SCM Writer of 2814 Wrote:O-kay, moving on...Maybe somebody is manipulating Harry in the same manner that a lot of fics assume Dumbledore is doing. Someone presents Harry with a lot of evidence that Dumbledore is controlling his life through numerous proxies and frees Harry to attain his secret inheritance and work against the nefarious manipulations of the Order of the Phoenix. It turns out that the evidence was forged, Harry's mansion was built through the use of magic days before he arrived (and is removed just as quickly later), his vaults are mostly filled with temporarily transfigured stones and the various people that come forward to tell him about his hidden heritage are in fact polyjuiced death eaters. When things come to a head, Harry is publicly made to appear to be a delusional lunatic and utterly discredited.
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.
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