Though not by any definition particularly heroic, these are the protagonists of the story. They mainly consist of Ebony and goffic versions of the main characters of Harry Potter. They are distinguished from the rest of the world by subscribing to tastes in clothes, music, and other such things that the author likes. In reality, most of the "goffik" things are in fact not gothic in nature (usually instead being emo or completely unrelated). Thus, the difference between "da real goffs" and "posers" are completely arbitrary.
Tropes present in more or less all goffs:
Our Vampires Are Different: Generally varies among them. Ebony is seemingly an actual vampire (see below), while Vampire Potter is just a guy pretending to be one.
Self Harm: Cutting specifically. Portrayed in the most stereotypical manner possible. In RL, self harm has many more emotional nuances, and is not confined to or encouraged by gothic subculture.
Religion of Evil: Granted, RL satanists are usually not evil, but these ones are.
The main character of the story. A Mary Sue pastiche (if you subscribe to the theory that this is in fact a parody fic, rather than something entirely serious), she spends the bookstoryseries of words series of letters/symbols going to Good Charlotte and My Chemical Romance concerts and doing it with Draco. She has long, ravenebony black hair with purple streaks and red tips, icy blue eyes "like limpid tears" (even when they've mysteriously turned red) and only wears clothing from Hot Topic. Also the lead vocalist of a band named Bloody Gothic Rose 666. Often cries and slits her wrists, although this hasn't killed her yet.
Tropes associated with Ebony:
Anti-Hero: Type V. Nothing good she does is ever done for the right reason.
Cluster F-Bomb: Typically her first line of defense when confronted by a physical threat (or a situation not going her way).
Designated Hero: She's rather unlikable and murders a random person in a theater for being a prep. Pretty much the only thing making her even an anti-hero is that she opposes Voldemort (or even the other way around).
Disproportionate Retribution: When she and Britney have a confrontation, Britney makes a few off-hand remarks and mocks Enoby. What does Ebony do in response? Use a curse to torture her.
Granted, Britney didfree Snap, Loopin and Hargrid free from "Azkabian."
A more extreme example: When Ebony and "Satan" are making out while taking each others' clothes off and someone tells them that they can't do that (since they're watching a movie in public), Ebony attacks her and sucks all her blood
Fan Hater: Ebony's hatred of "preps". As far as she's concerned, anyone who doesn't wear black, shop at Hot Topic and listen to the emo bands she likes, is obviously a Hilary Duff fangirl who wears pink and shops at Abercrombie & Fitch. Yes, even the male characters considered "preps" are essentially Hilary Duff fangirls.
Fan Nickname: Thanks to the number of misspellings of her name, she's been dubbed "Enoby" by the fandom.
Hermaphrodite / Transsexual: A literal interpretation of passages like "he put his boy's thingy in mine" or "he put his throbbing you-know-what in my tool" can give one this impression of her. Not to mention "my body went all hot when I saw him kind of like an erection only I'm a girl so I didn't get one you sicko" sounds like a Suspiciously Specific Denial.
Hypocrite: She talks enthusiastically about how hot gay guys are, then accuses Draco of having AIDS (or "AIDs") when she thinks he's cheated on her with Vampire. Tara also insults the reviewers by calling them "gay fags".
Substituting milk with blood in her cereal doesn't exactly help her case on the former either.
Inexplicably Awesome: Ebony has no Backstory — she might just as well have fallen out of the sky and landed on Hogwarts grounds just before the start of the first chapter.
Informed Attribute: Draco mentions once that she's bi, despite her showing no sexual interest in girls throughout the whole story.
Informed Ability: She is too good at too many things, but it's never shown what she is good at. In chapter 22 it is revealed she is also the only person who can kill Voldemort, but after this reveal, nothing is shown on why she is the chosen one. The only place she actually does anything is in bed, with someone else.
Kaleidoscope Eyes: Probably unintentional. In Chapter 22 her eyes are "crimson", yet three chapters later they're back to "icy blue".
That said, though, earlier in the story it mentions that she wears crimson contacts upon occasion.
Les Yay: With B'loody Mary. In later chapters they're BFFs always close together.
Making Love in All the Wrong Places: Draco's room is all well and good. The Forbidden Forest probably borders the very outer limits of "normal". But she also manages it in a classroom...where a class is in session...
She later does it in a coffin.
There are also two brief incidents which are overlooked due to the Negative Continuity which occurs right after them. At one point in chapter 12 Ebony and Vampire find each other in a crowded Hogwarts hallways and, according to Enoby, "jumped on each other and started screwing each other." They stop when Professor McGoggle yells at them. In chapter 38 when Enoby and Satan are on their date at the movies, she actually begins to write it out like a typical "My Immortal" sex scene in a crowded theater until a woman interrupts them. After that, they just leave the theater, Tara apparently forgetting about the clothes they took off and never put back on.
Anti-Sue - "Evony isn't a Marie Sue ok she isn't perfect SHES A SATANITS! n she has problemz shes depressed 4 godz sake!". That said, as other parts and pages say, she actually does have some antagonistic qualities, albeit to the point of it being hard to believe she's the hero.
Black Hole Sue - For some reason, Volxemort blackmails her into killing Vampire, Snap and Loopin are spying on her and attempt to make her kill Vrompire, she's the only person who's capable of defeating Volxemort... Really, she takes this trope to a completely new level!
Meaningful Name: Besides the Ebony Dark'ness yadda yadda, she (and the story) clearly lives up to the "Dementia" part.
Memetic Outfit: The outfit and hairstyle she describes in the first paragraph. Most, if not all fanart of her has her wear this. Or nothing at all.
Mood Swinger: Made all the more... interesting by Tara's Beige Prose hardly ever giving a clue as to why she, for example, suddenly becomes very angry, even though it's written in first person.
Our Vampires Are Different: The only effects her vampirism seems to have are her immunity to bullets and her habit of drinking blood. She says she can be killed by a steak and a "c-r-o-s-s", but at another point in the story seems to forget about the cross and wears cross earrings.
So Beautiful, It's a Curse: "Why couldn't Satan have made me less beautiful?" It doesn't help that her actual physical description makes her sound rather unattractive.
Ebony's boyfriend and Harry Vampire's ex-boyfriend. He's timid, sensitive, and as big of a goff as Enoby. Constantly worries about her leaving him and seeks her reassurance that she'll stay with him about once every three seconds. In return, Ebory shows him No Sympathyboth times he's caught in a compromising situation in which the explanation is blindingly obvious and Ebony's interpretation is wildly illogical. Once burst into one of Enony's classes completely naked. Obviously Out of Character.
Tropes associated with Draco:
Cool Car: A flying black Mercedes-Benz (with the number 666 on the license plate).
Driven to Suicide: Twice, apparently. The first time, after Voldemorts first appearance, he gets mad at Enoby for not telling her about it. The second time, after Snap did it with him, Enoby doesnt show him sympathy. He gets better after both times with no explanation.
Fantastic Racism: Probably the only trait he has that's remotely in character
I Got Better Inexplicably reappears in the story after Dumbledore says that he's dead. Twice. The first time it appears that Volfemort has him bondage. The second time he just appears when Ebony is looking for him.
Seme: To "Vampire"'s Uke. Though given how both of them seem to cry and slit their wrists 90% of the time...
Rape as Drama: Ebony catches Draco doing it wif Snap and thinks he's cheating on her and become a prep, but Draco later tells her that Snap's a "ropeist".
Voluntary Shapeshifting: Seems to be capable of it in chapter 15, in which he apparently infiltrates Ebony's advanced Biology class disguised as a pentagram (yes, really) who then proceeds to turn into a black guitar, and then back to his usual Draco form.
Bisexual goff who's Drago's ex-boyfriend and Ebony's "friend". Replaced his scar with a pentagram which he covers up with foundation. Does not seem to care about killing Volxemort anymore. In fact, his primary concern now seems to be the bizarre Love Triangle he's in with Enoby and Drako. On the one hand, Egogy is torn between the two of them and both are attracted to her. On the other, Darko and "Vampire" are also attracted to each other which Tata finds hot. Note how although this triangle causes a great deal of Wangst, there is literally no way Ebony can lose. Oh, and Eboby also stole the chosen one position he had in the books. Again, OOC.
Tropes Associated With "Vampire"
Manly Tears: Subverted. Not only is he crying and slitting his wrists all the time, he also cries when Snoop is about to torture him. Remember, men NEVER cry out of fear!
Perma Stubble: "He had a manly stubble on his chin."
Uke: To Draco's Seme. Though given how both of them cry and slit their wrists 90% of the time....
Vampire Vannabe: He's not actually a vampire. He just "love[s] the taste of human blood".
B'loody Mary Smith (Theoretically Hermione Granger)
Another one of Ebony's goffik friends. Often makes use of Gratuitous Japanese, particularly the word kawaiikawai. She moved to Slytherin after she converted Satanism, which was presumably when she decided to name herself after a cocktail. OOC. (Note, her name is pronounced "Buh-loody")
Tropes associated with "B'loody Mary":
In Name Only: The real Hermione is a bookworm, obsessed with getting good grades and is someone who is clearly her own person. In My Immortal, she doesn't touch a single book and is almost scared when Enoby assumes she is a prep.
Although when she confesses to killing Willow (and Loopin then doing it with her body), her emphasis on Willow's being expelled as more important is a hilarious moment of actually being in-character.
Gratuitous Japanese: She comes over as a way for Tara to demonstrate of her bad knowledge of Japanese.
Ebony's bisexual goffik friend and an avatar for the author's best friend Raven. Is randomly killed off half way through following a tiff between Tara and Raven, but gets dumped unceremoniously back into the 'story' with no explanation as soon as Tara and Raven patch things up. Likes speaking Gratuitous Japanese. Probably the only character whose name is spelled correctly consistently throughout.
Tropes associated with Willow
I Got Better: As stated above, Willow's unexplained revival one chapter after being murdered and having her corpse raped.
Out of Focus: Was originally Ebony's best fried. Later chapters have this role given to B'loody Mary.
Ron "Diabolo", Jenny "Darkness", Crabbe, and Goyle
Four siblings whose dad was a vampire. He "raped them and stuff" before committing suicide by slitting his wrists. As a result, they "got so depressed that they became goffik and converted to Stanism". Any resemblance to Ron Weasley, Ginny Weasley, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle is entirely coincidental. It's possible that Tara confused Crabbe and Goyle with Fred and George, especially considering she has "Crab" and "Goyke" set off fireworks from "Wesley's Whizard Wises".
Navel/Nevel "Dracula" Longbottom
Goff who first appears in chapter 17. Turns out, he was adopted and his real parents were vampires who died dyed in a car crash. Because of that, he turned to SatanismStanism. On two occasions his name is misspelled as Dracola. OOC.
Ginny, Sedric, Fred and Gorge
All make brief, inexplicable cameos. It's not clear if Ginny and the above-mentioned Jenny are supposed to be the same person. Sedric isn't actually in the story proper, but is mentioned in an author's note in which Tara confusedly refers to him as though he had been in the previous chapter. She appears to have gotten him confused with Hagrid.
Tom Rid
Despite the name, this is apparently not an incarnation of Voldemort. He is a shop assistant (in a 'goffik' shop, of course) who befriends Ebony & co, and who keeps certain items of clothing hidden under the desk so that only the real 'goffs', and not the 'posers', can buy them get them for free. We're betting he doesn't have any idea how capitalism is supposed to work.
Da Death Deelers are a group of villains who serve Voldemort in his evil schemes. And their most evil plan in My Immortal is to force Ebony to kill Vampire Potter. They even hijacked 2 MCR concerts Ebony attended to, just so that Voldemort can yell at her for not participating in his plan. Voldemorts main Death Deelers are Snap, Loopin and Snaketail.
The Death Deelers may, or may not, bear any similarity to the Death Eaters from Harry Potter canon.
A Good Name for a Rock Band: OOU example; dramatic readings often comment on "Volsemort and da Death Dealers".
Master of Disguise: Voldemort and his flunkies successfully disguise themselves as Gerard Way and company on at least two occasions.
Voldemort/Tom Satan Bombodil
This is the big bad of this story. His most evil plan is to make Enoby kill Harry by giving her a gun and telling her to shoot him. If she doesnt, Voldemort will kill Draco, but he doesnt really have the guts to do so. He spends the entire story trying to make Ebony killing Vampire, even when he simply could kill vampire himself. He also, for some reason, speaks in Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe. Voldemort In My Immortal is also a Star Wars fan, or something, since in one chapter he dresses himself to look like 'darth Valer'.
In his youth he was called Tom "Satan" Bombodil/Andorson. Ebony travels back in time to seduce him into loving her, so Voldemort will be less evil. And its revealed Tom Bombodil is also a goff. And he has a goffic band called XBlakXTearX consisting of Lucian, Serious Blak, James Potter and Snap. They all went to school ... in the 1980s. Tom also knows everything that will happen in the future despite not overtly having any divining ability. When the Dumblydore of the past wants to punish him and ebony for being Satanists, they quickly jump into Ebony's time machine and end up in the present. Here Tom Satan Bombodil changes into his future incarnation Voldemort and teams up with Snap and Loopin to kill Ebony. OOC.
Tropes associated with Voldemort:
Badass in a Nice Suit: As Tom Bombodil: "He wuz wearing a blak ripped up suit wif Vans."
Big Bad: Theoretically, he doesn't actually do anything except show up, yell at Enoby, then leave.
Composite Character: Played straight in that the Bark Lord and "Tom Bombadil" are the same people, and inverted by making Tom Rid (see above) a different character.
Cool Car: Tom "Satan" Bombadil/Anderson (Voldemint's past self) owns a car that looks just like Darko's (which Ebony comments on in the narrative). Whether it's actually meant to be the same car is anyone's guess.
Draco in Leather Pants: Sort of. The present version of Voldemort that goes around hijacking MCR concerts and harassing Ebony doesn't get any positive treatment. His past self of Tom "Satan" Bombodil is portrayed positively, and he and Ebony have sex at one time. Whether this trope applies is a matter of personal taste.
Designated Villain: The Voldemort in this fic is more of a plot device to give Ebony another subject to whine about. The character himself acts much less sinister than the canonical Voldemort.
Face Heel Turn: Went from being a "goff" to a "prep", which is this in Ebony's world.
Which is ironic, considering how "dark" (and thus "goffic") he is.
Harmless Villain / Offstage Villainy: The only kill he made is Hermione's mother in a bit of redundant backstory. In the fic itself he only threatens Ebony, but does not follow up on his threats. Its worse, because in his first appearance, he is defeated by Ebony, when she summons Hermione's cat Crookshanks. (actually, Tara managed to mix up the torture curse Crucio with Crookshanks.) Ebony has him at her mercy, but feels sorry for him and lets him live. So the most feared wizard is defeated by a 17 year old whiny girl.
Love Makes You Evil: "When Voldemint was in Hogwarts before he became powerful he gut his hearth borken. Now do you fink he would still become Volxemort if he was in love?"
Villain Exit Stage Left: Most of his appearances result in him running or flying away on his broom.
Ye Olde Butcherede Englishe: "I hath telekinesis." he answered cruelly. "And if you doth not kill Vampire, then thou know what will happen to Draco!" His past self, Tom Bombodil, does not possess this weird trait, but instead talks in the same broken English Ebony and co use.
Snap and Loopin are the main lackeys of Voldemort. Their main plan seems to be recording a videotape of Ebony taking a bath, which they can use to blackmail her into killing Vampire. If she refuses, they will spread the tape around the school. Ebony calls them pedophiles, but they didn't do any act related to pedophilia (see below). They are also gay lovers who enjoy 'doin it' in the open. Apparently supposed to be the characters Severus Snape and Remus Lupin, but bear no resemblence to them on even a superficial level.
Snap seems to be the leader of the duo and comes up with most of their plans. Snap also operates solo multiple times in the fic. When Ebony travels 'back in tim', Snap is revealed to have been a close friend of Serious, Lucian, James Potter and Voldemort/Tom 'Satan' Bombodil. But he betrayed them by possessing James and causing him to shoot off Lucian's arm, which Ebony prevented when she encountered them in the past. Loopin is more of a follower and enjoys masticating to stuff.
Tropes associated with them:
Butt Monkey: Loopin seems to be this. A good example is when he is tortured for something only Snap was guilty for.
Composite Character: Inverted with Snoop in Chapter 30. Apparently his name is just "Snape" (when it's spelled right) and there's a completely different guy named "Serverus", who was probably supposed to be Sirius.
Demonic Possession: When Ebony travels into the past, James Samaro Potter attempts to shoot Lucians arm with a knife. Later Tara tried to imply Snap made James do this by possessing him, but she actually made James say Snap was possessing himself of all persons.
Harmless Villain: They spend more time doing it with each other in the Great Hall (With Dobby watching!) than anything else, and only seem to pose a serious threat on one occasion.
In Name Only: Snape and Loopin are constantly called preps by Ebony, even though neither of them wear preppy clothing or listen to preppy music.
Card Board Prison: No matter how many times they are sent away to St. Mango's or Abkhazian, they keep coming back.
Informed Attribute / In Name Only: A single author's note tells us that he's a Christian, but the idea is never mentioned or hinted at again.
Informed Flaw: Ebony calls them pedophiles, but since she's seventeen and therefore A) not biologically a child and B) over the age of consent, which is sixteen in the UK, their perving on her, while reprehensible, is not pedophilia, and they show no hints of actual pedophilia at any point. Plus there's the fact that, in the Potterverse, under wizarding law the age of adulthood is seventeen.
Made of Iron: Snape and Loopin are barely fazed when shot a gazillion times by Ebony; indeed, Snap's minor hand injury in the aftermath of the skirmish is attributed to Dumbleydore's wand.
Pædo Hunt: This trope is subverted, zig-zagged, inverted, or something — it's hard to say what exactly. In any case, the behavior of the other characters after Snape and Lupin are outed as supposed pedos is completely bizarre. First we're told they're being sent to St. Mungo's (um, why?) and then not only do they not go, they're allowed to continue teaching. But Dumbledore makes this okay by giving the students permission to yell at them. How generous of him. Ebony snaps pictures of Snape and Lupin having sex. Because having gay sex is blackmail worthy even after you're thought to be a pedo. Oh, and Snape gets to give Ebony, Draco, and "Vampire" a private detention in which he predictably tries to abuse them. Oh my, who could have seen that coming? For this, both Snape and Lupin get tortured (which, as noted above, is considered perfectly okay) and sent to Azkaban. Apparently, Snape and Lupin are a package deal and when one of them does something, the other one is also guilty of it by default.
The "fat guy who killed Cedric". He tortures Draco and asks to have sex with Ebony, since "in dis he is sixteen yrs old so hes not a pedofile ok". She stabs him in the heart and he runs around while bleeding to death. In a rare demonstration of continuity, he actually stays dead (or at least isn't mentioned again). Probably based on Peter Pettigrew/Wormtail from the real Harry Potter series, but the only things that indicate this is that he killed Sir Not-appearing-in-this-crap Cedric Diggory.
Tropes associated with Snaketail:
Killed Off for Real: As mentioned above, he is about the only character who stays dead after being killed.
Big "NO!": He utters this when Ebony stabs him in the heart.
Love at First Sight: He has never seen Enoby before, but in the middle of the fight he has with her and Vampire, he confesses his love towards Ebony. He even went as far to ask Ebony to have sex with him.
Love Hurts: Literally...When he confesses he loves Enoby, she shoots a Cluster F-Bomb at him and then stabs him in the heart.
The Mystery of Magic
Another evil faction. Its a mysterious group of wizards that hold alot of power over Hogwarts. They, for example, can and will send anyone they see fit to random places in the Caucasus. The Mystery successfully took over Hogwarts in later chapters by sending Dumblydore and Sinister to the aforementioned region, but after that, the faction disappears from the story without explanation.
Most likely based on the Ministry of Magic from the real Harry Potter series.
Tropes associated with this faction:
Lawful Stupid: Well, at least they try to come off as lawful, even if they fail miserably at it.
The Minister for Magic and apparently still male despite the name. Considers Dumbledore incompetent and sends him to "Azerbaijan", which peculiarly does not endear him to Ebony and friends. Apperantly has a very short fuse since he took over potions class once, but stomped away angrily arngrily after Ebony&co talked openly in class.
Tropes associated with Cornelia:
Gender Blender Name: Played straight and averted. Sometimes he is called Cornelia, but other times he is called Cornelio.
An associate of Cornelia Fudge. She first appears at hogwarts to yell at Dumbledore that his Alzheimers is a danger to the school. When Ebony returns from a trip to the past, it appears Doris Rumbridge became the principal. She also sends Sinistra to "Azerbaijan" for being "too gottik" and brings Dumbledore back to teach her class (About 15 minutes after he left). Assuming she's supposed to be Dolores Umbridge, doing something remotely nice for Dumbledore is really the only part of this which is out of character. But then again Dumbledore is evil in this fic (most of the time), so maybe it's in character for her after all.
Tropes associated with Doris Rumbridge:
Culture Police: She sent Sinistra to "Azerbaijan" for being "too gottik"
No Indoor Voice: The only time she is seen talking, it was ALLCAPS.
This is a fairly neutral group. Sometimes Enoby and friends get in trouble, so the staff is portrayed as villainous, but other times they help Enoby in the war against Vlodemort.
Albert Dumblydore
The principal of Hogwarts. He starts out as one of Ebony's arch enemies by shooting an Atomic F-Bomb at her and Draco for having sex. After that, he is seemingly neutral, since he helps Ebony as many times as he gets in her way. The times he gets in Enoby's way are probably caused by headaches, as mentioned in numerous author's notes. When Voldemort takes over an MCR concert for the second time, Dumblydore turns to the Goffic side and saves Ebony and co.
After his transition to Goff, he paints the 'Grate Hall' black (but apparently painted it pink first). He also tries to befriend Ebony and the other Goffs, but is shouted at because he is a 'poser'(someone who tries to be Goth, but really isnt). But he seemingly is a good guy from that moment on.
When Ebony travels back in time, Albert Dumblydore's hatred for Goffs is much worse than in the present time. Its so bad, that he wants to sent any Goff he sees in the school to Akazaban.
Unlike his canon counterpart, this Dumbledore isnt concerned at all about the war between good and evil. He even lets his students rot at the hands of Voldemort if he doesn't like them. He is also quickly intimidated by students who shout at him. Heavily OOC.
Tropes associated with Dumbledore
Atomic F-Bomb - The well known : "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUKERS!"
Memetic Badass - Once pics of Movie!Dumbledore saying Albert's imfamous swear, he morphed into this.
Moral Event Horizon - When he refuses to rescue Drago because of his misbehaviour at school. Interestingly, he was very sad when Darko supposedly killed himself a while before, so he probably was just extra grumpy from having a headache.
Obligatory Swearing - Again, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHERFUKERS!"
You Wouldnt Like Me When I Have A Headache - Whenever Albert Dumblydore has a headache, he starts acting like a jerk towards students. Arguably, this is when Dumblydore is at his most awesome in this fic.
HE NOW MIGHT BE A HOGWARTS STUDENT...BUT HE IS ALSO A SATANIST! In this fanfic, Hargrid turned from gamekeeper into a Hogwarts student for no clear reason. He also switches sides with each passing appearance. One time he is a Goff who helps Enoby against evildoers such as Snap and Loopin. The other times he is a Prep that tries to harass Ebony. OOC either way.
Tropes associated with Hargrid:
Badass Decay: In canon, Hagrid was stated as physically very strong and could withstand spells that were deadly to other wizards. In My Immortal, he is beaten up sexily by Vampire and Draco.
Dirty Old Man: In canon, Hagrid is 69 years old during the events of the last book. In chapter 11 of My Immortal, Hargrid confesses his love to Enoby who is only 17. But since this is My Immortal, do not think too much about this. Going by the author's notes, she may have got him confused with Cedric, though how one could mix the two up is a mystery.
Heel Face Revolving Door: Tara doesnt really know which side he should be on. In his first appearance, he is a member of Eboby's band. In his second appearance he seemingly tries to scare away Snap and Loopin (who are harassing Enoby) by confessing he is a satanist. Later in the story he tries to poison Ebony with an Amnesia potion (probably amortentia potion, which in the real books is a love potion). In the 'end' he seems to be on Enony's side again.
Flying Broomstick Hargrid possesses one of those, but it doesnt seem to fly. That doesnt stop him from using it to run outside.
Large Ham: “I MAY BE A HOGWARTS STUDENT … BUT I AM ALSO A SATANIST!”
Misspellings: Hargrid, HAHRID, Hargirid, Hargrif, Hairgrid.
Actually, he isn't called by his real name (Hagrid) even once, so its safe to say Hargrid is his name here.
Proffesor Sinister/Trevolry
The only goffik teacher in the school. Professor Sinister a.k.a. Trevolry (the two are inexplicably interchanged for the same character) is a half-Japanese half-Vampire and is Ebony's favorite teacher. The subject she teaches is called Deviation. (which is probably meant to be Divination).
She is the person who tells Ebony to go back in time to seduce Voldemort.
Later on in the story, Professor Sinister gets addicted to "Volxemortserum" and asks Ebony to find a cure for her addiction. Professor Sinister also gets send to Azerbaijan by the Mystery of Magic for being too Gothic, but returns at Hogwarts without explanation. OOC and often OON, or Out Of Name. (The names derive from Professors. Sybill Trelawney [Divination] and Aurora Sinistra [Astronomy].
Tropes associated with Professor Sinister/Trevolry:
Ascended Extra: Pr. Sinistra had barely five lines of dialogue in the entire series, all of which happened in one book. But she's been blended with a more recurring character, so everything makes sense.
Card Board Prison: Sending Professor Sinister to Azerbaijan is not a good way to get rid of her.
Big Stupid Doodoo Head: Using these is her biggest deviation from canon. Just imagine Dame Maggie Smith yelling things like "STOP IT NOW, YOU HORNY SIMPLETONS!" and "You mediocre dunces!"
The "janitor", who owns a cat named Filth/Filch. Norris apparently is able to see when people hide under invisibility cloaks, but not who hide under a cloak. The cat might actually be in character.
(Note: in the real Potter series, the caretaker is Argus Filch, who has a cat named Mrs Norris.)
Tropes associated with Mr Norris and Filch the cat:
Cats Are Mean: Filch the cat helps Norris discover where Enoby and Vampire are hiding.
Crusty Caretaker: Tara tried to imply this with Mr Norris, but since Vampire calls him a "preppy little poser sun of a fukcing bich", the act of maintaining his grumpy mood is justified.
Super Senses: As mentioned above, Invisibility Cloaks do not work properly when he is around. Alternatively, it may in fact be Filch the cat who affects the cloaks, since Ebony successfully uses it in Chapter 27, and while Norris was present on both occasions, Filth was there only the first time, when it failed.
Professor Slutborn
The Potions teacher in the '80s. Presumably based on Professor Horace Slughorn from the real books, but is described as a tall gothic man with long hair, instead of short and obese with a bald head like the real character. This makes him OOL (out of look). He makes too short of an appearance to really prove how much OOC he is.
Dobby
Makes a brief appearance watching "Snake" and "Loopin" do it, then runs away crying when Snape and Lupin see Enoby. This is his only appearance in the whole fic. He is also one of the rare characters whose name is spelled correctly throughout the fic.
The Preps
The counterparts to the goffs. They seem to be defined by a love for bright, cheery colors and pop music roughly equal to the goth's obsession with the color black and emo stuff.
Another type of prep is called the 'poser'. Posers are people who pretend to be Gothic, but are preps (usually they dress semi-"gothic").
Tropes associated with preps:
Light Is Not Good: Stereotypical preppy fangirls (yes, even the boys) at heart, they nonetheless are antogonistic. Just not much of a threat as Tara hoped they were.
A "fucking prep called Britney from Griffindoor". Regarded as the Alpha Bitch from her first appearance, despite doing nothing even slightly reprehensible. However, near the end of the story, its revealed she allied with Vlodemort and da Death Deelers and freed Hargrid ,Snap and Loopin from Azerbaijan. (probably by sending them airline tickets to fly back to scotland)
Tropes associated with Britney:
Designated Villain: Played straight in the beginning, where her only crimes were having a different lifestyle the main characters had. But averted near the end, where she helped Hargrid, Snap and Loopin to escape from Azerbaijan.
Dumb Blond: According to Draco, but this was probably because Vampire left him for her.
Unlike Harry's godfather Sirius Black, this man is Harry's "dogfather". Also unlike Sirius, Serious was apparently friends with Snape during their school days considering they were in XBlakXTearX together.
Genius Bruiser: Despite being a hardcore, deprezzed goff, he takes up the mantle of Socrates. Whether or not Tara meant for this to evoke the feeling of "smart" is anyone's guess.
Misspellings:Series, Serifs, Sirus, Silas, Spartacus, Sorious, Socrates, Sodomize and Serverus.
Lucian Malfoy
Apparently supposed to be based on Lucius Malfoy. In the fic, he's Draco's father and part of XBlakXTearX back in the day. Apparently, had one arm until Ebony changed the past so his other arm didn't get shot off. Needless to say, a good guy in this.
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Although, bizarrely, there is a town in Pakistan named Samoro, which was formerly named Jamesabad — Urdu for Jamestown. Coincidence, incredibly obscure reference ... or MAGIC?
Voldemort's gay lover from the 1980s. He is the most OOC in the whole story. This is because Hedwig is a female, presumably straight, anti-Voldemort, alive-in-the-1990s OWL in the books.
Inexplicably appears to give Ebory a "tim machine" so she can go "frowad in tim". His reasons for being present in the Potter Verse and helping Ebony are unknown. In any case, he's OOC for any verse and his "tim machine" does not seem to function like the DeLorean.
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In Name Only: His only resemblance to the actual Back To The Future character is the association with time travel. And even then, his "tim machine" is "blak" (while the DeLorean is silver) and apparently small enough to carry on his person, eliminating the possibility that he either repainted the DeLorean (blasphemy!) or is using the Time Train.
Real World
Tara Gilesbie
The individual who created this mess.
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Beyondthe Impossible: That she actually managed to get 5 good reviews. She also demanded 10 sometimes. Either there are some people out there with an extremely poor taste in literature (or just want to fan the fires to make her write more of the hilarity.), or she just decided to contiue anyway.
The Cuckoolander Was Right: She correctly guessed that in Deathly HallowsHarry has to let himself be killed, because he is a Horcrux. She's hardly the only person who suspected it, but considering her more surreal ideas about the series, it is impressive.
Multiple Choice Past: Related to Alternative Character Interpretation above, there have been a number of different people who claimed to be the troll Tara, the real Tara, or to have known her and/or Raven while the story was being written. Sadly, though, it currently seems impossible to determine which (if any) of these accounts hold any truth.
Flanderization: The fans of My Immortal tend to think of Raven as the Only Sane Man to Tara's Ralph Wiggum, but (assuming that both of them aren't figments of a troll's imagination) she proves in her own stories and profile page to be at best only a few levels above Tara in terms of ability to write and overall intelligence.
Nietzsche Wannabe: Her Fan Fiction profile mentions she hates comedy "because the world is dark enough," and "there's no point [in] pretending that it isn't."
Over Shadowed By Awesome: Something of an inversion. Raven actually has twostories of her own, which while entertaining to read for the the same reasons as Tara's, are by comparison much shorter, written with better spelling & other essentials, and demonstrate better knowledge of the source material.
Will probably undergo a Heroic BSOD which can only be cured by multiple risings of Brain Bleach. Or a drink. A lot of drinks.
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TV Tropes Will Enhance Your Life: Really, we provide some of the best commentary on My Immortal that you'll ever see. And admit it: you definitely needed the laughs after reading that damn fic.
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