I've just always wondered at the prospect of what would be done if Voldemort had actually gotten his hands on the sorcerors stone.


Subject: Stealing the stone.

Challenge #1

Summery: Simple. Voldemort as Quirrel gets the stone, and an eleven year old Harry is forced to find a way to get it back.

Rules:
*Someone trains him in the arts of thievery. (Maybe Mundungus)
*Must include Harry actually learning something.
*Maybe have someone actually each him how to brew potions.
*And an animagus form maybe a mouse or a fly.

 

I started one like this a while back, but abandoned it in favor of using those ideas on WWSHD. I did post what I had in hopes that someone would continue it.

Harry Potter and the Ascension of the Dark Lord

 

Arts of thievery? Arts of bloody thievery? It's not an art, it's jemmy the lock, grab the valuables, and scarper before the owners get home. Or, in the case of Voldemort-made wards, try to jemmy the lock and get a flesh-eating curse right to the ghoulies. And Mundungus is a petty thief, not Indiana fucking Jones. And even if Mundungus has been hiding a fedora and whip on his person, between the time it takes to train a skill-less 11-year-old into a Master Thief, Voldemort would have built an utterly unassailable position with his newfound immortality and probably conquered the whole of Britain, wizarding or otherwise.

Besides, Black Comedy already did this.

 

As did a H/Hr/LL fic, that I cannot remember the name of at the top of my head. "Luna Lovegood" was part of the title though.

 

Larceny, Lechery, and Luna Lovegood! by Rorschach's Blot.

 

Fuck Voldemort stealing the stone, I want to see a fic where Harry makes out like a bandit and steals the stone. Of course, he wouldn't use it for some years as he wouldn't want to be stuck in pre puberty forever, but still, I think it's an interesting idea. I would like to see a cunning Harry trick Quirrelmort out of the stone, and then trick Dumbledore into thinking it was destroyed.

This doesn't have to be Slytherin!Harry, you could just make it a Clever!Harry or Ravenclaw!Harry, hell, you can even do Klepto!Harry who steals and hoards magical items like young Tom Riddle.

This needs to happen.

 

I saw a fic where Harry nicks the stone. Sort of. Crossover with Ranma, where Ranma and Herb get trapped as chicks and reverted to Harry's age with those age mushrooms. Harry plays the straight man to Herb and Ranma's semi-insane power-hungry mastah thieves.

I liked it. It had a scene where Griphook was getting a blowjob under the desk from a hooker.

Here it is.

 

Cool. The only other HP/Ranma crossover I read was fail. I'm going to start that one a little bit later.

 

There was a Marauder-Era fic that used this as the explanation for the legend of Peter Pan - him possibly being the youngest known alchemist. Can't remember the story title (it was probably on a site I wouldn't dare peruse nowadays. Hmm), but it would be an interesting idea to explore.

 

When I read the thread title, I was instantly reminded of that old movie "Romancing the Stone".

Heh, the biggest problem with any plot is knowing where you want to take it, and figuring out how to get there. Once you know what you want to do, you can figure out how to get it done. There's no real goal here for the plot.

 

Is it readable if I the only thing I know about Ranma is that's it's anime?

 

Ranma is fucking retarded, so anything crossed over with it will be good for a laugh, at worst.

 

Spend a couple minutes reading the wikipedia article and you'll be good to go.

Uh... either you meant at best, or you think fucking retarded series makes for good fanfiction. Besides, Ranma's a pretty popular gateway to fanfiction, so fuck you right back.

 

No, hoe - I don't misspeak.

Worst case scenario: he'll read it, not like it, yet get a giggle out of how shitty the X-over attempt was. Best case scenario: he'll read it, actually end up liking that shit, and find more to fap to. Ranma, while retarded, won't cause anyone to claw their eyes out like the average HP/Marvel X-over attempt.

 

You're right, Justblaise. Ranma 1/2 is a pretty retarded series, but some of the fanfiction it has spawned is among the best out there today. Unfortunately, the one Tehan linked to is not among them. I struggled to read it but couldn't finish. It's a pretty bad fic written by a sloppy author.

 

While it may have spawned some of the best fan fiction it has also spawned some of the worst, then again the same could be said for Harry Potter.

 

The general quality of HP fanfic is definitely worse than Ranma's, I'm sorry to say. It's not because Ranma fanfiction was written by erudite authors who could dazzle their readers, but because the barrier to entry was higher for fanfic publishing, and the two creations have very different audiences.

Ranma was largely limited to fansub VHS and scanslated manga available online. Access was restricted to people who both knew what anime and manga was, and had internet access back in the late 90's, early 00's. Consequently, university students and uni anime clubs were the main source of Ranma fans.

That meant that many Ranma fanfiction authors were educated, and either uni undergrads, or high school students who were headed that way. Also, fanfiction.net was only a fledgling service back then. All decent Ranma fanfiction was published on personal websites, mailing lists, newsgroups, and established archives. Some authors had mirror-accounts on ff.net, but they often weren't kept up to date, and were rarely the main source for an author's work.

Fanfiction.net was widely criticised for lowering the barrier to entry for published fanfiction. It was a cesspool that was publishing shit and we all knew it. There was no incentive for people to improve their writing, and horrible fanfiction was routinely praised. We watched as HP fanfiction centered itself around ff.net and happily kept our distance.

Harry Potter has slash loving fangirls (something Ranma never had thank god!), and indeed it took me a long time to work out what 'slash' meant, because I'd never come across the term before. HP introduced me to a lot of replacement, cutesy, feminine words (drabble, plot bunny, ships) and other affectations that still disgust me. I feel dirty just typing them out here. Real men don't have 'plot bunnies'. -_-

Harry Potter fanfiction has very few barriers to entry. The novels and movies are freely available to everyone, and even an idiot can publish their 20 minute masterpiece on ff.net. Ranma had a more discriminating, better educated, audience that grew without the 'benefit' of ff.nets presence. We still had out 14yo dickheads though.

Ergo, while there is shit and gold in both fandoms, Ranma 1/2 fanfiction is generally of a higher quality than Harry Potter fanfiction. That's why 99% of my fanfiction reading material comes through DLP. Without this forum to filter out the dross, I'd probably just give up on HP altogether. It's worth noting that because the HP fanfiction scene is so much larger than Ranma's ever was, there is more high quality material out there, it's just harder to find.

*Yak removes his rose-tinted glasses*

Hmm. The quick reply became an out of control, multi-paragraphed monster.

 

yak, you're a gentleman and a scholar. I knew it wasn't just nostalgia that had me believing that wading through Ranma fanfic for gems was less of a chore than the same for HP.

In hindsight, the fandoms are really damn similar. Ranma/Akane - Harry/Ginny, the love-it-or-hate-it canon ship. Ranma/Ukyo - Harry/Hermione, the best female friend becomes a lover, runner-up in popularity to the canon. Ranma/Kodachi - Harry/Bellatrix, the protagonist and the psycho. Boy!Ranma/Girl!Ranma - Harry/Lily, the odd, squicky ship with a few intriguing stories. Popular story formats in the shape of The Bet and Azkhab&!Harry. Hell, it even had a Vash in the form of WFROSE, and a Tragedian in the form of Doghead Thirteen.

I'm getting all nostalgic and misty-eyed now...

 

Are there any other Harry pockets the stone fics out there besides the Ranma crossover? Seems like that'd be an interesting idea in and of itself.

*Coughs* I actually started reading Ranma fanfiction before seeing the anime or reading the manga. Needless to say I was highly disappointed with the canon after some of the better re-tellings.

Tehan; Don't forget Harry/Slytherin!girl - Ranma/Nabiki or Ranma/Ryoga - Harry/Draco (Not that I'm a slash fan, but the parallels are uncanny.) Hell, even Ranma/Kasumi - Harry/Luna is kinda similar.


(>> Why is Slytherin not in the spell check database yet?)

 

I second this. I know there would be some obstacles to this, but I for one would love to see a fic (especially a Dark fic) where this occurs. I mean, even an 11 year old can figure out the stone would be a good thing to have.