Summary: Harry becomes a minister preaching love and tolerance. Not Minister for Magic like Minister of Defense, but minister like as in a religious minister.

Rules:
1. Harry Potter becomes a pacifist. He will not use magic, or even violent physical action to harm another being. That doesn't mean he won't involve himself in fights. He can still shield others in battles, fight fire with water, imprison another, use 'painless' stun or imprisonment techniques. Use his patronus. Etc. (Only exception to the 'no harm' rule is against pure evil, soulless creatures. Inferi and dementors can be blasted away.)

2. Harry seeks to spread the belief of tolerance, kindness, and love to everyone. He want to save everyone. Both Malfoys. Bellatrix. Snape. Sirius. Remus. Voldemort. Even Dumbledore needs saving.

3. The power of love works. It shields and transforms. But does no harm. To anyone. (However, that does not mean it won't be painful to those not ready for it.)

4. The first few chapters can include Harry struggling with his own inner hate and anger. During this time he can use violence against others. But once he overcomes it Harry never again is angry. Not for any reason. It is no longer part of his character.

Setting: Any time after Chamber of Secrets.

Pairings: Any, as long as it is portrayed as love, not lust.


Here's one scene as I imagined it to give you a start--optional:

 

Holy Christian allegory, Batman.

Harry Potter and the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Also, your definition of pacifism is extremely flexible. If you're going to do this, do it properly.

 

Pretty sure this concept has reached a level of retardation where no author could salvage it.

 

This is almost "Hall of Shame" worthy... Though I could see this being a decent crack-fic featuring Jesus!Harry. Hard to take the challenge seriously otherwise.

 

Harry feeds the five thousand.

13 When Harry heard what had happened, he withdrew by broom privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him by apparition from the towns. 14 When Harry landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them and healed their sick with "episky".

15 As evening approached, the DA came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”

16 Harry replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”

17 “We have here only five loaves of bread and two fish,” they answered.

18 “Bring them here to me,” he said. 19 And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and taking out his wand, he uttered the duplication charm and broke the loaves. Then he gave them to the DA, and the DA gave them to the people. 20 They all ate and were satisfied, and the DA picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over. 21 The number of those who ate was about five thousand men, besides women and children.



Edit: this could work.

Insane!Harry brought up by the Dursleys religiously, ends up convinced he's Jesus because of his powers, keeps using magic in front of Muggles as "miracles". Ministry of Magic working desperately to contain him. Could be a nice short comedy fic.

 

While Jesus!Harry has potential for lulz, it will never measure up to this.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311361/?ref_=sr_1

Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter!

 

Pacifist!Harry just gave me Cancer. So much for no harm.

 

I think the way puiwaihan did it was decent, but it's not something that appeals to me as a fanfic reader, unless it's done humorlessly, ala Taure's idea. Harry Potter written in the form of a Magical Bible on the other hand...

 

Ah well, wrong audience.

I got the idea in response to seeing several "Harry has sex with people and Voldemort gets fried because he can't handle that" scenarios. The idea was to take the concept of love being the "power he knows not" and run with it it. In Philosopher's Stone the power of Lily's love gives Harry super protection. In Order of the Phoenix it forces Voldemort out of Harry's mind. Dumbledore pretty much hints that the power Harry has is love.

In canon, Harry ultimately defeats Voldemort with the Hallows, a horcrux hidden within himself, his blood in Voldemort, and the rubbish with the allegiance of the elder wand. Deus Ex machina was the power. It certainly wasn't the power of love.

But yeah, I guess DLP doesn't roll that way. Silly me.

Sure, that would fit the challenge, as long as Harry being about love actually helps him.

 

Yeah, I did intend for this to be a Harry as a religious figure, though more new-Age than Christian. It doesn't work for this crowd, fair enough. I probably should have known better. Ok, not probably.

Sure, the "righteous wrath" idea is a tried and true concept, but that's not really original. It's not exactly cliche, more of a archetypal concept that will probably always work if done well, but I was going for a different approach. You know, really overcome hate with love, not hate with hate cause they hurt the one you love.

On the other hand, I did witness some weird Japanese anime with a unicorn that defeated the Big Bad in the story by saying the line, "...But I want to be your friend..." and it was the most horribly ridiculous thing I've ever seen. So, yeah, I can totally understand the reaction.

I just figured it could be done well by somebody. But anyway...

As for love and anger not going together, it's not that I don't think you can't love someone and be angry at the same time, it's that love is based deeply in understanding. And if Harry becomes this religious guru figure capable of loving everyone, it means he understands them and will be able to really empathize. Anger pretty much doesn't fit in with that. Of course, if you only love some people, then it's really easy to get wrathful when someone you don't love hurts someone you do. And you can get angry if someone you love does something stupid that hurts themselves.

 

That's better.

 

So your idea is to take a world filled with bad, cliche, poorly thought out ideas, preachy, houlier than thou attitudes, centuries outdated moralities, mysticism, slavery and resurrections, and a healthy dose of love conquering the evil people trying to force their ideology on society...

...and then you take the only good part of it. The Sex.

Congrautlations bro. You just rewrote the Bible.

 

Well, I suppose, but I was thinking more like Reverend Moon or Falun gung than Hidan High Priest of Jashin.

 

I was thinking more along the lines of Jim Jones, L. Ron Hubbard, or even that DLP'ers WH40k crossover where Harry was a cult-leaderish figure for some kind of corrupting alien force.

 

Probably more DLP's style, just not what I had in mind.

 

For some reason, the idea of a religious leader!Harry makes me think of Bioshock Infinite. I would read the shit out of a story where Harry is the head of a cult-like Religion in a city in the sky. I'm thinking a mixture of Taure's Lords of Magic and Amerision's Zealot.

If someone could write it, I would throw money at you.

 

If you want a Harry using 'the power of love, DLP style' read Nuhuh's Catharsis. On the other hand, I would read about Jesus!Harry, he's essentially a "messiah" kind of character, so he fits the profile. Writing him as someone like Reverend Moon it's not such a good idea. You have 2 organizations following cult like steps, The Order of the Phoenix and The Death Eaters, adding a third one would be too much. And it reminds me of those independent fics where Harry usually creates a secret group behind the OotP.