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== Students ==

=== Ravenclaw ===

 

* [[Badass Boast]]: {{spoiler|What kills darklords, terrifies Dementors and owes you sixty thousand galleons?}}

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: as befits a wizard.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Harry is not very patient with what he perceives as stupidity, and will violently mock it, especially if it gets people hurt.

* [[Determinator]]: Heroic responsibility means you have to get the job done ''no matter what''.

* [[Ditzy Genius]]: Deconstructed. He doesn't understand normal people very well, and has almost zero common sense. He tries to compensate for it with intelligence, but it doesn't always cut it. When you are a hero with ambitious plans to change the world, this is a ''huge'' liability.

* [[Encyclopaedic Knowledge]]: His (foster) father was an Oxford professor, his house is full of books, he is intensely curious and has the intelligence to assimilate the knowledge. Do the math.

* [[Genre Savvy]]: When Harry hears {{spoiler|[[Call to Adventure|"Ssalutations from Sslytherin to Sslytherin: if you would sseek my ssecretss, sspeak to my ssnake." when the Sorting Hat calls out Slytherin]]}}, Harry is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to know to tell McGonagall about it.

* [[Guile Hero]]/Magnificent Bastard: The goals of a guile hero, the tactics of a magnificent bastard.

* [[Mad Scientist]]: Harry — yer a wizard. Who knows Muggle science, and ain't afraid to use it. We are doomed.

* [[Memetic Badass]]:

* [[Overly Long Name]]

* [[Patrick Stewart Speech]]: Uses them, most notably, as a prelude to invoke his Patronus. He's ''good'' at those.

* [[Sore Loser]]: First thing he thinks of after being shown up by Snape? ''How to destroy the potions professor.''

* [[Spoiled Brat]]: More like homeschooled, but yeah, his parents were very doting.

* [[Sufficiently Analyzed Magic]]: Harry tries to achieve this, but Magic in the Potterverse acts according to [[Discworld|narrativium]] and [[Rule of Funny]], which makes no logical sense. He won't let that get him down, though.

* [[Young Conqueror]]: Tries to be. Quirrell is trying to groom him into the darker sort.

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Badass Bookworm]]

* [[Child Prodigy]]

* [[Friendly Rival]]: She and Harry have a bit of competition going on about who can earn more House Points and do better in class (hint: she tends to win), and this escalates even more when they're both generals of their student armies.

* [[Foe Yay]]: With {{spoiler|Harry.}}

* [[The Leader]]: Type 2.

 

==== Antony Goldstein ====

==== Draco Malfoy ====

* {{spoiler|[[A Father to His Men]]}}: Strange as it may seem he actually manages to become this.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Evil Chancellor]]: His family's dynasty basically revolves around this.

* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Girl]]. At least she thinks of herself that way.

** Only up to a point:

"I don't think that's what she means," General Granger murmured from Lavender's own left. }}

* [[Foe Yay]]: {{spoiler|with Neville}}.

==== Blaise Zabini ====

* {{spoiler|[[Double Reverse Quadruple Agent]]: '''[[Up to Eleven|quintuple]]''', even. In a battle between only '''three''' armies.}}

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]

* [[Wild Card]]

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: He is one of {{spoiler|the generals of Hermione's army and has a battle with Neville}} but is ultimately a minor character in this series.

* [[Ron the Death Eater]]: Inverted. He's treated completely in character... in a series where everyone else is OOC.

 

==== Fred and George Weasley ====

* [[Crazy Awesome]]: Manage to royally screw over Rita Skeeter by forging a betrothal contract between Harry and Ginny, manufacturing a ''lot'' of evidence that ''should'' have been impossible to forge, and did it all in a time frame of less than twelve hours and on a budget of forty galleons.

* [[Trickster Twins]]

 

* [[Shell Shocked Senior]]

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Used to believe this.

 

=== Minerva McGonagall ===

* [[Animorphism]]

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

 

=== Severus Snape ===

* [[Immortality Seeker]]

* [[It Was His Sled]]: {{spoiler|Quirrelmort.}}

* [[Retired Badass]]

* [[Retired Monster]]

* [[You Are Too Late]]:{{spoiler|[[Just Between You and Me|Harry, my horcrux is in space!]]}}

** [[Crazy Prepared]]: The steps taken by Quirrel to protect his plans led to the Space-Time Continuum telling Dumbledore that he was Too Late.

* [[Evil Chancellor]]: To Fudge, somewhat subverted as by most measures that actually matter, Lucius is more powerful than Fudge in his own right.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]

* [[Kick the Dog]]: Oh yeah.

* {{spoiler|[[Would Hurt a Child]]}}

 

** Chapter 78: {{spoiler|His army finally achieved a victory against Chaos and Sunshine, even managing to disabling Chaos's trump card against them. However, for Draco, [[Bittersweet Ending|being defeated by Hermione during the battle spoils everything]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Enemy Mine]]}}:{{spoiler|With Sunshine}}

** [[The Big Bad]]: Draco

** [[The Dragon]]: Padma Patil

** [[The Brute]]: Crabbe and Goyle, though they aren't stupid or unskilled in this fic.

** [[The Evil Genius]] and [[The Sixth Ranger]]: {{spoiler|Dean Thomas}}.

* [[You Are in Command Now]]: Padma Patil has twice taken command of Dragon when Draco was taken down.

 

* [[Crazy Awesome]]

* [[Doomy Dooms of Doom]]: Their theme song consists of nothing but the word Doom repeated over and over again to the tune of the Imperial Death March from [[Star Wars]].

** [[The Big Bad]]: Harry/ General Chaos

** [[The Dragon]]: Neville of Chaos

* [[Obviously Evil]]: Rigorously enforced by General Chaos, just for Lulz.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Seamus says that when you first join the chaos legion it seems like everyone in it is insane, then after a while you realize everyone else is insane.

 

=== The Sunshine Regiment ===

* {{spoiler|[[Enemy Mine]]}}: {{spoiler|With Dragon}}

* [[The Hero]]: Hermione Granger.

* [[Tastes Like Diabetes]]