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* ForcedTransformation: One of Lady Vidia's favourite methods of dealing with "loose ends" or people she'd rather not deal with anymore. The most prominent example is the Dursleys, who are transformed into flitlings in chapter two and remain in this form for the rest of the fic... though they're not the only ones. The transformations are both physical and mental, so the transformed people are usually completely different character than they used to be, and for the most part they barely remember their previous lives and are completely uninterested in learning about those previous lives, much less changing back. Neville finds this creepy.
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* ForcedTransformation: One of Lady Vidia's favourite methods of dealing with "loose ends" or people she'd rather not deal with anymore. The most prominent example is the Dursleys, who are transformed into flitlings in chapter two and remain in this form for the rest of the fic... though they're not the only ones. The transformations are both physical and mental, so the transformed people victims are usually completely different character people than they used to be, and for the most part they barely remember their previous lives and are completely uninterested in learning about those previous lives, much less changing back. Neville finds this creepy.
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* TitleIn: Every chapter title is simply an information of which month and year the chapter takes place in. In addition, every scene in the fic begins with a time-and-place card that informs the reader of the place, date and time of day.
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* TitleIn: Every The chapter title is titles simply an information of state which month moth and year the respective chapter takes place in. In addition, every scene in the fic begins with a time-and-place card that informs the reader of the place, date and time of day.
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* AccidentalTruth: Hermione's desperate ramblings to Voldemort that all the obstacles surrounding the Philosopher's Stone were so easy to bypass because they're part of an elaborate trap that Dumböedore has set up for him. She's really just trying to play for time in the hope that someone will come to the rescue, and Voldemort sees through her ruse quite easily, but admits that it ''would'' be in Dumbledore's character to try some clever ruse. [[spoiler:Turns out that while Hermione got a gouple of the details wrong, she was otherwise right on the money -- see BatmanGambit below.]]
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* AccidentalTruth: Hermione's desperate ramblings to Voldemort that all the obstacles surrounding the Philosopher's Stone were so easy to bypass because they're part of an elaborate trap that Dumböedore has set up for him. She's really just trying to play for time in the hope that someone will come to the rescue, and Voldemort sees through her ruse quite easily, but admits that it ''would'' be in Dumbledore's character to try some clever ruse. [[spoiler:Turns out that while Hermione got a gouple couple of the details wrong, she was otherwise right on the money -- see BatmanGambit below.]]
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* ChildhoodFriends: Hagrid and Jenny, who grew up in Faerie fogether and who think of each other as cousins even if they're not related by blood.
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* DoNotCallMePaul: It's mentioned briefly that Hagrid doesn't like to be called by his first name, Rubeus, but unlike the wizards, the Fae tend to forget or ignore his wishes, and call him "Rubeus" anyway. The exception is Jenny, who consistently respects his wishes and calls him "Hagrid."
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Downplayed example, but in this universe the Weasleys are looked down upon not only for beeing poor, working-class and "blood-traitors," but for being allies to the Summer court and "filthy Fae lovers." Fred and George briefly bring it up, explaining how their actions are all about trying to escape from this stigma.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Downplayed example, but in this universe the Weasleys are looked down upon not only for beeing poor, working-class and "blood-traitors," but for being allies to the Summer court and "filthy Fae lovers." Fred and George briefly bring it up, explaining how their actions are all constant joking, as well as Percy’s constant drive to be the best, is mainly about trying to escape from this escaping their stigma.
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* AbusiveParents: Just like in Dina M Nealey's [[Fanfic/HollyPotterAndTheWitchingWorld other fanfic]], Vernon and Petunia are ''slightly'' toned down compared to canon; pre-transformation they're still horrible guardians to Harry and are at the very least guilty of neglect and emotional abuse, but it's made absolutely clear they never crossed the line into physical abuse.
* AccidentalTruth: Hermione's desperate ramblings to Voldemort that all the obstacles surrounding the Philosopher's Stone were so easy to bypass because they're part of an elaborate trap that Dumböedore has set up for him. She's really just trying to play for time in the hope that someone will come to the rescue, and Voldemort sees through her ruse quite easily, but admits that it ''would'' be in Dumbledore's character to try some clever ruse. [[spoiler:Turns out that while Hermione got a gouple of the details wrong, she was otherwise right on the money -- see BatmanGambit below.]]
* AccidentalTruth: Hermione's desperate ramblings to Voldemort that all the obstacles surrounding the Philosopher's Stone were so easy to bypass because they're part of an elaborate trap that Dumböedore has set up for him. She's really just trying to play for time in the hope that someone will come to the rescue, and Voldemort sees through her ruse quite easily, but admits that it ''would'' be in Dumbledore's character to try some clever ruse. [[spoiler:Turns out that while Hermione got a gouple of the details wrong, she was otherwise right on the money -- see BatmanGambit below.]]
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* BatmanGambit: Dumbledore is revealed to have been playing one with the Philosopher's Stone. [[spoiler:He knew Voldemort was after the Stone, and with Voldemort's abilities to get in anywhere (as exemplified by his break-in at Gringotts), it wasn't a question of ''if'' he would find the Stone, but ''when.'' Hence, Dumbledore's entire plot was to lure Voldemort into the caverns under Hogwarts where Dumbledore himself could confront Voldemort in a place where there were no bystanders that could be hurt. Fluffy was there to make sure nobody ''except'' Voldemort tried to get to the Stone, and the obstacles were there to slow Voldemort down, giving Dumbledore ample time to catch up with him. Of course, the gambit failed because Harry and Hermione got involved and ended up kidnapped by Quirrell and Voldemort, which Dumbledore had not foreseen.]]
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* BatmanGambit: Dumbledore is revealed to have been playing one with the Philosopher's Stone. [[spoiler:He knew Voldemort was after the Stone, and with Voldemort's abilities to get in anywhere (as exemplified by his break-in at Gringotts), it wasn't a question of ''if'' he would find get to the Stone, but ''when.'' Hence, Dumbledore's entire plot was to lure Voldemort into the caverns under Hogwarts where Dumbledore himself could confront Voldemort in a place where there were no bystanders that could be get hurt. Fluffy was there to make sure nobody ''except'' Voldemort tried to get to the Stone, and the obstacles were there to slow Voldemort down, giving Dumbledore ample time to catch up with him. Of course, the gambit failed because Harry and Hermione got involved and ended up kidnapped by Quirrell and Voldemort, which Dumbledore had not foreseen.]]
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* AmicableExes: Very much averted with Aberforth Dumbledore and Lady Vidia. She can barely tolerate even hearing his name mentioned, and he's got nothing nice to say about her. Lady Vidia still gets along fine with Aberforth's brother Albus, though.
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* AmicableExes: Very much averted with Aberforth Dumbledore and Lady Vidia. She can barely tolerate even hearing his name mentioned, and he's got nothing nice to say about her. Lady Vidia still gets along fine with Aberforth's brother Albus, though.though, and Aberforth still clearly loves their daughter Jenny even if he doesn't get to see her very often.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: By human standards, at least. Aberforth's infamous liking for goats is a result of a curse Lady Vidia put upon him, and it's revealed that the reason she did it was that he didn't want an OpenRelationship.
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* DisproportionateRetribution: By human standards, at least. Aberforth's infamous liking for goats is a result of a curse Lady Vidia put upon him, and it's revealed that the reason she did it was that an OpenRelationshipFailure -- she wanted an open relationship and he didn't want an OpenRelationship.didn't.
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* AmicableExes: Very much averted with Aberforth Dumbledore and Lady Vidia. She can barely tolerate even hearing his name mentioned, and he's got nothing nice to say about her. Lady Vidia still gets along fine with Aberforth's brother Albus, though.
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* CrossoverRelatives: In the ''Erotic Adventures in Faerie'' continuity, Jenny's father was an unnamed Norwegian man that Lady Vidia met at UsefulNotes/{{Woodstock}}. In this fic, her father is Aberforth Dumbledore, making her Albus Dumbledore’s niece.
* DisproportionateRetribution: By human standards, at least. Aberforth's infamous liking for goats is a result of a curse Lady Vidia put upon him, and it's revealed that the reason she did it was that he didn't want an OpenRelationship.
* DisproportionateRetribution: By human standards, at least. Aberforth's infamous liking for goats is a result of a curse Lady Vidia put upon him, and it's revealed that the reason she did it was that he didn't want an OpenRelationship.
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Most notably, this AU heavily features TheFairFolk and the world of Faerie (or at least the authors version of them, most notably Lady Vidia and her daughter Jenny from her comic series ''[[Creator/DinaMNealey Erotic Adventures in Faerie]]''), whose relationship with the wizarding world is ambiguous at best. Sometimes they can be powerful allies, and sometimes they can be the worst of enemies.
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Most notably, this AU heavily features TheFairFolk and the world of Faerie (or at least the authors author's version of them, most notably Lady Vidia and her daughter Jenny from her comic series ''[[Creator/DinaMNealey Erotic Adventures in Faerie]]''), whose relationship with the wizarding world is ambiguous at best. Sometimes they can be powerful allies, and sometimes they can be the worst of enemies.
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** A sort of PutOnABus variant occurs with the Black family. It's specifically stated that Sirius, Narcissa and Andromeda are the only ones left of the family and that the rest of them (including Bellatrix, Regulus, Walburga and Orion) "vanished without a trace" because the Spring Court dissovered that they'd been mistreating their house-elves. In true Fae fashion, the entire family was punished whether they were involved in the mistreatment or not -- the only reason Sirius and Narcissa were spared was that they were at Hogwarts at the time and the Fae were forbidden from hostile actions towards Hogwarts... and Andromeda was spared because she'd been disowned for falling in love with a Muggle-born and was no longer part of the Black family. This means that Bellatrix and Regulus never became Death Eaters in this AU; Voldemort even mentions to Lady Vidia how the House of Black "would have made such ''excellent'' followers" if she and the Spring Court hadn't meddled.
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** A sort of PutOnABus variant occurs with the Black family. It's specifically stated that Sirius, Narcissa and Andromeda are the only ones left of the family and that the rest of them (including Bellatrix, Regulus, Walburga and Orion) "vanished without a trace" while Sirius was still at Hogwarts, because the Spring Court dissovered that they'd been mistreating their house-elves. house-elves. In true Fae fashion, the entire family was punished whether they were involved in the mistreatment or not -- the only reason Sirius and Narcissa were spared was that they were at Hogwarts at the time and the Fae were forbidden from hostile actions towards Hogwarts... and Andromeda was spared because she'd been disowned for falling in love with a Muggle-born and was no longer part of the Black family. This means that Bellatrix and Regulus never became Death Eaters in this AU; Voldemort even mentions to Lady Vidia how the House of Black "would have made such ''excellent'' followers" if she and the Spring Court hadn't meddled.
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* AdaptedOut: Not that it's especially noticable, since the characters in question never played any role in the books... but in this fic, Hermione, Lavender and Parvati are the only three Gryffindor girls in Harry's year, and the two extra girls who went unnamed in the books are nowhere to be seen.
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** Not that it's especially noticable, since the characters in question never played any role in the books... but in this fic, Hermione, Lavender and Parvati are the only three Gryffindor girls in Harry's year, and the two extra girls who went unnamed in the books are nowhere to beseen. seen.
** A sort of PutOnABus variant occurs with the Black family. It's specifically stated that Sirius, Narcissa and Andromeda are the only ones left of the family and that the rest of them (including Bellatrix, Regulus, Walburga and Orion) "vanished without a trace" because the Spring Court dissovered that they'd been mistreating their house-elves. In true Fae fashion, the entire family was punished whether they were involved in the mistreatment or not -- the only reason Sirius and Narcissa were spared was that they were at Hogwarts at the time and the Fae were forbidden from hostile actions towards Hogwarts... and Andromeda was spared because she'd been disowned for falling in love with a Muggle-born and was no longer part of the Black family. This means that Bellatrix and Regulus never became Death Eaters in this AU; Voldemort even mentions to Lady Vidia how the House of Black "would have made such ''excellent'' followers" if she and the Spring Court hadn't meddled.
** Not that it's especially noticable, since the characters in question never played any role in the books... but in this fic, Hermione, Lavender and Parvati are the only three Gryffindor girls in Harry's year, and the two extra girls who went unnamed in the books are nowhere to be
** A sort of PutOnABus variant occurs with the Black family. It's specifically stated that Sirius, Narcissa and Andromeda are the only ones left of the family and that the rest of them (including Bellatrix, Regulus, Walburga and Orion) "vanished without a trace" because the Spring Court dissovered that they'd been mistreating their house-elves. In true Fae fashion, the entire family was punished whether they were involved in the mistreatment or not -- the only reason Sirius and Narcissa were spared was that they were at Hogwarts at the time and the Fae were forbidden from hostile actions towards Hogwarts... and Andromeda was spared because she'd been disowned for falling in love with a Muggle-born and was no longer part of the Black family. This means that Bellatrix and Regulus never became Death Eaters in this AU; Voldemort even mentions to Lady Vidia how the House of Black "would have made such ''excellent'' followers" if she and the Spring Court hadn't meddled.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: There are a few half-Fae, such as Hagrid, Flitwick and Jenny -- that's not even counting those Fae who used to be human but were transformed into Fae, such as the flitlings. There doesn't seem to be a lot of HalfBreedDiscrimination, though -- the Fae don't seem to care if you're half-human or of human origin, and the wizards just dislike anything connected to the Fae.
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* FantasticRacism: In addition to their usual disdain for Muggles, and the pure-blood discrimination against Muggle-borns, wizard society as a whole do ''not'' like the Fae and treat them with suspicion and contempt. The feeling seems to be mutual. There ''are'', however exceptions; the Weasleys are on great terms with the Fae of the Summer Court and Dumbledore turns out to be a friend of Lady Vidia's of old.
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* FantasticRacism: In addition to their usual disdain for Muggles, and the pure-blood discrimination against Muggle-borns, wizard society as a whole do ''not'' like the Fae and treat them with suspicion and contempt. The feeling seems to be mutual. There ''are'', however exceptions; the Weasleys are on great terms with the Fae of the Summer Court and Dumbledore turns out to be a friend of Lady Vidia's of old. Likewise, those who have grown up in the Muggle world, like Harry, Hermione and Dean, haven't grown up with tales of evil and untrust worthy fae, and, in Hermione's words, don't share the "cultural bias against the Fair Folk that seems to be one of the staples of wizarding society."
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* GirlsHaveCooties: It's probably a mix of this trope and the UnfortunateImplications of the DudeShesLikeInAComa trope, but when Hermione is hit by a ForcedSleep spell, and the only way to wake her up before the spell ends in a few hours is to kiss her on the lips, eleven year old Harry and Ron have this reaction:
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* GirlsHaveCooties: It's probably a mix of this trope trope, preeteen awkwardness and the UnfortunateImplications of the DudeShesLikeInAComa trope, but when Hermione is hit by a ForcedSleep spell, and the only way to wake her up before the spell ends in a few hours is to kiss her on the lips, eleven year old Harry and Ron have this reaction:
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* DudeShesLikeInAComa: It's probably a mix of the unfortunate implications of this trope, and a childish GirlsHaveCooties attitude, but when Hermione is hit by a ForcedSleep spell, and the only way to wake her up before the spell ends in a few hours is to kiss her on the lips, eleven year old Harry and Ron have this reaction:
-->'''Harry:''' A few ''hours''? Isn't there a way to wake her up before that?\\
'''Ron:''' Yeah, but she's all right, isn't she? Probably needed a bit of sleep anyway, she's been stressing out for weeks...\\
'''Harry:''' What? Come on, we have to wake her up. She’ll be ''livid'' if she wakes up and finds out we didn't at least --\\
'''Ron:''' Look, it's Fae sleep, all right? Only way to wake her up before the spell's worn off is to... you know, to kiss her. On the mouth.\\
'''Harry:'''Oh. ''Oh!'' You know, you're right, she probably ''does'' need a bit of sleep!
-->'''Harry:''' A few ''hours''? Isn't there a way to wake her up before that?\\
'''Ron:''' Yeah, but she's all right, isn't she? Probably needed a bit of sleep anyway, she's been stressing out for weeks...\\
'''Harry:''' What? Come on, we have to wake her up. She’ll be ''livid'' if she wakes up and finds out we didn't at least --\\
'''Ron:''' Look, it's Fae sleep, all right? Only way to wake her up before the spell's worn off is to... you know, to kiss her. On the mouth.\\
'''Harry:'''Oh. ''Oh!'' You know, you're right, she probably ''does'' need a bit of sleep!
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* GirlsHaveCooties: It's probably a mix of this trope and the UnfortunateImplications of the DudeShesLikeInAComa trope, but when Hermione is hit by a ForcedSleep spell, and the only way to wake her up before the spell ends in a few hours is to kiss her on the lips, eleven year old Harry and Ron have this reaction:
-->'''Harry:''' A few ''hours''? Isn't there a way to wake her up before that?\\
'''Ron:''' Yeah, but she's all right, isn't she? Probably needed a bit of sleep anyway, she's been stressing out for weeks...\\
'''Harry:''' What? Come on, we have to wake her up. She’ll be ''livid'' if she wakes up and finds out we didn't at least --\\
'''Ron:''' Look, it's Fae sleep, all right? Only way to wake her up before the spell's worn off is to... you know, to kiss her. On the mouth.\\
'''Harry:''' Oh. ''Oh!'' You know, you're right, she probably ''does'' need a bit of sleep!
-->'''Harry:''' A few ''hours''? Isn't there a way to wake her up before that?\\
'''Ron:''' Yeah, but she's all right, isn't she? Probably needed a bit of sleep anyway, she's been stressing out for weeks...\\
'''Harry:''' What? Come on, we have to wake her up. She’ll be ''livid'' if she wakes up and finds out we didn't at least --\\
'''Ron:''' Look, it's Fae sleep, all right? Only way to wake her up before the spell's worn off is to... you know, to kiss her. On the mouth.\\
'''Harry:''' Oh. ''Oh!'' You know, you're right, she probably ''does'' need a bit of sleep!
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* ChekhovsGun: A number of instances only in the first year, where a humorous or seemingly insigificant detail returns later on to play a significant or semi-significant pat in the plot. Examples being Parvati's sleeping potions, the flitlings' decision to give Christmas presents to all of Harry's year-mates, and Harry seeing Lady Vidia in the Mirror of Erised instead of his parents.
* DudeShesLikeInAComa: It's probably a mix of the unfortunate implications of this trope, and a childish GirlsHaveCooties attitude, but when Hermione is hit by a ForcedSleep spell, and the only way to wake her up before the spell ends in a few hours is to kiss her on the lips, eleven year old Harry and Ron have this reaction:
'''Harry:''' A few ''hours''? Isn't there a way to wake her up before that?
'''Ron:''' Yeah, but she's all right, isn't she? Probably needed a bit of sleep anyway, she's been stressing out for weeks...\\
'''Harry:''' What? Come on, we have to wake her up. She’ll be ''livid'' if she wakes up and finds out we didn't at least --\\
'''Ron:''' Look, it's Fae sleep, all right? Only way to wake her up before the spell's worn off is to... you know, to kiss her. On the mouth.\\
'''Harry:'''Oh. ''Oh!'' You know, you're right, she probably ''does'' need a bit of sleep!
'''Harry:''' A few ''hours''? Isn't there a way to wake her up before that?
'''Ron:''' Yeah, but she's all right, isn't she? Probably needed a bit of sleep anyway, she's been stressing out for weeks...\\
'''Harry:''' What? Come on, we have to wake her up. She’ll be ''livid'' if she wakes up and finds out we didn't at least --\\
'''Ron:''' Look, it's Fae sleep, all right? Only way to wake her up before the spell's worn off is to... you know, to kiss her. On the mouth.\\
'''Harry:'''Oh. ''Oh!'' You know, you're right, she probably ''does'' need a bit of sleep!
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** At several points in the story, a Fae will hit someone with some form of sleep spell. Lady Vidia makes a mind-addled Piers Polkiss fall asleep [[spoiler:before transforming him into a girl]], Fang is made to sleep during the hatching of Baby Danni because he was getting too nervous, and in the same scene Cyan hits Hermione with a sleep spell because she looks like she's about to freak out. It's also hinted, but not confirmed that Harry and Hermione's sudden sleepiness when they are taken to Faerie isn't completely natural.
** Played with when it comes to Parvati, who at one point misses out on an adventure because she's taken a sleeping potion and is impossible to wake up... but she took the potion willingly because she suffers from insomnia.
** At several points in the story, a Fae will hit someone with some form of sleep spell. Lady Vidia makes a mind-addled Piers Polkiss fall asleep [[spoiler:before transforming him into a girl]], Fang is made to sleep during the hatching of Baby Danni because he was getting too nervous, and in the same scene Cyan hits Hermione with a sleep spell because she looks like she's about to freak out. It's also hinted, but not confirmed that Harry and Hermione's sudden sleepiness when they are taken to Faerie isn't completely natural.
** Played with when it comes to Parvati, who at one point misses out on an adventure because she's taken a sleeping potion and is impossible to wake up... but she took the potion willingly because she suffers from insomnia.
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: For much of Harry's first year, Hermione doesn't know about Lady Vidia, Jenny, the flitlings, Baby Danny, or Harry and Ron's involvement with the Fae. It turns out she's been keeping some secrets from them too, though...
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* LockedOutOfTheLoop: For much of Harry's first year, Hermione doesn't know about Lady Vidia, Jenny, the flitlings, Baby Danny, or Harry and Ron's involvement with the Fae. It gets increasingly awkward for Harry and Ron to not tell her, especially since they're all together in investigating the mystery of the Philosopher’s Stone, and so they plan on telling her everything, only for the plot to set things off in a different direction. But it turns out that she's been keeping some secrets from them too, though...too...
* PrecociousCrush: Harry probably has one on Lady Vidia, though he's a little icked out by the thought. Hermione ''definitely'' crushes hard on Lady Vidia from the moment she lay eyes on her, even if she insists she doesn't.
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* At one point in the story, when Seamus says the Fae are dangerous, Lady Vidia's speech has quite a bit in common with Gandalf’s speech to Gimli in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' when he wonders if Treebeard is dangerous. Her wording even hints that she's read the book and is deliberately taking inspiration from it.
-->“Dangerous? You’re right, I ''am'' dangerous. Very dangerous. More dangerous, I'd wager, than most people you will meet... but you won't meet many people who aren't dangerous in some fashion. Harry here is dangerous too. And so is Hermione. And my darling Lavender, she’s ''very'' dangerous. And young Ron Weasley. Every single person around you is dangerous in their own way. How did that quote go, again? ''‘You are surrounded by dangers, young wizard, for you are dangerous yourself.’'' Something like that, anyway.”
-->“Dangerous? You’re right, I ''am'' dangerous. Very dangerous. More dangerous, I'd wager, than most people you will meet... but you won't meet many people who aren't dangerous in some fashion. Harry here is dangerous too. And so is Hermione. And my darling Lavender, she’s ''very'' dangerous. And young Ron Weasley. Every single person around you is dangerous in their own way. How did that quote go, again? ''‘You are surrounded by dangers, young wizard, for you are dangerous yourself.’'' Something like that, anyway.”
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** In canon, Norbert/Norberta was a savage and untamable beast that had to be sent away for everyone's safety. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Baby Danny/Danni]] is much more intelligent and friendly, behaving more like a mischievous kitten.
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** In canon, Norbert/Norberta was a savage and untamable beast that had to be sent away for everyone's safety. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Baby Danny/Danni]] is much more intelligent and friendly, behaving more like a mischievous but affectionate kitten.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Yellow, Magenta and Cyan are the Dursleys transformes into cute little pixie-like women... but which flitling was which Dursley? The author herself has made it clear she doesn't know and has no plans revealing it either.
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* RiddleForTheAges: Yellow, Magenta and Cyan are the Dursleys transformes transformed into cute little pixie-like women... but which flitling was which Dursley? Lady Vidia chooses not to indulge the information, and the flitlings themselves have forgotten. The author herself has made it clear that even she doesn't know know, and has no plans revealing it either.
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** Fluffy's fierceness turns out to be an act; he's only there to scare snooping students away and wouldn't actually harm them. Dumbledore admits that he "may have exaggerated a little for dramatic effect" at the welcoming feast when saying that Fluffy's corridor was off-limits for anyone who didn't want to die a gruesome death.
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** Fluffy's fierceness turns out to be an act; he's only there to scare snooping students away and wouldn't actually actually harm them. Dumbledore admits that he "may have exaggerated a little for dramatic effect" at the welcoming feast when saying that Fluffy's corridor was off-limits for anyone who didn't want to die a gruesome death.
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* GenderBender: Lady Vidia's {{Forced Transformation}}s often, but not always, include this. So far, the [[FirstLawOfGenderBending First]], [[SecondLawOfGenderBending Second]] and [[FirstLawOfGenderBending Third Laws of Gender Bending]] are all sort of adhered to; there doesn't seem to be any way to reverse the transformation, and the transformed victims quickly adjust to their new lives and have drastically different personalities ([[spoiler:Lavender]] in particular is very feminine after the transformation]]... but this all seems to be a deliberate part of the transformation, as the transformations also include mental changes that prevent them from ''wanting'' to change back. In the cases where the victims can remember anything at all about their pre-transformed lives, they view those lives with disinterest or outright disdain.
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* GenderBender: Lady Vidia's {{Forced Transformation}}s often, but not always, include this. So far, the [[FirstLawOfGenderBending First]], [[SecondLawOfGenderBending Second]] and [[FirstLawOfGenderBending Third Laws of Gender Bending]] are all sort of adhered to; there doesn't seem to be any way to reverse the transformation, and the transformed victims quickly adjust to their new lives and have drastically different personalities ([[spoiler:Lavender]] in particular is very feminine after the transformation]]...transformation)... but this all seems to be a deliberate part of the transformation, as the transformations also include mental changes that prevent them from ''wanting'' to change back. In the cases where the victims can remember anything at all about their pre-transformed lives, they view those lives with disinterest or outright disdain.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In canon, Norbert/Norberta was a savage and untamable beast that had to be sent away for everyone's safety. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Baby Danny/Danni]] is much more intelligent and friendly, behaving more like a mischievous kitten.
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: AdaptationalNiceGuy:
** In canon, Norbert/Norberta was a savage and untamable beast that had to be sent away for everyone's safety. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Baby Danny/Danni]] is much more intelligent and friendly, behaving more like a mischievous kitten.
** Fluffy's fierceness turns out to be an act; he's only there to scare snooping students away and wouldn't actually harm them. Dumbledore admits that he "may have exaggerated a little for dramatic effect" at the welcoming feast when saying that Fluffy's corridor was off-limits for anyone who didn't want to die a gruesome death.
** In canon, Norbert/Norberta was a savage and untamable beast that had to be sent away for everyone's safety. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Baby Danny/Danni]] is much more intelligent and friendly, behaving more like a mischievous kitten.
** Fluffy's fierceness turns out to be an act; he's only there to scare snooping students away and wouldn't actually harm them. Dumbledore admits that he "may have exaggerated a little for dramatic effect" at the welcoming feast when saying that Fluffy's corridor was off-limits for anyone who didn't want to die a gruesome death.
* BatmanGambit: Dumbledore is revealed to have been playing one with the Philosopher's Stone. [[spoiler:He knew Voldemort was after the Stone, and with Voldemort's abilities to get in anywhere (as exemplified by his break-in at Gringotts), it wasn't a question of ''if'' he would find the Stone, but ''when.'' Hence, Dumbledore's entire plot was to lure Voldemort into the caverns under Hogwarts where Dumbledore himself could confront Voldemort in a place where there were no bystanders that could be hurt. Fluffy was there to make sure nobody ''except'' Voldemort tried to get to the Stone, and the obstacles were there to slow Voldemort down, giving Dumbledore ample time to catch up with him. Of course, the gambit failed because Harry and Hermione got involved and ended up kidnapped by Quirrell and Voldemort, which Dumbledore had not foreseen.]]
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* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: Lavender Brown is in fact Piers Polkiss, who had his mind addled by Magenta and was later transformed into a girl and made into a wizard by Lady Vidia. She doesn't remember anything of her previous life.]]
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* CompositeCharacter: BroadStrokes: The fic's attitude towards canon world. The wizarding world and Hogwarts are ''mostly'' like in canon, but a number of details are very different. Some of it has to do with the involvement of the Fae, some of it doesn't.
* CompositeCharacter:
** [[spoiler: Lavender Brown is in fact Piers Polkiss, who had his mind addled by Magenta and was later transformed into a girl and made into a wizard by Lady Vidia. She doesn't remember anything of her previous life.]]]]
** Jenny is essentially a stand-in for Aberforth's son Aurelius from the ''Fantastic Beasts'' movies (confirmed not to exist in this AlternateUniverse).
* CompositeCharacter:
** [[spoiler: Lavender Brown is in fact Piers Polkiss, who had his mind addled by Magenta and was later transformed into a girl and made into a wizard by Lady Vidia. She doesn't remember anything of her previous life.
** Jenny is essentially a stand-in for Aberforth's son Aurelius from the ''Fantastic Beasts'' movies (confirmed not to exist in this AlternateUniverse).
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* SecretKeeper: For much of the first year, Ron is the only one of Harry's classmates who knows about his connections to the Fae, and also the only one who knows about Magenta, Yellow and Cyan.
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* SecretKeeper: SecretKeeper:
** For much of the first year, Ron is the only one of Harry's classmates who knows about his connections to the Fae, his seven favours from Lady Vidia, and he's also the only one of them who knows about Magenta, Yellow andCyan.Cyan.
** As the year goes on, all of Harry's Gryffindor year-mates (Neville, Hermione, Lavender, Parvati, Dean and Seamus) also learn about Lady Vidia and Harry's connections to the Fae, though Seamus is very skeptical about the whole thing.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Snape is one of the few people who knows about Harry's involvement with the Fae, mostly since he's supposed to help Dumbledore protect Harry and as such needs to know. Of course, he never so much as hints to Harry that he knows his situation (and really, since he hates the Fae it only gives him more incentive to dislike Harry).
** For much of the first year, Ron is the only one of Harry's classmates who knows about his connections to the Fae, his seven favours from Lady Vidia, and he's also the only one of them who knows about Magenta, Yellow and
** As the year goes on, all of Harry's Gryffindor year-mates (Neville, Hermione, Lavender, Parvati, Dean and Seamus) also learn about Lady Vidia and Harry's connections to the Fae, though Seamus is very skeptical about the whole thing.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Snape is one of the few people who knows about Harry's involvement with the Fae, mostly since he's supposed to help Dumbledore protect Harry and as such needs to know. Of course, he never so much as hints to Harry that he knows his situation (and really, since he hates the Fae it only gives him more incentive to dislike Harry).
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* NarniaTime: Time between Faerie and the mortal realm gets, in Lady Vidia's words, "a little confused." The biggest indication of this so far is how Harry and Hermione end up in Faerie and are there for "at least a night and a day" while back at Hogwarts only a couple of hours have passed. Seamus mentions people who thought they were in Faerie for only a day, while decades have passed in the mortal realm.
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* At one point in the story, when Seamus says the Fae are dangerous, Lady Vidia's speech has quite a bit in common with Gandalf’s speech to Gimli in ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' when he wonders if Treebeard is dangerous. Her wording even hints that she's read the book and is deliberately taking inspiration from it.
-->“Dangerous? You’re right, I ''am'' dangerous. Very dangerous. More dangerous, I'd wager, than most people you will meet... but you won't meet many people who aren't dangerous in some fashion. Harry here is dangerous too. And so is Hermione. And my darling Lavender, she’s ''very'' dangerous. And young Ron Weasley. Every single person around you is dangerous in their own way. How did that quote go, again? ''‘You are surrounded by dangers, young wizard, for you are dangerous yourself.’'' Something like that, anyway.”
-->“Dangerous? You’re right, I ''am'' dangerous. Very dangerous. More dangerous, I'd wager, than most people you will meet... but you won't meet many people who aren't dangerous in some fashion. Harry here is dangerous too. And so is Hermione. And my darling Lavender, she’s ''very'' dangerous. And young Ron Weasley. Every single person around you is dangerous in their own way. How did that quote go, again? ''‘You are surrounded by dangers, young wizard, for you are dangerous yourself.’'' Something like that, anyway.”
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs Figg has traces of this. She's got a few ScrewPolitenesImASenior moments, but she's overall kind and helpful, taking Harry in when no other practical solution is available.
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* CoolOldLady: Mrs Figg has traces of this. She's got a few ScrewPolitenesImASenior ScrewPolitenessImASenior moments, but she's overall kind and helpful, taking Harry in when no other practical solution is available.
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** Downplayed a little, but several of Harry's fellow students make cameo appearances already in Harry's first year, when most of them weren't introduced until later in the series. Cormac McLaggen, Hannah Abbott, Ernie Macmillan, Terry Boot, Padma Patil, Michael Corner, Blaise Zabini, Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis and Millicent Bulstrode all have speaking roles, though most of them have minimal influence on the plot.
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** Downplayed a little, but several of Harry's fellow students make cameo appearances already in Harry's first year, when most of them weren't introduced until later in the series. Cormac McLaggen, [=McLaggen=], Hannah Abbott, Ernie Macmillan, Terry Boot, Padma Patil, Michael Corner, Blaise Zabini, Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis and Millicent Bulstrode all have speaking roles, though most of them have minimal influence on the plot.
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* MagicEater: Noble dragons feed off magic, especially Fae magic. While not shown to drain living beings of their magic like many other examples of the trope, they can eat {{ExtremeOmnivore pretty much anything}} as long as it's at least ''slightly'' magical -- even magical residue from spells placed on an object is enough, as Harry finds out when Baby Danni tries to eat Harry's glasses. Turns out there was still a trace of magic on the glasses after Hermione had used magic to repair them.
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* MagicEater: Noble dragons feed off magic, especially Fae magic. While not shown to drain living beings of their magic like many other examples of the trope, they can eat {{ExtremeOmnivore [[ExtremeOmnivore pretty much anything}} anything]] as long as it's at least ''slightly'' magical -- even magical residue from spells placed on an object is enough, as Harry finds out when Baby Danni tries to eat Harry's glasses. Turns out there was still a trace of magic on the glasses after Hermione had used magic to repair them.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Lady Vidia transforming the Dursleys into flitings who are super loyal to Harry at first seems like an ideal way of ridding Harry of his abusive guardians while at the same time keeping the blood protections intact. But it quickly turns out that without the Dursleys, Harry is effectively without any kind of legal guardian in both Muggle and wizarding world. Staying at Privet Drive is impossible without Dursleys to pay the bills, and Muggle authorities will start investicating why Vernon isn't coming into work and why Dudley isn't coming to school. Since the flitlings can't be separated from Harry he can't go into Muggle foster care without risk of braking the Statute of Secrecy, and while most wizard families would be happy to take in the Boy Who Lived, most of them would balk when discovering that they'd get three Fae as well. In the end, Harry ends up having to quietly move away to a "small, two-bedroom cottage in a Cornish village called Tinworth — a cottage he had to share with Mrs Figg, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, Hedwig, and ''way'' too many cats."
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* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In canon, Norbert/Norberta was a savage and untamable beast that had to be sent away for everyone's safety. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Baby Danny/Danni]] is much more intelligent and friendly, behaving more like a mischievous kitten.
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* AdaptationalEarlyAppearance:
** Downplayed a little, but several of Harry's fellow students make cameo appearances already in Harry's first year, when most of them weren't introduced until later in the series. Cormac McLaggen, Hannah Abbott, Ernie Macmillan, Terry Boot, Padma Patil, Michael Corner, Blaise Zabini, Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis and Millicent Bulstrode all have speaking roles, though most of them have minimal influence on the plot.
** A curious example with the village of Tinworth. In canon we first learn of it as the village Bill and Fleur live in after they got married. Here, thanks to the Dursleys being transformed into flitlings, Harry is taken in by Mrs Figg and moves to Tinworth before starting Hogwarts.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Minor case, but Hagrid's goals for hatching a dragon egg are much nobler here: in canon he mostly wanted a pet dragon even thought that turned out to be a really bad idea, but in this fic he's trying to save the unhatched dragon's life, as the dragon egg here comes from Faerie and is dying from lack of Fae magic. His only goal is to get a number of Fae friends to perform a life-saving ritual, hatch the egg and then get the baby dragon's strength up until it's strong enough to survive the trip to Faerie.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In canon, Norbert/Norberta was a savage and untamable beast that had to be sent away for everyone's safety. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Baby Danny/Danni]] is much more intelligent and friendly, behaving more like a mischievous kitten.
** Downplayed a little, but several of Harry's fellow students make cameo appearances already in Harry's first year, when most of them weren't introduced until later in the series. Cormac McLaggen, Hannah Abbott, Ernie Macmillan, Terry Boot, Padma Patil, Michael Corner, Blaise Zabini, Daphne Greengrass, Tracey Davis and Millicent Bulstrode all have speaking roles, though most of them have minimal influence on the plot.
** A curious example with the village of Tinworth. In canon we first learn of it as the village Bill and Fleur live in after they got married. Here, thanks to the Dursleys being transformed into flitlings, Harry is taken in by Mrs Figg and moves to Tinworth before starting Hogwarts.
* AdaptationalHeroism: Minor case, but Hagrid's goals for hatching a dragon egg are much nobler here: in canon he mostly wanted a pet dragon even thought that turned out to be a really bad idea, but in this fic he's trying to save the unhatched dragon's life, as the dragon egg here comes from Faerie and is dying from lack of Fae magic. His only goal is to get a number of Fae friends to perform a life-saving ritual, hatch the egg and then get the baby dragon's strength up until it's strong enough to survive the trip to Faerie.
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In canon, Norbert/Norberta was a savage and untamable beast that had to be sent away for everyone's safety. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Baby Danny/Danni]] is much more intelligent and friendly, behaving more like a mischievous kitten.
* BerserkButton:
** Unicorns are revered by the Fae, and killing a unicorn will set every Fae and Fae-touched in the vicinity on you. [[spoiler: Voldemort actually incorporates this in his plan to get the Philosopher's Stone; since Fluffy is a Fae dog in this story, he leaves his post to go hunt the unicorn killer, meaning that the trapdoor to the Stone is unguarded.]]
** Don't suggest finding a way to transform the flitlings back into the Dursleys they used to be. Yellow in partuicular finds it very insulting. Bothering Harry is also a good way of getting on their bad side.
** Unicorns are revered by the Fae, and killing a unicorn will set every Fae and Fae-touched in the vicinity on you. [[spoiler: Voldemort actually incorporates this in his plan to get the Philosopher's Stone; since Fluffy is a Fae dog in this story, he leaves his post to go hunt the unicorn killer, meaning that the trapdoor to the Stone is unguarded.]]
** Don't suggest finding a way to transform the flitlings back into the Dursleys they used to be. Yellow in partuicular finds it very insulting. Bothering Harry is also a good way of getting on their bad side.
* CoolOldLady: Mrs Figg has traces of this. She's got a few ScrewPolitenesImASenior moments, but she's overall kind and helpful, taking Harry in when no other practical solution is available.
* TheDividual: Yellow, Magenta and Cyan are the Twindividual version; they have very similar appearances and personalities; all of them are cheerful {{Genki Girl}}s prone to nonsense and {{Seinfeldian Conversation}}s. They do have some individual traits, though; Cyan is the sweet and ditzy one who bonds with Hedwig, while Yellow is more playful and independent with a slight contrarian streak. Magenta seems to be the most-level-headed of the three, but is also the most trigger-happy when it comes to dealing out curses.
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* GenderBender: Lady Vidia's {{Forced Transformation}}s often, but not always, include this.
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* InnocentFanserviceGirl: Not uncommon for the Fae. The flitlings, thanks to the Fae lack of modesty and the fact that they don't feel cold, always fly around in the nude. There's a hint of vanity to it (Magenta even asks why she would want to cover up "this beautiful body"), but for the most part they just don't ''get'' why people make such a big fuss.
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* MagicEater: Noble dragons feed off magic, especially Fae magic. While not shown to drain living beings of their magic like many other examples of the trope, they can eat {{ExtremeOmnivore pretty much anything}} as long as it's at least ''slightly'' magical -- even magical residue from spells placed on an object is enough, as Harry finds out when Baby Danni tries to eat Harry's glasses. Turns out there was still a trace of magic on the glasses after Hermione had used magic to repair them.
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* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Where the flitlings are {{Innocent Fanservice Girl}}s, Lady Vidia knows ''exactly'' how beautiful she is and has no problems exploiting it.
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'''Yellow:''' I always thought of us as ''nude'' more than ''naked.''\\
'''Cyan:''' What's the difference?\\
'''Yellow:''' Well, ''naked'' just means you don't have any clothes on. ''Nude'' means you don't have any clothes on and it's very artistic and tasteful. Now, if I had said ''nekkid,'' that would mean --\\
'''[[OnlySaneMan Harry]]:''' You're not helping!
'''Yellow:''' I always thought of us as ''nude'' more than ''naked.''\\
'''Cyan:''' What's the difference?\\
'''Yellow:''' Well, ''naked'' just means you don't have any clothes on. ''Nude'' means you don't have any clothes on and it's very artistic and tasteful. Now, if I had said ''nekkid,'' that would mean --\\
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** Dragons from Faerie are called "[[Literature/{{Discworld}} noble dragons]]" by the Autumn Court and "[[Literature/TheNeverendingStory luck dragons]]" by the Spring Court. Like the noble dragons from luck dragons from the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' books they're {{Magic Eater}}s and {{Extreme Omnivore}}s, and like the luck dragons from ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'' they are clearly inspired by Asian dragons with long, serpentlike bodies, lion-like manes and no wings.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Quirrell, whose life is ultimately saved by Lady Vidia. Well, she transforms him into a marble statue of a satyr, but makes it clear that he's not dead and more than hints that she will revive him at some point, to give him a chance at redemption.]]
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Lady Vidia transforming the Dursleys into flitings who are super loyal to Harry at first seems like an ideal way of ridding Harry of his abusive guardians while at the same time keeping the blood protections intact. But it quickly turns out that without the Dursleys, Harry is effectively without any kind of legal guardian in both Muggle and wizarding world. Staying at Privet Drive is impossible without Dursleys to pay the bills, and Muggle authorities will start investicating why Vernon isn't coming into work and why Dudley isn't coming to school. Since the flitlings can't be separated from Harry he can't go into Muggle foster care without risk of braking the Statute of Secrecy, and while most wizard families would be happy to take in the Boy Who Lived, most of them would balk when discovering that they'd get three Fae as well. In the end, Harry ends up having to quietly move away to a "small, two-bedroom cottage in a Cornish village called Tinworth — a cottage he had to share with Mrs Figg, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, Hedwig, and ''way'' too many cats."
* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Quirrell, whose life is ultimately saved by Lady Vidia. Well, she transforms him into a marble statue of a satyr, but makes it clear that he's not dead and more than hints that she will revive him at some point, to give him a chance at redemption.]]
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Lady Vidia transforming the Dursleys into flitings who are super loyal to Harry at first seems like an ideal way of ridding Harry of his abusive guardians while at the same time keeping the blood protections intact. But it quickly turns out that without the Dursleys, Harry is effectively without any kind of legal guardian in both Muggle and wizarding world. Staying at Privet Drive is impossible without Dursleys to pay the bills, and Muggle authorities will start investicating why Vernon isn't coming into work and why Dudley isn't coming to school. Since the flitlings can't be separated from Harry he can't go into Muggle foster care without risk of braking the Statute of Secrecy, and while most wizard families would be happy to take in the Boy Who Lived, most of them would balk when discovering that they'd get three Fae as well. In the end, Harry ends up having to quietly move away to a "small, two-bedroom cottage in a Cornish village called Tinworth — a cottage he had to share with Mrs Figg, Yellow, Magenta, Cyan, Hedwig, and ''way'' too many cats."
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* TheVoiceless: Crabbe and Goyle, like in canon, barely get any spoken dialogue. ''Unlike'' in canon, the other students notice and comment upon the fact that the two never speak, though Pansy ''swears'' she heard Crabbe say "pass the potatoes" once at the dinner table. Contrasted with Theodore Nott, who is mentioned to be TheQuietOne.
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* BanishingRitual: [[spoiler:At the end of first year, Lady Vidia banishes Voldemort to Mars.]]
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->''When Hagrid learned that the baby he had just rescued from the ruins of Godric’s Hollow was "marked for death," he made a bargain with his aunt, Lady Vidia of the Spring Court of Faerie: Seven times, whenever young Harry Potter needed it most, Lady Vidia would come to his aid and give him whatever he needed.''
->''But favours from the Fae always come with unexpected consequences...''
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42903480 Seven Favours for Harry Potter]]'' by Creator/DinaMNealey is a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' AlternateUniverseFic which, according to the author "at first glance looks like it could take place in the canon world, but if you read a bit you'll see that it doesn't." Hogwarts and the people within it are mostly the same, as is the Voldemort situation... but there are clear differences in certain character histories, relationships, magical terms and the way certain magics work.
Most notably, this AU heavily features TheFairFolk and the world of Faerie (or at least the authors version of them, most notably Lady Vidia and her daughter Jenny from her comic series ''[[Creator/DinaMNealey Erotic Adventures in Faerie]]''), whose relationship with the wizarding world is ambiguous at best. Sometimes they can be powerful allies, and sometimes they can be the worst of enemies.
!!This work proides examples of:
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Downplayed example, but in this universe the Weasleys are looked down upon not only for beeing poor, working-class and "blood-traitors," but for being allies to the Summer court and "filthy Fae lovers." Fred and George briefly bring it up, explaining how their actions are all about trying to escape from this stigma.
-->'''George:''' Yeah, wizards get tetchy about the Fae, and if they know you have a connection to the Fae... Why do you think Fred and I always play the class clowns? Or Percy's so obsessed with being Prefect? Everyone knows the Weasleys are 'filthy Fae lovers.' We’re just trying to show them that there's more to us than that.\\
'''Fred:''' It worked too! When people talk about ''us'' at Hogwarts, they hardly ever mention Fae at all!
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In canon, Norbert/Norberta was a savage and untamable beast that had to be sent away for everyone's safety. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Baby Danny/Danni]] is much more intelligent and friendly, behaving more like a mischievous kitten.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange:
** Sort of with Hagrid and Flitwick; they're still respectively a half-giant and a half-goblin, but in this universe giants and goblins are both Fae, and as such both Hagrid and Flitwick are classified as "half Fae." Hagrid is confirmed to belong to the Autumn court.
** The dragon who gets hatched out in Hagrid's hut is a Fae dragon, also called a "luck dragon" or "noble dragon." Not being a Norwegian Ridgeback, the names "Norbert" and "Norberta" never comes into play; instead Ron suggests the name "Daniel," which sticks. Harry keeps thinking of the dragon as "Baby Danny" -- changing it to "Baby Danni" when it's revealed the dragon is female and renamed "Danielle."
* AdaptationalSexuality: Hermione is straight in canon, but here she develops a big schoolgirl crush on Lady Vidia.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Thanks to certain changes in their history, Hermione is closer to Lavender and Parvati than she was in canon. They even occasionally have "girl days" together. [[spoiler: Turns out the "girl days" are mostly about trying to find out the amnesiac Lavender's background and trying to find out who her parents are.]]
* AdaptedOut: Not that it's especially noticable, since the characters in question never played any role in the books... but in this fic, Hermione, Lavender and Parvati are the only three Gryffindor girls in Harry's year, and the two extra girls who went unnamed in the books are nowhere to be seen.
* AlternateUniverseFic:
** Of the Familiar Contextual Reassignment type. The fic takes place in a world that looks a lot like the canon HP one, but even discarding the presence of the Fae, there are a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle differences. One of the earliest hints of this comes in chapter two, where Hagrid tells Harry that the word "witch" is considered old-fashioned and "wizard" is a gender-neutral term.
** In addition, the author has made it clear that the Lady Vidia and Jenny who appear in this story are alternate versions of the ones who appear in ''Erotic Adventures in Faerie'', with slightly different background stories.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The Fae can have very colourful skin, but it's not 100% clear if this is their natural skin colours or just a glamour. Lady Vidia has green skin, and Yellow, Magenta and Cyan are named for their skin colours.
* AscendedExtra:
** Lavender has a much larger role in this fic than in canon. [[spoiler:(As does Piers Polkiss, since Lavender turns out to be a transformed and amnesiac Piers.)]]
** Arguably the Dursleys, even though past the second chapter they're no longer the Dursleys Harry knew and loathed.
** Mrs Figg has a somewhat larger role this time around, being the one to take Harry in after the Dursleys are transformed into flitlings.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A staple in stories about dealing with the Fae, though it's less prominent here than you might think. However, some ill-chosen words on Aunt Petunia's part allows Lady Vidia to work in some LoopholeAbuse and "take care" of the Dursleys.
-->"The problem," said Lady Vidia, "was that I wasn't supposed to get involved unless the situation was in some way dire, and I did rather tie my hands by promising not to act against any friend or ally to the boy... and that blood protection Albus placed on your house placed you firmly in the 'ally' category. ''Reluctant'' allies, maybe, but you weren't beating or starving him... and living with you was literally keeping him safe from those who meant him harm..."\\
Lady Vidia reached out and teasingly bopped Petunia's nose with a slender green finger. "But then ''you,'' my silly little goose, made it very clear that you ''weren't'' his allies. How was it again? 'Take him and turn him into a freak like my perfect sister, but don't expect us to lift a finger to help him.' Those are pretty clear words, I would say. And since you aren't allies... you're fair game."
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: The trope is played with when Draco Malfoy tries to bully Neville into finding out what ties Harry has to the Fae:
-->'''Neville:''' You... you want me to spy on Harry and Ron and Hermione?\\
'''Draco:''' Oh, "spy" is such a nasty word. So yes, that's exactly what I want you to do. Well done, Longbottom.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Downplayed, but still present, with the Fae. Lady Vidia has a very different sence of right and wrong than the wizards do, and sometimes the ideas clash.
* BoundAndGagged: Harry and Hermione, when kidnapped by Quirrell and Voldemort, are tied up and cagged with magic, then levitated away under Harry's Invisibility Cloak.
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: Lavender Brown is in fact Piers Polkiss, who had his mind addled by Magenta and was later transformed into a girl and made into a wizard by Lady Vidia. She doesn't remember anything of her previous life.]]
* CreepyGood: Lady Vidia is on Harry's side, she's polite and amiable and for a Fae she's overall ''very'' kind and understanding... but she has a lot of unnerving sides to her; she sometimes has a distinct predatory edge to her and can do some ''really'' questionable things.
* FaerieCourt: The various Faerie courts are frequently mentioned. The major ones are Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter (with Spring and Summer often classified as "Seelie" while Autumn and Winter are classified as "Unseelie"), but there are several minor Courts as well.
* TheFairFolk: They're all over this fic. Most wizards treat them with suspicion and would rather stay away from them, while others have a more positive relationship with at least ''some'' of the Fae.
* FantasticRacism: In addition to their usual disdain for Muggles, and the pure-blood discrimination against Muggle-borns, wizard society as a whole do ''not'' like the Fae and treat them with suspicion and contempt. The feeling seems to be mutual. There ''are'', however exceptions; the Weasleys are on great terms with the Fae of the Summer Court and Dumbledore turns out to be a friend of Lady Vidia's of old.
* ForcedTransformation: One of Lady Vidia's favourite methods of dealing with "loose ends" or people she'd rather not deal with anymore. The most prominent example is the Dursleys, who are transformed into flitlings in chapter two and remain in this form for the rest of the fic... though they're not the only ones. The transformations are both physical and mental, so the transformed people are usually completely different character than they used to be, and for the most part they barely remember their previous lives and are completely uninterested in learning about those previous lives, much less changing back. Neville finds this creepy.
* GenderBender: Lady Vidia's {{Forced Transformation}}s often, but not always, include this.
* GenkiGirl: Magenta, Yellow and Cyan are all ''very'' cheerful and energic.
* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Lady Vidia is on an entirely different power scale than the wizards, and could probably have taken care of a ''lot'' of Harry's problems with ease (and likely created a whole lot more for him in the process), but thanks to her bargain with Hagrid she's limited in what she can actually do. She owes Harry seven free favours, but she can't intervene unless it's a dire situation, and she can't harm anyone who is a friend of ally to Harry. While she indulges in a fair bit of LoopholeAbuse, she can't outright break these conditions.
* HonoraryAunt: Lady Vidia to Hagrid. She's really just a friend of his mother, but he calls her his aunt. He and Jenny treat each other as cousins.
* InsistentTerminology: The flitlings would like everyone to know that they are ''not'' pixies.
-->"''Pixies'' are those ''other'' small winged people from Faerie. Not like us at all!"
* InvisibleToNormals: The Fae can only be seen by Muggles if they choose to be seen. Wizards and people with Second Sight (including Mrs Figg, who is a Squib) can see them all the time.
* LineOfSightName: A variant. Harry is asked to name the three transformed Dursleys, but he can't think think of any good names... and they don't help the matter by suggesting he name them "Harry-Harry," "Harry-Harry-Harry" and "Harry-Harry-Harry-Harry." In the end, just to get an end to their ramblings, he suggests naming them "Pink," "Yellow" and "Blue" after their skin tones.
-->"Oh, why don’t I just call you Pink, Yellow and Blue!" said Harry exasperatedly.\\
Once more, the flitlings looked at him in confusion. "Why?" they chorused.\\
Harry tried not to grimace. Whatever else the transformation had done to the Dursleys, it hadn’t made them any smarter. Even Dudley wouldn't have been this clueless. "Because," he said slowly, "you’re pink, yellow and blue. The colour of your skin?"\\
They all looked down themselves, studying their bodies with interest.\\
"That's silly," the pink one finally said. "I'm not pink. If anything I'm more of a magenta."\\
"And I'm cyan," said the blue one. "Definitely cyan. It looks kind of like blue, but it isn't really."\\
"And I'm yellow!" said the yellow one.\\
"Er," said Harry. "That’s what I said. Yellow."\\
"No, you said yellow. I'm a different shade of yellow than the yellow you said."\\
Harry opened his mouth to argue, and then thought better of it. "So... Yellow, Magenta and Cyan, then. Do you like that?"\\
They looked at each other, and then nodded.\\
"It'll do," said Magenta.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: For much of Harry's first year, Hermione doesn't know about Lady Vidia, Jenny, the flitlings, Baby Danny, or Harry and Ron's involvement with the Fae. It turns out she's been keeping some secrets from them too, though...
* NoLoveForTheWicked: Voldemort is more or less confirmed to be asexual, meaning he's immune to Lady Vidia's glamour-enhanced seductive viles. [[DistractedByTheSexy Quirrell on the other hand]]...
* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: On a much smaller scale than what's normal for this trope, but for a few chapters Neville wears a bracelet that gives him NighInvulnerability. He decides to give it back to Jenny because he'd rather deal with the risk of getting hurt, than with the risk of growing too used to being invulnerable, growing reckless and perhaps causing ''other'' people to get hurt instead.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Jenny looks to be in her early twenties, but is in fact the same age as Hagrid (i.e. in her sixties). The trope counts for Hagrid as well, who doesn't look like a man in his sixties. Of course they're both half-Fae and effectively immortal.
* OnlySaneMan: Harry takes on this role when dealing with the flitlings, much to his frustration.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: To quote the author's notes:
-->The Fae in this story are based on, but not completely identical to, the many stories of the Fair Folk you find in folk tales across the world. Folk tales come in many versions, several of which contradict each other, and rather than tie myself to one version I have shamelessly mixed and matched, and added quite a bit of my own stuff.
* OurPixiesAreDifferent: The flitlings, though they ''insist'' that they aren't pixies, definitely look and act a lot more like the classic depiction of pixies than the pixies from the canon books.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: The flitlings are tiny, but strong enough to lift and carry objects many times their weight.
* RiddleForTheAges: Yellow, Magenta and Cyan are the Dursleys transformes into cute little pixie-like women... but which flitling was which Dursley? The author herself has made it clear she doesn't know and has no plans revealing it either.
* SecretKeeper: For much of the first year, Ron is the only one of Harry's classmates who knows about his connections to the Fae, and also the only one who knows about Magenta, Yellow and Cyan.
* SeinfeldianConversation:
** Yellow, Magenta and Cyan have a knack for these. They can chatter on and get into argument about nothing at all.
** Ron and Harry sometimes have them. Usually they're instigated by Ron making some sarcastic remark or off-the-wall comment and Harry going along with it.
* ShoutOut:
** In one chapter, Ron tells Hermione and Harry about one of his cousins who got so nervous about his written exams that he had a total breakdown and wrote "I'm a daffodil" on every answer sheet. The author has admitted that this is a reference to ''Series/RedDwarf''.
** Later on, in the same chapter, Ron suggests the name "Daniel" for Hagrid's newly hatched dragon for a very similar reason to Nobby Nobbs naming a swamp dragon "Errol" in ''Literature/GuardsGuards'': he thinks the dragon looks like said cousin.
* TimeSkip: Frequent. If an event happens approximately the same way as in canon, the fic simply skips it. Harry's first trip to Diagon Alley, his first meetings with Ron, Hermione, Neville and Malfoy, the first Potions class, the first encounter with Fluffy, and pretty much everything Quidditch-related, all happens off-screen during time skips.
* TitleIn: Every chapter title is simply an information of which month and year the chapter takes place in. In addition, every scene in the fic begins with a time-amd-place card that informs the reader of the place, date and time of day.
-->'''''Sunday, 5th January 1992'''''\\
'''''Gryffindor common room, early evening.'''''
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Not really called much attention to, but [[spoiler:Lavender spends much of her first year at Hogwarts, with the help of Lavender and Parvati, trying to find out who she really is and who her parents are. When she finally learns that she used to be Piers Polkiss and who her parents were, she immediately loses interest, explaining with roundabout words that the mystery was a lot more interesting when she didn't know the answer.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: Like in many of the folklore stories, most Fae are weakened and their magic fails by exposure to iron, meaning they avoid iron whenever they can. Half-Fae like Hagrid and Jenny can be around iron with no ill effects, though.
->''But favours from the Fae always come with unexpected consequences...''
''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/42903480 Seven Favours for Harry Potter]]'' by Creator/DinaMNealey is a ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' AlternateUniverseFic which, according to the author "at first glance looks like it could take place in the canon world, but if you read a bit you'll see that it doesn't." Hogwarts and the people within it are mostly the same, as is the Voldemort situation... but there are clear differences in certain character histories, relationships, magical terms and the way certain magics work.
Most notably, this AU heavily features TheFairFolk and the world of Faerie (or at least the authors version of them, most notably Lady Vidia and her daughter Jenny from her comic series ''[[Creator/DinaMNealey Erotic Adventures in Faerie]]''), whose relationship with the wizarding world is ambiguous at best. Sometimes they can be powerful allies, and sometimes they can be the worst of enemies.
!!This work proides examples of:
* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: Downplayed example, but in this universe the Weasleys are looked down upon not only for beeing poor, working-class and "blood-traitors," but for being allies to the Summer court and "filthy Fae lovers." Fred and George briefly bring it up, explaining how their actions are all about trying to escape from this stigma.
-->'''George:''' Yeah, wizards get tetchy about the Fae, and if they know you have a connection to the Fae... Why do you think Fred and I always play the class clowns? Or Percy's so obsessed with being Prefect? Everyone knows the Weasleys are 'filthy Fae lovers.' We’re just trying to show them that there's more to us than that.\\
'''Fred:''' It worked too! When people talk about ''us'' at Hogwarts, they hardly ever mention Fae at all!
* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In canon, Norbert/Norberta was a savage and untamable beast that had to be sent away for everyone's safety. Here, [[AdaptationNameChange Baby Danny/Danni]] is much more intelligent and friendly, behaving more like a mischievous kitten.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange:
** Sort of with Hagrid and Flitwick; they're still respectively a half-giant and a half-goblin, but in this universe giants and goblins are both Fae, and as such both Hagrid and Flitwick are classified as "half Fae." Hagrid is confirmed to belong to the Autumn court.
** The dragon who gets hatched out in Hagrid's hut is a Fae dragon, also called a "luck dragon" or "noble dragon." Not being a Norwegian Ridgeback, the names "Norbert" and "Norberta" never comes into play; instead Ron suggests the name "Daniel," which sticks. Harry keeps thinking of the dragon as "Baby Danny" -- changing it to "Baby Danni" when it's revealed the dragon is female and renamed "Danielle."
* AdaptationalSexuality: Hermione is straight in canon, but here she develops a big schoolgirl crush on Lady Vidia.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Thanks to certain changes in their history, Hermione is closer to Lavender and Parvati than she was in canon. They even occasionally have "girl days" together. [[spoiler: Turns out the "girl days" are mostly about trying to find out the amnesiac Lavender's background and trying to find out who her parents are.]]
* AdaptedOut: Not that it's especially noticable, since the characters in question never played any role in the books... but in this fic, Hermione, Lavender and Parvati are the only three Gryffindor girls in Harry's year, and the two extra girls who went unnamed in the books are nowhere to be seen.
* AlternateUniverseFic:
** Of the Familiar Contextual Reassignment type. The fic takes place in a world that looks a lot like the canon HP one, but even discarding the presence of the Fae, there are a lot of subtle and not-so-subtle differences. One of the earliest hints of this comes in chapter two, where Hagrid tells Harry that the word "witch" is considered old-fashioned and "wizard" is a gender-neutral term.
** In addition, the author has made it clear that the Lady Vidia and Jenny who appear in this story are alternate versions of the ones who appear in ''Erotic Adventures in Faerie'', with slightly different background stories.
* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: The Fae can have very colourful skin, but it's not 100% clear if this is their natural skin colours or just a glamour. Lady Vidia has green skin, and Yellow, Magenta and Cyan are named for their skin colours.
* AscendedExtra:
** Lavender has a much larger role in this fic than in canon. [[spoiler:(As does Piers Polkiss, since Lavender turns out to be a transformed and amnesiac Piers.)]]
** Arguably the Dursleys, even though past the second chapter they're no longer the Dursleys Harry knew and loathed.
** Mrs Figg has a somewhat larger role this time around, being the one to take Harry in after the Dursleys are transformed into flitlings.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: A staple in stories about dealing with the Fae, though it's less prominent here than you might think. However, some ill-chosen words on Aunt Petunia's part allows Lady Vidia to work in some LoopholeAbuse and "take care" of the Dursleys.
-->"The problem," said Lady Vidia, "was that I wasn't supposed to get involved unless the situation was in some way dire, and I did rather tie my hands by promising not to act against any friend or ally to the boy... and that blood protection Albus placed on your house placed you firmly in the 'ally' category. ''Reluctant'' allies, maybe, but you weren't beating or starving him... and living with you was literally keeping him safe from those who meant him harm..."\\
Lady Vidia reached out and teasingly bopped Petunia's nose with a slender green finger. "But then ''you,'' my silly little goose, made it very clear that you ''weren't'' his allies. How was it again? 'Take him and turn him into a freak like my perfect sister, but don't expect us to lift a finger to help him.' Those are pretty clear words, I would say. And since you aren't allies... you're fair game."
* BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord: The trope is played with when Draco Malfoy tries to bully Neville into finding out what ties Harry has to the Fae:
-->'''Neville:''' You... you want me to spy on Harry and Ron and Hermione?\\
'''Draco:''' Oh, "spy" is such a nasty word. So yes, that's exactly what I want you to do. Well done, Longbottom.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: Downplayed, but still present, with the Fae. Lady Vidia has a very different sence of right and wrong than the wizards do, and sometimes the ideas clash.
* BoundAndGagged: Harry and Hermione, when kidnapped by Quirrell and Voldemort, are tied up and cagged with magic, then levitated away under Harry's Invisibility Cloak.
* CompositeCharacter: [[spoiler: Lavender Brown is in fact Piers Polkiss, who had his mind addled by Magenta and was later transformed into a girl and made into a wizard by Lady Vidia. She doesn't remember anything of her previous life.]]
* CreepyGood: Lady Vidia is on Harry's side, she's polite and amiable and for a Fae she's overall ''very'' kind and understanding... but she has a lot of unnerving sides to her; she sometimes has a distinct predatory edge to her and can do some ''really'' questionable things.
* FaerieCourt: The various Faerie courts are frequently mentioned. The major ones are Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter (with Spring and Summer often classified as "Seelie" while Autumn and Winter are classified as "Unseelie"), but there are several minor Courts as well.
* TheFairFolk: They're all over this fic. Most wizards treat them with suspicion and would rather stay away from them, while others have a more positive relationship with at least ''some'' of the Fae.
* FantasticRacism: In addition to their usual disdain for Muggles, and the pure-blood discrimination against Muggle-borns, wizard society as a whole do ''not'' like the Fae and treat them with suspicion and contempt. The feeling seems to be mutual. There ''are'', however exceptions; the Weasleys are on great terms with the Fae of the Summer Court and Dumbledore turns out to be a friend of Lady Vidia's of old.
* ForcedTransformation: One of Lady Vidia's favourite methods of dealing with "loose ends" or people she'd rather not deal with anymore. The most prominent example is the Dursleys, who are transformed into flitlings in chapter two and remain in this form for the rest of the fic... though they're not the only ones. The transformations are both physical and mental, so the transformed people are usually completely different character than they used to be, and for the most part they barely remember their previous lives and are completely uninterested in learning about those previous lives, much less changing back. Neville finds this creepy.
* GenderBender: Lady Vidia's {{Forced Transformation}}s often, but not always, include this.
* GenkiGirl: Magenta, Yellow and Cyan are all ''very'' cheerful and energic.
* HoldingBackThePhlebotinum: Lady Vidia is on an entirely different power scale than the wizards, and could probably have taken care of a ''lot'' of Harry's problems with ease (and likely created a whole lot more for him in the process), but thanks to her bargain with Hagrid she's limited in what she can actually do. She owes Harry seven free favours, but she can't intervene unless it's a dire situation, and she can't harm anyone who is a friend of ally to Harry. While she indulges in a fair bit of LoopholeAbuse, she can't outright break these conditions.
* HonoraryAunt: Lady Vidia to Hagrid. She's really just a friend of his mother, but he calls her his aunt. He and Jenny treat each other as cousins.
* InsistentTerminology: The flitlings would like everyone to know that they are ''not'' pixies.
-->"''Pixies'' are those ''other'' small winged people from Faerie. Not like us at all!"
* InvisibleToNormals: The Fae can only be seen by Muggles if they choose to be seen. Wizards and people with Second Sight (including Mrs Figg, who is a Squib) can see them all the time.
* LineOfSightName: A variant. Harry is asked to name the three transformed Dursleys, but he can't think think of any good names... and they don't help the matter by suggesting he name them "Harry-Harry," "Harry-Harry-Harry" and "Harry-Harry-Harry-Harry." In the end, just to get an end to their ramblings, he suggests naming them "Pink," "Yellow" and "Blue" after their skin tones.
-->"Oh, why don’t I just call you Pink, Yellow and Blue!" said Harry exasperatedly.\\
Once more, the flitlings looked at him in confusion. "Why?" they chorused.\\
Harry tried not to grimace. Whatever else the transformation had done to the Dursleys, it hadn’t made them any smarter. Even Dudley wouldn't have been this clueless. "Because," he said slowly, "you’re pink, yellow and blue. The colour of your skin?"\\
They all looked down themselves, studying their bodies with interest.\\
"That's silly," the pink one finally said. "I'm not pink. If anything I'm more of a magenta."\\
"And I'm cyan," said the blue one. "Definitely cyan. It looks kind of like blue, but it isn't really."\\
"And I'm yellow!" said the yellow one.\\
"Er," said Harry. "That’s what I said. Yellow."\\
"No, you said yellow. I'm a different shade of yellow than the yellow you said."\\
Harry opened his mouth to argue, and then thought better of it. "So... Yellow, Magenta and Cyan, then. Do you like that?"\\
They looked at each other, and then nodded.\\
"It'll do," said Magenta.
* LockedOutOfTheLoop: For much of Harry's first year, Hermione doesn't know about Lady Vidia, Jenny, the flitlings, Baby Danny, or Harry and Ron's involvement with the Fae. It turns out she's been keeping some secrets from them too, though...
* NoLoveForTheWicked: Voldemort is more or less confirmed to be asexual, meaning he's immune to Lady Vidia's glamour-enhanced seductive viles. [[DistractedByTheSexy Quirrell on the other hand]]...
* NoManShouldHaveThisPower: On a much smaller scale than what's normal for this trope, but for a few chapters Neville wears a bracelet that gives him NighInvulnerability. He decides to give it back to Jenny because he'd rather deal with the risk of getting hurt, than with the risk of growing too used to being invulnerable, growing reckless and perhaps causing ''other'' people to get hurt instead.
* OlderThanTheyLook: Jenny looks to be in her early twenties, but is in fact the same age as Hagrid (i.e. in her sixties). The trope counts for Hagrid as well, who doesn't look like a man in his sixties. Of course they're both half-Fae and effectively immortal.
* OnlySaneMan: Harry takes on this role when dealing with the flitlings, much to his frustration.
* OurFairiesAreDifferent: To quote the author's notes:
-->The Fae in this story are based on, but not completely identical to, the many stories of the Fair Folk you find in folk tales across the world. Folk tales come in many versions, several of which contradict each other, and rather than tie myself to one version I have shamelessly mixed and matched, and added quite a bit of my own stuff.
* OurPixiesAreDifferent: The flitlings, though they ''insist'' that they aren't pixies, definitely look and act a lot more like the classic depiction of pixies than the pixies from the canon books.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: The flitlings are tiny, but strong enough to lift and carry objects many times their weight.
* RiddleForTheAges: Yellow, Magenta and Cyan are the Dursleys transformes into cute little pixie-like women... but which flitling was which Dursley? The author herself has made it clear she doesn't know and has no plans revealing it either.
* SecretKeeper: For much of the first year, Ron is the only one of Harry's classmates who knows about his connections to the Fae, and also the only one who knows about Magenta, Yellow and Cyan.
* SeinfeldianConversation:
** Yellow, Magenta and Cyan have a knack for these. They can chatter on and get into argument about nothing at all.
** Ron and Harry sometimes have them. Usually they're instigated by Ron making some sarcastic remark or off-the-wall comment and Harry going along with it.
* ShoutOut:
** In one chapter, Ron tells Hermione and Harry about one of his cousins who got so nervous about his written exams that he had a total breakdown and wrote "I'm a daffodil" on every answer sheet. The author has admitted that this is a reference to ''Series/RedDwarf''.
** Later on, in the same chapter, Ron suggests the name "Daniel" for Hagrid's newly hatched dragon for a very similar reason to Nobby Nobbs naming a swamp dragon "Errol" in ''Literature/GuardsGuards'': he thinks the dragon looks like said cousin.
* TimeSkip: Frequent. If an event happens approximately the same way as in canon, the fic simply skips it. Harry's first trip to Diagon Alley, his first meetings with Ron, Hermione, Neville and Malfoy, the first Potions class, the first encounter with Fluffy, and pretty much everything Quidditch-related, all happens off-screen during time skips.
* TitleIn: Every chapter title is simply an information of which month and year the chapter takes place in. In addition, every scene in the fic begins with a time-amd-place card that informs the reader of the place, date and time of day.
-->'''''Sunday, 5th January 1992'''''\\
'''''Gryffindor common room, early evening.'''''
* WantingIsBetterThanHaving: Not really called much attention to, but [[spoiler:Lavender spends much of her first year at Hogwarts, with the help of Lavender and Parvati, trying to find out who she really is and who her parents are. When she finally learns that she used to be Piers Polkiss and who her parents were, she immediately loses interest, explaining with roundabout words that the mystery was a lot more interesting when she didn't know the answer.]]
* WeaksauceWeakness: Like in many of the folklore stories, most Fae are weakened and their magic fails by exposure to iron, meaning they avoid iron whenever they can. Half-Fae like Hagrid and Jenny can be around iron with no ill effects, though.
