Fanfic / The Lightning Strike

Harry and his three primary love interests: Natasha, Wanda, and Skye (artwork by ErikModi; used with permission)

The Lightning Strike is a Harry Potter/Marvel Cinematic Universe crossover by VelvetInferno, author of The Power of Seven.

After being killed by Voldemort during the final battle, Harry Potter somehow finds himself sent to another reality. Having determined that there is no equivalent of the wizarding world in this new universe, and lacking even his wand, Harry is at first resigned to living a relatively low-key life… until he comes to the attention of SHIELD, more specifically the attention of Natasha Romanoff. As Harry starts to learn more about his new world as part of the Avengers Initiative, he finds himself forming new friendships and learning more about magic than he ever expected.

The series consists of two fics; "The Lighting Strike" and its sequel, "The Broken Day".

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The Lightning Strike contains examples of:

• Absence of Evidence:
  • Harry reflects that he can be sure there is no equivalent to the wizarding world in the MCU for the simple reason that nobody's stepped in to stop him sharing their secrets with SHIELD.
  • When Harry goes off the grid trying to find Loki's staff, Baron Strucker muses that he should have realised he should be concerned once Harry dropped off the grid (thanks to Skye's efforts).
• Accidental Pervert: Wanda's powers cause her to unwittingly tap Harry and Skye's minds while they're having sex as she senses their passion.
• Actor Allusion: While keeping a low profile, Harry introduces Skye as his girlfriend, Chloe. In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Skye was played by Chloe Bennet. Harry's alias is "Dan."
• Adapted Out: Word of God confirms that Ultron (as the killer robot) will not exist in this reality. Vision is technically created, but as a vibranium android body housing the Mind Stone for Arnim Zola to take control of.
• Adaptation Origin Connection:
  • It’s revealed that Dementors are created by pulling someone who fell through the Veil back to the living world, while in canon there was no known connection between the two.
  • Wizard magic comes from the Reality Stone.
• Adaptational Early Appearance:
  • The Winter Soldier attempts to assassinate Harry and Natasha apparently long before Steve is even retrieved from the ice, let alone chosen as his next mission.
  • Phil Coulson has already assembled a personal team of himself, Ward, and Simmons long before the Battle of New York.
  • Madam Hydra attempts to recruit Erik "Killmonger" Stevens after the fall of SHIELD, a couple of years before the attempt to pass the Sokovian Accords.
• Adaptational Heroism: Basically applies to Salazar Slytherin, as he dedicated himself to working to protect wizard kind from the return of Hela, to the extent that he created the Killing Curse with the intention of using it to stop Hela.
• Agonizing Stomach Wound: King T'Chaka basically suffers from one when Madame Hydra uses a rune defence that lets her channel attacks against her and divert them into an energy blast that practically blows up T'Chaka's chest, forcing Harry to heal him.
• All Women Are Prudes: Obviously ignored as none of the women involved are shy about their sexual appetites, but particularly relevant for Shuri, as it is noted that as the princess of Wakanda she is expected to remain pure until her wedding night but has spent some time pleasuring herself to fantasies about Harry in particular and is grateful when Natasha invites her for a chance to actually have sex with Harry.
• All Your Powers Combined: In the fight against the Demogorge, Harry in particular focuses on boosting the powers of his teammates, such as channelling electricity towards Thor or freezing water that was summoned by Strange's powers. Later on, Shuri uses an enhanced armor against Hela, designed by herself and Tony using vibranium and with runes provided by Harry for mystical resistance, while Harry later manages to channel his magic through Mjolnir when the Elder Wand proves ineffective.
• Allohistorical Allusion: When Harry and Wanda come in contact with the Mind Stone, they experience visions of the history of the Infinity Stones in their current world, Harry's world, and what appears to be the canon MCU timeline.
• Ambiguously Bi:
  • Word of God confirms that Skye is bisexual with a preference for men. Skye enjoys being the submissive in a dom/sub dynamic, so men make it easier for her to submit to them, but she muses that she'd be open to having Natasha in particular act as her mistress.
  • Natasha later notes to Harry that she discovered her sexual appreciation for women after some past missions required her to seduce female targets and the experience was so good that she opened herself up to the idea of doing so by choice in her daily life.
  • Of Harry's other partners, Wanda has shown that she enjoys experiencing Harry's encounters with other partners through using her powers to tap into his experience of the sexual act, but she shows no sign of being interested in doing things with the other women on her own merit. Likewise, while Maria, Shuri and Yelena have no problem with other women watching them have sex with Harry, they show no interest in doing anything with the other women directly, beyond Maria licking Harry's seed off Natasha's fingers when offered.
• An Arm and a Leg: Zola's first battle with the Avengers starts with him cutting Pietro's hand off.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When Harry and Natasha learn the price that must be paid for the Soul Stone, Harry stops Natasha's protests that she's willing to sacrifice herself by asking "What about Lily?", reminding Natasha that if she dies on Voromir their unborn daughter will also be lost, whereas if Harry dies Lily will "return" to Natasha's womb.
• Artistic License – Biology:
  • Invoked when Harry claimed that, in his original universe, the duck billed platypus was created by wizards as a joke when Australia was discovered by Europeans which was little over 400 years ago.^note  In real life modern platypi have existed for at least 100 thousand years and platypus like mammals have been around for at least 110 million years, so a lot of time turner use must have been needed.
  • Harry is able to use his magic to restore Natasha and Yelena's missing reproductive organs, which leaves them both feeling particularly aroused as the new hormones from their newly-intact reproductive organs flood their bodies.
• Ascended Extra: Where the other Winter Soldiers mentioned in Captain America: Civil War were killed before they could be deployed, here some of them are awoken to help defend Hydra against Harry, although they are swiftly killed by Natasha.
• Back for the Dead: Odin is discovered in Scandinavia but then sacrifices himself to destroy the Demogorge after the Avengers are unable to do so themselves.
• Badass Adorable: Gamora notes that people tend to underestimate Mantis in battle, with the result that Mantis defeats Proxima Midnight in the confrontation with the Black Order where the Warriors Three have trouble with Cull Obsidian.
• The Bait: When Demogorge the god-eater is reported as coming to Earth, Natasha and Skye suggest sending Harry, Thor, Wanda and Doctor Strange- the most powerful of the Avengers- to some isolated location to try and lure their enemy to a location where innocents won't be at risk.
• Battle Couple: Natasha fantasizes about her and Harry making things work, being "side by side in the battlefield and in the bedroom" before she decides to Break His Heart to Save Him. Later, Harry and Skye form a quite formidable one. Shortly after, Harry's arrangements get too complicated to qualify for this trope.
• Berserk Button:
  • Mind control is a major one for Harry, reflecting that Zola earned his personal enmity even when that was just their first meeting.
  • When Thanos kills Natasha during the confrontation on Asgard, Harry abandons his usual rules and uses the Killing Curse on Thanos (it only isn't permanent because Thanos used the Time Stone to set up a Time Loop Trap beforehand). Thanos gets the message, and fights to incapacitate, but not kill, in future loops.
• Big Damn Heroes:
  • After Madame Hydra takes control of Skye and Natasha, Harry has to send a Patronus message to Wanda for help, and she swiftly responds to the call.
  • Once Madame Hydra has escaped, Harry has to apparate to help Steve against the Winter Soldiers.
  • When Zola has taken control of most of the Avengers, Harry and Stephen step in just in time to help Wanda hold them off until Harry can break Zola's control.
• Birds of a Feather: During the negotiations with Wakanda, Tony and Shuri form a particular bond as geniuses.
• Body Horror: Obviously Harry is horrified to witness the extent of what Thanos did to Nebula, and does what he can working with Bruce to heal the worst of her damage.
• Boom, Headshot!: The other Winter Soldiers are killed when Natasha shoots them in the head.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: Chapter 36 features Arnim Zola taking control of Steve, Bucky, Pietro, T'Challa and Sam to attack Wanda.
• Breaking the Fellowship: Skye ultimately decides to leave Coulson's SHIELD team after her brief affair with Harry activates her Inhuman powers, as she feels that her powers mean that her place is now with the Avengers rather than SHIELD. And she wants to keep having sex with Harry.
• Broken Pedestal: While Harry didn't exactly have a high opinion of Snape even after learning he was on Dumbledore's side all along, when Skye and Wanda learn about Snape's history from Harry they each make it clear that they consider Snape pathetic, as he held on to a childhood grudge and a schoolboy crush for years and chose to vent his anger on students rather than trying to deal with his feelings and move on.
• Brutal Honesty: Basically applies to Tony's negotiating style, as he's perfectly happy to put all cards on the table even if it might compromise the Avengers' position.
• But We Used a Condom!: Despite Natasha being given an IUD after Harry restored her reproductive organs, Harry's magic was apparently able to "bypass" this; Chapter 46 ends with Shuri confirming that Natasha is pregnant. Both Harry and Natasha wanted a child, even if not right now, and Harry's magic acted on that shared intent.
• The Cameo: A vision in Chapter 37 features a brief glimpse of the Guardians of the Galaxy and Carol Danvers during their initial exposure to the Power and Space Stones respectively.
• Cast from Hit Points: Harry does this to heal King T'Chaka's wounds, although he was already in bad shape after a long-range apparation across continents and engaging in battle.
• Casual Kink: As the fic unfolds, each of Harry's lovers demonstrate a particular "kink";
  • Natasha is mostly the domme, although once Tony and Scott reveal their plan to undo the Snap, once she and Harry are alone Natasha all but explicitly asks Harry to make her submit to him so that he can punish her for trying to push him away. As Harry grows more comfortable and confident, he and Nat more or less make a game of trying to out-dom each other, a game Natasha doesn't always win.
  • Skye enjoys being the sub to either Harry or Natasha (and has a preference for giving Harry blowjobs), to the extent that she later starts calling Harry 'Daddy' while having sex and is shown enjoying being tied up in more extreme cases. Skye is attracted to Nat as a rare woman powerful enough to take the dominant role, filling both Skye's bisexual and submissive desire.
  • Wanda appears to enjoy watching others, either with her powers or in person, even if she also enjoys having sex directly.
  • Even Shuri has a certain 'kink', enjoying the thrill of the superficially forbidden by having sex with a white man.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Drives Harry to not only travel all the way to Wakanda (putting himself through such strain that he almost splinches himself), but he then tries to heal King T'Chaka of serious injuries, at the cost of draining his own magic and leaving Harry near death. Harry first got on SHIELD's radar by intervening in a mugging with magic, and he impressed Natasha by helping her fight off the Winter Soldier, taking a bullet in the process. Nick Fury correctly identifies that if he puts Harry in proximity to a dangerous situation, Harry will try to intervene, which is exactly what Fury wants for everyone in the Avengers.
• Closest Thing We Got: After the fall of Hydra, Skye becomes basically single-handedly responsible for going through the old SHIELD files to identify Hydra agents as she's the most tech-savvy agent available everyone knows isn't Hydra.
• Commonality Connection:
  • After learning from Thor that wizards apparently gain their power from the Reality Stone/Aether, other Avengers compare it to how Pietro and Wanda's powers come from the Mind Stone, and Maria Hill mentions Carol Danvers as another example of a human being empowered by an Infinity Stone.
  • After the destruction of Asgard, Volstagg is shown bonding with Drax and Rocket while Gamora and Hogun are sitting in silence as they prefer.
• Composite Character: Arnim Zola's consciousness downloads itself into what would in canon have been the body of the Vision.
• Connected All Along: When Harry has a vision of the Department of Mysteries, it is all but explicitly stated that the Time Room containing the Time Turners and other such time-based magic was actually powered by the Time Stone in Harry's home universe.
• Cowardice Callout: Natasha does this to Thanos by proxy, informing Ebony Maw that Thanos attempting to separate Wanda from the other Avengers and send the Black Order after her while she's alone is a coward's strategy, observing that so far Thanos's plan just seems to be to hide from a direct fight and have his minions do his dirty work.
• Curb Stomp Cushion:
  • When Harry and his allies first face the Maximoffs, Pietro gets in a couple of good blows and Wanda manages to mount a mental attack on Harry before he can properly deflect them.
  • When Wanda and Stephen have to face some of the Avengers under Zola's control, Harry observes that the two magic-users have various advantages beyond their powers, such as the controlled Thor being unable to use Mjolnir.
  • When the Asgardians and the Guardians of the Galaxy face the Black Order, they manage to score some victories over Thanos's forces, but Ebony Maw in particular turns the tide.
• Crystal Ball: The Mind Stone briefly serves as a version of this when Harry and Wanda grab it simultaneously, allowing them to see visions of the other Stones both in their own timeline, Harry's timeline, and the canon timeline.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Invoked after Harry acquires the Elder Wand; he can now perform spells such as Avada Kedavra or Fiendfyre, but the spiritual cost of the first and the power and control needed for the second are so great he'd prefer not to use either if he has any alternatives.
• Dead Guy Junior: After Natasha learns she's pregnant, Harry insists that the baby be named Lily if it's a girl, and Natasha agrees so long as she gets the choice if it's a boy (although she hasn't chosen a name yet herself).
• Dead Person Conversation: After Harry is seriously injured defending Wakanda, he is given the heart-shaped herb to help heal his injuries, which leads to him meeting his parents in the spirit world.
• Deal with the Devil:
  • When meeting his parents on the astral plane, Harry is advised not to do this with Death.
  • Later on, Wanda does the equivalent with Thanos, trading the Mind Stone in return for him sparing Harry's life.
• Demoted to Extra: Chapter 34 reveals that Tony has developed Ultron as a drone program similar to the type controlled by E.D.I.T.H. (Spider-Man: Far From Home).
• Didn't Think This Through: When Arnim-in-Vision temporarily takes control of Rhodey and sends him to attack Tony, it doesn't take Tony long to defeat him as it's not the first time he had to fight his friend under someone else's control.
• Die or Fly: Harry gets dumped out of the Helicarrier along with Loki's cell, and realizing he doesn't want to die finally helps him reconnect with his magic and save his life.
• Disney Death: Harry is thrown from the Helicarrier during Loki's escape, and everyone assumes he died. Bruce picks him up on his motorcycle to regroup with the Avengers and fight the Chitauri.
• Dirty Mind-Reading: Wanda accidentally psychically spies on Harry and Skye having sex. Harry starts training her to avoid such accidents, but this also lets her do it when she wants (and with the consent of the people she's mentally connecting with). Wanda quickly becomes a psychic voyeur, enjoying experiencing the sensations of other people — mostly Harry — having sex.
• Doing In the Wizard: During a meeting with the Wakandan royal family, Tony, Bruce and Shuri at least attempt to do a friendly version of this while trying to work out how the runes Harry is using actually work, but all parties recognise that there's no malice in it.
• Eating the Eye Candy: Natasha, Skye and Wanda are all impressed by Harry's enhanced physiology after Shuri used the heart-shaped herb to heal him (although Natasha is better at controlling her reaction than the other two).
• Emergency Transformation: Although Harry is given the heart-shaped herb to heal him from the energy drain he suffered saving T'Chaka's life, he is subsequently stripped of the superhuman strength he received from the herb, although his new muscles remain.
• Energy Absorption: Hela is the Goddess of Death. Using the Killing Curse on her actually super-charges her, since you're essentially feeding the essence of pure "I will you to die" into someone who's power is intimately tied to death. Strange has to use his time-loop to warn Harry not to try it after his attempt leads to an Avengers TPK. Ironically, it's heavily implied Salazar Slytherin invented the Killing Curse for the specific purpose of taking down Hela.
• Ethical Slut:
  • Skye in particular comes across as this, as she openly states that she doesn't particularly care about monogamy so long as everyone involved is happy with the arrangement.
  • Pietro appears to be another example, as Wanda observes that he has no grounds to criticise her relationship with Harry, Natasha and Skye when her brother is using his new fame to have sex with as many people as possible.
  • As Harry's relationship with the girls continues, Harry's partners all agree that the occasional night with other women is acceptable so long as nothing becomes long-term without their consent, allowing Harry to have the occasional one-night stand with the likes of Maria Hill, Shuri, Yelena or Darcy Lewis.
  • By the time Harry has started curing the former Widows of their sterilisation, he makes it clear that he will avoid actual sex with them as the risk of pregnancy is too great; he can't help making them feel good in the moment, but he won't take that further.
  • When Natasha encourages Carol to pursue Harry, while Carol accepts the polyamorous nature of their relationship she also accepts when Harry makes it clear that Natasha encouraged her to be with Harry for the wrong reasons, and Harry in turn affirms that he just isn't interested in pursuing anything with Carol under these circumstances.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Erik "Killmonger" Stevens makes it clear that he would never work with Nazis of his own free will, forcing Madam Hydra to use her magic and the scepter to make him submit. Even then, he resists her control long enough to kill himself rather than submit to her.
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Thanos, as is to be expected; having acquired the Soul Stone, he used it to talk with the spirits of those who died on his original planet, and can't comprehend why they still condemn his methods as evil rather than accept that he was right now that their deaths basically prove that.
• Evil Counterpart: Talking with Madame Hydra, Harry compares her to Tony in a similar sense as to how Justin Hammer tried to be this to Tony earlier; just as Hammer tried to imitate Tony's style and came up short, Madame Hydra tries to imitate Tony's quips but she just can't pull it off. More directly, she's this to Harry, as the only other character in the MCU who uses wizardry (distinct from MCU sorcery).
• Evil Me Scares Me: Basically Wanda's reaction to witnessing her prime counterpart's actions, even as Harry assures her that he doesn't believe any version of Wanda is "evil" but just becomes consumed by pain and suffering because she couldn't see another way out.
• Fantastic Racism: Bor, Thor's grandfather, denounced the wizards of the MCU as abominations and traitors and after the war with the Dark Elves ended he proceeded to wipe them out. Fortunately for Harry, Thor affirms that this rule is no longer enforced back on Asgard, so nobody from there will be coming to Earth to try and kill Harry. Unfortunately, Hela retains that prejudice when she finally returns, to the extent that she believes she will be hailed as a hero for killing Harry as an "abomination".
• Fatal Flaw: As a villain, Madame Hydra's greatest weakness is her impulsiveness, as she is easy to bait into making mistakes, although this also means that she attempts such daring and unexpected plans as attacking Wakanda directly.
• Fate Worse than Death:
  • Exactly what this could be is not disclosed, but James and Lily warn Harry that "Death" has something like this planned for him by diverting him to this new universe. It's ultimately revealed that she intends to keep him in the limbo between life and death as her eternal sex slave and plaything.
  • Flashbacks to the past of Harry's reality reveals that the Time Stone accidentally trapped an entire village in a time loop.
• Foil: When he tries to convince Wanda and Pietro to give Tony a chance, Harry finds himself comparing it to how people kept telling him to trust Snape back at Hogwarts. However, Harry reminds himself that the difference is he can be sure Tony would want to do better once he learns why the twins are angry at him, whereas Snape never showed any sign he wanted to change his attitude. Word of God affirms that the intent is for Tony's actions to resemble James Potter's own turn from his past arrogance as both men recognised that they could be more than their pasts, reinforcing the contrast between Tony and Snape in the same manner that James was different from his old "rival".
• Foreshadowing:
  • Loki makes hints that he is aware of the origin of Harry's style of magic, which is later confirmed by Thor's additional research.
  • The Ancient One advises that her order avoid making contact with Harry even after seeing him in action with the Avengers as she has foreseen that Doctor Strange must be the one to tell Harry of their order's existence for some reason. Harry accidentally apparates into Kamar-Taj after a rapid teleportation to kill Madam Hydra in Chapter 35.
  • When Wanda reads Harry's mind, he witnesses a memory of seeing a pale-skinned woman in black armour just after his 'death'...
  • When Harry mentions the Resurrection Stone to Thor, Thor comments it sounds quite powerful, "on the level of an Infinity Stone." The Resurrection Stone is the Soul Stone.
• Freudian Slip: When Skye is awoken by Harry and Nat having sex next to her, she groggily responds "Yes, daddy?" Harry and Nat both stare at her as she tries to explain, before Skye says "You know what, I'm just going to own that."
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Madame Hydra is the only member of Hydra's leaders to have been enhanced herself, but Baron Strucker notes that there are almost certainly half a dozen black projects set up to take her out even though she's ostensibly on their side and the only reason none of them have been put into practice is that nobody had the chance to do so yet.
• Gambit Roulette: When Strange looks into the future after Thanos attacks, he confirms that there is one timeline where they win with relatively minimal casualties (as opposed to timelines where Earth is destroyed but Thanos dies with it or a reality where Harry claiming the Soul Stone triggers an incursion that only he will survive), and he can't tell anyone how it happens without risking that future.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Invoked regarding the Avengers' reputation in other countries; it's noted that Pietro and Wanda Maximoff are naturally particularly popular in Sokovia, where they're just considered part of the team in other countries.
• Godzilla Threshold:
  • While Wanda and Strange have the Mind and Time Stones, the Avengers all agree that the Infinity Stones are only to be used as an absolute last resort.
  • Likewise, Harry chooses to only use dark magic when faced with a truly serious threat, such as the Demogorge, and that only after literally every other weapon the Avengers have, ranging from Mjolnir to Tony's latest designs, has proven ineffective. When facing Thanos in the ruins of Asgard, Harry resorts to using the Eternal Flame and the Casket of Ancient Winters, which also allow him to summon Inferi.
• Healing Factor: Apparently wizards from the Harry Potter 'Verse are mildly superpowered in this MCU Variant Earth. Harry notes he's a bit tougher than most people, especially due to being a quidditch player; he's used to falling from great heights and getting nailed by bludgers and walking it off. His magic expressly heals his wound at a rate MCU physicians find alarming. This allows him to poorly apparate great distances, essentially giving himself internal injuries through splinching that his magic will contain and heal, though this weakens him significantly when he arrives.
• Heroic BSoD: It's observed that Natasha and Carol are on the verge of different examples of this after the Snap, as Carol basically blames herself for not stopping Thanos properly and Natasha is throwing herself into her work to escape the emotional pain of so much loss.
• Heroic RRoD: Harry eventually gets good enough wandlessly to apparate, if badly. He essentially gives himself internal injuries through splinching, which his magic works to heal, but this weakens him. When he apparates to Wakanda to fight Madame Hydra, then has to use magic to bring King T'Chaka back from the brink of death, Harry drains his magic reserves and nearly dies. Only an Emergency Transformation with the heart-shaped herb saves his life.
• Heroic Sacrifice:
  • Ultimately, Odin sacrifices himself to destroy the Demogorge.
  • Flashbacks reveal that in Harry's original world, Godric Gryffindor sacrificed himself in a fight with Hela to allow Rowena Ravenclaw time to seal Hela away with the Time Stone.
  • It is eventually revealed that Harry arrived in his new universe to stop Death managing to escape into his original reality. In the present, as in canon, Natasha is willing to sacrifice herself to claim the Soul Stone, but Harry convinces her that he has to be the one to do it because if Natasha dies than the unborn Lily cannot come back.
• Heroic Safe Mode: Natasha reboots in this after the Snap, since half of all life was wiped out by Thanos, including two of her lovers with Harry and her unborn daughter, what she wanted more than anything else. She completely shuts down emotionally and throws herself into work, because she thinks that if she lets herself feel anything at all she'll pass the Despair Event Horizon and break completely, never to recover. Harry ultimately helps her out of it, along with the hope that the Time travel plot will bring her daughter back.
• Heroic Seductress: Natasha is in fine form, sent by SHIELD to "work her wiles" on Harry and discover what's up with him, though sleeping with him was on her own initiative. Later, Harry, in a move that would make Nat proud, seduces Skye over to his side, first getting her to admit she was assigned by Hill and Coulson to keep tabs on him, then actively helping him stay below SHIELD's radar.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: A minor example; after Harry nearly kills himself pushing himself too hard during the invasion of Wakanda, Natasha, Skye and Wanda use the runic handcuffs he's developed for Madame Hydra to keep him trapped while they "talk" with him about doing something so stupid.
• Hold Your Hippogriffs: Nat notes Harry early on using odd exclamations like "Merlin." Harry grows out of it as he gets more acclimated to his new world, and much later Nat notes he only slips back into "wizard speech" when extremely stressed. . . or extremely aroused.
• Home Nudist: Harry speculates that Natasha is confident enough to be one when he finds her naked in his room along with Wanda and Skye (both of whom are wearing some form of lingerie).
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Natasha feels like she has basically been reduced to this when Harry is able to use magic to heal her reproductive system, feeling particularly horny.
• Hostage For Macguffin: Ultimately Wanda trades the Mind Stone to Thanos in return for him sparing Harry.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Due to him both being in a new reality with new rules of magic and lacking his wand as a focus, Harry spends some time re-learning how to perform various spells, tapping his magic with emotion rather than his wand.
• I Die Free: Erik Stevens kills himself rather than be forced to work for Hydra.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: Harry is initially brought into the Avengers by Natasha Romanoff, and even has a relationship with her. However, when Natasha learns that family is important to Harry as he never had one of his own, she discreetly breaks off their relationship as she can't have children herself and doesn't want to deprive Harry of that opportunity. Although Harry convinces her to give them another shot and even allows her to become pregnant, after their unborn daughter is a victim of the Snap along with their other lovers, Natasha tries to push Carol towards Harry as she feels she can't be what he needs when in reality the issue is that she herself doesn't feel she deserves happiness.
• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance:
  • Hydra only learn that Harry is accompanied by Natasha and Skye after the trio attack Strucker's base.
  • Madame Hydra has mastered various magical abilities on her own, but was unaware that it was possible for someone to apparate along with her until Harry does it.
• In Love with the Mark: Sort of. Nat meets Harry because she was sent to "work her wiles" on him and learn if he was "enhanced" and about his situation. But she chose to sleep with him as part of that process, because they just "clicked." He's no longer any kind of mark by the time the two can admit to each other that they're falling in love.
• In Spite of a Nail:
  • Legends about Merlin exist in the MCU and the witch trials still happened despite the absence of the wizarding world, Harry even lampshades how strange that is.
  “Yeah, sort of the founder of British wizarding society. The legends still exist in this world, which is… odd.” The witch burnings still happened in this world too, though most of the victims in his world had been innocent muggles caught up by paranoia. It was possible that they’d have happened even without magic.
  • Later on, Harry rather than Thanos is the one to tear the Mind Stone out of an android's head, except that in this case the android is controlled by the consciousness of Arnim Zola rather than an independent hero.
  • While Natasha learns of the continued existence of the Red Room under different circumstances, she goes after it with the aid of close allies and succeeds in killing Dreykov.
  • Ultimately all Avengers and Guardians who were killed in the Snap in canon suffer that fate in this version of events (although Harry is quick to take action to keep an eye on Clint so he doesn't go off as Ronin, and Thor is spared the worst of his guilt as he didn't miss the final blow against Thanos).
  • Ultimately Thanos is able to perform the Snap, although this time he receives the Mind Stone as a willing 'trade' with Wanda in order to spare Harry's life.
• Immortals Fear Death: Although Voldemort basically only aspired to be immortal, he immediately starts panicking once Ron and Hermione make it clear that his horcruxes have all been destroyed.
• Indy Ploy: When Skye asks Harry if he has a plan, he replies that his secret is that he never has a plan. It does tend to work out for him, though he notes several times he failed to help or actually made things worse by not stopping for two minutes to think things through. As he grows closer to the other Avengers, they begin to find a happy medium: others (usually Cap) can come up with a plan, and Harry can improvise once the plan starts falling apart.
• Interrupted Intimacy: Skye's initial test "seduction" of Wanda is interrupted when she gets a call from Tony to look over more files.
• Irony: It is observed that Death can create various artefacts and influence others in the real world but cannot actually do anything herself.
• It's All About Me: Flashbacks reveal that Hela only attempted to fight the Demogorge to save Midgard to establish Asgard's authority over the planet.
• It's All My Fault:
  • Harry blames himself for Odin's death in the fight against the Demogorge, even though he had nothing to do with Odin's choice to sacrifice himself and there's no guarantee any of the alternatives they might have used against the monster, ranging from dark magic to the Infinity Stones, would have had any better results.
  • Likewise, Carol blames herself for Thanos initiating the Snap as she didn't properly deal with him when she arrived at the fight, giving him time to do the job.
• Kryptonite Factor: For once, the hero is the one preventing the element from using its powers, as Skye learns that her powers allow her to essentially "negate" vibranium, rendering Klaw's vibranium weapons useless while fighting with the Avengers.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Harry's tendency to rush off half-cocked (at best) hasn't been tempered by finding himself in an alternate reality. Several times, his teammates and/or lovers take him to task for not stopping and talking with anyone before running headlong into danger. Especially given his general aversion to planning.
• Let's Split Up, Gang!:
  • With the expanded team assembled after the battle against Hydra, the Avengers tend to deploy only some of them into the field at a time rather than the full group responding to every crisis, allowing them to get a better feel for how to work together.
  • When Harry and his lovers face the Black Order- Ebony Maw, Cull Obsidian, Corvus Glaive and Proxima Midnight- they agree to split up so that each of them are taking on a particular member of the Order one-on-one (Harry and Maw, Natasha and Proxima, Skye and Corvus and Shuri and Cull), with Wanda hanging back for support. Ultimately Wanda has to help Natasha kill Proxima, but the others all defeat their assigned opponent.
• Line-of-Sight Name: Harry gets his superhero callsign when, in the press conferences following the Battle of New York, a reporter asks what his powers are and he cryptically replies "magic." The public thereafter knows him as "Magic," though it's almost never used within the Avengers.
• Lingerie Scene: Chapter 33 essentially features one, although only Wanda is in actual lingerie; Skye is wearing one of Harry's shirts and Natasha isn't wearing anything.
• Loophole Abuse: When Harry meets his parents on the astral plane, they explain that "Death" was able to send him away because he was technically between life and death at this point, even though commanding the Hallows should have given him power over her.
• The Lost Lenore: Ginny is clearly this for Harry, with her memory remaining a source of comfort to him even as he finds new partners.
• Love Confession: Wanda is the first one to officially say this to Harry when the three women are reacting to Harry's near-death in Wakanda.
• Magical Accessory: With help from Shuri, Harry is able to create a set of protective items for the Avengers, ranging from earrings to necklaces or even glasses, that are made of vibranium and carved with runes that will protect the wearer from mental assault.
• Mind Rape: Natasha calls it like it is, when Wanda attacks Harry's mind. It actually went both ways; Harry and Wanda saw each other's memories, Wanda getting the highlights of all the terrible things that have happened to Harry. This gives her a whole new perspective on the Avengers and HYDRA.
• Mindlink Mates: At first, part of Harry's efforts at training Wanda in the use of her powers involves allowing her to read his and Skye's minds, to the extent that he rewards her efforts by allowing Wanda to read his mind while he and Skye have sex so that she can experience his pleasure as well as her own. Chapter 33 sees Wanda link minds with Natasha, Skye and Harry so that all four can experience Harry's pleasure at the moment of climax at once. As time goes on, Wanda develops a 'backchannel' to Harry's mind that allows them to form a mental bond even when Harry's provided the entire team with protection against mental intrusion.
• Misplaced Retribution: Granted that it's more like a convenient excuse rather than a true belief, but Hela immediately accuses Harry of killing Odin when Harry was just present when Odin sacrificed himself to stop another threat.
• Moral Sociopathy: As in canon, Thanos declares the Avengers "weak" because they refuse to sacrifice others to achieve their goals, failing to acknowledge their moral superiority as they refuse to let others die even if they are willing to give their own lives.
• More than Mind Control: Madame Hydra's use of the Scepter; Zola notes that those she brainwashes with it aren't turned into mindless drones, but into versions of themselves that are loyal to her.
• Morton's Fork: While Harry isn't comfortable sharing all of his secrets with SHIELD, he acknowledges that he wouldn't have a better life if he continued his current solo operations.
• Mundane Utility: Shuri has provided all of the female Avengers and their associates with vibranium vibrators, which are described as being particularly sensitive and pleasurable. Natasha particularly enjoys using them to subdue Skye, as the vibranium will absorb Skye's powers if she loses control and thus give her a particularly pleasurable experience.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Wanda basically has this when reading Harry's mind helps her see that the Avengers are genuinely good people rather than the arrogant conquerors she had believed them to be.
• "Near and Dear" Baby Naming: When Natasha learns she's pregnant, she muses that she won't name the baby after any of her fellow Avengers as she doesn't want her child to feel like they have to fill those kind of shoes.
• Never Found the Body: After the battle against Hela, while the fact that no body was found could mean that she was vaporised, Harry, Natasha and Skye all acknowledge that she will likely return for him if she did survive.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: During the battle against Thanos, Carol Danvers shows up just after Harry, Thor, and Harry's lovers have been desperately trying and failing to stop Thanos, but Carol only arrives after Thanos has received the Mind Stone from Wanda and she wastes time gloating, allowing Thanos to complete the Snap.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Harry at least claims this is how he returns to his world; Voldemort had acquired the Eye of Agamotto of Harry's world to restore his horcruxes, but this included restoring Harry himself.
• No Endor Holocaust: Averted after the defeat of the Demogorge set off a massive EMP that basically shut down the global internet. It's noted that major militaries, companies, and the nation of Wakanda were all able to protect their essential databases, so the internet itself is salvageable, but the Avengers in particular are scrambling to help the rest of humanity rebuild, such as Harry exhausting himself trying to provide medical services.
• No Range Like Point-Blank Range:
  • When fighting the Black Order, Skye does this to Corvus Glaive, getting up close and hitting him with her vibratory blasts at close range; Harry observes that she's basically liquified his brains in his skull.
  • After Thanos kills Natasha, to reset Thanos' time loop and spare her life Harry puts an avada kedavra right between Thanos' eyes. Thanos gets the message; no killing Harry's loved ones.
• No-Sell:
  • Harry's experience resisting the Imperius Curse makes him relatively immune to attempts to control him.
  • While Harry provides the Avengers with rune-carved items to protect them from mental intrusion, Wanda is able to bypass these for Harry due to their pre-existing mental bond.
  • During the battle against Hela, Hela is shown to be at least somewhat resistant to spells cast against her with the Elder Wand and capable of at least sensing when the Invisibility Cloak is in use in her presence. Both are Deathly Hallows, and Hela is connected to Death.
  • Thanos' will is strong enough to all but negate Wanda's mind manipulations and Harry's Imperius Curse.
• Noodle Incident: By Chapter 35, Tony Stark and Sam Wilson have made contact with Spider-Man and Ant-Man, although Tony insists that the wall-crawler is too young to take part in missions at this time while Ant-Man operates on the other side of the country.
• Not So Above It All: Regardless of Maria Hill's usual professional attitude, when she walks in on Natasha and Harry having sex, she accepts an offer to be allowed to watch, and ends up kneeling in front of a naked Natasha while licking Natasha's hand clean.
• Not Wanting Kids Is Weird: Brought up but ignored; Skye is the only one of Harry's three main partners who doesn't want children, but Natasha and Wanda accept this and neither begrudge Skye's own perspective after Natasha becomes pregnant (Wanda wants children herself but recognises she isn't ready for them yet).
• Nothing Is Scarier: Harry reflects that part of what makes his memories of Hogwarts hurt so much is that he will never know exactly what happened to his friends after Voldemort "killed" him. A later chapter reveals that Voldemort killed at least Ron and Hermione after they made it clear to him that his horcruxes had all been destroyed.
• The Nudifier: Harry uses magic to strip his ladies in a few ways, usually by essentially teleporting their clothes off. The first time he does it to Skye, she's entranced by the power it represents. Others are shocked that Harry could make any woman he wants naked whenever he wants, but only does so in private with their consent.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Word of God confirms that the united Avengers delivered a Curb-Stomp Battle to Aldrich Killian's forces (Iron Man 3).
• One-Winged Angel: During the battle with Thanos, after Thanos kills Harry, Wanda instantly becomes a fully-realized Scarlet Witch (as seen in Multiverse of Madness) and utterly destroys Thanos. Because he looped time, Thanos comes back and offers to spare Harry if Wanda gives him the Mind Stone.
• Only the Chosen May Wield:
  • After the Avengers retrieve the Mind Stone, Wanda is given a locket to wear the Stone in, compared to how Strange uses the Time Stone in the Eye of Agamotto.
  • During the battle with Hela, Harry proves worthy of wielding Mjolnir.
  • When the Asgardians join the Guardians of the Galaxy in confronting Thanos, the Mad Titan attempts to pick up Mjolnir, but naturally proves unworthy.
  • Notably, Thor is not worthy of Mjolnir when under Zola's mind control.
• The Peeping Tom:
  • Wanda unwittingly does this when her powers make her aware of Skye and Harry having sex, to the extent that she can feel what Harry feels when Skye's giving him a blowjob. As she starts training in her powers with Harry and Skye, Wanda comes to accept this part of herself, finding that she enjoys both watching others and being watched.
  • Natasha develops this after her reproductive organs are healed, finding herself aroused watching Harry with other women.
• Point of Divergence: After making contact with SHIELD and the Avengers, Harry tries to use their resources to determine if there are other wizards and witches like him in this world. Thor's research on Asgard eventually reveals that, during the war against the Dark Elves (as discussed in Thor: The Dark World), Malekith's forces used the Aether (the Reality Stone) to grant humans who followed them some degree of magical power, but those humans eventually turned on the Dark Elves when they learned the scale of Malekith's plans. According to Asgard's history records, Bor forced a high-ranking magical human to assist him in hunting down the rest of the magic-wielders in exchange for his own life, perceiving their past association with Malekith as a betrayal. Thor and Harry thus speculate that, in Harry's world, this human rejected Bor's offer and the wizards went into hiding for their own safety.
• Polyamory: Through the story, Harry ends up in relationship with Natasha, Wanda, and Skye, and debatably Shuri and Carol. Shuri gets pregnant with Harry's child and the group seems interested in drawing closer ties with her, and after the Snap Natasha pushes Carol at Harry and they grow close, but neither relationship is fully upgraded before all hell breaks loose, leading to The Broken Day.
• Pragmatic Hero: A low-key example of this when the women are suggesting others for casual sexual encounters; while Harry expresses a certain preference for Darcy Lewis, he agrees with Natasha's argument that Yelena will be more receptive as part of that encounter would include restoring her reproductive organs, thus making her more susceptible to arousal.
• Pragmatic Villainy: While the A.I. of Zola is part of Madame Hydra's group, even with the Scepter's influence to ensure his loyalty Zola notes that he can see where his new leader is flawed and make plans to ensure his own future survival.
• Pregnant Badass: Natasha remains in the field even after learning she's pregnant, with the result that she has to face Proxima Midnight in battle on the remains of Asgard (although Wanda is able to help out).
• Properly Paranoid:
  • Harry compares Wakanda's isolation to the secrecy of the wizarding world, but acknowledges that both parties are right that someone else would have wanted what they had to offer.
  • The most "charitable" description of Voldemort's reaction when he learns that all of his horcruxes have been destroyed; he starts lashing out at everyone around him, even his supposedly loyal followers, because he's concerned someone will attack him now that he's definitively mortal and vulnerable.
• Real After All: Harry originally thought that the stories of the Norse gods weren’t real, then Thor showed up and proved that the myths were true in at least his new world.
• Ret-Gone: After Carol undoes the Snap, the month or so since Thanos triggered the initial Snap is basically erased so that only the Avengers remember it.
• The Reveal: After spending most of the fic assuming that him being sent to another universe was some form of punishment, Harry recalls while sacrificing himself for the Soul Stone that he deliberately threw himself into the path of a train at "King's Cross" so that he could stop Death from entering his world.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: The best description of the Black Order's observation of the Avengers' battle against Hela; they see no evidence that the Avengers have the Mind Stone, but they're still coming to Earth because they are aware that Earth is the location of the Time Stone.
• Sadly Myth Taken: Discussed when the heroes are going through records of old gods; the sheer scale of mythology available means that it's hard for even the likes of Thor to know what tales are real and which aren't off the top of his head.
• Safe Word: During Harry's training sessions with Wanda, they use "Tesseract" as the equivalent, although in this case the word is used to indicate when Wanda has tapped into either Harry or Skye's minds.
• Screw Destiny: Harry basically wants to do this regarding some of the visions shown by the Mind Stone, but combined with Doctor Strange's warnings they raise too many possibilities he can't ignore.
• Screw This, I'm Out of Here!:
  • Harry essentially does this when he finds out that SHIELD were experimenting on the Veil of this reality and created a Dementor; while he accepts Maria Hill's word that none of his personal SHIELD contacts knew about this program, the idea that any part of SHIELD can do this destroys any trust he had in it as a whole.
  • A flashback reveals that most of humanity's other gods abandoned Earth when Demogorge first attacked the planet, leaving only the Asgardians to defend humanity.
• Self-Defeating Prophecy: Strange muses at one point that actually telling anyone the futures he sees with the Time Stone can risk compromising his knowledge of those futures and causing the timelines to diverge in a way that will prevent them winning.
• Self-Harm: Harry cuts himself to practice healing magic. When Skye and Nat catch him, they're both extremely upset with him, with Natasha asking why he didn't just volunteer at a hospital if he wanted to practice using magic to heal wounds. Harry admits he never thought of that.
• Sensor Character: When Skye is assisting in a fight against foes armed with vibranium weapons, her powers make her aware of when their enemies are about to use their weapons so that the Avengers can react accordingly.
• Series Continuity Error: chapter 2 ends with Thor having just finished his New Mexico adventure. A few chapters later, Nat takes a job undercover at Stark Industries. In MCU canon, Coulson left Iron Man 2 halfway through to go to Thor.
• Sex by Proxy: Wanda does this accidentally to Harry and Skye shortly after joining the Avengers. Harry and Wanda spend a lot of time training to prevent it happening by accident, but Wanda greatly enjoys doing it deliberately so long as the other parties involved are aware of it.
• Sexy Shirt Switch: Skye is shown at least once wearing one of Harry's workout shirts while planning to seduce him.
• Shameless Fanservice Girl: Natasha comes across as this when she allows Maria Hill to watch her and Harry having sex, Natasha finding herself further aroused by the knowledge that Hill has been fantasizing about Harry.
• Ship Tease: Following the Snap, Natasha takes steps to push Harry and Carol together, and while they are soon comfortable sharing smaller moments such as cuddling, they don't do anything more intimate as Harry in particular concludes that this isn't the right time, given the trauma of the losses suffered in the Snap.
• Shipper on Deck: In their own way, Tony and Clint seem to support Harry and Natasha getting together; Tony initially directs them both to the same room in Avengers Tower after the battle, and Clint advises Harry to give Natasha time to give a relationship a shot.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: When Madame Hydra and Arnim Zola start talking to Wanda about how they could have helped Wanda learn more about her powers and achieve her full potential, Wanda basically tells them both to shut up.
• Sincerest Form of Flattery: When fighting the Black Order on the remains of Asgard, Harry decides to copy Dumbledore's trick from the Battle of the Department of Mysteries and animates Loki's statue to attack Ebony Maw.
• Single-Target Sexuality: While Wanda allowed herself to be slightly seduced by Skye at least once, she openly states during her first time with Harry that she can't imagine doing it with anyone else but him.
• So Crazy, It Must Be True: SHIELD believes Harry's story readily, and he reflects this is the real reason: no one would make up something so outrageous and expect to be believed, so he must be telling the truth. Good thing Quentin Beck hasn't turned up yet.
• Sole Survivor: Natasha is the only one of Harry's lovers to survive the Snap.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • In canon the Chitauri who were still on Earth when their ship was destroyed died with it, here they survived as the author felt that made more sense.
  • Coulson does not die facing down Loki, as Harry tried to interrupt the escape. Harry's Disney Death served as the catalyst for bringing the Avengers together that Coulson's death served in canon.
  • Age of Ultron is more or less butterflied away, so Pietro does not die saving Hawkeye, and serves with the Avengers up until the Snap.
• Spot the Impostor: Essentially; during Madame Hydra's attack on Wakanda, Shuri realises that certain guards aren't themselves because any true Wakandan guard would have shown more respect to the royal family.
• Squishy Wizard: Even as Harry starts to master his magic in these new conditions, he still can't handle physical attacks well, with the Chitauri and the Winter Soldier real threats to him in a direct fight even if his spells can deflect their weapons from hitting him.
• Strip Poker: In Chapter 29, Harry and Natasha engage in a combat variation of this, where the loser has to take off an item of clothing.
• Swapped Roles: When Harry learns why Natasha initially broke up with him, he is struck by the notion that this is basically his reasons for breaking up with Ginny, and reflects that he can now see it's not a pleasant position to be in.
• Take a Third Option: When Thanos tries to break Harry's will by forcing him to choose between saving Wanda from being abducted or Natasha from an attack, Harry instead apparates himself, Natasha, Shuri and Skye after Wanda, so the five of them are facing the Black Order in the ruins of Asgard where Thanos expected that they would only have to face Wanda on her own.
• Talking Is a Free Action: More literally than most; when Harry meets Doctor Strange, although the Avengers are currently fighting Arnim Zola in what would have been the Vision's body, Strange uses the Time Stone so that he and Harry have plenty of time to talk about their situation before Harry needs to be anywhere else.
• Take Up My Sword:
  • Essentially applies; Rhodey ends up using the Hulkbuster armour, but he apparently used it before Tony dons the armor himself, using it to help Banner fight the Abomination.
  • During the confrontation with Hela, Harry gives Wanda his invisibility cloak in the hope that it will allow Wanda to escape Hela's attention until she can get up close to attack her with the Mind Stone.
• Teleporter Accident: Harry kills Madame Hydra by not only apparating her away from the amulet she is using to hold the Mind Stone, but subsequently teleporting her so rapidly that he ends up leaving part of her body behind.
• Time Loop Trap:
  • Like when he faced Dormammu, Strange creates a time loop for the fight with Hela, replaying it each time enough of the Avengers die until he can find one where they win, although he avoids making Hela aware of his actions.
  • After Thanos claims the Time Stone, he does a similar method to try and defeat Harry and the remaining heroes on the remains of Asgard, looping time around his death (the heroes soon realise that they can get around this if they just knock Thanos out as the loop won't reset if he's only rendered unconscious until they can get the gauntlet off).
• Time Stands Still: It is revealed that Rowena Ravenclaw trapped Hela in this manner in Harry's original world, leaving her prison close to the Veil to better discourage people breaking it by accident.
• Token Minority: After Sam Wilson, Rhodey, Skye and the Maximoffs all join the Avengers during the fall of Hydra, Pepper notes that this recruitment drive at least solves the problem of adding ethnic diversity to the original team, which had been causing issues in terms of the team's public perception.
• Took a Level in Badass:
  • To compensate for being a Squishy Wizard, Harry starts to receive combat training from Natasha. By Chapter 29, he's good enough to hold his own against Natasha in a training spar, although she's still experienced enough that she beats him without much difficulty. After Harry receives the Elder Wand of this universe from the Masters of the Mystic Arts, he reflects that his magic felt almost sluggish when he was deprived of a wand and everything is so much easier now.
  • As Harry learns more about magic, he is able to reinforce Captain America's shield with runes that allow it to resist magical attacks (although he makes it clear that he can't be sure how long the runes will last before they wear off on their own).
• Traumatic Superpower Awakening: Skye's Inhuman talents are awakened a year in advance of when they were triggered in canon after her soul is nearly absorbed by a Dementor (although she only realises her powers when losing self-control during a session of passionate sex with Harry).
• True Love is Exceptional: Invoked during Natasha and Harry's first time together post-Snap, after the other Avengers devise a way to undo it and bring back everyone lost after a month of research. Natasha is used to being at least a gentle domme to Harry during their sexual encounters, and reflects that she's never been a submissive for anything more than a role on an assignment, but on this occasion she lets Harry take charge as a way of symbolising how he will "reclaim" her.
• Underestimating Badassery: Baron Strucker muses that he underestimated Harry's abilities when Harry breaks into Strucker's base without detection (although part of this is because Harry had Natasha and Skye's assistance.
• Unequal Rites: Sorcery in the MCU is very different than wizardry in Harry Potter, meaning Harry and Strange have very different skillsets. The Ancient One initially shoots down making contact with Harry, stating that it'll be more valuable for him to learn on his own than to be taken in by Kamar-Taj. The Broken Day confirms that sorcery is indeed different from wizardry with Lily Romanoff as an example, as Lily was all but incapable of learning the teachings of Kamar-Taj but is a true prodigy of a wizard.
• Unperson: Upon arriving in this world, Harry initially had nothing to the extent that there wasn't even any official documentation of his existence, causing Natasha to speculate if he'd been subjected to some version of this before learning more about his history.
• Unskilled, but Strong:
  • Essentially applies to Madame Hydra; while she's managed to give herself variations of Harry's own magical abilities, she apparently only knows what she's seen Harry perform already, and is unaware of certain limits and rules Harry just hasn't told anyone.
  • Later applies to Arnim Zola; he's basically taken control of what would have been the body of the Vision, but where Vision in canon had a few hours to practice before the final confrontation with Ultron Zola is up against the entire Avengers team the moment he's activated and has to learn what he's capable of during the fight.
  • Harry reflects more than once that he lacks finesse compared to some wizards from his home universe but makes up for it with raw power. As an example, at one point he negates an attack from a powerful enemy with a powerful Finite while reflecting that an experienced curse breaker like Bill Weasley would have found a more sophisticated way to do that.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Telling anyone details of the futures Strange witnesses via the Time Stone increases the odds that they won't happen, so often his only guarantee of victory is saying nothing and letting events unfold as he foresaw.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Basically applies when Harry returns to his original world to confront Voldemort, as Voldemort is still reliant on the curses and spells Harry faced in their last encounter whereas Harry has become a more physically capable fighter through his lessons with the Avengers.
• Villain Team-Up: A minor example; when Hydra's forces decide to act, one of their deployed assets is Emil Blonsky/the Abomination.
• World's Strongest Man: By Chapter 29, Harry has developed a reputation as potentially the strongest Avenger due to his variety of powers, although it is noted that this is a matter of debate (other candidates likely include Thor, Hulk and Wanda due to their own respective raw power). While Thor and Hulk are "too close to call" in terms of toughness and raw physical power, Harry and Wanda are "too close to call" in terms of just about everything else. Yelena, at least, insists Harry is, without doubt, the most powerful Avenger, though several note her bias on the topic, as she thinks Harry's hot.
• The Worm Guy: Harry is initially employed by SHIELD as a "mythology expert," researching myths and legends for potential applicability to SHIELD missions. Basically, the "weird even by our standards" guy. Fury correctly identifies Harry's Chronic Hero Syndrome right off the bat, keeping him on tap for the Avengers. Once the events of the first Avengers film get rolling, Harry's brought on to the budding team, ostensibly for any insight he might have on Loki and the Tesseract. In reality, Fury's sure Harry will join the fight with the rest of the Avengers.
• Would Hurt a Child: Obviously the Snap was random, but this version takes it a step further when one of the victims is Harry and Natasha's unborn daughter.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Talking with Wanda after the fall of Hydra, Harry assures her that her willingness to face her mistakes shows she's better than the naïve girl who joined Hydra's augmentation program in the first place. He offers her similar assurance after her vision of her 'prime' reality counterpart and how she eventually fell into madness.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Ultimately Death herself cannot avoid prophecies; Lily is able to argue that Death can't keep Harry in her realm as the prophecy states that either he kills Voldemort or Voldemort kills him, and since neither condition has been met Harry can't stay in Death's realm.
• You Remind Me of X: When Harry first meets Nick Fury, the SHIELD leader reminds Harry of a combination of Mad-Eye Moody and Kingsley Shacklebolt.

The Broken Day contains examples of:

Harry and his children (Lily Romanoff & T'Chone), overshadowed by Hela (artwork by ErikModi; used with permission)

• Abhorrent Admirer: This is essentially Harry's view of Death's obsession with him, as he's attracted to her on a physical level but obviously doesn't want her attention.
• All Your Powers Combined:
  • Tony Stark in the new timeline is revealed to have designed armor for Hela's forces in Hydra, but it had to be forged from uru in Eitri's forges rather than Tony doing all the work himself. During the assault on Wakanda, the armors include Pym particles, allowing the Hydra forces to take Wakanda's defenders by surprise.
  • Once the group infiltrate Hogwarts, it's revealed that Lily Snape has subjected herself to the same runic experiments she used Hermione and Luna as test subjects for, allowing her to absorb magical attacks and use them to power her own abilities.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: A negative example of this as Lily Evans (now Lily Snape) has been using Hermione and Luna as test subjects to create super-soldiers to use against Hydra, even pitting Luna against mutants to test her abilities with no sign that she's particularly concerned about how Luna doesn't particularly want to potentially kill innocent people. Word of God confirms that this is a darker extension of how Lily was willing to do anything to save Harry in canon; where she was willing to sacrifice her life for her son when she had no choice, here she's willing to resort to more extreme measures to save her world.
• Always Someone Better: Shuri explicitly declares Tony to be smarter than her when he was able to master time travel in the original timeline, something that she doubts she can achieve without her lab even when she knows that it is possible.
• Ambiguously Bi: As in the author's previous work, Ginny and Luna are bisexual in the new reality; when Ginny "remembers" her relationship with Harry, she reflects that she's never felt that kind of love even with Luna, even if they didn't have time to get physical before everything went wrong.
• Amnesia Missed a Spot: Although Natasha had no known memories of how she conceived a daughter, when making up stories about Lily's father the father she described is basically an exact match for Harry, allowing for generalisations such as how many scars he had but sticking to the core facts such as him being British.
• Anachronic Order: Chapter 14 features a version of this as the narrative alternates between Harry and Peggy infiltrating Wakanda and the two discussing their plans to do so with their allies.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When Harry tells Natasha and Ginny the truth about his encounter with Death and the deal he had to make with her, Natasha convinces him to at least try and find a way out of the deal by pointing out that their daughter Lily might be at risk if he accepts this deal.
• Arranged Marriage: In the new reality, Lily Evans' marriage to Snape is ultimately this, as while Snape was still infatuated with Lily she basically just tolerates him, to the extent that outsiders speculate they are rarely intimate beyond what was necessary to conceive the required son.
• Ascended Fangirl: Ginny reflects that she's essentially this, as she spent most of her childhood fantasising about a relationship with "the Boy-Who-Lived", even if she recognises the difference between Harry's legend and his reality.
• Batman Gambit: During Hydra's invasion of Wakanda, Natasha and Shuri make sure that they draw the brainwashed Carol out to attack them so that she doesn't attack elsewhere, and so they can use their mind-control reversal agent on her. Unfortunately, it works too well, and Carol attacks before they're ready for her.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Despite the tensions between mutants and wizards in this world, Ron and Neville saved Wanda from a Hydra base, and in turn she spoke in their defence when Magneto and Jean Grey led a team to rescue Wanda, allowing Ron and Neville to leave as they could confirm they had never killed any mutants themselves.
• Big Damn Heroes: When Hela and her forces confront Harry and his allies in Wakanda, they are suddenly aided by the arrival of Thor and various other Asgardian forces.
• Black-and-Gray Morality: The world of the new timeline is locked in conflict between Hydra (who are obviously bad news) and the Order of the Phoenix led by Dumbledore and Grindlewald, who treat wizards as cannon fodder and witches as basically breeding mares. It's been explicitly noted that part of the problem is that Dumbledore and Grindlewald have resorted to extreme measures in the name of "the Greater Good" which have discouraged various other parties from trusting them.
• Blessed with Suck: Rogue explicitly reflects that she hates her power and how it feels good when she kills people, even if she does her best to only use it in self-defence.
• Blood Knight: Thor is a downplayed example of this; he is swiftly determined to rescue the captured Valkyrie from the Order, but is willing to listen to Harry's recommendation that they need a clear plan before going to rescue her.
• Blood Oath: Flashbacks reveal that Hermione signed a contract using a blood quill to agree to work with Lily Evans-Snape on an initially-unspecified project.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality: Ginny muses at one point that the nature of modern wizarding society means that witches are basically expected to share wizards, musing that she and Luna always felt that the best-case scenario would allow them to share a wizard who would accept their relationship with each other. By contrast, she's aware that muggle society has more balanced gender roles, so is unsure if Natasha would be as willing to share Harry as she is.
• Brainwashed and Crazy: It's soon confirmed that Carol has been brainwashed to side with Hydra, as her conditioning as Binary begins to break down once Harry calls her by her real name.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • It's explicitly stated that Hermione swiftly became disillusioned with the magical world as a whole once she learnt that her place was basically to be a housewife and bear children for the war rather than being expected to actually do anything worthwhile in herself.
  • Ron later observes that Hogwarts is no longer the great place to be that it was in the past, functioning more as a military academy than a more casual school.
  • Harry experiences a more devastatingly personal version of this when he faces his mother's counterpart, who has spent years experimenting on students in the name of her own experiments, although she at least explains that she's doing this to find a cure for her terminally ill son Septimus Snape.
• Call-Back: In "The Lightning Strike," Natasha grabbed Harry's ear after being annoyed at yet another of his Leeroy Jenkins antics. Here, she grabs Lily's ear after she indulged in similar behavior during the Battle of Wakanda.
• Casual Kink: Shuri clearly still enjoys the idea of having sex with a white man in defiance of cultural expectations of her role as Wakanda's princess, even when she's "just" part of a harem rather than married to one man.
• Chekhov's Gun: When Lily Romanoff infiltrates Hogwarts using vibranium-based contact lenses to disguise her distinctive eye colour, these lenses allow her to withstand the gaze of the basilisk so that she's only petrified.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Hela has taken precautions to avoid this by having Hydra broken up into various disparate groups so that the various leaders can't coordinate enough to actively rebel against her.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Harry has such a serious case of this that it's essentially genetic; T'Chone- his child with Shuri- wants to be a Black Panther even when his obviously half-Wakandan heritage means he could never publicly serve his people. Lily, his daughter with Natasha, is as good at doing as she's told and staying out of trouble as her father was; that is to say, no good at it at all.
• Close-Enough Timeline: "Broken Day" opens in a new reality created by Harry's attempt to stop the Hela of his world, which includes Hydra having waged a war for as long as Harry's peers at Hogwarts can remember, but "Professor Riddle" is now a teacher at Hogwarts and Lily Evans is still alive.
• Closest Thing We Got:
  • When looking for allies in this world, Harry chooses to look for Kamar-Taj rather than Wakanda, as while he had more friends in Wakanda in the original timeline in this new reality their fear of outsiders would be a greater risk, whereas the sorcerers may be more willing to listen to him.
  • Later on, when planning to infiltrate Wakanda to warn them of Hela's planned attack, Harry chooses Peggy to accompany him as two wizards visiting Wakanda might inspire concern, whereas Peggy's historical reputation might help assure Wakanda that Harry can be trusted.
• Crippling Overspecialization: Harry muses at one point that Riddle's focus on Avada Kedavra amounts to this; while the curse is dangerous even if it doesn't hit its target, the lack of versatility is a problem against a more skilled opponent.
• Cycle of Revenge: Harry soon realises that several parties in this world are only in conflict because of past mistakes. When he meets Thor in this reality, he and Thor agree that they won't allow the actions of Hela or the Order to affect how they regard each other, accepting that they both want to stop Hela and free the world from Hydra.
• Dark and Troubled Past: It's suggested that Natasha's past in this new reality was almost more difficult than her one in the original reality, as Harry notes sexual techniques he's unfamiliar with.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: Indirectly; it's confirmed that Hela killed Fleamont Potter (Harry's grandfather) and his family in 1971, with the result that Harry doesn't exist in this world as James died before he could have a child.
• Defiant to the End: To give Schmidt due credit, he did his best to order Hela around even after he was badly injured by summoning her in the first place, trying to declare that she would serve Hydra up until she impaled him.
• The Determinator: It's noted that Rogue endured her time as Lily Snape's captive because she knew her friends wouldn't give up on her.
• Didn't Think This Through: A minor example when Lily and T'Chone are sparring; Harry notes that Lily grabbing her brother during a fight isn't a bad idea in itself, but without a plan for what to do with him afterwards it's not a good idea.
• Doppelgänger Gets Same Sentiment: Harry has a few of these. Interesting in that they're not really dopplegangers; the people he's interacting with are the people from their original universe, it's just that the sloppy merger of two universes has resulted in them having different memories. As Harry interacts with people he used to know, their "proper" memories start coming back. Still, he has to realize they aren't really the people he thinks they are... yet.
  • Even when Harry quickly establishes that he is now in some kind of alternate reality, he immediately trusts Ron, Ginny, and Neville based on his experience with the versions he knows.
  • While he hasn't worked with Peggy Carter before, the similarities to Steve make it easy for Harry to adapt to working with her in a combat situation, and she in turn trusts Harry because he can tell her about Steve.
  • When Harry faces Carol's counterpart in this reality, now a Hydra soldier known as Binary, he immediately attempts to reach out to her, even if he doesn't press the matter in a combat situation. Likewise, when he realises that he's facing Oliver Wood's counterpart, Harry renders Wood unconscious and tries to keep him safe out of memory of what he was in Harry's world even if this version of Wood tried to attack Harry and his allies.
  • By the time Harry has fled Riddle with his allies, he's able to acknowledge the risks of allowing his affection for the people he knew to affect his judgement in dealing with their counterparts, being disturbed at the implication of Tony Stark working for Hydra but not becoming caught up in the moment.
  • Despite knowing that she isn't technically his mother, Harry can't bring himself to fully hate or fight Lily Snape, hating her methods even as he can understand her drive to save her son.
• The Dreaded: Hela has become this in the new timeline compared to Voldemort's role in the original, with the wizarding world as a whole too afraid to say her name.
• Easily Forgiven: While Lily Romanoff is quick to anger if something has been kept from her, she also calms down easily if she is given a fair explanation for why there was a secret in the first place.
• Enemy Mine: Hela had no particular interest in Hydra's goal, but she was willing to work with them to eliminate wizards.
• Engineered Public Confession: Harry tricks Riddle into admitting that he has his own agenda while ensuring that Dumbledore is within earshot and Riddle hasn't realised it.
• Everyone Has Standards: While Lily Evans-Snape has been using Hermione and Luna as test subjects to become Super-Soldier equivalents, Riddle notes that she's not willing to use more extreme measures to control them, as the current blood contract has various loopholes.
• Faking the Dead: When Hela attacks Harry during the Battle of Wakanda, at some point he is "replaced" by an illusion created by Loki, allowing Harry to escape.
• False Memories: As events unfold, it becomes clear that this new timeline is basically a merging of Harry's two original realities rather than a completely new world, and those present have had their memories altered. As an example, Neville recalls his parents being tortured to death, but when pressed on the issue by Professor Riddle he realises that he didn't know who tortured them until questioned about it.
• Family Eye Resemblance: When Harry first meets his and Natasha's daughter Lily Romanoff in the new timeline, he immediately recognises her due to them sharing the same eyes as Lily's namesake, Harry's own mother and Lily Romanoff's grandmother.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • Mutants are explicitly described as operating on the "edge of existence", trusted by neither party and forced to hide away.
  • The wizards are shown to be holding Valkyrie prisoner just because she's Asgardian, even as Valkyrie has repeatedly made it clear that she doesn't serve Hela.
• Foreshadowing: When Hydra forces discuss Hela, it's mentioned that she is dealing with a "rebel prince" back in Asgard; a later chapter confirms that Thor is alive and in hiding on Jotunheim, while Loki was apparently never adopted by Odin.
• Godzilla Threshold: For Harry, any time he feels that the Killing Curse is the best option is basically proof that he has reached this.
• Gone Horribly Right: Flashbacks confirm that Hydra basically succeeded in allowing those who are superior to take power and rule the world, but "unfortunately" it's the wizards doing it rather than Hydra.
• Half-Breed Discrimination: The fear raised in "The Lightning Strike" comes true, as T'Chone, Shuri's son by Harry, is effectively sequestered in royal apartments, not admitted to exist to the people of Wakanda by the Royal Family, and with no hope of serving his country as the Black Panther, despite his desire to do so. T'Challa and Shuri both do their best to support the boy, but to King T'Chaka and Queen Ramonda, their grandson seems to effectively not exist.
• I Love You Because I Can't Control You: Invoked regarding Death's interest in Harry, as he observes that she wouldn't be as interested in him if he just bowed down and essentially worshipped her as she allegedly wants him to.
• If I Wanted You Dead...: Invoked when Harry observes that Death, regardless of her threats, obviously can't actually do anything to him beyond make him aware of her power or she would have already actually killed him.
• In Spite of a Nail: In spite of the various changes to reality, Natasha and Shuri gave birth to Harry's children (Lily Romanoff and T'Chone) even though Harry doesn't exist in this reality and therefore there should have been no opportunity for him to conceive those kids. the Ancient One explicitly notes that she was aware of the Time Crash that created this reality and could tell Lily was conceived in one of the previous worlds after she met Natasha.
• Insecure Love Interest: Ginny is presented as particularly insecure about the idea of how she might compare to Natasha as Harry's lover even after Harry affirms that he and Natasha are poly with multiple lovers back in Natasha's reality, but Natasha affirms that she likes what she's heard about Ginny from Harry so far and is certain they could be good together.
• Internal Reveal: Harry only learns that his mother is alive in this new timeline in Chapter 20.
• It's All About Me:
  • Snape is married to Lily in this new reality, but for all his claims that he loves her, he intends to essentially brainwash her into becoming his subservient wife, rejecting the idea that he wants a genuine relationship with the woman he loves and just wants to be with the object of his obsession.
  • Hela appears to basically believe that Harry "broke the world" just to stop her winning rather than realise that he did that by accident when his only goal was to stop her personally.
  • While her motives are fundamentally good, Lily's desire to save her son has led her to experiment on captive students and mutants rather than just try and find another way that doesn't require her to basically torture others.
• Just the First Citizen: Zemo appears to be a version of this; officially he's just one of the heads of the various branches of Hydra, but Hela appreciates Zemo's flair.
• Let's You and Him Fight: It would appear that the main goal of the Organisation (the third front in the war between the Order and Hydra) is just to let the other two wear each other out so the Organisation can deal with the winner once the surviving side has been worn out dealing with the main enemy.
• Long-Lost Relative: At least applies in principle when Lily Romanoff and T'Chone infiltrate Hogwarts and meet Septimus Snape, the son of Lily Evans and Severus Snape, as he is basically their uncle since his mother is their grandmother.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • While Professor Riddle has his role in the resistance protected by the Fidelius Charm so others can't speak his name even if they're directly questioned, Harry confirms that he can still refer to Riddle as Voldemort as that identity was never covered by the charm.
  • This is essentially how Harry was able to bypass the barriers around Wakanda; due to his past exposure to the heart-shaped herb, even after his enhancements were taken away he retains some unique genetic markers that basically cause the system to identify him as Wakandan, as only Wakandans use the herb.
  • When fighting Hela, while Harry cannot use magic against Hela directly, he is able to affect her through other methods, such as changing the air around her into metal to immobilise Hela rather than trying to turn Hela herself into a statue.
• Ludicrous Gibs: After Hermione is freed, she uses her new powers to literally crush Snape by absorbing the spells cast against her and using them to attack him in return.
• Luke, I Am Your Father:
  • When Harry introduces himself to Lily Romanoff as her father, Lily can only briefly call him "Dad" before giving him a hug, which Natasha swiftly joins.
  • When Harry arrives in Wakanda, once he is able to restore Shuri's memories, she immediately takes him to her son, T'Chone, to introduce them, T'Chone tearfully choking out "Baba" as he meets his father for the first time.
• Mama Bear: Flashbacks confirm that Natasha went to great lengths to keep her daughter safe once she realised that Lily was a natural witch, refusing to allow the Order or Hydra to take her child.
• Manipulative Editing: When Lily Romanoff and T'Chone infiltrate Hogwarts, they basically rely on a mental version of this to escape detection by Snape's Legilimency; rather than block his mental probes, they deliberately push forward certain memories to support their story, thus discouraging Snape from probing any deeper.
• The Mole: Professor Riddle is this to the Order, as he serves as an active member of Dumbledore's inner circle while also running the Organisation.
• More than Mind Control: It's revealed that Snape is working on a potion he terms the Draught of Perfect Subservience, putting the drinker in a permanent trance-like state much like how the Draught of Living Death puts the subject in a permanent sleep without the antidote.
• Mr. Exposition: Harry basically does this when explaining his history to Lily Romanoff, Natasha and the Ancient One after being reunited with his family.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Tony Stark in the new reality is horrified when he sees his weapons being used against the civilians of Wakanda when he hacks the cameras in the suits he made for Hydra. This also helps him realise that Howard was distant from him in this reality because Tony was basically Hydra's hostage against his father as a child, so Howard kept his distance to try and keep Tony safe.
• Mythology Gag: In this other world, Carol's codename is "Binary", which was a name she used for a time in the comics.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero The fic opens by establishing that Harry's two realities have basically crashed together after he tried to use the Time Stone of his world to stop Hela's escape, so now the wizarding world (led by Dumbledore and Grindlewald) basically took over during the Second World War in opposition to Hydra, Hela was released back into reality to be Hydra's "champion", Peggy Carter received the super-soldier serum rather than Steve, the wizarding world basically forces all wizards to fight while witches are essentially meant only to give birth to more soldiers unless they show some exceptional talent, and London has been the heart of a temporal storm for as long as Ron, Neville and Ginny can remember.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • Ultimately Riddle ruins his best chance at gaining a valuable new ally because he can't stop being himself; rather than simply question Harry, he attempts to get answers by probing Harry's mind, essentially providing Harry's old allies with suitable evidence that Riddle is the one who cannot be trusted.
  • When Hela thinks she's killed Harry during the Battle of Wakanda, she only learns afterwards that she actually "killed" an illusion of Harry created by Loki, with Loki taunting her that she just gave all of her enemies a reason to rally against her rather than basically avoiding each other.
• No-Sell: As a result of his situation, Harry can walk through the time vortex without being affected by it where everyone else needs specific protective spells.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Riddle taunts Harry with this when he realises that Harry sent his own children into Hogwarts as part of a plan, ignoring the difference between how Riddle would use his followers to take the risks he won't take himself and Harry trusting his children to do something he literally can't do.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: As it turns out, Lily Evans-Snape has been experimenting on Hermione and Luna to try and turn them into super-soldier equivalents to challenge Binary and Hela. However, her dismissive attitude towards mutants and her transforming herself using those same experiments make it clear she was ultimately pursuing her own agenda rather than simply trying to protect the world.
• The Nudifier: When Harry and Natasha finally have a chance to reunite on their own, Natasha asks Harry to just Vanish her clothes because she's so impatient to have sex with him again.
• Oh, Crap!: Naturally this is Harry's reaction when Riddle manages to get inside his mind using their old link via the horcrux that has now been restored, as this means that Riddle is now aware of the Hallows and the Infinity Stones... as well as the fact that he possesses the Soul Stone of this world.
• Older Than They Look: Dumbledore and Grindlewald are noted as not looking the century-plus they actually are, with other parties speculating they have access to a Philosopher's Stone to justify their relatively youthful appearance.
• The Omniscient: Heimdell is this, as always, to the extent that he is aware of Harry's temporally complex status and informs Thor of the situation before the prince goes to Earth, allowing Harry to streamline his explanation. When Harry has a chance to talk with Heimdell, he asks for his help finding Skye in this new reality.
• One-Steve Limit: Lily Romanoff, the daughter of Harry Potter and Natasha Romanoff (conceived before the two realities were "crashed together"), and Lily Snape, nee Evans, Harry's mother in the original timeline and Snape's wife in this new reality.
• Only the Chosen May Wield: Comes up regarding wands; Lily Romanoff was able to get lucky and find a suitable wand from one of the magic-users she and Natasha defeated before they found Harry, but T'Chone has been unable to find a suitable wand, although Harry notes that he'll receive one at Hogwarts as part of the new Sorting.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: After Natasha touches Harry and gets her memories of their timeline back, Lily is quite annoyed at their "uncomfortably affectionate relationship". When Lily and T'Chone learn that Harry is their mutual father but they have different mothers, both are uncomfortable at the discovery of their parents' poly relationship even if they ultimately accept that Harry was never cheating on anybody.
• Polyamory: As in the original fic, Harry and Natasha in particular affirm that they are poly; once Natasha and Ginny have met, Natasha is quick to assure Harry that she has no problem including Ginny in their dynamic, and Shuri seems set to become a more official partner now that she and Natasha are parents to Harry's children.
• The Power of Love: When Riddle tries to invade Harry's mind, Ginny helps him recall his past loves to give him the strength to repel Riddle.
• Professor Guinea Pig: Ultimately Lily Snape is revealed to be this, having used her experiments on Hermione and Luna to give herself similar powers.
• Putting the Band Back Together: Harry soon concludes that his primary goal must be to find every one of his old friends, lovers and teammates, or at least find out what happened to them in this reality, and bring them together to help save the world and restore it to its original state.
• Refuge in Audacity: When Harry goes to Wakanda, Natasha suggests that Harry just tell them the truth about his history with the country, on the reasoning that the story is too crazy to be fake and Shuri will likely be receptive to his claims based on the precedent set by Natasha and Ginny.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: Despite the new timeline created, once the Ginny of the "new" timeline comes in contact with Harry, she regains her memory of some of her more intimate moments with him, ranging from him saving her from the Chamber to their first sexual encounter and witnessing his death. Likewise, when Harry makes contact with Natasha and Shuri, both women swiftly regain all memory of their past history with Harry, including the conception of their children. Later on, Ron starts to independently remember details such as the confrontation with Sirius, Lupin and Pettigrew at the Shrieking Shack, and Harry expresses confidence that T'Challa and Thor will remember more details on their own given time. Hela also shows awareness of the original realities, but this can be attributed to her sheer power level and how she was also at the heart of the original temporal crash.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Faced with the escalating threat of the current conflict after the invasion of Wakanda, Shuri decides to give Harry the heart-shaped herb once again. While this herb should only be shared with the member of the royal family who is the active Black Panther, T'Challa not only agrees with Shuri's plan to share it, but suggests that she should take the herb herself.
• Secret-Keeper: In an interesting twist, the Sorting Hat is aware of Lily and T'Chone's goal in infiltrating Hogwarts, but will keep the secret as it recognises their good intentions.
• Selective Obliviousness: Riddle continues to ignore anything that contradicts his belief in his own superiority.
• Sensor Character: Neville has a version of Mad-Eye Moody's magical eye in the new reality, which allows him to see Hela during the battle in Wakanda and direct Harry accordingly.
• Shell-Shocked Veteran: Peggy is basically presented as this, feeling as though everything she had previously fought for amounted to nothing and she's now trapped in a nightmare future, only able to hold on to herself by focusing on her self-assigned mission to protect Harry based on his friendship with Steve.
• Shoot the Messenger: When a Hydra agent comes to tell Hela that Harry has been retrieved from the temporal storm, when he tells Hela that the agent responsible didn't report this earlier because he was trying to cover his ass, Hela muses that they clearly expected her to invoke this by killing the agent for delivering the bad news. Despite this, Hela instead decides to promote the agent to act as her liaison to the wider organisation because she acknowledges his respect for her.
• Spared by the Adaptation: In the new reality, Lily Evans is still alive, although in this world she married Snape.
• Spotting the Thread: When Harry's scar starts bleeding after a nightmare, Ginny and Natasha swiftly realise that the horcrux in Harry has been restored in the new timeline.
• Stating the Simple Solution: When Harry wonders why Ginny and Natasha have regained their memories of the original timeline when Ron and Neville haven't, Natasha points out that she and Ginny obviously have more intimate relationships with Harry.
• Summon Bigger Fish: Hydra did this when the wizarding world went "public" after they bombed the world, summoning Hela to be their "champion" only for her to immediately kill Schmidt and take power herself.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: When Ron, Neville and Ginny rescue Luna and Hermione, they confirm that the two are bound by some form of magic, which Hermione explains by listing what they aren't bound by and leading the others to the truth by confirming what questions she can't answer.
• Take a Third Option:
  • Ron, Neville and Ginny all defected from the Order to join Professor Riddle because they objected to Dumbledore's plans for winning the war... only to later take a fourth option once Harry "returns" as they recognise he's the better alternative.
  • Riddle is determined to find an alternative to Harry restoring the original timeline or Death taking control of the mortal plane, but that's mainly because he's too egocentric to accept that those are the only options.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Ultimately Harry's allies all have trouble getting along after the invasion of Wakanda due to various cultural tensions between them, even as Harry does his best to keep everyone focused on the real threats.
• This Is Unforgivable!: It is stated that Dumbledore and Grindlewald's past actions against Hela have led to them committing apparently unforgiveable crimes against the other magical races, such as waging a campaign against the Goblins trying to find another Hallow when they only had the Elder Wand, preventing the wizards forming an alliance with others against Hela. Dumbledore even states the following in a talk with McGonagall;
  "If they had done to us what we have done to them, we would let them die too."
• Time Crash: It is eventually confirmed that Harry's actions basically caused his two realities to crash together into one mixed dimension where Hydra and the wizarding world are now in a struggle for world domination.
• Took a Level in Badass: Natasha has received training in the magic of the Sorcerers of Kamar-Taj, which she speculates was motivated by subconscious memories of feeling like a liability alongside the more powerful Avengers. Later Shuri gives Harry the heart-shaped herb to restore his past physical enhancements to prepare for the new campaign against Hydra and the Order.
• Treacherous Advisor: Ultimately Lily Evans-Snape is this in the new reality, tricking her students into agreeing to go along with her experiments even as they're forced to go along with Lily's commands and do things they would never have agreed to do on their own.
• Unknown Relative: During the invasion of Wakanda, T'Chone and Lily Romanoff end up fighting alongside each other, and only learn that they are half-siblings sharing the same father once they have escaped.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Ultimately this is Lily Snape's main weakness, as her experiments have enhanced her magical power but she has limited training in hand-to-hand combat.
• What You Are in the Dark: Ultimately Ron and Neville agree to side with Harry over Riddle when Ginny makes it clear who she's choosing to be loyal to after Riddle attacked Harry.
• Would Hurt a Child: Riddle goes so far as to subject first-year students to the Imperius Curse to act as human shields during his confrontation with Dumbledore and Grindlewald.
• Wrecked Weapon: When Harry's allies protect him against Riddle, Peggy's shield is shattered when she deflects two Killing Curses.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Harry offers this encouragement to Lily Romanoff when he realises that she's been using OWL and NEWT level spells without any prior training, affirming that she's done well to have done so much when learning on her own.
• Zerg Rush: This is noted to be one of Hydra's favoured strategies when fighting wizards; as Neville reflects in a flashback, they can afford to basically strap bombs and weapons on to muggles and send them out to fight until the target is dead.

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