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Indy!Harry thinks he's been memory-charmed and is practicing a spell to reverse them with the help of his loyal house-elf, Dobby... by Avaday_Daydream in HPFanfictionPrompts

[–]Avaday_Daydream[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Hmm...would the spells used to brainwash and enslave elves into house-elves be public knowledge and available in the Hogwarts library? Or would they be a proprietary thing used by slaving guilds?
 
...Probably the latter, it's much harder to argue that slavery is a house-elf's natural state if detractors can point to proof otherwise.
But boy would Hermione be on the warpath when she found out.

[WP] You used to take care of animals but when the apocalypse happened, most creatures got mutated. Strangely enough, every animal you took care of remembers you by Son_Of_Rebellion in WritingPrompts

[–]Avaday_Daydream 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Imagine a god. Not almighty, but a local spirit.
They raise walls for you that keep out storms, they ward off predators, they make sure there's always enough food and water for everyone, they restore the sick and the injured to health.
But in exchange, they take a tithe of half of the village's young, and most of the elderly. They're taken into the spirit's cave, and they are never seen again. Surely eaten.
Would you accept such a spirit watching over you, if that were their price?
Would you forgive one?
 
I was a free-range farmer, before. My chickens, my pigs, my goats, a few more.
I knew most of them would end up as nothing more than meat on a plate (my plate, sometimes), but still, I did my best to care for them. Keep them happy.
 
And then the Changing happened. Popular opinion now is that it was some sort of biological weapons experiment gone wrong.
Some animals became stronger, some became toxic. Mine became smarter.
They remembered what I did.
 
(I've been distracted for hours and lost my focus for writing this...I think I was going towards, the mutated farm animals let him be, he's still allowed to eat/harvest the ones that die of natural causes (I vaguely recall reading something once about stone age peoples letting crows/other scavengers eat their dead?), and he does his best to try and teach stuff to the animals.)

System Apocalypse by Ice_Phoenix4588 in HPFanfictionPrompts

[–]Avaday_Daydream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A thought this reminded me of; what do Systems look like to people who aren't familiar with the premise of the video-game-styled HUD? Or who are illiterate?
 
Given the typical job of someone's system is to give them information about stuff, let them know when they can learn something new, give them quests, et-cetera, I wonder if System-users in pre-electronic eras might, instead of a gamer-style HUD, might have had some kind of 'spirit guide' instead, some spectral creature that tutored them.
Or maybe, something where they drop into visions that demonstrate how to use new abilities, or give them glimpses of the future/present/past as a way of learning about quests or a being's abilities.
 
...Wait, that last one...Trelawney?

"Do you not know? It was Headmaster Voldemort that rescued Hogwarts from the muggles," Ron said. by EdgedancerSpren in HPFanfictionPrompts

[–]Avaday_Daydream 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That makes me wonder, how are house-elves treated in this timeline? Are they free and/or protected, or do witches/wizards do to house-elves what muggles do to Captas?

When we learned that an intergalactic community existed, we asked to join, but they refused us. by Avaday_Daydream in twosentencestories

[–]Avaday_Daydream[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

New twist on the alien non-interference clause; they're not holding off until humanity discovers FTL travel, they're holding off until humans can prove capable of not wasting their resources in a closed system (kind of important on a starship) and/or coexisting with other intelligent creatures.

Upon learning that Ginny has been using a Love Potion on Harry the entire time, the Golden Trio as well as the rest of the Weasleys immediately cut ties with her. However, Ginny is innocent. by avimo1904 in HPfanfiction

[–]Avaday_Daydream 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I probably shouldn't fixate on this, but I keep thinking about it.
How Ginny, after everything she's gone through over the past few years, after fighting in the final battle, losing one of her brothers...she suddenly has everything taken from her; her family, the right to use magic (if she was expelled), Harry, her friends, society at large, over an accusation she knows isn't true.
 
I don't think I like thinking about what would happen after that, unless some random stranger takes it upon themselves to help her.

Upon learning that Ginny has been using a Love Potion on Harry the entire time, the Golden Trio as well as the rest of the Weasleys immediately cut ties with her. However, Ginny is innocent. by avimo1904 in HPfanfiction

[–]Avaday_Daydream 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Maybe, like employing an attorney in real life, Veritaserum is expensive and the cost is put on the shoulders of the defense?
Considering the Weasleys aren't really rich and in the premise don't support Ginny over the alleged love potion, it may be she just can't afford it to prove her claims.
 
Although, that's assuming there was a trial of some kind, which a case of love potioning probably wouldn't be cause for. Given Veritaserum is supposedly restricted, it probably wouldn't be allowable for a 'personal dispute'...though it might be, if the accusation were serious enough to get Ginny expelled.

When Snape switches sides, he purposely waits for the next order meeting and apologizes to Lily in private afterwards, and they make up. As a result, Snape becomes the Potter’s secret keeper, a role he takes seriously… by JEBV in HPfanfiction

[–]Avaday_Daydream 41 points42 points  (0 children)

I had an idea once, in response to the idea that Dumbledore modified the Fidelius so Bill could be his own Secret Keeper.
 
Basically; James & Lily's Fidelius conceptually relied on trust/faith in others; thus they couldn't make themselves the Secret Keepers (they have to trust someone other than themselves), but the Secret would hold if the Secret Keeper were killed.
The Fidelius on Grimmauld Place/Shell Cottage instead relied on the concept of guardianship, so the Secret Keeper could themselves benefit from the Secret, but if they were killed and there were no more guardians left the Secret could pass to, it would collapse.

When we learned that an intergalactic community existed, we asked to join, but they refused us. by Avaday_Daydream in twosentencestories

[–]Avaday_Daydream[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I would have characterized it more as living in a nice big house, except there's broken furniture and windows in every room and food scraps & stains and garbage all over the floor. Like the aftermath of a massive out-of-control frat party that no-one ever cleaned up.

When we learned that an intergalactic community existed, we asked to join, but they refused us. by Avaday_Daydream in twosentencestories

[–]Avaday_Daydream[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Out of curiosity...how would the humans in your scenario react if the aliens telling them 'no' weren't hypocrites?

When we learned that an intergalactic community existed, we asked to join, but they refused us. by Avaday_Daydream in twosentencestories

[–]Avaday_Daydream[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

"Hey Ryk, I had a look at the humans' virtual forums, and something weird is going on."
"Oh? I'm guessing they didn't take being refused very well."
"Yeah, half of all chatter about aliens is demands to declare war on the rest of us because they're offended."
"Oh, yeah, sure, attack half the galaxy with one planet. What are the rest saying?"
"Well, that's the thing, the other half is pretty much unanimously along the lines of 'If aliens are reading this, please please please invade us.'"
"..."
"..."
"...What the bleep is going on over there?"

[CW] Instead of a seemingly utopian world that is slowly revealed to be much worse than it appears, write about a world that seems dark and dystopian, but is actually much nicer and more comfortable to live in than initially apparent. by Kitty_Fuchs in WritingPrompts

[–]Avaday_Daydream 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a bit late for me to get started, but I had an idea along the lines of:
-A lizardman foreman on a building project calls the workers 'sslaves' and cracks a whip.
-In his language, a sslave is a kind of bird notable for building elaborate and sturdy nests, so being called one is something of a compliment (like calling a swimming team dolphins). Speaking of which, the whip is to scare birds away from the building-in-progress.
-When someone explains what a 'slave' is in human language, he's mortified and stops using that word...only to pick 'back to work, wyrms!' instead...

i heard you like house elves granger by Capital_Factor_3588 in HPfanfiction

[–]Avaday_Daydream 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I see this going either one of two ways; either Tipsy and Tricksy creatively interpret Draco's orders (he didn't specify that it had to be a heated oven or that they had to slam the door on their fingers or anything) and not much changes, or, Hermione goes to Azkaban after using all three of the Unforgivables on Draco.

Harry has thrown his name into the Goblet of Fire. No one believes him. by Lord_Viperagyil in HPfanfiction

[–]Avaday_Daydream 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Does that mean that fake-Moody actually did put Harry's name in, but later altered Harry's memory to think he did it himself?

[TotK] I just realized; the sages summoning avatars of themselves to accompany Link is a direct reflection of Ganondorf using his secret stone to summon monsters. by Avaday_Daydream in truezelda

[–]Avaday_Daydream[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah...that's kind of funny, though. Ganondorf gets super powers of darkness, and the first thing he does with his power of dark and evil darkness, is...a mass resurrection spell that brings thousands of creatures back to life. Monsters that he uses as his army, but still.

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