Harry struggled through the Triwizard Tournament, competing against the other Champions. This competition forged a curious bond of respect, even kinship between the Champions, their shared experience making them stand out from among the other students. Now Harry went through the maze, braving beasts and other dangers and finally reached the cup.The portkey brought him to Little Hangleton where Voldemort and Wormtail proceeded to stun Harry. He awakened only to witness the horrific ritual Voldemort used to cloth himself in true flesh once again. In his hubris he chose an abomination of a ritual, a series of acts so horrific, even the Magic of the world around them screeched in pain.
Unknowingly, Voldemort unleashed a cataclysm on the world. Harry managed to escape to Hogwarts, where, overwhelmed by the horror and pain, he collapsed. Harry awakened to a changed world, in reaction to Voldemort’s ritual, an Anathema to magic itself, magic retaliated. Combined with the astronomical situation, a Conjunction of the Spheres happened. Many new species entered the world, magic itself grew stronger and more chaotic. Muggles suddenly found themselves in a very much different world, where every forest, every mountain, every body of water were inhabited by overprotective spirits who had no compunction about slaying careless humans. Those who died violently, holding a grudge, rose again as the vengeful death. Nights became the domain of horrors and predators once again, the influence of humans was much diminished. It is in this new world where Harry, Fleur and their friends have to find their way and, stop Voldemort before he does even more damage. But to do that, they have to adapt to the world first. The world full of monsters, immune to steel, often resistant to magic, and so very hostile.
Harry vows to stand by his friends, mirroring the vow Fleur made to him when he returned from Little Hangleton.
The Witcher Fusion
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 17:4
@LTCMDR Michal Drápalík I really want to write that, ma
It would be a novel length story, though, and it would require an incredible amount of work in plot making and world buildin
It would be glorious
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 17:4
It would be monster of a fic indeed
Can't take credit for the title, that's the title of one of Sapkowski's short stories
The noncanon one where Geralt and Yennefer finally get married
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 17:4
I know, I loved the referenc
And it fits perfectly with the theme of the promp
That what I thought it brillian
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 17:5
Yeah, it really jumped at me, that title just wanted to be used there
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 17:5
I think there would be no characters from the Witcher Series though. Not human ones at least, except maybe cir
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 17:5
Yeah, leave the witcher characters in the witcher world. Ciri could be the exception, and maybe the Dearg Rhuadri
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 17:5
I would do it as if the conjunction of the spheres where happening in Harry's world. The world itself would change like the world of the Witcher changed in that moment, but instead of humans coming from the portals -like in the witcher- there would be an influx of elves
Kind of the opposite of the Witcher, where the humans where the invaders and the elves the native
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 17:5
Yeah, that was more or less my thought too
But fitting the Flowerpot in there was a little difficult. It's more of a world-building prompt
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 17:5
Not necessarily. I would do it in a way that the fic starts at the beginning of fourth year, or at the beginning of the tournament. This 1st part would present the MCs and forge their relationships, it would be Harry/Fleur but all the champions would have a strong friendship by the end of it. Part one would end with the conjunction of the spheres
Part two would begin with Harry waking in a world changed, and in this new, from and dangerous world, where magic users are both in demand and despised and feared, and non-humans even more so, the magic community would stand together as a for of protection, both against muggles, the harsh new world and the alien invader
Harry and Fleur would stick to each other. Maybe Fleurs family is lost during the conjunctio
Remember that the conjunction work both ways. Parts of other worlds cross over, but parts of this one go away to the othe
Their relationship would be one of friendship and mutual support at first, and it would grow as time passes
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 18:0
It could have elements of a Gaia's Vengeance trope too. Especially muggle populations would be very ill-suited for survival in that new world. And the world would react very negatively to being so violently exploited
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 18:0
It could be the source of warmth and light against the worl
Damn it! You out did yourself this time man. I think I'll have no choice but to write tha
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 18:0
Damned myself, set back the continuation of A Court of Flowers..
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 18:0
I would take my sweet time though. ACOF has priority and this one would be in writing until a good portion of it exists before I publish i
Don't worry, A Court of Flowers will see a couple chapters more in the next weeks. I'll be free from work for a couple of weeks and I'll finally have time to write
x102reddragondnes v 18:0
Woot!
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 18:0
Another element to the story could be that magic itself has changed too. They would have to learn to live with a changed magic, learn a lot of things again. People with non-human magical heritage could feel the changes very keenly
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 18:0
Work has been insane. That's mostly what's set me back. It took me a week and a half to write the Collab gang submission, which has less than 5k words, because I had to write in little stolen spots of maybe 40min or s
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 18:0
Work has been insane. That's mostly what's set me back. It took me a week and a half to write the Collab gang submission, which has less than 5k words, because I had to write in little stolen spots of maybe 40min or s
@DavidtheAthenai Can understand that so well. Sometimes you just get ambushed by a sudden increase in the workload..
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 18:0
Another element to the story could be that magic itself has changed too. They would have to learn to live with a changed magic, learn a lot of things again. People with non-human magical heritage could feel the changes very keenly
@LTCMDR Michal Drápalík absolutely. Wizards would have to relearn and explore a lot, as some things would work and some wouldn't. Magical creatures would change and so would all those of non human bloo
Some muggles would suddenly find themselves sources and would create chao
Magical would adopt them when they are able to get there before the pyre got the
Such accidents would cause strife with the non-magicals, but there would have to be some kind of relationship between them because they would need their services in this changed worl
All of this would be pre-witcher
Since it would be the first years after the conjunction
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 18:0
@DavidtheAthenai Have you also read Season of Storms by Sapkowski
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 18:1
Season of storms is the only one I have not rea
Could never get my hands on it when I read the rest, and when I could, so much time had passed since reading the main series that I was not interested anymor
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 18:1
Another magical art that is mentioned (and banned by both the clergy and the Brotherhhod of Sorcerers) is Goetia, the art of summoning and binding demons. It's never made clear if it's researched independently or if it was also an avenue of research when they were making the witchers. A way to create warriors to deal with inhuman monsters, with superhuman speed and strength
With forbidden research into preparing a good energumen, a host body for the demon
Could be done by Voldemort, could be done by other wizards, like creating a Weapon of Mass Destruction
@DavidtheAthenai Another aspect: Suddenly, curses (akin to the blood curse on the Greengrass family) are much easier to create. Pain, suffering, passion, those would be the ingredients of a curse, then words said in anger or anguish..
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 18:1
We would see a lot of things that are mentioned to have happened in the distant past in canon. The conjunction itself, the war between invaders and natives, the fight against the wild monsters, the reaserch and creation of witchers as a first line of defense, the ones who fought my magic and martial might before there were witchers..
The change caused by the wild magi
Man... This is a god level promp
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 18:1
It's taking an amazing material and applying it to HP
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 18:2
It's almost making an original novel by stitching concepts from two serie
Are you on PC now, Michal
LTCMDR Michal Drápalíkdnes v 18:2
That's why I called it a fusion, not crossover
Yeah, on PC
DavidtheAthenaidnes v 18:2
Would you mind terribly to copy and past all this comments on a doc? If you have the time, of course. I would not want them to go too far away if there is further discussion about this prompt or another on