TBH, my rant was more directed at the OP than you. A subtle way of asking him to please please please don't use Neville.

Bolded part, quoted for absolute fucking truth. Voldemort was really dissapointing in the end of the books.

 

I'm definitely not using Neville, JWH. Have an idea about the first case. Have 3 chapters to write, until I come to that, though.

 

Can't believe no-one's thought of this yet...

Take the six central characters of House - Cuddy, House, Wilson, and the ducklings. Option one: switch House and Wilson so Wilson's in charge of the ducklings and House is the friend, one that continually terrorises the ducklings and generally sticks his nose in out of boredom while dodging Cuddy. Option two: Combine their personalities into one amalgamated kind-to-the-patients-but-still-snarky-terror-of-Mungos monstrosity.

Then translate all of them to HP and move it to St Mungos. Harry is Wilson or House/Wilson. Cuddy could be Pomfrey. Chase... well, Draco immediately springs to mind, and *could* be done well. And so on.

Any attempt to do an actual crossover is doomed to suck, what with the necessity of a magical revelation to House and the whole different continents thing.

 

Harry as Wilson and Draco as Chase work very well, IMO. If you can get past the pure weirdness of Draco becoming a Healer. Or he could be replaced with any random Slytherin, like Zabini, Nott...
Not too sure about Cuddy!Pomfrey, though.

 

Pomphrey (spelling?) is a freakin' Mediwitch (spelling?) at a school! It doesn't make sense for her to get a Cuddy position. It won't be an actual crossover, I will just take the general idea of House and adapt it to HP universe.

 

She's a Mediwitch for *Dumbledore*. Post-war (this is post-war, right?) politics could very well elevate anyone Dumbledore-aligned to high positions.

But on the other hand, since the job's purely administrative... Madame Bones after she leaves the ministry for one reason or another? Or possibly McGonagall after she decides she doesn't have it in her to run around after a tower full of seven years of magical brats? To hit the same vibe as House whoever it was would have to have some sort of history with Harry.

 

Bones or McGonagall would work, just not Pomphrey. What administrative skills could she have after spending so long as a Mediwitch in a school? None, me thinks

 

Or you could include Pomphrey and throw in the mindset of the new TV shows Nurse Jackie and HawthoRNe - Doctors don't know shit and don't care about patients, and nurses do everything and know everything. Yay hospital politics...

 

Hm... That would defeat the whole purpose of a supa dupa healer team trying to figure out strange medical cases After all, it's not a supa dupa healer team if it's the nurses who know everything.

 

I really think you're better off not trying to make so many direct parallels to House, and instead taking the idea and running with it. You don't necessarily need every personality from House's team, or the same number of people, or specialists, or whatever. I don't watch the show, so I don't know much about it, but I think trying to limit yourself to that idea wouldn't be as good as the bit of plot you mentioned before about Harry getting involved "somehow" with the new Death Eaters/dark wizards.

But I think there's still room for the whole 'mysterious new magical malady' thing.

 

Oh, no no no. Maybe I wasn't clear. I'm just taking the general idea of House and that's all. It's just that if I have some difficulty to find a character or a mystery I like, I will borrow from House. At the moment, the only things I am taking from House M.D. are these:
1. Due to some reason (need to figure out that one, probably Dark Wizards), many prominent people or their family members are falling ill with some strange diseases that are too difficult for one healer to solve, so they assemble a well-rounded team to try and crack these cases.
2. The leader of the team will have a very similar personality to House's.

There will be some nobodies getting ill too, because it's needed to throw off suspicion that there's something strange going on.

To get to another topic, what's actually known about Healers from Cannon? Is it mentioned somewhere what NEWTs or OWLs they need?

Oh, I just had this idea! Really, just had it. When typing this post. What if one member of the team was an Unspeakable? No, he wouldn't be an Unspeakable with supa Healing skills, actually, he wouldn't have a clue about healing, but having seen some really weird shit in the Department of Mysteries, he could help identify the magic to help fix the problem! That might be a stupid idea though.

 

According to the Lexicon Healers need an E in Potions, Herbology, Transfiguration, Charms and Defence Against the Dark Arts at NEWTs.

The presence of the Unspeakable would have to be well explained- after all, it's always been suggested that they're prodding to see what makes the Universe tick. As such, they'd have to have some kind of experience with Healing. The Unspeakable's presence would have to be well concealed as well- after all, any good attempt to take over the world must include a genius, and the more the better, so the antagonists would try to have a crack at them.

 

Maybe you could also take this into two directions: One has the main story line where Harry and the medical team have to find cures for the new diseases that pop up (whether they are created by a group of criminals or are natural is up to you) and if you take the scenario with a second "war" maybe it would be cool to see Harry torn between two things.

He is a really good healer and is needed in the hospital to solve this disease problem and at the same time he is a good fighter and is being pressured to help out there too and now has to decide which one is more important .

House sure is a cool character but wouldn't this throw off Harry quite a bit? mean it is one thing to take the shit from Snape (barely) when he is a student and simply can't say anything but at this situation Harry is a grown up wizard who is quite prominent. Somehow I don't see Harry taking the jabs of a House like character too well.

It would be interessting to read, of course, how Harry will develop some respect for this genius character.

 

Harry Potter is Hawkeye Pierce. It must be done. With Zacharias Smith as Frank, Colin Creevey as Radar, Susan Bones as Margaret, and Justin Finch-Fletchley as Klinger.

Zacharias: "This is the last straw!"

Harry: "Remind me to order more straws."

 

You don't HAVE to make Harry as the House character. I mean, he'd be fresh out of Healer training so it wouldn't really make sense, would it? You could have Harry and a couple others fresh out of Healer training joining some House-like Healer's team.

 

I've only watched House once I think, so forgive me, but if I remember correctly, House is an acerbic dickhead who happens to be very competent and is almost always correct. He rubs everyone the wrong way and the only reason most folks put up with him is because he's brilliant at his job, right?

Well, to me that sounds like Snape, so if you want Harry to be a Healer, have him be the new guy on a Healer team headed up by Snape-the-resident-asshole. Sure, it would take quite a bit of canon reworking, but at least you could get rid of a lot of the mutual hatred between the two, or at least Harry's hatred of Snape from Hogwarts if not Snape's hatred of Harry being James' son, blah blah blah.

 

There is a big difference between Snape and House, and that is that while both may be rude to others and good at what they do, they have very, very different views for the world.

Simply having Snape as the head healer/ whatever Snape is there for is not going to cut it. Snape's dislike is personal, extremely personal while House treats almost everyone the same. Harry and Snape would just row without getting anything done as the only thing which keeps student Harry in line is Snape's professor status, both being equals even with Snape as his boss he would not let Snape stomp on him anymore.

As such it would be good to include a House like character, although not exactly like House. There should be some differentiations.

 

I always wanted to do a Healer!Harry story that was more like a murder/mystery story. Harry would have settled down after defeating Voldemort and generally kicking ass at healing people.

Then, one of his patients is brutally murdered right after he steps out of his/her room, and he thus goes on to investigate, uncovering a dark arts ring of some sort, or a return of Voldemort, duelling and being forced to kick ass once more just to save his patients.

Basically rambo!Detective!Healer. Or House with a magnum.

 

...Watson?

 

God, for some reason that made me laugh so hard. It would be a horrible train-wreck. There can only be one Hawkeye.