posted the challenge. I'm going to attempt it at some later date. Right now I have too many projects going. Here is the link to the challenge.

 

If I were to write this story I'd imagine that I would tie Harry's time-travel into the final events of SC. Tassadar crashing his ship (whose name I can't recall atm) into the Overmind. The sheer mass of psionic energy that was released, combined with the destruction of the ship's warp-core transportation system would do god-only-knows what to space-time.

I'd most likely go with it creating small pockets of unstable warp energy keyed to psionic frequencies. Tiny windows break open in space-time as the unstable and loose warp energy passes through unstable and loose pockets of residual psionic energy. Then, jump to the HP-verse were Harry is dueling away with Voldy.

The battle between Harry and Voldy ends with the goodguys winning, but so much residual magical energy is hanging around that it acts as an anchor for one of the unstable, and unintentional, warp-gates on the Protoss world (which I've also forgotten the name of). Harry stumbles into said warp-gate.

However, because the warp-gate was a)unstable to start with, b)unintentional, and c)made by energy that quickly moved back out of sync on the Protoss planet there is no exit and Harry is suck in a state of limbo. Fast forward to the Starcraft 2 time period (though hurry before the game comes out and blows everything with actual canon). The Protoss are working on a new version of the Warp Gates and during the testing Harry drops out at their feet.

Boom. Plausible time-travel method (edit: or rather, as plausible as any can be) along with realistic reason for Harry and the Protoss meeting.

 

I'm not really sure whether to post here or in the challenge thread for this, but whatever.

This could be a really interesting story to read. As for getting to Starcraft time, I like Muttering Condolences' idea with the Xel'Naga artifact. Perhaps the humans were an abandoned creation of theirs. If the story were to take place during Harry's time (20th century), then many of the main characters would not exist. I found booklet that came with the game, and I think most of the Protoss characters would not yet be born. Tassadar was only 356 years old.

The ghosts, and I suppose Terrans as a whole, had latent psionic abilities, which is why the Zerg wanted to infest them. I don't think they would be watered-down wizards and witches, but they are just lacking the knowledge of how to fully utilize their powers. However, it could be that muggles on earth were slowly developing magical powers, and the Ghosts are just the furthest along.

 

How long have the Zerg been around? Would they be able to get to earth in the 20th century?

If they can't, Harry would have to time travel, and even if they could, their would be no later Terran people to continue a war for the fact that earth would be destroyed.

Either way, the Zerg would nerf the hell out of earth in a day if they wanted to. Their is no possible way for Harry to get off the planet or reach out to any of the Starcraft races in his day and age, they would have to come to him. If they did, there'd be no point in continuing the story for no one would be around to tell it. Time travel is practically a must.

 

The Zerg may have been around, but if they were, then they were probably still assimilating other races. One way to start the story would be for Harry to be taken in by the Sons of Korhal. He would then be used by Mengsk, like Mengsk used Kerrigan. Something bad could happen, and Harry could be picked up by the Protoss, the UED, or possibly the Zerg.

 

How could he be taken in individually, though? If he's not, the eyes of all the other races are now on earth and it wouldn't be a large jump between Harry being taken and the Zerg destroying earth. Definitely not enough time for the terrans to break away.

 

My bad, I forgot to say that it would take place in the future. I liked the idea of Harry finding a Xel'Naga artifact.

 

This could actually be taken 3 ways, and honestly i'd read any of them.

Zerg!Harry
Templar!Harry (dark or not your choice)
Ghost!Harry

Not that i don't like the ghost unit i've just always liked the Zerg or Protoss more. And a Harry that controls the Zerg and uses it to kill and or enslave voldemort would be awesome.

 

I started writing a Xander centered starcraft/buffy fic last year and only finished 2 chapters of it. I posted it on FF.net. I'm gonna wait for the new starcraft game to come out berfore I make any rewrites to it. If someone is going to write this they should wait till next year to play Starcraft2 then add to the plot because in the brood war game it looked like the zerg were chasing the humans to earth. the zerg won in brood war.

 

The Zerg and the Protoss would have been around in the 20th century, but would not only have no idea that the Terrans exist, but would also be millions of light-years away. It took the Terrans 28 years on max warp drive to get to the Koprulu Sector, a hundred years or so for the first Zerg probe to discover them, and then another 60 years for the Zerg fleet to reach Chau Sara. It would probably take two hundred years for the Zerg to reach Earth, if they somehow knew about Humanity.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, it doesn't matter how cliched the time travel plot device is, it is pretty much the only way for the Harry and StarCraft plots to coincide.

 

In the early years of the starcraft universe the crimanals and psionics as they were called were frozen and sent to to the colonies in space. later the crimanals are frozen and saved to later be used as expendable marines. My proof lies here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELhtXtnV3pg where A man in an orange pajama gets his armour and weapon as a marine.

So here is my idea... Harry bumps into some artifact that was in the department of mysterys(sp) at the ministry in book 5. It take him to the future where he is in the future in the middle of the line for prossesing of psionics cought and headed Ghost training headquarters for the UED to be trained in blackops and there psionic powers.


After the disapearence of harry potter the order lost all muggleborns and halfbloods were killed and after 3 generations the purebloods had died out from war with all of the other magical countries and inbreeding to all become squibs with only minimum power to do only the weakest mind magic. (psionics)

After Harry is trained againt his will like all the other ghosts he is frozen and put in statis. he is awakened 40 years later in an UED command center. he is briefed on the zerg and protoss given the rank of Lt. and a squad of marines and is sent out to battle on char. After that is the choice of the author.

Damn! My fingers hurt!

 

Why UED? I for one think he would end up at the location with the highest concentration of magical or psionic energy, which would have to be Aiur.

 

It could be where the Ghost traning facilaty is in the future. The DOM would not be there forever. Lets say it caved in in the 22nd century and later became an underground military base, to later become the Ghost Training Facility (GTF for short). Good enough?

 

Point. Good enough.

Off Topic: Can we add an O to that acronym somehow? Ghost Training Facility Outpost, maybe? You know a place acronymed as GTFO would be funny.

 

Sounds good.

 

I thought this summed up my thoughts quite nicely.



Can't be a Starcraft story without a zerg rush now can it?

Also Harry/Kerrigan.

 

He can get infested in his first battle. Kerrigan had to be infested, Why wouldn't he?

 

So...Harry would be a ghost (or templar) trained AND infested?

 

No, one or the other.

Then again, it's not that far of a stretch to have Harry be a fully trained Ghost and then be infested. Kerrigan spent most of her life (since infancy) in the Ghost training program before Mengsk broke her out then betrayed her to the Zerg, where she was infested.

Hmmm... that gives me an idea. Have Harry go through an accelerated Ghost training program. Then, when he's on a mission, he is captured and infested by Kerrigan. However, since he is a full fledged wizard of abnormal strength, he overpowers Kerrigan and takes her place as the King of Blades.

 

I lol'd.

Zerglings + Harry = ooooownt