This idea isn't exactly DLP material, but some people from the place that shall not be named advised me to post it. So here it is.

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The story starts after Ron's little temper tantrum in GOF. Harry gets sick of it all and meet Ron with a brave proposition.

"You want to be me? And I want to be you? Well, let's do it! Let's switch places."

In any case, they spend the next few weeks putting together some sort of transfiguration-based body morphing ritual. And voila! Harry gets Ron's body and can finally have some peace and Ron looks like Harry and thrives in attention.

He gets a bit of cold feet once the dragon challenge comes, but he stubbornly refuses to back out. They've made a deal to keep the charade 'till the end of the deal and he'll be damned if he puss out now.

So, with Moody's help, Ron manages to drag his arse to the final task, where the whole path is cleared up fort him. He takes the cup and disappears. A week later "Harry's" dead body is found in Diagon Alley, while "Ron", ridden by guilt, is dragged off to Burrow.

Where this goes from here? I have no idea. It would be interesting to see Harry trying to get out of his own shadow. Maybe even falling in love with Ginny... Heh, that'd be a blast. Just to make it clear, he's stuck transfigured like Ron; Without Ron's cooperation, the ritual is irreversible.

Additional spin on things could be Voldemort striking in full force after publishing the beginning of the Prophecy. Dumbledore would then be forced to publish the full prophecy, completely ruining the morale of the nation.

This would give Harry additional drive to better himself (ironically, without Ron to hold him down), as well as the chance to do it in a relative anonymity (the power he knows not?).

 

where do you get such great idea's IP this is an interesting spin, i would love to see this idea taken up the only down side is d/dore and his legilimency he would see 'ron', but could he go along with it to better hide harry?

 

Would he? That's assuming he's using Legilimency on regular bases... which is fandom thing and has no canon backing.

I'm much more concerned about Hermione finding out (but I guess she'd go along with it)...

 

That would be a really brilliant way to do it. THough a problem most authors would have would be Harry not being able to access his vault. Unless he had Ron sign a magical contract that would give access of the Potter Vault to "Ron Weasley" at any given time. He could then slip in some fine print that Ron would be too stupid to read about the access being even through death and/or incapacitation.

 

Harry having to work within the means of poor Ron would be more interesting. The only problem I see would be the weighing of the wands contest, unlesss they switch wands too. That and Ron really isn't a good actor. Harry could play Ron but could Ron play Harry?

 

Why not? It's not like anyone really knows Harry, other then Ron & Hermione. Yeah, wands would be a problem, but I guess some sort of glamour could cover it. Best to skip GOF completely and focus on OOTP AU.

 

I'm just picturing Ron gloating over all his choices to go to the Yule ball, while Harry ends up trying to ask Hermione at the last minute only to have her jump his shit as she believes he is Ron. Harry ends up going with someone like Eloise Midgen from Hufflepuff or something. Wonder if he would have to wear Ron's stupid dress robes. It would be an utter laugh if the author has Ron manage to land a date with Cho before Cedric does. Perhaps a bit of irony as Harry isn't adjusting to his 'normal' life so well.

Like I said before. It has alot of potential.

Jim

 

A very interesting idea. But I don't like seeing Harry being stuck in Ron's body forever. I think it would be better to make a ritual/potion, that wears of after some time (1-2 years). In this time Harry can train properly and then fight back against Voldemort.
Even the Harry/Ginny sounds good in this story. If written properly it has potential for many funny scenes.

 

I dont see it going much further if he is stuck in Ron's body forever. Thats a dampner on the plot bunny. The rest of it has potential as far as i can see.
Sya you got me excited care to take up the challenge?

 

Why would Dumbledore use Legilimency against Ron? While I belive that dumbledore use it against harry so would he have no reason to use it against Ron so he wont find out.

Also like many others do I belive it would get a bit boring after a while if harry would remain as Ron forever.

It would be interesting to see the reactions of the Weasley Family when they learn that Harry and Ron switched places and that it was Ron that died.

 

He will find out, I made mistake on last post i meant d/dore would use legilimency on Harry and he will see it's ron in disguise and he will instantly pick up the red head's thoughts, also we are forgetting the map which is immune to most thing's and is in the hand's of Mad eye ( barty crouch jr )

as for hermione what if she just help's them both but dare not say anything when 'Harry' die's

IP is right better skip GOF and start OOTP, there's to many plot hole's to count.