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* [[Adults Are Useless]]: The adults are more useless than usual, but mainly because they don't have knowledge from the future. Harry does sometimes get them involved on purpose when they can help, such as going straight to Dumbledore when Hagrid gets Norbert.

* [[Blatant Lies]]: Used by Harry when a [[Sarcastic Confession]] just won't cut it.

** Subverted in one instance:

** "How do you know that?" "My psychic scar told me."

** Also, this exchange:

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: {{spoiler|When Pettigrew is caught, Luna pulls out a animagus-proof jar that her father had her carry around in case she ever ran across an illegal animagus she wanted to capture}}.

* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: {{spoiler|Luna is the only person to figure out Harry and Sirius time-traveled. It seemed obvious to her}}. Harry comes off like this to others, as most things he says are bat-shit insane, but slowly people realize that the more over-the-top Harry's predictions are, the more accurate he gets.

{{quote| '''Lockhart:''' CAN you beat someone to death with a paper napkin?<br />

'''Harry:''' *shrugs* I'll have fun trying. }}

* [[Cute Clumsy Girl]]: Harry gets Tonks an anti-clumsiness ring to help with her Auror training, but figures she'll only wear it for work, suspecting that she likes to be klutzy.

* [[Deathbringer the Adorable]]: Averted, much to Harry's dislike. In the original timeline, he and Ginny got a rabbit, and she refused to accept his name suggestion of "Mega Ultra Flame Deathsman", instead going with a more standard "Flopsy".

* [[Deconstruction Fic]]: An affectionate, [[Deconstructive Parody]] using the [[Peggy Sue]] framework. Lampshades hung, inconsistencies trounced flat, and characters attacked at angles that reveal new aspects. And it has a ball doing it.

* [[Fantastic Racism]]: Parodied. Luna asks Snape if he is a Living-ist, or someone who judges based on whether or not a person is dead or alive.

** At one point, it's shown that even the Weasleys aren't completely immune to the Pureblood mentality when Ron mentions they never talk about their second cousin who's a Squib (and an accountant). Harry notes that it's to Ron's credit that he doesn't grasp ''why'' the cousin is an outcast and that he's invoking this trope unintentionally.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Lockhart is still incompetent as a teacher, but Harry admits he's a genius when it comes to anything dealing with the media.

* [[Good Thing You Can Heal]]: Or at least, Good Thing You Can Get Healed.

{{quote| '''Sphinx:''' Right. Do not worry, though, as I am not permitted to kill you. That said, healers can work all sorts of miracles these days.}}

* [[Hand Wave]]: How Harry goes back in time is barely explained and goes against canon, but the setup barely matters.

* [[Hard Work Hardly Works]]: Draco points out that Hufflepuff never comes out ahead ''because'' working hard is such an ingrained, defining trait of theirs. “What are they going to do? Do exactly what they're supposed to do MORE?"

* [[It Amused Me]]: Much of what Harry does is to avoid the crap that's going to happen, but most of it he does for the hell of it. The main reason he doesn't tell everybody his actual age is that then everyone will then expect him to act like it.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: {{spoiler|Lucius gets away with everything he does. Again}}.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: The story is practically made of them.

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: In Harry's fourth year, he was supposed to work with antidotes and "turned in a bezoar again".

{{quote| '''Harry:''' It's kind of expensive, but the look on his face and the fact that he can't technically fail me because the assignment was to find a way to save someone from the various poisons makes it all worth it.}}

* [[Muggles Do It Better]]: An example appears to explain why Theodore, a Slytherin, is in Muggle Studies. When asked why he was there, Theodore noted that his father learned the hard-way that Muggles weren't as harmless as he thought after being shot on a trip to Las Vegas, and wanted his son to learn as much about Muggles as possible.

** There is also why some students begin to use pens instead of quills and notebook paper instead of parchment.

* [[Paranoia Gambit]]:

{{quote| ''' {{spoiler|Sirius}}:''' It's going to take every ounce of my considerable self-control, but I want to wait until [Snape's] so paranoid he can't sleep before I start in on him.}}

'''Harry:''' She lets you call her [[Embarrassing First Name|Nymphadora]]. }}

* [[Shout-Out]]:

** Moody mentions The Dark Side, unintentionally referencing ''[[Star Wars]]'' to Harry's amusement.

** Harry tries to convince Cedric that [[Peanuts|the Great Pumpkin is real]].

** Harry {{spoiler|and Sirius}} quote lines from ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''.

** At one point, Draco smiles, and Harry narrates:

** At one point, Snape lampshades this trope.

{{quote| '''Snape:''' POTTER! Enough about your mythological creatures and your obscure Muggle literature!}}

'''Harry:''' Why in the world are they wearing their Quidditch robes to practice in? That has got to be the stupidest thing I've seen all day.<br />

'''Fred:''' All day isn't very long, Harry. It can't be more than ten. }}

{{quote| ''' {{spoiler|Sirius:}}''' Top box. It was part of my reparation. Of course, the rest of it went to buying Harry a Firebolt but...<br />

'''Harry:''' You don't mind because {{spoiler|I'm your godson}} and you love me?<br />

''' {{spoiler|Sirius:}}''' ...Let's go with that, sure. }}

** "Harry, you've predicted 'I will be besieged by the general stupidity of the population' three times this month!" "Only three times? Looks like it's going to be a good month then."

* [[Trickster Archetype]]: The first thing Harry does when meeting the Weasley twins (again) is trick them into starting a rumor, stunning them and Ron. He later encourages others to try to lose the House Cup, calling it a "Suck-up" Cup. Then there's, well, everything else he does...