You've just inspired a terrific fail fic: Harry Potter and the Gang War of Doom.

May it never be written. :facepalm

 

For me its easiest to remember that you're a pureblood if both sets of grandparents were magical. Even if all of them are muggleborns.

 

You'd be a 'technical' pureblood; for those who lineages go back God knows how many generations, you'd rank just above 'half-blood', but still be inferior to them.

 

How much does a House Elf cost to buy, license and upkeep do ya think?

Would Harry's almost-mandatory-in-fanficdom-paying-dobby-cash thing, add up to, exceed or be less then this amount?

I.E. Buying the house elf from the MoM, + regular licensing fees (they're a fucking government and as such they tax shit)...

Just wondering if it's plausible for Harry to "trick" Hermione into believing that he's paying Dobby, rather then just giving him the money, so Dobby can pop into the MoM and pay the license fee for him..

 

"Fullblood" is gaining popularity in the fandom as a term for what Harry is: Someone who isn't a pureblood, but has all magical parents. This sets him apart from, say, Riddle, who has only one magical parent.

Meh.

 

Who says you can buy house elves? Also, who says you need to have a icense to own them? I can't imagine many pureblood families liking that idea.

 

This would be a pure crack fic and probably written in a satirical fashion, but what if Molly Weasley became minister?

 

Shit would get done.

 

But at least everything would be clean...:awesome

 

First time I hear it, though it's a long time since I've read anything beside DLP. Makes me wonder about any new cliche that I don't know about.

 

Why not? The noble class typically loves to flaunt the fact they can afford shit the commoners can not.

 

Vote for Molly Weasley and you'll never go hungry again!

 

Wasn't that Scar's strapline from the Lion King ? :awesome

 

:banana: Scarlett O'Hare in Gone With The Wind.

 

And the reason that's stupid as fuck is that it misses the whole point of the lineage descriptors. In the HP universe, there's more or less two types.

1. The type of person who puts great stock in their lineage, and consequently believes that pure-bloods are better than half-bloods who are better than muggle-borns.

2. The type of person who believes that a wizard is a wizard. These people would happy never use any of the terms (except muggle-born, possibly, because that one has an obvious cultural effect on the wizard).

And there's only one thing that both of those groups would agree on: that the term "full-blood" is meaningless and stupid.

Group 1: "Full-blood? You mean he's not a pure-blood? That's a half-blood, idiot. Who cares if he's got a Muggle or a Muggle-born in his family tree? Still just a step or two removed from rolling in the mud."

Group 2: "Full-blood? I'm not sure why you're making that distinction. The kid has magical parentage, so we call him a half-blood. It doesn't make much difference if he's got one or two wizard parents, after all. I'll grant that Muggle-borns do grow up in a different culture until they learn of our world, but most half-bloods fit into our world easily."

 

Fanfic authors missing the point? Say it isn't so! :awesome

People missing the point entirely is the whole reason we have so many, "Hermione/Harry discovers she/he is actually a pureblood, which means she/he is waaay better than before!" fics.

Of course, I'm the last person who would stop someone from elaborating on their disgust for something. As for me, I covered my opinion on the subject adequately with...

'Nuff said.

 

Not sure if this had been done before, so if it had please let me know.

Fourth year, Little Hangleton. After Cedric's death Harry went into rampage mode, subdued Pettigrew and actually killing homunculus form Voldemort, banishing that bit of the Dark Lord's soul. While he returned triumphant, it had the unforeseen side-effect of activating every other Horcrux still around, except the partial one in his head. Each captured or possessed someone to do its bidding...
Cup -> Griphook the Goblin, since he seemed to be the go-to Goblin in any HP fic; climbed to the top and manipulated the Goblin Nation into war with Wizardkind again
Diadem -> Luna Lovegood, who went to the Room of Requirement to find her lost things; perhaps rally the old DEs as her army. SHE WILL GET GINNY KILLED AT ONE POINT, because she's always hated the insensitive little brat who bragged and bragged and bragged about being saved by Harry beeping Potter back in her first year. (insert angst somewhere. or don't.)
Locket -> Sirius, who was doing house cleaning and found the locket. possessed Sirius would use the Cave's inferi as his main troops
Ring -> Dumbledore, who was in Little Hangleton looking for conclusive evidence that Voldemort was destroyed, and came upon the Gaunt ring/Resurrection Stone that he recognized. Naturally be most dangerous of all those possessed, especially through misleading Light-leaning people that worshipped him.
Nagini -> mutate/morph/whatever into reptilian humanoid, control army of snakes or maybe Cobra Cults or something (or, the bit of Voldie in Nagini decided that he had finally achieved perfection, and went off to live happily ever after in some hidden snake country)

Basically, instead of one semi-crazy but magically powerful Dark Lord Harry had to content with 5 different Dark Lords that now had different agendas (though they might work together from time to time) and 2 are people that Harry knew and loved (excluding Luna, who hadn't met Harry yet - story began at end of GoF).
Slytherins might be driven to ally with Harry because at least some of the old Death Eaters were confused as sh*t by the turn of events.

Not sure how Harry would fare in this chaotic war with too many sides.

 

That could be incredibly awesome of pulled off right, but it would take an amazing writer. I think it'd be safer to go crack!fic with that premise, if not as epic.

 

The problem I see with it is that you're setting up a situation where Voldemort basically wins with no problems, unless you're going to pit them against one another.

Part of good story-telling is that your protagonist A) should be someone the audience sympathizes with and B), someone who presents a worthy opponent to the antagonist.

By pitting the various Voldemorts against one another, you lose (A) because he's a murdering psychopath. He was never meant to be a sympathetic character and he shouldn't be. At least, not in a story like this.

If you have a bunch of Voldemorts running around working together or at least in tandem, you lose (B) because eventually you do cross the "all hope is lost" line. That pretty much happend when Dumbledore gets possessed.

I dunno, I just don't see much potential in the story as much more than a crack-fic.