Lol Heather, have you read In Light of Silver Memories?

Awesome fic. To this day one of my favourites.

 

Me too, shame it was never finished.

 

Yes Taure, Just read it; very good fic. However it was a little too Dumbedore for me. I was thinking more along the lines of Harry acquiring Dumbledore's memories and screaming out in agony, "OH MERIN!!! I'M GAY!"

Or maybe sitting in an armchair in the Gryffindor common room saying, "Care for a Mars Bar?"

I'm all about the one liners. :awesome

 

How about Harry being sent to Azkaban for Time Travelling? He and Hermione supposedly broke one of the most important Wizarding Laws in PoA, after all.

Or an Azkaban!Harry trusting Snape for his well-being, only to be sent back to Dumbledore or Voldemort? I'm not a very big fan of the genre, and having Snape almost always on Harry's side definitely doesn't help matters.

 

Sorry, this isn't so much a plot bunny as it is a story title that I can't really think of a plot to go along with.

"Harry Potter and the Big Gigantic Penis of Death"

I mean really... is that full of win or not? Are you saying you wouldn't open it up a story with that title at least and give it a read?

 

Sounds like a TGYH challenge to me.

 

Harry Potter/A Clockwork Orange crossover: Harry snaps after taking out Voldemort. He gathers a gang of droogs, and practices ultraviolence and the ol' in-out with every lady he runs across, willing or no, all to a Van soundtrack. Then he crushes Susan Bones's litso with a mega-phallus ("naughty naughty, Susie") and gets Ludovico-conditioned by Dumbledore and Snape via potions and pensieve as opposed to psychotropic drugs and videos.

Ron as Dim seems incredibly apropos.

 

Got a problem with it not being Harry-centric? Want to include more of him and add a twist at the end, perhaps?

Hermione has a change of heart and she sabotages the test. Her much less competent coworkers think that what they were trying to accomplish simply isn't possible, and abandon the plan in favor of finding a different big stick they can threaten the 'pro integration' communities with.

Hermione, feeling quite smug and pleased with herself at how she has probably just saved the entirety of Wizard-kind, and her coworkers come back from the test site's observation post to deliver the 'bad' news about the project getting shit-canned, only to find the Ministry in absolute chaos. Why? Harry Potter is tearing a swath through Diagon alley.

Turns out that all this time, Harry has been in isolation, brooding over the war, the way the community as a whole, and Dumbledore specifically, had fucked him over time and time again. Hermione basically shook her head at Harry's behavior and opted to toil away in the Department of Mysteries researching magical WMDs, rather than take a greater interest in what was happening to her friend.

By now, after years of brooding, Harry is batshit insane, or worse, completely sane AND murderously enraged by the perceived betrayals of everyone who he sees as having visited injuries upon him.

He has spent all his time keeping to himself, burning through his inheritance rather than going out and working for a living among the people who spat in his face until the day he killed Voldemort.

Idle hands are the devil's playground, and Harry has spent some of that money on obtaining whatever naughty books he hadn't already received with Grimmauld Place. Hermione would be surprised to discover he has many, many more ways to kill someone these days than just a well-timed Expelliarmus... and he's still the Master of Death.

Hermione has been concentrating on the usual odd projects the DoM devotes itself to, like magical super weapons designed to kill off magic in entire countries, not better ways to take down a single 'dark lord caliber' combatant.

Harry's internal torment has driven him to adopt a philosophy which can, perhaps, be best summed up by quoting Sweeney Todd, "We all deserve to die... because the lives of the wicked should be made brief, for the rest of us death will be relief."

Since death would be a blessing to the innocent, whose lives would have been shit anyway, why not crush Wizarding Britain, and let god sort 'em out?

After N days/weeks/whatever of the Ministry trying to stop Harry and failing miserably, Hermione realizes there may be only one way to stop him from truly becoming the next dark lord and taking his revenge campaign beyond Britain's borders, use the anti-magic bomb she recently 'proved' wouldn't work.

She tells a precious handful of people to get the fuck out of Dodge by "this time tomorrow", while remaining as vague as she can about why they should. She then sets up the device, waits until the appointed time, and destroys magical Britain along with herself and her, now mad, best friend.

Or, Even Better...

After warning her friends, as above, she sets up the device and moves away to a safe distance on a small, convenient, island within viewing distance of Hogwarts, so she can watch the school in which she learned magic during its final moments.

She sets the thing off, knowing that she has just sacrificed Wizarding Britain in order to save the world, and sheds poignant tears as the school she loved, despite the struggles she endured there, comes apart and falls to the ground.

By her own hand, she has just killed all but a few British witches and wizards, including all the innocent muggleborn children who were waiting in ignorance for their Hogwarts letters. Now there's only a pile of loose stones, silent paintings, and bittersweet memories where the school once stood, and corpses all over Britain in place of future students.

[And, in all likelihood, all the Muggle-aversion charms, magically hidden properties, and unplottable locations suddenly failing/appearing all over the UK, not to mention the unexplainable mass deaths, probably alert the muggles that something fucked up is going on - Precisely what the bomb was being developed to avert.]

Just when the proverbial dust is settling and she's preparing for a long, magically extended, life of torturing herself over whether or not she did the right thing, on the shores of Scotland and maddeningly visible from Hermione's vantage point, Harry pops out from underneath Death's invisibility cloak, the way people believe cockroaches could survive a nuclear apocalypse (Hermione could tell you they can't).

Turns out, it's good to be the Master of Death, really good, and even better that Hermione never researched precisely what that entails (a project she probably would have been keen to do, and would have kept her in close enough contact with Harry that she might have prevented him going nuts in the first place).

So she killed every magical person, place, and thing in England, Ireland, and Scotland, except the one person she needed to stop. On the other hand, since everyone who fucked him over is dead, Harry calms right down and goes home (which the muggles can now see, but it's no skin off his nose, because as the MoD, he can still use magic in the dead-zone, and he recasts the Fidelius) to have a nice, hot, cuppa, leaving Hermione to drag her devastated self over to France (outside the dead-magic zone) and spend some quality time trying not to develop her own guilt and failure-induced psychoses.

For a one-shot sequel, it's years later and Hermione has gone batshit insane because of what she did and how, ultimately, it both failed and succeeded at the same time. This time SHE is the one who goes on a rampage and either Harry has to stop her, succeeding or failing as the author wishes, or he's still nutty enough to join her... and the world burns.

It's a twist, on top of a twist, on top of a twist, like a braid, only this one wraps around your neck and kills you. Oh wait, that's called a noose.


Just throwing that out there for the hell of it. Actually, stories where it's up to Hermione to stop a rampaging Harry usually suck too.

 

Alright, alright... if this is gonna happen, I insist on having some Barry White on in the background and a large bottle of some really cheap jug wine. :banana:

 

I like it Warlocke. Get Perspicacity to write it.

 

I like that plot a lot Warlocke, and if I had time, I'd be interested. Maybe with a few tweaks, and if too many people don't do it first, I would start something like that. I can just imagine the ending.

"You always were the smartest," he called, chuckling. "I couldn't have killed that many people, and I'm the Master of Death. I guess I can always rely on you to go above and beyond to make sure I finish my work."

 

Glad you both liked it, though it is just an offshoot (okay, a large tangent) of blazzano's idea.

LOL, ouch!
The crazy Harry might not rub salt in the (unbelievably grievous) wound like that, he'd probably just go home and have a bowl of cereal, though the sane-but-raging Harry might. Poor Hermione.

Actually, I did get bitten by a related plotbunny a while back.

Harry and Hermione were both sentenced to Azkaban for tampering with time and various other related infractions.

For some reason, the minute they arrive, their section of the prison becomes the dementors' favorite.

Eventually they break out together, but by that time they are much spookier, more amoral, and more powerful than before. Then revenge stuff happens. :mrgreen:

Where it would go from there, substance-wise, is as of yet beyond me.

Currently it exists as a paltry 2,629 words of notes, and the priority is pretty low.

And it doesn't get much lower than being the most recent, low priority plotbunny out of roughly 77 semi-developed stories, which I have already admitted will never be posted (it's for the greater good).

Which may or may not be as sad as the 64,444 words of notes for story #35 or the 78,377 word (yet still far from complete) first story, which the world is a better place for not having read (par for the course, as first stories go).

And if the 46,374 words of my HP/Evangelion crossover, something there is just no call for, ever evolves into a real story, there really will be a Second Impact.

Gotta love the nature of plotbunnies.

 

Writing Elder Wand!Harry, I could see being extremely fun, especially one who could reek havoc on Britain from a position of knowledge as the former head of the Auror Department, or even as a trainee before he gets that old.

Though the excuse isn't really an excuse, with good writing one could emphasize that Harry's laziness in school could be excused as the result of some unconscious rebellion, some faceless unhappiness which kept him from focusing, like the childhood of failure forced on him by the Dursleys or the constant threat of death (doesn't always inspire diligence). From there, I could see Harry realizing his extraordinary averageness in the face of having his life molded, guided, and shaped by some of the most powerful wizards of the century. And from this understanding of being essentially the end result of the influence of Lily (charms, potions mistress), James (transfiguration, Marauder's Map, animagus, silent casting at 15), Dumbledore(obvious), Voldemort (obvious), Snape (spell creation, mental arts, defensive/dark magic), and perhaps the entire Order (exceptional in most cases), he could discover the same quirk for exploring and creating magic. Harry, though lazy, did not lack potential. With the Elder Wand and a reason to sharpen his skills (Auror), the latent ambition of his childhood could resurface.

EDIT: And the most interesting idea I think I've ever had, if Dumbledore could foresee this change taking place in Harry if and when he survived Voldemort, is if by some circumstance (created during the plotting) Dumbledore left to Harry, or Harry naturally came into possession of, the Grimoire of Dumbledore and Grindelwald. It would be like Harry's discovery of Snape's Advanced Potions, but infinitely more fucking awesome.

Experimental!Harry ftw.

 

Experimental!Harry sounds like a name for a bad story featuring Harry/Ron dorm room romance.

On the other hand, a Harry with the experience of Head Auror and the knowledge of the Ministry's infrastructure could be an incredibly interesting place to start piecing together a Dark!Harry story.

Say that he was betrayed by the new political regime, or some such, leading to the death of one or all members of his family, and you've got a motive. Tweak this as needed, or come up with another idea and disregard this one entirely as needed. I don't know where an author might take that, but it could be worth fleshing out.

 

Ever since I heard Oppenheimer's quote a few days ago, I've had a semi-formed insane Harry Potter as Master of Death plot bunny, but Warlocke's blown mine out of the water. Someone has to write that. Now.

But, Ive had another idea related to the Master of Death.

Dumbledore, desperate to find a way to destroy Voldemort's Hocruxes, and Voldemort himself, unites the Cloak, Stone and Wand to become Master of Death. Destryoing Voldemort's Hocruxs, and consequently killing Harry who is promptly resseructed, Dumbledore is driven to set himself up as a God amongst men in order to ensure that no-one will be able to rise up like Voldemort and try to commit genocide. And so begins a mass slaughter of the intolerant.

Harry, angered by Dumbledore's betrayal, starts a resistance against him. Then, the entire story revolves around a war between Harry and Dumbledore, with Voldemort eventually joining in (on either Harry's side, or Dumbledore's) seeing as only Harry can kill him, even with Dumbledore as Master of Death.

 

Nah, that goes against everything Dumbledore as a character stands for. He lost his sister to thinking like that, he's not going to go for it again.

 

True, I always seem to forget the circumstances that led to Arianna’s death. That pretty much destroys the idea seeing as I can’t think of any other way to lead to Dumbledore as the Master of Death.

 

OMFG. Binns hears about Dumbledore talking to fawkes about the Hallows (Because DD is crazy) and decides to become the master of death himself!

 

I'd have to read that story one-handed, 'cause I'd be stroking my dong with the other hand. Seriously, it sounds like one of the best plot-bunnies I've seen in this whole thread.

Taure will insist you call him "My Lord" or something, or dress up like Bellatrix maybe. Maybe U-No-Screw?

Agreed. You're not busy, Pers, amirite?

Where did I put my brain bleach?!?