The plot bunnies running around in my head and bred, spawning this idea that I'm considering.

It would begin as a typical time travel fic, where he kills Voldemort, and in retalliation an enraged Death Eater kills him, thereby sending him into the time of Camelot and Merlin.

The atmosphere will be very different than even the usual Hogwarts era stories. As this would be long before the Statute of Secrecy is created and the Wizengamot is formed, wizards and witches are predictably quite powerful.

These unrestricted wizards freely forge their own fiefdoms, dominating Muggles with lesser wizards/witches as their vassals, and Harry finds himself trespassing in a realm of one such wizarding warlord, who apprehends him.

Harry is offended by the arrogant man, and kills him effortlessly. Even though the wizards of the current age use wandless magic, Harry has the advantage of knowing modern day spells. The lesser wizards/witches, intimated, coronate him their new leader, and Harry accepts.

I guess the plot would revolve around a brewing and potentially massive war between King Arthur and his Round Table and his rival Prince Mordred, both of whom are gathering wizards - and by extension their armies - to their banners and attempt to procure Harry's allegiance. The fic could have Harry doing the typical and siding with Arthur and Merlin, or the opposite.

Anyone have any suggestions?

 

As long as you can keep the plot interesting, it'd be a good read. But still, you have to involve people and places we know, to make us (the readers) care. Perhaps you could throw in some ancestors of characters we know? We'll care a lot more about Malfoys, Weaselys (debatable), Notts, Averys, Gryffindores, Ravenclaws, Boneses, ect.... than we will about 'random wizard Lord X'.

 

Idea is good, but I am not too keen on the "all ancient wizards are uber powerful" aspect. A powerful wizard like Dumbledore is a rare thing. Going back in time doesn't change that. Even 1000 years ago the majority of wizards are average with a few above average.

I don't know why they would be masters wandless magic when wands have been around since circa. 300 BC. That is one of the things I dislike about Harry traveling back far in time, that even though wands have already been used for thousands of years no one uses them until after the founders time.

 

Perhaps you could, as Logrus has said, involve the families we know about. Could it be that the Lord he kills it the Patriarch of the Weasley family, and he doesn't know that until he's killed the Lord, stripped that family of its wealth, and banished them from his lands.

I would imagine that it would be a fairly politically minded fic, from the point of view that it would centre on Harry's dealings with Arthur, Mordred, other Lords and Ladies, rather than on action. It can have its share of action as well, but it wouldn't be the main focus. Perhaps, just for shits and giggles, you could have Harry create a third faction, and take on both Arthur and Mordred and go on to conquer Britain.

Your method of getting Harry into the past is a bit weak. Perhaps you could take the piss out of the idea that Hermione is an utter genius, and use that to send Harry into the past. Perhaps she's created a runic amulet to defend him from the killing curse. It works on the basis that it forms a shield in front of the wearer, which catches the killing curse and transitions it into another dimension. But she makes a mistake! She uses the rune for Time rather than Dimension, and accidentally inscribes it in a reversed position. So that, as the killing curse hits it, it sends the wearer back in time.

Another potential problem I see if that lack of any real ending. Whats the final goal? Will it be Harry living in relative peace with a huge following, and starting the Potter Clan? Or something else...?

 

Thanks to all of you.

I've begun writing it. The third faction idea, or Harry siding with Mordred, sounds quite good, with Harry offing the occasional Knights of the Round.

One thing I am going to include is Harry accidentally offending Merlin before he realizes who he's talking too, possibly sparking a rivalry. With all the Harry-Merlin apprentice fics, it'll be a nice change.

 

If at any point you want some of it read over and some feed back on it, feel free to send it to me.

 

I totaly agree with EvilSpanker. If you replace powerful with primal - crude, lacking the fines born of centuries of hiding, like a sledgehammer compared to a scalpel. Both can kill as easily but have to be used differently. So Harry won`t be killing anyone effortlessly(=an empty victory anyways), but still in a manner never before seen in those times. Both will have advantages disadvantages. Make it more interesting, spice it up a bit.

 

Or you could remove the over used idea of time travel and have it set a few decades in the future. During the last days of the war against Voldemort did Voldemort trigger World War 3 and the muggles bombed themselves into the stone age

Wizards no longer hide, but use their powers to carve out their own small kingdoms, purebloods and half bloods usually rule with muggle borns as vassals...