Post by iceberg on Apr 8, 2008 15:13:47 GMT -5
ABRAKA KADABRA.
The only thing I have to contribute to the Harry Potter discussion, is the leaked ending to the series that forced Rowling to rewrite it into something totally else.
For one to understand this plot, you should know something. Harry is Snape and Voldemort, and his own father and mother. How is this possible?
Time travel.
To explain it shortly, Harry was born, Harry's parents were killed, Harry gets thrown to his uncle's house, who hates him, Harry gets told that he is a Wizard, Harry goes to Hogwarts. In Hogwarts, he has a jolly good time, except the times he has to escape from being killed, or otherwise harmed by this and that, mostly this, which would be Voldemort.
Skipping ahead a bit, to the point Dumbledore dies and Harry leaves Hogwarts, he takes with him Ron, Hermione and Neville. Every general needs his troops, or every tough guy needs his cheerleaders. Something like that. Then they meet Snape, who tells where Voldemort could be lurking, since Harry is out to kill his nemesis. So, in the end they find Voldemort, and a battle of epic proportions begins. Just to be suddenly ended by Neville, who kills Voldemort, claiming that he would take Harry's place as the Half-Blood Prince, and upon his victory over Voldemort, Neville himself dies as well. To explain this sudden course of action, Neville thought about it, meaning that he and Harry both fit the prophecy's requirements, even if Harry would do all told in the prophecy, Neville still could be the one to kill Voldemort, which he does.
After all this, Harry decides that he can start living a normal life. A few years later, he has an identity crisis, and with the help of Magic, he changes his gender to female. As a way to honor his/her parents, Harry takes his/her mothers name, however, after a few years of living as a woman he is sad to notice that people are not accepting his gender change, being a famous person and all that. As a way to cope with the stress, Harry starts to learn difficult spells, spending countless hours inside his/her house. Soon he/she found a spell which allows time travel, and after thinking about the possibilities, he/she decided to travel into the past, where they would not know that he/she is in fact Harry Potter who changed his gender, and he/she could live his/her life peacefully.
Time travel however, requires a lot of strength from a Magic-caster, making it something you cannot do that often. So, Harry travels back in time, and meets a nice guy, who he.. well fine, who she later on marries, and has a child with, a healthy boy. Life seemed swell for him finally.
But then, one fateful night, while she is with her husband in their child's room, watching his peaceful sleep, suddenly, Voldemort barges into the house, and to the room. At that point Harry realizes what she has done, she has become her/his own mother. There is a sudden flash, and Harry realizes that she has been teleported back in time. Knowing that she must protect himself as a child, to keep the Time-continuum in one piece, as if he/she failed to do so, it could mean the collapse of the universe due to such a severe time-mess up, she changes her gender back to a male, and gets friendly with his female self, to keep her/himself safe.
However, Harry falls in love with himself/herself, and thinks that "no point fighting urges", ending up with the two getting married, and having a child, which would grow up to be Harry himself.
We again come to the point of the timeline where the two Harry's are in the room, watching the sleep of their son, who in reality is both of them. Harry decides that he must kill Voldemort to keep the timeline in shape, and to give him a chance to live a normal life for a while, maybe even change his own past.
Voldemort barges into the room again, and there is another bright flash, and finds himself to be an old man this time. Trying to make his way in the world where he was suddenly thrown, he ends up joining a criminal gang, and while they go rob a house, Harry barges into a room, and there he sees himself, as both his father, mother, and of course, himself as a child.
At this point he realizes how screwed up his world in reality is, and starts to hate himself for messing things up this badly, again there is a bright flash, and he founds himself in the past. There he changes his appearance to that of a young man, to keep suspicions low, and the amount of trouble relatively low to keep it from adding up to his very-very-very screwed up life.
All these problems have started to get to himself, and ends up with him creating a huge self-hatred towards himself. He decides to go to work in Hogwarts, the only place which he can even call home in his life. He ends up as a Potions class teacher, which is the one field where he never was very good at, hoping to better himself on the field while working.
Ten years later, a certain young boy comes to school, after all the shapeshifts Harry has forgotten his original shape. He can only ponder why does the boy look so familiar, but he knows one thing. He does not like him, who obviously does not like him either, hatred between the two grew more and more as time passed. Then one day, Harry comes to school again, and sees an old man near the wall jabbering something, and for being a brewing pot of hatred, Harry kills the old man without a single thought about it, and at that point, he notices and identifies his young self close.
At that point Harry realizes that he is Snape, and fails to understand how was he able to destroy his own life so completely well. He realizes that he has to accomplish certain things in the timeline, or else, the world, the universe, would end up collapsing as a result of a timecontinuum ripture.
Harry, or Snape, tells Neville, where to find Voldemort, because he finally wants to end his existance to keep things from getting even worse, if possible. Just when they are about to find Voldemort, the kids that is, Snape-Harry thinks about his past, and starts to understand why has he teleported back and forth in time from the point he ran to the room with his own parents, who in fact both are him. Someone has to send them back and forth in time, and to accomplish that, Snape-Harry travels back in time to his room, and hides behind a potted plant.
Finally, all five of him inside the room, and Voldemort-Harry barges in, Snape-Harry leaps up, and with a display of insane Magical feats, he sends the three selves of him to different points of time, where he himself had been transported earlier in his time-skipping life, to keep the timeline in order.
However, the strain from such powerful Magic being casted in such a short period of time, Snape-Harry's body withers to that of an old man, and finally he realizes that he has a way to keep his timeline in order, and maybe even bring an end to his pitiful self. However, his young self is still in his bed, unharmed. Remembering the scar in his forehead, Snape-Harry considers his options, and casts a curse on himself, creating the scar shaped like lightning to his young selves forehead, which is meant to bring misfortune and accidents to his life. If he would be lucky, the misfortunes the curse would bring, would end up killing Harry as a young boy before he has chance to do any of the things he would do otherwise.
Finally, Snape-Harry teleports forward in time, to find out if the curse he cast on himself has killed him, but as a result of his body suddenly growing old and weak, the timetravel is not as accurate as it would have been before, throwing him to a place way off from his original plan. He finds himself in an old wrecked house, and a few seconds later after his arrival, four young people run inside the house.
He instantly identifies the people, who are no else than Neville, Ron, Hermione, and himself, Harry Potter. Just as Harry is about to cast a spell on Snape-Harry, Neville knocks Harry over, saying that he would take his place as the Half-Blood Prince, and instead of Harry, he casts a spell, killing Voldemort, and himself while at it. During his last seconds, Voldemort, who in reality is Snape-Harry thinks that he is finally able to get rid of all the problems he brought upon himself.
The only thing I have to contribute to the Harry Potter discussion, is the leaked ending to the series that forced Rowling to rewrite it into something totally else.
For one to understand this plot, you should know something. Harry is Snape and Voldemort, and his own father and mother. How is this possible?
Time travel.
To explain it shortly, Harry was born, Harry's parents were killed, Harry gets thrown to his uncle's house, who hates him, Harry gets told that he is a Wizard, Harry goes to Hogwarts. In Hogwarts, he has a jolly good time, except the times he has to escape from being killed, or otherwise harmed by this and that, mostly this, which would be Voldemort.
Skipping ahead a bit, to the point Dumbledore dies and Harry leaves Hogwarts, he takes with him Ron, Hermione and Neville. Every general needs his troops, or every tough guy needs his cheerleaders. Something like that. Then they meet Snape, who tells where Voldemort could be lurking, since Harry is out to kill his nemesis. So, in the end they find Voldemort, and a battle of epic proportions begins. Just to be suddenly ended by Neville, who kills Voldemort, claiming that he would take Harry's place as the Half-Blood Prince, and upon his victory over Voldemort, Neville himself dies as well. To explain this sudden course of action, Neville thought about it, meaning that he and Harry both fit the prophecy's requirements, even if Harry would do all told in the prophecy, Neville still could be the one to kill Voldemort, which he does.
After all this, Harry decides that he can start living a normal life. A few years later, he has an identity crisis, and with the help of Magic, he changes his gender to female. As a way to honor his/her parents, Harry takes his/her mothers name, however, after a few years of living as a woman he is sad to notice that people are not accepting his gender change, being a famous person and all that. As a way to cope with the stress, Harry starts to learn difficult spells, spending countless hours inside his/her house. Soon he/she found a spell which allows time travel, and after thinking about the possibilities, he/she decided to travel into the past, where they would not know that he/she is in fact Harry Potter who changed his gender, and he/she could live his/her life peacefully.
Time travel however, requires a lot of strength from a Magic-caster, making it something you cannot do that often. So, Harry travels back in time, and meets a nice guy, who he.. well fine, who she later on marries, and has a child with, a healthy boy. Life seemed swell for him finally.
But then, one fateful night, while she is with her husband in their child's room, watching his peaceful sleep, suddenly, Voldemort barges into the house, and to the room. At that point Harry realizes what she has done, she has become her/his own mother. There is a sudden flash, and Harry realizes that she has been teleported back in time. Knowing that she must protect himself as a child, to keep the Time-continuum in one piece, as if he/she failed to do so, it could mean the collapse of the universe due to such a severe time-mess up, she changes her gender back to a male, and gets friendly with his female self, to keep her/himself safe.
However, Harry falls in love with himself/herself, and thinks that "no point fighting urges", ending up with the two getting married, and having a child, which would grow up to be Harry himself.
We again come to the point of the timeline where the two Harry's are in the room, watching the sleep of their son, who in reality is both of them. Harry decides that he must kill Voldemort to keep the timeline in shape, and to give him a chance to live a normal life for a while, maybe even change his own past.
Voldemort barges into the room again, and there is another bright flash, and finds himself to be an old man this time. Trying to make his way in the world where he was suddenly thrown, he ends up joining a criminal gang, and while they go rob a house, Harry barges into a room, and there he sees himself, as both his father, mother, and of course, himself as a child.
At this point he realizes how screwed up his world in reality is, and starts to hate himself for messing things up this badly, again there is a bright flash, and he founds himself in the past. There he changes his appearance to that of a young man, to keep suspicions low, and the amount of trouble relatively low to keep it from adding up to his very-very-very screwed up life.
All these problems have started to get to himself, and ends up with him creating a huge self-hatred towards himself. He decides to go to work in Hogwarts, the only place which he can even call home in his life. He ends up as a Potions class teacher, which is the one field where he never was very good at, hoping to better himself on the field while working.
Ten years later, a certain young boy comes to school, after all the shapeshifts Harry has forgotten his original shape. He can only ponder why does the boy look so familiar, but he knows one thing. He does not like him, who obviously does not like him either, hatred between the two grew more and more as time passed. Then one day, Harry comes to school again, and sees an old man near the wall jabbering something, and for being a brewing pot of hatred, Harry kills the old man without a single thought about it, and at that point, he notices and identifies his young self close.
At that point Harry realizes that he is Snape, and fails to understand how was he able to destroy his own life so completely well. He realizes that he has to accomplish certain things in the timeline, or else, the world, the universe, would end up collapsing as a result of a timecontinuum ripture.
Harry, or Snape, tells Neville, where to find Voldemort, because he finally wants to end his existance to keep things from getting even worse, if possible. Just when they are about to find Voldemort, the kids that is, Snape-Harry thinks about his past, and starts to understand why has he teleported back and forth in time from the point he ran to the room with his own parents, who in fact both are him. Someone has to send them back and forth in time, and to accomplish that, Snape-Harry travels back in time to his room, and hides behind a potted plant.
Finally, all five of him inside the room, and Voldemort-Harry barges in, Snape-Harry leaps up, and with a display of insane Magical feats, he sends the three selves of him to different points of time, where he himself had been transported earlier in his time-skipping life, to keep the timeline in order.
However, the strain from such powerful Magic being casted in such a short period of time, Snape-Harry's body withers to that of an old man, and finally he realizes that he has a way to keep his timeline in order, and maybe even bring an end to his pitiful self. However, his young self is still in his bed, unharmed. Remembering the scar in his forehead, Snape-Harry considers his options, and casts a curse on himself, creating the scar shaped like lightning to his young selves forehead, which is meant to bring misfortune and accidents to his life. If he would be lucky, the misfortunes the curse would bring, would end up killing Harry as a young boy before he has chance to do any of the things he would do otherwise.
Finally, Snape-Harry teleports forward in time, to find out if the curse he cast on himself has killed him, but as a result of his body suddenly growing old and weak, the timetravel is not as accurate as it would have been before, throwing him to a place way off from his original plan. He finds himself in an old wrecked house, and a few seconds later after his arrival, four young people run inside the house.
He instantly identifies the people, who are no else than Neville, Ron, Hermione, and himself, Harry Potter. Just as Harry is about to cast a spell on Snape-Harry, Neville knocks Harry over, saying that he would take his place as the Half-Blood Prince, and instead of Harry, he casts a spell, killing Voldemort, and himself while at it. During his last seconds, Voldemort, who in reality is Snape-Harry thinks that he is finally able to get rid of all the problems he brought upon himself.
