TBH, this plot device, though it sounds pretty cool, seems more like wishful thinking than anything.

A major collaboration of stories would mean a major collaboration of writers, and a story with so many different writing styles in it, despite all being from excellent writers, would be a joke.

If one person were to write the story with the permission to use all these other Harry's, I doubt anyone can do justice to another writer's character. Who's going to write DR HP better than Shezza, or CR HP better than Swimdraconian?

But it's a cool idea nonetheless.

 

Round-robin with plot skeleton planned in advance?

:/wishful thinking.

 

I was working, so I was naturally daydreaming when these occurred to me:

The first idea is a HP/Numb3rs crossover where Harry is a sophisticated killer for whatever reason, he gets Eppes brothers attention, so they play the usual game but Harry has the advantage because he uses magic. Harry amuses himself by giving them clues, hints towards the existence of magic while the aurors are also working towards catching him. I see two outcome. The first is that Charlie proves the existence of magic and goes public or he catches Harry the same time as the aurors, they got oblivated and Harry is executed.
Obviously it could only work in a oneshot or with a 2-3 chapter thing.


The second idea is a HP/Black Lagoon crossover. Harry is exiled after the death of Voldemort, he travels the word a little and after a little while he arrives in Roanapur(?) and he decides to stay and do something for fun. It could range from forming his own band or joining an existing one.:awesome

 

Could have Stranger!Harry also for the warrior, or Nuhuh's Harry, he's a fucking boss. And it would be lulzy if you had canon Harry as the leader.

Reminds me the 90s cartoon Spiderman episode where there's a band of Spiderman who get led by one of them (the 616 universe one).

Oooh, idea.

Get several different Harry's to eiter:

Be part of a team together to fight against a group of their villains (if you take different Harry's villains from different fics, doesn't always have to be Voldemort) you could battle them against each other, ala Secret Wars Spiderman

Or

Have each of them lead a team of magical beings in their universe against a group of enemies and basically, the writer chooses who is the best leader and then he goes on to lead the different Harrys against some mythical beast (Cthulhu or whoever the author wishes) or a big bad Voldemort.

The story could be split into two fics, one with finding who's the leader of the gang of Harrys and then the fight against the big bad.

 

I've been reading the Denarian series and started a bit on Circular Reasoning, and honestly I doubt I'll be using Denarian!Harry, at least as one of seven regular team members (he'll probably be a guest member, though).
That's because (1) Denarian!Harry is a rather difficult personality to work with and (2) I doubt I can pull off his character well enough. Oh, and, because I haven't finished reading the series yet.

CR!Harry: a challenging character but as it is an on-going series, I'm not sure about this. Perhaps, like the Denarian I'll use him as a guest member.

And, clusterfuck, I haven't read the Stranger series yet. I have finished A Black Comedy however. OTOH I don't know if BlackComedy!Harry wants to get involved. He's reluctant enough to fight Voldemort for a second time already.

Other bits I've come up with since posting last:
WoT!Harry would be mostly out of the game, except giving plot guidance (say, saving Fleur, look for Atlantis).
Villain: the main would be WoT!Voldemort and his demonic legion, but there might be a few extra Voldemorts around as well. Alternatively WoT!Voldemort is controlled by another being from the Forget.
Cthulhu!Voldemort? Cthulhu!Harry seems even more interesting though :awesome
I'll try to use Harrys from finished or dead fic, because it's easier that way (I may even say the dead fics are dead because their Harrys are off on an interdimensional adventure.)

tl;dr - need to read and plan and more before starting.
...actually, I may write an oneshot as an experiment piece.

 

Maybe include a Cliche!Dark!Harry as a lackie, there's more than enough on FFN.

I also have an idea for a HP/ The Natural crossover. Harry would mainly take the role of Roy, but instead of being shot, his dreams are taken from him by chance because of him deciding in war-time being an auror is for the better of all. That's really all I have so far

 

A little idea inspired by a new TV series - Awake.

Story starts with Voldemort's attack on Potters, but Lily doesn't have time to go upstairs as she did in the canon. Instead she fights alongside James, at the same time protecting her son. The Dark Lord manages to shot a Killing Curse at the little Harry and this is where difference begins - in one world it's James who saves his son at the cost of his life, in the other it's Lily.

From there, we have Harry who slowly comes to understanding that he is living in two different worlds. When he tells his parents, they both believe it's just his way to deal with loss, so he stops mentioning it.

To make it even more interesting, at Hogwarts he would go to two different Houses - Gryffindor and Slytherin (not sure which one in which world - both options have a story potential), because the second time he is sorted the Hat thinks he could see for himself that he will find a greatness there.

From there we would see his usual adventures, but from two different perspectives, often helping Harry to understand what is really happening.

 

This must happen. I love the premise of that show.

The potential here is :awesome

 

Random plot bunny.

Voldemort's side and Harry's side are fighting a brutal war, one that has caused a mass amount of death on both sides of the war.

The war, originally contained within England, has spread to the European nations following the collapse of Great Britain. They first move the battle to France, whose Ministry of Magic labels both factions as terrorists and mobilize their forces against both HP and Voldemort. Having to fight a war on two fronts, France is completely unprepared for when a rogue German group executes a takeover of the French MoM.

With the collapse of the French government at the hands of the German terrorists, the German government reaches out to HP and his faction in an attempt to overthrow the new 'French' regime. Voldemort allies himself with the German terrorists / France's new 'government', and executes a silent takeover of the German MoM, replacing all the top officials with his own plants. Silent meaning HP has no idea.

Slowly, all the Ministries of Magic across the European and Eastern continents are being pulled into the war, joining either Voldemort/France's side, or Harry/Germany's side. But really, it's Voldemort/France and Voldemort/Germany. Then, Voldemort plays his card, luring HP into what should've been an amazing opportunity to take Voldemort down. HP shows up, finds Voldemort and soldiers from all his supposed allies (all plants) with wands pointed right at him, and realizes then that he's completely and truly fucked.

That's when the US strolls in, wtfpwns Voldemort Deus Ex style and goes raised-fist "America! Fuck Yeah!!!!"

/trollface


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But yeah, disregarding that last part, with a little bit more work on it, it could be a freaking epic story.

 

Hm.

In a single twist of fate, Dumbledore made a single phonetic screw up when casting the ancient love based magic that would protect Harry.

There's a reason why it's ancient and arcane magic, after all.

The love based/blood protections on the Dursleys/in himself from his mother's sacrifice alter him, causing Harry to gain physical nourishment through magic; starvation at the Dursleys' hands means fuck all, and in the end Harry ends up being relatively fit and healthy, and lean.

Though still abused (even moreso due to his perceived 'freakishness' nourishing him through their lack of feeding him), Harry is a lot more well adjusted, though more cynical.

Over the course of his Hogwarts years, he gains an unnatural lifespan due to eating the Philosopher's Stone, poisonous blood due to his body actually starting to produce basilisk venom from his lymphatic system, and a whole host of other fucked up abilities, until he seriously considers if he's even human anymore.

Basically, he ends up being something like the Jedi Exile from KotOR II, albeit with magic than the Force.

...

Yeah, okay, looking back on this, it is a tad lame.

 

If you focused those things on how he slowly becomes less human, maybe from a mental point--maybe his 'love' or caring of others is slowly sapped away, replaced by something else--then it wouldn't be so bad.

Mentally, I can somewhat see him becoming warped and into some unfeeling Dark Lord. If done right, psyhologically, then it wouldn't be too bad. If you went with him being just another Dark Lord, ie, nucking futs, then it'd still be lame.

Can't think of a good example right now. Maybe it shifted to him obsessing over trying to learn about magic, at the expense of all else. Even willing to do experiments on his fellow students to further his own studies. Mad doctor maybe? Save without the insane goals of world domination and mad laughter.

 

Everything posted about that super crossover fanfanfiction meta shit sounds like crap. It'd just be a clusterfuck and do you know how hard it is to emulate someone's writing? You'd end up butchering WoT Harry, CR Harry, Denarian Harry every single Harry you put in it.

Please don't do it, it would be an abomination or a really really stupid crack fic. Bad idea, incredibly bad idea.

But the Awake plot bunny sounds great. I would read the shit out of that. How is it that Celestin always manages to come up with such ideas?

EDIT(and off topic): I just looked up Awake and wow that looks awesome! Can't wait for the premiere now.

 

Quite like it and did a bit of expansion on it, up to Luna's Sorting:

Luna is GWL. Snape overheard half of the prophecy and ran off to tell Voldemort. Dumbledore and Order sent the Lovegoods into hiding. When Luna is three/four the Dark Lord finally found them and attacked (on Halloween night because it is a magically powerful day and perfect for Horcrux-making). Xeno is gravely injured in the initial attack and thus, surprisingly survived, while Luna's mother did the sacrifice thing and Luna became GWL. The first to arrive at the scene were their neighbours the Weasleys, and Order members Sirius Black and James Potter. Luna was declared the Girl-Who-Lived.

* The current idea is that Luna's mum is Lucius Malfoy's (disowned) sister. Lucius hated Xeno and wanted to earn Voldemort's favor; he wanted to bargain his brother-in-law and niece for the life of his sister. Needless to say it backfired horribly.

The changed world:
-The Malfoy name was tarnished, Lucius was captured by the Order (led by James and Sirius) and sent to Azkaban; Narcissa killed herself after falling into a depression. Draco was adopted by her closest living relative, the Lestranges. The Malfoy manor was in lockdown mode until Draco came of age; Dobby went to serve his young master at the Lestrange estate.

-The Lestranges, who never tortured the Longbottoms into insanity, presented themselves as victims of the Imperius Curse. Bellatrix took Draco under her wing.

-Barty Crouch Jr. was never caught and followed his father's footsteps into the Ministry. Barty Crouch Sr., without a major scandal to tarnish his name, became the next Minister for Magic.

-Due to the competence of Crouch Sr., Dumbledore was never bothered much at Hogwarts and the school was actually good. Snape was the Defence professor...after he transferred the jinx on the position to CoMC.

-The Longbottoms were not tortured, but a year after Voldemort's defeat they were killed during an Auror operation against remnants of Death Eaters. They were survived by their son, Neville Longbottom.

-The Potters survived to have 2 more children. Lily became a Healer and James managed the Potter Estates at home, while caring for the children. Tragedy struck when Harry was five; his younger brother drowned. (Thus he was able to see Thestrals.) While he was normally easy going and a prankster, he was also fiercely protective of his remaining sibling, a sister three years his junior.

(They may or may not move to Ottery St. Catchpole, to observe and protect the surviving Lovegoods at Dumbledore's bequest.)

-Sirius financed Remus' small business, while he himself joined the Aurors. Peter never turned traitor, joining the Ministry instead, and came to regret his moment of weakness that could have destroyed them all in another lifetime.

-Xeno recovered but was depressed; after a few years they went on an extended trip around the world. They did not return to Britain until Luna was 11 and received her Hogwarts letter. He did not start the Quibbler until re-settling.

-the nonBWL!Harry is Sorted into Ravenclaw along with Draco Lestrange. Things were awkward between them because of their parents' history. Luna on the other hand I'm not sure of: she may join Gryffindor or Ravenclaw.

 

I like the idea except that Narcissa commiting suicide because Lucius went to Azkaban is a little hard to believe. How about Narcissa also gets sent to Azkaban after she gets caught trying to bribe officials into acquitting Lucius and then she dies in prison.

 

I really like that idea, Luna as GWL would be pretty :awesome. I'd love to see this done, actually.

 

It was alright up to here.

This is where the wheels fall off. Luna as GWL is interesting, but all the antagonist players are being killed or nerfed even before Luna takes the stage.

This could be so very fun if every possible bad situation is set up against Luna's survival, yet she dances through the trouble with oblivious calm and grace. Make the Malfoys cruel, and bent on vengeance; make Crouch Sr. a horribly repressive dictator; make the Potters nearly as prickish as Snape believes them to be. Luna is the avatar of gentle whimsey and all their schemes will fall to her 'Alice-in-Wonderland'-ish aplomb.

Or, tell the story with a savvy and grounded Luna, which invalidates the point of making her the central character.

Just sayin'...

 

@Dr. Orpheus: Really I don't care about how Narcissa is taken out of the picture, all I want to do is send Draco into Bella's custody.

@wordhammer: Actually the point of making Crouch Sr. the Minister is because he will be an efficient, competent man...who is also brutal against his enemies. As for the other enemies being nerfed or killed off, no...just no. We have the Lestranges at large with a clean name for Merlin's sake! And no one knows that the Minister's son, who is a mid/high ranking Ministry official himself, is a Death Eater. Likewise, Snape is a former Death Eater teaching at Hogwarts, and because Lily is never targeted he is an unreformed one, just lying low for the time being. And that's not to mention the other survived and at-large DEs.

 

Wait, why would Snape have even gone to Dumbledore if Lily was never targeted? Either stick him in Azkaban or have him get off, somehow, but he can't be at Hogwarts.

 

This is kinda what you just described.


Although it doesn't sound like there's any point to the story besides seeing how things would play out if Harry had a power He knows not...

 

Just throwing this out there, why had no one ever done a plain werewolf!Harry story?

Just werewolf Harry. No werewolf packs, no relationship with Greyback and no slash. Harry is bitten by Lupin in third year (easily established) but keep in mind I won't be making him super powered or anything like that outside of the full moon. I might give him a boost to his senses but it would be more character driven than anything else.

Just an idea, I haven't given it much thought yet but it seems like a really simple idea that could be expanded on a fair bit. And it would be great to have a werewolf Harry story without slash. If you can't find the kind of fic you want to read then write it yourself and all that.