Summary: Jane and Paul (change the names for all I care, using these as an example) Granger, two average muggle dentists with the most powerful witch of her age for their daughter? I think not.

Basically as it states in the rules Hermione's parents are really assassins who changed their names for safety. Voldemort contacts them and asks them to hunt Harry down, not really expecting them to succeed but not complaining if they did either.

Harry has a vision about this and... really this is up to you after this point. You can change things about I'm not really too fussed as long as the general idea is the same though.

Rules:

• Jane and Paul are wizarding assassins who changed their names after a bounty was placed on their head. Hermione obviously doesn't know.
• Voldemort, having hired them a few times in the first war, contacts them asking them to kill Harry Potter for x amount of galleons.
• Harry has a vision about this. You can decide what happens after this.. I'd hope for it to be independant!Harry though.
  
  
  

 

~raises an eyebrow~

As unique as the idea is, in my humble opinion it sucks. Its an excuse to either have Harry go on a "I hate you Dumbledore, you hid this fact about Hermione from me..." rant, have Harry trained as an ubercool!katanawielding!Assassin, or have him go on the run and basically do your own, failed, attempt at a Where in the World is Harry Potter or Make a Wish etc.

 

Harry has a vision about it but he doesn't have to necessarily know who it is, Voldemort and the 'Grangers' might not use names and if they do perhaps use their original ones rather than the new ones, so all Harry would know is he has some assassins hired from Voldemort to kill him and Harry could easily tell Dumbledore about this first and when an attempt was made on his life(perhaps in Diagon Alley or Hogsmeade etc.) despite Dumbledore's knowledge he decides to try and get stronger himself, using the LIMITED infortmation in Hogwarts library. Then when he realises he isn't doing all that well he informs Ron and Hermione of the situation etc etc.

 

Don't forget ubercoolandawesome!wand, magical!creditcards and magical!driverlicense. It's a must.

So he want's them to succeed or not? He is, afterall, paying them some serious money and even Dark Lord can not run his campaign of terror without money. He would like to see effects. And he can't transform goblin crap into money.

 

Eh, maybe I didn't explain that too clearly, He'd give them the x amount of galleons if they succeed, not for trying. But yeah he wants them to succeed but is doubting that they will.

 

Nothing wrong with having another one of those fics, at least one that is well written.

I really do not see cannon harry as magically weak. He is only as weak in cannon due to his childhood at the dursley's, possibly whatever effects his scar has on him, maybe whatever dumbledore has done to him (many fanfics mention blocks on his power and possibly other spells, potions...).

Really we have no idea just how powerful Harry is and perhaps should be if he had a good childhood.

 

Yeah, this is an odd idea.

I can see a DLP style one shot coming from this, at best. But I don't think this is nearly enough for a full length fic. Oh well, if I have a block in my stories I might take this up, I like betrayal when it isn't overdone to hell, like Dumbledore, Weasleys etc.

 

Hermione's the most powerful witch of her age? Perhaps you do not see the distinction between raw power and intelligence.

I would enjoy seeing the Grangers succeed in killing Harry, and buying Hermione, who would be none the wiser, a library with the reward. Alternatively, Hermione discovers this, and then commits suicide.

In the hands of the right author, this could be hilarious.

 

Nice ideas there I don't really think that Hermione is that powerful but she is in cannon and I honestly couldn't think of a start to to the summary so I used that..

 

How would you get around The Prophesy?

Also, as original as this idea sounds, it has the natural problem that any fic about Hermione's parents will have no interest value whatsoever.

 

I already have started a one shot for this. I have no idea why it got my attention but it did, should have it done in a week I think.

 

Great! Looking forward to seeing the outcome of it. Thanks for taking this up

 

Good luck, but I don't hold much hope for this. Hermione's parents as wizards/assassins? Instant fail.

I'm just venting, but it's always pissed me off that we know nothing about the Grangers. Absolutely nothing. I've personally always liked the idea that Hermione came from a broken home (divorced parents), lives with her mother and adoptive father (who essentially ignores her) and spends half the summer with her father and the plethora of children he and his second wife have raised.

Emo? Maybe. I see it as a possible reason why Hermione spends her summers at the Burrow/Grimmauld Place. And it adds another dimenson to her character - her "bookwormish" qualities may have arisen out of a desire to impress her new Daddy. At the same time, her apparent low self-esteem and antisocial behaviour (at least at the start of the series) formed as a result of a lack of interest on his part.

 

I got the same feeling when I read the challenge, but then something in it got me, and so I have a thousand words of it done. Thanks for the luck, I'll link in here when I have it done.