History FanFic / HailOdysseus

* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Sirius when he tried to convince Remus Lupin and Nymphadora Tonks that he is innocent. Unfortunately, none of them believed him, and they were ready to send him to the dementors without even considering the possibility that he might be innocent.

* {{Badass}}: [[DarkIsNotEvil Harry,]] [[DarkActionGirl Ginevra,]] [[BadAssGrandpa Grindelwald.]]

** Just because Harry is cunning, powerful, rich, and had a {{badass}} mentor doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.

* BadAss: [[DarkIsNotEvil Harry,]] [[DarkActionGirl Ginevra,]] [[BadAssGrandpa Grindelwald.]]

* BlackWidow: Blaise Zabini's mother is this, seducing rich wizards and then poisoning them - without leaving any proof - to inherit their money. Blaise plans to become [[TheBluebeard the male version of this]] [[spoiler:but when he accidentally kills Tracey Davis, Harry and Ginevra kill him in revenge.]]

* DarkActionGirl: Ginevra is a [[GreyAndBlackMorality morally]] [[AntiHero grey]] version of this.

** Just because Harry is cunning, powerful, rich, and had a [[BadAss badass]] mentor doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.
** Ginevra getting sorted into Slytherin caused her to [[TookALevelInBadAss toughen up a lot]] but also turned her into an [[IceQueen angry, mistrustful]] girl.

* EroticEating: Tracey Davis does this, eating things from Harry's plate, both to joke with Harry and [[spoiler:to make Draco Malfoy think she is willing to work for him.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:this accidentally gets her killed when she drinks poison that Blaise Zabini had put on Harry's drink.]]

* NoKillLikeOverkill: Harry's and Ginny's fights with Death Eaters. [[spoiler:Ginny riddling Dawlish with bullets in revenge for his trying to rape her the day before]].

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: when the Aurors decide they would rather kill Harry and Ginny instead of working with them against Voldemort, Harry and Ginny decide Magical Britain don't deserve their help anymore and contact Voldemort, offering him a deal to never fight against each other, and, that way, when Harry dies of old age, Voldemort will be free to conquer the world. Of course, Harry and Ginny cheat: [[spoiler:they managed to find the last Horcrux and destroy it before making the oath, knowing that Voldemort is now mortal, and whether he gets killed by someone facing him or he tries to transfer his essence to another body when his current one decays, he will eventually die.]]

** Voldemort is one for Harry's plans [[spoiler:when he kills Rufus Scrimgeour.]]

* FailOSuckyName: the fake name in Snape's passport when he is spirited by Harry to America, getting him out of the war. [[spoiler: Artemius Higginbottom.]]

* EroticEating: Tracey Davis does this, eating things from Harry's plate, both to joke with Harry and [[spoiler:to make Draco Malfoy think she is dwilling to work for him.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:this accidentally gets her killed when she drinks poison that Blaise Zabini had put on Harry's drink.]]

** Ginevra getting sorted into Slytherin caused her to [TookALevelInBadAss toughen up a lot]] but also turned her into an [[IceQueen angry, mistrustful]] girl.

* [[spoiler: BittersweetEnding: Harry and Ginny get to live their lives happily in America with Sirius, but only under fake identities after leaving Magical Britain and swearing off harming Voldemort.]]

* DarkActionGirl: Ginny is a [[GreyAndBlackMorality morally]] [[AntiHero grey]] version of this.

* BadAss: [[DarkIsNotEvil Harry,]] [[ActionGirl Ginevra,]] [[BadAssGrandpa Grindelwald.]]

* BelligerentSexualTension: Harry and Ginevra. She actually mentions this directly after [[spoiler:the two of them drop out of Hogwarts]].

* BlackSheep: Ginevra is this to the Weasley family, after she is Sorted into Slytherin. [[spoiler:So much, that the Weasleys have no problem in giving her up to the Aurors

* BelligerentSexualTension: Harry and Ginevra.
* BlackSheep: Ginevra is this to the Weasley family, after she is Sorted into Slytherin.

* HeroicBSOD: Harry has one when he learns that [[spoiler:Dumbledore knew that Pettigrew was a traitor and used that to get the Potters killed and put the Prophecy in motion.

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 13. [[spoiler:Harry and Ginevra kill Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson, by [[MoreThanMindControl Imperiusing]] the latter to leave a suicide note over learning that Malfoy is marrying someone else, and then having her trap Malfoy on the tower and make the two of them fall off it to make it look like a [[IfICantHaveHer If I Can't Have Him]].]]

* InsistentTerminology: Ginevra is never called by her Canon nickname of "Ginny", save for one instance.

** Chapter 14: [[spoiler:Harry destroys Tom Riddle's Diary and recovers his father's Invisibility Cloak. Harry and Ginevra then drop out of school, and they learn that Dumbledore has the Elder Wand.]]

The story begins in 1990, when Gellert Grindelwald - the wizard Dumbledore defeated back in 1945 - recovering the will to fight after reading an article about Harry in the newspaper. Escaping from the prison of Nurmengard, he returns to England and rescues Harry Potter from the Dursleys before forcing the latter to kill themselves via MakeItLookLikeAnAccident. As a consequence, people believe that Harry has died.

Nearly seven years later, the British magical world is amazed to see that Harry is not only still alive, but that he is also fighting the good fight against Voldemort and the Death Eaters. Unfortunately, he is not the saint many would expect of the Boy Who Lived, and when he gets sorted into Slytherin, people begin to believe that he might actually go dark.

* AntiHero: Harry is this in spades. Also Ginny.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Harry and Ginny.
* BlackWidow: Blaise Zabini's mother is this, seducing rich wizards and then poisoning them - without leaving any proof - to inherit their money. Blaise plans to become [[TheBluebeard the male version of this]] [[spoiler:but when he accidentally kills Tracey Davis, Harry and Ginny kill him in revenge.]]

** Also, the duel between Ginny and Hannah Abbott. Hannah barely has the time to cast a shield before Ginny blasts her away.

* DoubleEntendre: Harry plays this up for what it's worth when he tells Professor [=McGonagall=] that he can smell her Animagus form.
* EroticEating: Tracey Davis does this, eating things from Harry's plate, both to joke with Harry and [[spoiler:to make Draco Malfoy think she is willing to work for him.]] Unfortunately, [[spoiler:this accidentally gets her killed when she drinks poison that Blaise Zabini had sent to Harry.]]
* GoodIsNotNice: Harry is nice to those he can trust, but anyone that attacks him or his friend can expect him to retaliate as fast and brutally as possible.

** Also [[spoiler:Harry and Ginny getting rid of Draco Malfoy and Pansy Parkinson, although it is more of Making It Look Like A Murder-Suicide.]]
* MoralMyopia: when Draco Malfoy learns that [[spoiler:Harry and Ginny killed Blaise Zabini and are going to [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident kill him and Pansy Parkinson]], he gets angry at them, forgetting that he has already tried to kill or have Harry and Ginny killed several times.]]

* {{Squick}}: Harry when Michelle (a twelve-year-old) says she would be willing to have sex with him if he agreed to be her boyfriend.

* Squick: Harry when Michelle (a twelve-year-old) says she would be willing to have sex with him if he agreed to be her boyfriend.

* BlackWidow: Blaise Zabini's mother is this, seducing rich wizards and then poisoning them - without leaving any proof - to inherit their money. Blaise plans to become the male version of this [[spoiler:but when he accidentally kills Tracey Davis, Harry and Ginny kill him in revenge.]]

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