There are so many well written harrys of different types. Cunning, brave, genius ect, ect...

But what about a coward Harry? Not the way you might think but the type where Harry always runs from his opponents rather than fight while throwing profanities to piss them off. My ass is probebly gonna get burned for this but meh!

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Challenge 1#challenge number :

Summery: In a post apocalyptic world devoid of seasons, where man's "golden age of magic and technology" ruined earth and caused the government to run amok. Lives became cheap and things that people once took for granted had there prices go up exponentially. (All this happened after the scar incident so it's your go.)

Harry, at a young age ran away, abandoning his little brother to the Dursleys. To who knows where, trained by magic or technology or both, depending on your choices.

The Government of the magic and the muggle community was put under martial law because of crime rates, the mafia, violence, all the usual shit that happens when a country collapses. The whole country has hit a whole new level of low.

And Voldermort isn't even back yet.

Through a series of coincidences, the ex-Auror-now-bartender Rufus Scrimgeour, the deranged and dangerous Alastor Moody, the vengeful yet kind Neville Longbottom, and the freelancer Harry meet one another.

They have a series of adventure through out the wizarding world as well as the modern world. Weather it's personal or just there for the joy ride ie: Harry

Someway or another Dumbledore gives them a mission of gathering all the horcruxes and destroying them because Voldermort is back using some means, weather it's Harry's blood or not.

Rules: This is more of a dark world but still holds a humorous tone to it because of Harry and the rag tag band of people he goes on the adventure with.

-Harry is addicted to cigarettes (XD i don't even smoke) and uses profanities
-Neville has his confidence
-Harry's brother is not arrogant or stupid in anyway.
-Rufus Scrimgeour is as deadly as they come and quit because of his past.
-Harry has bad luck.
-All four are forced to deal with there issues of there past and confront them during the adventure.

Random ideas:
- Harry has to be an idiot but a dangerous idiot who is addicted to smoking. Tends to ask his enemies for smokes if he doesn't have any.
-He works as an intelligence agency that gathers information and sells it to the highest bidder. Ie: Taking scandalous pictures of the minister doing naughty bits with his daughter or something. But thats just an example.

 

This "challenge" sounds as if a random word generator was used to make a list and then it was fed though a machine to make it somewhat cohierent . . . and even there it falls short.

 

Bad challenge IMO, sounds like a low budget straight-to-DVD movie. Sure It could be turn out good if a decent author were to write it but no decent author is going to go near this....

 

Coward!Harry sounded interesting, but you lost me with this plot you'd like to squeeze him in.

The problem is, this 'Harry' of yours hasn't grown up like 'our' Harry, doesn't live in the same world, doesn't have the same destiny and doesn't act like anything we'd expect him to act. So why call him Harry when he's actually an OC in everything but a name? You might as well call him George or Nick, as nothing we know about Harry James Potter plays even the smallest role in this setup.

 

It sounds like you've played too many RPGs.

 

And watch too much anime.

 

Well, I can see how this could be interesting, but you took it a bit overboard.

However, I would read this if a really good writer took it up.

Things I really don't like about it:
'the vengeful yet kind Neville Longbottom"
"Someway or another Dumbledore gives them a mission of gathering all the horcruxes and destroying them"

 

Seriously, you gave far too many small details [Lol profanities make me cool! WASHED UP AUROR --> BARTENDER FTW], which don't even make sense in the grand scheme of things. There would be no reason for Scrimgeour to become a bartender - he was one of the only 'aggressive' Political figures in canon.

Second, you the small parts of the challenge that you DIDN'T give information on is very important. His 'little brother abandonment to the Dursleys' for one - why the fuck is this in here, and why isn't it elaborated on?

Third:
This made me lol. Pretty hard, too.
Taking scandalous pictures of the minister doing naughty bits with his daughter or something.

Eh. I'd say 'This could be done by a good author', but then again, that can be said for a LOT of fiction. Fuck, look at The Dresden Files. Conceptually, it's just a shitload of cliches and staples to the fantasy genre. However, since there WAS a great author, it's one of the most loved book series here at DLP.

Good luck with your challenge anyway.

 

I'm going to apologize for any stupididty coming out of my mouth because currently, i'm blazed, drunk and it's 1:30 in the morning at Tuesday...just a warning. And i got a job at 8.

Thats pretty much what i went through...it was a brain fart so i felt like typing it down.

I suppose i should have alloberated on the plot more. But the thing is, the Harry the authors write now a days is not based on canon at all. They are all OC's. But i suppose i should edit that when i'm little bit more...conscious.

...Not even close. Except maybe Guild wars...but i quit.

...'sniff' I thought me and anime had something special

Even i never thought that far. Good thinking! But anyway, i meant this fic challenge on a humorous level. Not anything to be taken seriously at all.

 

Coward!Harry does sound interesting. But I still fail to see how your Harry is a coward? Maybe I'm thinking of it as a extreme, but your Harry doesn't sound like a coward. More like a ordinary teen. And why exactly does he have to smoke? It doesn't make sense to me really.<_<

 

Because smoking makes you cool, obviously.

 

One more 'must' to add to the list:
- Must not call the main character Harry Potter.

EDIT: @Oz: fucking LAWL.

 

Lol @ Oz's pic.