The Harry Potter Fanfiction Thread

So I been thinking more on the idea of the whole 'deconstructing the power trip' fic thing, and I got an idea.

Rather, I'm stealing it. If anyone's familiar with the SCP Foundation, you might be familiar with the term "LolFoundation", which refers to a period when the site moved away from the grimderp and was more involved with comedy. The antics of characters like Bright and Kondraki, the extensive test logs for 914 and 682, the over-the-top "decommissioning" of despised SCPs ("I'm just curious: was it REALLY necessary to cast the kill item in the shape of a giant steel fist?" "Not really, no."). Well, there's a series of stories under the LolFoundation "canon" that plays it more for horror, with the premise being that the "wacky" characters are in fact reality benders who unwittingly warp the world around them to suit them and their whims.

So the idea is this. Something happened that caused the world to revolve around Harry, to give him loads of titles, money, powers, and women, to turn good characters into evil cartoons, and to make everything go right for him.

edited 18th Nov '14 12:47:59 PM by Pannic

Yeah, it was "James' family were stinking rich and he survived the Killing Curse", they spell it out in canon, you don't need to make a grimderp explanation for it.

Pretty unlikely that James owned a private island off the coast of France or whatever. Or that he had a seat on the Wizengamot that somehow passes to Harry.

edited 18th Nov '14 1:07:51 PM by Pannic

Are you talking about the book or someone's fanfiction?

I'm talking about a shitton of horrible fanfic. I thought that'd be obvious given the content of most of the rest of my posts in this thread.

edited 18th Nov '14 1:10:16 PM by Pannic

The fact you even have to ask that question in this context is kind of amazing.

Night, Night, Night. One must never underestimate mankind's capacity to derp.

I'm personally suspicious of the fact that the Potters just happened to be not only fabulously wealthy (if not quite to the level that fanfic makes them out to be), but also in possession of one of the great artefacts, as a result of claiming descent from the Pevensies. Given that at least two wars—if not three—have been fought over the Hallows, I'm leery that the cloak's been in family possession for that long.

Personally, I have a theory that their supposed parentage was...shall we say, 'burnished'. Imagine a Potter as an impoverished lordling in the 1930s, profligate and spendthrift: an archetype for James Potter, essentially. WWII/the Great European Wizarding War breaks out, and Dumbledore cooperates with the SOE to "set Europe ablaze" in secret cooperation. And Lord Potter gets an offer: in exchange for his service and eventual guardianship over one of the world's great artefacts, he gets wealth, status, and an invaluable genealogy to pass on to his children. Nobody needs to know that it's probably fictional.

Methinks you might be mixing your books there, dood.

Peverell's the doods who gave Death the bird. Pevensie's the doods who are referred to as Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve respectively, which is hilarious for some reason.

PS: Actually, I can totally buy that the cloak passes down on a single family with no issue.

Far as everybody knows, it's just an invisibility cloak. Nothing marks it as unique. It's very easy to disguise as a mundane item, since it has no particularly spectacular powers.

edited 18th Nov '14 8:23:08 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

...actually, given the chronology, Pevensies would work too!

Hey, it's an easy mistake. I just finished a post in the main Potter thread comparing Harry's Jesus Maneuver to the "Deep Magic" shit that happens in Narnia.

But all the Pevensies except one died in a train crash before any of them married.

Oh my God, I just realized you guys were talking about Narnia. Never thought about with the plural of "Pevensie" was.

Uh, using our traditional human methods of reproduction it only takes the one Pevensie to continue the family line. Anyone from Earth could theoretically have become a monarch of Narnia, so it's not like they need to keep the royal blood pure.

Well, Susan was only spared because she'd abandoned Narnia for boys and makeup, so Aslan killed all her siblings, and we don't know anything about what happened to her after that. Apparently, enough people wrote in to C.S. Lewis to complain about that that he was planning on doing something to correct that, but he died beforehand.

And even in Narnia, none of them could use magic anyways. They had magic weapons, but none of the children could cast spells, that's not the sort of thing God looks positively upon.

Aslan's presumably cool with magic, since Caspian's secretly-dwarven tutor whose name eludes me used it without getting smote. I think it's just not kingly or queenly.

But the moment you stop believing in Narnia, he'll kill your whole family.

Hardly the moment. There was enough time for the rest of the family to notice she wasn't a Friend of Narnia™ anymore.

I wasn't being literal. But I'm still interested in knowing what Susan's story would have ended like. Apparently Lewis did say he felt that perhaps Susan would find her way back in time, but I'm not so sure about that. There's probably a few Tumblr posts about that, though. But we're going into an entirely different British fantasy now.

It's pretty obvious that they did notice Susan wasn't into Narnia anymore as they didn't invite her for their reunion dinner in The Last Battle

edited 19th Nov '14 8:00:23 AM by ObsidianFire

So, the reason she got out of Narnia was because she figured she found a new series to get into?

How smart that was if her descendancy was the Potters, however, remains debatable.

So, I just had this idea while watching Amagi Brilliant Park:

What If? Harry had been a girl, and looked like Lilly rather than James? I'm especially interested in Snape's reaction, here. Has this been done yet?

Oh, yes, I'm sure Snape's reaction would be completely sane and rational. After all, he loathed Harry up till the second he died because Harry looked like his father, so clearly Harry MUST be his father.

He'd probably try to get Harriet to blow him in the first year.

That's a bit pessimistic.

Maybe he'd try to adopt her?