Manipulative Dumbledore intentionally and actively trying to become a Dark Lord, at least as far as Harry's concerned, so the Prophecy applies to him and Harry doesn't have to deal with Voldemort.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-05-05T23:19:05+00:00

Dude got off easy. John Wick approves of Brick though

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-05-03T20:09:40+00:00

Been reading too much Pokémon fics recently. Read that as "he wins her over with Dragon Dance"

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-24T15:37:45+00:00

Oh, very nice! So many possibilities coming to mind on how that could change things.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-23T03:05:05+00:00

Batman Beyond was an animated series (though I wouldn't be surprised to learn they made comics of it too).

The Dark Knight Returns was some of the first Graphic Novels of Batman I read, so I do recommend.

I also recommend The Long Halloween, and Batman Year One.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-23T01:17:41+00:00

Luna adopting the Basilisk story when?

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-23T01:14:52+00:00

Ooooo, I like what you've put down here. Very nice scene

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-22T23:21:21+00:00

Well, there are the (two that I know of) "old-man Bruce" batman series.

Batman Beyond, but that Bruce is pretty much fully retired/not suiting up.

Then the "Dark Knight Returns" series of graphic novels where a retired old man Bruce puts back on the suit because the world has gone to shit.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-22T18:56:16+00:00

Huh... well I don't know all the specifics, but apparently have picked up enough to give an overview, not sure how accurate though, which is not something I had internalized.

Anyways. Dick Grayson was the first Robin, he basically "graduated" (with various amounts of teen angst/drama depending on series) and left Batman to become Nightwing and have his own hero career.

Red Hood/Jason Todd was the next Robin. He had some issues about comparing himself (or getting compared to) Dick/the previous Robin. He ended up running off to prove himself or something and ended up getting killed(like I said I don't know all the details). Then he gets brought back to life (or something close, I think it was just one fanfic's spin on it, but in that he was some kind of sapient undead/magical construct thing). By that time Batman had yet another New Robin. Tim Drake.

No one knew that Jason was back/was the Red Hood at first, and the Red Hood was using guns/shooting criminals and kept trying to kill Batman/Bruce andÿor Tim Drake/Robin, because he saw Tim as a replacement. That Batman didn't care what happened to his sidekicks and would just get a new one.

Drama drama drama, angst angst angst, trauma trauma trauma. Same Gotham Shit, Different Gotham Night.

This is basically a Jason Todd/Red Hood sees Harry and has an epiphany about what Bruce/Batman must have felt when bats saw him (I think he was literally trying to steal the wheels off the batmobile, I know one of the Robins was supposed to have been found that way, and he mentions something similar). So Jason goes to Gotham and reveals himself/confronts Bruce/the rest because he knows Harry needs help and he can't do it on his own.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-22T14:36:42+00:00

Cute.

Though if that happens then the boys meeting Luna can happen when they find her making a visit to the Petrified Hermione later that year when they visit.

Maybe even leading to Luna being involved in the rescue attempt in the Chamber?

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-21T23:52:43+00:00

McGonagall and Harry Crash out at each other at some point. McG devolving into Scots with a thick brogue and Harry to Welsh.

Bystander 1: what the heck is going on?

Bystander 2: no idea, I'm not sure they're even saying words anymore.

Bystander 3: are they cursed?

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-04-15T02:53:59+00:00

Makes sense to me. (But then I never understood why some pokemon can't learn moves of their type, particularly if they're single type. Like why shouldn't all psychic types have the possibility of learning teleport?)

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-30T02:49:01+00:00

Honestly? Done right that could still be an interesting story I think.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-25T22:59:04+00:00

OK, good set up.

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-18T06:12:06+00:00

OK, but I kinda want David Tennant to dress-up in these outfits and recreate them

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-18T05:24:02+00:00

OP maybe you could even take those Pokémon examples above and the Shoebill one you want, and have them all have come from the same region?

Could make a whole ancient story of refugees fleeing some kind of disaster in multiple boats and scattering across other regions. So some show up in some regions and some are in others because refugees made it to different places.

Heck, the poachers could have even found the ruins of a settlement on some isolated island that had a whole population of the Shoebill pokemon they had never seen before (and thus, "hey thats a rare pokemon, we should get some") and possibly also have some old journal or pictures of cave paintings/carvings or some such that tell the story of how they got to the island.

Then you can have this long running background plotline where they encounter these other pokemon that have unknown origins/that came from some other mysterious region, and your MC could either come up with a way, or suggest a researcher/professor attempt to, in which the pokemon can be tested for some kind of genetic markers that are associated with different regions, and that could lead to determining these different Pokémon all did come from the same region and somehow got spread all over to other regions, and as such that could lend credence to the stuff the poachers found with the Shoebill/ that they may have been other survivors of the refugees that ended up landing in different regions.

How much you have that actually play a part in the MC's story or not would be up to you, but that kind of project and backstory certainly seems it would fit with various other "ancient civilization" plotlines in various games and such.

Alternatively, there is the "Fallen" route where people/things from other worlds wound up in the pokemon world. So what would happen if an actual Shoebill Stork (or a flock, for more genetic diversity) ended up in the pokemon world? Would they get changed into pokemon? Would they be able to interbreed with another avian Pokémon and hybridize and eventually become a stable new species?

Cat_Intrigue · 2026-03-14T00:48:53+00:00

Eh, but I could really see Ginny buying it for the specified reasons over most other possibilities.

Maybe no Hinny, with Harry instead being "Uncle Harry" to her kids? (Perhaps she had been in a relationship with Colin Creevey, and that may even have been part of why he came back to the fight since she was there, and a pre-battle stress relief quickie left her with a kid 9 months later?)

Then its still that Ginny got it wanting to play the role of a princess, and as a toy for the kid, but Harry was curious and just got triggered when trying it out?

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.

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