But who's to say that all forms of magic can co-exist with each other. Its entirely possible that you can't practice both Chinese magic and Western Magic. Just because they require the magic to be used in different ways that the body can't continually adapt for.

 

I personally would like to see a fic where Hermione is sick of the pureblood prejudice and decides America must be the place to go because of all its muggle... blah blah...reform...blah and other such cliche reasons.

Then when she gets there the magical community is the equivalent to a redneck beer festival. They are all basickly crabbes and goyles. And Canada is a giant magical brothel. Just because I'm canadian.

Oh actually one thing that would be interesting would be crabbe and goyle as geniuses. They are always idiots in every fic but all you ever get is here say in cannon so it could be easily done.

Imagine them discussing the magical focis tangental vector in relation to its derived mercadian drift ratio... that would be fun. Obviously I made up crap but I still would love to see it.

 

I wrote a snippet of a humor!fic, which for some reason I never posted; It had Crabbe and Goyle as the two hidden magical prodigies of Hogwarts...

Now I just need to find it....*goes off to search*

How's this for a cliche smasher/challenge: I dare anyone to write an in-character Ginny Weasley after OotP. In-character. I've never seen one, is all...maybe I'm looking in the wrong places (or just looking...), but no one seems to write her correctly. Plus, the fact that most people just want to write about her after she kisses Harry *automatic cringe* because it's easier to be all "Twu lurve" after that and screw canon characterization...yeeeaaah.

*hides*

 

Quite a funny little anti-cliche would be if Parvati was literally an incarnation of Parvati. Hindu Goddess come to Hogwarts. Methinks it would be amusing.

 

Methinks that this thread (which has been reincarnated how many times?) is now Cliche.

 

Anti-cliche:

Parvati and Padma aren't goddesses or beautiful in any way. They just are.

I'd like to see a Harry/Lavender. Of course, without "Har Har".

 

There's only one Harry/Lavender that isn't shit (and conincidentally, the only one on FF, last time I checked), but it's a one-shot.

Shades Of Lavender

 

Has anybody watched the anime show Yu Yu Hakusho? If you have, you notice that Kurama uses plants as his weapon.

Or if you haven't watched that show, if you've ever seen Indigena Yaxley in action in the Saving Conner series, you can also see the effective use of plants.

Now, I've never seen a single fic have Neville Longbottom use plants as weapons. Many of them power him up in the classic way, but I'd think having him use plants would be pretty cool.

In canon they're definately dangerous plants - devil's snare, venomous tentacula, whomping willow. Neville loves and is great with plants. And magic can power up the plants to grow instantly or make it easier to add new characteristics (i.e. draining magic, breaking shields, dissolving humans). Find a way for him to go dark, and you'd get an awesome character.

Edit: Here's another one going on Mordecai's idea. The new world has no magic system. Period. No schools, no central government, nada. Maybe it has clans like in Salem but that's it. If you're a muggleborn mage, chances are that you'll never find out about magic because nobody's there to tell you.

That's because the people who immigrated to the New World were never from the magical world. That'd make sense judging from its conservatism and dislike of adventure. And the Native Americans never discovered magic.

So have Harry go to the Americas. It's a Wild West atmosphere. He can do whatever he wants. It'd make a great story.

 

I swear I read a fic once that had Grabbe and Goyle as somewhat intelligent, merely acting dumb so they could keep an eye on Malfoy.

 

May not be the same one, but Black Kisses, by Mehetabelo, has that.

 

That is a pretty good idea, actually. With a skilled author, this could easily become a pretty good story. Try putting it up in the challenge section.

Edit: Or, you could write it. That's what I get for not reading two posts down. Still, I think you should try putting it up in the challenge section, just to see everyone's different ideas on the subject.

 

Spock or Data? *laugh*

"Hermione, it is illogical for you to be emotionally upset over Ron. Your adrenalin burst will surely shorten your life from a hundred and twenty point four nine years to a hundred and twenty point four eight years."

Anyway, a question -

Why are so many people here against Harry mocking Voldemort either by calling him "Tom" (Or is it the Dumbledore thing? I know some people here don't like it when Harry stays as "Dumbledore's Man", doing the things Dumbledore does) or some rip-off of his name thereof?

It can't just be because too many fanfics already do it.

 

And why can't it. Its become cliche, and it really is quite pathetic. "Ohhhh, I must be really hard cuz I call Voldemort Tom. Lets get everyone else to do it as well cuz it makes him mad and then he'll make a mistake and we'll kill him."

And its completely immature and pathetic to have Harry running around calling the most feared Dark Lord of the Century "the Dark Lady" or "snakeface". THe readers here prefer a mature adult like Harry, not a child who tried to beat Voldemort by calling him names a 5 year old wouldn't be offended at.

 

I think the whole point of it is that Harry's the one who ends up having to defeat him. On the subject of broader social commentary, one of the ways evil Dark Lords presumably gain power and keep it (in the absence of prophecy stating who can get rid of said Dark Lord) is by making everybody veeeeery afraid of him or her.

That's why Dumbledore always says "Just say 'Voldemort'". Actually, I'm surprised nobody here has trashed Harry for saying "Voldemort", too.

 

Why would be bash Harry for using the name of a person. By calling him Tom however, or Riddle, or Voldiepoof or Snakeface or Fucktard or whatever, its just the author making a poor attempt to make Harry seem tough.

"Ohhhh, look at me, I'm calling Voldemort names. I'm teh hackzorz11111"

 

And you're not doing it to Dumbledore for calling him "Tom" in canon because?

 

You could always have Harry call him Thomas. That sounds more... calculated. I could really see a cold and calculating Harry say:

"Hello, Thomas."

It also differentiates him from Dumbledore.

 

We don't bash canon Dumbledore for doing it in canon because Dumbledore is a century and a half old man. He taught Tom Riddle the student. That makes him different from Harry, simply due to the fact that an old man can get away with it, and child cannot.

It fits Dumbledores image to have him call Voldemort Tom. It doesn't fit Harry's image. Harry is more likely to address him as Voldemort, as that is what he first knew him as.

Silver, I like that idea!

 

After that famous halloween, baby Harry is captured by the remaining death eaters. They torture and experiment one him to try and discover what made him invulnerable to the killing curse.

ten years later, the death eaters a caught. A schizophrenic, mentally unstable and somewhat psychopathic (and perhaps a bit mutilated) 11 year old Harry Potter must attend Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry.

sound good....?