History FanFic / DumbledoresArmyAndTheYearOfDarkness

The tale continues in ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/HPfanfiction/comments/7kfxke/does_anyone_have_a_copy_of_dumbledores_army_and/dviiy0g?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Sluagh]]''.[[note]]Destructive, restless spirits of the dead in Irish mythology.[[/note]] It is now five years later, all the survivors have moved on to civilian life, each nursing his and her own trauma scars. Neville is senior Auror and Simon-Wiesenthal-in-residence (so to speak) for the rebuilt Ministry of Magic, tasked with rounding up the remnants of Voldemort's henchmen. For his final assignment, he is dispatched to track down a mysterious serial/vigilante killer in Ireland and ends up fighting an even more sinister and brutal dark lord than Voldemort.

The concluding novel of the trilogy, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4914208/1/A_Peccatis A Peccatis]]'',[[note]]Translated as "Without Redemption" by the author, though it actually means "From Sins", as in the Catholic formula: "I absolve you ''from'' [your] ''sins'' in the name of..." ("''ego te absolvo '''a peccatis''' tuis in nomine Patris et filii et spiritus sancti''"). ArtisticLicense comes into play because "Sine Absolutione" (the correct Latin phrase) lacks the religious connotations, and both it and "From Sins" are terrible titles.[[/note]] picks up in 2008. Strapped for money (the recession rippled into the wizarding world too), Neville is finally talked into joining the Wizarding legislature just as a vote on officially breaking the masquerade is pending. All the while, Dumbledore's darkest secrets are coming to light. Though a word of warning: [[ScheduleSlip/FanFic the most recent chapter was posted on the 9th of October 2012]], [[DeadFic and the author has moved on through at least two or three more fandoms since then with no word on when he’ll be returning.]]

As of December of 2017, Thanfiction's [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1550595/Deletedaccountnolongeractive account has been deactivated]].

* AdaptationalWimp: Done to a ''plot element'' instead of a character. In the DAYD universe, healing magic is significantly weaker than in canon. It barely does anything to Neville and Ernie's whipping wounds, when it's used to regrow Colin's hand it results in something barely a step up from a Muggle prosthetic, and in general injuries are treated as a much, ''much'' bigger deal than they would be in canon.

The concluding novel of the trilogy, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4914208/1/A_Peccatis A Peccatis]]'',[[note]]Translated as "Without Redemption" by the author, though it actually means "From Sins", as in the Catholic formula: "I absolve you ''from'' [your] ''sins'' in the name of..." ("''ego te absolvo '''a peccatis''' tuis in nomine Patris et filii et spiritus sancti''"). ArtisticLicense comes into play because "Sine Absolutione" (the correct Latin phrase) lacks the religious connotations, and both it and "From Sins" are terrible titles.[[/note]] picks up in 2008. Strapped for money (the recession rippled into the wizarding world too), Neville is finally talked into joining the Wizarding legislature just as a vote on officially breaking the masquerade is pending. All the while, Dumbledore's darkest secrets are coming to light. Though a word of warning: [[ScheduleSlip/FanFic the most recent chapter was posted on the 9th of October 2012]], [[DeadFic and the author has moved on through at least two or three more fandoms since then with no word on when they'll be returning.]]

* SickinglySweet: When Hannah tells Neville that her Aunt has some sickeningly cute collectible china witch figurines. Apparently, "It's like trying to eat half of Honeydukes in one sitting. You can feel your teeth start to rot the second you cross the front door."

* KillEmAll:
** The Battle of Hogwarts puts up a valiant attempt to carry out this trope on the protagonists with some very nasty curses involved.
** ''Sluagh'', is worse. Depending on how you look at it, ''none'' of Our Heroes are left standing after the Battle of Druim Cett, [[spoiler:albeit temporarily]], and if half of those creatures aren't out of the author's imagination, there's some funky stuff in water of those Irish springs.
** ''A Peccatis'' seems to be doing this to the previous generation.

* WarIsHell: The fic is a prime example, depicting the horrific ordeal the members of the eponymous insurgency go through to keep the darkness at bay as best they could, culminating in a final battle (the Battle of Hogwarts from [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows the book]], retold from their perspective) in which [[spoiler:[[KillEmAll almost everyone dies.]]]] Unfortunately, it fumbles that ball badly, as the vast majority of the DA ''want'' to fight, have embraced the fact most of them will die, and when someone tries to convince them ''not'' to fight, he's portrayed as being in the wrong. The themes clash so badly that the entire story is tainted.

* DeadGuyJunior: Thanfiction is especially prone to this. There are only three kids who ''aren't'' named after dead people, and two were adopted from another country. Of course, there are a [[KillEmAll lot of names to choose from]]...

''Dumbledore's Army and the Year of Darkness'' began as a one-shot, 4,000-word Literature/HarryPotter fanfic story entitled ''Dumbledore's Army: Still Recruiting''. According to the author, he soon found himself "up to [his] pointed hat in the most out-of-control one-shot in the history of the wizarding world."