History Fanfic / TheAccidentalAnimagus

** The Grangers visit Beauxbatons in the summer after first year, as the parents look for potential and safter alternatives to Hogwarts. There's also Durmstrang, [[spoiler:which is taken over by Death Eaters during Hogwarts' sixth year.]]

* AWizardDidIt: When Hermione, during a visit to a pensieve memory, asks how they can see what's behind the source of the memory, Dumbledore says it's magic. [[SubvertedTrope After she glares viciously he explains]] that the pensieve can tap into anything the person saw at any point in the memory and reconstruct from that.

* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Animagus forms, of course, though Harry's is the result of [[PowerIncontinence accidental magic]]. His form is a cat, while Hermione is an otter; Grayson is a Tasmanian tiger (which are not extinct but hidden in the wizarding world) and Meztli Ocelotl's is a jaguar.

* SchmuckBait: The forbidden third floor corridors. Before Christmas most students know there's a three headed dog at Hogwarts because all the upper years decided to investigate it.

* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Averted. While things initially line up quite well, and some events such as the Triwizard Tournament are present in an altered form, the third year is replaced because Sirius has been exonerated. And by the fifth year, everything is completely off the rails.
** Also, because Voldemort doesn't die at the end of first year, [[spoiler:it makes Dumbledore, Remus and Sirius start the Horcrux hunt.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Fenrir Greyback gives an epic one to the Wizengamot, accusing wizards of being TheHypocrite, [[NotSoDifferentRemark no different from everyone else]], and that HumansAreTheRealMonsters.

--->'''Quirrell:''' Yes, ''guns''. Muggles have quite the fondness for ''guns''. Mind you, when it comes to weapons of war, this only scratches the surface. Over the past century, muggles have become very, ''very'' adept at killing each other... There are things called "cannons", which are guns so large that they can blast through buildings, "machine guns", which can mow down an entire line of enemies in seconds, poison gas, which condemns the victim to a painful death as it eats away their lungs, "tanks"- rolling instruments of death with armour tougher than dragon hide that crush everything in their path, "blockbuster bombs" dropped from aeroplanes, powerful enough to destroy an entire street full of buildings, "missiles"- like fireworks, but with huge bombs attached to them, and of course, "atomic bombs", which are so powerful that they can destroy an entire city in one blast! Yes, muggles are so fond of killing each other that they invent new and better ways of doing it every year, and it is too often ''we'' who get caught in the crossfire!