Harry Potter Fanfiction Ideas and Discussion Thread

[TheRomanSlayer]

Inspired by a similar sounding thread, though focused on both ASOIAF and the Game of Thrones TV series, I've decided to set up this thread that should give out ideas for future Harry Potter fanfics, or to recommend certain fanfictions related to Harry Potter shipping or other genres within the same fanfiction.

Here are some of my fanfic ideas:

- What Really Happened at the Library: Takes place during Half Blood Prince, but the movie version. While Hermoine and Harry were talking about who he should take to the Slug Party, several girls were arguing with each other over who gets to become Harry's date, aside from an observant Romilda Vane. Hannah and Susan both encounter Tracey and Daphne in another section of the library, debating as to which of them is better suited to be Harry's date, before ending with Harry taking Luna.

- In the Shadow of the Chosen One: Both Harry and Voldemort died during the Battle of Hogwarts, resulting in the end of the Peverell lines and for the former, the extinction of House Potter. Amidst the grueling campaign to finally put an end to the Death Eater menace, Neville forgoes his plans to become an expert in Herbology to lead a covert front in the never ending war. Does he have what it takes to become as good as Harry, if not better?

 

[Carrot of Truth]

Are there any HP fics where someone gets the idea to use charms on modern weaponry to make it infinitely more deadly?

 

[TheRomanSlayer]

Not sure how would that work without severely violating the International Statute of Secrecy that keeps the wizarding world hidden from the No-Maj/Muggles.

 

[Yinko]

Are there any HP fics where someone gets the idea to use charms on modern weaponry to make it infinitely more deadly?

I thought about this, in terms of small arms it's a lot harder than you would think. A lot of the things that you generally think of as being flaws are essential to the operation of the weapon. Like recoil and weight. Easiest ones you could do would be unlimited ammo, self-cleaning, self-cooling, silencing. Those are all canonical effects as far as I am aware. In terms of affecting the ammunition itself, waste of time.

In terms of larger yield weapons, you really have to ask how effective an unbreaking charm is. Is it on a conceptual level, where any mundane effect cannot damage it, or is it a percentage buff?

In general though, I doubt that most small arms fire would be effective against wizards. They get involved with lethal force on a regular basis and walk it off like its nothing. It's be like trying to shoot a bear with a 9mm. You'd get a few shots off and then they would notice, shield, disarm you, and put your outsides on the inside before quickly healing themselves. I'd want something like 50 Beowulf at the minimum, with burst fire, and even then only in one-on-one and from an ambush.

EDIT- You need to stop thinking of wizards as humans with magic and start thinking of them as mini astartes... with magic.

Case in point, the scene where the rogue ball hits the protagonist and he breaks his arm? The ball weights 149 lbs and was traveling an average of 60.4 mph meaning that it impacted him with a force of 410 foot pounds, which would be greater since it was not distributed across an even foot but rather a child's arm, which is much smaller. If the impact area was approximately half a square foot then that would be an impact over 800 foot pounds. All that happens is that his arm breaks, and he has less of a response than Vegeta getting a bit of a kick.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

I thought about this, in terms of small arms it's a lot harder than you would think. A lot of the things that you generally think of as being flaws are essential to the operation of the weapon. Like recoil and weight. Easiest ones you could do would be unlimited ammo, self-cleaning, self-cooling, silencing. Those are all canonical effects as far as I am aware. In terms of affecting the ammunition itself, waste of time.

In terms of larger yield weapons, you really have to ask how effective an unbreaking charm is. Is it on a conceptual level, where any mundane effect cannot damage it, or is it a percentage buff?

In general though, I doubt that most small arms fire would be effective against wizards. They get involved with lethal force on a regular basis and walk it off like its nothing. It's be like trying to shoot a bear with a 9mm. You'd get a few shots off and then they would notice, shield, disarm you, and put your outsides on the inside before quickly healing themselves. I'd want something like 50 Beowulf at the minimum, with burst fire, and even then only in one-on-one and from an ambush.

EDIT- You need to stop thinking of wizards as humans with magic and start thinking of them as mini astartes... with magic.

Case in point, the scene where the rogue ball hits the protagonist and he breaks his arm? The ball weights 149 lbs and was traveling an average of 60.4 mph meaning that it impacted him with a force of 410 foot pounds, which would be greater since it was not distributed across an even foot but rather a child's arm, which is much smaller. If the impact area was approximately half a square foot then that would be an impact over 800 foot pounds. All that happens is that his arm breaks, and he has less of a response than Vegeta getting a bit of a kick.

Those are movie feats for one that said I was more wondering if someone just decided to ignore all that shit so they could have magic bullets and whatnot. I mean it's magic that already lols at logic and magic guns are cool so why not?

 

[Carrot of Truth]

Not sure how would that work without severely violating the International Statute of Secrecy that keeps the wizarding world hidden from the No-Maj/Muggles.

Could probably make a story out of that where someone makes magic guns and they turn the power structure of the Wizarding world upside down.

 

[Yinko]

Could probably make a story out of that where someone makes magic guns and they turn the power structure of the Wizarding world upside down.

So, has anyone written Harry Potter as if it were Youjo Senki? No. They have not.

 

[Carrot of Truth]

So, has anyone written Harry Potter as if it were Youjo Senki? No. They have not.

They do have binding and severing charms in HP, sort of surprised no one has ripped off Fate Zero yet

 

[Reseda]

Over time I have come to the conclusion that between the first book where the plan "trap Voldemort for the next twenty years in the basement" failed and the second book where Dumbledore realized that the Horcruxes were in play and that was what the Prophecy was about, there was another plan. I genuinely think that Dumbledore started to think Harry and Voldemort were going to have a ghost fight with resurrection as the winner's prize.