Services

A business, which goes by something boring like "Services", in some out-of-the-way location, which aims to provide any service asked for- mostly through contractors, but some of the more unusual ones are provided by the staff. No limits on the services provided, although to start out with not many of the unusual ones can be provided. With a sliding scale depending on the service and sometimes on who asks for it. I could see this as HP fanfiction, or original fiction.

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Knowledge and Power

Magic is based on knowledge- so, for instance, somebody who knew a lot would be more powerful and more in control of magic than somebody who knew less. Type of knowledge doesn't truly matter, but relevant knowledge matters more than irrelevant knowledge- so, for instance, somebody with an encyclopedic knowledge of football would be more powerful than somebody with only a cursory knowledge, but taking a physics class would provide more power to most spells unless they were football related. This is because knowledge connects one more to magic, and obviously some types of magic are more related to certain knowledge. Theoretically, somebody who knew everything would essentially become magic- they know so much that magic is connected to them so much that it feeds them new knowledge as soon as it comes into existence. Connection to magic is also linked to lifespan, since magic can be used to heal and the more you're connected to magic the better it heals and preemptively heals you.

Back before literacy was anything near common but was an expected skill for mages, a mage was expected to take an apprentice but couldn't be bothered to actually teach all the boring-but-essential stuff, so he essentially bought a kid from somebody with too many mouths to feed and not enough money, and did a ritual to give the kid basic knowledge...only he forgot to put a limit on what was to be learned, so the kid learned everything.

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Xander becomes Mad-eye Moody.

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Grades and Exam Scores

Before Hogwarts, Harry always got bad grades because the Dursleys prejudiced the teachers against him before the school year, and kept reinforcing it throughout- blaming him for everything, claiming he was a cheater, etc., and Dudley and his friends did it too. When he came to Hogwarts, he started getting good grades but he figured it was just because he was the Boy-Who-Lived, not because of his ability, not that overall grades seem to matter except on OWLs and NEWTs. And then he gets his OWL scores back, and they're all O's except for the interrupted exams. So he thinks he was given the wrong scores, or he wasn't graded impartially, and gets upset.

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DA Through the Veil

Most of the Order is killed, and when the DA steps in, most of their parents (their younger siblings have been sent to stay at Hogwarts/with the DA) are killed by Death Eaters to discourage them from fighting. It probably would have worked on at least some of them, if communication with the outside world hadn't been all but cut off so that they only learned that the first was killed at the same time that they learned about the more recent deaths. With their families dead and no chance to save them, they were all the more resolved to fight, so they do and win. Then the Ministry decides they're criminals and tosses them through the Veil (trial or no? they don't have many relatives to demand a trial, but OTOH i can't imagine them being condemned by a jury for saving everybody and defeating Voldemort and his Death Eaters). So it's lots of teenagers, strong mentally and magically, who don't trust authority and are used to relying on themselves and each other for everything. In another world. Probably with very few possessions.

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Coming of Age

Before there was a Hogwarts, wizards and witches occasionally died when they came of age- magical coming of age has consequences ranging from unnoticeable to fatal depending on the magical power of the witch or wizard and how full their reserves are, with death only coming to those with the most power and full reserves. So Hogwarts was founded, with the idea of keeping young witches' and wizards' power reserves low enough that even the most powerful don't even notice their coming-of-age, which coincidentally can strike anywhere between 11 and 17, but mostly does so on or around a birthday. Theoretically, schoolwork and homework keep magical reserves low enough during the year, and end-of-year tests are magically draining enough that it takes all summer for the magic to grow back. It worked well for a thousand years, the knowledge of the coming-of-age fading into myth thanks to so many generations not feeling even a twinge when they came of age, but lately the classes have been less challenging magically, thanks to years of bad professors and a Ministry that keeps piling on restrictions. There haven't been any problems so far, maybe a couple who got a twinge when they came of age but shrugged it off as sore muscles, but at the moment there's more than one witch and wizard who are more powerful than average...

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Fake Fake psychic

One of those fake psychics (like in Psych and the Mentalist) is actually psychic. They figure that if you say things you shouldn't know people look at you funny, but if you claim to be a psychic and have a high degree of accuracy they assume that you're lying about the psychicness and got the info another way, but won't tell them how you got the information.

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Seeing Other Things

Harry is a seer, but because he was linked to Voldemort until he killed him, all of his visions were of Voldemort. Once Voldemort is killed, Harry starts having visions of other things.

After the War?

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Nonhumans and Unicorns

Unicorns are highly regarded by humans, but even higher by nonhumans. Although humans know it's extremely wrong to kill or injure unicorns, some are still willing to. No nonhuman, even the evillest and most amoral, would.

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The Wizarding World and Susan Pevensie

When Hermione's parents are killed, as per Ministry protocol a ritual is done to find relatives. It finds her grandmother, Susan Pevensie, who's immortal.

Susan using Narnian lessons to deal with the Wizarding world (protocol, ettiquitte, etc.). Hermione terrified that her 70+ year old muggle grandmother (who she thought was dead?) will get killed too. Susan + magical beings, who she has absolutely no problem with, even the dangerous ones.

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Character

A character who tends to have strangers walk up to her and say strange things. She's not famous, the strangers have nothing to do with each other or her, they're not possessed, etc.

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Making Friends and Influencing People

Harry runs into a series of people who are important in a behind the scenes kind of way, so he has no idea who any of them are, and while they have their encounters the VIPs have no idea who he is, for various reasons- mostly not deliberate, although there's a certain amount of trying not to be recognized on his part so he doesn't get swarmed. The VIPs are people like the Flamels, and people who are experts in their fields, and competent leaders, no Lockharts or Fudges, and Harry wins them over, even if some of them are startled when they learn who he is.

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Squibs and Wizards

Harry's a squib, Dudley's a wizard- all magic blamed on Harry until Dudley's Hogwarts letter arrives.

How do the Dursleys react? How does Dudley react? Is Harry still the one to defeat Voldemort?

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Snape's comatose lover

Everybody's curious about the comatose man in the infirmary that Professor Snape keeps visiting. It's a mystery to the school and rumors are flying. (comatose man = Xander, Snape's lover)

Title should be of one of the rumors.

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The Other Side of the Veil

Sirius Black pops out of the Hellmouth.

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No Rescue

One year, Harry doesn't get "rescued" from the Dursleys, so he has no way to get his supplies before school starts (afterward he can, presumably, owl order them all).

If title kept, tie in with further plots of there being no rescue.

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Sorting Hat

Despite its claims to the contrary, the Sorting Hat has always placed students randomly/according to its whim, nothing to do with personality.

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DA Summer

Summer after Harry's fifth year, a lot of DA members help each other out on various, random things because they're fellow DA members- even though most of them don't know each other well.

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Empathy

Snape acts the way he does because he's an empath- he pushes people away so their emotions will stay away. He had to figure it all out on his own, so there might be better techniques (which are, presumably, not written down, since he's got research skills). And it's got to be hard to live in a school when you're an empath.

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Magical abilities

They're magical abilities- it wouldn't be completely impossible for them to be passed on to people not related by blood, but emotionally. The Weasleys (or Prewitts, who are now Weasleys) all have a magical talent/skill (the same one for all of them) that they keep secret. Harry gets it?

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Xander = Slytherin

Xander timetravels (+ alternate reality?) and ends up being Salazar Slytherin- infamous views due to religion @ school founding time, fear for school's safety & abuse of muggleborns. Later, Xander in present-day HP-verse?

Why the different name?

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Scoobies + Weasleys

Post-Chosen, the Scoobies (or one of them with plenty of help, anyway) get custody of the Weasley kids when Molly and Arthur are killed near the end of the first war.

What are the relative ages of the Weasley kids? Would any of them be in Hogwarts yet?

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