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** Most oddly, this is so codified that it seems to have been forgotten that the Head Boy and Girl are actually supposed to be top students. Instead, fanfiction makes it look like the selection of Head Boy and Girl is completely random. No one ever even wonders any more [[Spoiled Brat|"How did Draco Malfoy get to be Head Boy?"]]
** This device also turns up a lot in Lily/James fics as well as fics set in the Next Generation (usually with Rose/Scorpius).
* The Yule Ball is restaged despite there being no Triwizard Tournament, sometimes with a [[Hand Wave]] and sometimes without. Hilarity and romantic hijinks ensue. Oh-so common before ''[[Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]''—even ''[[The Draco Trilogy]]'' used it at one point. Apparently, it took the release of ''Phoenix'' for fanfic writers to finally grasp that the Yule Ball is not something that happens every year. Oddly, ''[[Potter Puppet Pals]]'' used this years after ''Phoenix'' when Snape writes in his diary about being at the Yule Ball with Lily Evans, although he ''was'' describing a dream he had had.
* Harry and Ginny (or Harry and Hermione, or Harry, Hermione ''and'' Ginny, or Harry and Luna, or Harry/[[Launcher of a Thousand Ships|Anyone]], or Harry/''[[A Party - Also Known as an Orgy|Everyone]]'') discover they have a Soul Bond linking their hearts in eternal Twoo Wuv and their magical cores in eternal [[Badass]].
* There's a school class which pairs the characters to learn how to be grown-ups, normally by making them live together as a married couple in the Room of Requirement, take care of a magically created baby, and (of course) fall in love. Because putting hormonally fuelled teenagers together, and making a child you plan to ''delete'' in a couple of months, [[Sarcasm Mode|isn't morally wrong. At all.]]
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* Harry and/or Hermione go to Australia to retrieve Hermione's memory-wiped parents and complications arise.
* No one starts Hogwarts at the age of eleven anymore. Instead, original characters seem to stop by Hogwarts just for their final year so they'll be old enough for teen romances (and, presumably, so they'll be closer in age to the author). Sometimes there is a [[Hand Wave]], often along the lines of [[Always Female|she]] already [[Mary Sue|knows everything she needs to]].
* Usually set post-''
** The same basic "Summer of Love after Fifth Year" theme is done quite frequently, with almost every thinkable female character from the series: Ginny, Tonks, Susan Bones, ...
*** And in the case of Tonks, she is usually assigned to be a guard near Harry's house (mainly as an excuse by the author to have her there) and quickly grows sympathetic to his guilt and sadness over Sirius's death. Within the two months before going back to begin his sixth year, they'll have completely fallen in love. The fact that she is six or seven years older than him at this point is often (understandably) brought up by everyone, that is if Harry and Tonks aren't seeing each other in secret.
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* Matchmaker!Dumbledore. Wise, old Dumbledore understands how right the author's [[One True Pairing]] is and becomes a [[Shipper on Deck]], dropping irrelevant concerns like killing Voldemort. After all, if ''Dumbledore'' says Draco and Ginny should be together, then obviously it ''must'' be true, right? Naturally, never combined with Manipulative!Dumbledore because manipulation which brings about the author's OTP is obviously good. Often leads to the "Head Boy and Girl's private quarters" plot.
* In "Sirius lives/is saved" fics, he and Harry will almost certainly team up to become [[Gentleman Thief|gentlemen thieves]] who [[Just Like Robin Hood|steal from the Death Eaters and purity-obsessed families]] to better the wizarding world... and go from [[Blue Blood|wealthy]] to [[More X Than God|more money than a god.]] Often combined with the Harem fics.
* During the Three Year Summer, it was common to see Arabella Figg turn up as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher, typically with a portrayal as the most badass [[Cool Old Lady]] ever. After ''
* There's a sect of uber-powerful magical people who basically are to wizards what wizards are to [[Muggles]]. They're called Magids in ''[[The Draco Trilogy]]'', the Strega in ''[[Pawn to Queen]]'', and the Druids in ''[[The Girl Who Lived]]'', but it's all the same basic idea. The Strega and the Druids are especially similar, sharing [[Can't Argue with Elves]] and [[Author Filibuster]] tendencies.
** In a growing number of fics, these uber-wizards are the witches and warlocks of ''[[Bewitched]]''. If the story features a Manipulative!Dumbledore, expect him to ''still'' think he can outmaneuver and out-think immortal godlike magic-users who've seen ''generations'' of his kind come and go.
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