Harry Potter Voices in his head

zerohour

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#1
Might have posted this before, but I can't seem to find it.


From a young age, Harry Potter has heard voices in his head.  He's not touched in the head, but for some reason, they seem to know about how his life is going to go, and tend to offer suggestions or give orders on how he should react to certain parts of his life.  For the most part, he's gotten pretty good at ignoring them, letting them chat with each other, but once those strange letters started arriving, they've gotten much more active.


Essentially, a bunch of fans manifest as voices in Harry's head, and spend their time trying to direct his actions to get a better ending, or what they consider the "right" ending.  Voices are considered to have read the books but retain no special knowledge.  they remember the broad strokes, and probably a few very important scenes, but they can't recite conversations word for word.


Couple of options:
Draco Fangirl:  Loves Draco, hates Ron, and constantly pushes Harry to pursue Draco romantically.  Very uncomfortable for Harry, especially if she starts ranting about their destined, passionate love.

Sequence Breaker: Wants to use his knowledge of the books to speed things up.  Getting the stone after Christmas, stealing the diary ASAP, Catching Peter in first year, etc.  The sooner things get resolved, the better in their mind.

The Troll: Views Harry's life as his personal entertainment, and tries to make Harry more amusing by whatever means possible, probably be hanging out with the Twins.

Badass Lover: Wants harry to be a shonen style hero, and spends all his time trying to persuade him to learn secret techniques, practice advanced arts, or unlock some other super power that he thinks will make Harry cooler.  May be very disappointed if Harry chooses not to learn or cannot learn what he wants.

Shipper: Could go for any number of pairings, but tries to get Harry to explore their preferred pairings, either by asking out the love interests, or making comments to encourage others to explore relationships.

Team Mom: The one who tries to keep the other voices in line.  Also wants Harry to be happy, and does their best to keep things from spiralling out of control.  May or may not offered layman's counseling to Harry.


Probably not good for much besides parody or humor.  Any other suggestions for potential voices would be appreciated, though I doubt it will go beyond writing humorous snippets.  Not really enough to justify anything more than that.




Snippet:


"Legilimens!" Snape shouted, attacking Harry's mind before he could prepare himself.  He expected to break in easily, after all, it was the boy's first time practicing Occlumency.  What he found was a great deal stranger than he expected.

It was... a puppet stand.  There was no sign of Harry or anything else.  He prepared to force his way past, but found resistance.  Perhaps Potter wasn't entirely useless after all.

"Snape, Snape, Severus Snape."

"Snape, Snape, Severus Snape."

"Snape, Snape, Severus Snape."

"DUMBLEDORE!"

"Snape, Snape, Severus Snape."

"DUMBELDORE!"

He didn't know how long he listened to that insipid song, after the first few repetitions and additions of new, ever more annoying voices, he stopped keeping track and tried to move past it.  Finally, unable to stand it any longer, he fell back.  As he withdrew from Harry's mind, a voice he didn't recognize called out to him

"Seriously dude, stay out of Harry's head or we'll let Miss Fangirl handle the defense next time."
 
#2
I don't see it having any result other than making him develop something like Dissociative Identity Disorder.

I believe that's what "Multiple Personality Disorder" is actually called in the psychological/psychiatric field.
 
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