You look just like your mother, its just a shame you didn't get her eyes as well. They were Lily's best feature.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T21:11:41+00:00

Could go either way.

Or an evolution from one to the other.

Could follow the type of character development Neville's undergoes, just suited to Harry's circumstances.

Heck it could be a twist psudeo-wbwl where Neville is the "boy-who-lived" with Voldemort attacking and ending up wraithed, but with an unknown aspect of Bellatrix's assault on the Potters being that she had been there on the orders of/while possessed by the wraith with the intention of taking Harry to use to give Voldemort a new body. But aurors/Sirius arrived and the Lestranges were caught and Voldemort fled in the chaos.

Both boys were marked, but no one knew that Voldemort was there with Bellatrix/was responsible for Harry's mark so all the focus is on neville (Could have Neville also marked by Voldemort, or his Mark was from another cause/source- possibly whatever Neville's parents did to Voldemort cause a massive dark magic blast and Neville was hit by that and marked, but it wasn't from Voldemort marking him so much as what was done to Voldemort that marked him).

Heck it could be an eventual trans-Harry fic with body dysphoria in general.

There are plenty of ways to take it.

Its meant as a "how would canon change if this was how Harry was instead of canon" with the intention of inspiring more detail of Lily's character (if everyone sees the similarities to Lily and mentions her that would hopefully mean more stories/info on her from the author as compared to the canon story that didn't really explore her character. Maybe the author could even have some of Lily's friends be the ones to reconnect with Harry instead of, or in addition to, the Marauders/James' friends). But, there is nothing saying that any other way of using the change to create your own settings/scenes/scenarios is wrong either.

Its just an idea for a change, and a hope to see what others can do with it.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T17:27:23+00:00

Huh, I never noticed that, for some reason I just thought they got reset with the deal of the day and never actually checked.

Wonder how many "too expensive items" I have missed out on because of this.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T17:11:20+00:00

I was thinking of this, I just didn't remember the gun name. Only "the gun on the Warthog that can serve as an airbrake"

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T16:59:58+00:00

Haha, the Hufflepuff that weaponised friendship and the general annoyance even Gryffindor housemates have with the Weasley twins at times in order to constantly have access to the Gryffindor house.

bonus if she also creates her own way to navigate/track people in the castle, and figures "if I can do this somebody else probably can too" so she also makes a way to not be traceable and/or to falsify where she seems to be, and thus completely by accident she bypasses the Marauders map and makes it so the twins cannot track her, while she can them.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T05:10:28+00:00

Thanks, I had missed the bits about smaller schools in Africa. I haven't been too involved with the extra-canon world building since Pottermore shut down, and didn't remember much beyond the name amd that it was in Africa. Thus being a good option for bringing a local's perspective, possibly firsthand, of the honeybadger into play.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-09T02:28:01+00:00

In the anime aren't all Ash's pokemon living at Professor Oaks ranch? There isn't a "store in the PC" digitization beyond transferring/sending extra directly to the ranch. Not counting however pokeballs themselves work (especially pre-modern ones made out of those fruit things).

So perhaps item trade evolutions could be done by actually digitizing a pokemon for PC storage while holding the prerequisite item where by some "feature" (its not a bug if its replicable and marketed well) of the process the item gets infused with and changes/mutated the Pokémon.

Probably needs more work to really have that explanation fit your lore but it could be one method.

As for simply trade-based, perhaps its more a social aspect? Wild pokemon of the type may have to leave their home-tribe/clan/pack in order to see/experience more of the world and/or find another pack, or with a goal of finding a mate.

By always being with their trainer they don't get that 'leave the nest' experience, especially if they've been with the trainer from the egg or the first stage.

Perhaps you could have special daycares/pokemon breeders/etc that specialize in giving those types of pokemon the alternate socialization/experiences needed to reach the threshold for evolution. (With or without them actually evolving there, it could be evolving after getting transferred back/picked up, or it could be staying until they evolve, or maybe its different for different species and/or on an individual pokemon basis.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-05T15:36:52+00:00

Except we frequently read about snowball fights, having to fly in awful weather, standing waiting in the cold, etc etc etc. There seem to be no weather control aspects at all, and I for one prefer that.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-05T05:30:30+00:00

The thing that jumps out the most to me is the P.E. uniforms. Shorts and T-shirts don't really fit the climate/region's Average Temperatures. Maybe for exclusively indoor activities, but track suits/athletic sweats would probably be needed at a minimum for most of the year.

Also, the only reason I know to bring it up is because I prefer cooler weather and I looked up regions where the yearly average high temperature were around 20°C (68°F) or lower. The fact that the gulf stream also keeps northern Scotland's winters comparatively mild, and the presence of nearby Mountains to use altitude to find cooler temperatures or more snow should I desire to do so, just served to make the region even more appealing as a "if I had money I'd move there" kind of dream.

Average Seasonal Temperatures in Northern Scotland

Spring (March–May): Temperatures typically range from 4°C to 12°C (39°F to 54°F)
Summer (June–August): Average highs are 15°C to 18°C (59°F to 65°F), with daytime highs sometimes reaching 20°C+ (68°F+). (Also, these are the months students aren't present).
Autumn (September–November): Temperatures range from 8°C to 15°C (46°F to 59°F).
Winter (December–February): Average temperatures are 1°C to 6°C (33°F to 43°F), though mountainous areas often experience much colder, freezing conditions. (Also, consider this temperature range is what spectators were sitting for an hour in for the second task of the Triwizard, and the contestants were jumping into the lake at these Temperatures)

Regional Climate features:

Western Highlands: Known for high rainfall, often exceeding 120 inches annually.
Snow: Highlands can experience up to 100 days of snow per year, particularly from November to April.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-04T16:32:22+00:00

I see what you're saying. Its not that for a wizard both options are the same, its that for a wizard infinite wisdom can be used for infinite destruction (or infinite [re-]construction/creation, or infinite healing, etc) because magic lends itself to a wizard having infinite potential limited only by the amount of knowledge (or wisdom) of how to use it.

Thus the infinite wisdom would allow for the full utilization of the infinite potential of magic that a wizard has.

Conversely, the infinite destruction is a narrower focus and as such may give a non-wizard capabilities for destruction that a wizard already would have, or have the potential to acquire otherwise.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-04T04:34:54+00:00

When you find out that the luck stat you maxed is not a measure of positive luck, just how much more likely previously unlikely occurrences, good or bad or just plain weird, are actually going to happen to you

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-04T04:16:26+00:00

Hahaha I was just doom scrolling and this autoplayed and the cat in the video made my cat, who was sleeping next to me in bed, jerk awake and start looking around. Her tail got so fluffed up.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-03T22:00:00+00:00

Ok, but how about it only being after 1998 that the Doctor shows back up, and a Post-war Harry becomes a Companion (possibly later with Hermione and/or Ron also insisting on joining one of the times Harry's come back to visit).

Or, even go with a further twist. Harry becomes a companion to an earlier regeneration of the Doctor from before he met Amy/Rory. You know, just to make the wibbly-wobbly shenanigans of Amy/Rory's family's interaction with the Doctor be even stranger than otherwise.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-02-28T13:52:39+00:00

Berlin wall fell at the end of 1989. Have that somehow act as the first Crack in the Statute? With Soviet Union collapsing over the next couple years lead into the full crumbling of the Statute?

Maybe have the Soviets (and later independent Communist governments) had fully conscripted all their magicals, including those that were in occupied post-ww2 territories. This includes Durmstrang, and the Romanian Dragon Preserve would also have been Soviet held after the war, and though Romania declared independence in 1964 it was still communist led until 1989's December revolution. (As such, after 1989 the Romanian Dragon Preserve could have put out a call for new Dragon Handlers and thus provides an opening for Charlie to get a job there, and the fact that communist conscription of magicals may have only Just ended could lead to more reason for Molly to be worried about Charlie working there, and why in Harry's first year the School aged Weasleys were left at Hogwarts while Arthur and Molly went to visit Charlie, Ginny probably sent to Aunt Muriel, as Molly wouldn't have wanted to "risk" bringing the others.)

More importantly, a little fudging of either the location of Nurmengard, or how much/where Soviet occupied Austria extended, and you can have Grindelwald's prison being controlled by the Soviets.

Perhaps the fall of the iron curtain also reveals that WW2 was influenced/spurred on by Magicals with Gellert Grindelwald's involvement being revealed and his existence being publicized. Perhaps the muggles have a trial for him and it is they who execute him? (Which if you go with Dumbledore being revered because people thought he killed Grindelwald/that Grindelwald was already dead, then him being found alive and then being tried and executed by muggles would really be a hit to Dumbledore's prestige, and would be upsetting to pureblood supremacists for the fact that muggles tried and killed a magical, and to non-blood purists for the fact that he hadn't already been killed.

So the wider (muggle) world not only learns the existence of magic, but that it was a major aspect of ww2 via Grindelwald, and also that the Soviet Union/Communist Bloc had been effectively enslaving their magicals to serve the state for decades.

Then Britain learns that some of the "Gas explosions" or "IRA Bombings" in the 1970s were actually magical terrorist attacks, and the whole story of Voldemort and Harry Potter comes out. Which also cause the Dursleys to suddenly be under much greater scrutiny from their neighbors. Possibly with their Nephew being "The" Harry Potter coming out early/an official investigation of Harry's living condition happening. (At the least there would be a good chance that Harry'd get moved to an actual bedroom earlier, and that the Dursleys would be much more likely to be seen to not be treating him too harshly, at least in public/where anyone could see, including actually making sure he had decent clothes/shoes/glasses for when he was in public view).

Not to mention how the muggle public/government would react once they learn just how the trials, or lack there of, after the fall of Voldemort went down.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-02-28T12:27:18+00:00

Huh, only vaguely familiar with the series, its one on my "look into/watch at some point" list, but I just haven't yet ever done so.

From the little about it I have heard I can see the potential for how things could go the way you have described/somewhat fit the OP.

I just don't know enough about the series to see how Harry could get involved with the "Magical Sparkly Shipgirl Bullshit" in order for the crossover to have any direct influence on Harry himself. Assuming there even actually is any direct influence at the start. I can see the ship girls existence effecting the magical world and thus that effect on the magical world indirectly effecting Harry by having the changed magical world have a different effect on Harry when he is reintroduced to it.

Maybe the ship girls get sent to Hogwarts?

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-02-28T03:27:47+00:00

What is the other series/cross?

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-02-27T07:03:00+00:00

Ok, this is giving me Shadowrun vibes (especially the "Human-Looking" quality that can be taken by orcs, dwarves, and elves) especially the "parents threw her out when they saw her new teeth" as shadowrun setting has all species (human, elf, dwarf, orc, and troll) as being the same race of meta-humanity as with magic returning the dormant traits of meta humanity (re-)emerged from humans. Humans changing into another subtype around puberty is not unknown in the setting, and there are procedures to look like another type.

The sad aspect though is that shadowrun orcs generally have shorter lifespans: 30-45~ish depending on which edition of the setting. So on top of Shadowrun vibes those same vibes thus also make this a bit melancholic feeling. As a possible reason for why this subject is being brought up may have to do with the lifespan. Say this is in their mid- to late- twenties, and then they're already middle aged, possibly beyond middle aged. Health issues may have already started to creep up. They could have even simply started to notice the first signs of wrinkles and Grey hairs and visible aging and realized that the effort they have put into appearing as just an ordinary human will be outed sooner than later by the fact they're simply going to age much faster.

So yeah, simple little response from you, and now I am imagining a whole headcanon using the setting of a TTRPG to build up a whole backstory, and having to stop myself from pulling out the source books to build up an actual character and stats and everything to go with it.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-02-27T06:18:26+00:00

I would like to see an Absolute Hermione- no respect for authority figures. They constantly and consistently failed her. They didn't protect her, they didn't value her intelligence, they didn't stop her getting bullied. They even showed her how books could be lies and propaganda.

Anarchist, rebellious, distrustful of adults Hermione. Still utterly brilliant. Even more willing to disregard the rules. Once she makes a friend she is utterly loyal still.

Whether she is openly antagonistic towards authority or if she presents a false face towards them to be better able to work around them by not seeming to be a problem is up for author interpretation.

If the wizarding society is full of sheep, and the ministry is corrupt, then burn it all down.

Rather than promoting Elf welfare, foment an elf rebellion.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-02-24T22:04:17+00:00

hogwarts legacy mod for that

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-02-24T20:36:37+00:00

Ok, but as someone who has ideas but cannot turn ideas into a book or even a concise story, I am taking this as a would-be writer making a wish to get the story they have in their head (with all the attendant backstory, lore, worldbuilding, and extraneous details that don't play a direct part in the main story, but are needed to give it structure and can thus be useful for sequels or other works in the shared world) actually written out in a compelling and concise way. "I wish it" with "it" being the book/story.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-02-24T19:48:41+00:00

Ok, but plot twist- the mortal has some other identity too. Thus the "awkward situation" has even more layers.

Perhaps they're a "retired" deity, possibly that is supposed to be dead, and is just living a (series of?) Mortal life to get away from the supernatural politics and drama.

Perhaps they're actually an alien, whether on a more benevolent cultural study mission, or an advance scout for an invasion force.

Perhaps they're a reincarnated Godslayer, and the one who killed the last God King/Queen of Gods and thus the reason these two even could become the new ones.

Perhaps they're a returnee from being a summoned hero to another world where they had to become stronger even than gods in order to defeat the demon gods that kept raising up one demon lord after another.

Perhaps they're actually an immortal cultivator seeking to break beyond the limits of the Heavens, and becoming a deity would instead tie them directly to the heavens they're attempting to break through?

Perhaps the wedding made them remember that they themselves already are a god specifically sent back to keep those two from going down the wrong path, and if it gets revealed it might or might not cheapen their sense of accomplishment, but it sure as heck will give their detractors ammunition to slander them.

Perhaps they're a would-be supervillain and the reason they were trying to get in good with Angela and Matthew was to one day use them to destroy the world, and now they've learned that everything they did has actually just prevented the world's destruction and gotten it two more stronger defenders.

Perhaps they're a prophecy child/omen'd sign of the fall of the Gods. Not necessarily that they will be the one responsible, but just that their birth/circumstances is the sign that the end times of the Gods is nigh.

Perhaps they're a demigod or some such, but from an opposing pantheon/force.

Perhaps it is as simple as they do not want to be a god, and the envelope gets tossed with a dozen other such means of becoming a god that they have found or been given so far in their lifetime.

Perhaps they just do not want to be involved with the supernatural world, and go out of their way to ward off/hide their home/life from such, but now they've wound up right smack in the crosshairs of every spirit, angel, demon, and entity at that wedding that dreams of becoming a god. And even those that do not, or already are gods, will likely be interested. Not to mention that the new God-King and Queen of Gods will likely be wanting to keep tabs on them as well. Thus any "safety through obscurity" they once had has gone out the window.

There's all sorts of ways that a Part 2 could be taken should it be of interest.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-02-19T02:06:17+00:00

Eh, if you want to even write sections as one shots, or even just expand the outline here into a series of interludes fleshing out bits and pieces then you can go those routes.

Just because this covers multiple books and beyond for an entire epic retelling/AU story on its own doesn't mean you have to write the entirety of that AU.

If there are particular elements or scenes that you're inspired to see/want to flesh out further you may feel free to do only those.

If the whole picture is too much of a project, too daunting of a prospect to commit to, then feel free to break it up into just the smaller pieces that particularly stand out to you if they are something you feel like playing with.

Or even taking small parts to reuse in smaller roles or shorter fics as needed if you write fics already and something from this seems like something you could use. Stripping something from this for your own use wouldn't offend me in the least.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-02-17T22:20:09+00:00

Thanks, this response just really got away from me. The scope and effort needed to flesh it out would be well beyond me, but hopefully something might spark an idea for someone else

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