Harry Potter The Love Potions of Doom

[Andrew Joshua Talon]

I've been thinking of a twist on the usual "Weasley Love Potions" idea. I know, been done to death but there is a possibility for it. Just roll with me here:

Let's say that the fanon theory is correct: That Harry and Hermione were getting dosed with Love Potions in Year 6 to fall for Ginny and Ron. And their children were conceived with a bit of love potion influence as well.

How was Voldemort conceived? With Love Potions. No true love was involved in his conception.

And the Weasleys and the Potters have about eight kids... Each a potential future Voldemort. Worst case scenario, they ALL go dark and plunge the world into chaos and misery. And hence, somebody's gotta go back in time to keep this disaster from happening. And the simplest way is to prevent these relationships from forming in the first place.

It doesn't need to bash the Weasleys, or automatically be Harry/Hermione or anything like that. In fact, it might be hilarious if the person who was sent back was Ron or Ginny who try to get Harry and Hermione together with other people. Or if you must stick to the canon pairings, try to get them together based on love and not on love potions. Indeed, you could have part of the mission be to learn who pulled the potions crap in the first place, and why. Make a mystery out of it, rather than just an excuse to bash on the Weasleys.

 

[Rising Dragon]

It sounded interesting until you hit "go back in time." You lost me after that.

 

[He-who-voted-for-Kodos]

Once you hit the time travel button, for something like this, you have to go all the way. If someone goes back to try and stop that disaster, there have to be some people, probably followers of the new dark lords or the dark lords themselves, working to try to keep things from turning out the same way.

 

[Rising Dragon]

The trouble with time travel in Harry Potter is, as we saw in Prisoner of Azkaban, it's locked into the "you already changed the past" variety. So basically if the Potter and Weasley children were the results of love potions, then attempts to change that would automatically fail.

Then, of course, there's the whole fact that you'd have to explain why there's suddenly a plethora of unexplainable new people in Hogwarts. Either adults or teenagers, which would prove remarkably problematic as no one in the school would've remembered them before (and we don't know how school transfers are handled in Hogwarts), and the only true foolproof option would be to send people who'd blend in as first years... and the issue with that is, well, first-years. 11 year old children don't exactly have the experience to handle that kind of thing (unless you're Harry, Ron, and Hermione).

 

[nixofcyzerra]

Dumbledore sends his soul back in time. A side-effect of the process turns him into a squib.

 

[pidl]

Dumbledore sends his soul back in time. A side-effect of the process turns him into a squib.

McGonagall went with him, but gets stuck in her animagus form. Thus Filch and Mrs. Norris

 

[Hardcore Heathen]

Dumbledore sends his soul back in time. A side-effect of the process turns him into a squib.

McGonagall went with him, but gets stuck in her animagus form. Thus Filch and Mrs. Norris

 

[GaelicDragon]

So with this idea...Harry and Hermione are aweful parents who are the equivalent of a neglectful boarding school in the early 20th century? One running off of the tail end of the Victorian ideals for child rearing. Good to know.

 

[Cynical Kyle]

So with this idea...Harry and Hermione are aweful parents who are the equivalent of a neglectful boarding school in the early 20th century? One running off of the tail end of the Victorian ideals for child rearing. Good to know.

Given the upbringing they had, it's hardly a surprise if Harry & Hermione don't turn out to be good parents. Development psychology proved ages ago that people are liable to raise their children in the way they were raised, so Harry would quite likely treat his own children as Dursleys treated Dudley. We don't know pretty much anything about Hermione's parents so writer has huge freedom regarding their possible parenthing methods Hermione would end up emulating. Then there's the Weasley influence with smothering mother & reliable if eccentric father.

So assuming that cast followed similar parenting to their exemplars, Harry & Ginny's children would have daddy which would spoil them rotten and ignore anything negative behavior along with lovable control-freak of a mother. Whelp, that's actually believable family environment for future Dark Lords & Ladies to grow up in.

Ron & Hermione's brood are actually better off no matter what parenting style Hermione has as long as Ron acts like his own father. Then again, given the amount of bashing poor guy gets...