YMMV / Child of Grace

• Ass Pull: The "Heir of Hufflepuff" twist comes completely out of nowhere, with no Foreshadowing whatsoever.
• Canon Defilement: Lots of it. Some examples are that the blank dungeon wall that is the entrance to the Slytherin common room is instead a portrait of a couple by a lake, and that Occulumens and Legilimens are called "Mind Mages" in this fic.
• Designated Hero: Holly. She's never called out for anything questionable she does and anyone who does is made out to be wrong.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Applied to Draco, Blaise, and even Tom Riddle, of all people. In fact, pretty much all the Slytherins end up as this, being portrayed as "misunderstood." The canonical Death Eaters get this as well: apparently, most of them were forced into serving Voldemort. Yes, even the members of his inner circle.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: We're supposed to feel bad for Holly, because if people found out about her powers, she'd suffer Fantastic Racism. It's hard to be sympathetic, however, when people are suffering or in danger, and she refuses to do anything about it. This is most prominent during her second year.
  • Not helped by how willing she is to abuse her powers. She reads people's thoughts without hesitation, and even gets angry that someone has the audacity to put up mental barriers. She also admits that she uses her powers to cheat at Quidditch.
• Wangst: Holly can get a bit... melodramatic, to say the least, in her inner monologues.
• The Woobie: Colin Creevy (constantly hexed and beaten by the Slytherins for trying to take pictures of Holly) and Ginny (Holly is extremely disdainful of Ginny's girl-crush on her, as opposed to Harry who was merely embarrassed by Ginny's behavior).

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