(shrugs) I've never played Shadowrun, nor heard of Rune Soldier Louie beyond the title. I hadn't even heard of a similar concept aside from ki-powered martial artists at the time I came up with it, and this Harry doesn't actually have any traininng as such, at least up to the beginning of his school years, and Bumblemore never did seem that interested in providing him with any martial skills canonically. At the most basic level it's k9ind of the opposite of that comcept anyway - Ki users bring out their inner energy and make it act upon the world, an adeptus brings the ambient energy of the world in to bosst his own and channel it through himself.
Of course, there's another noteable person in the field of potions in the Potterverse, one who has elevated his knowledge to the level it can be called "alchemy," and who just happens to fit that description of the last known adeptus being recorded centuries ago - Harry inheriting things from more or less unexpected sources is too often a cheap plot device to load him up with loot, but surely it's not strange for one member of a very rare type of wizard to arrange for a newcomer to get training that will be useful to him? Nicholas Flamel hardly ever gets to do anything but die offscreen when his Elixer of Life runs out, except in that one humor fic where the name is like Dread Pirate Roberts. No one ever saves poor Quirrel, either, who's supposed to have been a nice young fellow before his disasterous field expedition.
That's getting away from the point, thoguh - Bob, what's this assensing, specifically? Presumably a Shadowrun Adept ability.
As for doing more with it... I really have a deep and abiding dislike of the Potter setting, for all that I can't seem to stay away from the edges of it - like Eva it has so much POTENTIAL, and yet sucks so much... and the only other note that's not already laid down here is that while Voldylocks has done various things to enhance his physcal body as well as his magic, to match or eceed a trained Harry who's developed his reserves to be able to hold a combat boost for useful amounts of time he'd have to sacrifice casting ability, and he's already gone too far down the "artillery" path to backtrack easily - or want to. Of course, the experience gap is very, very wide, and he's not going to be weak from recovering a physical existance for more than a few months, certainly not by their next encounter.
Humor... well, humor's part of the flesh of the story, this is just the bones.
- CD
ETA: Yup, exactly, Foxboy - even the most sympathetic teachers were saying similar things before that Halloween - well, not Hagrid, bless his heart - but in general, and during the bad press segments? Absolutely. Being able to cast just a few of the weakest sort of spells won't cut it when the social structure is laid out around visible magical power, and a 3rd year physically besting the bogeyman is even less believable than a duel.
As for physcical training, like I said he hasn't had anything formal, because spending Vernon's hard-earned pounds on lessons for the freak? Shya, right. Physical lessons are mostly what I had in mind that FLamel might provide for, in one discipline or another - I don't think a grappling style like wrestling would really be Harry's thing though - he's still not big in any sense. Boxing... I dunno, I'm not trying to go for "cool" in any way, but it was boring to watch more than a couple of rounds the few times I tried, and I can't imagine it being any more interesting in prose form.
One of the less commonly (ab)used eastern forms or an orignal one devised by Flamel himself after studying various styles from various places would probably be more engaging. It would probably be better to avoid going into extreme detail about it anyway beyond bits of a few training sessions, just to establish their existence, and moves directly used.
Oh, and the reason he has so much trouble with magic - he has to overcome his own spell resistance first, while the less structured emissions needed for potions (why else would they use their bloody wands as stirrer sticks, at least part of the time?) slip by it, being far more subtle - and fortunately, keys the potion to him so it doesn't trip the resistance either. Poor Poppy Pomfrey has a dreadful time trying to get a proper diagnostic reading from the boy, and if he wasn't such a prodigy able to help her brew the hospital wing stocks treating him even after she did would be simply a nightmare. (Oh yeah, like Snape is going to encourage harry's ability in his field, or let him use the lab to brew extracurricular things... grudging As for O+ work is all the brat can expect, and that's if there's not even the slightest mistake.)
ETA2: I'd forgotten - Snape came late to the graveyard, didn't he? So that's not a problem after all, perhaps - his reasoning wouldn't have changed in this instance. As for martial arts... a "hard" style would suit someone who's essentially guaranteed to be either faster or stronger (and probably both) than ANYONE he meets, I would think. If it weren't too recent for Flamel to have really noticed, I'd say the Shotokan-based karate I can't remember the name of that was developed in Hawaii, renowned for being one of the hardest of "hard" styles. Or... wasn't there some European style that developed around bare hands and weapons analogous to tonfas? Maybe near or middle eastern...SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
Of course, there's another noteable person in the field of potions in the Potterverse, one who has elevated his knowledge to the level it can be called "alchemy," and who just happens to fit that description of the last known adeptus being recorded centuries ago - Harry inheriting things from more or less unexpected sources is too often a cheap plot device to load him up with loot, but surely it's not strange for one member of a very rare type of wizard to arrange for a newcomer to get training that will be useful to him? Nicholas Flamel hardly ever gets to do anything but die offscreen when his Elixer of Life runs out, except in that one humor fic where the name is like Dread Pirate Roberts. No one ever saves poor Quirrel, either, who's supposed to have been a nice young fellow before his disasterous field expedition.
That's getting away from the point, thoguh - Bob, what's this assensing, specifically? Presumably a Shadowrun Adept ability.
As for doing more with it... I really have a deep and abiding dislike of the Potter setting, for all that I can't seem to stay away from the edges of it - like Eva it has so much POTENTIAL, and yet sucks so much... and the only other note that's not already laid down here is that while Voldylocks has done various things to enhance his physcal body as well as his magic, to match or eceed a trained Harry who's developed his reserves to be able to hold a combat boost for useful amounts of time he'd have to sacrifice casting ability, and he's already gone too far down the "artillery" path to backtrack easily - or want to. Of course, the experience gap is very, very wide, and he's not going to be weak from recovering a physical existance for more than a few months, certainly not by their next encounter.
Humor... well, humor's part of the flesh of the story, this is just the bones.
- CD
ETA: Yup, exactly, Foxboy - even the most sympathetic teachers were saying similar things before that Halloween - well, not Hagrid, bless his heart - but in general, and during the bad press segments? Absolutely. Being able to cast just a few of the weakest sort of spells won't cut it when the social structure is laid out around visible magical power, and a 3rd year physically besting the bogeyman is even less believable than a duel.
As for physcical training, like I said he hasn't had anything formal, because spending Vernon's hard-earned pounds on lessons for the freak? Shya, right. Physical lessons are mostly what I had in mind that FLamel might provide for, in one discipline or another - I don't think a grappling style like wrestling would really be Harry's thing though - he's still not big in any sense. Boxing... I dunno, I'm not trying to go for "cool" in any way, but it was boring to watch more than a couple of rounds the few times I tried, and I can't imagine it being any more interesting in prose form.
One of the less commonly (ab)used eastern forms or an orignal one devised by Flamel himself after studying various styles from various places would probably be more engaging. It would probably be better to avoid going into extreme detail about it anyway beyond bits of a few training sessions, just to establish their existence, and moves directly used.
Oh, and the reason he has so much trouble with magic - he has to overcome his own spell resistance first, while the less structured emissions needed for potions (why else would they use their bloody wands as stirrer sticks, at least part of the time?) slip by it, being far more subtle - and fortunately, keys the potion to him so it doesn't trip the resistance either. Poor Poppy Pomfrey has a dreadful time trying to get a proper diagnostic reading from the boy, and if he wasn't such a prodigy able to help her brew the hospital wing stocks treating him even after she did would be simply a nightmare. (Oh yeah, like Snape is going to encourage harry's ability in his field, or let him use the lab to brew extracurricular things... grudging As for O+ work is all the brat can expect, and that's if there's not even the slightest mistake.)
ETA2: I'd forgotten - Snape came late to the graveyard, didn't he? So that's not a problem after all, perhaps - his reasoning wouldn't have changed in this instance. As for martial arts... a "hard" style would suit someone who's essentially guaranteed to be either faster or stronger (and probably both) than ANYONE he meets, I would think. If it weren't too recent for Flamel to have really noticed, I'd say the Shotokan-based karate I can't remember the name of that was developed in Hawaii, renowned for being one of the hardest of "hard" styles. Or... wasn't there some European style that developed around bare hands and weapons analogous to tonfas? Maybe near or middle eastern...SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
A kung-fu nun in a leather thong was no less extreme than anything else he had seen that day. - Rev. Dark's IST: Holy Sea World
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows