The Umbrella of Almightiness
(Russian: Зонт Всемогущества) is a Harry Potter fanfic by Samus2001 and Desmond, written in Russian in 2017.
It is written in third-person limited from the point of view of the seemingly naïve and simple-minded gamekeeper of Hogwarts Rubeus Hagrid, who turns out to be the true Chessmaster of Wizarding Britain. When, as a child, Hagrid faces discrimination and disdain as a half-giant, he realizes the world would never accept him – so he resolves to change the world.
The fanfic contains examples of:
- Accidental Truth: Turns out, Hagrid makes sure Myrtle would be in the toilet with the entrance to the Chamber of Secrets, so the canon accusations against him weren't entirely untrue.
- Adaptational Intelligence: Hagrid in canon was fairly simple-minded and a bit careless despite his good nature. In this fic, that was all a case of Obfuscating Stupidity, and he's actually a master schemer.
- Adaptational Villainy: Good-hearted Hagrid from canon becomes the quintessential Manipulative Bastard.
- Affably Evil: Hagrid's fondness for the Golden Trio and love for Madame Maxime are completely genuine, and he campaigns for the rights of all the magical creatures rather than only for himself.
- Anti-Villain: Hagrid is the Well-Intentioned Extremist variety. His machinations result in a lot of tragedy, but it's all to build towards a world where magical creatures won't be discriminated against.
- The Bad Guy Wins: Hagrid's manipulations go completely undetected, and the fic ends with Wizarding Britain on its way to finally granting magical creatures equal rights.
- The Chessmaster: Dear God is Hagrid one. Every event in the main canon was in fact orchestrated completely by him.
- Differing Priorities Breakup: When Hagrid sees that Madame Maxime would rather conform to the existing world than change it, he breaks up with her.
- The Dog Was the Mastermind: Hagrid, whom nobody even takes seriously, turns out to be the one who plotted the Wizarding Wars.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Hagrid's fondness for the Golden Trio and Madame Maxime are legitimate despite him factoring them into his schemes.
- Failure Gambit: Hagrid deliberately sets himself up to be framed by Riddle and expelled, to make himself even more insignificant in the eyes of the world.
- He Knows Too Much: Hagrid distracts Dumbledore with the Horcruxes, indirectly causing his death, and kills Alastor Moody, because both of them begin to suspect him.
- It's All About Me: Heavily downplayed (Hagrid genuinely wants equality for everyone, not just for himself) and Played for Laughs – at one point, Hagrid mentally dubs Voldemort "He-Who-Tired-Rubeus-Out-So-Much".
- Laser-Guided Karma: The very social circles that ostracized Hagrid would end up having their own bigotry turned against them without their knowledge, as they became pawns in Hagrid's plans to grant equal rights to very magical creatures they oppressed.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: In the end, having achieved his goal, Hagrid is now planning to marry and have "a lot of little Hagrids".
- My Greatest Failure: Hagrid's father, unaware of his son's plans, dies of grief after Hagrid is expelled, and Hagrid vows to never have such a tragedy repeat again.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Hagrid's best weapon. Nobody would suspect a well-meaning but bumbling gamekeeper (who just happens to blurt out or mumble important things...).
- Unwitting Pawn: Every Harry Potter character, up to and including Dumbledore and Voldemort, turns out to be a chess piece in Hagrid's plan and victim of his subtle manipulations.
- Villain with Good Publicity: If Dumbledore said he would trust Hagrid with his life, then Hagrid is certainly loyal and trustworthy, if stupid and gullible. Right?
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: It turns out that Hagrid was the "Dumbledore" Harry talked to in the Afterlife Antechamber.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Hagrid's goal is to have Wizarding Britain achieve equality for all magical creatures. He simply concludes that putting it through a devastating war would be the easiest way to do it.
- Xanatos Gambit: In the Battle of Hogwarts, Hagrid was ready both for Harry's survival (hence the staging of the Afterlife Antechamber scene with "Dumbledore") and for Harry getting Killed Off for Real (in which case others, or Hagrid himself, if it came to the worst, would be able to defeat Voldemort anyway).
