I see someone already beat me to the idea I had for Scenario 11: The Dirty Pair. Darn. Oddly enough, I play a freeform RPG where my character is *married* to them. BOTH of them. And no, it's not because he's some sort of SI super-stud, it's mainly because the Universe just *loves* watching how he manages to survive this.
And someone else parallelled my thoughts about the Nanoha option -- Yeah, Lindy was the best bet to end up Harry's adoptive mother, though Mrs Takamichi could wind up a close second. Either way, Harry would grow up with a positive plethora of aunts and a couple really cool uncles.
Custos Sophiae raised an objection about "forcing prophesies." Cool as the idea of Moldy facing Ranma, or Nanoha, or the Gunsmith Cats is, that really wasn't my intention. The *primary* intention was to give Harry a good, caring family environment (you note I didn't put 'stable' in there anywhere). Well, okay, that was secondary -- *primary* was just to have fun with the concept. Creating an UberHarry was on the *bottom* of the priority stack. Instead, I wanted to re-insert a Harry with lots of training, maybe a few handy weapons, and most importantly a strong family background onto Platform at the beginning of the first book, *without* any tag-alongs from home (not that I'd totally rule out any visits, but in the end it's *Harry's* universe, and *Harry's* destiny). Giving Harry copies of the entire series to read before going to Hogwarts would be "forcing the prophesy," but I don't think that giving Harry a better family (and about as much foreknowledge as he would have had growing up in the Wizarding World) and letting things progress naturally from there would be.
Eh. Just my thoughts on the matter.
And someone else parallelled my thoughts about the Nanoha option -- Yeah, Lindy was the best bet to end up Harry's adoptive mother, though Mrs Takamichi could wind up a close second. Either way, Harry would grow up with a positive plethora of aunts and a couple really cool uncles.
Custos Sophiae raised an objection about "forcing prophesies." Cool as the idea of Moldy facing Ranma, or Nanoha, or the Gunsmith Cats is, that really wasn't my intention. The *primary* intention was to give Harry a good, caring family environment (you note I didn't put 'stable' in there anywhere). Well, okay, that was secondary -- *primary* was just to have fun with the concept. Creating an UberHarry was on the *bottom* of the priority stack. Instead, I wanted to re-insert a Harry with lots of training, maybe a few handy weapons, and most importantly a strong family background onto Platform at the beginning of the first book, *without* any tag-alongs from home (not that I'd totally rule out any visits, but in the end it's *Harry's* universe, and *Harry's* destiny). Giving Harry copies of the entire series to read before going to Hogwarts would be "forcing the prophesy," but I don't think that giving Harry a better family (and about as much foreknowledge as he would have had growing up in the Wizarding World) and letting things progress naturally from there would be.
Eh. Just my thoughts on the matter.