Fyre, Fyre, Burning Skitter
is a Worm and Harry Potter crossover by mp3_1415player. In it, the battle at the climax of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix takes a different turn when some spells strike the Veil and summon Taylor Hebert/Skitter. Then when a Death Eater summons Fiendfyre as a desperate counter to her swarm, her power somehow allows her to control it, increasing her danger level exponentially, and allowing her to finish off Voldemort with it. And that's just the start.
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Hermione's opinion of Umbridge after Fudge describes her as a "steadying hand" for the school:
- Hermione: Steadying hand?! That horrible woman is doing everything she can to destroy the school and terrify everyone there except for some of the Slytherins. Her 'educational decrees' are absurd, her teaching ability is non-existent, her morals would horrify a depraved werewolf, her attitude is reprehensible, and her color sense is incomprehensible!
- Beware the Silly Ones: The Lovegoods are rather eccentric, though Taylor and Hermione both note that a good amount of their behaviors are because they like to Troll people, but that doesn't mean that one should underestimate them. When some Death Eater remnants attack them, Taylor, Harry, and the Grangers, Xeno fires a spell that turns one inside out (and was the first one other than Taylor to react to the attack in general), while Luna shoots a spell that makes the Death Eater, already a victim of her father's spell and hit by Harry and Hermione's own efforts, explode after a few seconds.
- Beyond the Impossible: Fiendfyre is incredibly dangerous, to the point that it's all but impossible to control, with the best that anyone using it can do amounting to pointing it in a general direction, and they'll be lucky if they can safely get rid of it afterwards, with uncontrolled Fyre being responsible for devastating events. Taylor can control it, seemingly without effort, to the point that she can make clothes out of it without being burned while wearing them, everyone who sees it saying that it should be impossible (and furthering Skitter's reputation as The Dreaded). One character compares it to juggling a critical mass of plutonium and somehow not killing everyone within fifty miles.
- Bullying a Dragon:
- When Taylor goes to Gringotts to pick up her reward for slaying Voldemort and several of his Death Eaters, one goblin teller and his manager decide to be jerks despite Taylor outright saying that she'd killed the maniac and looking obviously dangerous, and the document from the Ministry for the reward being easily verifiable. They're lucky that she doesn't cause any permanent injuries before a goblin with more common sense arrives and manages to sort things out.
- Despite seeing the above, one Death Eater gathers his fellows and tries to attack Taylor, who's with Luna and her father, Hermione and her parents, and Harry. The elder Lovegood and his daughter show off some impressive spells (the former turning one inside-out and the latter making him explode), Mr. Granger knocks one Death Eater out with a brick, and both Harry and Hermione get some good licks in, and that's not even counting Taylor's contribution, including one more member of the "Death Eaters reduced to ashes by Taylor's Fiendfyre" club when the racist tries to use the Killing Curse.
- Crossover Power Acquisition: Besides the magical insects that she picks up and some items that she grabs like a belt with Bigger on the Inside pouches to store them in, Taylor also finds that she can control Fiendfyre, which is apparently less magical fire and more a swarm of minute Energy Beings, which her very interested power finds just close enough to insects to allow her to control it.
- The Dreaded: Skitter is very quickly becoming wizarding Britain's newest boogeyman, as within 48 hours of her arrival she's killed Voldemort and most of his Death Eaters, shown off control of some fearsome magical insects, and somehow tamed Fiendfyre with her power.
- Dug Too Deep: There's an Eldritch Location sealed deep beneath London, simply called the Deep, which terrifies anyone that knows of it, the goblins in particular keeping a close watch on it after one goblin went too far down expanding the Gringotts network and disappeared... along with a good number of vaults and tunnels. Taylor's arrival causes a stir in the Directorate in the non-magical government monitoring the situation, as she can control a number of the smaller creatures that call it home.
- Eviler than Thou: According to Sirius, at least ten percent of the books in the Black family library were written by people that make Voldemort "look like a nice chap you'd want to buy a drink for", with Remus rather horrified both by the thought itself and that Sirius isn't joking in any way. The fact that the library has information on Horcruxes is just the tip of the iceberg.
- Idiot Ball: In-Universe, something is going on with Hogwarts that has caused many of the incidents with Harry in the past few years to be relatively obscure or glossed over, or downplayed by those who knew of them and should be outraged, and while Dumbledore being a secretive old wizard could explain some of it (or be because he's been affected himself) that still leaves a lot, like Remus forgetting his potion on a full moon night and then going after the kids, which he explicitly notes is something that he hasn't done before or since.
- Magic Misfire: Taylor gets zapped through time and space to the Ministry battle because Bellatrix and Dolohov fired unknown spells that hit the Veil at the same time, which causes a portal to open right in front of Taylor.
- Mugging the Monster: After her accidental summoning, the Death Eaters try and kill Taylor. They don't last very long after that.
- Quantity vs. Quality: It's noted that while magic tends to be more versatile than parahuman powers, with most parahumans limited to a small number of abilities or even a single power, in many cases said specialized abilities are capable of being more powerful than their closest spell equivalents.
- Retired Badass: Both Danny and Annette apparently had some crazy adventures of their own before Taylor was born, with Danny coming out of retirement when Taylor goes missing because she got portalled to Wizarding Britain.
- Shout-Out:
- When Harry stops the Who's on First? going on with Voldemort's name, he mentally references Monty Python.
- There are several references to what seems to be Taylor/Saurial from the author's other story Taylor Varga, having previously shown up in that version of wizarding Britain at some point.
- Who's on First?: When Taylor mentions seeing Voldemort and Dumbledore fighting, Ginny refers to the former as "You know who!" Taylor, not being from wizarding Britain, does not know who. Luckily, Harry intervenes before it can go on for too long.
- Wrong Context Magic: Parahuman powers and magic are noted to be completely different things, with Taylor's ability to control Fiendfyre alone, let alone her insects, being something that should be completely impossible with magic, and Taylor's shard being very interested in the cool new things it can do with the fyre and the magical insects it finds. Interestingly, Taylor can still see Diagon Alley's entrance without wizarding aid, implying that they might not be completely unconnected.
