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If Harry had been born female how different would canon be?

Discussion in 'General Discussion' started by Alexx, Jun 6, 2015.

  1. Alexx

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    Who would she end up with? How would Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Draco, Snape, Dumbledore, Voldemort, Sirius, Neville, The Dursleys react to her? So many other questions come to mind. What do you guys think?
     
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  3. KHAAAAAAAN!!

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    I think we should all just go read one of the oodles of fics in the Miss Potter community to get our fem!Harry fix rather than have a pointless "What If" discussion.
     
  4. Another Empty Frame

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    A member returns to DLP after more than a year inactive, and we’re always happy to see old friends come back!

    but something has changed

    Alexx has been gone for over a year, training in his hyperbaric, super-high-gravity, time dilated, trunk that has seven compartments.

    He made himself two wands, one has a basilisk fang core, and the other one has a phoenix feather core, and he shaved his head and got an earring and a fucking sick black trench coat.

    Now that he’s back in style, he rubs his palms together and jumps right back into the thick of it!

    To make up for lost time he figures the best thing to do is start four threads in less than a day. One is a really funny politics thread that has some great insight into the differences between white people and brown people, based off of two different videos by the same Indian artists... I'm sure he's just trying to get back into the swing of things...

    There’s a library submission of a fic - and people say that the fandom is dead, Alexx is here to show us it just ain't so! - that clocks in under eight hundred words.

    Moving on I guess :( Our triumphant returning scholar starts a fanfic “what if” that is as complex as: rule 63 one of the characters, is anything at all different? is everything different? or does nothing change?

    In my opinion: Yes

    Best of all we get two chapters in one day (how prolific!) in the WbA of a story whose title reads as if someone left out a word, maybe even a few.

    My favorite part though is how the second chapter has the same title as an old HP/NT lorddwar fic, and I honestly don’t think that’s on purpose, but it did make me realize that an Independent!Harry fic from 2005 is more compelling and fun to read than the author’s story with half of a name.

    Welcome back Alexx! I guess? if we have to?

    EDIT: Well? What other questions came to mind?!! Don't leave us hanging!

    EDIT2: Disclaimer removed, I've decided this is warranted
     
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  5. Atram Noctem

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    There is an assortment of horrible fics that deal with that hypothesis. Personally, I think Voldemort would just go after Neville instead, since it would seem more likely to him that a male would be able to defeat him rather than a female.

    But here's another question... what if Voldemort was born a female?
     
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  7. Alexx

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    Voldemort went after Harry because he was a half blood like himself. I don't think gender matters to Voldemort as much as blood.
     
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    Lots of things would change, because of one little line:

    and he shall mark him as his equal.
     
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    If you're writing a fem!Harry story it's not hard to write a gender neutral prophecy :facepalm
     
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    I gave that reply as little thought as the original question.

    There are literally millions of different ways fem!Harry could play out, because just being female does not give you a personality.
     
  11. TMD

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    How do you know fem!harry wouldn't identify as a male?

    The prophecy in referring to "him" is actually just using the correct pronouns to prevent triggering anyone that listens to it.
     
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    I remember when I thought 'trigger' warnings were a passing fad in FFNet summaries :/ .
     
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    I get angry when I see it thrown around, in fandom, on blogs, on the net in general, because "trigger" has an actual meaning and purpose. It pisses me off when its used for everything from:

    a) I wish to avoid this
    b) I am offended by this
    c) I find this disturbing/shocking/upsetting

    The only legitimate uses IMO are for people who have ACTUAL difficulties like PTSD or an addiction. I remember an excellent example of the latter here on DLP, in the Quit the Fuck Out of Smoking thread, many of us discussed triggers that pushed us to smoke, the one that always stuck with me was Lungs , who IIRC would stand in doorways outside his middle school when he started smoking as a kid, so leaning in a doorway for any real amount of time would set him jonesing.

    That's actual serious shit, while I understand that someone with a thin skin might be very offended when addressed the wrong way, I somehow doubt a monarch who constantly wanted the exact right title used would start bitching about being triggered.
     
  14. Alexx

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    Am I wrong here?

    Off topic.

    Ok I basically wrote two shots.

    When Hermione admits to confunding Cormac Harry tells her how wrong she was and makes her realises her mistake. One shot.

    When Hermione reveals she altered her parents memory, Harry tells her how wrong she was to do it and makes her realise her mistake. One shot.

    Reviews I got I guess from an Hermione fan I think

    What do you guys think?
     
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    I'm thinking you're either literally retarded or trolling.
     
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    You could post those in the thread you've got dedicated to what we might loosely term the stories...

    With regard to the topic of this thread...either everything, nothing, or somewhere in between. It depends on how much emphasis you want to give the characters in affecting the plot - a lot, if not all of the key plot points wouldn't necessarily be affected in the slightest.
     
  17. Alexx

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    Who do you think she would end up with? Perhaps Ron?
     
  18. TMD

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    Who do YOU think she would end up with Alexx?
     
  19. Another Empty Frame

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    I was on topic, you didn't reply, here's another chance though! :)
     
  20. Alexx

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    Would Snape stalk her like he did with Lily and try to get her in a relationship with him?
     
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