I was like 'awesome, necro!Harry plot idea'. And then I read Silens' post, and I was like 'LOLOLOL POKEMON FUCK YAHZ'.

I think that the trainer shouldn't be Giovanni; I think it would rock if it was someone like Red. Giovanni just never had the 'bad guy' look about him, whereas Red in G/S/C always looked like he could kill you with his pokemans.

Since the idea of crossovers is up, I was thinking about a Harry Potter/Pan's Labrynth crossover. Instead of Ofelia being the daughter of the ruler of the underwold, it is in fact Harry(SURPRISE!). I'm not quite sure where it would go from here, but that's not from lack of options. Perhaps there is a labrynth on Hogwarts grounds, near Surrey, or even in Godric's Hollow. It could take place anywhere, at any time, because Harry could feasibly be bored/looking for clues in any of the canon years.

Rule of Three could go well with the GoF, wherein Harry has learnt that certain magical animals, such as fauns, have been known to help witches and wizards in need. Harry askes Hagrid where to find them, and Hagrid asks around pubs/consults his magic map of plot and tells Harry that there was one seen in the Forbidden Forest. Obviously Harry would be forbidden by Hagrid to go find it, and probably promised to help look for it after the dragons have moved, but Harry just dun care.

Really, by now I'm not sure if this is a horrible idea or if it could work. I think the biggest problem is that there isn't a Spanish revolution trying to fight in the background to make it more thrilling.

 

Agree. I always wondered why no one tried levitating the inferi. After all, they can just walk and eat. If you put them up in the air, or tie them up by their ankles on your grandma's chandelier...

Lulz could be had.

 

@CareOtters:

That was way more awesome than I thought it would be. Great job, keep the rest of the story to par with that extract and you're heading straight for a 5/5 rating. Well, 4/5 from those members who think you write too laconically, of which there would be a few. Not including me, mind you.

 

I thought that the conciseness of the prose was the best part of the writing style. Stylistically it wasn't amazing, and the dialogue in particular needs work to be realistic. Another gripe was that there wasn't enough emotional depth to the characters to make the action engaging, and the tension wasn't maintained particularly well, especially as it was interrupted by too much introspection which threw off the pace.

But yeah: that's mostly just the writing stylistically. The actual premise sounds promising, and I can't judge the style based on such a small sample.

 

You know, a Guild Wars: Prophecies/Harry Potter crossover could be fun. (shrugs)

 

Here's the thing, and this is one of my biggest obstacles with this story: whether I should stick closer to Pokemon Special (the manga) or closer to the anime/game-verse. A lot of audiences reading the story would be much more familiar with the universe introduced in the game or anime, rather than the darker, grittier world introduced in Pokemon Special. Part of this would come down to the story's tone, and I'm not entirely sure what direction I would like to take for this in terms of the story's atmosphere.

But even with the usage of the manga as the focus, I'm having a difficult time seeing the motivation for Red to collaborate with either Riddle or Voldemort. That's why Giovanni seems like a better option - he's got an entire criminal organization (and if we go by the manga, several gym leaders) under his command or on his payroll. And I feel confident that with the right setting and writing, Giovanni could be as menacing as Red ever was.

Ultimately, my big issue right now is modelling how the magic would work in collaboration with Pokemon. Ultimately, the Killing Curse is still effective, but when the majority of Pokemon have lethal or near-lethal movesets, it could place the Order in dire straits indeed.

 

You know, Gi' is a muggle. Doesn't Voldemort, I'unno, hate those?

 

He hates weakness, and craves power. Giovanni has power - of a very different sort. And is an evil bastard.

There are always exceptions - he'd be willing to overlook his muggle nature if Giovanni proved useful enough.

 

Eh, I'm not too sure about that, tbh. It's more likely he'd just exterminate him and his group of followers for being a potential threat after he's ripped/take anything of use from him, namely the Pokemon.

He has made exceptions for the 'non-pure', though: Fenrir being one of them. Then again, since it was Fenrir's goal to create enough werewolves to overwhelm the wizards, ol' Voldemort would of probably of executed him when his usefulness came to an end. Some Death Eaters had to have been half-blood, since (according to Hermione), there wasn't enough pure-blooded wizards left to completely make up the Dark Lord's ranks.

Gi's a complete muggle, though, as in having no magic at all. Since Voldemort hated muggle-borns enough to either just collect and then dump them in Azkaban or just outright kill them, muggles, who to him are lower than shit on a shoe...ya'know? Doesn't look too bright.

 

Mewtwo, biatch.

If they encountered one another at the right moment, Giovanni could have appeared to be a pretty powerful wiard, albeit by proxy.

And in any case, having a small army of monstrous creatures capable of spewing ice, fire, and lightning...

To someone who knew nothing about pokemon, and came from a world of magic, it'd be a pretty easy assumption to make that they were magical creatures. Even though the magic didn't come from Giovanni, he'd still be in control of it, still be the one commanding the power.

That would be good enough for a power hungry megalomaniac, I'm sure.

 

You have a point there. As long as Voldemort's kept in the dark, and something interferes with the ol' magic mind reading to stop him from finding out, it could work.

 

A psychic pokemon would do that, I imagine.

 

I'm definitely interested in the Necromancer!Harry bunny. My Pokémon knowledge leaves a lot to be desired, but I'd probably still take a look.

CoS divergence point: Harry and Ron don't contact the useless Lockhart after Ginny's kidnapping, they go to the former Duelling Champion, Filius Flitwick. The climax changes quite a lot and Lockhart's reputation gets ripped to shreds by his former fans.

Not enough material there for much more than a one-shot probably, but the idea intrigues me for some reason.

 

I'd expand on that more and have a series of one-shots where increasingly unlikely characters join Ron & Harry down into the Chamber, with hilarious results. :awesome

 

In the red corner, a thousand year old basilisk! In the blue corner, a ravenous Horntail, fresh from Hungary.

Ready...FIGHT!

 

Heh. This would work great as an open challenge for everyone to write their own Chamber story.

 

Or a collaboration, where each new author added a new character to the ever-larger group down there in the chamber.

 

That would just be a cluster fuck. Individual characters have much more potential.

 

Do we have a thread on one of those things where someone writes an intro, another adds some words, then another, then another, etc.? There's probably a specific name for that kind of thing.

CareOtters collaboration idea reminded me of it.

 

Chain 'fic?

That's pretty much what I was thinking of when I said collaboration. I know there was one in the Dresden Files area of the forums a while ago, but couldn't answer for HP. Of course, you could always start one up yourself if you're interested.