SCM Writer of 2814 Wrote:O-kay, moving on...Okay, I'll bite.
Common Story: Harry becomes independent by some (magical, it's never mundane law)legal loophole, running away, or some random accident that kills all the Durseleys and he decides not to stick around to talk to anyone. He usually ends up with uber-magic and WOW WANDLESS MAGIC! somewhere along the way. And has a Manor. Gotta have the manor. Never mind his parents are stated to have a house, which we see in book 7...
Anyone see a way to subvert this and be unusual? Because strangely, everything I think of for this seems to have been done a hundred times before. BADLY.
Harry becomes indepenant by being approached by a professional quidditch team who recognize tallent when they see it and want him as a backup - and have the money to buy lawyers because honestly, who has more -ready to spend- money than a professional sports team?
This would end with him evading voldmort by the expedient of being off playing quidditch in a random country every few days because suddenly, with their backup seeker playing said team - lets say for evils sake the Cannons - are /winning/ which makes the expected Quidditch schedule go insane and continue with him evading voldmort by spending a great deal of his salary on buying the best wards money can buy from the most fanatical fans of the sport.
No loyalty to any dark lord is stronger than fans loyalty to their league and their teams, after all.
At some point the bulk of the DE's and Order being arrested on terrorism charges after trying to crash one of Harry's games when he gives the Aurors of two countries an 'tip' that such things are going to happen courtesy scar-o-vision.
The climax of the fic should -not- be the arrests, but the 'final showdown' in the world cup between Oliver Wood's team and Harry's.