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Bizarre School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
is a Crossover between JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and Harry Potter which is written by fanfic author TheRealEvanSG.
in 1988, an eight year old Harry Potter suddenly comes down with a mysterious sickness that lasts for fifty-five days, getting progressively worse before mysteriously healing itself altogether. Harry, as it turns out, is a Stand user, along with several other characters of the Harry Potter series. But something dangerous is also lurking in Hogwarts: someone is awakening students' Stands and mind-controlling them to attack Harry and friends. Can Harry, Ron, Hermione, Draco, and Neville join forces to protect their school as the Lightningdust Crusaders, or will they fall to the various, insane powers of their mind-controlled fellow students?
It can be found on Spacebattles, Sufficient Velocity, and Fanfiction.net.
Tropes contained in Bizarre School of Witchcraft and Wizardry:
- Battle of Wits: The characters get in Stand fights. Don't say you didn't see this coming.
- Harry first tries to win the fight against Draco by freezing the shadowy ink secreted by Pride and Prejudice and then smashing it. Draco, however, reveals that his Stand, Pride and Prejudice, is actually hiding inside the ink. He then makes his own Stand turn camouflaged to attack Harry, who eventually figures out that even though it's camouflaged, it would still have to make a shadow, allowing him to locate the Stand and immobilize it.
- Ron wins the fight against the mind-controlled Hermione by slipping behind her thanks to the magic hallway, using Harry and his Stand to distract her, and then taking out her Stand.
- Hermione figures out that since Mrs. Norris's Stand power is to redirect attacks with the intent to injure at either the attacker or an attacker's friend, randomly fired attacks using objects that can't think will work.
- Big "WHAT?!": Mrs. Norris has one when she notices the stall door falling on her. Except hers is more of a "NYA!?" instead of a "WHAT!?"
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Ron's impatience in Chapter 7 allows for this to happen.Narration: And so they waited. And they waited. And they waited some more. But no...
Ron: This is boring.
Harry: "Ron, you interrupted the narration.
Ron: I know, but we're just doing nothing! And it's been twenty minutes already! - Cassandra Truth: Harry tries to tell Vernon and Petunia that he's really sick, but neither of them believe him. It is only until he can't move anymore that Petunia starts to believe him, and even then it takes her convincing Vernon for the man of the house to believe Harry.
- Cat Folk: In Parenthesis, the Stand of Mrs. Norris, is this. It has a cat head and paws, complete with sharp claws. Its fur is the same color as Mrs. Norris's.
- Cats Are Magic: Played with in that Mrs. Norris, Filch's cat, has a Stand.
- The Chessmaster: Ron was literally this in canon, but here he's even more so; his Stand power is to be able to literally predict any movements two steps before the person makes them, as long as he and that person are looking each other in the eyes.
- Cliffhanger Copout: Once again, as this is a fanfic crossover of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, this is to be expected.
- Chapter 2 ends with Roundabout throwing a punch at Pride and Prejudice.
- Chapter 5 ends when it seems as though the mind-controlled Hermione has defeated Harry and Ron.
- Chapter 7 ends immediately with Final Problem having struck Mrs. Norris in the back with a piece of the broken sink, making it uncertain whether the trio have beat her and her Stand.
- Deadpan Snarker: Harry commonly invokes this trope, having much sass like he did in the original canon books.
- Denied Food as Punishment: It is heavily hinted that the Dursleys malnourished Harry, and that this was the cause for his shortness and skinniness.
- Deus ex Machina: The fight against Mrs. Norris ends completely unexpectedly when Hermione attacking the cat causes Final Problem to fly backwards into one of the bathroom stall doors, accidentally knocking it off its hinges and causing it to fall directly on top of Mrs. Norris. Nobody had planned this.
- Dude, Where's My Respect?: Vernon shouts at Harry to be respectful to Aunt Petunia and listen to her telling him to get out of the cupboard under the stairs, when he's feeling sick and laying still.
- Explaining Your Power to the Enemy: Happens several times.
- Draco explains Pride and Prejudice's power to Harry and Ron.
- Harry explains Roundabout's power to Draco.
- Hermione explains Final Problem's power to Harry and Ron.
- Forced Transformation: On the Hogwarts Express, Draco attacks Harry and Ron with Pride and Prejudice to turn them into a pirate and an old man, likewise, so that they will be humiliated at the Sorting Ceremony.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Hermione tries to win the fight vs Mrs. Norris by this tactic. It only half-works.
- Instant Waking Skills: This is apparently Harry. Understandable, as he's been living with the Dursleys.
- I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up: Harry becomes so sick in the prologue that he has trouble moving, much less standing back up.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Ron finds himself reluctantly agreeing that Draco's argument for why he demands a wizard's duel makes a lot of sense.
- Let Me Get This Straight...: Quoted by Draco in Chapter 7.Draco: So, let me get this straight. You want me to risk my life for you, to deal with a problem that I have absolutely no part in.
Hermione: That about sums it up, yes.
Draco: No. - Multi-Part Episode: Any chapter with a Stand battle seems to be this, split into two parts; much like the Jojo's anime commonly does.
- The fight against Draco + Pride and Prejudice.
- The fight against the mind-controlled Hermione + Final Problem.
- The fight against the mind-controlled Mrs. Norris + In Parenthesis.
- Nerf: Hermione's Stand power is to do this to the intelligence of anyone Final Problem punches.
- No Sympathy:
- Vernon does not care at all that Harry is sick. It takes Petunia pointing out that if he dies, the wizarding world will be furious with the Dursleys to convince Vernon to allow Harry to go to the hospital.
- Aunt Petunia says that the deaths in Cairo are "Terrible, truly terrible," but doesn't sound sympathetic to Harry at all.
- "Open!" Says Me:
- Narrowly averted in the prologue. Harry almost accidentally punches the door to the cupboard under the stairs off its hinges.
- Later played straight in Chapter 8, where Final Problem knocks a bathroom stall door off its hinges upon getting knocked into it.
- Point of Divergence:
- George didn't see Harry's lightning bolt scar on the train, so he didn't tell the other Weasleys that the kid they'd met on the platform was the Boy Who Lived. Therefore Ron wasn't specifically looking for Harry in the train. Instead, they became friends and sat in the same compartment simply because they had no one else to sit with. This leads to a rather humorous jaw drop scene from Ron, Fred, and George when Harry introduces himself to them.
- Since Harry and Ron left Draco, Crabbe and Goyle unconscious in the train, Filch had to drag them into the Sorting Ceremony by their ears.
- Draco calling Hermione a Mudblood happens during breakfast in the Great Hall on their third day of their first year, instead of in the Quidditch field.
- Because Harry, Ron, and Hermione ended up spending all day training for Draco's magic duel challenge in empty classrooms, when they go to the trophy room, they never encountered Neville and he does not come with them.
- Power Incontinence: In Chapter 1, Harry isn't able to control his Stand. It attacks anyone who it thinks is trying to hurt Harry. When he gets to be around Ron and later fights Draco, he manages to gain control over it through instinct.
- Rapid-Fire Fisticuffs: Oh, boy, does this story deliver on this trope. It's kind of a staple of Stand battles, though, so it's no surprise.
- Reference Overdosed: This is a fanfiction with Stands in it, so it was bound to happen. However, most of the Stands' names are references to books instead of music, with the exception being Harry's.
- Harry's Stand is named Roundabout, a reference to Roundabout by Yes, which is the first and second ED to Jojo's.
- Ron's Stand is named Two Towers, a reference to the second "book" of The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien.
- Draco's Stand is named Pride and Prejudice, a reference to Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.
- Hermione's Stand is named Final Problem, a reference to the last mystery of Sherlock Holmes.
- Mrs. Norris's Stand is named In Parenthesis, a reference to the poem In Parenthesis by David Jones.
- In Chapter 2, Harry says "Good grief" several times, referencing Jotaro Kujo's famous "Yare yare daze," which translates roughly to good grief.
- Scooby-Dooby Doors: There's a scene in the battle against the mind-controlled Hermione where one of the hallways in Hogwarts magically recreates a Scooby-Doo chase scene for our heroes. Apparently Godric Gryffindor designed it that way.
- Shapeshifter: Draco's Stand, Pride and Prejudice, has the power to control the appearance of anything it touches with its ink, including itself and Draco. The effect is undone if he's unconscious.
- Sick Episode: The prologue. It is used to introduce the audience to the fact that Harry has Joestar lineage.
Word of God states that Lily Evans's mother had a one-night stand with Joseph Joestar and that is why Harry got sick in 1988. - Signature Laugh: Mrs. Norris has one that is "Nyayayayaya!"
- Sincerest Form of Flattery: Voldemort has apparently magically recreated DIO's flesh buds into something he calls magic buds.
- Soap Opera Disease: In the prologue, Harry is struck with a mysterious and unknown sickness that none of the doctors at the hospital know how to cure. Fans of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure will know from it occuring for fifty-five days in 1988 that it is the same Stand-based "sickness" that Holly Kujo and Josuke Higashikata suffered from in canon Jojo's.
- Speak in Unison: Fred and George do this in Chapter 1.
- Stop Hitting Yourself: Mrs. Norris's Stand power is to redirect any attacks with the intent to injure that are done to either her or In Parenthesis. These redirected attacks go to either a nearby ally of the attacker, or if none are nearby/conscious, the attacker themselves.
- Tickle Torture: How Harry and Ron decide to punish Draco for attacking them on the train. It's super effective!
- To Be Continued: After every chapter, there is a TO BE CONTINUED message within an arrow, referencing how the ends of the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure episodes occur. Currently, it also links to the third JoJo anime ED.
- Unsound Effect:
- The mind-controlled Hermione is so disturbingly insane and menacing that Harry thinks he can see floating "menacing" soundeffects around her. This is, of course, a reference to canon Jojo's.
- In Chapter 8, when Hermione punches Mrs. Norris, a RETURN! sound effect is used.
- We Wait: Having arrived early, the Golden Trio are left waiting for Draco, Crabbe and Goyle to arrive at the trophy room for twenty minutes.
- What the Hell Are You?: Upon the first materialization of Roundabout that doesn't cause Harry to be uncontrollably sick, Harry asks this of his Stand. Without the swearing.
- Who Dares?: Vernon furiously screams, "How dare you!" when Harry accidentally breaks his favorite mug.
