So I was watching my way through the Fast and Furious series while playing some video games last night and I had a thought, what if there's a similar underground racing world in HP? Like tricked out custom brooms and carpets and such. I thought up a simple line or two for the opening but I had no idea how to proceed, so I'm hoping someone else takes this and runs with it.

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The carpet vibrated under him as he waved his wand a few times, checking some of the more questionable charms that he had laid down. The inertial dampers were working and the updraft catcher was settled and waiting. He gripped the yoke that sat in front of him as he tested the pedals, one was spelled to fire a gust charm behind him, the other a gust charm in front of him. Acceleration and Braking so to speak.

A scantily clad witch on a broom drifted onto the "track" that was basically two long winding lights enchanted to float in the air, painting out the direction they were to fly. She looked between the four racers and grinned.

"Ready?" Four wands shot out sparks.

"Set?" The crowd started cheering as the four racers jammed their accelerators down, fighting the braking pedal for control.

"GO!" the carpets leapt forward, distorted air flying out behind them as they sped off into the night sky.
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So the only real thoughts that came to me is that A) Brooms are basically motorcycles and carpets are cars and B)I have no idea where this is set, who the main character is or what the plot is.

Help yourselves.

 

If you include a Devon Aoki-ish character in the story, I'll ready anything.

 

So who will be the hot topless babe waving the flag?

 

I'm thinking a 19year old Gabrielle Delacour? Younger sister of a upright and staunch supporter of the Ministry falling in with the illegal and underground bad boys.

Su Li for Devon Aoki maybe?

 

Yeah and Harry will accidentally trip inside of her again after he wins the race with his pimped out Firebolt V2.

 

This... actually is a pretty awful idea.

Here's the issue. The majority of people who write HP fics leave out Quidditch because they can't or refuse to try to make the game sequences exciting. In a world of magic wands and spells that can pretty much do anything, complete with a constant looming threat of evil... Harry chasing after a golden ball on a broom just gets a bunch of skimming.

So that's the problem. People aren't good at making broom-related stuff exciting. It's boring in the actual books. Now remove the game and make it a prolonged action sequence involving people... flying on suped-up cleaning tools and floor coverings through literally no traffic because there's secrecy laws, and you have... what? Something awful no one will want to read. People wouldn't read books based on the Fast and Furious movies because the reason they see those things is the visuals, not the gripping storyline.

Not to crush your dreams, but...

Well. Actually. Entirely to crush your dreams. This is a terrible idea. To put it in perspective, Paimon and I managed to mock up a GordonRamsay!HP who becomes like Walter White through use of superior cooking skills, the idea solidified accidentally in under 2 minutes, and it would still be more plausible and very likely a much more interesting read than a bunch of people on brooms (...or carpets. I guess) vrooming around the clouds seeing who can fly straight fastest.

 

I assume you read the title of this thread Calz.

Also, I'd totally read a Gordan Ramsay!HP simply because if you can get the mannerisms right then Ramsay's ability to describe food is amazing.

 

Harry inherits Sirius' motorcycle and finds out his godfather used to attend underground races. Rival motorcyclist, and oldest son of the creator of the Firebolt, Cumulo Nimbus, has been winning nearly every race he enters, even occasionally injuring his fellow competitors. Harry decides to take it for a spin and attend one of the races, where he sees Cumulo guaranteeing yet another victory after his win. Harry finds the young man, two years his senior, to be a glory-hound that would make Draco Malfoy look like an angel, and so he challenges Cumulo to a race; the cocky man accepts initially, but Harry has to sign up for a full race -- with seven other competitors -- in order to get his chance against Cumulo.

Fortunately, Harry's a wiz (no pun intended) on a broom, so his skill translates well to a flying motorcycle. When Nimbus' biggest competitor (Clark Cleansweep) presents Harry with a souped-up motorcycle that will match Nimbus' dominance, Harry begins to think he might have a chance.

On the not so bright side, he's caught a glimpse of a beautiful blonde everywhere that Nimbus goes, and he can't seem to get her out of his mind. When her identity is finally revealed, Harry wonders if he has a chance with the most attractive woman he's ever seen: Nimbus' younger sister, Penny.

With flying motorcycles, a course that starts in Northern Ireland and ends in Normandy, and a score of new characters, Harry's sure to be in for a wild ride!

(I tried, bro)

 

It's better than anything I can think of.

 

Cheddar's got a good addition there. Add that to mine and I think you've got some feasible fanfic foundations, yo.

 

While applauding the efforts to make this into a usable idea it is still completely ridiculous.

Muggle authorities don't have magic to track racers. Even if you use the line, "The other guys have magic too." It still doesn't counter the fact that muggle racers can blend in with millions of people while magical speed demons are part of a far smaller and easier to track community.

 

Thinking more of the heists behind the fast and furious, how about have wizards transporting magical goods (valuable potions ingredients maybe?) that are to volatile to interact directly with magical transportation (portkey, apparation, floo), forcing them to be couriered on a magic carpet escorted by brooms.

Harry and squad would then rob the convoy.

 

Well, if you got Silens on the heists, Calz on the action, Don on the romance and Lungs on the magic of brooms, this gal could rock! And Ched, too, of course. Don't forget Ched. She's gonna be the one standing when the chips fall and she's gonna whip you boys back into shape. So, in other words, think of this as a fun project and nothing to take seriously. This is not an epic fic but it could be some awesome HP fun. Give it your best shot, whoever takes this challenge. I'd be very interested to see how this goes, even though it does have the potential to turn out disastrous - but like I said, interesting.