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Dark Lord Harry
The bunnies are active today. Here's another one.

A "What if...?" scenario that veers off canon in Chamber of Secrets.



We've really got to ask ourselves: was Ginny Weasley Lucius Malfoy intended victim? As RedHen out it, would Dobby get his pillowcase into a twist if Ginny Weasley had been intended as the one to open the Chamber? Considering Harry isn't a Muggle-born and therefore wasn't a target of Slytherin's monster? He isn't even a real Half-Blood: his mother being a witch.

RedHen suggests that the real victim was meant to be Harry and Ginny ended up wit the diary on accident. After all, Harry had just tipped the books Lockhard had given him into Ginny's cauldron! Lucius might well have operated under the belief that these books were Harry's. Yes, he commented on Ginny's second-hand book and he slipped the diary into it. But that was after Arthur had punched him. He might have changed the plan and slipped Ginny the diary as revenge on Arthur.

And if a pure-blood was discovered to be the perpetrator, all the better.

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Okay, now the bunny.

In this version, Lucius does slip the diary into one of Harry's books. Harry is incurably curious. Once he discovered the diary, he would have wanted to find out what it was. Probably even have told Ron. Imagine his surprise and delight when the diary began to write back! I don't think he would have been able to resist Tom Riddle. Rather, I think diary!Tom would have been what the Half-Blood Prince became later: a friend and a guide.

Would the diary revenant have been able to possess Harry? Could one Horcrux make use of another? I doubt it. But the diary Horcrux could have influenced the Harry Horcrux and, yes, slowly turn Harry over to the Dark side.

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So, under the influence Harry's Slytherin nature becomes stronger. He doesn't attack students, though. Diary!Tom probably tries to make him (after all, this is the reason for the diary's existence!) but Harry resists. However, he slowly begins to change his opinions and actions. I think at one point he manages to take over diary!Tom, absorbing him, something like that. It makes Harry more powerful and more skilled, as he takes over a bit of Tom's brilliance.

There is no danger in Harry's second year. No one that people are aware of, that is. Probably Snape realises what is going on. But Harry's getting better at Potions - with Tom's "help", and Snape never promised anything but to keep Harry alive. He might even contact Lucius, and the two men begin to plot using Harry, grooming him as new Dark Lord.

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What happens afterwards? Here a few thoughts.

Year 3 pans out with only minor changes. Harry probably doesn't react quite as strongly to the Dementors, at least not in a negative sense. Perhaps he even discovers he can control them? But I think he would try for the Patronus. With Tom's skills he ought to be able to manage pretty soon.

By that time he has also put Hermione's nose quite out of joint by continuously out-shining her.

Lucius loses his tenuous hold on Harry over the matter with the Hippogriff. Harry is probably pleased to discover that his godfather is innocent. He wants to be loved, after all. Yes, even with Voldemort's soul inside of him. But does he let Peter go? I think so; after all, it leaves Peter in Harry's debt.

Year 4 starts as in canon. Voldemort probably doesn't pay much attention to the cautioning words of Peter Pettigrew about Harry. Voldemort still thinks himself the greatest. So the plan is put into action, Harry's name is dropped in the Goblet, and Harry easily turfs the other Triwizard champions. No Cedric gets killed and Harry meets Voldemort.

I daresay the duel ends even more disastrously for Voldemort than it did in canon. Hey, he'c competing against two bits of his own soul - he only has one left! - and Hary! That's three against one. Probably Voldemort gets hurt in the duel.

Since the outcome is different and Harry not nearly as beaten up, Dumbledore tells Harry about the Prophecy. Harry begins actively to work on ways on how to destroy Voldemort. Who spends Harry's fifth year desperately trying to rebuild his organisation after almost every DE there is has seen him lose to Harry! By the end of year 5, Harry has his own version of the DEs (even though it's perhaps not the DA), and that organisation includes Snape. And probably a lot more Slyhterins, who will have heard from their fathers about Voldemort's defeat.

Harry's organisation spends year 6 searching for and destroying Horcruxes. Draco will still get his mission - Voldemort's attempt to weaken his enemies - and the rest of the plan will be set up as well (i.e. Dumbledore dying so that Snape can keep his cover). Harry's rather fed-up with his old mentor by that point.

Concerning Dumbledore's death: with Harry and Snape working together, they can easily work out something that perhaps makes the whole thing look like an accident. Bad luck during the battle, or something. Then, Harry's organisation will engage the DEs in open warfare, while a chosen few keep looking for Horcruxes.

Once all of them are gone, Harry either does the self-sacrifice thing to get rid of the two soul-bits; afterwards, he's only Harry but enough of Tom's brillianceand skill has rubbed off on him, so he's still very powerful - and now, inofficially, the Dark Lord; the thankful Ministry will listen to the man who defeated Voldemort so that Harry ends up being the adored, inofficial ruler of wizarding Britain. Or he manages to terminally seal Voldemort; perhaps in a rock. He'd still be the one who defeated Voldemort, but he'd be darker and more powerful.

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So. That was my, admittedly not very well-thought-out, take on this particular Dark Lord Harry bunny. Will you please write it? ^-^