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->''"To keep Connor safe. To always protect him. To insure that he lives as untroubled a life as he can, until he has to face Lord Voldemort again. To be his brother and his friend and his guardian. To love him. To never compete with him, never show him up, and never let anyone else know that I'm so close to him. To be ordinary, so that he can be extraordinary."''
-->--'''Harry Potter's''' vows in regards to his brother, '''Connor Potter'''

''The Sacrifices Arc'' is a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' AlternateUniverse in which Harry's not only a Slytherin, but also a twin. That brother, Connor, wears the mantle of the Boy Who Lived, while Harry acts as his protector and guardian. The series is complete and features seven parts, each roughly paralleling the canon. It's notable for its original storyline, a series of twists and turns, and AlternativeCharacterInterpretation. The fanfiction, written by Lightening on the Wave or Limyaael, can be found [[http://lightningwave.livejournal.com/ here]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/895946/Lightning_on_the_Wave here]]. Download links and other of her online fiction can be found [[http://ffstories.net/lightning/ here.]]

Further [[AboutTheAuthor information about the author]] and her fantasy rants can be found [[Blog/LimyaaelsFantasyRants here]].

The parts are, in order:
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2580283/1/Saving_Connor Saving Connor]]
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2612486/1/No_Mouth_But_Some_Serpents No Mouth But Some Serpent's]]
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2655016/1/Comes_Out_of_Darkness_Morn Comes Out of Darkness Morn]]
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2721625/1/Freedom_And_Not_Peace Freedom and Not Peace]]
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2836413/1/Wind_That_Shakes_the_Seas_and_Stars Wind That Shakes the Seas and Stars]]
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3014337/1/A_Song_In_Time_of_Revolution A Song In Time of Revolution]]
* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3189131/1/I_Am_Also_Thy_Brother I Am Also Thy Brother]]

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!!Provides Examples of:

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* AbusiveParents:
%%** Lily and James, though the latter was more neglectful than outright abusive.
%%** Henrietta Bulstrode is one of these to her daughter, Edith.
** Auror Fiona Mallory. [[spoiler: Her father sexually abused her. When she got too old for him, he started going after her younger sister instead. [[BigSisterInstinct He didn't survive the attempt.]]]]
* ActionGirl: Ignifer Apollonis, who's method of relaxing is to fight dragons in a ''freaking volcano''.
* AerithAndBob: Besides canon examples, there are original characters who embody this trope. Contrast Connor, Owen and Marian with names such as Honoria, Medusa, and Ignifer.
%%* AlternateUniverse
%%* AngerBornOfWorry: everyone, especially Draco and Snape, to Harry. It's PlayedForDrama
%%* AnyoneCanDie: Becomes more pronounced as the series continues.
* AscendedExtra: A couple of notable examples are Evan Rosier and [[spoiler: Regulus Black]], who aren't even alive during canon but both play important roles. Others include Millicent Bulstrode, Pansy Parkinson, and their families.
%%* AxeCrazy:
** Evan Rosier, to the point where he's considered crazy even by other Death Eaters.
** Bellatrix Lestrange, in a more classical interpretation of the trope.
%%* BackToBackBadasses: [[BattleCouple Lucius and Narcissa]], at one point.
%%* BadassBookworm: Hermione, of course, and also [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Thomas Rhangnara]], one of Harry's Allies.
%%* BattleCouple: Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy as mentioned above, are a prominent example. There are apparently pureblood dances that are literal dances designed for [[BattleCouple battle couples]].
** Harry and Draco are another.
%%* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: Used frequently.
* BetaCouple: Many. The most important is Connor/[[spoiler:Parvati]], but others include Hermione/Zacharias Smith, Millicent Bulstrode/[[spoiler:Pierre Delacour]], Honoria Pemberley/Ignifer Apollonis, as well as many of the married couples.
** Played with in regards to [[spoiler: Snape/Regulus]], who never actually get together due to [[spoiler: the latter's death]]. However, it's implied that they would have, and they're used as an interesting parallel to Draco and Harry nonetheless.
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
%%** Harry, full stop.
** Helga Hufflepuff made the stones of Hogwarts eat alive [[BerserkButton some people who were attacking students]].
** One of the defining traits of the ''Puellaris'' witches, who's greatest goal in life is to keep their husband and children safe. They are trained to be quiet, and submissive- in public. [[BerserkButton Threaten her children]], and she literally becomes a lioness and bites off your head.
%%* BigBadWannabe: Acting Minister [[spoiler: Erasmus Juniper]].
* BigBrotherInstinct: Harry is this to Connor, though it is unclear at first who really is younger. Inverted later on. Also Doncan Opalline to his half-sister Calibrid.
* BlackWidow: Arabella Zabini married seven husbands, all whom of died. No-one ever managed to prove she was responsible.
%%* BookWorm: Thomas Rhangnara.
* BodyHorror: After Voldemort's resurrection, [[spoiler: Harry's left hand]] is cut off by Bellatrix and then healed into a stump.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Snape in the sixth book along with some of the other reformed Death Eaters in the seventh book.]]
* BrilliantButLazy:
** Sort of, with the Weasley twins. For example, at one point they do something to Snape's wand that makes it so that every time he casts a spell, something cute happens, like a pixie, or a pink snake with little hearts on it, or kittens, etc. They accomplish this by making it so that Snape's wand core switches out of his wand every time he casts a spell, replacing it with a different core that casts the cute spell, all without harming his wand.
%%** Definitely for Draco, who is really very smart, just rather lazy. It is later revealed that his laziness is his greatest flaw.
* BringMyBrownPants: This is what happens to Connor as Harry finally breaks free of the [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood Phoenix Web]] thanks to him resisting [[spoiler: Connor's attempt at using his Compulsion to mind control Harry]].
%%* BrokenPedestal: Harry's reaction to [[spoiler:Lily]] attempting to re-establish the Phoenix Web.
* BroughtDownToNormal: What happens to [[spoiler:Lily]] after she tries to put Harry under a [[{{Brainwashing}} Phoenix Web]].
%%* CallingTheOldManOut: Draco to Lucius in the fifth book, rather spectacularly.
* CastFullOfGay: Played with, there are a lot of straight characters but other than [[OfficialCouple Harry and Draco]], there's Ignifer Apollonis, Honoria Pemberley, Tylbat Starrise, John Smythe-Blyton among others.
%%* CharacterDevelopment: Several characters, most prominently Draco, Connor and Harry.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: [[PlayingWithATrope played with]]. Lily doesn't exactly believe Harry himself is evil, just his magic [[spoiler: which comes from Voldemort]]. Still, she never gave her son the choice to be good or evil.
* TheChosenMany: There are dozens of [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Lord and Lady-level]] wizards and witches across the world, both Dark and Light. However Voldemort is the most powerful of them all.
* {{Cincinnatus}}: The Cincinnatus Ritual is a spell that allows the sitting Minister of Magic to control all magic used within the Ministry. The ritual evens drops the TropeNamer when it's being cast
* CourtroomEpisode: A rather heartbreaking version with Dumbledore's and the Potter's trials for child abuse.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Thomas Rhangara, one of Harry's allies and a philospoher who declared Dark because he thought it made more sense than Light magic, and Honoria Pemberly, another of Harry's allies.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Draco, for Harry. [[spoiler: He gets better at managing the possessiveness, later. Also, Michael Rosier-Henlin for Draco.]]
* CreepyTwins: Sylvan and Oaken Yaxley, to the point where only one of them can exist at a time; the other one stays in an alternate dimension. They can swap in and out of reality. They manage this by taking the blood of unwilling sacrifices.
* {{Creepy Child}}: The wild Dark is described as "a spoiled child" often enough. As for the creepiness, it is literally a mix between sentient {{Black Magic}} and {{Living Shadow}}.
** Harry himself can come across as a little unsettling, simply because of [[AbusiveParents the way he was raised.]]
* CurseEscapeClause: Subverted with the Unassailable Curses, which are a category of dark spells that can only be broken through the usage of a ''willing'' sacrifice so even [[{{Brainwashing}} Imperiusing]] an innocent to sacrifice their lives would fail to break the curse.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Dark Magic is magic which subverts someone's free will, but doesn't have to be evil. In fact, many of the good guys are Dark wizards who aren't psychopathic killers and thus don't want to follow Voldemort.
** EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Played with. There are former Death Eaters on Harry's side as well as Voldemort's.
** LightIsNotGood: Dumbledore exemplifies this as a wizard devoted to the Light... who nevertheless uses questionable means to accomplish his ends.
* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: ''Comes Out of Darkness Morn''.
-->'''Snape:''' We have come to prove to you that your ridiculous suspicions are ridiculous.
* DifferentlyPoweredIndividual: [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. All wizards and witches have natural barriers that blocks off the deeper parts of their magical cores and can manifest as a series of limitations (not be able to become an Animagi even with years of study, not able to cast Unforgivables, or be able to fly on a broom et al). Lords and Ladies are wizards and witches that don't have such natural barriers, and are capable of fully harnessing their magic. [[spoiler:It turns out Harry is a Lord-level wizard.]]
* DarkerAndEdgier: While the canon ''Literature/HarryPotter'' gets darker as it goes, this series starts there and grows increasingly more tragic as it goes on.
%%* DatingCatwoman: Evan Rosier and Henrietta Bulstrode.
* DeathByAdaptation: Some characters. Namely, [[spoiler: Sirius dies much earlier, Percy is killed by Indigena Yaxley, the list goes on...]]
%%* DepartmentOfChildDisservices
* DirtyCoward: subverted with [[spoiler:Igor Karkaroff]], he was only pretending in order to fool Voldemort's enemies into a false sense of security.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Inverted: [[spoiler: Harry has suffered extreme mental and physical abuse, most of which carried itself into his psyche years after he finally broke the web that had held his magic and free will hostage for the better part of his childhood, thus causing him to never lead the normal life that Connor did despite the fact that Connor wasn't even the one who was supposed to save the world, all in the name of the Greater Good.]] Despite the fact that lesser instances of child abuse warrant the death penalty, Harry pleads with anyone who'll listen that what Lily, James, and Dumbledore did ''wasn't that bad.'' He even succeeds in convincing the Wizangamot to only put his parents into Tullianum for life. [[spoiler: Indigena Yaxley fixes that soon enough.]]
* DistantFinale: The Epilogue, in form of a letter.
* {{Doorstopper}}: All of the books after the third are long, with ''Wind That Shakes the Sea and Stars'' having over 750,000 words, according to Fanfiction.net's word counter. The combined length of this entire series is about four times the length of the Harry Potter books.
* [[spoiler: DoubleMeaningTitle]]:[[spoiler: The title of the series makes sense at first, but as time goes on seems to become irrelevant...until you reach the end of the series.]]
* DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale: Subverted. In the case of [[spoiler: Evan Rosier and Henrietta Bulstrode. If anything, her taunting of him years later is what screws him up even more.]]
* DrivenToSuicide: Rufus Scrimgeour witnessed a suicide after the First War. [[spoiler: It was Alba Starrise, who hanged herself with a banner while he went to fetch her some tea, causing her brother Augustus to carry a grudge against him for not preventing her death, unknowing of what actually happened.]]
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: anyone who dies to destroy a Horcrux. Especially Connor, oh so much.]]
%%* TheEmpath: Draco and Julia Malfoy.
%%* EntitledBastard: [[spoiler: Burke]]
* EmotionSuppression: Lily trains Harry to do this to himself, causing many a disaster. He gets better later on, though.
* EverythingExceptMostThings: In ''Freedom And Not Peace''.
-->''Not you, too,'' said Harry, switching to silent speech as a Hufflepuff first-year came up the stairs and slipped over to a barn owl on a perch. She kept giving him awed glances. Harry stared out the window and did his best to look like an ordinary tormented hero until she was gone. ''Everybody wants to punish my mother, for some reason.''\\
''Some reason. This is lots of reasons. How dare she say—''\\
"I don't want to hear it again," Harry whispered. "Please, Regulus, don't make me live through it. She's been punished. It's enough. Everybody else has agreed to leave it alone." ''Well, except for Scrimgeour. And Lucius. And Narcissa. And Hawthorn. And Adalrico. But everybody else has.''
%%* EvilMeScaresMe: Harry.
* EyeScream: [[spoiler: Harry to the Dark Lady Monika after he defeats Voldemort and absorbs his power; he laughs and one of her eyes bursts.]]
** The Many snakes are a very poisonous breed of snake whose venom can kill a man in seconds. [[spoiler: It can also cause someone to become irreparably blinded if it's spat in the eyes, as Harry effectively demonstrated with Voldemort.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Michael Rosier-Henlin.]] Supposedly [[spoiler: Snape]]; it turns out that [[spoiler: Voldemort was possessing him and made him do so]].
** [[spoiler: At the end of ''A Song In Time Of Revolution'', Adalrico, Hawthorn, and Lucius have been forcibly turned to Voldemort's side by way of their Dark Marks.]]
%%* FalseFriend: [[spoiler: Evan Rosier (although he didn't know it was him), and Michael Rosier-Henlin]] to Connor.
%%* FamilyHonor: [[spoiler: Eventually the reason Owen has to kill Michael.]]
* FantasticRacism: Werewolves face some pretty heavy prejudice for their curse, and as the books progress, laws begin to come into effect that stop werewolves from having paying jobs and custody of children.
** House Elves. [[spoiler: Turns out they've been enslaved by humans to be their servants.]]
%%** Several magical species and humans, actually.
* FlatWhat: There are quite a number of them scattered throughout the stories, mostly in response to something Harry says or reveals.
--> Harry (pointing to a potion he's brewing): [[spoiler: That's the first stage of a cure for lycanthropy, I think.]]
--> Hawthorn Parkinson, staring: '''''What.'''''
* ForeShadowing - [[spoiler: Draco asks Harry at one point what his decision will be should for example, Voldemort hold a dozen children hostage and offer releasing them at the price of Harry's surrender. Guess what happens in the sixth book, no prize for guessing it right.]]
%%* TheFundamentalist: Elder Juniper.
%%* GayConservative: Draco Malfoy to some extent.
%%* GottaCatchThemAll: the Horcruxes, as in canon.
* GratuitousLatin: The Apollonis family teaches their children to speak Latin from an early age. Additionally, [[spoiler: at Connor's gravesite, Harry says "Atque in perpetuum, frater, ave atque vale," which translates to "And now forever, brother, hail and farewell."]]
%%* GreenThumb: [[PlantPerson Indigena Yaxley]] is very good at this and to a lesser extent, Hawthorne Parkinson.
** Neville also counts, since [[spoiler: Harry went to him specifically to find out how exactly to counteract Indigena Yaxley's vicious hybrids in battle.]]
%%* HalfHumanHybrid: Acies (though through magical means), Jacinth, and [[spoiler: Augusta Longbottom]].
%%* HappilyMarried: [[spoiler: Connor and Parvati, though it doesn't last for long.]]
%%* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Dumbledore.
* [[HesJustHiding He's Just Hiding]]: As in canon, [[spoiler: Regulus Black]]. [[invoked]]
* HeelFaceBrainwashing: How Lily and Dumbledore seem to view [[spoiler: their brainwashing of Harry.]] To everyone else, it's a case of LightIsNotGood.
%%* HeelFaceTurn: Several former Death Eaters.
* HeroicSacrifice: Arguably one of the main tropes in the series, both played straight and subverted on several occasions. Additionally, the entire seventh book is built on this trope.
%%* HiveMind: The Many.
* HolyHandGrenade: The Justice Box, an artifact capable of dishing punishment to wrong-doers or people who try to use it for wicked ends. [[spoiler:Harry uses it to punish Lily when she tries to brainwash him again and turns her into a Muggle, taking away her powers.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: Several characters throughout the series, with possibly the best example being Indigena Yaxley.
%%* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Falco Parkinson.
* [[spoiler: ImAHumanitarian: In a flashback, Evan Rosier is seen eating a child's heel.]]
%%* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Connor, at first. He gets better.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Lily and Dumbledore are this, though it only becomes more obvious with time. Specifically, [[spoiler: they cast a supposedly Light spell on Harry that forcefully binds his magic and abhor the Dark, despite ''free will'' being one of the most important principles of Light.]]
** Harry can also count, especially towards house elves. He respects the free will of his allied purebloods more than those of the house elves and will only break the web holding them in slavery if purebloods agree to it.
* ICanChangeMyBeloved: Harry towards Draco when other people points he's a [[{{Jerkass}} self-centered, spoiled and bigoted asshole]].
* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Draco gets one from Camellia [[spoiler:a werewolf member of Harry's pack]].
* IHaveNoSon: Lucius disowns Draco when he choses to join Harry in [[spoiler:rebellion against Ministry after Hawthorn is arrested]]. Over time he comes to regret this decision.
* ItsAllMyFault: Harry has several moments of this, most of the time when it isn't even his fault. James has one, too.
%%* Jerkass: Plenty abound in a cast so big.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: anyone who dies won't come back. The only time this isn't played straight is with the canon example of Regulus Black, who apparently didn't die in the first place.]]
* LawfulStupid: Averted in-universe with Scrimgeour: while he despises Dark magic and "Lords mucking around in his ministry," it's acknowledged by Harry around the second time he shows up that he is by no means an idiot. [[spoiler:Which makes Juniper's reign even more painful to witness in contrast.]]
* {{Light is Good}}: The Light families in general. Arguably Harry himself whose ideals are closer to Light than Dark. The Light itself is much more decent and understandable than the wild Dark. [[spoiler:"The Dark does not care what its Lords do in its name. I [...] do."]]
* LiteraryAllusionTitle:
** The titles of most of the books are taken from Swinburne poems.
** Many chapter titles reference everything from Literature/TheBible to Greek myth.
* LoopholeAbuse: The Cincinnatus Ritual says that you need a third of the ''number'' of the Wizengamot (nineteen people) for it to be cast, not a third of the Wizengamot. [[spoiler:Rufus Scrimgeour exploits this in the sixth book]].
* LotusEaterMachine: At one point Harry takes a Dark curse featuring this. Unlike some other incarnations of the trope, the perfect world in the curse doesn't turn into a nightmare, but it also takes an outside influence with knowledge of the Dark Arts (in this case, Lucius Malfoy) to convince him to break the dream world.
%%* LoveMakesYouCrazy: [[spoiler: Michael Rosier-Henlin. And Henrietta Bulstrode.]]
* LoveTriangle: Draco is aware of [[spoiler: Michael]]'s interest in him, and often intentionally leads [[spoiler: him]] on. Of course, Harry is not pleased when he finds out.
* LuredIntoATrap: Harry and his allies, oh-so-many times.
* MagicMusic: Siren song comes loaded with compulsion, which Voldemort uses to his advantage near the end of the fifth book.
** There's also Arabella Zabini, a Songstress who possesses the ability to create and dispel illusions and compulsions with her voice. She is even able to counteract the siren's song at one point to keep anybody from drowning themselves.
* MamaBear:
** ''Puellaris'' witches will turn into lionesses to defend their children.
** Laura Gloryflower is a ''Puellaris'' whose husband died. In order to continue living - as the trade-off for ''Puellaris'' witches' power in the home sphere is that they give up all hope of understanding things outside the home - she convinced herself to treat all the people of the world as her children. She is now head of her blood family - an old, powerful Light pureblood line.
%%** Narcissa Malfoy would move mountains for Draco.
** Minerva [=McGonagall=] as in canon in regards to her students, described as a lioness and often backed by the Hogwarts Founders.
* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Narcissa]] has spent years of efforts and maneuvering to ensure that Draco could break free from the family and love chains holding him back. [[spoiler:Her]] efforts come to fruit when Draco declares for the Dark.
%%* MasterOfIllusion: Honoria is this in a positive example.
* MeaningfulName: [[spoiler: Henrietta Bulstrode]] teaches Transfiguration under the name "Professor Belluspersona"; Belluspersona means "beautiful disguise".
** Owen and Michael Rosier-Henlin's younger sister's name is picked specifically for this.
* TheMenInBlack: The Unspeakables of the Department of Mystery to [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools some extent]]. They possess rare magical artifacts capable of containing Lord-level wizards, amongst other things.
* MercyKill: Done in the sixth book towards [[spoiler:children held under a Life-Web by Voldemort]]
* MindControl: [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual Lord and Lady-level]] wizards and witches naturally possess this ability which is why they're often surrounded with {{Mooks}}.
* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 66 of book 7 [[spoiler: begins with Regulus's funeral, goes through some dramatic moments, and ends with a passionate interlude between Harry and Draco.]] True, it doesn't go from tragedy to comedy, but the latter half of the chapter lacks the gravitas of the first half.
%%* MuggleBornOfMages: Calibrid Oppaline.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Indigena Yaxley to Lord Voldemort; she follows him out of honour but hates the fact that she has to kill people who she respects.
%%* MysteriousInformant: A recurring theme.
** Book three: Starborn ([[spoiler:Narcissa Malfoy]])
** Book four: Evan Rosier
** Book five: The Serpent ([[spoiler:Mortimer Belville]])
** Book six: The Liberator ([[spoiler:Indigena Yaxley]])
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[[folder:N to Z]]
* NameOne:
** ''No Mouth But Some Serpent's'':
-->'''James:''' Remus. There are so ''many'' things that you don't understand, so many things that have to come true.\\
'''Remus:''' Name one.\\
'''James:''' You know about the prophecy.
** ''Freedom And Not Peace'':
-->'''Harry:''' But most of the tasks I have are ones that only I can do. Either because of strength of magic, or because they're serving people who will only trust me.\\
'''Millicent:''' Name one.\\
'''Harry:''' My duties as ''vates'', for instance. Most of the magical creatures won't see or converse with anyone but me.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Hawthorn Parkinson was called the Red Death during her days as a Death Eater. Make that of what you will.
%%* NeverMyFault: James Potter.
* NoodleIncident: Rufus Scrimgeour had one that involved a powerful illusionist, two cats, and green goo which is now the reason why the healers at St. Mungo's will only treat him for purely physical wounds.
* NothingPersonal: [[spoiler:Belville]] claims this after betraying TheAlliance.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: In a rare positive example, Rufus Scrimgeour.
-->'''Severus Snape''': By all means, approach the Ministry. I think you will find most requests concerning Harry have a way of vanishing into a maze of forms in triplicate.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Notably, they function in the form of a beehive, with a large queen, male drones that fight and rape as they please, and sterile female workers.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Werewolves packs have their branch of magic, which allows them to cast stronger spells. Werewolf Alphas, unlike wolf alphas, cannot be challenged because they have [[BrainwashedAndCrazy compulsion]] over their packmates. It's also possible to turn a non-werewolf into an Alpha. [[spoiler:Harry becomes the Alpha of Loki's pack without turning into a werewolf.]]
* OutlivingOnesOffspring: [[spoiler: Hawthorn]] outlives not only her husband, but [[spoiler: Pansy]] as well.
%%* ParentalBetrayal: [[spoiler: Lily in the third book.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Harry in from the fifth book and up, though he only uses it occasionally due to it coming from [[spoiler: Fawkes' HeroicSacrifice against the Wild Dark.]] Also, Adalrico and Millicent Bulstrode.
* PolarOppositeTwins: Harry and Connor, in the early books: Connor is 'innocent,' spoiled, Light, and Gryffindor, while Harry is 'tainted' [[spoiler: at least to Lily and Dumbledore]], suicidally selfless, Dark [[spoiler: again, to Lily and Dumbledore, though he also appears as such to most Light families - he's really a mix of the two]], and Slytherin. But really, that just touches the tip of the iceberg, and they become more sympathetic to each other as they get older.
* PretentiousLatinMotto - a number of pureblood families have Latin mottos. These include the Bulstrodes (''Duramus'' - we endure), and the Yaxleys (''Vita desinit, decus permanit'' - life is fleeting, glory remains).
%%* ProphecyTwist: and ''how''.
* {{Psychometry}}: Luna Lovegood possess a variation of this power, allowing her to communicate with objects rather than having visions.
%%* PsychopathicManChild: Evan Rosier at times.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler: although Harry survives, many people he loves, such as Regulus, Narcissa and ''Connor'', do not make it.]]
* VanHelsingHateCrimes: In ''A Song in Time of Revolution'', moral panic regarding werewolves results in the creation of the [[{{Ghostapo}} Department of Control and Suppression of Deadly Beasts]], increasinly oppressive legislation against werewolves culminating in the legalization of [[FinalSolution werewolf hunting season]]. [[spoiler:This, along with the arrest of Hawthorn pushes Harry into a full blown rebellion against the Ministry. Minister Rufus Scrimgeour uses this chaos to use a LoopholeAbuse in the Ministry to temporally become a dictator.]]
* RelationshipReveal: Pulled in-universe, when Harry reveals to a crowd of people that [[spoiler: he and Draco are going through a joining ritual]]. (Of course, the reader and Harry's allies already know this.)
* {{Revenge}}: Another theme throughout the series. Revenge in the wizarding world tends to tie in with honour. For example, an outsider may not take revenge on the victim's family without his/her consent while family members do not need this.
* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Sylarana]], at the end of the second book, which is the first truly important death.
* [[spoiler: SelfImmolation - How Charles Rosier-Henlin kills the Death Eaters threatening his family.]]
* SelfSacrificeScheme: Subverted[[spoiler:, both times]]. [[spoiler: Peter]] planned to die for the Horcrux [[spoiler: wand]], but [[spoiler: Regulus]] beats him to the punch. Later, [[spoiler: Harry]] planned to die for the final Horcrux, but [[spoiler: Connor]] kills himself before he gets the chance.
* ShipperOnDeck: Quite a few characters ship Draco/Harry before anything actually happens between them.
* SilkHidingSteel: The very definition of the ''Puellaris'' witches.
* SlashFic: the main pairing (in later books) is Draco/Harry.
* SlidingScaleOfLibertarianismAndAuthoritarianism: Harry is hard libertarian, being very respectful of other people's free will even when it is detrimental to him (such as unwillingness to use [[{{Telepathy}} Legimency]] on Death Eaters without their consent). Voldemort and [[spoiler:Dumbledore]] are hard authoritarian.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Basically almost everyone who died in the original books. [[spoiler: Of course, with everyone who dies instead, you might ''wish'' they did die like in canon.]]
* SpoiledBrat: Draco, at times.
* ThereAreNoTherapists: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Seers are magical therapists who help those in need of healing. [[spoiler:They play a major role in the sixth book when Harry finally goes to the Sanctuary for healing.]]
* TheStoic: Both Harry and Snape have elements of this, although they both defrost a little (Harry more than Snape).
* NotSoStoic: Oh boy, Snape has a massive one when [[spoiler: Regulus dies]], which results in [[spoiler: Indigena Yaxley's gruesome death]].
* TheVoiceless: Dragonsbane Parkinson, for most of the year except on Halloween and Walpurgis Night, due to being a Necromancer.
%%* StupidNeutral: Falco Parkinson.
* TagTeamTwins: the Yaxley brothers swap in and out of this reality.
* TakeThatKiss: Peridot Yaxley, a sex witch, to her sister Indigena in order to humiliate her. It works.
* TechnicolourFire: Adalrico Bulstrode and his eldest daughter both use black flames.
* ThemeNaming: Some Pureblood families and werewolf packs have this. The Parkinsons and Loki's werewolf pack have FloralThemeNaming, while the Yaxleys have RockThemeNaming. [[ShoutOutToShakespeare The Starrises appear to take their names from characters in Shakespeare's works, as well.]]
* ThemeTwinNaming: Oaken and Sylvan Yaxley.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Scrimgeour requires tea to function well; that said, he's the only (British) character who does, or is seen drinking it regularly.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Multiple Animagi. As well as the ones mentioned in canon, [[spoiler: Harry can turn into a lynx, Draco can turn into a white fox, and Connor can turn into a boar.]]
** [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Honoria]] is a gull animagus.
* WasItAllALie: This is the reaction of the Wizarding World to the Grand Unified Theory of Every Kind of Magic [[spoiler:which says that blood has nothing to do with magical power and that magic is a sapient force and factors like weather and rape can determine whether a child is magical or not]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Dumbledore, Lily, Falco Parkinson.
* WhamEpisode: The "Triple-Edged Blade" chapters at the end of ''A Song In Time Of Revolution'' radically change the story's landscape.
* WhamLine: At the end of the fourth book. [[spoiler:Snape filed a police report on Harry's behalf for child abuse. Harry doesn't like that.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Subverted; Harry tends to do this to himself, even when those around him point out that his actions were necessary and sometimes the only decent course of action he had
** A notable example comes in one of the later books where Harry [[spoiler: is forced to mercy-kill several innocent children because Voldemort will torture and do much worse to them otherwise]].
** A more straightfoward example is when [[BadassNormal Calibrid]] [[MuggleBornOfMages Opalline]] calls out Draco on his childishness and pettyness.
%%* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The penultimate chapter.
* WildCard: Rosier, so, so much. Also [[spoiler: the Stone]], for whom we never really get any kind of coherent motive beyond "because it suited me."
* WildMagic: Confined magic can develop a personality, and the Light and the Dark are both sentient.
* WillingChanneler: The Smiths can be this for their ancestors. [[spoiler:Namely, Zacharius Smith for Helga Hufflepuff.]]
* WomanScorned: Narsissa, first when [[spoiler:Lucius disinherited Draco after he joined Harry's rebellion against the Ministry]] and later after Lucius failed to resist [[spoiler:Voldemort's [[{{Brainwashing}} Spell of Hatred]] when]] other targets such as Peter and Snape successfully resisted it.
%%* WomenAreWiser: Narcissa Malfoy, compared to her husband Lucius.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: Lily in the third book. [[spoiler: She tried to make it seem as if she were sorry for all she did to Harry, crying and all that, but was just trying to re-cast the magical binding spell on him again.]]
* YankTheDogsChain: [[spoiler: Regulus is romantically interested in Snape, so he's going to finally get his happy ending, right? '''Oh so wrong'''.]]
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