Having just played chess, and sacrificed a knight to open a line, gave me the idea for the next Challenge.

Ron died after being struck in the chessboard in PS.

As a result, the whole Weasly clan shuns Harry, blaming him for their son's death.

During the second year, harry starts dabbling in the dark arts.

While they drift apart, In the summer Harry does not find it odd that they ignored him, and as such is not stopped from going to hogwarts because he got no letters.

In the crazy bludger incident, Harry blames the twins for specifically setting the bludger on him, and following that he quits the team.

In the CoS, having "killed" Tom, Harry decides that he ought to use Ginny as a human sacrifice, you make up a reason.

 

Why would Harry dabble in the dark arts. He has no reason, after his first year, he can barely do any of the first year spells. And you expect him to use the Dark Arts?

 

I guess, but I still think it's a little too early. Maybe it should start a little later. Maybe after his second year, where he had to face a Basilisk all alone, just because people thought he was evil.

 

I would actually like to read this if it was written by the right author. Second year is a bit early for Harry to start practicing the dark arts. From what we know most of these are complex in nature and on the second year level the students really don't know any resonable usefull magic.

Perhaps it would be better written as Harry applying himself as soon as he learns about the existance of magic. Then by third or forth year he will be skilled enough to start looking into other magics.

An interesting jumping of point for Harry could either be when he finds out that he is related to Sirius and is fascinated by being related to such a famous dark wizard ans starts seriously looking into dark magic. Or a Harry thats impressed by Voldemort's resurection and decides that he wants that kind of power for himself.

 

Managing to convince Tom before he became insanely obsessed with immortiality as an Ally via the new Tom from the diary. That would be interesting.

This idea could be done if the right author worked on it.

 

This could be a great idea, as for the reason for letting ginny die so could it not be so much that he is letting her die but just that he does not figure out that he needs to destroy the diary until it is to late. Then could he start learning dark arts in forth year after he is picked for the tournament so he could protect himself from who ever it was that entered him...