History FanFic / WishCarefully

* AllForNothing: The Death Eaters kidnapped eight young witches from different areas around the world to inject some fresh new blood into their limited gene pool, a solution that ultimately amounted to putting a bandaid on a broken leg, as Lucius admits that at most, the girls only gave them a few more generations to hold off the inevitable decline, especially after the rest of the magical world made sure that they wouldn't be able to repeat the incident.
* AloneWithThePsycho: With the Muggle-borns, Squibs, and Light Supporters gone and the Death Eaters magically bound from interacting with Muggles in any capacity (lest they lose their powers), the only people left for Voldemort to turn his sadistic whims on were his own followers.
* ArrangedMarriage: Marriages are arranged according to the wealth and fertility of the family. Many of the descendants of the Cabal faced this.
* ArtisticLicenseEconomics: Averted. When all the Light supporters packed up and got out of the Death Eater-controlled Magical Britain, most businesses saw their consumer bases and their producers go with them, cutting out a substantial portion of the workforce in the process. Most of the remaining Dark-supporting purebloods deluded themselves that the economy would sort itself out into something smaller and more efficient. By the time Lucius is an elderly man, they ''still'' haven't recovered.

* BatmanGambit: The premise is Harry setting up one for the Death Eaters with the Rites of Parlay. [[spoiler:Leonidas predicts he's set up ''another'' one targeted at Voldemort specifically -- with the Wizarding population in Britain dwindling to nothing, Voldemort will inevitably move onto terrorizing {{Muggles}} and thus lose his magic, which will leave him easy pickings for the authorities and possibly cut him off from his [[SoulJar Horcruxes]] as a bonus, or just kill him since his body was made by magic.]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[BigGood Harry's]] smug smile as he left England made it very clear to Lucius in hindsight that Harry was ''fully'' aware of the slow, hellish FateWorseThanDeath he was leaving [[ANaziByAnyOtherName the Death Eaters]] in and was, on some level, darkly amused at the idea of the Death Eaters [[HoistByHisOwnPetard slowly strangling themselves with their own twisted ideology]]. This earns him Lucius' grudging VillainRespect.

** A conspiracy of Death Eaters from the most powerful pureblooded families carried out a plan to kidnap a bunch of magically strong young witches from random areas around the world and successfully captured eight (they would have gotten more, but by then, the magical authorities caught on and placed the Net over Britain as a result). The women are forced to be continuously impregnated until they reach the end of their childbearing years and are given an interval of two years between each pregnancy they have to ensure they'll be in healthy condition. It's implied that many of the women don't get to see their children if they're adopted by the family of their pureblooded fathers unless the child wants to see them, and the girls who aren't adopted share their mothers' fate.

* TheCassandra: The clerk in charge of the Hogwarts List noticed that Squibs don't show up on the list to get their Hogwarts Letter and fewer names were showing up on the List overall due to the Death Eaters' population decline. He kept trying to address the problem but ended up getting crucioed for his trouble.

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: No one is bothered anymore if someone drops to the ground screaming and clutching their arm -- the Dark Lord finds it funny to torture people through their Dark Marks. The outside world was horrified, however, and as a result, Wizarding England could not get any immigrants to possibly fill out any gaps in the workforce or add to their population numbers.

** Dark-sided Wizards '''cannot''' get involved with the Muggle world in any way. The Death Eaters initially agreed to this out of a racist desire to preserve their cultural purity and their hatred of Muggles... until a couple of families that tried investing in the Muggle world or to open businesses there in order to bring money to the magical side of Britain ended up losing their magic. The Parlay Rite considers a tangential connection to such attempts enough to strip magic from Dark Wizards. [[spoiler:It's implied that Leonidas gets away with his smuggling of Squib-born children into Muggle orphanages by being a Light supporter.]]
** The agreement stated that the castle of Hogwarts was to remain intact. The exiles took every valuable thing from Hogwarts, leaving the ''physical building intact'' but completely empty of any important magical literature or artifacts; when the Death Eaters confront the [=ICW=] over this, they state that the Death Eaters are lucky that there's still furniture in Hogwarts. They even took the Heart of Hogwarts, the part that made the school magical. What the Death Eaters got was a fancy but empty building for their troubles.

** Dark-sided Wizards '''cannot''' get involved with the Muggle world in any way. The Death Eaters initially agreed to this out of a racist desire to preserve their cultural purity... until a couple of families that tried investing in the Muggle world or open businesses there in order to bring money to the magical side of Britain ended up losing their magic. [[spoiler:It's implied that Leonidas gets away with his smuggling of Squib-born children into Muggle orphanages by being a Light supporter.]]
** The agreement stated that Hogwarts was to remain intact. The exiles took every valuable thing from Hogwarts, leaving the building intact but completely empty. They even took the Heart of Hogwarts, the part that made the school magical. What the Death Eaters got was a fancy but empty building for their troubles.

* FascistButInefficient: Not too long after the Light Exiles left Britain, the Death Eaters found out the hard way their society was tilted to the very top and very bottom due to the massive loss of the workforce and having nobody to produce goods or do the "dirty jobs" that kept society running smoothly. For example, when the magical lifts at the Ministry of Magic stopped working, they realized the maintenance clerk, the technician, and the regular repair company were gone. In the end, they had to hire expensive goblin artificers because none of them had the skills or knowledge on how to fix the problem.

* HeelRealization: Averted. Lucius still doesn't think what he has done is ''wrong'', he just accepts that it didn't work, and admits that clinging to Voldemort's insane agenda will doom Britain's pure-bloods. He's still a racist old man to the core that went the route of the RetiredMonster rather than having a Heel Realization.
* HeirClubForMen: Pansy and Draco initially had a difficult time conceiving due to her body reacting adversely to the male selection spells. She was only able to bear a daughter which resulted in Lucius buying a concubine for Draco. Both Malfoy men took concubines to sire more children to ensure the continuance of their line.

* HumiliationConga: Nothing goes right for the Dark Magicals. They got exactly what they wanted, only to watch everything fall apart while the Light just sits back and lets their own prejudices do them in.

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Lucius reasons that getting a concubine for Draco and later kidnapping several women and forcing them into reproductive slavery was necessary to continue the lines of the Malfoys and several other prominent families.

* ImplausibleDeniability: Lucius and the other Death Eater deny that they kidnapped several women despite there being a lot of evidence, although it helps that Voldemort was offended when he was asked and Crucioed the ambassadors.

* LastOfHisKind: Because of his immortality, Leonidas believes that eventually, Voldemort will be the only remaining Wizard in England, [[spoiler:and with no followers left to torture, his sadism and insanity will drive him into attacking a Muggle, at which point he will immediately lose his magic. This will either result in his body collapsing with no magic to sustain it, or the Muggle authorities will believe him to be some sort of deformed madman and have him either imprisoned or committed.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As noted by WordOfGod, the only ones among his descendants that Lucius genuinely cares about and doesn't treat as pawns are Draco and Leonidas, and the fact that the latter has made his distaste about the Death Eaters' screw-ups and sees Wizarding Britain as beyond salvation clear does genuinely sadden Lucius. [[invoked]]

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: No one is bothered anymore if someone drops to the ground screaming and clutching their arm -- the Dark Lord finds it funny to torture people through their Dark Marks. The outside world was horrified, however, and as a result, Wizarding England could not get any immigrants to possibly fill out any gaps in the workforce.

** The agreement stated that Hogwarts was to remain intact. The exiles from the Light took every valuable thing from Hogwarts, leaving the building intact but completely empty. They even took the Heart of Hogwarts, the part that made the school actually magical.

* GoodIsNotDumb: After Dumbledore dies, Harry surrenders right away to be spared a war. It was thought that he was cowardly when really he brokered the best deal possible and left the Death Eaters to die out by digging their own graves while simultaneously teaching the rest of the magical world what a load of bunk pure-blood supremacy was.
* GoodIsNotSoft: Harry again in relation to the GoodIsNotDumb point above. Lucius believes that Dumbledore would've been horrified by the deal as it's left dozens of people and families out to a slow death.
* GuileHero: Harry is called almost Slytherin-like in planning since he spares his people war with a treaty that crippled his enemies in both the short and long term, and earns the adoration of the Light by buying several islands in the Pacific to inhabit after their Exodus.

* HeelRealization: Averted. Lucius still doesn't think what he has done is ''wrong'', he just accepts that it didn't work, and admits that clinging to Voldemort's insane agenda will doom Britain's pure-bloods. He's still a racist, classist bastard to the core that went the route of the RetiredMonster rather than having a Heel Realization.

* AnAesop: Building a society on racial purity and the exclusion of others is not sustainable. The Death Eaters find this out the hard way when their ideology is put to the test, and it slowly erodes in front of their eyes. Meanwhile, the Light thrives without the Death Eaters getting in the way.

* AnAesop: Building a society on racial purity and the exclusion of others is not sustainable.

* HundredPercentAdorationRating: According to Lucius, Harry Potter has earned this by giving the Light supporters a new home by buying several Pacific islands for them to live in after the Exodus. This increased after the utter failure of the Dark Wizarding Britain's society and the revelations of Voldemort's tyranny came to light.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Everyone is doing their best to keep Voldemort himself from finding out about the Squib problem and the existence of the kidnapped girls, because he'll have the mother of all {{Villainous Breakdown}}s if he does, which will be very painful for everyone involved.

* SuccessAsRevenge: As Lucius bitterly notes, while the Death Eaters and other dark aligned figures are suffering in the Hell [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor that their own ideologies created]], Harry Potter, as well his fellow Light aligned friends and family, have been noted to be living it up in the new magical society they created in the Pacific Islands, with Harry being rumored to have fathered ''a dozen'' children. Voldemort was not happy when he learned about this and it only drove him further into AxCrazy madness.

* SympatheticPOV: [[AvertedTrope Nope.]] For all that he's been utterly humiliated and watching his society fall apart, Lucius is still horrible and irredeemable.

** As a last resort to continue the Malfoy family name, Draco sired five magical children with at least a couple different concubines while Lucius sired two more children before he became too old to "perform". The latter two (whose genders are not specified) are therefore the aunts/uncles of Draco's children, despite being roughly the same age as them.

* MeaningfulName: Leonidas is descended from the Blacks through his grandmother and follows their ThemeNaming of stars and constellations by being named after the Leonids, a meteor shower. In a more [[IronicName ironic twist]], his name also has "Leo" in it, Latin for lion, the emblem of Gryffindor -- and he embodies the values of one by being brave, just, and righteous.

* KnowWhenToFoldThem: Instead of fighting the Death Eaters, Harry chose to surrender, which eliminated casualties for the Light side while having the Death Eaters dig their own graves.

* MeaningfulName: Leonidas is descended from the Blacks through his grandmother and follows their ThemeNaming of stars and constellations by being named after the Leonids, a meteor shower. His name also has "leo" in it, Latin for lion, the emblem of Gryffindor -- and he embodies the values of one by being brave, just, and righteous.

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: The unnamed Hogwarts clerk. He isn't entirely innocent, as wizards that remained in Britain were primarily Dark-sided unless they were Healers who stayed out of obligation, but eventually realizes the pitfalls of his chosen side. When his warnings go unheeded, the clerk ensures his grandchild's escape and is killed for it.

* RetiredMonster: Lucius has his regrets about the contract with Harry Potter and the Light. But Lucius only regrets ''how'' he did the things that led up to it, not ''that'' he did them. The closest he gets to a HeelRealization is admitting that his ideology isn't working at this particular juncture, but he doesn't think he's wrong about pure-blood supremacy.

* SubparSupremacist: The Death Eaters believed their pure magical blood made them superior to the half-bloods, Muggleborns, and Muggles, being completely ignorant of how they're actually pretty inbred, which is in turn weakening their magical powers as well as their intellectual capabilities. By the time Lucius is narrating everything, the Death Eaters' society has degraded to the point of being a teachable example to the rest of the magical world's purebloods of how unsustainable and self-defeating such an ideology is -- Magical Britain's economy has completely collapsed due to a massive loss of skilled workers and human capital, their population is continuously in decline with each new generation turning out more Squibs than the last, and many of their descendants are so magically weak that they're close to being Squibs anyway.

** As a last resort to continue the Malfoy family name, Draco sired five magical children with one of the kidnapped girls, while Lucius sired two before he became too old to "perform". The latter two (whose genders are not specified) are therefore the aunts/uncles of Draco's children with the kidnapped girl, despite being roughly the same age as them.

* DyingRace: The Dark purebloods are losing their magic as the result of decades' worth of continuous inbreeding, with each new generation producing more Squibs than the last. In the year before the Cabal kidnapped [[BreedingSlave eight foreign young witches]] to inject some much-needed fresh blood into their gene pool, only ''four'' pureblood children with any magical ability were born in all of Britain, compared to the 27 Muggleborns born at the same time period. Lucius even admits that the kidnapping scheme was little more than a temporary solution to hold off the inevitable, predicting that the girls have only given them a few more generations at most. And since the ICW put up the Net around Britain after the scheme was discovered, preventing anyone from leaving or entering, kidnapping more girls is not an option.

* MoralMyopia: Lucius's justifications for kidnapping the foreign girls.

** The Squib-born were treated as an embarrassment at best and an abomination at worst. To the Death Eaters' horror, as the population becomes more inbred from their small gene pool, more and more Squibs are born every year.
** While not quite Squibs, Lucius describes the pure-blood children of Leonidas' grandson's generation as being so magically weak that they're incapable of completing the traditional Hogwarts seventh-year courses.

* SubparSupremacist: The Death Eaters believed their pure magical blood made them superior to the half-bloods, Muggleborns, and Muggles, being completely ignorant of how they're actually pretty inbred, which is in turn weakening their magical powers as well as their intellectual capabilities. By the time Lucius is narrating everything, the pureblood supremacists' society has degraded to the point of being a teachable example to the rest of the magical world of how such beliefs don't work -- Magical Britain's economy has completely collapsed due to a massive loss of skilled workers and human capital, their population is continuously in decline with each new generation turning out more Squibs than the last, and many of their descendants are so magically weak that they're close to being Squibs anyway.

* WickedStepmother: Subverted in that Pansy and Leonidas never had much of a relationship with each other to begin with and Leonidas frequently visited his own mother.

* WizardsLiveLonger: Lucius lives long enough to live with several regrets and to see his great-grandchildren.

* WretchedHive: Magic Britain quickly became this under Death Eater rule, not just because of their evil, but also because the Dark-aligned wizards had little skill in the day-to-day matters of running society, being composed mostly of the absolute top or bottom of the social classes.

** Pure-bloods tend to be very closely related, and this works against the dark-aligned supremacists as the lack of genetic diversity has led to the worsening GenerationalMagicDecline that's leaving their descendants magically and intellectually weaker to the point they .

* SubparSupremacist: The Death Eaters believed their pure magical blood made them superior to the half-bloods, Muggleborns, and Muggles, being completely ignorant of how they're actually pretty inbred, which is in turn weakening their magical powers as well as their intellectual capabilities. By the time Lucius is narrating everything, the pureblood supremacists' society has degraded to the point of being a teachable example to the rest of the magical world on how such beliefs don't work -- Magical Britain's economy has completely collapsed due to a massive loss of skilled workers and human capital, their population is in decline, and many of their children are so magically weak that they can barely complete their school courses.

** Pure-bloods tend to be very closely related, and this works against them as the lack of genetic diversity has led to more Squibs and fewer magically strong children being born.
** As a last resort to continue the Malfoy family name, Draco bred five magical children with one of the kidnapped girls, while Lucius bred two before he became too old to "perform". The latter two (whose genders are not specified) are therefore the aunts/uncles of Draco's children with the kidnapped girl, despite being roughly the same age as them.

* MeaningfulName: Leonidas is descended from the Blacks through his grandmother and follows their ThemeNaming of stars and constellations by being named after the Leonids, a meteor shower. His name also has "leo" in it, Latin for lion, the emblem of Gryffindor--and he embodies the values of one by being brave, just, and righteous.

* SubparSupremacist: The Death Eaters believed their pure magical blood made them superior to the half-bloods, Muggleborns, and Muggles, being completely ignorant of how they're actually pretty inbred, which is in turn weakening their magical powers as well as their intellectual capabilities. By the time Lucius is narrating everything, the pureblood supremacists' society has degraded to the point of being a teachable example to the rest of the magical world on how such beliefs don't work - Magical Britain's economy has completely collapsed due to a massive loss of skilled workers and human capital, their population is in decline, and many of their children are so magically weak that they can barely complete their school courses.

* SubparSupremacist: The Death Eaters believed their pure magical blood made them superior to the half-bloods, Muggleborns, and Muggles, being completely ignorant of how they're actually pretty inbred, which is in turn weakening their magical powers as well as their intellectual capabilities. By the time Lucius is narrating everything, the pureblood supremacists' society has degraded to the point of being a teachable example to the rest of the magical world - Magical Britain's economy has completely collapsed due to a massive loss of skilled workers and human capital, their population is in decline, and many of their children are so magically weak that they can barely complete their school courses.

* SubparSupremacist: The Death Eaters believed their pure magical blood made them superior to the half-blood and Muggleborn witches and wizards, being completely ignorant of how they're actually pretty inbred, which is actually weakening their magical powers as well as their intellectual capabilities. By the time Lucius is narrating everything, the pureblood supremacists' society has degraded to the point of being a teachable example to the rest of the magical world - Magical Britain's economy has completely collapsed due to a massive loss of skilled workers and human capital, their population is in decline, and many of their children are so magically weak that they can barely complete their school courses.

* BabiesEverAfter: Harry and his friends apparently had a large number of magically talented children in their island sanctuary far away from Voldemort-controlled Britain while the Death Eaters struggled to maintain their population at all thanks to all the inbreeding. No information is provided as to who paired up with who, just that among the families prospering include the Potters, Weasleys, Longbottoms, Bones, and Lupins.

** Branching off from the above, Lucius mentions that the more aristocratic Death Eaters had expected the Death Eaters in the lower social classes to fill out some of the gaps caused by the Light-aligned workers' exodus. Unfortunately, it didn't occur to most of them that these minions had become criminals in the first place because they didn't have any useful skills and even if they wanted to improve that, they'd need both training to perform those jobs and capital to start a business, neither of which occurred to the Death Eater nobility to provide.

* DyingRace: The Dark purebloods are losing their magic as the result of decades' worth of continuous inbreeding, with each generation producing more Squibs than the last. In the year before the Cabal kidnapped [[BreedingSlave eight foreign young witches]] to inject some much-needed fresh blood into their gene pool, only ''four'' pureblood children with any magical ability were born in all of Britain, compared to the 27 Muggleborns born at the same time period. Lucius even admits that the kidnapping scheme was little more than a temporary solution to hold off the inevitable, predicting that the girls have only given them a few more generations at most. And since the ICW put up the Net around Britain after the scheme was discovered, preventing anyone from leaving or entering, kidnapping more girls is not an option.

* FamilyThemeNaming: In the original series, members of the House of Black are named after stars or constellations. Leonidas Malfoy, an OriginalCharacter descended from the Blacks through his father Draco and maternal grandmother Narcissa, is named after [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonids the Leonids]], a meteor shower.

* BabiesEverAfter: Harry and his friends apparently had a large number of magically talented children in their island sanctuary far away from Voldemort-controlled Britain while the Death Eaters struggled to maintain their population at all thanks to all the inbreeding. No information is provided as to who paired up with who.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[BigGood Harry's]] smug smile as he left England made it very clear to Lucius in hindsight that Harry was ''fully'' aware about the slow, hellish FateWorseThanDeath he was leaving [[ANaziByAnyOtherName The Death Eaters]] in and was, on some level, darkly amused at the idea of the Death Eaters [[HoistByHisOwnPetard slowly strangling themselves with their own twisted ideology]]. This earns him Lucius grudging VillainRespect.

** Lucius now realizes their victory over the light is this. While they may have gotten what they wanted, they condemned themselves to an insane ruler, a shambling economy and a slow death due to inbreeding.

* SubparSupremacist: Pureblood Wizard society has become a degenerate hellscape: the economy is collapsing, their population is in decline, many of their children are inbred genetic nightmares, and they have to resort to kidnapping young women to have any chance of reversing their demographic decay. Voldemort, the ruler, is an AxCrazy tyrant who tortures his subjects on the merest whim.

* TruthInTelevision: The problems facing Wizarding Britain after Voldemort takes over mirror real life issues when constructing ethnonational states: the loss of valuable human capital, a sclerotic and backward dictatorship, international isolation, and horrible decay.

* VillainProtagonist: Lucius Malfoy is the narrator and main character. He remains a completely unrepentant Death Eater who only regrets his evil actions because they backfired on him, not because they were wrong.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: [[BigGood Harry's]] smug smile as he left England made it very clear to Lucius in hindsight that Harry was ''fully'' aware about the slow, hellish FateWorseThanDeath he was leaving [[ANaziByAnyOtherName The Death Eaters]] in and was, on some level, darkly amused at the idea idea of the Death Eaters [[HoistByHisOwnPetard slowly strangling themselves with their own twisted ideology]]. This earns him Lucius grudging VillainRespect.

* BabyFactory: Eight magically powerful girls and women from 13 to 25, were kidnapped to be bred among the higher ranks of the Death Eaters. The girls are continuously impregnated until the end of their fertile years.