Because my mind seems to be working overtime whenever it's supposed to take in excessive amounts of information in a short period of time.
Remember a Ranmafic author by the nick of Dark Phoenix? He's on Florestica, or rather, his stories are. He hasn't really posted anything in a while, as far as I know. Anyway, one of his stories - a Ranmafic called 'Can it get any Worse?' has Ranma get adopted by demons and learn magic from them, because he's got a weird demonic aura thing going on (there's an explanation later on, irrelevant right now).
I was wondering what would happen if one were to apply the same plotbunny to Harry Potter. A sardonic, sociopathic and utterly egoistic Boy-Who-Lived is an amusing thought, especially since we could always attribute 'demonic/evil aura' to the curse scar ... Just a weird thought.
It's something I'd like to read almost as much as I'd have liked 'The Boy Who Laughed', which would have had Harrykins raised by none other than the Laughing Magician. The Conman. Y'know. John-boy.
Feel free to ignore the ramblings, they're mostly a bleedover from exam stress and a healthy dose of 'bleah' that came about due to the numerous HBP discussions going on right now.
-Griever
studystudystudystudystudy
When tact is required, use brute force. When force is required, use greater force.
When the greatest force is required, use your head. Surprise is everything. - The Book of Cataclysm

I tried to reread the earlier Potter books, preparatory to the new one, and discovered - or rediscovered, since it's been long enoguh to have forgotten the first time through - that I really can't stand them. This is probably why I generally only like the more varient HP fanfic, but it does present a problem when a pure-potterverse dragonbunnny starts stalking around and breathing fire in my head. Herein, therefore, I have exorcised sadi dragonbunny, and present it to the forum at large.
I have seen any number of new character fics, even more completely-break-an-existing-character-so-it's-nothing-more-than-the-same-name fics, and even a few SI-as-Harry fics. This one, though, would be either a break-Draco-so-he's-not-a-jerk fic or an insert-as-Draco fic, that latter of which I have not seen, and the first not done well.
Further, Ron pretty much has to come off as an ass for this to work, and the twins too for the first book's worth, thoguh they (being just a smidgen more reasonable) could well be brought into alignment with the hero cast later on - at the latest, after rescuing Ginny from the Chamber of Secrets, thoguh with much joking about how they never thought they'd see the day there was a tolerable Malfoy.
Anyway, on to the bunny. I called the text file "Draco Veritas," thoguh it's also a 'chapter' title.
- CD

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Draco Dormiens
The dragon asleep

It seemed, at first, a very odd sort of dream; moving and speaking without truly willing it - the regal blond man who acted as his father, taking him on a whirling trip through the fireplace to an afternoon's shopping in a fantastic market district, the odd books and equipment and supplies they purchased before parting ways while he stood to be fitted for the archiac robes worn by man, woman, and child alike. The focus sharpened, breifly, when he met another boy, dark haired and scrawny, while waiting there in the clothiers.
(blah blah blah) The other boy adjusted hhis thick-rimmed black glasses, and the dreamer noticed a lightning bolt shaped scar on this Harry's forehead. An electric tingle of shock ran through his body at the sight, even throguh the cloudy dream-feeling. (Blah! blah blah blah! Blah blah.)
He left the emerald-eyed boy in the shop, then, floating more deeply into dream as his dream-self and dream-father returned to their luxurious home, and through a week or two of idle time mixed with early studies of the books and things that had been bought, his father enforcing scholarship with dire warnings of what would befalll if he disgraced the family name with mere adequacy.
(&stuff)

Draco Lucidas
The dragon awakens

(on train to HW, confused identity, but not being a jerk and so befreinding Harry, while Ron just looks like an ass)

Draco Veritas
The dragon in truth
(sorting, the Hat doesn't know what to make of him, tells him he'll have to decide just who he is before he can be placed - he decides not to return to his sleep - oh, how tempting, but no - and is put in Slytherin anyway, "The proper place for a wyrm, after all, and for that matter a better fit now than for a dreamer, however dark the dreams, is -- SLYTHERIN!"
Harry, too, enters the House of the Snake.

Chapter titles to look up - Draco ("freinds" or "allies", bondong with Harry and through some plot device - Harry is concerned, Draco follows? About the same as canon with Ron if so - saving Hermione, who is then put upon by the Gryffindors as a Snake-Lover. No, Harry gets his own chapter, Draco Fraternas, The Dragon's Brother, Nee gets her own chapter with the Ally or Freind title), ("returns" or "familias" - home for the holidays, then fleeing back to the school in time for the Stone adventure), Draco ("homeless" or "wandering" - after escaping being returned to 'sleep', since the school year finshes out essentially as an epilogue, and he now must find somewhere to go for the summer.)
Scene: in "allies" chapter - The Gryffindors were hissing again as Hermione approiached their table in the Great Hall, face set in determination. They'd been treating her awefully for days, but she told herself she'd dealt with being unpopular in the muggle schools, she could handle it here, right? Most of the seats were full, as she'd been delayed recasting the protection and locking charms on her trunk. She didn't much want to sit by that rotten Weasley boy, but if she was quick he'd probably be too busy stuffing his face...
Not too busy to see her coming, apparently, and hold the chair against the table when she reached out for it. "This seat's taken, Hisskiss," he sneered, continuing, "That one's taken too," when she went for the one on the other side of the table - though she wanted to sitt by the holy terrors he called brothers even less. "Right, Fred, George?" "Yep, no room here -" "- for snake-lovers." the twins replied, in their usual oh-but-it's-all-in-good-fun tones. Expression setting even more stiffly, she looked around at the table, but those Gryffindors who didn't look the other way either looked like they were enjoying her discomfort. Neville gave her a sorrowful shrug, but quickly shifted his eyes to the Twin Terrors before deliberately going back to dealing with his food. She couldn' blame him, the one time he'd tried to stand up for her all his clothes had been a glowing, venomous green the next morning.
(She blows her top and bitches out the Griffs and casts something that makes the dishes spill on everyone, then flounces over to the seat beside Harry at the Slytherin table - some token protests about muggleborns, but Draco shuts them up by saying "Purity is measured in power, not the other way around. Besides, anyone who coats the entire Gryffindor table in pumpkin juice and kidney pudding must be alright.")

Important foreward-looking plot points: The reason he was spelled to sleeping must be addressed - probably at winter break, when he returns home and daddy dear realizes that something has gone wrong. Also, for Chamber of Secrets, both boys go through and meet the basilisk, Draco recieving a famous Slytherin's daggers (but not Salazar's) Forked Tongue and Swift Fang, one enchanted to give the owner understanding of all languages ("all" including parseltongue, noncoincidentally giving Harry and he a secure means of discussion as long as Voldie isn't in listening range), the other preventing petrification, poison, and similar (negative status condition, in RPG speak) effects. He gets one of the basilisk's eyes, but immunity to poison doesn't do anything for getting big chunks of flesh torn out of you by the fangs involved, and Harry has to finish the fight as in canon.
Dumbledore is likely to be even less forthcoming with a slytherin Harry, and Sirius would surely also react differently. Some kind of plotting to get some revenge on the Dursleys is also in order, whether on encouraged-to-be-sneaky Harry's part or Draco's. In any case, awake-Draco is just that, and understands the concepts of planning, subtlety, and stealth quite well, thanks.
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Okay, so Star Wars isn't anime. Sue me. But this little Flash-animated MV is only 3.2MB, and well worth the bandwidth to check out at least once:
www.murdoch-watch.com/star_wars/
Besides, I'm a sucker for that song. Wonder what Doug could do with it...
Just watch out for that guitar solo. And that guy singin' the blues? Oy...

www.amv-contest-lists.org...ca2005.htm
Finalists and winners from the AX 2005 AMV contest. So far, I've only downloaded "The Wizard of Ozaka" and the "1985" video, both based (obviously) on AD, but they're both really good. TWoO is kinda quircky, using *very* well-edited inserts from other series to look like they were all actually animated together, and with a 8bit-RPG overlay. 1985 is... well... Yukari *is* a child of "The ME Decade," after all....

Everyone in range shrinks to be three to four feet tall and gains a suit of archaic armor - but to compensate, they are provided with a giant warhamster to ride.
Why? 'Cause they're all part of the Gnomish Space Marines. Also, any non-enchanted gadget they may have will break about half the time tey try to use it, and explode in the breaking one time in four.

Perhaps you prefer martial artist chickens? Try the Ray Stevens song linked from this page.

Or, maybe you're in a situation that's on the fishy side?

Bah. I still can't rmemeber the song I actually linked to the board to post about, jammit.

- CD
What, you think Samuel L. Jackson isn't going to survive the zombie apocalypse?

SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows

Chaz has reentered the 'Net.
Yep, the guy who went Guyver for his 5th Knight Saber Hardsuit design insperation has dropped A Certain Point of View onto the Pit of Voles.
www.fanfiction.net/u/656554/
There's just one small problem, as of time of writing it appears that FF.net has eaten a fair portion of paragraphs early on in all of the chapters. The flow of the story, while still good is therefore missing pieces of important information which will leave those who haven't read the full chapters confused.
Also, we have his take on Ranma. Some may know where he must have got some of his idea from. I think I do, but I'll leave it as an excersise for others.
--Rod.H

Avenue Q got brought up over in the AMV forum. I've been thinking, some of these songs could have fascinating effects for Doug...
The Internet is for Porn
All net connections in Doug's area of effect are unable to display anything but porn. (Presumably in the Warrior's World this song is called "The Dataweave is for Porn" instead.)
I'm Not Wearing Underwear Today
Definite effect, but not so useful.
Everyone's A Little Bit Racist
People in the area of effect acknowledge their own racism?
You Can Be as Loud as the Hell You Want (When You're Makin' Love)
Arbitrarily powerful sonic attack, but Doug's reluctant to use it except when Maggie is around.

And so as the germ of an idea gnaws at me, I ask the really important question, Bob.
I know it has been discussed, so I'm curious as to whether or not you've got any serious plans for a Negima step?
"This hand of mine glows with an awesome power. Its burning grip tells me to defeat you....
Shining FINGER!" -Domon Kashuu, Mobile Fighter G Gundam

www.animemusicvideos.org/...hp?v=79254
I have no idea where the audio came from, but it is hilarious... Not really work safe, though (language, some of the shots from Chobits). Of course, my wife nearly fell out of her chair laughing...
Balentius

is now officially over.... well season one at least.. they brought a character fowards in time... in what I hope is a taste of a sequel... although it hasn't been announced juuust yet...
go watch! and comment back here..
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