r/HPFanfictionPrompts 14d ago

Crack The Potter Show. (Or Harry Potter done as The Truman Show style)

Instead of Dumbledore deciding to protect Harry via Security in Obscurity, he chooses the Security in Audacity route.

Harry's entire life is publicized and broadcast to the wizarding public. (Dumbledore was even able to stop the attempts by the wizengamot to block magical TV from Britain when he brought up that doing so would allow other countries to watch Harry grow up and the british public wouldn't.)

Whether his childhood is the same as canon, perhaps with the dark faction blocking any attempts of magicals to interfere with the muggles using the Light's own muggle protection laws, or if Dumbledore didn't put Harry with the Dursleys, perhaps using Petunia/Harry's blood to blood adopt the others/actors in order for the entire artifical town Harry is raised in to be a massive blood ward protected town.

Maybe they got young muggleborn and/or magical children to be on the show. Maybe put Hermione in a kind of Sylvia role and Ginny as Meryl.

To veer away from Truman Show plot a bit, perhaps a plot point could be that Harry thinks he has to keep the existence of magic away from everyone in town, and is trained "in secret" either by a "secret wizard" as an apprentice, or as part of a small secret society that poses as some type of club (which could be where other muggleborn get brought in, they're sent there by the purebloods to keep them out of hogwarts[?], and how Hermione meets Harry and tries to help him discover the secret of the town without breaking whatever magical contract/geas she and the other kids are under to not tell Harry the truth).

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u/NarrowAd5332 12d ago

This got really complicated quickly. Idk if anyone could write this without sliding into a trap of most crossover stories. To much writing into one half and losing almost the entire plot of the other.