There are, as you're probably aware, quite a number of "Harry in Azkaban" fics. A sizable number of them - probably the majority - are of the subgenre "Harry gets betrayed by his friends and/or allies and sentenced to Azkaban" fics; no few of them involve Harry acquiring, awakening or otherwise receiving some form of power there (whether political, magical, or both), generally either by discovering a secret of the island or outright inheriting the place.
A couple of nights ago, those general scenarios rearranged themselves in my head into a new configuration, and now I'm wondering if anyone has ever done a fic in which Harry's friends and/or allies learn of the existence of such a power and conspire (probably with his knowledge) to get him sent to Azkaban, specifically so that he can pick it up.
Have any of you run across such a fic?
Also, since I'd rather not start a thread just for one question like that, does anyone have any other similarly offbeat takes on standard fanfic storylines? I think I may have a couple more in the background of my mind somewhere, but I'd have to do some work to dig them up.
(Of course, quite a few Halloween fics got their start as an attempt at just such an unusual twist on a standard storyline, to the point that I'm not sure there are any ideas left in that genre which are original enough not to seem like just a version of something that's already been done and are also still worth reading.)
A couple of nights ago, those general scenarios rearranged themselves in my head into a new configuration, and now I'm wondering if anyone has ever done a fic in which Harry's friends and/or allies learn of the existence of such a power and conspire (probably with his knowledge) to get him sent to Azkaban, specifically so that he can pick it up.
Have any of you run across such a fic?
Also, since I'd rather not start a thread just for one question like that, does anyone have any other similarly offbeat takes on standard fanfic storylines? I think I may have a couple more in the background of my mind somewhere, but I'd have to do some work to dig them up.
(Of course, quite a few Halloween fics got their start as an attempt at just such an unusual twist on a standard storyline, to the point that I'm not sure there are any ideas left in that genre which are original enough not to seem like just a version of something that's already been done and are also still worth reading.)