Bebop Wizard
Hello everyone. This is my first story, and based off an idea I had a few days ago. Unfortunately, I am not exactly as creatively imaginitive a person as I used to be, so I expect I'll probably butcher this completely. However, if any of you want to try your own hand at writing a better version, be my guest. All I ask is that you leave a message in my forum once you have the first chapter up containing a link to your story, and whatever information about it you are willing to give.
One more thing, I get distracted rather easily and am still wading my way through school, so please don't expect updates incredibly often.
This story is a crossover between the Harry Potter series of novels written by J.K. Rowling, and the television anime series Cowboy Bebop. It will contain spoilers from both stories, and will likely lead many readers to ponder my home address to either congratulate me in person for my few accomplishments during its writing, or pound away at my flesh and bones until the pulpy, bloody mess on the floor is impossible to recognize as ever having been a human body. In addition, I unfortunately own very little and the copyrights to Harry Potter, nor to Cowboy Bebop lie among my earthly possessions. In other words, don't sue me.
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Prologue: Part One: Prophecies
Hidden throughout the world is a secret community of people not too unlike the rest of us. They have jobs like the rest of us, instincts like the rest of us, and live their lives not very much unlike our own. Some of them carry grudges, are predjudiced, commit crimes, and generally behave under various levels of immorallity. Others remain on the opposite side of morality, separated by nought but a thin line and petty ideals. The one thing they all have in common, that separates them from the rest of humanity, is the gift most of them share. This gift has likely been known by countless titles, though the one most all of us have heard in modern times is quite simply, "Magic."
Deep within the confines of the segment of this community based in England, there lies a hall lined with shelves. This hall, several stories beneath the surface of London, hidden within a branch of the government of the Magical Community of England known as the Ministry of Magic's Department of Mysteries, stands home to an ever increasing collection of glass globes containing recordings of those mythical foretellings known as prophecies. This, "Hall of Prophecies," as it is called, currently housed, hidden shelved among countless others of varying import, both greater and lesser than their own, lay two prophecies regarding the future, one of the Wizarding World, but the other of the world as a whole.
These prophecies took it upon themselves to tell a tale of a man, one Thomas Marvolo Riddle, better known in these times as the self-proclaimed Dark Lord Voldemort, and a young boy, recently born to this Earth, one Harry James Potter. The more recent, and more likely to be studied in the hopes of stopping the war currently enduring countless casualties among both combatants and innocents, and having been recited in person to one Albus Dumbledore, Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry as part of a job interview for the place of Divination Professor among the faculty is as follows.
"THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD APPROACHES
BORN TO THOSE WHO HAVE THRICE DEFIED HIM, BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES
AND THE DARK LORD WILL MARK HIM AS HIS EQUAL, BUT HE WILL HAVE POWER THE DARK LORD KNOWS NOT
AND EITHER MUST DIE AT THE HAND OF THE OTHER FOR NEITHER CAN LIVE WHILE THE OTHER SURVIVES
THE ONE WITH THE POWER TO VANQUISH THE DARK LORD WILL BE BORN AS THE SEVENTH MONTH DIES"
This prophecy, made in the village Hogsmeade, was decided mere months later to speak of one of two newborn wizards, one who was named Neville Longbottom, and one other. A boy named Harry Potter. Centuries earlier a far different prophecy had also been made about one of these two boys, though by the time someone deciphered the relationship, it was far too late. This is their story.
THE CHOSEN ONE WITH EYES OF DEATH
SHALL FIRST BE MARKED THEN DISAPPEAR
DECADES AHEAD SHALL HE BE FLUNG
TO AGE AMONG ANOTHER ONE
TWO WORLDS SHALL WAR
AGAINST TERROR AND FOR
A SATELLITE FALLS AT THE END
FEW MEMORIES REMAIN AND FEW SPECIES
HUMANS SHALL REBUILD AND LEAVE
THE MOTHER SHALL CRY THOUGH SOME STILL REMAIN
THE CHOSEN SHALL APPEAR AGAIN
ONE YOUNG MAN REMEMBERS
A STORY LONG LOST
THEN TELLS IT TO TWO KIDS WHO SEARCH
TOGETHER THEY FIND SEVERAL TRUTHS LONG FORGOTTEN
AND WITH THEM THE DARK LORD'S LOST HEART
THE RADICAL TWOSOME SHALL FIND IN A CONSTRUCT
THE THOUGHTS OF THAT HAT GRYFFINDOR'S
THEY SHALL REBUILD A DEAD SCHOOL WITH HELP FROM THEIR FRIENDS
AFTER THOSE HUMANS AND DOG ROPE SOME FOES
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So what do you all think? I was going to make this a bit longer at first, but I couldn't find very much in the way of James' and Lily's descriptions - height for example - so I had to cut it off here. If anyone could help me with figuring out some decent descriptions for them, I would appreciate it. In addition, I also need to buy some copies of the Bebop series to refresh my memory as I've only seen it so far on Adult Swim. For those of you who have read this far already, I thank you for doing so, and encourage you to attempt to write your own version of the story. I also wish to apologize for my long sentences and for any grammar and spelling mistakes or inconsistencies.
Thanks go out to AngelOfTheIronBook for agreeing that I should have killed myself for even thinking of trying to write a Harry Potter fanfiction, much less a crossover, and for confirming the fact that my sentences are longer than is comfortable, but in most cases are not run-on sentences. Thanks also go out to those who have given me ideas or made fun of this one when told about it, including my friends George and Leon. Before anybody asks, these are not their real names, just what they like to have friends call them.