HP/Ranma idea, Vimesenthusiast Style (Patreon)

Hey all! As those of you who read my author’s forward should know, I won’t be able to get Stallion finished by Tomorrow. I…might be able to get everything but the last two scenes done by midnight tonight (doubtful), but none of it would have been edited by either Tomon – who has been a major help on this story since the beginning – or Hiryo, who as you all should know is a help on every Ranma fic given time. So It won’t be out until next month. Instead, I decided to share this with you, along with the previous RWBY only outline Jaune of All Trades.

A lot of people have asked me over the years if I would ever try to make a story crossing Ranma with Harry Potter. My response has always been they are too different in how they go about being protagonists, and I would have to put one above the other, and that their worlds are a little too different too. Now, while the second issue hasn’t been magically (Hah, I made a punny) changed, Sword, Bow and Horse has worked to give me some experience in double -protagonist stories. I also have started to see the positives of such stories as a whole, and decided to see what I could come up with.   Once again though, it will be a long time, if ever, before I get to this story.

Chaotic Pottery:

Hearing news of a boxing competition in Britain that is paying out a cool million pounds and obviously wanting to be set up for life, Genma takes Ranma there instead of heading on a final back-backing trip through China. Taking a plane over Russia, and dragging the boy away from making new friends (read: rivals and strange girls) the two of them arrive in London just in time for the tournament. After winning it handily, Ranma comes back to their room to find his old man unconscious from drinking. In his inebriated state, Genma lets slip the Name Soun and the word engagement. Deciding nuts to that, Ranma leaves and starts to explore London.

As he explores London, he finds a young boy with glasses and overlarge clothing running away from a group of other boys. About to intervene, he finds his interest piqued when the bow apparently is able to do something that makes peoples eyes want to slide off him. Startled by a boy leaping down from the top of a roof as easily as someone could hop over a log, the boy let goes of the technique too soon, and his bullies find him. Ranma then explains to them why bullying is wrong, before introducing himself to the kid, whose name is Harry Potter. 

Harry explains that he doesn’t know how he did that, but that sometimes odd things have happened around him before. He can talk to garden snakes, he can grow his hair back overnight, and he can sometimes hide from people and even once changed the color of something. Ranma, intrigued, asks some more questions, during which Harry explains about his home life, and the fact his parents died. 

“Right… young practical orphan, left with his hateful relatives…”

“Er, I wouldn’t say they were hateful…” 

“Look me in the eye boyo and tell me they ain’t?” Pausing, Ranma smirked when Harry didn’t say anything. “Right. As I was saying. Weird powers, random but seemingly impossible things. Yeah, I’ve read enough manga to know where this is going kiddo. So… how about we give the finger to Fate and your relatives both, and blow this popsicle stand?”

“What?”

“Run away kiddo. You, and me. Me to get away from being married off to feed my old man’s fat mug, and you from your relatives.”

After some convincing, Harry agrees that maybe there really could be some kind of connection between the weird events he’s experienced. And learning how to fight and fend for himself while traveling with Ranma certainly sounds a heck of a lot more interesting than going back home. “And maybe I can even teach you how to speak proper English Yank.”

“Oy!” 

And so begins Ranma and Harry’s world tour, upsetting the plans of Fate, an old man, and a fat drunk. However, Fate is not so easily avoided…

{battle of endurance and durability in every form you could name. Ranma not landing nearly as many blows, but just keep going, through everything!! – Ranma using Wyper’s Reject after he does the same to break him out of a full body gold trap? Couldn’t control the gold, but could control the heat, the melted gold would go where the heat directed}

Things this fic will contain: 

1. Dual Protags. As I said above, this fic will feature a Ranma and Harry who will share the spotlight and adventures. Ranma has a tendency to attract trouble, Harry a tendency to be it’s target. Both have a saving people thing, although Ranma’s is based on his code, and Harry’s is based off him being Harry Potter. A lot of the stories first few chapters will be about them interacting with one another.

a. Harry is about a month shy of eleven, and will start the story scrawny, malnourished, but a bit more perspicacious than he was in canon at this point. Eventually, he will be molded by being around Ranma to being a lot more athletic and built, quite sarcastic, and self-reliant, but he will never be as outgoing or as confident in social situations as Ranma. After all, it is hard to just not give as many fucks as Ranma can. However, he will be a lot more independent, while also be more willing even than in canon to toss himself into a fight. With Ranma’s training, he’ll also be able to fight his way back out

b. Ranma is about fifteen at the start of this fic. He will be aggressive in physical confrontations, really arrogant, and will still have a lot of the baggage his old man saddled him with about women being weaker and boys never crying. Harry will have about as much influence on him mentally and emotionally though as Ranma does Harry physically. It will be a much slower process, but eventually Ranma will get to the point where he understands that women can be as strong as men. If they put in the time anyway. Looking before he leaps/opens his mouth though, that Harry won’t be able to help with, considering his own problems in that area.

2. World travel. For at least the first six chapters or so (depending on large/small chapter story status) Harry and Ranma will be travelling the world. They will be doing so in order to both stay ahead of Genma, and because Dumbledore will try to show up and will have made a horrible first impression on them both when he notices that the wards on the Dursley’s house have broken. Eventually they will also be searching out for people who can teach them more about Harry’s odd problems without being governmental figures, since both by that point will have assumed there’s some kind of conspiracy to keep Harry ignorant and weak.  Ranma will essentially have assumed by the time they reach Italy that Harry is some hero-in-being and has to become strong to fight the powers that be.

a. Complete refusal to let Harry use a wand: Ranma will have seen Dumbledore use his wand but will utterly reject the idea of Harry ‘needing’ one for his magic. As such he will force Harry to use magic without one, a much harder but somewhat more rewarding road to magical power. On the other hand, Dumbledore will be pondering the fact that a muggle has become master of the Death Stick…

b. Problems and conflicts abound. Wherever Ranma and Harry go they will get in trouble, both with the local criminal element and with the authorities, because Ranma at this point hasn’t learned the phrase ‘go along to get along’ and Harry likes to stick his nose in where it doesn’t belong.  These problems will include but not be limited to:

i. Meeting and befriending a group of tourists in France for the first time during a robbery. 

ii. Stopping a kidnapping… multiple times. Seriously, it will be like a curse for Harry to basically stumble into them. One in France, one in India, one in Greece, another in Russia…

iii. Accidentally defacing a national monument in Germany while stopping a corrupt cop from shooting his partner. 

iv. Ryoga showing up and helpfully trying to push a certain Leaning Tower straight after fight with Ranma.

v. Smashing a smuggling ring of magical chocolate that has literal addictive properties. 

vi. Stomping all over an attempt to assault a Sphinx who was just minding her own business.

c. Learning abounds as well. Ranma will instill an urge to learn about his abilities into Harry, even if he also somewhat accidentally blocks him from getting that education the normal way.  Both of them will be learning as they travel in various ways.

i. Ranma incorporating local martial arts, particularly weapons styles, into his own repertoire. He will teach himself ki space, and will also start to ‘Pull a Gilgamesh’, in the number of weapons he has in there. After all, why limit yourselves to just your fists and feet if you have other options available.

ii. Harry will do the same with magic, while raiding every magical bookstore his ability to ignore muggle-oriented notice me nots can drag him to, becoming something of a magical thief. He will also be learning about element type magics transfiguration and illusion. Basically Harry’s imagination will begin to power his magical abilities, fueled by the people he runs into, his purloined books, and the fantasy novels Ranma introduces him to.

d. Whole lot of new magic. I’d really like to play around with magic in this world, even more so than in my other works.  At the same time, Ranma will make it his life’s work to prove ki and good old fashioned fists can do anything magic can. Or at least make you immune to what it can’t.. 

3. Fate Always finds a way. Run all they want, some things can’t be denied.  Some challenges, some changes.  

a. Ranma will be cursed, as well as Harry. I am uncertain if Ranma will have the same curse as in canon. The gender will probably stay the same, but I might change other things. After all, it won’t just be his overweening masculinity and opinions that will need to be changed by that point. As for Harry, no idea. Perhaps an Asian style dragon? – Something to make Ranma eternally jealous anyway.

b. Ryoga. He will pop up occasionally, always causing both trouble and amusement for our intrepid duo. As well as issues for the magical community, who will call him ‘the wandering Obscurial’ although he won’t actually be one. It’s just due to how much damage he can do.

c. Harry will have an early run-in with a certain undead shade who will promptly learn that shade or not being struck by a ki attack – developed in Africa – HURTS. 

d. Trouble coming home to roost. Issues that Ranma’s father will have caused, some after chasing after the boy from London on, will eventually catch up with the two boys. And so will Harry running away from the wizarding world authorities, and of course, their numerous, if accidental breaking of the statute of secrecy. 

4. Eventually redeemed Dumbledore. Despite his horrible initial introduction, Dumbledore will not actually be a bad guy in this work. He will be woefully ignorant of the non-wizarding world, but won’t be alone in that. He will have his normal horrible fashion sense.  But he will also be an incredibly busy person who always believes there is good in people until convinced otherwise. He will, after investigating the Dursleys, give his metaphorical blessing to Harry becoming a world traveler for a time, and then something of a mentor when they meet in Hogwarts and he apologizes for his aforementioned horrible first impression.

5. Genma is still Genma, alas. Yeah… Genma will not be happy about hi meal ticket just up and leaving him, especially after Ranma signs his fat stomach with the words ‘engagement no I won’t go’ in permanent ink. The panda eyes were just mean in his opinion. He will be after Ranma and continually catch up to them only to lose them while attempting to get rid of Harry, who he thinks is a bad influence on Ranma or dead weight. It varies. 

6. Early Nodoka sighting. In an effort to help find the two boys once Harry has turned thirteen, Dumbledore will do some research into this odd Ranma Saotome person. He will find his parents, and remembering his own run ins with Genma (yes he will have them, yes they will be funny) Dumbledore will reach out to the small Japanese magical community, which will be full of… characters to say the least. Despite that, they will help him find Nodoka, who will help to convince Ranma and Harry that no, there is no gigantic government conspiracy in the magical world that Harry is destined to fight. He might be destined for other things though. And whether or not  they believe him is up in the air.

a. Nodoka’s opinions on manliness will not change. If anything they will be exacerbated by the history of the two boys and the need to combat Ranma’s curse form (whatever it is). She will also be a bit grandbaby crazy. 

b. On the other hand, she will also be loving, intelligent, able to give out hugs and teach the boys at least a little bit about romance, standing up for yourselves without the use of violence (never a Ranma specialty) and be the voice of calm reason that by this point both boys will need whether they realize it or not. 

7. Magic and Ki are not the same. As mentioned above, they will be very different. Ranma will try to figure out how to us his ki to passively block or imitate magic in many ways. Harry in turn will try to make his magic as versatile as ki can be in terms of direct combat and body enhancement, with limited results.  On the other hand, ki will have some interesting effects on the undead and Dark creatures, enough to make Ranma cackle and Harry pout in jealousy.

8. Hogwarts! Eventually.  I would like to avoid the first year, entirely, and to shift the second year around quite a bit. After all, what would that year be like if there was no Lockhart, but two somewhat competing Dark Lords? Could be amusing to see if Dairy Riddle didn’t like the fact Old Riddle was a wraith. 

9. Riddle the Great Evil? More like the Mini Me of Evil. Essentially by the time Riddle attempts to resurrect himself, Harry and Ranma will have dealt with a lot more villains out there, who, if not able to match him in power, certainly had their own thoughts on world domination, evil magic, and swiping candy from babies. Essentially the biggest problem for our duo will be to identify the people working with Riddle rather than actually dealing with them. It’s awful hard to use spells if your arms are shattered from the shoulder down or Harry has used his special “NutCracker Spell’. Riddle himself will still be a challenge, but not his followers at all.

10. Pairings: 

a. Harry/Hermione/Padma/Ukyo, maybe one more, possibly Nabiki. She could be utterly enamored of Harry’s abilities, she could be a muggleborn herself (and ooh boy wouldn’t Akane be pissed at that. Petunia X 2 anyone?)  Padma and her sister will have been a few of the kidnap victims Harry rescued. Ukyo and Harry will bond over food and cooking, and will have met accidentally without knowing one another’s connection to Ranma so will have gained good impressions of one another before Ranma comes into the discussion. Hermione will have been Harry’s first friend, and someone he corresponds with practically every week after he accidentally used magic in front of her to save her and her parents from a robbery. Hermione in turn will be very interested in Harry’s abilities, even if they tear her away from her books, and while not enjoying how physical Ranma’s training and abilities are, will at least be appreciative of the yummy muscles Harry develops due to that training. As will the other girls

b. Ranma/Tonks. Because holy hell would this pairing be fun to write. Ranma/Fleur, another kidnapping victim, although their relationship will be more tumultuous. Ranma/Shampoo is also a possibility, but I don’t know if it would be a permanent thing or a pure body attraction get me the hell out of this village thing. 

c. ‘love’ interests. Both boys will have girls after them in typical Ranma fashion rather than actual love interests as the above. This will include a Sphinx who wants to be loved, a Gorgon who thinks Harry’s the sexiest thing to slither, a Harpy who won’t take no for an answer, various human women of all ages including Mrs. Malfoy, who wants to lure the extremely hunky and comical yet deadly Ranma to the dark side. Her husband won’t be too happy about that of course, even if he flaunts their marital vows on a monthly basis. And each of the others will also bring with them suitors who become rivals for both boys. Mostly of the comedic Kuno level variety, but some who will be very serious, including a Mousse who will be furious at Ranma for stealing his schtick and his girl both. 

So there you have it, my take on a Harry/Ranma crossover.

Once again, my thanks and prayers go out to anyone on the frontline dealing with this epidemic. Hope you all enjoyed this, and are staying safe and healthy. And as always, I look forward to what you think of this idea.