YES!

I like chem prof's stuff, normally they're easy to read, and relatively well written. He is a hardcore harmony shipper (never writes anything but), but I do tend to enjoy his work.

 

I think a Harry Potter/the Stand fic could really work. You could possibly have Captain Trips as being magically caused (i.e Voldemort or a Department of Mysteries fuckup) rather than by the US government. Oh, and it would have to have Flagg of course.:awesome

 

Sole Survivor is something of a HP/The Stand crossover, though it doesn't involve Flagg in any way.

 

Why don't fanfic Authors have more elements of Celtic and Norse mythology involved. For HP being all about magic and all I kind of would want a little more ,,,,I don't know....magic. I just read a Child Thief by Brom Eos. It would be awesome to read a fic that had something like that involved. Does that come across strange? The only fics that deal with what comes to mind are The Dark Prince, Circular Reasoning, Denarian Series, Grimm, Awaken Sleeper and a very strange Valkyrie story I read a while back. Oh, Sorry can't forget the other Dresden Crossovers, Sorry those didn't come mind until after.

 

Mastermind hunting has elements of different religions/mythologies in it. However, English isn't this guy's first language, and that is obvious. I'm not recommending it, nor saying its crap. But it is there...

 

Meh... I read like ten chapters and gave up. It's readable, sorta, but there's some weird shit going on in that story.

 

You know what it (sorta) reminded me of?

Partially Kissed Hero.

Almost like the author had hundreds of ideas (AZTECS! Computer!Harry! metamorph!harry legilmency-lets-you-copy-knowledge!Harry uber-spy!harry etc...) and just smooshed them all together.

*edited as I'm stupid*

 

Yeah, sorta, except PKH is even worse.

 

It's Partially Kissed Hero by Perfect Lionheart, people.

 

Mastermind Hunting. God, that was one of the first fics I stopped reading in disgust. The beginning was really interesting, with an almost non-magical Harry having only the mind arts to use in escaping muggle intelligence services after him.

A pretty awesome idea, completely spoiled by arbitrary trips to Japan, random powerups and possibly the worst mary-sue version of Harry ever. So disappoint.

 

Just a vague idea that came into mind. Haven't looked over this thread before, so if this is the height of idiocy, feel free to point out.

I have never read a fic in which Harry tries, desperately, to be a 'normal' wizard. He's still the boy who lived, he just doesn't want any 'adventure' in his life.

Suppose when he found out about the philosopher's stone, instead of doing something about it, he kept his mouth shut. If he did the same when the Chamber of Secret was opened, leading to Ginny's death(or some other traumatic event), it would weigh heavily upon his conscience. And finally, after some catalyst event, he decides to finally do something, leading to whatever...(I'm not a writer)

Yeah, it would make him somewhat of a pussy, and obviously angsty, but I dunno, I haven't really seen a story in quite a while which focuses on Harry's emotional and mental state simply because of being in his position.(And I'm not talking about 'boo hoo I'm the boy who lived' stories), and have read entirely too much awesome!Harry fics.

 

Actually, I've seen something a little bit like this before, in VINCET by nos tre reges. The Harry in VINCET wants only to ensure he isn't mistreated by the Dursleys after First Year, and sets about making that happen by attempting to remove the Trace. <-- since that's part of the summary, I didn't put it in Spoiler tags.

Spoiler

Harry doesn't really care for anyone; he has no intention of going after the Stone, and in fact, he says so. When others *do* go trying to save it, he shrugs and says, effectively, "Sucks to be them." Only when a person he *does* care somewhat about gets involved does Harry reluctantly step in.

Another plus is that (a) VINCET is complete, (b) there's a sequel, albeit a very slowly updating one, and (c) the story has so far kept readers guessing as to whether it will be Harry/Hermione or Harry/Katie.

 

It could work quite well from a few different starting points, and could head in quite a few interesting directions. So...nice one.

I can see it being during book three that Harry decides to do something, the impetus being the Black killed his parents and is now trying to kill him. Rather than coming into the situation as someone who, at least subconsciously, expects to survive damn near anything thrown at him (like in canon), he comes into it as a normal kid. I can see him at least taking a few minimal steps like getting Lupin to show him a few more defensive spells 'just in case', and maybe getting book recs from Flitwick and McGonagall again 'just in case'.

However, he would not run off onto the grounds like in canon and get the chance to find out that Sirius was innocent. Maybe Sirius gets kissed by dementors, setting up nicely for Harry to suffer some emotional backlash when Wormtail later reveals himself and explains that Sirius was innocent.

4th year, you could still have him entered in the tournament, and that would be the real kick up the arse. He has no choice but to be involved, and from there it could develop slightly more along canon lines, maybe just with Harry being slightly more competent and wary, and on slightly better/closer terms with his teachers so he can get more assistance and end up doing better overall.

 

An idea that came to me when I was looking over the latest chapter of On the Way to Greatness by mira mirth which in turn was mentioned in the ‘Fic’s you wish were not abandoned thread’.

Now everyone wishes that Harry was more competent or a tad more dedicated to his studies. This bunny can be a divergence point which leads to that.

Harry was emptying his book bag when a slip of paper fell down from one of the books. He bent down to pick it up and carelessly glanced at it. He see’s that it is Snape’s speech from the class that he was writing when the professor suddenly started asking questions.

“…the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses. . . . I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, and even stopper death— if you aren’t as big a bunch of dunderheads as I usually have to teach.”

The speech had been pushed out of his mind by the unexpected rapid-fire questioning but looking at it now bought a strange feeling in his chest. Now that he thought it over he really had been acting like a dunderhead as Snape had so ... eloquently put it. Even after hoping and dreaming for nearly 10 years that if he even got one chance to leave the Dursley’s he would never return ,he would do his best and he had failed from the very start.

Hermione Granger a muggleborn who knew she could do magic around the same time that Harry himself had gotten the letter knew more about him that he did himself. He had always been more concerned during preliminary school with completing the chores assigned to him and getting enough food so that his tummy ache did not wake him up at nights.

But here at Hogwarts there were no Dursleys to send him to the cupboard if he got more marks than Dudley, no more Harry hunting, no doing chore's until he could barely see straight, delicious meals 3 times a day and a chance to learn something special like magic, to be somebody.

Yes, he decided he would all his effort into his studies to be the best wizard he could be.

The ending sentence is rather melodramatic, yes but it’s just bunny that attacked me.

After the above one could start in fifth or sixth year where Dumbledore calls Harry to his office to reveal the prophecy and says something along the lines of how he has seen that Harry was responsible and he was ready to share the burden.

The divergences could be revealed as interludes or something between the present timeline chapters.

It’s a bit rough around the edges,not sure if it's been done this way.

 

So what have you got to set it apart from any other competent!Harry fics? Whilst I've never seen this (or Snape's first lesson, actually) used as a turning point, I'm sure someone has already written one. And if canon is staying mostly the same until fifth/sixth year (as you're doing a time-skip, I'd assume most things stay similar, or at least recognizable), then you'll need an even bigger hook - we'd be getting adult!competent!harry, which isn't uncommon at all.

I do like reading fics where Harry goes "hang on, why don't I try to be good at being a wizard?", but each needs something special. From what I saw of the bunny, there wasn't anything special there, yet.

If you want to make him competent starting in his first year (just going with an example from the top of my head), then make him obsessive about learning wand motions and pronunciation. Maybe first years can't channel much magic at once. Therefore he can't learn super!love!attack!spell. What he can do, is practice his swishes, his flicks, and his three-quarters Bletchley twists, so that his spells work perfectly.

Then take it further - for whatever reason (his scar maybe?) Harry really isn't a powerful wizard (yes, this slightly disregards canon, but it's fanfiction). He therefore NEEDS to be perfect on his words and his motions, otherwise the spell will fail. However, being so perfect means it takes him time to cast his spells, so no slinging banishers, stunners, or piercers everywhere.

But yeah, it needs a stand-out feature. Otherwise, it'd just be yet another mehish fic.

 

I once considered a oneshot that was somewhat similar except Harry never gets a kick in the pants. He just keeps on being normal in spite of everything that goes on around him. It was meant to be a somewhat humorous example of what would have happened had the Dursley family actually raised him to be as normal as they try so very hard to appear to be.

"We must follow the rules, and the rules state clearly that those people whose names come out of the Goblet of Fire are bound to compete in the tournament."

"So, what happens if I don't compete?"

"Well, Mr. Potter, you would have broken the rules and therefore have lost the tournament."

I have discovered that I am horrible at writing humor so this idea along with several others was scrapped.

 

No, it’s not supposed to be canon at least after the first potions class this is the turning point of the Fic, if one decides to write it.

This just came to me after reading your reply.

The idea in bare basics is this: Voldemort after killing Lily potter instead of immediately killing harry goes to do a ritual involving Harry, in order to harness the power of the cosmos or something since they are both involved in the prophecy ,the end of the ritual is the completion of the prophecy i.e. AK Harry. This as we all know is botched up.

It gives harry the power to cast his mind from his body and possess people like we saw Voldemort do with Nagini only different. The reason he could do it is because Nagini is Voldemort's horcrux.

To make sure that he exploits this idea we need the more studious experimenting harry as in the previous post.

Snatches of the story that I can envision now.

Start of the story

Year 6

His mind whirled, barely able to make out his surroundings as he stumbled along. His feet carried him to the room of requirement nearly on auto-pilot and he walked past the bit of wall that hid one of the founder’s greatest achievements. He plopped down on the chair the room provided and put his head into his hands………

It all made sense now his powers, his abilities ones he had thought unique was actually the result of the botched up ritual……..

He sat still body in lotus position and cast his mind and soul away, the tearing sensation no longer hurt and even if he did not want to admit it he scared himself……..

The world seemed to peel away the darkness behind his eyelids rippled until what he called the essence was laid bare. The lights, the unique blues and purples and reds seemed to blossom into life as though a mad artist had suddenly taken an interest in depicting the cosmos……

He walked through the halls, his pace brisk and his steps sure. Dobby’s memories showed him where he needed to needed to go and he took a right to stop in front of an elegant door the Malfoy crest prominent on it, he took a deep breath released it knocking on the door……….

The previous bunny could be in one of the interlude's that describe the changes and be the reason for it.

 

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This is love <3. And may just prompt me to dust off my keyboard and write some much needed fanfiction love. I would definitely have to venture into the Harry/Hermione or Harry/Luna pairings due to the increased amount of studying. If it were to be Harry/Hermione one could completely drop Ron really easily since he would no longer play a part in the crew as he normally did. (That's my anti-Ron coming out though.)

 

I think I'd like to see a story where Harry and that little piece of Tom's soul merge. Probably due to some sort of near death experience caused by our Abusive!AU!Dursleys after Harry accidentally sets Dudley on fire or something. Voldemort's soul, not wanting to die, would take over for a time and save Harry (violently), but Voldie's soul piece isn't strong enough to keep control so Harry ends up living with Tom's voice in his head.

It would make a good AU, Evil!Harry or Semi-Evil!Harry story I think. You would end up with a sort of Mentor!Tom teaching Harry to be a powerful wizard from inside his head. Maybe a Harry trying to build his own Empire sort of thing...

Might be fun to make Tom be a little unhinged since his soul has been split so many times. Instead of acting like a total pure-evil psychotic maniac he is almost cultured... extremely violent when he gets pissed, but cultured. Maybe not.

I hope now that I put it out there it will leave me alone. Otherwise I may have to actually write it.