Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

==== 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.

==== Blaise Zabini ====

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

* [[Magnificent Bastard]]

* [[Wild Card]]

==== 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.

* [[Overshadowed By Awesome]]: After Snape's apology speech...

{{quote| At the Gryffindor table, where a cake waited with fifty-one unlit candles, Fred whispered, "I think we may be out of our league here, George."<ref>each candle was for one point Harry managed to lose during his first Potions lesson.</ref>}}

* [[Shell Shocked Senior]]

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

 

=== Minerva McGonagall ===

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

* {{spoiler|[[Nineties Anti Hero]]}}: {{spoiler|What little we know of his "hero" days indicate that he was this type of hero.}}

* [[Retired Badass]]

* [[Retired Monster]]

* {{spoiler|[[Self Made Orphan]]}}

* [[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.

* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Harry uses his (probably false) claim that he was placed under the imperius curse by Voldemort to insist on a blood debt from House Malfoy in return for killing Voldemort and "freeing" him.}}

* [[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

* [[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