicable traits and then at the end, asking to start a friendship.
408-->'''Draco:''' I am Draco Malfoy. I am a racist, I despise gingers and mudbloods, I hate Gryffindor house and my parents work for the man who killed your parents. Do you want to be my friend?\
409'''Harry:''' You ''hate'' Gryffindor house? Get out of my face, Malfoy!
410* AuthorFilibuster: The writers use Harry's speech about school at the end of the play to provide praise for the source material. Think of Hogwarts as a metaphor for the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series.
411-->'''Harry:''' We spent time here, we made friends here, and that's a part of us. 'Cause Hogwarts is bigger than us, it's bigger than any of its founders. And it's gonna be around long after we're gone. Maybe we'll see our kids come here one day. That's the thing about Hogwarts: no matter how long you're away from it, there's always a way back.
412* BigBadDuumvirate: Lucius Malfoy and Umbridge both want to knock Harry Potter down a peg. Although their agendas are initially unrelated, they eventually team up to kill Harry.
413* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Snape again swoops in to save the kids. Later, the arrival of werewolf!Lupin rescues the group from Umbridge, too.]]
414* BlackComedyRape: [[spoiler:Umbridge being taken as Firenze's mate, and falling for him.]]
415* BlatantLies: Lupin the Werewolf is constantly found near damaged property and animal corpses after a full moon, only to wave away everyone's suspicions by saying a jaguar did it.
416-->''"…yes! Probably the work… of that infamous Hogwarts jaguar."''
417* BookEnds: A "Back to Hogwarts" song--[[spoiler:at the end, a reprise of "Get Back to Hogwarts" from the original]].
418* CallBack / CallForward: Many to the original:
419** Lucius kicks off the plot by saying, "My friends… I think we're going back!"
420** Ron's enters the story saying, "Did somebody say Ron Weasley?"
421** After an offhand joke about the Sorting Hat and the Scarf of Sexual Preference getting married in the original, they are present as characters here.
422** Sirius is the one who tells Ron to never tell a girl you like her, it makes you look like an idiot.
423** At the end, Dumbledore discusses the candidates to replace Lupin as DADA teacher.
424--->'''Dumbledore :''' I've got it down to Gilderoy Lockhart, Mad-Eye Moody, and some fella named SQUIRREL! [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter Now I don't want anyone dangerous]], so I think I'm gonna go with the Squirrel.
425** [[spoiler:Luna Lovegood]]'s absence in the original is explained.
426** There are some jokes about Pigfarts and Rumbleroar, which are left unexplained when Draco tries to pass them off as [[spoiler:mature things that Past!Ron is too young to understand. Luna seems to have already read about Pigfarts from the Quibbler.]]
427** Dumbledore invites Umbridge to take a dip in Hogwarts' secret swimming pool, just after the waiter at a restaurant refers to them as two "Strapping young gentlemen."
428** Dumbledore's first line is "Draco, ya little shit!" Shortly followed by "Call me Dumbledore, or else."
429** The blue headband Ron wore in AVPM is used by Harry to cover his scar. He later gives it to Ron.
430** ''Spider-Man'' is used again as an example during some heart-warming dialogue between Ron and Hermione.
431** Ron again says the line "We are in such a pickle."
432** Dumbledore restores the Zefron poster to its place of glory at the end of the show; Voldemort pops his face in to say "It's good to be back."
433** After Harry completes his first adventure, Dumbledore tells him, "From now on, boy, you and me--we're tight."
434** Unlike Crabbe, Goyle and [[spoiler:Lucius]], [[spoiler:Sirius]] actually knows that the countercurse to the Jelly-Legs Jinx is just "Unjellify!"
435** Draco's reaction to minor bumps is still "I'm bleeding!"
436** [[spoiler:Future!]]Draco wants you to know that "He's really nice now!"
437** In her first scene, Umbridge promises the girls that this year is gonna be [[TotallyRadical "totally awesome"]].
438** Harry and Ron insist that you can't have more than two friends, explaining why they were so reluctant to include Ginny in their adventures in ''AVPM''. Ron also pushes [[spoiler:Future Draco]] away from the Trio's group hug just like he did with Ginny in ''AVPM''.
439** When Umbridge takes over, Harry echoes Draco's belief from AVPM that "Hogwarts is going to the dogs".
440** Dumbledore is yet again described by Gryffindor students as "the wisest, kindest, most beautiful wizard."
441** Draco tries to sing a song again only for the stage lights to go down and cut him off again.
442** Jim Povolo yet again plays a talking non-human who asks some characters to jump on his back before wistfully saying "To *insert wizarding school name here*!"
443** The line about someone "Someone I (''you'') trusted. Someone I (''you'') may have even loved" with characters making four obscure references to characters who don't appear in the play.
444* TheCameo
445** Ginny and the Weasley boys appear at the start of the play before the second song.
446** [[spoiler:Luna appears for a gag scene at the end which explains why she wasn't in the first one.]]
447** When Dumbledore hangs the Zefron poster back up, [[spoiler:Voldemort appears in reference to its role as a horcrux.]]
448* CatchPhrase
449** "Did you get my text?"
450** Not to mention an extension of a line from the original: "I'm bleeding!"
451** "That's absurd!"
452** "…well you didn't text me back!"
453* ChekhovsClassroom: Lupin gives a lecture on Patronuses early in the play. Of course, Patronuses become essential in saving the day come Act 2.
454* ChekhovsGun
455** [[spoiler:Red Vines. Apparently one of the things they can do is work as pretty good wands.]]
456** The [[spoiler:Taylor Lautner poster turns out to be Peter Pettigrew]].
457* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome
458** So, did Cedric Diggory meet and fall in love with Cho Chang between her first and second year, in some ''Film/{{Grease}}''-like summer fling which continued on after he transferred to Hogwarts? (We know, of course, that it's because his actor is playing Lucius but still needs a mention). Well, it could make sense, seeing as Harry doesn't know who Cedric Diggory is at the start of the original.
459** And where did Seamus and Dean disappear to during their second year?
460* CoconutSuperpowers: Apparently, time travel works by spinning around in place. Unlike Floo Powder, Apparation, and Portkeys, you don't have to yell TIME TURNER!
461* ContinuityNod: It's not [[CallBack mentioned]] but Dumbledore can be seen wearing his G-Unit bling which is revealed to be a Horcrux-seeking medallion in the first musical.
462* CrosscastRole: In addition to the examples from the original, Dolores Umbridge is played by Joe Walker, the actor who played Voldemort. Dean Thomas is Britney Coleman who played Bellatrix Lestrange. When the kids go back in time, all their "past selves" except Ron are crosscast, which in Draco's case makes it [[RecursiveCrossDressing a guy playing a girl playing a guy]]. Hermione was played by Richard Campbell, or Neville Longbottom, Harry was played by Sango Tajima, or Lavender Brown, and Draco was played by Jim Povolo or Goyle. Also, most of the Weasley boys are cross cast in their cameo, as they just cast all of the extra actors according to their height.
463* TheDandy: The Sorting Hat sorts Harry as metrosexual.
464-->'''Harry:''' ''(sigh)'' [[Series/ProjectRunway I'll make it work.]]
465* DemotedToExtra
466** Ginny goes from main LoveInterest to cameo character, as she wasn't a student that year. Her actress, Jamie Lyn Beatty, plays Rita Skeeter instead.
467** Even though he had a small enough role in the original, Neville's stagetime is now divided between him, Dean, and Seamus.
468* DoNotTauntCthulhu
469** Harry to Umbridge: "You can't hurt me! You're a teacher! Do your worst!" Cue Umbridge's SlasherSmile.
470** And "See you in hell, Harry Potter"
471* DrowningMySorrows: Snape gets horribly drunk after remembering how he was rejected by Lily Potter in "Guys Like Potter."
472* EvenEvilHasStandards
473** Cruel ol' Snape replaces Umbridge's [[ItMakesSenseInContext "Mama's Little Love Hand" with a feather]] out of disgust.
474** Sinister Severus Snape draws the line when Umbridge replaces the [[Film/HighSchoolMusical Zefron]] poster with one of [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga Taylor Lautner]].
475--->'''Snape:''' Where did the poster of headmaster Zefron go?\
476'''Umbridge:''' I don't care for Zac Efron. Taylor Lautner's my man.\
477'''Snape:''' What do you want, you horrid bitch?!
478** Snape [[CringeComedy "can't bear to watch"]] when Umbridge doesn't realize Dumbledore is no longer interested and attempts to explain what's going on to her. It doesn't end well for him.
479* FanService
480** Lucius with his long hair, pants that are tighter than what scientists thought possible, and an army of death eaters stroking him sensually.
481** Lupin at one point lies on the ground coated in blood and wearing nothing but tight briefs.
482** Joe Walker as Umbridge. Has his own fangirl brigade, which is kind of understandable. They keep putting the very attractive, well-muscled guy in tight/revealing clothing, even if it is in a CrossCastRole.
483** Jim Povolo as Firenze, walking around shirtless with flowing white hair.
484* FanDisservice: The thought of Draco (or Lauren) being spanked is very hot. The thought of Draco being spanked because he has a messy diaper is not.
485* FantasticArousal: Firenze seems to get aroused when Ron runs his hand down his mane and back.
486* FelonyMisdemeanor: Crabbe & Goyle's bullying of Hermione & Ron consists entirely of ''shaking'' them.
487* {{Foreshadowing}}: It's an especially brief moment that goes on in the background with no attention called to it, but at one point Ron strokes the hair of [[RecurringExtra that one girl]] who's always crying to try and calm her down. Aw, that's actually really nice of him. Who is that girl, anyway? Wait a minute, ''Lavender Brown--''
488** Hermione mentions early on that "600 elves die in toilet-related accidents every year." This explains [[spoiler:Draco's fear of the potty: he's actually half house-elf]].
489* FreudianExcuse: Lucius' neglectful treatment of Draco is the cause for his worst traits. Umbridge learned her disciplinary methods from her own abusive mother.
490* FridgeHorror: Draco has an in-universe example as he recalls [[NoodleIncident all of the things he did to Dobby's children]] [[spoiler:after Lucius Malfoy informs Draco that Dobby, not him, is Draco's actual father, making Dobby's presumably full-blooded elf children Draco's little brothers.]]
491* FriendlyEnemy: Ron & Snape, even more so than in the original. Even though he repeatedly says how much he hates Snape, they dance together and exchange high-fives during "Hermione Can't Draw", Snape leaps into Ron's arms when Sirius breaks into the castle, and Ron later tells Hermione that she may not be "…as fun as Harry, or as hot as Cho, or as cool as Snape…" in his PetTheDog moment. He also asks "Snape?" hopefully both times Umbridge asks "Guess who the new Headmaster/Defense teacher is?"
492* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In Act 1 Part 4, at the beginning of the scene between Snape, Lupin, and Harry, you can see Ron steal the candy trolley.
493* GagPenis: Though we don't see it, Ron is shocked by the size of Firenze's "giant horse dong".
494* GroinAttack: Umbridge discovers that you can't quite pull this move on a centaur the same way you can a human.
495-->'''Firenze:''' MY CHEST!
496* HumiliationConga: Literally, Hermione is humiliated and all the guys conga out of the room, singing about how she can't draw.
497* HypocriticalHumor:
498** Umbridge's insanity drives her to help her adorable school-children, by killing them.
499--->'''Mama Umbridge:''' Do you love them enough, to kill them?\
500'''[[AxCrazy Umbridge]]:''' Yeah… I think I do.\
501''(a few seconds later)''\
502'''Umbridge:''' But how am I supposed to kill the kids? I don't want to hurt them.
503** Snape whines that Harry is letting him drink alone, only to greedily pull back his drink when Harry decides to take a drink.
504-->'''Snape:''' ''(drinking butterbeer)'' Come on, Harry, don't make me be the only one drinking.\
505'''Harry:''' Okay. ''(reaches for a bottle)''\
506'''Snape:''' Don't touch that, it's mine!
507* IAmSong: Hermione gets one in "The Coolest Girl".
508* INeedToGoIronMyDog: When Rita Skeeter finds him in his underwear and covered in deer blood, next to a freshly eviscerated deer, Lupin claims that it's a Gryffindor Quidditch tradition. He then [[invoked]][[CrossesTheLineTwice forces a crying Neville to eat some of it]] to reinforce this. Later he claims a jaguar is what caused all the damage the werewolf did… including messing up his office.
509-->'''Remus Lupin:''' ''(coughs)'' Lupin shouldn't have to pay for that.
510* IncompatibleOrientation: Dumbledore and Umbridge.
511-->''Dumbledore:'' Did you know... that [Dolores] is actually a woman?
512* IncomingHam
513** "WHO DARES DISTURB MY SLUMBER?!?!"
514** "What the devil is going on here?!"
515** Umbridge gets this and doesn't even say anything. All we hear are [[Film/JurassicPark her footsteps]].
516** She is later often announced by texting.
517-->'''Umbridge:''' [[RunningGag Did you get my text]]?
518** "In case you were wondering…"
519* IncrediblyLongNote: Harry gets one at the end of "To Have A Home" when he's Sorted into Gryffindor.
520-->'''Harry''': This is how it must feel [[http://youtu.be/aVkDP48FlGY?t=5m34s to have a hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooome!]]
521* InsultBackfire: Dean tries to diss Crabbe and Goyle by comparing them to the abusive Professor Umbridge, but Crabbe wholly agrees with Dean.
522-->'''Dean:''' ''(to Crabbe and Goyle)'' You don't like Umbridge? I thought you two would get along, seeing as she's a bitch and you guys are dicks.\
523'''Crabbe:''' That's what I was thinking, but no such luck!
524* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: When Draco introduces himself to Harry, he calls himself a racist, insults Harry's only friends, and admits his parents helped killed Harry's parents, yet the only thing that bugs the Chosen One is that Malfoy doesn't like his school house.
525-->'''Draco:''' My name is Draco Malfoy. I am a racist. I despite gingers and mudbloods. I hate Gryffindor House, and my parents work for the man who killed your parents. Do you want to be my friend?\
526'''Harry:''' You hate Gryffindor House? Get out of my face, Malfoy!
527* ItTastesLikeFeet: Harry and Ron somehow identify their Every Flavor Beans as "burnt computer" and "defeat", respectively.
528* KickTheDog
529** [[spoiler:Future!Draco lies to Past!Ron and tells him that he doesn't get Hermione.]]
530** Umbridge has a whole scene with the girls for this purpose but the moment that really does it is when she makes fun of Harry's parents.
531** Lucius crumpling up the drawing Draco gave him.
532** After Lucius' big revelation to Draco, he tries to torture him, but instead hits Hermione. After seeing how much this affects Draco, he continues to torture her simply to spite Draco.
533** Also, earlier in that scene
534--->'''Lucius:''' Surrender yourself Potter, or I'll torture your friend.\
535'''Draco:''' Daddy! Daddy, it's me! Would you really torture your own son?\
536'''Lucius:''' Draco? …surrender yourself Potter, or I'll kill your friend!
537* LampshadeHanging: Constantly. There's even a bit of a metafictional one at the start, when Lucius laments that there "literally" isn't any way to move forward. This might refer to the writers being stuck in a corner by writing so much of ''Deathly Hallows'' into the first show without expecting to do a sequel, so they have to do (more or less) a prequel instead.
538* LargeHam: Snape and Draco carry over their performances from the previous musical, and Lucius, Umbridge, Arthur, Rita Skeeter, and Firenze all do their best to keep up.
539* LukeIAmYourFather: Draco's real father is [[spoiler:Dobby the House Elf]].
540* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: Lucius plans to do this for the Death Eaters using the Time Turner..
541* MassiveMultiplayerEnsembleNumber: "Harry Freaking Potter" and "Days of Summer", which morphs into a reprise of [[spoiler:"Get Back to Hogwarts"]] at the end, bring together all the Hogwarts students and various side characters.
542* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Ron's speech to Hermione about Spider-Man quickly goes off the rails.
543* MistakenForDestitute: Ron and Harry assume Lupin is a homeless man who hitched a ride on the train. Lupin's response: "I'm not homeless... anymore."
544* MistakenForTransformed: [[spoiler: Unlike the original book, Scabbers is ''not'' Peter Pettigrew. Unfortunately, the gang assumes he is once they see Peter as being in the same room as them on the Marauders Map, and crush poor Scabbers to death before realizing their mistake.]]
545* MoodWhiplash
546** Snape tells Dumbledore that "My actions caused the death of the only person I ever loved…", to which Dumbledore replies "Well my story's twice as funny as that!"
547** In "Harry Freakin' Potter", Harry somberly sings about the death of his parents, forgetting that the cheery background singers are repeating everything he says.
548--->'''Harry:''' ''(sombre)'' But this is all so sad, I mean, my Mom and Dad were killed long ago…\
549'''Cheery background chorus:''' Long ago, they died!
550** After Lucius destroys Draco's picture, he exits by trust-falling into the arms of (and being dragged out by) a death eater.
551** "Stutter," a song where a muscular titan in a dress describes her break-up with an elderly CampGay wizard, ends with Harry [[spoiler:trying to save his godfather from having his soul sucked out.]]
552** "Guys Like Potter" has a very sad subject matter (Snape's worst memory) but the lyrics are hilarious.
553--->'''Snape:''' So many assholes in this place; so many assholes in my face!\
554'''Lucius:''' But now you're alone, left to pout and moan, 'cause you were totally pwned.
555** During the Mirror of Erised scene, we start with a touching song, slip into a few quick spell jokes in the middle then its back into the, now, even more heartwarming song.
556* MrExposition: Ron and Rita Skeeter both play stop the song to explain the Wizarding World and its backstory to Harry (and the audience) in "Harry Freaking Potter".
557* MusicalisInterruptus:
558** If you listen when the gang is singing "Lupin Can't Sing", Lupin tried singing, "I'm Remus Freaking Lupin" before getting cut off by everyone's mockery.
559** Like in the first musical, Draco tries to sing a solo before the big quidditch game, but only gets out a few notes before getting cut off by everyone else.
560* MythologyGag: Since Sirius's Animagus ability is never mentioned in the musical, Rita Skeeter's description of him as a "murderous dog" is this instead of foreshadowing. His fur coat and hairstyle also make him look dog-like.
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562
563[[folder:Tropes N-Z]]
564* NeverMyFault: "Look what you've done now, Potter!!", says Draco after ripping his own drawing (that he had given to Harry to make fun of him, and then stolen back).
565* NoodleIncident: Draco mentions doing things to Dobby's children that horrify him [[spoiler:once he's been informed that Dobby is his father, making those elf children his little brothers.]]
566* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Once again, almost everyone--Draco, Snape, and Lucius being exceptions. Also, Seamus Finnigan, whose main character trait in the books is being really, really Irish, is played with an over-the-top cockney accent (intentionally for humor, of course). Rita Skeeter's accent also veers from Southern to New York, with a little English mixed in.
567* NotHisSled: Ron deliberately points out Scabbers during his first scene and mentions in a painfully offhand manner that his parents found the rat on the same night Harry's parents were killed. Everyone knows which "twist" is coming, right…? [[spoiler:Wrong. Scabbers has been dead for years and Peter Pettigrew was somehow hiding in a poster of Taylor Lautner.]]
568* NotSoDifferentRemark: Umbridge sees a younger version of herself in Hermione. This revelation causes Hermione to break down crying.
569* ObviousObjectCouldBeAnything: Hermione gives Ron and Harry a gift that is obviously a book, but they conclude it's a puppy.
570* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Ron is shocked when Harry says he doesn't want a Red Vine, the candy that they initially bonded over.
571* OverlyLongGag: When Harry goes into the train compartment with Professor Lupin, he opens the (imaginary) door, walks in and shuts it. A few moments later Ron comes along and engages in a complicated routine involving vault locks, thumbprint and retinal scanners, codes, door chains, more locks, keycards and two sets of doors to get into the same compartment. The routine is topped off when he finally makes it into the compartment and the [[RunningGag sting from]] ''Seinfeld'' plays.
572* PaedoHunt: When Umbridge accuses Lupin of doing inappropriate things with his students (teaching them about Patronuses) he exclaims "Cho, I was only joking!"
573* PaperThinDisguise: The Death Eaters when they try and kill Harry on the train and the Quidditch field. They even keep the distinctive Death Eater mask.
574* ParodyProductPlacement: Ron's love of Red Vines, complete with smiles directly to camera and zooming close-ups, as well as Harry and Ron's friendship being rooted in a mutual love of the things.
575* PeggySue: Lucius and the Death Eaters attempting to kill Harry earlier than canon rather than just leaving him for when Voldemort returns rings as this. [[spoiler: Likewise, Draco attempting to derail Ron and Hermione's relationship before it can even begin, and confess his own feelings]]. In both cases, it ends up being a StableTimeLoop, so nothing is changed.
576* PovertyForComedy: Professor Lupin is financially struggling like in the books (as well as an alcoholic), but this is completely PlayedForLaughs. When they first meet him, they mistake him for a homeless bum, to which he loudly insists the he's not (anymore).
577* PowerUpFood: In a RunningGag, Red Vines are Ron's PowerUpFood, and every other character respects their awesome power.
578* PrecisionFStrike
579** Lucius emphasizes his disgust and TheReveal regarding Draco with a two rhetorical questions and a F-bomb for an answer.
580** Harry rallies his friends to defeat Umbridge with a list of all their magical misadventures, giving the last one impact with a loud, censored F-bomb.
581-->''"A year ago, I was a Muggle douchebag living under some stairs. But now, I can fly, turn invisible… and I just travelled the f*ck back in time!"''
582* ProductPlacement: Parodied with [[invoked]]"[[TheRedStapler Red Vines]]: What the hell can't they do?"
583* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Inverted. Harry and then Ron give Hermione a "The Reason ''I'' Suck" Speech explaining why he's too much of a loser to save the day.
584-->'''Harry''': [I]n the muggle world, I'm something called a douchebag.\
585'''Hermione''': A what?\
586'''Harry''': A douchebag, [[AccidentalMisnaming Herman]]. I play guitar when everybody just wants to hang out, I make weird covers of Disney songs--who does that? See muggles hate that shit--to them, I'm just a douchebag. I'm like… [[TakeThat Jesse McCartney, I'm like Jesse McCartney. I'm Jesse McCartney's douche.]]\
587'''Ron''': I got a confession to make. Back home with my brothers, I'm kind of a douchebag too. [[TakeThat I'm like Shia LaBoeuf.]] "The Prince Douche."
588* TheRemnant: Voldemort is defeated at the end of the first play. The sequels reveal that the Death Eaters are carrying on their evil schemes without him.
589* ResurrectTheVillain: Lucius's goal is Voldemort's revival.
590* RuleOfCool: Ron somehow uses a Red Vine to perform a stunning spell on Pettigrew. No explanation is offered for this beyond Red Vines being so awesome that they can do anything.
591* RunningGag
592** (Phone rings) "Oh that's me!"
593** "Did you get my text?" "Yes." "Well you didn't text me back."
594** "As James's best friend…"
595** Draco "learning to use the potty".
596** Someone insulting someone else in a ridiculously silly fashion, and then asking the insulted party if they feel foolish. (Usually Lupin.) "Who looks stupid now? You do!"
597** Lupin's swearing causes all the kids to gasp and cover their ears… despite the fact pretty much everyone else swears.
598** People misidentifying Lupin in [[spoiler:werewolf]] form as another kind of monster.
599** Lupin [[spoiler:(and Sirius)]] calling Snape a "butt trumpet" (which he even admits to having in one scene).
600** Crookshanks popping out of nowhere.
601** People calling Hermione a "night troll".
602** Seamus's cursing. He keeps "Bloody" in there, but only uses the traditional "hell" once. He then follows it up with ass, tits, bitch, etc.
603** Snape trying to take empty jobs; he tries to get both [[spoiler:Dumbledore's and Lupin]]'s jobs, but they are both taken by Umbridge.
604--->'''Umbridge:''' Now that Dumbledore's gone, guess who gets to be Headmaster now?\
605'''Snape:''' Me?\
606'''Ron:''' Snape?\
607'''Umbridge:''' NO! Me! Your mama, Umbridge!
608** Hedwig making basically any animal sound ''but'' hooting every time she enters a scene.
609* ScratchyVoicedSenior: Dolores Umbridge's elderly, crone-like mother speaks in a slow, high-pitched screech, done in falsetto as it's a CrossCastRole.
610* TheScream
611** Dumbledore's reaction to finding out Umbridge is a woman.
612** Also, "The Scream" as a picture was referenced. It was one of the third floor's picture that saw Sirius Black breaking into Hogwarts, Snape said that "he never look more terrified" and it took all ''Art/TheLastSupper'' to calm him down.
613* ScrewYourself: [[spoiler:After using the Time Turner, Harry's first thought upon seeing his past self is "Oh my God, I think I'm in love!"]]
614* SeriesContinuityError: In ''AVPM'', Lavender Brown & Pansy Parkinson were Ravenclaws, part of Cho Chang's GirlPosse. Here, Lavender is wearing a Gryffindor necktie and Pansy is wearing a Hufflepuff necktie. This could possibly be because without Cedric (whose actor is playing Lucius) the house is unrepresented. Given that Dumbledore says in ''A Very Potter Musical'' that he put "everyone who looked like a good guy in Gryffindor, everyone who looked like a bad guy into Slytherin and the other two can go wherever the hell they want," it kind of makes sense that they could switch places to be in the same house as Cho and join her GirlPosse, rather than stay in HufflepuffHouse.
615* ShipTease
616** Ron and Hermione don't get together until the time of the first musical, but their relationship is teased here.
617** [[spoiler:Draco and Luna go off to live in the forest together.]]
618** Remus and Sirius [[spoiler:fly off to see [[Theatre/MeAndMyDick Venice]] together.]]
619* SlasherSmile: Umbridge smiles after Harry tells her to do her worst. Everyone in the room takes a step back. The only thing that could've made it creepier was if Joe Walker was capable of rotating his head 180 degrees.
620* TheSlowPath: At the end of the play, [[spoiler:future Draco has to wait out the next year in the centaur village]].
621* ShoutOut: Dean Thomas paraphrases Gary Coleman's CatchPhrase, "Whatchu talkin' 'bout, [insert name here]?" As Dean was portrayed by a woman, this might also reference Theatre/AvenueQ.
622* SomethingElseAlsoRises: Ron lifts up his broomstick when Hermione hugs him to imply arousal, emphasized by him trying to push it down.
623* TheSongBeforeTheStorm: "No Way" gets everyone amped up to defeat Umbridge.
624-->''There's no way we're gonna leave it up to chance,\
625There's no damn way we're gonna go without a fight!''
626* SmokingHotSex: After Firenze [[spoiler:takes Umbridge to be his mate]], he has a cigarette the next time we see him.
627* SpitShine: Neville begins spit shining Harry's shoes while Dean gives Harry a massage. Ron quickly chases them off and then takes over both duties, [[RuleOfFunny spit shining Harry's back]].
628* StableTimeLoop
629** The kids' first year at Hogwarts, according to [[spoiler:Future!Draco]]. The events of their first year were largely the same; it just didn't make any sense until living it the second time through.
630** There's even a StableTimeLoop ''within'' a StableTimeLoop. [[spoiler:Snape [[BigDamnHeroes saves Harry and the others]], allowing them to travel a few hours back in time, whereupon Harry convinces Snape to go and save his past self. There's also the bit about Lucius running right by the place where past!Harry and co. are hiding because he's seen future!Harry and co. a little ways on.]]
631* StealthPun
632** Cho Chang is upset that since she's not allowed to flirt, Flitwick will fail her. Flitwick teaches ''Charms''.
633** Those Red Vines that Ron keeps eating and eventually uses to cast a spell, they're ''licorice wands.'' (It's a candy mentioned in the books.)
634* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: [[spoiler:Luna Lovegood is getting transferred to Pigfarts and thinks all true wizards wear diapers, just like Draco.]]
635%%** "In case you were wondering… the 'D'/'d' stands for my weiner!"
636* TakeAThirdOption
637** Umbridge asks the Sorting Hat if he's Team Edward or Team Jacob. He instead says he's Team Dumbledore!
638** Dumbledore has to either kiss the dementors or Umbridge. He decides neither and ''magically disappears''!
639* TakeThat:
640** "Let's get rid of [[Literature/TheTwilightSaga that piece of trash]]!"
641** "Charms sucks, Potions sucks, Transfiguration sucks!" "Yeah, but Satanic Rituals, that one's cool."
642** Additionally, in the spirit of the original, there are one or two at canon itself.
643-->'''Dumbledore:''' Quidditch is a special sport just for wizards, and boy, is it silly!
644** Ron can't remember the last time he found a Bertie Bott's bean that was actually candy-flavored, possibly a TakeThat toward the beans' [[invoked]]{{Defictionalization}}; when they first came out, there were regular Jelly Belly flavors in the mix, but those were eventually phased out.
645* TastesLikeFriendship: In their very first meeting, Harry and Ron bond over… Red Vines.
646* TeacherStudentRomance
647** Lupin hits on Cho in a "he's only joking if she's not up for it" way. Later she expresses disappointment they won't be able to act on it.
648** Also:
649-->'''Cho:''' How am I supposed to remain abstinent when I've got a reputation to maintain? ''(begins to cry)'' Professor Flitwick is gonna fail me now.
650* TeenyWeenie: Draco, apparently, as stated by Lucius. It's because Draco is [[spoiler:Dobby's son]].
651* TerminatorTwosome: Lucius and [[spoiler:Draco]].
652* ThatMakesMeFeelAngry: In a nod to Capslock!Harry from the books and the narmy scene from the third movie: "I'M IN A RAGE! …THIS IS THE MADDEST I'VE EVER BEEN!" Hilarious, since he is, at worst, mildly peeved.
653* ThatPoorCat: Harry throws Crookshanks to distract the werewolf.
654* TheyJustDontGetIt: When Lucius Malfoy explains the evil plan he had just choreographed to travel back in time and kill Harry Potter, the other Death Eaters just don't get it:
655-->LUCIUS: "Do you follow me?"
656-->DEATH EATER #1: "…no."
657-->LUCIUS: "The Dark Lord would have survived, had they never met."
658-->DEATH EATER #2: "So you're saying that he wouldn't be destroyed?"
659-->LUCIUS: "He'd be alive, what don't you get?"
660-->DEATH EATER #3: "Still not understanding…"
661* ThisIsReality:
662-->'''Umbridge:''' Tell me, Sorting Hat, are you Team Edward or Team Jacob?\
663'''Sorting Hat:''' I'm Team Dumbledore!\
664'''Umbridge:''' What? Dumbledore ain't a fictional character!
665** Later, Harry says that when he goes back to the Muggle world, "they're gonna try and convince me that this wasn't real and that none of this happened, but you know what? This ''was'' real, and it ''did'' happen."
666* ThoseTwoGuys: Seamus and Dean.
667* ThrowTheDogABone: In spite of [[spoiler:Hermione ultimately rejecting Draco]], Draco finds a [[spoiler:SecondLove]] in [[spoiler:Luna]], who also [[spoiler:[[BirdsOfAFeather wears diapers and knows about Pigfarts]].]]
668* TimeTravel: The plot involves the Death Eaters [[spoiler:and Draco]] of the present running around the previous year.
669* TooDumbToLive: Yaxley, twice falling for the ''exact same'' trick.
670* TookALevelInBadass: [[spoiler:Future Draco]]. Not only does he not stumble around as much as he did in his first and second years, he also became [[MightyWhitey ruler of the centaurs]] and freed Sirius Black. Oh, and he also carries around a sword in his robe and a revolver in his sock.
671* TotallyRadical: Umbridge promises the girls that having her as a teacher is going to be (with fingerquotes) [[CallBack "Totally awesome!"]]
672* TrainingFromHell: Umbridge plans to whip the girls into shape [[TheSpartanWay "The Umbridge Way"]], which includes doing 500 push-ups a day, and a diet consisting of "protein shakes, falcon eggs, and ROCKS!"
673* TyrantTakesTheHelm: Professor Umbridge. (But now with a WomanScorned BackStory.)
674* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Inverted. [[spoiler:Dumbledore was expecting Umbridge to be a crossdresser, and found out she was an ''actual woman''.]]
675* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Nobody ever responds to Lupin walking around covered in blood and wearing nothing but his underwear. Even Lupin himself.
676* VerbalTic: Umbridge pronounces "Children" as ''"Chillens"''.
677* VillainOpeningScene
678* VillainSong: "Stutter" and "It's Not Over Yet."
679* VillainousBSOD: Umbridge, after Firenze defeats her.
680* WalkingShirtlessScene
681** Lupin wears only his underwear after transforming.
682** And Firenze, who never wears a shirt
683* WalkThisWay: Snape pulls this on the boys.
684* WellDoneSonGuy: [[spoiler:Draco]], overlapping with ToiletHumour. We later find out that he's trying to please [[spoiler:the wrong father]].
685* WhatHappenedToTheMouse
686** [[spoiler:Year 1 Draco]]. [[spoiler:Future Draco]] briefly mentions that he's [[DeathByDespair bedridden with heartache]] in Slytherin dorms when he first appears, but he is never seen again, even when the year ends… unless that's him being friendly and singing with the Trio at the end.
687** Lampshaded at the end of the sequel: [[spoiler:"Ah, Luna Lovegood, the girl who was mysteriously missing during our second year!"]]
688* WorkingClassWerewolves: The werewolf Lupin was {{Flanderiz|ation}}ed into a homeless alcoholic, before he was hired at Hogwarts. When the kids first meet him, they mistake him for a vagrant.
689[[/folder]]
690
691!!!A Very Potter Senior Year (AVPSY)
692[[folder:Tropes A-M]]
693* ActionPrologue: The musical starts with the Battle at the Department of Mysteries.
694* ActorAllusion: "Wizard of the Year" contains several lyrics mocking Harry that seem more based on mocking [[Creator/DarrenCriss his actor's]] role on ''Series/{{Glee}}'', specifically the loss of his "beautiful fro", his Warbler outfit, [[TakeThat his use of lip sync, and the lack of a real story for his character]]. There's also a "loser like me" line, a reference to one of Glee's original songs.
695* AffectionateParody: "This School Is Mine" parodies "Confrontation" from ''Theatre/LesMiserables''.
696* AndIMustScream: It is revealed that the children petrified were conscious and could hear things
697* ArsonMurderAndLifeSaving: Kingsley Shacklebolt does this twice, once in the beginning after the battle in the Department of Mysteries and once [[spoiler:after the students rally behind Harry to save Hogwarts]].
698* AsianSpeekeeEngrish: [[spoiler:Quirrell and Voldemort's daughter.]]
699* AutobotsRockOut: [[spoiler:The forces of Hogwarts all sing "Gotta Get Back To Hogwarts" before the assault on Voldemort.]]
700* BabiesEverAfter:
701** Just like in the books, this holds true for [[spoiler:Harry and Ginny]]. However, the name is slightly different. [[spoiler:His middle name is Scarfy.]]
702** [[spoiler:Unlike the in the books, the last scene reveals that Quirrell and Voldemort adopted a little Asian girl.]]
703* BaitAndSwitch: During the Resurrection Stone scene when Sirius, Lupin, James and Lily have all appeared, Lily informs Harry that [[AmicablyDivorced she and James have separated]] since their deaths, but that she's found someone new in Heaven. Given that the scene was already having the deceased adults in Harry's life reappearing, combined with what most fans would be familiar with from the canon material, the implication seems to be that Snape is about to be revealed as Lily's new boyfriend... [[spoiler: and then out walks [[CrackPairing Cedric Diggory]] ("I'd say we ''found'' each other!"). Snape himself doesn't show up until a bit later, empathizing with Harry about his hatred for Cedric.]]
704* BetterThanABareBulb: Special shout-outs for Hermione and Gilderoy. ''Specially'' Gilderoy.
705* BestialityIsDepraved: It's heavily implied that Gilderoy is into mice.
706* BlackComedyRape: [[spoiler:When she wakes up again, Hermione mentions offhandedly that Filch has been arrested for something he did to her while she was Petrified. It's not elaborated upon, but the conclusions are pretty obvious. Ron is the only person who seems to recognize that it is a big deal.]]
707* BookEnds: "Gotta Get Back to Hogwarts"
708** Also "You all ready to go, buddy?", the first and last words Ron says at Hogwarts (in terms of chronological order of events.)
709* BreakTheHaughty: [[spoiler:Harry acts like a dick all year. Losing the Head Boy election brings him down a notch.]]
710* BuryYourGays: [[spoiler:The Scarf of Sexual Preference.]]
711* CallBack: Plenty to the previous two musicals.
712** [[spoiler:"Always Dance" contains many lines and musical cues from "To Dance Again"; fitting, as they're both Voldemort's {{villain song}}s]].
713** [[spoiler:"OK is wonderful."]] as the final line.
714** [[spoiler:Harry says "Voldemort is going down" before entering the Chamber of Secrets]].
715** Yet another Spider-Man analogy. [[spoiler:Harry compares the ending of the Sam Raimi ''Film/SpiderManTrilogy'' and the introduction of [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan a new Spider-Man five years later]] to the ending of his fame and his being replaced.]]
716** "Draco, you little shit!"
717** "You're a piece of shit!"
718** [[spoiler:"I know, Quirrell. I hear everything you hear."]]
719** You can see the dragon Harry battled in Hagrid's hut.
720** "Well, chocolate frogs, everybody, Harry Potter did it, y'all!"
721* TheCameo: Creator/EvannaLynch playing Luna Lovegood.
722* CanonForeigner: [[spoiler:Wang Mu, Quirrell and Voldemort's adopted child]].
723* ContinuityNod: [[spoiler:In AVPS, Scarfy sorts Hermione as "waiting until marriage". Here this is used as the reason why she won't kiss Ron.]]
724** Also, Draco remarks that a fine opportunity has fallen right into his "diapered lap". That Draco wears diapers because of his crippling fear of the potty was a plot point in AVPS!
725* ContinuityPorn: For the books, the films ''and'' the musicals. You can't beat that level of porn.
726* CrackPairing: In-universe, [[spoiler:Lily and James [[AmicablyDivorced separated after death]], and Lily found Cedric.]]
727* CreatorInJoke: Creator/JoeWalker had a minor FreakOut when he asked someone to hand him one of his protein bars for a snack during rehearsal and they gave him a Snickers instead. This led to the in-joke about Tom Riddle hating Snickers and finally deciding to turn on his biological family because of them.
728** The title of "Always Dance" comes from the phrase Tyler Brunsman would use when signing autographs for the previous show.
729* DarkReprise: [[spoiler:"Always Dance" is a very happy, cheerful song about accepting yourself and, well, dancing… at least until the end, where it becomes ''intensely creepy'' when Riddle takes control of Ginny.]]
730** An interesting example of the "sad" variant: In the epilogue, [[spoiler:Harry sings "Gotta Get Back to Hogwarts" at a slow pace to his son, obviously sad that his adventures are over, but also hopeful that Albus will have great adventures, too.]]
731* DeadGuyJunior: Similar to the books, [[spoiler:Albus Scarfie Potter]].
732* DeathByAdaptation: Professor Sprout, killed when the flying car crashed into the Herbology room.
733* DoesNotLikeSpam: Tom Riddle does not like Snickers bars. No explanation why.
734* DoNotCallMePaul: Voldemort is furious at Scarfy for calling him Tom.
735* {{Expy}}: Kingsley Shacklebolt looks and sounds like [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Nick Fury]].
736* FastballSpecial: Ron asks Hagrid to give the car one as he flies off to find Harry.
737* FelonyMisdemeanor: Tom Riddle ultimately kills the Riddle family because [[spoiler:they get him a Snickers bar.]]
738* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Wizard of the Year," Gilderoy says, "Soon this school will be mine."
739* GratuitousSpanish: Draco pretends that WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer is speaking to him.
740--> Draco: [speaking as Dora] Te amo también. Y lo siento.
741* GrowingUpSucks: A major theme; not surprising, as it's the last one. Harry, for the most part, can't get over the fact that people are moving on.
742* HeManWomanHater: Tom Riddle calls his gang the He-Man Woman Haters.
743* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Harry spends much of the play in one, as he struggles to accept that his time as a famous hero will end. Ron also falls into one when Hermione breaks up with him and is then Petrified]].
744* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler:The Scarf of Sexual Preference]].
745* HypocriticalHumor: Moaning Myrtle tells Ginny to stop crying because "the last thing this castle needs is a whinny bitch stalking the halways in the bathroom."
746* IAmSong: Ron finally gets one of his own with "Sidekick."
747* {{Improv}}: Britney Coleman's backup vocals on "When You Gotta Go All the Way Home" were completely improvised by her; she hadn't ever heard the song or gotten to even see the lyrics before this performance.
748* InsistentTerminology: It's not a diary, it's a ''journal''. Diaries are for girls.
749* InsultBackfire: Harry and Ron try to kick off their campaign for making Harry the Head Boy by making posters that accuse Malfoy of being a racist, elitist, snobbish brat. Unfortunately for them, Malfoy has based his entire campaign around that fact.
750* InvisibleToNormals: Voldemort can only be seen by people who are touching Riddle's diary.
751* {{Lemon}}: Hermione writes exceptionally dirty fanfiction that Lockhart is both horrified and delighted by. "This makes ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' look like a fucking book for kids!"
752* TheLongList: Near the end of the play, the narrator rattles off a ''huge'' list of the characters accompanying Harry into the Chamber of Secrets. The list goes on forever, but still fails to mention every character present.
753* MakesSenseInContext: "Get In My Mouth".
754* MeaningfulEcho:
755** "Two things in this world I love, kid. One of them is you." [[spoiler:Dumbledore, first to Tom Riddle, then to Harry.]]
756** "It's pretty dangerous to be one of my enemies. That's why it's a good thing that we're friends." [[spoiler:First said by Draco to Harry, who rejects his friendship, and then by Harry to Draco, when he accepts it.]]
757* MightyWhitey: Gilderoy dreams of becoming this trope [[spoiler:for the MouseWorld.]]
758* ModernStasis: Well, the flashbacks to Voldemort's youth appear to be set in ThePresentDay, so…
759* MoodWhiplash: [[spoiler:Harry opens the snitch at Godric's Hollow and James and Sirius appear. And then Lupin, bloodied and in nothing but his underwear.]]
760** And not two minutes later [[spoiler:Harry's mother is revealed to be married to Cedric Diggory, temporarily turning the heartwarming scene into a giant WTF moment.]]
761* MythologyGag:
762** [[spoiler:Vincent Crabbe and Colin Creevey]] are casually KilledOffscreen, since they were KilledOffForReal in the books as well, [[spoiler:Crabbe's]] cause of death even matching that of his canon counterpart.
763** In the context of editing Hermoine's essays on Harry's adventures, Lockhart essentially points out a few of the differences between the plots of the musicals and the original books along with a little [[DeconstructionFic canon deconstruction]].
764[[/folder]]
765
766[[folder:Tropes N-Z]]
767* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Harry giving Ginny the diary kickstarting the whole chain of events.
768* NoKillLikeOverkill: [[spoiler:Diary!Voldemort's over-the-top ([[invoked]][[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments and hilarious]]) death]]
769** [[spoiler:"Joe Walker dies."]]
770* NoodleIncident: Harry and the others had numerous adventures between AVPM and AVPSY (aka Years 3-6). Most of them aren't elaborated on or the person gets cut off. The first scene is supposedly the climax of year 6, while Malfoy later mentions that they all went to [[spoiler:Pigfarts]] during Year 3, and Ron reminds his peers the things Harry has done during Years 4 and 5.
771** Luna has to wash blood off her hands for some reason. The script states it was because she had front-row seat at Buckbeak's execution, although that's cut out from the Youtube-version.
772* NoOntologicalInertia: With all the mandrakes killed, the only way to restore the paralysed students is to kill the basilisk.
773* OCStandIn: Tom Riddle's father and grandparents, about whom little is known in canon. It's not quite a straight example since the books did give them some minimal characterization, basically just enough for them to come off as snobby aristocrats. Of course, the musical ignores this in favor of creating its own wacky characterizations for them from scratch.
774* OperationJealousy: [[spoiler:Once Hermione breaks up with Ron, Cho recommends she go out with someone he can't stand to get back at him for cheating. She chooses [[TeacherStudentRomance Lockhart]].]]
775* OutOfFocus: Harry is significantly featured less and the whole thing becomes more of an ensemble piece, mainly due to Creator/DarrenCriss' busy schedule.
776* RacistGrandma: [[spoiler:Tom's grandmother]] is notably homophobic against [[spoiler:her grandson]]. It is [[{{Deconstruction}} not played for laughs.]]
777* RefugeInAudacity: "Get in My Mouth" without any context.
778* SeriesFauxnale: While ''A Very Potter Senior Year'' is very much a GrandFinale to this trilogy as a whole, as revealed in a [[https://centsai.com/earn-money/entrepreneurship/team-starkid-nick-lang/ 2018 interview for Centsai with Nick Lang,]] it was also meant to be the final ''Starkid'' show, period. Their next show, ''Theatre/TwistedTheUntoldStoryOfARoyalVizier'', was meant to be a standalone production, except it was listed as ''Starkid's '''New''' Musical'' on the UsefulNotes/{{Kickstarter}} page by complete mistake, so they just rolled with it anyway.
779* ShaveAndAHaircut: Played impromptu when Joe forgets to wave the diary.
780* ShoutOut:
781** After seeing Ginny [[BrainwashedAndCrazy acting strangely]], Hermione gives the audience an AsideGlance before moving her hands like a crab's and saying [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 "What is dat girl up tooooooooo?"]]
782** In the Youtube version of the play, [[spoiler:Voldemort]] explains that the diary is just like the Anime/DeathNote, in that only the person holding it can [[spoiler:see him]].
783** A journal, [[Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid not a diary]]?
784** ''{{Series/VRTroopers}}'' and its [[invoked]]SpiritualSuccessor ''{{Series/Beetleborgs}}'' of all things get an analogy.
785* TakeOurWordForIt: A chunk of the play ended up being this because Darren Criss's busier career prevented the play from being fully-realized (visually), so the narrator does descriptions to make up for the lack of scenery and stage effects for things like [[spoiler:the humorous death of Voldemort]].
786** Being [=StarKids=], they of course make extra humor out of it by having the narrator describe things that are way too awesome to ever happen in a stage show.
787* TakeThat:
788** Creator/AndrewGarfield's [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderManSeries Spider-Man]] will be a source of inspiration to a whole new generation of kids… with bad taste.
789** The "Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone" controversy gets a jab, as well as the anticlimatic way that Harry defeated Voldemort.
790** Hermione calls Harry out for having been too angsty in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix their fifth year]].
791* ThemeMusicPowerUp: [[spoiler:Harry recovers from a HeroicBSOD and being beaten by the basilisk, pulls the Sword of Gryffindor out of the Sorting Hat, and slays the snake by singing "Harry Freakin' Potter". [[TheDayTheMusicLied He's then bitten right before it dies]].]]
792* ThreesomeSubtext
793** Ginny dates Seamus and Dean simultaneously. And we do mean ''simultaneously''.
794** [[spoiler:Both Draco and Ron propose to Hermione, who says yes but doesn't specify to whom. This isn't elaborated upon. Plus, in an earlier scene Ron agrees to share Hermione in hope of getting Draco's help to cure her.]]
795* ToiletHumor: The entire purpose of [[spoiler:Tom Riddle's grandpa]].
796* TookALevelInJerkass: Oh, Harry.
797** Most of the students in general toward Harry (save for Ron, Hermione, Draco, and Ginny).
798* TookALevelInKindness:
799** Cho is much kinder to everyone, especially Hermione. Harry is the only exception and that's mainly [[spoiler:because he insults her]]. Likewise Ron is much less of a jerkass, ''especially'' to Hermione.
800** Goyle is also much nicer: he doesn't bully anyone, and he thinks Draco shouldn't risk his friendship with Harry.
801* TriumphantReprise: "Gotta Get Back to Hogwarts"
802* ATrueStoryInMyUniverse: The ''Harry Potter'' books were written by Hermione and heavily edited by Gilderoy Lockhart, based on the ''real'' events as they're portrayed in the musicals.
803* UsedToBeASweetKid: Tom Riddle, at least compared to the CreepyChild he was in HP canon. We also see Lucius, who's interested mostly in a friendly dance-off, and Bellatrix, a [[GirlishPigtails pigtail-sporting]] GenkiGirl who goes by "Trixie".
804* WardrobeMalfunction: During "Get In My Mouth" Jeff Blim's costume is falling off and he has to keep pulling it back up.
805** Darren also puts his tie on weird and is perplexed as to why it's not working.
806--->'''Darren''': Fuck the tie!
807** Hagrid's beard doesn't really work out too well…
808** Moaning Myrtle's wig falls off completely when her body is towed away by Madame Pomfrey. This is notable for probably being the ''least'' ridiculous looking thing about this scene.
809* WhamLine:
810--->[[spoiler:'''Cedric''': I'd say we FOUND each other.]]
811* WritersCannotDoMath: At the beginning of the play, it's much closer to four years since Voldemort has been defeated, not five; and Nearly-Headless Nick should be celebrating his 505th Deathday, not his 506th.
812[[/folder]]
813----
814->''[[GrandFinale Take it easy, Hogwarts]]. [[TearJerker It has been]] [[CatchPhrase totally awesome]].''

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