The Girl Who Loved

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No pizza for dead Usagi.

The Girl Who Loved and its sequel Violence Inherent in the System by "Darth Drafter" comprise a single large Mega Crossover fanfic blending Harry Potter, Sailor Moon and Ranma ½. A month after the death of Sirius Black at the Ministry, Albus Dumbledore solemnly informs Harry Potter that he is to learn to embrace the Power of Love in order to defeat Voldemort -- by becoming the submissive partner in an arranged marriage with Professor Snape, who will brew a potion making it possible for Harry to become pregnant.

Upon hearing this, Harry spontaneously apparates to China.

Unfortunately, random chance -- or perhaps fate -- sends him to the valley of Jusenkyo. Materializing several yards in the air, he plunges into a pool -- one which had been templated less than a year before on a Japanese girl who had also abruptly appeared out of thin air as well -- one Usagi Tsukino, in her identity as Sailor Moon.

And thus does Harry's new destiny begin. At Jusenkyo he befriends a twenty-something Ranma Saotome and discovers he not only has Usagi's looks, but her power as Sailor Moon as well. What's more, Usagi's spirit has awakened from the spring and is now quite active and aware -- and capable of borrowing his body. Intent on returning to England, Harry departs westward, accompanied by Usagi, until Sailor Pluto intercepts him in the Himalayas and brings him to Tokyo. There he meets and befriends the rest of the Sailor Senshi, including a little pink-haired girl he nicknames "Cuteness" -- who, to his surprise, reveals that she is his daughter by Usagi, from the distant future.

His discoveries and experiences in Tokyo utterly transform Harry from a boy desperately trying to escape a life of pain and abuse to a young man intent on forging a destiny he desires with the girl he has come to love at his side (even if she's a ghost) and a super-powered army at his back. And once they arrive in England, Wizarding Britain will never be the same again.

And neither will the rest of the world.

The Girl Who Loved is a well-written fanfic of both epic size and scope. Although it initially gives every impression of a Crack Fic grown out-of-control, by the end it's obvious that it was very carefully (and intricately) planned and plotted, with Foreshadowing and Chekhov's Guns planted as early as the first chapter of its first part for payout in the final chapter of the second. It successfully tells a serious story using a Lemony Narrator whose voice and attitude toward the story are anything but serious, yet somehow manages to carry off moments both dark and awesome from start to finish. It skillfully blends magic, martial arts and magical girls to produce a coherent whole which carries the reader along a plot that constantly toys with you, hinting at something expected before producing something else entirely and ambushing you with the unexpected, the hilarious, and the awesome. (And sometimes all three at once.)

The two parts of the story can be found at Fanfiction.net:

Be warned: Parts of the story approach NSFW, as Harry and Usagi's sex lives with each other and their dearest friends are a major B-plot, but with one notable exception, no actual encounters are shown "on-screen" (although their lead-ups and/or aftermaths are), and the exception is clearly marked and delineated for those wishing to bypass it. Other than that, the various omake come closer to NSFW content than the story proper.

Not to be confused with The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King, The Girl Who Loved the Wind by Jane Yolen, or The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses by Paul Goble, among many other works about girls who loved things. Nor is it to be confused with The Girl Who Lived.

WARNING! There are unmarked Spoilers ahead. Beware.

As a Mega Crossover fanfic, The Girl Who Loved incorporates elements from the following works:

Minor crossover elements are provided by

Tropes used in The Girl Who Loved include:
  • Accidental Marriage: Harry and Usagi discover that, under Goblin (and thus, sort of, Wizarding) law, they have been married ever since Harry kissed the time-traveling Usagi at his Wizengamot trial. Neither of them is upset by this, and in fact take every advantage of it they can.
  • Accidental Public Confession: During the ambush Dumbledore sets up in Hogsmeade for "The Goddess of Diagon Alley", Snape is so consumed by his anger and hatred that he makes the mistake of announcing in front of witnesses that he intends to torture and rape both Harry and "Heather Snape", even though the latter is presumed (falsely) to be his own daughter.
  • All Girls Like Ponies: After Pluto describes the benefits of economic warfare to Harry, and the profits (both military and economic) that can be reaped by taking your enemies' stuff away from them, Cuteness turns to Harry and asks if she can have all the bad guys' ponies.
  • All Guys Want Cheerleaders: At least once they know what cheerleaders are -- when Hermione and Usagi help establish the Gryffindor cheerleader squad, the narrative voice notes that they had given Playwizard magazine an entirely new fetish to cater to.
  • All Men Are Rapists: Implied and expected to be true of the men of the Musk by Ranma (and the Amazons), presumably because they are all effectively Half-Human Hybrids and instinct trumps orders and intelligence for them. When their prince, Herb, is turned into a Bunny Girl, Ranma calmly informs Harry that Herb will now register as "prey" to his (now her) subordinates and implies that she is likely to be gang-raped as a result. It's unknown whether this actually happened, but it would go a long way to explaining just how hostile Herb is when he reappears in Violence Inherent in the System.
  • Alternate Timeline:
    • Explicitly acknowledged In-Universe as a (recent and unexpected) divergence from the canon Sailor Moon timeline, and still in minor flux. Setsuna (with her Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory) occasionally compares the "old" and "new" timelines, and still gets surprised by minor variations in the new one when they occur.
    • And at one point Setsuna took advantage of the acknowledged state of flux to prank Usagi by waking her up and asking if she was excited about her wedding that afternoon to Ron Weasley.
    • In a less cheery example, at Usagi and Harry's insistence Pluto recounts the bleak events of the (short-lived) timeline that briefly resulted in Chibi-Usa being the daughter of Usagi and Ranma.
  • And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Invoked and averted when Ranma volunteers to break the news of his Jusenkyo curse to Harry: "Been there, done that. No T-shirts on sale to show for it."
  • An Arm and a Leg: Snape loses a foot to one of Rei's attacks during the fight he triggers the first time he and Dumbledore encounter the Senshi.
  • Arranged Marriage: The event which sets the plot in motion is Dumbledore's plan to set up a betrothal contract between Harry and Snape. Even after Harry apparates away, Dumbledore attempts to forge Harry's signature on such a contract.
    • On his return to England from Tokyo, Harry proposes to ghost!Usagi in Gringotts and they sign a betrothal contract there (technically arranging their marriage) -- he as "Lord Potter", and she as "Crown Princess Usagi Serenity of the Royal House of the Moon". Also very much a case of Perfectly Arranged Marriage.
  • Ass Shove: Harry's immediate suspicion when Usagi pulls out the Kaleidomoon Scope while naked in the bath. He doesn't want to know where it came from, and makes a mental note to sniff it the next time Usagi hands it to him.
  • Awesome Moment of Crowning: Although a physical crown is not involved at all, the moment where as the capstone to Harry and Usagi's public wedding Sailor Pluto proclaims that in accordance with the wishes of her mother, Queen Serenity of the Silver Millennium, Usagi is now officially Her Royal Majesty Serenity II, Queen of the Moon. Every Magical Girl in Japan kneels to her, as do the thousands of other attendees. And then Usagi declares Harry her king, dubbing him so with the Sword of Gryffindor.
  • Back from the Dead: Usagi, eventually. Along with Moaning Myrtle, she is resurrected as a side effect of Senshi!Harry thwarting an assassination attempt by Draco Malfoy.
    • In the far future, Usagi and Cuteness combine their powers to resurrect a dead-but-present Harry.
  • Bag of Holding: Cuteness's picnic basket, as Nabiki numbly notes during their first conversation.
  • Battle Harem/Supporting Harem: Usagi and the Senshi, to Harry. Unlike the usual way these things go, Usagi -- who is very firmly in the Love Interest seat -- has absolutely no problem sharing him with any of the others who are interested, even after she's Back from the Dead.
    • Hermione eventually joins the harem, as does, in the final Flash Forward, Mary Riddle.
  • BDSM: Kodachi is sent by Sailor Pluto to an S&M club where she "finds her calling".
  • Because Destiny Says So:
    • Why Pluto banishes first Draco and then Bellatrix to Nemesis: "The timeline must be maintained."
    • Ron's reaction upon learning that Cuteness is Harry and Usagi's daughter from the future is based on this. He argues that she's proof Harry ultimately wins and Voldemort is defeated, because they would never bring a child into the world if Voldemort were still around to threaten them.
  • Bi the Way:
    • Usagi makes no bones about being interested in girls as much as guys.
    • Rei is either bi or regards Usagi as If It's You It's Okay, although Ami privately speculates that she's lesbian at one point.
    • Similarly, Mina is either bi or just has no problems having sex with a boy in a girl's body.
    • Dumbledore (at least while he's continuously high on the potions in his lemon drops) has no problems with sexually assaulting female students using polyjuice and obliviation, while at the same time finding Snape (of all people) attractive.
  • Big Creepy-Crawlies: When caught in the line for Harry and Usagi's wedding, Mary Riddle enlarges a line of ants and sets them on Ranma.
  • The Big Damn Kiss:
    • Hermione plants one on Harry the first time she sees him after his return from China and Japan.
    • And Usagi plants one on Harry moments after her resurrection.
  • Blind Date: Pluto arranges one for Hermione for the Valentine's Day Ball at Hogwarts. Hermione is anything but disappointed when it turns out to be Prince William.
  • Blind Jump: At the start of the story, an emotionally-distraught and highly-desperate Harry manages to apparate to China despite never having even seen a picture of the area.
  • Blood-Splattered Wedding Dress: Usagi's wedding dress is blood-stained after Voldemort is defeated -- but the trope is actually averted because it became so when Usagi used it to tend to someone who was wounded in the process of winning the fight and their happy ending. And somewhere along the line it was magically cleaned, as it doesn't remain blood-stained.
  • Bonus Material: Starting early in The Girl Who Loved Darth Drafter begins adding the occasional Omake scene to the end of some chapters. These are almost always borderline-Lemon material that didn't "really" take place in the story. Interestingly, one such scene from near the end of The Girl Who Loved almost immediately got "promoted" to actually being part of the official plot, even though it was never transplanted into the body of a chapter proper.
  • Bow Chicka Wow Wow: Said by a Gryffindor boy after Harry drags Hermione (transformed into Lara Croft by the Luna Disguise Pen) into a short conference during the middle of a class. The narrative voice indulges, too.
  • Boy Meets Ghoul:
    • Harry and ghost!Usagi fall in love, and Usagi even figures out how to have something like sex with him. She only avoids making an enemy of Moaning Myrtle (who canonically is interested in Harry) by setting her up with Colin Creevey and sharing how to have a (meta)physical relationship with him.
    • Inverted for several centuries in the future, when Harry's the ghost and Usagi's alive.
  • Boy Watching: In the distant future, when they're both functionally teen-aged, Cuteness and Tsunami go cruising the Gamma Quadrant together, checking out hot humanoid guys.
  • Brain Bleach: Ghost!Usagi, upon briefly thinking how hot her body looks on Harry, equates it to perving on your twin and wonders if ghosts could use brain bleach. (Later she's far less concerned about it.)
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Herb with the submission collar.
  • Brown Note: Some of the pressure points Shampoo inflicts on Draco act permanently in this way.
  • Bunny Girl:
    • Herb is turned into one when Usagi blasts him across Jusenkyo and into the Pool of Drowned Rabbit, which combines additively with his existing girl curse. This gets him out of Harry and Ranma's hair for a while, but makes him vulnerable later to Voldemort.
    • Later, the Amazons use a carefully-measured mixture of Drowned Girl and Drowned Rabbit water to curse Lucius Malfoy and another Death Eater to make it easier to interrogate them before their (off-screen) execution.
  • But Now I Must Go: After the wedding and the redemption/acceptance of Mary Riddle, Cuteness reluctantly tells Harry and Usagi that she has to return to the future, right now. Pluto concurs, listing the tasks she had to complete and the lessons she had to learn. Unlike other times, though, Cuteness makes a spectacle of it, announcing her true identity to everyone at the wedding and returning to the future through a time door manifested in full view of all the attendees.
  • Butterfly of Doom: Sailor Pluto is expecting this trope to be in play as a result of Usagi's death, but when she finally gets up the courage to look at the "new" future she is utterly dumbstruck to discover that a Crystal Tokyo ruled by Neo-Queen Serenity is still going to happen.
  • Captain Obvious: Shampoo saying "I think Ranma broke the rock!" immediately after an explosion that sounds barely sub-nuclear in power.
  • Cassandra Truth: Invoked. After she learns that Cuteness is Harry's daughter, Luna Lovegood offers to make use of her reputation and announce it loudly in the Great Hall so no one will ever believe it.
  • The Cheerleader: Averted with the Gryffindor cheer squad established by Hermione and ghost!Usagi. It's made up of some of the canonically nicer girls from not only Gryffindor but also Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.
  • Chick Magnet: Harry finds he has this effect, especially on the Inner Senshi.
  • Chunky Updraft: Wizards see one for the first time in the build-up to a Sailor Teleport from Hogwarts.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Ginny Weasley. She doesn't care about Harry's feelings for Usagi, their betrothal, or Destiny -- Harry is exclusively hers, dammit, and he'd better admit it if he knows what's good for him. And if he won't, she'll damned well make him, and whether it's done with emotional blackmail or the Weasley family love potion recipe doesn't matter much to her. If Harry's not attracted to her, it's his fault, and he'd better fix that now. Her poorly-hidden hostility toward Usagi and the Senshi (and, really, any other girl closer to Harry than she is) is why she's not part of Harry's Supporting Harem. Averted, finally, when Ginny gives up on Harry and uses the family love potion to redirect her feelings to Neville.
  • Cold Iron: Once she's defeated, Mary Riddle is brought before the new King and Queen in manacles that are explicitly described as "cold iron".
  • Covered with Scars: Both Ranma and Harry have enough scars documenting their Hilariously Abusive Childhoods that as a way to get to know each other they spend a day comparing scars and recounting the stories behind them.
  • Covert Pervert:
    • Usagi, who is 18 and not a virgin when she dies, makes no bones about enjoying Harry's shower time.
    • Ami (it is implied).
    • And Queen Serenity, whose ghost makes it clear to Harry that she plans on watching him impregnate her daughter for the second time.
  • Crack Fic: Shows every sign of having started as one, and despite turning into a serious story with a complex and interesting plot never entirely lets go of being one.
  • Crossover Ship: If you hadn't noticed yet, this fic pairs Harry Potter and Sailor Moon.
  • Curb Stomp Battle:
    • The Senshi (plus Harry) handily take down Snape and Dumbledore the first time they come face-to-face. Snape falls (and loses a foot) in twenty seconds; it takes another forty seconds to drop Dumbledore.
    • Harry and Ranma vs. Draco and the Slytherins who took over Astoria's plan to "capture" Harry.
  • Cute Ghost Girl: Usagi, at least until her resurrection.
    • Likewise Myrtle, at least as far as Colin's concerned.
  • Dark Magical Girl: Bellatrix as the product of Voldemort and Rookwood's attempt to create a Senshi. She ends up one of the progenitors of the Dark Moon Family.
  • Dead Person Conversation: Well, when the female lead of the story is a ghost, it's kind of necessary.
    • While Severus is in a coma from being at ground zero for Harry's "white magic nuke" at the end of The Girl Who Loved, he spends the entire time in a long conversation with the image of Lily as a child. He doesn't think she's anything more than a construct of his own mind, but the story coyly doesn't actually say one way or the other.
  • Deader Than Dead: Nearly-Headless Nick and Peeves are destroyed by the "death stone" sent to Draco by Voldemort as a tool to assassinate ghost!Usagi.
  • Delayed Ripple Effect:
    • Played straight when Draco makes his assassination attempt: Cuteness begins fading out of the timeline.
    • And then averted when Herb attacks Hogwarts: Cuteness immediately becomes Ranma's daughter instead of Harry's, alerting the Senshi in Tokyo that Harry, and the timeline, are in serious danger.
  • Disney Princess: When Harry compares her to "Cinderella for the Wizarding World", Usagi briefly imagines herself as a Disney Princess, and wonders if Tokyo Disneyland would throw a parade for her or give the Senshi free passes. They would and do.
  • Disney Theme Parks: As part of the festivities surrounding their wedding, Harry and Usagi, along with the Senshi and nearly a hundred British wizards and witches, all spend a day at Tokyo Disneyland without any secrecy.
  • Distinguishing Mark: Played with. The first time ghost!Usagi possesses Harry (and turns into Sailor Moon) she burns Voldemort's horcrux out of him completely. Harry's distinctive scar immediately begins healing and fading, while Voldemort gets a crescent moon permanently burned into his forehead.
  • Doomy Dooms of Doom: Once Harry and the Greengrass family settle on a scheme to make it look like their assumption of his guardianship is in fact an evil plan, Astoria Greengrass (whose suggestion for the actual scheme was chosen) mock-gloats, "And that's how I'll lure the Golden Boy of Gryffindor to his doooooom!" Yes, with six "o"s.
  • Double Entendre:
    • Minako makes a few about Harry's wand and magic.
    • And Luna Lovegood just won't stop.
    • Usagi, once she's resurrected, gets her share in.
    • Even the narrative voice indulges; there's a passage that makes Hermione looking at a chest of Potter family heirlooms sound like she's putting the moves on Harry.
  • Dressing as the Enemy/False-Flag Operation: At some point in the far future Harry, Mary, and a teenaged Cuteness turn out to be time-traveling to the past to play the roles of Wiseman, Esmeraude and Black Lady to keep the conflict with the Black Moon Clan from being as bloody as it could have been -- by making the entire conflict fake.
  • Early Installment Weirdness: Started out as a Crack Fic, and while it never lost some of its cracky nature it eventually became a more serious story.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Harry and Usagi go through all manner of hell just to get to their wedding... and even then it isn't entirely happily-ever-after.
  • Emotion Bomb: While the "white magic nuke" is primarily a healing/purifying effect, there's a bit of this involved as well given its basis in love.
  • The European Carry All: Invoked. To carry everything to his first meeting with the Inner Senshi, Setsuna gives Harry "a stylish travel bag" and parenthetically we see Harry's thoughts on that are "not a purse not a purse not a purse".
  • Exact Eavesdropping: With a little technological assistance, Intrepid Reporter Nabiki Tendo and her sound tech record an entire revealing conversation between Sailor Venus and "Teen Witch" -- from 180 meters away and four stories up.
  • Facial Markings: Ghost!Usagi and anyone she possesses displays Sailor Moon's trademark crescent moon on their foreheads.
    • When ghost!Usagi takes over Harry's body for the first time at Jusenkyo, a side effect of the process permanently burns a charred crescent moon into Voldemort's forehead.
  • Fainting:
    • Harry has an Emotional Faint upon seeing ghost!Usagi for the first time -- but the narration, perhaps tongue-in-cheek, compares it to a Corset Faint instead.
    • Much later, Hermione has her own Emotional Faint when she's offered the chance to become Head of Gryffindor House (It Makes Sense in Context).
  • Fairytale Wedding Dress: Usagi gets both the kimono and Western versions of this trope on her Wedding Day.
  • Fanon: Apparently embraces (and often subverts) several common bits of Harry Potter fanon:
    • Manipulative!Dumbledore willing to do anything, however bizarre, for his vision of the "Greater Good" appears to be in play, until it's revealed he's a Functional Addict constantly tripping on a mind-altering combination of potions infused into his lemon drops. Once he goes cold turkey he is much more reasonable (and much closer to the canon Dumbledore).
    • The story also provides a rationale for the fanon Dumbledore who is willing to sacrifice hundreds of innocents in the hopes of redeeming a single Death Eater, based on a non-specific belief in an afterlife that is a reward for one's life. The narration still points out that the involuntary aspect of those innocents' sacrifices rather outweighs Dumbledore's good intentions. Then again, he's semipermanently high on mind-altering potions at this point in the story, with consquently impaired judgment.
    • The story employs the fanon "magical core" conceit, as well as the "swearing on one's magic" device.
    • Ranma expresses the common fanon belief that Jusenkyo curses are karmic, somehow bringing a needed balance to their victims.
  • Final Death: Draco Malfoy, acting on Voldemort's orders, attempts to destroy ghost!Usagi with a shard of stone imbued with the power of Death. He doesn't succeed, although he does destroy Nearly-Headless Nick and Peeves; in fact, his attempt ultimately results in Usagi's resurrection.
  • Flash Forward: We see several to the Crystal Tokyo era throughout the first part of the story. For instance, The Girl Who Loved ends on a scene some thousand years hence when Cuteness and Usagi finally resurrect Harry after his first death. The epilogues are also set in the far future.
  • Foregone Conclusion: Since Cuteness was born in the future to Harry and Usagi, Usagi's eventual return from the dead is obvious... although the specifics are unknown until it actually happens.
  • Foreshadowing: Cleverly and subtly laced through the early parts of The Girl Who Loved for payoff as far away as the end of Violence Inherent in the System.
    • Additionally, Setsuna is prone to doing this In-Universe, dropping hints about future events.
  • From Bad to Worse: The narration characterizes Harry's arrival at Jusenkyo this way.
  • Functional Addict: Throughout the early part of the story Dumbledore is more or less permanently tripping on a near-lethal concoction of various psychoactive potions that he's been adding to his lemon drops for years, which is responsible for his manipulative behavior and bizarre logic and decision-making.
  • Gender Bender:
    • Harry gets a Jusenkyo curse -- from the pool of drowned Usagi. In addition to turning into Usagi, he discovers he can also turn into Sailor Moon.
    • In what he would deny was a last-ditch desperation move, Voldemort goes to Jusenkyo in the hopes of getting the same power-up Harry did -- and instead ends up cursed by the Spring of Drowned Blushing Bride.
  • Goofy Print Underwear: Nabiki -- a professional woman -- wears Hello Kitty panties.
  • Groper Girl:
  • Group Hug: The other Sailor Senshi give Sailor Moon a group hug after her resurrection.
  • Guardian Angel: Luna Lovegood claims to be able to see (and communicate in a limited way) with them. She's allegedly alerted to an attempt to dose Hermione with a love potion by the state of her Guardian Angel. Given what we learn of Luna's abilities in the story, there is a non-zero chance that this is literally true, and not a bizarre metaphor or part of her "Looney" act.
  • Happily Adopted: Myrtle is more than pleased to become Harry's adopted sister.
  • Harem Hero: Harry is a Type 2B, where the girls -- Senshi and not -- are True Companions.
  • Has Two Mommies: Cuteness jokes about it (and uses the trope name word-for-word) during the reveal to Usagi's family.
  • Have You Tried Not Being a Monster?: This is the attitude of Hermione's parents toward her being a witch and embracing magic and the Wizarding world. They see it as a betrayal of her potential to excel as a scholar in the mundane world. It's all but reached a point of Parental Abandonment and I Have No Daughter -- and they're actively hiding the magical world from their (also magical) younger daughter to keep her from turning out to be a disappointment, too.
  • Heel Face Turn:
    • Any Death Eater hit by one of Sailor Moon's healing/purifying attacks. Voldemort attempts to break several out of Azkaban, and they fight back.
    • Ultimately Mary Riddle after she, too, is hit with a Moon Gorgeous Meditation.
  • Hell-Bent for Leather: The domme who finds Kodachi when she's transported to the S&M club.
  • Hero Insurance: Touched on. It turns out that most Tokyo based Supers donate the profits from their toy deals to charity to keep people from coming after them about property damage.
  • High Times Present: Marijuana is in use throughout the Wizarding World; the Longbottoms are known for their particular cultivar (and Lady Longbottom treats her arthritis with it), the Weasleys have a "family blend", and Luna Lovegood's "Looney" persona is heavily reinforced by her use. It's so common that no one even thinks or talks about it, which is why Harry and Hermione go over four years in the Wizarding World before they find out about it.
    • It's also quietly assumed that older witches and wizards might be using stronger substances. Dumbledore in particular goes through most of The Girl Who Loved dosing himself with a potion blend that among other things turns out to have so much hemlock in it that it could kill Hagrid in minutes; it's only because the blend also has phoenix tears in it that Dumbledore's survived taking the stuff for fifty years or more.

Harry suddenly felt the urge to hold his hand to his forehead. "Suddenly the Wizarding World makes sense to me. All of the lawmakers are high."

  • Hoist by His Own Petard: After getting humiliated in battle with the Senshi, Snape is accidentally dosed with the torture potions he brewed for Harry, when Dumbledore mistakes them for the healing potions which Snape had disguised them as.
  • Hold Up Your Score: Cuteness and Lulu do this to rank how good the girls look when dressed up to meet with the Emperor and Empress of Japan.
  • Holy Hand Grenade: The "white magic nuke" Harry unleashes at the end of the second attack in Diagon Alley. Unlike most Holy Hand Grenades, it repairs and heals far more than it destroys, including curing Dumbledore of his Functional Addict status and sending Severus Snape into a coma from which he emerges weeks later as "Snape Lite, now with 80% less bastard".
  • I Broke a Nail: When Ranma's attempt to destroy the "death stone" succeeds in a huge explosion, Sailor Venus lays into him with

"Broke the rock? Broke the rock? You insensitive prick! You broke Scotland! And I broke a nail. When we get back home, it's time for a manicure... and you're paying."

  • I Love the Dead: Invoked by Haruka to tease Rei after a night of passion with Usagi-in-Harry's-body.
  • In Medias Res: Sort of. All of the backstory leading to a Pool of Drowned Usagi at Jusenkyo has already happened as of the start of the story.
  • In the Name of the Moon: Of course the Senshi. However Harry never feels the urge to speechify until he (in girl form) comes face-to-face with Draco Malfoy on the Hogwarts Express at the end of The Girl Who Loved, and then it just bubbles up out of him involuntarily:

"The Hogwarts Express is a place for children to come and dream of a brighter future. There is no room for your corrupted spirit and your message of darkness and hate. You have insulted me. You have insulted my friends. You are a threat to the future of those I love. In the name of Love and Justice, I will punish you!"

  • Instant Fanclub: Exactly how quickly it formed is unclear -- it seems to have happened at least a couple years before the story's timeframe -- but there exists a "Harry James Potter is Dreamy Fan Club" at Hogwarts. Until she potioned herself to fall in love with Neville, Ginny was the "High Priestess" (club president).
  • Intrepid Reporter: Nabiki Tendo.
  • Irony: The resurrection of ghost!Usagi as a direct consequence of Draco's attempt to destroy her at Voldemort's order is a classic example of situational irony.
  • It's Showtime!: The narrative voice says "Showtime" to start the spectacle of Cuteness returning to the future after the wedding.
  • Jumping Out of a Cake: Discussed by Usagi in the context of Harry's bachelor party, and separately by others as well. Luna Lovegood, Makoto, Minako and Hermione (!) all volunteer or consider being the girl in the cake.
    • Evidence later in the story strongly suggests Hermione actually did it.
  • Karmic Transformation: Early on Ranma speculates (as is common in Ranma fanfic) that Jusenkyo gives its victims a curse that "balances" them, pointing to his own youthful misogyny and his girl curse.
    • Harry's "curse" gives him undeniable power, free agency and love, all of which had been denied him his entire life by Dumbledore's machinations.
    • And when Voldemort goes to Jusenkyo, he ends up with a curse from the Spring of Drowned Blushing Bride, which transforms him into a beautiful submissive teenaged girl who's in love with Harry Potter. When he figures this out, he is somewhat less than pleased.
  • King in the Mountain: The Wizarding World's "moon queen"/"moon goddess" myths seem to have a bit of this trope incorporated; Usagi's resurrection leads to her embodying the "return in time of need" aspect.
  • Lemony Narrator: One of the trademarks of the story, the narrative voice is extremely playful, even when it is ostensibly relaying serious thoughts in serious situations. Over the course of the story it calms down a bit, but not a lot.
  • Line-of-Sight Name: Variation: when pressed for "her" name after helping the Senshi defeat a trio of demons at a concert, the only last name Harry can come up with on a moment's notice is "Snape".
  • Loophole Abuse: The mind-controlled Herb takes advantage of ambiguous orders to go on a rampage in Hogwarts, killing everyone he encounters, instead of just Dumbledore as intended.
  • Magical Girl: Three hundred magical girls (other than the Senshi) show up for Harry and Usagi's wedding, including groups who had never been seen in public before.
  • Male Gaze: Enforced In-Universe with the Callipygian Venus charms, which when worn by girls and women force boys and men to stare at their butts. Harry gives the first one he gets to Minako.
  • The Matchmaker: Harry, not entirely willingly.
    • In order to get Myrtle to stop being mad at him for hooking up with Usagi, Harry promises to help find her a boyfriend. (He succeeds -- Colin Creevey is more than happy to have a ghost girlfriend.)
    • He later enlists Lavender Brown to find Ron a girlfriend. (Lavender finds herself.)
  • Me's a Crowd: In a borderline case, a prank played by Harry and Usagi on the Hogwarts Express using brand-new Weasley products results in about two hundred students temporarily turning into their clones -- a hundred each, with no concern about original gender.
  • The Merch: Japanese Supers such as the Senshi routinely have action figures and other toys made of them; these are technically unauthorized, but the supers will endorse the products if profits go to charity as Hero Insurance.
  • Meta Guy: Ranma and Shampoo briefly take this role together as they criticize the rules of Quidditch and highlight many of its absurdities.
  • Metaphorically True: Both Setsuna and Dumbledore engage in this, Setsuna for both the preservation of the timeline and her own amusement, Dumbledore to manipulate people. Harry indulges at times to protect his dual identity and other secrets. A few specific cases:
    • Setsuna's speech to the Japanese press about Teen Witch and Sailor Moon.
    • At Madam Malkin's, Harry describes Cuteness as a nine-year-old she was "related to distantly", mentally footnoting it as "true if you take physical distance into account".
  • Mister Seahorse: The threat of Snape impregnating him prompts a panic-driven accidental apparition by Harry at the start of The Girl Who Loved, setting in action the events of the whole story.
    • Cologne later deconstructs the trope by pointing out how ridiculous (and impossible) it is, both In-Universe and on a meta level.
  • Multinational Team: The security forces protecting Harry and Usagi's wedding are composed of British Royal Guards, JSDF soldiers, Tokyo police, Chinese Amazons, Hidden Leaf Village ninja, and French aurors. At the very least.
  • Mushroom Samba: Chapter 12 of The Girl Who Loved ends with Dumbledore dipping into his special stock of lemon drops ("the good shit") and entering one during which he watches the walls breathe and a band of dancing broomsticks invade his office.
  • My Own Private I Do: Harry and Usagi have a small, intimate private wedding with just family and friends attending, and a much larger public wedding a couple hours later. Definitely played with, though, as under Japanese law the real marriage happened when they filed the paperwork with the government beforehand -- they were already married before either took place. (Something Mary Riddle was unaware of... leading her to attack the second wedding.)
  • Mythology Gag:
    • Hermione turns out to have the little sister that J.K. Rowling had always planned for her, but never got around to putting in the books.
    • Harry and Hermione restage the Philosopher's Stone gauntlet to test/challenge their first- and second-year defense students.
  • Naughty Tentacles: Three tentacle demons attack a concert Harry attends with the Inner Senshi.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain:
    • Draco's attempt to assassinate ghost!Usagi with a stone imbued with the power of Death not only fails, it results directly in her resurrection.
    • In fact, on a larger scale, every attempt Voldemort makes to reassert his power and dominance in the course of the story backfires on him -- starting with his involvement in the original plan to put Harry under Snape's power at the start of The Girl Who Loved. And once Usagi is resurrected, his failures ultimately undermine his base and support among British purebloods and drive him in desperation to Jusenkyo. The closest he gets to a success is imbuing Bellatrix with avatar-level power... only for her to end up banished to Nemesis to found the Black Moon Family.
  • No Except Yes:

"No, Mamoru, I haven't been using the Gate just to stalk you... I've been using the Gate to stalk everybody. It's my job, you know."

  • Nose Nuggets: Usagi and Harry notice eight-year-old Luthien Greengrass at the Wizengamot meeting to determine his guardianship while she is thoroughly engaged in picking her nose. This seems to be a habit of hers; her older sister Daphne refers to her as "Princess Bogeypicker".
  • Nostalgia Filter: Invoked for humor when 18-year-old Usagi grumbles (about Cuteness), "Kids these days... no respect, I swear."
  • Oddly-Named Sequel 2: Electric Boogaloo: Chapter 18 of Violence Inherent in the System is entitled "Tom's Bogus Journey 2: Electric Boogaloo".
  • Oh Crap: Mary Riddle's reaction when she learns that Usagi and Harry are not only married, but are now Queen and King.
  • Omniglot:
    • A ring Harry acquires by summoning jewelry from the pools of Jusenkyo turns out to be a magical Universal Translator. Once he finds that out, he's almost never without it. (He does eventually become reasonably fluent in Japanese without it.)
    • One of the side effects of the magical accident that killed her mother gives Luna Lovegood the ability to speak any language after being exposed to only a few sentences in it.
  • One Steve Limit: Enforced. Cat!Luna from Sailor Moon all but vanishes while witch!Luna from Harry Potter takes a prominent role.
  • Our Ghosts Are Different: Ghost!Usagi is only visible to wizards, witches and ki adepts. The other Senshi can't see her. Rei can vaguely sense her presence, due to her miko abilities, and Rei's grandfather is clearly able to see her.
  • Parental Abandonment: Hermione turns out to be estranged from her parents, who disapprove of her embrace of magic and wizard culture, and have essentially cut her off from her family.
  • Parents Walk in At the Worst Time: Ikuko catches Harry and Usagi being frisky outside of their bedroom in the middle of the night, while everyone is crashing with them in Tokyo.
  • Pass the Popcorn: While watching Setsuna Stealth Hi Bye Rei, Usagi wishes for "ghost-friendly popcorn".
  • The Peeping Tom:
    • Ghost!Usagi gets in the habit of blatantly watching Harry in the shower -- at first to "get even" for his ability to see her body, but later because she enjoys what she sees. (And later, after their relationship evolves, for more than just watching.)
    • Centuries later, we find out that Queen Serenity -- the original one -- is planning on watching Harry and Usagi have sex before she finally moves on to the afterlife.
  • Pimped-Out Dress and Kimono: Hermione and Usagi are in gorgeous over-the-top outfits for their meeting with the Emperor and Empress of Japan.
    • And then there's the wedding...
  • The Power of Love: With Sailor Moon as a major element of the story, along with Dumbledore's belief that it's "the power he knows not", it's inevitable that this would be a key element in the overall plot. But what Dumbledore's drug-addled mind thinks it is doesn't exactly line up with what Sailor Moon knows it is.
  • Power Strain Blackout: Harry drives himself almost to this point a couple of times when using Sailor Moon's powers.
  • "Previously On...": Starting in chapter 8 of The Girl Who Loved, Darth Drafter begins starting each chapter with a repetition of the previous chapter's final paragraph(s). However, by the middle of Violence Inherent in the System, he stops doing it regularly.
  • Primal Scene:
    • Played with at one point. Harry threatens Cuteness with a verbal account of her own conception to get her to stop making "Grandpa Snivelly" comments.
    • Later, Cuteness and Lulu Greengrass come close when while they are flying on a toy broom they spot Harry and Usagi naked through a second-story window.
  • Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: "The Moon. You. Are. On. It."
  • Readings Are Off the Scale: When holding up scores for how beautiful the girls' outfits for the meeting with the Japanese government are, Cuteness ranks Usagi as "Over 9000".
  • Reassigned to Antarctica: After she pisses off a lot of the Ministry with a blatant grab for power after Minister Scrimgeour's death, and then runs unsuccessfully for the office, Dolores Umbridge is made the "ambassador" per treaty to the Knights Who Say "Ni" -- a position which, the narration notes, is filled any time the Ministry wants to flat-out dispose of someone who is a problem or embarrassment.
  • Refusing Paradise: Queen Serenity has been holding off on heading into the afterlife for over twelve thousand years, although she plans on doing so as soon as she watches Harry get Usagi pregnant a second time.
  • Revenge: Not an active motivation for her, but Hermione definitely enjoys everything that rubs her growing international status and reputation in her parents' faces.
  • Revive Kills Zombie: Effectively what happens when Harry deliberately attempts to purify Mary Riddle with a Sailor Moon-style white magic attack: she ends up coughing up bits of old bone, shreds of Peter Pettigrew's flesh, and some of Harry's blood -- the last fragments of Voldemort's magically-created body. (She subsequently spends the next few centuries avoiding hot water for fear that it will turn her into nothing.)
  • Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory:
    • Setsuna/Sailor Pluto of course has it. She's aware that the "current" timeline has changed from the "canon" timeline, and why, and by how much. Although she still can be surprised by minor changes.
    • Cuteness appears to have it as well, possibly because of her wizarding heritage. She's aware that she's different from the "original" Chibi-Usa, and in at least some ways how she's different (like her name) and how she's not (like her looks). Interestingly, at a critical juncture in the timeline (and plot) she very briefly becomes Ranma's daughter and not Harry's, and that version of her is not aware that she's changed.
  • Ron the Death Eater: Apparently played straight but eventually boomeranged with Dumbledore. Dumbledore initially looks like a complete over-the-top caricature of the fanfic-standard Evil!Dumbledore, until he is hit by one of Sailor Moon's over-powered super-healing effects. After that he feels much better than he has in years, so much so that he doesn't need the potion-laced lemon drops he's been consuming for the last couple decades. And when he investigates the potion formula -- which he had tweaked and customized over the years -- he discovers that it had so much psychoactive elements in it that he should have been catatonic, if not dead, from their effects. He cleans up his act almost immediately.
  • Sadistic Choice: Voldemort forces Snape to make one at the end of his usefulness -- his life or Narcissa Malfoy's. The choice he thought was best (and which he made)... is not the one Narcissa wanted him to make.
  • Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Harry's ethos as a vigilante in Tokyo. He acknowledges that, technically, what he's doing would be considered "muggle-baiting" by British Wizarding law and he could be thrown into Azkaban for it. But he also notes that the Ministry is just as likely to trump up false charges with the same result, so if he's going to get punished, why not do something to get punished for, and do it to help people?
  • Screw Yourself:
    • After her resurrection, Usagi definitely enjoys sex with Harry in his girl form.
    • In discussing the False-Flag Operation in a far-distant epilogue, Venus volunteers to go back in time in the guise of the enemy Calaveras "to screw myself". She immediately corrects that to "to screw with myself" but then starts seriously considering it.
  • Secret Identity:
    • Harry (semi-accidentally) adopts the identity of "Heather Snape" AKA "Teen Witch", when acting as a vigilante in Tokyo.
    • Averted later in the story: with her resurrection and her return to Tokyo and her family, Usagi abandons her secret identity on national television.
  • Secret Keeper: Luna Lovegood's Cunning Linguist abilities let her learn that Cuteness is actually Harry's daughter; even though she's uncertain how that came about, especially as Usagi is dead, she promises Harry she'll keep the secret -- and better yet, offers to announce it in the Great Hall, after which no one will believe it can possibly be true.
  • Side Bet:
    • Harry's Hogwarts friends bet on how many boys are going to notice and/or hit on his (disguised) girl form on the way back from a Hogsmeade day. Nobody bet on the right number, but Ginny came closest and won the pot.
    • Much later, Myrtle and Harry bet on whether Luna Lovegood will be waiting naked for them in the Ravenclaw common room. Harry bets she won't be, and loses.
    • After Ginny and Neville get together, their friends set up a pool on when they'll first sleep together. Usagi lost, but to avoid embarrassment for both herself and Neville, Ginny agrees to ensure Usagi wins the "first public snog" part of the bet.
  • Simplified Spellcasting: Probably the best trope to fit Harry's first attempt to heal someone with the power of the Kaleidomoon Scope, where (instructed by ghost!Usagi) he simply visualizes what he hopes for a wounded Amazon and focuses on the special mystical phrase "Get better, dammit!"
  • Sneeze Cut: When Hermione admits to Harry that she asked the Disguise Pen to make her a "tomb raider", there is a cut to Lara Croft sneezing at a very inconvenient moment.
  • Someone's Touching My Butt: It's usually Makoto or Minako grabbing Harry's butt in a hug or a Sailor Teleport.
    • Sailor Uranus gets a grope in on Nabiki Tendo late in Violence Inherent in the System.
  • Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Discussed by Harry on hearing that Voldemort is in Tokyo on the day of the wedding; Harry assumes Voldemort will not be holding his peace.
  • Spit-Take:
    • Harry does one when he learns he has the option to take the resurrected Myrtle as his concubine.
    • Nabiki sprays a wall with coffee when Setsuna surprises her in her apartment.
    • Usagi sprays hot chocolate into Harry's face when he asks her if he should take his "teacher's pet" Annabelle White as his date to the Hogwarts Valentine's Day Ball.
  • Split Personality: Voldemort after he visits Jusenkyo. Initially his female self isn't terribly distinct (save for those psychological changes imposed by the curse), but the longer Mary stays in control of their shared body, the more different she grows, and the more she thinks of herself as a separate individual from Voldemort.
  • Squee: Seen/heard multiple times. Occasionally the narrative voice uses it as a kind of punctuation.
    • Hogwarts schoolgirls around Harry.
    • Hermione when she discovers her Blind Date for the Valentine's Day Ball is Prince William.
    • Juliet and her two new friends squee when she joins "The Harry James Potter Is Dreamy Fan Club".
  • Stable Time Loop:
    • Why every version of Chibi-Usa/Cuteness has had to come back to the 1990s, regardless of the history that led to their existence.
    • The banishments of both Draco and Bellatrix to Nemesis are necessary for the founding of the Black Moon Clan.
  • Stealth Hi Bye: Setsuna loves doing this to people but stopped after Usagi died. When the prospect for Usagi's return manifested, she begins doing it again.
  • Step Three: Profit: Mocked (and cited by name) in the daimon attack scene.
  • The Stoner: "Looney" Lovegood, a deliberate persona Luna uses to cope with her treatment in Ravenclaw House with the assistance of large quantities of cannabis sativa. The "real" Luna bears only a slight resemblance to the "Looney" persona, which she discusses as though it were a separate person -- or a character she portrays.
  • Strip Poker: Once Usagi teaches Myrtle and the Grey Lady how to take their clothes off, the three of them participate in at least one Strip Poker game (according to Hermione).
  • Stuff Blowing Up: Leaving out things like the "white magic nuke" that look but don't act like physical explosions, we have, among others:
    • Ranma blowing up the death stone, which explodes with near-nuclear force.
    • The destruction Herb inflicts on Hogwarts.
  • Suddenly Always Knew That: The only warning that a potential (and disastrous) timeline change is in progress is when Cuteness suddenly becomes proficient in Saotome-style Musabetsu kakuto, saying "I know kung fu".
  • Symbiotic Possession: Ghost!Usagi can possess a willing (or unconscious) host -- like Harry (and later Hermione). She can also take over an unwilling host with weaker willpower than her. (This turns out to be something any ghost can apparently do, as Myrtle learns how to possess people as well.)
    • Usagi also learns how to "ride" inside Harry's body without exercising any control.
  • Take That:
    • Luna Lovegood gets a nice zinger in on Blaise Zabini, whose mother has a canonical reputation as a Black Widow, after he acts like a jerk at a Slug Club meeting:

"They say men tend to marry women who remind them of their Mums. With any luck he'll follow the pattern."

  • Hermione strikes back at her Dursley-like parents by sending photos of herself with various important personages (like the Emperor and Empress of Japan) to her sister to share. An even better one is provided accidentally when Princess Diana visits the Grangers to find out more about the girl who's dating her son William.
  • Teacher-Student Romance: The hopes of many Hogwarts students after Harry and Hermione are appointed assistant professors. Harry gets a flood of female students asking for "help"; a giggling Usagi has to point out to him what they're really after. He then notes that Hermione has her share of male students vying for her attention.
  • Teacher's Pet: First-year Slytherin Annabelle White is described as a "teacher's pet with a side of crush" for Harry.
  • Their First Time:
    • Harry and Usagi have actual physical sex for the first time mere hours after her resurrection. Defying the usual implementation of this trope there has been a lot of intermittent discussion of what they would do before this point.
    • Mary Riddle's first time is with a random guy who had a passing resemblance to Harry (which she improved with a couple of charms). It's only really noteworthy for her discovering that she likes being submissive to her partner, and Voldemort's fury as soon as she unknowingly steps into a hot shower and reverses their Jusenkyo curse.
    • It's strongly suggested that Ami lost her virginity with Harry.
    • Hermione definitely did.
  • They Are Not My Boyfriends: Ami insists that her relationship with the Weasley Twins is purely on the friendship level. People who know Fred and George beg to differ.
  • Three-Way Sex:
    • The omake featuring Harry/ghost!Usagi/Hermione which was promoted to an official part of the story.
    • Indeed, the encounters where Harry allows ghost!Usagi to use his body for intimacies with the other Senshi probably count on a technicality.
    • Harry's bachelor party led into an off-screen threesome with Luna Lovegood and Hermione. Too bad Harry remembers almost nothing of it, to the point that he was surprised by their presence the next morning.
  • Time for Plan B: Mary Riddle can't figure out a "Plan A" for getting into Harry and Usagi's wedding, and is stuck with several Plans B and C, none of which she likes. And when she's caught, her first thought is "Fuck Plans A, B and C!"
  • Time Travel: Sailor Pluto's taking an active role in the story. Of course there's time travel, including at least three Stable Time Loops.
  • Timmy in a Well: Invoked jokingly by Juliet Granger when she first encounters Hedwig and realizes the owl is trying to tell her something.
  • Tokyo Tower: When Rei tries to pressure her about (currently dead) Usagi's whereabouts while they are on the observation deck of the Tower, Cuteness suffers a bout of accidental magic, vanishes a window, and falls out. Harry has to chase after her on his broom and catch her.
  • Torches and Pitchforks: Discussed (mainly by Harry) several times, not always seriously, and never actually seen happening in the story.
  • Training from Hell: At least Harry thinks it is when Ranma decides to be his personal trainer. Given that they're only at it for about a week before Harry has to leave Jusenkyo, it's not like they had time to get into anything actually extreme.
  • Up to Eleven:
    • Anything Harry successfully casts with the Kaleido Moon Scope starts at Eleven and sometimes goes to Eleven hundred: reparo restores entire forests; expecto patronum produces a permanent herd of ghostly deer who settle in the Jusenkyo valley (and later one that takes up residence in Diagon Alley).
    • Harry thinks that on the scale where Fleur Delacour and Shampoo are tens, Sailor Pluto is a definite eleven.
  • Vigilante Girl: Harry finds he enjoys patrolling Tokyo and doing good as "Teen Witch".
  • Wacky Marriage Proposal: The proposal by itself is actually quite serious and formal, but the aftermath is amusing enough to end up on the Funny subpage.
  • We Have No Daughter: Hermione's estranged relationship with her parents has almost reached this point.
  • Wedding Day: The climax and Grand Finale of the story: Harry and Usagi's public wedding at the Tokyo Dome.
  • Wedding Smashers: Mary Riddle attempts to crash Harry and Usagi's public wedding at the Tokyo Dome. She doesn't succeed at getting inside, but does instigate a pitched battle in the line of magicals (and Magical Girls) waiting to get in.
  • Weddings in Japan: Harry and Usagi actually have two weddings: a private Shinto ceremony for friends and family at the Hikawa Shrine, officiated by Rei's grandfather and attended by the Japanese Imperial family and the British Royal family, followed by a positively immense public Western-style wedding at the Tokyo Dome, officiated by Katsuhito Masaki. Mary Riddle, unaware of either the private ceremony or the official paperwork filed in advance, believes she can prevent them from being married by disrupting the second wedding.
  • Well, This Is Not That Trope: In the final lines of the story before the epilogues, in the description of the future forged by Harry and Usagi together, there is this:

Dark Lady Cuteness would rule the Sol system by fear and pink iron fist of doom- wait! No, that doesn't happen. Sorry.

  • White Magic: Acknowledged as what Usagi -- and ultimately Harry -- wield.
  • Yakuza: A group of yaks abduct Nabiki to force information on the Tsukinos from her so they can blackmail Usagi, and through her the Senshi. Sailors Pluto, Neptune and Uranus persuade them of their error.
  • Yandere: Mary Riddle, at least at first.
    • Ginny's got a strong current of this running through her personality, although she never actually acts on it.
  • You Can Leave Your Hat On:
    • Minako and Makoto deliberately position themselves so Harry can watch them the first time they transform around him -- this after he turns his back at Michiru's request.
    • Ghost!Usagi figures out how to remove her clothes (for Harry, of course) even though they're technically part of her ghostly body. (This leads to her being able to change her clothes completely, including into a cheerleader uniform.) She performs a proper striptease for Harry to cheer him up after the Hogsmeade debacle.
    • She then teaches Myrtle and the Grey Lady (!) how to take their clothes off, and the three play Strip Poker together.
  • You Just Told Me: Mary Riddle deduces Cuteness' true identity, addresses her as "my Princess", and when she demands to know who told her, Mary replies, "Why, you did. Just now."
  • You Mean "Xmas": Dumbledore covers all the bases at winter break, wishing the students a merry Christmas, a happy Hanukkah, a delightful Saturnalia and warm Yule greetings.



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