History FanFic / TheBestRevenge

* NoodleIncident: Once Minerva borrowed her precious copy of Ogham Book of Ballymore to Dumbledore then she got it back with its pages stuck together by melted [[TrademarkFavoriteFood lemon sherbets]]. Since then she refuses to borrow books to Dumbledore. There was a seperate occasion that Snape refuses to speak of: [[spoiler:During Snape's school days, he regaled the school by singing The Wintersday Carol with Dumbledore and Elphias Doge. Apparently, his singing voice was lovely.]]
** Snape: [[spoiler:I have not drunk half a bottle of firewhiskey at a sitting since.]]

** Snape: [[spoiler:I have not drunk half a bottle of firewhiskey since.]]

* [[spoiler:Snape: I have not drunk half a bottle of firewhiskey since.]]

* NoodleIncident: Once Minerva borrowed her precious copy of Ogham Book of Ballymore to Dumbledore then she got it back with its pages stuck together by melted [[TrademarkFavoriteFood lemon sherbets]]. Since then she refuses to borrow books to Dumbledore. There was a seperate occasion that Snape refuses to speak of: [[spoiler:During Snape's school days, he regaled the school by singing The Wintersday Carol with Dumbledore and Elphias Doge. Apparently, his singing voice was divine.]]

* NoodleIncident: Once Minerva borrowed her precious copy of Ogham Book of Ballymore to Dumbledore then she got it back with its pages stuck together by melted [[TrademarkFavoriteFood lemon sherbets]]. Since then she refuses to borrow books to Dumbledore.

* AbusiveParents: Petunia and Vernon. They view their treatment of Harry as so natural that Snape has to magically manipulate them to get them to develop a sense of consciousness.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Played with. Alexander the Great was neither a muggle or a wizard, though his mother was a witch, but was a sort of MagneticHero whose charisma was uncannily similar to the Imperius.

* CreepySouvenir: After Voldemort's attack, the Potter hideout was pillaged by greedy wizards and witches until the Ministry put wards one month later.

* PapaWolf: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with James Potter, who squared the family fortune to pay for the war against Voldemort. The characters are divided with one camp, including the [[WordOfGod Author]] claiming that James and Lily would have preferred that Harry be poor than [[FateWorseThanDeath what would happend if Voldemort won]]. Others, mostly [[UnreliableNarrator Snape]] believe that James was simply an idiot who squadered the family fortune and left his only son with just barely enough to get a proper wizarding education.

* OfficialCouple: Severus Snape and Charity Burbage.

* InsultFriendlyFire: When Zach Smith taunts Harry about staying at Hogwarts for the Christmas holidays, insinuating he's "not wanted at home", Ron takes offense because he and his siblings are staying too.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: There's very little detail about demons but they apparently are [[SadlyMythtaken controlled by necromancers]].[[note]]Although it could be a case of ShownTheirWork because necromancy is about summoning and controlling spirits, rather than creating an army of zombies. Thus if the demons in questions are spirits, then necromancy would be useful against them.[[/note]]

* TomeOfEldritchLore: The ''Mysteria Bonea Dea''[[note]]''Mysteries of the Good Goddess'' [[IHaveManyNames or]] ''Secrets of the Great Mother''[[/note]], a magical tome that is passed down to witches and cannot be touched by men without horrible pain. Lily had it in her possession when she died.

* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Played with. Alexander the Great was neither a muggle or a wizard, tough his mother was a witch, but was sort of MagneticHero whose charisma was uncannily similar to the Imperius.

* CharacterDevelopment: Various characters undergo this. Most prominently is Severus Snape and Draco Malfoy; the former who defrosts emotionally and eventually moves on from his love for Lily, and the latter who's friendship with Harry, Neville and Hermione lessens his prejudices until it almost completely vanishes.
* CoolCrown: A gold diadem with huge cabochon rubies, pearls and gold leaves and other decorations. It belonged to the Potter family before they were even named Potter.

* EverybodyLives: There are almost no deaths among the main characters in the story or it's sequel, even the basilisk in the Chamber Of Secrets is spared thanks to Harry using his Parseltongue to convince it to return to the chamber, then feeds it until it falls asleep.
* FreudianExcuse: While Snape remarks that Petunia's treatment of Harry is unforgivable, he admits to himself that her and Vernons hatred of magic was likely made even worse by the disastrous Potter wedding, which devolved into a fight between anti-muggle purists and the Light supporters, with Petunia and her parents being among those attacked.

* HarmfulToMinors: During his childhood Harry got lots of presents from wizards and witches, which Dumbledore stored away in a room within the owlry. Howver a lot of presents had curses and poisons in them which would killed Harry.

* InsufferableGenius: Hermione, like in canon. Only, her enthusiasm at being the best, as well as being an outsider, gets her bullied by the Ravenclaw girls. Luckily, Harry informs a teacher, who steps in and stops it from going too far.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Harry, when due to Quirrelmort's actions he ends up bleeding from his nose and ear. The other Hufflepuffs, Snape and Hogwarts teachers do not have such reaction.

* PantyThief: James Potter. He had kept panties stolen from girls from the four Houses. Mcgonnagal is mortified when she finds them in his trunk, and Snapes laughs until a knicker [[BerserkButton belonging to Lily is found]].

* PlotHole: In ''Time of the Basilisk'' Pamona doesn't know that Harry is a horcrux until she finds out he's a parselmouth but back in the frist fic Snape tell her, Flitwick and Mcgonnagal that Harry is a horcrux.

* StupidestThingIveEverHeard: Flitwick's reaction to hear about Voldemort creating [[SoulJar horcruxes]]. He points out that horcruxes would cause a DeathOfPersonality, as well make the wizard more irrational as well EvilMakesYouUgly.

* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Due to a misinterpretation of Lucius' words, Draco believes that if he meets the rare exceptionally talented muggleborn, he shouldn't look down on them and treat them as equals. This gradually lessens his prejudices, until it almost completely vanishes.

* GeometricMagic: It can be used to contain demons. Snape and the other teachers use Baphomet's Configuration, along with a circle of salt to contain Quirrelmort.

* AllMythsAreTruth: Even more extensively than the source. Mentions of demons and King Solomon containing djinns are made by the professors when planning how to deal with Quirrelmort.

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: There's very little detail about demons but they apparently are [[SadlyMythtaken controlled by necromancers]].

* DearNegativeReader: The author often responds to reviews, usually dumb ones, in the beginning of each chapter. Notable in chapter 36 when the author has to remind reviewers that Tom Riddle is evil and not trustworthy.

* DearNegativeWriter: The author often responds to reviews, usually dumb ones, in the beginning of each chapter. Notable in chapter 36 when the author has to remind reviewers that Tom Riddle is evil and not trustworthy.

* AdultsAreUseless: Averted. The whole premise is Snape doing something about Harry's abusive home life. And adults like Snape, [=McGonagall=], Flitwick and Sprout do their part in preventing Voldemort's return, Burbage prevents bullying from happening in the Explorers Club as well as protects students when in danger, and even Lucius and Narcissa do their part to stop the Dark Lord. The only person who arguably plays this straight is Dumbledore, but it's not without reasons.

* BeethoenWasAnAlienSpy: Played with. Alexander the Great was neither a muggle or a wizard, tough his mother was a witch, but was sort of MagneticHero whose charisma was uncannily similar to the Imperius.