Fanfic / Daphne Greengrass and the Boy Who Lived

Daphne Greengrass and the Boy Who Lived is an AU of Harry Potter starting from basically Harry’s first Potions lesson, where Slytherin student Daphne Greengrass speaks out in Harry’s defence. Intrigued at her actions, Harry talks with her after the class and the two start to form a cautious friendship, which extends to Ron and Hermione. Realising that she doesn’t like how her house is perceived by the rest of the school, and assured by her parents that they value her happiness more than her social standing, Daphne makes her friendship with Harry public as she works to change Slytherin House and oppose Voldemort’s return to power.

From the beginning, the author's plan was to create a triad relationship with Daphne, Harry and Ginny Weasley; after Harry and Daphne start dating at the Yule Ball, Ginny is added to the relationship in Chapter 84.

The fic can be found here and here.

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Daphne Greengrass and the Boy Who Lived contains examples of:

• The Ace: Daphne’s mother, Amaranth Pyrites (her maiden name) was a star Quidditch player in her youth, although she now manages teams rather than playing herself.
• Actually Pretty Funny: Deconstructed regarding boggarts; Lupin notes that the Riddikulus charm can be used to make the boggart seem harmless if it’s impossible to find a way to make its represented fear funny, such as Daphne making the Harry-boggart cross its fingers to remind herself that the real Harry would never say such cruel things.
• Adaptational Heroism: Aside from the neutral Slytherins that didn't have enough characterisation in canon to be this, the most prominent (if downplayed) examples are Pansy Parkinson, who tells Daphne that while she still hangs around Malfoy, she doesn't agree with his views and prefers to stay neutral, and Adrian Pucey, who in this continuity was permanently booted off the team by Malfoy and decides to hang around Daphne and her Gryffindor friends instead.
• Adaptational Name Change: During fifth year, rather than call their defence class "Dumbledore's Army", Harry's friends suggest the name "the Order of the Lightning Bolt", taking an earlier joking comment by Daphne and making it a serious choice.
• Adapted Out: Astoria Greengrass, Daphne's younger sister in canon, does not exist in this fic, making her an only child.
• Always Second Best: It's noted more than once that Draco Malfoy is an inferior Seeker not only to Harry, but also to his predecessor Terrence Higgs, who only lost his position on the team because of Malfoy's bribe of the Nimbus Two Thousand and Ones. When watching the Gryffindor-vs-Slytherin games with Daphne, Higgs often comments that Malfoy blatantly misses opportunities to spot the Snitch that he's sure he would have caught. Even then, Higgs told Daphne at one point that even if he and Harry had an equal shot at the Snitch (same broom, same distance, spotted it at the same time, etc.) while competing against each other in a match, he's sure that Harry would get there first.
• Always Someone Better: Daphne is a good chess player, but swiftly acknowledges Ron as her better; out of twenty games they played in first year, she only won three.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Even aside from them teasing her about her crush on Harry, Daphne is somewhat uncomfortable when her parents show up to the Quidditch World Cup obeying the rule to dress like muggles by dressing like eighties punk rockers. Especially since they have seats in the Top Box, meaning that all eyes will be on them when the prize is given.
• Ambiguously Bi: Fleur kisses Daphne after the second task, as thanks for helping Harry save her sister, but this is dismissed as just a French thing.
• Ambition is Evil: Daphne notes that she wants to change this idea about Slytherin in particular, observing that it’s not fair to judge them as evil just because this is their ‘prized’ trait.
• Armor-Piercing Response: The best description of how Daphne confronts Hermione about her beliefs regarding house-elves; she summons her own family house-elf, Finny, to give Hermione an example of a happy elf who serves a good family, as opposed to the more negative examples presented by Dobby and Winky.
• Ascended Extra:
  • As well as being more involved in Harry’s life from the beginning, Daphne also takes on a few of his moments from canon, such as being the one to face Voldemort in the Forbidden Forest and write in Riddle’s Diary after Ginny tried to get rid of it.
  • On a minor note, one of Daphne's Slytherin friends, Elsie Hall, is Krum's Yule Ball date instead of Hermione.
• Ascended Fanboy: Ginny is a female version of this as she is excited to meet Amaranth Pyrites, now Amaranth Greengrass; Ginny notes that she is aware of all major female Quidditch players going back years as she had to know all their names to put her brothers in their place.
• Author Appeal: The author has mentioned an appreciation for writing magic duels and the psychology that goes into them, because of how it relates to their interest in fencing and krav maga.
• Back for the Dead: Gemma Farley, the Slytherin prefect in Harry and Daphne's first year, returns in Chapter 133 as part of a resistance group that meets with Daphne and Ginny, and is subsequently killed by an attacking Death Eater.
• Badass on Paper: When the Prophet suggests that Peter Pettigrew has become a rallying point for the recent mass escape from Azkaban, Harry acknowledges that Wormtail sounds tough when looking at him as a mass murderer who stayed hidden for over a decade, even if the reality is that most of that was luck.
• The Bait: Harry, Ron and Daphne explicitly decide to take Lockhart with them as a distraction when they enter the Chamber, as he’s useless in every other respect.
• Bait-and-Switch:
  • Harry and co. wake up in the hospital wing after their encounter with Sirius, Remus, Pettigrew and the Dementors, and when Madam Pomfrey says that Sirius is captured and the Kiss will be administered any moment now, they all panic... only for Dumbledore, Snape and a free Sirius to walk in moments later, as Snape had saw and heard Pettigrew, managed to refocus his grudge, and testified for Sirius to make them even.
  • After Harry's entry into the Triwizard Tournament, Professor Moody has a discussion with Daphne about ways to fool a Kneazle about who's trustworthy, and is satisfied that Daphne is still suspicious of him. The year ends with Barty Crouch Jr. being exposed, disguised not as Moody, but instead as his father.
• Barbaric Bully: Daphne notes that this character trait is what most annoys her about some modern Slytherins, as attacks such as Malfoy cursing Neville are just stupid and petty rather than doing something ‘evil’ for at least some kind of practical motivation.
• Barred from the Afterlife: When searching for Salazar Slytherin's grave for a possible clue to the horcruxes, the group meet the ghost of a gravedigger who chose not to pass on because he saw so much death in his life that he was afraid of what he might face himself if he passed on.
• Batman Gambit:
  • After one of Daphne's visions stops Ron being poisoned on Valentine's Day, they determine how he might have been poisoned by working out what they would have done without the advance notice of Daphne's visions and thus determine that the poisoned bottle was in Slughorn's possession.
  • When the group capture Bellatrix, since she won't respond to conventional interrogation, Harry taunts her by talking about Riddle's weakness and then testing her reaction when he emphasises the word "cup" (he was going to also use "crown" in a sentence, but decided that the diadem was still an uncertain choice for the unknown Horcrux where the cup was a known Horcrux). Her reaction to the "cup" comment was enough.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: Daphne advocates the use of the Imperius Curse to break into Gringott's as part of their plan to acquire the horcruxes; she doesn't like the Curse herself, but she recognises that the stakes are so high they have to resort to any means in order to win.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: More accurately, Daphne is able to ask the centaurs for help with her Divination work looking at the movements of the stars because she asked them out of genuine respect rather than just demanding they help her.
• Better the Devil You Know: Hermione basically adopts this attitude when making a deal where Fred and George can test their products unhindered by her in exchange for their active efforts against Umbridge, as at least Fred and George aren't actively trying to endanger anyone with their planned joke products where Umbridge is using the blood quill on Harry.
• Blessed with Suck: Daphne's talent for Divination develops into this from her perspective; her initial prophecies were made without her realising it until after the events predicted took place, her focused glimpses of the future are relatively limited, and when she attempts a more detailed vision she cannot understand what she is looking at.
• Blue-and-Orange Morality:
  • Daphne needs to explain some of the Noble House politics affecting the wizarding world to Hermione to give her a better understanding of why it’s sometimes OK to break/bend the rules.
  • When the group ask Bill if a goblin would help them break into a Gringotts vault, Bill affirms that while goblins aren't on Voldemort's side, they are so committed to their rules and restrictions of ownership that they would never help Harry acquire something he doesn't own.
• Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The main pairing. Daphne is blonde, Harry is dark-haired, and Ginny is a redhead. Hermione also qualifies as the brunette when the three girls in the friend group are hanging out together.
• Bodyguarding a Badass: Ron does this for Daphne during the infiltration of Malfoy Manor, as she needs to focus on discerning the nature of the Anti-Apparation Jinx around the manor so that Bill can break it and allow everyone to escape.
• Book Ends: The first and last chapters of the story both have Daphne being amazed at the majesty of Hogwarts' entrance hall, first as a first-year student, and last as a year-tenure DADA professor.
• Boxed Crook: Hermione and Daphne propose this kind of arrangement to Rita Skeeter; in the event of Harry having newsworthy experiences in future, the Greengrasses will pay Rita for writing them, so long as she doesn't embellish the truth, regardless of the level of public interest such stories might receive.
• Brainwashed: Daphne is very disturbed by her brief experience under the Imperius curse.
• Brain Bleach:
  • Harry and Daphne are left uncomfortable when Moody uses his eye to comment on Harry's socks, since that means he's basically using his eye to look under teenagers' robes.
  • While Ron is relatively understanding of Harry, Ginny and Daphne dating each other once they begin their three-person relationship, he explicitly asks that the girls not discuss what they might do when they're alone together over the holidays as he doesn't want to picture his sister doing such things. He's particularly vehement about this request when Daphne and Ginny talk about their first sexual encounter with each other in the Room of Requirement in Harry's sixth year.
• Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario: Ginny gives Daphne a version of this when they're alone together after Bill and Fleur's wedding, as Ginny is angry at Daphne's lack of respect for her choice to stay behind to keep Daphne and Harry safe.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: Sirius suggests that he and James in particular were this at school, preferring to learn about things on their own time when they wouldn't have to do homework or write essays about their discoveries.
• Broken Pedestal:
  • Harry doesn't take it well learning that his father bullied Snape when they were in school, given his own experience with bullies.
  • When Daphne learns the truth about Snape's past with the Death Eaters (namely he joined a group of blood supremacists despite his best friend being Muggleborn), she explicitly informs Snape that her respect for him is now somewhere on the level of the respect she has for Draco Malfoy, although she notes that even if she will never forgive him he can still regain her respect.
• Brutal Honesty: Daphne does a diplomatic version of this when she tells Hagrid in their first lesson about the blast-ended skrewts that the creatures might be too dangerous for a fourth-year class, helping him acknowledge that he needs to take his students' greater vulnerabilities into account.
• But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Brought up when Sirius mentions that Edmund Greengrass (Daphne's father) wiped the floor with him in a duel in Edmund's sixth year; Edmund was such a good duelist back then that he doesn't distinctly remember beating Sirius as he defeated so many people in duels at that time.
• The Cassandra: Essentially an inverted example, as Daphne finds that she has a talent for Divination that she doesn’t want because she only sees bad things happening, including a series of events that end with Harry walking into the forest to be killed by Voldemort as in canon, even though even a sceptic like Hermione acknowledges that her visions can be valid.
• Casual Kink: Brought up when Daphne suggests that she and Ginny could try roleplay at some future date and Ginny starts blushing.
• Cheated Death, Died Anyway: Edmund Greengrass, Daphne's father, survives a near-fatal hit from Voldemort's Killing Curse during the battle at the Ministry, with a little help from Felix Felicis. However, he dies two years later in the Battle of Hogwarts.
• Chekhov's Gun: The Sword of Gryffindor; not only does it retain its role in destroying Horcruxes, but when the group are attacked by the defences of Slytherin's tomb, Ron is able to wield the sword to destroy them.
• Chekhov's Skill:
  • As a pure-blood, Daphne has a detailed knowledge of most wizarding genealogies. This allows her to later confirm that there’s no way for Harry to be a descendant of Slytherin as all pure-blood lines with a direct connection to Slytherin died out long ago and the Potter family is clearly distinct from any indirect connection.
  • Daphne's extreme revulsion for any sort of mind-altering magic like the Imperius Curse allows her to instantly break free when Madame Rosmerta tries to Imperius her into delivering a cursed necklace to Dumbledore.
  • During Harry and Daphne's Occlumency lessons, Snape highlights some strategies to link memories in a person's mind in order to circumvent their mental defences. Harry later employs these strategies while interrogating a captured Bellatrix in order to figure out what she knows about Voldemort's horcruxes - no Legilimency or Occlumency needed, just talking and gauging of a person's reaction.
• The Chew Toy: Isaac, the male Slytherin prefect when Daphne starts at Hogwarts, has been cursed since his second year with chronic bad luck, to the extent that he is a victim of the Basilisk despite being a Slytherin (he is attacked instead of Colin).
• Choosing Neutrality: The Greengrass family did this in the last war, but as Daphne becomes friends with Harry her parents acknowledge that neutrality won't be an option if Voldemort returns and assure Daphne they are willing to face this. Later, Pansy Parkinson suggests she will adopt this, as she doesn't want to actively work with Daphne's group of Slytherin reformists but all-but-explicitly states that she recognises that a returned Voldemort would be a danger to everyone.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: Daphne has a version of this where she’s often too willing to throw herself into danger for the sake of protecting others, explicitly risking her life to give Harry a chance.
• The City vs. the Country: Daphne gets a variation of this when she visits the Burrow, as she’s surprised to see how much smaller the Weasleys’ house is compared to her own. Unlike the stereotypical Slytherin, however, she appreciates the homely atmosphere of the house.
• Closest Thing We Got: While Daphne can confirm that Malfoy can’t be Slytherin’s heir as all known pure-blood families can trace their lineage back to a point when Slytherin’s bloodline was still ‘active’ before Slytherin’s descendants faded into obscurity, she concedes that he’s still the most likely suspect to know anything about the current attacks.
• Closet Key: While Daphne’s mother joked that she wouldn’t be against Daphne marrying Ginny, Daphne only ‘acknowledges’ her own bisexuality when she finds herself attracted to the Veela at the World Cup, noting in the aftermath that Harry was clearly also interested in them where Hermione wasn’t.
• Combat Clairvoyance: Daphne asks if this kind of Divination is possible to master in a duel, and is informed that there is such a technique, but it is difficult to learn how to do it properly and becomes harder with multiple opponents. Daphne briefly enters such a state during the Battle of Hogwarts after her father is killed in front of her, shooting foes before they even appear and intercepting enemy ambushes before they're even carried out.
• Combat Pragmatist: When Daphne requires protection while using her abilities to break down a complex jinx, Ron volunteers despite Ginny's offer to do so as he recognises that Ginny's combat style isn't well-suited for staying put and protecting someone.
• Commonality Connection:
  • After her first lesson with Lupin reveals Daphne’s fear of being rejected by her friends, Lupin asks her to stay behind and offer his own insights into that fear, although he avoids directly discussing his werewolf status at this point.
  • During Christmas at the Burrow over her sixth year, Daphne helps Fleur bond with Ginny by observing how Fleur's issues being judged as a Veela instead of her own skills (and how Bill was the first to see her as a person) are similar to her own troubles being judged as a Slytherin rather than as an individual.
• Complexity Addiction: When considering how Harry might be entered into the Tournament based on her past visions, Daphne is bemused when Tracey is the one to point out that someone could easily enter someone else's name on their behalf, as the judges wouldn't anticipate that someone wouldn't enter their own name.
• Convenient Slow Dance: To a point; Daphne and Ginny end up dancing together to a slow dance at the Yule Ball, but they don't acknowledge any deeper feelings at that point and just focus on having fun.
• Crazy-Prepared: Thanks to Daphne's vision of a future event, she provides Harry with a copy of his wand so that he can take potential captors by surprise.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: By the start of sixth year, Daphne's mother has given Harry and Ginny such detailed Quidditch lessons that the Gryffindor team decimate Slytherin in the first match of the year, with a victory of four hundred and thirty points to zero, and score an even more decisive victory over Hufflepuff.
• Curse Cut Short: The title of Chapter 83, where Umbridge bans Harry, Fred and George from playing Quidditch, is titled "The Lion, the Witch, and the Audacity of this...".
• Curse Escape Clause: When Daphne approaches a curse-breaker regarding curing her friend Isaac’s bad luck curse, she learns that the involved ritual would require Isaac to remain in a potion-induced sleep for two weeks. The nature of the curse means that any choice Isaac makes would essentially work to preserve the curse (the curse-breaker can’t even make an appointment with him because the curse would ensure that Isaac could only make appointments at times she’s unavailable for), so for the actual curing process Isaac must remain in a state where he cannot make any choices that might interfere.
• Defends Against Their Own Kind: Daphne ends up basically doing this for her Gryffindor friends in particular against the rest of Slytherin, to the extent that she’s willing to accept losing points for her house if it means helping her friends.
• Demoted to Extra:
  • Cho Chang was Harry’s first crush in canon, but when he’s watching the Ravenclaw-VS-Slytherin match where Cho is playing against Malfoy Harry shows no sign that he notices Cho in terms of anything more than her abilities as a Seeker.
  • Aberforth Dumbledore in seventh-year; while in canon he provides some insight into his deceased brother's mentality, here Daphne doesn't even know his real identity beyond being the Hog's Head bartender.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: As time goes on, Daphne is left increasingly unsure what she wants to do after Hogwarts, as the idea of using her skills as a Seer on a professional level just strikes her as depressing because of what she might see but other possibilities don't immediately appeal to her either. Ginny shares similar sentiments when the two are on a date in Hogsmeade, each girl acknowledging that they want to do more to help others but are unsure what that should be.
• Didn't Think This Through: When Educational Decree Twenty-Four is released regarding the High Inquisitor granting permission for students to form groups and defining such groups as regular gatherings of three or more people, Tracey Davies points out that this decree is idiotic as by that argument students should be expelled for meeting with friends or gathering in the dormitories at night. Tracey and Daphne agree there's no point bringing this observation up to Umbridge, but they also agree that the Decree is deliberately over-inclusive.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Umbridge issuing a lifetime Quidditch ban on Harry and the Weasley twins is more clearly presented as this, as in this version of events Harry never even attacked Malfoy beyond diversionary flying and Crabbe actually attacked them with his bat even after the game was over. When Daphne's mother arranges an official inquiry into the events of the match, the investigators note that such bans are only issued in response to grievous and repeated offences, and in this case Harry and George were clearly provoked and Fred didn't even do anything. In the end, the lifetime bans are revoked and only George is given a one-match ban.
• Dude, Not Funny!: This is Ginny's reaction when Daphne suggests that the best way for her and Harry to spend time together while the rest are in Hogsmeade is to get kidnapped again.
• Due to the Dead: After Daphne's old friend and former Slytherin prefect Gemma is killed by Death Eaters while defending muggle-borns, Daphne attends a basic funeral for Gemma.
• Enemy Mine: Loosely applies when Daphne stands up to Umbridge on Trelawney's behalf, as while Daphne doesn't like Trelawney much as a teacher she recognises that Trelawney is a better and more useful person than the new High Inquisitor.
• Epic Fail: During Hagrid's first Care of Magical Creatures lesson, Malfoy and his cronies take out their restrained, snapping Monster Books to ask how they're supposed to read them. However, everyone else takes out their unbound, pacified Monster Books and Hagrid chuckles that Malfoy didn't listen to the bookstore manager on how to pacify them.
• Even Evil Has Standards: After the boggart lesson reveals that Daphne’s greatest fear is being rejected by Harry, Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle obviously enjoyed the sight, but Daphne notes that Nott and Zabini showed a greater sense of sympathy for her (Daphne speculates that Zabini’s boggart was his mother, which might justify his attitude).
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • As much as Snape hates Sirius Black, when he actually sees Peter Pettigrew escape, Snape speaks in Sirius’s defence and helps to clear his name, realising that Pettigrew was the true traitor responsible for Lily’s death.
  • It's explicitly stated that Rita would go after anyone, but she avoids targeting wealthier wizarding families out of concern that she could be in danger if she wrote something too inflammatory. It is noted that this is likely the reason Rita is "targeting" Hermione as Harry's girlfriend rather than Daphne, as she knows the Greengrasses are wealthy enough to cause her trouble if she was too blatantly attacking their daughter.
    • After Fleur kisses Harry after the second task, the group speculate that Rita avoided writing anything about that because she doesn't want to be attacked by flaming bird-women.
  • It's noted that for all his paranoia and hatred of Death Eaters, Moody always preferred to bring his targets in alive, and disapproved of Crouch advocating the use of the Unforgivables against known enemies during the last war against Voldemort.
  • After seeing Umbridge send her forces to arrest Hagrid, even Hermione has no objection to Daphne talking amongst the group about more violent methods of dealing with Umbridge, even if Harry points out that they need to fight smarter to stop her.
  • Sirius affirms that even at their most careless, he and James always made sure they knew what a spell did before using it, convincing Harry to be more careful about practising the Half-Blood Prince's spells.
• Everyone Is Related: Due to the interconnected nature of pure-blood families, Daphne has determined that there is some overlap in the family trees of her, Harry and Ginny, but since their nearest shared relative is from nine generations back she only mentions the link when Ginny explicitly wonders about such a connection.
• Evil-Detecting Cat:
  • Kneazles’ ability to be this is a key character trait; Daphne decides to test Scabbers by bringing him to Hagrid’s hut after a lesson on Kneazles to confirm that Scabbers is the problem rather than Crookshanks having an individual grudge against him.
  • Later zigzagged: after Harry is chosen to compete in the Tournament, Daphne tries to use her own Kneazle, Nyx, to test the obvious suspects, but Professor Moody, while returning a happily purring Nyx to Daphne, comments that he has three of his own at home and that there are pheromones that can be used to make Kneazles see even Voldemort as a good person. That said, the year ends with Barty Crouch Jr. revealed disguised as his father, not Moody.
• Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: Professor Slughorn has this reaction when he realizes that he got the bottle of mead meant as a gift to Dumbledore from Madam Rosmerta, who was just Imperiused into assisting with an assassination scheme. A quick analysis of the mead only confirms his worst fears.
• Failed a Spot Check: Daphne notes that Dumbledore apparently missed a few obvious clues when he never questioned Moaning Mrytle about her death during the original Chamber incident.
• Fake Memories: As part of Snape's Occlumency training, he tries to subtly plant false memories to teach the subjects how to spot them when faced with a real enemy, such as Daphne recalling writing a different note to herself compared to what she wrote in reality, or changing Harry's memory of his lines from Umbridge.
• Fantastic Racism: While there is obviously prejudice against muggle-borns from the likes of Malfoy, Daphne has a conversation with Theodore Nott where he explains that his personal issue with muggle-borns is how they want the two worlds to mix, while he prefers the current status quo where muggle and wizarding society are distinctly separate.
• First Kiss:
  • The Yule Ball is also the moment of Harry and Daphne's first kiss.
  • Christmas in fifth-year (when canon Harry had his kiss with Cho) replaces the moment with Ginny's first kisses, first with Harry, then Daphne, then both.
• Flat "What": Ron's reaction to learning that Harry, Daphne and Ginny are all dating.
• Foil: When Harry, Ron, Hermione and Daphne discuss their sortings, Daphne ponders the irony that she and Harry almost ended up in the other’s houses but chose otherwise due to personal experience, Daphne asking for Slytherin because it was expected of her and Harry rejecting that house due to his own encounters with Malfoy.
• For the Evulz: Daphne notes that most of the problems Slytherin students face is that the likes of Draco Malfoy affects how other Houses view them, as they see him doing petty things like curse Neville just because he can and decide all Slytherins are that bad.
• Foreshadowing: During sixth year, Snape tells Daphne to remember "It was planned" while discussing Malfoy's attempts to kill Dumbledore, referencing how Snape will complete that task himself.
• Fragile Speedster: Ginny seems to be developing this trait as her combat style; she's not as powerful as Harry and Daphne, but she makes up for that by being fast enough to strike first.
• Freudian Excuse: Even before it’s revealed that Pettigrew was the traitor, while talking with Harry and Daphne Hagrid observes that Pettigrew was the Marauder most likely to betray the rest of the group as it must have been hard to be the one who didn’t measure up to the rest of the gang, suggesting that Harry imagine how it would feel if everyone in his friends but him was as brilliant as Hermione.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Daphne confirms that nobody in Slytherin actually likes Draco Malfoy as a person and everyone’s just trying to ingratiate themselves with him due to his father’s reputation, explicitly stating that Draco would have nothing if Lucius was poor.
  • During Lockhart’s time as a teacher, it’s made clear that nobody else on the staff likes him; at one point Madam Pomfrey only tells Daphne off for referring to Lockhart as a candlestick because implying that Lockhart brings light to anything is too good for him.
  • During meetings of the Order of the Lightning Bolt, generally nobody particularly likes Zacharias Smith for his increasingly negative attitude, even if they don't dislike him enough to force him out of the group.
• Friendly Address Privileges: After Harry has spent time getting Quidditch training from Daphne’s mother, she suggests that he call her “Coach Greengrass” in future as ‘Mrs. Greengrass’ sounds too old (she also jokingly observes that it’s too early for Harry to call her ‘Mum’), and makes the same offer to Ginny once she becomes part of the relationship.
• Fun with Acronyms: Daphne and her Slytherin friends call their group to improve Slytherin's reputation via better inter-house cooperation the Slytherin Improvement Nation, or S.I.N. Daphne thinks that a small group of students hardly qualifies as a "nation", but the acronym was too good to pass up.
• Fugitive Arc: Following Bill and Fleur's wedding, Daphne and Ginny are basically living this, forced into hiding as they try to find a way to negate Ginny's Trace so they can find and help Harry and the others.
• Generation Xerox: By Chapter 60, Snape explicitly confirms that Daphne reminds him of Lily.
• Genre Savvy:
  • By the time of the Triwizard Tournament, most students are anticipating that Harry will somehow get caught up in the larger events taking place at Hogwarts this year as has always happened in the last few years. Daphne is also aware that the Defence teachers always have some kind of secret, justifying her initial suspicions of Moody even as he points out how the culprit might have entered him into the Tournament.
  • When Daphne makes a casual comment about how she's sure Ginny will have a chance to bond with Harry during a crisis after Ginny expresses concern about her role in their new triad, the two girls acknowledge that Daphne's prophetic abilities mean such an event is now inevitable.
• Gone Horribly Right: Daphne admits that she took Divination mainly as a joke because she found that so many of her past casual comments turned out to be right, only to learn that she has genuine potential as a Seer and witness the events that will lead to Voldemort’s resurrection and Harry’s (apparent) death.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil:
  • While calling pure-blood society ‘evil’ as a whole might be an exaggeration, Daphne notes that Harry and Ron are genuinely confused why her ‘vision’ in the Mirror of Erised is seeing her parents accepting her friendship with them and Hermione.
  • Similarly, replacing 'evil' with 'jerkassery', Daphne cannot understand why Snape, a victim of bullying in his school years, would choose to inflict that same pain on Harry or others.
• Good is Not Nice: Daphne basically says this outright regarding Snape; even when she accepts that he's on their side against Voldemort, she notes that he's far from being a nice person.
• Good Is Not Soft: When Dumbledore confronts Umbridge about the blood quill, Daphne observes that he is smiling pleasantly as he talks, but that smile somehow seems more threatening than Umbridge's sickening smile.
• Green-Eyed Monster: A couple of defied examples.
  • Daphne brings up the idea that someone would enter Harry into the Triwizard Tournament to kill him in advance, which means that while Ron is initially disgruntled when Harry is picked, he isn't overcome by envy like in canon.
  • Thanks to Daphne's influence, Harry is only briefly jealous after Ron is revealed to be the new Gryffindor prefect (Daphne suspects she didn't get chosen for Slytherin because she's too Gryffindor for it).
• Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Briefly applies to Hermione during the World Cup, when Daphne finds herself attracted to the Veela allure along with Harry but sees that Hermione showed no reaction (Ginny’s response to the Veela is not revealed).
• Hidden Depths: Brought up when the group observe that Ron is the only true Gryffindor in the initial group of four (Daphne is in Slytherin and Harry and Hermione were considered for Slytherin and Ravenclaw respectively), making him the recommended candidate to wield the Sword of Gryffindor.
• Hidden in Plain Sight:
  • Discussed when Moody meets with Daphne the day after the draw at the Goblet, telling Daphne how he might still be the one responsible for Harry being entered and explaining how the perpetrator might act for the duration of the contest. Daphne affirms that he's still on her suspect list, but acknowledges that he's now lower on the list then he was. Ultimately Subverted when it turns out that Barty Crouch Junior was impersonating his father rather than Moody.
  • Daphne suggests this approach when making plans to discuss Harry acting as a new Defence teacher; she suggests that the Three Broomsticks would be better than the Hog's Head as it is more crowded and their presence won't stand out as much.
• His Own Worst Enemy: Daphne notes that Snape's biggest character flaw is his own self-loathing and his inability to forgive himself for his role in Lily's death.
• Hoist by His Own Petard:
  • Thanks to Daphne’s intervention, Draco’s attempt to get Harry caught with Norbert instead leads to Slytherin alone losing points.
  • During third year, Daphne’s parents use the Dursleys’ own cover story against them by visiting Privet Drive to collect Harry claiming that they represent St Brutus’s Secure School for Incurably Criminal Boys, allowing Harry to avoid spending too much time with Marge. They even get in a few good digs at Vernon and Marge's weight by saying that St. Brutus corporally punishes students for eating too much, so the two of them could've done with their discipline and it would be good getting Harry out from under their overindulgence.
  • During fifth year, it's observed that Umbridge is becoming increasingly unhinged as events unfold, as her attempts to punish Harry in particular constantly backfire and she can only put Trelawney on probation since Hagrid has been fired due to another recent rule.
  • After the centaurs banish Firenze and try to get Grawp out of the forest, Daphne basically uses their own attitudes against them, arguing that they can't be sure Firenze isn't following signs the rest of the herd haven't read yet and it's very "human" of them to try and claim the whole forest as theirs when they're hardly going to miss this one clearing where Grawp is staying.
• Honorary True Companion: As Daphne continues to spend more time with Harry, Ron and Hermione, she is essentially accepted as an honorary Gryffindor, to the extent that she not only sits at their table during meals but is sometimes invited into the Gryffindor common room.
• I Can't Dance: Harry is uncomfortable with the idea of dancing at the Yule Ball, but Daphne leads for him.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Daphne starts spending time with Harry, Ron and Hermione even in secret because it’s better than dealing with the political give-and-take of the Noble families in Slytherin.
• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy:
  • Daphne’s parents bring this up when they write to Daphne to assure her that she shouldn’t worry about the Greengrasses’ standing in the Noble Houses at Hogwarts and just focus on finding friends she’s happy to spend her time with, prompting her to publically sit beside Harry, Ron and Hermione at meals.
  • When Daphne is initially in denial about her feelings for Harry, she encourages Ginny to get involved with him as she feels that they would be good together.
• The Idealist: Snape observes that Dumbledore and McGonagall basically act as though the world is the way they want it to be, whereas he considers himself a realist who deals with things the way they are.
• If I Wanted You Dead...: This is essentially the reason Daphne argues that Snape can’t have been trying to kill Harry in Harry’s first Quidditch match; as the Potions master Snape knows several more subtle ways to kill Harry, and he isn’t stupid enough to do something that blatant.
• Ignorance Is Bliss: Basically the reason Daphne and Harry decide not to try and have Daphne look into their future too often, as they don't want to risk letting themselves obsess over trying to save certain people only to end up losing someone else or driving themselves mad from their failure.
• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: Harry's group are very bemused at how often they need to tell other students that Harry is dating Daphne rather than Hermione after Rita Skeeter's articles are released.
• Insecure Love Interest: Even before she acknowledges her feelings for Harry, Daphne is often concerned that she’ll be abandoned for being a Slytherin. Her vision in the Mirror of Erised is being publicly accepted by her parents for her friendships at a point when she feared rejection, and her Boggart in third year is Harry cruelly dismissing the idea that he would ever be friends with her.
• In Spite of a Nail: While Daphne’s friendship with the others causes a series of changes, certain details still take place as in canon.
  • Harry’s core group of friends is formed saving a girl from a troll (Daphne herself rather than Hermione);
  • His Nimbus is destroyed on his first game in third year (against Slytherin, which he won at the last second).
  • Harry defeats the Hungarian Horntail using his flying skills (Daphne suggests using his training to go with Sirius's advice and hit it with the Conjunctivitis Curse while flying, but Harry ultimately decides to just provoke it into the air).
  • Hermione is still Krum's hostage for the second task even though she went with Ron and Krum went with Elsie Hall; Elsie ended up talking with someone else at the ball and Krum genuinely enjoyed talking with Hermione.
  • Barty Crouch Junior infiltrates the Tournament under Polyjuice; however, since Sirius alerted Moody to Wormtail's animagus form, Wormtail and Crouch Junior are unable to impersonate Moody, so Crouch Junior has to pose as his own father.
  • A Dementor attacks Harry at Privet Drive, although this time he is accompanied by Daphne.
  • A father is attacked by Nagini while guarding the Department of Mysteries, although this time it's Daphne's father rather than Arthur Weasley.
  • Even though the Order of the Lightning Bolt is able to remain secret as Marietta Edgecombe never betrays them, Dumbledore is still "forced" out of Hogwarts and Umbridge makes herself Headmistress.
  • In the final battle, Remus, Tonks and Fred still die, although Sirius survives the whole series.
• Internal Reformist: Daphne’s goal is to try and improve Slytherin’s reputation from the inside, ranging from establishing Snape’s reasons for being so open in his dislike of Gryffindors to encouraging some of her fellow students to be kinder to non-Slytherins.
• Internal Reveal:
  • Chapter 86 takes part in Christmas of 1995, where Dumbledore, after confirming that Daphne and Harry's Occlumency is up to snuff, tells them about the full prophecy.
  • Chapter 139 has Harry and the others confirm the existence of the Deathly Hallows, including that Dumbledore's wand, the Gaunt ring and Harry's cloak are the Hallows in question.
  • Chapter 141 sees Harry tell the rest of the Order of the Lightning Bolt about Voldemort's Horcruxes and Daphne tell her friends about Snape's true allegiance to Dumbledore.
• Irony:
  • When Daphne reveals that pure-blood genealogy records are so good that it’s known that no modern pure-bloods are direct descendants of Slytherin, Ron notes the irony that any contemporary Heir of Slytherin is a half-blood (before he knows the identity of said heir).
  • Harry criticises Daphne’s willingness to throw herself in danger when he often does the same thing.
  • After Harry acquires the Half-Blood Prince's book and Daphne has been taking "lessons" in exploring her potential as a seer from an enchanted text, Ginny points out the irony that her boyfriend and girlfriend benefit from enchanted books while the one she received tried to kill her.
• It Only Works Once: Loosely applies to Edmund Greengrass's use of Felix Felicis in the Battle of the Department of Mysteries; theoretically the potion could be used by the Order on a regular basis, but it's so complex to brew that just a small mistake could be fatal, and relying on it too much can lead to dangerous levels of hubris.
• It's All My Fault:
  • In her second year, Daphne blames herself for Ginny being taken to the Chamber as she feels like she didn’t take the other girl’s concerns seriously enough.
  • During the final battle, Daphne feels responsible when her father is killed while talking to her as she worries that she distracted him, but when she summons him with the Resurrection Stone Edmund assures her that he was still alert while talking to her and the enemy just got lucky.
• Jack of All Trades: When discussing potential champions for the Triwizard Tournament, Daphne points out to Seamus that a Hufflepuff might be a good choice as they are the house of hard workers who get down to things, where Gryffindors are reckless, Ravenclaws bookworms, and Slytherins often pragmatic rather than skilled.
• Jerkass Realization:
  • Daphne essentially has one when confronting Snape about his motives for turning on Voldemort helps her realise that part of her own reasons for her self-sacrificing attitude is the belief that she's "lesser" than her friends in some way. She explicitly states that she and Snape need to work more on valuing their own lives rather than basically acting like they want to die.
  • When Sirius is talking about the Marauders' time at school, he ends up acknowledging that him and James using Peter as a test subject for any new spells (once they were sure the spell wouldn't do anything fatal to Peter) may have contributed to Peter joining Voldemort later.
• Joke and Receive: Happens a few times thanks to Daphne's tendency to make offhand statements that somehow come true.
  • After Daphne tells Harry that just a good talk between him, Ron and a bossy Hermione would help mend fenced between them.
    Daphne: What else could I do? Stage a fight with a mountain troll?
    (Gilligan Cut to post-troll fight)
    Daphne: I’d like to get it on record that I didn’t plan this.
  • While wondering what monsters Hagrid will have for them for their Care of Magical Creatures lesson, Daphne suggests a crossbreed of fire crabs and manticores, to which Ron tells her to take a vow of silence if she's right. He brings it up in the next scene when they see the blast-ended skrewts.
• Kick the Dog: Prior to the start of fifth year, Fudge draws up an educational decree that prevents anyone being employed at Hogwarts if they've spent any time in Azkaban, with the result that not only can Dumbledore not employ Sirius as the new Defence teacher but Hagrid must be fired due to his brief stint in Azkaban during the Chamber of Secrets crisis.
• Let's Split Up, Gang!: As the group prepares to infiltrate the Ministry to steal the locket, Daphne suggests that she and Ginny look for further clues on the other Horcruxes, as all five of them aren't needed to break into the Ministry and having her and Ginny to worry about would risk dividing Harry's focus. Later on, the group agree to divide up when searching for clues to other Horcruxes, with Hermione and Daphne in separate groups as they have the extended bags with their supplies and Ron, Harry and Ginny intending to rotate between the other two. Daphne also suggests it in the run-up to the final battle, reasoning that Voldemort will attack Hogwarts once he realises that the Horcruxes are being hunted after the raid on Gringotts' so the best solution is that she, Harry and Ginny go to Gringotts' while Ron and Hermione go to Hogwarts to get the horcrux from there and prepare the students to fight back when Voldemort comes.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Daphne basically serves as this while staying with Harry at Privet Drive after Voldemort's resurrection, helping him understand the reasons for the current lack of contact and giving him someone he can talk to about everything that happened. She explicitly describes herself as Harry's Patronus against "everything else" troubling him in his life at this point.
• Love Confession: Harry and Daphne first say "I love you" to the other during an argument about how Harry is dealing with Umbridge.
• Lying Finger Cross: When Daphne expresses her worries that her acting like a stereotypical Slytherin while around her house-mates might make it look to her Gryffindor friends that she's showing her true colors, Harry suggests this as a Trust Password. If she crosses her fingers and discreetly shows the gesture to Harry, Ron and Hermione, they'll know she doesn't mean the things she's saying to maintain her reputation.
• MacGuffin: It's basically acknowledged that the prophecy is this. Even without knowing the exact content of the prophecy, the Order all acknowledge that it wouldn't be that useful to Voldemort even if he acquired it, but by encouraging their enemy to focus on retrieving the prophecy they ensure that he isn't going to do something more dangerous.
• Magic A Is Magic A:
  • Discussing the various methods of Divination with a qualified Seer, Daphne is informed that each known method of seeing the future has its particular strengths and weaknesses; tea-reading offers insight into minor things, palmistry is relatively useless as it focuses on physical ailments that can be dealt with by magic, and crystal balls are generally the most accurate even if the visions can be changed.
  • Large-scale spells like the Trace and the Taboo spell Voldemort placed on his name are based on similar large-scale magics, which allows a qualified curse-breaker to devise a means of basically shielding Ginny from the Trace by identifying the influence of the Taboo spell and comparing it to the energies of the Trace.
• The Maiden Name Debate: Defied; in the epilogue, Daphne notes that she and Ginny kept their last names when they married Harry and each other, noting that they'll deal with the "hassle" of what name to give their children when the time comes for them to have kids.
• Malicious Slander: As in canon, Malfoy presents elaborate fake stories about Hagrid to "support" the idea that he's automatically dangerous just because he's half-giant, which becomes even more outrageous than in canon as due to Daphne taking the blow, Malfoy doesn't even have the attack by Buckbeak as evidence that Hagrid's dangerous to anybody.
• Modest Royalty: Assuming that Daphne's status as a pure-blood makes her the equivalent, she adopts a simple style when dressing up for the Yule Ball, explicitly choosing not to wear too much jewellery.
• The Mole: Theodore Nott becomes Daphne's in to Malfoy's plans during sixth-year, not because he now disagrees with his view on blood superiority, but because he, like Pansy, thinks that any plan that supports Voldemort is one that's bad for wizarding society as a whole.
• My Beloved Smother: Molly Weasley is often a very loud dissenting voice for certain issues relating to the kids' safety, like keeping Harry in the dark about the Order's plans or when Harry starts dating both Daphne and Ginny. However, she is usually outvoted by Sirius and the Greengrasses.
• Never Got to Say Goodbye:
  • Harry doesn't want to explain the sordid details of Cedric's death to anyone, even the Hufflepuffs, but he makes an exception for Cho Chang given she was dating him at the time and deserves to know, and he knows that without support from Daphne, he would've been in a bad headspace too. Cho later thanks Harry for helping her to move on.
  • When Daphne and Ginny investigate Privet Drive after it has been emptied, they find Petunia's old diary, with entries after Lily's death saying that although Petunia didn't want her sister and her weirdness around, she'll still miss her now that she's gone, writing her final words to Lily in the event that Lily's ghost reads them.
  • Averted. When Daphne picks up the Resurrection Stone after seeing Voldemort kill Harry, she instead gets the chance to say goodbye to Gemma, her father and Snape while also learning that Harry isn't dead. She also later carries around the Stone in a mokeskin pouch to allow others to say goodbye to their loved ones, such as allowing Mrs. Weasley to say goodbye to Fred.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
  • A minor example; when a Slytherin is attacked by the Basilisk, it helps Daphne’s own efforts to encourage the idea of Slytherins working to reform their house’s image as it suggests the other houses would be more open to working with them rather than distrust them based on past reputation.
  • When Daphne mentions that Riddle knew her paternal grandfather, her mother mentions that Richard Greengrass was one of the first people to turn away from the ideas of blood purity, and the two strongly speculate that Riddle may have been responsible for that shift. Later confirmed; someone who was at Hogwarts in Riddle's time describes how Riddle's propaganda brought many purebloods under his banner, which only solidified the idiocy of the whole idea in Richard's mind.
• Nice to the Waiter: While the Greengrasses have a house-elf, it’s noted that they’re always good to Finny and never send her on any errands she wouldn’t be comfortable doing, with Daphne even musing that she’s sure her parents would pay Finny if the elf ever asked for it.
• Nightmare Fuel: Daphne has this In-Universe opinion about the Imperius Curse. She is so disturbed being put under it in Defense class (even though all she did was perform a few cartwheels) that she throws up, has to go to the hospital wing, and just thinking back on it makes her feel like she needs a fifteen-year shower.
• Noble Bigot:
  • Defied in principle for most of the characters regarding Slytherin; with Daphne as an example of a good Slytherin, even Ron is willing to acknowledge that the whole house can’t be that bad.
  • Daphne’s observations note that Arthur is actually a gentle form of this; while he doesn’t think negatively of muggles, his attitude towards them is somewhat patronising and he seems more fascinated by their technology than caring about them as people.
• Non-Idle Rich: When discussing her future career possibilities, Daphne observes that her parents are rich enough that she doesn't actually need to work herself, even if she still wants to find something she can enjoy doing.
• Noodle Implements: While Aunt Marge is over at the Dursleys, the Greengrasses come to collect Harry out from under their thumb, under the guise of being enforcers from St. Brutus. When Marge asks about Harry's Nimbus and Hedwig, Amaranth tells her they are part of the school tools (the broom for sweeping and the owl for a reason their boys know all too well).
• Noodle Incident:
  • Daphne had some bad past experience that left her uncomfortable around Moaning Myrtle, to the extent that she actively avoids letting Myrtle see her.
  • Daphne and her mother speculate that Riddle was responsible for whatever turned Richard Greengrass- Daphne’s grandfather- off the idea of blood purity being important. Becomes a Resolved Noodle Incident when one of Riddle's contemporaries explains that Richard Greengrass was initially just dismissive of muggle-borns, but seeing so many purebloods flock to Riddle's propaganda led to Richard concluding that if purebloods could be that stupid than blood purity couldn't be that important.
  • A seer discusses an experiment where multiple Seers studied crystal balls about the future of one man with a terminal illness and managed to find a cure for his condition in the form of a thought-to-be-extinct plant he discovered during his final journey.
  • At one point, Sirius and Daphne's father each mention an incident involving a love potion while the Marauders were at Hogwarts, but while Sirius concedes that it ruined the innocence of everyone who saw it and Lily didn't approve, he and James would never do anything evil to anyone.
• "Not So Different" Remark: When Daphne and Ginny have to talk to some of the Dursleys' neighbours, Daphne observes that their dismissive attitude towards their neighbours reminds her of a miniature version of the rivalries between the Noble Houses.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • The reaction of Harry, Daphne and Ginny when they realize they overslept after their first shared night together in the Room of Requirement on a Thursday.
  • A good description of the reaction when Harry and his allies realise that Umbridge has the locket horcrux.
• One-Steve Limit: Applies to a group rather than a person for once, as Harry's friends call their independent fifth-year defence classes the Order of the Lightning Bolt rather than Dumbledore's Army, with those in the know observing that this might get confusing given the existence of the Order of the Phoenix.
• Open-Minded Parent: When Harry, Ginny and Daphne reveal their relationship, Sirius and the Greengrasses are quick to accept the dynamic, although Molly takes some time to be talked down from her immediate disapproval to adopting a policy of just leaving the matter alone.
• Original Character: Daphne's parents, Edmund and Amaranth Greengrass. Edmund is a champion duelist and worker at the Department of Mysteries, and Amaranth is a Quidditch maniac, former Chaser for the Yorkshire Yetis, and current manager for the Suffolk Scourges.
• Passing the Torch: At the end of sixth-year after Dumbledore's death, Harry and his friends tell the Order of the Lightning Bolt about their intentions to leave Hogwarts the next year, and they nominate Neville, Luna, Tracey and Susan to be their new leaders in Hogwarts.
• The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Brought up when Daphne goes to confront Snape before the final battle and finds that the password is apparently "Dumbledore"; she guesses that Snape ensures that the Carrows and other Death Eater loyalists never have reason to visit his office and hear the password.
• Pets as a Present: Harry sends Daphne a Kneazle as a belated birthday present after third year.
• Plausible Deniability: Daphne observes that Umbridge is probably relying on Fudge maintaining this to her actions at Hogwarts, allowing her to use the Blood Quill and other such punishments as nobody told her not to do so.
• Prophecies Are Always Right: Discussed at various points; it's noted that certain methods of Divination are more accurate than others, such as palmistry being of limited value when magic can heal most of the physical ailments it would identify while what's seen in a crystal ball is always of the most likely future (such futures can be changed, but it's very difficult to do so).
• Punny Name: Sirius claims that he’s literally incapable of not making a joke when someone talks about being “serious” in his presence, even when he’s meant to be undercover.
• Psychic Block Defence: When learning Occlumency, Harry and Daphne are given more detailed instruction by Snape, allowing them to better refine their mental defences.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Daphne delivers the following to Wormtail when he pleads for mercy due to his fear of Voldemort;
  “You spineless worm! You complete coward! ‘He would have killed me’… SO WHAT?! I faced Voldemort last year, you know, trying to defend Harry, to rescue Ron’s sister. I didn’t want to die, any more than you do, but I was ready to do it regardless, BECAUSE I WOULD RATHER DIE MYSELF THAN LET SOMEONE HURT MY FRIENDS! Congratulations, you’re less brave than a twelve-year-old Slytherin girl, you useless, worthless bastard!”
• Reasonable Authority Figure:
  • Dumbledore proves himself to be this at the beginning of fifth year. When the kids demand to know what’s going on, Mrs. Weasley gives her canon, "You’re just kids, you don’t need to know anything," response, but is shut down by Daphne’s parents, who are well aware not only of the kids’ accomplishments but of the maxim, "Forewarned is forearmed." She goes to Dumbledore for backup, and he actually tells the kids what they need to know, giving the warnings he should have given in canon, and explains the need for operational security, trusting Harry and Daphne to have the maturity to listen to reason.
  • During Daphne's Divination O.W.L. exam, she recognises Professor Marchbanks (one of the instructors) as having resigned from the Wizengamot in protest of their attitude towards Harry and Dumbledore's warnings. Acknowledging her belief in the idea that Voldemort has returned, Marchbanks listens to Daphne's various predictions and accepts them all, even regarding the prophecies that suggest Voldemort will return.
• Refuge in Audacity: This idea is explicitly referenced when the Order infiltrate Malfoy Manor to capture and interrogate a Death Eater by pretending to capture Harry and Hermione, only revealing their true identities once they're inside.
• Relationship Upgrade: Harry and Daphne "officially" become a couple at the Yule Ball, and Ginny is added to the dynamic the following year.
• Revealing Cover Up: At the start of fifth year, Tracey Davis notes that the Prophet is trying so hard to present Harry and Dumbledore as unstable liars that it basically proves to them that Voldemort's back.
• Riddle for the Ages: Ginny and Daphne each question why Molly keeps knitting Ron maroon jumpers for Christmas when he's never been a fan of the colour; the two girls speculate that either Molly is hoping Ron will some day look good in that colour or she lost a bet of some sort.
• Right Through the Wall: When the group are staying at Grimmauld Place, Harry notes that Ron and Hermione kept him up on various nights, and he enjoys "payback" by sharing similar moments with Ginny and Daphne.
• The Rival: Daphne's mother Amaranth has this kind of dynamic with Gwenog Jones, to the point that she often proclaims that she will disown Daphne and her friends if they sign up with Gwenog's team. The feeling is mutual on Gwenog's side, who happily tells Daphne that if she can piss off anyone as much as she does Amaranth, then she's doing her job as a Beater very well.
• Rules Lawyer:
  • Snape demonstrates this approach to convince Daphne to be honest with him on certain occasions, observing that he would have no evidence against Harry for committing certain actions even if Daphne told him the truth so he would like to be sure why she’s defending Harry in the first place.
  • Also used by Sirius regarding the family visits for the final Triwizard task; while Sirius considers himself Harry's family, since he's also at the Tournament for security purposes he argues that the Weasleys and Greengrasses have equal rights to be there as well given their mutual close ties to Harry.
  • Used against Dumbledore by Fudge, who draws up a rule that forbids anyone teaching at Hogwarts if they have a previous criminal conviction; the rule is phrased in such a manner that Dumbledore cannot hire Sirius as the Defence teacher and Hagrid has to be fired from his own teaching role even their "convictions" were overturned and both were proven innocent. On the bright side, this same rule prevents Umbridge having the power to assess and fire Hagrid from Hogwarts as his role as gamekeeper is distinct from a teaching position.
• Running Gag: Daphne and her tendency to off-handedly say things that come true. It eventually evolves into her discovering her potential as a Seer.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Daphne spends the first few chapters basically doing this, defying the perceived rules of pure-blood society to try and help Harry and her Gryffindor friends. Basically Subverted when her parents write to tell her she doesn’t have to worry about that kind of thing at school so she’s free to spend time with whoever she wants.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
  • Once Daphne’s parents confirm that she can be friends with whoever she wants, Daphne publically leaves the Slytherin table to sit with Harry, Ron and Hermione, only returning to her house table for the Sorting feasts.
  • Hearing Lockhart talk about how the danger has passed and he “always” suspected Hagrid, Daphne becomes so fed up that she storms out of his class, calling him out for his utter incompetence.
• Secret-Keeper:
  • Daphne basically becomes this for Snape, as he insists that she not tell anyone about his deeper reasons for certain actions in Harry’s defence, up to Daphne learning about Snape's past with Harry's mother, and later becoming the only person who knows that Snape killed Dumbledore on the headmaster's orders. She muses at one point that this is the only secret she's truly keeping to herself, and only because others knowing it would put Snape's safety at risk.
  • A minor example when Daphne tells Tracey Davis how Lily's sacrifice saved Harry from Voldemort in the first place; she concedes that it's not that big a secret when Voldemort already knows it, but asks that Tracey not share that detail where Draco Malfoy might overhear it.
  • Talking with Bill, Daphne learns that Secret-Keepers are generally discouraged from living in a property that they are keeping secret as their presence will cause the charm to decay, which justifies why James and Lily had someone else be their Secret Keeper rather than do it themselves. Bill is able to be the Secret-Keeper for himself and Fleur as they live at Nest Cottage as the charm will still protect them for just over a year, Bill reasoning that by that point either Voldemort will be defeated or they'll have to flee the country.
• Secret Test of Character: The best description for how the centaurs respond to Daphne's request for help with her Divination homework; they take her to a point where she can see the stars and ask her to tell them what she sees to determine her level of skill, her honest assessment (while confusing to her) affirming that she has potential as a Seer.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Discussed in concept when Dumbledore talks with Daphne about her visions, observing that her glimpses of the future are so comparatively vague that it's impossible to be sure if acting in a certain way because of the visions will cause them to come to pass or prevent them, so it's best to just do what feels right when the time comes.
• Sexy Discretion Shot: Quite a number of the later chapters end with some characters about to get intimate, and the next chapter begins on the next day with much satisfaction.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: Occurs for both genders during the Yule Ball, as Daphne helped Ginny find new dress robes for Ron and herself, as well as Hermione's own canon makeover.
• Ship Tease:
  • Chapter 45 has many of these moments between Harry and Daphne, from a comment about the Terminator leading to both of them imagining arriving naked, to both of them falling onto each other when they come out of a Portkey teleport, and Harry keeping on his heated bracelet that Daphne got him as a belated birthday present last year.
  • When Daphne teases Hermione about how she's failing the Bechedel Test (having previously discussed the concept with Daphne and Ginny), she notes Hermione's reaction when Ron states that Hermione doesn't fail tests.
• Shipper on Deck:
  • Once Daphne realises that Ginny has a crush on Harry, she takes steps to encourage Ginny to get over her nerves and find something she can talk with him about, as she feels they’d be good together.
    • She also suggests that Harry tell Ron to ask Hermione to the Yule Ball, inspiring Ron to do so before Viktor Krum can ask Hermione instead.
  • Daphne’s mother notes that she’d be happy if her daughter married Harry and/or Ginny, given their interest in Quidditch.
  • By the middle of third year, Hermione has begun to make comments suggesting that she at least thinks Harry and Daphne would be good together, although she doesn’t press the issue when Daphne ‘insists’ she’s happy that Harry and Ginny are getting along.
• Shoot the Bullet: Daphne essentially does this in the Chamber of Secrets; while Riddle himself isn’t solid enough to be affected by spells directed against his person, Daphne is able to disarm him when she uses the Disarming Charm and hits Ginny’s wand in Riddle’s hand.
• Shout-Out:
  • The Kneazles in Hagrid's lesson about them are named after characters in Warrior Cats, with Sandstorm and Graystripe being specifically described as resembling their counterparts.
  • When Daphne visits Privet Drive in muggle clothing, one of Dudley’s friends compares her to the Terminator when she Apparates in out of nowhere.
  • Sirius once answers a summons with a "You rang?". When Hermione asks when he saw The Addams Family, he says that Lily showed it to him once.
  • Word of God confirms that Hemwick Charnel Lane and the phrase "untended graves" during the search for Salazar Slytherin's grave are references to Bloodborne and Dark Souls III respectively.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!:
  • When Draco Malfoy tries to rally Slytherins to mock Ron's first practice match as Keeper, Daphne gathers her own Slytherin friends to offer Ron support. When Malfoy tries to get them to back off, one of the group - an older Slytherin prefect - points out to Malfoy that having pride in Slytherin house doesn't mean they can't support others, and at least Gryffindor students don't constantly try to provoke a confrontation with the other side.
  • When Daphne receives detention from Umbridge, she decides to use the opportunity to just say what she likes and make it clear that she knows that the Ministry are being wilfully ignorant of Voldemort's return, even saying that she hopes Umbridge will get attacked by Voldemort once he finally goes public.
• Simple Solution Won't Work: When Daphne asks if someone's tried levitating their entry parchment into the Goblet of Fire to bypass the age line, someone else confirms that the Goblet is protected against attempts to levitate an entry in from a distance, speculating that the parchment must be placed in it by hand.
• Sound-Effect Bleep: The Gryffindor/Slytherin Quidditch match in third year takes place in very stormy weather. When the Slytherin team eventually resorts to foul play, several thunderclaps drown out Ginny's rant about the cheating whenever she swears.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Sirius survives the Battle of the Department of Mysteries.
  • The raid on Malfoy Manor to rescue Luna and Ollivander doesn't involve Dobby at all, and thus he survives the war.
• Speak Friend and Enter: With her knowledge of the Ministry, Daphne helps the group through the Department of Mysteries and its rotating doors by simply asking where the room they want to go to is, whereupon the correct door opens. Ron is a bit incredulous at the simplicity, to which Daphne points out they need to know the exact name of the room to find it.
• Speak in Unison:
  • After saving Ginny in the Chamber, Harry and Daphne simultaneously say “It’s all right”.
  • Ginny and Daphne both tell Harry "I love you." in unison when he's being possessed by Voldemort in the battle of the Ministry. Voldemort is expelled instantly.
• Spirit Advisor: As Daphne develops her prophetic talents, a vision of Ginny often appears in Daphne's dreams to offer advice.
• Sports Dad: Daphne’s mother Amaranth Greengrass (nee Pyrites) is a reasonable female example of this. A former star player herself, she is slightly sad that Daphne isn’t that interested in Quidditch, but she accepts her daughter’s choice and becomes a summer coach to Harry, later offering to teach Ginny and Ron as well.
• Stations of the Canon: The author has acknowledged that this fic has followed canon for the most part up to fourth year, in terms of details such as Ginny being used by the diary and Pettigrew’s escape. However, events start to diverge more from canon as time goes on, such as Sirius being officially cleared and Barty Crouch Junior impersonating his father rather than Moody.
• Stern Teacher: Daphne’s mother is a reasonable version of this, as she gives Harry professional-level quidditch lessons when he’s just starting his third year but is swiftly impressed at his skills and affirms that he could easily play after graduation.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: In her first class with Umbridge, Daphne draws attention to the fact that the Ministry have failed to provide an adequate explanation for how and why Dementors could have attacked Harry over the summer, Umbridge's denial of the Dementors' presence reinforcing that they were a problem in the first place.
• Take That!: During Harry's first secret visit to Hogsmeade and the group overhears the conversation in the Three Broomsticks, Daphne describes the conversation as "trying to cram years worth of backstory into a single conversation for no discernible reason".
• Taking the Bullet: Daphne has done this for Harry in particular on various occasions, including revealing herself to Filch so that Harry won’t get in trouble for smuggling Norbert, intercepting a spell from Lockhart that de-boned her left arm when Lockhart tried to use it on Harry, and even saving Malfoy from Buckbeak (albeit just so that he can’t blame Hagrid for anything). Harry eventually calls her out on this self-sacrificing attitude.
• Taking You with Me: Crouch Junior used a version of this to keep his father trapped; he cast a complex spell that would kill his father if he didn't cast the counter-curse at regular intervals, forcing his father to stay close to him as he would die without the counter-curse even if he managed to escape his captivity.
• Talented, but Trained: Daphne's mother observes that Harry is this by the summer after fifth year; even compared to Ginny's growing experience, Harry is just the more naturally talented player.
• Tempting Fate: After Daphne does this at least three times, making offhand comments about fighting trolls, Harry and Ron crashing into the Whomping Willow and Ginny being the Heir of Slytherin that all later come true, she decides to take Divination to see if she has potential as a Seer. She is subsequently incredulous when she accurately "predicts" the existence of the blast-ended skrewts by suggesting that a manticore/fire-crab hybrid is the most dangerous thing she can think of that Hagrid might have for them. She later invokes this by off-handedly saying where a captured Luna and Ollivander could be, which leads them straight to Malfoy Manor.
• Thanatos Gambit: During the confrontation in the Chamber of Secrets Harry basically convinces Riddle not to attack Daphne by arguing that it might trigger this, pointing out that he was saved from Voldemort’s first attack on him by his mother’s sacrifice and suggesting that Daphne doing the same thing here could trigger a similar response.
• That Came Out Wrong: Daphne initially worries about being a victim of this, as she feels that she has to insult the likes of Neville in public to avoid making trouble for her family but worries that Neville will think she actually means such comments about how he’s basically a Squib.
• Their First Time: Harry and Daphne have their first time in Chapter 104 when they spend the night in the Room of Requirement as Daphne needs comfort after she was briefly subjected to the Imperius Curse; Ron and Hermione and Harry and Ginny do the same thing at different points in the following chapter, and Daphne and Ginny have their own first time at the end of Chapter 107, following Valentine's Day.
• Theme Naming: The Greengrass family owls are all named after the rivers in the Greek underworld: Styx, Lethe, Acheron, Phlegethon, and Cocytus.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In order to lift Umbridge's lifetime Quidditch ban on Harry and the twins, Daphne writes to her mother, who subsequently uses her own authority and Quidditch contacts to call an official investigation into Umbridge's ban carried out by the International Confederation of Wizards Quidditch Committee, whose authority supersedes Umbridge's and the Ministry's on matters of Quidditch.
• This Is Gonna Suck: Being privy to Daphne's theory that someone might enter Harry into the Triwizard Tournament to get him killed, when his name comes out of the Goblet of Fire, Harry's reaction is a rueful "Well... Here We Go Again!, I suppose."
• Token Evil Teammate: While Daphne is never ‘evil’, she notes more than once that her Slytherin heritage means she’s better suited for scheming on occasions where her Gryffindor friends can’t find a more direct way to do things. For example, while both Daphne and Harry would like to give the Weasleys money, Harry can’t think of a way that wouldn’t offend their pride, whereas Daphne offers to pay for Ginny’s school supplies for first year as a form of ‘rent’ for letting her stay in Ginny’s room during her first visit to the Burrow. She can also be more ruthless than them too; she is fully supportive of Lupin and Sirius's intentions to kill Peter and is just as dumbfounded when Harry disagrees, and she suggests outright killing Augustus Rookwood- Voldemort's past source in the Department of Mysteries- while he's in Azkaban to ensure he can't tell Voldemort anything about the Department; the idea is only dismissed because only Dumbledore could probably break into Azkaban and he wouldn't kill someone in cold blood. Also, after she sees her father killed in front of her during the Battle of Hogwarts, she switches to using the Killing Curse herself.
• Took a Level in Kindness:
  • Snape will never be “nice”, but after Harry sincerely apologises for the way James treated him at school, Snape occasionally helps Harry when Daphne has made it clear that there are reasons for Harry’s actions. After Daphne confronts Snape about his attitude regarding his past feelings for Lily, his subsequent potions lessons are more balanced, as he offers more explanation and doesn't needlessly take points for no reason, and the lessons where he teaches Harry and Daphne Occlumency are both polite and productive.
  • Also applies to Harry himself at the start of fifth year, as having Daphne for emotional support during the summer has helped him calm the worst of his temper issues from this point in canon.
• Tranquil Fury: Daphne falls into this after seeing her father killed in front of her during the Battle of Hogwarts, and she starts using lethal spells with cold efficiency.
• Trapped by Gambling Debts: Sirius quickly guesses that Bagman is this, and offers to pay off his debts so they don't have to worry about if he's a suspect.
• Trojan Prisoner: In order to infiltrate Malfoy Manor to rescue Luna and Ollivander, it is planned that several Order members will be disguised as Snatchers who have captured Harry and Hermione in order to gain entrance.
• True Companions: By sixth year, Harry takes it for granted that, whenever he has to go off to properly confront Voldemort, Daphne, Ginny, Ron and Hermione will be coming with him.
• Trust Password:
  • When Daphne is worried that her keeping up a Slytherin haughtiness to maintain her family's reputation might convince her Gryffindor friends that she is faking their friendship, Harry suggests that she cross her fingers while she talks so that her friends know she doesn't mean what she is saying.
  • After Dumbledore's death, Harry and his allies are told to tell the Order of the Phoenix that Dumbledore told them to say "phoenix song is meant to be heard with the heart", which was apparently a code phrase Dumbledore intended to be used to indicate that he himself trusted the veracity of whoever spoke that phrase, even if they weren't part of the Order of the Phoenix.
• Unskilled, but Strong: While training in various spells in the run-up to the third Triwizard task, Daphne notes that Ron's spells are generally more powerful than the others even if Harry is still the best at actually using the spells they're practicing.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Explicitly defied during the infiltration of Malfoy Manor, which despite the plan being laid out in full beforehand, goes off more or less flawlessly and ends with Luna and Ollivander being rescued and Bellatrix captured. Word of God notes that this was intentional as a means of showing that the heroes can be capable of taking the fight to the enemy after so long on the defensive.
• Unusual Euphemism: After Daphne experiences what the privacy of the Room of Requirement can offer her and Harry, she jokes to Hermione about "broomstick handling" after she goes up there with Ron.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Invoked; when Daphne first moves to sit at the Gryffindor table, it attracts some glances from older Gryffindors, but they don’t question it when they see that Harry, Ron and Hermione aren’t bothered about it.
• Wham Line: One occurs in Chapter 108, when Daphne is trying to use her Divination talent to predict Malfoy's next assassination attempt on Dumbledore.
  The second question, then, was an obvious one, and one that Daphne felt was quite pointless to ask, yet she tried it anyway: Will Dumbledore survive the attempt?
  No.
• "What Do They Fear?" Episode: Daphne’s first class with Lupin sees the Slytherins face another boggart; other students see monsters like dragons or manticores, while Daphne’s fear is a version of Harry who dismisses the idea that he and the others could ever be friends with her.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Chapter 32, after Daphne just saved Malfoy from Buckbeak so that he couldn't ruin Hagrid's first lesson with his idiocy and got her arm cut in the process, Harry calls her out on all the times she has taken the bullet or the blame for someone else, like she thinks her life is worth giving up even to save Hagrid's job, and insisting that no-one wants to see her get hurt.
  • Harry and Daphne basically do this regarding Dumbledore's apparent intention to leave them at Privet Drive for the whole of summer after fifth year without telling them anything prior to the Dementor attack, although Daphne helps Harry acknowledge that he can't be angry at Ron and Hermione for not daring to go against Dumbledore's wishes. Daphne takes this a step further by criticising the entire Order for trying to keep Harry and his friends in the dark, pointing out that Voldemort's already shown that he's willing to go after Harry as an infant so Harry would hardly be safer knowing nothing, even if Daphne concedes that some information should be kept back for the sake of security.
  • Later on, Ginny calls Daphne out for apparating away from Bill and Fleur's wedding with her after the Death Eater attack. While Ginny affirms that she wants to stay with Harry and Daphne during the hunt for Voldemort's horcruxes, she had accepted that the Trace would make her too much of a liability, and feels that Daphne Apparating her away and jeopardising the whole mission reflected a lack of respect for Ginny's choice.
• What You Are in the Dark:
  • Snape confirms to Daphne that he’s basically on Harry’s side by destroying a letter from Charlie Weasley that was his only evidence that Harry had been planning to smuggle Norbert out of Hogwarts, but he makes Daphne swear to tell nobody else about this (all Daphne can say is that Snape did something that convinced her he’s not a villain).
  • Daphne basically tests Snape’s thoughts on the Malfoy family by insulting Draco when it’s just the two of them in Snape’s office, Daphne reasoning that Snape would be angered by the insult if he genuinely liked Draco while his lack of reaction assures her that he just praises Draco to uphold appearances.
• With My Hands Tied: During Umbridge's reign of the school, Harry only fights the Inquisitorial Squad's attempt to start duels with him with his weakest spells, but is such a good duelist that even Malfoy stops trying to provoke him into a fight.
• Working Out Their Emotions: When Hannah Abbott gets the news that her mother had died in sixth year, Harry takes her aside and tells her to duel him as hard as she can to vent all her emotions without risking anyone else's health.
• Worf Had the Flu:
  • Amos Diggory basically argues that this applies to Harry’s Quidditch victory over Cedric as Harry had a vastly superior broom, believing that Cedric would have won if he and Harry were competing on a more equal footing.
  • Moody says that he deliberately used a weaker version of the Imperius Curse in class to test the students' resistance (although even if this is true he is only shown using it on the Slytherins).
  • Essentially applies to the canon characters regarding Rita Skeeter; since Harry never lends the Marauder's Map to Moody in this timeline, Rita is caught in her animagus form when Harry glances at the Map and sees her name close by their current location when Rita herself is nowhere in sight.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
  • When his friends are encouraging Harry to act as their new Defence teacher, Daphne joins Ron and Hermione in assuring Harry that he's a better wizard than he seems to think he is, pointing out everything he's achieved and what he's capable of.
  • When talking with the ghosts summoned by the Resurrection Stone, Daphne expresses concern that her soul is tainted because of the people she killed in the fight against Voldemort, but Snape's "ghost" points out that if he could pass on safely, Daphne should be fine.
• You Are Worth Hell: Downplayed example; after the events of fourth-year, Daphne tells Harry that she will be staying at the Dursleys with him for the first part of the summer and is willing to pay them to let her stay, since she knows he needs someone to lean on after what he experienced with Voldemort.
• You Can't Fight Fate: Discussed regarding Daphne's fears of her vision of Harry's apparent death. She is informed that it is possible to change the future seen in a vision, but the visions seen in a crystal ball (the most accurate form of prophecy) are always of the most likely future, so simply deciding not to visit a certain location can't guarantee that the future will be changed that much. Ultimately the event happens just as Daphne foresaw, although she was never aware that Harry didn't die.
• Young and in Charge: Harry takes charge of a joint operation with members of the Order of the Phoenix when planning the attack on Malfoy Manor, although he admits in hindsight that he was just channelling the illusion of confidence.
• Your Magic's No Good Here: At one point, Daphne considers using scrying to search for horcruxes, but is informed that wouldn't work; not only is scrying distinct from divination, but ritual scrying is so complex that it ultimately amounts to confirming what the person performing the ritual already knows. Likewise, Daphne attempting to determine the likelihood of a horcrux at Hogwarts won't offer any definite information beyond the probability of a correct guess.

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