I seem to recall there was some playing around with Suzumiya-style Anachronic Order in earlier MoR chapters, but it was pretty self-contained and easy to follow. Plus there’s some just downright confusing parts- chapter opening quotes that are never referenced again, Aftermaths that don’t seem to have anything to do with the previous chapter, stuff like that.
And there’s definitely some real potential for an omake chapter of Bad Ends: Harry accidentally destroying Dumbledore’s ability to cast the Patronus Charm, Harry insulting his mother to Snape just a little more, Harry saying the wrong thing to Lucius in King’s Cross, Harry realizing aloud to Quirrel what the ritual to summon Death really was...
I had actually been tossing around the idea of a fic where each chapter is a bad end for MoR, possibly one for each chapter. Working title: ‘Everyone dies’.
Earlier, Harry had very secretly—he hadn’t even told Hermione—tried to Transfigure nanotechnology a la Eric Drexler. (He’d tried to produce a desktop nanofactory, of course, not tiny self-replicating assemblers, Harry wasn’t insane.) It would have been godhood in a single shot if it’d worked.
Now, try to imagine Chapter28!Harry—after learning to lose, but before going to Azkaban and reconciling with his dark side—attaining “godhood in a single shot”. How well do you imagine that might have worked out?
(This is leaving aside the myriad ways this scheme could have gone horribly wrong, of course. The point is, even if everything went according to plan it most probably would have been a Bad End.)
I seem to recall there was some playing around with Suzumiya-style Anachronic Order in earlier MoR chapters, but it was pretty self-contained and easy to follow. Plus there’s some just downright confusing parts- chapter opening quotes that are never referenced again, Aftermaths that don’t seem to have anything to do with the previous chapter, stuff like that.
And there’s definitely some real potential for an omake chapter of Bad Ends: Harry accidentally destroying Dumbledore’s ability to cast the Patronus Charm, Harry insulting his mother to Snape just a little more, Harry saying the wrong thing to Lucius in King’s Cross, Harry realizing aloud to Quirrel what the ritual to summon Death really was...
Harry successfully transfiguring nanotech.
I had actually been tossing around the idea of a fic where each chapter is a bad end for MoR, possibly one for each chapter. Working title: ‘Everyone dies’.
One for each chapter? I’d read that.
Not “Rocks fall, everyone dies”?
I was thinking the first chapter should feature rocks falling.
How would successfully transfiguring nanotech be bad, exactly?
The bit I’m referencing is from Chapter 28:
Now, try to imagine Chapter28!Harry—after learning to lose, but before going to Azkaban and reconciling with his dark side—attaining “godhood in a single shot”. How well do you imagine that might have worked out?
(This is leaving aside the myriad ways this scheme could have gone horribly wrong, of course. The point is, even if everything went according to plan it most probably would have been a Bad End.)