"I was a Hero because other people said I had to be one. Now, I want to be a Hero because I say I am."
This idea could start from the canon, or it could start from a slight change in it. The end result is the same: Harry Potter becomes a masked vigilante post-Voldemort. Finding himself free to define who he is as a person, Harry would set out across the world to find himself, and in doing so would come to the realization that even if he was destined to become a Hero, that doesn't mean he can't be one on his own terms. And the remnants of the Death Eaters and plain old Muggle crime continues on (though the impetus for this one might be stronger if the Dursleys had told Harry that his parents had been murdered by a serial killer rather than they ended up dead in a car crash-Knowing his parents' murderer got away might provide more influence on his development into his Hogwarts years and then afterwards to becoming a masked vigilante).
Harry would use a mixture of Muggle technology and know-how and Magic to combat evil, from magical criminals to the more mundane kind, from Dark Lords to petty thieves. Knowing the ways in which his celebrity can be used against him, he would also use his masked persona to be a hero in his eyes and the eyes of others without the baggage that comes with being Harry Potter.
Now, I've seen a LOT of Harry-as-a-Superhero stories, a few good but most of them really bad. What I want is to inspire stories about Harry Potter becoming a superhero in his own right rather than in the mold of another. Take his psychology, tweak it just a little to push him towards applying his "saving people thing" to everyone. What kind of persona he'd have, his modus operandi, his heroic alter ego, that's all up for discussion in this thread.
So go!
This idea could start from the canon, or it could start from a slight change in it. The end result is the same: Harry Potter becomes a masked vigilante post-Voldemort. Finding himself free to define who he is as a person, Harry would set out across the world to find himself, and in doing so would come to the realization that even if he was destined to become a Hero, that doesn't mean he can't be one on his own terms. And the remnants of the Death Eaters and plain old Muggle crime continues on (though the impetus for this one might be stronger if the Dursleys had told Harry that his parents had been murdered by a serial killer rather than they ended up dead in a car crash-Knowing his parents' murderer got away might provide more influence on his development into his Hogwarts years and then afterwards to becoming a masked vigilante).
Harry would use a mixture of Muggle technology and know-how and Magic to combat evil, from magical criminals to the more mundane kind, from Dark Lords to petty thieves. Knowing the ways in which his celebrity can be used against him, he would also use his masked persona to be a hero in his eyes and the eyes of others without the baggage that comes with being Harry Potter.
Now, I've seen a LOT of Harry-as-a-Superhero stories, a few good but most of them really bad. What I want is to inspire stories about Harry Potter becoming a superhero in his own right rather than in the mold of another. Take his psychology, tweak it just a little to push him towards applying his "saving people thing" to everyone. What kind of persona he'd have, his modus operandi, his heroic alter ego, that's all up for discussion in this thread.
So go!
