Line #51 FanFic/TomRiddlesSchooldays


1	-> ''“Many of the things you do here at Hogwarts can earn you House points if you do them well enough, and any transgressions can lose points from the House. So make sure to play by the rules at all times – and donʼt get caught doing anything you shouldnʼt.”''
2	-->-- '''Professor Slughorn''', teaching his students that it's only a transgression if you get caught
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4	Tom Riddle's Schooldays is an aborted fanfiction set in the Harry Potter universe, about [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Tom Riddle jr.'s time as a student at Hogwarts]]. Of seven planned installments, the first three, "Year 1: Silver Blood", "Year 2: Fathomless Fears", "Year 3: Masquerade" and "Year 4: Serpens Sub Rosa" can no longer be found.
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7	!!This work provides examples of:
8	* AcademicAlphaBitch: Belinda Jabez. Marca is more of a team player, but no less ambitious.
9	* AdvantageBall: Tom usually holds this, although he occasionally passes it to Marca.
10	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Jana develops a crush on Tom quite fast.
11	* AntiHero: Tom, doing [[MindScrew good and "selfless" things for selfish reasons]].
12	* BlindIdiotTranslation: The Perevodal Glass translates things word-for-word.
13	* BrilliantButLazy: Tom thinks on his feet, [[TheStrategist strategizes like an expert]], and apparently taught himself to read using the few books in the orphanage. He still rises to the top of his class mostly by reading the minds of more industrious classmates.
14	* {{Bookworm}}: Not only are most of the important characters this, but there is a pet version.
15	* CaptainObvious: Marca sees people who compliment her as this. Ironic, in that she often is this herself.
16	* ChildrenAreInnocent: Inverted with Tom. Played straight with Jana.
17	* CloudCuckoolander:
18	** Jana when she drinks a strong Draught of Peace.
19	** Elvira Highcastle in general.
20	* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Tom both feels this way and like he'd at least like to know who his father was.
21	* ConvenientlyCoherentThoughts: Mostly {{Averted}}. Tom almost only hears relevant thoughts when he and the other person are focused on the same task.
22	%%* CreepyChild: Tom, obviously.
23	%%* DeadpanSnarker: Marca.
24	* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Divination efforts in the second book pointing to "the Hogwarts Champion being a female girl of the feminine sex".
25	* DisproportionateRetribution: Belinda to Jana. Trying to [[spoiler:put someone in permanent coma]] is hardly commensurate to the crime of being made replacement Seeker.
26	* Expy: The translation device sounds just like Google Translate.
27	* EyeScream: What Tom does to the [[spoiler:unicorn]] he traps.
28	* FantasticRacism: It's amazing how quickly Tom takes the cultural notion that Muggles and by extension Muggleborns are bad, being outsiders, and turns it into Muggles being objectively worthless by virtue of not having magic. Unlike his older cannon self, he doesn't mind Muggleborns, seeing as they ''do'' have magic.
29	* FourPhilosophyEnsemble:
30	** Optimist: Tiernan
31	** Cynic: Tom
32	** Apathetic: Marca
33	** Realist: Antonin
34	* HairTriggerTemper: When something annoys Tom, it ''infuriates'' him. Noteworthy in that he can control himself, and never so much as throws a tantrum.
35	* IfItsYouItsOkay: While there's no prejudice against different sexualities, there is quite a lot of pressure to get married and have children, especially on Purebloods, so for a gay person the spouse pretty much has to be this.
36	* IHaveNoSon: Jana's Muggle parents. If you overlook the fact that she has a brother, they are in fact correct about that.
37	* IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat: Tom is at first confused that things he can do magically don't come naturally to the other children.
38	** Also {{Inverted}}, as before he learned of magic he had assumed he was the only one in the world who could do that.
39	* LivingForeverIsAwesome: Tom feels that all magical folk, but himself first and foremost, ought to be immortal.
40	* MeaningfulName:
41	** Belinda means "bright serpent". Brightly colored snakes are supposed to be the most venomous.
42	** Jana means "two-faced".
43	* MissingMom: And dad. Tom knows little about his parents except that his mother died in childbirth and that he's named for his father. Interestingly, he assumes his father is the magical parent, reasoning that a witch mother would not have given birth at a Muggle orphanage.
44	* MostWritersAreAdults: Tom doesn't think like your typical eleven-year-old. In fact, none of the children do.
45	%%* ParentalAbandonment: Both Tom and Jana.
46	* ParentalNeglect: Tom's orphanage is run by a drunk.
47	* PluckyGirl: Jana. Taking a Quidditch field to the face does absolutely nothing to halt her cheer, and the fact that she never beats Tom at dueling doesn't mean she stops trying.
48	* {{Pun}}:
49	--> '''Marca''': I think, that it is a wise observation.
50	--> '''Tom''': Well, I am a wizard.
51	* PunnyName: Marca Zelyonaya shares her name with a brand of vodka.
52	* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: Marca, all the time.
53	* ShoutOut: There is a student named Nettleskip, in reference to canon Snape's real-life inspiration.
54	* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Tom establishes his intellectual dominance on the train by winning a chess game against Archibald Aardwolf with a SurpriseCheckMate. Bonus points for it being a realistic chess match.
55	--> [=1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Bc4 Qh4+ 4.g3 fxg3 5.Qf3 g2+ 6.Ke2 gxh1=Q 7.Qxf7+ Kd8 8.Qxf8#=]
56	* {{Sssssnaketalk}}: Parseltongue with its traditionally long sibilants.
57	* TransEqualsGay: Defied: she likes boys.
58	%%* TranslatorMicrobes: The Perevodal Glass
59	* UnreliableNarrator: The way Tom thinks about Dumbledore, you'd think the man was pure evil. Could be modelled on how Hitler would describe Churchill.
60	* WarIsGlorious: Antonin's father thinks this, but he also thinks Antonin should grow up and get an education before attempting to fight in the [[Usefulnotes/WorldWarII war that's brewing in Europe]], thus averting ChildSoldiers.
61	* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Tom's friends are not sentimental about, for instance, House elves. Tom himself takes this approach to everyone, even other wizards, regardless of blood status.
62	* WouldHitAGirl: Tom happily uses vicious tactics against Jana in their duels.

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