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The Anti-Cliche` Thread.

Discussion in 'Fanfic Discussion' started by Jon, Jul 13, 2006.

  1. KeshinNoAkui

    KeshinNoAkui Seventh Year

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    And then mysteriously Paris dies an unfortunate death because she wants to become a pop diva. =P

    That would actually be interesting as a Humor story, if only to bash Paris.
     
  2. Olfrik

    Olfrik Seventh Year

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    I'd like to see a fic were Harry is as manipulating as Dumbledore is made out to be. Were he actually frames Dumbledore or the beaver or one of the weasels for something.
     
  3. Verse of Darkness

    Verse of Darkness Denarii Host

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    Hm... how about instead of the DoM being War Ubahly Wizards, how about them being something like... AREA-51? And they somehow mutate Harry or some shit.
     
  4. Dubrichius

    Dubrichius Groundskeeper

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    I'm actually working on an idea somewhat similar to that, only the Unspeakables will be more like the MiB. I plan to use certain species and ideas from the Master of Orion series of games.
     
  5. Lord Apophis

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    How about a story were Wormtail is smart, kind of like in the story Fidilus I think it was called. He was with Voldemort on the night of the attack on the potter home and takes harry to raise him.

    Or how about when Voldemort was destroyed in 1981 so does one of the Inner Circle Death Eaters take over. It gets out that this death eater has been manipulating voldemort ever since their time at hogwarts.
     
  6. Mordac

    Mordac Minister of Magic DLP Supporter

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    Harry gets an amoeba animagus form.
     
  7. The Hungry Basilisk

    The Hungry Basilisk Raptured to Hell

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    1, Draco Malfoy gives birth to Harry Potter!Wait!!! Its been done? Dear God!!!

    http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2892973/1/

    2,Harry goes back in time, has sex with Lucius and gives birth to Draco?

    3, Harry gets possessed by a biblical Demon called LEGION!

    4,Harry gets caught doing magic by the muggle government (MI5/AREA51/SECTION12) and they decide to experiment on him.What is he?


    5,Harry is raised as a merboy in the black lake?


    6,Harry's mum was an RAF pilot?


    Argh...my brain hurts with the possibilities!
     
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  8. Dark Syaoran

    Dark Syaoran No. 4 Admin

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    Number 4 is a good idea. I've seen authors try to use it before, but they never seem to get it right. I wouldnt mind seeing a proper one done.
     
  9. Alayna

    Alayna Second Year

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    Number 4 has been made partially... in Mastermind Hunting especially, as in the early stages of the story they (CIA) hunt him literally over the whole world...

    And partially it was done in some crossovers with x-men; Harry is there sort of Wolverine, I unfortunately forgot the name of the story...
     
  10. The Hungry Basilisk

    The Hungry Basilisk Raptured to Hell

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    Oh! I had never seen a story of that ilk!

    But know I will be on the hunt!

    Do you have any links?
     
  11. Mordecai

    Mordecai Drunken Scotsman –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    I remember a Stargate SG-1 xover, that was sort of like that, it was something about Crumpets in the title. It was ok, but not brilliant. I do like the idea though.

    I have to ask though, how in the fuck would Lilly POtter being the RAF affect anything?

    And jsut one otehr thing that pisses me off. What would Area 51 have to do with anything in Britain. To get them involved Harry would have to travel to America, which is just sad IMO. MI5, MI6 aye, use them , but not the CIA, FBI or anything like that, they don't exist in Britain. I wish that most fanfic writers would get it into their heads.
     
  12. Amerision

    Amerision Galactic Sheep Emperor DLP Supporter

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    I've been thinking about a variation of number four actually.

    PostSS/PS

    Balding government scientist Dr. John Richards has worked years as a Biophysicist, researching the fringes of theoretical quantum physics and its effect on life.

    All his colleagues made breakthroughs long ago, hired away by large pharmaceutical corporations or weapons contractors.

    Aging, his grants are drying up as universities and companies are giving them away to fresh hotshot Professors who "...have a greater chance of discovering anything useful."

    Past his prime, the Doctor opens an older file, Einstein's unfinished projects.

    Supposedly, Doctor Einstein was searching for the Unified Theory of physics, an explanation than would bridge the gap between normal physics and quantum physics.

    Einstein had insisted there was "...something missing..." in science, a force or state of matter that would make it complete.

    Unfortunately, he died before he made any breakthrough.

    But now, Dr. Richards has stumbled on an odd material with strange properties able to detect what he believes is this missing force.

    Oddly, the force seems to be concentrated in humans who, for the most part, seem to have no record in the United Kingdom, or the world for that matter.

    Taking to extremes, he kidnaps and studies them.

    Biopsies have never been so...magical.

    However, the strange force seems to be found in mostly small quantities, and tends to become more fixed and static as the subjects age.

    Determined to study them further, he decides to find a young subject with more of this force.

    Conveniently, he stumbles upon a twelve year old boy not far from his laboratory in Surrey...a boy no one seems to care about.

    A boy involved in a project the British Military has become interested in.

    :::

    I was thinking of them kidnapping Harry and experimenting on him. Harry would escape the first year it would happen, but they would capture him next summer.

    Fiddling with his magic, they would find ways to enhance it and his body, and the military would do...stuff...with him. Maybe in an attempt to create an operative in this unknown wizarding world to work for them and find out more.

    They could pressure him to find out more spells, wizarding government, population numbers, things they could not get out of the adults they kidnapped.

    I can see the seargent kicking his ass and demanding him to find more "...useful spells."

    Either all that or to create the perfect Soldier.
     
  13. The Hungry Basilisk

    The Hungry Basilisk Raptured to Hell

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    I was just giving examples to Americans who may not know of MI5/6.

    Plus the CIA, FBI and Interpol work closely with the British government so it is within the realms of possibility.
    The US AND UK tend to share stuff.
    I know this being fuckin born and raised here in England and you should know that being Scottish yourself!!!

    And the RAF thing was a joke DUH!
     
  14. Jon

    Jon The Demon Mayor Admin DLP Supporter

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    ZOMG! Rivertreatmentatthehandsofthealliance!Harry. :D
     
  15. Mordac

    Mordac Minister of Magic DLP Supporter

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    I'd sooooo read that.
     
  16. Mordecai

    Mordecai Drunken Scotsman –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    I have to say, I like the idea Amersion, someone should write it. Preferebly someone who has enough knowledge of physics to actually write it, rather than make it up as they go along.
     
  17. Opaque

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    I think it would be Funny to see a story where Harry runs away and goes to gringotts to get a bunch of money, only to see griphook and call out his name. However calling a goblin by his name without permission is a sign of serious dishonor to goblins and Gringotts to declare Harry an enemy of the Goblins and they try to kill him.
     
  18. Vayne

    Vayne Second Year

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    Here's an anti-cliche that came to me as a random piece of inspiration that I fleshed out a little.

    We've all seen dozens of fics in which Harry is a horcrux (or is a partial horcrux or failed horcrux etc), along with the various debates as to whether it's possible or not, what it means if he is and so on. However what if he wasn't the only human repository for a piece of Voldemort's soul? What if the fragment of soul in Tom Riddle's diary was not destroyed when it's container was, but instead found a new host? Consider the following:

    1. We know that the complete destruction of a horcrux is a very volatile thing; Dumbledore, who no doubt invested in every form of magical protection he could come up with or get his hands on prior to disarming the Gaunt family ring, was still left crippled by his attempt, whereas Harry, with no special protections and physically exhausted at the time suffered no ill effects whatsoever when he destroyed the diary. (I'm unsure if this is explained in canon or not having no inclination to reread HBP to check. I know many fanfics say Harry was fine because he used a freshly extracted basilisk fang, ie a very potent magical item, but I have to wonder why an item of comparable power would be out of Dumbledore's reach.)

    2. The destruction of the soul-fragment and the destruction of it's container are not necessarily linked. Again, I'm less than certain on this one but I'm pretty sure that after Dumbledore disarmed it the Gaunt family ring was still around and unharmed, indicating the soul-fragment can be destroyed without damaging the container. Could the reverse also be true?

    3. Tom Riddle's apparition states in the chamber something along the lines of 'She poured her soul into me, and I started pouring myself back.' What if that's not simply semantics, and he was already moving the soul-fragment from the diary into her body before it's container was destroyed, and when it was the soul-fragment leapt across that existing link into Ginny?

    4. This would be a far better explanation for the godawful 'roaring in his stomach' attraction from HBP. For whatever reason the two soul-fragments in Harry and Ginny react to one another and their hosts feel it as attraction. After all, in a perverse way they really are soul mates.

    What would this mean for Ginny? Hard to say. I'd imagine that since the link was originally intended to have Tom in complete control he can still exert a measure of influence, but it's *very* subtle. He's not in complete control (if he was Ginny would have long since poisoned Harry, and definitely wouldn't be hooking up with him) but maybe his influence on her has caused her to change from the shy wallflower she was into the character she is in HBP. Or perhaps the soul-fragment in her has been dormant owing to the rather hurried method of it's relocation, until some external event - Voldemort's resurrection, or him growing in power post-OotP for example, causes it to reawaken. Ginny probably won't get the Parseltongue or other effects Harry has because the nature of her gaining the soul-fragment. Whereas Harry effectively stole his piece of Voldemort's soul (Or at least a part of Voldemort's soul and power was ripped from him against his will and deposited into Harry), Ginny was instead occupied by a piece Voldemort chose to seperate deliberately. As for the soul-fragment occupying Ginny, it is a lot weaker than it was in CoS, mostly because while it is still intact it's no longer got all the extremely specialised enchantments that were on it's old container that allowed it to interact with the outside world. It's no longer able to possess people, or feed on them like it used to; both it and Ginny are far more like an inert horcrux like the Gaunt ring was.

    My favourite part of this little plotbunny is that it's a great excuse for the HPGW ship in HBP, and would be an equally great way of ending their relationship. For example, after learning he himself is a horcrux, Harry manages, in what is literally an internal conflict, to either destroy the part of Voldemort inside of him or, better, absorb it into himself through sheer force of will, presumably gaining the knowledge Voldemort had prior to halloween 1981 (in the same way the soul-fragment in the diary had all Tom Riddle's memories prior to it being split from him). Over the course of the next few weeks he realises that he no longer feels any attraction to Ginny; in fact he can't even see what made her stick out from the almost nonentity she used to be. Again, once he realises this he frets and worries over it for a while before giving in and casting a horcrux-detection spell on her to allay his suspicions. He is horrified when instead the spell reveals the truth; that Ginny *is* a repository for a piece of his nemesis. He attempts to teach her to rid herself of the soul-fragment, but she lacks his willpower and cannot defeat it. Left with no other options Harry kills her; without an existing link to anything it can use as a new host the soul-fragment is destroyed as well.

    Damn, I fleshed that out a hell of a lot more than I'd originally expected to writing all that, and now I wish I had the writing skill, the time and most importantly the work ethic to turn all that into an actual fic; I think it'd be an interesting FWG challenge entry. However I know I lack all 3 of the above, so if you possess them and want to turn any of the ideas I've tossed up here into a story I ask only for a mention somewhere as the inspiration (unless you enter it into the challenge and win, in which case I want a 25% cut of the winnings as well :p)
     
  19. Lord_Slytherin

    Lord_Slytherin Third Year

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    Paris hilton discovers that she is a witch and comes to Hogwarts and falls in love with Harry!! But that spunky red head vixen wants revenge! Harry/Ginny/Paris/Ron/OC Lots of pranks! and marauders
     
  20. Amerision

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    All for executing Lord_Slytherin, say I...
     
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