Correction, a good anti-hero!Harry.

 

....so basically almost all the azkaban fics?

 

Ahh, Deadpool!Harry.

 

The only reason people like anti-hero Harry is for the author-audience circlejerk over funny one-liners and gritty wit. Somewhere, somewhen, it was codified that the only realistically intelligent heroes are the ones that are constantly utilizing sarcasm at any and every moment.

Oh, and anti-heroes have sex with multiple women.

 

It worked in the Denarian Trilogy.

 

I'm not doubting that it works - which is to say, "I'm not having that kind of thread-jacking discussion here."

I'm just saying that really, the "anti-hero" at this point is no different than a Gary Stu, in terms of people's rabid desire to consume stories that only feature one caricature or the other.

/derail

 

Small idea popped into my head yesterday.

So what if the power the Dark Lord knows not is love, but not in the way Dumbledore expected? Perhaps Harry is strolling through London or Diagon Alley one day and comes across an interesting broad sword.

This broad sword is, of course, Amoracchius. The sword of love.

I'm thinking of this as a full Dresden Files crossover, but I suppose you could exclude everything else but the sword.

From there the story would primarily focus on Harry's duties as a Knight of the Cross, whether or not he ran into anyone from the Dresden Files being optional. Although it would be interesting for him to be confronted by Shiro.

Because unless you altered the timeline, Sanya wouldn't have the sword of faith yet, and Michael wouldn't have Amoracchius (obviously).

Thoughts?

 

Where does it say that Micheal didn't have Amoracchius in the early 90s?

 

In fact, I'm almost certain he has it. After all, Michael meets Charity when he saves her from a Dragon, which he slays with Amoracchius, and then they marry and have Molly.

I'm not sure what her exact age is in canon, but she's definitely over 18, so that would mean Michael should have the sword during the Harry Potter timeline.

 

I think what he was getting at was that due to unexplained events, Michael no longer has Amoracchius, not that this takes place before he takes it up.

 

More like he never obtained it in the first place, but yeah, basically. Probably should have made that more obvious.

 

Small little idea from me, not too good, but once an idea is stuck in my head I like to flesh it out. Knowing my luck, a story like this has already been done.

Starts book one. Harry receives invisibility cloak. He closely inspect the thing, due to what an amazing piece of magic it is and his own curiosity. He notice an odd marking on it, that of a bisected triangle circumscribed around a circle. Harry is curious as to what the symbol means, so he goes to the only place he can think of, and that is the library of course.

He discovers the legend of the Deathly Hallows. It is plausible as many people do know of the story, only most thinks it just that; a story. All the information he finds is just that of theory and speculation, but most have descriptions of what the items look like and can do if they actually exist. Harry realizes his cloak fit the description and now knows he has a piece of the set, and that means the rest must exist as well. He makes it his goal to collect them all.

Some time later he comes across Snape and Quirrellmort arguing about the protection on "the stone" The piques Harry's interest as the Hallows have been on his mind quite a lot, particularly the Resurrection Stone and the ability to see his parents (especially after seeing them in the Mirror of Erised). Whether or not it is a fools hope and a longing for something he can't have, he thinks the stone is the Resurrection Stone, and he comes up with a logic that fits. It is a powerful magical artifact desired by many. It is a small stone, and that is what he saw in Gringotts. He ignores Hagrid's mention of Flamel and just puts it off as one of Dumbledores friends, as Flamel is never mentioned in the text of the Hallows. He realizes that the stone is probably what is being guarded by Fluffy on the third floor, and that by the looks of it both Snape and Quirrellmort want it.

Harry wants it too, and want it to himself. He takes the cloak, and with it makes it too the final chamber untouched. He is the only one there and gets the stone from the mirror. He then realizes it is not the Resurrection Stone like he thought, but something unknown. The mirror saw that he didn't want to use the Philosophers Stone for himself so it gave it to him. As a side note, the cloak hides him from everything, and the sole exception to that is the wielder of the other hallows and that is why Dumbledore's 'Homanum Revelio' showed him.

Harry makes it back up to the Gryffindor common room with no one being any wiser. He now tries to research this new stone without being suspicious about it, but surprisingly (or not surprisngly) it is Hermione (or a different smart friend) who figures out Nicholas Flamel.

Eventually they (Harry, Ron, Hermione, unless I decided on doing a different house or friends) think Snape is going after the stone, and with Dumbledore out of the Hogwarts that today is the perfect time. McGonagall disappoints them, and Ron says they have to go proetect it themselves. Harry shows them the follow of their ways, (and because he knows that the stones isn't there anymore and not in danger) he says that a bunch of first years won't be able to do anything, and either Snape gets the stone and they live, or Snape gets the stone and they die, and Harry prefers to live.

So they wait for Dumbledore to get back, and he goes down into the chamber and defeats Quirrellmort. Dumbledore sees that Quirrell did not get the stone, but he himself cannot get the stone out either. He realizes that he desires the stone for its own purposes as well, no matter how small that desire is, and believes that perhaps the stone is better off remaining in the mirror.

Harry is quite content to keep the secret of the philosopher's stone to himself, and is glad he did not go down into the chamber. He wanted to live, and with the stone he could live forever. But he still desires the other two hallows as well.

That's it for the first book. I don't really have much fleshed out after that. The rest of the books would diverge quite a bit. Harry figures out how to activate the stone (probably on luck, which he has an abundance of) perhaps he takes a greater interest in alchemy and other subjects he wouldn't normally be in. perhaps learning suddenly seems much more important, as he doesn't want to be a retard for all of eternity. It takes a long time to dawn on him the significance of immortality, as such a thing is hard to comprehend for an 11 year old. Perhaps all the gold from the stone has turned him into the classic indy!harry.

-edit-

I'll probably never write this as is, and this is just something I quickly thought of during thanksgiving dinner.

 

Would he be a good guy or a bad guy?Amassing knowledge,wealth and anything he can think of while immortal or doing all this for the 'greater good'?

 

He'd spot Dumble's wand almost straight away yeah?... Gaunt Ring, could be a bit harder to work into the story.

 

Wouldn't the Flamels want their stone back?

 

Idle thought that I had earlier which is probably complete and utter bollocks, but still - end of the Order of the Phoenix, at the Department of Mysteries screw up. Diverges from there.

Harry gets flung through the Veil instead of Sirius, but instead of dying, he falls out of the other side - unharmed and alive.

Harry starts acting odd in the following days, eventually culminating in Harry smashing his way into either the Great Hall at mealtime (where there's witnesses via the student/teacher population) or Dumbledore's office (with special guests, such as the Minister or the Order), and demands that Dumbledore gives him "the first Hallow" in an unnatural tone of voice.

Before this happens though, Dumbledore suspected that it was merely the Prophecy weighing down on Harry's mind, and that he needs time to digest it.

Turns out that Harry's unique situation (the Prophecy, the close contact with Death due to the failed AK when he was a baby) allowed Death itself to hitch a ride using Harry as the vehicle, and is now using/possessing him so it can regain the Hallows.

In the process of tracking down the Hallows and returning to the Veil ('Death's quest'), Harry essentially causes complete and utter chaos: destroying Voldemort and his horcruxes as 'collateral damage', unintentionally bringing down the Wizengamot and the Ministry, wrecking Azkaban, etc.

Harry -in the meantime- is aware of what's going on, but is willingly going along with it because Voldemort and his power-base is being destroyed/crippled at the same time. When Death finally regains the second Hallow, the Stone, he communicates with those who have died: his parents, Cedric, etc.

 

Ichor that just sounds boring. I don't want to read about some invincible creature in Harry's body kicking ass. I want to read about Harry kicking that creatures ass in many imaginative ways. Also the last part sounds like it would be horribly angsty. On the other hand I'd probably at least give it a try if something came out with Harry with it's own body and started wrecking havoc.

 

I frankly don't care.

The story needs to be written either way. It could be thoroughly :awesome in the hands of a good author.

 

A blend of Ichor's and Anarc's pbs...

Harry discovers that being the master of death, is actually some shit and not just another funky wizarding world title like the b.w.l.

The cloak, stone and wand come together to form a sentient being known as Ankou (look it up), and he/she is a magical construct designed by ... I dunno.. the 'ancient ones'..
His/her mission was to bring the Peveral Brothers to the other side of the veil, but they were able to trick him/her and splitting up each of the hallows..
However reunited the being re-assumes it's primary goal of reaping souls.
It can go anywhere undetected by using the cloak, overpower any magic using the wand, and when it wants to be seen, it can assume the appearance of a dead relative/loved one using the stone.
I dunno.. You could give it a personality, or have it obey Harry as his own personal, uber-hax Helmed-Horror.

Alternatively you could do the above, as a failed engine of death created by the three P's, using a boggart-horcrux on the stone to predict who the victim would fear the most from beyond the grave, but they abandoned the project cos it was too unstable.

Or it could have been just for some muggle-baiting lulz...

Might even have a Bleach crossover if ur that way inclined, and have it as one of 'Mr Hat-n-Clogs' escaped research projects or something.

So many possibilities.

 

... I'm going to be blunt.

That sounds like suckiness made text.

Maybe someone like nonjon could pull it off successfully, but other than that, no, just no.