History Webcomic / HarryPotterComics

* EverythingIsBigInTexas: Sheriff Ned and Bart, who are working in {{Britain}} on an exchange program, make reference to their counterparts currently in Texas in this comic: [[http://harrypottercomics.net/22.html]]. The Texans are shown as revolver-toting cowboys towing the poor British police officers through the sand with lassoes. The Brits, on the other hand, talk entirely about tea and crumpets. But, as the authors put it, "It's okay for us to make fun of Brits and Texans because we're from Colorado. (Also, saying things makes them fact!)"

* BittersweetEnding: The chapters 7-9 arc. [[spoiler: Our heroes made it out of the arch in time, Voldermort is trapped between worlds, and the Necromancer's minions were defeated... but all three of our heroes are now jobless, The Minister still won't face facts, and Ahmed is going to prison with his fellow terrorists despite having reformed.]]

* {{Necromancer}}: The lead villain, whose mysterious backstory ties into many elemnts of the Harry Potter universe. Besides his hired mercenaries, his main minions are legions of inferi (zombies of Harry Potterdom).

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Percy Weasley of all people [[spoiler: when he becomes Minister of Magic.]]
* Revenge: Ted Morely is out to get revenge on James for transfiguring him into a goblet and making him lose his place on his quidditch team, using the Triwizard Tournament. His attempts include poisoning and letting dangerous magical creatures into the castle during the Yule Ball.

* TheStarscream: Voldemort is not happy that he's been Demoted to Dragon. For this reason, the Necromancer hopes that he'll be able to pull a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on him.
* TalkingToTheDead: Subvertered into a NotSoFinalConfession when [[spoiler: Medria]] thinks [[spoiler: Thomas]] has been killed (see: AccidentalMurder above) and confesses to his (badly injured but conscious) body that [[spoiler: she won't get to tell him he's going to be a father.]] He tells her that they'll discuss that later, after they've gotten him some medical attention.

** Hagrid was already pretty Badass but now he's able to do magic freely and knows how to use it.
* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Occasionally, as the kids have adventures at Hogwarts while the adults try and stop the enemy of the day but the plotlines meet many times.
* UnluckyChildhoodFriend: Scorpius considers himself this after Future!Rosie and Future!Bart reveal they're married. He doesn't stick around to find out why he wasn't in the picture: [[spoiler: he died along with most of their families in Future!Rosie's timeline a few days from then.]]

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: A nuke is launched at London, and [[TheUnmasquedWorld magic is exposed]] when all the wizards of London cast a mass shield charm in order to contain it.]]

* WorldWarIII: Begins during a time skip as a result of [[spoiler:hybrid magicically invisible nuclear weapons nearly destroying London (and also revealing the existence of magic to the muggle world) as the prelude to a conventional invasion from an alliance consisting primarily of roughly half the majority Muslim nations, Russia, China and North Korea]].

* TheCavalry: The Hogwarts staff show up to force the Necromancer to retreat when the main characters are having trouble with him.

* BigBad: The Necromancer is the main antagonistic force.

%%* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler:Lily]] accidentally kills [[spoiler:the Black Knight]] by blowing up a bridge. %%Not confirmed, yet.

%%* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler:The Black Knight]] falls to his death off of a bridge. %%Not confirmed, yet.

** To ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''. In the Triwizard Tournament, the Hogwarts team ghostbust Peeves, complete with proton packs.

* ADayInTheLimelight: Sheriff Ned in Chapter 6.

->''Don't expect this extra life to last very long, "Tommy". I mean really, I basically killed you with Expelliarmus. Oh, and before I could walk. And with my bare hands. As dark wizards go, you're kind of a pushover.''
-->—'''Harry Potter''', to a revived Voldemort

!Tropes in Harry Potter Comics

* TheBadGuyWins: When the Necromancer successfully [[spoiler:takes over Hogwarts]].

** Pulled off twice in a row: Harry and Ginny save James from Voldemort, and the Hogwarts Staff shows up to force the Necromancer to retreat soon after.

* CerebusSyndrome: The comic started out fairly light with hint of a bigger storyline, and even a holiday special. But with the chapters 7 and 9, things have gotten much more serious.

* Crossover: A bunch of fictional stories are actually true and their being fiction is part of TheMasquerade.

BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Ron Weasley]] gets brainwashed and turned against his friends while he's captured.

%%BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Ron]] gets brainwashed and turned against his friends while he's captured.

BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Ron]] gets brainwashed and turned against his friends while he's captured.

* WhamEpisode: [[spoiler: A nuke is launched at London, and [[BrokenMasquerade magic is exposed]] when all the wizards of London cast a mass shield charm in order to contain it.]]

* WorldWarIII: Begins during a time skip as a result of [[spoiler:hybrid magicically invisible nuclear weapons nearly destroying London (and also revealing the existence of magic unveiled to the muggle world) as the prelude to a conventional invasion from an alliance consisting primarily of roughly half the majority Muslim nations, Russia, China and North Korea]].

* WorldWarIII: Begins during a time skip as a result of [[spoiler:the existence of magic being unveiled to the muggle world]].

** One of the Muslim terrorists, Ahmad, helps subdue his brothers after realizing the true scope of his prior actions.

* MagicBullets: Literal here… Sheriff Ned and Deputy Bart both have access to these thanks to Arthur Weasley.

* MaliciousMisnaming: [[http://harrypottercomics.net/257.html Medria has called Ahmad]] Literature/{{Sinbad}}, Literature/{{Aladdin}}, and [[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Towelie]] after they and the Dark Knight break out of Azkaban.

* MistakenForTerrorist: Inverted. Only Medria (a villain) gives the three Muslims in the Ministry of Magic a hard time. Until it turns out that they ARE terrorists.
* MuggleBornOfMages: The Dark Knight is a Squib. But he makes up for this with magical artificing, especially in his kevlar/full plate/magic resistant armor.
* MugglesDoItBetter: Played with. Medria uses a mix of magic and modern technology to become a world-class thief. On the good side, Sheriff Ned is almost completely useless when it comes to dragons and [[ForceField forcefields]], yet (with some help) he took down a magic-proof beast as well as a Werewolf by himself ([[SideKick Bart]] helped too).

* OvernightAgeUp: [[http://harrypottercomics.net/248.html Poor poor Rosie.]] [[spoiler:[[http://harrypottercomics.net/284.html She gets better, though.]]]]

* Revenge: Ted Morely is out to get revenge on James for transfiguring him into a goblet and making him lose his place on his Quidditch team through the Triwizard Tournament. His attempts so far have included poisoning, and letting in monsters into the castle during the Yule Ball.

* TheStarscream: Voldemort is not happy that he's been DemotedToDragon. For this reason, the Necromancer hopes that he'll be able to pull a YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness on him.

* WorldWarIII: Begins during a time skip as a result of the existence of magic being unveiled to the muggle world.

* NoInnerFourthWall: Literature/TheLordOfTheRings books and movies exist in this universe. They are also real history, but most people (including wizards) don't know it.

* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Arcturus Ronolphin Cagney embraced his werewolfdom to the level that he takes measures to force his change by simulating a full moon with magic. Thanks to his resistance potion, he can even use magic while transformed.

* SadistTeacher: The Creature who takes over the potions master position. He takes house points from Albus and Scorpius for being friends due to their respective house histories, gave all of the students make up work for the time he wasn't a professor and even tries to deduct points from Sheriff Ned for asking him a question.
* TheSantaClause: Harry Potter and the Santa Clause apparently exist in the same universe. Also see ''Stargate: SG-1''.

* ShipTease: Neville and Luna get a bit at the beginning of the Christmas Special.
** Scorpius and Rosie also get a little bit.

* SkywardScream: Ron gives one after finding out Rosie is in, wait for it: "HUFFLEPUFF!"
** This becomes a running gag in a short time.

* Franchise/StargateVerse: Exists in the same universe as Harry Potter, as seen in the Christmas Special.

* TookALevelInBadass: Ron, fighting two Muslim Terrorist Wizards simultaneously after transfiguring his wand into a sword.

* TwoLinesNoWaiting: Occasionally, as the kids have adventures at Hogwarts while the adults try and stop the BigBad but the plotlines have met many times.

** VictoriousChildhoodFriend: After being rescued from kidnappers, Rosie reveals that she did like Scorpius. The ensuing make out session squicked both their fathers.

* BadassNormal: Sheriff Ned may be just a Muggle, but he's able to take out the Magic-Resistant creature the Necromancer created by just shooting it in the throat.
* BalefulPolymorph: Both parodied and played straight.

* BerserkButton: Apparently wizards tend to automatically assume if they encounter a doppelganger, it's an evil clone sent to kill them,and will respond in kind. [[http://harrypottercomics.net/331.html Not so much with muggles:]]

** [[spoiler:Well, so far it seems not, what with them being abducted by pirates...[[ZigZaggedTrope Maybe it'll get better?]]]]

** ''Series/StargateSG1'': SG1 is seen being contacted for help during the first Christmas arc. They also help out during the second Christmas arc.

%%** ''Franchise/EvilDead'':

%%** ''Film/TheSantaClause'':

** ''Series/StargateSG1'': SG1 is seen being contacted for help during the first Christmas arc.

* ShoutOut: To ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''. In the Triwizard Tournament, the Hogwarts team ghostbust Peeves, complete with proton packs.

* HufflepuffHouse: Rosie Weasley's indecisiveness landed her in Hufflepuff House, much to Ron's [[BigWordShout chagrin.]]

%%** Series/StargateSG1:

* Crossover: ''Film/TheSantaClause, Franchise/MenInBlack, Series/StargateSG1, Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium, Franchise/EvilDead, Film/JamesBond,'' and who knows what else?
* DeadGuyJunior: James, Albus and Teddy, naturally. James seems to take after his namesake more than the other though.

* ShoutOut:
** To ''Film/{{Ghostbusters}}''. In the Triwizard Tournament, the Hogwarts team ghostbust Peeves, complete with proton packs.
** To ''Literature/TheMagicSchoolBus''. Rose's friend Melody had Ms. Frizzle for a teacher "at [her] old school."[[note]]"At my old school..." is the catchphrase of one of the characters.[[/note]]