RP: Common Threads
Characters: Harry Potter
Date: 11 March 2000
Location: The Library, 12 Grimmauld Place, London
Status/Warning: Private
Summary: Harry does some planning and plotting.
Completion: Complete
Harry looked up from his book, which was uncharacteristically of the Muggle variety. He had found this one in shoppe near one of the train stations, which one it was, he didn't remember now. It was something called a comic book and it was a book with lots of pictures, which was about a masked avenger who was driven to perform acts of vigilante justice.
This particular one had a black outfit that looked like a bat. He wore a mask and pulled stunts most other men couldn't dream of. He wasn't a wizard, of course, and he had no superpowers. He wasn't a mutant, like some, but he was strong and had studied all kinds of martial arts. Like Harry himself, this Bruce Wayne had been orphaned and came into adulthood on his own. Much like Harry, he had an older mentor he learned from. Much like Harry, he felt a need to avenge his parents' deaths by exacting justice throughout his world whenever and wherever possible.
There were many similarities between Harry Potter and Batman; however, there remained one very large and very obvious difference. Bruce Wayne remained anonymous when he wished and Harry Potter had always been such a famous and visible presence in his world that even when he sought solace, Harry was often surrounded by people who either greeted him or ran from him based on his fame and reputation.
If a relatively normal Muggle man was able to disguise himself enough to become completely unrecognizable even by his closest friends and allies, and especially by his astute and observant enemies, then surely Harry could master such a skill. After all, he had brought down the "Dark Lord" and he had done it more than once - surely it wasn't purely luck.
Harry was lucky that he had a house that was Unplottable, only shared it with his closest friend (and his house elf, of course), and that he had enough space that he could retreat away in private and practice. Though, perhaps, it would be better to do experiments such as these somewhere away from his house so as not to give himself away should his efforts not be as successful as he hoped.
He had enough to go on from Auror training to begin some of his efforts and he had been reading quite a lot about transfiguration lately. Though he didn't desire to become an Animagus, he did think that some of the same principles might apply to changing his own features. He knew it was incredibly easy for people like Tonks, who happened to be Metamorphmagi, but really, if people could become animals or dress up as bats, then certainly Harry would be able to use clothes and other methods of disguise. He had seen different types of make-up and prosthetics used by Muggles on Halloween for various costumes and Harry thought them quite clever. Surely with just a few charms, they would be even more convincing.
When he finished his graphic novel, as they were called by Muggles, Harry set off for a part of Muggle London where he knew he could find such things. Hopefully he would be home before Hermione missed him. If not, he'd have to hide the items, but he assumed he would be able to shrink them down and put them in his, thankfully very large, coat pockets.
Date: 11 March 2000
Location: The Library, 12 Grimmauld Place, London
Status/Warning: Private
Summary: Harry does some planning and plotting.
Completion: Complete
Harry looked up from his book, which was uncharacteristically of the Muggle variety. He had found this one in shoppe near one of the train stations, which one it was, he didn't remember now. It was something called a comic book and it was a book with lots of pictures, which was about a masked avenger who was driven to perform acts of vigilante justice.
This particular one had a black outfit that looked like a bat. He wore a mask and pulled stunts most other men couldn't dream of. He wasn't a wizard, of course, and he had no superpowers. He wasn't a mutant, like some, but he was strong and had studied all kinds of martial arts. Like Harry himself, this Bruce Wayne had been orphaned and came into adulthood on his own. Much like Harry, he had an older mentor he learned from. Much like Harry, he felt a need to avenge his parents' deaths by exacting justice throughout his world whenever and wherever possible.
There were many similarities between Harry Potter and Batman; however, there remained one very large and very obvious difference. Bruce Wayne remained anonymous when he wished and Harry Potter had always been such a famous and visible presence in his world that even when he sought solace, Harry was often surrounded by people who either greeted him or ran from him based on his fame and reputation.
If a relatively normal Muggle man was able to disguise himself enough to become completely unrecognizable even by his closest friends and allies, and especially by his astute and observant enemies, then surely Harry could master such a skill. After all, he had brought down the "Dark Lord" and he had done it more than once - surely it wasn't purely luck.
Harry was lucky that he had a house that was Unplottable, only shared it with his closest friend (and his house elf, of course), and that he had enough space that he could retreat away in private and practice. Though, perhaps, it would be better to do experiments such as these somewhere away from his house so as not to give himself away should his efforts not be as successful as he hoped.
He had enough to go on from Auror training to begin some of his efforts and he had been reading quite a lot about transfiguration lately. Though he didn't desire to become an Animagus, he did think that some of the same principles might apply to changing his own features. He knew it was incredibly easy for people like Tonks, who happened to be Metamorphmagi, but really, if people could become animals or dress up as bats, then certainly Harry would be able to use clothes and other methods of disguise. He had seen different types of make-up and prosthetics used by Muggles on Halloween for various costumes and Harry thought them quite clever. Surely with just a few charms, they would be even more convincing.
When he finished his graphic novel, as they were called by Muggles, Harry set off for a part of Muggle London where he knew he could find such things. Hopefully he would be home before Hermione missed him. If not, he'd have to hide the items, but he assumed he would be able to shrink them down and put them in his, thankfully very large, coat pockets.