Harry Potter Reincarnation of the Founders

[ShadowHunter2000]

Idea's been bugging me for a while now.

Imagine this: all four of the founders is reincarnated into a person in Harry's year.

Draco Malfoy - Slytherin
Hannah Abbot - Hufflepuff
Hermonie Granger - Ravenclaw
Neville Longbottom - Gryffindor

As the Sorting Hat goes through each one, it's face seems to show horror at having the four back in the walls again. Slytherin with his plots within plots within plots, Ravenclaw with her thirst of knowledge and her apparent disregard for safety or other's pain (mad scientist syndrome), Hufflepuff with her extream protectivness of other's health and her obsessive need to fix and clean everything, and Gryffindor's need to fight anything bigger than him.

When Harry puts on the Sorting Hat, the Hat sees a way to minimize the damage. The Hat and Harry strike a deal. In return for Harry keeping and eye on the four and keep them out of trouble (he may have "forgotten" to mention their "quirks") the Hat will get Harry away from the Dursleys for the summer (Blackmail may be involved).

During the year Harry will come to regret making that deal. Between Slytherin seeing his influance and potential that he want to control, Ravenclaw wanting to know how Harry survived the Killing Curse, Hufflepuff's need to cure the affects of his neglect in a way she deems necessary (i.e. over the top) and Gryffindor seeing him as a fellow adventurer (killing Volermort at age one deems Harry a Hero in Godric's eyes) and dragging Harry to help him with any quest he finds, plus Voldermort's quest to get the Treasure that Hogwarts is guarding, Harry will be lucky to get out of the year intact, much less sane.

Other things that could be included. Harry seeing a lady with a vulture hat crying at the train station (Harry thinks it's her being sad for seeing her child go to Hogwarts but it's Agusta crying in relief for finally being rid of Neville for a while). Hermoine deeming class is too slow for her likes and begins to experiment on everything from charms to potions, dragging her new assistant/test subject Harry for help.

What do you think?

 

[nuclear death frog]

This might be decent, but I have quibbles for two of them.

Draco: I don't see this one working. Yes, he was sorted to Slytherin almost instantly but I don't think that's enough to say that he's Slytherin reincarnated. Salazar Slytherin must have started out decent, or else Gryffindor would not have been his very best friend, nor would Gryffindor/Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff have wanted to go into the partnership with SS. Contrast this with age 11-Draco, who is already a despicable child and creature of his parents and Voldemort's ideals.

Furthermore, Harry is not going to want to keep an eye on Draco, except as needed to stay away from him. Harry took a pretty much instant dislike to Draco for all the obvious reasons in their initial meeting when neither knew the other's identity.

I think you need to choose another Slytherin, one that Harry is not as instantly antagonistic to. Crabbe and Goyle are too dim (by appearance) and are simply Draco's followers. Theodore Nott or Blaise Zabini are the other Slytherin males in Harry's year.

As for the Slytherin girls, neither Pansy Parkinson nor Millicent Bulstrode work. There are three others, only one of whom is named in book (Daphne Greengrass), and so you'd be making an OC, basically.

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Hermione: I don't think Hermione works as Ravenclaw's reincarnation either. If she were a Ravenclaw type, the Hat would probably have put her there. But she *wanted* Gryffindor, and I don't think the Hat really gave much thought to putting her elsewhere. Ravenclaw would be a possibility, but not really a good one.

Character-wise, Hermione does not fit Ravenclaw. Hermione wants to lead, and be admired. That is brutally obvious from the first time Harry and Ron meet her. She was positioning herself from the very beginning as the one who would be SEEN to FOLLOW THE RULES, and make sure that *everyone* else did too. Clearly she was jockeying early to be a future Prefect (and Head Girl). Not only that, but her extreme tendency to so transparently *show off* her knowledge, is not likely to be a Ravenclaw trait. She wanted to be seen, by those in authority and all her peers, to be an EXCEPTIONAL student, someone *worthy* of leadership power in the future.

Hermione was sorted Gryffindor fairly.

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Gryffindor-reincarnate Neville, I have no issue with. Neville certainly proved as time went on that he belonged in Gryffindor, rough start or not.

As for Hannah Abbott, well, that strikes me as a bit of a fiat choice since we don't really have all that much exposure to any of the Hufflepuffs in Harry's year, and Hannah seems about as good a bet as any.