If I claimed to own Harry Potter, Tommy Lee Jones would lower his newspaper to look at me askance, and that's not the sort of life I lead, so I'm not gonna lead you astray with regards to ownership of the franchise.
First thing's first: this story isn't being discontinued as such. I'll probably upload random snapshots here and there as they occur to me, but they'll be anachronistic and probably won't tell a very cohesive story. That said, onwards with the announcement.
Okay, so here's the thing: writing this sort of story is impossible: I just can't provide an accurate enough view of myself to write this realistically, so here's a brief summary of what would have happened.
- Clinton convinces Hagrid that he was adopted by an American couple and tells half-truths about his childhood. He also uses the name Clinton Carlisle, since he figures he can get away with it.
- Clinton attempts to steal the Philosopher's Stone from Hagrid, but Quirrel (I can never remember how to spell that dude's name) beats him to it by grabbin' it outta Gringotts. Yep, Voldemort is revived before first year even starts.
- Clinton finds that, since he's technically 19, he doesn't have the trace. This gets abused very thoroughly. He also has all of Harry's magical power plus what he has naturally. (I guess it gets awakened or whatever by the dimension traveling don'tjudgeme)
- Clinton may or may not use his magic to falsify documents to . . . acquire . . . properties in the muggle world. He comes to own a vacation home in a small town in Cape Cod as well as a house in Cambridge MA.
- Clinton's wand is 12 1/4 inches, black walnut, and hard with a phoenix feather core (which is the wand I got on Pottermore); he gets Harry's animagus form (an owl), Voldemort's thanks to the horcrux (a panther) (I may or may not have stolen both of those from Taking Control by fakeasmile) as well as his own (a shark of some variety). He registers the shark form since it's the least versatile and keeps the others hidden like a boss.
- Voldemort immediately starts killing off the most competent Ministry members. Clinton, expecting this (it's Voldemort, guys) uses his position as The Boy Who Lived to a) manipulate Fudge into making increasingly poor decisions while also stirring discontentment among muggleborns and halfbloods. While Voldemort is using the Ministry as a giant puppet, Carlisle is leading a war against him from the shadows while pretending to be leading a bunch of revolutionaries fighting against an oppressive government. (Thank you, Dan Vs.)
- Carlisle refuses to let Dumbledore help out and gets weirdly possessive of "his" forces. He insists on acting as a puppet master from the shadows, which has varying degrees of success (usually very little, though). Dumbledore himself winds up reviving the Order of the Phoenix and recruits a bunch of adults who feel weird about joining up with Carlisle, whose army is mostly made up of Hogwarts students.
- Carlisle politely asks Dumbledore for an unbreakable cage small enough for an owl a few days into his Hogwarts career. He then puts Scabbers into it while he's asleep and hands him to Dumbledore, saying something along the lines of "this dude's an animagus."
- Carlisle mostly only learns really flashy spells. Because of his nature, he's as strong as two ordinary wizards put together, since he has Harry's (slightly above-average) magical prowess and his own (slightly below-average) abilities. He has a sword that freezes stuff on contact that he uses in his left hand and mostly uses fire magic with his wand. This is incredibly ineffective most of the time, but it's also really cool, so he honestly doesn't really care.
- Carlisle guilts the fuck out of Snape and basically owns him. Every time it seems like he's having second thoughts about being at the beck and call of what appears to be an eleven-year-old, ol' Carls'll drop a hint about "his" mother. Using this, he gets Snape to brew some stupidly advanced complex potions for him, one of which speeds up the process of becoming an animagus significantly.
- Carlisle holds back in classes to appear like a normal student, but actually has a really easy time with them since he's so hella powerful. He keeps up a public persona of being goofy and lovable but as soon as he's in private, it's right back to plotting and planning, treating people more like pawns than anything else.
So basically, it was very much not going to be your typical self-insert. In fact, one of the first things that was going to happen was Carlisle immediately deciding that the entire thing is one massive, incredibly vivid, hallucination (which is odd, since he's never hallucinated before, but there's a first time for everything, right?), and a major part of his character arc was going to be realizing that, actually, everything he's seeing is perfectly real. (This leads into a massive breakdown about how many people he's manipulated and gotten killed and just generally how Lelouch-y he's been acting.) Another thing was going to be him constantly tripping up for the first few months, since he's gone from being 5-8 to however tall a relatively short eleven-year-old kid is (I've no idea). Oh, and bitching about having to go through puberty again.
Anyways, yeah. I guess I'll just post random one-shots in this universe whenever inspiration strikes?
