Fanfic / Enter the Dragon (Harry Potter)

"A van?" Petunia blankly asked.
"A van." Vernon confirmed, his teeth chattering. "I don't think the boy will fit in the car, and, well, uh, we can't just leave him here."
"But what'll the neighbours say?"
"What'll the rozzers say if they find a freaking DRAGON wandering around Wiltshire?" Vernon asked in a low voice. "And what'll the FREAKING DRAGON say if we try to ditch it?"

Enter the Dragon is a Harry Potter/Shadowrun Crossover fanfiction, where eight-year-old Harry has an accidental encounter with an ancient magical artefact, and is permanently transformed into a large, hungry, nigh-indestructible dragon.

Fortunate for everyone he's a nice kid, eh?

The original story was written by Doghead Thirteen on FanFiction.Net (here), and was last updated in 2016. Another author, Dunkelzahn, received permission to start rewriting and expanding it in 2018, initially on SpaceBattles.com (here) but later moved to Questionable Questing (here); the rewrite was last updated in May 2023.

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Enter the trope examples:

A-D

• All for Nothing: Harry spends many months of effort and hundreds of thousands of galleons building a runic setup to convert magic into electricity, and his final conclusion is that it will never have a usable conversion efficiency.
• Anti-Climax: Draining the Stonehenge nexus involves months of preparation, extensive secrecy wards, monitors all over both the site and Harry himself, a healer on-site to handle complications, weighing up potentially lethal action vs potentially catastrophic inaction — and when it actually happens, there's merely a momentary flash like a lightbulb burning out, all done. The dissonance is so great that the staff can't really get into the properly celebratory spirit afterward, and they swap out the drinks that launch fireworks for a much tamer bottle of firewhiskey.
  When all that build-up comes to a head, and then the project proceeds to go off without the slightest hitch, the sudden release tends to leave a curious sort of mood in its wake.
• Apocalypse How: The Hogwarts staff investigate the incident at Avebury, and are able to determine that if the magic had simply been released, instead of funnelling into Harry, then it would have either made a miles-deep crater from Dublin to Paris, or more likely, merely erased an area the size of London but tremendously raised the background magic level across a substantial fraction of the world, effectively turning it all into a hostile jungle comparable to the Forbidden Forest. And there are hundreds of similar devices across the world, accumulating energy and ready to go off. Further research suggests that a past uncontrolled release was responsible for the Krakatoa eruption.
• Attack Backfire: Midges find Harry irresistible. The intense heat contained inside his body is likewise irresistible, causing them to explode into steam upon taking a bite.
• Aura Vision: Harry sees witches and wizards as "glowy people", with the level of the glow showing how powerful versus how tired they are.
• Barehanded Bar Bending: Harry's housemates want to come along and help him confront the troll, but he doesn't want them to risk themselves, so he demonstrates that he's much stronger than them — by picking up an eight-inch tempered steel carving knife and crushing it in one hand like paper, not harming his skin at all.
  Harry: I'm way stronger than I look.
• Battle Couple: Among goblins, a bar fight at each other's side is a very romantic date.
  Snickersnack: Back to back against the whole place. We beat everyone there.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: When Professor Snape realises that Su Li is on a mission to bring new blood with new magical gifts into her family, he decides that the most amusing response would be to help her along and then see how she reacts when she realises what she's gotten into.
• Best Served Cold: It takes years before Hermione finally returns home and is snatched by the Malfoys' hired goons, and before it happens, Dumbledore has delivered a stern warning to Lucius against threatening any more students, in the aftermath of the Diary. Nonetheless, Narcissa is determined that their family will be avenged for Draco's male injury.
• Big Eater:
  • Even considering his increased size, Harry eats an extreme amount. The Dursleys reach out to the magical world for help because they simply can't afford his appetite (and they figure, reasonably enough, that they can't afford to let a dragon go hungry, either). Vernon keeps a chest freezer near the shed where Harry is staying, but can't leave it inside the shed, because they tried that once and Harry ate it.
    "Twelve [sheep] in the last week, along with six hundredweight each of coal and scrap steel, sixty-two liters of petrol, and about fifteen-thousand liters of water," he griped. "That's on top of him eating everything in the garage on his first night here — including a Transit van!" In the background, Harry chimed in indicating it was delicious.
  • During Harry's first year of school, he undergoes a growth spurt and gets so hungry that while being dragged away from his fourth roast cow (and the remains of the cutlery) to go and get some serious food, he snatches and eats part of a gargoyle on the way, his voice slipping into the bass range as he declares, "Getting hungrier."
  • Harry watches Jurassic Park, and the sight of the T-Rex makes him drool. He's left wondering whether it's actually possible to respect dinosaurs from amber, because they look mouthwatering.
• Bigger on the Inside: Dramatically expanded spaces are commonplace, to the point where witches and wizards can live in a shoe. Diagon Alley is contained within the rear wall of the Leaky Cauldron, and Ottery St Catchpole in a hollow tree. However, moving such a space requires a significant expenditure of magic, proportional to the expansion factor used. For transporting Harry and his supplies across the Confederacy, Professor Snape acquires a motor-home, because expanding a regular car to the necessary degree would overtax the magical reserves of the passengers. The motor-home is still not big enough by itself, but only requires a smaller and more manageable expansion.
• Bowdlerise: Dunkelzahn initially posted his rewrite on SpaceBattles.com, but after the thread there was locked due to concerns about sexualisation of minors, he moved it to QQ and cut out or toned down some passages, such as Madam Pomfrey discussing the danger that Harry's puberty will include things like magically enhanced wet dreams that could actually impregnate any female nearby.
• Bring My Brown Pants: Professor Lockhart has Harry act out the role of a werewolf from his books, as per canon. However, upon being asked to growl, Harry produces a primal basso profundo snarl that sees the professor suffering a loss of bowel control and quickly dismissing the class.
• Bullying a Dragon: The staff at Hogwarts recognise the dangers that could easily occur if anyone gets it into their head to harass or attack Harry the literal dragon in any way, and they do their best to shut down the possibility. It doesn't really sink in for Draco, though, who immediately starts plotting pranks on him.
• The Cassandra: Luna responds to the rumours about Harry speaking Parseltongue by claiming that he's actually speaking Dragon and the two languages are mutually intelligible.
  She went on to explain that this was eminently sensible because Harry was obviously a dragon, so he would know.
  In the considered opinions of her housemates, she was obviously deranged.
• Cast from Calories:
  • Replenishing magic requires food, which results in Dumbledore eating the second most of anyone at the Welcoming Feast. The leader, of course, is Harry, by a wide margin.
  • The staff later cover for Harry's appetite by telling the students that he has Babington's Syndrome, where a young child's magic consumes more calories than they can eat. It fits the symptoms well enough to brush people off, while being reliably treatable when caught early enough, so it's easily accepted by the rumour mill.
• Character Development: Spending several months at home to care for Harry results in Vernon Dursley getting a clearer idea of who is actually responsible for what in their household, realising that Dudley was getting away with too much and Harry being unfairly blamed. He and Petunia almost divorce, but get marriage counselling and start on working through issues like her grief and anger over her sister's death. Professor Snape visits years later to speak with them about Harry's situation and transformation, and is pleasantly surprised by the reduced hostility.
• Combat Pragmatist: Professor Snape isn't keen to assist at the Duelling Club, knowing that the strict rules of duelling actually hinder a combatant from learning to be truly effective — and during the war, he personally took down many such mis-trained opponents with his self-taught mixture of practical skills and dirty tricks.
  Were he to teach defense, it would be practical defense, defense that worked. He would teach dirty tricks, unfair tactics, and a properly lethal mentality when dealing with aggressors — not useless claptrap like good sportsmanship and fair play. The dark man sneered at the very thought. Such things had no place in personal defense and certainly should not be taught as such, particularly not to falsely prop up the students' pathetic egos with unwarranted confidence.
• Comforting Comforter: Abigail's spellcasting practice completely wears her out until she falls asleep in her chair, so Harry moves her to a couch, covers her with a blanket, and stokes the wood heater. Abigail has a big smile when she wakes up and realises what he did.
• Condescending Compassion: Molly Weasley responds to Lucius Malfoy's barbs by loudly and publicly exhorting her husband to be understanding of the Malfoys' difficult situation, barely being able to produce one sickly looking heir while the Weasleys have six healthy sons and a beautiful daughter. To twist the knife further, she manages to imply that Draco isn't actually Lucius' legitimate son.
  Molly: Dear, just imagine how the man must feel, afflicted with that sort of… deficiency!
• Cunning Linguist: Harry instinctively understands all languages as soon as he hears them spoken, even animal languages. When it's revealed he can talk to snakes, some of the other students are concerned about the dark reputation of Parselmouths, until it becomes clear that he can just as easily speak "English or French or Spanish or Gaelic or German or Norwegian or Or'zet or Greek or..."
  Harry: Even porpoises are better conversationalists, and half of what they say is swearing!
• Curb Stomp Cushion: The troll at Halloween doesn't last long, and even tastes like bacon, but one of its bones gets stuck in Harry's teeth and causes him quite severe distress.
• Curse Cut Short: The Sorting Hat has met Harry before, but was not actually told he's a dragon, and Harry didn't wear it before his own Sorting. As soon as it touches his head, it starts screaming in shock until it cuts itself off halfway through a four-letter word.
• Cutting the Knot: Dumbledore finds himself caught between two conflicting obligations in the aftermath of the Diary, until Fawkes helps him see a way to reconcile the two. He can't ignore Lucius Malfoy endangering students he is oathbound to protect, but he doesn't have enough evidence to bring the force of the law down on Lucius, either. What he realises, and explains to Lucius, is that there are two ways to follow the law; one is to refrain from killing Lucius on the spot, while the other is to willingly accept the punishment for killing Lucius on the spot. And, as he goes on to make clear, if any further incidents happen, he will take option two.
• Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Alchemy deals with matter-energy conversion, using magic to catalyse direct transmutation, and is so extraordinarily dangerous that even asking for books about it triggers a report to law enforcement. The books won't be given, either, without a properly qualified and licensed alchemist's endorsement. Attempt to transmute something into a heavier material without adjusting its volume at the same time to compensate, and you will drop dead of magical exhaustion. Do the same with a conversion to lighter material, and you can release enough energy to crack the Earth. Even Harry can't try it with impunity.
• Deadly Gas: A mis-brewed metal cleaning potion can be caustic enough to eat its way through the desk and the legs of the student responsible, but its more insidious danger is the noxious fumes it would produce. When Quirrell deliberately uses such a brew as a weapon, there's a snippet from the victims' point of view as they're burned and blinded and finally expire.
• Desecrating the Dead: One of the side benefits of Dumbledore's pointed message to Lucius is compelling Lucius to participate in eating the basilisk, which was the only being Voldemort possibly considered a friend. As Dumbledore points out, if Voldemort ever returns and sees that in Lucius' memories, he will certainly torture Lucius to death for the insult.
• Destroy the Evidence:
  • Lockhart burns all the possessions he can't take with him into hiding, so that they can't be used to scry for him. His past experience as a Ministry Obliviator has resulted in him knowing quite a bit about the capabilities and limitations of magical forensics.
  • When there's no time to properly cover things up before nonmagical investigators arrive, Dumbledore triggers a landslide to obliterate the site of the recently drained nexus.
• Did I Say That Out Loud: Abigail didn't mean to actually say how amazing Harry's hug was, but Madam Pomfrey is amused — until Abigail describes exactly how it felt, causing Pomfrey to recognise the symptoms of overexposure to intense magic.
• Disproportionate Retribution:
  • The last goblin rebellion killed "seventy-eight Aurors, twelve Hit-Wizards, two Unspeakables, four innocent bystanders, and a Director of Magical Law Enforcement" — over a tax issue that reduced Gringotts' profits by a tenth of a percent.
  • Hermione responds in kind to Draco's attempt at Trash Talk. So as she walks away, he fires a curse at the back of her head that would have removed a fist-sized chunk had it hit.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Fred covers up how he and George crashed into the sealed portal to Platform 9¾, by pretending that George saw a pretty girl and walked into a wall.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Having been transformed all at once, Harry takes time to get accustomed to just how strong he is. His flying lessons include regularly wrecking large trees, sometimes without even noticing until they fall over.
  Dumbledore: Though I must say that his, ah, lack of awareness of his own potential for mayhem is simultaneously a little disturbing and heartening.
  Snape: How so?
  Dumbledore: Well, I suspect the fact that he hasn't realized he could lay waste to a large portion of the surrounding area implies that he has little inclination to lay waste to much of anything.
• Don't You Dare Pity Me!: Madam Pomfrey devises a treatment plan that could greatly improve psychological recovery in the aftermath of possession — but it would be quite expensive to attempt, with a limited window of opportunity. The Weasleys cannot afford it themselves, but Arthur Weasley's pride will not allow him to accept Hogwarts simply paying for it. So Dumbledore arranges for him to supposedly win a 10000-galleon prize draw.
• Doorstopper: In-Universe, the Hogwarts rulebook is the size of a dinner table (that could seat a family of five). It's also a confusing and contradictory mess that's only ever been added to, not amended, for centuries — which can actually be quite helpful, because you can probably find a rule in there to support just about anything you want to do.
  Predictably, Harry asked if he could read it. A question which was answered, "Yes, but not until later."

E-I

• Eating the Eye Candy:
  • Subverted when Petunia sees that Vernon's struggles to look after a young dragon have resulted in him shedding a lot of his excess weight and developing more muscle — and she is quite alarmed, even despairing, worried that his improved looks will result in an affair with his secretary.
  • Dragons develop more slowly than humans, but Harry does find things like Abigail pulling off her outer robe (and causing her shirt to ride up for a moment) fascinating for reasons he doesn't understand.
    He still wasn't sure why that sort of thing seemed so weirdly cool, but he eventually filed it away under the same mental heading as he did his memories of Suze at full not-gallop. He was sure he’d figure it out eventually.
• Eidetic Memory: One reason Severus Snape can just about tolerate Harry is that Harry, while constantly inquisitive, doesn't need to ask the same question twice. He memorizes books in a single reading.
• Empty Shell: The slaves in magical fantasy brothels are so thoroughly memory-wiped and controlled by mind-dominating magics that they essentially have no personalities of their own anymore, just puppets made of flesh. They smile, but their eyes are glassy.
  They would act as eager or recalcitrant as they were instructed to act, but there was no eagerness or enthusiasm in them even if they could emulate it well.
• Enemy Mine: The six nations of the Confederacy can barely tolerate each other, to the point where they originally used translators despite all knowing each other's languages just to avoid privileging one language above another. However, in the face of the Aztec Empire in the south, which regularly raids for Human Sacrifices, they have made common cause.
• Exact Words:
  • The Malfoys gave Dobby instructions regarding Harry Potter the wizard, but since Harry is now a dragon rather than a wizard, Dobby is able to work around them.
  • Harry agrees to tell Xenophilius Lovegood more about himself if Xenophilius doesn't share his name, and Xenophilius assures him that he couldn't very well share his name since he doesn't know it. When Harry proceeds to tell Xenophilius his name, Xenophilius proceeds to include it in the article he writes. Luna later points out that he never actually promised to keep it secret and so he technically didn't lie, but Harry remains highly unimpressed.
• Explosive Overclocking: Harry actually has very good control of his magic, relative to how much of it there is. But there is just so much that he greatly struggles to use it. His levitation charms break the sound barrier, his transfigured needles look more like construction equipment, and his broomstick shoots off and buries itself into a grassy knoll before bursting into flames.
  It quickly became apparent that Harry was suffering control problems to a degree that Septima Vector declared to be 'epic'.
• Explosive Results: The first exercise in learning alchemy is an endothermic reaction, transmuting water into an oily sludge, and so the side effects of poor control are merely exhaustion. The second exercise, however, is the reverse, transmuting sludge back into water, and is exothermic. After watching Dumbledore perform the exercise properly and then establish protective spells, Harry tries it and his world promptly turns white.
  Dumbledore: Not a bad start, Mr. Potter. As I recall, my first attempt blasted me through a two-foot thick stone wall.
• Extreme Omnivore: The only thing Harry has mentioned disliking is wood, and some types of plastic give him diarrhea. Anything else is fair game. Anything else. Meat, bone, rock, metal, highly toxic potion ingredients, you name it, he can scoff it down and probably enjoy it. Eating the Philosopher's Stone, however, has serious side effects, as its magic goes to work transmuting his internal organs into other substances, incapacitating and almost killing him.
  Snape: Never had I thought to encounter a creature able to devour a whole bubotuber without ill effect, and I had thought that such a creature then asking for more would be an impossibility.
• Facepalm: Harry smacks himself in the forehead and nearly smears his ice cream on his face when Abigail points out that he could have just asked someone else to deliver a message for him.
• Faking the Dead: Lockhart knows he can't fake his death in a way that will convince the DMLE. But if he can make it convincing to the public, who still love him, he figures that pursuing him will become politically infeasible.
• False Friend: Su Li is a somewhat mixed case. She is absolutely out to use and manipulate whoever she needs to in order to complete her mission, and the reason she befriends Hermione is simply because Hermione is important to Harry. However, she doesn't have any specific antipathy toward Hermione, either, and actually respects her intelligence and friendliness, while having no fear that Hermione will threaten her designs on Harry, so she considers it no hardship to reach out and be genuinely helpful.
• Forced Transformation: Harry was changed into a dragon when he hit his head on one of the blocks at Stonehenge — which turned out to be a stone designed to discharge the surplus magical energy that had been accumulating for millennia. If Harry had been a Muggle, nothing would have happened, and if he had been any unluckier, he would have been simply obliterated, but instead his own magic was able to change him into a form that could handle and use the flood of incoming energy. He's quite happy about the results, though.
• Gargle Blaster: Goblin tea is not alcoholic, nor does it contain extraordinary amounts of caffeine, but it is hot enough and corrosive enough to remove the roof of the drinker's mouth. Harry quite enjoys it, and compares the flavour to biting a charged car battery "but without the sweet taste from the lead." It's difficult to transport, however, since it dissolves plastics.
• Glomp: Subverted when Suze tries to hug the stuffing out of Harry, but isn't nearly big enough and can only lean against his chest.
  It was not terribly effective at stuffing removal, but it was the thought that counted.
• Good Is Not Soft: Lucius Malfoy thought that Dumbledore was soft, because Dumbledore genuinely believes in following laws that apply equally to everyone, rather than the powerful simply doing and taking what they want. He gets a stark reminder that that is not the case. Dumbledore explains clearly, politely, and directly, that if Lucius oversteps and endangers the students of Hogwarts again, Dumbledore will give an excruciating death to Lucius and all his ilk, then willingly accept the legal punishment for such behaviour — thus keeping his oaths as headmaster and satisfying the law. And while explaining this, his magical aura paralyses Lucius to the point of near-suffocation, while Dumbledore floats Lucius' wand out of its holster and points it at him with the tip glowing in Killing Curse green.
  Lord Voldemort had been a monster in human flesh, one that Lucius had gladly served out of a sense of shared purpose laced with a healthy portion of fear, but so was Albus Dumbledore, as the monster in question had so ably demonstrated. Dumbledore's goals were strange and his methods alien, but at the end of the day, when pushed far enough, it seemed the two were not so different, after all.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Harry is happy to take turns with Hermione and Abigail in practising spellcasting, with no concerns at all. Hermione, however, can't help but notice how the older girl is much more developed than herself, especially when Abigail takes off her outer robe and undoes her top buttons because she's hot and sweaty and breathing heavily from the exercise, which Hermione notices Harry noticing...and to make matters worse, being older, Abigail is also better at the exercise, with twice Hermione's endurance. Hermione stubbornly doesn't allow herself to take off her robe and make the comparison more stark, despite being equally hot, and makes excuses to leave as soon as she can.
• Groin Attack: Since Draco is down anyway, Ron figures he might as well take a step further, and delivers a heartfelt stomp. Marcus Flint sees it happening and decides it will make an excellent cover for casting a sterility curse on Draco; the Malfoy family will be ended and everyone will assume it was Ron's doing. He even goes as far as to downplay Ron's actions, claiming they were part of the fight instead of kicking Draco while he was down, so no-one will investigate too closely. The level of damage, however, leads the Malfoys to plot revenge on the Weasley family.
• Grounded Forever: Professor Snape gives the Weasley Twins detention indefinitely as punishment for tampering with the portal to platform 9¾ and almost permanently cursing the entire student body.
  Snape: They will have served their punishment when I am satisfied that they are sufficiently well-trained to know better than to attempt such a thing again. Until then, I will ensure that they have no idle time to involve themselves in such pursuits.
• Gun Nut:
  • It turns out that the independence of the goblin nation from the British wizarding world is a result of their wholehearted embrace of firearms. Even the ceremonial guards outside Gringotts carry sidearms that are not merely ceremonial at all; no self respecting goblin would go out in public without a firearm in easy reach, and every goblin of any significant rank is expected to maintain a private armory in case of a need to equip subordinates.
    Harry: I guess that means you’ve got a gun, right Mr. Slackhammer?
    Slackhammer: Naturally; I never permit my Enfield Number 2 Mark 1 to leave my side.
  • Inspired by the goblins' example, Harry makes sure to get his limbs on multiple firearms and the proper training to use them. The first time the Grangers meet him in Diagon Alley, Suze is wearing a military rifle with many extra ammunition boxes, a hunting rifle with a long barrel, a shotgun, multiple knives, and a pulley operated compound bow — and then Harry pulls out another gun, this one a bolt action rifle, from under her saddlebags.
    In short, she looked like she was carrying enough weaponry to field a full squad of modern infantry in a combat zone.
• Happiness in Slavery:
  • After weighing up her options, and becoming quite upset by how she's treated in her dormitory, Hermione decides to ask Harry to carry her off to his Lair as one of his damsels. Legally that makes her his pet, which is why she's permitted to stay there, but after considering the alternatives she decided it's the best choice.
  • Professor Snape discusses with her father the fact that serving a powerful patron may be the only viable way for Hermione to remain safe from magical human trafficking, to which many muggleborn students are lost. Harry even makes a torc for her to wear in order to mark her as his property — thus making anyone who might have designs on her think twice. She doesn't like the fact that it's needed, but she's glad to have his protection.
• Head Desk: Professor Snape realizes that he could have enlisted Harry to crush the steel they're carrying so it would require less expanded space, and promptly starts banging his head on the steering wheel — resulting in a series of honks that obscure the expletives in his tirade.
• Holding in Laughter: Abigail tries not to draw attention in the aftermath of Harry completely stealing Professor Lockhart's spotlight by accident at the Welcoming Feast, but she can't quite stop a giggle from emerging.
• Hollywood Acid: Harry's stomach juices dissolve every substance Professor Snape has been to test them against, even glass.
  Snape: I have no idea how he manages to avoid digesting his own internal workings.
• Hot Teacher: Professor Lockhart draws so much female attention that a group of boys from three houses actually pool their funds to hire a private investigator and dig up dirt on him, hoping to have him removed from the school so that girls will notice them again. (Slytherin doesn't participate, because the girls there have so much unfortunate experience with Draco Malfoy that they no longer find blonds appealing.)
• Human Sacrifice: Subverted and Played for Laughs when the centaur herd concludes that they'll have to offer up maidens to pacify the Great Wyrm. Harry has only the vaguest idea that dragons carry off damsels, which he proceeds to do, but beyond that he doesn't really know what to do with Suze (except that he certainly doesn't plan to eat her, that would be quite rude). She ends up as something of a big sister figure to him, and Professor Snape quietly advises her to supervise him and help ensure that he grows up gently.
• Hypocrite: Dumbledore, of all people, sighs in exasperation at how his friend Nicolas Flamel likes keeping secrets.
  Snape: I feel as if I should make some sort of comment about pots, kettles, and the color black at this juncture, but in the interests of keeping the conversation going, I shall refrain.
• I Need A Drink:
  • Staff meetings involving Harry always include alcohol, because his issues are easier to face when slightly buzzed. When Professor Snape points out that his voice makes it feel like sharing a room with a young dragon-shaped James Potter, everyone takes a shot to expunge the thought.
  • The staff meeting when students arrive is alcohol-free, out of respect to their responsibilities, but after witnessing a three-way confrontation between Dumbledore, Snape, and the Sorting Hat, Professor Sprout remarks, "What a day to have to stay dry!"
• I Owe You My Life: Despite initially tense relations, the centaur clan becomes very fond of Harry after he takes their side in the war against the acromantula (because the centaurs are his friends and the spiders taste like "scrunchy chicken in diesel, yum!"). Previously, casualties occurred every season, but once Harry teaches the spiders the meaning of fear, even sentry duty for the centaurs becomes a mere formality.
  The Black Woods Clan owed the Great Wyrm a debt of gratitude, of blood unspilt, which would guarantee its welcome among them until the stars grew old and dim.
• I Want Them Alive!: Dumbledore asks the goblins, should they encounter the school's intruder, to leave him/her capable of speech, if possible.
  Dumbledore: I have some rather pointed questions to ask.
• If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Subverted; at the same time as realising that Hermione is taking an interest in Harry, Mr Granger also recognises that he cannot possibly intimidate a dragon. It's rather unfair, really.
  What horrible crime had he committed to deserve that?
• Immoral Journalist: Rita Skeeter uses her beetle form to sneak into the DMLE and learn about the top secret raids on the Syndicate, then publishes the scoop on the front page of the Daily Prophet. The fact that the Syndicate is now warned and will cover its tracks, dooming hundreds or perhaps thousands of slaves who might have been saved, doesn't trouble her a bit.
• Immune to Fire: Naturally, a dragon isn't bothered by heat. Harry's internal workings are actually hot enough to melt almost any metal, yet so well insulated that the outside of his skin is a normal temperature; still, he's entirely capable of heating metal with an acetylene torch up to glowing red, then sculpting it with his hands. (And eating the offcuts.)
• Information Wants to Be Free: One of Frank's most fortunate encounters was a man who is obsessed with gathering up all the historical information he can — books, magazines, newspapers, anything written down. It's not organised or indexed, but the truth is most likely in there somewhere, if you don't mind the cramped space and the musty smell.
  In a world of libraries that were repeatedly and routinely sanitized by the highest bidder and rags like the Prophet that tweaked their own back issues to suit the propagandists' flavor of the week, this sort of unabridged private archive was really the only way to get any reliable research done. At least it let you work with the first set of unpolished lies, which made it much easier to pick out the inconsistencies. All in all, it was an invaluable tool for a private eye.
• Involuntary Shapeshifting: The Weasley twins' prank on Platform 9¾ converted virtually all of the students and hundreds of adults into either Fred or George via a contagion polyjuice potion with a lunar trigger. Snape tells them that had they made the potion more potent or even were a bit wealthier (thus using higher quality ingredients), then the magic would have lingered enough to be reinforced by the next full moon, and they would've had a whole school full of Were-Weasleys.

J-R

• Jailbait Wait: Abigail has great hopes for what an adult Harry will be like, and makes sure to join his friend circle. She doesn't mind his company as a kid, either, but the future possibilities occupy her dreams.
• Killing Intent:
  • Harry is cheerful and friendly, but he also instinctively knows he's the most dangerous thing within a hundred miles, and even when he's human, the people around him can often sense it. The effect is particularly noticeable when he visits Madam Marchbanks; through her viewing mirror she just thinks that he looks small, but upon coming face to face with him she feels like his presence entirely fills the room.
  • A properly riled Dumbledore's magical presence is enough to pin Lucius Malfoy in his chair, unable to breathe or blink.
• Klatchian Coffee: Draining an additional nexus floods Harry with hyperactive energy as his body consumes the influx of magic. The first time it happens, he spends the entire rest of the day playing high-speed tag with Fawkes, then goes to bed exhausted but entirely unable to sleep.
  He was like a small child on a sugar-high from hell.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Professor Snape stretches his "constructive sadism" muscles in devising fitting punishments for the Weasley Twins during their indefinite detentions. For example, making a brewing error that would have melted through the bench and burned off their lower legs? They can run laps of the castle until they feel the burn.
  Snape: See to it that you do not neglect to recall an interaction which would release toxic gas, Mr. Weasley — you will not enjoy the reminder I have in mind for that eventuality.
• Lost My Appetite: Abigail realizes that Professor Lockhart resembles a more refined Draco Malfoy, and has to hope her appetite returns before the Welcoming Feast is over.
• Ludicrous Gibs: The trolls who assault a goblin-fortified position are shredded into fine chunks and liquid by minigun fire, cutting them apart and then specifically blasting the pieces — which is actually quite a sensible precaution when dealing with troll regeneration.
  Corporal Mantrap: Sir! Three hostiles neutralized at this location. You’re standing in them right now, sir.
• Magic Enhancement: Madam Pomfrey insists that Harry needs to learn Occlumency before he starts puberty, because magic enhances all biological functions, including fertility.
• Make It Look Like an Accident:
  • One of Abraxas Malfoy's business competitors died suddenly, a week after attending a party at Abraxas' house. The coroner, Abraxas' cousin, judged it to be natural causes.
  • Professor Lockhart places compulsions on two men to drink themselves to death as soon as possible. It's not easy for wizards to suffer alcohol poisoning, but with enough mixed liquor it can be done.
• Marriage of Convenience: A silver torc, indicating engagement, is the least-bad idea Harry can come up with for protecting Hermione when she's at home and not under his own aegis or the headmaster's. It won't necessarily stop anyone from attacking her, but it does allow him to declare an essentially unlimited vendetta against them. Hermione is rather overwhelmed by him technically proposing to her, even if it's just for practical reasons, but she agrees to it. It doesn't save her from the Malfoys seeking revenge for Draco's injury, though, especially since the torc itself isn't ready in time, only the registration of her servant contract is.
• Mercy Kill: At the centaurs' request, Harry finishes off the Weasleys' magical car, trapped with a broken axle but alive enough to react to movement nearby.
  Bane: There is no reason to prolong its suffering. You should kill it quickly to put it out of its misery, then eat it so it does not die in vain, just as if it were a deer in a similar situation.
• A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: One reason that the soul-bonding version of the marriage rite fell out of favour is because when your very soul is exposed to your spouse, often including surface thoughts, it becomes impossible to bite your tongue and consider before you speak.
  Dumbledore: It takes a special sort of person to forge a successful relationship in the face of that level of tactlessness. When added to the fact that there can never be any reprieve, temporary or otherwise, no way to step back from the situation or gain perspective... well, it is a rare couple that can take the stress and make things work anyway.
• Mobile Shrubbery: The centaurs help to camouflage Harry with fresh-cut branches in order to ambush whatever has been killing his farmed acromantula.
• Motor Mouth: One of Suze's roles in Harry's life is to gently remind him, "Harry, blathering," when he goes off talking a mile a minute about topics that probably aren't quite as interesting to his listeners.
• Mugging the Monster: Although Harry has a reputation for being physically strong, Draco knows he's always doing remedial work during spellcasting classes, so he figures Harry will be an easy target during the Duelling Club, where direct physical attacks are prohibited — thus allowing Draco to boost his own reputation by coming out on top. What he doesn't grasp is that the reason for all that remedial work is for Harry to keep his power level down to something manageable, as opposed to things like obliterating a training dummy and turning the wall behind it to sand with a single stunning spell. He also doesn't realise that Harry has nearly perfect immunity to all hostile spells. Needless to say, the duel doesn't go well for Draco.
• Narrative Profanity Filter: Tom vents his frustrations at the death of his basilisk with "a string of blistering curses sufficient to turn even the saltiest of old sailors green with envy."
• No-Sell: The magic of Harry's draconic form has no edges, making it extremely difficult for any spell to affect him without him consciously choosing to allow it. The Killing Curse apparently stings quite a bit, while the deadly gaze of a basilisk tickles like brushing off a cobweb.
• The Nose Knows: Harry's sense of smell is much better than a human's, although he's not equal to something like a bloodhound. He can tell immediately that there's something off about Scabbers, who only mostly smells like rat.
  Harry: I can smell the last few things a person ate for a few hours after they ate it, and everything smells of something. I mean, you smell like a person who had fried grub for breakfast and whose laundry got dried on a line close to an herb garden, and Hermione smells like someone who uses lemon-scented soap for their washing and handles books a whole lot, and Suze smells of person and horse and gun-smoke and that special kind of wax they use on composite bows, and this carriage smells like linseed oil and warm wood, and the engine smells like axle grease and coal smoke and hot metal, and the air 'round here smells like exhaust pipe and dead pigeon, and I guess I smell like Harry what slept in and didn't have time for a bath this morning.
• The Not-So-Harmless Punishment: The Weasley Twins' fate after their train platform prank is assisting Professor Snape in the classroom — essentially a form of apprenticeship — until they learn enough to ensure they never again do something so foolish. Hermione is quite upset to see them acting in a role she would love to have. But as they're not of her academic turn of mind, they hate it — and he's also ensuring that they get no free time at all to plan any further pranks.
  Fred: If anyone would know how to turn an apparent reward into a punishment straight out of the depths of Hell, it’d probably be Snape.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat: Vice-Chairman Slackhammer uses bureaucratic delay for a good cause. He intentionally sends Harry notice of Hermione's kidnapping and rescue in a way that guarantees it won't be delivered promptly, marking it urgent but having it placed on the desk of someone not immediately in the office. That way, Harry won't cut his vital mission short to rush back, but he also won't be furious about being kept in the dark.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Professor McGonagall's strong reaction to initially meeting Harry (including a dense Scottish burr) gives a good indication of just how surprised she is.
    The accent only came out when Minerva was agitated, and the swearing when she was in shock.
  • Hermione is mortified to have been reprimanded by Professor Snape. Harry, meanwhile, hears that Professor Snape didn't insult her at all when doing it and concludes that he must really like Hermione, because he insults everyone except goblins. Abigail agrees that that level of politeness shows how much he holds her in high regard.
  • As soon as Dumbledore hears about the fistfight between Lucius Malfoy and Arthur Weasley, he recognises it as uncharacteristic behaviour for Mr Malfoy, and starts putting pieces together.
    Lucius Malfoy was not one to get his own hands dirty; there had to have been something else afoot.
  • Abigail knows that Harry's encouragement is heartfelt when he puts down his fork to pat her on the shoulder.
    Anyone familiar with the young dragon’s legendary appetite knew that any such pause when there was food in front of him was a noteworthy occurrence.
• Perception Filter: Lockhart is not especially good at Disillusioning himself for true invisibility, but he is quite skilled at spells that tell onlookers his presence is perfectly normal and can be ignored. He actually likes it better in some ways, since it's easier to do things like navigating crowds.
• Percussive Therapy: Harry's first experience with venting really substantial amounts of anger concludes with him biting and clawing and flaming his way through a substantial fraction of a mountain, until he is finally calm enough to plot serious, effective, constructive revenge.
• Phlebotinum Overload: The Hogwarts staff place sensors all over Harry's body before he drains the Stonehenge nexus, in an attempt to better understand the process. However, most of them — especially the ones closest to the point of contact — are instantly vaporized when the discharge occurs, while the few survivors are heavily damaged.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Even when transfigured into something much smaller, Harry retains his immense strength. Aengus Leith sees a pigeon stalking and apparently eating a cat, and decides that he needs to stop drinking so much.
• Plausible Deniability: Harry and Slackhammer plan to hire a management staff for Hogs Haulage who won't necessarily know everything that the company is being used for, in case they're ever questioned with truth serum.
• Polyamory: Wizarding law doesn't actually forbid additional wives or concubines in theory, but witch tempers generally forbid it in practice. When Abigail catches Su Li cozying up to Harry, however, Su quickly pivots toward sharing him, since she only cares about becoming pregnant and otherwise isn't concerned about who he becomes involved with. Abigail is not impressed — but at the same time realizes that since she's about to graduate, she has less influence and leverage than she used to, and doesn't realize how mercenary Su's interest is, so she agrees to mutual non-aggression.
• Poor Communication Kills: Several of the Weasley brothers approach Hermione together in an attempt to apologise for Ron's poor behaviour, but they inadvertently come across to her as a united front defending him, and she storms off before they're able to clarify.
• Power is Sexy: Learning that Harry is so dangerous that the whole school is being warned against antagonising him results in Abigail having fantasies about an adult version of him. Being overexposed to his magic during the troll incident, and thus becoming temporarily hypersensitive to it, doesn't help.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: Recognising how easily things could escalate if Harry is bullied in any way, Professor Snape impresses on his Slytherins as firmly as possible to "Leave. Him. Alone." He isn't confident it will be enough, though.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: Of all the McDonalds, only their mother can stand up to the power of six-year-old Colleen hugging your knees and looking up at you through her eyelashes.
  Mike's father folded like a wet napkin.
• Readings Are Off the Scale: Regular diagnostic spells prove unable to measure Harry's level of magical power, so Professor Vector turns to measuring his magical aura, which isn't generally done because it's so imprecise; the difference between filling a quarter of a room, vs filling three quarters, is actually much more impressive than it looks. However, Harry's aura can't be measured at any range less than ten miles, because it blankets everything within that distance. And that has serious implications for just what was going on at Avebury that was able to dump that much magic into him...
  "For future reference, Septima," Albus' calm tone finally broke the stunned silence, "That sort of news should generally be reported at the beginning of the meeting."
• Revenge: Severus Snape gains a rather nasty and twisted smile when his participation in the horcrux interrogation ritual, made visual by his subconscious, takes the form of pulling a capstan to hold Riddle's tremendous form immobile while Dumbledore lays into Riddle with an equally gigantic sledgehammer. While Snape would have enjoyed personally wielding the hammer, he's nonetheless quite pleased with his role.
  It would do nicely.
• Revenge by Proxy: After Ron intervenes in a conflict between Hermione and Draco, the Malfoys mistakenly get it into their heads that Hermione is Ron's girlfriend, and since attacking the Burrow directly is difficult, while attacking a non-magical home is easy, they decide that the start of their revenge for the injury to Draco's manhood will be to kidnap Hermione and auction her off to the black markets.
• Right Behind Me: Sergeant-Major Hooktalon is just explaining to Harry that his first pistol ought to be a bit more special than a standard-issue Browning, since Harry spends so much time with swanky aristocratic-types like the vice-chairman, at which point a throat is cleared from the doorway.
  Vice-Chairman Slackhammer: If I might have a moment to speak with your student, here, I am afraid we swanky aristocratic-types have some things to discuss.

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• Sacred Hospitality:
  • Dumbledore makes use of guest rights and obligations to put the screws on Lucius Malfoy. As his guest, Lucius cannot be directly harmed during their conversation, but is in turn obligated to finish the meal Dumbledore has prepared of Tom Riddle's basilisk, ensuring Voldemort's ire should they ever meet again, and Lucius cannot quickly get away from Dumbledore's calm and polite but very direct threats of dire consequences should Lucius ever endanger the students again.
    Dumbledore: Do clean your plate, Lucius, lest you give me an excuse to do something you will not live long enough to regret.
  • The ritual to create a horcrux includes a deliberate mockery and perversion of hospitality, pantomiming it and then betraying and murdering the "guest", as part of mutilating a soul-bond originally intended as part of a marriage, connecting the other end to an object instead of a spouse. The Hogwarts staff are all quite disturbed at Dumbledore's explanation.
• Safely Secluded Science Center: Dumbledore provides strict instructions for building Harry's alchemy practice lab, including requirements to be in a separate hill from his home, with a tunnel facing away from anything important, and containing nothing he cares about.
• Shout-Out:
  • Petunia's attitude toward Harry is shaped by her fear of how "that dreadful Hyacinth woman down the street" will react to things like their missing lawn mower.
    Petunia could just hear her now, "Not able to maintain your own Lawnmower, are you? How Dreadfully Unfortunate! Have you and dear Vernon fallen on Hard Times? I had Wondered when you didn't Reciprocate after my Fantastic Outdoors-Indoors Luxury Barbecue hosted at our Glorious Bucket residence — that's pronounced 'bouquet', you know — but I hadn’t Realized you were having Troubles of the Financial Sort. Simply Dreadful!" That woman would never shut up about it! She was almost as horrid a gossip as that woman at number 7 — or so Petunia had heard from her neighbor at Number 2.
  • Professor Snape visits Madam Pomfrey about how he's increasingly feeling concerned about Harry's problems, and she remarks on "his heart growing three sizes that day."
• Siege Engines: During the troll incident, Hagrid guards the doors of the Great Hall with a crossbow that resembles a medieval artillery piece — appropriately for his half-giant size.
• Sir Swears-a-Lot: Harry can understand porpoises, but the most distinctive feature of their conversation is the constant swearing — at least once in every sentence, and usually more.
• Slap Yourself Awake: Any time the Malfoys' specify a punishment for poor behavior, instead of original forbidding that behaviour,Dobby intentionally takes the opportunity to disobey and punish himself, because the pain keeps him focused instead of slipping into habit and routine.
  Dobby:Bad master is bad, and by saying bad master is bad, Dobby remembers even though Dobby enjoys work. Punishments remind Dobby of why bad master is bad. They keep Dobby from thinking bad master is not-so-bad. ... Pain helps Dobby focus; helps Dobby remember that bad master is enemy.
• Springtime for Hitler: Professor Quirrell deliberately chooses an insanely risky way to fulfil his master's orders, brewing an extremely volatile potion in hopes of accidentally killing himself rather than succeeding. Unfortunately, his skills don't fail him; he successfully creates the brew and uses it to take down the goblin guards in his way.
• Stalker with a Test Tube: The Han empire has a habit of carefully managing its bloodlines and deliberately introducing new blood with new magical gifts — not always with the fully informed consent of the donor. Su Li has been sent to Hogwarts as both the scout and vessel; her own genetics are optimised for capturing anything of value from her partner's contribution. Her years-long mission is to first report on all the candidate males, then pursue the target she's given and become pregnant to him. She's not entirely sure what to make of Harry, though, who is clearly gifted, but not necessarily in an inheritable way, and who doesn't seem to shed anything that could give her a genetic sample.
• Stating the Simple Solution: Owls tend to flee from Harry, so in order to contact Abigail over summer, he spends weeks mastering a charm to send messages via flying paper crane. Abigail wonders why he didn't just ask someone else to send a message.
• Stealing from the Till: Technically the contractor who builds the access to the Seven Sisters nexus could be said to be regularly embezzling funds from the jobs he does, since he over-reports his costs and pockets the difference. However, the reason he does it is because his low costs are a result of subtly applied magic, which of course he can't accurately report to non-magical employers. If he were to bid for work based on his actual overheads, he would either be laughed at, or investigated with suspicion (which would not be good for secrecy).
  No, he'd had no choice but to reluctantly pocket the excess from those fat, juicy public works contracts, for Confederate security; it was his patriotic duty! And if fulfilling his solemn duty to his tribe and nation just happened to make both him and his men quite rich in the process… well that was a hardship he would just have to endure.
• Stepping Out for a Quick Cup of Coffee: Amelia Bones literally announces that she's getting a coffee, then proceeds to explain what's in the evidence folder currently on the desk, and that she can't legally share it, but that it's just a temporary copy and doesn't seem worth taking to the incinerator on the other side of the building, so she's inclined to leave it there while she takes probably no less than seven minutes to brew a pot. Harry still has to find a way to obtain it without the hidden observers being forced to notice, so he covers it with his jacket, supposedly to avoid temptation, then makes a copy (still underneath the jacket) transfigured into a duplicate of his Gringotts draft book, which he claims must have fallen out of a pocket, and so it's handed over to him.
  Amelia: But I would be obliged to investigate should I encounter any reason to suspect you had read or copied that information. Can I trust that I will not find any?
• Stiff Upper Lip: Vernon is quite proud of how calmly he handles Harry's initial transformation, although his grip starts to slip as Petunia questions him about their next course of action.
  "You keep trying to work things out there, boy, and be proper careful, you're a lot bigger than you used to be," Vernon was still tickled by his even tone, surely no Queen's Guard in a bearskin could have done any better.
• Super-Scream: Harry can growl loudly enough to knock squirrels out of trees — which would be funny, apart from when Suze was caught in it and burst her eardrums.
• Super-Strength: The general student population doesn't know Harry is a dragon, but there's no hiding the fact that he's unreasonably strong. The official story of the troll incident is that Harry punched it through a wall and then tore it in half — which is true From a Certain Point of View, if you leave out the fact that he tore it in half with his teeth.
• Taught by Experience: Suze relates how her uncle taught her to craft a bow — he didn't really, not at first. He just gave her a stick and told her to try it. Only once she had produced something did he identify the problems, give her advice to improve it, and have her try again.
  Suze: When I asked him about it, uncle said everyone carved differently, and there was no point in trying to teach me how he did it when I would just have to work it out on my own anyway.
• Teleport Interdiction: The magical Confederacy is at war with the Aztec Empire to the south, so they have warded their territory to prevent all forms of magical teleportation. They can't actually block apparation or portkeys, that would take too much energy, but they can disrupt the process enough to ensure that the user does not arrive at their destination intact.
• There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Flame-Eye the foundry goblin is quite incensed to learn that Harry uses his room-sized (and extremely expensive) CNC machine for simple engraving jobs, calling that "the most horribly over-specced pen-plotter of all time" and comparing it to using gold leaf as toilet paper. After chewing Harry out, he promises to send someone else over to help him put it to proper use.
• These Hands Have Killed: Kingsley Shacklebolt promises that although it's normal to feel terrible about your first kill, it was entirely justified in this case. Harry, on the other hand, is congratulatory, and doesn't even understand why someone would feel bad about killing someone who thoroughly deserved it.
  Harry: It was your first time; you did really well by just not freezing. No one's going to fault you for only winging the second one. I'm sure you'll get better!
• Tracking Device:
  • It's difficult to keep tabs on women kidnapped and mind-wiped into prostitution; they are covered with spells intended to protect the "merchandise" from marks or damage, which has the side effect of repelling tracking charms. Frank finds a distasteful method, though, to not lose track of his former fiancee: his own body fluids, modified by a potion to linger inside her body and carry the tracking charm. He hates himself for renting her out to deliver it, especially when she's too brain-wiped to recognise or remember him at all, but he won't give up on the hope of someday freeing her, so he does it anyway.
  • Aurors use subdermal "cavalry markers" to keep track of personnel and call in The Cavalry if needed. One of them becomes suspicious of Hermione being registered as Harry's servant, and surreptitiously injects her with one — which allows the Aurors to quickly respond when she's kidnapped just hours later.
• Tranquil Fury: Upon learning that Hermione has been kidnapped, Harry discovers that he's capable of putting anger on hold to become icily calm, a predator watching and waiting for the precisely correct moment to pounce, his gaze cold and hard enough that even Professor Snape is uneasy. In that state he can be patient for days. However, he only gets one chance at cracking the seal, at which point he goes from tranquil to Unstoppable Rage.
• Troll:
  • As Harry's birthday present, Severus outfits Suze, his centaur damsel, with riding equipment — saddle, reins, and even a bridle. It's partly so Harry and Suze can play together, but the reason he spent a month's pay on a custom order for such equipment sized to a teenage girl is so that he could imagine the expression on her annoying father Bane's face.
    Severus: And in light of the rant on centaur superiority I was subjected to upon our meeting, I can see him objecting quite strenuously to his daughter being, to quote a certain lizard, 'played horsie with'. Especially when the game involves a saddle and reins. Considering just how extraordinarily resilient that lizard happens to be, I foresee Bane promptly receiving the attitude adjustment he so richly deserves.
  • Fawkes' games of tag with Harry, complete with gale-force turbulence from their hairpin turns, have a tendency to come suspiciously close to where Hermione and Suze are having a picnic — though not half as suspicious as Fawkes' honking laughter at Hermione's tea-stained rage.
• Unskilled, but Strong:
  • Bane the centaur describes Harry's onslaught as "all the grace and power of a living landslip, that is to say with no grace at all and with absurdly overwhelming power."
  • Professor Snape is quite concerned by Draco's choice to fight Harry in the duelling club, because although Harry's aim is atrocious and he tends to pour in so much energy that his spells fizzle, nonetheless when his Disarming Charm actually works, it produces a bar of light thicker than Draco's torso. And in the meantime, Draco's own charms do absolutely nothing to Harry in return. It takes a lot of tries before Harry manages to hit him, but he does eventually, breaking Draco's ribs and wrist in the process of "disarming" him.
• Unstoppable Rage: One of the potion failure modes described by Professor Snape is that instead of making the drinker calm, it instead will induce a state of aggression so violent that no one has been able to measure how long it lasts, because no drinker has survived that long.
  Snape: Such attempts generally end with the subject lethally injuring themselves while attempting to kill everyone in the vicinity.
• Uriah Gambit: When launching the auction raid, Amelia Bones privately instructs Kingsley Shacklebolt that "Good Housekeeping" — a top secret operation to remove double agents — is in effect. Amelia Bones later reflects that she lost two good officers on that raid, although the official record says sixteen; "Only two of those were good officers."
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: Harry learns to transfigure himself into a human shape, so that he can do things like attending Hogwarts and hugging people. However, since that was his intent in the transfiguration, his shape is the only thing that changes — so he's still just as strong and tough as when he's a dragon. He also reverts when he's asleep or sufficiently distracted. He's also able to transfigure himself into other forms with enough practice.
  McGonagall: I was quite horrified when a hawk stooped on him in pigeon form, until he rounded on the bird and beat it senseless with his wings before proceeding to eat the creature.
• We Have Ways of Making You Talk: Dumbledore sets up an extensive and complex runic array around the Diary horcrux preparatory to asking questions.
  Flitwick: Question him? And the runes?
  Dumbledore: Question him vigorously.
• Why Won't You Die?: Voldemort becomes quite frustrated when Harry proves to be quite immune to even repeated usage of the Killing Curse.
  "WILL YOU JUST PLEASE DIE ALREADY?"

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