Fanfic / Kaleidoscopic Grangers

If blindness wasn’t enough for Ariadne Granger to deal with upon attending Hogwarts, being the transgender Girl Who Lived didn’t help matters.

Kaleidoscopic Grangers is a Harry Potter fanfic by AdmiralPegasus, in which Harry is a trans girl named Ariadne Granger. It starts 5 years prior to the events of Philosopher's Stone and branches off from there.

It has a sequel called Birds of a Feather and several spin-off fics which are listed at Kaleidoscopic Grangers Spin-Offs.

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• 11th-Hour Costume Change: Between Chapters 267 and 268, Ariadne changes into her Hogwarts uniform and wears this for the entire Battle of Hogwarts.
• 11th-Hour Superpower:
  • In Chapter 267, Ariadne's Thread, Ginny demonstrates that she can use magic wandlessly, and uses it to devastating effect in Chapters 272 and 275.
  • In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne's Chekhov's Skill culminates in her using complex Dimensional Transfiguration in order to deflect a Killing Curse back at Voldemort, a feat considered completely impossible until she did it.
  • Hermione gets a political one in Chapter 310, An Offer, in which she is offered and accepts a position of extreme legal power in order to see through the goals of T.H.O.R.N.
• A-Cup Angst: Ariadne unfortunately is often dysphoric about seeming "behind" her peers in terms of her physical development due to being transgender and having started taking the magical equivalent of hormones a year or two after most of her peers had begun puberty already. She is quietly jealous of some of her peers and Hermione, although her use of Time Turners in her third year lets her catch up a little and after a while, she largely gets over that particular insecurity, and the trope begins to neither fit story-wise or literally.
  • It's also technically confirmed in Chapter 167, Departures and Dreams, that Ariadne has grown to a B Cup, by implication of her needing new bras again. As such, the trope name doesn't really fit after this point.
  • The trope definitely doesn't fit anymore by Chapter 242, As The World Falls Down, as the bras she bought after 167 are stated to have been "getting tight on her in recent months," implying she might be nearing a C Cup.
• Adaptational Alternate Ending: Kaleidoscopic Grangers ends differently to Harry Potter, both in that many characters are in very different places in their lives, and in that it does not have a Distant Finale.
• Academic Athlete: Ariadne is solidly an example of this, playing Quidditch while also being an academic prodigy.
• Adaptive Ability:
  • Although it is not explicitly confirmed, and is only speculation on Ariadne's part, she believes the reason she developed her magical sense was because she had been recently blinded and her magic compensated for the missing sense to help her be safer with the Dursleys.
  • In Chapter 285, The Pack Survives, it is implied that Ginny's ability to make use of wandless magic is an example of this - although the details are unknown, she was for some reason put in a position where she was forced to burn down much of the Forbidden Forest, and destroyed the Acromantula colony within in doing so. In Chapter 269, I Bid You Stand, Professor McGonagall states that Ginny is able to deflect Unforgivable Curses without even moving, implying she was tortured and learned to protect herself against those spells, possibly instinctively, and in Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, Ginny demonstrates the ability to directly hit a fast-moving flying target without looking, although Ariadne doesn't get time to question how she did this.
• Adaptation Expansion:
  • Kaleidoscopic Grangers examines the Grangers' affinity for enchantment and spell-making in more detail, by necessity as Ariadne is as academically inclined as Hermione, see Adaptational Skill.
  • The author is expanding the epilogue content significantly.
• Adaptation Name Change:
  • The character referred to as Cho Chang in the canon is instead called Zhou Chang, for various out-of-universe reasons.
  • In Chapter 289, A New Life, the child named Edward Lupin in canon is named Jason Sirius Tonks, for two reasons. First, in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Nymphadora and Remus were Friends with Benefits, and so his last name is not Lupin. Secondly, in canon, Edward Lupin was named after his late grandfather, who didn't die in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, and so he isn't named after him.
• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • Ronald Weasley is changed from in canon being described as having the emotional range of a teaspoon to being a genuinely supportive young man who Hermione instead describes as having always been there for the Grangers, sweet, and kind. Justified by a slight change to the circumstances leading to the troll attack in their first year being a little more obviously Ron's fault, where he cries at the possibility his actions could have indirectly killed the girls - wherein Ron Took a Level in Kindness. Also an example of Adaptational Nice Guy.
    • This was also largely due to the author finding canon's Ron exhausting, according to Word of God - "The canon Ron derides everything that makes Hermione Hermione. KG!Ron couldn't love those things more."
  • In Chapter 262, Theseus, it is revealed that Draco Malfoy, who was under the codename Theseus, had a Heel–Face Turn, and has joined the Order of the Phoenix, becoming The Atoner.
    • In Chapter 263, Heist Plan, Draco outlines his slow Heel Realization, accelerated by the return of Lord Voldemort, wherein he realized everything he had been brought up to believe was a lie.
    • In communications on a Discord server, the author stated her treatment of the character is based on a scene from the movie Stargate: The Ark of Truth, where Teal'c and Tomin discuss their past and their guilt. In Chapter 287, We're All Someone's Son, Draco almost quotes Tomin verbatim, saying of others saying he's earnt forgiveness, "I cannot imagine the day I believe it."
  • In Chapter 366, Mother, Chiara Lobosca arrives at Ariadne and Ginny's house for a full moon. In this chapter, she's shown as a brash punk biker, with a leather jacket covered in patches and a classic motorcycle - specifically a BSA Lightning from 1969. Nymphadora goes so far as to call her a "shy girl turned punk bitch." This is a far cry from her depiction in Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery, where she is reserved, timid, and insecure. Justified in that she is shown even in the game to like punk music, and that in Kaleidoscopic Grangers Chiara was outed as a werewolf in her early days working at Saint Mungo's, which caused her to lose her job and run away for several months, after which she decided to stop hiding and allow herself to take up space, leaning into the punk subculture. Lampshaded by Chiara herself when talking with Nymphadora about how Nymphadora has mellowed since having children, saying "and to think back in the day I was the repressed one," and that she "overshot" Nymphadora instead of meeting her in the middle.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Ariadne, unlike Harry who tends to use shields, stunners, and disarming spells more often, by the time of the Battle of Hogwarts is slinging lightning bolts, explosive spells, and Firestorms as part of her go-to arsenal. See Good Is Not Soft
  • Ginny is given a massive power-boost after her magical suppression is released. In the Battle of Hogwarts she is catastrophically lethal with magic even without a wand, able to take on more than half a dozen Death Eaters at once without her wand, and allegedly burned down a large chunk of the Forbidden Forest with wandless magic.
  • Ron gets his own small boost in terms of his physical strength after Chapter 107, Fetch, where he becomes a werewolf. Instead of Hermione luring Professor Umbridge to the forest, Ron takes matters into his own hands in Chapter 182, Toe Your Line and Play Their Game, starting by breaking Goyle's ribs and throwing him across the room. He later beats Fenrir Greyback nearly to death in Chapter 234, The Battle of Evermore, and according to Word of God, if the Skirmish at Malfoy Manor had taken place in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, he would have torn the bars of the cellar off their hinges and ripped Bellatrix Lestrange apart with his bare hands.
• Adaptational Context Change:
  • Instead of Ron doing it, in Chapter 19, Remorseful Rescues, Hermione uses "Wingardium Leviosa" to save Ariadne. This is because she was in a different position, and in the movie she was the one to come up with the idea - and so instead of telling Ron to do it, she does it herself.
  • In Chapter 129, The Yule Ball, Ron accuses Hermione of "fraternizing with the enemy" as a joke instead of seriously.
  • Instead of Ariadne yelling at Professor Umbridge in Chapter 157, it is Ron who does so and gets detention for it. This is because Ariadne is far too scared to do so, while Ron is easily angered and influenced by his pack instinct as a werewolf.
  • In Chapter 161, Splinter Cell, instead of Ariadne rejecting the Shrieking Shack as a location for Dumbledore's Army, it is Ron who says "No, it's too small." This is because, of the New Marauders, Ron is the only one who's actually been there, because he is a werewolf. Luna points out the oddity that Ron has been there, and Hermione changes the subject.
  • In Chapter 184, Here We Stand, where it is unconfirmed in the movie, Ginny kills three Death Eaters using a powerful Reductor Curse - in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, this is because she is exceptionally powerful, and vaporized them.
  • In Chapter 185, Here We Fall, instead of Ariadne attempting to chase down and use the Cruciatus Curse on Bellatrix in retribution for her murder of Sirius, it is Remus who attempts this, as he was in a committed romantic relationship with Sirius. Ron is able to prevent him from doing so, as he is stronger than Remus.
  • In Chapter 203, He's A Keeper, Ron is the one who catches a fly, not McLaggen, as he has superior reflexes thanks to being a werewolf.
  • In Chapter 209, The Witch-King of Angmar, Hermione says her date is a surprise, but even in the chapter, it is clearly not Cormac McLaggen - she violently rejects his inappropriate advances in the chapter. In Chapter 211, Polite Conversation, her date for Slughorn's party is shown to be Viktor Krum.
  • In Chapter 228, A Matter of Luck, Ariadne does not spontaneously decide to go to Hagrid's to meet Slughorn, she instead decides to come with Ron, as Ron is going for dinner before his full moon.
  • In Chapter 232, From the Dragon of Darkness, instead of Professor Dumbledore conjuring the Firestorm, Ariadne does it.
  • In Chapter 252, Dream On, Ron's conversation about his intense feelings for his family are instead motivated by his pack instinct as a werewolf, and instead of the conversation leading to his departure as in the movie, it leads to his Relationship Upgrade with Hermione.
  • In Chapter 267, Ariadne's Thread, Aberforth notes Ariadne's name a little more in his discussion of Ariana, likening them to eachother.
  • In Chapter 270, This Day We Fight, when Helena Ravenclaw says Ariadne reminds her a bit of Voldemort, Ariadne pointedly echoes her statement that the Diadem was not the only thing Voldemort defiled with Dark magic, "some of them living."
  • In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Neville gets the opportunity to kill Nagini because he went with Ron and Hermione to find her, and Nagini used Parseltongue to communicate with Voldemort... not knowing both Ron and Ariadne could speak and hear it, leading the four of them straight to her.
  • In Chapter 366, Mother, Chiara Lobosca's white hair is stated to be a symptom of albinism, which isn't indicated in Hogwarts Mystery. Additionally, Chiara wears strong glasses, as albinism causes problems of the eyes, where she doesn't in her original depictions. Her very humanoid wolf form in the game is also indicated to be a health issue in the context of Kaleidoscopic Grangers' treatment of werewolves, which she deliberately caused herself to hide her tapeta lucida, since albinism and the associated pigment loss in her eyes would cause them to be more visible.
  • In Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger, Stan Shunpike says his line of "let's not wait for the grass to grow" from the Prisoner of Azkaban movie, but here he seems more like he's just being playful.
• Adaptational Gender Identity:
  • Most obviously, Ariadne; her canon counterpart is a cisgender boy, she is a transgender girl.
  • Second, Luna Lovegood; there is no evidence canon Luna is anything other than a cis woman, but in Kaleidoscopic Grangers Luna is genderqueer in some way, using all pronouns and occasionally asking to be referred to as "Mister Lovegood" and the like.
  • In Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger, it's stated that Jason Tonks (Teddy Lupin in the canon) "probably was a bit genderfluid, but didn't give it much thought," as he occasionally uses his Metamorphmagus abilities to make himself look like a girl.
• Adaptational Sexuality:
  • Technically, Ariadne, as she is a transgender lesbian as opposed to a cisgender straight boy.
  • Ginny and Sirius are shown to be bisexual here, while they were straight in the original books.
  • Remus is also shown to be attracted to men, as he and Sirius are confirmed to be romantically involved. Whether he is bisexual, gay, pansexual, etc, is not specified, however he states in Chapter 174, A Dog's Life, that he has no preference for gender.
  • Krum is shown to be asexual here, but in the books, he shows interest in Hermione. His interest in Hermione and Ariadne is instead platonic. He invites Ariadne first to accompany him to the Yule Ball, citing international magical cooperation, before asking Hermione when he finds out Ariadne has already asked someone.
  • Gabrielle Delacour is not given any explicit sexuality in the canon, but in Chapter 297, Happy Birthdays, she is stated to be in a committed relationship with - and laid an egg for - a Caprid Centaur girl called Chloe.
  • In Chapter 319, Nice Cup of Tea, although his date Reginald Harris is invented for Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Ravenclaw student Stewart Ackerley is indicated to have an interest in boys given he and Reginald are going on a Valentines' date and have an Almost Kiss moment.
• Adaptational Skill:
  • Ariadne is significantly more advanced in magical ability, both theoretical and practical, than her canon counterpart, and often demonstrates this by using much more advanced magic reserved in the canon for characters like Professor Dumbledore - specifically in Chapter 232, From the Dragon of Darkness, where she casts the Firestorm instead of Dumbledore doing it.
    • She is also cited to be good at spell-making, and has well above average knowledge of complex enchantment work, having worked on such things as a Bigger on the Inside suitcase with Hermione. In Chapter 203, He's a Keeper, Ariadne is able to determine what the spell Sectumsempra would do based on the notes in the book, because of this skill.
    • Where Harry's affinity in the canon is for Defence Against the Dark Arts, Ariadne is much more skilled at Transfiguration, more so than Hermione who specializes a little more in Charms, and is even more learned in Dimensional Transfiguration, the practice of bending space, than Professor McGonagall. Justified in that Ariadne has no intention of becoming an Auror and has completely different priorities than Harry, and her - considerable - skills in combative magic are something she was forced to learn and wishes she never had to.
    • Ironically, she is also shown to be either less pacifistic, far more skilled at combative magic, or both, than Harry. Where Harry's Signature Move is the disarming spell Expelliarmus, Ariadne's is the explosive spell Bombarda. Also Justified in that Hermione, Ginny, and Ron insist upon helping her train hard for the Triwizard Tournament, which there is no evidence of Harry doing extensively in the movie.
    • This is shown extensively in Chapter 268, The Mouth of Sauron, where in the movie, Harry backs off and lets Professor McGonagall handle it. In Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Ariadne refuses and immediately kills Alecto Carrow in one shot.
  • In Chapter 267, Ariadne's Thread, Ginny reveals that she has learnt how to use wandless magic during her time at Hogwarts while Ariadne was hunting Horcruxes. This is later expanded in Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, when Ginny's wand is destroyed because it couldn't handle how powerful Ginny's magic is, and she goes about the rest of the battle without it, casting a sectumsempra, fireballs, a Patronus, and Reductor Curses using just her hands, and uses a Levitation Charm to take the Quidditch hoop off the giant and kill it with it.
    • In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, Ginny also seems to demonstrate some magical knowledge of her surroundings, as the sectumsempra she casts on two flying Death Eaters is cast without even looking.
  • Ron, beginning in third year, begins to learn from his mother how to cook, and by the time of the equivalent of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is an excellent cook. As a result, he becomes the Team Chef.
• Aerith and Bob: In Chapter 289, A New Life, Ariadne visits Nymphadora and her newborn son at Saint Mungo's, and agrees to be the godmother of Jason and his adopted sister... Delphini.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Many people in Kaleidoscopic Grangers tend to affectionately ruffle each other's hair.
• Affectionate Nickname: Ariadne is often referred to as 'Adne, Hermione as 'Mione, and Ariadne sometimes calls Ginny 'Gin.' Remus refers to Sirius as "Pads."
  • In Chapter 336, Inkpot Gods, Draco calls Astoria "Story" several times.
  • In Chapter 358, A Father's Fear, both Ron and Hermione call their daughter Persephone "Seph" or "Sephie."
• Afraid to Hold the Baby:
  • In Chapter 289, A New Life, Ariadne is initially nervous to hold the newborn Jason Tonks, her godson, as she worries she might hurt him.
  • In Chapter 294, A Funny Little Family, Hermione as well is nervous to hold Jason, for the same reason.
• After-Action Healing Drama:
  • Happens 'off-screen' in Chapter 256, To Cut the Head Off the Snake, after Ariadne is bitten by Nagini and is quickly downed by her venom and subsequent blood loss, as Nagini's fangs inject an anticoagulant. In Chapter 257, Christmas in Exile, Ariadne wakes up with Ron watching over her after he and Hermione pulled an all nighter just keeping her alive.
  • Takes up the first half of Chapter 273, The Mistress of Death, wherein Ariadne observes the frantic panicked attempts to tend to the heavily wounded from the Battle of Hogwarts.
• Afterlife Antechamber: In Chapter 274, The Grey Havens, Ariadne finds herself in an imaginary version of Hermione's bedroom instead of a cleaner version of King's Cross as Harry did - instead of Dumbledore, she speaks with the late Sirius and Remus, and Hermione is there as a fuzzy idea. Ariadne is presented the option of leaving the room through the door to move on and die, or to stay with her sister. After Sirius and Remus leave, Ariadne offers a hand to Hermione and in doing so elects to stay with her sister and come back to life.
• Alien Geometries: While it's not particularly heavy, Ariadne is an expert in making spaces Bigger on the Inside and warping spacetime - and she isn't particularly concerned with ensuring that her dimensional extensions don't overlap. Both in her own workspace suitcase and in the bedrooms of Cedar and Rowan Brown in Lavender's cottage, rooms overlap the same space in part, but it's fine because you're only going in via the door anyway.
• Almighty Mum: Valerie Granger takes no heed of how powerful some of the wizards she tells off are, including most prominently telling Severus Snape (alongside Sirius Black) to leave their "schoolyard bullshit" at the door and to "stop calling each other juvenile names and act like adults," and repeatedly giving Albus Dumbledore "The Reason You Suck" Speech speeches.
• Almost Kiss: In Chapter 241, Receptive Audience, after being egged on to ask Hermione to dance (while Ariadne goes on to speak with Elphias Doge) by Fleur and Ginny, Ron ends up dancing with Hermione by the time Ariadne senses the wards of the Burrow going down. When she tells Arthur what is happening, it is stated that it looked as if Ron were about to kiss Hermione but were interrupted by Ariadne's alert that the wards were going down, but that Ariadne had other priorities.
• And There Was Much Rejoicing: Subverted - the wizarding world certainly celebrates when Voldemort is killed, but neither Ariadne nor anyone she knows is celebrating - they're a bit busy dealing with fresh trauma and burying loved ones. In Chapter 281, Disarmament, while visiting Diagon Alley, Ariadne is snappy and pleads people to leave her alone because she's only just attended Remus' funeral the day before. Even years later, Ariadne refuses to take part in anything that glorifies the Battle of Hogwarts, and repeatedly tells her students after she becomes a teacher that it was the worst day of her life. In Chapter 276, I See The Shire, which takes place the morning after the battle, the atmosphere is sad and to Ariadne doesn't feel like a victory. Any celebrations are taking place elsewhere, in places like Diagon Alley, and in the next chapter Ariadne thinks of it as "just reminders of the losses the media were glossing over."
• And This Is for...: Invoked in Chapter 256, To Cut the Head Off the Snake, by Ron, while bludgeoning Nagini with a brick - one hit for Nagini's attack on his father, and another for her having eaten Professor Charity Burbage. He also does this in Parseltongue by accident, revealing him to be a Parselmouth.
• Animal Motifs and/or Animal Metaphor
  • Ariadne's Patronus is an arctic fox, symbolizing her playful but intelligent nature. In Chapter 322, Lighting Rod, she becomes an Animagus with a similar form of an arctic fox.
  • Ginny's Patronus is a tiger, in contrast to it being a horse in canon, as she is more fierce.
  • Ron's Patronus is a wolf, because he is a werewolf. It also reflects his nature as a supportive and loyal friend.
  • Hermione's Patronus is a wolf as well, matching Ron's - this is revealed in Chapter 252, Dream On.
• Animorphism: In Chapter 322, Lightning Rod, Ariadne becomes an Animaga (feminine form of the word Animagus, which is masculine). Once she has completed the ritual, she is able to transform at will into an arctic fox (vulpes lagopus), which she nicknames Vixie. Ariadne is not the only one to do this; Jamie Brand, Tori Cobbler-Royal, Luna Lovegood, and Lisa Turpin, all complete the ritual as well, becoming a golden-headed lion tamarin, a tawny owl, a giant silk moth, and a hedgehog respectively. It is also stated in Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger, that Jason Tonks, Ariadne's godson and Teddy Lupin in the canon, had applied for the Animagus Studies class in 2025. Though the work's last scene takes place in 2027, it is not stated what his Animagus form was.
• Anorgasmia: In Chapter 284, We Could Be Heroes (part 3) Ariadne finds she is sexually impotent and cannot come to orgasm - at least not without Transfiguring her penis into a vagina, which she did beforehand and did come to orgasm twice using.
• Artistic License and/or Shown Their Work: As discussed in the notes, Kaleidoscopic Grangers often uses actual UK weather reports to determine the weather on any given chapter by the actual weather on that day in reality after Chapter 173, The Wolf Among Us, which is the first instance - the author wished to check that Professor Umbridge's statement that it was sunny outside was accurate. This continued, and is occasionally ignored like in Chapter 254, The Best Laid Plans, where it was in fact raining on that date and rough location in reality, but this was ignored to allow Ron, in his wolf form, to communicate a vague detail of what he knew about the symbol of the Deathly Hallows by writing it in the snow.
  • Unlike in canon, in Chapters 264-275 (the chapters surrounding the final day of the Second Wizarding War), it starts raining, and the Battle of Hogwarts takes place mostly in moderate rain and sleet.
  • Another example is lampshaded in discussions of Chapter 265, Defensive Lines, where the author checked what sort of rock London is built on and then discarded it because it would make Gringotts seem less plausible an underground structure.
• Artistic License – Animal Care: Mentioned by Ariadne in Chapter 286, We Won't Find Ourselves Alone Again. Ariadne acknowledges that Hermes' cage is too small for him and unhealthy, and says she'll look into making a Bigger on the Inside aviary for him.
• Attack Reflector: From Chapter 227, Like Water Through a Pipe, Ariadne works on developing a spell that would divert the course of any projectile or projectile-like spell, including the Killing Curse after realizing a way it could work.
  • In Chapter 257, Christmas in Exile, Ariadne tests this spell using the first working prototype.
  • In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne uses this spell to deflect Voldemort's Killing Curse back at him, killing him.
• Author Appeal: Due to the author's self-admitted enjoyment of werewolves, there are quite a lot of werewolves in Kaleidoscopic Grangers; including characters who were werewolves in the canon, there are at least eighteen, including a few Ascended Extras and children born as werewolves.

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• Babysitting Episode: Chapter 371, The Pandemic and the Veela, is an example of this; due to Bill having caught COVID-19, Ariadne and Ginny are babysitting his and Fleur's three children - Fleur is immune, but because the kids are more human, they don't want to take the risk. Ariadne and Ginny find it extremely exhausting and stressful for a number of reasons; Ariadne is already dealing with her struggles in distance teaching, they're already poor candidates for parenthood since they're jumpy and reactive because of trauma, and these particular children have a form of emotional telepathy (most active in the youngest, Louis)... and both Ariadne and Ginny have had traumatic experiences with mind magic. Not to mention that the three are part-Veela, and as such are in essence three child-sized birds of prey. Repeated trips to the butchers' for offal ensue, and the eldest, Victoire, solves their mouse problem by eating the mouse, to Ginny's disgust - she's even more disgusted when Ariadne demands Victoire spit it out, and Victoire obliges by vomiting it back up onto the kitchen floor.
• Back for the Finale: In Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger, the first scene is Ariadne going about her duty of informing muggleborn children that they have magic, and discovering that the child she is there to see, Sarah, is in fact the daughter of her cousin, Dudley, who has not been seen for thirty years and who Took the Wife's Name to be Dudley Twendele - Ariadne doesn't recognize him immediately, and he doesn't recognize her until she reveals her eyes.
• Bad Powers, Bad People: Averted. In the canon, Parseltongue is considered an inherently evil ability that Harry only has because he is a Horcrux for Voldemort. In Kaleidoscopic Grangers, it is not inherently evil although it carries an unearned social stigma, and in Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne retains the ability after she is no longer a Horcrux, something that is foreshadowed in Chapter 257, when it is her entire magical core buzzing in order to produce the language instead of just the Horcrux as it was originally, which implies she has absorbed the ability from the Horcrux into her own magic. It is also shown in Chapter 257, Christmas in Exile, that Ron has the ability, and in Chapter 263, Heist Plan, that Bill also has the ability. Draco says he would have liked to see his father's reaction to the Weasleys being Parselmouths.
  • Justified, in that in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Parseltongue cannot be imitated without the ability, and though the scene doesn't happen in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Ron is shown to use it in the movie to open the Chamber of Secrets. By Kaleidoscopic Grangers' rules, that would make Ron a Parselmouth.
    • This was a Retcon because the author hadn't thought of it originally, and as such Ron does not show any indication of understanding Parselmouth in his second year at Hogwarts. Ron claims in Chapter 257 that he just wasn't paying attention.
• Badass Adorable: Ariadne is often underestimated because she is more emotionally open than Harry and is prone to panic attacks, but she has killed a dragon singlehandedly.
• Badass Biker:
  • Although she got given a motorcycle 16 chapters before, Ginny first begins to fit this trope in Chapter 331, Bat Out of Hell, where Ariadne buys her a motorcycle (a Yamaha YBR125 Custom) on which to learn, since she cannot ride the Triumph Bonneville T140 she was given in Chapter 315, Entangled Branches, until she has a full A class licence - at Ginny's age, she can only get an A1 licence. Ginny later buys herself a Royal Enfield Bullet 500 in Chapter 341, Domesticity, which is more powerful than the Yamaha, when she gets her A2 licence.
  • Additionally, in Chapter 366, Mother, Chiara Lobosca is shown to be a Badass Biker too — she rides a 1969 BSA Lightning.
  • In Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger, Delphini is stated to have taken after Ginny's interest in motorcycles, and Ariadne and Ginny are in the market for her first motorbike, the best candidate being a 125cc Honda.
• Badass Boast: In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne follows up her deflection of a Killing Curse - a feat thought to be impossible beforehand - with one such Badass Boast, where Voldemort incredulously asks how she did it. Ariadne tells him that Hogwarts is a school, and after listing some of her various titles (as an example of I Have Many Names) - those being "The Girl Who Lived," "The White Eyed Wonder," "Triwizard Champion," and "The Chosen One," but she omits "Mistress of Death" perhaps to not give away that she has Complete Immortality - tells him that above all of those things, she is Ariadne Granger and she's a good student. She then goads him into firing it again by demanding to know if he is "Lord Voldemort, Dark Lord of all... or just a sad old man who can't even get through an eighteen-year-old's homework project" .
• Bag of Holding: Through Chapters 162 to 165, Hermione gets Ariadne to help her enchant a pair of bags to be bigger on the inside, citing Ariadne's superior skills at Transfiguration. In 165, they complete the bags, giving each a Bag of Holding.
• Band Episode: In Chapter 293, Having a Jam, the New Marauders book a recording room at the Wizarding Wireless Network, having decided to have fun and start a band.
• Battle-Halting Duel and Battle-Interrupting Shout: In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, once Nagini has been killed and thus all of Voldemort's Horcruxes destroyed, Ariadne Apparates into the Great Hall, amplifies her voice so loudly it kicks up dust, and demands Voldemort face her one-on-one. The duel is fought on the condition that should one be killed by the other, their forces will surrender, and the battle is halted for this duel.
• Battle Couple:
  • Ariadne and Ginny are definitely the heavy hitters in the New Marauders, with the two highest kill counts. Both can easily hold their own, but they work well as a team. The first time they enter battle together is in Chapter 184, Here We Stand, and they even engage in Flirting Under Fire during this chapter.
  • To a lesser degree, after Chapter 252, Dream On, Ron and Hermione - during the Battle of Hogwarts in Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, they work well together, coordinating to attack a group of Death Eaters with their matching wolf Patronuses before working together to save Lavender and Parvati.
• Beam-O-War:
  • Averted.
    • In Chapter 145, The Resurrection, there is no Priori Incantatem in the graveyard, as Ariadne instead rushes the Alchemist to use him as a Human Shield while she retrieves the Portkey from his pocket.
    • In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne does not defeat Voldemort using one of these as Harry does in the movie Kaleidoscopic Grangers is based on.
  • In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne does however invoke this twice, first against a Killing Curse with a lightning bolt while hunting Nagini, and secondly during her duel with Voldemort using a firebolt.
• Beardness Protection Program: Joked about in Chapter 264, Hidden in Plain Sight, by Draco, regarding Ron having grown a beard during their time on the run, saying it might be enough to get Ron into Gringotts (as Ron cannot be easily magically disguised like the others due to being a werewolf), and that even he almost didn't recognize him the week before. Ron shaves before they get back in Chapter 266, The Last Debate.
• Beautiful Singing Voice: After Chapter 202, Then We Were Ziggy's Band, Ron is shown to have a surprisingly good singing voice. Justified because as a werewolf he can hear better, and that includes hearing himself better to know if he's hitting the notes. Ron is later the lead singer for their for-fun band in Chapter 293, Having a Jam.
• Begin with a Finisher: In Chapter 268, The Mouth of Sauron, when about to fight Snape alongside Professor McGonagall, Ariadne notices Alecto Carrow about to curse her - she preempts Carrow by immediately killing her with a lightning bolt as a One-Hit Kill, which starts the fight.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Ron is generally very sweet and kind, and often bakes in his spare time, but threatening his friends and family will send him berserk - literally. In Chapter 234, The Battle of Evermore, Ron sees fellow werewolf Fenrir Greyback attacking his brother and goes berserk. In Chapter 182, Toe Your Line and Play Their Game, Ron goes from having been trying to be unassuming and unnoticed during the year by Professor Umbridge to viciously attacking the members of the Inquisitorial Squad at the suggestion Umbridge use the Cruciatus Curse on Ariadne - to the point he immediately breaks Goyle's ribs and throws him at Crabbe, before taking a point-blank stunner like it was nothing and punching out the final remaining member. He would have continued to beat up Crabbe and Goyle had Luna not stunned them.
• Big Damn Kiss: In Chapter 267, Ariadne's Thread, when Ariadne and Ginny reunite.
• Big Eater: It was already a joke in canon that Ron eats a lot, however this is justified after Chapter 106, Fetch because Ron is a werewolf and has an altered metabolism that requires this of him.
• The Big Guy: After Chapter 107, Fetch, Ron. Ron is the undisputed tank of the group, able to shrug off magic as a werewolf and throw people across rooms nearly effortlessly. In Chapter 234, The Battle of Evermore, Ron nearly beats fellow werewolf Fenrir Greyback to death with his bare hands, and would have succeeded had he not forgotten that Greyback knew how to fly.
• Big "NO!": Invoked twice by Voldemort in Chapter 275, The Dark Lord.
• Bigger on the Inside: In Chapter 172, "Inspired," Hermione comes up with the plan of creating a case not unlike that of Newt Scamander in Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them. In Chapter 179, Ladders and Lanterns, they complete its enchantment and begin work on its interior, giving them a Bigger on the Inside mobile workspace case.
• Bittersweet Ending: Chapter 276, I See The Shire, and onward explore the grief of losing those who were lost in the war.
• Blind Musician: Ariadne, blind, plays the guitar, both electric and acoustic. She plays guitar for the New Marauders' for-fun band in Chapter 293, Having a Jam.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior: Ariadne seems to have a habit of getting covered in the blood and various brain matter of monsters she was forced to kill by blowing up their heads, having been drenched in basilisk blood and later dragon blood. Ginny thinks Ariadne "looks cool covered in something else's blood."
• Bookends:
  • Chapter 373, Ronald and Hermione is itself bookended by newspaper articles. First is an article about Ron's business and philanthropy, and at the end is an article about Hermione's political career. Additionally, the section about Hermione ends with a Call-Back to Chapter 1, Harmony at the Park.
  • Chapter 1, Harmony at the Park, and Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger, both begin with Ariadne stumbling on a curb; the exact wording is almost identical, except for her name and exactly how the fact she stumbled wasn't unusual.
  Ariadne stumbled on the curb. It wasn't unusual, sometimes when she disembarked the Knight Bus her glasses hadn’t caught its edge because of how the angle of the bus floor hid it.
• Bouquet Toss: Not gendered, but present in Chapter 241, Receptive Audience, wherein Ron catches Fleur's bouquet, and Bill teases that he will return the favour of being Ron's best man, as Ron was Bill's.
• Both Sides Have a Point: In the early morning of Chapter 154, Safe House, Ron and Remus have a discussion about their lycanthropy, and have somewhat conflicting viewpoints. Remus is disturbed that Ron is so willing to let it change him and that he's not taking it seriously, while Ron thinks Remus is hiding from himself and causing himself harm deliberately. However, both werewolves have a different experience of lycanthropy; Remus was bitten long before Wolfsbane Potion was invented and cannot regularly afford it, while Ron has never been feral before, having had constant access to the potion thanks to Hogwarts providing it - their perspectives are true for themselves, but not to the other.
• Brand X:
  • In Chapter 133, Assignment Brief, Ariadne, Ron and Ginny head to Hogsmeade to buy Ariadne swimwear for the second task, going to a department store called "SpellMart," a parody of K Mart. The existence of this also reflects a slightly more Urban Fantasy setting than the canon, as the events of Kaleidoscopic Grangers take place ten years later than Harry Potter, and Hogsmeade is a bit bigger and more modern.
  • In Chapter 137, Barty Crouch, Fred says Ariadne must be good at making spells because of "all those Spellios for breakfast," a parody of cheerios, as a similar cereal is shown being eaten at Hogwarts in the movies. The author was unaware that an in-universe name ("Cheeri-Owls," as seen in the background of the movie adaptation of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) existed at the time.
• Breather Episode:
  • The majority of Ariadne's third year could qualify as this, save for the chapters where Ariadne hunts down and catches Peter Pettigrew, and where Ron becomes a werewolf. This is largely due to the main plot mostly not happening due to the Butterfly Effect. Instead of a complex and delicate situation involving Time Turners and a condemned Hippogriff, Ariadne just goes and catches Pettigrew herself, and Buckbeak is never condemned to begin with. Due to this, the year mostly focuses on Ariadne and Hermione's uses of Time Turners as well as Ariadne's beginning crush on Ginny.
  • Chapter 141, Romantic Flight, is an example of this, where Ariadne takes a break from the Triwizard Tournament to essentially go on a date.
  • Chapters 165, 179, and 180 are the only chapters that could qualify as this in Ariadne's fifth year, except they are technically part of the main plot in that the Grangers' inventiveness is in fact Hermione's way of trying to help Ariadne through her depression. It also contributes heavily to Ariadne's Chekhov's Skill.
  • Other Breather Episode chapters include chapters 194, 196, 199, 202, 222, and 224.
  • The notes of Chapter 227, Like Water Through a Pipe, state that Chapter 225, Writing Home, was the last such chapter until the end of the main plot.
  • Many, if not most, chapters after Chapter 288, You're the Voice, could be described as this, but Word of God has teased that many of these chapters are likely to in fact be Innocuously Important Episodes.
• Broken Bird: Both Ariadne and Ginny become this to varying levels during the fic's equivalent of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. Both also do their best to hide this, however Ginny is implied to have been openly so at Hogwarts during this time. After the war, their recoveries from this state makes up much of their remaining story - Ariadne recovers more quickly, in part due to her Broken Bird status being due to her eventually temporary Despair Event Horizon being resolved, but Ginny is explicitly stated to be more traumatized than Ariadne, having been tortured and even left to die in the Forbidden Forest before burning it down. During her final year and a half at Hogwarts, Ginny develops a drinking problem and it becomes quite common for her to hide her sadness and pain with feigned confidence - in truth, she feels she has lost who she was, suffers pyrophobia, flashbacks, and nightmares so bad she sometimes wakes up setting fire to her bed - and it's implied this hasn't gone away even close to a decade later and shows no signs of going away in Chapter 363, I Do, since Ariadne mentions her wedding ring being useful in putting those fires out - and her great strength can be a detriment to people understanding her difficulties. Even Ariadne doesn't realize this initially, and in Chapter 316, Remember the Pact of our Youth, appeals to her being strong before she cries that she doesn't want to be strong anymore, I just want to stop hurting!

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• Calculus Is Arcane Knowledge: in a literal version of this, Ariadne is known for being prodigiously good at maths, and in her line of magic it is arcane knowledge - she focuses most on Dimensional Transfiguration, the warping of space, and thus having to know how one does that to begin with - she cites Einstein's General Relativity equations, for one. Ariadne defeats Voldemort with a spell based on mathematically figuring out how to warp spacetime, focusing on the space bit to bounce a Killing Curse back at him. She later says she worked on those equations so much that she could do them in her sleep, and is shown to be effortlessly good at complex maths and can do a head count of over forty people in what is implied to be mere seconds. Ariadne's Dimensional Transfiguration spells are so complex even conceptually that according to Word of God, even Hermione can't get them right (because they both violate and follow the laws of physics, and Hermione requires basic parameters like the laws of physics to remain constant in order for her to function).
• Call-Back:
  • In Chapter 55, Warnings, Ariadne remembers her own refusal to discuss the injury that blinded her in Chapter 1, Harmony at the Park, recognizing similar behaviour in the clearly abused elf Dobby.
  • In Chapter 75, Preparations, Ariadne references the discussion in Chapter 39, Second Years, where she told her dormmates that she had a "condition" that meant she could never have children, as part of coming out as transgender to them.
  • Also an example of a Stylistic Callback, in Chapter 81, Fear Itself, during Ariadne's flashbacks, the text refers to her magic sense as her colours and she remembers Hermione's name as Harmony - when she met Hermione in Chapter 1, Harmony at the Park, she misheard Hermione's name as Harmony, and she had no other way of describing her sense before Chapter 7, Another Knock, Another Door, and these re-emerge as part of the flashback episode.
  • In Chapter 88, Page 394, Ron taunts Hermione for believing expulsion a fate worse than death in Chapter 15, Three on Third.
  • In Chapter 92, Jingle Bells, Ariadne uses the false Snitches the twins made for her in Chapter 76, Important Discussions against them.
  • In Chapter 95, Expecto Patronum, Ariadne uses the memory of choosing her name with Hermione's help to cast a Patronus.
  • Similarly, In Chapter 102, Ariadne uses the memory where she and Hermione are dancing to Rebel Rebel from Chapter 5, Princesses Among Legend to cast a corporeal Patronus.
  • In Chapter 117, Names on a List, Ariadne remembers what Grace said about Professor Lupin in Chapter 104, Outed, "How can you even feel safe at Hogwarts though, knowing there's a monster living in the castle?!" Ariadne internally answers the question but regarding Ron's lycanthropy; "Because he's my best friend and I know he would never hurt me."
  • In Chapter 126, Girl Stuff, Ariadne brings up how the Veela in Chapter 113, Let the Match Begin, affected Ginny - indicating Ginny is attracted to girls - before asking her to the Yule Ball.
  • In Chapter 132, Eureka, Ariadne remembers her time in a temporary foster home with Rosemary before being adopted by the Grangers, where she'd had her first actually pleasant bath.
  • In Chapter 146, He's Back, Ginny mentions having tried to use one of the dog whistles Ron gave them all for Christmas in Chapter 131, Thread, Antlers and Money, to get him there after Ariadne was kidnapped.
  • In Chapter 147, The Days to Come, Sirius repeats the line "nobody stops being a Death Eater" that he said in the fireplace conversation of Chapter 121, Strategies.
  • Chapter 155, Out of the Frying Pan opens with Ariadne idly fiddling with the phoenix keychain Ginny gave her in Chapter 76, Important Discussions.
  • In Chapter 155, Out of the Frying Pan, Ron tells Draco that neither he nor Hermione had to buy their way into being Prefects, mirroring Hermione's scathing review of Draco's entrance to the Slytherin Quidditch team in Chapter 43, Eat Slugs.
  • In Chapter 161, Splinter Cell, Firenze refers to Ariadne and Hermione as the Princesses Among Legend in centaur prophecy - this is the title of Chapter 5, where Ariadne chose her name.
  • Also in Chapter 161, the discussion roves through Ariadne's previous accomplishments, including casting a corporeal fox Patronus in Chapter 102, The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog, blowing up the head of the Basilisk in Chapter 68, Heir of Gryffindor, catching Peter Pettigrew in Chapter 97, Rat Hunt, catching Barty Crouch Junior in Chapter 138, ...Junior, and winning the Triwizard Tournament in Chapter 143, The Labyrinth.
  • In Chapter 168, That Wasn't Me, the only similar occasion Ariadne has sensed regarding the dark magic in her core is when she had used Parseltongue in the Chamber of Secrets.
  • Also in Chapter 168, Ariadne goes through some severe flashbacks - these are, in order of appearance:
    • Being attacked by Voldemort in the graveyard in Chapter 145, The Resurrection.
    • Ron crying in her arms after discovering he is a werewolf in Chapter 107, Accidents and Consequences.
    • Ariadne unloading her depression on Sirius in Chapter 149, Lived It Ten Times or More.
    • Walking down a ramp at King's Cross with her glasses for the first time in Chapter 94, Historical Inaccuracies.
    • Ariadne struggling to cast the water-moulding spell in Chapter 134, Impending Grade.
    • Her initial intent to leave Cedric Diggory to die at the hands of the Blast-Ended Skrewt in Chapter 144, The Labyrinth.
    • Her identity as the Girl Who Lived being revealed in Chapter 49, Lightning Strikes.
    • Getting her wand in Chapter 8, Curious...
    • Professor Snape assigning the essay on werewolves in Chapter 88, Page 394.
    • Hearing the Basilisk in Chapter 44, Blood.
    • When she sneezed and revealed her presence to Child Protective Services in Chapter 2, A Knock at the Door.
    • The unwelcome attention of Chapter 125, Unwelcome Attention.
    • Taking her first dose of the Androgen Arrestor in Chapter 53, Baby Steps.
  • In Chapter 169, Under Better Circumstances, Ariadne has a few more flashbacks:
    • Helping Ron and Hermione study when they were Petrified.
    • Talking to Ron about him coming to Ariadne's birthday in Chapter 33, Homeward Bound.
    • Ariadne successfully ordering the Basilisk to halt at the end of Chapter 67, Riddles Resolved.
    • Tom Riddle identifying himself as a memory, also from Chapter 67.
    • Ginny being horrified by the sight of Ron "covered in blood" after his first full moon in Chapter 110, Full Moon Rising.
    • Being abducted by the Alchemist at the end of Chapter 144, We Are The Champions.
  • Also in Chapter 169, after Ron reveals that he is a werewolf to Bill, Bill recalls how Ron had falsely told him that he'd acquired his facial scar by tripping over a chair leg, in Chapter 153, The Order of the Phoenix.
  • In Chapter 199, New Years Resolutions, Ariadne says her Quidditch applications box doesn't need to keep Voldemort from getting the Philosopher's Stone.
  • In Chapter 231, The Queen of Light, Professor Dumbledore mentions the incident of Chapter 16, Dangerous Assumptions, and marvels at Ariadne for having been "...fiercely brave, how certain of yourself, you already were, to stand up to me as you did."
  • In Chapter 267, Ariadne's Thread, Ginny is wearing the signet ring Ariadne left at Hogwarts in Chapter 236, Goodbyes, and returns it to Ariadne.
  • In Chapter 234, The Battle of Evermore, Ariadne shoots a blast of lightning back at the Death Eaters following her. In Chapter 268, The Mouth of Sauron, Ariadne does this again to instantly kill Alecto Carrow, opening the fight with, after that, Snape and Amycus.
  • In Chapter 274, The Grey Havens, Ariadne's memory of dancing to Rebel Rebel by David Bowie and choosing the name Ariadne in Hermione's room is playing on the radio, but it is indistinct until late in the chapter.
  • In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne quotes Voldemort from the graveyard resurrection duel back at him several times, and mirrors his actions in trapping him in a duel, as well as using a Cruciatus Curse on Voldemort.
  • In Chapter 276, I See The Shire, Ariadne and Ginny wake up together and again Ginny protests that Ariadne is getting up too early, as she did in Chapter 127, In the Spirit of the Tournament.
  • In Chapter 278, When Alle Is Fayed, Ariadne finds Draco's curiosity about the nonmagical world reminiscent of Arthur's in Chapter 36, The Purpose of a Rubber Duck, when they went to Exeter to get pizza.
  • In Chapter 286, We Won't Find Ourselves Alone Again, there is a minor Call-Back where Ariadne has bought new trainers, comparing it to when, in Chapter 255, Where It All Began, Ariadne acknowledges she needs new ones, but thinks it not worth the trouble because she expects to die soon.
  • In Chapter 288, You're the Voice, the Grangers once again use the phone box visitors' entrance to the Ministry - Dennis says of it "not much of a TARDIS this," which is exactly what Hermione said of it in Chapter 183, Like We Could Fly.
  • In Chapter 297, Happy Birthdays, Hermione mentions the incident when Draco was turned into a ferret in Chapter 123, Badgering Badges.
  • In Chapter 301, New Faces, Ariadne remembers what Sirius said to her in Chapter 149, Lived It Ten Times Or More.
  • Several in Chapter 302, The Wounds Not Healed. Hermione recalls when Ron made Tail-Growing Potions in Chapter 220, Celebrimbor's Shame, and Ginny teases Ariadne with something she'd said during Chapter 284, We Could Be Heroes (Part 3). After the events of the chapter, Ariadne remembers how Ginny could hit targets she couldn't see, revealed to be because she can feel magic after her ordeal at Hogwarts, in Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate.
  • In Chapter 305, A Spreading Signal, Ariadne asks Hermione what they had been doing a year before - Hermione recalls the events of Chapter 251, Dead End Leads.
  • Several in Chapter 306, Seekers' Stroll. Ariadne recalls Ginny's teasing about heats in Chapter 110, Full Moon Rising, then mentions her learning the unassisted flight spell with Draco in Chapter 294, A Funny Little Family. Then, she talks to Draco about her history of being bullied, including Draco's own comments in Chapter 11, The Sorting Hat, as well as the incident in Chapter 6, Lady Stardust.
  • In Chapter 307, Friendly Rivalries, Ariadne mentions having played three-a-side Quidditch on a Swiftstick broom, which she did in Chapter 92, Jingle Bells.
  • In Chapter 311, Wing and Claw, Ariadne, Hermione, and Ginny discuss when Ron growled at Draco in Chapter 114, That's Not The Irish, in the context of how few rights Ron has.
  • In Chapter 313, Careers Evening, Ariadne recalls how Professor Slughorn said in Chapter 193, An Errand to Run, that he was in contact with Gwenog Jones.
  • In Chapter 315, Entangled Branches, Ariadne recalls the ritual in Chapter 145, The Resurrection, and realizes some of its implications.
  • In Chapter 319, Nice Cup of Tea, Ginny recalls the moment in Chapter 267, Ariadne's Thread, when she saw Ariadne in the Room of Requirement. She also alludes to Ariadne's discomfort with her sexual feelings explored in Chapter 219, Do The Hippogriff. There is also a Call-Back to the moment in Chapter 273, The Mistress of Death, when Ariadne promised to get Ginny a better ring to replace the signet ring she joked was an engagement ring.
  • In Chapter 320, A Visiting Harpy, Gwenog Jones mentions the time in Chapter 21, Seeker's Debut, when Ariadne nearly hit the ground at full speed because she couldn't see it.
  • In Chapter 321, An Inconvenient Process, Lavender mentions she's seeing the young man Parvati mentioned in Chapter 296, Coming Together.
  • Multiple in Chapter 326, Parent-Teacher Conferences. Ariadne recalls Professor Slughorn's implicit bias from his statements in Chapter 193, An Errand To Run, and in the same conversation Ginny mentions how Hermione "dealt to" Cormac McLaggen in Chapter 209, The Witch-King of Angmar. Professor McGonagall also recalls Dennis and Valerie's "The Reason You Suck" Speech to Professor Dumbledore in Chapter 146, He's Back. Dennis also recalls how in Chapter 1, Harmony at the Park, Hermione had been reading Ariadne a maths textbook, and declares it to have been fate that Ariadne is now very good at maths. Professor McGonagall then embarrasses Ariadne by mentioning how she came to her for help with Human Transfiguration, specifically a spell that Transfigures her genitalia from one sex to the other, in Chapter 282, We Could Be Heroes (Part 1). She then mentions having said Ariadne could make a good Professor, as she said in Chapters 180 and 276.
  • In Chapter 330, Solemn Appointments, a few are included; First, Ariadne recalls having seen Jeremy Paddison's name in the signatures sent to SPEER for a petition in Chapter 230, The World is Grey. Ariadne also quotes Hermione from Chapter 313, Careers Evening, and Ron's eyes are charmed just like how Dumbledore charmed them in Chapter 187, On With The Show.
  • In Chapter 331, Bat Out of Hell, a few.
    First, Lavender actually mentions that Ariadne and Ginny smelled quite strongly after Chapters 282-284, We Could Be Heroes, where they had sex. Ginny and Ariadne are quite embarrassed, because Lavender hadn't mentioned it before.
    Second, a minor Call-Back to Chapter 124, A Proven Strategy, when Ariadne was forced to kill a dragon, and Chapter 131, Thread, Antlers and Money, where Charlie sent Ariadne dragonhide robes made of its leather. In 331, Charlie says he pulled some favours with his old supervisor at the Romanian sanctuary to have the last of its leather made into motorcycle leathers for Ginny.
    Ariadne also confirms her theory that Ginny in motorcycle leathers is "hot as hell" this chapter, which she thought in Chapter 317, Familiar Troubles.
  • In Chapter 341, Domesticity, Ariadne recalls Professor Slughorn suggesting she write a book on Dimensional Transfiguration, and she and Ginny ride past Piccadilly Square on Ginny's new motorcycle; Ariadne mentions that it was where Hermione Apparated her and Ron between chapters 241 and 242.
  • In Chapter 351, Building Anew, it is mentioned how Ron caught Fleur's bouquet and Bill promised to be his best man to return the favour in Chapter 241, Receptive Audience.
  • In Chapter 353, 'Til Death Do Us Part, Ron and Hermione's vows are both a list of call-backs, going over the history of their relationship. Ron also recalls the time he and Professor McGonagall danced in Chapter 125, Unwelcome Attention.
  • In Chapter 355, The Deep Breath, Hermione recalls the tea Xenophilius made for her, Ariadne, and Ron in Chapter 258, The Deathly Hallows. In that chapter, Ron turned it down for the caffeine in it, and Hermione turns it down when Luna brings it up in Chapter 355 for the same reason.
  • In Chapter 356, Earlybird Scramble, Ariadne puts out the same sort of wet cat food for her cat Tulip as she does in Chapter 330, Solemn Appointments. Ariadne also mentions that a spell designed to turn a baby that isn't in the correct orientation to be born would be right up an old colleague of hers' alley.
  • In Chapter 360, Professor Granger, one of Ariadne's students is chewing gum, and Ariadne notices and tells him to put it in the bin. The student whispers she can see out the back of her head, and she adds that she can also "hear across classrooms." This is a Call-Back to Chapter 116, Mixed Impressions, when the fake Professor Moody did the same. Additionally, much like in Ariadne's first Transfiguration lesson as a student in Chapter 13, Setbacks, a student is late to class, this time casting Ariadne as the teacher instead of the student in her first lesson as a teacher.
  • In Chapter 361, The Question, Ariadne says she is "upholding a promise [she] made to [Ginny]" in the courtyard of Hogwarts seven years before; the promise in question was her promising to get Ginny a better ring one day at the Battle of Hogwarts during Chapter 273, The Mistress of Death. Additionally, Ariadne recalls during this chapter the flight she and Ginny went on as their second date in Chapter 141, Romantic Flight.
  • In Chapter 363, I Do, there are a number of them. First, multiple callbacks to the Yule Ball in Chapter 129, The Yule Ball, starting with Valerie pointing out that Ariadne and Ginny have been together for ten years. Dennis then references the first few chapters, specifically Chapter 3, Found Family, when Ariadne was adopted, when talking to Ariadne when he points out that Ariadne has been his daughter for nineteen years. There is also a Call-Back to Chapter 185, Here We Fall, when Sirius died, when Dennis says that he's wearing a suit that used to belong to Sirius to Ariadne's wedding - so a small part of him could be there for Ariadne's wedding. Later, while Minerva is performing the ceremony of Ariadne and Ginny's wedding, she makes a number of callbacks. First, she recalls Chapter 7, Another Knock, Another Door, when she first met Ariadne at ten years old, then Chapter 69, Tears, when she talks about when she'd first truly seen the pair together. She then recalls Chapter 128, And I Love Your Dress, when Ariadne told her she'd be taking Ginny to the Yule Ball.
  • In Chapter 365, The Hearth, when Ginny describes the skin tones of Persephone and Hestia to Ariadne, since she can't see them, the only people Ariadne has a reference for are the Weasleys, due to her recollection of how Arthur looked visually in her nightmare in Chapter 168, That Wasn't Me.
  • In Chapter 366, Mother, Ariadne recalls the resurrection of Lord Voldemort in Chapter 145, The Resurrection.
  • In Chapter 367, Leaves, both Ron and Lavender recall their own first transformations, in Chapter 110, Full Moon Rising, and Chapter 285, The Pack Survives, respectively - they both note their own revulsion at taking Wolfsbane Potion, and Ariadne adds that for Ron, that was fourteen years ago in-universe.
  • In Chapter 369, Further Ascension, Ariadne recalls the time in Chapter 152, 12 Grimmauld Place, when Fred and George Apparated behind her, frightening her. Additionally, Ariadne recalls how during her second year at Hogwarts, Filius Flitwick got her started in making spells, which became one of her specialties, and she is also reminded heavily of her own arrival at Hogwarts in Chapter 11, The Sorting Hat, including her dislike of the Great Lake boats. During the chapter's End-of-Episode Silliness, Ariadne also alludes to the end of Chapter 314, A School Dance, where she and Ginny were implied to leave and have sex in the Room of Requirement.
  • In Chapter 370, Little Wolf, Ron echoes previous discussion between himself and Ariadne about not letting on fear to make sure one's children aren't made afraid - "Be brave for her."
  • There are several in Chapter 372, Jason and Delphini. Garrick Ollivander makes several, including to Chapters 195 and 281, where he sold Ginny her second and third wands respectively; he asks if Mrs. Granger is there for her fourth wand. He also recalls briefly Ariadne getting her first wand in Chapter 8, Curious... as well as repeating the line "I remember every wand I've ever sold." Ariadne then later recalls being a pallbearer at Remus' funeral in Chapter 280, Side By Side, as well as how in Chapter 195, Ginny had to go through several wands and how Ollivander's shop was already damaged to begin with. While Sorting Delphini, the Sorting Hat quotes itself Sorting Ariadne in Chapter 11, The Sorting Hat, and Minerva near the end of the chapter recalls meeting Jason and Delphini in Chapter 340, Taking Flight.
  • In Chapter 373, Ronald and Hermione, Ariadne recalls the hunting trip of Chapters 248 through 250. She also mentions Parvati's first hunt at Hogwarts, which took place at the end of Chapter 324, Wolves and Foxes. Most notably, Ariadne thinks back to the events of Chapter 1, Harmony at the Park, and suggests she and Hermione play hide and seek and talk about maths for old times' sake, even calling Hermione "Harmony." The paragraph also references the title of Chapter 5, Princesses Among Legend.
  • In Chapter 374, Ginevra, there's a Call-Back to Chapter 332, The Little Candle; Ariadne recalls Ginny being "all worked up" after her first match for the Holyhead Harpies, though the celebration at the Burrow mentioned in Chapter 332 is stated to have preceded Ginny pinning Ariadne to the bed, unlike in Chapter 374 where they've barely been in their hotel room for more than ten seconds.
  • There are multiple in Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger. The very first line is a Bookend with Chapter 1, Harmony at the Park, the whole first scene of the chapter features the return of Dudley, and Ariadne remembers what Minerva said in Chapter 16, Dangerous Assumptions, about him having been removed from the Dursleys after she was. It also references Ariadne having learnt the Reparo spell as of Chapter 9, New Tricks, and her having aged faster due to time travel during her third year at Hogwarts. Additionally, Stan Shunpike repeats a policy warning of the Knight Bus he spoke in Chapter 23, Holidays at Home. In the second scene, Ariadne remembers failing to correctly colour a Transfigured guinea pig in Chapter 119, She's a Cheat, and when Minerva tells Ariadne that she wants Ariadne to become Headmistress, she calls back to Chapter 369, Further Ascension, when she told Ariadne she saw in her her successor.
• Cast from Stamina: it is occasionally stated that a person's magic can be exhausted, as Ariadne's is after casting a Firestorm in Chapter 232, From the Dragon of Darkness, and is physically exhausting after a point. This point isn't met often.
• Celebrity Resemblance: Barty Crouch Jr. is noted in Chapter 150, The Sorceress, to have had a similar voice to David Tennant while they watch the Doctor Who episode ''The Parting of the Ways.'' This is a bit of a Mythology Gag, as David Tennant played both Barty Crouch Jr. and the Tenth Doctor in real life.
• Childhood Marriage Promise: In Chapter 273, The Mistress of Death, Ariadne promises to grow old with Ginny once the war is over, and gives her her House of Granger signet ring as a symbolic Heirloom Engagement Ring. Ginny asks if she should consider it an engagement ring, to which Ariadne replies "Sure, why not?" and promises to get her a better one when they're older. In Chapter 361, The Question, Ariadne proposes to Ginny and fulfills her promise to get her a better ring. Ginny, having intended to propose too on the same day, accepts. This is finally fulfilled in Chapter 363, I Do.
• Child Of Rape: In Chapter 344, The Black Knight, it is implied that Lavender's sons Cedar and Rowan may be examples of this, as it's suggested their father Brayden sabotaged contraception in order to deliberately impregnate Lavender. He doesn't deny it either.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • Fired:
    • Ariadne is able to see the Horcrux within her from the get-go, even if she doesn't know what it is until much later. It's first mentioned in Chapter 3, Found Family.
    • Ariadne can sense Voldemort in Chapter 11, The Sorting Hat, and so this alters her first year at Hogwarts in a much more visible clue that Professor Quirrell is the important villain.
    • In Chapter 16, Dangerous Assumptions, it is revealed that the protective wards on Ariadne are based on familial love, not blood. This fires much later when Voldemort's resurrection doesn't nullify these wards.
    • Ariadne uses a Time Turner in her third year, which she later uses to capture Peter Pettigrew successfully.
    • Ron's hand cut in Chapter 106, Fetch, is what leads to his becoming a werewolf later in the chapter.
    • In Ariadne's fourth year, the Chekhov's Gun of Moody's flask is enhanced by Ariadne being able to sense the effects of Polyjuice Potion.
    • In Chapter 232, From the Dragon of Darkness, Dumbledore gives Ariadne the Elder Wand early - this is later important as the trio never find the Sword of Godric Gryffindor, and so find that the Elder Wand, once they know what it is, can be used to destroy Horcruxes.
    • In Chapter 240, Wedding Planner, Ariadne actually sees herself become Mistress of Death, but doesn't know what it is.
    • In Chapter 315, Entangled Branches, is the first mention of a glamour over Astoria's right eye. In Chapter 328, Futures Await, this has progressed to a glamour over both eyes. In Chapter 334, Paint Your Eyes with Sunsets, it is revealed that this was because Astoria has been going blind all year and is suffering the symptoms of her family's blood curse - although Ariadne doubts it is a curse and suggests she find out if it's actually just a genetic condition.
    • In Chapter 351, Building Anew, while walking along the long road to the west of Aberfoyle to get to the plot of land Ron and Hermione are considering making an offer for, Ariadne notices an enchanted magical tower house on the southern shore of Loch Ard. In Chapter 365, The Hearth, the identities of its inhabitants are revealed: Creighton MacCòmhain, a wizard, his Muggle wife Nerys, and their son Alpin, who isn't much older than Persephone. They are leaving the medical centre when Hermione arrives in labour, and wish her luck. Ron also says that they came around to the Granger Estate for Hogmanay in 2016.
    • In Chapter 370, Little Wolf, Persephone's asthma is brought up a few times before, when she has her first transformation as a werewolf, her asthma flares up so badly she cannot breathe during it.
    • In Chapters 370, 372, and 373, there are four references to Ginny going on overseas trips in 2019 and 2023, the former between the scenes of Chapter 372, Jason and Delphini, where she was stated to go to Lisbon, Portugal but "didn't get into the finals," while in 2023 she was stated to go to Greece and Turkey, where she again "didn't get into the finals." In Chapter 374, Ginevra, the nature of these trips is revealed; Ginny had been playing for the English National Quidditch Team in the UEQuA European Quidditch Cup, which was hosted by Spain and Portugal in 2019 and therefore presumably by Greece and Turkey in 2023 - though it's implied by it being supposed to be in 2022 in this chapter that the 2023 Cup had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. England's base was in Lisbon, therefore Ginny's trip there.
  • As a result of the Butterfly Effect, some Chekhov's Guns are never fired or are never presented at all.
    • Ariadne's first wand being a twin to Voldemort's is never relevant in the story.
    • Ron's first wand is never broken, so it is never a Chekhov's Gun for Lockhart's backfiring Memory Charm.
    • Ariadne is never given a communication mirror by Sirius - however, this is because Harry is not actually shown receiving it in the movies, making it a Plot Hole in the seventh movie, and its Chekhov's Gun is never fired, as it is never needed because the Skirmish at Malfoy Manor never takes place.
    • Grawp being in the forest is never relevant past his introduction, as instead of tricking Professor Umbridge into the forest, Ron just violently attacks the Inquisitorial Squad members and Umbridge is Stunned in the ensuing fight.
    • Because Ariadne is having a different conversation, Ariadne never sees the symbol of the Deathly Hallows on Xenophilius' necklace - instead, Ron noticed it and mentions it later.
    • The Deluminator given to Ron is never a Chekhov's Gun, as he never leaves the group to then use it to Apparate back to them.
• Chekhov's Skill: Ariadne becomes proficient in Dimensional Transfiguration, the practice of altering the dimensions and shapes of areas of space, in developing a Bag of Holding and a Bigger on the Inside suitcase. In Chapter 227, Like Water Through a Pipe, she realizes this can be applied to the concept of a spell capable of deflecting the Killing Curse, a feat believed to be impossible among wizards. After spending the time between making and testing this spell, she uses it in Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, to deflect Voldemort's first Killing Curse into the air and his second into his face.
• Cliffhanger: Chapter 373, Ronald and Hermione, ostensibly the final note on both characters' stories in Kaleidoscopic Grangers before the sequel, ends on a reporter asking Hermione if she intends to run for the position of Minister for Magic in 2026. Her answer is not supplied.
• Closet Punishment: Addressed, where in canon it is not really treated as a big deal that Potter had a cupboard for a bedroom for ten years. Ariadne breaks down crying when she discovers Kreacher was subjected to the same.
• Comatose Canary: Ariadne notices that those Petrified by the Basilisk are still conscious, as they react emotionally in such a way she can sense in their magical cores, and so she keeps Ron and Hermione up to date on their classes while they are Petrified.
• Comm Links: At Hogwarts, the Professors use the "Missiculum" spell to communicate - as a Prefect, Hermione has access to this in her fifth year, and uses it in Chapter 168, That Wasn't Me, to alert Professor McGonagall to the fact that Ariadne had dreamt of Arthur Weasley being attacked by Nagini.
  • Ariadne later gets access to this as Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
  • Ariadne, Ron, and Hermione make their own network for it later, to keep in contact while camping.
• Complete Immortality: In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne knows that until she kills Nagini, both she and Voldemort have Complete Immortality due to his Horcruxes and her being the Mistress of Death respectively. In their final confrontation, she is incapable of dying, which seals his fate in their duel before it even begins, because the terms are if one kills the other, their forces will unconditionally surrender... and Ariadne cannot die.
• Continuity Nod:
  • In Chapter 230, The World Is Grey, Ariadne sorts a signature from an individual called Jeremy Paddison, a seventh year student in Ravenclaw. This character is mentioned in the one-shot The Woes of Ectothermy, although this is not drawn attention to, which is set at some point after the events of Kaleidoscopic Grangers. According to Word of God, the main character of The Woes of Ectothermy, Vanya, has not yet been born as of this point in Kaleidoscopic Grangers.
    Not long after Chapter 310, An Offer, was published, a piece of dialogue in The Woes of Ectothermy was unredacted. In it, Paddison identifies that he works for the Department of Nonhuman Relations, the department Hermione is offered a head position of in that chapter.
    In Chapter 330, Solemn Appointments, Jeremy Paddison appears for the first time in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, as Hermione's secretary in the Department for Nonhuman Relations.
  • In Chapter 239, Before the Plunge, it turns out that Fred and George bought Hedwig together, as Ariadne bought Hermes.
  • In Chapter 297, Happy Birthdays, Gabrielle Delacour and a Caprid Centaur called Chloe are stated to be in a committed relationship. In Conflicting Schedules, the two are yearmates at Beauxbatons, and friends with the New Marauders.
    Also in Chapter 297, Fleur mentions seeing a Healer at Saint Mungo's who specializes in pregnancy; Healer Clarke. This is the same Healer Hermione sees in A Litter of Problems.
  • In Chapter 313, Careers Evening, Hermione expresses concern about how Saint Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries goes about patient confidentiality for nonhuman patients; this is something her counterpart in A Litter of Problems is very concerned about.
  • In It'll Kill the Vacuum Cleaner, Hermione is discussing the proposals for various nonhuman Offices in the Department for Nonhuman Relations and the Magical Species Discrimination Act she is drafting; in Chapter 337, Caught in the Act, set a few months later, both are mentioned. Red also thinks about the gathering they're going to have at New Year's Eve, which falls on a full moon and is also mentioned in Chapter 337.
  • In Chapter 351, Building Anew, Astoria's assistance dog, Tracey, is introduced. Tracey is stated to be of a similar sort of dog to the werewolf puppies in A Litter of Problems, however instead of being a werewolf-werewolf puppy, Tracey is a werewolf-labrador puppy. This is stated to have been an embarrassment to their mother that Ariadne tries not to think about.
  • In Chapter 358, A Father's Fear, a werewolf Healer, Chiara Lobosca, is discussed as being Persephone's Healer from the Brown Foundation - Chiara Lobosca comes from the Hogwarts Mystery video game, and canonically attended a seventh year work placement programme at Saint Mungo's. In Kaleidoscopic Grangers, she worked there for a few years before being outed and losing her job. Ten years later, she works for the Brown Foundation.
  • In Chapter 372, Jason and Delphini, a Centaur is starting at Hogwarts - this is no doubt the Centaur mentioned in Chapter 368, A Fortunate Development.
  • In Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger, a vampire student is mentioned attending Hogwarts in September of 2027. After Chapter 373, Ronald and Hermione, was published, the dates in The Woes of Ectothermy were unredacted, and extrapolating from them this student is almost certainly its protagonist, Vanya.
• Cool Bike: In Chapter 315, Entangled Branches, for Christmas, Hagrid and Arthur Weasley complete repairs and modifications upon the flying motorcycle Sirius gave Hagrid, and present it to Ariadne as a Christmas gift. However, because Ariadne is blind, she cannot ride it, and so she gives it to Ginny.
  The bike is identified as a Triumph Bonneville T140W TSS built in 1983 in messages by the author, but in the fic is only identified as a Triumph Bonneville T140 built in the '80s - the bike is stated to have an electric start, which was only true of T140s built after the 1980 T140ES Electro model.
  • This is also an example of Shown Their Work; according to behind-the-scenes information of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone the bike is a Triumph Bonneville T120, and in part one of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows it is a Royal Enfield Bullet 500. The author chose the Triumph due to it being more powerful, and then changed it to be a T140 instead of a T120 due to Kaleidoscopic Grangers taking place ten years later, thus Sirius would have bought his motorcycle in the '80s instead of the '70s.
  • Broomsticks are also described in a manner not unlike motorcycles in the fic, most often with Ariadne's Firebolt which is described as "revving," and the twin corkscrews within it described as spinning alike to engines.
  • In Chapter 341, Domesticity, Ginny buys herself a Royal Enfield Bullet 500, which she names Rhapsody, which is much more powerful than the Yamaha YBR125 she had previously been riding.
  • In Chapter 366, Mother, Chiara Lobosca is shown to own a BSA Lightning constructed in 1969 - not much is said about it, other than that it is a kickstart-only bike. Ginny quite admires the bike.
• Cool Teacher: One of Ariadne's practical activities for her students in Chapter 370, Little Wolf, is for them to Conjure an electric guitar. The prior one was for them to replicate her acoustic guitar, and she tests one student's work on this by playing Aerosmith's Ramble On on their attempt.
• Cuddle Bug: After becoming a werewolf in Chapter 106, Fetch, Ron also becomes more quick to hug people he's close to, such as delivering The Glomp to Percy in Chapter 142, Blood and Water (which becomes rather tragic after Percy indirectly calls him a monster only a minute or two later), and Bill in Chapter 153, The Order of the Phoenix. Bill even comments on this, asking "When'd he become such a cuddlebug?" Hermione replies under her breath with "May of last year," May 2004 being when Ron became a werewolf. Ron is, however, respectful of Hermione occasionally finding hugs too overwhelming (Hermione occasionally Hates Being Touched as an example of her autism).
• Cut Himself Shaving:
  • In Chapter 134, Ron lies to Viktor to explain the cuts he sustained on his first full moon, telling him that he climbed a lot of trees as a kid. Viktor says he can't have gotten very good at it.
  • In Chapter 153, Ron lies to Bill to explain the facial scar he sustained on his first full moon, telling him that he "tripped over a chair leg."
• Daddy's Little Villain: Averted in Delphini, Voldemort's daughter. She is adopted by Nymphadora Tonks as the slightly older adopted sister to her son Jason.
  • Doubly averted after Chapter 315, Entangled Branches, when it is revealed that Delphini isn't even Voldemort's child genetically; she's Ariadne's.
• Dance of Romance: In Chapter 241, Receptive Audience, Ron is urged to ask Hermione to dance by Fleur and Ginny, as Everyone Can See It and have been rooting for Ron and Hermione to get together. By the time Ariadne alerts Arthur that the wards of the Burrow have fallen, he and Hermione seem to have an Almost Kiss.
• Dark Secret:
  • After Chapter 107, Ron does his best to keep his lycanthropy a secret, which is a major source of tension during their fifth year as failing to keep that a secret especially in the presence of Professor Umbridge would result in his expulsion from Hogwarts and the ruining of not just his life, but the lives of his family - his name is illegally not on the Werewolf Registry.
  • After Chapter 229, For Another Ring Was Made, Ariadne is aware that she is a Horcrux, and that as such, she must die. She chooses not to tell her girlfriend, sister, parents, or best friend because she doesn't want them to grieve her before she's even dead.
• Darker and Edgier:
  • Ariadne is explicitly traumatized, mostly by the Dursleys in the first few years and later by the return of Voldemort, which gives her PTSD. The abuses of the Dursleys are also more explicitly intense than in canon, resulting in her removal by Child Protective Services and subsequent adoption by the Grangers.
    • Ariadne is also not as much a pacifist as Harry Potter, and in Chapter 268, The Mouth of Sauron, wasted no time holding back and immediately killed one of the Carrows as she joined McGonagall in fighting Snape and Amycus.
  • Ariadne experiences a lot of bullying at non-magical school, even though she is no longer with the Dursleys, for being blind and later for being transgender.
  • Ariadne is so vulnerable to Dementors that she is already having intense flashbacks before it even enters the train compartment.
  • Ron becomes a werewolf.
  • In Chapter 229, For Another Ring Was Made, Ariadne realizes she is a Horcrux immediately. This leads to her knowing her death is inevitable, which causes her to become depressed and nearly suicidal.
  • In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate and Chapter 273, The Mistress of Death, there is more significant injury sustained by those in the battle, and the scene in the Great Hall, instead of quiet, mournful and orderly as it is in the movie, is significantly more frantic and panicked. Also, unlike the movie, there are worse injuries - the only proper injuries (aside from the occasional instant death) in the film Kaleidoscopic Grangers is based on seem to be an unseen wound under Neville's hair bleeding down his face, some minor scarring on Harry's face, minor cuts on background characters, and a wound on Mister Filch's arm.
    In Kaleidoscopic Grangers, however, Madam Pomfrey and her medical staff were unprepared for the battle, resulting in lesser injuries like Sally-Anne's broken arm being ignored in favour of urgently seeing to more serious wounds.
    • Both Parvati and Lavender are mauled by Fenrir Greyback, and Hermione is seen applying pressure to slow the bleeding in Lavender's wound.
    • Clarabelle Burton suffered an unspecified severe facial wound up the left side of her face at the hand of Severus Snape in Chapter 272 which is roughly bandaged in 273 as she is given what Ariadne guesses to be a painkilling potion (implied Eye Scream).
    • Toby (Tori Cobbler-Royal's friend) has a mangled leg wound and is receiving CPR, and Alexander Vaisey has a slashing wound up his torso.
    • There are also wounded centaurs. A number of the people assisting Madam Pomfrey are wounded themselves, denoted by them limping (as Ariadne wouldn't necessarily notice injuries under clothes, being blind), including Professor McGonagall.
  • In Chapter 302, The Wounds Not Healed, Ariadne is confronted by Flora Carrow, whose mother Ariadne killed in the first shots of the Battle of Hogwarts, in Chapter 268, The Mouth of Sauron.
• Dénouement: Kaleidoscopic Grangers has a 100 chapter long dénouement.
• Did They or Didn't They?:
  • It is implied in Chapter 253, Founders' Effects that Ron and Hermione, who had their Relationship Upgrade in Chapter 252, Dream On, were a case of Confession Triggers Consummation. Ariadne believes Hermione was using a Muffling Charm, but that didn't stop them shaking the old house. However, it is only implied by Ariadne's guessing this, Hermione and Ron do not confirm as such. However in Chapter 254, The Best Laid Plans, Hermione implies that Ariadne is right by saying that Ron, but not in his wolf form, gets to "sleep with" her, despite it being established in Chapter 253 that they sleep separately due to Hermione finding sleeping in the same bed with someone else physically uncomfortable. Done away with in Chapter 260, Shire. Baggins. in which Hermione confirms via an accidental Double Entendre that they do.
  • At the end of Chapter 314, A School Dance, it is implied that Ariadne and Ginny head to the Room of Requirement to have sex.
  • At the end of Chapter 340, Taking Flight, it is implied Ariadne and Ginny "break in" their new home by having sex in their new bed.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, instead of being killed by Voldemort and Nagini, Snape attacks Clarabelle Burton and Ginny kills him for it, vaporizing half his body and blowing the rest off the bridge.
• Disability Immunity:
  • As she is blind, Ariadne is entirely immune to the Basilisk's deadly gaze.
  • Due to having a spherical sixth sense, Ariadne is also difficult to use Legilimency on, as her mind processes memory slightly differently to a sighted person.
• Disability Superpower: Ariadne is capable of sensing magic as colours - this has its own drawbacks and advantages, and is only really useful as a replacement for sight when combined with the Aurum Radia spell.
• Distant Finale: Averted. Instead of cutting to "19 years later" content after Chapter 276, I See The Shire, (approximately where it would in the movie events), Kaleidoscopic Grangers continues to explore the recovery of Ariadne and her friends from the war. However, the story does end nineteen years later, its final scene being in 2027. It just takes the long way 'round. Instead of the final scene being a send-off of students onto the Hogwarts Express, the final scene is Ariadne opening the school year as Headmistress - although a similar scene of Hermione and Ron seeing off their daughter Hestia at the Edinburgh station for the Express probably took place earlier that day given she is starting her first year at Hogwarts during it.
• Dramatic Unmask: In Chapter 268, The Mouth of Sauron, Ariadne goes to the Great Hall and Snape's assembly in disguise, and steps out while letting dropping her disguise spells.
  Ariadne’s heart was beating harder than it had in hours as she turned slightly, smiles spreading on her Thread friends’ faces as she stepped toward the inside edge of the group of students. With every step she took, shoes clacking on the stone, gasps rippled across the Great Hall as she mentally triggered the glamour on her hair to burn away from red to black, magic flaying away from her curls like a forest fire as she stepped proudly into the open, her green eyes boiling away into white as on top of that, the illusion over the badges on her collar gleamed away. Ginny was beaming openly at her as Professor McGonagall gasped, gaping at her in shock as Professor Snape recoiled, fear spasming into his magical core as every ounce of hatred Ariadne had for the man showed on her face, and as those gasps and whispers grew - students backed off fearfully, some whispering and some gaping, some fearful, some just giving her space with joy. Every eye in the Hall was on her now.
• Drives Like Crazy: In Chapter 356, Earlybird Scramble, Minerva gets roped into driving Hermione to the medical centre when she goes into premature labour and drives like a maniac. Given she hasn't driven a car in nearly two decades, this isn't particularly surprising; apparently she only went along with it because it was an emergency, instead of suggesting someone else do it. Really, it was on Ron for calling his blind sister-in-law instead of anyone who could drive.
• Dual Wielding:
  • In Chapter 182, Toe Your Line and Play Their Game, Ginny briefly wields both her own wand and Ariadne's.
  • In Chapter 232, From the Dragon of Darkness, Ariadne dual-wields the Elder Wand and her own wand while defending herself and Dumbledore against the Inferi.
  • In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne holds the Elder Wand in her right hand and her enchanted dagger in her left - Voldemort fails to realize the knife can be used on him since Ariadne appeared to only be readying it to kill Nagini, gets too close, and gets a cut up his right shoulder for it.

E-F

• Early-Installment Weirdness:
  • For the first few years of Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Ariadne is written as being autistic-coded as well as Hermione, simply with differently presenting traits. The author elected later to consolidate the autistic traits into Hermione - who has her autism explicitly confirmed in Chapter 39, Second Years - which allowed Ariadne's anxiety and trauma from her childhood to be better shown and to better distinguish the Granger sisters.
  • The style of writing also changes dramatically between the early years and Ariadne's later years at Hogwarts - chapter length ramps up from approximately 1500 words a chapter to some chapters being up to 10,000 words long in the extreme case of Chapter 284, We Could Be Heroes (Part 3), but on average closer to 4500 words, as well as greater descriptions and more consistently figured out characters.
  • Originally, Ariadne retained some light sensitivity through her blindness - this went away. Justified in that her canon counterpart has some form of short-sightedness that may have, when combined with Ariadne's blindness, removed her light sensitivity as her eyes naturally continued to deteriorate.
  • In early chapters, chapters are structured entirely around individual scenes in the movie they are based on, even if these scenes were very short - as the author found her footing and the story further diverged from the movies, this became significantly less the case.
  • The depiction of Veela in Chapter 113, Let the Match Begin, is incongruent with later depictions of them; the author had not yet done much work to flesh out the species, who are given a Retcon.
  • Ariadne is originally described as using Lego as makeshift braille; later, she is stated to have used a braille slate and stylus more, however according to notes the author was not aware these existed when she was writing the early chapters.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: Ariadne and her peers go through a lot of trauma before they finally defeat Voldemort in the Battle of Hogwarts - this is also a Bittersweet Ending, as Kaleidoscopic Grangers continues well after this battle to explore their recovery from their trauma. In conversation, Word of God states that this is because her mentality was that Voldemort was not the main villain, the trauma he was a vessel for is, and so where in Harry Potter the post war content was an epilogue, in Kaleidoscopic Grangers it is the conclusion.
• Either/Or Offspring: In Chapter 357, Goddess of Spring, Ron and Hermione's daughter Persephone is born. Not only is she not stated to be half human half werewolf, she is stated to be more wolf-like than her father. Persephone is stated to have tapeta lucida from birth, as well as six nipples. She is described as a "true born" werewolf by Ariadne, who says she may be the full genetic potential of a werewolf as opposed to a human who was infected with lycanthropy.
• Empathic Weapon: The Elder Wand, interpreted by Ariadne as an Evil Weapon, has a personality of its own in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, characterized as being an extremely violent and bloodthirsty wand that sulks when it is used as a tool for nearly anything else - even though Ariadne is its master. Ariadne tolerates it during the war, because at that moment she needs a sword and not a screwdriver, but she destroys it immediately prior to buying a new wand afterward. Ollivander is disgusted and disturbed by the wand, calling it an abomination. In the final chapter, Ariadne describes wands as "pseudosentient," which would imply that other wands qualify as well, the Elder Wand was just the only one old and powerful enough to have such clear opinions.
• End-of-Episode Silliness:
  • Chapter 5, Princesses Among Legend, ends with Dennis laughing that he and Valerie are going to have to replace some of Ariadne's Christmas presents in light of her coming out as a trans girl.
  • Chapter 109, The Confession of Melion, in which Ron comes out as a werewolf to his family and the Grangers, ends with Dennis joking that Ron's welcome at the Grangers' as long as he doesn't pee on the furniture.
  • Chapter 130, Flying Off a Cliff, in which Ariadne and Ginny have their First Kiss, ends with an adaptation of a deleted scene from Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire where Snape interrupts a couple making out in a carriage... with Ariadne and Ginny taking the part of the couple.
  • Chapter 138, ...Junior, ends with Ariadne asking if the essay the impostor set still needs to be handed in.
  • Chapter 215, Hold The Fort, ends with Ginny asking Ariadne if she's ever made a blanket fort before.
  • Chapter 260, Shire. Baggins. ends with Hermione teasing her sister about sex and then teasing Ron for not having been as much of a prude the night before.
  • In Chapter 314, A School Dance, Professor Seamus Finnegan catches Draco and Astoria "canoodling" in a bathroom.
  • Chapter 344, The Black Knight, ends with the tense worry that Lavender's newborn sons may transform with the full moon being resolved; Cedar does start crying though, but that's just because he'd wet himself.
  • Chapter 348, In Sickness and in Health, ends with the newly married Astoria Greengrass only having her bouquet toss after her partially estranged sister has left the wedding, to stop her from catching it.
  • Chapter 351, Building Anew, ends with Hermione laughing that if her and Ron's children inherit Ron's red hair, they will be walking stereotypes - because they are moving to Scotland.
  • Chapter 352, Spring Shoots, ends with Ron making the joke "Hi Pregnant, I'm Dad," after discovering Hermione is pregnant with his child.
  • At the end of Chapter 366, Mother, after the fact that Delphini is in fact the child of Lord Voldemort and Bellatrix Lestrange, as well as her indirectly being the child of Ariadne through Voldemort, Delphini runs off to ask Ginny if she'll be her stepmother, and Nymphadora insists Ariadne has to be the one to give her The Talk, which Ariadne tries to reject.
  • Chapter 369, Further Ascension, ends with Ariadne noting that student Daniel Pomfrey is the only boy out of eleven students sorted into Ravenclaw, and that as such the easiest solution to the predicament this puts them in of organizing dorms is to have him share with some girls. When Minerva says "But if they get up to any funny business..." Ariadne points out that separating dormitories has never prevented students from having sex at Hogwarts, specifically mentioning the Room of Requirement and the Quidditch changing rooms, and then says she's not making it up, hence implying she's speaking from experience. Minerva then asks if she's caught students having sex in those places before, and Ariadne replies no - implying that the experience she's speaking from is being the one having sex there. This is a Call-Back to Chapter 314, A School Dance, where Ariadne and Ginny having sex in the Room of Requirement is implied. Minerva is disgusted with her and exclaims that she didn't need that image in her head.
• "Eureka!" Moment:
  • Ariadne realizing Scabbers appeared to be highly magical when she first sensed him because he is Peter Pettigrew's Animagus form
  • Ariadne realizing Professor Moody is in fact an impostor when Professor Snape accuses her of stealing the ingredients to brew Polyjuice Potion, as she can sense its effects as a green shell.
  • In Chapter 227, Like Water Through a Pipe, Ariadne realizes that dimensional transfiguration (while shouting the name) can be used to divert and therefore defend one's self against the Killing Curse, and begins work on developing a spell to do so.
  • In Chapter 315, Entangled Branches, Ariadne realizes that Delphini is in fact genetically her daughter because of the ritual in Chapter 145, The Resurrection. Realizing this, Ariadne gasps and says "He used my blood."
• Everyone Can See It:
  • Hermione knows about Ariadne's crush on Ginny before Ariadne does, saying that she has "the subtlety of a dull breadknife." According to Fleur Delacour, Ginny is just as obvious about her own crush on Ariadne.
  • Ariadne and Ginny frequently tease Ron and Hermione for similarly having crushes on one another. In Chapter 208, When All the World is Warm and Tired, Lavender kisses Ron, and Hermione flees, crying. She admits to Ariadne that she does in fact have feelings for Ron. After Lavender breaks up with him in Chapter 223, Toxicity, Hermione seems to be trying to get closer to him, and according to Word of God, Ron also has feelings for Hermione that are discussed in messages regarding Chapter 225, Writing Home, where he plays the David Bowie song Letter to Hermione on his flute. However, the pair both have internalized insecurities that lead them to believe the other would never love them back.
• Eyes Always Averted: Hermione avoids eye contact, as she is autistic and finds it too intense - as such, O.O.C. Is Serious Business when she does make eye contact, such as she does in Chapter 238, The Setting of the Board.
• Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, when parallelling her original duel with Voldemort, Ariadne mockingly curtsies to Voldemort instead of bowing.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • After Chapter 106, Accidents and Consequences, Fenrir Greyback to Ronald Weasley. Both are werewolf 'lieutenants' of Voldemort and Ariadne respectively, and both lean into their lycanthropy, but for different reasons and in different ways. Ron absolutely despises Greyback for the bad name he paints the entire werewolf community with.
    • In Chapter 234, The Battle of Evermore, Ron encounters Greyback in person for the first time, and nearly kills him for attacking Bill, his older brother.
    • In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, Ron encounters Greyback for the second time and immediately kills him using the Killing Curse, and rescues Lavender and Parvati, who both got attacked by Greyback.
  • Arguably, Voldemort as a Mirror Character to Ariadne. Both, by the Battle of Hogwarts, are intelligent and powerful magic-users. But where Voldemort claims to have pushed the boundaries of magic, Ariadne explicitly scoffs at this claim, believing him to have done so only as much as "someone pushed the boundaries of science by inventing the flintlock musket," thinking him narrow-minded and self-aggrandizing. Ariadne, meanwhile, develops her own spells and experiments, and in Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, demonstrates her own pushing of the boundaries of magic by using a little-explored field, dimensional transfiguration, to completely deflect a Killing Curse, a feat believed to be inherently impossible. In Chapter 253, Founders' Effects, Ariadne believes this to far surpass anything Voldemort believes he has done.
• Expy: During Ariadne's fifth year at Hogwarts, a fellow trans girl, Tori Cobbler-Royal, is introduced; Tori was originally from the author's fanfiction for Magical Metamorphosis, another trans Potter fic, however in Kaleidoscopic Grangers she is a bit older and is in Hufflepuff instead of Gryffindor, and Ariadne meets her in different circumstances to Holly meeting her own Tori counterpart. Tori does however retain some of her other traits aside from just her name, like having read The Belgariad.
• Fantastic Slurs:
  • Used as playful banter in Chapter 262, Theseus, between Ron and Fleur - Fleur calls Ron a "furball" because he is a werewolf, and Ron retorts that Fleur is a "puffed up seagull," for being a part-Veela, before Fleur corrects him that that would be Harpies, and Ron amends his statement to chicken.
  • Used seriously by Ben Harper against Alexander Vaisey between Chapters 300 and 301, where he called Alex a fleabag, and "nearly got punched."
• Familial Foe: Averted after Chapter 262, Theseus, it is revealed that Draco Malfoy has forsaken the Malfoy family and their allegiances, and joined the Order of the Phoenix as a spy. The New Marauders are understandably suspicious of him, but he appears to be making every attempt to make up for his previous actions, and so while Ron and Hermione have less context for it than Ariadne (who told him to become a spy), they don't see him as an enemy when they go to rob Gringotts together, and then when they go to Hogwarts.
• Family Eye Resemblance:
  • Averted in the case of Ariadne, due to her eyes being injured.
  • After Chapter 315, Entangled Branches, invoked regarding Delphini as Hagrid spots that Delphini has Ariadne's original eye colour, which leads Ariadne to realize that because Voldemort's body came from her, Delphini is genetically her daughter.
  • In Chapter 357, Goddess of Spring, Persephone Granger-Weasley is stated to have Ron's blue eyes. However, in Chapter 362, A Family Weekend, it is stated that Persephone's eyes only began blue, and then later became brown and resemble more Hermione's eyes.
• Family Relationship Switcheroo: In Chapter 366, Mother, Delphini discovers that her adoptive guardian - Dora - is in fact her cousin, and that her godmother - Ariadne - is in fact her genetic parent depending on how one thinks about it. Until this point, it had not been revealed to Delphini because Ariadne being her parent was contingent on knowing that her physical father was Voldemort - as he had been a clone, and Delphini was a child born of him and Bellatrix Lestrange - which they worried could hurt her. After this, Delphini decides to consider Ariadne her mother instead of Dora, but she still seems to consider Jason her brother.
• Family Theme Naming:
  • Ariadne and Hermione are both named after Greek princesses, while their owl Hermes is named after the Greek herald of the gods. In addition, when the characters begin having children, Hermione and Ron's first daughter is named Persephone and their second daughter is named Hestia.
  • In Chapter 343, The Two Trees, Lavender's twin sons, Cedar and Rowan are born - much like Lavender, they are both named after plants.
• Family Title: Kaleidoscopic Grangers.
• Fictional Disability: Averted; where in the canon Astoria Greengrass is stated to have died of a blood curse that left her weak, in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, she has classic type-one myotonic dystrophy which had previously been assumed to be a blood curse due to wizards failing to consider nonmagical alternatives.
• Fictional Geneva Conventions: Chapter 288, You're The Voice, mentions that Lucius and Narcissa Malfoy are accused of grievous violations of the Wizarding Signitory of the Geneva Conventions.
• Fighting Back Is Wrong: Rejected in Chapter 360, Professor Granger, where Ariadne catches three bullies picking on Hogwarts' first Elven student, Niffly. Niffly, when they arrive, is already in the process of using his inherent Elven magic to throw the bully away from him, as the bully was holding him in the air by his robes. Initially, Professor McGonagall takes twenty points from Niffly's house before Ariadne gives all three bullies detention for a week and takes sixty points from their house, but this leaves a sour taste in Ariadne's mouth and she convinces McGonagall to restore the points taken from Niffly later, because in her words "We can’t just teach our first Elven student that he’ll get punished for standing up for himself."
• First Kiss:
  • In Chapter 130, Flying Off From a Cliff, Ariadne and Ginny kiss for the first time. Professor Snape interrupts the moment.
  • In Chapter 252, Dream On, Hermione and Ron have their first kiss.
• First-Person Perspective: Kaleidoscopic Grangers is told from the perspective of Ariadne, which can result in a few instances of Offscreen Moment of Awesome given it is based on a series that isn't first-person. It can also result in some off-screen character changes - between Chapters 105 (or so) and 235, Draco Malfoy undergoes a slow Heel–Face Turn, but this was not known to Ariadne until later, and so isn't really visible aside from tiny clues
• Flashback Nightmare: Ariadne very frequently has nightmares regarding her previous trauma, originally regarding her life with the Dursleys, and later, her experiences with Voldemort.
• Flirting Under Fire: In Chapter 184, Here We Stand, Ginny accuses Ariadne of doing this after Ariadne says "I never said I disapproved!" after Ginny vaporized three Death Eaters.
• Flight of Romance: In Chapter 141, Romantic Flight, Ariadne and Ginny go flying together as a date.
• Flowers of Romance: Teased in Chapter 241, Receptive Audience, after Ron catches Fleur's bouquet and hands it to Hermione... to hold while he goes and plays the flute for the first dance. However, Ariadne notices Ron's hand linger on Hermione's, and Hermione seems to wishfully interpret it as a romantic gesture, as the trope would suggest.
• Foreshadowing:
  • In Chapter 95: Expecto Patronum, Professor Trelawney sees numerous omens regarding Ariadne's future in her crystal ball. These are a glowing blue fox which represents the form of her Patronus in Chapter 102, The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog, vermin which represents her discovery of Peter Pettigrew in Chapter 96, That's Not Possible, the Grim, which represents the arrival of Sirius in Chapter 98, Names To Clear, and "an omen of growth," which represents Ariadne's development on the Estrogenating Elixir, which is brought to light in Chapter 101, Correspondence, Clairvoyance, Aches and Pains, when Hermione informs her she needs a training bra. Trelawney said that one was "rather literal," and immediately offered to cover the crystal ball.
  • In Chapter 105, The New Marauders, Lavender comments on a study on how werewolves are treated before Ariadne, Hermione, and Ron go to camp with Remus. This foreshadows that in Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, Lavender is attacked by a partially-transformed Fenrir Greyback, and becomes a werewolf herself.
  • In Chapter 111, A Free Man, Sirius gives Ariadne a Thunderbird keychain, to accompany the Phoenix Ginny gave her, for her birthday. In Chapter 281, Disarmament, Ariadne's second wand has a core of a Thunderbird tail feather, and she swaps out her keychains.
  • In Chapter 117, Names on a List, Ron is indignant about the legal requirement that he place his name on the Werewolf Registry, a requirement he is flouting and one that was instated by Dolores Umbridge, who goes on to become a member of Hogwarts' staff.
  • In Chapter 161, Splinter Cell, Firenze tells the New Marauders that their actions that day would "change much." He is referring to their creation of Dumbledore's Army.
  • Also in Chapter 161, Firenze also refers to Ginny as the "Lady of Light," in regards to centaur prophecies. The reason for this is that in Chapter 192, it is revealed that Ginny's codename as a member of the Order of the Phoenix is Galadriel, otherwise sometimes known in Lord of the Rings as the Lady of Light.
  • In Chapter 164, Illicit Activities, a Hufflepuff 'boy' called Arnold (which is actually her deadname, but she is not out to Ariadne at the time) is mentioned. This foreshadows Tori's coming out to Ariadne in Chapter 166, A Kindred Discovery.
  • In Chapter 195, Magical Ink, Ariadne sees that Draco Malfoy is scared on the trip that would end in Malfoy becoming a Death Eater. Additionally, in Chapter 197, Familiar Designs, Draco seems similarly scared when Ariadne identifies his Dark Mark, and whispers that it cost him too much - Ron hears this, thanks to his superior lycanthropic hearing.
  • In Chapter 198, Sixth Years, Ariadne sees the Unbreakable Vow Snape took, that her canon counterpart was never aware of, which later is fulfilled when Snape kills Dumbledore.
  • In Chapter 204, Bleeding Through, it is demonstrated that for the purposes of magical law, the Grangers' use of Time Turners contributes to their legal age. This later comes into play because it averts an equivalent of the Battle of the Many Potters.
  • In Chapter 215, Hold the Fort, Ginny claims several items from Ariadne's wardrobe while she's separated from her own. Ginny later wears these clothes on Valentine's Day because they show off her figure, which leads to a serious conversation about Ariadne's dysphoria about her own feelings when the jeans she's wearing snap and she simply takes them off.
  • In Chapter 216, Diplomatic Relations, Ron, as an inverted example of My Instincts Are Showing, bats Lavender's hand away when she tries to comb his hair - wolves often engage in communal grooming. This foreshadows their later breakup, as it shows Ron does not actually have romantic feelings for her.
  • As a minor example, in Chapter 225, Writing Home, Ariadne plays the song The Battle of Evermore by Led Zeppelin in her music class. Later that school year, the chapters surrounding the Battle of the Astronomy Tower and the incursion to the cave where Voldemort hid the locket are named after lyrics from that song.
  • In Chapter 277, Echoes in Peacetime, it is confirmed that Lavender, Parvati, Hannah Abbott, Alexander Vaisey, and Toby Quill all became werewolves during the Battle of Hogwarts. There are several elements of Foreshadowing for this.
    • In Chapter 105, The New Marauders, Lavender says she actually looked into the study on werewolves, and expresses sympathy.
    • In Chapter 222, The Mentor, Lavender, Parvati, and Hannah, are all in Ariadne's class, and so share Remus' lesson on werewolves. All three of them ask questions about what it is like to be a werewolf.
    • In Chapter 269, I Bid You Stand, Lavender, Parvati, and Hannah are all stated to be in the courtyard and therefore on the front line.
    • In Chapter 273, The Mistress of Death, Alexander and Toby are both stated to be badly injured.
    • In Chapter 276, I See The Shire, Ariadne is concerned for why Tori and Jamie don't have Toby with them and appear worried.
  • In Chapter 309, Peripheral Worries, it is pointed out that Ariadne is concerned that Ginny may be developing an alcohol problem. Ginny was either shown drinking or mentioned to have been drinking in 10 out of 18 chapters she is in after the Battle of Hogwarts until this, and in Chapter 302, The Wounds Not Healed, she is implied with future context to have gone to the bathroom for the purpose of drinking.
  • In Chapter 315, Entangled Branches, it is revealed that Delphini is genetically Ariadne's daughter, due to the implications of the ritual. This is hinted at several times; in Chapter 280, Side By Side, the first time she is mentioned, her core colours which are identical to Ariadne's are mentioned but not drawn attention to, and in Chapter 289, A New Life, Delphini's core colours are repeated, with Ariadne's mentioned in the chapter as well. In Chapter 315 itself, Delphini calls Ariadne "Mama."
  • In Chapter 326, Parent-Teacher Conferences, Dennis winks at Ariadne at the mention of Ginny riding motorcycles in the future, and it is pointed out that Ginny isn't privy to all of Ariadne's phone calls, and that her birthday is approaching. In Chapter 331, Bat Out of Hell, Ariadne gives Ginny a Yamaha YBR125 motorcycle to learn to ride on, and it's stated that during Chapter 326 she would have been in the early stages of working with her parents to find her one.
  • In Chapter 321, An Inconvenient Process, Ron mentions disliking Lavender's boyfriend, a nonmagical man called Brayden who works with her, and the man is mentioned but never met until Chapter 337, Caught in the Act, when when going to meet him for a day trip double date, Ariadne, Ginny, and Lavender catch him cheating on Lavender with their manager Lucille.
• Forgets to Eat: Hermione does this often.
• Forgot Their Own Birthday: In Chapter 248, The Three Hunters, it is stated that Ariadne forgot her birthday, but that her friends did not. Out of universe, this is because the author herself forgot it was Ariadne's birthday in the previous chapter.
• Forgot the Disability: In Chapter 264, Hidden in Plain Sight, Draco briefly forgets that Ariadne is blind and so can't see the colour of his hair.
• For Want Of A Nail: As the story holds a slightly different premise, oftentimes small changes or the premise itself cause greater changes down the line, sometimes even altering The Stations of the Canon.
  • Because Ariadne lives with the Grangers, she finds out she is a witch from Professor McGonagall instead of Hagrid, and on Hermione's eleventh birthday instead of her own in Chapter 7, Another Knock, Another Door.
  • In Chapter 11, The Sorting Hat, Ariadne does not ask not to be placed in Slytherin, as the Sorting Hat never suggests it - her personality traits are different to the canon's Potter, influenced by being Hermione's sister, and so the Hat instead suggests Ravenclaw first, before deciding that her "truths take courage," and sending her to Gryffindor.
  • In Chapter 18, You're Saying it Wrong, Ariadne goes with Hermione when she flees from Ron's description of her, as she is Hermione's sister and not particularly close to Ron at that point. This fundamentally alters the troll scene, where Ariadne is in more danger than Hermione, and Ron comes down to rescue them on his own in Chapter 19, Remorseful Rescues. This event also altered Ron's story, prompting him to be more self-reflective and more polite, which alters nearly all of his interactions later in the story.
  • Because Ariadne lives with a loving family, in Chapter 31, Familial Love, Professor Quirrell is killed almost immediately at her touch, instead of taking as long as he does in the movie, because Ariadne's wards are more powerful.
  • Because the wizarding world does not know that Ariadne is the Girl Who Lived at that point, in Chapter 39, Second Years, Dobby does not attempt to prevent her from going to Hogwarts, the Ford Anglia is never stolen OR crashed into the Whomping Willow and Ron's wand is never broken. This results in the Weasleys still having the Ford Anglia in later years, making use of it frequently, and Ron's "eat slugs" works in Chapter 43, Eat Slugs.
  • Because in Chapter 56, Celebrity Does, Ron is Petrified over the Christmas holidays, while Ariadne is at home, Ariadne later enters the Chamber of Secrets entirely alone. This in turn leads to Lockhart's failed attempt to escape in the movie succeeding, although Ariadne had his wand and as such Ariadne proceeded to ruin his career the next day by weaponizing the press against him - ironically, he was the man who taught her not to let others control the narrative during that same school year when Ariadne was unwittingly revealed as the Girl Who Lived.
  • Because of how Kaleidoscopic Grangers depicts the Diary of Tom Riddle, Ginny not only has her magic suppressed for two years afterward, but she is more involved with Ariadne and the pair enter a romantic relationship earlier, what they consider their first date taking place in Chapter 129, The Yule Ball.
  • In Chapter 74, Electives, because Ariadne is Hermione's sister, Ariadne also chooses to make use of a Time Turner in her third year with Hermione. This in part leads to the successful capture of Peter Pettigrew months before it would have failed in the canon by Ariadne's creation of a Stable Time Loop.
  • In Chapter 84, Professor Hagrid, Ariadne's omnidirectional sense affords her the ability to warn Hagrid of Malfoy's approach earlier than Harry does in the movie, thus leading to Hagrid successfully preventing Malfoy's injury and Buckbeak's execution in the canon never happening.
  • Because of Ariadne's magic sense, in Chapter 96, That's Not Possible, Ariadne is able to tell - once the information is supplied that he is in the castle - that 'Scabbers' is in fact Peter Pettigrew and an Animagus. This leads to herself, Professor Lupin and Professor Dumbledore hunting him through the castle and catching him, as she told Lupin, who knew she could not be lying.
    • This in itself led to Peter Pettigrew being captured months before his unsuccessful capture in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, wherein he was placed into custody and then put on trial - after that, Sirius Black's name was cleared openly, his Azkaban sentence annulled, and Sirius was freed. In turn, Sirius became a more present figure in Ariadne's life, as his movements were not restricted, and he even attended the Quidditch World Cup with them.
    • Additionally, this leads to, in Chapter 171, Eleven on Eleven, Peter Pettigrew being one of eleven, not ten, prisoners of Azkaban escaping.
  • Because Ariadne neither grew up with the Potters nor idolized them, instead growing up with her own family and subsequently different personality, her Patronus is not a deer - it is instead an arctic fox.
  • In Chapter 118, The Goblet of Fire, Ron is insistent that he and his friends help Ariadne complete the Triwizard Tournament, partially because Ariadne is more openly emotional and clearly distressed, partially because the divergences of Kaleidoscopic Grangers have changed his personality, and partially because he is a werewolf and as such cannot bear to abandon someone who falls under his pack instinct. This leads to what in the movie is a conflict, where Ron does not believe Harry was entered against his will, being entirely erased.
  • In Chapter 121, Strategies, because Ron is a werewolf, Hagrid is able to inform Ariadne of the dragons through him, by showing Red (his wolf form) the dragons.
  • In Chapter 124, A Proven Strategy, Ariadne kills a dragon. Not only is the order in which the Champions select their dragons different, as she is a girl and Crouch elects for her to choose first as the youngest girl, so she gets the Welsh Green rather than the Hungarian Horntail, but her approach to the Task is different than it is in canon. However, her tactic failed and she ended up killing the dragon the same way she killed the Basilisk (Bombarda Maxima into its mouth). Later, in Chapter 131, Thread, Antlers and Money, Ariadne receives a full set of Welsh Green dragonhide robes, boots and gloves, which serves her well in the third task of the Triwizard Tournament.
  • In Chapter 138, ...Junior, Ariadne is able to reveal Barty Crouch Jr. as an impostor impersonating Alastor Moody far earlier than in canon, because her magic sense is capable of detecting Polyjuice Potion and in Chapter 137, Barty Crouch, Snape connected the dots for her after the second task. As a result, the real Moody takes their lessons from then on, and the Triwizard Cup is never a Portkey.
  • Lampshaded in the notes of Chapter 168, That Wasn't Me, where the author points out she could have killed off Arthur Weasley simply by having the Granger sisters go home for Christmas instead of keeping them at Hogwarts, which would have made it impossible for them to quickly contact the Order and save his life.
  • In Chapter 185, Here We Fall, thanks to Ginny being more powerful than in the canon, she is able to prevent the Death Eaters from separating the party in the Department of Mysteries through an exceptionally powerful shield.
  • In Chapter 186, Hammer to Fall, Ginny's wand is destroyed by Voldemort's Fiendfyre, and she acquires a new one in Chapter 195, Magical Ink.
  • In Chapter 189, Carry On, Carry On, Sirius leaves Ariadne the House of Black in his will, making it the House of Granger. This has huge political ramifications for the Grangers, and gives them quite a bit of political power later on.
  • Also in Chapter 186, Ariadne frees Kreacher instead of ordering him to work at Hogwarts - Kreacher is later friendly to the Grangers, working for them at 12 Grimmauld Place for pay.
  • In Chapter 194, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Ariadne does not in any way tolerate the twins' selling of Love Potions, and orders them to stop, using her position as a stakeholder.
  • In Chapter 195, Magical Ink, it is shown that Garrick Ollivander was not abducted by the Death Eaters attacking Diagon Alley like they did in the movie, and his shop is not as damaged - he sells Ginny her second wand, after it was destroyed in the battle with Voldemort. This is because there was no Beam-O-War in the graveyard of Little Hangleton, and so Voldemort does not know his and Ariadne's wands are linked, and so he does not seek the Elder Wand.
  • In Chapter 197, Familiar Designs, Ariadne does not need to go and spy on Draco Malfoy to discover if he is a Death Eater or not, as she knows she will be able to see his Dark Mark later. As such, her nose is not broken and she is not late to the feast in Chapter 198, Sixth Years. She confronts Draco about this, and Ron hears Draco whisper that it cost him "too much."
  • In Chapter 200, The Half Blood Prince, Hermione is curious about the Half Blood Prince's potion book, and Ariadne actually shows it to her - as a result, Hermione uses the altered recipe where she sees fit, and Hermione is second in the running for Slughorn's Felix Felicis.
  • Also in Chapter 200, because Ron has learned to cook, he is one of the few members of the class to properly cut the Sopophorous Beans, unlike his failure to do so in the movie.
  • In much the same vein, in Chapter 203, He's A Keeper, Hermione asks whose the book was. Where in the movie, Harry is secretive, Ariadne tells her willingly, describing the Half-Blood Prince as "Some edgy twerp’s idea of a cool nickname."
  • In Chapter 204, Bleeding Through, Ariadne catches Draco with the cursed necklace before he is able to give it to Katie Bell due to her magic sense and the nature of Dark magic allowing her to sense it where he has it hidden under his shirt. As such, she and her peers immediately bring Draco and the necklace to Professor McGonagall.
  • In Chapter 213, Gathering Intelligence, Ariadne being a different person to Harry alters the conversation. First, Ariadne openly states that she doesn't trust Dumbledore's judgement, and the group come up with a plan to test Snape's loyalty. Second, Ariadne and Hermione are both involved in conversation about the Vanishing Cabinet in Borgin and Burkes, and realize that Draco Malfoy may be bridging one to Hogwarts because they have read about it. Arthur says he will tell Professor McGonagall to look for one.
  • In Chapter 214, Action Stations, instead of running to follow Bellatrix, Ariadne is able to alert the Weasleys of the attack a little earlier thanks to her magic sense and the prompt that both Ron and Remus can hear something, and the Grangers, Ron, Ginny, Remus and Nymphadora escape. Ariadne is also able to easily create a gap in Bellatrix's ring of fire thanks to both knowing more than Harry, and being able to work spells such as 'Partis Temporus' more precisely and accurately than others due to being able to see the magic.
  • Because Ariadne is, if only marginally, more subtle than Harry, in Chapter 220, Celebrimbor's Shame, Ariadne does not let slip that she is working for Dumbledore, and so there is no rift between her and Slughorn.
  • Because Ariadne is a girl, Romilda Vane never attempts to send her a love potion - in Chapter 223, Toxicity, Ariadne discovers the plot to poison Dumbledore instead by being offered a toast after showing Professor Slughorn the Bigger on the Inside case they made the year before - thanks to her magical sense, she immediately sees that it is not mead, and tests it using materials in their laboratory. However also because there is no love potion involved, Ron is never sent to the Hospital Wing - he instead mumbles Hermione's name in his sleep because he is tired with the approaching full moon.
  • Chapter 226, The Lady of the Lake, is significantly different than the canon version of events. Instead of following Draco from the Great Hall after being reminded by Katie, Ariadne follows him after he worriedly asks if having gaps in the Anti-Apparation wards of Hogwarts is safe, after which he goes to the bathroom. Instead of angrily accusing him of anything, Ariadne extends a proverbial olive branch, and although Draco lashes out, Ariadne casts a Petrification spell on him and continues talking. She does not use the spell Sectumsempra, as she knows approximately what it would do. Instead of attempting to harm Draco, Ariadne tells him to contact Excalibur - previously established to be Arthur Weasley's codename - and to use a codename himself, if he wishes to help the Order. She then lets Draco go.
  • In Chapter 229, For Another Ring Was Made, Ariadne being more intelligent than Harry is results in her immediately realizing she is a Horcrux, and yelling at Dumbledore. After this, her relationship with Professor Dumbledore is extremely strained, and at times openly hostile. Subsequently, in Chapter 230, The World Is Grey, she is thoroughly depressed, and believes there is little point to her life given her inevitable necessary death.
  • In Chapter 231, The Queen of Light, Ariadne takes a number of extra things on the trip to the cave, including her Welsh Green dragonhide robes, a dagger and several potentially helpful potions she was made by Hermione, and all of the contents of her bag, including her Firebolt. Ron also gives her his supplies of Essence of Dittany and Murtlap Essence he has because he is a werewolf.
  • In Chapter 232, From the Dragon of Darkness, Professor Dumbledore tells Ariadne to disarm him before he takes the Drink of Despair - after this, Ariadne has the Elder Wand, although she does not know it, and subsequently uses it to conjure a Firestorm instead of it being Dumbledore who does this. As a result of this, she definitively becomes Master of Death in Chapter 240, Wedding Planner, although she does not know, despite sensing its manifestation around her magical core.
  • Because Ariadne made use of a Time Turner in her third year at Hogwarts and her Trace being broken earlier than in canon, at the opening of Kaleidoscopic Grangers' equivalent of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ariadne and the Grangers are immediately Apparated to the Burrow, after the death of Professor Dumbledore, completely averting an equivalent of the Battle of the Seven Potters, and thus averting the death of Alastor Moody during said battle.
  • In Chapter 243, The Council of Elrond, Ariadne and Hermione find the Locket of Salazar Slytherin in Kreacher's room at 12 Grimmauld Place. This is because instead of largely abandoning the house, the Grangers spent a lot of time at the house, fixing it up, and Mundungus Fletcher never stole it. As such, he never sold it to Dolores Umbridge. This results in the group finding the Locket immediately, although with no way to destroy it, and not having to go to the Ministry at all, and then only having to go camping to accommodate Ronald's full moons.
  • In Chapter 254, The Best Laid Plans, Ron, not Ariadne, is the one to point out that Xenophilius Lovegood was wearing the symbol of the Deathly Hallows at the wedding, as Ariadne never crossed paths with him during the event. Instead, Ariadne echoes Hermione's canon initial belief it was an eye.
  • In Chapter 258, The Deathly Hallows, Ariadne and Ron quickly realize Luna is not at home and hasn't been for a while, using a combination of Ariadne's magic sense and Ron's enhanced sense of smell. She also immediately realizes she has the Deathly Hallows, and instead of sticking around, Ariadne and Ron urge Hermione to Disapparate them as soon as Xenophilius leaves, guessing that Luna got taken hostage. They also do not Apparate to the forest and encounter Snatchers, since they are not camping because they still live at number 12 Grimmauld Place, and so are not taken to Malfoy Manor.
  • In Chapter 259, The Elder Wand, Ariadne destroys the locket using the Elder Wand, not the Sword of Gryffindor, as they do not have the latter, and it focuses on her and not Ron because they denied it any opportunity to see their fears - as a result, it was forced to play on the most surface fears Ariadne had after she inadvertently touched it, and so was not strong enough to effectively fight them.
  • In Chapter 262, Theseus, the trio Apparate to Shell Cottage after a report from the day after destroying the locket which detailed Voldemort's heightened interest in Gringotts, instead of fleeing Malfoy Manor there - but who did flee Malfoy Manor there was Draco Malfoy, who turns out to have been Code Name Theseus all along.
  • In Chapter 264, Hidden in Plain Sight, and Chapter 265, Defensive Lines, the heist on Gringotts changes in numerous ways.
    • First, it takes place on the third of February, where in the movie it takes place on the first of May.
    • Secondly, they do not bring Griphook, as Kaleidoscopic Grangers establishes goblins find thievery abhorrent as a craft-based society that views one's belongings and crafts as part of one's self, and they know he would not help them.
    • Thirdly, Ron does not come, as he is impossible to effectively disguise using magic, and instead they bring Draco Malfoy as well as Dobby, and instead of Hermione taking Polyjuice Potion to disguise herself as Bellatrix Lestrange (as she could not have, as the trio never got captured and taken to Malfoy Manor), Draco goes as himself to demand entrance to the Malfoy vault, while Hermione poses as a fictional relative of his.
    • Fourthly, because Gringotts was never warned of Draco or the Malfoy vault, only Bellatrix and the Lestrange vault, Draco - although performing rudely to make himself convincing - does present his wand, and in doing so casts the Imperius curse on Ricbert, not Bogrod, as Bogrod was never brought to them. There is also more contention over this act, as Ariadne is strongly opposed to doing so.
    • Fifthly, once inside, they do not use the Clankers to make the dragon cower, as they did not know of them and would likely think them inhumane, instead they used magic to soften their footsteps and sneak over. The actual acquisition of the Horcrux goes slightly differently, as Ariadne climbs the shelves and herself triggers the Gemino Curse on the way. Exiting the vault, they are met with guards, and instead of freeing the dragon, hijack the guards' railcart and Dobby Disapparates them. The dragon is, unfortunately, not freed.
  • Beginning in Chapter 270, This Day We Fight, the Battle of Hogwarts goes slightly differently due to differing circumstances. Because they are using the Elder Wand to destroy Horcruxes, Ron and Hermione never go for a Basilisk fang, and because the Cup of Helga Hufflepuff was destroyed before they even went to Hogwarts, Voldemort does not shatter the shield in a burst of rage before Ariadne reaches the Room of Requirement.
    • In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, Voldemort does destroy the shield after the Diadem is destroyed, and actually catches Ariadne spying on him in the boathouse. Ginny joins them after having overloaded and destroyed her own wand defending the castle, and demonstrates exceptional wandless magic. Ron kills Fenrir Greyback instead of Hermione, because he was attacking Parvati and Lavender in a part-transformed state, and Lavender does not appear to be dead as of the end of this chapter.
    • Also in Chapter 272, there are no Acromantulae in the battle - the reason for this is not stated, and was pointed out in the chapter's notes.
      In Chapter 285, The Pack Survives, the reason for this is revealed; It is because at some point before the battle, during the school year, for unknown reasons, Ginny burned down that section of the forest, implied to have used wandless magic to do so, and burned out the Acromantula nest.
  • In Chapter 280, Side By Side, it is revealed that Nymphadora Tonks - who survived the war because she never went to the Battle of Hogwarts, as did her father whose death would have been in March of that year had the war not ended in February - has taken in the child Delphini, Voldemort's daughter from The Cursed Child.
    • In Chapter 289, A New Life, Ariadne even becomes her godmother, as well as to Nymphadora's son Jason.
  • In Chapter 357, Goddess of Spring, Ron and Hermione's daughter, Persephone Granger-Weasley, is born a werewolf due to Ron becoming a werewolf in Chapter 106, Fetch.
• Foster Kid: In Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger, it is revealed that Ariadne's cousin Dudley, who was stated to have been removed from his parents' custody in Chapter 16, Dangerous Assumptions, never did end up getting adopted like Ariadne; he grew up in the foster system. Despite this, he is a much better person than he had been when he and Ariadne had last met, although he does point out how lucky Ariadne was to be adopted; Dudley's education was scattered and instead of being able to safely move out, he was kicked out of the system with a bag of his belongings and a cheque for £300.
• Friendless Background: Ariadne and Hermione were ostracized and bullied as children.
• Friend to Bugs: In Chapter 286, We Won't Find Ourselves Alone Again, Kreacher reveals he has adopted four pet Wētā while in New Zealand, one of which he has named Puddle.
• Friends with Benefits:
  • In Chapter 237, Regrouping, Nymphadora tells Ariadne she and Remus are Friends with Benefits - they bonded over their shared loss of Sirius, but are not romantically involved.
  • In Chapter 298, The Threads That Bind Us, it is revealed that during the time Luna Obliviated themself of, they and Neville were Friends with Benefits. In the movies Kaleidoscopic Grangers was based on, Luna and Neville had a Last-Minute Hookup, but in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Luna is aromantic.

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• Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: Chapters 282 to 284, We Could Be Heroes, go over Ariadne and Ginny having sex for the first time now that they have been reunited and won the war.
• Good Is Not Soft:
  • Ariadne has no qualms about showing no mercy to her foes, unlike how her canon counterpart often refuses to kill - Ariadne sometimes outright delivers a killing blow immediately, as she does in Chapter 268, The Mouth of Sauron and does several times in Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate.
  • In Chapter 234, The Battle of Evermore, Ron hears his older brother Bill being attacked by Fenrir Greyback and goes berserk, only failing to kill Greyback with his bare hands because he threw him off a tower, forgetting that many Death Eaters, including Greyback, know how to perform unassisted flight. In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, he kills Greyback on sight for attacking Lavender.
  • Also in Chapter 272, after Snape wounds Clarabelle Burton, Ginny wastes no time in killing him, and is just as ruthless as Ariadne in the battle, killing two Death Eaters with a sectumsempra spell, impaling a giant, killing Snape, and Stunning a flying Death Eater to fall into the lake and drown.
  • Of the New Marauders, Hermione is the only one to never have killed anyone.
• Grin of Audacity: In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne adopts a self-assured grin as she takes her place for her duel with Voldemort, knowing she cannot lose it.
• Hand Blast: In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, Ginny demonstrates her ability to use magic without her wand, using her arms and hands as channels. However, this does give her nerve damage in her arms and hands after how powerfully she uses it that night.
• Handicapped Badass: Ariadne is blind, but thanks to a combination of extensive study and a Disability Superpower, she is close to the top of the list of most powerful characters in the story by the time of the Battle of Hogwarts.
• Happily Adopted:
  • Ariadne after being adopted by the Grangers.
  • In Chapter 289, A New Life, three month old Delphini seems perfectly happy having been adopted by the Tonkses.
• Hates Being Touched: In Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Hermione is autistic, and one way this is expressed is that she often finds hugs too overwhelming. Despite being a Cuddle Bug, Ron always respects this.
• Heirloom Engagement Ring: In Chapter 361, The Question, both Ariadne and Ginny intended to propose to each other at the same date. The engagement ring Ginny gives Ariadne was in fact her mother's engagement ring.
• Hesitant Sacrifice: Between Chapter 229, For Another Ring Was Made, and Chapter 258, The Deathly Hallows, Ariadne is unaware she has or will have the Deathly Hallows, and believes she will die because she is a Horcrux and must die - she is hardly willing to sacrifice herself, and spends the time in a depressive state miserable over the future she believes she has lost.
• Hidden Weapons: In Chapter 206, Like Pulling Teeth, Ariadne has her wand on her thigh rather than its normal in her sleeve (as she is not wearing sleeves), and it is stated this is the same method as how Fleur had her wand on her during the Yule Ball in Chapter 130, Flying Off From a Cliff. Ariadne, during Chapter 130, was confused as to where Fleur had kept hers, as she did not see where she had it when she drew it on Roger Davies with the other Champions for disrespecting Ariadne and Ginny.
• High-Voltage Death: In Chapter 268, The Mouth of Sauron, Ariadne begins the duel with the Carrows and Snape by hitting Alecto Carrow with a lightning bolt.
  • During Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, Ariadne does this again against a flying Death Eater.
• Howl of Sorrow: At the end of Chapter 279, The Apple Tree, after burying Fred, the New Marauders sit around his grave quietly. Ron, still in his humanoid form, tilts his head back and howls sadly, before he breaks into tears again.
• Human Shield: Ariadne uses the Alchemist as a human shield while attempting to gain access to the Portkey in his pocket. Voldemort kills him anyway.
• Idiot Ball: Ariadne could certainly be considered to be holding the Idiot Ball in the climax to fifth year - there were avenues she could have taken to not just prevent Sirius' death but the entire Battle of the Department of Mysteries, though it could be argued she was just in the grips of a particularly bad panic attack given the stressors of that year. Conversely, Hermione is not holding the Idiot Ball, and points out multiple flaws in what they're doing. In comments, the author says that the event was kept more because preventing it all would have been a terrible anticlimax to the tension that was fifth year, and that it would have punctured some of the things she wanted to do with its consequences later.
• I Have Brothers: Implied to be averted in Chapter 326, Parent-Teacher Conferences, when it's stated that Ginny always played Quidditch more roughly than her brothers, implying there to be no causal relationship between her being a Tomboy and her having grown up the only girl among her siblings; she was just always like that.
• I Have Many Names: In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, while giving her Badass Boast, Ariadne lists four of her titles - "The Girl Who Lived," "The White Eyed Wonder," "Triwizard Champion," and "The Chosen One," before stating that above all she is Ariadne Granger.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Ariadne does not want to be the Girl Who Lived, and wishes she could "just be Ariadne Granger."
  • Ironically, in Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne insists that her ability to defeat Voldemort was derived from being Ariadne Granger, "a good student," and not fate, in her Badass Boast.
• I'm a Doctor, Not a Placeholder: In Chapter 336, Inkpot Gods, Draco looks to Ariadne to explain what Astoria said about trinucleotide repeats in a certain gene. Ariadne replies "What are you looking at me for, I'm an expert on Transfiguration, not genetics."
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, delivered to a giant by Ginny using magic to wrench its own weapon (a severed Quidditch hoop) out of its hand and impaling it with it.
• Improbable Aiming Skills: Offhand Backshot
  • Ariadne. Justified, as her magical sense works in a 360 degree sphere.
  • In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, Ginny. She was able to hit a fast-moving target without even looking, which is revealed in Chapter 302, The Wounds Not Healed, to be due to her having her own form of magic sense.
• In the Blood: Averted. Ariadne does not consider the Potters her family, and denies any suggestion she 'inherited' anything other than genetics. Even Sirius acknowledges this.
• In-Series Nickname: Ariadne, after becoming Seeker for the Gryffindor Quidditch team becomes widely known as the White-Eyed Wonder, even before she is revealed as the Girl Who Lived. She is initially not a fan of this name, as "white-eyes" was something she was often teased as, but the name is too well-used to be stopped and she decides she doesn't mind reclaiming the taunt.
• Intergenerational Friendship: After her departure from Hogwarts (as a student), Ariadne and Minerva McGonagall become this, and this grows after Ariadne becomes Minerva's successor as Transfiguration Professor at Hogwarts.
• Interspecies Friendship: Most friendships with Ronald Weasley after he becomes a werewolf, save for his friendship with Remus, as well as those with Fleur Delacour, who is a part-Veela.
• Interspecies Romance:
  • Bill and Fleur, as Fleur is part-Veela.
  • Ron, a werewolf, and Hermione, a human, after Chapter 252, Dream On.
  • In Chapter 297, Happy Birthdays, Gabrielle Delacour - a part-Veela - and Chloe - a Caprid Centaur - are stated to be in a relationship.
• Informed Attribute: Justified. Commonly in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, character traits are stated instead of observed - because the POV character is blind and cannot see, for example, the colour of Draco's hair in Chapter 264, Hidden in Plain Sight.
• Invisibility with Drawbacks: Because the Cloak of Invisibility is a magical object, Ariadne cannot see through it like a sighted user can. This means she either requires assistance navigating when using it, or simply is restricted to either navigating by memory or standing still while using it. As a result, she does not use it often.
• Ironic Echo: In Chapter 229, For Another Ring Was Made, Professor Dumbledore repeats Ariadne's line that she does perfectly well blind from Chapter 217, Annatar, Lord of Gifts, along with his own retort that he prefers to see his way clearly.
• It Always Rains at Funerals: Averted - in an element of Shown Their Work, the weather is usually accurate past Chapter 174, so it is never actually raining at any of the three funerals in the story - Ariadne comments on this, thinking rain would be more appropriate.
• I Want Grandkids: Gently invoked in Chapter 294, A Funny Little Family, where Dennis briefly brings up the possibility of Hermione and Ron having children- "Andromeda here was just saying we might get grandchildren one day." Hermione says she'd want to be settled down first, and Ron is worried any child of his could be a werewolf, Jason not being one is "not statistically significant."

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• Kaleidoscope Hair: After Jason Tonks is born and his Metamorphmagus abilities displayed, he is known for frequently making his hair pink or blue.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, after Voldemort breaks the rules of the duel by attempting to fire upon Ginny out of desperation, Ariadne advances on him, casts a Cruciatus Curse on him, and then when he is writhing on the ground, releases it. She then proceeds to kick him in the face, kick him in the stomach, kick his wand from his hand, and then stomp on his ribcage.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: After Chapter 328, Futures Await, Ariadne and the main characters begin their adult lives. Ariadne in particular seeks to have a more ordinary career, as she is exhausted from being the Kid Hero. She starts by working as a researcher in the Department of Spell Research, later leaves there to write a book on her Chekhov's Skill, and eventually becomes Professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts (later becoming Deputy Headmistress and finally Headmistress in Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger. Hermione goes into politics, moves in with Ron, and then starts a family with him. Later, Hermione becomes Deputy Minister for Magic in 2019, while Ron is founder and evidently CEO of a holding company named Granger & Weasley. Ginny, living with Ariadne, becomes a successful professional Quidditch player, playing for the Holyhead Harpies. After Ariadne becomes a teacher, she tries very hard to impress upon her students that she is no longer the Kid Hero they have heard about and that she is trying to move on.
• The Lancer: In combative circumstances where Ariadne has taken the role of The Leader, Ginny. Ginny is confident where Ariadne is meek, and where a large part of Ariadne's power comes from her precision (which itself is part of her Disability Superpower), Ginny is a brute-force magic user, punching through shields rather than deliberately piercing them. In more general planning terms when Hermione is The Leader, Ariadne starts off as The Lancer but is replaced by Ron as she becomes more and more anxious and lacking in confidence.
• Last-Minute Hookup: Averted. In Chapter 252, Dream On, Ron and Hermione get together a full seven months before they do in canon - in the movie Kaleidoscopic Grangers uses as reference, Ron and Hermione have their Relationship Upgrade during the Battle of Hogwarts in May of 1998, but in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, they have it at home in October of 2007 (Kaleidoscopic Grangers takes place in the 2000s instead of 1990s).
• The Leader: Hermione falls under the category of the Levelheaded Leader, being logical and often more objective. However, this is occasionally a weakness, as she doesn't address her own losses - when bad things happen, Hermione gets things done but doesn't seem to know how to grieve. In combat, however, Ariadne is usually The Leader. Hermione doesn't kill anyone or anything during the story of Kaleidoscopic Grangers, while Ariadne is the magical heavy-hitter of the New Marauders, in conjunction with Ginny. This is most obvious in Chapter 265, Defensive Lines, where Ariadne explicitly takes command from Hermione, telling the group to stay behind her. However, in terms of overall planning, Hermione is The Leader. Appropriately, as Ariadne and Hermione share this role, they also share a title in Centaur prophecies.
• Left Your Lifesaver Behind: Ariadne takes off the dragonhide robes after the Third Task of the Triwizard Tournament, leaving her without them in the graveyard.
• Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition: Although Ariadne uses fire in combat quite often as well, Ginny can be easily associated with fire and Ariadne lightning, as Ariadne uses lightning in combat quite a bit by the Battle of Hogwarts, and in Chapter 281, Disarmament, Ginny gets a new wand with a Phoenix feather core, representing fire, and Ariadne gets a new wand with a Thunderbird feather core, representing lightning. Ariadne's codename in the Order of the Phoenix is also 'Lightning.'
• Like an Old Married Couple: Averted. In canon, Hermione and Ron "bicker like an old married couple," however in Kaleidoscopic Grangers they bond quite a lot more over shared things like sensory issues after Ron becomes a werewolf, and have a lot more respect for one another.
  • In Chapter 319, Nice Cup of Tea, Ariadne laughs at this trope, saying that anyone who spends all of their time arguing probably isn't very good at being married.
• Love Confession: In Chapter 252, Dream On, Ron confesses his love for Hermione, and she for him.
• Knockback Slide: Instead of being blown back, Ron, being resistant to magic, is only pushed back by about a foot when hit by a stunning jinx in Chapter 114: That's Not the Irish.
• Magic Eye: After Chapter 299, Back to School, Clarabelle Burton is depicted as having a prosthetic Magical Eye to replace the one she lost in the Battle of Hogwarts. Ginny points out that the prosthetic is blue, while Clarabelle's natural eye colour is green - Clarabelle replies she just thought the blue looked cooler.
• Magic Knight: In Chapters 269 through to 275, Ariadne temporarily dual-wields her dagger as well as the Elder Wand, and even manages to get in a stab on Voldemort using her dagger.
• Magical Weapon: In Chapter 231, The Queen of Light, Hermione gifts Ariadne an enchanted dagger, one she enchanted to only be sharp when she wants it to be.
• Male Band, Female Singer: Inverted; in Chapter 293, Having a Jam, Ron is the lead singer for the New Marauders' for-fun cover band, accompanying three girls.
• Mama Bear: Valerie Granger is a fiercely protective mother to Ariadne and Hermione, even going so far as to threaten Albus Dumbledore with suggestions about her access to sedatives and medical tools.
• Manly Men Can Hunt: Averted - in Chapter 248, The Three Hunters, it is clear that Ron, despite even being a werewolf, is no good at hunting - he only catches a rabbit, and catches it in such a way it's ruined as far as hunting goes. Of the three of them, after learning from an actual hunter, Ariadne is the one to learn how to hunt properly.
• Meaningful Echo: In Chapter 270, This Day We Fight, Ariadne tells Helena Ravenclaw that some of the things Voldemort defiled with Dark magic were living by saying "...some of them living." Later, when Helena says she reminds her of Voldemort a bit, Ariadne repeats the line to point out that she herself is a Horcrux.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Ariadne, Hermione, Ginny, and Ron, all have names assigned to them by the prophecies of the Centaurs:
    • Ariadne and Hermione are called the Princesses Among Legend, which is both a Mythology Gag and a Call-Back, as this was the title of Chapter 5, where Ariadne chose her name.
    • Ron is called the Red Wolf, a very direct reference to his status as a werewolf.
    • Ginny is called the Lady of Light, which could be considered a reference to her Code Name with the Order of the Phoenix, Galadriel - the character Galadriel in Tolkien's Legendarium is sometimes called the Lady of Light as well.
  • Many members of the Order of the Phoenix have a Code Name.
    • Ariadne's codename is Lightning, for her lightning-bolt scar.
    • Hermione's codename is Helen, as the mythological princess she is named after is the daughter of Helen of Troy.
    • Ginny's codename is Galadriel, for the powerful Elf from the Lord of the Rings.
    • Ron's codename is Riding Hood, a reference to Little Red Riding Hood, a reference to the fact he is a werewolf, and has red hair and red fur in his wolf form.
    • Arthur's codename is Excalibur, for King Arthur's sword.
    • Remus' codename is Romulus, for the other of the twin founders of Rome suckled by a she-wolf.
    • Alastor's codename is Vigilant, for his frequent use of the mantra "Constant Vigilance."
    • An unknown individual's codename is Theseus, first mentioned in Chapter 246, Under a Black Sail. This appears to be a reference to the legend of Ariadne of Crete, where Ariadne helped Theseus through the Labyrinth with a thread.
    • It is revealed in Chapter 262, Theseus, that Code Name Theseus is Draco Malfoy.
  • Averted in Chapter 289, A New Life, where Edward Lupin is instead named Jason Tonks. Justified in that in the canon, Edward Lupin was named after his maternal grandfather who died during the war, but in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Edward Tonks never died, so his grandson is not named after him. Yet at the same time invoked in this chapter, because Jason's middle name is Sirius, named after Sirius Black.
  • In Chapter 324, Wolves and Foxes, it is revealed that Parvati has chosen the name Bhadra for her wolf form, which is the name of several Hindu deities; one of them is the daughter of Chandra, goddess of the moon, and the other is the goddess of the hunt.
  • In Chapter 343, The Two Trees, Lavender gives birth to twin sons, whom she names Cedar and Rowan. Their middle names, however, are Remus and Romulus respectively, a reference to twin boys suckled by a she-wolf in mythology regarding the founding of Rome. Regardless of whether the boys were werewolves - they are - the reference is regarding that they are Lavender's sons, as she is a werewolf and thus the she-wolf in the reference.
  • In Chapter 357, Goddess of Spring, Hermione names her and Ron's daughter Persephone, no doubt because she was born in spring and the goddess Persephone was the goddess of spring and also of the Underworld - the latter is also appropriate given the baby is a werewolf.
• Meaningful Rename:
  • Ariadne chooses her name to match Hermione's, as they are both named after Greek princesses. The name was, in a way, partially chosen by Hermione, and Ariadne later uses the memory of choosing the name to cast a Patronus.
  • In Chapter 267, it is revealed that the organization previously known as Dumbledore's Army has renamed itself Ariadne's Thread, to reflect it following Ariadne, not Professor Dumbledore, and the legend her name comes from.
  • In a case of Took the Wife's Name, in Chapter 348, In Sickness and in Health, Draco in fact chooses to take Astoria's last name instead of the other way around. On top of this, he also changes his middle name while he's at it to Theseus, which was his Code Name in the Order of the Phoenix - in doing so, he removes any reference to the Malfoys from his name, becoming Draco Theseus Greengrass instead of Draco Lucius Malfoy.
  • In Chapter 372, Jason and Delphini, Delphini insists upon coming to Hogwarts that her last name should be Granger, and not Tonks, because she is Ariadne's daughter. Ariadne compromises by agreeing to call her Delphini Granger-Tonks.
• Mentor Archetype:
  • The Professor: Averted in the case of Ariadne and Professor Dumbledore; unlike her canon counterpart, Ariadne does not particularly admire Professor Dumbledore, and after Chapter 229, For Another Ring Was Made, Ariadne's attitude towards him becomes openly hostile, becoming Rage Against the Mentor.
  • After Chapter 107, Accidents and Consequences, Remus becomes something of a mentor to Ronald, after Ronald becomes a werewolf. The two become quite close, seeing one another as packmates.
    • This becomes an example of Surpassed the Teacher, wherein Ronald helps Remus grow as well, helping him see he isn't a monster. In Chapter 154, Safe House, Remus describes himself as having lost his childhood to his own self-hatred (although the perspective Ron has offered isn't quite applicable to Remus due to Ron's relative privilege), and even in this very chapter, Remus begins to be a little more accepting of himself as a werewolf in his behaviour. This has solidified by Chapter 222, The Mentor, where Remus actually states to the class that a young werewolf he is friends with has taught him a better way, and effectively describes Ronald (although he doesn't name him, as Ronald is closeted) in his description of this "third kind." He even rather cheekily has Ronald get involved in the lesson, having him attempt to Stun Remus to demonstrate their magical resistance.
    • Surpassed the Teacher doubles down in Chapter 277, Echoes in Peacetime. After the death of Remus Lupin, Ron is forced to take on the role Remus had played for him for the five new werewolves from the Battle of Hogwarts.
  • In Chapter 357, The Goddess of Spring, Ariadne finally accepts the role of Head of Transfiguration at Hogwarts at Minerva's final offer. In this, she herself becomes The Professor, in a case of Surpassed the Teacher when in the chapter before, Chapter 356 Earlybird Scramble, she demonstrates her ability in Transfiguration magic to be greater than Professor McGonagall's. In Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger, Ariadne completes this journey and takes Minerva's place as Headmistress of Hogwarts.
• Mid-Season Upgrade:
  • Ariadne has two of these.
    • During the Triwizard Tournament, Ariadne trains extensively to be able to survive the Tournament, and this forms the basis of her being an extremely capable fighter later.
    • In Chapter 232, From the Dragon of Darkness, and Chapter 234, The Battle of Evermore, Ariadne demonstrates new combative magic compared to her skills in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries; In Chapter 232, Ariadne casts the Firestorm that Dumbledore casts in the movie, an act which demonstrates her extensive skill and proficiency in combative magic. It helps that in this chapter she gains the Elder Wand even if she only gets it out again in Chapter 257, Christmas in Exile. In Chapter 234, she starts using lightning bolt spells in combat, which combined with Firestorms becomes her main combative arsenal.
  • Ron becomes a werewolf in Chapter 106, Fetch.
  • Ginny, after enduring the suppression of her magic for two years, has her magic released in Chapter 150, The Sorceress, and immediately demonstrates how powerful the suppression has left her - because her magic had to overcompensate in power.
• Mind Rape: Chapters 168, That Wasn't Me, to 178, Occlumency, feature Ariadne being subjected to what is effectively Mind Rape as Professor Snape allegedly attempts to teach her Occlumency. Because she has been subjected to an inordinate amount of trauma, being forced to relive so much of it as her mind is uncontrollably jammed into dozens of flashbacks over and over (because Snape is attempting to force her to anchor herself without figuring out she can eject him, in order to allow him to 'decode' how her mind processes memory) causes her to experience flashbacks frequently even outside of the lessons. As a result, she is extremely mentally fragile for this period, and sometimes struggles to remain grounded in reality.
• Missing the Good Stuff: Sirius meets up with Lupin to attempt to find Pettigrew mere minutes after Ariadne, Dumbledore, and Lupin caught him
• Monochromatic Eyes: Ariadne's eyes, as a result of the injury that blinded her, are best described as cloudy grey (even though she is often called the White-Eyed Wonder), as the outer surfaces of her eyes have been (spoilered for unpleasant details) dissolved by a caustic substance at a young age, causing the sclera and irises to effectively melt together. She does not have distinct irises, and her pupils are almost invisible. According to Word of God, "They're not meant to be pretty eyes. Like, they're unique, and so people like the Daily Prophet like them (and almost certainly do the magical equivalent of photoshop on them), but they're not exactly visually appealing... Ariadne's eyes aren't like, cutesy pearl whites, they're kinda disturbingly cloudy grey stuff," and the eyes are based on the writer's late half-blind goat, Brian.
• Monster Rights Movement: Ariadne, Hermione, Ginny, and Ron all over the course of their school years campaign for the rights of non-humans, which is slightly bolstered when they do this by the fact that Ron is a werewolf, and as such is non-human himself.
  • In Chapter 122, Cygnet Committee, the four form the group SPEER, which stands for the Society for the Promotion of Elven Employment Rights, in response to discovering that Hogwarts 'employs' a contingent of enslaved elves. However, the group is not particularly successful that year due to the Triwizard Tournament, and they are unable to resume it during their next year due to the measures taken by Professor Umbridge. In the 2006-2007 school year, they revive the group.
  • After getting the elves freed in the first term of the 2006-2007 school year, in Chapter 216, Diplomatic Relations, the group form THORN, which stands for The Hogwarts Organization for the Rights of Nonhumans, which at first campaigns to raise the wages of the newly freed elves, and its next goal is stated to be to petition the Board of Governors to make it Hogwarts policy to openly support the attendance of non-human students.
    • Their latter goal would allow Ron to be open about being a werewolf, which makes it personal.
  • The four take the following roles in the group:
    • Hermione: Founder, generally the leader.
    • Ariadne: Public Relations Officer, due to her pre-existing platform. However, when she doesn't have the time, Hermione may take over.
    • Ginny: Marketing and design, Ginny designed the SPEER logo and worked on the designs of their ads.
    • Ron: Treasurer, and the only nonhuman member (although he is not open about being a werewolf).
  • In Chapter 345, The Brown Foundation, Lavender founds the Brown Foundation, a nonprofit charity meant to provide medical and social care to all nonhumans where such care is lacking for them in places such as Saint Mungo's. Most of its staff are nonhuman.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • In Chapter 37, Sluggish Bludgers, Ariadne goes from having fun playing Quidditch with the Weasleys to suddenly having to deal with Ginny walking in on her getting changed.
  • Chapter 56, Celebrity Does covers Ariadne doing a signing with Lockhart at Diagon Alley before coming home to the news that Ron got Petrified.
  • In Chapter 142, Blood and Water, Ron is extremely glad to see Percy, who, not knowing Ron is one, nearly immediately calls werewolves monsters and sends him crying outside.
  • Chapter 144, We Are The Champions is one big lull into a false sense of security before Ariadne is suddenly kidnapped by the Alchemist.
  • In Chapter 204, Bleeding Through, Ariadne, Hermione, Ron and Ginny are discussing how Ariadne is in fact seventeen, not sixteen, due to their use of Time Turners and why she is able to order drinks at the Three Broomsticks, when Draco Malfoy walks in and Ariadne senses the cursed necklace.
  • In Chapter 208, When All the World is Warm and Tired, Ariadne and Hermione are chatting about how well Ron did in Quidditch despite the full moon, when Lavender kisses him and Hermione flees - she then cries to Ariadne that she thinks Ron sees her as "too weird" for her autism.
  • Chapter 219, Do The Hippogriff transitions suddenly from Ariadne and Ginny making out on the couch to a tearful conversation about Ariadne's discomfort with her own more physical feelings for Ginny because of public perception of transgender women and her own dysphoria, where Ginny encourages her to let herself think such things.
  • Between Chapters 228, A Matter of Luck, and 229, For Another Ring Was Made, Ariadne starts off high on the Felix Felicis she has taken, but in the final section of Chapter 229, she realizes she is a Horcrux, and ends the chapter sobbing alone.
  • In Chapter 241, Receptive Audience, Ariadne goes from cheerfully discussing accommodations for the legally blind Elphias Doge to reporting the loss of the Burrow's protective wards and subsequently being forced to evacuate, leaving behind Ginny.
  • In Chapter 253, Founders' Effects, Ariadne and Hermione go from discussing Hermione's newfound relationship with Ron, after Ron lovingly brought her a hot chocolate and something to eat while she worked, to a report from 'Theseus' outlining inhumane experiments being conducted by Fenrir Greyback.
  • In Chapter 302, The Wounds Not Healed, Ariadne rounds a corner embarrassed by a sexual reference from Ginny and is promptly faced with Flora Carrow, who hates her for killing her mother.
  • In Chapter 337, Caught in the Act, Ariadne and Ginny laughing over a theme park ride Ariadne liked as a child transitions into discovering that Lavender's boyfriend is cheating on her.
  • In Chapter 356, Earlybird Scramble, Ariadne considering her final decision whether or not to become Transfiguration Professor at Hogwarts is suddenly interrupted by Ron calling her mobile phone to tell her that Hermione has gone into labour and then the frantic mission to get her to the medical centre.
• Morning Sickness: in Chapter 338, Cycle Interrupted, Lavender becomes quite nauseous and vomits. This is revealed to be due to her being pregnant with twins, and it is mentioned in Chapter 339, Romulus and Remus, to not be isolated to the mornings.
• Mouth of Sauron: In Chapter 268, The Mouth of Sauron, Snape fills this role as speaking for Voldemort until he flees and Voldemort himself speaks. Obviously, the chapter is named after the Trope Namer.
• Muggles Do It Better:
  • In Chapter 278, When Alle Is Fayed, Draco points out that the reason Ariadne was able to deflect the Killing Curse Voldemort shot at her in Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, is because while magical society stagnates, she thinks like a Muggle, and does not blindly believe rules such as 'the killing curse cannot be defended against.' Specifically, the inventive attitude of Muggles - "You think like a Muggle. You saw a problem and invented a spell to do it."
  • In Chapter 336, Inkpot Gods, Astoria discusses having acquired a Muggle diagnosis of a genetic condition that had previously been dismissed without treatment as a blood curse by wizards.
• Multiboobage: In Chapter 357, Goddess of Spring, Ron and Hermione's trueborn werewolf daughter Persephone is stated to have three pairs of nipples, six nipples in total - described by the doctors as being supernumerary. However, this is in fact because she is a trueborn werewolf, and Ariadne theorizes that all other werewolves also have the genetics for this but it doesn't express in them due to having developed in a physically human manner. Ron also mentions how their wolf forms have multiple pairs of nipples, but this is normal for wolves - his own form, Red, has six, and Lavender's, Blossom, has ten (which Ron probably knows from when she was pregnant).
• Mundane Utility: In their adulthoods, Ariadne and Ginny - some of the most powerful characters in the story, if not the most powerful witches in Britain - find more mundane uses for their powerful magic. Ginny's ability to use wandless magic, which she teaches to Ariadne, is used to fetch cutlery and plates from their kitchen without leaving their sitting room, to apply Pride makeup, boil water when there's a power cut, for Ariadne to open doors without getting up, and they both allegedly use Parseltongue in later years to communicate from upstairs and downstairs without having to shout.
  Ariadne also does this with her Dimensional Transfiguration; in one chapter, she demonstrates an ability to compress space in such a way that she says could destroy London if she did it more severely and wasn't careful dispelling it, and in dispelling it allegedly causes nuclear fusion to take place. She states she's finding ways to use relative reference points. Ten years later, she is shown using the same principles and possibly even a derivative of the same spell to casually store things like a Hogwarts pamphlet in a wristpocket spell.
  • In smaller examples, Ariadne's second wand - which summons storms when she is angry or startled - can also be used to check for faulty wiring, because it prickles in the presence of live wires. Ariadne also wonders if it can be used as a miniature generator, but she hasn't tried it because she doesn't know what voltage or amperage it'd produce.
  • Hermione creates an incredibly complex enchanted pocket watch capable of storing up to 720 Portkey destinations, among other things, during the pandemic lockdowns. The only time it's used in the story is as a torch.
• My Blood Runs Hot: In Kaleidoscopic Grangers, werewolves' body temperatures run higher than humans' due to their faster metabolisms.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Averted.
  • In the canon, Ron is antagonistic about anyone dating Ginny, meanwhile in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, he is consistently supportive of Ariadne dating Ginny from the get-go.
  • Ariadne and Ginny routinely encourage Hermione and Ron to date as well, although the pair seem embarrassed by it.
• Mythology Gag:
  • As the Polyjuice plot never happened in Ariadne's second year (they instead looked up the Malfoy family's history), Hermione never spent time in the Hospital Wing as part-cat. In Chapter 139, Professor Moody, Professor Moody jokes about using cat hair accidentally in Polyjuice Potion; “Don’t want to use cat hair, else Perks here’ll end up in the Hospital Wing coughing up furballs for a week!”
  • In Chapter 122, Cygnet Committee, Ariadne and Ron point out that the name for their elven rights group being the Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare and its acronym being SPEW (as it is in canon) would be mocked.
  • In Chapter 138, ...Junior, Ariadne rejects the idea of becoming an Auror after Hogwarts, which is what Harry does in canon.
  • In Chapter 161, Splinter Cell, Firenze calls Ariadne and Hermione the Princesses Among Legend in regards to centaur prophecy. This is the title of Chapter 5, where Ariadne chose her name.
  • In Chapter 166, A Kindred Discovery, Ariadne meets a fellow trans girl, Tori Cobbler-Royal. This character originated in a previous work of AdmiralPegasus', A Familiar Discovery, to which the title of the chapter is also a reference.
  • In Chapter 175, Dumbledore's Army, Ron says that "a terrier ain't a bloody wolf," in reference to Ariadne saying others would have canine Patronuses that would render his werewolf Patronus unremarkable. In canon, Ron's Patronus is a terrier.
  • In Chapter 182, Toe Your Line and Play Their Game, Luna suggests flying using Thestrals to the Ministry of Magic. Ariadne rejects the idea, saying it would take too long and be logistically unfeasible. This is also lampshaded in the notes of chapter 183, Like We Could Fly.
  • In Chapter 203, He's A Keeper, the identity of the Half Blood Prince is not taken to be a serious mystery - Ariadne describes it as "Some edgy twerp’s idea of a cool nickname, no doubt," and has no qualms about showing the book to her sister and peers.
  • In Chapter 227, Like Water Through a Pipe, Ron asks, of Voldemort, "...what kind of idiot Killing Curses a baby? Just drop it out of the window, stab it or something, babies are pretty easy to kill." This is actually used to segue into a more serious conversation about wizarding cultural assumptions about magical rules that don't actually exist.
  • In Chapter 260, Shire. Baggins. Hermione says it'd be funny if she got lycanthropy from Ron via "sloppy werewolf kisses." This is exactly how she got it in the one-shot ''A Litter of Problems.''
  • In Chapter 294, A Funny Little Family, Edward Tonks suggests Hermione take notes on childrearing - Hermione replies that her hands are full of baby, as she's carrying Jason. In A Litter of Problems, Hermione says her guts are full of wolves.
  • More of a mythology jab than anything else; when learning for and undergoing the Animagus Ritual it is stated that despite what Harry Potter canon claims, the process is actually very easy, not "long and arduous." It is the easiness that is dangerous, because it is also very easy to get dangerously wrong if one has the mindset that it is easy.
  • In Chapter 348, In Sickness and in Health, the song This Is the Night by the Weird Sisters is described as being obviously a werewolf song and incredibly on the nose by Ginny, and in fact it is because in Kaleidoscopic Grangers one of the Weird Sisters is a werewolf - Herman Wintringham, who wasn't present in the movie version of the 2004 Yule Ball, explainable as him having not attended due to the full moon rather like Ron. In Kaleidoscopic Grangers, This Is the Night was the first song Herman ever wrote for the Sisters.
  • In Chapter 372, Jason and Delphini, Dora mentions a commonly pointed-out fact that unicorn hairs cost more than wands, despite some wands being made with unicorn hairs. She implies it was one of the reasons Ollivander stopped making wands with unicorn hair sometime between Chapter 281, Disarmament, and this chapter.
• My Instincts Are Showing:
  • After becoming a werewolf, Ron has been known to growl at those who anger him or threaten those covered by his pack instinct (his family and close friends), particularly in the early months before he has everything under control such as when Draco Malfoy was transphobic toward and insulted Ariadne in Chapter 114, That's Not the Irish. He also chews on things, eyes thrown objects, and complains that human legs are boring compared to those of his wolf form to run with in Chapter 127, In the Spirit of the Tournament.
  • In Chapter 156, Fifth Years, Ron angrily defends Ariadne from Seamus, and in Chapter 157, Under The Radar, is the one to have a shouting outburst at Professor Umbridge, which lands him in detention instead of Ariadne.
  • In Chapter 169, Under Better Circumstances, Remus administers Intimate Hair Brushing to Sirius, as it is normal behaviour for wolves to engage in social grooming. Notably, in Chapter 216, Diplomatic Relations, Ron actively rejects such behaviour from Lavender, foreshadowing their later breakup, as Ron does not have such feelings for Lavender and as such his werewolf instincts don't show for her. However, in Chapter 257, Christmas in Exile, Ron does engage in these behaviours with Hermione, attempting to comb her hair - only to be told it is a futile endeavour and to just scrub Hermione's back in the shower for her instead.
  • In Chapter 344, The Black Knight, out of being designated the head of the pack, Ron is the one to go and deal with Brayden when he turns up demanding access to Lavender's sons. Due to his pack instinct, he is absolutely livid when Brayden implies he did sabotage contraception in order to get Lavender pregnant, and has to be told by Ariadne - via Parseltongue - not to do anything stupid. Brayden throws a punch and Ron grapples him - according to Ron he is having to hold back a LOT in order to not strangle the man there and then. When he gets back inside he is so angry he says he's "trying not to punch a wall here" when Hermione approaches, and Ariadne speculates he might even be drawing blood from how hard he's clenching his fist.
  • Pretty much constant in the case of Persephone Granger-Weasley, Ron and Hermione's firstborn daughter, who is a uniquely wolfy variety of werewolf described as a trueborn. She behaves like a puppy, and is said to have to actively learn how to pretend to be human as a small child to blend in with nonmagical people in Aberfoyle.

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• Named by the Adaptation: In Chapter 308, A Friendlier Battleground, Slytherin Quidditch captain Urquhart is given a first name, Labhrainn.
• Naughty by Night: Many of the main characters are implied to be this once they get older; according to Word of God, despite the author being asexual she finds characters with a nonchalant, accepting attitude about sex refreshing and healthy in a society that sees it as taboo.
  • Ariadne is not as open about it, but Ginny enjoys embarrassing her with mentions of their sex life once they're older, and it is implied at the end of Chapter 314, A School Dance, that the pair go to the Room of Requirement to have sex.
  • Hermione has a habit of idly revealing details of her and Ronald's sex life when it comes up, indicating in Chapter 3 of A Litter of Problems, Behold My Future, that there is a good reason that Blue recognized her as a sexual partner and that unlike her wolf form she insists on contraception, embarrassing Ron. In Chapter 260, Shire. Baggins. Hermione teases Ron for his own embarrassment over the issue, and in Chapter 310, An Offer, she is completely unembarrassed to point out that she doesn't give Ron oral sex because it "aggravates [her] sensory issues." However in Chapter 260, it is all but stated outright that Ron does give her oral sex.
• Nerd Glasses: In Chapter 289, A New Life, it is revealed that Hermione needs glasses. After this, she sports a pair of thick-plastic-rimmed glasses, stated to be blue. A picrew-made character portrait shared by the author shows them as blue-rimmed wayfarers. Because of how Ariadne's magical sense works, these appear to have Opaque Lenses to her.
• Nerds Are Sexy: Both Ariadne and Hermione to Ginny and Ron respectively - a little more obviously from Ginny, who will either call Ariadne's intelligence cute or sexy depending on if she's trying to be romantic or tease her.
• Nervous Wreck: Ariadne is prone to panic attacks and is much more volatile emotionally than Harry. She generally experiences anxiety, and this intensifies after she is traumatized by the return of Voldemort. She is also explicitly described as a nervous wreck by individuals such as Rita Skeeter.
• New Baby Episode:
  • Chapter 289, A New Life, focuses on Ariadne visiting Nymphadora Tonks and her newborn son.
  • Chapter 343, The Two Trees, revolves around the birth of Lavender's twin sons - Cedar Remus Brown, and Rowan Romulus Brown.
  • Chapter 347, Hatchling Born, is about the birth of Victoire Apolline Weasley, the firstborn part-Veela chick of Bill and Fleur.
  • Chapters 356, Earlybird Scramble, and 357, Goddess of Spring, are about the premature birth of Ron and Hermione's daughter Persephone Guinevere Granger-Weasley and the ensuing worry that she is in fact a werewolf and a werewolf of a type as yet unknown, which they describe as a true-born werewolf.
  • Chapter 364, The Spy's Son, is about Draco and Astoria's newborn son Gareth Henry Greengrass.
  • Chapter 365, The Hearth, is about Ron and Hermione's second daughter Hestia Vivienne Granger-Weasley being born.
• Noodle Incident: in Chapter 294, A Funny Little Family, Valerie embarrasses Hermione by bringing up such an incident involving Hermione putting a frog in her mouth when she was two years old.
• No Peripheral Vision: Inverted. Ariadne's magic sense effectively has nothing BUT peripheral vision, as she constantly senses in every direction, and she is capable of focusing on multiple things at once.
• Not Her Blood: Invoked twice in Chapter 69, Tears, Ariadne is covered in Basilisk blood when she opens the door of the Chamber of Secrets to meet Professors McGonagall and Flitwick, who understandably freak out, and she has to clarify it's not her blood. Ginny has the same concern earlier, and Ariadne says much the same.
• Nothing Up My Sleeve: Ariadne almost always keeps her wand in her sleeve, partially out of paranoia and partially because she often tethers it to her wrist on a string to avoid being successfully disarmed.
• No-Sell: In Chapter 233, The Ringwraiths Ride In Black, Ariadne takes a nasty curse from Bellatrix Lestrange in the back of the head and sustains no damage due to the Horcrux within her defending itself - this is, funnily enough, the first time Ariadne is hit with a genuinely physically harmful spell in the entire work.
• Oblivious Transformation: In Chapter 139, Professor Moody, Ron takes Polyjuice Potion as part of a Defence Against the Dark Arts lesson, and barely notices himself changing back. This isn't technically a painless transformation, Sally-Anne Perks says it hurts a lot, but because he is a werewolf, he is used to much worse transformations and has a much higher pain tolerance than the others.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome:
  • Because Kaleidoscopic Grangers is from Ariadne's perspective, some elements of the preparation for the Battle of Hogwarts are "offscreen" in Chapter 269, I Bid You Stand.
• Off the Rails:
  • In Chapter 106, Fetch, Ron becomes a werewolf. Not only is this a complete divergence from the canon, but was also decided by the author on a whim while taking a shower between writing Chapters 105 and 106.
  • Teased in Chapter 143, The Labyrinth and 144, We Are the Champions, as Ariadne is not sent to the Little Hangleton Graveyard by the Triwizard Cup, implying Ariadne would never do so and Voldemort might not come back. Instead, however, In Spite of a Nail, the Graveyard scene still happens (albeit differently) as the Alchemist kidnaps Ariadne in person at the end of 144, which was a complete chapter meant to lull the reader into a false sense of security.
  • In Chapter 243, The Council of Elrond, it is revealed that because the Grangers moved into 12 Grimmauld Place partially and spent more time there, Mundungus Fletcher never robbed the house - the Locket of Salazar Slytherin is instead found in Kreacher's room. This averts the entire mission to the Ministry of Magic, and averts their being caught by Corban Yaxley, and as such, averts much of their camping. As of the time of this entry, the Grangers and Ron do occasionally still camp but this is reserved for Ron's full moons as a werewolf, and are not forced to leave 12 Grimmauld Place.
  • The currently still being written expanded epilogue content for Kaleidoscopic Grangers bears little resemblance to the events that take place in the canon.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • In Chapter 106, when Ariadne senses that Ron has been infected with lycanthropy, she freezes and goes somewhat numb as she tries to get his attention before taking him to the Hospital Wing urgently.
  • In Chapter 260, Shire. Baggins. Ariadne discovers that they have insufficient potion ingredients to make all five necessary doses of Wolfsbane Potion for Ron's next full moon - after repeatedly swearing and double checking everything, she tells Ron and Hermione, who have their own fearful reaction.
• Omniglot: In Kaleidoscopic Grangers, both of the Grangers are passingly familiar with Latin and learn some French for a holiday that they never ended up going on, but Hermione takes the cake as revealed in Chapter 351, Building Anew, where she is listed to speak English, some French, Latin, Nordic Goblin, and Intermediary Merric, the latter of which being a language used when speaking with Merfolk when you can't physically speak their full language. In this conversation, it is stated she wants to learn Scottish as well, since she and Ron are moving to Scotland, but she doesn't specify if she means Ghàidhlig, Scots, or both.
• One Drink Will Kill the Baby: In Chapter 355, The Deep Breath, not just limited to alcohol but certainly including it; Hermione makes clear that she is avoiding any and all food and drink that would be harmful to a werewolf, as she doesn't know if her and Ron's child is one, and she doesn't want to cause any harm to it. She is going so far as to avoid hummus with even a tiny amount of onion or garlic in it - stating she doesn't want to take any risks.
• One-Gender School: Averted. Beauxbatons and Durmstrang are not One-Gender Schools like they are in the movies.
• Our Werebeasts Are Different:
  • In Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Veela are handled rather differently, particularly surrounding Fleur Delacour (who is an Uneven Hybrid).
    • Veela are however given a slight Retcon around Chapter 234, The Battle of Evermore, where some of these traits are introduced, as by Word of God, the author had not fleshed out their interpretation of Veela until around this point.
  • Veela are capable of Voluntary Shapeshifting into a bird-like form, which they can control - this includes the conversion of their arms into wings with feathers and their hands into taloned claws. They also develop powerful wing muscles across their back as shown in Chapter 234, where Fleur is using this ability in combat. Otherwise, they appear human. However, it is implied that only full Veela have the ability to fly, and that part-Veela individuals like Fleur do not gain powerful enough wing muscles.
  • Veela are not technically empaths, but they are capable of broadcasting emotion to others, displayed in Chapter 266, The Last Debate, when Fleur attempts to help calm Ariadne down by broadcasting the emotion of calm into her mind, but Ariadne rejects this using Occlumency. They also have Psychic Radar, which Fleur is able to use to detect the presence of others and even detect if someone is not human, which she later uses to recognize that Ron is who he appears to be, as she can tell he is a werewolf. Their mental abilities manifest to Ariadne as a purple cloud around them that changes shape depending on how it is being used.
  • They are also capable of throwing fireballs.
  • It's also very vaguely implied by Fleur being taller than Bill in slightly later chapters like Chapter 262, Theseus, that in Veela, like most hawks, the females are larger than the males. By Word of God^note in other words, the author herself writing this entry this is indeed the case. They are also obligate carnivores, as stated in Chapter 276, I See The Shire. As such, Veela lack the ability to properly digest plant matter and depend on nutrients only found in meat.
  • Adult Veela have red eyes, going off Chapter 3, Behold My Future, of ''A Litter of Problems.''
  • The author based the non-human attributes of her interpretation of Veela mostly on the Northern Goshawk.
  • In Chapter 297, Happy Birthdays, conversation goes over how Veela lay eggs, and the cultural implications of this. Fleur specifically is only part-Veela so this aspect conflicts for her, and it's implied she might have trouble having children.
• Our Werewolves Are Different:
  • The following characters become werewolves during the story (aside from characters who were already werewolves in canon).
    • In Chapter 106, Fetch, Ronald Weasley.
    • In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, multiple people: Lavender Brown, Parvati Patil, Hannah Abbott, Alexander Vaisey and Toby Quill.
  • Like in canon, werewolves are forced to undergo Involuntary Shapeshifting every full moon (for 5 nights), which is a Painful Transformation, and are feral if they haven't taken Wolfsbane potion that day. As of Chapter 104, only 5 percent of British werewolves willing to participate in a study reported even occasional access to Wolfsbane.
  • Remus Lupin's wolf form is described as 'unhealthy,' due to his forced suppression of his condition to keep it hidden - this is what results in his somewhat humanoid appearance. Meanwhile, a healthy werewolf like Ronald Weasley has a far more wolf-like form, to the point of blending in with wolves, and experiences an extensive amount of trait bleedthrough in their human form. This includes reflective eyes, enhanced senses and become Resistant to Magic (which is a point of worry for Ron on many an occasion, particularly Dumbledore's Army, as he is noticeably able to absorb things like weak stunners, and cannot risk this being noticed). They also experience personality changes, in the form of acquiring a pack instinct - which results in them being very protective of their friends and family, becoming anxious in their absence - and a more volatile temper, as well as miscellaneous traits such as an affinity for chewing things, running, etc. Hermione gets Ron a chew necklace for Christmas for this reason.
  • They also undergo changes to their dietary requirements. Remus explains he cannot eat chocolate, and Ron makes himself sick by drinking chocolate milk not long after his initial infection.
  • According to Word of God, werewolves are immune to most human illnesses due to them being incompatible with their cellular differences to humans. However, anything that can infect both humans and canines they can get.
  • Werewolves are facultative carnivores, which means they do best on a predominantly meat-based diet but can obtain nutrients from and digest plant matter. However, relying on a plant-based diet too much is a contributing factor to ill health in both werewolves and Real Life dogs.
  • Alpha and Beta Wolves: Averted (see trope note on real-life inaccuracy). While, as a werewolf, Ron does have a pack instinct, he has no particular desire to become the 'Alpha' of his pack, and views his parents as the proverbial 'Alphas' (although this term is inaccurate, as per the note in the trope). He is shown in Chapter 196, Birthday Girls, to wait until his parents have eaten before he will, despite being the Big Eater - although this is not specifically addressed, he waits until both his mother and his father have eaten.
  • Werewolves also experience Loss of Identity in their wolf forms if they have not taken Wolfsbane Potion, however it appears this is not total - Remus states his own consistently recognized Sirius, and in Chapter 261, Blue, Ron's feral wolf form, Blue, actually recognizes Hermione as his partner (averting Amnesiac Lover), and Ariadne as a member of his pack, indicating in how Ariadne's mind translates his emotion-Parseltongue that Ron, and by extension Blue, sees Ariadne as a sister of sorts. This works both ways, it seems, as Ron later only remembers things Blue felt strongly about - his fear of containment and his concern at being separated from Hermione.
  • Explained in Chapter 285, The Pack Survives, a sign of a werewolf's imminent change is their eyes changing ahead of time. It is less obvious in ones with blue or green eyes, as they do not change colour, but in all colours the eyes visibly dilate. In those with brown eyes, the eyes change colour to be golden.
  • As evidenced in Chapter 343, The Two Trees, onward, it is possible for a werewolf parent to pass on their lycanthropy, as Lavender's twin sons, Cedar and Rowan, are werewolves from birth.
  • In Chapter 357, Goddess of Spring, Ron and Hermione's daughter Persephone is born - and in this, it is revealed that children conceived as werewolves, not infected in the uterus as Cedar and Rowan were (as the twins were conceived genetically human), are of a different kind of werewolf than all werewolves previously shown. Ariadne describes this as them being the "full genetic potential" of lycanthropy. Persephone is the first of these "true-born" werewolves shown and known to exist, and so far all that is known about her variety of werewolf is that she has supernumerary nipples (Persephone has six nipples in three evenly spaced pairs), tapeta lucida in her eyes from birth unlike Cedar and Rowan, and that her lycanthropy has a very slightly different magical texture to Ariadne. Additionally, in Chapter 361, The Question, it is stated that Persephone learned to crawl, walk, and run much more quickly than a regular baby, having learned to run at less than ten months old, when Delphini had only been cruising - this is theorized to be because she has greater instincts for crawling and as such learned more quickly the following steps. Additionally, she apparently howls like a puppy as well. Ron and Hermione apparently say they don't actually mind this, as it means she's happy and it's better than her crying. In Chapter 362, A Family Weekend, it is also stated that Persephone is crepuscular, and most active in the twilight hours. In Chapter 365, The Hearth, it is also revealed that Persephone is incapable of sweating, as she doesn't have sweat glands. Thus, she is required to "pant like a dog" to cool herself down, which mixes poorly with her possible asthma in summer - her asthma is however not believed to be related to her species but her premature birth.
• Outliving One's Offspring: In the epilogue section of the story, Ron's worst fear is that Hermione will be an example of this for their werewolf daughter Persephone.
• Out of Focus: Kellah, dormmate to Ariadne and Hermione falls out of focus. She isn't even mentioned until Chapter 32, and has only 9 lines in the entire story. She is almost always only mentioned in relation to her being in their dorm.
  • This is even worse for their dormmate Fay Dunbar, who isn't even mentioned until Chapter 176, and who is only mentioned 3 times, with only one speaking line.
  • This also occurs to most of their original year group after Chapter 299, Back to School, because the Grangers were held back a year by the war.
• Papa Wolf: In a fairly literal example of this, in Chapter 321, An Inconvenient Process, Ron is shown to behave in an almost fatherly manner toward his werewolf pack, insisting on paying for food now that he can. He also expresses distate at Lavender's boyfriend Brayden, despite having only met him once. Justified in that real wolf packs are family units, and because Ron is identified as the alpha (although the trope is averted) of his pack, he does see himself as having a pseudo-parental feeling of responsibility for them. He isn't in fact a father.
• Parting-Words Regret: Inverted, in that in Chapter 239, Before the Plunge, Ariadne tries to say goodbye to her parents for what she believes is the last time and does not get to communicate how thankful she is to her adoptive family.
• Parrot Pet Position: In Chapter 279, The Apple Tree, and Chapter 281, Disarmament, Ginny has her Pygmy Puff, Arnold, on her shoulder.
• Passing the Torch: In the final chapter, Ariadne Lily Granger, Minerva McGonagall retires as Headmistress of Hogwarts and passes on the proverbial torch to Ariadne, and Ariadne becomes Headmistress.
• Pen Pals: After the Triwizard Tournament, Ron and Fleur become Pen Pals, building on their shared inhumanity, given Fleur's statement that "we nonhumans have to stick together." Ron mentions this in Chapter 238, The Setting of the Board, when he realizes he forgot to tell his peers that Fleur was marrying his brother, Bill.
• Platonic Co-Parenting: After the birth of Tonks' son Jason, Ariadne accepts the role of godmother to both him and Delphini, and the pair of them co-parent the pair.
• Playing with Fire: By the Battle of Hogwarts, both Ariadne and Ginny can be associated with a lot of offensive fire and explosive magic, with Ariadne pulling Firestorms as a part of her go-to arsenal, and Ginny using some fire as well. In Chapter 285, The Pack Survives, it is revealed that Ginny's propensity for it likely stems from when she wandlessly burned down a huge section of the Forbidden Forest.
  While not fire, Ariadne is also easily associated with lightning, as she uses this almost as much as she does fire, and during Chapter 281, Disarmament, gets a wand based on a Thunderbird tail feather.
• Polyamory: Chapter 319, Nice Cup of Tea, shows that Parvati Patil, Hannah Abbott, and Cedric Diggory are in some sort of polycule.
• Portal Door: France has a network of these used to access Beauxbatons.
• Post-Modern Magik: Both Ariadne and Ron have enchanted MP3 players that function at Hogwarts despite its interference with technology, Ginny has a miniaturizable drumkit, and Ariadne's guitar strings are enchanted to always stay in tune. By Chapter 359, A New Era, Hogwarts has school policies regarding mobile devices and is considering the creation of an IT department.
• Powerful People Are Subs: In Chapter 284, We Could Be Heroes (part 3) Ariadne quite enjoys Ginny telling her what to do - she is used to people looking to her for the answers, and so likes "letting Ginny boss her around."
• Premature Birth Drama: Chapters 356 and 357 go over the premature birth of Ron and Hermione's daughter, Persephone. Persephone is born at 32 weeks.
• Proper Lady: Lampshaded by Hermione and then averted in Chapter 209, The Witch-King of Angmar, where Cormac McLaggen hits on her and Hermione retorts that if he wants her to behave like a noble lady, she will take her example from Eowyn of Rohan. McLaggen doesn't understand this, until Hermione yells "BEGONE FOUL DWIMMERLAIK, LORD OF CARRION!" (quoting Eowyn from her duel with the Witch King), begins hurling conjured birds at him and then threatens him using the inscription on the One Ring and a number of theatrical effects, which sends him running.
• Prophecies Rhyme All the Time: In Chapter 285, The Pack Survives, Sally-Anne recites a prophecy Professor Trelawney made regarding the burning of the Forbidden Forest; The spider's web and red wolf's run shall blaze and burn at the setting of the sun.

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• Race Lift: Despite being based on the movies, Kaleidoscopic Grangers depicts Hermione as a mixed race Black girl - however, this is also a Retcon within Kaleidoscopic Grangers, as until later this wasn't made explicit because the main character was blind and the author wanted to leave it up to interpretation. In the afterword, the author says that not making that decision at the beginning was a bad idea because it would have affected early events, and subsequent spinoff fics depict Hermione and her mother as Black from the getgo.
• Ready for Lovemaking: In Chapter 283, We Could Be Heroes (Part 2), Ginny doesn't go to many lengths to prepare other than undress and attempt to wrap herself in solely a blanket, planning to sultrily tell Ariadne to unwrap her like some sort of present. However, because Ginny has severe nerve damage in her arms and hands at this point, she only really succeeds in turning herself into a human burrito and falling onto the floor, unable to get out of it because she can't feel her hands and needing rescuing from Ariadne. Ariadne, meanwhile, learns a whole new form of Human Transfiguration which she later uses as an alternative to tucking and not just in a sexual setting which allows her to transfigure her male genitalia into a vagina, buys an expensive bottle of wine, and transfigures her underwear into lingerie, before wearing a dressing gown on top. However, she didn't realize that the specific knickers she'd used had a print of puppy dogs on them - which Ginny found adorable - and nor did she bring any means of opening the wine bottle, making Ginny resort to magic to open it, which startles Ariadne.
• Relationship Upgrade:
  • In Chapter 130, Flying Off From a Cliff, Ariadne and Ginny confirm that they are a couple, after both assumed so but never said it, resulting in a misunderstanding when Ariadne told Viktor they were just friends because Ariadne didn't know if they were.
  • In Chapter 142, Blood and Water, Sirius confirms that Remus is his partner. He elaborates that he and Remus were both alone for a long time, and that "werewolves don't function well alone." He also confirms that Remus is just as good a snog as he was in their teenage years. This is later confirmed further in Chapter 153, The Order of the Phoenix.
  • In Chapter 252, Dream On, Ron confesses his feelings for Hermione, and the pair become a couple, as Hermione in response confesses her own, revealing that her Patronus is a wolf, like his.
• Right Behind Me: In Chapter 142, Blood and Water, Percy goes on a tangent about how werewolves are monsters, and while he is referring to Remus Lupin, whose employment at Hogwarts he saw as dangerous due to Lupin being a werewolf, Ron, directly behind him and unknown to Percy, is also a werewolf, and he is therefore by implication calling Ron a monster. As soon as Percy leaves, Ron breaks down crying.
• Ring of Power: In Chapter 363, I Do, Ariadne and Ginny's wedding rings are enchanted.
  • Ginny's ring is a replica of Nenya from The Lord of the Rings, and is enchanted to be capable of creating powerful shields. Appropriate, since Ginny's codename during the war was Galadriel, and Galadriel held Nenya.
  • Ariadne's ring is a replica of Narya, and is enchanted to be able to absorb and produce fire and lightning as a capacitor.
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • Upon leaving Hogwarts in Chapter 236, Goodbyes, Ariadne leaves her House of Granger signet ring in the Headmaster's office. Ginny and the organization Ariadne's Thread misinterpret this as symbolising her intent to return, but it in fact was Ariadne leaving a part of herself there before her death. During the Battle of Hogwarts, it becomes a symbol of Ariadne's promise to come back to Ginny and not die to Voldemort, and subsequently to grow old together. Ginny somewhat considers it an engagement ring; she does continue wearing it as if it is one. According to Word of God, this was inspired by Captain Sisko's baseball in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which did symbolise Sisko's intent to return.
  • In Chapter 320, A Visiting Harpy, it is revealed that in the more than a year since the Battle of Hogwarts, Ariadne's lightning scar is fading. Symbolically, this represents Ariadne moving away from her identity as the Girl Who Lived and her recovery.
• Saved for the Sequel: A few matters are left unresolved in the final chapters of the work; whether Hermione would run for Minister for Magic in 2026, and what houses many of the children are sorted into at Hogwarts, for example. Given the "Will Return" Caption in the Afterword, these have probably been saved for Kaleidoscopic Grangers: Birds of a Feather.
• Scars Are Forever:
  • As of the end of Chapter 110, Full Moon Rising, Ron has a scar that runs down his nose and left cheek. He also has other scars on his torso and arms, but these are not typically visible.
  • As of Chapter 124, A Proven Strategy, Ariadne has a large burn scar up her back from the Welsh Green's fire, which Madam Pomfrey says was a wonder didn't paralyze her. As a Continuity Nod, in Conflicting Schedules, Ariadne did in fact suffer extensive nerve damage from this injury, and although Madam Pomfrey was able to mitigate it, she still has some nerve damage and has to use a wheelchair.
  • As of Chapter 257, Christmas in Exile, Ariadne has a long raking scar up her outer right arm, due to how she got Nagini off of her during the fight with her in Chapter 256, To Cut the Head Off the Snake.
  • As of Chapter 276, I See The Shire, Ginny has permanent scarring up her arms from casting so much wandless magic - Word of God states that these scars are a mixture of burns and Lichtenberg Figures.
• Science Wizard: Ariadne's proficiency in Dimensional Transfiguration requires her to do some pretty intense maths, which are allegedly based on Einstein's field equations. As a result, she's virtually a human calculator Transfiguration itself is also treated as a very scientifically detailed field - physics are very important to what's shown most in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, and through Vanya's private lessons with Ariadne and Jason in Birds of a Feather: Flock Together, it's shown in more detail that she's quite the expert on biology as well.
• Second Hour Superpower: Ariadne's combative learning actually begins in her second year at Hogwarts, where one of the spells she studies to make the Aurum spell, specifically its radial modifier, is Bombarda Radia, and her skill using Bombarda is so prevalent that using it on living things becomes her Signature Move for a significant chunk of the early story.
• Secretly Dying: After Chapter 229, For Another Ring Was Made, Ariadne is aware that she is a Horcrux and as such that her death is necessary if Voldemort is to be killed. Ariadne chooses not to tell her friends, not wanting them to grieve her before she even dies.
• See the Invisible: As Ariadne can see magic, any magical invisibility is completely ineffective when used against her, and if anything makes its user more visible to her.
• See Water: Inverted: Ariadne's magic sense does not work at all underwater, negating any of her usual disability aids. This becomes a particular problem for the second task of the Triwizard Tournament.
• She Is All Grown Up: occasionally invoked by the Grangers late in the story. This is also deliberately invoked by Ariadne in her choice of dress for Bill and Fleur's wedding, wherein she expects to die soon and decides to show off her having grown up by wearing a deliberately revealing dress. She later wears the dress to the 2008 Yule Ball, where this trope is invoked in how it compares to the dress she wore to the 2004 Yule Ball, which was deliberately emphasizing her being a child.
• Shout-Out:
  • The David Bowie song Rebel Rebel is referenced a number of times throughout the fic.
  • In an example of Titled After the Song, lyrics from other songs such as Changes, Cygnet Committee, Lady Stardust,Life on Mars, Magic Carpet Ride, Romantic Flight, The Show Must Go On, and We Are the Champions among others have also been used as chapter titles.
  • Ariadne is known to also listen to Led Zeppelin, specifically Gallows Pole and The Battle of Evermore.
  • Ariadne and Hermione are known to have enjoyed the movie Labyrinth.
    • In Chapter 143, The Labyrinth, the Grangers sing Magic Dance, and Ariadne tests if saying "piece of cake" affects the maze like it does the Labyrinth in the movie.
  • David Bowie is most likely to be the favourite musician of the Grangers, and Ariadne often plays his music on her guitar. Ginny has been known to join in, having bought a second hand CD player and CDs and learning the lyrics to Rebel Rebel at some point before Chapter 94, Historical Inaccuracies.
  • In Chapter 23, one of Gilderoy Lockhart's books is called The Gallant Grindylow Grievances of Gilderoy Lockhart. This is pointed out in the chapter's notes as a stylistic reference to Critical Role and Taryon Darrington's book in the story, The Daring Trials and Tribulations of Taryon Darrington.
  • As of Chapter 149, Lived It Ten Times or More, Ron's favourite song is Werewolves of London.
  • Ron plays background music for Dumbledore's Army in Chapter 164, Illicit Activities, and this includes Queen's A Kind of Magic.
  • In Chapter 170, Fear of Change, Ariadne plays Ziggy Stardust by David Bowie on the electric guitar she gets from Sirius for Christmas.
  • Ariadne and Hermione are mentioned to be fans of The Lord Of The Rings series. Hermione compares Ariadne's dragonhide robes to Mithril in Chapter 131, Thread, Antlers and Money, and Ginny borrows Hermione's copy of The Fellowship of the Ring to read during an appointment at Saint Mungo's in Chapter 140, Witch Weekly. Ginny also borrows Hermione's copy of The Return of the King, for her next appointment in Chapter 150, The Sorceress. During Professor Moody's lesson on Polyjuice Potion, Lavender asks Sally-Anne (who is Polyjuiced as Hermione) and Hermione where Frodo Baggins comes from as an identification question in Chapter 139, Professor Moody.
    • Ariadne directly quotes the elvish text from the Doors of Durin in Chapter 162, Just What We Needed.
    • Ginny takes in enough of its lore to, between chapters 191 and 192, choose to select the codename Galadriel for herself within the Order of the Phoenix.
  • Ariadne and Hermione watched (or in Ariadne's case, listened to) Doctor Who, and Ariadne wrote an essay about it in Muggle Studies. Sirius has mentioned watching the 2005 revival with the Grangers.
    • In Chapter 99, Canis Major, Sirius mentions that Lily would have called Ariadne "Holly" if she'd been born a cis girl. This is a reference to Magical Metamorphosis, which also follows a transfem Girl Who Lived called Holly Potter.
    • In Chapter 150, the Grangers watch the Doctor Who episode The Parting of the Ways. Ariadne recognizes the voice of David Tennant, mistaking it for that of Barty Crouch Jr. Both the Tenth Doctor and Barty Crouch Junior were played by David Tennant in real life.
  • The title of Chapter 141, Romantic Flight, is a reference to How To Train Your Dragon.
  • The title of Chapter 109, The Confession of Melion, is a reference to the Arthurian werewolf Melion.
  • In Chapter 171: Eleven on Eleven, Tori says of her mother "I think she'd rather have her perfect little Belgarion." This is a reference to the Belgariad, a book series by David Eddings, where Belgarion (or Garion) is a powerful sorcerer. After she comes out to her parents via post in Chapter 174, A Dog's Life, she says her mother has started calling her "her Ce'nedra," which is the name of Belgarion's wife.
  • The title of Chapter 173, The Wolf Among Us, is based on the game of the same name.
  • The title of Chapter 174, A Dog's Life, while being derived from the saying, is also derived from the song of the same name by Miracle of Sound, a song about the video game The Wolf Among Us, which served as the name for Chapter 173.
  • The titles of Chapters 181-185 are all lyrics of songs sung at the Queen performance at Live Aid: In the Shadow of the Mushroom Cloud, Toe Your Line and Play Their Game, Like We Could Fly, Here We Stand, and Here We Fall. Chapter 183's name being from Radio Gaga and the rest from Hammer to Fall.
  • Chapter 186 is itself called Hammer to Fall. The names of chapters 181-186 are all also a Call-Back, to Chapter 170, Fear of Change, where Sirius confirms that he, James, Lily, Remus and Peter all went to the Live Aid performance - and Sirius dies in Chapter 185.
  • Chapter 188, This Time Tomorrow, and Chapter 189, Carry On, Carry On, are named for the line "If I'm not back again this time tomorrow, carry on, carry on," from Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody, regarding Sirius' death.
  • Chapter 192, Who Wants to Live Forever is named after the Queen song by the same name.
  • Chapter 207, The Lions, The Witch, and The Werewolf is a play on The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.
  • Chapter 208, When All The World is Warm And Tired is a lyric from the song Letter to Hermione.
  • Chapter 209, The Witch-King of Angmar, is a reference to Lord of the Rings, and during it, Hermione quotes what Eowyn says to the Witch-King at the Battle of the Pelennor Fields; "Begone, foul dwimmerlaik, lord of carrion!"
  • Chapter 217, Annatar, Lord of Gifts, is a reference to the Silmarillion - Annatar, Lord of Gifts was the identity Sauron assumed in order to trick the Elves into helping him make the Rings of Power.
  • Chapter 218, There And Back Again, is named after the subtitle to the 1937 Hobbit novel.
  • Chapter 220, Celebrimbor's Shame is a similar shout-out as 217, Annatar, Lord of Gifts, as Celebrimbor was one of the Elves Sauron tricked with the identity of Annatar, and in this case "Celebrimbor" refers to Professor Slughorn.
  • Also in Chapter 220, Ariadne refers to The Art of War as justification for her questions. She had previously said she'd been reading it in Chapter 213, Gathering Intelligence.
  • In Chapter 225, Writing Home, Ariadne plays The Battle of Evermore on her guitar. To her curiosity, Ron plays Letter to Hermione on his flute.
  • The title of Chapter 226, The Lady of the Lake, is a rather direct reference to Arthurian myth, especially as Ariadne effectively offers Draco Excalibur - Arthur's codename as a contact for him to reach the Order of the Phoenix.
  • In Chapter 228, A Matter of Luck, Ariadne tells Hagrid he likely wouldn't enjoy Tolkien's Legendarium, because of his fondness for spiders - "the only spiders in it are Ungoliant, Shelob, and the Spiders of Mirkwood, and they're all evil."
  • The title of Chapter 229, For Another Ring Was Made is a reference to the opening to the prologue to The Fellowship of the Ring, wherein Galadriel describes the creation of the One Ring. In this case, it refers to Voldemort creating another Horcrux in Ariadne.
  • The title of Chapter 230, The World Is Grey is in fact a lyric from The Song of Durin by JRR Tolkien.
  • The titles of Chapter 231, The Queen of Light, Chapter 232, From the Dragon of Darkness, Chapter 233, The Ringwraiths Ride in Black, and Chapter 235, The Woe of Aftermath, are lyrics to the song The Battle of Evermore by Led Zeppelin.
  • In Chapter 231, Hermione gifts Ariadne a dagger designed to replicate that of Aragorn from the Lord of the Rings movies - it is inscribed with "Ariádnē arimelda na onórë seldëye," which in Tolkien's Quenya roughly means "Ariadne is the dearest sister and daughter."
  • Also in Chapter 231, Ariadne recites the line "Do not go gentle into that good night" from the poem of the same name to herself.
  • Chapter 234, The Battle of Evermore is named after the Led Zeppelin song by the same name.
  • In Chapter 235, The Woe of Aftermath, Ron absently starts mumbling the chorus to I'm Gonna Be by the Proclaimers, when Hermione states their range of Apparation is 500 miles.
  • Chapter 243, The Council of Elrond is named after the meeting in The Fellowship of the Ring. In it, Ron attempts to destroy the Locket of Salazar Slytherin with a simple Reductor Curse, much like Gimli attempts to destroy the One Ring with his axe, and Hermione acknowledges this, first calling him Gimli and then quoting Elrond at him.
  • Chapter 246, Under a Black Sail is a reference to the legend of Theseus, wherein Theseus flew a black sail on his return to Athens. It also introduces an unknown member of the Order of the Phoenix giving a report using the Code Name Theseus.
  • In Chapter 247, Supplies, Ariadne absently sings Aerosmith's Ramble On, and later, Dream On comes on on the radio.
  • Chapter 248, The Three Hunters is named as a reference to Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli of The Lord of the Rings, who are known as the same after the breaking of the Fellowship.
  • Chapter 252, Dream On, is named after the Aerosmith song of the same name. Also during the chapter, the song plays, and as Ron and Hermione have their Relationship Upgrade, they sing it.
  • Chapter 260, Shire. Baggins. is named after the two words Gollum gave that led the Nazgul to Bag End in the Lord of the Rings. Appropriately, the chapter features a coded message being decoded mentioning Voldemort's intent on the security of a vault in Gringotts, wherein one of his Horcruxes is hidden.
  • In the opening notes of Chapter 264, Hidden in Plain Sight, the narrations of Rassilon in the Doctor Who episode The End of Time are quoted. This is appropriate, given that the quote is about "the final day," which was a direct reference to Chapters 264-275 being the final day of the Second Wizarding War.
  • Chapter 266, The Last Debate is named after the chapter in The Return of the King where the captains of the West hold a counsel and decide to march on the Black Gate. Appropriately, this is the chapter where the group comprising of Ariadne, Hermione, Ron, Remus, Bill, Fleur, Alastor, Dobby, Luna, and Draco decide to travel to Hogwarts and ambush Voldemort. Lampshaded in the notes where the movie line where Gimli says "Certainty of death! Small chance of success! What are we waiting for?" is quoted.
  • Chapter 268, The Mouth of Sauron, is named for the character who parleys with the Men of the West at the Black Gate. Appropriately, Severus Snape fills this role.
  • Chapter 269, I Bid You Stand, is named after a line by Aragorn in the leadup to the Battle of the Black Gate. During the chapter, Hermione quotes Theoden before the Battle of the Pelennor Fields, which Ariadne points out to be inaccurate, calling the impending Battle of Hogwarts more akin to the Battle of the Black Gate.
  • Chapter 270, This Day We Fight, is also named after an Aragorn line.
  • Chapter 271, The Fires of Mount Doom is named for the volcano where the One Ring was forged and later destroyed in The Lord of the Rings - it erupts after this, and Frodo and Sam are forced to flee. The remaining Horcrux severely damages the Room of Requirement in this chapter, requiring the trio to flee it before it collapses.
  • Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate is named for the battle of the same name in The Return of the King, which Ariadne compared the Battle of Hogwarts to in Chapter 269, I Bid You Stand.
  • Chapter 274, The Grey Havens, is named after the harbour from which the Elves set off to Valinor, the Undying Lands, in Lord of the Rings. In the chapter, Ariadne states her decision to come back to life by telling the dream version of Hermione "I shall not be taking the ship to Valinor this day."
    • Also in Chapter 274 are two subtle references to Gandalf's speech on his coming back - "Darkness took her..." and "...felt life in her again".
  • In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne quotes Gandalf, yelling to Voldemort to "STAY THIS MADNESS!"
  • Chapter 276, I See The Shire, is named after Frodo's line to Samwise Gamgee after the One Ring is destroyed and Sauron defeated.
  • Chapter 278, When Alle Is Fayed, is named after part of one of Agnes Nutter's prophecies in Good Omens. In the TV Series, the scene where this is read is where Crowley offers to let Aziraphale stay at his place. In this chapter, Ariadne offers to let Draco stay at her place.
  • Chapters 282 to 284, We Could Be Heroes (Part 1 to Part 3 respectively), are named for a lyric from David Bowie's Heroes.
  • Chapter 285, The Pack Survives, is named after the quote from Game Of Thrones said by Ned and Sansa Stark, that 'When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.'
  • In Chapter 285, The Pack Survives, Tori again mentions the Malloreon, and how in it, Belgarion catastrophically altered the weather and how he can transform himself into a wolf whenever he wants.
  • Chapter 286, We Won't Find Ourselves Alone Again, is named after a lyric from Miracle of Sound's song Take it Back.
  • Chapter 287, We're All Someone's Son, is named after a lyric from the song You're the Voice.
  • In Chapter 287, Draco mentions Geordi LaForge from Star Trek: The Next Generation, saying he watched some of it with the Tonkses, likening Geordi to Ariadne for his blindness and superficially similar aid - comparing her glasses to his VISOR.
  • Chapter 288, You're the Voice, is named after the John Farnham song of the same name.
  • In Chapter 293, Having a Jam, the New Marauders record a song for a cover album - Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon. Hermione apparently is also working on arrangements for three songs from The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, and they plan to record a cover of Queen's Who Wants to Live Forever last.
  • In Chapter 294, A Funny Little Family, Hermione hums Roads Go Ever On to Jason.
  • In Chapter 296, Coming Together, Draco quotes Captain Picard and Lieutenant Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation, saying "a person's life hinges on each of a thousand choices, living is making choices..." from A Matter of Time, and "...but the effort yields its own rewards," from The Offspring. In Chapter 298, The Threads That Bind Us, he says that he and the Tonkses watched Star Trek: First Contact, and that the Borg were the first thing to give him nightmares. In Chapter 302, The Wounds Not Healed, he even does this when confronting Flora Carrow, quoting Picard from the episode The Defector; "Now, if the bitter taste of that is unpalatable to you, I am truly sorry."
  • In Chapter 309, Peripheral Worries, the New Marauders with George Weasley sing Who Wants To Live Forever by Queen. Also in this chapter, Hermione idly sings taking the hobbits to isengard by Aaron Hardbarger.
  • In Chapter 315, Entangled Branches, Draco gifts Hermione Neil Gaiman's Stardust, and Ariadne Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time.
  • Chapter 316, Remember the Pact of our Youth, is named for a lyric from Gang of Youths' Achilles, Come Down, and another lyric appears in the end notes regarding Ginny's drinking; "Achilles, Achilles, just put down the bottle, don't listen to what you've consumed."
  • In Chapter 322, Lightning Rod, Tori suggests that Lisa Turpin's hedgehog Animagus form should be nicknamed Sonic - Lisa, being muggleborn, gets the reference and disagrees, as she's a woman and Sonic isn't.
  • Chapter 327, Last Ride of the Day, is named after the Nightwish song of the same name.
  • Chapter 331, Bat Out of Hell, is named after the Meatloaf song of the same name, referencing Ginny's acquisition of a second motorcycle during it.
  • Chapter 334, Paint Your Eyes with Sunsets, is named for a lyric from The Amazing Devil's Chords, from their album ruin.
  • Chapter 336, Inkpot Gods, is named after the song of the same name on The Amazing Devil's album ruin.
  • In Chapter 341, Domesticity, Ginny names her Royal Enfield Bullet 500 motorcycle "Rhapsody," after the Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody.
  • In Chapter 348, In Sickness and in Health, the wedding band plays Dreams by the Cranberries, and then Holding Out For A Hero by Bonnie Tyler plays on the speakers.
  • In Chapter 349, Bonnie, several pieces of outside media are mentioned. First, it is stated that Ariadne and Dora took Jason and Delphini to see Ice Age: Continental Drift, and then in conversation Hermione mentions the 2011 Christmas Special of Doctor Who, The Doctor, The Widow, and the Wardrobe, as well as the movie The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists which she and Ron are thinking of getting when it comes out on DVD, as well as making plans to go and see The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey when it comes out.
  • Chapter 350, Isil and Anar, is named for the Moon and Sun of Tolkien's Legendarium respectively. This is quite appropriate, given that in this chapter Ron proposes to Hermione, and Isil, the Moon, is treated as masculine, while Anar, the Sun, is treated as feminine. In this, Ron represents the moon as a werewolf, and Hermione represents the sun as a human.
  • In Chapter 353, 'Til Death Do Us Part, the song I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers is played at Ron and Hermione's wedding.
  • In Chapter 354, A New Nest, Valerie says of the Granger Estate's observatory that it looks like something out of the Myst games.
  • In Chapter 356, Earlybird Scramble, Ariadne tells Hermione that Delphini enjoyed the 2013 movie Frozen, and that she is looking forward to when it is being released on DVD.
  • In Chapter 363, I Do, there is an in-universe Shout-Out where Ariadne and Ginny's wedding rings are replicas of two of the three Elven Rings of Power from The Lord of the Rings.
  • In Chapter 365, The Hearth, there are a couple. First, Ron reads parts of the book A Wee Book o Fairy Tales in Scots by James Robertson and Matthew Fitt, published in March of that year, to Persephone, although he omits the Scots version of Little Red Riding Hood (Wee Reid Ridin Hood), since she's a werewolf and it's perhaps not the best story to tell her. He is shown reading its rendition of The Three Little Pigs, The Three Wee Pigs. Secondly, Ron sings the theme song of Wolfblood while walking to get food, A Promise That I'll Keep. Specifically, he sings the lines Behold my future, as sure as day returns to night, which are both chapter titles in A Litter of Problems.
  • There is a subtle Shout-Out to Wolfblood in Chapter 367, Leaves, as well, confirmed by Word of God messages; When Lavender gets out 'first change' gifts for Rowan, Ron takes a bone-shaped dog chew out of the box and wonders what's in it, sniffing at it and then mumbling that it smells like it's got marrow in it. In the first episode of Wolfblood's second season, Maddie's father Dan does much the same with gifts sent by Maddie's friend Tom, except in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, Lavender takes the chew off of Ron while in Wolfblood, Dan actually starts chewing it.
  • In Chapter 370, Little Wolf, which is set in early 2020, Ron begins to sing Toss A Coin To Your Witcher, from Netflix's The Witcher series, which had gone viral at that time. Apparently it's stuck in Ron's head.
  • In Chapter 371, The Pandemic and the Veela, a few of Draco's students while doing distance learning pour Swelling Solutions down their sinks. This results in a number of rats in the local sewers being affected, and the local papers apparently referenced The Princess Bride in regards to them.
  • In Chapter 372, Jason and Delphini, Ariadne says of the kids' wands "they're scientific instruments, not water pistols," which the War Doctor told his future selves regarding their Sonic Screwdrivers in the Doctor Who episode The Day of the Doctor. The War Doctor, like Ollivander, was played by the late John Hurt.
  • In Chapter 373, Ronald and Hermione, there is one subtle one to Wolfblood; Toby and Minnie's prospective home on a hidden magical street is in a place called Blanchland, a rural English village. It's likely Lavender would recognize it if she visited, since Blanchland was where Stoneybridge scenes in Wolfblood were filmed. Additionally, there's the more obvious one of Ariadne comparing herself to David Attenborough during the hunt, and later in the chapter, Hermione is reading Chapter Sixteen of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy to Hestia.
  • In the final chapter, Ariadne uses a complex Dimensional Transfiguration spell for casual storage of items that resembles the wristpocket spell from Critical Role.
• Shield Bash: In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, Ariadne invokes this using a magic shield, slamming someone "across the courtyard."
• Sibling Team: Ariadne and Hermione.
• Signature Move: Arguably, Ariadne's frequent use of the Bombarda spell. She has used the spell in combat nineteen times as of this entry, five of those occasions having been lethal. This is also lampshaded in notes, comments and discussions of the series, given Ariadne has used the spell in nearly every major confrontation, including against the Acromantula and a Blast-Ended Skrewt in Chapter 143, The Labyrinth, and even against Voldemort in Chapter 145, The Resurrection, although she did not hit him and it is not stated if he was her target as opposed to the grave she hit.
  • In Chapter 68, Heir of Gryffindor, she uses it to kill the Basilisk in the Chamber Of Secrets, using it on the unprotected inside of the snake's mouth.
  • In Chapter 124, A Proven Strategy, where she does the same thing to the Welsh Green dragon as the Basilisk, although she has to specifically use the Bombarda Maxima variant.
  • In Chapter 143, The Labyrinth, she kills the Blast-Ended Skrewt that was attacking Cedric with it.
  • In Chapter 185, Here We Fall, Ariadne blows up a wall directly in front of a flying Death Eater. It is not explicitly stated, but it is implied later by the count of Death Eaters arrested later and confirmed by Word of God that this killed the Death Eater in question.
  • In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, she kills "a dozen" Death Eaters by obliterating a staircase.
• Sleeping Single: In Chapter 253, Founders' Effects, it is stated that Hermione and Ron do not share a bed despite being in a relationship. Justified in that Hermione is autistic and finds trying to sleep with someone else in the bed physically uncomfortable, and does not denote a failing relationship.
• Sleeping with the Boss: In Chapter 337, Caught in the Act, it is revealed that Lavender's boyfriend Brayden has been cheating on her with their manager Lucille.
• Sliding Scale of Animal Communication: In Chapter 261, Blue, Ariadne realizes that Ron's wolf form without Wolfsbane, conveniently named Blue, could retain Ron's ability to communicate in Parseltongue. This works, although Blue does not use words as such, his "speech" is more along the lines of communicating emotions to Ariadne.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • In Chapter 143, The Labyrinth, Cedric Diggory wasn't brought to the graveyard with Ariadne, allowing him to live. He later goes on to join Dumbledore's Army in Chapter 161, Splinter Cell, alongside Zhou. He would later go on to join the Order of the Phoenix and participates in the Battle of the Astronomy Tower in Chapter 234, The Battle of Evermore.
  • In Chapter 237, Regrouping, Ariadne and the Grangers are Apparated to the Burrow, averting the equivalent of the Battle of the Seven Potters. As a result, Alastor Moody is not killed in the battle.
  • For the same reason, George's ear.
  • In Chapter 262, Theseus, it is shown that Dobby survived the events of Malfoy Manor, although whether he assisted in the rescue of Draco Malfoy is unstated. Instead of being buried at Shell Cottage, he seems to just be staying there. He later participates in the heist on Gringotts in Chapter 264, Hidden in Plain Sight and Chapter 265, Defensive Lines.
  • In Chapter 264, Hidden in Plain Sight, Draco casts the Imperius curse on Ricbert, not Bogrod, and as such Bogrod does not come down to the vaults and get burned by the dragon. Ricbert is stated to still be alive in Chapter 281, Disarmament.
  • In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, Lavender Brown does not die of her injuries as she does in the canon but is rescued despite being badly injured. She lives on as a werewolf.
  • Because the Battle of Hogwarts takes place three months early, a number of people who died later in the war do not. The following are the ones named in canon.
    • Dirk Cresswell, who according to canon would have died in March.
    • Gornuk, who like Cresswell would have died in March.
    • Edward Tonks, Nymphadora's father, who like Cresswell would have died in March.
    • Nymphadora Tonks, because she was still heavily pregnant and as such did not go to the Battle of Hogwarts at all.
• Spider Swarm: Averted.
  • In their second year, Ariadne and Ron never encounter the Acromantula nest in the forest, as Ron is Petrified over Christmas, and Ariadne and Hermione dismiss the possibility of Hagrid being anything other than framed immediately.
  • It is stated in the notes of Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, that unlike in canon, there were no Acromantulae in the Battle of Hogwarts, but the reason for this was unknown.
    The reason for this is revealed in Chapter 285, The Pack Survives. At some point during the year, Ginny was forced to burn down a huge area of the forest, which burned out the Acromantula nest.
• Stable Time Loop: Ariadne, who makes use of a Time Turner in addition to Hermione, inadvertently has to create a stable time loop in order to catch Peter Pettigrew in Chapter 97, Rat Hunt, after failing to catch him because of her stammer (failing to speak the incantation of Petrificus Totalus). She chases Pettigrew up to the Astronomy Tower, wherein she finds her future self having caught him, creating a Bootstrap Paradox. As such, she goes back in time and catches Pettigrew. The timeline is not damaged, but Ariadne is given a warning by the Department of Mysteries for it.
• Starts Stealthily, Ends Loudly: Ariadne has a far different approach to the dragon in the Triwizard Tournament than Harry, wherein she attempts to blind it and then sneak past it. She falls in her attempt to quietly climb up a rock and gets the dragon's attention, losing the blindness jinx she'd placed on it before she is forced to kill the dragon.
• Stern Teacher: Beginning in Chapter 360, Professor Granger, Ariadne can be quite a Stern Teacher at times. In this very chapter, she starts both of the lessons described by firmly telling her classes not to bring up her experiences in the war, and in her first class she is quick to tell off a student who arrives late. During the lunch break on her first day as a teacher, Ariadne wastes no time in assigning three detentions within the first few minutes to bullies. However, she is also clearly fair, as she praises good behaviour in equal measure and is quite friendly. She is the sort of teacher who is nice until pissed off.
• Stress Vomit: In Chapter 250, The Hard Bit, Ariadne vomits upon the realization that Ginny is at Hogwarts and that Hogwarts is controlled by Voldemort.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Although she is only a toddler, Hagrid states in Chapter 315, Entangled Branches, that Delphini is the "spittin' image" of Ariadne at that age. Hagrid goes so far as to say that if they had put a lightning bolt on Delphini's forehead, he would have thought he was dreaming about the night he took Ariadne to the Dursleys. It is implied that curly hair is a trait Delphini may have inherited from Ariadne via Voldemort being a clone of her, as well as her hazel eyes.
• Sufficiently Advanced Magic: For the most part, the fic treats magic as a scientific pursuit, which comes into play when Ariadne and Hermione create spells and enchantments, having to actually perform calculations and script them much like a computer program.
• Super Fly Reflexes: In Chapter 203, He's A Keeper, where, in the movie, Cormac catches a fly, Ron does instead. Ron has better reflexes as a werewolf.
• Supernaturally-Validated Trans Person:
  • The Sorting Hat recognizes Ariadne's gender and in fact bases her placement in Gryffindor on the fact that her "truths take courage."
  • Ariadne is able to walk up the staircase to the girl's dorms without the spell that stops boys from going up activating.
  • Her name is also marked as Ariadne Granger on the Marauder's Map, as opposed to her deadname.
  • Unicorns are known to prefer girls to boys, and the unicorn they interact with in their Care of Magical Creatures exam likes Ariadne more than it does even her cis girl classmates. It is however a little hesitant due to her association with Ron, who is a werewolf.
  • In Chapter 322, Lightning Rod, Luna, on a hunch, weighs Tori's owl form; female owls are typically heavier, and Luna concludes that Animagum forms are gender-affirming. Ariadne's fox form is stated to be female as well.
• Survival Mantra: Although out-of-universe it was meant to be much more pronounced but just never fit as well as expected, Ariadne occasionally repeats analyze the situation to herself in stressful situations, beginning in Chapter 132, Eureka. This was originally meant to become much more frequent and border on becoming a Madness Mantra after Voldemort's resurrection, but it never fit.

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• Teachers Out of School: While physically she is still on school grounds, in Chapter 361, The Question, the students of Hogwarts are surprised when their Transfiguration Professor - Ariadne - is picked up for a date by Ginny, who is at this point a famous Quidditch player, on top of a flying motorcycle.
• Team Chef: Among the New Marauders, Ron is the only one with any actual skill at cooking. He more significantly becomes this during the equivalent of the Deathly Hallows, as he is effectively the Grangers' chef.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: After Ariadne's second year, because Ariadne is asked to help diagnose the issues imprinted into Ginny's magic by the Diary of Tom Riddle, Ginny becomes a core member of the cast. This causes a few characterization issues where Ron becomes a bit irrelevant in third year as Ginny takes on his role in a lot of ways, but once Ron becomes a werewolf they get more differentiated and have their own roles.
• Technicolor Fire: Justified, in that the only fire Ariadne can sense is magical fire, which appears as different colours to her.
  • Averted with Floo fire specifically, which appears orange to her.
• Teen Pregnancy: Technically, Lavender Brown conceived her twin children when she was nineteen, however she was very nearly 20 and is 20 months before they are born.
• That's Gotta Hurt: In Chapter 105, The New Marauders, Ron says of Lupin's transformation, "Bloody hell, that must hurt." Despite the author not having planned it until between chapters 105 and 106, Ron is the one who becomes a werewolf and later goes through the same thing.
• The Berserker: Ron, whenever someone he cares about is hurt or attacked. In Chapter 157, Under The Radar, Ron is the one who yells at Professor Umbridge when she says Ariadne is a liar, and in Chapter 234, The Battle of Evermore, he nearly kills Fenrir Greyback for attacking his brother. His father is aware of this, and in Chapter 274, The Grey Havens, stands in front of him because he "could very easily do something stupid" after having just lost his brother and mentor. Justified in that Ron is a werewolf and has a strong pack instinct.
  • Remus tries to be this in Chapter 185, Here We Fall, after Bellatrix kills Sirius, whom he was romantically involved with. He is prevented from doing this and likely getting himself killed by Ron, who is stronger than him. Justified for the same reason as Ron, because he is a werewolf with a strong pack instinct.
• The Cavalry: In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, when the shield around Hogwarts falls, a charge of centaurs, Veela, and those witches and wizards who were unable to get into Hogwarts before the defences went up attacks the army of Death Eaters from the woods.
• The Clan: Various elements of nobility and/or powerful families in the wizarding world are expanded upon in Ariadne's sixth year at Hogwarts after Sirius left Ariadne and her family the House of Black, making them the House of Granger. This even gives them titles (Hermione being Lady Hermione because she is the eldest daughter, and Ariadne being Mistress Ariadne, and their parents being Lord and Lady Granger respectively) and a degree of political power, which they use in their social activism movements.
  • Ginny designs a crest for the House of Granger, which is deliberately an inversion of that of the House of Black.
  • The family choose the motto Eruditio et Incrementum, which is Latin for "learning and growth."
  • Ariadne even makes herself and Hermione signet rings for social events, as it's the sort of thing expected of them. Ariadne later gives hers to Ginny as a symbolic Heirloom Engagement Ring during the Battle of Hogwarts.
• Their First Time: In Chapters 282 through 284, titled We Could Be Heroes, Ariadne and Ginny have sex for the first time.
• Theme Naming: Occasionally, chapter titles around eventful battles share a theme.
  • The chapters surrounding the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and Sirius' death are all named after lyrics of Queen songs, mostly from the Live Aid performance.
  • The chapters surrounding the Battle of the Astronomy Tower and Dumbledore's death are all named after lyrics to the song The Battle of Evermore, with the chapter of the battle itself being Titled After the Song.
  • The chapters surrounding the Battle of Hogwarts are mostly named after things from The Lord of the Rings to do with the Battle of the Black Gate, and this is lampshaded in-fic by Ariadne comparing the upcoming battle to it. Chapter 272 is named The Battle of the Black Gate.
  • The chapters of the main characters' weddings in the epilogue content are all named for lines from a traditional wedding vow; Draco and Astoria get married in Chapter 248, In Sickness and in Health, Ron and Hermione get married in Chapter 353, 'Til Death Do Us Part, and Ariadne and Ginny get married in Chapter 363, I Do. They are also all in order as they would be in the vow. These names are all also specific to each couple; when Draco and Astoria get married, Astoria laughs at in sickness and in health due to her genetic condition causing her disability, in regards to until death do us part, Ron knows he will die early because of his lycanthropy, and I Do is the chapter where the point-of-view protagonist gets married.
  • The final chapters of the story are named after the characters they are about; Chapters 372, 373, 374, and 375 - Jason and Delphini, Ronald and Hermione, Ginevra, and Ariadne Lily Granger, respectively - go over their respective characters' lives.
• The End: Kaleidoscopic Grangers' final line is a centre-weighted line break followed by "The End."
• The Nose Knows: There are a few characters with enhanced nasal senses in Kaleidoscopic Grangers.
  • Most prominently, the werewolf characters. These characters have the strongest noses in the series, to the point that in Chapter 258, The Deathly Hallows, Ron can tell that Xenophilius is lying about Luna not having gone for a walk, not just because he couldn't smell even a trace of Luna's scent in the Rookery but also because he could smell the difference in Xenophilius' scent due to his anxiety and fear for Luna. Hermione expresses surprise when Ron says that Xenophilius "reeks of fear."
  • Next prominently, the Animagus characters. In Chapter 112, All the Better to Hear You With, on top of realizing that Ron can hear a dog whistle - because Sirius can too because his Animagus form bestows upon him the ability to hear higher pitches than humans - Sirius can smell that someone among the Weasleys and Grangers is a werewolf, although not distinctly enough to know which until the aforementioned incident involving a dog whistle. In Chapter 322, Lightning Rod, and Chapter 323, Vixie, Ariadne is slightly overwhelmed by how noticeably stronger her sense of smell has become, able to smell distinct scents of different foods from the Great Hall without even going in, and smelling an intense smell of ozone after being struck by lightning. She also revels in the scents of the dormitory, where she finds she can smell the sweets in Clarabelle's drawer, the paint Ginny uses, and how strongly Parvati's bed smells of wolf.
• The Power of Family: Ariadne is literally protected by this once she is adopted by the Grangers.
  • Unlike the canon, this is not based on her blood and as such Voldemort does not breach the protection by using her blood in the resurrection ritual.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: The Grangers give one to Dumbledore about his repeated failure to keep Ariadne safe, following her kidnapping to be used in the ritual to bring back Voldemort.
• The Smurfette Principle: Inverted - Ron is the only boy in the New Marauders, alongside three girls.
• Third Party Stops Attack: Happens four times in Chapter 275, The Dark Lord.
  • First, Voldemort throws a shield between Ariadne and Nagini as she is about to strike her.
  • Second and third, as Neville is about to kill Nagini, Voldemort tries to stop him by killing Neville. Ariadne then stops HIS attack by shielding Neville.
  • Fourth, during his duel with Ariadne, Voldemort, becoming desperate, attempts to attack Ginny. Ariadne cuts him off immediately.
• Third Wheel: During the equivalent of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Ariadne becomes the Third Wheel to Ron and Hermione (Hermione is even The Leader instead of Ariadne), despite being in a relationship with Ginny, after being separated from Ginny.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Averted. Ariadne has very few qualms about killing people during the war, unlike her more pacifistic counterpart in the canon. On one occasion (in Chapter 268, The Mouth of Sauron) she even opens a fight by immediately killing one of her opponents, in the case of Snape and the Carrows at the opening of the Battle of Hogwarts - she fries Alecto Carrow with a bolt of lightning before she and McGonagall take on Amycus Carrow and Snape.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl:
  • While they do not fully exemplify the archetypes and often overlap, Ariadne and Ginny qualify as this as a couple. While both play sports, Ariadne's role on the team is usually much less active than Ginny's, and Ginny is shown to be stronger and more muscular than Ariadne, who is smaller, lighter and quick on her feet. Ariadne is fastidious about her appearance, while Ginny is much less so. While she's not good at it, Ariadne sews on occasion, whereas Ginny is described as being so bad at cooking she can burn water. Ginny is also the one given Sirius' motorcycle in Chapter 315, Entangled Branches. Ginny is openly suggestive as they get older, whereas Ariadne is easily embarrassed by it. The pair could also qualify as Light Feminine and Dark Feminine. Magically, Ariadne is precise and controlled, whereas Ginny has a tendency to use brute force.
  • As sisters, Ariadne and Hermione usually qualify as this. Usually, Ariadne is the Girly Girl and Hermione the Tomboy. Ariadne typically wears skirts, while Hermione typically wears trousers, etcetera. Hermione's room is described as resembling a bombsite, and it's stated that she doesn't shave her legs unless she actually has to for a special occasion. Inverted on occasion between them where Ariadne is the Tomboy and Hermione the Girly Girl in matters of sport, where Ariadne plays Quidditch and Hermione can barely ride a broom safely, and feels sick doing so.
• Tongue-Tied: After her experience with Tom Riddle's Diary, Ginny is magically prevented from speaking on the issues for years after, and this is not completely resolved by the magical suppression she endured for two years after; even after the main plot is over, she still has physical difficulty speaking about it.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • Ron Weasley goes from the sort of goofy comic friend who feels as if he is being replaced by his sister to an incredibly valuable member of the New Marauders by way of becoming a werewolf, affording him greater strength and enhanced senses that prove very useful.
  • After spending 74 chapters (from Chapter 76, Important Discussions to Chapter 150, The Sorceress) with her magic medically suppressed, Ginny is released from this effect. She immediately demonstrates that she is now extremely powerful magically after spending two years with her arms proverbially tied behind her back magically by casting Ariadne's modification to Lumos which creates a cloud of points of light (Lumos Astra) which is so voluminous it whites out Ariadne's magic sense.
    • In Chapter 272, The Battle of the Black Gate, Ginny demonstrates that this has escalated to the extreme during her time at Hogwarts while Ariadne was hunting Horcruxes, as she is capable of incredibly powerful wandless magic.
  • After Chapter 258, The Deathly Hallows, arguably, Ariadne, as she becomes significantly more driven to win the war in the revelation she will have a life after it. In Chapter 265, Defensive Lines, she takes the brunt of the fighting against the guards in Gringotts with seemingly no difficulty at all, it being described as "child's play." This is also contributed to by her having the Elder Wand, a wand uniquely powerful in combat.
• Took the Wife's Name:
  • In Chapter 348, In Sickness and in Health, Draco chooses to take Astoria's last name instead of the other way around, thus becoming Draco Greengrass.
  • In Chapter 363, I Do, Ginny takes Ariadne's name, becoming Ginny Granger. Though, regardless of which way they went - assuming one took the other's name - this chapter would have been an instance of Took the Wife's Name anyway, as they are both women.
  • In Chapter 375, Ariadne Lily Granger, this is the reason Ariadne did not immediately recognize her cousin Dudley, as he had taken his wife's name, and so was Dudley Twendele, not Dudley Dursley.
• Try to Fit That on a Business Card: In Chapter 290, Bitter Honours, Ariadne gets a letter addressed to her by her full title; Mistress Ariadne Lily Granger née Potter of the House of Granger, Order of Merlin First Class, Order of Merlin Third Class. This doesn't even include her unofficial titles such as the Girl Who Lived, nor her other official roles such as Captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team.
• Underestimating Badassery: In Chapter 275, The Dark Lord, Ariadne faces Voldemort one last time - however, unlike the canon, Ariadne last saw Voldemort in the Department of Mysteries, she never encountered him during an equivalent of the Battle of the Seven Potters. Due to this, the last time Voldemort saw her, she was terrified of him, leading him to catastrophically underestimate her during his final encounter with her, during which she is so confident she has almost the polar opposite reaction to him.
• Uneven Hybrid: In Chapter 346, Milestones, the reader actually meets Pegasus, a child mentioned in Chapter 342, True Family. She was hatched from an egg laid by Gabrielle Delacour and fertilized by one of her partner Chloe's brothers - Chloe and her herd are Caprid Centaurs, a form of centaur based on a goat. Because Gabrielle is part human, Pegasus is thus half Caprid Centaur and then part-human part-Veela, which results in an odd mixture of traits. She has a caprid centaur body, but with feathers mixed with her fur, and has wings and claws instead of arms and hands. She also has a beak instead of a mouth. She also has goat horns.
  It is unknown how her digestive system works, given Caprid Centaurs are shown to be herbivorous in Kaleidoscopic Grangers, while Veela are shown to be obligate carnivores.
• Unfazed Everyman: Dennis and Valerie Granger take most everything about magic in their stride, and Valerie states in Chapter 152, 12 Grimmauld Place "Honestly, at this point nothing surprises me. ‘Mione comes home with enchantment homework, Ariadne has a racing broomstick, we get mail from owls, their best friend is a werewolf. I mean, we’re sitting in a flying, invisible, bigger on the inside Ford Anglia driving over London... Her godfather spent twelve years in a magic prison that sucks the soul out of you and can turn into a german shepherd on command, this stuff is weird, I don’t question it anymore."
• Unnaturally Blue Lighting: The Aurum Radia spell Ariadne uses to sense shape gives her a completely blue version of the world.
• Valentine's Day Episode: In Chapter 319, Nice Cup of Tea, Ariadne and Ginny go to Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop for a Valentine's Day date.
• Victory Sex: Not quite used as an Ending Trope, but indeed in the second-to-last chapter, Chapter 374, Ginevra. Though it's not depicted in the writing, it's all but stated that Ginny and Ariadne have sex in their hotel room after Ginny and the English National Quidditch Team win their first match of the UEQuA European Quidditch Cup against Latvia, and it's stated the same was true of Ginny's first match for the Holyhead Harpies a decade prior.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Perhaps because the last time he saw her Ariadne was extremely fearful of him, Voldemort doesn't make any attempt to prepare for his next encounter with Ariadne before the Battle of Hogwarts. Ariadne proceeds to conclusively and pretty one-sidedly wipe the floor with him as soon as the Horcruxes are destroyed, having done so much level grinding that she's invented a counter to the Killing Curse singlehandedly, a counter which is later stated to be so advanced that really only Ariadne can cast it because nobody else understands how it works. He's also given no incentive to find the Elder Wand in this timeline, though he wouldn't have been able to anyway because Ariadne gets it instead from the getgo.
• Wedding Episode:
  • Chapter 348, In Sickness and in Health, is about Draco and Astoria's wedding.
  • Chapter 353, 'Til Death Do Us Part, is about Ron and Hermione's marriage, wherein they hyphenate their last names to Granger-Weasley.
  • Chapter 363, I Do, is about Ariadne and Ginny's marriage, which takes place once they were able to convert their civil partnership into a marriage after the law regarding gay marriage in the UK was changed in 2014 and they got engaged in early 2015.
• "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: The last several chapters of the work go over where Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Ariadne ended up in life in the 2020s.
• Wham Episode:
  • Chapter 49, Lightning Strikes, features the reveal of Ariadne as the Girl Who Lived to the wizarding world.
  • Chapter 107, Accidents and Consequences, features Ronald Weasley finding out that because of a freak accident throwing a ball with Mooney, he is now a werewolf.
  • Chapter 145, The Resurrection, features the resurrection of Lord Voldemort.
  • Chapter 185, Here We Fall, features the death of Sirius Black. Not only does this lead to six chapters after Chapter 186, Hammer to Fall, which are largely dedicated to the grief of his loss, but he also bequeaths Ariadne his home, as well as the House of Black, which are both great changes in the dynamic of the story.
  • Chapter 186, Hammer to Fall, marks the first time Ariadne has faced Voldemort since the Little Hangleton Graveyard, and after confronting him, both she and the narrative itself start calling him Voldemort again (having called him by the usual euphemisms for him, You Know Who and the like), showing that while she is still afraid, she has faced her fear. Much like in the canon, Voldemort's return is made known to the wizarding world, and the war becomes open.
  • In Chapter 229, For Another Ring Was Made, Ariadne discovers she is a Horcrux significantly earlier than Harry does, immediately upon learning what they are. This marks a significant shift in Ariadne's mentality, as she becomes near-suicidal and depressed due to knowing her death is inevitable, necessary, and likely soon.
  • Chapter 241, Receptive Audience ends in Ginny urging Hermione to take Ariadne and Disapparate - as a result, Ariadne is separated from Ginny, and is immediately worried for her.
• When You Coming Home, Ma?: In Chapter 370, Little Wolf, specifically, Hermione worries a lot about being this to Persephone and Hestia, especially because Persephone is having her first full moon and Hermione feels like she should be there for her instead of helping run the government in the aftermath of Brexit. The notes also joke about this, since the chapter is set in early 2020 and she'll have plenty of time at home during lockdown!
• "Will Return" Caption: In the Afterword of Kaleidoscopic Grangers, readers are told that "Kaleidoscopic Grangers will return, less human than ever, in Kaleidoscopic Grangers: Birds of a Feather."
• Wolves Always Howl at the Moon: Subverted; in Chapter 127, In the Spirit of the Tournament, after Ariadne jokes that Ron has "first hand experience howling at the moon" (as he is a werewolf) Ron replies that he has never actually done that, and that it's "a bit cliche."
• Woman Scorned: In Chapter 337, Caught in the Act, Ginny has to magically restrain Lavender from attacking both her ex-boyfriend Brayden and Lucille, her and Brayden's manager with whom Brayden was cheating on her.
• Worth Living For: In Chapter 258, The Deathly Hallows, Ariadne discovers that she is the Mistress of Death, and as such will survive the destruction of the Horcrux she carries. This results in a massive boost in Ariadne's drive to win the war, having been depressed and unwilling to continue before this, now that she has a life waiting for her after it.
• Your Head Asplode: Ariadne kills both the Basilisk and the Welsh Green via the Bombarda spell blowing up their heads. She also attempted to cast it at Voldemort in the graveyard, but it's debatable whether her target was Voldemort or the scenery in an attempt to distract him.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
  • Something Ariadne's friends and family consistently tell her, as Ariadne is often plagued by self-doubt. She largely believed them, thanks to the proof that was winning the Triwizard Tournament, right up until she was kidnapped and her brief confidence was shattered.
  • Ariadne and Hermione give a small version of this speech to Ron in Chapter 252, Dream On.
  • Ariadne and Hermione give Draco a version of this speech in Chapter 278, When Alle Is Fayed.

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