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Liquid Communism posted:I always thought there was neat potential for a Harry who, after the last book, dropped out of magical society and went back to get his GSCEs and A-levels. Come back to him in his 30's, with a normal-rear end life to try and manage his crippling PTSD surrounding the magical world, and have them try to pull him back in to save them from whatever rear end in a top hat they let tip their government over this time. Dudley's kid gets a letter from Hogwarts and Harry has to talk them out of going.
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Liquid Communism posted:I always thought there was neat potential for a Harry who, after the last book, dropped out of magical society and went back to get his GSCEs and A-levels. Come back to him in his 30's, with a normal-rear end life to try and manage his crippling PTSD surrounding the magical world, and have them try to pull him back in to save them from whatever rear end in a top hat they let tip their government over this time. there is a story kind of like this, Made of Common Clay. i think i linked it at one point earlier in the thread. the premise is that harry went ahead and followed his golden boy path to being a cop, but in his 30s after over a decade of fruitless cop work he's finally wised up to the insane nature of wizard society and starts moving to change it. i don't think it quite sticks the landing but the first half is quite strong at least.
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New series will reportedly have a narrator, which is honestly kinda rad. If only I were going to watch it, which I won't.
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caspergers posted:New series will reportedly have a narrator, which is honestly kinda rad. If only I were going to watch it, which I won't.
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Sadly, Jean Shepherd is too deceased to narrate, but I'd accept Daniel Stern as a fill-in.
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Liquid Communism posted:I always thought there was neat potential for a Harry who, after the last book, dropped out of magical society and went back to get his GSCEs and A-levels. Come back to him in his 30's, with a normal-rear end life to try and manage his crippling PTSD surrounding the magical world, and have them try to pull him back in to save them from whatever rear end in a top hat they let tip their government over this time. Not quite the same thing, but I liked this story and how it reads like a research paper.
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caspergers posted:New series will reportedly have a narrator, which is honestly kinda rad. If only I were going to watch it, which I won't. Brad Neely should sue.
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Professor Catface Meowmers is a more Harry Potter name than Madame Hooch.
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it took incredible restraint for joanne to not give the name madame hooch to the one alcoholic teacher
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Runcible Cat posted:Dudley's kid gets a letter from Hogwarts and Harry has to talk them out of going. "Look, kid. Your grandparents weren't very nice to me, or really to your Dad, in a different way, but they got one thing right. Magical society is full of absolute freaks."
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If they ever reboot the books, they should have Dudley get accepted into Hogwarts too. Has any book series been rebooted? Normally I'd be against it, but in this case, letting better people write the story has a certain appeal.
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Khanstant posted:If they ever reboot the books, they should have Dudley get accepted into Hogwarts too. Nancy Drew was at one point, but the original series had a bunch of ghost writers anyways, so I dunno if that counts. The main differences is it switched to first person narration and was explicitly set in the modern era (2004), and researching it, apparently changed the personalities of a lot of the supporting cast, which pissed people off.
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Khanstant posted:If they ever reboot the books, they should have Dudley get accepted into Hogwarts too. Sherlock Holmes is probably the poster child here, there is so much media that's adaptations, reinventions, sequels, or complete reimaginings.
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Zore posted:Sherlock Holmes is probably the poster child here, there is so much media that's adaptations, reinventions, sequels, or complete reimaginings. If you're going public domain almost mythological heroes, you got Robin Hood and King Arthur poo poo. The Nancy Drew thing was by the company that owns Nancy Drew IP. Edit: Since not quite all the Sherlock Holmes stories are in public domain yet, Doyle's estate tried to sue the Enola Holmes movie because Sherlock is nice to her in them and he's kind of a dick in the public domain stories (Enola Holmes is a completely original character, there's no concept of her having a younger sister in any of the Doyle stories). Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 06:47 on Nov 8, 2025 |
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Twilight had a genderswap reboot.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:Twilight had a genderswap reboot. Same author?
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Air Skwirl posted:Same author? Yeah though she only did the first book until the end where they just turn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_and_Death:_Twilight_Reimagined Zore fucked around with this message at 06:56 on Nov 8, 2025 |
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Khanstant posted:If they ever reboot the books, they should have Dudley get accepted into Hogwarts too. Comics, depending on whether you count them as books. I don't think the James Bond books have had a full-on reboot but they've heavily retconned some things/moved the timeline around.
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If “same story, but different viewpoint character” counts as a reboot, then Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game got rebooted. So did Twilight, which was rebooted *twice*—the original, the gender-swapped version, and finally (for now) from Edward’s perspective. Stephanie Meyer knows she’s got a product that will sell, so I guess she might as well go back to that trough as often as she can.
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Grundulum posted:If “same story, but different viewpoint character” counts as a reboot, then Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game got rebooted. So did Twilight, which was rebooted *twice*—the original, the gender-swapped version, and finally (for now) from Edward’s perspective. Stephanie Meyer knows she’s got a product that will sell, so I guess she might as well go back to that trough as often as she can. I'm guessing her alien book didn't sell great, I know the movie didn't do anywhere close to the same numbers as any Twilight film.
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Grundulum posted:If “same story, but different viewpoint character” counts as a reboot, then Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game got rebooted. So did Twilight, which was rebooted *twice*—the original, the gender-swapped version, and finally (for now) from Edward’s perspective. Stephanie Meyer knows she’s got a product that will sell, so I guess she might as well go back to that trough as often as she can. I'd love a version of Harry Potter that's like Atwood's Penelopiad: an askance version of the story written by someone else.
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A Luna centered story where she is actually lowkey pissed off by everyone treating her like an idiot for her beliefs (which are usually correct.)
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harry potter actually started off as a batman/x-men crossover fanfic
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Yer a mutant, Harry!
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muscles like this! posted:A Luna centered story where she is actually lowkey pissed off by everyone treating her like an idiot for her beliefs (which are usually correct.) She's usually correct in some essential or metaphorical way, but wrong in the literal details. Fudge does have an army of monsters that he uses extrajudicially in secret to maintain his power — but they're Dementors, not Heliopaths. There is a hidden plot within the Auror department to topple the government (Voldemort's puppet minister is the former DA) using dark magic — but they're Death Eaters, not the Rotfang Conspiracy, and gum disease does not play any role in their plans. Sirius Black isn't guilty of mass murder — but he's not the secret identity of Magic Rockstar Hannah Montana either.
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muscles like this! posted:A Luna centered story where she is actually lowkey pissed off by everyone treating her like an idiot for her beliefs (which are usually correct.) Luna's dad doing an infowars style radio show
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Lottery of Babylon posted:She's usually correct in some essential or metaphorical way, but wrong in the literal details. Fudge does have an army of monsters that he uses extrajudicially in secret to maintain his power — but they're Dementors, not Heliopaths. There is a hidden plot within the Auror department to topple the government (Voldemort's puppet minister is the former DA) using dark magic — but they're Death Eaters, not the Rotfang Conspiracy, and gum disease does not play any role in their plans. Sirius Black isn't guilty of mass murder — but he's not the secret identity of Magic Rockstar Hannah Montana either. The bit about Fudge having goblins "cooked in pies" is one of the funniest things in the books, helped a lot by the extremely dry wit and delivery of Jim Dale.
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caspergers posted:harry potter actually started off as a batman/x-men crossover fanfic Has there been a Batman/X-Men crossover officially? They met Robin in a Teen Titans/X-Men crossover in the 80s. Like, A Bat family one could work well, X-Men usually works best when the team is 5-8 people, which would be Batman, the three out of four Robins and a Batgirl, then add as many other Batgirls, a fourth Robin, Batwoman, whatever you need for even teams. Fake Edit: Batgirl is in my browser's dictionary but Batwoman wasn't until I just added it now. Can't remember if it came knowing Batgirl or I also added it.
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Robin (Tim Drake) and Jubilee made out during the Marvel vs. DC crossover in the 90s, does that count?
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Angry Salami posted:Robin (Tim Drake) and Jubilee made out during the Marvel vs. DC crossover in the 90s, does that count? I knew that one also, I was wondering specifically about Batman meeting them. He's met Captain America and Spider-Man. But I think he'd respect Cyclops a lot.
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Cedric's perspective where he's actually kind of annoyed by Harry but is too nice to say it out loud.
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Dumbledore's perspective where he constantly thinks about how he's Ron from the future.
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the democracy deer's perspective
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muscles like this! posted:Dumbledore's perspective where he constantly thinks about how he's Ron from the future. I like Harry and Hermione more, but definitely wouldn't wish that on Ron.
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Its just a funny fan theory that Rowling super hates for some reason.
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muscles like this! posted:Its just a funny fan theory that Rowling super hates for some reason. It's someone's identity being different than what she thinks their identity should be, not surprising at all. Edit: I don't have a problem with Ron being gay, it would kinda fit dating the girl you argue with the most just to stay in the closet. I have a problem with time traveling Ron dating Wizard Hitler. Air Skwirl fucked around with this message at 05:13 on Nov 9, 2025 |
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Air Skwirl posted:https://bsky.app/profile/jessiegender.bsky.social/post/3lz2jvxxvkk2h "words are not violence" Excuse me? What!?
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Why am I seeing headlines from terfs whining about how mugs saying Die Mad Terfs are public death threats then?
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You expected consistency from TERFs?
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Liquid Communism posted:You expected consistency from TERFs? I expect them to consistently be horrible people.
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