History Fanfic / Heir

%% * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Vernon Dursley, Gilderoy Lockhart]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: [[TooDumbToLive When Vernon shoves a shotgun in Harry's face]], Tom takes control and kills him.]]

* BigBrotherBully: All of Ron's brothers [[spoiler: after Ron is sorted into Slytherin]].
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Dumbledore pretends to be a kindly old man.

* ClingyJealousGirl: Ginny for Harry.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: [[spoiler: Dumbledore believes that if he just murders Draco and [[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident makes it look like an accident]] then [[WhatAnIdiot Harry and Ron will automatically fall back in line with the Light.]]]]

When Harry was five he lived in a Hell he could not escape. [[AbusiveParents A Hell called Privet Drive.]] That's when he met his [[OnlyFriend best friend]] - [[NotSoImaginaryFriend a voice in his head that only he could hear.]]

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Voldemort hates Muggles because he was picked on at the orphanage and they killed his baby snake. Voldemort tracked down his childhood tormenter years later and killed her child.]]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler: Tom Riddle's war against the muggle world really started when he was a child and a posse of muggle girls killed his snake.]]

%% * CoolPet: Ron's owl, Xochiquetzal. Harry's cat, Minerva. Also the Basilisk.

%% * AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Vernon Dursley, Gilderoy Lockhart]]

* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Ron's family are upset when they learn he's accepted a formal courtship with an anonymous party in Slytherin House. From the hints his suitor has dropped and the gifts he's received Ron guesses that his suitor is an older male pureblood of higher status.

* DisproportionateRetribution: [[spoiler: Voldemort hates muggles because he was picked on at the orphanage and they killed his baby snake. Voldemort tracked down his childhood tormenter years later and killed her child.]]
* EnforcedColdWar: [[spoiler: Harry and Sirius after Harry [[TheReveal reveals]] to Sirius that he's Dark. Sirius doesn't support the dark side but he won't betray his Godson.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tom is ''disgusted'' by Vernon Dursley. Also OriginalCharacter Lethfyren Malfoy, a Mind Healer of shady repute that Voldemort hires (and who Tom calls "a monster") will NOT [[WouldntHurtAChild "do kids."]] Voldemort himself is strongly against his followers abusing their children though he seemingly has no problems killing them, since he was quite happy to kill at least two children before the events of the story. But then Voldie has a soft spot in his cold black heart for [[MoralMyopia wizarding children - not muggle children.]]
* EverybodyKnewAlready: Harry, Tom, and Draco aren't as careful as they think. [[spoiler: Ron, Blaise and perhaps half of Slytherin house knows that Harry is the Heir but have so far kept quiet.]]
* EvilMentor: While Tom plays TheCorrupter for Harry, Harry acts as Tom's MoralityPet to the point that when they meet Voldemort both Tom and Voldemort are surprised by how much they've changed.

* FallenPrincess: Draco gets a lot of crap for hanging out with the Boy-Who-Lived and a Weasley especially from his father.

* FreudianExcuse: Harry's abuse at the hands of the Dursley's is most definitely NOT PlayedForLaughs. Also [[spoiler: Draco is regularly tortured by his father with the cruciatus curse.]] And [[spoiler: Tom had a [[BreakTheCutie psychotic break]] when the other kids [[OrphanageOfFear at the orphanage]] killed his baby snake in front of him.]]

* GreyAndGrayMorality: While they are still called the light side and the dark side both sides are comprised of [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]] who arem't so different after all.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Vernon quickly learns that baby Harry heals very fast and so takes the opportunity to beat him even more.
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler: After Voldemort tasks Harry and Tom with running distraction duty at Hogwarts by setting the Basilisk loose on the student body they had originally picked the muggle-born Hermione Granger to be one of their first victims, but after a week of stalking Hermione, Harry and Tom realize how ''brilliant'' she is and [[YouWillBeSpared decide to choose a different target.]] When Harry and Tom give their report at the next Death Eater meeting and explain why they switched targets this even get ''Voldemort'' thinking that maybe he was wrong about Muggle-borns.]]

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: [[TooDumbToLive When Vernon shoves a shotgun in Harry's face]] Tom takes control and kills him.]]

* LivingWithTheVillain: Dark!Harry attends Hogwarts with the Light wizards and spies for Voldemort. It helps that no one wants to believe that the boy-who-lived could go dark.

%% * NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The Vernon Dursley regularly did this to Harry in his infancy.

* ProgressivelyPrettier: Voldemort. [[spoiler: After taking the philosopher's stone he's no longer a snake-face and he gets back his youth and good looks.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: Ron has one. Also Ginny ''is'' one to Harry.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Harry and Tom for Hermione. [[spoiler: They begin stalking her to learn her schedule so they can sic the basilisk on her but soon become ''intrigued'' with her instead.]]
* StalkingIsLove: After receiving gifts from his anonymous suitor Ron feels comforted that at least someone out there likes him.
* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler: Tom's is the bullying he endured at the orphanage and the final straw is when they killed his pet snake, Harry's is the horrific abuse he suffered at the hands of the Dursleys.]]
* StockholmSyndrome: From the offset Tom is completely honest that he killed Harry's real parents. He still becomes Harry's father figure and OnlyFriend.

* TautologicalTemplar: As far as Dumbledore is concerned he's good and therefore all his actions are good by default. [[BlackAndWhiteInsanity All the "light families" are inherently good and all "dark families" are the cause of all problems]] and if a member of a "dark family" happens to be a victim [[{{UsefulNotes/VictimBlaming}} they must have deserved it.]]

* TrainingFromHell: Harry when Tom is teaching him magic. Later subverted, [[spoiler: Lucius claims that he tortures Draco in order to make him strong [[CureYourGays and teach him how to be a man]]. Draco eventually comes to realize that Harry was right—his father does not really have his best interests at heart and is just hurting him for the sake of hurting him.]]

* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: Harry gets a cat. In a completely innocent coincidence Harry names his cat Minerva.
* WhosLaughingNow: With Tom's help Harry truly gives the Dursleys a reason to fear him.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Harry -- the severe abuse he receives from the Dursleys (along with the goading from the Tom Riddle horcrux in his head) pushes him over the edge. Also Tom Riddle / Voldemort is one because it's implied he had a psychotic break back when he was a boy attending an OrphanageOfFear when a girl posse killed his baby snake [[WholePlotReference in front of him]] [[JustForFun/XMeetsY ala]] ''Manga/ElfenLied''.
* WorthyOpponent: Hermione to Harry and Tom [[UnknownRival though they never actually fought and she never actually met them]].
* YouRemindMeOfX: When dramatically leaving the room Harry wonders if [[spoiler: Sirius]] has been taking lessons from Professor Snape.

* ProgressivelyPrettier: Voldemort. [[spoiler: After taking the philosopher's stone he's no longer a snake-face and he gets back his youth and {{Bishonen}} good looks.]]

%% * YaoiGuys: Voldemort and Snape.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: While they are still called the light side and the dark side both sides are comprised of [[WellIntentionedExtremist Well-Intentioned Extremists]] who are NotSoDifferent after all.

* AbusiveParents: The Dursleys to Harry and [[spoiler: Lucius Malfoy to Draco.]]
* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Ginny to Ron.
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Vernon Dursley, Gilderoy Lockhart]]

* BlackAndWhiteInsanity: Dumbledore suffers from this.

* BullyingADragon: The Dursleys to Harry.

* CoolPet: Ron's owl, Xochiquetzal. Harry's cat, Minerva. Also the Basilisk.
* CuteAndPsycho: Harry.

* EnigmaticMinion: Mordred.

* [[FallenPrincess Fallen Prince]]: Draco gets a lot of crap for hanging out with the Boy-Who-Lived and a Weasley especially from his father.

* GirlPosse: [[spoiler: One tormented the young Tom Riddle at the orphanage.]]

* IronicEcho: "It ain't healthy, the way you would hide in the corner and hiss at that little thing."
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: Or rather Kick The Snake. The [[KidsAreCruel kids]] at the OrphanageOfFear Tom Riddle attended.]]

* TheKidWithTheLeash: Harry is this to Tom.
* KidsAreCruel: [[spoiler: This is Tom's FreudianExcuse.]]

* LimaSyndrome: Tom for Harry.

* LonelyRichKid: Draco.

* ManipulativeBastard: Tom, Harry, and Dumbledore.
* MayDecemberRomance: [[spoiler: Snape and Voldemort.]]
* MeaningfulName: Xochiquetzal.

* MoralityPet: Harry and Snape to Voldemort. Also Hermione in a round-about way. Sirius to Harry.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: [[OriginalCharacter Lethfyren Malfoy]].

* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: The Vernon Dursley regularly did this to Harry in his infancy.

* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Tom for Harry.
* OnlyFriend: Tom was this for Harry before Hogwarts.
* OrphanageOfFear: [[spoiler: Tom was raised in one.]]
* PapaWolf: Tom for Harry.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: Sirius to Harry and Draco]].

* RightHandCat: Harry's cat, [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack Minerva]].

* SlashFic: It's (pretty!)Voldemort/Snape and it will be Harry/Draco when they're older. Also Ron believes his secret admirer is male... [[spoiler: and it's strongly implied that his admirer is [[HoYay Blaise]].]]
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Harry.
* SocialServicesDoesNotExist: Not for Harry and [[spoiler: definitely not in pureblood society.]]
* [[SomeCallMeTim Some Call Me Tom]]

* SpoiledBrat: Draco, Ginny.

* SymbioticPossession: Harry with Tom.
* SuperPoweredEvilSide: Tom for Harry.

* TokenGoodTeammate: [[spoiler: Sirius Black.]]

* TrueCompanions: [[spoiler: Harry, Draco, and Ron.]]
* UnholyMatrimony: Voldemort and Snape.

* VillainProtagonist: Harry and company.

* YaoiGuys: Voldemort and Snape.

* YouWillBeSpared: As mentioned above [[spoiler: Harry and Tom are so impressed with Hermione that they decide to spare her.]]

When Harry was five he lived in a Hell he could not escape. [[AbusiveParents A Hell called Privet Drive.]] That's when he met his [[OnlyFriend best friend]]- [[NotSoImaginaryFriend a voice in his head that only he could hear.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Tom is ''disgusted'' by Vernon Dursley. Also OriginalCharacter Lethfyren Malfoy, a Mind Healer of shady repute that Voldemort hires (and who Tom calls "a monster") will NOT [[WouldntHurtAChild "do kids."]] Voldemort himself is strongly against his followers abusing their children though he seemingly has no problems killing them, since he was quite happy to kill at least two children before the events of the story. But then Voldie has a soft spot in his cold black heart for [[MoralMyopia wizarding children-not muggle children.]]

* LoveMartyr: Platonic examples. [[spoiler: Draco for his abusive father. Also Sirius-he'll support his Godson no matter what.]]

* YaoiGuys: Voldemort and Snape

* EnigmaticMinion: Mordred

* LimaSyndrome: Tom for Harry

* LonelyRichKid: Draco

* MeaningfulName: Xochiquetzal

* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: [[OriginalCharacter Lethfyren Malfoy]]

* NotSoImaginaryFriend: Tom for Harry

* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: Harry

* UnholyMatrimony: Voldemort and Snape

* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Harry -- the severe abuse he receives from the Dursleys (along with the goading from the Tom Riddle horcrux in his head) pushes him over the edge. Also Tom Riddle / Voldemort is one because it's implied he had a psychotic break back when he was a boy attending an OrphanageOfFear when a girl posse killed his baby snake [[WholePlotReference in front of him]] [[XMeetsY ala]] ''Manga/ElfenLied''.

* XMeetsY: ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' meets YaoiGenre meets ''Manga/ElfenLied''.

* WhosLaughingNow: With Tom's help Harry truly gives the Dursley's a reason to fear him.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[spoiler: [[TooDumbToLive When Vernon shoves a shotgun in Harry's face]] Tom takes control and kills Vernon Dursley.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: [[spoiler: Sirius to Harry and Draco]]

* KickTheDog: [[spoiler: or rather Kick The Snake. The [[KidsAreCruel kids]] at the OrphanageOfFear Tom Riddle attended.]]

* TheNotSecret: Harry, Tom, and Draco aren't as careful as they think. [[spoiler: Ron, Blaise and perhaps half of Slytherin house knows that Harry is the Heir but have so far kept quiet.]]

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Vernon Dursley, Gilderoy Lockheart]]

* StalkerWithACrush: Ron has one. Alos Ginny ''is'' one to Harry.