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=== Specific Tropes ===
* [[Breakthrough Hit]]: Immediately after the release of the first book, everyone knew about [[J. K. Rowling]].
* [[Fan Nickname]]: Plenty, but in particular the group of Harry, Ron, and Hermione is often referred to as the Golden Trio
** Voldemort also has plenty of variations on his name - Voldy, Voldypants, Moldywarts, Voldyshorts - to the point where Peeves actually uses "Voldy" in the last book.
** The quill that Umbridge made Harry write with in detention in ''Order of the Phoenix'' lacks an official name (because it was a unique creation of Umbridge's), but is almost universally referred to as a "blood quill".
* [[Jossed]]: Blaise Zabini, first named in [[Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone|the first book]] and a popular [[OC Stand-In]], gets his first proper introduction in [[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|the sixth]]. Fans who had written Blaise as white or female were outraged that he turned out to be a black male.▼
** Some fans jokingly use [[Spoonerism|"Half-Prude Blintz"]] for ''Half-Blood Prince".
** A lot of fanfics ended up being victimized when it turned out Ginny was not a shorthand for "Virginia" but "Ginevra". Which could have been seen coming, considering that Ginevra is a British name (and an old one at that, as is popular among wizards) while Virginia is mostly an American one besides people like [[Virginia Woolf]].▼
▲* [[Jossed]]: Blaise Zabini, first named in [[Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone|the first book]] and a popular [[OC Stand-In]], gets his first proper introduction in [[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince|the sixth]]. Fans who had written Blaise as white and/or female were outraged that he turned out to be a black male.
* [[What Could Have Been]]: Rowling was asked permission to make a Harry Potter musical ''[http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/show/3809 by Michael Jackson!]'' Sadly, she turned him down. Rowling has always fought to keep Harry Potter as British as possible.▼
▲** A lot of fanfics ended up being
* [[Word of God]]: Quite prevalent as Rowling gives a lot of extra information through interviews. Also, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120222045838/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq.cfm FAQ] she keeps on her personal website.▼
▲* [[What Could Have Been]]: Rowling was asked permission to make a Harry Potter musical ''[http://www.mugglenet.com/app/news/show/3809 by Michael Jackson!]'' Sadly, she turned him down. Rowling has always fought to keep ''Harry Potter'' as British as possible.
▲* [[Word of God]]: Quite prevalent as Rowling gives a lot of extra information through interviews. Also, the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120222045838/http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/faq.cfm FAQ] she keeps on her
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