This would be pretty easy/hard depending on whoever dares this challenge.

The Challenge:

Write a One-Shot or Chaptered fic where Harry has to resort to muggle means and physical close combat to defeat/subdue Voldemort and his death eaters. He cannot rely on magic because Voldemort cursed him, during a skirmish, with a spell that would kill him if he ever dare use magic (includes accidental magic). Basically, he is reduced to the state of a squib. The only way to end the curse would be to kill its caster so Good Luck to dear Harry there. He has to learn to control his dangerous outbursts of accidental magics since it is known that he has them occuring a lot. The fic should have mentions of Harry becoming an assassin of some sort.

It should either be post-OotP or post-HBP. Ships would be fine as long as you stay away from the typical ones such as Harry/Ginny or Harry/Hermione. Otherwise, stick with no ships at all.

There you have it. For more details just fire away your questions and I'll try my best to get back on it when I can.

 

Why the need for Harry to become an Assassin? I see no reason for Harry to become an assassin given the plot.

 

Doesn't sound like the sort of fic that would go down particularly well on this board. And where does it say that he has a lot of accidental magic. Its happens to all children, not just those of high power or some such shit. And by its very definition you can't control accidental magic.

The spell idea you use to have harry resort to muggle methods is a pathetic plot device. Why would Voldemort cast that, and not a curse that would actually kill Harry when he had the chance. As well as that, if it was a skirmish, the chances of Harry being able to recognise what he was hit with in time to get out of there, before he had to resort to magic to defend himself against curses is too small to be believable. You would have to have some sort of portkey that would transport him away if he was hit by any magic or somethignlike that, and that is just a no-no.

TO me, it seems as though you are simply trying to come up with a way to ensure that Harry doesn't use magic. What is the point in HP if there is no magic?

Added to all of that, there is the assassin angle. I mean really, you might be a new member, but do check around the place before posting.

 

The point is to make him still a dangerous warrior even without magic. This part may be scratched out, though, if it really does nothing for the plot.

Okay, maybe not much accidental magic, but still his emotions tend to cause him do shit like blow up Aunt Marge. That's accidental magic.
Snape pointed out that Harry wears his emotions on his sleeve and I'd take that as a hint that Harry can have instances with him feeling extreme emotions causing him to do shit again with accidental magic. By learning to control his emotions the cases where he would accidentally do magic would approach nil.

Voldemort had the chance to kill Harry in GoF, but he chose to gloat. Let's just say that it's safe to assume that he might make the same mistake again. If not then any random death eater could take the part of the gloating bastard and cast the spell.

I hope that clears that up.

The point of Harry not using magic is that it'll be much harder.

To add a little tweak to the challenge, Voldemort can only be killed by an AK so the dilemma for Harry would be his willingness to give up his life to cast the last spell and ensure that Voldemort goes to hell.

More feedback on the challenge please to make it even more worthwhile taking up.

 

Again, why would "random death eater number 1" choose to cast some wierd ass curse that stopped Harry using magic, when he could just cast Ak or a severing curse or an exploding curse or somethign similar?

He blew up his aunt in book 3, when he was late 12 early 13. Just in the early stages of puberty. His emotions were highly volatile because of that. Post OotP or Post HBP, he is 15, 16 or 17. A lot more emotionally mature. Thus, no accidental magic to speak of anyway.

 

Also, If some deatheater casts the spell, then Harry goal would be to kill that Death Eater, not Voldemort...

 

Why would you want it to be even harder for Harry to kill Voldemort? He's pretty screwed without losing his ability to do magic.

 

Well, Random Death Eater would be killed if he killed Harry. You can say that he cast the spell because Voldemort wanted to show Harry and the Wizarding World, that his followers shouldn't be taken likely just because they were beaten by a few kids. Than, you can say, that because he wears the Dark Mark, which is transferred by Voldemorts magic, then his goal is to kill the Death Eater, and Voldemort. The spell can't distinguish by the magic that cast it, so Harry is forced to kill them both.

Post OotP and HBP he was very emotionally charged. Just because he wasn't angry, doesn't mean that he doesn't have emotions. His emotions for Ginny, and if Post HBP, his anger at Snape.

 

This plot was used in fiction Magic never dies from Lynney in second last chapter. It was posted on portkey.org.

 

The spell thing could work. I know one smarmy bastard that would love Harry to suffer like that. Goes by the name of Snape. I know that would go down well on this board And having Snape die in a painful, and above all, muggle way would be the icing on the cake.

Maybe have it as an AU end of HBP, where he curses him with that and knocks him out or have it completely seperate as a book 7 starter.
Harry doesn't have to be an assassin, just some kick ass martial artist, which he'll learn in just under a week.

 

Maybe instead of losing magic, he does loes it, but by some weird thing it supercharges other things. He's faster, stronger, learns faster, but can't use magic.

 

That's a good idea.

Oh... and/or maybe it could also reduce his inhibitions- mainly self control over fits of violence and general reduction of humanity.

Less positive emotions and more base instincts, like the urge for violence and/or lust, etc., could be a part of it.

So... the basic premise is that Harry loses his magic, and has to resort to other means to defeat Voldemort.If that's the case, then there has to be some alternative way for him to destroy the Horcruxes if they're being used, or another solution altogether.

Hmm... has some merit, actually.

 

Hmm. Perhaps instead of loosing it, when Voldemort or a Death Eater places the curse on Harry, it fails somehow. Instead of blocking all of Harry's magic it forces his magic into a couple of branches. IT lmits what magic he can do but supercharges the kinds of magic such as something like Transfiguration. SO he has a high affinity for one branch of magic but can't use any others.

Or you could do anohter route Harry has all his powers but the magic can't affect Riddle or his merry band of men.

 

Didn't Harry destroy the Diary with a Basilisk fang? So he wouldn't need magic to destroy the horcruxes, only magical items.