Hogwarts-An Escalation
is a Worm and Harry Potter crossover where Taylor ends up in the world of the latter due to a Bakuda bomb. Can also be found at Spacebattles forums here and at Archive Of Our Own.
- A-Cup Angst: Taylor is still insecure about her figure.
- Awesomeness by Analysis: Just from what he glimpsed from his brief mental contact with the QA shard and his other observations from his talk with her in his office, Dumbledore manages to figure out more about Taylor and her power in five minutes than Earth Bet's scientists (at least outside of Cauldron) have done in decades, even guessing that she's from another world. Taylor, eavesdropping on him talking to Snape about this, pegs him as both very intelligent and very dangerous.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: Taylor often bemoaned the fact that she had no Brute powers, but now that she has a Healing Factor, she knows that it's from an interaction between magic and her Shard, which she's just learned about, and she had no control over it. She lampshades this of course.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Out of all the teachers, it's Flitwick who's the angriest after learning what Umbridge had been doing after Taylor sets every Doxie in the castle on her, much to Hagrid's surprise. Snape attributes it to his goblin blood, which he doesn't deny.
- Bifauxnen: Taylor dresses in a suit in her bodyguard role, and multiple characters mistake her for a man.
- Death by Irony: Bakuda's own bomb causes her to fall off a cliff to her death upon arriving on the Harry Potter Earth, while Taylor lands safe and sound.
- Fantastic Racism: As in canon, Umbridge is heavily biased against Muggle-borns, non-humans, and wizards with inhuman blood. For example, when Fleur applied to work at Gringotts, she hadit blocked for weeks by the toad due to her Veela ancestry.
- Female Gaze: Daphne finds Taylor in her new suit distracting.
- Has a Type: After realizing that she likes girls, Taylor soon realizes that she does have a type, blondes. She even wonders if part of why she joined the Undersiders so quickly is because she liked how Lisa's butt looked in spandex.
- Healing Factor: When Taylor, furious at how Umbridge reminds her of Blackwell, she drives her nails into her hands hard enough to bleed, only for the cuts to heal before her eyes.
- In Love with Your Carnage: Daphne is very impressed when Taylor spars with Dumbledore and actually gets in a couple of hits.
- Innocently Insensitive: Daphne bought one of Draco's badges to support Cedric, not knowing about the "Potter stinks" alternate message on it until the train ride to Hogwarts the next year.
- Interspecies Adoption: Taylor ends up becoming the "mother" figure to a small number of Acromantula Queens.
- Klingon Promotion: How Taylor became the queen of the Acromantula colony in the Forbidden Forest.
- LGBT Awakening: Taylor has one in Teacher's Pet 01, after overhearing Daphne talking about her own crush on Taylor, and how Taylor seems to have eyes for another girl, where she realizes that she likes girls as well as guys.
- Obfuscating Insanity: Both Daphne and Taylor quickly cotton on to the fact that Luna isn't as much of a Cloud Cuckoolander as she appears to be at first glance.
- Oblivious to Love: Daphne develops a crush on Taylor, but the latter is oblivious until she overhears Daphne talking about it to her friends with her bugs.
- Oh, My Gods!: At one point Taylor says "Scion above" after dumbfounding Filch.
- O.C. Stand-in: Daphne Greengrass. As one of the many named but ultimately meaningless characters of the series, she obviously fills the role of someone who Taylor can use to learn about Wizarding Society from not only a native perspective but a high ranking one as a one of the so called "Sacred Twenty-Eight".
- Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: When Taylor, noting at how tropey wizarding society is, she says semi-jokingly that she is never eating a wizarding world apple, because they're probably all poison. Daphne has no idea what she's talking about, nor what a movie is, causing Taylor to declare that they're going to have a movie night.
- Psychic Nosebleed: When Dumbledore tries to read Taylor's mind, the Queen Administrator shard takes offense and he ends up with one of these as a result after it forces him out.
- Rage Breaking Point: Taylor was already pissed by Umbridge and her attitude, especially since it reminded her of Blackwell, but when she spies her using Blood Quills on Luna and the twins she sets every doxie in the castle upon her.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: Even Taylor, for all her body dysphoria, is surprised as to how good she looks in a properly fitted suit.
- Something Only They Would Say: Or "do", in this case. McGonagall realizes that Taylor isn't a Death Eater spy when she sees her reaction to the enchanted roof of the Great Hall, noting that a Death Eater wouldn't have faked the awe and wonder that she displayed at the sight of it.
- Trapped in Another World: Taylor and Bakuda ended up on the Harry Potter Earth near the Greengrass residence, and while Taylor landed safely, Bakuda fell to her death off a cliff, and since they only were transported at all by Bakuda's experimental bomb, she's not going home any time in the foreseeable future.
- Stop Being Stereotypical:
- When Taylor learns that witches and wizards actually ride broomsticks, and make the stereotype easier to follow by giving broomsticks padded seats, she's utterly baffled. When she later learns that flying carpets also exist, she lampshades that wizarding society seems to be deliberately trying to check off every stereotype non-magicals have.
- She does, however make an exception for unicorns.
- Wrong Context Magic: Parahuman abilities are different from wizard magic, but when Taylor is given a ring-shaped wand by Ollivander, she has something like a trigger event vision, Daphne konking out next to her, and her shard has seemingly started using it to do magic through her, like her powers working on Trevor, who is most certainly not an insect.
