What is this, DLP-hands-out-social-advice?

What You Leave Behind is proving to be pretty good, though I'm only on the first chapter. Technically, it leaves nothing to be desired - and it has characters' voices down. I'm pretty impressed - this is the first piece of fanfiction, in a long time, that I've not dropped after the first paragraph.

 

Back up off my niche, bish. (Chapter 12 for Harry in da bush)

 

Don't start there. Off the top of my head, Hagrid doesn't take Madame Maxime to see the dragons. She rejects him so he goes with Harry. Harry knowing that Krum probably knows about the dragons decides to tell Cedric and then he tracks down Fleur and asks to speak with her alone where he tells her about the dragons. Use that moment to slowly build a bit of a friendship between them.

The Yule Ball is coming up, and Harry asks Cho and gets rejected. He complains to Fleur who hasn't had any luck with Cedric. Fleur decides to repay him for the dragons by going with him to Yule Ball. Cue some awkward dancing lessons. Finally, you hit the night of the ball and Harry is focused on Cho like some lovesick puppy. Fleur decides she needs to distract him and make sure he is having fun, and soon, Harry has forgotten about Cho and is just generally having a good time. Fleur is surprised at how much fun she is having with Harry now that he is actually focused on her and before she knows it she is dragging him off the dance floor for a little private time.

After the second task rolls around, Rita writes an article about how Fleur is just using Harry after Harry stays behind to save her sister. There is some conflict because of this, and Harry's lack of experience in dating is starting to show. They end up breaking up. The third task rolls around and Fleur is flirting with Bill right in front of Harry, and Harry is considering the finer points of a well aimed baldness curse.

The third task happens, and Harry comes out on top. He grabs the cup just in time for Cedric and Fleur to come into view and see him whisked off by the portkey. Harry isn't so lucky in this duel with Voldemort. He is outclassed completely. Voldemort seems to know what he is going to cast before he even starts the wand movements. He breaks the imperius and endures the cruciatus. Finally Voldemort hits him with the killing curse.

He finds himself platform 9 3/4's with Lily and James as well as a twisted part of Voldemort's soul.There is a conversation before he returns to his body in time to see Voldemort and his death eaters leaving. With the child from the prophecy dead, Voldemort is about to make himself known in the wizarding world. Harry gets up and stumbles bloody and broken over to the cup before returning to Hogwarts.

Rumors are flying wildly around the school. Harry returns looking like he has been through hell, and a known death eater tries to kill him at Hogwarts. Voldemort was spotted breaking into Azkaban and freeing his followers, and there are rumors circulating that Harry Potter had dueled him and survived yet another killing curse on that night. Fleur realizes how much Harry means to her after he almost dies and spends the night with him in the hospital wing. They makeup when he wakes up in the middle of the night.

Now, you have the perfect setup to start an interesting 5th year. Voldemort is out in the open and is obsessed with both hearing the entire prophecy and finding out how Harry survived yet another killing curse. Has he found a way to cheat death? Without the fragment of Voldemort's soul inside of him, Dumbledore can start training him in occlumency among other things. Fleur is still working at Gringotts leaving him a little paranoid about her being around Bill. Maybe, she is doing things for the order too? That could cause him to worry about her safety.

I don't know where to go from here as I came up with this idea in response to your post and haven't had much time to think about it, but the point is that you could make the Yule Ball work if you set it up right.

 

You know what to do.

 

Huh, looks like I need to start writing a story.

 

There was story Lungs was writing that I was beta'ing for that was similar- though it was never finished, and only a few chapters saw the light of day. The basic idea was a story where Harry Potter was basically James Bond. The story was to show his progression from mostly-canon!Harry to a more Dumbledore-like character with a healthy dash of Craig!Bond. Here's a quote of me explaining how Fleur was ideally supposed to be like, from like page 94 of this thread:

 

So, on a completely unrelated note, I've been reading through the thread on the subject of Fleur and her inherited veela powers. I've ruled out the possibility that veela genes are X-linked, since that would mean that males have a greater chance of inheriting them.
essentially, I can't except that the genes would grow weaker with descendents of humans and veela because that would mean that there would not be any full veela. So, my theory is that the genes controlling veela heritage are co-dominant which could mean that they could be passed down with the normal human genome. The irony of trying to apply science to magic does not escape me.

On another note, if a minister of magic was charged with corruption, and steeling from a pureblood from another country, would that be sufficient evidence to remove that minister from office? I don't know much about international law, but I think that would be enough regardless of the truth.

 

Veela are a separate species to humanity. I imagine Fleur's DNA is significantly wonky compared to a human's, much more so than a single gene.

 

So, which way would work? I'll admit, I really like a Fleur that can throw fireballs, and has some power over human men.
Also, if veela were a different species, they wouldn't be able to produce viable offspring with humans.

 

Yeah, that's the biological definition of species but fantasy always plays rather fast and loose with that kind of thing.

I mean, so far as we're aware Hagrid isn't sterile which would suggest, biologically speaking, that humans and giants are the same species. AndFlitwick has a Goblin somewhere in his ancestry. So Goblins and Humans are biologically the same species too.

Then there's the known fact that magic allows for hybrids to be made in some way very unlike the normal biological process (Skrewts = Manticore + Fire Crab).

Yeah, so in this case I think 'A wizard did it' is going to have to trump biology.

 

Why? She's a witch, so she can cast loads of different fire spells, and she's the canon babe, so she has power over men regardless of whatever gimmick powers you think being a veela gives.

 

BS. You've never seen Trelawney by the firelight wrapped up in her negligee.




(and you're welcome for that horrifying image)

 

Shame that. To make up for it, I present a Firenze/Trelawney fic, complete with pictures.

To those lost souls who aren't into bestiality, I'm sure you would love the collection of Snape/Trelawney fanfics at AO3. Unfortunately, only one of them has explicit sex, which is a shame, I'm sure we all agree.

(Something Steelbadger should work on perhaps, after his success with his Rumbledore fanfic? And I still bear the scars of that one.)

 

I'm not sure, if you could classify the 1st one really as bestiality, since a centaur is not really a beast (rather a sentient half-horse humanoid).

 

Are you serious? If it has four legs and fucking hooves, it's bestiality. Not to mention, of course, the horse dick.

I mean, maybe it isn't technically (I'm not sure, I didn't want 'bestiality definition' in my search history) because Firenze is intelligent and can consent or whatever, but fuck that it's still bestiality in spirit.

 

Sex between human and non-human animals. Seems to fit bestiality, but without the animal abuse normally associated with the act.

 

Can you call an sentient being an animal? It may have animal properties (such as an equine lower body), but also human one (above the waist), so it's kinda ambiguous.

 

Here's a general rule: if its reproductive organs are non-human, it's bestiality.

That includes you, Ariel.