History Fanfic / TheHavocSideOfTheForce

Dormant; last updated April 2018.

* OhCrap: Happens when Harry realises that, due to how his magic affects the force, placing Godric's Hollow under a Fidelius Charm is essentially broadcasting its location to all competent force sensitives in the Galaxy.

* ReallyGetsAround: Harry.

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8594589/1/The-Unsuspecting-side-of-the-Force The Unsuspecting Side of the Force]] is a companion fic that has multiple points of view, detailing events Harry is not present to witness or the reactions of other people in the galaxy to his actions during the main story.

* FalseFlagOperation: In the aftermath of the war, Harry and Ron started a business to trick Death Eater families into paying a boatload of cash to free their relatives from Azkaban, only for them to then re-capture them a few days later and restart the process.

** When Harry tells him he plans to use criminal's droids' memories to steal from said criminals, [=HK-47=] states [[Film/{{Jaws}} that they are going to need a bigger boat]].

* OffTheRails: Harry's presence is steadily causing Palpatine's plans to implode. Particularly, Harry's interactions with Anakin have made it all but impossible to draw him closer, let alone corrupt him, [[spoiler:and the Sith attempts to kill Harry claimed the lives of Darth Maul and Count Dooku before they could, respectively, kill Qui-Gon Jinn and assume the role of the Separatist leader]].

** Shmi has reservations over how Kalu'minari "thanks" Harry, worried about what will happen once the Captain tires of her. Harry reassures her that when and if that happens, he'll drop her wherever and whenever she wishes, after giving her her pue payment, which even now is already a very considerable amount of money. Shmi herself, even as a mere cook, has already amassed a small fortune under Harry's employment.

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 13 of the side story. [[spoiler:Palpatine has Millicent/Bellatrix and is pumping her for information on rituals.]]

** Harry quotes the [[Series/MontyPythonFlyingCircus Dead Parrot Sketch]] after [=HK-47=] starts to rattle off a number of euphemisms for death.

* ShoutOut: When Harry sees a woman that looks a lot like Umbridge park her speeder across two parking places, Harry pulls out his lightsaber and [[https://xkcd.com/562/ does what]] [[WebComic/{{XKCD}} Black Hat Guy would do]].
** He also quotes the [[Series/MontyPythonFlyingCircus Dead Parrot Sketch]] after [=HK-47=] starts to rattle off a number of euphemisms for death.

* BerserkButton: Harry '''hates''' both prophecies and the term "for the greater good". He even tells Qui-Gon that if he uses "the greater good" to justify sending Anakin to Telos, he'd rip the man's heart out through his mouth.

* CombatPragmatist: Harry, to the hilt. For example, when a Mandalorian challenges him to a duel (because he is carrying the Darksaber), Harry accepts, and as soon as the duel begins just Apparates behind the Mandalorian and kills him. When fighting Darth Maul, he realizes quickly that fighting him on a level playing field is a horrible idea and throws him off a building.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: While Harry isn't evil per se, he does admit to being a mercenary, thief, pirate, murderer, and (depending on your point of view) kidnapper. However, he refuses to tolerate slavery, so when he robs a Hutt as part of a job, he makes sure to free every slave and bring them to safety. On a later job to rescue someone from a mercenary stronghold, he adds saving any slaves present as an additional primary objective.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: [[spoiler:After a secret Amidala promised would remain so gets leaked, Harry sends her a Howler, ranting at length about how he warned her that was exactly what would happen, infuriate the news actually reached his destination before him.]]

* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Despite all his faults, Harry refuses to tolerate slavery and makes a point of freeing every slave he meets.

* SparedByTheAdaptation: [[spoiler:Qui-Gon Jinn, because, since Harry kills Darth Maul well before the Battle of Naboo, he never fights the Sith.]]

* SpitTake: Dooku, after realising that Harry has placed a seven figure bounty on Darth Tyranus.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Anakin plays a prank on Ki-Adi-Mundi, causing a slight stain at the back of his head by changing his detergent.[[spoiler:Palpatine, remembering certain chemical methods of mentally unbalancing certain species, realizes that while it is harmless in normal Cereans, in Force-sensitives it has the side effect of inducing paranoia and suspicion, causing the man to become so paranoid that he is unwilling to consider a potential alliance with Harry.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:If Palpatine's thoughts are right, then Anakin's prank on Ki-Adi-Mundi may be what is causing the man to become so paranoid that he is unwilling to consider a potential alliance to Harry.]]

* EnemyCivilWar: Harry triggers one between rival factions of Corellian crime family, purely to cause as much of a headache for the Jedi and CorSec forces that rubbed him the wrong way as possible.

* MeleeATrois: Harry is tasked by CorSec to retrieve one of their undercover agents from a mob run casino. He does so, but not before triggering a massive firefight between the casino security forces (who themselves were fighting each other thanks to Harry influencing the future heir to try to overthrow the current family head) and the various bounty hunters who converged on the casino to try to collect the bounty on his head.

* ChildProdigy: Despite being nine years old, Anakin's a powerful (though completely untrained) force user, skilled mechanic, amazing pilot, and speaks several languages. In the course of a few weeks, he learns English well enough that he speaks it with a perfect Surrey accent.

* CombatPragmatist: Harry, to the hilt. For example, when a Mandalorian challenges him to a duel (because he is carrying the Darksaber), Harry accepts, and as soon as the duel begins just Apparates behind the Mandalorian and kills him.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: When a Nemodian finally gives up Jabba the Hutt's location, having previously declared he'd be killed if he spoke, Harry is appalled to learn that said "secret location" is Jabba's Palace.

* BullyingADragon: Multiple bounty hunters send threats to Harry, demanding that he pay them a large amount of credits if he does not want them to hunt him. This, after it becomes well known that he has (a) single-handedly destroyed a Hutt's criminal empire, (b) single-handedly destroyed one of Corellia's biggest criminal empires, (c) taken over a Black Sun space station in less than 20 hours and (d) engineered the wipeout of the Black Sun itself. Harry proceeds to allow [=HK-47=] free rein at threatening them. Bounty hunter threats drop to a minimum.

* DiscardAndDraw: Maul's double bladed lightsaber is cut in half during HK's duel with Dooku. After said battle and the latter's death HK promptly starts using Dooku's

* YouKillItYouBoughtIt: Harry becomes the leader of the Mandalorian clan Death Watch after killing Pre Viszla and claiming the Darksaber.

* TookALevelInCynic: Harry learned to stop helping people out of the goodness of his heart because they will inevitably take advantage of his kindness. As a result, he's a far more cynical and bitter (though still benevolent) mercenary who refuses to do anything for free. Notably, early in the story Harry rescues over a hundred slaves from the Hutts and uses his good deed as a bargaining chip when the ship he receives as payment for a related job is given back stripped of it's shields, weapons, and engine upgrades.

* VerbalTic: [=HK-47=] prefaces every sentence he says with how they should be understood.

* InternalReveal: Chapter 20 ''finally'' has Harry learn the extent to which his magic damages the force.

* CaptainObvious: While listening in on Halycon and Horn's conversation, Harry starts wondering if stating the obvious is a superpower in the "future" given how often Halycon does it.

* CultureClash: Halycon's attempt to use a Jedi Mind Trick on Harry causes the latter to mention that messing with someone's mind like that is a criminal offense where he's from.

* ExactWords: When Halycon states that Corsec can't hold Harry, his partner Horn insists they could hold him on his confession of killing someone on Coruscant, prompting Halycon to explain that they physically can't hold Harry as he can teleport.