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Non-Crossovers that Should Be, or Plotbunnies Free to Good Home
 
I dropped this today on a discussion list that was going over "Why Wrong-BWL Stories Suck".

Quote:My thoughts on "Wrong-BWL" stories:

They all make the same basic assumption: That Harry has to suffer for the
mistake. Thus he is condemned to the Dursleys while the "BWL" is praised and
welcomed in the wizarding world, raised knowing he's a hero, etc, etc, etc. It's
a vehicle to generate additional conflict and angst for Harry. And it usually is
pretty clumsily handled.

So why not turn that on its head?

Harry is supposedly not the Child of Prophecy. Someone else apparently is. Let's
call them Billy. And just to make it more fun, let's make it a Fem!Harry story.

So Billy gets sent off to the Dursleys and goes through all the tripe that Harry
goes through in canon.

Meanwhile Harry himself - er, herself - gets dumped in the Muggle orphanage
system and is adopted by a couple of nice young Muggle dentists.
Since they're well-educated sort and take an interest in Harri's life, she grows
up a bookish sort, voraciously reading everything she can get her hands on. Then
out of the blue comes a visit from Professor McGonnagle...

And you can already tell where this is going, right? It's just a retelling of
canon from a different PoV.

Not much of an actual story to it until you get to the point where Harrymione is
revealed to be the genuine Child of Prophecy and the key to defeating
Moldyshorts.

It might be interesting to have a few vignettes happen to show Moldy gathering
evidence and slowly realizing what's going on, and maybe a "She's your SISTER
you doof!" moment where Billy and Harri learn who each other really is, cut to
fourth year and ... well, I dunno. I'm not gonna write it, but if you want to,
it might be fun.

Do what you will with the plot idea.
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.
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