YMMV / Yule Ball Panic

• Base-Breaking Character: Jasmine. She is far more mentally affected by her experiences than her canon counterpart, and routinely deals with anxiety, PTSD and a fragile emotional state. In the early stories, she's very quick to tears and/or explosive anger. When she decides she will not be a vicitm anymore, she becomes an extremely ruthless witch who cleaves through Death Eaters with no remorse. Opinion is split on whether this is a more nuanced take on Harry, or just another instance of making the character "dark" for the sake of being edgy.
• Awesome Moment: Jasmine's sheer destructive power when pitted against Death Eaters. She manages to kill and maim several Death Eaters despite dealing with broken ribs, the after affects of a Confusion Draught, and several hours of physical and psychological violence.
• Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: After the Second Task, everyone wonders why the champions worked together. Cedric explains it was to ensure the safety of the hostages, which Dumbledore dismisses as he believed his enchantments were enough. Cedric, Krum and Fleur proceed to berate Dumbledore for the sheer amount of danger that he has put Jasmine through and the complete inaction of the staff in regards to the school-wide hostility toward her. They ultimately get so protective of Jasmine that they leave with her without bothering to hear their scores.
• Designated Hero: If it weren't for Voldemort's obsession with her, Jasmine would have less than zero interest in taking part in Dumbledore's actions against him. Especially after Dumbledore's disregard for her wishes and violation of her privacy.
• Fridge Horror: Lucius Malfoy gropes Jasmine, and then knocks her out cold whereupon she awakens in the graveyard hours later. She spent several hours unconscious with Lucius Malfoy...
• Informed Wrongness: Jasmine and Hermione's relationship is supposedly viewed by the Magical world as intolerable, but no instance of overt homophobia appears outside of other characters being a little uncomfortable with it. More attention is given to the overt misogyny of the magical world and dousing Jasmine and Hermione in rape threats from the villains and never once does even the most outspoken bigot mention homosexuality. Even when Rita Skeeter fabricates a Jasmine-Hermione-Krum love triange, nobody pays heed to the implications of the first two names there.
• Iron Woobie: Jasmine has been abused by her family, bullied by her peers, isolated from her friends by Dumbledore, left alone to be put through numerous traumatic experiences during her time at Hogwarts including the Triwizard Tournament, and then the presumed safety of Hogwarts is proven to be false when she is kidnapped from the school by Voldemort where she is drugged, tortured, beaten, molested, threatened with rape and nearly killed. It's no surprisen that the other Triwizard Champions become fiercely protective of her and refuse to allow Dumbledore to put her in any more danger.
• Memetic Badass: Jasmine and Hermione. Powered up by their Soul Bond and extensive lessons on control, accuracy and dangerous spells with Flitwick, they become known for not letting Death Eaters escape alive.
• Memetic Loser: Lucius Malfoy. After molesting Jasmine and threatening to rape her into submission, he spends the rest of the series constantly being set on fire by her.
• Squick
  • Voldemort trying to use the Imperius Curse to get Jasmine to lick his foot. He fails.
  • When he finishes torturing Jasmine with the Cruciatus Curse, Voldemort says "I've heard it hurts the first time." Euuuuuuuuuuuuuugh!
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The Power of Love reaches this point by Chapter 40, as the sheer amount of violence and grim tones reach their zenith. Even the graveyard scene is made even more gruesome than in The Goblet of Fire by the addition of extremely sexual taunts from the Death Eaters and Voldemort. They even threaten to rape Jasmine on numerous occasions.
• Values Resonance: The entire story is a lot more careful in how it handles abuse and bigotry than Harry Potter, detailing the horrible affects throughout Jasmine's entire character arc of dealing with her crippling anxiety and bouts of catatonia. Hermione even becomes enraged when Dumbledore tries to suggest that the best thing for Jasmine is isolation with her abusive family during the summer.

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