I want to see someone keep a Nundu for a pet. Or familiar.

Nothing like a 100 foot cat that can assimilate your enemies as fast as Ginny goes through boyfriends. =D

 

how about having Hagrid raising harry

instead of bringing him to the dursleys he takes care of harry, that would have a very unique harry for sure. never seen anything like that done.

 

can u imagine that? *shuddersAtTheThoughtOfHarryGruntingHisWords*

@keshin: read 'make a wish' then

what i like to see done is a indy harry that uses up all his fortune early on and then robs people etc. to afford his future training

oh, and another one: many fics have harry looking for a goblin alliance; what about a fic that has the goblines side with voldemort, the economic system crashing and the goblins making a good grunt army for A LOT of splatter scenes????!!!!

 

@mcatrage: I reemmber seeing that done once before. It wasn't very good though.

@ saL: the goblin idea, i have seen in a smaller format. it was one of those go back in time fics, and I remember it being metioned that Harry didn't trust goblins at all because they sided with voldie. it was a good one.

 

Mcatrage: The author of Manipulator of Destiny, Wheezy1, has written a fic like that, featuring Hagrid raising Harry.

 

Harry takes the giant squid (most likely a Kraken) in Hogwarts' lake as a familiar. Never seen that done before.

 

An evil!Sirius for once.

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Dumbledore actually being a "Good Cop Gone to Far" Person who hates evil so much he fights even worse than Death Eaters do. (There are worse things than Death, Tom).

He trains Harry to be his successor in this and together they disembowel, brutally torture, and anihilate on their quest for "Good". No one knows about their real activities...

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An independent Harry with alot of set up, where he trains alot, and dies in the fourth chapter as he foolishly takes on Voldemort.

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A good Harry is Lord Voldemort. (Come on...ANSWER my challenges!)

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Hedwig is Ginny's Animagus form...she is a peeping Tom who wants to watch Harry all day every day.

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Ginny being so affected by Tom Riddle, she searches for the Diary again when she is rejected by Harry yet again. It is her addiction. Finding it, she ressurects a barely alive Tom who instructs her to set up Harry for rape.

Unfortuantely, in court, Veritserum proves Harry right and that Ginny is working for Lord Voldemort in an attempt to frame Harry. She goes to prison and Tom joins his older self.

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Diary Tom joining Voldemort.

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Harry getting his hands on the Diary much earlier, possibly at six or so. Tom actually likes Harry, and follows him throughout his adventures.

 

I remember there was a thread on here once, were we basically wrote a Durmstrang Harry fic, except for the exact dialogue and putting it all togehter into chapters.

You might want to check through the Fanfic Discussion section for the thread. I think it might have been a thread about Shezza looking for something to write about. He choose something else but we kept on discussing it.

Anyone else remember this.

 

As a child, Harry was constantly being molested by his aunt in secret.

Mrs. Figg raised Harry, instead of the Dursley.

Harry demonstrates that the sorting hat was right; he has the thirst to prove himself.

 

The first one is certainly a twist on abused!Harry, though I think I read a fic once, where she used Harry as a fuck toy from when he hit puberty, because she loved James Potter, which is the reason she hated Lily.

The second is interesting enough sounding, though it wouldn't change the fic all that much. It would depend how closely connecting Mrs Figg is to the Wizarding world.

The third, would be a good simple twist to make Harry slightly more knowledgeable, which I like.

EDIT: Just thought of something. I would like to see a fic, where Harry gets a letter that tells him that he will possibly inherit a shopping list of powers when he hits 16 or 17, whatever is applicable. His birthday comes, and he only gets one or two of the lesser abilities. Like he could have gotten multiple magical animagus, wandless magic, metamorphmagus ability and such like. But all he got was a natural mind barrier (basically like natural occlumency) and a slightly increased charms ability or something similar to that. COuld be qutie interesting

 

I'm curious about the first one. Do you have a link?

Anti-Cliches ... How about where Harry isn't moaning about Sirus's death but instead smoldering in anger and throwing himself into finding ways to kill Bellatrix... slowly.

 

-Harry is actually Hagrid and Lily's love child and he grows 5 feet on his sixteenth birthday. (I'm kidding on this one, the...umm...physics... of it just don't add up.)

Seriously, I've read one Harry-is-raised-by-Hagrid and it was interesting I guess. Harry ended up a wild-child. Wierd.

This isn't far from the previous mental accident:

-Harry's parents were killed in a plane accident, orchestrated by Voldemort, flying over the jungles of Africa. Harry of the Jungle must be brought back, by Luna- the daughter of rich but nutty newspaper tycoon Mr. Lovegood, to face his destiny and reintegrate into the civilised world.

 

LMAO!!!!

That's an awesome idea...George of the Jungle/Tarzan!Harry!!!

*gives Deadman rep for making him laugh*

 

How about Harry getting adopted by aragog as a small child and growing acrumantula hide instead of the basilisk/dragon hide battle robes. And nobody could rescue him, because they couldn't get to him as an AU.

 

Aragog would eat him rather than bring him up.

Niffler, sorry, I jsut remember reading it ages ago, Petunia fucking Harry wasn't the main point of the fic or anyhing like that, I think it wasa severitus fic.

 

I think the ultimate anti-cliche would having Voldemort killed by someone that's not Dumbledore, or Harry. Yeah the story would be kinda pointless afterwards, but it'd just be interesting to see.

 

that would be funny, Harry trains for years to get good enough to kill voldie, then as he is duelling Voldemort, some random muggle throws a stone that just happens to break Voldies neck. THe backlash would be hilarious to read.

 

Ron Weasley wants to be the Harry Potter for one Hogsmeade weekend and takes polyjuice. He gets kidnaped by deatheaters and kills Voldemort in the end though some idiotic thing. Then he kills Harry because he doesn't get the fame he deserves.

 

I like the concept of a completely apathetic Harry, but it would be kinda hard to keep it interesting since he wouldn't want to do anything.

Somewhat inspired by the RaisedByLockhart!Harry idea, I'd love to see Harry accepting his fame. Canon pre-hogwarts, but then he takes to the celebrity thing. More or less canon, but obviously Harry would be a lot more self-confident, and he wouldn't be stuck with just Ron and Hermione as his friends. I'm thinking of stuff like giving the press interviews after he defeated Quirrel/Voldemort in 1st year, and the Basilisk in 2nd year. There'd be some brilliant interactions between him and Lockhart as well; Gilderoy fawning around Harry after a share of the limelight and Harry just brushing him off. It'd really get interesting around books 3 and 4, as Celebrity!Harry's word on Sirius Black or Voldemort would be a lot harder to dismiss than Canon!Harry's. I'm not suggesting that Harry go all Slytherin and manipulate the press to his advantage, or that he become a total publicity whore like Lockhart, but just that he accepts that he's a celebrity and people want to know about his life and he just runs with it.

That said, seeing Lockhart-raised Harry *would* be brilliant. As would Harry raised by Moody (as seen in some of Rorschach's Blot's 'Odd Ideas')