No I wouldn't kill the Weasley's so early ,they would be the last to go because that would be funny. Molly working herself in a protective fury( It's sounds like an MMO skill) annoying everyone and Harry especially. So he wants to kill her, but Luna always tells her some inane argument why they shouldn't kill Molly. And in the end Molly would kill herself accidentally because she is so frightened,nervous and paranoid that she looses her mind.

 

All this shouting for Dark Lady Luna gave me a fun idea.
Luna is really Cyric in disguise, think what you will of that.

 

I believe I posted a premise earlier that had the D&D/Forgotten Realms pantheon pay a visit to the potterverse. Throw in some Dark!harry and Cyric!luna..
Cyric!Luna and Valsharoon!Harry (lol master of death, literally).

 

Hm, that actually sounds interesting.
Throw in an Ilithid Voldemort and it would be extremly amusing.

 

You can't make Luna evil. A cruel, sadistic Luna Lovegood just goes completely against the character. She's just to laid back and quirky to be evil. She could use dark magic, though. Being borderline insane already kinda gives grounds for questionable morals.

As for the Minister!Molly fic, I'm not going to get to write it this week. I doubt I ever will, so anyone that wants to can grab it.

 

Well, this is mostly to get off the topic of Dark Lady Luna (something full of both lulz and epic fail in my mind), but I've had this idea for quite some time now. It's more of a means to an end, the end being a competent Harry, but here goes.

Growing up, Harry's only real sanctuary from the Dursleys was his school. It wasn't nice, it wasn't pleasant, Dudley and his gang bullied him to near death, but it wasn't Number 4 Privet Drive, and that counted for something.

One day, or maybe even a string of times, he hears about one of those classic "rags to riches" stories, of the guy who came from the slums and built himself up to be a multi-millionaire fully in control of his own life; something Harry, even at a young age (something like seven or eight), knows he is not.

Through some amateur sleuthing, he comes to the realization that the guy, or multiple people, who made their lives into something worthwhile weren't just naturally awesome, but were smart as hell and worked their asses off. New knowledge in hand, he channels his love of being at school into something useful, and starts studying and actually learning, using hard work and some inborn intelligence (not genius) to rise to the top or near the top of his class.

Naturally (adhering to fanon standards), the Dursleys aren't too happy about this, though for a legit reason (Harry, the "freak", being at the top of his class, hurts Dudley's self esteem or something similar), and try to get Harry to stop with various threats of cupboard time and the like. Showcasing the idiotic stubbornness he has in canon, Harry refuses to back down, taking the punishments with the knowledge that all his hard work would some day translate into his being free of the Dursleys.

Fast forward a few years. Harry's eleven, and he finally learns he's a wizard. He goes to Diagon Alley and discovers that magic is interesting, with literally a whole world of new possibilities open to him. His desire to become a rich and successful person in the Muggle world translates to the Wizarding World, and he finds himself very willing to learn everything there is to know about magic.

He goes through the motions for the summer before Hogwarts, before having the standard train ride before being sorted into Hufflepuff for a change, his "hard working go getter" attitude shining through.

My idea would have fourth year be the springing off point, as it's a time that I really feel Harry should have done quite a bit of learning given the ridiculous opportunities he was in the book.

Anyway, without giving too much away, fourth year would play out with a different tournament, more tasks (and hopefully better ones), while intra-house tension between Harry and Cedric (they've competed over the Seeker position in the past and don't like each other) would hopefully serve to develop Harry's character.

Frankly, I was hoping to take up the plot bunny idea that Blaise snatched (and then abandoned...), but got beaten to the punch. This backstory would function in much the same way as Blaise's did, but with Harry focused on learning magic for the eventual goal of being extremely successful (kinda like a Dumbledore).

It would, obviously, branch off from fourth year, with events of the second war being changed to have Harry be more involved than he was in canon.

This is more of a background than anything else, but I don't want to give away too much plot.

Tell me what you think.

 

That sounds pretty good, actually. A Hufflepuff version of On The Way to Greatness? Could make the genre... into a genre. Because funnily enough, the main divergence in OTWtG is at the end of fourth year.

 

I only have a shallow problem with it.. How some somebody with a thirst to prove themselves, to learn, and to be rich and successful, get sorted into Hufflepuff?

 

He might choose Hufflepuff over Slytherin. Also, it's possible that he subconsciously values the methodology more than the outcome, though that's stretching it a bit.

 

Harry choosing Hufflepuff is easy really.

Hagrid said "Better Hufflepuff than Slytherin" or something like that, so when the Hat says Slytherin he says Hufflepuff.

Minister Molly is the coolest idea ever though, although building in a side-story with ambitious Percy in it oo.

 

He didn't mean it that way.

It was more like Slytherin is so bad that even Hufflepuff would be a better choice.

 

Uh, that's what I meant, if the hat considered seriously placing Harry in Slytherin, he might consider Hufflepuf a better choice by default as he's already following Hagrid's logic/+ron and draco influencing him about Slytherin, so it's a "might happen" thing.

 

The hat did seriously consider putting Harry in Slytherin. It was only with Harry's urging that it put him in Gryffindor. If (in the fic) the hat ignored Harry's pleas for Gryffindor, what makes you think it would agree to Hufflepuff instead?

 

The main idea behind Harry's sorting would be his hardworking attitude that he developed as a kid; not something we see in canon.

 

I've got nothing wrong with that. After all, the hat is the one that is supposed to make the decision. The only thing that irked me was 3domfields' logic that Harry would gloss over Gryffindor in favor of Hufflpuff because Hagrid offhandedly mentioned that it would be better than Slytherin.

 

So instead of just telling Harry about how Slytherin is bad and Gryffindor is good, Hagrid tells him about the other two houses at Hogwarts too. After all, what Harry mostly wants at this point is friends, and Hufflepuff has a reputation as being the friendliest house of the bunch.

 

Oh come on, everybody knows that if you wan't a girl to be completly obsessed with Harry its Romilda Vane you want.

She's awesome.

 

Another one I don't have time to write that I'll donate to the growing bunny farm:

Bunny:

Voldemort doesn't believe in prophesy.

Potential Effects:

-Snape is killed for wasting the dark lord's time.
-No BWL.
-Dumbledore still takes defensive measures, but it's a waste of resources.
-Harry grows up in wartime.
-By the time Harry is five or six, Voldemort has taken over the MoM.
-The Order has been labeled a terrorist organization.
-Magic must be taught in secret by the surviving Order members, since Voldemort has Hogwarts.

Thoughts?

 

Apart from a few minor details, Digifruit already wrote it.

 

Huh... Well, I'm out of non-crack ideas then. Guess I'll give that one a read.