..make...it...stop!
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norcumiOh godsdammit. There are, apparently, some things I Just Should Not Do.
One of them is reading good source material, and reading related bad fanfic.
Yeah, I got me a Harry Potter plot bunny.
I am, however, releasing it into the wild so someone else can do whatever they damn well please with it, since I don't want to write the damn thing, I just have the idea is all.
First and foremost, it's inspired by something I started reading once but couldn't get far into, called The Dark Lord's Son, or Son of the Dark Lord, or something like that. I really don't care enough to look it up. I dunno if it was bad writing, or that it was (just) an excuse for Dark!Harry doing smutty dom things with Ginny, but either way it didn't do a damn thing for me. As one might expect, it was somehow Harry was raised by Voldemort, and Ginny redeeming him (I think. Been awhile. Let's go with the premise).
So here's my diseased excuse for an idea. In case it hasn't been noted, SPOILERS AHEAD
Snape has heard the prophecy. But this Voldemort, being power obsessed and as clever as Tom Riddle is supposed to be, realizes something important. Dumbledore thinks this kid -whoever he is – is the champion who will kill Voldermort.
Make him a horcrux. What a lovely little paradox; Dumbledore's chosen will need to be killed in order to kill Voldy. Why, it's the greatest excuse for maniacal laughter evar! And ok, sure, the local death eaters think it's risky and stupid and just kill the kid already, but Voldy likes him his torture, and since little whoever won't be the only horcrux, won't it be lovely if/when Dumbledore realizes that to kill The Dark Lord, he has to kill a kid too? And even then, it wouldn't be enough to actually kill the Dark Lord, thus causing pain and suffering and anguish and no real benefit for “the good guys,” while maybe diverting the prophecy to have the kid support rather than detract from the cause. It's great, a total win-win!
So off we go to Godric's Hollow, and we all know what happens to James*. Lily, however – well, one of his most loyal supporters has asked he spare the girl, and why kill anyone now, when this will make Dumbledore aware sooner of what he will do? So it's stunners and Cruciatus and gloating, “the boy will be mine” etc, and thus The Dark Lord takes Harry Potter away and leaves Lily having a Very Bad Day. Damaged and more than a little crazed, she sets out with a lovely disregard to secrecy and/or anything other than getting her baby back. The logical destination? Well, everyone knows that the Malfoys are Voldermort's tools, so let's start there. We'll get answers one way or another, because that whole dangerous deranged mother thing....
Meanwhile, at Malfoy manor, the Death Eaters are throwing quite the party. Voldemort is declaring as kind of parody kind of why the hell not his new – not heir, that implies death at some point... mmm, his newest lieutenant, Harry Potter. The Death Eaters are having fun because this is a massive slap in Dumbledore's face – the secret of Godric's Hollow is broken and betrayed from within, the prophesied child has been taken, Order of the Phoenix member Potter is dead – it's a good day to be a Death Eater. Well, not Wormtail, who headed for the hills soon as he heard Voldy didn't kill everyone, but who cares about him, right? Baby Potter has been put with his own court of Death Eaters, so babies Crabbe, Goyle, Malfoy, and anyone else I can't recall are all crawling around in a magical playpen off to the side, bawling their unhappy heads off, while Baby Draco is sulking in the corner 'cause he's not in the spotlight, that Other Boy is.
This is what Lily Potter arrives to see. She's bloodied by Malfoy Manor defenses, more than a little crazed, and pissed as hell. She's always been clever and bold, and she had time to gather up a bunch of potions and her wand, and she's Right. There. and ready to take on Voldermort. She blasts a few Death Eaters as the first “holy shit! We're being attacked!” panic sets in. Narcissa and Bellatrix both lunge for the kids – Narcissa for Draco, Bellatrix for Harry. Lily isn't able to see who grabs who, so blasts a fatal hex at Narcissa, who's the one she can get an angle on. In retaliation, Bellatrix messily kills the kid she has, for which Voldemort kills her. That draws Lily's attention back to him, after her son just got killed.
I'm thinking Dragonball Z style magical effects, with ominous glowing aura crackling around Lily, building up for a moment before she just blasts literally everything she has at the Dark Lord, killing her by using her life force to power some serious magic, maybe vaporizing her wand.
The problem with that? It gave Voldermort an extra second. He sees where this is going, and it does Not Look Good. He's got 6 horcruxes, he needs 7, the boy, as he can see, isn't the one Bella killed (a moment of silence for Crabbe or Goyle). What better murder to split his soul for the HarryHorcrux than Bella? There is something fitting in this sacrifice for the cause.
Which is all well and good, because a moment later he's in Horcrux netherland. On the upside, he's had the last precious moment to send a message to his most faithful follower -
Severus Snape, who just apparated in from a guilt-laden talk with Dumbledore. Other Death Eaters are fleeing the scene (“Voldemort is dead! The Dark Lord is dead!”), but while the Dark Mark fades, all he can see is Lily, while all he can hear is Voldemort's words - Raise my boy for my return. He numbly takes baby Harry and flees.
Enter the Ministry. Among the rest of the mess, there's a baby Draco whose mother is dead, and father is so clearly in league with the Dark Lord that no amount of Imperio could have brought this about. So it's off to Azkaban with Lucius!
Meanwhile, Sirius Black is having A Very Bad Day. The Dark Mark has gone up over Godric's Hollow, his best mate is found dead there, his godson and friend are missing and presumed dead, AND oh yeah there's every reason for everyone to think he did it. However, MissingLily and MissingHarry lead to a different Sirius Black than canonical events. What do you do when your godson is taken by the Dark Lord (and/or his minions)? You get Dumbledore's ass on the job. You also, in the process, chug the neartest vial of veritaserum and demand a crucio or “what the bloody hell ever it takes to convince you people that I'm not the damned secret keeper, it was Peter, we need to get Peter!”, at which point the entire Order of the Phoenix is out in force, looking for Wormtail, Lily, and Harry.
It is not Sirius who finds Wormtail, but Remus, along with Phoenix affiliate Ted Tonks (is this canon, or is it just 'Dora Tonks who's in the Order?) and possibly unknown others. Peter tries to pull his “innocent man confronted by mad werewolf” thing, but it's sketchy at best, and killing multiple wizards in the area doesn't go over well. After all, everyone's still running around thinking the Dark Lord could apparate around the corner at any time. Ted Tonks is one of the casualties, and the Ministry is actually somewhat competent in trying to clean things up (it helps that Remus doesn't start laughing manically, and it can be proven that his wand was used for defensive and containing shields rather than the more offensive magics I suspect Sirius used).
Meanwhile, the word starts going out. Massacre at Malfoy Manor. Death Eaters dead, and Voldermort... gone. Killed by a mother who had Had Enough. The Mother Who Died. Celebrations start to break out, wizards start to celebrate in a confused sort of way, and Dumbledore is left to try to figure out what the hell happened. The Ministry starts getting to work prosecuting Death Eaters, and the orphans start being distributed.
Sirius Black gets called in, oddly enough, because there's this little thing – Baby Draco is running around with no mother, and a father sent off to Azkaban. His godparents – random Death Eaters, or the Lestranges – are also unacceptable. His nearest relative is Andromeda Tonks, who has just become a widow, and already has one kid to raise alone, and can't take him, so the nearest relative is the recent godfather of the missing/dead boy – well, it makes a nice gesture, right? At the same time, a guilt-laden Remus is going to apologize to a new widow for the fact that her husband died saving him, and meets a precocious little girl who talks to him about how she can change, and loves it.
Forward 10 years. Draco Black has been raised – well, he's still a prat, but not a Death Eater . For that matter, his disdain for Slytherin is exceeded only by his ego, which says he's been pulled from the fire, hardened by difficult life circumstances, and therefore better than most at most everything. Honestly, he's a lot like his Dad (the adopted one, not that scummy birth father stuck in prison). You know he'll be in Gryffindor – he's nowhere near smart enough for Ravenclaw, he's NOT a Hufflepuff, and Slytherin just Won't Do.
His new arch enemy? Hogwart's newest, most reluctant Gryffindor; Harry Snape – a strange, quiet boy who was raised by the new, mysterious potions master, who is Most Displeased his son is not sorted into Slytherin.
From here, it's whatever ship you like to sail. Friends with That Weasel? Meh. Steamy smut and rivalry with Draco in the boy's domitory (hopefully with everyone else OUT of the room)? *Hauteur* Quidditch rivalry? Have at it!
Of course, there's still a more than mad Dark Lord out there, who thinks Snape is loyal, and Harry has been raised to follow him with unquestioned loyalty. There's what happens with the son of former almost most loyal Death Eater meets Voldy? And godfather of Snape's kid? How does THAT turn out?
Not sure I care. You might. Enjoy.
* While plotting this out, I've figured out why I dislike James Potter so damn much. He reminds me strongly of the kid who was my high school president, and I had to grow up going to the same schools with. This was also the kid who, in middle school, delighted in tormenting me, up until he took my book one day “just to look at it” and then refused to give it back. I had to kick him in the shins, at which point he gave it back right quick, and I got sent to the guidance councilors (one of whom was the greatest waste of air I have ever met) for being violent.
Yeah, I'm also kind of a Snape sympathizer.
One of them is reading good source material, and reading related bad fanfic.
Yeah, I got me a Harry Potter plot bunny.
I am, however, releasing it into the wild so someone else can do whatever they damn well please with it, since I don't want to write the damn thing, I just have the idea is all.
First and foremost, it's inspired by something I started reading once but couldn't get far into, called The Dark Lord's Son, or Son of the Dark Lord, or something like that. I really don't care enough to look it up. I dunno if it was bad writing, or that it was (just) an excuse for Dark!Harry doing smutty dom things with Ginny, but either way it didn't do a damn thing for me. As one might expect, it was somehow Harry was raised by Voldemort, and Ginny redeeming him (I think. Been awhile. Let's go with the premise).
So here's my diseased excuse for an idea. In case it hasn't been noted, SPOILERS AHEAD
Snape has heard the prophecy. But this Voldemort, being power obsessed and as clever as Tom Riddle is supposed to be, realizes something important. Dumbledore thinks this kid -whoever he is – is the champion who will kill Voldermort.
Make him a horcrux. What a lovely little paradox; Dumbledore's chosen will need to be killed in order to kill Voldy. Why, it's the greatest excuse for maniacal laughter evar! And ok, sure, the local death eaters think it's risky and stupid and just kill the kid already, but Voldy likes him his torture, and since little whoever won't be the only horcrux, won't it be lovely if/when Dumbledore realizes that to kill The Dark Lord, he has to kill a kid too? And even then, it wouldn't be enough to actually kill the Dark Lord, thus causing pain and suffering and anguish and no real benefit for “the good guys,” while maybe diverting the prophecy to have the kid support rather than detract from the cause. It's great, a total win-win!
So off we go to Godric's Hollow, and we all know what happens to James*. Lily, however – well, one of his most loyal supporters has asked he spare the girl, and why kill anyone now, when this will make Dumbledore aware sooner of what he will do? So it's stunners and Cruciatus and gloating, “the boy will be mine” etc, and thus The Dark Lord takes Harry Potter away and leaves Lily having a Very Bad Day. Damaged and more than a little crazed, she sets out with a lovely disregard to secrecy and/or anything other than getting her baby back. The logical destination? Well, everyone knows that the Malfoys are Voldermort's tools, so let's start there. We'll get answers one way or another, because that whole dangerous deranged mother thing....
Meanwhile, at Malfoy manor, the Death Eaters are throwing quite the party. Voldemort is declaring as kind of parody kind of why the hell not his new – not heir, that implies death at some point... mmm, his newest lieutenant, Harry Potter. The Death Eaters are having fun because this is a massive slap in Dumbledore's face – the secret of Godric's Hollow is broken and betrayed from within, the prophesied child has been taken, Order of the Phoenix member Potter is dead – it's a good day to be a Death Eater. Well, not Wormtail, who headed for the hills soon as he heard Voldy didn't kill everyone, but who cares about him, right? Baby Potter has been put with his own court of Death Eaters, so babies Crabbe, Goyle, Malfoy, and anyone else I can't recall are all crawling around in a magical playpen off to the side, bawling their unhappy heads off, while Baby Draco is sulking in the corner 'cause he's not in the spotlight, that Other Boy is.
This is what Lily Potter arrives to see. She's bloodied by Malfoy Manor defenses, more than a little crazed, and pissed as hell. She's always been clever and bold, and she had time to gather up a bunch of potions and her wand, and she's Right. There. and ready to take on Voldermort. She blasts a few Death Eaters as the first “holy shit! We're being attacked!” panic sets in. Narcissa and Bellatrix both lunge for the kids – Narcissa for Draco, Bellatrix for Harry. Lily isn't able to see who grabs who, so blasts a fatal hex at Narcissa, who's the one she can get an angle on. In retaliation, Bellatrix messily kills the kid she has, for which Voldemort kills her. That draws Lily's attention back to him, after her son just got killed.
I'm thinking Dragonball Z style magical effects, with ominous glowing aura crackling around Lily, building up for a moment before she just blasts literally everything she has at the Dark Lord, killing her by using her life force to power some serious magic, maybe vaporizing her wand.
The problem with that? It gave Voldermort an extra second. He sees where this is going, and it does Not Look Good. He's got 6 horcruxes, he needs 7, the boy, as he can see, isn't the one Bella killed (a moment of silence for Crabbe or Goyle). What better murder to split his soul for the HarryHorcrux than Bella? There is something fitting in this sacrifice for the cause.
Which is all well and good, because a moment later he's in Horcrux netherland. On the upside, he's had the last precious moment to send a message to his most faithful follower -
Severus Snape, who just apparated in from a guilt-laden talk with Dumbledore. Other Death Eaters are fleeing the scene (“Voldemort is dead! The Dark Lord is dead!”), but while the Dark Mark fades, all he can see is Lily, while all he can hear is Voldemort's words - Raise my boy for my return. He numbly takes baby Harry and flees.
Enter the Ministry. Among the rest of the mess, there's a baby Draco whose mother is dead, and father is so clearly in league with the Dark Lord that no amount of Imperio could have brought this about. So it's off to Azkaban with Lucius!
Meanwhile, Sirius Black is having A Very Bad Day. The Dark Mark has gone up over Godric's Hollow, his best mate is found dead there, his godson and friend are missing and presumed dead, AND oh yeah there's every reason for everyone to think he did it. However, MissingLily and MissingHarry lead to a different Sirius Black than canonical events. What do you do when your godson is taken by the Dark Lord (and/or his minions)? You get Dumbledore's ass on the job. You also, in the process, chug the neartest vial of veritaserum and demand a crucio or “what the bloody hell ever it takes to convince you people that I'm not the damned secret keeper, it was Peter, we need to get Peter!”, at which point the entire Order of the Phoenix is out in force, looking for Wormtail, Lily, and Harry.
It is not Sirius who finds Wormtail, but Remus, along with Phoenix affiliate Ted Tonks (is this canon, or is it just 'Dora Tonks who's in the Order?) and possibly unknown others. Peter tries to pull his “innocent man confronted by mad werewolf” thing, but it's sketchy at best, and killing multiple wizards in the area doesn't go over well. After all, everyone's still running around thinking the Dark Lord could apparate around the corner at any time. Ted Tonks is one of the casualties, and the Ministry is actually somewhat competent in trying to clean things up (it helps that Remus doesn't start laughing manically, and it can be proven that his wand was used for defensive and containing shields rather than the more offensive magics I suspect Sirius used).
Meanwhile, the word starts going out. Massacre at Malfoy Manor. Death Eaters dead, and Voldermort... gone. Killed by a mother who had Had Enough. The Mother Who Died. Celebrations start to break out, wizards start to celebrate in a confused sort of way, and Dumbledore is left to try to figure out what the hell happened. The Ministry starts getting to work prosecuting Death Eaters, and the orphans start being distributed.
Sirius Black gets called in, oddly enough, because there's this little thing – Baby Draco is running around with no mother, and a father sent off to Azkaban. His godparents – random Death Eaters, or the Lestranges – are also unacceptable. His nearest relative is Andromeda Tonks, who has just become a widow, and already has one kid to raise alone, and can't take him, so the nearest relative is the recent godfather of the missing/dead boy – well, it makes a nice gesture, right? At the same time, a guilt-laden Remus is going to apologize to a new widow for the fact that her husband died saving him, and meets a precocious little girl who talks to him about how she can change, and loves it.
Forward 10 years. Draco Black has been raised – well, he's still a prat, but not a Death Eater . For that matter, his disdain for Slytherin is exceeded only by his ego, which says he's been pulled from the fire, hardened by difficult life circumstances, and therefore better than most at most everything. Honestly, he's a lot like his Dad (the adopted one, not that scummy birth father stuck in prison). You know he'll be in Gryffindor – he's nowhere near smart enough for Ravenclaw, he's NOT a Hufflepuff, and Slytherin just Won't Do.
His new arch enemy? Hogwart's newest, most reluctant Gryffindor; Harry Snape – a strange, quiet boy who was raised by the new, mysterious potions master, who is Most Displeased his son is not sorted into Slytherin.
From here, it's whatever ship you like to sail. Friends with That Weasel? Meh. Steamy smut and rivalry with Draco in the boy's domitory (hopefully with everyone else OUT of the room)? *Hauteur* Quidditch rivalry? Have at it!
Of course, there's still a more than mad Dark Lord out there, who thinks Snape is loyal, and Harry has been raised to follow him with unquestioned loyalty. There's what happens with the son of former almost most loyal Death Eater meets Voldy? And godfather of Snape's kid? How does THAT turn out?
Not sure I care. You might. Enjoy.
* While plotting this out, I've figured out why I dislike James Potter so damn much. He reminds me strongly of the kid who was my high school president, and I had to grow up going to the same schools with. This was also the kid who, in middle school, delighted in tormenting me, up until he took my book one day “just to look at it” and then refused to give it back. I had to kick him in the shins, at which point he gave it back right quick, and I got sent to the guidance councilors (one of whom was the greatest waste of air I have ever met) for being violent.
Yeah, I'm also kind of a Snape sympathizer.
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niiiiice
Date: 2009-04-13 09:24 pm (UTC)Esp. Draco raised by Sirius. That's gotta be...fun. Probably as fun as my Naruto-verse where Gaara is being raised by Jiraiya from age 13 and after...
(I'm a sucker for well-done AUs, which is why I liked Stealing Harry and that other one that I can't think of the title right now. And all the other 'verses that have done equally crazy "what-if" premises.)
Though, a couple questions, 'cause the pronoun usage in that passage was confusing:
"she just blasts literally everything she has at the Dark Lord, killing her by using her life force to power some serious magic, maybe vaporizing her wand."
So...Lily dies? And then when Snape shows up, he sees the body? What happens to it- does he take her to bury, because otherwise, why would she be presumed missing if there was a body?
And I'm then assuming that everyone is assuming that Lily took Harry to raise in secret. (Or does Dumbledore know the truth of what happened from Snape?) Which still leaves me to wonder why Snape would leave Harry with his rather conspicuous given name.
I also like the fact that you just give Harry as "quiet and strange," because you could describe first-year canon Harry the same way, I think. I just can't decide if this particular AU would be more fun if it turns out that Snape raised him on the truth- because there was no other way to really prepare the child and keep him safe for if Voldemort returned- or raised him under false pretenses and Harry is spending his first few years at Hogwarts slowly figuring out the Truth. Or some place in between those two positions.
Bravissimo on it, regardless, and thank you for letting this particular plot bunny out to nibble on the grass. : )
Re: niiiiice
Date: 2009-04-13 11:25 pm (UTC)I was assuming everyone was going around thinking BabyHarry was dead or maybe missing in the mess, but most likely dead. Missing is not an unreasonable conclusion, considering all are not accounted for. Oh! That would mean Neville's folks were prolly never tortured, for what that's worth.
No idea what Harry thinks about his birth folks, and how Snape fits in - that's half the reason I'm letting the plot bunny free. ;) I agree on the mess with Snape's position on raising a kid. All I know is Harry knows what a Mudblood is, and that he does Not Respond Well To It.
Enjoy!
Re: niiiiice
Date: 2009-04-14 11:07 am (UTC)Son of the Bitch
Gryffindor's Black Dragon
just 'cause. I keep thinking there's something to "Absolution in Her Eyes", but then for reasons passing understanding I get a Snape/Tonks pairing, which is a crack pairing if I ever heard one.
Re: niiiiice
Date: 2009-05-30 03:38 am (UTC)http://www.fanfiction.net/s/1796126/1/In_the_Darkness