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* MoeCouplet: Harry and Luna. Luna is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who hardly seems troubled by anything and helps her father run the magical equivalent of a tabloid magazine, whereas Harry becomes more [[HurtingHero traumatized as increasing numbers of his friends and loved ones die. Some of them right in front of him.]] Yet, Luna understands what losing a loved one feels like, enabling her to empathise with his grief over Sirius — and Harry knows what being picked on feels like, so he naturally wants to help her out when people hide Luna's things and mock her behind her back. They serve as two sides of the same coin, with Harry becoming Luna's BullyHunter and Luna becoming TheHeart for Harry. Subsequently played with in that their MoeCouplet characteristics lead to them developing romantic feelings for each other.
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* MoeCouplet: Harry and Luna. Luna is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who hardly seems troubled by anything and helps her father run the magical equivalent of a tabloid magazine, whereas Harry becomes more [[HurtingHero traumatized as increasing numbers of his friends and loved ones die. Some of them right in front of him.]] Yet, Luna understands what losing a loved one feels like, enabling her to empathise with his grief over Sirius — and Harry knows what being picked on feels like, so he naturally wants to help her out when people hide Luna's things and mock her behind her back. They serve as two sides of the same coin, with Harry becoming Luna's BullyHunter and Luna becoming TheHeart for Harry. Subsequently played with in that their MoeCouplet characteristics lead to them developing romantic feelings for each other.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10393778/1/The-Biter-Bit The Biter Bit]]'' (and its missing moment one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10568230/1/Inner-Demons-and-Icicles Inner Demons and Icicles]]'') is an in-progress ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5509179/AHighAndLonesomeSound AHighAndLonesomeSound]]. Set in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Harry's sixth year]], it deviates from canon the morning after Harry and Ron walk in on Ginny and Dean snogging and Ron and Ginny fight. ''The Biter Bit'' begins the next day, the premise being that an upset Ginny is inattentive in DADA class and Snape gets angry with her. Luna calls Snape out for bullying and her actions bring her closer to the Trio. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity, romance and a butterfly-effect journey into AU territory ensue]]. The story stays close to OriginalFlavor, although with more overt fluff.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10393778/1/The-Biter-Bit The Biter Bit]]'' (and its missing moment one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10568230/1/Inner-Demons-and-Icicles Inner Demons and Icicles]]'') is an in-progress ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5509179/AHighAndLonesomeSound AHighAndLonesomeSound]]. Set in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Harry's sixth year]], it deviates from canon the morning after Harry and Ron walk in on Ginny and Dean snogging and Ron and Ginny fight. ''The Biter Bit'' begins the next day, the premise being that an upset Ginny is inattentive in DADA class and Snape gets angry with her. Luna calls Snape out for bullying and her actions bring her closer to the Trio. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity, romance and a butterfly-effect journey into AU territory ensue]].ensue. The story stays close to OriginalFlavor, although with more overt fluff.
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* AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All of the chapter titles are alliterative, as are the titles of the fic and its companion piece.
** Chapter 13 has the most egregiously-alliterative title ('A Ravenclaw Reads the Riot Act, or, The Patil Prefect's Plan Prevails') and in the author's notes the writer acknowledges that "These chapter titles are getting a little out-of-hand, but I enjoy coming up with them, and they ''do'' have [[ShoutOut added alliterative appeal]]..."
** Chapter 13 has the most egregiously-alliterative title ('A Ravenclaw Reads the Riot Act, or, The Patil Prefect's Plan Prevails') and in the author's notes the writer acknowledges that "These chapter titles are getting a little out-of-hand, but I enjoy coming up with them, and they ''do'' have [[ShoutOut added alliterative appeal]]..."
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** All of the chapter titles are alliterative, as are the titles of the fic and its companion piece.
** Chapter 13 has the most egregiously-alliterative title ('A Ravenclaw Reads the Riot Act, or, The Patil Prefect's Plan Prevails') and in the author's notes the writer acknowledges that "These chapter titles are getting a little out-of-hand, but I enjoy coming up with them, and they ''do'' have [[ShoutOut added alliterative appeal]]..."
** All of the chapter titles are alliterative, as are the titles of the fic and its companion piece.
** Chapter 13 has the most egregiously-alliterative title ('A Ravenclaw Reads the Riot Act, or, The Patil Prefect's Plan Prevails') and in the author's notes the writer acknowledges that "These chapter titles are getting a little out-of-hand, but I enjoy coming up with them, and they ''do'' have [[ShoutOut added alliterative appeal]]..."
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** Chapter 13 has the most egregiously-alliterative title ([[UpToEleven 'A Ravenclaw Reads the Riot Act, or, The Patil Prefect's Plan Prevails']]) and in the author's notes the writer acknowledges that "These chapter titles are getting a little out-of-hand, but I enjoy coming up with them, and they ''do'' have [[ShoutOut added alliterative appeal]]..."
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** Chapter 13 has the most egregiously-alliterative title ([[UpToEleven 'A ('A Ravenclaw Reads the Riot Act, or, The Patil Prefect's Plan Prevails']]) Prevails') and in the author's notes the writer acknowledges that "These chapter titles are getting a little out-of-hand, but I enjoy coming up with them, and they ''do'' have [[ShoutOut added alliterative appeal]]..."
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* {{Adorkable}}: Luna and Hermione
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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Su Li]] gets a mild version of this, from having no canon personality to being one of Luna's bullies.
* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Su Li]] gets a mild version of this, from having no canon personality to being one of Luna's bullies.
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: PlayedForLaughs in this exchange in the first chapter:
-->"Miss Lovegood-" snapped Snape, but she interrupted him.
-->"Oh and he did that rather excellent interview with Rita Skeeter that Daddy published. That relaunched Rita's career, you know." She smiled serenely, "I suspect she owes Daddy a favour, and she is such a nosy woman. She was always trying to find juicy new stories about what goes on in Hogwarts..."
-->Ginny gaped, thinking ''did Luna seriously just threaten Snape?'' If she felt confused, Snape looked even worse.
-->"Miss Lovegood-" snapped Snape, but she interrupted him.
-->"Oh and he did that rather excellent interview with Rita Skeeter that Daddy published. That relaunched Rita's career, you know." She smiled serenely, "I suspect she owes Daddy a favour, and she is such a nosy woman. She was always trying to find juicy new stories about what goes on in Hogwarts..."
-->Ginny gaped, thinking ''did Luna seriously just threaten Snape?'' If she felt confused, Snape looked even worse.
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* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu:
** PlayedForLaughs in this exchange in the first chapter:
-->"Miss --->"Miss Lovegood-" snapped Snape, but she interrupted him.
-->"Ohhim.\\
"Oh and he did that rather excellent interview with Rita Skeeter that Daddy published. That relaunched Rita's career, you know." She smiled serenely, "I suspect she owes Daddy a favour, and she is such a nosy woman. She was always trying to find juicy new stories about what goes on in Hogwarts..."
-->Ginny"\\
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** PlayedForLaughs in this exchange in the first chapter:
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"Oh and he did that rather excellent interview with Rita Skeeter that Daddy published. That relaunched Rita's career, you know." She smiled serenely, "I suspect she owes Daddy a favour, and she is such a nosy woman. She was always trying to find juicy new stories about what goes on in Hogwarts...
-->Ginny
Ginny gaped, thinking ''did Luna seriously just threaten Snape?'' If she felt confused, Snape looked even worse.
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-->"Let me tell you something about Luna Lovegood. Remember last year? When the ''Prophet'' was telling everybody that Harry was nuts" – [[CassandraTruth she felt a twinge of guilt for having doubted him herself]] – "and Umbridge was ruining everything? [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight Well, Luna stood up for Harry. She believed in him.]] And I'm sure you've all heard of Dumbledore's Army standing up to Umbridge last year. Luna was a member. So was I. And Luna did much more than I did. She went to the Ministry with Harry and a few others and fought Death Eaters. Didn't you hear all the stories about You-Know-Who and [[TheDragon Bellatrix Lestrange]] being involved in a fight in the Ministry, and a bunch of Death Eaters being arrested? Harry says Luna was ''there'' with him. So let me tell you all, picking on her was a very stupid idea. [[FireForgedFriends Because DA members stick together]]. Not to mention Harry. You know, Harry Potter? The Boy-Who-Lived? Beat You-Know-Who when he was a baby? Has faced him again since? [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Killed a Basilisk with that sword in Dumbledore's office?]] Triwizard Champion? The guy who taught the DA how to fight? [[DeadpanSnarker Yeah, whoever you are, you've pissed him off. Congratulations.]]"
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-->Molly seemed to be considering it a point of passive-aggressive pride to outdo her own high standards and show the poor girl the kind of treatment Weasley men were used to. As far as Remus was concerned, this attitude was really rather old-fashioned, not to mention the fact that it suggested countless 'mollycoddling' puns to his mischievous side.
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-->He could practically hear Padfoot explaining mock-earnestly "But you're too serious, Moony! I mean, I'm Sirius, but you… you are really serious."
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** Chapter 13 has the most egregiously-alliterative title ([[UpToEleven 'A Ravenclaw Reads the Riot Act, or, The Patil Prefect's Plan Prevails']]) and in the author's notes the writer acknowledges that "These chapter titles are getting a little out-of-hand, but I enjoy coming up with them, and they ''do'' have [[OneOfUs added alliterative appeal]]..."
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** Chapter 13 has the most egregiously-alliterative title ([[UpToEleven 'A Ravenclaw Reads the Riot Act, or, The Patil Prefect's Plan Prevails']]) and in the author's notes the writer acknowledges that "These chapter titles are getting a little out-of-hand, but I enjoy coming up with them, and they ''do'' have [[OneOfUs [[ShoutOut added alliterative appeal]]..."
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* RiffTrax: The author's notes double as this.
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* ObnoxiousSnarker: Pansy Parkinson, the Weasley twins.
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* MoeCouplet: Harry and Luna. Luna is a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who hardly seems troubled by anything and helps her father run the magical equivalent of a tabloid magazine, whereas Harry becomes more [[HurtingHero traumatized as increasing numbers of his friends and loved ones die. Some of them right in front of him.]] Yet, Luna understands what losing a loved one feels like, enabling her to empathise with his grief over Sirius — and Harry knows what being picked on feels like, so he naturally wants to help her out when people hide Luna's things and mock her behind her back. They serve as two sides of the same coin, with Harry becoming Luna's BullyHunter and Luna becoming TheHeart for Harry. Subsequently played with in that their MoeCouplet characteristics lead to them developing romantic feelings for each other.
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* FriendlesBackground: Luna. It reminds Harry of his own experiences.
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* FriendlesBackground: FriendlessBackground: Luna. It reminds Harry of his own experiences.
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** Also McGonagall.
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** Also McGonagall.[=McGonagall=].
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* {{Adorkable}}: Luna and Hermione
* BadassAdorable: Luna
* BrutalHonesty: Luna turning the brutal honesty she usually reserves for the Trio, Neville and Ginny on Snape is what kicks off the events of the fic.
* BullyHunter: Harry and Padma for Luna.
* BullyHunter: Harry and Padma for Luna.
* ConspiracyTheorist: Luna, as per canon. She even tries to explain the Rotfang Conspiracy to Tonks.
* CreepyGood: How several of the characters view Luna.
* CreepyGood: How several of the characters view Luna.
* CuteWitch: Luna. Ginny to an extent.
** TheCutie: Luna.
** TheCutie: Luna.
** Also McGonagall.
* DissonantSerenity: Luna.
* DitzyGenius: Luna.
* DitzyGenius: Luna.
* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Harry (melancholic), Ron (choleric), Hermione (phlegmatic), Luna (sanguine).
* FriendlesBackground: Luna. It reminds Harry of his own experiences.
* GeniusBruiser: Implied with both Luna and Padma.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Luna.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Sirius, according to Remus:
-->As far as Remus was concerned, this attitude was really rather old-fashioned, not to mention the fact that it suggested countless 'mollycoddling' puns to his mischievous side. If Sirius had still been alive, he would have already made them all.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The chapter titles all have AddedAlliterativeAppeal
* FriendlesBackground: Luna. It reminds Harry of his own experiences.
* GeniusBruiser: Implied with both Luna and Padma.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Luna.
* HurricaneOfPuns: Sirius, according to Remus:
-->As far as Remus was concerned, this attitude was really rather old-fashioned, not to mention the fact that it suggested countless 'mollycoddling' puns to his mischievous side. If Sirius had still been alive, he would have already made them all.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: The chapter titles all have AddedAlliterativeAppeal
** There are also a couple when Remus is the perspective character:
-->Molly seemed to be considering it a point of passive-aggressive pride to outdo her own high standards and show the poor girl the kind of treatment Weasley men were used to. As far as Remus was concerned, this attitude was really rather old-fashioned, not to mention the fact that it suggested countless 'mollycoddling' puns to his mischievous side.
-->He could practically hear Padfoot explaining mock-earnestly "But you're too serious, Moony! I mean, I'm Sirius, but you… you are really serious."
-->Molly seemed to be considering it a point of passive-aggressive pride to outdo her own high standards and show the poor girl the kind of treatment Weasley men were used to. As far as Remus was concerned, this attitude was really rather old-fashioned, not to mention the fact that it suggested countless 'mollycoddling' puns to his mischievous side.
-->He could practically hear Padfoot explaining mock-earnestly "But you're too serious, Moony! I mean, I'm Sirius, but you… you are really serious."
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* ParentalSubstitute: Remus Lupin and Mr & Mrs Weasley for Harry.
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* ParentalSubstitute: Remus Lupin and Mr & Mrs Weasley for Harry.Harry.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Luna convinces the Trio to reform the DA to help Harry keep an eye on Draco.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: Luna convinces the Trio to reform the DA to help Harry keep an eye on Draco.
* RedOniBlueOni: Harry is Red, Luna is Blue. Equally, Luna is Red to Hermione's Blue.
* ShipperOnDeck: Molly for Remus and Tonks. It makes Remus somewhat uncomfortable.
* TallDarkAndSnarky: Snape.
* TeenGenius: Luna and Hermione. The latter's academic abilities remind Snape of his younger self.
* TownGirls: Ginny (Butch), Hermione (Femme) and Luna (Neither)
* TrueCompanions: The DA.
** And more specifically Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny and Luna.
* TeenGenius: Luna and Hermione. The latter's academic abilities remind Snape of his younger self.
* TownGirls: Ginny (Butch), Hermione (Femme) and Luna (Neither)
* TrueCompanions: The DA.
** And more specifically Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny and Luna.
* WhamLine: For Snape, the following probably counts:
-->[[spoiler:'''Luna:''' "Your aunt and uncle are very mean. Saying her own sister had died in a car crash!"]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Luna:''' "Your aunt and uncle are very mean. Saying her own sister had died in a car crash!"]]
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* WorldOfSnarkWorldOfSnark
* WouldHitAGirl: Luna has to stop Harry from picking a fight with Millicent Bulstrode after he finds out that Millicent tried to attack Luna.
* WouldHitAGirl: Luna has to stop Harry from picking a fight with Millicent Bulstrode after he finds out that Millicent tried to attack Luna.
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* RunningGag: Luna's habit of delivering slightly-disconcerting [[QuipToBlack Quips To Black]] (which also doubles as a MythologyGag to the author's other fics), the alliterative chapter titles, Harry spacing out around Luna because he's developing a crush on her and her blaming Wrackspurts for his behaviour, people asking Ginny how she feels about Harry and Luna becoming a couple, Harry blaming Malfoy whenever anything goes wrong...
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* RunningGag: Luna's habit of delivering slightly-disconcerting [[QuipToBlack Quips To Black]] (which also doubles as a MythologyGag to the author's other fics), the alliterative chapter titles, Harry spacing out around Luna because he's developing a crush on her and her Luna blaming Wrackspurts for his behaviour, people asking Ginny how she feels about Harry and Luna becoming a couple, Harry blaming Malfoy whenever anything goes wrong...
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Padma Patil is a BadassBookworm.
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-->"Let me tell you something about Luna Lovegood. Remember last year? When the ''Prophet'' was telling everybody that CassandraTruth Harry was nuts" – [[CassandraTruth she felt a twinge of guilt for having doubted him herself]] – "and Umbridge was ruining everything? [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight Well, Luna stood up for Harry. She believed in him.]] And I'm sure you've all heard of Dumbledore's Army standing up to Umbridge last year. Luna was a member. So was I. And Luna did much more than I did. She went to the Ministry with Harry and a few others and fought Death Eaters. Didn't you hear all the stories about You-Know-Who and [[TheDragon Bellatrix Lestrange]] being involved in a fight in the Ministry, and a bunch of Death Eaters being arrested? Harry says Luna was ''there'' with him. So let me tell you all, picking on her was a very stupid idea. [[FireForgedFriends Because DA members stick together]]. Not to mention Harry. You know, Harry Potter? The Boy-Who-Lived? Beat You-Know-Who when he was a baby? Has faced him again since? [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Killed a Basilisk with that sword in Dumbledore's office?]] Triwizard Champion? The guy who taught the DA how to fight? [[DeadpanSnarker Yeah, whoever you are, you've pissed him off. Congratulations.]]"
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-->"Let me tell you something about Luna Lovegood. Remember last year? When the ''Prophet'' was telling everybody that CassandraTruth Harry was nuts" – [[CassandraTruth she felt a twinge of guilt for having doubted him herself]] – "and Umbridge was ruining everything? [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight Well, Luna stood up for Harry. She believed in him.]] And I'm sure you've all heard of Dumbledore's Army standing up to Umbridge last year. Luna was a member. So was I. And Luna did much more than I did. She went to the Ministry with Harry and a few others and fought Death Eaters. Didn't you hear all the stories about You-Know-Who and [[TheDragon Bellatrix Lestrange]] being involved in a fight in the Ministry, and a bunch of Death Eaters being arrested? Harry says Luna was ''there'' with him. So let me tell you all, picking on her was a very stupid idea. [[FireForgedFriends Because DA members stick together]]. Not to mention Harry. You know, Harry Potter? The Boy-Who-Lived? Beat You-Know-Who when he was a baby? Has faced him again since? [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Killed a Basilisk with that sword in Dumbledore's office?]] Triwizard Champion? The guy who taught the DA how to fight? [[DeadpanSnarker Yeah, whoever you are, you've pissed him off. Congratulations.]]"
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Padma Patil is a BadassBookworm.
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* AuthorAppeal: Luna saying something perceptive/disconcerting while exiting the scene through a door becomes something of a RunningGag.
** Padma Patil as a BadassBookworm crops up in a couple of fics by the author.
** Padma Patil as a BadassBookworm crops up in a couple of fics by the author.
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-->"Let me tell you something about Luna Lovegood. Remember last year? When the ''Prophet'' was telling everybody that Harry was nuts" – she felt a twinge of guilt for having doubted him herself – "and Umbridge was ruining everything? Well, Luna stood up for Harry. She believed in him. And I'm sure you've all heard of Dumbledore's Army standing up to Umbridge last year. Luna was a member. So was I. And Luna did much more than I did. She went to the Ministry with Harry and a few others and fought Death Eaters. Didn't you hear all the stories about You-Know-Who and Bellatrix Lestrange being involved in a fight in the Ministry, and a bunch of Death Eaters being arrested? Harry says Luna was ''there'' with him. So let me tell you all, picking on her was a very stupid idea. Because DA members stick together. Not to mention Harry. You know, Harry Potter? The Boy-Who-Lived? Beat You-Know-Who when he was a baby? Has faced him again since? Killed a Basilisk with that sword in Dumbledore's office? Triwizard Champion? The guy who taught the DA how to fight? Yeah, whoever you are, you've pissed him off. Congratulations."
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-->"Let me tell you something about Luna Lovegood. Remember last year? When the ''Prophet'' was telling everybody that CassandraTruth Harry was nuts" – [[CassandraTruth she felt a twinge of guilt for having doubted him herself herself]] – "and Umbridge was ruining everything? [[TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight Well, Luna stood up for Harry. She believed in him. ]] And I'm sure you've all heard of Dumbledore's Army standing up to Umbridge last year. Luna was a member. So was I. And Luna did much more than I did. She went to the Ministry with Harry and a few others and fought Death Eaters. Didn't you hear all the stories about You-Know-Who and [[TheDragon Bellatrix Lestrange Lestrange]] being involved in a fight in the Ministry, and a bunch of Death Eaters being arrested? Harry says Luna was ''there'' with him. So let me tell you all, picking on her was a very stupid idea. [[FireForgedFriends Because DA members stick together.together]]. Not to mention Harry. You know, Harry Potter? The Boy-Who-Lived? Beat You-Know-Who when he was a baby? Has faced him again since? [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Killed a Basilisk with that sword in Dumbledore's office? office?]] Triwizard Champion? The guy who taught the DA how to fight? [[DeadpanSnarker Yeah, whoever you are, you've pissed him off. Congratulations."]]"
* FireForgedFriends: The DA.
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* RunningGag: Luna's habit of delivering slightly-disconcerting [[QuipToBlack Quips To Black]] (which also doubles as a MythologyGag to the author's other fics), the alliterative chapter titles, Harry spacing out around Luna because he's developing a crush on her only and her blaming Wrackspurts for her to blame Wrackspurts, his behaviour, people asking Ginny how she feels about Harry and Luna becoming a couple, Harry blaming Malfoy whenever anything goes wrong...
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* AdultsAreUseless: Played with. Luna certainly feels that Dumbledore is incapable of/unwilling to discipline Snape. However, when we see things from Dumbledore's (and Snape's) perspectives, it becomes clear that although Dumbledore knows he needs to keep Snape on the staff, he's not averse to calling him out on unprofessional behaviour.
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* AdultsAreUseless: Played with. Luna certainly feels that Dumbledore is incapable of/unwilling too incapable/unwilling to discipline Snape. However, when we see things from Dumbledore's (and Snape's) perspectives, it becomes clear that although Dumbledore knows he needs to keep Snape on the staff, he's not averse to calling him out on unprofessional behaviour.
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* TheStoic: Snape wonders whether Luna is this, or just too spaced-out to find detention unpleasant. He settles on [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} the latter]] in the end.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10393778/1/The-Biter-Bit The Biter Bit]]'' (and its missing moment one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10568230/1/Inner-Demons-and-IciclesInner Demons and Icicles]]'') is an in-progress ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5509179/AHighAndLonesomeSound AHighAndLonesomeSound]]. Set in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Harry's sixth year]], it deviates from canon the morning after Harry and Ron walk in on Ginny and Dean snogging and Ron and Ginny fight. ''The Biter Bit'' begins the next day, the premise being that an upset Ginny is inattentive in DADA class and Snape gets angry with her. Luna calls Snape out for bullying and her actions bring her closer to the Trio. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity, romance and a butterfly-effect journey into AU territory ensue]]. The story stays close to OriginalFlavor, although with more overt fluff.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10393778/1/The-Biter-Bit The Biter Bit]]'' (and its missing moment one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10568230/1/Inner-Demons-and-IciclesInner net/s/10568230/1/Inner-Demons-and-Icicles Inner Demons and Icicles]]'') is an in-progress ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5509179/AHighAndLonesomeSound AHighAndLonesomeSound]]. Set in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Harry's sixth year]], it deviates from canon the morning after Harry and Ron walk in on Ginny and Dean snogging and Ron and Ginny fight. ''The Biter Bit'' begins the next day, the premise being that an upset Ginny is inattentive in DADA class and Snape gets angry with her. Luna calls Snape out for bullying and her actions bring her closer to the Trio. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity, romance and a butterfly-effect journey into AU territory ensue]]. The story stays close to OriginalFlavor, although with more overt fluff.
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* AdaptationalVillany: [[spoiler: Su Li]] gets a mild version of this, from having no canon personality to being one of Luna's bullies.
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* AdaptationalVillany: AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler: Su Li]] gets a mild version of this, from having no canon personality to being one of Luna's bullies.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10393778/1/The-Biter-Bit The Biter Bit]]'' )and its missing moment one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10568230/1/Inner-Demons-and-IciclesInner Demons and Icicles]]'') is an in-progress ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5509179/AHighAndLonesomeSound AHighAndLonesomeSound]]. Set in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Harry's sixth year]], it deviates from canon the morning after Harry and Ron walk in on Ginny and Dean snogging and Ron and Ginny fight. ''The Biter Bit'' begins the next day, the premise being that an upset Ginny is inattentive in DADA class and Snape gets angry with her. Luna calls Snape out for bullying and her actions bring her closer to the Trio. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity, romance and a butterfly-effect journey into AU territory ensue]]. The story stays close to OriginalFlavor, although with more overt fluff.
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10393778/1/The-Biter-Bit The Biter Bit]]'' )and (and its missing moment one-shot ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10568230/1/Inner-Demons-and-IciclesInner Demons and Icicles]]'') is an in-progress ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5509179/AHighAndLonesomeSound AHighAndLonesomeSound]]. Set in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince Harry's sixth year]], it deviates from canon the morning after Harry and Ron walk in on Ginny and Dean snogging and Ron and Ginny fight. ''The Biter Bit'' begins the next day, the premise being that an upset Ginny is inattentive in DADA class and Snape gets angry with her. Luna calls Snape out for bullying and her actions bring her closer to the Trio. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity, romance and a butterfly-effect journey into AU territory ensue]]. The story stays close to OriginalFlavor, although with more overt fluff.
* AdaptationalVillany: [[spoiler: Su Li]] gets a mild version of this, from having no canon personality to being one of Luna's bullies.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Luna gets a lot more focus than in the books, while Snape, Neville, Ron, Hermione and Dumbledore all get sections narrated from their perspectives.
* ADayInTheLimelight: Luna gets a lot more focus than in the books, while Snape, Neville, Ron, Hermione and Dumbledore all get sections narrated from their perspectives.
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* BerserkButton: Don't pick on Harry's friends. It doesn't end well.
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Luna.
** Neville reflects that years of being the quiet one have made him incredibly observant.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Tonks]] pulls off an understated one for Luna in Chapter 7.
* BlatantLies: Ginny's insistence that she's perfectly OK with Harry and Luna's obvious feelings for one another.
* ChristmasEpisode:The ongoing five-chapter There's a multi-chapter arc is set on around Christmas Eve
* BewareTheQuietOnes: Luna.
** Neville reflects that years of being the quiet one have made him incredibly observant.
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler:Tonks]] pulls off an understated one for Luna in Chapter 7.
* BlatantLies: Ginny's insistence that she's perfectly OK with Harry and Luna's obvious feelings for one another.
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* DemotedToExtra: Draco, at least for the first half of the story. He's presumably off plotting in a corner somewhere, but Harry's too distracted by Luna to obsess over Draco's schemes the way he did in canon.
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* FamilyOfChoice: The Weasleys, Hermione and Lupin for Harry.
* InnerMonologue:And An entire chapter ('The Bitter Bit') from Snape's perspective, in which he internal-monologues deeply snarkily about giving Luna detention, even quoting Shakespeare.Shakespeare.
* LighterAndSofter: Despite its OriginalFlavor tendencies, ''The Biter Bit'' strays into LighterAndSofter territory, largely because there are huge chunks of the 1996 Autumn term that Rowling skips over because nothing happens during that time in canon, and the author fills in those gaps with Harry and Luna's budding romance.
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* LighterAndSofter: Despite its OriginalFlavor tendencies, ''The Biter Bit'' strays into LighterAndSofter territory, largely because there are huge chunks of the 1996 Autumn term that Rowling skips over because nothing happens during that time in canon, and the author fills in those gaps with Harry and Luna's budding romance.
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* ObnoxiousSnarker: The Weasley twins, Pansy Parkinson.
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* ObnoxiousSnarker: The Pansy Parkinson.
* OhCrap: Snape's reaction when [[spoiler:he realises that Harry was given to "that embittered cow" Petunia to raise]].
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* ParentalSubstitute: Remus Lupin and Mr & Mrs Weasleytwins, Pansy Parkinson.for Harry.
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: According to the author's notes, ''The Biter Bit'' began life as a forum conversation about the ways in which different victims of bullying in the books deal with being bullied. Someone brought up the idea of Luna standing up to Snape, and [=AHighAndLonesomeSound=] wrote a one-shot. The one-shot got out of hand, and became a much longer fic.
* OhCrap: Snape's reaction when [[spoiler:he realises that Harry was given to "that embittered cow" Petunia to raise]].
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* ParentalSubstitute: Remus Lupin and Mr & Mrs Weasley
* RealLifeWritesThePlot: According to the author's notes, ''The Biter Bit'' began life as a forum conversation about the ways in which different victims of bullying in the books deal with being bullied. Someone brought up the idea of Luna standing up to Snape, and [=AHighAndLonesomeSound=] wrote a one-shot. The one-shot got out of hand, and became a much longer fic.
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* ScrapbookStory: A sizable chunk of the narrative in the early chapters takes the form of letters between Luna, her father, and Mrs Weasley.
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* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Luna and Snape. Harry, Ginny and Hermione are a friendly example.
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* VitriolicBestBuds: Harry and Hermione.
* WhatTheHellHero: Snape's reaction to [[spoiler:Dumbledore giving Harry to the Dursleys as a baby]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Snape's reaction to [[spoiler:Dumbledore giving Harry to the Dursleys as a baby]].
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-->!!!"Miss Lovegood-" snapped Snape, but she interrupted him.
-->!!!"Oh and he did that rather excellent interview with Rita Skeeter that Daddy published. That relaunched Rita's career, you know." She smiled serenely, "I suspect she owes Daddy a favour, and she is such a nosy woman. She was always trying to find juicy new stories about what goes on in Hogwarts..."
-->!!!Ginny gaped, thinking ''did Luna seriously just threaten Snape?'' If she felt confused, Snape looked even worse.
-->!!!"Oh and he did that rather excellent interview with Rita Skeeter that Daddy published. That relaunched Rita's career, you know." She smiled serenely, "I suspect she owes Daddy a favour, and she is such a nosy woman. She was always trying to find juicy new stories about what goes on in Hogwarts..."
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-->!!!"Let me tell you something about Luna Lovegood. Remember last year? When the ''Prophet'' was telling everybody that Harry was nuts" – she felt a twinge of guilt for having doubted him herself – "and Umbridge was ruining everything? Well, Luna stood up for Harry. She believed in him. And I'm sure you've all heard of Dumbledore's Army standing up to Umbridge last year. Luna was a member. So was I. And Luna did much more than I did. She went to the Ministry with Harry and a few others and fought Death Eaters. Didn't you hear all the stories about You-Know-Who and Bellatrix Lestrange being involved in a fight in the Ministry, and a bunch of Death Eaters being arrested? Harry says Luna was ''there'' with him. So let me tell you all, picking on her was a very stupid idea. Because DA members stick together. Not to mention Harry. You know, Harry Potter? The Boy-Who-Lived? Beat You-Know-Who when he was a baby? Has faced him again since? Killed a Basilisk with that sword in Dumbledore's office? Triwizard Champion? The guy who taught the DA how to fight? Yeah, whoever you are, you've pissed him off. Congratulations."
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''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10393778/1/The-Biter-Bit The Biter Bit]]'' )and its missing moment one-shot ''[[Inner Demons and Icicles]]'') is an in-progress ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5509179/AHighAndLonesomeSound AHighAndLonesomeSound]]. Set in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince]] Harry's sixth year, it deviates from canon the morning after Harry and Ron walk in on Ginny and Dean snogging and Ron and Ginny fight. ''The Biter Bit'' begins the next day, the premise being that an upset Ginny is inattentive in DADA class and Snape gets angry with her. Luna calls Snape out for bullying and her actions bring her closer to the Trio. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity, romance and a butterfly-effect journey into AU territory ensue]]. The story stays close to OriginalFlavor, although with more overt fluff.
''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10393778/1/The-Biter-Bit The Biter Bit]]'' )and its missing moment one-shot ''[[Inner Demons and Icicles]]'') is an in-progress ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5509179/AHighAndLonesomeSound AHighAndLonesomeSound]]. Set in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince]] Harry's sixth year, it deviates from canon the morning after Harry and Ron walk in on Ginny and Dean snogging and Ron and Ginny fight. ''The Biter Bit'' begins the next day, the premise being that an upset Ginny is inattentive in DADA class and Snape gets angry with her. Luna calls Snape out for bullying and her actions bring her closer to the Trio. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity, romance and a butterfly-effect journey into AU territory ensue]]. The story stays close to OriginalFlavor, although with more overt fluff.
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[[caption-width-right:639:Watch out Snape, here they come...]]
''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10393778/1/The-Biter-Bit The Biter Bit]]'' )and its missing moment one-shot ''[[Inner Demons and Icicles]]'') is an in-progress ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5509179/AHighAndLonesomeSound AHighAndLonesomeSound]]. Set in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince]] Harry's sixth year, it deviates from canon the morning after Harry and Ron walk in on Ginny and Dean snogging and Ron and Ginny fight. ''The Biter Bit'' begins the next day, the premise being that an upset Ginny is inattentive in DADA class and Snape gets angry with her. Luna calls Snape out for bullying and her actions bring her closer to the Trio. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity, romance and a butterfly-effect journey into AU territory ensue]]. The story stays close to OriginalFlavor, although with more overt fluff.
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!!This fanfic provides examples of:
*AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All of the chapter titles are alliterative, as are the titles of the fic and its companion piece.
**Chapter 13 has the most egregiously-alliterative title ([[UpToEleven 'A Ravenclaw Reads the Riot Act, or, The Patil Prefect's Plan Prevails']]) and in the author's notes the writer acknowledges that "These chapter titles are getting a little out-of-hand, but I enjoy coming up with them, and they ''do'' have [[OneOfUs added alliterative appeal]]..."
*AdultsAreUseless: Played with. Luna certainly feels that Dumbledore is incapable of/unwilling to discipline Snape. However, when we see things from Dumbledore's (and Snape's) perspectives, it becomes clear that although Dumbledore knows he needs to keep Snape on the staff, he's not averse to calling him out on unprofessional behaviour.
*ArbitrarySkepticism: Luna complains that Harry and Hermione suffer from this, pointing out that as they were raised by Muggles they wouldn't have believed in magic or Werewolves, but now know they exist, so dismissing Nargles because they haven't seen evidence for their existence is illogical. She manages to convince Harry of her case.
*AuthorAppeal: Luna saying something perceptive/disconcerting while exiting the scene through a door becomes something of a RunningGag.
*BadassBoast: From ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Luna]]'', of all people:
-->!!!"Umbridge never did work out how the DA members were communicating, did she? Nobody did, not even Professor Dumbledore. The thing was, nobody knew how they got messages to each other, but somehow they always knew when one of the group was in trouble, and they always stayed two steps ahead of the Ministry. So I don't think it would be a very good idea to try to stop me from going to visit Professor Dumbledore, do you?"
*BadassBookworm: Hermione, Luna, Padma Patil, Snape.
*ChristmasEpisode: The ongoing five-chapter arc is set on Christmas Eve
*{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Luna, obviously.
*CulturedBadass: Snape can quote Shakespeare.
*DeadpanSnarker: Snape, Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Padma.
**Even Luna gets a go: "You're about to be scathing, aren't you, Professor?"
*DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: PlayedForLaughs in this exchange in the first chapter:
-->!!!"Miss Lovegood-" snapped Snape, but she interrupted him.
-->!!!"Oh and he did that rather excellent interview with Rita Skeeter that Daddy published. That relaunched Rita's career, you know." She smiled serenely, "I suspect she owes Daddy a favour, and she is such a nosy woman. She was always trying to find juicy new stories about what goes on in Hogwarts..."
-->!!!Ginny gaped, thinking ''did Luna seriously just threaten Snape?'' If she felt confused, Snape looked even worse.
**PlayedForLaughs again in Chapter 13, when [[BadassBookworm Padma Patil]] threatens Luna's Ravenclaw bullies with the wrath of Harry.
-->!!!"Let me tell you something about Luna Lovegood. Remember last year? When the ''Prophet'' was telling everybody that Harry was nuts" – she felt a twinge of guilt for having doubted him herself – "and Umbridge was ruining everything? Well, Luna stood up for Harry. She believed in him. And I'm sure you've all heard of Dumbledore's Army standing up to Umbridge last year. Luna was a member. So was I. And Luna did much more than I did. She went to the Ministry with Harry and a few others and fought Death Eaters. Didn't you hear all the stories about You-Know-Who and Bellatrix Lestrange being involved in a fight in the Ministry, and a bunch of Death Eaters being arrested? Harry says Luna was ''there'' with him. So let me tell you all, picking on her was a very stupid idea. Because DA members stick together. Not to mention Harry. You know, Harry Potter? The Boy-Who-Lived? Beat You-Know-Who when he was a baby? Has faced him again since? Killed a Basilisk with that sword in Dumbledore's office? Triwizard Champion? The guy who taught the DA how to fight? Yeah, whoever you are, you've pissed him off. Congratulations."
*EveryoneCanSeeIt: Ron and Hermione, to the point where Harry outright tells Hermione he knows she took Cormac to the Slug Club Christmas party to make Ron jealous.
**Harry and Luna, too. Even [[CaptainOblivious Ron]] can see they have a thing for each other before they admit it to themselves.
*InnerMonologue: And entire chapter ('The Bitter Bit') from Snape's perspective, in which he internal-monologues deeply snarkily about giving Luna detention, even quoting Shakespeare.
*MythologyGag: Luna's love of snow, but concern that it attracts Venomous Snowbats, is a recurring gag throughout several of the author's fics.
*ObfuscatingStupidity: There's a chapter narrated from Dumbledore's perspective. It turns out that he makes those sudden conversational tangents about sweets [[TheGadfly because he enjoys disconcerting people]].
*ObliviousToLove: Ron and Hermione
*ObnoxiousSnarker: The Weasley twins, Pansy Parkinson.
*RiffTrax: The author's notes double as this.
*RunningGag: Luna's habit of delivering slightly-disconcerting [[QuipToBlack Quips To Black]] (which also doubles as a MythologyGag to the author's other fics), the alliterative chapter titles, Harry spacing out around Luna because he's developing a crush on her only for her to blame Wrackspurts, people asking Ginny how she feels about Harry and Luna becoming a couple, Harry blaming Malfoy whenever anything goes wrong...
*ShipTease: In the author's notes for Chapter 18, [=AHighAndLonesomeSound=] remarks "So there you go. I made y'all wait eighteen chapters for a peck on the cheek. I admit it, I'm a bastard."
*TheRashomon: Played with. ''Inner Demons and Icicles'' is 'Learning to Listen' from Snape's perspective, and the 'A Couple of Christmas Conundrums' arc is the events of the Weasley family Christmas Eve narrated from different perspectives.
*WorldOfSnark
[[caption-width-right:639:Watch out Snape, here they come...]]
''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10393778/1/The-Biter-Bit The Biter Bit]]'' )and its missing moment one-shot ''[[Inner Demons and Icicles]]'') is an in-progress ''Literature/HarryPotter'' fanfic by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5509179/AHighAndLonesomeSound AHighAndLonesomeSound]]. Set in [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince]] Harry's sixth year, it deviates from canon the morning after Harry and Ron walk in on Ginny and Dean snogging and Ron and Ginny fight. ''The Biter Bit'' begins the next day, the premise being that an upset Ginny is inattentive in DADA class and Snape gets angry with her. Luna calls Snape out for bullying and her actions bring her closer to the Trio. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity, romance and a butterfly-effect journey into AU territory ensue]]. The story stays close to OriginalFlavor, although with more overt fluff.
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!!This fanfic provides examples of:
*AddedAlliterativeAppeal: All of the chapter titles are alliterative, as are the titles of the fic and its companion piece.
**Chapter 13 has the most egregiously-alliterative title ([[UpToEleven 'A Ravenclaw Reads the Riot Act, or, The Patil Prefect's Plan Prevails']]) and in the author's notes the writer acknowledges that "These chapter titles are getting a little out-of-hand, but I enjoy coming up with them, and they ''do'' have [[OneOfUs added alliterative appeal]]..."
*AdultsAreUseless: Played with. Luna certainly feels that Dumbledore is incapable of/unwilling to discipline Snape. However, when we see things from Dumbledore's (and Snape's) perspectives, it becomes clear that although Dumbledore knows he needs to keep Snape on the staff, he's not averse to calling him out on unprofessional behaviour.
*ArbitrarySkepticism: Luna complains that Harry and Hermione suffer from this, pointing out that as they were raised by Muggles they wouldn't have believed in magic or Werewolves, but now know they exist, so dismissing Nargles because they haven't seen evidence for their existence is illogical. She manages to convince Harry of her case.
*AuthorAppeal: Luna saying something perceptive/disconcerting while exiting the scene through a door becomes something of a RunningGag.
*BadassBoast: From ''[[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Luna]]'', of all people:
-->!!!"Umbridge never did work out how the DA members were communicating, did she? Nobody did, not even Professor Dumbledore. The thing was, nobody knew how they got messages to each other, but somehow they always knew when one of the group was in trouble, and they always stayed two steps ahead of the Ministry. So I don't think it would be a very good idea to try to stop me from going to visit Professor Dumbledore, do you?"
*BadassBookworm: Hermione, Luna, Padma Patil, Snape.
*ChristmasEpisode: The ongoing five-chapter arc is set on Christmas Eve
*{{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Luna, obviously.
*CulturedBadass: Snape can quote Shakespeare.
*DeadpanSnarker: Snape, Harry, Hermione, Ginny, Padma.
**Even Luna gets a go: "You're about to be scathing, aren't you, Professor?"
*DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: PlayedForLaughs in this exchange in the first chapter:
-->!!!"Miss Lovegood-" snapped Snape, but she interrupted him.
-->!!!"Oh and he did that rather excellent interview with Rita Skeeter that Daddy published. That relaunched Rita's career, you know." She smiled serenely, "I suspect she owes Daddy a favour, and she is such a nosy woman. She was always trying to find juicy new stories about what goes on in Hogwarts..."
-->!!!Ginny gaped, thinking ''did Luna seriously just threaten Snape?'' If she felt confused, Snape looked even worse.
**PlayedForLaughs again in Chapter 13, when [[BadassBookworm Padma Patil]] threatens Luna's Ravenclaw bullies with the wrath of Harry.
-->!!!"Let me tell you something about Luna Lovegood. Remember last year? When the ''Prophet'' was telling everybody that Harry was nuts" – she felt a twinge of guilt for having doubted him herself – "and Umbridge was ruining everything? Well, Luna stood up for Harry. She believed in him. And I'm sure you've all heard of Dumbledore's Army standing up to Umbridge last year. Luna was a member. So was I. And Luna did much more than I did. She went to the Ministry with Harry and a few others and fought Death Eaters. Didn't you hear all the stories about You-Know-Who and Bellatrix Lestrange being involved in a fight in the Ministry, and a bunch of Death Eaters being arrested? Harry says Luna was ''there'' with him. So let me tell you all, picking on her was a very stupid idea. Because DA members stick together. Not to mention Harry. You know, Harry Potter? The Boy-Who-Lived? Beat You-Know-Who when he was a baby? Has faced him again since? Killed a Basilisk with that sword in Dumbledore's office? Triwizard Champion? The guy who taught the DA how to fight? Yeah, whoever you are, you've pissed him off. Congratulations."
*EveryoneCanSeeIt: Ron and Hermione, to the point where Harry outright tells Hermione he knows she took Cormac to the Slug Club Christmas party to make Ron jealous.
**Harry and Luna, too. Even [[CaptainOblivious Ron]] can see they have a thing for each other before they admit it to themselves.
*InnerMonologue: And entire chapter ('The Bitter Bit') from Snape's perspective, in which he internal-monologues deeply snarkily about giving Luna detention, even quoting Shakespeare.
*MythologyGag: Luna's love of snow, but concern that it attracts Venomous Snowbats, is a recurring gag throughout several of the author's fics.
*ObfuscatingStupidity: There's a chapter narrated from Dumbledore's perspective. It turns out that he makes those sudden conversational tangents about sweets [[TheGadfly because he enjoys disconcerting people]].
*ObliviousToLove: Ron and Hermione
*ObnoxiousSnarker: The Weasley twins, Pansy Parkinson.
*RiffTrax: The author's notes double as this.
*RunningGag: Luna's habit of delivering slightly-disconcerting [[QuipToBlack Quips To Black]] (which also doubles as a MythologyGag to the author's other fics), the alliterative chapter titles, Harry spacing out around Luna because he's developing a crush on her only for her to blame Wrackspurts, people asking Ginny how she feels about Harry and Luna becoming a couple, Harry blaming Malfoy whenever anything goes wrong...
*ShipTease: In the author's notes for Chapter 18, [=AHighAndLonesomeSound=] remarks "So there you go. I made y'all wait eighteen chapters for a peck on the cheek. I admit it, I'm a bastard."
*TheRashomon: Played with. ''Inner Demons and Icicles'' is 'Learning to Listen' from Snape's perspective, and the 'A Couple of Christmas Conundrums' arc is the events of the Weasley family Christmas Eve narrated from different perspectives.
*WorldOfSnark
