JCCS´s Challenge #1


Challenge #1 :

Summary: A clumsy sort of Hatred. My take on the Harry-gets-fifth-year-training ficlet.
Rules:
* Sometime during the fifth year break, Harry requests from anyone he knows on the 'light' side for some training, assistance in vengeance for Sirius. Attempt to avoid pussy!harry who wants Sirius to forgive him. He's not sorry, but he's pissed as shit and he's out for blood.
* Tonks - this is where it gets interesting (I think.) We saw in HBP that Tonks was having trouble dealing with Sirius' death. Here, the idea is she takes it a little far and goes into what one might call a state of madness. She's pissed at herself, yes, but also points fingers at everyone - you can see where she might blame herself, based on the number of heartfelt discussions about Sirius in fanon where she blames herself for not debilitating her opponent faster.
*Dumbledore/whoever Harry asks for training can't be bothered (Make up your own excuse) or plans to train him at school. Harry wants training NAO!, and Tonks, deranged as she may now appear, comes to offer him help, figuring that with the power Harry supposedly has he might be able to help her on her quest to vengeance.

Go where you want from here, discuss what you want. Just a little plot drabble.

 

Hmm, could be interesting. The problem is, given Tonks' state of mind in this setting, I really don't see her wasting her time on training a seemingly average teenager. After all, she is an auror. Catching bad buys is her job. Why would she suddenly think she needs some kid's help in doing her job?

The way I see it, things should happen like this: There's an altercation with death eaters. Both Harry and Tonks are filled with rage and lust for revenge. Harry is being held back by the adults, but Tonks charges in and gets her ass handed to her, forcing her mentor (Kingsley or Moody) to sacrifice himself to save her. Ashamed and frustrated, she is planning to leave the aurors and Order and train herself, so she could become a formidable fighter and get her revenge. Harry wants to tag along and entice her with his money. The deal is basically, Harry finances her travels and training and in exchange she trains him. Thus, they 'escape' the Order and go out on an odyssey together...

 

Actually, that was Harry's assumption but it turned out at the end that she was just horny for Lupin...

As far as the challenge goes, it's a fairly original set up for a motive for training...but that's all it is. There's no plot here, and this would die the same death that every single Indy!Harry story has died - one of getting to the end of training/summer and then not having a plot.

Edit: IP's idea sounds cool.

 

IP82's idea has infinitely more plot material. Insofar as providing a plot, I assumed that the writer would take care of that. My lack of long-term planning is the only reason I fail to actually write a decent story.

I'm almost interested in that idea, but kept more localized. I've seen too many bastardized fictions where Harry goes to the all-tolerant Australia/US and becomes incredibly powerful in a few short months.

The trick would be deciding what resources Tonks actually has to teach him - she is of relation to a pureblood family, so no doubt she has access to some form of knowledge, but from what we've seen so far she's mostly a second-best whose main abilities are made for spying.