Line #98 Fanfic/TheOllivanderChildren


1	A ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' {{fanfiction}} currently published on Website/FanFictionDotNet, written by a Troper, Tropers/{{Vifetoile}}, ''The Ollivander Children'' tells the story of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin the Ollivander family]], centering around Mr. Ollivander, the slightly creepy wandmaker first met in ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's/Sorcerer's Stone''. In ''Half-Blood Prince,'' Mr. Ollivander is captured, and that's the last that we know of him until ''Deathly Hallows.''
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3	As an ElsewhereFic, ''The Ollivander Children'' focuses on Mr. Ollivander's grand-niece, [[SugarAndIcePersonality Calliope]], who has been continuing her post-Hogwarts education in Boston, and along the way befriended a {{Muggle}} named Mark Printzen. When Calliope hears about her uncle's kidnapping (from her somewhat estranged best friend, Nymphadora Tonks), [[CallToAdventure she returns to England]], becoming reluctantly involved with the [[LaResistance Order of the Phoenix]]. However, through an accident she leaves her wand behind, where [[GenreSavvy Mark]] finds it -- and he decides to [[LoveMakesYouCrazy look for her in England]], having [[TheMasquerade little idea what he's getting into]].
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5	The story also dwells on Mr. Ollivander in captivity, and his captor's "experiments"; Calliope's older brother [[TheStoic Linus]], who works as an [[EasyAmnesia Obliviator]] with the Ministry of Magic and who ends up crossing paths with Mark; and the memory of Benedicte Ollivander, who died in the first war against Voldemort, but whose [[{{Unperson}} memory is in considerable danger...]]
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7	Read the complete ''The Ollivander Children'' [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6297946/1/The_Ollivander_Children here]] and the sequel, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6882687/1/The_Ollivanders_at_War The Ollivanders At War]],'' is also complete.
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9	Has a [[Characters/{{The Ollivander Children}} Character Sheet]] under construction.
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11	!!This fanfic provides examples of:
12	* AccidentalMarriage: [[spoiler: Invoked by Mr. Ollivander playing TheMatchmaker between Calliope and Mark, when their escaping from Bindweed Hall he performs an ancient marriage rite on the two of them as they escape down the well with Januarius.]]
13	* ADayInTheLimelight: It gives Mr. Ollivander, the mysterious and little-seen wandmaker, more screen time -- although really most of the action is taken up by OC's.
14	* AerithAndBob: Mark and Andrew are starting to really stand out opposite the odd Calliope, Linus, the rare Turpin and Thorfinn, the very weird (for Muggles) Januarius... Even "Tess" is short for the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology ancient Greek Tisiphone.]] (On a linguistic note, Mr. Ollivander's first name, Servaas, is the one Dutch name among a slew of English and Greek names. Mysterious.)
15	* AffablyEvil: Turpentine.
16	* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: By Mark -- [[spoiler: declaring his love for Calliope to her brother, in an attempt to convince Linus to take him along on her rescue mission]]. And in chapter 22 of "War," [[spoiler: Guadalupe to Mark.]]
17	* BigBadEnsemble: Between the Ministry of Magic and, eventually, the Death Eaters, our protagonists have their hands full.
18	* BigFancyHouse: The Ollivander's family estate, Hollywyck which resides in Scotland, is a magnificent manor in mock Tudor architecture with a wide, rambling garden and a fountain,is surrounded by magical enchanted holly to keep out uninvited guests, and has a graveyard where long deceased members of the Ollivander family rest. Although it doesn't have a ballroom to match the manors grandest, it has an equally grand library.
19	* BrainyBrunette: Calliope and Linus.
20	* BreakTheCutie: Poor, poor Mark. Just to start with, he's an American Muggle surrounded by British wizards, and most wizards [[FantasticRacism treat him about as well as you'd expect]] for that. Then he gets put in jail...
21	* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler: Turpentine]] to Linus.
22	* BrotherSisterTeam: Several: Calliope and Linus, Tess and Hector, [[AlliterativeFamily full-blood-siblings Januarius and Julietta.]]
23	* CallingTheOldManOut
24	* CanNotSpitItOut: ''Mark.''
25	* [[ChekhovsGun Chekhov's Wand]]: [[spoiler: The Rod of Asclepius.]]
26	* ChristianityIsCatholic: The Holy Church of Christ the Magician combines this with a mild CrystalDragonJesus to make a church where Tarot imagery is sprinkled in with the usual Catholic suspects.
27	* [[spoiler: CliffHanger]]
28	* {{Confessional}}: Mark visits one in chapter two of ''Ollivanders at War,'' appropriately titled "The Confessional."
29	* CowardlyLion: Mark struggles with this appellation.
30	* {{Deuteragonist}}: Between them, Mark and Linus are the deuteragonist and tritagonist, but it's uncertain which is which.
31	* DisappearedDad: Calliope and Linus' father is alive, but living in France, [[spoiler: but makes a return in chapter 32 of "War" when the body of their sister is finally recovered.]] Meanwhile, Hector and Tess' father is barely mentioned or even seen.
32	* EleventhHourSuperpower: [[spoiler: It turns out that the wand that Gregorovitch sent to the Ollivander family is the Rod of Asclepius, whose healing powers Linus picks up ''just'' in time to save Mark's life.]]
33	* ElsewhereFic: Type 2 -- canon characters appear, but the story revolves around original characters.
34	* EvilPlan: Someone is scheming to erase Benedicte Ollivander from the memory of everyone who ever knew or heard of her.
35	* FamilyEyeResemblance: Every member of the Ollivander family has the same silvery grey eyes.
36	* ForScience: Turpentine again.
37	* TheFool: Mark has elements of this.
38	* FreakOut: Januarius does not take well to [[spoiler: a blood transfusion from a Muggle.]]
39	** And Tess doesn't take well, it turns out, to Januarius' FreakOut.
40	* HeroicBSOD: In ''War,'' one falls on the cast after Calliope learns [[spoiler: that Linus and Mark had pleaded not guilty, knowing that Turpentine had promised to free her if they pleaded guilty.]]
41	* INeedAFreakingDrink: Mark turns to [[DrowningMySorrows Drowning His Sorrows]] in chapter 10 of ''War.''
42	* IronicNickname: Calliope's family nickname is "Shrimp" because she was a tiny, premature baby. Now she's taller than everyone else in her family.
43	* [[KnightTemplarBigBrother Knight Templar Big Sister]]: Tess is ''very'' protective of her younger brother, Hector.
44	* LaserGuidedAmnesia: What Obliviators do for a living.
45	* LineageComesFromTheFather: Averted -- except for Mr. Ollivander, all the members of the Ollivander family are descended through their mothers, and their respective fathers are rarely mentioned.
46	* LoveHurts: Mark.
47	* LowerDeckEpisode: The entire story.
48	* MagicWand: As per ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' rules, every wizard has them. Calliope doesn't [[spoiler: and is learning how to use magic without a wand.]]
49	* TheMasquerade: Firmly in place between wizards and {{Muggles}}.
50	* MeaningfulName: Everyone, in some way or another. Except, probably, Turpentine.
51	** [[spoiler: On the other hand, Turpentine would be the perfect name for someone who strips away layers of memories like you would layers of paint]].
52	** In-universe, the names of the Ollivander Children: Calliope's middle name, Blithe, was chosen by her father to show how happy they were at her birth. Linus’ middle name, Fortitude, is because his mother almost died giving birth to him (also picked out by their father). Benedicte Clemence, a blessing of mercy, from their father (he had a sentimental bent).
53	** "Lyman" Heckinger, the journalist.
54	** Tisiphone means "the avenger."
55	** St. Januarius is the patron saint of blood banks. Strangely, his feast day is not in January.
56	* MemoryWipingCrew: The Obliviators, where Linus works.
57	* MindRape: What Turpentine inflicts on [[spoiler:Mr. Ollivander, and then on Calliope]], to extract their memories of Benedicte.
58	* MissingMom: Calliope and Linus' mother died a couple of years before the story starts, as well is Januarius and Julietta's mother.
59	* MomentKiller: Linus is unconscious master at this art.
60	* MugglePower: Inverted: the more paranoid wizards are terrified of Muggles figuring them out and stealing their magic, as well as considering Muggles generally inferior to them in every way.
61	* {{Muggles}}: Mark is one, Andrew is a Muggle-born wizard.
62	* NonIdleRich: The Ollivanders are loaded, but they value the fact that they work for their money, and don’t flaunt it.
63	* OriginalFlavor: Attempting to match the later ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books, or, that failing, ''[[http://www.sugarquill.net/read.php?storyid=304&chapno=1 Interwoven]], or, The Seamstress and the Lovable Stray.''
64	* PairTheSpares: [[spoiler: Hector and Andrew.]]
65	* EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: Again, Calliope and Linus, and their mother and sister.
66	* ThePollyanna: Mark. Again. His reaction to the wizarding world is an extended "Ooh, shiny!"
67	* PowerTrio:
68	** TheKirk: Calliope
69	** TheSpock: Linus
70	** {{The McCoy}}: Mark
71	* PreacherMan: Januarius Fell, reverend of the [[ChristianityIsCatholic Holy Church of Christ the Magician.]]
72	* PretentiousLatinMotto: The Obliviators have "Splendide Mendax," which means "Nobly Untruthful."
73	* ScienceHero: Linus at his best.
74	* SecretRelationship: [[spoiler: Hector and Andrew keep their relationship a secret since Hector is in the closet, a few chapters later in ''War'' its revealed that Calliope, Mark and Linus [[OpenSecret all know about]].]]
75	* ShoutOut: The Weatherwax Theory of Magic.
76	** Mark actually tells the story of [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Beren and Lúthien]] at one point.
77	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: Calliope is nominally the main character -- she's also the most prominent female character by far.
78	* [[SpecialGuest Special Canon Guest]]: Apart from Nymphadora "Dora" Tonks (Calliope's childhood friend) and Mr. Ollivander (Calliope's grand-uncle) who are more supporting characters, a number of Harry Potter canon characters make guest appearances, or even regular guest appearances, which are announced at the beginning of a chapter or the end of the previous. The following characters are;
79	** Mad-Eye Moody is the first canon character to make an appearance, when Dora takes Calliope on a detour to his house.
80	** Then in the following chapter there's Albus Dumbledore, who convinces Calliope to help the Order of Phoenix with a few assignments. [[spoiler: Also in "At War", Mark meets him and is given a pep talk by Dumbledore before his final trial. Telling him that he possess a far great gift, the ability to inspire courage in his students (the werewolves) to give the world a second chance.]]
81	** Dolores Umbridge, [[spoiler: who arrested Mark at the Leaky Cauldron for supposedly stealing a wand and later as a juror at both Mark's trials.]]
82	** Calliope meets Luna Lovegood at the Hog's Head, while Dora is attending an Auoro's meeting and Luna's father is conducting an interview for The Quibbler. The two end up striking up a conversation and end up becoming pen pals, Luna even gives her advice via letter in a later chapter.
83	** Remus Lupin makes a short appearance, [[spoiler: But then in ''War'' makes a more memorable appearance when he takes Mark to the Agnes Stidolph Werewolf Sanctuary, where Mark is to teach the werewolves.]]
84	** [[spoiler: Fleur Delacour rescues Calliope in chapter 6 of ''War'' and becomes sort of friends with Calliope, she makes a few more appearances in later chapters and even ends up going on a rescue mission with Linus and Dora to help Calliope after she helps Mark and Januarius escape from Bindweed Hall.]]
85	** [[spoiler: Bill Weasley makes a few appearances along side Fleur after her first few guest roles, he also goes with Linus, Dora and Fleur to find Calliope, Mark and Januarius after the three escape from Bindweed Hall.]]
86	* StoicSpectacles: Linus.
87	* SugarAndIcePersonality: Calliope.
88	* TakeMeInstead: [[spoiler: Calliope]] offers in place of [[spoiler: Mark, to his dismay]].
89	** And in ''War'', [[spoiler: Mark returns the favor.]]
90	* TarotTroubles: Courtesy of Julietta Fell, who offers Tarot readings where her brother offers to hear confessions.
91	* TinyGuyHugeGirl: Downplayed, even though Calliope is described as being taller than most of the characters, even her older brother, as [[WordOfGod shown in this art work]] [[http://soabs.deviantart.com/art/Cast-Lineup-178064155]], she's only at least a few inches taller than Mark.
92	* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Dora and Calliope.
93	* TransferableMemory: In ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' tradition, a big deal with Obliviators.
94	* {{Tsundere}}: Tess Gibbs.
95	* UnfazedEveryman: Mark.
96	* {{Unperson}}: What the villain is attempting to do to Benedicte years post-mortem. It works -- [[spoiler: partially]].
97	* WhatBeautifulEyes: The Ollivander family as a whole and their striking –- or unnerving -– silver eyes.

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