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** In one scene, Neville and several characters use a National Express East Coast train as part of a journey to Gretna Green. In 1997/98, the route from King's Cross to the North was controlled by Great North Eastern Railway...and the far more convenient way to get to Gretna Green by train is via the line from Euston to Carlisle.
* [[Artistic License Medicine]]: The blood transfusion in [http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4315906/10/Dumbledores_Army_and_the_Year_of_Darkness Chapter 10 of DAYD], done without any attempt at cross-matching bloodtypes, and with two people donating blood, was quite risky, with about a 35% chance Colin would '''die''' from bloodtype incompatibility <ref> The commonest blood type in the British Isles is O, which can donate to anybody, followed closely in England by A (not so closely in Scotland, which averages 51% O to England's 47%). Ernie is Scots and Neville, as a Yorkshireman, is from the north of England, meaning that there's a good chance one or both of them are Type O. (There's also a 3% chance that Colin is Type AB, which can receive from anybody.) The Rh factor seldom causes problems unless an Rh- recipient has been previously sensitized by an incorrectly cross-matched transfusion or by an Rh+ pregnancy (neither of which applies to Colin). These odds help explain why early blood transfusion experiments were successful up to about half the time, with very primitive techniques and no real knowledge of what they were doing. We should note by this point that none of these characters have any medical (or indeed, biological) training</ref>.
* [[Ascended Fanboy]]: Colin, an out-and-out [[Pop
* [[Becoming the Mask]]: From the perspective of Hogwarts students in 1997-8, there's no real difference between Severus Snape pretending to be evil so as not to make Voldemort suspicious, and Snape ''actually'' being evil.
* [[Big Damn Heroes]]: {{spoiler|Colin and the younger students}} have one of these, [[Reality Ensues|though it]] [[Killed Off for Real|doesn't end well]].
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** The Death Eaters respond to the the students rebelling by inviting Hans Belsen (a cross between Mengele and Tomás de Torquemada) to make an example out of a few students.
* [[Evil Teacher]]: Oh, god. Snape and the Carrow siblings.
* [[Fake
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Neville
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* [[Real Person Cameo]]: Natalie McDonald, a real girl that Rowling cameo'd in ''[[Goblet of Fire]]''. So, basically, she is here as a cameo of a cameo.
* [[Reality Ensues]]: Let's face it--those kids never really stood a chance of doing anything but keeping the Death Eaters busy while Harry dealt with Voldemort. Teenagers against adults who have spent the better parts of their lives learning to use magic ''designed'' to inflict pain, suffering, and death? The D.A. is lucky they lasted as long as they did.
* [["Take That!" Kiss]]: {{spoiler|Neville}} to {{spoiler|Draco}}
* [[Token Evil Teammate]]: Malcolm Braddock, Renny's Slytherin friend; his only reason for joining Neville was that he is a student of history and understands that Voldemort can't win in the long run.
* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: {{spoiler|Neville, and all the kids in the DA by the end of the book.}}
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* [[War Is Hell]]: The main message of the story.
* [[Wartime Wedding]]: Susan and Ernie. It's also part of Professor McGonagall's backstory (DAYDverse only).
* [[You Don't Want to Die A Virgin, Do You?]]: It was noted that both times when Voldemort was in power, nearly half of the Hogwarts graduates got married as soon as they left the school (indeed, some got married before).
=== Tropes applying specifically to ''Sluagh'': ===
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