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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:And then ... Harry Potter HISSED[[note]][[https://discord.com/channels/@me/958872439444627566]] By Lunatico]][[/note]] |
| 3 | -> ''Harry Potter was Sorted into Slytherin after a crappy childhood. His brother Jim is believed to be the BWL. Think you know this story? Think again.'' |
| 4 | ''Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin'' is a ''Literature/HarryPotter'' DeconstructionFic (with some elements of a DeconReconSwitch) exploring the common [[TheUnChosenOne Wrong Boy-Who-Lived]] premise of many HP fanfictions. It spans multiple books and is being written by The Sinister Man. |
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| 6 | The story makes use of many common ''Harry Potter'' [[FandomSpecificPlot/HarryPotter fandom tropes]] (e.g. Harry [[TheUnChosenOne living in the shadow]] of his [[UnfitForGreatness famous]] [[OriginalCharacter brother]]) and deconstructs or lampshades many others. |
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| 10 | The work is split into four books so far: |
| 11 | * Book 1 - ''Harry Potter and the Prince of Slytherin'' (''complete'') |
| 12 | * Book 2 - ''Harry Potter and the Secret Enemy'' (''complete'') |
| 13 | * Book 3 - ''Harry Potter and the Death Eater Menace'' (''complete'') |
| 14 | * Book 4 - ''Harry Black and the Resurrection Game'' |
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| 16 | It can be read on [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11191235/1/ fanfiction.net]] and [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1119027 AO3]]. |
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| 19 | !! This fanfic provides examples of: |
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| 23 | [[folder:A-H]] |
| 24 | * AbusiveParents: |
| 25 | ** [[spoiler:Sort of subverted]] with the Dursleys, as they abuse and mistreat Harry for years [[spoiler:because they are under a HatePlague spell]]; |
| 26 | ** James and Lily are of the neglectful kind, as they abandoned Harry with the Dursleys in the first place; |
| 27 | ** Edwina Pettigrew (nee Gamp), who is an AttentionWhore who pretended to be sick all the time and forced her son to live in poverty. [[spoiler:Though his father was no better, as the son of one of Grindelwald's lieutenants who plotted to have his wife suffer DeathByChildbirth so he could claim the Gamp's Wizengamot seat]]. |
| 28 | ** Tiberius Nott has been actively looking for a way to ruin Theo's life, if not outright murder him, since Theo was five years old, if not before. While he does have some regard for his older son and Heir Alex, that affection is limited to the ways he can manipulate Alex to follow in his footsteps, and he doesn't care about Alex as an independent person. |
| 29 | ** [[spoiler:Narcissa Black (formerly Malfoy)]] attempts to outright murder her son after he chooses to stay with her ex-husband during their divorce proceedings |
| 30 | * AdaptationalBadass: This version of Lockhart is flashy but not just a pompous fraud. [[spoiler: Probably because he's not really Lockhart but one of his would-be Memory Charm victims who instead got the better of him.]] |
| 31 | ** Meanwhile, the other main point of divergence -- aside from Jim's birth -- is that Peter Pettigrew is far more intelligent than in canon, closer to a mastermind than a cowardly stool-pigeon; he willingly sold out the Potters, framed Sirius when it backfired, and has been steadily working his way into a more advantageous position ever since. |
| 32 | ** Slytherin's Basilisk is a lot more powerful. While it lost its killing gaze, petrifying people instead, it also has a HealingFactor, its scales are resistant to magic and it's implied it has {{Immortality}}. |
| 33 | * AdaptationalGenderIdentity: [[spoiler:Rita Skeeter]] is revealed to have been born male. |
| 34 | * AdaptationalHeroism: Snape suffers from this because the author dislikes how much of an unsympathetic {{Jerkass}} canon Snape is, whose only saving grace was being played by the extremely charismatic Creator/AlanRickman. |
| 35 | ** Played with in regards to Tom Riddle. Unlike canon, he seems to have initially been a WellIntentionedExtremist who wanted to protect Muggleborns by framing the Purebloods through petrifying the Muggleborns. His plan worked until Myrtle was accidentally killed and he reacted by using Occlumency to suppress all guilt, remorse or compassion, thus resulting in his StartOfDarkness. Things got worse once he split his soul... |
| 36 | ** Similarly, Bellatrix ''Lestrange'' is just as bad if not worse than her canon counterpart. Bellatrix ''Black'', on the other hand... |
| 37 | ** Lucius Malfoy's allegiance to Voldemort was always spotty at best, and becomes nonexistent once he learns about the Horcruxes. That said, when he thinks a conspiracy is found out, he is perfectly willing to abandon his co-conspirators to their fate while spiriting himself and Draco away, although negotiations with the discoverer make this unnecessary. |
| 38 | ** Barty Crouch Sr. turns out to be a ReasonableAuthorityFigure rather than the merciless {{Jerkass}} that he was in canon. |
| 39 | * AdaptationalExpansion: The series goes into greater details about the culture of the wizarding world and magical history. |
| 40 | ** Also parselmagic is a branch of magic, in which spells (particularly [[RedMage healing and offensive spells]]) are cast in parseltongue. |
| 41 | * AdaptationalIntelligence: Marcus Flint is, while not a genius, still smart enough to be able to improve his [=OWLs=] grades through sheer will and effort, mostly because the author thought he had a cool name that was wasted in canon. |
| 42 | * AdaptationalNameChange: Harry's real name is Hadrian Remus Potter[[spoiler: (later Black)]], though he goes by Harry. |
| 43 | * AdaptationalSexuality: [[spoiler:Viktor Krum]] was only ever portrayed as interested in women in canon; here, he is quite happily (albeit secretly) dating Alex Nott. |
| 44 | * AdaptationalSpeciesChange: Well, technically ethnicity change, still, [[spoiler:Blaise Zabini]] was Pureblood in the books, but here he's a Muggleborn who is HappilyAdopted by his Pureblooded aunt. |
| 45 | ** In canon, Professor Flitwick is portrayed as being part-goblin. Here, this is not the case, as he is [[spoiler: a FULL goblin]]. No one realizes this due to the fact that [[spoiler:the goblin race as a whole disguise themselves as their uglier forms when in public, and Flitwick's appearance is their natural one]]. |
| 46 | * AdaptationalWimp: Fiendfyre, which in canon can consume a room as large as the Great Hall in ten minutes, is here a lot more controllable, though no less dangerous. The problem is, said control is harder to gain in the first place because in order to cast Fiendfyre, you must have had an enemy at some point in your life that you despise so much you are willing to use absolutely any means to destroy them, even at the cost of ruining all you hold dear or the attack becoming suicidal. Anyone feeling like this is likely to unleash it in reckless fury unless they manage to control themselves and set a plan of action beforehand. |
| 47 | * AerithAndBob: Iacomus Evan Potter, who goes by James "Jim" Potter Jr. |
| 48 | * AffablyEvil: Peter Pettigrew is this when it comes to James, Remus, and Jim (not to mention his Death Eater allies). Everyone else finds him more than a little bit unsettling. |
| 49 | * AlcoholInducedIdiocy: James Potter sends a very ill-advised howler to Harry on his first day of Hogwarts where he threatens to snap his wand if he steps out of line, due to his partaking of this trope the night before when he learned that, after centuries of drastic measures to avoid it, a Potter had finally been sorted into Slytherin. |
| 50 | ** Chavdarov's Folly, aka how Viktor Krum became the Bulgarian team's seeker at seventeen, is an example. Chavdarov, the previous Seeker for the team, went and got drunk two days before a match and ending up riding through the streets on the back of a bear while naked and blatantly breaking the Statute of Secrecy. This led to his arrest. Of course there was a reserve seeker...who had interfered when he saw his teammate making a spectacle of himself only to have a fatal run in with the aforementioned bear. This led to the team turning to the still school-aged Krum out of sheer desperation. |
| 51 | * AloofBigBrother: Harry is this to Jim for the most part, though at his nastiest, he can be a BigBrotherBully. |
| 52 | * AlternatePersonalityPunishment: The feud between Hermione and Daphne has its origins in the fact that Daphne's cruel comments [[spoiler: caused Theo Nott to kill himself in an alternate timeline]], something that Daphne is completely unaware of. |
| 53 | * AmbiguousSituation: The interactions between Harry and Moody at the start of fourth year are very careful to throw fuel on the fire of the idea that Moody has been replaced by Crouch Jr., like he was in canon, but at the same time leaving just enough uncertainty to make readers wonder if the author is [[NotHisSled subverting canon again]]. |
| 54 | * AmoralAttorney: Peter Pettigrew gained a Law Mastery and became the solicitor of the Potters, along with their Stewart and proxy in the Wizengamot. His reputation as a man pretending to be clean but is obviously the political fixer behind war hero James Potter who does the dirty work and keeps House Potter's hands clean hides his continued Death Eater allegiance and ultimate loyalty only to himself (except for what appears to be genuine love or at least respect for his godson Jim). |
| 55 | * AmputationStopsSpread: [[spoiler: Lucius Malfoy]] is forced to sever his own arm to stop a lethal curse after putting on the ring Horcrux. How effective his admittedly quick actions were in actually stopping the curse remains to be seen. |
| 56 | * AntiClimax: Double subverted. Harry silences Tom Riddle's shade from unleashing the basilisk and because the shade failed to get a wand, it can't DispelMagic the Silencing Charm, thus leaving it stuck in the Chamber. Unfortunately Tom decides to possess Ron and use his wand to disarm the Potter brothers while they are arguing. |
| 57 | * ArrangedMarriage: [[spoiler:Tiberius Nott tries to use this strategy to marry the significantly younger Amaryllis Wilkes and take over her House's assets.]] |
| 58 | ** The marriage between Lucius and Narcissa was arranged to increase the political power of the Death Eaters. |
| 59 | * ArmedWithCanon: The author picks elements of the book series and often expands them to their LogicalExtreme. |
| 60 | ** It is possible (though difficult) to learn Parseltongue because it's an actual language, albeit an inherently magical one, and most Parselmouths are not born with it. Salazar Slytherin used magic to make his Parseltongue hereditary so its magical powers couldn't become a LostTechnology. [[spoiler:Ironically, Ron Weasley acquires it accidentally after his possession by Tom Riddle.]] |
| 61 | ** Aurors can't get into Hogwarts because the founders established that in order to keep the school independent from the magical government. This is the reason why Dumbledore didn't request an army of Aurors to patrol Hogwarts during the basilisk attacks as Hogwarts would see them as an hostile invaders and lash out. |
| 62 | ** Ron's inability to pronounce spells is the result of dyslexia, which is a trait he shares with his father. |
| 63 | * ArmorPiercingQuestion: Harry's unusual intelligence and maturity just seem to be an example of the OP Harry common in Slytherin!Harry fics *until* Chapter 69, when Luna points out that regardless of how smart he was, Harry simply never would have had the chance to develop an adult vocabulary while living with the Dursleys. "For someone who was actively prevented from getting a good primary education, you know lots of things. Do you know how you know them?" It is Harry's first clue as to the existence of [[spoiler: Bob]]. |
| 64 | * ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: When Lavender recalls all the ways Jim lost them 35 house points in under a minute. |
| 65 | * AscendedMeme: Chapter 161 features a hilarious take on the "DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE, HARRY!" meme. Also, in that same scene, Harry himself admits that he put his name into the Goblet of Fire because he'd been told it would be impossible for him to beat the age line. "And I took that personally," he adds, a reference to the famous Michael Jordan meme. |
| 66 | * AwesomeByAnalysis: Natural Legilimens have a preternatural deductive genius similar to the SherlockScan. It allows them, amongst other things, to know how to talk to someone to get what they want by looking at their body language. |
| 67 | * BadFuture: The Time-turner exists to prevent this, sending it's intended user in a MentalTimeTravel voyage while resetting the rest of the universe as it was in the moment that is returned to, conveniently preventing any paradoxes by arranging so that the recipient is always able to return it to it's container at the exact same time they received it in their personal timeline that no longer exists. It's use has been refused by some of the intended wielders, always causing large amounts of casualties, and the only time the Unspeakables themselves refused to use it believing that it had made an error in choosing a prominent dark witch who was currently imprisoned, it caused a ButterflyOfDoom that allowed Grindewald to rise to power. |
| 68 | ** In ''Death Eater Menace'', [[spoiler: Hermione comes from one such future where her friends were dead and Death Eaters ascendant. After Harry and Jim lose their souls to the dementor that Neville ended up banishing on train in the altered timeline, a series of events ends in a Death Eater lead government. Hermione was about to flee Britain when the Unspeakables arrived with the Time Turner.]] |
| 69 | * BagOfHolding: Hermione's beaded purse shows up early, but it's probably outclassed by Lily's "Battle Purse." |
| 70 | * BaitAndSwitch: In chapter 32, it seems that Snape has been entranced by Harry's green eyes, but it was in fact Neville's because his father Frank once saved him from the Marauders. |
| 71 | ** When Ginny is [[spoiler:sorted into Slytherin]], there's an owl carrying a howler next morning at breakfast. However the howler is for Ron as Molly berates him for stealing his father's FlyingCar. |
| 72 | ** Draco tells his father of the advances made by Muggles in the economy and suggest they have better ideas than wizards. Then Lucius draws his wand ... make some privacy charms, and answers why the wizard economy is different, proud of his son for the question. |
| 73 | * BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: There is a scene where Snape has to use legilimency on Bellatrix in order to [[spoiler: locate the Horcrux Voldemort gave her]] only to find that her mind has psychic traps and defenses of a highly deadly variety courtesy of Augustus Rookwood. This trope results. |
| 74 | * BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: Shakespeare had a play called ''Love's Labours Won'', a romantic comedy about star-crossed lovers attending Hogwarts together, which was erased from the memory of the Muggle world when the Statute of Secrecy was enacted. |
| 75 | * BeneathTheMask: Jim Potter despises a lot of the excessive attention he gets from the public and fans, and even Harry is surprised by how good he is at masking his emotions when confronted with unwarrated attention. |
| 76 | * BewareTheNiceOnes: Theo Nott is by far the nicest and most mild mannered of the Slytherins in Harry circle. This does not mean that he cannot be a dangerous and ruthless enemy when push comes to shove and his friends' lives are on the line, as his father learned a little bit too late. |
| 77 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: The Toymaker is the textbook example of this as, despite his affable personality, he is basically the Wizard version of ComicBook/TheJoker and his "toys" will kill you or drive you mad before you know what hit you. There is a reason that the only characters more feared than him are Voldemort himself, and possibly Augustus Rookwood, even though he has been dead for over a decade. |
| 78 | ** Fred and George also show that they are nothing to sneeze at either when their Canary Creams work their magic on a group of attacking Death Eaters only to wear off when the Death Eaters are [[DisneyVillainDeath fifty feet in the air]]. |
| 79 | * BeyondTheImpossible: All Occlumency experts, even the Unspeakables, believe that only 7 different mindstreams are possible, and the greatest masters who tried to pass this managed to maintain it for a few minutes before dying of brain aneurysms. Rookwood has [[spoiler:''49'', although it's speculated that this is only possible due to the arithmantic value of the number 7 which is considered the strongest and 7 times 7 is 49 and because Rookwood is an insanely hardworking genius, and that having between 8 and 48 and 50 or above is still impossible]]. |
| 80 | * BigBrotherBully: Harry can be this at his nastiest but mostly he's just an AloofBigBrother. Played straight and deconstructed with the Weasley twins who don't think their actions are that bad until they realize how traumatized Ron is because of their cruel pranks. |
| 81 | * BigBrotherInstinct: Unlike their father, Alex Nott is nothing but loving and protective towards Theo. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, his attempt to threaten their father into not harming Theo backfires; their father exploits their love for each other to make Alex swear an Unbreakable Vow to serve Voldemort if he returns in exchange for a vow not to harm Theo, then tricks Theo into falsely confessing to theft to protect his brother so he can disown him anyways via Sanctumen Ultimo.]] |
| 82 | ** Goyle towards his family's ward, Amy Wilkes, who is the daughter of a {{Sadist}}ic WickedToymaker. |
| 83 | ** When Ginny is sorted into [[spoiler:Slytherin]], George, Fred, and Percy are all very supportive of her. George even hugs her first thing on the morning after the Sorting. |
| 84 | * BigFancyHouse: Potter Manor. Also, Malfoy Manor, which has stables with winged horses and an "ophidiarium." |
| 85 | * BigLittleMan: Harry and his friends return to the Chamber of Secrets at the start of fourth year to check up on whether or not the [[spoiler: reincarnated Basilisk has hatched yet]]. ''It has'' and it begins to make suitably epic and threatening pronouncements in parseltongue from offscreen...at which point it enters the characters view and turns out to be all of three feet long. |
| 86 | * BlackDudeDiesFirst: DownplayedTrope. [[spoiler: Kingsley Shacklebolt]] is the first canon good guy to die permanently, however it doesn't stand out as much as several OCs were KilledOffForReal before him [[spoiler: and several canon characters had their deaths reversed by time travel]] |
| 87 | * BlackSpeech: Parseltongue is treated this way by most of Wizarding Britain, despite it being actually beneficial at times, mainly due to the fact that Voldemort used it as a magical WeaponOfMassDestruction during his first reign of terror. It doesn't help that, according to Gupta, parseltongue results in a potent fear response in those who hear it but can't understand: |
| 88 | * BloodKnight: After murdering [[spoiler: Kingsley]] with his bare hands, [[spoiler: Peter]] finds using ''Avada Kedavra'' disappointingly mundane. |
| 89 | * BlueAndOrangeMorality: Peter genuinely thinks that making Remus kill while transformed and thus embracing "The Beast" is doing him a huge favor. |
| 90 | * BoringButPractical: The Slytherin Path is to look for the solution with the least resistance, the greatest advantage and the best results. |
| 91 | * BlueCollarWarlock: Artemus Podmore, one of Harry's solicitors, is described as having a progressive working class attitude while having a full Lord Bonneville attire. |
| 92 | * BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler: Ron Weasley]] and to a much less apocalyptic extent [[spoiler:Jim Potter]] go through this in year two due to unwittingly interacting with cursed books. |
| 93 | ** Rookwood has used his knowledge of the mind arts to do this to [[spoiler: Bellatrix]] in order to turn them into the fanatical Death Eater they became known for and he also did SOMETHING to [[spoiler: Umbridge]] that does not bode well. |
| 94 | * BrickJoke: In Chapter 65, Snape tells Harry that he wants to be there to see James's face when he learns about Lily's secret (and notorious) wizarding ancestry. Harry jokingly responds that, time permitting, he'll send Snape an engraved invitation. Sixty-six chapters later, guess what Harry hand delivers to Snape the night before a pivotal Wizengamot session. |
| 95 | * BrokenBird: Harry. |
| 96 | * BurnTheWitch: According to the author, in this fic the witch trails were [[OrwellianRetcon fabricated after the fact]] because wizards got tired of being dragged into muggles' political and military fights. |
| 97 | ** Dolores Umbridge's mother tried to drown her when she was eight because thought magic was the result of DemonicPossession. It resulted in her FantasticRacism for {{muggles}} and it's worse because [[spoiler:it wasn't even her real mother]]. |
| 98 | * TheBusCameBack: The new and improved version of Draco Malfoy makes his grand return when fourth year rolls around after having spent his third year enrolled at Durmstrang following his parents' bitter divorce. |
| 99 | ** The same could be said for Mad-Eye Moody who reappears at the start of fourth year after having been on a mysterious mission to Albania since about half way through the previous year's events. |
| 100 | * ButterflyOfDoom: Lily surviving Voldemort's attack on Godric's Hollow triggers this. Notably, she retains her hostility toward Snape in spite of all the sacrifices he has made for her and that she's responsible for one of her children being horribly abused and neglected. |
| 101 | ** Draco's letter to his mother after Harry forces him into an Unbreakable Vow also counts as this directly triggers Narcissa to [[spoiler:have her deranged house elf Mogli try to assassinate Harry]] which in turn indirectly leads to Lily Potter [[spoiler:killing Vernon Dursley]] and Narcissa eventually [[spoiler:leaving her family to go rally the remaining Death Eaters.]] |
| 102 | * [[CallingTheOldManOut Calling the Older Brothers Out]]: Ron does this to Fred and George when they decide to threaten him about being mean to Ginny after [[spoiler:she's sorted into Slytherin]], only for him to [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech call them out]] on their cruel pranks, and that makes Fred, always the most ruthless of the two, realize how much of a BigBrotherBully he has been. |
| 103 | * CarFu: Theo manages to destroy one of the stone gargoyles that his father is using to try and kill him by summoning the Knight Bus on top of it. |
| 104 | * CastFromHitPoints: Casting the Samsara healing spell in Parseltongue works this way. So far [[spoiler:Ron Weasley]] has done this on no less than three occasions to save the lives of his friends and family and each time has come dangerously close to killing him. |
| 105 | * TheChosenOne: We already know by WordOfGod that Harry is the true Boy-Who-Lived. [[spoiler:What we learn later is that Harry is most definitely the target of another prophecy, one foretelling the herald of an apocalypse!]] |
| 106 | * ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: The Slytherins who were complicit in framing George Weasley for the DeadlyPrank in year two which almost caused their own Quidditch team to freeze to death would probably have been able to get away with it without serious repercussions if they hadn't instantly fallen prey to this trope the second they were accused. |
| 107 | * ClosetGeek: Blaise Zabini fits this perfectly as he tries to hide the fact that his upbringing made him far more familiar with muggle culture than the other Slytherins might expect seeing as he will make sly references to Film/BillAndTedsExcellentAdventure and can't help but geek out when he finds out that there is, in fact, a spell to create a [[Franchise/StarWars lightsaber]]. |
| 108 | * ComicBookFantasyCasting: In the author's notes, he reveals who he would like to see play the characters. |
| 109 | * CoolAndUnusualPunishment: No strangers to psychological torture, the Azcabal decide to treat Rookwood to an infinite loop of ''Music/TinyTim''. Specifically, ''Tiptoe Through the Tulips''. For ''months.'' [[spoiler: It takes the world's greatest mind mage weeks to recover from that, and it's implied that he never fully does.]] |
| 110 | * CoolOldLady: Augusta Longbottom. In addition to being an exceptionally talented witch capable of taking on men half her age in a duel, Augusta also handles a crossbow! It also turns out that her stuffed vulture hat is used to ward off any unworthy suitors. During her brief appearance as [[spoiler:Regulus's]] metamorphmagus trainer, Cassiopeia Black has shades of this, though she often hides her true elderly form (and sometimes her gender) with other more youthful and virile ones. |
| 111 | * CosmicHorrorReveal: Done gradually, but largely centered around the contents of the ''Anathema Codex'', a listing of known wild magics which are impossible to control and considered even more forbidden than the Unforgivable Curses. Those proven to have cast an Unforgivable on a person are thrown into Azkaban for life, but anyone even ''suspected'' of being able to cast wild magic is thrown through the Veil of Death without trial. |
| 112 | ** Most clearly shown in Chapter 70, when Harry and friends use a Pensieve to view Luna's memories of how her mother died. They learn [[spoiler: that Pandora used a Codex spell to hide all knowledge of Luna's Heliopathy from the entire world. In doing so, she summoned a mysterious eldritch power that killed her in the process and which frightened the observers so much that they fled the memory. It then tried *to follow them out of the memory into the real world!* And while it was prevented from doing so, it destroyed the Pensieve (which had been described as nearly indestructible earlier in the chapter).]] |
| 113 | * CosmicHorrorStory: There is some strong elements, from a MindScrew house elf WizardDuel taking place in a pocket dimension to mentions of sleeping Old Gods and lakes made of human blood, that this fic has added as some seriously DarkerAndEdgier elements to the Potterverse. |
| 114 | * CosmicRetcon: Wizards and witches established TheMasquerade through a spell that erased all evidences of the existence of magic, which edited or outright erased memories and [[{{Unperson}} historical documents]], and even affected religious texts and literature. For instance, here Shakespeare had a play called ''Love's Labours Won'', a romantic comedy about star-crossed lovers attending Hogwarts together. |
| 115 | ** The naga were erased from existence due to all nagas obtaining magical powers and InYourNatureToDestroyYourselves, though [[RippleProofMemory humans still remembered]] elements of them, particularly Parseltongue. |
| 116 | * CreepyChild: The Carrow Twins are this taken up to eleven seeing as they are explicitly styled after the twins in Film/TheShining, they are grown from pods rather than being born, and are heavily implied to at least sometimes dine on human flesh. |
| 117 | * CrusadingWidow: The Wagga Wagga werewolf pack discover to their cost exactly how dangerous examples of this trope can be when they brutally kill the wife and child of the Australian auror Lazarus White (who is, unbeknownst to them, actually [[spoiler: Regulus Black]] in disguise) only to have the grieving father unleash fiendfire on them and wipe them off the face of the Earth. |
| 118 | * CurbStompBattle: In 1979 Dumbledore uses a deck of heavily enchanted standard Muggle playing cards to attack Voldemort. The assault from what's effectively 52 whirling buzzsaws of doom quickly degrades the dark wizard's Protego and forces him to flee in panic. |
| 119 | ** All the times a [[TooDumbToLive werewolf]] tries to intimidate Pettigrew they end up receiving one. |
| 120 | ** Harry easily destroy Peter Pettigrew in the Shrieking Shack. |
| 121 | * CynicismCatalyst: Finding out that his parents are alive and that he has a twin brother who they love was this for Harry. |
| 122 | * DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Once [[spoiler: Harry puts 7 thought paths towards the singular purpose of learning ''accio wand'']], it turns out that one becomes the only wandless, wordless spell he can ever use. Other Occlumens have experimented with that many paths, but the only one who's managed to do more than that and survive [[spoiler: is Rookwood. Who, it turns out, uses it to recover from a FateWorseThanDeath and become one of the main antagonists.]] |
| 123 | ** The Parseltongue Samsara spell could also be considered this as it is a healing spell that is CastFromHitPoints. |
| 124 | * DarkerAndEdgier: The fic is this when compared to canon, albeit not to the same extent that many other fanfics are. The villains are a bit more vicious, there are character deaths starting much earlier in the narrative, there is the occasional innuendo or SexyDiscretionShot, and the characters are not above dropping a PrecisionFStrike for dramatic or comedic effect when the situation calls for it. In other words, while canon started out in PG territory and slowly drifted towards PG-13, this fic starts off firmly in the PG-13 rating and pretty much stays there (with some of the violence possibly pushing into a mild R). |
| 125 | * DeadlyGame: Just like in canon the Triwizard Tournament is set up to turn into one of these. The twist is that the tournament ''actually has'' been set up to be much safer and basically be the wizarding equivalent of an academic decathalon. Unfortunately the Goblet of Fire has unknowingly been tampered with by Peter Pettigrew in order to turn out far more dangerous tasks so as to fulfill the elaborate requirements for a ritual to resurrect Voldemort. The only characters who are shown to have any serious worries about the safety of the participants in the tournament so far are Dumbledore and, weirdly enough, Ron Weasley. |
| 126 | * DeadlyPrank: The Weasley twins are framed for what is initially assumed to be one of these in second year by [[spoiler: their possessed brother and a few of the crueler Slytherins]] when the Slytherin Quidditch team is almost locked outside the castle in a blizzard naked overnight. |
| 127 | * DeathByAdaptation:[[spoiler:Kingsley Shacklebolt]] dies before his character is even introduced in canon. |
| 128 | ** [[spoiler: Uncle Vernon]] dies of what is initially believed to be a heart attack part way through second year, when he survived the series in canon. |
| 129 | ** [[spoiler: Tiberius Nott]] also dies well before his character makes his first brief appearance in canon (it is not stated as to whether he survives the series or not in the books) |
| 130 | * DeathByCameo: Xander Majid, who dies to one of Erasmus Wilkes' trains near the start of book 2, is a stand-in for the reader 'headphone harry'. |
| 131 | * DeathDealer: Dumbledore, of all people, uses a deck of standard Muggle playing cards to attack Voldemort in 1979, albeit one which has been heavily enchanted. The assault from what's effectively 52 whirling buzzsaws of doom quickly degrades the dark wizard's ''Protego'' and forces him to flee in panic. |
| 132 | * DeathOfPersonality: There's a Memory Charm that can allow a wizard to do this and Lockhart seemingly does this to himself after fleeing Hogwarts. In fact, Death of Personality is the official term used in Australia, where the Charm is used in lieu of actual executions. |
| 133 | * DeconReconSwitch: The Sinister Man has stated that one of his goals with the fic is to take the more ridiculous tropes in the various FanFics, as well as in canon, and actually make them work. |
| 134 | * DeconstructionFic: Of all the [[FandomSpecificPlot/HarryPotter cliché Harry Potter fanfic tropes]]. |
| 135 | ** A specific example is that when Harry learns of his "Muggle problem" he says he simply thought that the Dursleys paid off anyone who suspected them of abuse. He is told on no uncertain terms that a middle manager at a drill company and a housewife would not have an entire local government in their pockets. |
| 136 | * DidntThinkThisThrough: |
| 137 | ** In Chapter 133, [[spoiler:Sirius declares an Oath of Enmity against the Potters without thinking about how his adopted heir would feel about having his mind influenced that way]]. |
| 138 | ** When Fred and George protest about having to make peace as a condition to be allowed to attend the Quidditch World Cup, Percy says they should've thought about that before ruining the party their mother "had slaved to prepare for" them. |
| 139 | * DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: [[spoiler:Scabior, Durwood Gibbon, and Rufus Scrimgeour]] all die during third and fourth year quite differently and long before their canonical deaths (and introductions for that matter) during the events of sixth and seventh year. |
| 140 | * DisproportionateRetribution: Narcissa decides that [[spoiler: Draco deciding to live with his father after his parents divorce]] is apparently sufficient justification to try and [[spoiler: derail the Hogwarts Express and kill ''every single student onboard'']]. Even Peter Pettigrew, as AxCrazy as he is, flips out at her for going too far when he discovers what she tried to do. |
| 141 | * {{Distracted by the Sexy}}: The pureblood boys are very interested in the one-piece bathing suit of Sue Li. |
| 142 | ** Much to Harry's frustration this becomes a RunningGag during the start of fourth year when he grumbles that he will have to use his Occlumency more than usual to keep the Gryffindor boys' newfound obsession with Lavender Brown's developing figure from distracting him in class and even the normally unflappable Blaise Zabini finds himself tongue-tied whenever he is in the presence of Cormac McLaggan. |
| 143 | * TheDreaded: Voldemort is this, just like canon, and Harry quickly figures out why this is the case when he gets to watch a few highly disturbing memories of Voldemort in his prime. |
| 144 | ** Rookwood is also this when it comes to all things Mind Magic, at least as far as Snape is concerned, and the rampage when he [[spoiler: escapes from the Ministry]] certainly backs this up. |
| 145 | * DreamSpying: By the time fourth year rolls around Harry and Jim are NOT subject to this trope due to Harry's progress in Occlumency and Jim [[spoiler: becoming an animagus]], so the dreams of Voldemort's schemes are currently not keeping them up at night. The same cannot be said for [[spoiler: Ron Weasley]] on the other hand who ALSO has a magical connection to Voldemort, only without the Potter twins magical protection/immunity. |
| 146 | * DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:Ron tries to throw himself off the Astronomy Tower after he remembers what he has done while possessed by Riddle's diary. However, Jim realizes what he's trying to do and saves him just in time.]] |
| 147 | ** [[spoiler:In the alternate timeline Hermionie comes from, this is Theo's fate.]] |
| 148 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The fact that Harry's dialogue was a bit overly formal for an eleven year old and that he was disturbingly sociopathic at times (i.e. threatening to arrange a fatal accident for Draco) during his first year is actually given an explanation by the plot as The Sinister Man's writing style improved and the better written and less cliche Harry took over. Specifically, first year Harry had not yet learned occlumency and therefore [[spoiler: was under the influence of the malevolent force known only as "Bob".]] |
| 149 | * EntertaininglyWrong: Harry misreads certain clues and assumes that Remus is a vampire. |
| 150 | * EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Vernon is adamant that Petunia and Dudley had nothing to do with [[spoiler: trying to murder Harry]] and is perfectly willing to die if they are spared. Then it turns out that [[spoiler: Vernon and the other Dursleys weren't actually evil but had been somehow cursed to act the way they did]] |
| 151 | ** Peter clearly has ''some'' feelings for his godson Jim |
| 152 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: Whatever Mulciber did to Mary [=McDonald=] disgusted Pettigrew to the point of dropping an anonymous tip to the Aurors, leading to his arrest. |
| 153 | ** Lord Andrew Parkinson is an unrepentant Pureblood supremacist, but when Pansy ends up owing a life debt to Hermione, he is insistent on resolving the matter in good faith when even Hermione was content to simply ignore it. |
| 154 | * EvenTheGirlsWantHer: [[spoiler:Daphne]] has a crush on Ginny |
| 155 | * EveryoneHasStandards: Lucius Malfoy never really bought into Voldemort's ideals, and used his influence with the Dark Lord to shield those he cared about, but at the end of the day was still a Death Eater, albeit a reluctant one. The revelation that Voldemort made multiple Horcruxes is enough to bring him to an active anti-Voldemort stance. |
| 156 | ** The Unspeakables as a whole, and Saul Croaker in particular are as a rule generally a rather amoral lot, but even they are appalled when Rookwood inflicts [[spoiler: Snape]] witch chronic wolf-fear |
| 157 | ** Rita Skeeter and Peter Pettigrew, for all of their sleaziness and psychopathic tendencies respectively, are shocked and appalled at Tiberius Nott's plan to [[spoiler: marry and impregnate a twelve year old girl in order to seize her inheritance]]. Admittedly, in Pettigrew's case he is fully planning to [[spoiler:murder said twelve year old girl himself and use her corpse for a dark ritual in order to seize the aforementioned inheritance]], but at least he doesn't cross the line into [[spoiler:forced child marriage]]. |
| 158 | * EvilGloating: Peter Pettigrew does this to James, Remus and Harry (who are all tied up) in the climax of ''Death Eater Menace''. Harry is [[GenreSavvy offended]] by this cliche...right up until he realizes that Peter is just [[SubvertedTrope stalling for time]]. |
| 159 | * EvilMentor: [[spoiler: Rookwood]] to Peter. Eventually evolves into a fullblown VillainousFriendship, as both are thrilled to reconnect with each other while [[spoiler: murdering their way out of the Ministry]] |
| 160 | * ExitPursuedByABear: [[spoiler: Tiberius Nott]] falls victim to this when he is stripped of his magic right in front of a vicious {{Hellhound}} that is trained to kill squibs and muggles on sight. Cue the ScreamDiscretionShot. |
| 161 | ** In Chapter 96, Blaise jokingly quotes the Shakespeare line in question in response to Neville's bear Patronus chasing the Dementor off the Hogwarts Ezpress. |
| 162 | * FairPlayWhodunnit: The two big mysteries during Harry Potter and the Secret Enemy (Where is Riddle's Diary? Why is Lockhart suddenly competent?) are entirely solvable if you are paying careful attention. Admittedly the clues for the Diary's whereabouts were mistake by some readers for [[RonTheDeathEater character bashing]] and the solution to Lockhart's eccentricities is a pretty clear case of TheDogWasTheMastermind, albeit one that was subtly foreshadowed. |
| 163 | * FalseConfession: When George is framed for a prank that nearly kills several Slytherins, Fred confesses to protect his brother. The staff aren't fooled but are forced to suspend him until [[spoiler: Lockhart]] confesses months later in an uncharacteristically unhinged rant to the Aurors trying arrest him. [[spoiler: Also falsely, it turns out. The true perpetrator was a Voldemort-possessed Ron, but Lockhart, actually a disguised Regulus Black who was mind controlling Lockhart's real body, which was under the Draught of Living Death in a Swiss hospital as a fake persistent vegetative state patient while Black was teaching under Lockhart's name in Hogwarts, made his own FalseConfession to protect the students he'd become fond of, as well as to provide a convenient patsy to some other crimes in another False Confesion along with a legitimate if unwilling confession to crimes Lockhart actually committed prior to his incapacitation by Regulus, before making real!Lockhart lobotomize himself with the Tabula Rasa curse.]] |
| 164 | * FalseReassurance: A flashback in Chapter 120 shows [[spoiler:Peter Pettigrew reassuring his mother he wouldn't poison her. He then used a pillow to suffocate her and says [[PragmaticVillainy poisons can be traced]].]] |
| 165 | * FantasticRacism: Played with in regards to werewolves. While initially just people suffering from a curse once a month, there is documented evidence that they all gradually lose their humanity and become true, sadistic monsters who are cannibalistic and are incapable of holding any moral values other than obeying the pack alpha and self preservation or selfish gain [[spoiler: and obeying the descendants of the original inventor of the lycantrophy curse]]. Remus Lupin is simply an unexplained exception who has retained his humanity, but the existence of an exception raises the question of if it's truly universal. [[spoiler:This is because Remus is a natural animagus, ironically a wolf animagus, and animgai are immune to the lycantrophy curse in both the lost original spell form and the infection form caused by surviving transformed werewolf bites. Once he is psychically helped to embrace the inner spirit animal his lycantrophy stops working as long as he remains transformed to his animagus form, though Harry theorizes he might be fully recovered, he is unwilling to test it without safety measures.]] |
| 166 | * FauxAffablyEvil: Intentionally subverted by Peter Pettigrew when it comes to the general public (to James, Remus, and Jim, along with his Death Eater allies, he is AffablyEvil). As Harry himself put it: “He makes a point of trying to act charming and likeable and deliberately failing....And because he fails to be charming and likeable, people think they see through him and find Lord Potter’s ruthless fixer behind the false image. And they never guess that the ruthless fixer is just another false image to hide the back-stabbing Death Eater that represents his true self.” |
| 167 | * FluffyTheTerrible: [[spoiler: Basil]] the Basilisk (even if he is only three feet long). A somewhat justified trope seeing as apparently snakes' names are determined based on the personality of the first parseltongue speaker they imprint on and Harry is a well known DeadpanSnarker. |
| 168 | * FunWithAcronyms: In this fic, the "hit" from "hit wizard" is an acronym for "'''H'''azardous '''I'''ncident '''T'''eam". |
| 169 | * FunnyForeigner: Subverted with Viktor Krum who initially appears to have a comedy foreign accent. But Harry quickly realizes that Viktor is highly intelligent, fluent in several other languages, and *understands* English fluently. His garbled syntax is entirely the result of a defect in the potion he took to learn English before coming to Britain for the Quidditch World Cup. |
| 170 | * GrandeDame: Dorea Black-Potter, Harry and Jim's late grandmother, was a grande dame of Wizarding society and edging towards CoolOldLady status herself, before her untimely death. A semi-retired St. Mungo's Healer with a penchant for experimental Potions, Dorea was both a daughter of the House of Black and Lady Potter. Her status was such that, even though she took Sirius in after she ran away, she was not blasted off the family tree by her niece Walburga. |
| 171 | * GenerationXerox: The Harry-Hermione-Jim (non-romantic) triangle is an inverted version of the Snape-Lily-James relationship, except that Harry is popular and wealthy, Hermione is hostile to Jim rather than Harry, and Jim himself is nearly HatedByAll to the point his Head of House will not protect him. |
| 172 | * GenreBlindness: |
| 173 | ** Why, yes, James, [[spoiler:treat the son you thought was a squib as a stain upon your family's name when he gets sorted into Slytherin while clearly favoring your other son, only to switch gears when the favored son has called a muggleborn a ‘mudblood’ and can speak Parseltongue -- the two things that even the Slytherin son doesn’t do -- and try to butter up the oldest boy, while a prophecy clearly states that whoever ends up as the Last Potter will be the Prince of Slytherin who will start the apocalypse. I’m sure THAT will go swimmingly when the time comes!]] |
| 174 | ** Despite being smarter then canon, this Harry is no less blind: [[spoiler:he did not realize the son of a presumed Black Widow Countess and the son of a psychopathic dark wizard might already have Occulumency shields and experience, nor did he realize by himself that he should summon a snake and have it act as a way to speak with the silent Hydra. (Theo had to suggest it.)]] |
| 175 | * GoneSwimmingClothesStolen: During the second year, someone steals the Slytherin Quidditch team's clothes while they're showering after practice, and they have to go {{Streaking}} through the castle in nothing but skimpy {{Modesty Towel}}s while [[NakedPeopleAreFunny the rest of the student body laughs]]. |
| 176 | * GotVolunteered: Wizards and witches with unique gifts (such as [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Metamorphmagus]]) are required to work for the Ministry. |
| 177 | * HandicappedBadass: Ron has dyslexia and is still working on the badass part. |
| 178 | * HappilyAdopted: Harry is adopted by Sirius. |
| 179 | * HardOnSoftScience: Binns is the History of Magic professor because allowing wizards and witches to learn how interconnected muggles and wizards were before TheMasquerade is a threat to the status quo. It's also possibly the StartOfDarkness for Umbridge who was studying a Mastery of Magical History until she learned why he's the teacher and gave up. |
| 180 | * HatePlague: Used strongly throughout the series. |
| 181 | ** After being fed a potion that removes traces of LaserGuidedAmnesia and having their memories of Peter being the SecretKeeper erased, Peter casts a Confounding Charm on James (but not Lily) that causes him to hate Sirius. |
| 182 | ** The Oath of Enmity forces members of two families to magically have an instinctive dislike and mistrust for each other. It's revealed that there has been an Oath of Enmity between the Malfoy and Weasley families for generations, but it is possible for people affected to work together and even get along in spite of the curse. |
| 183 | ** The Sanctumen Ultimo works like the Oath of Enmity on a larger scale: a family member can be disowned for treason, and the rest of the family as well as all families with reciprocal oaths will magically hate that person. Unlike the Oath of Enmity, only a highly trained Occlumens can resist the Ultimate Sanction's compulsion. Poor [[spoiler:Theo No-Name]] discovers this first-hand. Then exaggerated when a magically-compelled mob starts hunting for him to burn him alive. |
| 184 | ** Similarly, [[spoiler: Harry]] is the subject of an unknown curse that causes Muggles to instinctively view him with fear and suspicion. The magic is unknown to the degree that Snape, who effectively has Mastery level knowledge of Dark Arts, has never even heard of such a thing. |
| 185 | * {{Hellfire}}: Fiendfyre. In fact, when [[spoiler:Lockhart/Regulus]] uses it, the narration makes it look like it's SummonMagic directly from Hell. |
| 186 | * HelpingHands: After the LifeOrLimbDecision mentioned below, Harry is more than a little bit unsettled to discover than the severed limb in question has developed a mind of its own due to the influence of Voldemort's Horcrux and is trying to escape. [[spoiler: Luckily, Harry manages to douse the Horcrux in Basilisk venom before it get can get away]]. |
| 187 | * HeroKiller: Peter Pettigrew and Augustus Rookwood can be considered this after the events of third year when their [[spoiler: escape from the Ministry]] leads to the deaths of [[spoiler: Scrimgeur and Kingsley]] among many other unnamed characters. |
| 188 | * HiddenElfVillage: The series gives a greater emphasis on the cultural differences between the wizarding world and the muggle one, which were often ignored in the books. |
| 189 | * HormoneAddledTeenager: Harry is incredibly exasperated about the fact that his peers have seemingly turned into examples of this trope quite suddenly once fourth year rolls around. |
| 190 | * HowWeGotHere: The first prologue opens in June 1995, after Voldemort's return in the graveyard of Little Hangleton, with Harry, a Slytherin, on bad terms with his blood family but having HappilyAdopted Sirius and Theo as his FamilyOfChoice. Events of the past four years are alluded to, such as a brief period during which Harry and Jim were like actual brothers and the school's poor treatment of Theo "No-Name", but nothing is spelled out. Then, after the second prologue shows how Peter framed Sirius, the story properly starts just before Harry's first year at Hogwarts. |
| 191 | * HumiliationConga: In the space of forty-eight hours, James Potter [[spoiler: learns his closest friend (Peter) is a Death Eater who's been playing him for over a decade, is effectively blackmailed into emancipating Harry and paying him 11 million Galleons, learns that Harry (and Lily and Jim) are all descended from the notorious House Wilkes, endures Sirius punching him before swearing an Oath of Enmity against him, learns that Peter had also been *embezzling* from him which means that he ''can't afford'' to pay Harry the millions he'd just sworn a magical oath to pay, is forced to reveal his illegal animagus form in front of the Aurors under his command, and is fired from his position as Chief Auror.]] Later, the hits just keep coming, when he [[spoiler: is forced to lease Potter Manor and the Invisibility Cloak to Harry to avoid dying from his magical oath, has to move into ''4 Privet Drive'' with his family, and eventually humbly accepts a new Ministry job as Arthur Weasley's junior assistant.]] WordOfGod says this will mark the beginning of a [[RedemptionQuest redemption arc]] for James because "losing everything also means losing the burdens he shouldered as a result of having everything." |
| 192 | * HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: Tiberius Nott invokes this during the Quidditch World Cup Death Eater attack when he takes his magical crossbow and his hellhounds and sets out to hunt Harry and his friends through the woods during the chaos. |
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| 197 | * IdiotBall: In the second prologue, Dumbledore carries it nicely. He simply assumes that Jim is the prophecy child because he has a scar, even though Harry also has a scar. It's even more egregious in that Dumbledore doesn't even try to use magic to diagnose the nature of the children's scars, he simply assumes that Jim's is magical while Harry's isn't. Of course, there would be no plot otherwise. Possibly subverted: As of Chapter 114, [[spoiler: ''every'' character who has noticed Harry's scar at all has dismissed it as unimportant... except for Professor Babbling, who recognized its occult significance thanks to her Occlumency skills only to ''immediately'' be attacked by a mysterious and unseen magical force that frightened her so much she Obliviated herself of the knowledge!]] |
| 198 | ** James has a bad case of this when it comes to signing any paper put in front of him without fully reading it (something only made slightly less foolish by the fact that the two people taking advantage of this oversight are his best friend and son). |
| 199 | ** Jim firmly takes hold of this when he sneaks into the Harry's Wizengamot office (although this is suggested to be partially due to [[spoiler: some traits of his animagus form bleeding through]]). To his credit, he realizes this was a mistake after a few very unnerving minutes of conversation with the portrait of Erasmus Wilkes and skedaddles. |
| 200 | * IfIWantedYouDead: At one point, Harry bluntly asks Lucius Malfoy whether he had had been responsible for several somewhat ostentatious attempts on Harry's life over the past year. Offended, Lucius (who says he is "not a fan of the Grand Guignol") states that if he'd wanted Harry dead, he'd have just used the Imperius Curse on Harry's uncle Vernon and ordered him to murder Harry in his sleep before burning the house down in a way that would make it look like an accident. Harry, a Slytherin, finds this answer acceptable. |
| 201 | * IHaveNoSon: Inverted, as Harry disowns his family and is adopted by Sirius. |
| 202 | * IncrediblyLamePun: The names for Diagon Alley and Knockturn Alley are absolutely intentional as there's a Horizon Alley in Sidney and Uncondition Alley in Toronto. Hermione even describes the wizarding world as a subculture based on bad puns. |
| 203 | * INeverSaidItWasPoison: Harry notes that he knows it was Derrick and Bole who assaulted Jim during year 2, and states that Jim looked into a Pensieve to review his memory of the event. Derrick ''immediately'' invokes this trope by declaring that they put a bag over Jim's head so that he couldn't see. Bole gives him a DopeSlap, and Harry and Flint perform a simultaneous FacePalm. |
| 204 | * InheritanceMurder: This is Peter Pettigrew's plan for how to seize the Wilkes inheritance (Tiberius Nott had a far more unsettling plan) and he has hinted that this was an option that he was considering in order to ensure that Jim became the Potter heir as well. |
| 205 | * InsultBackfire: The term "Death Eaters" was coined by the Daily Prophet against Voldemort's Knights of Walpurgis before Voldemort co-opted it. |
| 206 | * InternalReveal: In chapter 43, Harry finds out about the prophecy [[spoiler:after James puts him under the Ultimate Sanction]]. |
| 207 | * IntoxicationEnsues: Harry plans to make [[spoiler: Sirius and Snape]] overcome their differences by disarming them and leaving them LockedInARoom together with a large bottle of Fire Whiskey and nothing to do but get drunk. As it turns out, they mostly resolve their issues while still relatively sober...and then decide to get drunk together anyway. |
| 208 | * {{Irony}}: As Lucius Malfoy notes, it's Ironic that Wilbur Crabbe died in Azkaban as a Death Eater since "he really was a victim of the Imperius Curse". |
| 209 | * IveNeverSeenAnythingLikeThisBefore: Snape, despite having quite a lot of knowledge of dark magic, is baffled by the HatePlague under which Harry suffers, in part because it only affects non-magicals. The Ultimate Sanction is the closest he can find to that curse. |
| 210 | * TheJeeves: Blaise makes Dobby watch ''Series/JeevesAndWooster'' because all the abuse he faced with the Malfoys, particularly at Narcissa's hands, made him a nervous wreck. He adopts the mannerisms of this trope, including ServileSnarker, and starts wearing a black three-piece suit, although he's still barefoot. |
| 211 | * JekyllAndHyde: Bellatrix has no less than three different personalities battling for dominance inside her head due to the experiments of Augustus Rookwood. Miss Demeanour is a [[ImplacableMan calm, cool, and collected killer]] while Bellatrix Lestrange has gone LaughingMad due to her time in Azkaban. Finally there is Bellatrix Black who [[spoiler:is actually quite mild mannered and is downright appalled at what her other personalities have been doing]]. The use of the [[DeathOfPersonality Tabula Rasa]] spell seems to have solved the issue for now, but there are hints that Rookwood may have done something similar to [[spoiler:Barty Crouch Jr. and Dolores Umbridge]]. |
| 212 | * JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope: Tom Riddle does this after [[spoiler: Myrtle is accidentally killed]] and he uses his occlumency to remove his ability to feel any compassion or remorse causing him to fully turn into Lord Voldemort. |
| 213 | ** Harry comes '''dangerously''' close to making the same mistake after [[spoiler: Podmore's wife]] is killed, but he stops at the last possible moment. He comes even closer to crossing the point of no return after [[spoiler:James puts him under the Ultimate Sanction]], but once again he stops at the last possible second and realizes that he is about to make a mistake. |
| 214 | ** Something similar happens to Peter Pettigrew who has his trust in James shaken on the same day that he finds out that he is descended from a war criminal and that his mother has been lying to him and manipulating him for years. By the end of the day he has committed his first murder and started his path to becoming one of the most dangerous of Voldemort's Death Eaters. |
| 215 | * KickedUpstairs: Rufus Scrimegour only accepted the promotions he was offered within the Ministry because nobody else available was qualified. That he wouldn't seek them otherwise is the reason he isn't considered ambitious enough to be a Prince of Slytherin. |
| 216 | * KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Iris (the Tonks' house elf)]] dies in the Hogsmeade attack. [[spoiler: Kingsley Shacklebolt, Rufus Scrimgeour, Aurors Proudfoot and Robards, Mr. and Mrs. Edgecombe, and quite a few minor DMLE officials]] are killed when [[spoiler:Pettigrew and Rookwood]]break out of the Ministry |
| 217 | ** [[spoiler:Marcus, Remus, and Regulus all die in an alternate timeline that Harry erases through time travel. Even earlier, Harry, Jim, Theo, and multiple others die in a timeline Hermione destroys through time travel]] |
| 218 | * KillerTeddyBear: Erasmus Wilkes has twelve foot tall and heavily armed versions of these in his secret workshop |
| 219 | * LackOfEmpathy: The true requirement behind why [[spoiler:horcruxes]] are so rare - to be able to make one at all means having and continuously ''maintaining'' the mindset that you are the only person in the world whose life has any value. Making more than one is considered proof of total insanity, and even [[spoiler:Voldemort]] was only able to accomplish it by accidentally reversing his Occulmancy shields to burn out that emotional potential. |
| 220 | * LaserGuidedKarma: Tiberius Nott has his pet Hellhounds (who specialize in hunting muggles and squibs) try to chase down Harry and the gang. It should come as no surprise that things [[ExitPursuedByABear do not]] [[ScreamDiscretionShot go well]] for him when Theo manages to [[spoiler: trick him into breaking an Unbreakable Vow, thereby rendering him a squib, right in front of one of the aforementioned monsters]]. |
| 221 | * LatinLover: Salazar Slytherin was a Spanish wizard who outlived all three of his wives and had sixteen legitimate children [[ReallyGetsAround and an undetermined number of bastards]]. |
| 222 | * LeeroyJenkins: Jim has a tendency to act this way when confronted with dangerous situations, much to Harry and Ron's frustration. |
| 223 | * LifeOrLimbDecision: Just like Dumbledore in canon, [[spoiler: Lucius Malfoy]] is unable to resist the siren call of the Resurrection Stone and, despite putting up a Hell of a fight, ends up putting the cursed ring on his finger triggering the withering curse. Unlike Dumbledore in canon, [[spoiler: Lucius]] very quickly decides that it is far better to live missing an arm than not to live at all and the arm is promptly severed. |
| 224 | * LockedInARoom: Harry interrupts a violent duel between [[spoiler: Sirius and Snape]] by disarming them and leaving them locked up together. He then has [[spoiler: Dobby]] deliver a [[IntoxicationEnsues bottle of Firewhiskey.]] |
| 225 | * LoopholeAbuse: When Lucius and Narcissa divorced, she took a huge percentage of his fortune. Fortunately for him, her rights over it only extend to what he keeps in the Wizarding World and she can't claim anything he keeps in the Muggle one. |
| 226 | ** Harry swears an Unbreakable Vow not to reveal the [[spoiler:second]] prophecy from "this moment forward", [[spoiler:which frees him from the Vow until that moment comes again once he goes a few days back in time.]] |
| 227 | ** One of the more vile pranks in the second book has the entire Slytherin Quidditch team tromping through the snow, ''nude'', in early winter and ''nearly'' locked out of Hogwarts proper, where there's a good chance of them freezing to death, warming charms or no. The [[FalseConfession seeming perpetrator]] is then suspended for the rest of the year, mostly because nobody can ''actually'' pin the crime on him, and because most of the staffers immediately see through the lie, but their hands are tied. |
| 228 | ** Normally the Hogwarts wards prevent any significant Auror presence at the school. This becomes an issue at the end of second year when [[spoiler:the entire staff is petrified by the Basilisk]]. Lucius Malfoy manages to get around the wards' restrictions by using his position on the Board of Governors to declare an impromptu career fair and thereby get a group of Aurors and Unspeakables into the school in a way the wards will accept to help deal with the crisis. |
| 229 | * LovecraftLite: This trope comes up whenever there is a scene set at the Selwyn's base of operations at the appropriately named Abbey of Nightmares. |
| 230 | * LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: ''Dumbledore'']], of all people, seems to believe this to be the case (at least when it comes to himself and only when it comes to romantic love) and he has performed psychic surgery to prevent himself from feeling romantic love. Admittedly, the great love affair of his life (and more importantly, the ensuing breakup and rebound relationship) ended up being partially responsible for [[spoiler: the wizarding equivalent of World War II]]. |
| 231 | * MagicKnight: Jim has received training in martial arts which he demonstrated when fighting Quirrelmort in the Mirror Chamber. Downplayed in that his martial arts training only started two years before Hogwarts and his magical skills are not honed to their full potential. |
| 232 | * MajorInjuryUnderreaction: Harry's response in Chapter 152 to Sirius's concerns about [[spoiler: Harry having been subjected to the Cruciatus by Tiberius Nott earlier that evening]]. "Look, I didn't die or anything. I didn't even go into a coma this time. So I really don't see what the big deal is." |
| 233 | * MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: This is revealed to be what is actually going on with all of the dangerous attempts by Neville's Uncle Algie to "force the magic out of" his nephew. The fact that Neville's accidental magic ''actually does'' keep on saving him is a source of unending frustration for Uncle Algie. |
| 234 | * MamaBear: Lily. [[spoiler: "I mean that Lord Potter may be concerned with the fate of the wizarding world, but Lily Evans-Potter is concerned with the fate of her two boys, and the rest of the wizarding world can go to hell." She then gets revenge on the Dursleys for having abused Harry.]] However, she has made [[ParentsAsPeople big mistakes]] in regards to Harry that have most likely permanently soured their relationship. |
| 235 | * ManchurianAgent: This is Rookwood's specialty as he notably turns [[spoiler: Bellatrix and Barty Crouch Jr.]] into examples of these. Of ocurse [[spoiler: Barty's]] case is complicated by the fact that we don't yet know whether the "good" or the "evil" personality is actually the real one. It is also hinted that he has started the process yet again with [[spoiler: Umbridge]] as his next victim. |
| 236 | * TheMenInBlack: The Unspeakables from the Department of Mysteries are the textbook definition of this. They deal with threats that the rest of the Wizarding World doesn't even know exist, but they WILL make sure you vanish or die under mysterious circumstances if they believe you know too much. |
| 237 | * MentalTimeTravel: This is how the Time-turner does its work with the aid of the Unspeakables and a few other important people who happen to be in the know in order to prevent various apocalypses. |
| 238 | * MiseryBuildsCharacter: In chapter 70, at the worst of the Basilisk fiasco when the entire Hogwarts student population, his fans and even his father turned against him, Jim wonders if Harry's horrid childhood made him stronger compared to Jim's sheltered life of privilege and comfort. |
| 239 | * ModestyTowel: During second year someone [[GoneSwimmingClothesStolen steals the Slytherin Quidditch team's clothes while they're showering after practice]], and they have to run through the castle in nothing but skimpy wet towels [[NakedPeopleAreFunny while the rest of the student body laughs]]. |
| 240 | * MuggleBornOfMages: Harry was assumed to be a squib and thus was sent to live with the [[AbusiveParents Dursleys]] in the muggle world. |
| 241 | * MurderByInaction: Theo Nott technically does the self-defense version of this when he leaves [[spoiler: his father]] without his magic and defenseless in front of an angry Hellhound. |
| 242 | * MythologyGag: The author loves to make fun of a lot of ''Harry Potter'' plot points that are there for RuleOfCool, which are often engaged in by Jim, while Harry takes the [[BoringButPractical sensible but often boring]] actions. |
| 243 | ** Harry chooses to ignore the SchmuckBait that is the mystery of the Philosopher's Stone and warns Neville and Hermione to stay away from Jim's adventures. It's AllForNothing however when Quirrelmort [[BrainwashedAndCrazy compells]] Hermione, Neville, Ron and Jim to go to the Mirror Chamber to serve as bait for Harry. |
| 244 | ** When King Cross' magical barrier is blocked, Jim and Ron take the FlyingCar to Hogwarts while Harry and Ginny travel to the Leaky Cauldron by the Knight Bus in order to Floo to Hogsmeade. The other characters make a LampshadeHanging about how nuts Jim's actions were as they endangered TheMasquerade. |
| 245 | ** Jim and Harry's wands share the same core -- a phoenix feather -- which resulted in the Brother Wand Effect manifesting dramatically during the Dueling Club. The incident also resulted in Jim being outed as a Parselmouth instead of Harry. |
| 246 | ** When trying to infiltrate Lockhart's office, who they suspected to be the Heir, Theo asks Harry if they're going to have wacky adventures at the end of every school year and if it wouldn't be better to let the school close. |
| 247 | ** In the second prologue, Pettigrew briefly considers hiding as a rat with some Pureblood family before dismissing the idea as ridiculous |
| 248 | ** In a flashback to an 11-year-old James Potter on his way to Hogwarts for the first time, he ways "We'll take the lot!" to the Trolley Lady and buys out all the candy, just like Harry did in canon with Ron. But in this case, unlike Harry's spontaneous act of kindness, it's because James is a spoiled rich kid flashing his money to impress his new friends. Later, during his Sorting, the Hat yells out Gryffindor before even touching his head, just like it did in canon when sorting Draco into Slytherin. |
| 249 | ** Sirius once again escapes the Hogwarts grounds on the back of Buckbeak, and Pettigrew loses a finger [[spoiler: although Harry's time-travelling undoes this two chapters later, only for the finger to be lost AGAIN later on as part of a dark ritual to resurrect Voldemort.]] |
| 250 | ** Just like in canon [[RedShirt Gibbon]] is the first Death Eater to die (albeit in highly different circumstances) and his death is not particularly dignified (In canon he fell victim to UnfriendlyFire, while here he [[spoiler:was [[OffWithHisHead decapitated]] by Lucius Malfoy's Fire Whip]] while menacing some of the younger characters). Just like in canon, we don't even learn his name until after his demise. |
| 251 | * NakedPeopleAreFunny: During second year someone steals the Slytherin Quidditch team's clothes while they're showering after practice, and they have to run through the castle in nothing but skimpy wet towels while the rest of the student body laughs. Subverted in that [[spoiler: the supposed prank was actually an assassination attempt against Harry engineered by Tom Riddle. The Slytherins were meant to be trapped outside the school, naked and wet, during a blizzard, and Jim was intended to be the scapegoat when "a Gryffindor prank gone wrong" resulted in Harry's death.]] |
| 252 | ** This trope is played straight later on when Ron and [[ActuallyPrettyFunny eventually even Jim]] can't help but find it funny that Jim's early attempts to [[spoiler:become an Animagus]] tend to result in him [[ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing waking up naked halfway down the street]] with no memory of how he got there. |
| 253 | * NeverMessWithGranny: Despite being an elderly grandmother, Augusta is a formidable and feared witch. She gives James a vicious tongue-lashing over his supposed 'friendship' with her incapacitated son and, when an impressed Neville expresses his amazement, she claims that she would have 'hexed his bits off' if she hadn't gone so soft in her old age. |
| 254 | * NiceJobBreakingItHero: Dumbledore deactivated the wards of Hogwarts that sense and repeal dark objects to allow the Mirror of Erised to enter the castle. Even after the wards are reactivated they are so weakened that dark objects can still enter the castle, such as the Diary of Tom Riddle. |
| 255 | * TheNicknamer: Sirius Black was the one that came up with the Marauder's nicknames and Snape being called Snivellus although it was James who gave [[FieryRedhead Lily]] the nickname of hellflower. |
| 256 | * NoExceptYes: Snape hates when people compare potion brewing to cooking even though [[{{Hypocrite}} he admits it's an accurate comparison by saying that any idiot can make toast but one needs practice for a beef wellington]]. |
| 257 | * NoodleIncident: Neville's summer adventures which involve vaguely alluded to incidents involving Amazon cults trying to sacrifice him and Nundu attacks. |
| 258 | * NotHisSled: The author does this to great effect on several occasions for dramatic effect, and the examples are especially notable as the differences from canon are fairly small before the "point of canon departure" on Halloween Night, 1981. |
| 259 | ** Tom Riddle's Diary is behind the events of second year, just like in canon, bit it becomes pretty clear early on that the person opening the Chamber of Secrets is NOT Ginny this time around. |
| 260 | ** The fact that [[spoiler: Regulus Black]] is alive and well when he was very much dead in canon also qualifies as this. |
| 261 | ** Dolores Umbridge is portrayed as being a very sweet and likable person (albeit one with a slight anti-muggle prejudice due to an abusive upbringing) and she is nowhere near the sadist that she is in canon. To be fair, it is suggested that this might [[BrainwashedAndCrazy change]] now that she has had a brief, but unfortunate, run in with Augustus Rookwood. |
| 262 | * NotSoHarmlessVillain: Remember how pathetic Peter Pettigrew was in canon? Yeah, this is not that Peter. This version of Peter is a MagnificentBastard who spent over a decade living the high life as a well respected Lawyer with no suspicions of his true loyalties, managed to frame Sirius while James and Lily WERE STILL ALIVE, has been an active participant in (if not the mastermind behind) three of the worst terrorist attacks on Magical Britain since the fall of Voldemort, and will strangle you with his bare hands and feed you to his horde of rats if you cross him. |
| 263 | * ObfuscatingStupidity: Fleur Delacour has to pretend to be an average student, not being allowed to join the Quidditch team, having average grade and not show off in WizardDuel championships in order to not draw attention to the fact she's [[spoiler: a TeenSuperspy]]. |
| 264 | * ObliviousToLove: Ginny didn't realize that [[spoiler:Daphne]] has a crush on her untill Harry told her. |
| 265 | * OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Snape ''gives'' points to Gryffindor after Hermione shouts at Jim because he was acting like a {{jerkass}} in Potions class. Two years later, he gives Fred Weasley points in Potions Class after Fred (who had been a notorious slacker and goof-off) produces a perfectly executed potion. Snape briefly wonders if the whole world had gone mad. The entire class is shocked into stupefied silence upon seeing that one of the Weasley Terrors actually gained House Points for once, and it was from Snape of all people. |
| 266 | * OddFriendship: Ginny Weasley, the spitfire daughter of a long line of Muggle-lovers and Gryffindors, and Amy Wilkes, the quiet orphaned daughter of unrepentant and infamous Death Eaters, who was then raised by the Goyle family. |
| 267 | ** Gryffindor Golden Boy Jim Potter becomes rather close with Slytherin outcast Theo No-Name even after being [[spoiler: imperioed to be deeply suspicious of Theo's best friend Harry.]] |
| 268 | ** Nobody knows why Pureblood Daphne Greengrass and Muggle single-mother-raised Half-Blood Tracey Davis are such close friends. |
| 269 | ** From an outsider's perspective, Marcus Flint's friendship with Harry, Theo, Blaise, and (to a lesser extent) Neville is absolutely baffling. |
| 270 | * OneLetterName: [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Mr X.]] |
| 271 | * OriginalCharacter: Jim Potter (Harry's twin brother), as well as many minor characters. Although in his case he is, in the author's words: ''Basically canon-Harry if he'd had two loving parents and had grown up with the privileges and responsibilities of being the Boy-Who-Lived as well as being terribly spoiled by his father and godfather (who isn't who you think it is). While he may not acquit himself well either in this chapter or the first few chapters of Year One, he is not the gibbering idiot who normally plays the role of WBWL and will undergo significant character development starting with the end of Year 1.'' |
| 272 | * OurElvesAreDifferent: The house elves are somehow bound to serve in wizarding ''households'' so long as wizards and witches have lived in that place for a long time (thus the Weasleys can't get a house elf as the Burrow is too recent). They seem to have mysterious and undefined RealityWarper powers capable of such feats as creating an entire pocket dimension for a house elf version of a WizardDuel. Wizards seem to have no idea how powerful their servants truly are. |
| 273 | * OurGhostsAreDifferent: It turns out that most ghosts either dissipate over time or turn insane and remain tethered to the material world by feeding on the fear of mortals. The magic of the Hogwarts castle allows ghosts inside its walls to remain sane and last for centuries. [[spoiler: Three guesses on what type Vernon is. In fairness, as far as he is concerned, Lily murdered him in cold blood while he was legitimately protecting his wife and son.]] |
| 274 | * PaintingTheMedium: All spellcasting is written in Caps-lock and bolded. |
| 275 | * ParentsAsPeople: It is fairly clear that James and Lily Potter are decent people who, despite their notable flaws, are genuinely trying to do the right thing. By the end of third year in particular they are both determined to do right by Harry somehow even though he wants nothing to do with either of them at the moment. It just seems that they are cursed to always inadvertently do the worst thing possible when it comes to Harry and James in particular has a habit of making very very rash (if understandable) decisions when confronted with evidence that one of his sons might [[spoiler: be the Wizarding Antichrist]]. |
| 276 | ** This is also the case with Arthur and Molly Weasley, who are good people with the best of intentions, who have to face the fact that Arthur waiting a little too long to tell his children about a prophecy regarding their family combined with Molly's slightly overbearing attitude in such a way that it convinced Ron that his family didn't love him and [[spoiler: left him susceptible to the manipulations of Tom Riddle's diary and drove him to attempt suicide]]. They both take immediate actions to correct these mistakes once they realize what they have done and what nearly happened as a result. |
| 277 | * PassThePopcorn: After Harry provides Snape with an engraved invitation to the Wizengamot meeting -- long story -- then during the proceedings, the Potions teacher (now Regent Prince) pulls out a bag of popcorn to enjoy the sheer chaos, to Lily's consternation. |
| 278 | * PetTheDog: Subverted in a flashback: James is so stunned to hear Snape attempting to do something nice for Lily that he's tempted to tell her about it despite the fact that it might lead to her forgiving him...then realizes he won't remember the conversation to be able to tell her. |
| 279 | ** Midway through their second year, Harry and Jim can't stand each other, but Harry sets this aside long enough to talk Jim down from the ledge when it seems Jim might be contemplating suicide. |
| 280 | ** Jim himself gains sympathy for Harry after [[spoiler: Uncle Vernon's funeral]] and is determined to make things right with him until he is tricked into believing that Harry stole the Invisibility Cloak |
| 281 | * PlayingBothSides: [[spoiler:By the end of book three, it becomes clear that not only has Voldemort been fighting both for purebloods and muggleborns under a series of false identities, but that he largely ''started'' the conflict as it exists in modern Britain by assisting the most extreme factions of a previously stable political order.]] |
| 282 | * PoliceAreUseless: It turns out that the Founders sought to make Hogwarts independent from the magical government and thus having Aurors patrolling Hogwarts would trigger a MalevolentArchitecture feature that would cause the castle to lash out at them. The only way for Aurors to enter Hogwarts is if there's dire need, [[spoiler:which happens when Dumbledore is petrified]]. |
| 283 | ** The Hit Wizards are generally competent beat cops, but are woefully unprepared for searching [[spoiler: Pettigrew's]] apartment. |
| 284 | * ThePoorlyChosenOne: Jim is wildly (and wrongly) believed to be the Boy-Who-Lived, the one who vanquished Voldemort. |
| 285 | ** Played with in that this doesn't make Jim TheLoad. For starters, like Harry, he has some sort of connection with Voldemort that causes headches when he's near, and he has martial arts training. In the summer before the Second Year he spent most of his time training in the Manor's gym. |
| 286 | * PopCulturedBadass: Harry fits this to some extent as he has been known to do things like whistle the theme from Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly after putting down his rivals. |
| 287 | * PosthumousCharacter: Erasmus "The Toymaker" Wilkes manages to be this due to his lethal toys showing up from time to time and a few conversations with a magical portrait. Somehow he still manages to be TheDreaded despite having been dead for over a decade. |
| 288 | * PostScarcityEconomy: Played with. Artie describes the wizarding world as a post-scarcity society. With the exception of shelter[[note]]although this is a dubious claim considering the existence of magical tents and the Burrow, a building literally only held up by magic[[/note]] and food, wizards have lots of UtilityMagic including apparatition, using transfiguration to create mundane objects or charms to repair broken objects or knit clothes. Money is only relevant for magical items which are scarce. |
| 289 | * PoorCommunicationKills: |
| 290 | ** The relationship between Jim and Harry could have been drastically improved if they had been honest about what they saw in the [[ArtifactOfDoom Mirror of Erised]]. |
| 291 | ** Mrs. Figg never told James about the abuse Harry suffered from the Dursleys because, based on her own experience as a squib from a pureblood house, she assumed James wouldn't care for as long as believed Harry to be a squib as well. |
| 292 | ** The fact that Harry chose to keep his "Muggle Problem" a secret from his parents led to Lily [[spoiler:killing Vernon in revenge]] as she did not know about the HatePlague. |
| 293 | ** Jim keeping [[spoiler:his ability to speak parseltongue]] secret from Ron has disastrous consequences as it drives a wedge between the two friends and [[spoiler: allows Tom Riddle's diary to further isolate Ron and gain control over him seeing as Ron's friendship with Jim had been somewhat mitigating it up to that point]]. |
| 294 | * PowerLevels: Wizards measure the strength of magical cores using a variety of tests such as the Lubinsky-Chang and the Belby-Cadwallader tests. Wizards with stronger cores can [[ManaMeter cast more spells before tiring]] or cast more physically demanding spells, and are able to do a lot more wandless spells than someone with a weaker core. |
| 295 | * PowerParasite: Dumbledore and the Potters believed that Jim defeated Voldemort by draining Harry's magic. |
| 296 | * PowerPerversionPotential: Matilda [=MacMillian=] takes this route with Lazarus White [[spoiler:(who's actually Regulus Black)]], a [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Metamorphmagus]], by asking him to transform into Creator/MelGibson. |
| 297 | ** [[spoiler:Regulus']] great-aunt and metamorphmagus trainer Cassiopeia Black decides to join some of her relatives in France, spending the rest of ''his'' days as a seemingly eligible, young and virile bachelor. To his credit, [[spoiler:Regulus]] does spend a bit of time in self-reflection before deciding that he's definitely not going ''that'' way. |
| 298 | ** Harry goes out of his way to subvert this when he realizes the implications of being a Natural Legilimens to the point that he is currently uncomfortable with pursuing any kind of romantic relationship because he is worried that he will be manipulating his partner without even realizing it. |
| 299 | * ProperlyParanoid: With everyone seemingly having some kind of agenda or plan (Wheels within wheels, to quote a character), it’d be suicidal if you weren’t at least somewhat paranoid of others. Alastor Moody, as per usual, is the resident master of this. |
| 300 | * PropheticNames: (In-Universe) There is an obscure form of Divination called Nomenography which can be used to help parents choose names for their children that actively influences their destinies. Sirius Black found it easier to achieve the Animagus form of a big black dog because his last name was Black and his first name referred to the Dog Star. Similarly, Remus Lupin's parents gave him his unusual name on a nomenographer's advice and later blamed themselves because they feared his name (which is basically "Wolfy McWolferson") somehow doomed him to becoming a werewolf. [[spoiler: In reality, his name symbolized the fact that he was a latent natural Animagus with a wolf-form, and when he finally learns to turn into a wolf, it effectively cures his lycanthropy.]] |
| 301 | * TheProphecy: As in canon, there is the Trelawney Prophecy that foretells of the death of the BigBad at the hands of the Boy-Who-Lived. What we learn later is that [[spoiler:Sybill Trelawney's Prophecy is actually the Second Trelawney Prophecy. The first one was told by her ancestor Cassandra Trelawney in 1780 to Lord Nathaniel Potter and the family has been guided by it for 10 generations. Going by the final part of the First Prophecy -- ''And you shall know by these portents that the Time of the Dark God approaches / and the Destruction of our World is close at hand: / When the Two who should be as One are set against each other in reckless hate, / and the Last Potter rises as the Prince of Slytherin.'' -- everyone better brace for an imminent apocalypse.]] |
| 302 | * PurelyAestheticGender: The title of [[TitleDrop Prince of Slytherin]] is gender-neutral, as there have been a lot of female Princes in the past. |
| 303 | * PutOnABus: Draco Malfoy is sent to Durmstrang after the events of second year and is absent from the events of third year due to the author not having anything interesting to do with him that year. |
| 304 | ** Mad-Eye Moody also vanishes for a mysterious mission half way through the events of third year. |
| 305 | * RealityWarpingIsNotAToy: The spell ''Imago Dei'' is capable of granting any wish the caster wants and re-ordering reality in ways even most spells can't, though it's a case of PowerAtAPrice and the spell might declare the intended sacrifice insufficient. Because of its power it's considered TheDreaded and knowing about it results in immediate execution. |
| 306 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: |
| 307 | ** Dumbledore certainly does his best to be this. |
| 308 | ** [=McGonagall=] has decided to stop overlooking the Gryffindors' misdeeds like she has done in the past. |
| 309 | * RedOniBlueOni: Jim is the Red to Harry’s Blue. |
| 310 | * ResetButton: This occurs twice with the aid of the Time-turner. The first time [[spoiler: Hermione relives her third year in order to prevent the deaths of most of the main cast and a seemingly inevitable Dementor/Voldemort apocalypse]]. The second time this happens is when [[spoiler: Harry]] travels back a few days in order to save the lives of [[spoiler: Marcus, Remus, and Regulus]] and also prevent [[spoiler: Neville's disownment, Peter's escape, and James putting Harry under the Ultimate Sanction.]] |
| 311 | * RetroactivePrecognition: [[spoiler: Hermione]] is repeatedly mistaken for being a seer during the course of third year due to this trope. |
| 312 | * RippleEffectProofMemory: [[spoiler: Harry and Hermione]] both retain the memories of the alternate timelines that their respective time travels averted (albeit each of them remembers a separate alternate timeline). The fact that they can both remember events in these timelines while no one else can proves to be important as [[spoiler: Hermione]] has developed a deep loathing for Daphne Greengrass based on events that occurred in the alternate timeline and [[spoiler: Harry]] is able to summon both a Patronus and Fiendfire based on memories that only he can remember happening. |
| 313 | * RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Regulus]] went on one of these after his wife and infant son were killed by werewolves. Things progressed to the point that the memory of his family's murders allows him to be one of the few characters so far who is capable of mastering Fiendfire. |
| 314 | * RunningGag: Every one of [[spoiler:Regulus Black's]] metamorphmagus forms seems to be an actor from ''Franchise/ThePinkPanther''. Snape, a halfblood who lived in Muggle Britain for a number of years, eventually gets completely fed up with it. |
| 315 | --> '''Augusta Longbottom:''' Who the devil are you? |
| 316 | --> '''Severus Snape:''' If I'm not mistaken, it's ''Herbert Lom!'' For Merlin's sake, [[spoiler:Regulus,]] ''is that the only film you've ever seen?!'' |
| 317 | * SecretIdentity: [[spoiler:Rita Skeeter (of all people!). Also, Harry's Occlumency tutor Mr. X is eventually revealed to be Severus Snape, while Regulus Black, who has a fondness for Pink Panther films, passed himself off for many months as an Asian squib named Cato.]] |
| 318 | * SelfFulfillingProphecy: |
| 319 | ** Like in canon, Voldemort chose to attack the Potters' cottage to eliminate the one who will defeat him only to be destroyed by a Potter. |
| 320 | ** You’d think if you found out about [[spoiler:a Prophecy that foretold the rise of a dark god by, possibly, the hands of one of your sons, you would do your best to ensure the conditions are not met, right? Well, turns out James is not smart enough to do that.]] |
| 321 | ** A later, much better-thought-out attempt to avert the above prophecy goes even worse. [[spoiler: Harry, upon learning that the end of the world will be heralded by the “last Potter” rising as the Prince of Slytherin, immediately takes sensible steps to both lose the Potter name and withdraw himself from consideration as a potential Prince of Slytherin. Unfortunately, while he succeeds getting voluntarily disowned on his own terms, his willingness to sacrifice his own ambitions when it's important is the final factor that gets him immediately named Prince of Slytherin--before the disownment can take place.]] |
| 322 | * SelfMadeOrphan: Peter Pettigrew is revealed to be this, just like Tom Riddle before him. |
| 323 | * SerialKiller: Goyle expresses his concerns to Harry and Amy that [[spoiler: Crabbe]] may have tendencies in this direction seeing as he has already been known to harm small animals and Goyle worries it is only a matter of time before he starts on people. |
| 324 | * SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: The Time-turner is a closely kept secret of the Department of Mysteries, which even they do not fully understand, that is used for this purpose. |
| 325 | * ShootTheHostage: [[spoiler: Bellatrix/Delphini's approach, caused by the residual influence of Miss Demeanour.]] |
| 326 | * ShoutOut: Saul Croaker considers Ludo Bagman "the sort of man who might accidentally sell the whole of Britain to the French in exchange for a bag of magic beans and ''[[Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk a sickly cow"]]''. |
| 327 | ** At one point, Neville mentions that if Harry ever uses his Legilimency to get Neville to do something he shouldn't, Augusta will [[Fanfic/OhGodNotAgain beat him to death with a paper napkin.]] |
| 328 | ** As part of preparations for the Quidditch World Cup, Sirius hires Hermione's father as his driver as part of the disguise of pretending him to be a squib. He demands that Sirius pay for the gas in muggle money. |
| 329 | --> '''Sirius Black''': Not a problem, Dan. Not a problem at all. I mean, it's just from London to Dartmoor and back. [[Series/ArrestedDevelopment How much could it cost? A thousand pounds at most, right?]] |
| 330 | --> '''Dan Granger''': (''[[SchmuckBait smiling]]''): Yeah, I reckon that should about cover it |
| 331 | ** From Chapter 53 of The Death Eater Menace: |
| 332 | -->Hermione blinked in confusion. "So after all that drama about Pettigrew's army of intelligent werewolves, it was just that easy for the Headmaster to solve the problem?" |
| 333 | -->[[WebVideo/ScreenRantPitchMeetings "Super easy!" Harry snapped. "Barely an inconvenience!"]] |
| 334 | ** Bellatrix using the alias of [[spoiler:Delphini]] and the possible StartOfDarkness on the part of [[spoiler: Cedric Diggory]] are acknowledged homages to rather infamous Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild. |
| 335 | ** There are frequent references to the Fanfic/AlexandraQuick series whenever the plot necessitates a reference or two to the American wizarding community. |
| 336 | ** Zacharias Smith's habit of referring to Justin as "J-Finch" is a pretty clear reference to Theatre/PuffsThePlay. |
| 337 | ** The Gryffindor students giving Cedric the epithets of "King Puff" and "Sky Badger" are references to Webcomic/MyLifeAsABackgroundSlytherin. |
| 338 | ** Ginny, at one point, expressed her firm conviction that if Fred and George ever became Animagi they would almost certainly be [[Fanfic/DodgingPrisonAndStealingWitches emperor penguins]]. |
| 339 | ** The Anathema Codex is full of these as it includes references to things such as [[{{TabletopGame/Exalted}} The Rune of Singular Hate]], [[{{Franchise/Hellraiser}} The Lament Configuration]], [[Franchise/MarvelUniverse The Six-Fingered Hand]], [[Series/DoctorWho The Nightmare Child]] and [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos The Hounds of Tindalos]] among others. The book's own name sounds very similar to the [[{{TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons}} Codex Anathema]], too. |
| 340 | ** To the Website/SCPFoundation in Chapter 101. The Department of Mysteries' Chime #43 is monitoring a curious location that strongly resembles [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-354 SCP-354]]. (It is in Britain and not Canada, however.) |
| 341 | ** A subtle shout-out to Film/ReturnOfTheJedi in Chapter 155. After learning of the existence of a Charm that can cause a wand to manifest a column of solid blue light capable of functioning as a melee dueling weapon, Blaise Zabini crashes into the Innovators Club and shouts "I DEMAND THAT YOU PEOPLE MAKE ME A LIGHTSABER!" Then, after a beat, he says more calmly "That is all" before slinking out, a reference to [[Characters/ReturnOfTheJedi Crix Madine's]] famous line. |
| 342 | ** In Chapter 157, Lily talks about suing Rita Skitter for slander and Rita explains the difference between slander and libel like J. Jonah Jameson did in ''Film/SpiderMan1''. |
| 343 | ** The French equivalent to the Department of Mysteries is called Le Bureau De L'Inconnu, referring to the Inconnu, one of the vampire conspiracies in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' |
| 344 | * SiblingRivalry: Jim and Harry are constantly at each other's throats. When they're on good terms, it's borderline friendly; when they're not, it can edge close to CainAndAbel territory. |
| 345 | ** [[spoiler:Somewhat exacerbated by a [[ArtifactOfAttraction cursed book]] given to Jim.]] |
| 346 | ** Padma and Parvati Patil do not miss any chance to counter the other, mainly due to Parvati's marriage contract with the rich Pasha heir Sanjeev. |
| 347 | ** As a result of improved grades and an act of conspicuous heroism, George Weasley is made prefect going into his Fifth Year. Fred feels so betrayed by this development that it drives between the Twins, who grow increasingly hostile towards one another as the year progresses. |
| 348 | * SignificantAnagram: |
| 349 | ** Upon being told that Theo's grandfather was killed by someone named "Rian O'Grady", Harry says the name is an anagram of "Dorian Gray", a character created by Tom Riddle's favorite [[Creator/OscarWilde muggle author]]. |
| 350 | ** Lucius Malfoy shows contempt for his ex-wife Narcissa's pseudonym "Ariana [=McFlossy=]". He himself has [[RuleOfThree three]] fake identities in case he must flee Britain and [[AvertedTrope none of them is an anagram]]. |
| 351 | * SlaveToPR: The reason why the Potters allow the publication of the Jim Potter children's books is to influence the public in the wizarding world, to ensure that Jim remains beloved by all instead of becoming the target of hate or jealousy. Of course, as we know, public opinion is easily swayed in the wizarding world. |
| 352 | * SmallNameBigEgo: Draco Malfoy, [[spoiler:at least until he meets the even richer muggleborn, Justin Finch-Fletchley, and Harry manages to defang him with an Unbreakable Oath]]. |
| 353 | * SnarkToSnarkCombat: A major source of humour in the series. While Harry, Blaise and the other Slytherins seem to have the vast majority of the good lines, in part because the metaphorical camera's on them, nearly everybody gets in a few zings from time to time, even the seemingly stoic [=McGonagall=]. (Though she seems to save it for her peers.) |
| 354 | * SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Somewhat deconstructed. They do exist in both the muggle and wizarding worlds and are usually quite effective. Because Harry is under the effects of a Curse that triggers a HatePlague amongst muggles, all the abuse at the hands of the Dursleys is never reported while the wizarding world is controlled by aristocrats, and as such, Child Services do not seek to prosecute wealthy families for child abuse (like Tiberius Nott's treatment of Theo). |
| 355 | * SoulJar: Horcruxes, which have to be magical objects as otherwise it won't stick. Also the spellcaster will gain the powers of the object after they're turned into a horcrux and those powers will be permanent if the horcrux is destroyed. |
| 356 | * SpannerInTheWorks: Harry (initially inadvertently) serves as this for the various schemes that Peter Pettigrew has been concocting for the Potter family seeing as he was believed to be squib and of not significance for ten years. When he not only shows up to claim his place as the heir, but also shows himself to have a clever and ruthless streak big enough to get him sorted into Slytherin, Peter's plans start to fail rather spectacularly. |
| 357 | * SpidersAreScary: [[spoiler:Diary!Tom Riddle]] repeatedly tortures [[spoiler: Ron Weasley]] into obedience by exploiting his severe arachnophobia. |
| 358 | * TheSpook: The Unspeakables are this as a requirement of their job. Even the department heads don't know who their fellow department heads actually are. |
| 359 | * SpyCatsuit: [[spoiler:Fleur Delacour's]] spy suit has some elements of this though its mostly black sportswear with enchanted boots, leather gloves and magical goggles. |
| 360 | * SuppressedHistory: It is heavily implied that this is why Binns is the History of Magic teacher despite being incompetent. Namely, that there are certain details of the history of the Wizarding World (such as how interconnected the wizards were with muggles before the Statute of Secrecy) that certain forces within the Ministry of Magic would prefer were forgotten. |
| 361 | * SwarmOfRats: Peter uses one to facilitate his and Rookwood's escape from Ministry custody. [[spoiler: Each one *multiplies* when struck by a spell.]] |
| 362 | * TakeAThirdOption: Sirius' health isn't stable enough for him to take an international portkey, floo, or Apparate to France to watch Harry's dueling tournament, and his Wizarding healers have no idea what flying in an airplane would do to him. Sirius realizes one of his apprentices is a Muggleborn and knows how to drive, and simply has Lattimer drive him to Paris. |
| 363 | * TeenSuperspy: Surprisingly enough [[spoiler:Fleur Delacour]], though it's somewhat PlayedForDrama as she has to pretend to be an average student in order to not draw attention. |
| 364 | * TakeThat: One of the [[FandomSpecificPlot fandom clichés]] is to allow Harry to learn of the Prophecy so he can prepare and train to defeat Voldemort. In the fic Jim learning about the Prophecy instills in him deep psychological problems like paranoia, depression and an obsessive interest in anything from Taekwondo to BlackMagic that would allow him to defeat Voldemort. |
| 365 | ** Boggarts are some of the nastiest creatures and the author dislikes the way Remus forced all his students to FaceYourFears in front of everyone, as some students could have humiliating fears and KidsAreCruel. Thus Lockhart decided to have private sessions with each student where they face a Boggart, and it's successful [[spoiler:until Jim Potter releases the Boggart in front of the entire class and ChaosEnsues]]. |
| 366 | * [[ThisPageWillSelfDestruct This Parchment Will Self-Destruct]]: A common enough trick when it comes to clandestine goings-on, or really anything at all. Everyone from Blaise Zabini to Rita Skeeter to Albus Dumbledore tends to use quieter methods than self-immolation, like disappearing ink or the parchment simply disintegrating, but the document going up in flames happens more than once. |
| 367 | * TimePolice: The time-turner prevents its users from causing time paradoxes while allowing them to rewrite history. |
| 368 | * TomeOfEldritchLore: The Anathema Codex is a list of destructive spells and rituals based around harnessing The Wild that are so dangerous that the Unspeakables will murder you if they suspect you know about it |
| 369 | * TraintopBattle: Mogli, Narcissa Malfoy's evil house elf, is assigned to derail the Hogwarts express and kill everyone onboard. Dobby...objects...and this trope ensues. |
| 370 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Harry and other Slytherins act ridiculously mature even though they are pre-pubescent kids. Of course the author admits he can't write 11-year-olds. The Slytherin's from pureblood families are trained from birth for high society behavior though as demonstrated by Astoria Greengrass this doesn't always take, while traumatized kids becoming Slytherin like Harry are where it gets actually bad. It's a bit more troubling that Harry's intelligence allows him to "know" things that he can't remember learning, from advanced vocabulary words to random quotes from Oscar Wilde [[spoiler:whom Tom Riddle happens to be a big fan of]]. What clinches it for Harry as far as Regulus, Snape and Lucius are concerned however [[spoiler:is Harry being able to get in the correct mindset to cast Fiendfyre]]. |
| 371 | * TrustPassword: The phrase "tempus fugit" seems to be one of these for certain members of the Wizarding World who are "in the know", such as Dumbledore and the Unspeakables. It basically translates to saying "I, or someone I have recently been in contact with, [[spoiler: am from the future]] and you need to follow this particular set of directions exactly if we want to prevent a catastrophe". |
| 372 | * UpperClassTwit: Sirius Black suffers from this along with being a {{Jerkass}}, especially towards Peter. His condescension towards Peter and his ImpoverishedPatrician family slowly turns him away from the Marauders and towards the Death Eaters. |
| 373 | * VillainousIncest: A lot of the more toxic purebloods could be said to fall prey to this, but the previous generation of Blacks took this a step beyond when Walburga started hatching plans to force Sirius to conceive a child with Regulus in order to create the second coming of Merlin. |
| 374 | * VillainWithGoodPublicity: Peter Pettigrew is this [[spoiler: until the end of third year]] seeing as he has a well respected job as James Potter's lawyer. |
| 375 | * VorpalPillow: [[spoiler: Edwina Pettigrew]] is on the receiving end of one of these at the hands of the son she had spent years manipulating. |
| 376 | * WalkingSpoiler: It is almost impossible to talk about what role [[spoiler: Gilderoy Lockhart and Ron Weasley]] play in the events of second year seeing as various plot twists are revealed that cast their earlier actions in an entirely new light. |
| 377 | ** On a similar note, the fact that [[spoiler: Regulus Black]] is in the story at all could be said to be an example of this. |
| 378 | ** [[spoiler: Bellatrix Lestrange]] is also this after the midway point of third year reveals that they were [[BrainwashedAndCrazy not fully responsible for their more psychotic actions]]. |
| 379 | * WasOnceAMan: The WhamLine from one of the Dementors in third year ("My brother called me [[spoiler:Fabian]]") certainly seems to suggest that this is the case. |
| 380 | * WellDoneSonGuy: Harry initially decides to study hard at Hogwarts for this trope. It doesn't last. |
| 381 | * WellIntentionedExtremist: James Potter will do absolutely anything to prevent the first Trelawney prophecy from happening, no matter how much he has to hurt his own family to do so. Doesn't help that his impulsiveness means his "solutions" are rarely well thought out. |
| 382 | * WhamEpisode: Chapter 34 reveals that [[spoiler:James wanted to raise Harry and Jim together even if Harry was a squib but Lily refused]], because of their belief that Harry was a squib due to Jim draining his magic [[spoiler:and her fear that he may do so again, this time accidentally killing Harry]]. |
| 383 | ** Chapter 42 of ''Death Eater Menace'' [[spoiler:Harry kills Remus Lupin]]; |
| 384 | ** Chapter 43 of ''Death Eater Menace'' [[spoiler:James kicks Harry out of the family through the [[FateWroseThanDeath Ultimate Sanction]], Harry finds out about the prophecy and Hermione reveals she has a time-turner]]; |
| 385 | * WhamLine: |
| 386 | ** From the first (1780) Trelawney Prophecy, revealed at the very end of Year One: |
| 387 | --->'''Trewlawney''': And you shall know by these portents that the Time of the Dark God approaches and the Destruction of our World is close at hand: When the Two who should be as One are set against each other in reckless hate, and the Last Potter rises as the Prince of Slytherin. |
| 388 | ** The last line of chapter 78 not only reveals [[spoiler: the true identity of the fake]] Gilderoy Lockhart but also that his strange actions over the past year have really been laying the groundwork for [[spoiler:freeing Sirius Black from Azkaban]]. |
| 389 | --->'''Lockhart''': Please, Harry, we're all friends here. Call me [[spoiler:Regulus]]. |
| 390 | ** Anthony Goldstein seems to be just be a normal Jewish wizard right? Well, he has this to say about his grandparents while opposing the Sanctumen Ultimo: |
| 391 | --->'''Anthony''': Wonderful couple, my Grandpa and Nana Goldstein. Do you know they've been together for fifty years now? They met on a train in 1943, and they've stayed together ever since. |
| 392 | --->'''Pansy''': (Bored) Yes, yes, It sounds very romantic. |
| 393 | --->'''Anthony''': Oh no, Miss Parkinson. No, no, no! It wasn't the least bit romantic. You see, the train in question was on its way to [[UsefulNotes/TheHolocaust Dachau]]. |
| 394 | ** In-Universe, under the influence of Dementors, Jim finally remembers hearing the night Voldemort attacked the Potters. |
| 395 | ---> '''Lily''': No! Take me! Not Harry! NOT HARRY! |
| 396 | ** Chapter 33 of ''Death Eater Manace'', after Jim says the three words James never wanted to hear: |
| 397 | ---> '''James''': [[spoiler:'''IMPERIO!''']] |
| 398 | ** James Potter has had enough and pulls out the big gun: |
| 399 | ---> '''James''': I, Iacomus Charlus Potter, do hereby invoke [[HatePlague the Sanctumen Ultimo]] and declare you Outcast... [[spoiler: Hadrian Remus]] NO-NAME! |
| 400 | ** Harry's secret lineage is revealed |
| 401 | ---> '''Harry''': Through Rose Carmichael and the six generations of Carmichael's who preceded her, I am the oldest male wizarding descendant of Hyacinth Carmichael... [[spoiler: nee Wilkes!]] |
| 402 | ** Fred and George inform Harry of the top secret thirty seventh Rune which just so happens to look like [[spoiler: the letter "V" and closely resemble the scar on Jim's forehead]]. |
| 403 | ---> '''Harry''': So what is this mystery rune? |
| 404 | ---> '''George''': It's called [[spoiler:''Vohldo'']], Harry. And it just means...[[spoiler:''Wild'']]. |
| 405 | * WickedToymaker: Erasmus "The Toymaker" Wilkes has this as his whole modus operandi and specializes in creating magical toys that seem like harmless trains, jack-in-the-boxes, or rubber ducks but are actually quite lethal. The Wizarding World fear him only behind Voldemort himself and possibly Augustus Rookwood despite Wilkes being a PosthumousCharacter. |
| 406 | * WildHair: Unlike in canon, Harry was able to tame his hair into a stylish cut, while his brother doesn't bother to use hair products. |
| 407 | * WildMagic: A dangerous branch -- if not a fundamental principle -- of magic that's slightly alive, capable of making DealWithTheDevil and granting RealityWarper powers to its practioners. It's feared and hated by the wizarding world and knowledge about it is proscribed and punishable by death. |
| 408 | * WimpFight: Snape and Sirius's fistfight is described as "more of a slap fight" and "less than a minute of ineffectual efforts to hurt one another," since not only do neither of them have any skill at fighting except with their wands, which have been taken away, they are both recovering from serious physical traumas at the time. They end up stopping mostly because they're both just tiring themselves out to no real effect, so they might as well put the fight on hold until they get their wands back. |
| 409 | * WouldHurtAChild: The villains generally are more than willing to do grievous harm to children due to the nature of the plot, but special mention goes to Tiberius Nott and Peter Pettigrew's respective plans to use the twelve year old Amy Wilkes to seize control of her family's inheritance. Nott plans to [[{{Squick}} marry and impregnate Amy]] in order to use her child to control the inheritance. Pettigrew merely plans on killing her outright and using the leftover pieces in a Dark Ritual to claim the inheritance. |
| 410 | * WrongGenreSavvy: No, James, [[spoiler:treating your abandoned son like he’s always been your favored son is not going to endear you to Harry. Especially since this behavior only comes when Jim is revealed to be a Parselmouth.]] |
| 411 | * AYearAndADay: There are a number of magical contracts which use this as their minimum term, though whether that came about due to TheFairFolk or vice versa is unclear. More specifically, after an oath of hatred is declared, it cannot be dissolved until this timeframe has elapsed. |
| 412 | * YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Lavender Brown's (late) reaction to learning that Ron and Jim decided to take a FlyingCar to Hogwarts after failing to pass through the 9 3/4 Platform's barrier. |
| 413 | * YourSoulIsMine: The Mirror of Erised has the power to absorb souls. This is because its original purpose was to free victims of DemonicPossession by creating a SchmuckBait which would entice the spirits to enter the mirror. However over the centuries the countless evil spirits have corrupted the Mirror and caused it to hunger for the souls of the living. |
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