Line #24 Fanfic/KnowledgeIsPower


1	''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4612714/1/Knowledge-is-Power Knowledge is Power]]'' by robst (author of ''Fanfic/InThisWorldAndTheNext'') follows the story of Literature/HarryPotter and Hermione Granger (but mostly the former) as they get sent back in time by the ghosts of Harry’s parents when the ceiling of the Ministry of Magic falls on them at the end of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix''.
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3	Although it was undergoing a rewrite with the new version being called ''Taking the P I S S'', the incomplete re-write has been deleted. A second rewrite, ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12879819/1/Proud-Parents Proud Parents]]'' was started in 2018, a “re-imagining” according to the author. It starts at the same moment, but instead of time travel [[spoiler:the ghosts of James and Lily appear to Harry and Hermione after the Dementor attack accidentally destroys the Horcrux in Harry’s head early]].
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6	!!''Knowledge Is Power'' contains examples of:
7	%%* AdoptionDiss: Bellatrix Lestrange tries this when [[spoiler:she kidnaps Joan]], with no success.
8	* ArgentinaIsNaziland: [[spoiler:The Death Eaters go into exile in Argentina]], in possibly one of the strangest invocations of this trope ever.
9	* BadassNormal: Hermione’s parents may be Muggles, but they’re deadly with firearms.
10	* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Many words are spent on how ugly the antagonists are (as well as how beautiful the male leads’ wives and girlfriends are). Notably, [[spoiler:Millicent]]’s shift from rapist to love interest (in a “Humour/Romance” fic!) is accompanied by her working out and losing weight.
11	* {{Blackmail}}: Apparently, this is how the young Tom Riddle got Slughorn to teach him Dark magic: he’d caught him [[PaedoHunt molesting a second-year boy]]. Yes, in a “Humour/Romance” fic.
12	* CardCarryingVillain:
13	** The Weasleys and Dumbledore, whose motivations are shallow at best and completely unexplored at worst.
14	** Voldemort and the Death Eaters take this to a ludicrous extreme by actually ScoringPoints based on how many captives they torture, although that may have been a metaphor.
15	* {{Chickification}}:
16	** Hermione doesn’t do a great deal in the fic. Hell, [[MugglesDoItBetter her own mother]] is actually a bigger ActionGirl than she is, despite having crippling emotional problems and still being poorly written.
17	** Luna gets very little dialogue and even less action, to the extent that one reviewer suggested she could be replaced with a desk lamp (a reference to [[http://uk.ign.com/articles/2013/06/20/kelly-sue-deconnick-talks-captain-marvel-pretty-deadly-and-the-sexy-lamp-test this]] article on female characters in comics) and none of the readers would have noticed.
18	* CoversAlwaysLie: The header says “Humour/Romance”, but there isn’t much of either.
19	* DeusExMachina: There isn’t really any other way to describe Harry and Hermione being sent into the past by the ghosts of James and Lily after a ceiling falls on them.
20	* ExpositionIntuition:
21	** Harry and Hermione seem to know what Horcruxes are despite having gone back in time ''before'' the events of ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''. In fact James and Lily explain it to them in the afterlife, but one could blink and miss it.
22	** Also having gone back in time before HBP, Harry shouldn't know who Slughorn is nor his significance to Voldemort’s backstory. This is [[HandWave explained]] as him having access to Voldemort’s memories, which [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands isn’t mentioned until that point]].
23	* FatBastard: Every overweight character (see BeautyEqualsGoodness) but especially Slughorn and [[spoiler:pre-redemption Millicent]].
24	* ForcedTransformation: Voldemort gets turned into a squirrel, thanks to [[spoiler:Lord Potter substituting a squirrel bone]] in the [[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire resurrection spell]].
25	* FunWithAcronyms: [[spoiler:Harry [[StartMyOwn starts a new wizarding school]] and calls it the “[[ToiletHumour Potter Institute for Sorcery and Spells]]”]].
26	* GoldDigger: The Weasleys here are only interested in Harry so they can get their hands on his Gringotts vault, despite being far too proud to take his money in canon even when he offers it freely.
27	* {{Gorn}}: As in ''Fanfic/InThisWorldAndTheNext'', some of the death scenes fall into this, notably [[spoiler:[[LudicrousGibs Gregory Goyle, Senior]]]].
28	* GratuitousRape: Apparently, it’s standard practice for Voldemort and the Death Eaters. [[DarkerAndEdgier Of course it is.]]
29	* HairTriggerTemper: Absolutely everyone in the story flies off the handle at the slightest provocation. The only real difference between the heroes and the villains is that the former get away with it and the latter just shoot themselves in the foot by doing it.
30	%%* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Dumbledore and the Weasleys.
31	* LovePotion: The Weasleys had a plot, which was apparently two years in the making, to dose Harry and Hermione with these so that they would fall for Ginny and Ron.
32	* MagneticHero: Harry, even more than he is in canon: even when he’s going into rages that make CAPSLOCK!Harry from ''Order of the Phoenix'' look calm, and [[ClusterFBomb effing and blinding at everyone in sight]], everyone not a DesignatedVillain thinks he’s wonderful and they all fall over themselves to join him.
33	* ManipulativeBastard: Dumbledore is even more manipulative here than he is in canon, but [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain less effective]]. Lord Potter ''is'' effective at manipulation, but often prefers just to shout and swear at everyone until they back down.
34	* MenActWomenAre: Most of the plot of the fic seems to be driven by the male characters, with even Hermione being relegated to a supporting role even though she’s named in the header.
35	* MugglesDoItBetter: A running theme throughout the fic is how wizards underestimate {{Muggles}}, culminating in [[spoiler:Mrs Granger shooting Mrs Weasley]], which MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
36	* MythologyGag: As is customary for the author, Mr and Mrs Granger are called [[Creator/DanielRadcliffe Dan]] and [[Creator/EmmaWatson Emma]].
37	* ObligatorySwearing: There’s a lot more of it than in the books, even allowing for Creator/JKRowling’s famed NarrativeProfanityFilter.
38	* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Every antagonist in the fic is a pure-blood supremacist, regardless of how little sense it makes based on their canonical portrayal.
39	* PeggySue: Lily and James send Harry and Hermione back in time after they get killed in the Department of Mysteries. Nothing about Potterverse magic, ghosts or the afterlife suggests that this is at all possible.
40	* PerfectSolutionFallacy: As far as this fic is concerned, the fact that Dumbledore’s plan to defeat Voldemort has some flaws makes him as evil as Voldemort himself. This is a hallmark of robst’s writing.
41	* ProducePelting: An irate crowd covers Minister Fudge in conjured tomatoes.
42	* ProtagonistCentredMorality: Very much so.
43	* RapePortrayedAsRedemption: [[spoiler:Ron gets this at the hands of Millicent, with whom he subsequently [[StockholmSyndrome falls in love]]]]. [[SarcasmMode “Humour/Romance” indeed.]]
44	* RevengeFic: Against Dumbledore and the Weasleys, of course, neither of whom do anything to deserve it in canon.
45	* RocksFallEveryoneDies: This is literally how the author kills off the cast in the original timeline, except with a ceiling instead of rocks.
46	%%* RomanticComedy: Theoretically. See CoversAlwaysLie.
47	* ScoringPoints: The Death Eaters apparently have “Death Eater points” earned from torturing people for the Dark Lord’s amusement. What form these take is never made clear.
48	%%* SelfParody: The “Humour” promised by the header is mostly of this kind, and doesn’t always seem to be intentional.
49	* StartMyOwn: [[spoiler:What Harry decides to do when he’s finally had enough of Hogwarts: found his own wizarding school]].
50	* ToiletHumour: A fair bit, but the name of Harry’s [[spoiler:new wizarding school]] is the most egregious example, even inspiring the name of the first abortive rewrite.
51	* UpdatedRerelease: Currently in progress: the extent of the update is debatable, especially as many spelling, punctuation and grammar errors have survived uncorrected, but it does make the [[LostInMediasRes confusing beginning]] a little less so.
52	* WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma: There are a lot of comma splices. As one reviewer put it: “I think someone once told [the author] [[WallOfText not to write ten sentences where one would suffice]] and he misinterpreted it.”

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