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Challenge 8 by Lord Apophis

Discussion in 'Challenges' started by Lord Apophis, Sep 8, 2006.

  1. Lord Apophis

    Lord Apophis Professor

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    This is set between 5 to 10 years after Hogwarts. Voldemort was defeated in Harry's seventh year at Hogwarts.

    The power that the prophecy talks about is the ability to manipulate raw magic, an ability that only Merlin has had.

    Harry has for some reason decided that he wants to rule the world. But he does not start with the wizarding world, he use his ability to manipulate raw magic to convince the church that he is jesus, he has been reborn.

    Large parts of the muggle world would worship him as a god before he even begun to focus on the wizarding world.

    The Rules:

    The wizarding world cant know what harry is doing.

    Harry is very power hungry but he must keep in character, he is supposedly
    the son of god, he will need to act nice and such.


    Raw Magic:

    His ability to manipulate raw magic makes it so he can do anything, he just
    focus on what he wants to happen and it happens, there are no incantations,
    no wand, no flash of light or sound.

    But it takes enormous focus to manipulate raw magic and it is far more draining then using normal magic so he cant go around using it all the time.

    Because of the focus it takes to manipulate raw magic so is it not used in
    battle.
     
  2. ip82

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    I like the twist with Jesus, but I don't see what's the point of raw magic thing. These are clearly two different ideas that don't have to go together at all...
     
  3. Mordecai

    Mordecai Drunken Scotsman –§ Prestigious §– DLP Supporter

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    I agree with IP. Its also kinda like my idea of how the catholic church was created and is run by power hungry magicians, completely separate from the Wizarding World. They periodically send out a volunteer to perform a miracle or two, then martyr them in some way. THe posts somewhere, i jsut spend 30 minutes searching for it, but can't see it.

    I always liked the idea that the church was a wizarding conspiracy, adds a new dimension to the catholic wizrds that pop up in occassional fics, doesn't it.
     
  4. ip82

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    Unfortunately, as interesting as Jesus idea might be, it could never be posted. FFN will surely remove it as soon as the first religious nutjob filed a complaint for 'offending their religious beliefs' or some such crap (like they removed that other Harry-as-Jesus parody).
     
  5. Lord Apophis

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    The point to the raw magic thing is to give harry an ability that is powerful but still not useful in battle, but more importantly so the manipulation of raw magic is invisable, only the result is visable, there are no jets of light like with spells, it would allow harry to maintain that he is the son of god once the wizarding world is exposed, he would not use a wand or spells to keep up the image of a god.

    Also the church would really belive he was the son of god, no one would know that he was really a wizard. For the first few years would he even try to stop people from worshiping him to keep up the image and slowly have the church take control of goverments.
     
  6. The Sinner

    The Sinner Looked into the void

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    I like the idea. Though you would have to wonder, realistically, if the church or anyone educated in the bible would believe him. Afterall, Jesus the Christ is not supposed to return to Earth until after the Seven Year Tribulation foretold in Revelations, after The Rapture has taken all the faithful to heaven and the Anti-Christ unified the world under his control. Jesus, realistically, could not return before that time, according to the bible. Educated theoligians and the church would realistically know that Harry was not Jesus the Christ.

    You could do conceivably do a story like this, or any one like this, but the religious plot holes (i.e. The Bible) would have to be overcome in such a plausible way as to make the story even worth reading to someone who knows even a little of how Jesus the Christ will return to Earth to set up his Thousand Year Kingdom on Earth, i.e. Heaven.
     
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