Harry Potter and the Nightmares of Futures Past
By Viridian
Maybe you should feed Lockhart to the Basilisk....::hint hint hint::
Are there ANY Gilderoy Lockhart fans?
Good chapter.
gunny
Good chapter.
gunny
Is anyone a Lockhart fan?
Excellent story
Not a Lockhart fan! I never would have guessed! Except for, you know, the whole putting Lockhart down at every opportunity. Brovo on a job well done in that, btw.
Headology
I love your Luna! This has been such an excellent read so far!
The crew meets Luna and a vastly rebuilt Neville Longbottom; unfortunately, they still get Gilderoy Lockhart. However, a forewarned and forearmed Hermione is ready for him. (She's going ga-ga over *Ron* instead, much to his embarrassment.) Luna is sorted into Gryffindor, not Ravenclaw, this time around. (Thus the Original Six are now in the same House.) Ginny doesn't have that Horcrux (the diary); Harry does, safely tucked into the bottom of his trunk. Second years vs. Pixies *does* happen; however, the Fearsome Foursome take them down with Stunners. Great reworking, Viridian!
A Moody-style trunk sounds like a very good investment. Reminds me of D&D -- the one magic item every adventuring party simply *must* acquire as soon as humanly (or elvishly, dwarvishly, etc.) possible was always a Bag of Holding. Maybe Harry can get himself a backpack with that sort of extra-dimensional space inside...
"He never did find out what happened to Draco during the war." That's an interesting bit of news. It seems like something Harry would make an effort to find out, too, especially since you mentioned earlier that he suspected Draco was the one who'd butchered Ginny during the Hogwarts Massacre.
"keep certain peoples’ mouths from writing checks their bodies can’t cash." Brit-pick! Of course, that's exactly the sort of Americanism Harry could have picked up from the war-mages, so it doesn't really matter if it's not a British idiom.
“Envious, Potter?” Sound like I was right: it is the Malfoys influencing the Ministry to prevent Sirius' release. And Draco just let it slip, if Harry's sharp enough to work it out...
"In case anyone was wondering, I’m not a Gilderoy Lockhart fan." Is there such a thing? It seems to me he and Umbridge are the only two characters so unremittingly awful, so lacking in anything resembling a redeeming quality that they're NEVER portrayed in a positive light even in the most acanonical of fan-fic. I think it's that they're not only villainous, but utterly incompetent -- Voldemort, Draco, Bellatrix etc. are appealing in some ways to some readers because of their abilities, whereas there's nothing at all to admire in the narcissistic fraud or the bureaucratic hack.