Chapter 4: Course Study/Incidents and Family Secrets
Art by Crash X Fusion: The trauma begins...
Luz and Amity make plans for their first tutoring session. While Luz learns something from Eda, Amity goes through a shocking experience.Tropes that appear in this Chapter:
- Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Eda gives Luz one of these when telling her to tolerate Amity as her tutor.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: The chapter's opening statement features Hooty asking the author if he'll get his own chapter. He later calls himself the "greatest character in the story".
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Luz single handedly takes on an entire gang of Hogwash students with no trouble at all.
- Debut Queue: Lilith is introduced at the end of the chapter.
- Early-Bird Cameo: The mummy girl who mugs Amity is one of the top students of Glandus High, who aren't introduced as a concept until next season.
- Flashback Cut: When Luz mentions Eda teaching her how to read, a flashback shows her learning her ABC's as a kid.
- The Ghost: She's still mentioned but this is the first time since her debut that Boscha doesn't physically appear.
- The Illegible: Turns out Luz has such terrible handwriting, she needs figurative and literal help in improving it. Just writing her name baffles Amity.
- Internal Reveal:
- It is here Amity realizes that Luz's "support stick" is just a bat for hitting.
- It wasn't until here and now that Luz learns she has an aunt or that said aunt learns of her existence.
- In Spite of a Nail: The breakout at the Conformatorium has occured exactly as it did in the show.
- Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: During the mugging, the mummy girl steals one of Amity's boots. Her partner states she always does that, pointing out the fact that they're not even the same size.
- Luminescent Blush:
- Luz flushes in embarrassment when Eda pats her head.
- Amity does this in reaction to Luz whispering in her ear.
- Not Hyperbole: When Luz calls the Hogwash students buttfaces, one of them actually turns out to have a face shaped like a butt.
- One-Woman Army: Again, Luz vs. a whole mob of Hogwash students: Luz wins on her own.
- Sand In My Eyes: King claims he just has something in his eye and not because he wants to be part of the tender moment between Luz and Eda.
- Shout-Out:
- Luz previously attacked a boy named Larry Coppers from Hogwash School of Magic for claiming to be a "chosen one". It's one big, fat Expy of Harry Potter.
- The criminals listed at the end are comprised of Snakeweed Vendersnatch (the crystal ball thief), Wendel Jabberwock and Stary Watterfly.
- Spit Take: The second King mentions Eda's sister, Luz performs one.
- Sticky Fingers: Eda taught Luz how to pickpocket, a trick she's mastered.Luz: (holding Eda's wallet) Taught me too well.
- Take That!:
- Harry Potter gets one in the form of Hogwash.Luz: Oh, I remember him, he was that obnoxious, high-class student thinking he's a chosen one just because he's got a horseshoe scar. Seriously, this is what happens when you pressure some poor kid with high expectations for your own needs. Not healthy that way.
- One of the magic schools Luz lists is Spellman Academy.
- The criminal known as Stary Watterfly was arrested for magical terrorism over "not getting a boyfriend".
- Harry Potter gets one in the form of Hogwash.
- Wham Episode: Amity is mugged by two criminals, which leaves her traumatized. Meanwhile Luz learns about Lilith, who is informed of the former's existence for the first time.
