Yes, you read correctly, the First World War, not the Second.

I find myself curious as to whether any HP fics have been written set primarily in WWI, and where I can find such fics if they do in fact exist.

FF.nazi's search engine is down for me at the moment, so I was wondering if any of my illustrious fellows might remember reading one off the top of their head.

I have a strong suspicion that the list will be short in the extreme if not outright non-existent, but I can hope, at the very least.

 

I've been looking for some of these fics, too. Sadly, I didn't even find crappy ones. My Google-fu is fairly weak, though, and FF.net's search engine is simply retarded.

I imagine the fics will feature Dumbledore as the protagonist. That'd be cool. Perhaps some time-travel? Dunno. I'd be happy with some recs.

 

This is totally unhelpful, but I recall reading a fic years ago where Harry had somehow landed himself in a muggle POW camp in WWI or WWII. He eventually found a magical wooden pipe (IIRC he had to win it in a card game with another pow) and managed to somehow craft it into a crude wand and escape.

Maybe those details would help? I did some googling to find fics but this thread is the first (and only relevant) result.

 

Wow, I'd totally given up hope of anyone actually responding.

Also, Googling revealed just one fic:

The Old Lie by Molly44

Spoiler

The contrivance that the recruit wouldn't be able to use magic and would have to consign himself to muggle means of fighting the war is a load of shit because when the bullets start flying, fuck your laws.

I would have preferred to see WWI battles with magic in them.

 

This isn't what I suppose you were looking for, but its a really interesting concept and worth reading. It's a short one shot btw.

 

Someone should write a HP time travel fic, featuring Harry in WWI, on the western front...:awesome
Hey, it'd be good for the May contest entry, too! :awesome

 

Hm... well, the Muggle Western Front involved a lot of sitting in trenches filled with shit and corpses, running away from mustard gas and suicidal charges to win a few yards of land. Not too exciting. Not like WWII at least. But I can only imagine what the Wizarding side of things could've been like. Hmm... I'm interested. Especially if we can have moments of young-Dumbledore being badass or something.

Is there much canon info about Wizarding-WWI? I don't remember anything.

 

I don't think there's any canon information on a Wizarding-World War I (WWWI?). There's barely any information on WWWII actually. Just that Grindelwald was wrecking things up in Europa for The Greater Good, while Dumbledore was chilling in Hogwarts, and Grindelwalds defeat in 1945. I remember Rowling hinting in an interview about relations between Wizarding and Muggle wars, but she left it at that.

I do remember reading something about Hooch's broom being shot out of the air in 1918 or something on the HP wiki, but I don't know where they got that information from.

 

According to The Lexicon, she has no canon first name that has been independently verified by Rowling herself, and no birthday. As for her age:

The problem with this? Who knows how long the damn thing had been around before she got to learn to ride it? Just because it was made in the early 20th century doesn't mean she didn't ride it until 1950. We know for a fact that brooms are expensive, and we have canon examples of people using them for long periods of time. Why must we assume she's 100 years old?

And then we have the Harry Potter Wiki . . . which bases its information on the HP&tPS video game. I suppose it's better than nothing . . .

Were I in a Canon fight, I certainly wouldn't use this, but as a basis for fanfic? Sure. I can accept it. Even better if she was kicking ass and taking names in the aerial battles. Have her alternately get in battles/have an affair with Baron Von Richthofen.

Anyway, that said . . .

Yeah, I'd prefer to see either Dumbledore kicking ass, or HP himself accidentally fail!timetravel into the Somme or Ypres, or some shit like that.

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HP/WWI Time Travel Idea: Somehow Harry, got transported to 1914/15. He gets arrested for lack of any papers/ect . . . and gets conscripted. He spends months in the trenches and has to obliviate the fuck out of his battalion as he casts shield charms and bubble-headed charms (he happens to be there at the first use of gas by the Germans on April 22, 1914).

He works his way up the ranks, eventually becoming a Major, and he prepares his troops with shield charms before a charge etc . . .

However, after battles, it's basically, "come here to be obliviated, plox"

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Harry walked up to Private Gerald Harper. Both were wearing surprisingly clean uniforms considering how long they had spent in the trenches. It was April 23, 1915. The day before, green clouds had rolled over their position over No Man’s Land. Harry, recognizing what was happening as his comrades choked and died immediately began casting the bubble-headed charm on every troop he could. It was the first gas attack on the western front and Harry managed to save almost an entire battalion’s worth of men as he ran down the trench casting over and over. “The Statute of Secrecy be damned!” he thought as he ran. His commanders yelled impotently, but their attempts to shoot him for desertion were foiled by his shield charm.

Harry cast a cleaning charm on Gerald, causing his uniform to become like new. “Gerald, listen, I need you to do something for me,” Harry said conversationally.

Harper nodded vigorously. His savior was here. “Anything for you, Harry!”

“I need you to forget I ever existed.”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean like this: Obliviate.”

 

What would be the main objective of the story? Harry finding a way back as he kicks the Central Powers' ass? It's not bad, but it seems a little... shallow.

 

Why would he have to find his way back? Finding a purpose in life after (presumably) surviving WWI would be something to do - say, trying to prevent WWII/Grindelwald.

 

Nah, Harry in the tranches is not enough awesomeness. the first war wasn't so depending on technology,so he could do the cloak and dagger thing. Now,that would be awesome.

 

Definitely.

Especially a Harry who's actually studied the war.

Have his main guilt be that he can't save them all, but he's basically stuck in a small batallion on the Western front but unable to do anything about the various genoncides of the war.

It wouldn't be all that funny, but what if Harry got transported back to modern day, in his 20s, full of shell shock, going into seizures from the slightest bang.

Watch all of Niall Fuguson's "The War of the World" and see that WWI is no simple matter. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP_X7cb-gwU&playnext=1&list=PLFE79F8DF49019930 <== Playlist.

 

Actually...
The only reason I mentioned Harry on the Western Front is because Dan Radcliffe may/will be in a remake of All Quiet on the Western Front in 2012 or 13.

 

Hmm . . . interesting. It's about time that they make a movie about WWI instead of II. Too bad it's only a remake.

 

Meh, I'd think it would be more interesting if Harry was the one who started WW1 by forming the Black Hand.

 

Great to read would be a young Dumbledore + young Grindelwald aiding their Muggle counterparts in the trenches, occasionally moving ahead on their own to take out the solely magical opponents. Of course, some sort of plot would have to be devised, but that scene alone--Albus and Gellert rocking the trenches, mingling among the soldiers, trying to go unnoticed until it all blows up in their faces--sounds awesome.

 

He doesn't necessarily have to be involved with the Black Hand. He could start it through any number of means. It wasn't called the "Powder Keg of Europe" for nothing. Even if the Archduke hadn't been assassinated, something else could have just as easily set it off. Though the finer details probably would have changed.

I could see a plot where Dumbledore and Grindelwald become Revan and Malak-like figures and lead a small army of wizards to intervene in the war "for the greater good," maybe, with a time-traveling Harry joining them. Maybe tie it in with him starting it and now wanting to help end it out of a sense of responsibility.

 

And he was already in My Boy Jack.

 

Maybe he saw the Archduke was controlled by an Imperius, tried to break him of it and failed, and led to him getting assassinated instead...or something.

Your second idea reminded me of a one-shot where Harry travelled back in time after the Wizarding World is exposed and destroyed by Muggles, and he killed Aberforth and Ariana to push Albus thoroughly anti-Muggle. The story's name escaped me at the moment, however.

Can we has Jack Kipling VS Paul Baumer plz?