Harry Potter Indiana Potter

[Lord Raine]

Exactly what it sounds like. Through some series of events that are yet to be discussed, Harry Potter becomes his universe's version of Indiana Jones. Maybe a visit with Bill at the Weasleys gets Harry all fired up about cursebreaking and treasure hunting. Maybe getting through the gauntlet to protect the stone or the Triwizard tournament whetted his appetite for something he had never even considered before. Maybe he saw an Indiana Jones movie with the Dursleys at some point and thought Indy was someone worth emulating.

Regardless of how it happens, Harry Potter becomes a globetrotting archeologist, adventurer, and cursebreaker extrordinare, fedora cocked, whip in one hand and wand in the other. Why? Because those vampire Nazis aren't going to kick their own asses, that's why.

Bill Weasley, Voldemort, undead wizards, cultists trying to reawaken the Great Old Ones, and the Flamels may or may not be involved.

Discuss.

 

[zerohour]

Once again, I demand that Harry gets the whip from an adult store, and picks up a book or two while he's there.

 

[BF110C4]

No, the real deal was before anything else an arqueologist first and an treasure hunter second. So just for the irony factor it would be interesting that it would be Binns the one teacher who lit a passion for ancient magical cultures and their magical heritage.

It would be just as interesting making Harry be the History Professor at Hogwarts.

 

[digitalstorm]

I would rather have Harry, Albus and Voldemort thrust into the Star Wars universe.

Imagine this:

A Luke trained by Albus and Kenobi.

A Harry raised by Palpatine.

A Voldemort...blah blah blah.

Epic three way battle.

Decent battles. Gogogogo. Someone write it.

On Topic: I like the sound of Great Old Ones. :sisi:

 

[whitewhiskey]

He'd probably be a bit more like Hermione, a more scholarly Harry, but it does make sense, Both Harry and Indy got dragged into situations either because of something beyond their control or because they are too good to let the bad guys win.

 

[Black's Phoenix]

If you do this Harry needs to have an attractive female by his side, something that this plot would seem to be perfect for having Fleur be apart of the adventure.

 

[Hawk]

[quote="Black']If you do this Harry needs to have an attractive female by his side, something that this plot would seem to be perfect for having Fleur be apart of the adventure.[/quote]
Indiana isn't Bond, he often works alone.

Harry being the History Professor at Hogwarts would fit the part, but also force it to a later time frame, which I don't really see as desirable unless you set it after Voldemort is defeated.

Remember in the third movie the scene of Indiana's childhood and the train where he picked up the whip for the first time? That makes me think of the first year philosopher's stone gauntlet. Though holding off Fluffy with a whip is less reasonable than a lion, it is the same principle. Plus the whip could be used to grab the flying key.

I think this might be a good story for the Flamels to survive in though, as they could be a huge resource to finding and identifying magical artifacts.

 

[Lord Raine]

Not if it's a normal whip, no, but what about a magic whip? Harry is a wizard, and this will be one of his primary tools of the trade. There's no way he's not going to put some spells on it. Especially seeing how this version of Harry will clearly be versed in things like enchanting, ancient runes, and arithmancy. You need that to identify, understand, and care for magical artifacts, sure, but that same knowledge set can also have more immediate and practical purposes. Like, for instance, creating an awesome enchanted whip.

 

[Munch]

awesome enchanted whip.

Harry Belmont

 

[Lord Raine]

awesome enchanted whip.

Harry Belmont

He's even killing vampires!

And werewolves, and zombies, and undead wizards, and cultists, and eldritch abominations. He may even have some time in he schedule to kill some graverobbers.

 

[daniel_gudman]

Okay. So Harry doesn't really like his job as an auror because being a cop on the beat means talking with wizarding strangers who already know who he is, and if not that then paperwork, and if not that then press conferences.

So Harry hates his job. Not the wand fights, but the other 98% of being an auror. And one day at work he's dealing with the hall of prophecy or whatever, and he notices the a whole damn lot of them deal with crises. Like rifts to hell or battles between cosmic forces of good and evil, and he decides he doesn't want the subjects of those prophecies to have the same crappy prophecy experience he did, so he decides to be proactive, hunting down hellmouths and breaking them before they're ever opened and killing ghost super monsters before they awaken and stuff like that. There's no budget for that and the jurisdiction would be a nightmare, but what does Harry care? As a private citizen, he's independently wealthy.

So Harry wanders around appropriating Aztec alters long before the planetary conjunction that will allow them to kill 99% of muggles with one dark spell and such. Ron tags along as some sort of half-assed ministry liaison, but really because Harry has a lot of pull and what he's doing is a lot more interesting than writing tickets for broom infractions or whatever.

 

[Drawde]

Except how would Harry get access to the prophecies? Aren't they keyed to only be handled by the people they're about?

 

[Hawk]

Except how would Harry get access to the prophecies? Aren't they keyed to only be handled by the people they're about?

The most obvious solution to that defense would be to use whatever key they use to place the orbs there in the first place.

Barring that, just smash them one by one and record the message.

 

[incubusfox]

Why make everything so complicated?

The gauntlet on the 3rd floor can be a re-make of one that was used to guard some previously-found ancient magical artifact, and Harry learns that. Bonus points if the Mirror of Erised was discovered during that expedition, and was fulfilling the same purpose, giving them a known way of extracting the stone later.

It was so "easy" compared to the original because they tried to match all the ancient obstacles with modern equivalents, and all the deficiencies added up.

"Devil's Snare is great, but the original plant not only tried to choke you, it released spores into the air that put you to sleep in seconds!"

"Sure a live Cerebus is a cool guard dog, but the first one was a golem that couldn't be sung to sleep. And it breathed fire!"

"Wait, the fire didn't heat up the air around the logic puzzle? And it was in plain English?!"

An easy way to drag Harry into becoming an Indy!Harry is at the end of first year, where he and the Flamels begin exchanging letters. See, the Flamels found that going on expeditions took them far from the crazed masses (and all but the most die-hard reporters), which Harry can see himself understanding on some level.

They pass along some of their wisdom, consider Goblin-employed curse-breakers to not only have it easy, but dislike that so much history is melted down to become coins, instead of being displayed in a museum where it can be shared, and it goes on from there.

In fact, they could figure out from what Harry tells them about how the Stone was protected that Dumbledore had used a story about one of their expeditions as inspiration for how to protect the Stone, and after some complaints ("What do you mean the chessboard didn't have pressure plates that triggered poisoned arrows?!"), they send along diagrams of the original, challenging Harry to show how he'd solve it, and essentially end up teaching him Magical Archeology 101.

 

[Mercsenary]

arqueologist

Thats not how you spell archeologist

 

[Hawk]

It was so "easy" compared to the original because they tried to match all the ancient obstacles with modern equivalents, and all the deficiencies added up.

"Devil's Snare is great, but the original plant not only tried to choke you, it released spores into the air that put you to sleep in seconds!"

"Sure a live Cerebus is a cool guard dog, but the first one was a golem that couldn't be sung to sleep. And it breathed fire!"

"Wait, the fire didn't heat up the air around the logic puzzle? And it was in plain English?!"

...
"What do you mean the chessboard didn't have pressure plates that triggered poisoned arrows?!"

This actually makes a certain amount of sense, and more importantly is quite funny.

 

[holyknight]

In fact, they could figure out from what Harry tells them about how the Stone was protected that Dumbledore had used a story about one of their expeditions as inspiration for how to protect the Stone, and after some complaints ("What do you mean the chessboard didn't have pressure plates that triggered poisoned arrows?!")

Nahh....being smarter...the individual that played the chess challenge, it would become bound on a twisted charm-based contract. For each piece that you lost, you would suffer a wound or lose an amount of your magic. Win, and you're fully healed and can go.....Lose, and your life will be drained at full.

 

[windstorm]

Sounds pretty good actually. I can imagine Harry with an explorer/adventurer's personality quite well.

The image I get is something akin to the high jinx in one fic Make a Wish <a href='http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2318355/1/Make_A_Wish' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2318355/1/Make_A_Wish</a>. Harry decides to have a vacation believing a school boy cannot defeat Voldemort and chaos ensues wherever he goes be it due to his sense of nobility causing him to get involved in situations he probably should have just left alone, numerous failed attempts by death eaters to capture him and the rumour mill going out of control. The big difference in with Indiana Jones esque Harry is he more actively seeks out such things.

For a random twist, imagine if Harry gets into the stuff before going to Hogwarts. Think stuff like Hagrid or McGonogall reacting to a few stories of Harry age 10 in the pyramids or the Amazon. Big problem I see is he explores the whole castle in the first month of school and gets bored. If that happens oh boy.