But it wasn't.

This sounds very similer to The Marauder's horcrux. James and co. weren't talented enough or enclined enough to make a horcrux. They'd have to murder four people and that's just not in character for 75% of the main characters.

 

If we're going random/silly, how about this:

Everyone misheard the prophecy, it wasn't thrice defied, it was thrice deified. Draco Malfoy is the prophesied defeater of the dark lord.

...hilarity ensues?

 

I certainly think they're talented enough to make a horcrux, as it's never described as difficult - just obscure and morally detestable.

So inclination is the only factor. And Sirius Black tried to kill Severus Snape while he was in school.

Clearly it would need a twisting of canon to work, but it's not impossible to imagine.

 

I believe there was a story that ran along the exact same lines as your plot idea.

It was something about preserving the Marauders in Hogwarts forever and had them killing spiders in order to do it.

 

This would probably end up using the assumption that a prophesy does the whole space/time bend thing. The point being that no one heard it and will allow for different kind of character interactions and attitudes. It would try to follow canon to a point, making sure some events occur. For example, Potters dieing at the hands of Voldemort simply because they were a thorn in his side, Voldemort losing his body somehow, etc.

An Indie/Orphan!Harry hellbent on revenge, an indifferent Dumbledore who acts more like a Headmaster and not an interfering grandfather, a Severus with a little less hatred/bias, and so on and so forth.

 

Sounds similar to Knowledge is Power, you know, except Neville is the BWL in that one.

Parents dead/incapacitated
Harry raised by someone else (KiS had Lupin)
Dumbledore who genuinely acts like a headmaster

Not that it's a bad thing, Knowledge is Power is like the ultimate guilty pleasure fic.

 

After fifth year Harry is a very angry boy. He decides to rebel against Dumbledore by buying Dark/Illegal books or artifacts.

He goes to Knockturn Alley, finds the shadiest looking person that he can, and buys illegal materials from them.

He is then stunned, bound, and taken into custody by the undercover cop that he just bought illegal shit from.

With the evidence against him he is sentenced to three days in Azkaban and he is then put on probation.

 

Those are pretty general points, and theydefinitely don't define KiP.

...And?

 

There are dozens of stories with similar plots. And very few of them are readable.

It would be very hard to write a good story with such a cliched plot.

 

Third year Potter gets bitten by Remus then gets expelled from Hogwarts and banned from liveing with his muggle family because of his condition plus the weasleys shun him, Harry is left with only Black and Dumbledore to help him out.

 

That doesn't make sense. Why would the Weasley's shun him? They accepted Remus... also, why would he be kicked out of school? I'd think being Parseltongue is darker, and irc even Snape didn't suggest kicking him out for that.

 

Same reason why Lupin being a werewolf was kept quiet when he was at school, and why he was kicked out after people found out he was a werewolf in PoA. If the parents and Ministry and Governors were to demand it, Dumbledore would have no choice.

And no, I don't think being able to speak to snakes is considered darker than turning into a murderous and powerful magical animal in the middle of a school full of children every month.

(Obligatory joke: Oh wait, that can't be true, because they let teenage girls into the school!)

 

I would agree with Taure on this. I got the impression that Parseltongue is thought of more as an indication that the Parselmouth in question is a Dark wizard, rather tha being an actual Dark talent or evil talent or whatever. Werewolves however are more directly evil or Dark than Parselmouths, given their monthly change and are more directly dangerous to nearby people as well.

 

Plus, Werewolves are classified as dark creatures are they not? I'd think Dumbledore would have a very tough time trying to keep Harry in the school if he was a known Werewolf despite being the BWL. I mean the only reason Remus was even able to go to Hogwarts was the fact that almost nobody knew about it.

 

I got the feeling he did it because he was afraid of his friends reactions and to be able to be normal, which is why he didn't tell his friends about his condition [though he might as well done so they won't rat on him...]

Teacher =/= Student.

But is it possible that wizards see it differently? People feared Voldemort much more than they feared werewolves, after all.

...I admit it, I giggled.

I think you are just rationalizing things where you shouldn't. See things as they would see it. A whole school doesn't shun because you pee yourself or kill animals [well, they might, but not from the same reason... ].

 

Hmm, Bunny plot idea.

Post DH fic

After killing Voldemort Harry isolates himself alone in the Muggle world. Begins to experience psychosis/Schizophrenia like symptoms with homicidal touches. Does something crazy-like and is institutionalized in a Muggle psych ward. Turns out it's not really schizophrenia but when Voldemort 'killed' Harry and this the Horcrux in Harry didn't really work. Instead the darkness associated with Horcrux has melded itself to Harry's brain.

Harry succumbs to the homicidal ideas of his fragmented self, echoing in a new Dark Lord and dystopic future.

Or even just cut the whole harry-psych-ward thing, I was just thinking it could be a good plot device to start the story of with a psych evaluation of Harry instead of having to show lead-up story to Harry going psycho.

Basically a Dark!Harry story...

 

Fixed - now it's an even better idea. Keep it simple and it will be good - if you start throwing crazy-like idea trying to explain why Harry became this or that, it becomes a stupid idea. Leave some mystery for the reader.

On that note, I'd love to see a fell done "Fight Club" crossover - if done correctly that could be awesome. In any case, an insane or psycho Harry is always fun to read.

 

A plot bunny one-shot on Dumbledore taking what other people says on faith, and how Harry took what Dumbledore said on faith.

Basically the cannon twist would be Regulus didn't die, but he did stay hidden. He revealed himself to Dumbledore after Dumbledore destroyed the ring, taking a magical vow saying he destroyed Slytherin's Locket and giving Dumbledore the destroyed Slytherin's Locket.

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Harry just finishes killing Voldemort in the cannon rehash duel. Just as everyone is about to celebrate, Voldemort's spirit rises and races off in to the forbidden forest. Everyone is to late to react, and there is no way of catching him after their delayed reaction and him being in the forbidden forest now. Drama ensures, hysteria etc etc.

After the initial shock Harry starts going through the Horocruxs in his head trying to figure out what went wrong. After flashbacks for each one etc, it all comes down to Slytherin's Locket. The only proof he has that it was destroyed is Regulus taking a magical vow that he destroyed Slytherin's Locket, not Horocrux.

The locket and Regelus's defection was a decoy and back-up plan by Voldemort in-case someone did destroy his Horocruxes. He tasked Regulus with the mission to deceive anyone and make them think Slytherin's Locket was a Horocrux whilst he hid the real Horocrux somewhere else. (No idea what the Horocrux would be, I am a fan that it was something of Dumbledores.)

Little bit at the end Regulus saying he is the Dark Lord's most faithful, his favorite. (Something ironic that all Death Eaters think.)

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That could be a one-shot that I wouldn't mind writing if I actually knew how to write. But that idea actually popped into my head how to keep the war going, whilst sticking to the books as closely as possible. The story would eventually pick up decades into the future when Harry is around 40 or 50 years old (around the prime for a Wizard) and Voldemort is only just starting to return to power.

I wanted a story where Harry could realistic take Voldemort on and have a chance with his own skill, power and experience and not make him some super-powered teen or just-out of school wizard. In that 20-30 year gap it would give Harry plenty of time to grow powerful and gain experience, whilst Voldemort has been wasting away trying to regain a body again. Voldemort would still be the more powerful of the two, but it wouldn't be an ass kicking, Harry would have a decent chance.


Yay, now it's out of my head I can hopefully think of something else.

 

Anything related to Fight Club is awesome.

How about this: Harry is brooding in the park over Cedric when someone starts a fight with him. With all his pent up anger, he attacks the aggressor and he in turn invites him to fight club [many ways to make this believable]. Maybe Harry used accidental magic in the fight to lead to something canon-like, maybe Dudley enters/is in Fight Club, he definitely starts his Project Mayhem in school.

Not the best of ideas, but there's definitely something in there.

 

Fucking great. Just read over my post and I am already expanding and touching up, filling in plot holes. God damn it.