History Fanfic / TheMeaningOfOne

* AdaptationExpansion: Considering that this fic is currently six hundred thousand words long when its source material (Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone and Chamber of Secrets) is only a hundred and fifty thousand, there's a lot of this.

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* TheRunaway: Threatened after the post-Christmas conflict between Ginny and the rest of the Weasley family. Mr. Weasley is forced to point out to the rest of his family that 1) Harry has full legal access to his parents' Gringotts account, which contains enough money to let Harry and Ginny live in luxury for the rest of their lives without ever having to work, and 2) the duo's unique form of teleportation will let them go anywhere that either of them can picture and cannot be stopped by any known ward or spell. In other words, if Ginny decided to run away from home, nothing could stop her and she and Harry could live entirely on their own wherever they decided to go.

--> '''Arthur''': You’ve just [[spoiler:gone all day on April Fools’ without causing any trouble]]. Congratulations! You've been had!

* {{Squick}}: InUniverse; after fighting the troll and ending up in the Hospital Wing, Ginny is appalled to realise what the taste in her mouth is (having bitten the troll in the leg) and starts throwing up.
* StealthyTeleportation: The only noticeable side effect of Harry and Ginny teleporting is a small breeze.
* StickySituation: Fred and George pull a prank on Harry and Ginny by sticking Hermione's copy of ''Hogwarts: A History'' onto both of their backs, and promising only to remove it once they are able to walk sideways all the way from the Library to the Entrance Hall several floors down. They do really well due to their shared senses and even outpace the following Fred, George, [[BerserkButton and Hermione]].
* TeleFrag: Harry and Ginny quickly learn to be careful about teleporting into spaces out of their line of sight, after an early attempt blends Ginny's knee with Harry's blanket. Fortunately, she's able to leave the blanket behind when teleporting away and suffers no lasting effects.

* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: Dumbledore references this trope when he contemplates Harry and Ginny, who have a knack for doing things previously unheard of, trying to persuade Molly Weasley, "a unique phenomenon in her own right," to let them share a bed.

* OverprotectiveDad: Or Mum, in this case. In fairness, the Weasleys have been put in an extraordinary situation, where their ten-year-old girl is effectively, but not formally, married, to a boy they've only briefly met. Molly's efforts to steer it away from becoming an actual CommonLawMarriage are understandable from her point of view, but nonetheless, they cause a lot of friction and heartache, as Ginny feels the lack of trust keenly and Harry feels alienated from a family his soulmate loves dearly (doubly painful when he's never had a loving family before).

* BerserkButton: Ginny flips out upon receiving a book for Christmas. [[spoiler:Because it was a book for each of them about propriety, bundled with their jumpers, pulling a gut-wrenching BaitAndSwitch on Harry when he thought his jumper was a sign that Mrs. Weasley had been able to accept their relationship and welcome him into a family for the first time in his life, but the book inside shows that she ''doesn't'' trust them. And Ginny witnesses his every thought and feeling.]]

* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: As punishment for going after the Philosopher's Stone, Molly Weasley makes Ron and Ginny (and Harry) trim the grass in the paddock. ''With scissors''.

** Bill explains to Harry and Ginny that he's seen Egyptian traps that [[BalefulPolymorph transform the victim]] into a rock or a pane of glass, for several hours, resulting in total sensory deprivation, and the sufferer is never quite the same afterward. [[spoiler:Ginny tells him that it almost happened to ''him'' on Christmas Day when he threatened to forcibly separate them. Fortunately, that's behind them.]]

* InSeriesNickname: Luna decides to address Harry and Ginny collectively as "Alex".
* InSpiteOfANail: [[spoiler:Ginny's possession by the Diary]] is delayed but not averted, and just as in canon, [[spoiler:she spends a lot of the year quiet and withdrawn -- because Harry is petrified and she's not coping]].

* LoveOverridesTheLaw: Harry and Ginny are given permission to sleep in the same bed despite being assigned gendered dorms, and have to keep it a secret to everyone not in the know. Justified since they literally can't sleep apart anymore.

* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: After they reflect on some of the conversations her parents have had, Ginny concludes that it's pretty much inevitable that she and Harry will someday marry, and Harry agrees that they make each other happier than anyone else ever could. But they agree that there's no rush to do anything about that.