Harry Potter Godly Origins

[FreedInhibition]

First off: this idea is up for grabs, this is just a completely random brainstorm.

Any person can gain magic by any of three ways.

Descendant of a previous Magical or God.
Favored by a God.
Avatar of a God.


You can be favored by a God by possessing an attribute the god has and gain magic that way, which results most of the time in Muggle Borns or more powerful members of pureblood lines.

You can be descended by someone who already magic or a god themselves, which comes from bloodlines and pureblood families.

You can be an avatar of a specific god and each God can only have one avatar at each time. Being an avatar makes your magic much stronger and gives you a very strong bond to what that god represents.

So the Malfoys as a whole could be descended from the God of Greed. The founders themselves might of been 1/2 gods, Courage, Wisdom, Compassion, Cunning.

Avatars might be, Tom Riddle: Hate. Dumbledore: Mercy. Molly Weasley: Concern.

Favored would be, Weasley Twins, Sirius, James, Remus: Mischief.
Hermione: Knowledge Ron: Envy

The Black family might be descended from Arrogance.

In a Twist this would REALLY create Dark and Light families based on weather a certain attribute was seen as good or bad at a certain time. Arrogance could be shifted to Pride, Hate to shrewdness, Concern to obsessed. Courage to rashness.

More powerful Magical world in general compared to the books, Black and Whiteness increased. Overall just... Different.

Now where does this go?*shrug*

 

[whitewhiskey]

I think Harry would be favored by either Fortuna (Goddess of Luck), Justita (Goddess of Justice, she is the blindfolded lady holding a sword and scales), or Nemesis (Goddess of Retribution and vengeful fate).

 

[zerohour]

Hm.. well, things would be extremely different, since every Avatar/Favored/Whatever would probably be pressured to act by their God.

Plus, if a person's God/Sponsor is public knowledge (at least to other Favored,) that could drastically alter how things play out. Harry probably wouldn't be friends with Ron, and Hermione would probably be a Ravenclaw. If the Malfoys were known to be from the God of Greed, then people would probably be more hesitant to work with them, or use that to get more in return for helping them.

The social setup could also be drastically altered, as Muggleborn would be known to be favored by the Gods, whereas the Purebloods and Halfbloods could have fallen out of favor generations ago, and are just genetically lucky.

Plus, since the Gods are manifest, that would seriously cut down on the arrogance levels, since they know for a fact that there are superior beings in the world, and that wizards aren't at the top of the food chain, like most Purebloods prefer to think.

 

[rukia8492]

and here you had me thinking fate would be bending harry over and making him her bitch.

 

[digitalstorm]

This idea fails.

 

[FreedInhibition]

This idea fails.

If you can't explain in words why this idea fails, your life fails.

Admittedly it is an AU world, but AUs don't necessarily suck.

 

[digitalstorm]

If you need me to explain why it fails then you clearly must be stupid/have horrible tastes in fanfiction.

 

[FreedInhibition]

Ha ha ha this fic fails. Why does this fail? Im not telling NEINER NEINER NEINER.

You stupid.

Y - o - u, U stupid
Y - o - u, U stupid
U ain't got no fiction taste, U stupid

Seriously?

QED You fail at life.

 

[Ryuugi]

First off: this idea is up for grabs, this is just a completely random brainstorm.

Any person can gain magic by any of three ways.

Descendant of a previous Magical or God.
Favored by a God.
Avatar of a God.


You can be favored by a God by possessing an attribute the god has and gain magic that way, which results most of the time in Muggle Borns or more powerful members of pureblood lines.

You can be descended by someone who already magic or a god themselves, which comes from bloodlines and pureblood families.

You can be an avatar of a specific god and each God can only have one avatar at each time. Being an avatar makes your magic much stronger and gives you a very strong bond to what that god represents.

So the Malfoys as a whole could be descended from the God of Greed. The founders themselves might of been 1/2 gods, Courage, Wisdom, Compassion, Cunning.

Avatars might be, Tom Riddle: Hate. Dumbledore: Mercy. Molly Weasley: Concern.

Favored would be, Weasley Twins, Sirius, James, Remus: Mischief.
Hermione: Knowledge Ron: Envy

The Black family might be descended from Arrogance.

In a Twist this would REALLY create Dark and Light families based on weather a certain attribute was seen as good or bad at a certain time. Arrogance could be shifted to Pride, Hate to shrewdness, Concern to obsessed. Courage to rashness.

More powerful Magical world in general compared to the books, Black and Whiteness increased. Overall just... Different.

Now where does this go?*shrug*

I suppose the real question in this case is this: How does this change things? If at all? And what changes?

So far it's an interesting idea on the source of magic, but I don't see what this does to the story.

 

[Souffle]

If you need me to explain why it fails then you clearly must be stupid/have horrible tastes in fanfiction.

 

[digitalstorm]

If you need me to explain why it fails then you clearly must be stupid/have horrible tastes in fanfiction.

I have no desire to leave. How about you leave?

 

[FreedInhibition]

I suppose the real question in this case is this: How does this change things? If at all? And what changes?

So far it's an interesting idea on the source of magic, but I don't see what this does to the story.

This can either remain pretty close to the books or go far afield.

Blood Purity may no longer exist...

A few sides could be

1: Magicals who want to rule over Muggles "as is their right."
2: Magicals who want to lead Muggles "as is there responsibility."
3: Magicals who want to ignore Muggles "the gods do not interfere who should we?"
4: Magicals who want to just expose their presence as it was in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome.

Additionally Muggle borns may be praised as new "Fountains of magical strength." As they would bring a family "closer" to a god. Even better if the gods are aligned/the same.

 

[Souffle]

If you need me to explain why it fails then you clearly must be stupid/have horrible tastes in fanfiction.

I have no desire to leave. How about you leave?

 

[digitalstorm]

If you need me to explain why it fails then you clearly must be stupid/have horrible tastes in fanfiction.

I have no desire to leave. How about you leave?

Leave the forums.

 

[Souffle]

No.

 

[digitalstorm]

No.

Suit yourself. Now excuse me while I get back to writing What It Means to Be Shinobi.

 

[Owimbow]

:huh:

Frankly, to me it sucks very much sir.
First, to apply your idea the setting would have to be in a massive AU. Not that it bothers me that much usually but really? You're talking about gods involved in pretty much every wizards life, giving them magic or I dunno what.

You're trying to tell me that the behaviors of every freaking character(for fuck's sake, Molly Weasley?!)has been influenced by some sort of divine intervention?*insert lulz here*

Harry Potter is about magic. A scale of power including gods in this universe?

Do not write.

 

[Prince Charon]

:huh:

Frankly, to me it sucks very much sir.
First, to apply your idea the setting would have to be in a massive AU. Not that it bothers me that much usually but really? You're talking about gods involved in pretty much every wizards life, giving them magic or I dunno what.

You're trying to tell me that the behaviors of every freaking character(for fuck's sake, Molly Weasley?!)has been influenced by some sort of divine intervention?*insert lulz here*

Harry Potter is about magic. A scale of power including gods in this universe?

Do not write.

While I don't agree with you, at least you're bothering to say why you don't like it, and have a valid criticism for the OP to respond to.

 

[zeebee1]

Does Souffle count as a counter troll?

 

[Elvarein]

cilras, souffle and sometimes even you ;p

In anycase that storm whathisname guy is just a douche.

As for FI's idea? It seems that you are harking back to the times of the Greek/Roman Gods ;p That could be an interesting concept but you are going to work very hard at world building. Because that means that a lot of things in the wizarding world and even the normal world will be different. People's characters will change and even the way people view Voldemort will not be the same.

 

[burningclaw2]

An idea I got from this thread. What if Harry was the descendent to several gods/goddesses from different pantheons. Like Ra, Eros, Amaterasu, Skuld, etc.

 

[Lord Raine]

An idea I got from this thread. What if Harry was the descendent to several gods/goddesses from different pantheons. Like Ra, Eros, Amaterasu, Skuld, etc.

Then he would legally be required to change his name to Messer Gary Stu.

 

[Prince Charon]

An idea I got from this thread. What if Harry was the descendent to several gods/goddesses from different pantheons. Like Ra, Eros, Amaterasu, Skuld, etc.

Then he would legally be required to change his name to Messer Gary Stu.

If it were a crackfic, I would probably read it anyway, but it would take a very good author to make that work in a serious fic, yeah.

 

[Jeopardizer]

Why would gods (as in, you know, GODS) be interrested in giving magic to people? A god gives powers to help his followers/extend his influence, there is no point in giving Molly Weasley or Mundungus powers...

If all the actual wizards were descendants of these avatar it would be justified, but then why are Fred/Georges favorites of Mischief while Ron is Envy?

(And, really, Envy for Ron? ClichÚ.)