Dumbledore.

After Harry's fourth year, something goes wrong, and he (Harry) dies. It doesn't even have to be caused by the Death Eaters, it could actually be a gas leak, or a train crash, or whatever.

Voldemort now knows he can't be killed, so sees no reason to hide. He goes on a mad killing spree, and most of magical Britain bows down to the inevitable.

Dumbledore does not. Whilst he knows he can't actually kill Voldemort, he can remove his entire support structure, physically kill each body, and galvanise the world, forcing them fight back.

There's a reason Dumbledore is the only one Voldemort ever feared.

Demons run when a good man goes to war.

 

I've toyed with doing this project, but with two fics currently ongoing, it may be a while. Still keep your fingers crossed...

The only issue is I'd see Dumbledore going directly for V if he comes out - sort of a kill the Hydra at the heart rather than trying to cut off it's many heads.

 

Didn't Shinysavage write a snippet based on this premise?

 

Harry Potter and the Unplottable Bunny

I'm almost tempted to actually write this. It's the kind of crack I can run with, but I should really be finishing up my other stories. Something like this couldn't be done in a one-shot.

So, for anyone who wants it, go for it. In my mind Ron, Hermione, and Harry retain their memories of their previous efforts to stop the madness, but only when they aren't part of the plot bunny's plot.

Spoiler

My idea for either the ending or a near-miss ending: Harry pulls the Dire Plot Bunny from a hat. Also, have different rabbits show up from time to time, such as one with a pocket watch calling "I'm late, I'm late!" as it leads Harry into the next plot, or a rascally rabbit acting much like Peeves...

 

This may seem obvious, but I now just figured it out. I guess I'm 'special' like that.

Sabrina The Teenage Witch premiered in 1996. Sabrina had her 16th birthday in the first episode. Which means she was born in 1980.

Now, what other magical person was born in that time? Oh, that's right. Harry Potter. Do I hear a crossover in here? I think I do.

For the sake of being precise, I re-watched the entire first season of Sabrina to try to get a feel of her personality. She seems like a really good person. And I mean good, a Hufflepuff if you ask me. She cares about other people, is really empathetic, fair, friendly and tries to help everyone.

Of course, this hypothetical crossover could be done various ways, either a fusion fic, dimension travel or something else entirely. Either way we would have to get the two to meet each other. Yes, naturally Salem would be there too, I know how everyone loves the cat bent on world domination.

I'm thinking of the fusion fic, merging the two magical systems, with about 60% of HP and 40% of Sabrina (just because I like HP more). So, Sabrina learns she's a witch on her 11th birthday instead of 16th. But how to get her to the UK (or Harry to America, though I prefer the UK)?

Assuming that would be taken care of, there has to be a plot-wise reason for Sabrina to be in the story. Is her presence the primary POD or is she just a side character? What will she change in the plot being in Hufflepuff (if she even is in that house)?

I'd like to read something like that :awesome

 

Hmm, for this I suggest Sabrina's parents get work in London.

 

Well her one aunt is a scientist and the other one plays the violin. I guess either could work. And it's not like transportation is a problem for the magical people.

In fact, in the Sabrina universe, intercontinental teleportation is no big deal (in one episode, Sabrina and her other aunt get from California to Paris in seconds).

 

AU HP fic where Hogwarts isn't a magical secondary school, it's a magical university. Formal magical education begins at 18, not 11. The wizarding world is much more incorporated with the Muggle one (everyone goes to Muggle school until 18, the Ministry of Magic really is a secret division of the Muggle government), but still a secret.

We don't join Harry at 11, we join him at 16. He's been with the Dursleys all that time and has been going to Muggle secondary school. He knows about his powers and has been experimenting with them but doesn't know about the wizarding world as such.

Fic could be about teen Harry, the lone guy with supernatural powers at a Muggle school, in line with classics like Buffy, Smallville etc. Coming of age themes with the odd supernatural adventure (creature of the week sort of stuff, with maybe a Dark wizard thrown in as a Big Bad). He slowly becomes aware of the magical world and his place within it. Around the season 3 mark, if it didn't get cancelled, he would apply for Hogwarts.

 

Alternate to Taure's above. Recast Hogwarts as a day school, with Harry living permanently in his muggle neighborhood. Rework the Restriction on Underaged Magic so that students can use their powers outside school, but get in trouble only when a muggle notices. Make things like Floo travel a little more accessible, like a sort of mass transit system, so you can have Harry running around the country to visit his friends or fight his monster-of-the-week.

Bonus points for making Dudley his sidekick.

 

That would actually be a really good premise for a nonBWL Harry. Otherwise the constant stream of magical beings he has to deal with would be caught onto by Dumbledore.

 

Yep. So did Pers.

 

A trio of related plot ideas involving a de-aged Dumbledore. Can be a Fountain of Youth incident, a potion gone disastrously wrong but yet still right, he is in transit with Fawkes when the phoneix goes up in flames and Dumbledore ends up reborn as an infant along with the phoenix, or a time travel based-plot.

1. Dumbledore goes to school alongside the Boy-Who-Lived. Dumbledore knows everything he did as an adult and is secretly guiding Harry along as a fellow student.

2. Dumbledore is the Boy-Who-Lived. Switched at birth or something. Alternate version: There are two Dumbledores, one is the child the other is the Headmaster. The Headmaster does not know about the child being himself.

3. Post Deathly Hallows, Albus Severus is actually Albus Dumbledore.

 

I'd love to see a lesser-used secondary character take this role, especially if her husband/fiance (Harry) gets put into a coma and their child killed, or something, and she goes utterly batshit insane.

 

George Weasley? Dennis Creevey? Oliver Wood? Katie Bell? Just throwing random ideas out there.

 

Katie Bell, yeah. Katie Bell needs some fan-loving. With her, you've got the "average witch/person pushed too far" angle.

Hermione would be a bit too expected to fit into the role, I guess. Same with Ginny, although she would have some interesting potential in regards to her family's reaction (and interaction) with her going batshit.

An interesting dynamic would be Harry and one of the Patil twins - the other twin tries to save her sibling from herself, when she turns Punisher.

Tonks could be good for a more ruthless, shadow-lurking type; she could be anybody, and was a trained auror.

Fleur or an older Gabrielle for the veela angle, obviously - some sick and twisted shit could be explored there, if you've ever watched a (now unbanned film) called "Day of the Woman".

(Long story short, a city-woman was raped by red-necks, and she went batshit. She hunted them down and killed them in the most ironic and gruesomest of ways, acting like an Amazon. One scene had her "seduce" one of her rapists later on, and then cut his dick off when he was aroused - she left him to die of blood-loss in the shower).

Lavender Brown, going the Greyback route - purposely lurking near her targets, and then transforming during the full moon to kill them savagely.

A characterization for Daphne Greengrass, where she's friendly, bubbly, and kind (compared to the much overused "Ice Queen" angle) before the blast - this could work for a tragedy angle.

Hell, Harry could have been banging Rosmerta, bringing the "older woman" card into play.

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Harry gets injured in a bomb blast (caused by the same type of horn Xenophilius Lovegood once thought was a Snorkack horn), and Harry is put into a deep coma - the prognosis is bleak.

Their daughter, Lily, is ultimately killed in the blast, and they weren't sure that the mother was going to pull through - her last waking moments pre-coma were seeing Harry laying in the rubble and bleeding profusely from the head, and Lily being in her own lap, barely conscious and bleeding to death.

Draco Malfoy would be too easy to expect as an antagonist.

 

I actually think one of the Weasleys would be great in this role. Ginny is an obvious choice, but any of the well-known characters would do. Death Eaters raze the Burrow to the ground, any of the family who runs out gets AK'd.

You could also have Draco Malfoy as the protagonist. Voldemort is not so forgiving of Lucius's mistake with the diary and kills him and his wife. Draco escapes and comes back with a fire he never had before.

 

Sounds a bit like Harry Potter Magnificent Bastard or whatever it is called now up until this point.

Also for the above scenario; George going Batshit over the death of his brother and maybe a bit of lazy politicking in regards to Death Eaters? Surely he would have some brilliant schemes (or maybe I'm reading a bit too much into Fanon here].

 

Personally I think that Kingsley Shacklebolt would make a good Punisher analogue.

He's extremely competent and has the law enforcement background and his personal life is left as a blank slate in canon (at least as far as I remember ...).

 

Well to be fair, the original Punisher was ex-military. So Kingsley fits somewhat.

 

I was actually thinking of Ultimate Punisher who's an ex-cop, not ex-military. I should've made that clear.