I was driving home from school earlier today and a thought occured to me..... no clue why it hit then, or why I told you, I just enjoy rambling...

In any case, I'm sure we've all read stories where Harry isn't completely human. Either Lily wasn't actually a muggle or a human, or the Potters have some magical creature blood that activated in Harry, etc. My thought was this.

Hallowe'en is the day of the dead, the day when the barriers between worlds are at their thinnest. What if that is true in the HP universe? What would happen if, when voldie cast the killing curse at Harry as a baby, his soul WAS ripped from his body, but because of the barriers being so thin, Lily's magic was able to pull him back... and what if that wasn't all that came back?
I would assume that the backlash of Harry's soul being ripped from and then slammed back into his body is what would have 'killed' voldie.

Anyway, just an idea I had, I'd LOVE to see a story that drew on this.... in any case, bye for now!

 

Hmn, it's not terribly original, but it does have interesting possibilities. A Demon: the Fallen crossover would be perfect with that set up, since that meshes extremely well with the metaphysics in that game and the Potterverse has purposely left religion very vague.

 

Sounds interesting enough, could lead to some interesting plot lines as was said.

 

sounds good but it seemed a little confusing. i would like to see an author do this and go in to a little more depth with it. i would certainly read it.

 

This is just a way to join Harry and <insert demon/muthic creature here>... NOT the idea for an entire fic. But as far as methods of integration go, this one is more logical then some of the others I've seen.

 

I like this idea very much, and since I have been having trouble with one of my two WIPs with how Harry becomes a demon, this idea works very well.

 

This is very interesting. It could lead to HP/Constantine (the movie) x-over with Harry that can see demons and angels. Or another idea is that instead of some monster/demon/angel/mythical creature there was brought another soul into Harrys' body. Soul of another human. Long dead and powerful Dark Lord Grindelwald who wants to try again in taking the world in his grasp.

 

No where in Canon does it say Grindelwald is a Dark Lord. Merely a Dark wizard.

 

Yeah, it says only that Dumbledore defeated the Grindelwald in 1945. It doesn't say he was a Dark Lord, but the Dark wizard Grindelwald.

 

Grindelwald would still have been a very powerful dark wizard for it to mean so much that Dumbledore kiiled him. Maybe he just didn't have any followers, so they didn't count him as a dark lord. I like this idea, but I agree that it seems to just be another way to mesh crossovers or odd ideas.

 

Or maybe he just lacked the arrogance to call himself a Lord.

 

Or maybe he preferred to call himself like that or that.

 

Its highly doubtful that he would give himself a foriegn title. Simply because, as much as people asume that he was working with the Nazi's, he probably was only making use of an opportunity. He was most probably British of some cast. Otherwise, why would Dumbledore kill him. The only reason Voldemort hasn't been kiled before, is because of the fearfactor and the fact that the Ministry can't get its fingers out its arse to grasp a wand. If there was an international Dark Wizard, he would have been hunted down and destroyed immediately I would think. Simply because, its one thing to have a terrorist from your own country attacking oyu, but its an afront to national pride to have a foriegner attack the country. It would inspire action on the behalf of any Ministry involved.

 

I think that Grindelwald was an German or from an german-speaking country. Probably Switzerland since there is an village that is called Grindelwald. Also word "WALD" - is an german word for forrest.

 

"Margrave" is a much cooler appelation than Lord anyway.

Getting back on topic, I really like this idea. Perhaps I should work a new story around it. The beast within cannot overtake Harry completely until he performs his first act of hatred (aka crucio'ing Lestrange), an act of lust, and one of pride. Each act gives the demon/thing more influence over Harry untill he finally breaks free on Halloween of his sixth year, the third Eristic anniversary of their joining (aka 15 years, three being a powerful artithmantic number, five being the number of chaos.) If he does not complete all three by then the beast must wait for the chaos night (5X5) in his 26th Halloween.

The beast was only summoned because there had been a three fold sacrifice; a warrior, a maiden, and an innocent, in the same home on Halloween. Some pagan traditions would invite the gods and godesses to join them in their feasts on certain days. Perhaps the Potter family had such a tradition. Thus the entrire chain of events is one elaborate and completely accidental dark arts ritual to invite an otherworldly power to stalk the lands.

 

One more thing, it says Dumbledore defeated him, not killed.