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What? ...

 

So i'm not the only one who was ingloriously baffled by that.

 

I'm aware.

It's a joke, though. Think about it. Better yet, quickly read my post out loud.

Spoiler

"...buy, son." Bison. Buffalo.

Granted, a bison is not a buffalo, but enough people call them that, I figured I was safe assuming someone would get the joke... whether it was actually funny or not.

Can anyone see me referring to Taure, or anyone else, as son, without an ulterior motive?

 

You never. Heard the idea that humans don't use the whole capacity of their brain power?

 

Iirc this is completely untrue and had been disproven in the 80's.

Edit: You're probably an exception, though.

 

More like the way you phrased it; like a retarded Yoda.

 

Humans use every part of their brain. Just not all at once. The brain is modular, so at any given moment you only use those parts of it which are specialised at the task you're currently facing.

 

The FAP section of my brain is always on, working like a muthafucker.

 

Alright, people... you really need to knock it off, or else I'm going to run out of thumbs.

 

Yes meaning the rest of it is being unused. Think of a water bottle that's partially filled. While water can be in any part of the bottle at any given time. It can't be everywhere in the bottle at once. You could add something like oil to the bottle and they would occupy the whole space of the bottle without mixing.

Now imagine this bottle is a brain. You could use the unused portion at any given time to store something else in there that would never willingly mix with the original occupier.

Plus it's just an idea for a reason in a fanfic, does it really need this much scrutiny?

 

Try FFN if you want to go that route. You've already been told its wrong, but you just keep on trudging on anyway- you're almost the perfect FFN drone.

 

Somehow I feel like that's akin to saying "What if I could shit from my hands? I'm only taking a dump with X percent of my body."

Well, yeah, the rest isn't used for shitting. :?

 

Point taken lol.

 

While Warlocke's analogy is... vivid, the best comparison I've seen for it was on Cracked. When playing a song on a piano, you're only pressing a few keys at any given time. Sure, you could press down all the keys at once but that's just going to make you look like a fucking retard, not make the song any better.

Anyway, back on topic I've been toying with the idea of a Cursebreaker!Harry working in the vaults beneath Gringotts, where families layer their vaults with their own wards and protections over centuries/decades. Whenever a family vault is unclaimed for X amount of years, the goblins claim the vault but have to hire Cursebreakers to break past these wards/guards (like dragons)/enchantments, whatever.

Not really sure which direction the story could be taken from there though, and I probably won't have any time for writing anyway in the forseeable future. Just something that I was thinking about after seeing the Goblins just leave fucking Merlin/the Four Founders' millions of galleons lying for millenia with no heir without trying to take it in so many shitty stories. Also not gonna lie, it could be nice to see a Cursebreaker Harry that isn't set in South America.

 

So I have a solution, job 2-5 reveals a horcrux of someone historical, or something that was "better left untouched" and Harry is blamed. It's not too serious, but still page 3 news.
Or
every 3rd or so job reveals a bit more of some crazy pattern/ bullshit.

 

Has anyone ever written a Cursebreaker!Harry story that is actually set in Egypt? I've only ever seen two and they were both set in the South American jungles.

 

Drama/Angst doesn't quite describe the level of depression in this story, but it's well-written regardless. Not so much focus on Cursebreaking, but it's there, and that's more than can be said for most other fics.

 

Using more than 10% of your brain at once isn't being psychic, it's called having an epileptic fit.

Harry in Egypt: The Valley of the Kings Massacre by Disobedience Writer.

 

This idea could be written a couple of different ways, but I feel it would probably be best served as a long one-shot. It could probably be stretched out into an epic if the author chose to go that direction, but eh.

So here's the premise: Cannon diverges in fourth year. Harry doesn't get any visions over the summer. The cup isn't a portkey. Cedric and Harry both win the tournament for Hogwarts, and all is well.

Over the summer, before fifth year, Ron sends him a copy of the Daily Prophet. The front page article details Voldemort's return to power. As Harry's fifth year draws closer, there are more and more reports of Voldmort's attacks on muggles and the odd witch or wizard.

Fast forward to seventh year. Harry, Dumbledore, and Voldemort clash in the battle for Hogwarts. There are no horcruxes, thus Dumbledore never made contact with the Gaunt ring. After an intense battle (this is the part I'd look forward to writing the most) Voldemort dies, oddly enough, with a smile on his face.

Hogwarts, amazingly, escapes the battle without any casualties.

Fast forward again. Harry has just been appointed Minister of Magic, 23 years after Voldemort's fall. When he walks into his new office for the first time, he finds a stack of papers on his desk. Curious, he takes a seat and begins to read. What he finds pulls the metaphorical rug clean from beneath his feet.

They're reports. Reports made by the Unspeakables on Voldemort's various attacks throughout the war. They don't detail clean up methods, or counter attacks, or anything of that nature. No, the reports are about orchestrating the attacks.

The Unspeakables had taken control of the Daily Prophet long ago, and used it to feed the public false attacks lead by the Dark Lord and his Death Eaters. The few witches and wizards who had been supposedly murdered by the Dark Lord were all revealed to be Unspeakables.

Harry finds another set of reports contain the dates all of the known Death Eaters were detained and executed- all of which set before Voldemort's rise. The reports then go on to match each and every Death Eater Harry had ever heard of to one of the Unspeakables. They'd been going under Polyjuice.

Harry sits back after reading the last report, stunned. His entire life up until Voldemort's death is heavily scrutinized as Harry desperately searches for some means of disproving the reports. He realizes with a jolt that he can't remember ever seeing Voldemort actually kill before.

Just then, a drawer in his new desk clicks, unlocking for the first time in years, and opening a crack. Dread fills Harry for reasons he can't put into words, but he nonetheless reaches down and pulls the small drawer out, placing it on his desk.

Held within are a piece of paper, a time turner, and a bone white wand. Harry picks up the aged slip of paper.

On it is a simple number, and nothing more. What really gets Harry's attention though, is how it's signed.

Lord Voldemort
Formerly known as Harry J. Potter

 

While it sounds interesting I don't see the point. Why does Harry have to go back in time and pretend to be Voldemort if Voldemort never rises again? Particularly if he actually dies at the end, although I suspect that me might actually survive.