That does make sense, but that's the sort of thing I could see Lily doing, tbh. As for how she'd do it...no idea.

By the time Riddle made his...I think it was his third? Fourth? Horcrux with Helga's cup? The physical changes were notable, at least in his face. By the time he went to see Dumbledore about the DADA position, his features were waxy and blurred/burned?, and that was after even more Horcruxes had been made.

This is all off the top of my head though, for citation I'd have to go back and read the pensieve memory segments from the sixth book.

Making one Horcrux might not make any distinguishing physical changes, but making a second one starts a degeneration. I'm not sure if the mental issues if there are any of having a single Horcrux are shown in Riddle's back-story, though, so I'm not sure if there are any changes in that area.

It is quite evident that by the time of the Second Wizarding War, he's a complete nut-job. Could the amount of Horcruxes/amount of times he had his soul split cause severe mental instability?

 

What if they fucked up the Horcrux creating process? After all, they were rather inexperienced in the Dark Arts. So why not just leaving they imprints of their memories and personalities with a good deal of magic?

So maybe when Harry accidentally cut himself and drops a little blood on the Map, the James Potter part of the Map recognize the magic in Harry's blood and latches itself to it wanting to be reunited again with its owner. Because of the parts of the other Marauders are tied together they follow it to Harrys mind, effectively giving him a little magic, their memories and their personalities. It would be a good Skizo!Harry fic...

 

Harry sees the memory of Riddle meeting with Hepzibah Smith right after graduating (when we know he has made at least one Horcrux):

So no, I don't think making just one would be very noticable.

 

And don't forget that he also did some nasty rituals beside the Horcruxes. And as the saying goes: 'Everything has a price.'

 

Anyone?

I'm a huge fan of the fallout series. How about a hp crossover with fallout just before the bombs fell or ....after? A Nuka Cola drinking, Grenade Chucking Hp just sounds of all kinds of awesomeness. Or Go back even further In a hp/fallout history and juxtaposition one on top of the other? Does anyone think that would work, or would it take too much energy too create?

 

I do believe that is coming dangerously close to the Lie I've Lived.

 

I recently got the idea to write a crossover between Harry Potter and The Tarrin Kael Firestaff Collection, but I have one little problem with this one I don't know at which point in the timeline of both series I should start writing.

 

YMMV. There are two at FFN, in the HP crossover section (under Fallout, naturally).

 

In response to the plot bunny posted a few posts up...
There is a story that contains Sirius coming back from the Map, with a twist. I haven't read all of it, but the part I did read was pretty good.
Short Review
The writing is excellent, but I felt like some characters were not done to my tastes.
Some ideas are very original, but after 5 or 6 years, the story does feel a tiny bit dated.

Also, has slash.

Link

 

I figure that would be the biggest obstacle in a fic like this. Almost every fic I've read which has the young Marauders fails because Sirius is a cookie-cutter irresponsible teenager, James is exactly like Sirius except he's constantly chasing Lily, Remus is Hermione, and Wormtail is Neville.

If I write it I also vow to never use a prank as a plot device. If pranks must be done they shall offscreen at the most.

 

Has anyone watchd the 'Final Destination' films, here?

Well, vague thought; Death's after Voldemort due to the rituals and Horcruxes that he's done in his quest for immortality.

Haven't thought it out that much. Tired.

 

Any story from Voldemort's POV is automatically win.

 

Reminds me of this fic.

Masters of Death

Read it, you might get some inspiration.

 

Alright, making a referral back to my last plot bunny (sorry about this, but I don't have anyone else to talk to about it)...

:backpedal

I've got a plan for the fic from when Harry revieves the map to his first vision from Voldemort in GoF. Third year is mostly character progression and showing how much the Marauders have changed whilst in the map.

Harry finds out about the Marauders living inside his head when they block the first vision from Voldemort. Now after that, should I start diverting from the canon plot line? Or should I keep it relatively similar but make Harry's reactions different?

 

Yet another plot bunny from me. Sighs, you'd think I'd get around to writing a story one of these days. Fear of epic failure and laziness most likely prevents it though. At any rate, this one is a DH rewrite. Now, this diverges at a slightly different point in canon, and it has some other slight differences along the way. Namely, Harry didn't stay around for the Weasley wedding.

This story picks up down the road a bit after Ron has abandoned Harry, and after the whole trap at Godric's Hollow, Hermione leaves Harry to fend for himself as well.

So, we find our hero continuing his journey alone, malnourished and trying to find a lead. This leads him to the one death eater's house that he knows will be unprotected, Fenrir Greyback's. He doesn't have a working wand, but at this point he isn't really thinking like a sane person. Anyway, when he approaches the rundown shack in the middle of the woods he finds it empty save for a couple of rabid dogs in a pen ripping into what appears to be the remains of Gabrielle Delacour.

Well, if you haven't figured out where I'm going with this yet then you need to read more. Harry goes psycho kills the dogs and waits for Greyback to get back where he proceeds to smash his nose (major weak point for a man who is more wolf than man) and binds him to the stove before setting the house on fire. Perhaps, he makes a comment to the man who fancies himself more wolf than man about how wild animals will bite through a leg to save their own life before setting the house ablaze. If it isn't clear this is the beginning for a Harry Potter taking care of business Rorschach style fic. Trench coat and fedora are a must. :awesome

As for the reason Harry isn't captured after being left with no wand, well simply after realizing Harry Potter has been hiding from certain means of tracking for so long death eaters have simply stopped using those methods as an attempt to track him.

Yeah, I'll never write it but yeah. There it is. Now, I'm off to go watch Rorschach and Deadpool on youtube. I love that theme song.

Edit: After watching that, I think there is plenty of room for a Harry Potter as Deadpool crossover as well. He does become the master of death after all....

 

Why would Hermione abandon Harry after sticking with him for so long?

 

The same reason anyone does: frustration.

 

I dunno. Maybe that would work, but I think it would be better if she were to die there. Might provide an impetus for Harry to go over the edge too, if he blamed himself for getting her killed and stuff.

 

Interesting idea I had last night.

Voldemort was a wanted criminal, but he wasn't always so. There was a time when he was free to walk around and interview for DADA jobs. So there must have been a moment in time when he was declared a wanted man and warrants were put out for his arrest.

You can imagine a time, early on in the war (~1970), where he was politically active and could walk through the Ministry, careful to cover his tracks whenever he killed anyone. The DMLE would try to charge him multiple times, but they could never get anything to stick. Like Falcone in Batman. Dumbledore would be starting up the Order, fighting a primarily legal battle of evidence-collection to try to put him away.

There would come a time when they finally had the evidence they needed and would bring it to light and try to arrest Voldemort.

I'm picturing a one-shot of Voldemort's last day as a free citizen. He's in the Ministry, up to no good. If I wanted to go along the line of a cliche, it could be a Ministry gala event.

There would be a series of (well handled) flashbacks establishing his various deeds.

The Order finally has the evidence they need to pin Voldemort with murder. They time everything perfectly so that Voldemort is in the Ministry and surrounded by Aurors when the DMLE gets the information they've been looking for.

The Aurors try to arrest Voldemort, but both they and the Order have underestimated his sheer magical brilliance, and the number of hidden supporters he has collected. He defeats the Aurors, kills the Minister, and escapes with the aid of a Death Eater who was also at the event.

Wanted posters go up around Britain. The war begins. The Ministry is completely unprepared.

End.


The idea is somewhat in response to a common criticism of Voldemort's actions: why didn't he go the political route and try to become Minister, rather than try to take over by force? This one shot would answer: "maybe he did, and failed".

 

Love the idea and it gave me idea of my own. How about young Tom Riddle slowly getting more political power with only Dumbledore having serious doubts about him, but for a various reasons (main one - Tom is aware of his attempts) he can't find any hard evidence.

Enter - fresh from Auror's Academy Alastor Moody. Full of energy, young idealist who accidentally come across organization of a dark wizards called Death Eaters with their mysterious leader Lord Voldermort. But can he expose them before they will kill him?

I see it as origin story of how Moody become the man we know with all his constant vigilance philosophy. The end would be him winning and finally exposing Riddle, only to realize that he just started another wizard's war.