History YMMV / StrangeAndInvisibleHistory

%%* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The Death Eaters.
* DracoInLeatherPants: Pretty much everyone except Voldemort gets this but it’s {{Deconstructed}}. These people [[OffScreenVillainy do awful things]] but are mainly seen with the people they care about.

* {{Moral Event Horizon}}:

%%* RonTheDeathEater: The members of the Order suffer a little from this.

** The description of Tamm’s eye.

**
--->'''Barty:''' The Bad Thing was all for nothing. Wasn't it?
--->'''Snape:''' Yes.

** [[AdultFear The horror of being made to watch as one's child(ren) are forced to commit increasingly brutal actions, sacrificed as political pawns and made to do things you know are damaging them, totally aware that you are responsible for it, helpless to do anything but observe your beloved son or daughter gradually becoming an emotionally wrecked child soldier with no chance for anything like a normal life. And it's all your fault.]]

** Nagini. With an infant. [[AdultFear While his parents are watching.]]

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The Death Eaters.

* RonTheDeathEater: The members of the Order suffer a little from this.

-->'''Barty:''' The Bad Thing was all for nothing. Wasn't it?
-->'''Snape:''' Yes.
** Before this, Barty asks if he can meet the Longbottoms. Because they're broken like he is.
** The entirety of Neville's conversation with Barty.
* TheWoobie:
** [[BreakTheHaughty Draco Malfoy is thoroughly broken by the end of part one.]]
** [[IronWoobie Hermione and Krum.]]
** You know how [[JerkassWoobie Snape]] won over the fangirls in ''Deathly Hallows'' with his tragic back story and [[spoiler: constant love for Lily Potter?]] Now he has see Voldemort looking at him [[spoiler: with Lily's eyes. He failed to protect her son.]] Dude needs a hug.
** Emmeline Vance.
** Barty Crouch Jr.
** Sose Tamm.

* CompleteMonster: Voldemort. Surprisingly, his Death Eaters are given just enough PetTheDog moments to avoid this.

* DeliberateValuesDissonance:
** The Death Eaters regard Rodolphus and Bellatrix's penchant for public sex on raids as an amusing eccentricity, and tend to politely ignore it, even having conversations with one or both of them directly after (as in, they're still joined together).
** Pureblood men typically love their wives and want them to be happy. Except that nice women don't like being intimate, so women who do are clearly prostitutes. Not everyone actually believes this, but people give it lip-service, and this is basically what Narcissa tells Hermione when she gives her the Talk.
** Lucius scolds Hermione for saying 'please'to an elf. 'One doesn't ask an elf, love, one commands them.'
** Bellatrix agrees that Hermione can [[spoiler: keep being friends with Alise]] but only as long as she's getting something from the friendship, as it's only acceptable for the higher orders to mingle with the lower orders as long as the superior person benefits personally.
** It's totally acceptable for people of the same gender to platonically share beds. If anything, a person who wants to sleep alone if they don't need to is odd, and being unkind by depriving another person of companionship.
** Lucius is proud of Draco when he finds out Draco is the one who does most of the babysitting, because far from being unmasculine, it shows he'll be a good father and provider when he's grown.

** Before this, Barty asks if he can meet the Longbottoms. Because they're broken like he is.

** [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Nagini.]] With an infant. [[AdultFear While his parents are watching.]]

** Barty Crouch Jr.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel:
** Harry’s fate.

* {{Moral Event Horizon}}:
** [[spoiler: Stefan]] crosses it when he murders his uncle [[spoiler:Grigor Borev]] to claim his title and then uses it to conscript thousands of peasants, burning their homes and driving their women and children into the forest (in Eastern Europe, in December) to die. The fact he talks casually about his men raping the women is icing on the cake.
** [[spoiler: Travers]] goes over when he admits cheerfully to his mistress [[spoiler: Rita Skeeter]] that he was the one who loosed the [[spoiler:Dementors]] on the muggle village to test their capabilities, and justifies it by pointing out they're only muggles.
** The Dark Lord wins extra points for managing a ShoutOut during his MEH. 'Take her away, [[spoiler: Lucius]]. We have never been able to abide the snivelling of women.'
** This is after he announces [[spoiler: he has no intention of honouring his treaty and saving Bulgaria, including Hermione, Viktor and Draco, and fully means to leave them to die.]]

** Emmeline Vance.

** You know how [[JerkassWoobie Snape]] won over the fangirls in ''Deathly Hallows'' with his tragic back story and [[spoiler: constant love for Lily Potter?]] Now he has see Voldemort looking at him [[spoiler: with Lily's eyes. He failed to protect her son.]] Dude needs a hug.

** The Dark Lord wins extra points for managing a {{shout-out}} during his MEH. 'Take her away, [[spoiler: Lucius]]. We have never been able to abide the snivelling of women.'

* Deliberate Values Dissonance:

** It's perfectly acceptable for a higher-class person to inconvenience or order a lower-class one about, as the lower orders have an obligation to serve their betters. This applies even if the higher-class person is decades younger.
** Educating the lower orders beyond precisely what they need is strongly discouraged, lest they think themselves equal to their betters.
** Wizards believe that house elves exist solely to serve them, despite being sentient.

** The implication that Crouch Sr knowingly sent innocent people to Azkban because they knew too much about the illegal activities he was encouraging aurors to commit.
** The Dark Lord ordering Snape to sell Hermione to cement an alliance. The family is forced to pretend to be happy as they have a mock-wedding night[[/folder it makes sense in context]] for the engaged couple, who are twelve and fifteen[[/folder nothing is supposed to be to happen and it doesn't]]. [[spoiler: Hermione]] sleeps with the doll that her new mother-in-law-to-be made her that night.
** Draco and Viktor calmly discussing what will happen to the women if the castle falls to [[spoiler: Pavel's werewolves]] and then agreeing to on a {{MercyKill course of action}}. They're twelve and fifteen at the time.

** [[AdultFear The existential horror of being made to watch as one's child(ren) are forced to commit increasingly brutal actions, sacrificed as political pawns and made to do things you know are damaging them, totally aware that you are responsible for it, helpless to do anything but observe your beloved son or daughter gradually becoming an emotionally wrecked child soldier with no chance for anything like a normal life. And it's all your fault.]]

* [[AdultFear The existential horror of being made to watch as one's child(ren) are forced to commit increasingly brutal actions, sacrificed as political pawns and made to do things you know are damaging them, totally aware that you are responsible for it, helpless to do anything but observe your beloved son or daughter gradually becoming an emotionally wrecked child soldier with no chance for anything like a normal life. And it's all your fault.]]
* Barty's revelation that he sometimes remembers what he was like. Imagine being mentally seven years old and having the occasional moment of realising what you've become, and what you did to get there, and being unable to understand it or put them it context at all.

* Barty's revelation that he sometimes remembers what he was like. Imagine being mentally seven years old and having the occasional moment of realising what you've become, and what you did to get there, and being unable to understand them or put them into context at all.

* [[AdultFear The existential horror of being made to watch as one's child(ren) are forced to commit increasingly brutal actions, sacrificed as political pawns and then [[spoiler: disgarded when they've outlived their usefulness]] and knowing that you are responsible for it, helpless to do anything but observe your beloved son or daughter gradually becoming an emotionally wrecked child soldier with no chance for anything like a normal life. And it's all your fault.]]
* Barty's revelation that he sometimes remembers what he was like. Imagine being mentally seven years old and having the occasional moment of realising what you've become, and what you did to get there.

** [[spoiler: Stefan]] crosses it when he murders his uncle [[spoiler:Grigor Borev]] to claim his title and then uses it to conscript thousands of peasants, burning their homes and driving their women and children into the forest (in Eastern Europe,in December) to die. The fact he talks casually about his men raping the women is icing on the cake.

** The Dark Lord wins extra points for managing a {{shout-out}}during his MEH. 'Take her away, [[spoiler: Lucius]]. We have never been able to abide the snivelling of women.'

** [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Nagini.]] With an infant. [[AdultFear While his parents are watching.]]

** [[IronWoobie Hermione and Krum.]]