Okay, just had a random plotbunny pop in my cobwebbed head.

Authors have absolutely killed the Gryffindor!Harry, and most who write Slytherin!Harry are just trying to write some crappy slashfest. There are a couple good Slytherin!Harry stories, but they're getting crushed by the slash fangirls. I've seen one or two Ravenclaw!Harry stories, but not many. A hilarious example would be So Sue Me by YonderB. Sarcastic, much?

However, in all the stories I've looked up, I have yet to see a Hufflepuff!Harry story.

Challenge: Hufflepuff!Harry, Manip!Dumbledore, Countermanipulative!Harry, optional Weasley!Granger!bashing(in moderation).
Possible pairings: Harry x Hannah Abbott, Harry x Susan Bones, HarryOC(please, god, NO MARY-SUES!).
Other Plotbunnies: Time Travel, Grey!Voldemort, Grey!Harry, Believable Animagi Form for Harry.
Absolutely no: Mary-Sues, SuperCharacters

Ideas?

 

There's very good hufflepuff!Harry story at FanFicAuthors.net. It's called Fidelius.

 

Hmm, I'll look it up, thanks.

 

Oh damn, why is that familiar. Roxiesnape is the author...err, Shake Me, that's the one.

 

Shake Me by RoxieSnape
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2258167/1/

It wasn't only H/Hr, he had lots of different girlfriends and ended up with a vamp chick. Not a bad story, but that baby had completely ruined it. Such an idiotic decision.

 

If I remember right in "Mastermind Hunting" By Louis X Harry was first sorted into Hufflepuff under an alternative name because he wated to even out the house's and felt sorry for Hufflepuff. The story has some original idea's but has fallen into the trap of over powering Harry and his friends so it has now powered up Voldemort and the death eaters.

 

Take any idea you can think of, and there's a good chance that Mastermind Hunting has it amongst its 600,000 words...

 

I personally don't like Hufflepuff!Harry. To me the Hufflepuffs are just...there.

 

True, but that is the reason I challenged. No one really bothers to notice Hufflepuff House. I often wonder if J.K. perhaps had run out of ideas, so she had to make Hufflepuff a sort of 'dumping ground' for the students of Hogwarts.

 

I've actually toyed with writing a Hufflepuff Harry story. It begins with Uncle Vernon refusing to drive Harry to King's Cross on Sept. 1. He instead hands Harry some money and a bus schedule. To reach his destination Harry ends up having to take the 4am bus and arrives around 3 hours early. Instead of meeting the Weasleys, he instead meets Cedric Diggory being dropped off by his parents. Cedric helps him onto the platform and gets him into a compartment. When Harry asks about the houses, Cedric explains that Hufflepuffs value hardwork (which Harry can appreciate) and Loyalty as in standing up for your friends. Having never had someone willing to stand up for him, Harry would actually want that. Remembering Malfoy's words in the dress shop disparging the house he opts for it. In my version if I ever write this, there is a sixth year muggleborn who takes Harry under his wing and helps tutor him. This sixth year also recruits a 7th year female clumsy auror wannabe (yes I play with Tonk's age a bit) to help him tutor Harry. As for romance, I actually pictured Harry having a longstanding one sided crush on Tonks starting from his first year. (I think it would be an interesting twist on the Harry/Tonks genre)The four of them go after the stone in a more violent version. If I go the CoS route, I picture the mentor actually getting killed in the Chamber and of course if Cedric's death occurs it will have a more profound effect on our hero.

Jim

 

jbern, bish, write that! It would be an excellent fic, your writing style would suit it perfectly, and it would suit you perfectly.

 

Yeah, but with two in progress and no end in sight for either of them it is hard to justify jumping into a sweeping rewrite of books 1-6. Besides IP and Nonjon are telling me that I should attempt a bunny that I mentioned in the Bungle thread where the canon version of Luna Lovegood bumps into Ginny right outside of Flourish and Botts and in the ensuing cauldron spilling ends up with the Diary. Follow the adventures of the Diary of Tom Riddle as it tries to possess, coerce, threaten, bribe, and plead with Luna Lovegood to open the Chamber of Secrets.

A sample of the potential dialogue

I was thinking from the Diary's POV -"Here I am a portion of the soul of the greatest magical being that has ever lived and she is using me to prop up a broken chairleg."

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"Luna, what do you know about the Chamber of Secrets?"

"I think father mentioned something about it in quibbler, would you like me to read the latest issue to you. I could owl him and find out what he knows."

"No, no that won't be necessary. Would you like to know about the Chamber of Secrets?"

"But if you told me, it wouldn't be a secret."

"Gah!"

"Is something wrong? Would you like me to rub your spine again, Tom?"

"No! Ahh that's the spot!"

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The problem is, I am not sure how well I can do straight humor. As soon as I wrap one of my current works I am going to try and do this one in under 40000 words. That said I, do eventually want to do the version of Hufflepuff Harry that I have laid out, but a whole rewrite is simply daunting.

Apologys for going off topic,
Jim

 

lol. that Luna CoS idea was pretty hilarious.

anyway, i completely agree with Mordecai. jbern's idea is pretty cool. the only problem is it would have to be a rewrite from the first book which would be pretty tedious.

 

Has anyone ever heard of a story called Gabriel?

Its a hufflepuff!harry and its very good, set sixth year I believe.

Look it up.