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Voldemort: Barty, I need you to infiltrate Hogwarts.

Barty: Yes my Lord. What would you have me do? Kidnap Potter out of his bed? Poison Dumbledore’s tea?

Voldemort: No, better. You’re going to spend all year as a professor. It’s a 7/7 course load, you’ll be giving 30 lectures a week, and you’re going to have to thoughtfully grade hundreds of essays written by children who, at best, stopped learning grammar and spelling at age 11. This is all quite necessary to my plan.

Barty: There’s got to be a better way.

Voldemort: Also I’ve killed virtually every DADA professor for the past forty years, and they were mostly shit anyway, so you can’t just crib their lesson plans.

Barty: …..

Voldemort: Really, Barty, don’t look so put out. Free room and board! And the curricular standards are probably lax enough that you can teach the children whatever you want. It will be hilarious.

Barty, off to write several hundred lesson plans for the upcoming year, all for the sake of an evil plot: Yes, my Lord.

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The Little King Dreams

Regulus Arcturus Black. Younger brother of Sirius, Slytherin, Death Eater, and the man who stole the Locket of Salazar Slytherin from Lord Voldemort himself. We all know his story. He died stealing the locket, saving Kreacher’s life, and his brother never knew that Regulus died fighting the Dark Lord. 

But is Regulus really dead? 

In the cave, where Voldemort hid the locket, we know there are protections. In additions to Inferi (corpses reanimated through Dark magic), the fountain in which the locket is stored is filled with water cursed to cause excruciating pain. But it’s curious. The water doesn’t kill. 

The water causes unbearable thirst. It causes excruciating pain. But it doesn’t kill. Why on earth would Voldemort have a protection that does not kill, when he’s trying to protect something like a fragment of his soul? 

“Lord Voldemort would not want to kill the person who reached this island."​

​Harry couldn’t believe it. Was this more of Dumbledore’s insane determination to see good in everyone?​

​"Sir,” said Harry, trying to keep his voice reasonable, “sir, this is Voldemort we’re —"​

​"I’m sorry, Harry; I should have said, he would not want to immediately kill the person who reached this island,” Dumbledore corrected himself. “He would want to keep them alive long enough to find out how they managed to penetrate so far through his defenses and, most importantly of all, why they were so intent upon emptying the basin. Do not forget that Lord Voldemort believes that he alone knows about his Horcruxes."​

​Harry made to speak again, but this time Dumbledore raised his hand for silence, frowning slightly at the emerald liquid, evidently thinking hard.​

​"Undoubtedly,” he said, finally, “this potion must act in a way that will prevent me taking the Horcrux. It might paralyze me, cause me to forget what I am here for, create so much pain I am distracted, or render me incapable in some other way."​ — (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 26 "The Cave”, pg. 569; US edition)​

So why does Voldemort have water, a potion, that does not kill? And if, like what Dumbledore suggest, he would want to keep the person alive long enough to find out why they were trying to steal his Horcrux… how would he do it? Why would he make a potion which causes unbearable thirst — when the only source of water is Inferi-infested waters? 

Simple. It was mentioned in Philosopher’s Stone. 

The Draught of Living Death. A potion that causes very powerful sleep which, according to the Advanced Potion-Making textbook in HBP, “can last forever”. 

“But Josh!” you might be saying, “What about the Inferi!” 

Yes. There are Inferi. But they are not there to kill the person. No. They are there to drag the person underwater. The person who drank a variant of the Draught of Living Death, and pull them into enchanted waters to bring about a state of suspended animation. At least, of course, until Lord Voldemort can interrogate the person. To find out how they penetrated so far past his defenses. Why they were so intent on draining the fountain. The Inferi aren’t there to kill the intruder. 

The Inferi are there to hold the intruder until Lord Voldemort arrives. And since Voldemort did not realize that his Horcrux had been stolen — since the fake locket was still there in the fountain nearly 20 years after, the Inferi are still holding the intruder. 

And they are still holding him… 

But Harry had his answer before Dumbledore could reply; the wandlight had slid over a fresh patch of water and showed him, this time, a dead man lying faceup inches beneath the surface, his open eyes misted as though with cobwebs, his hair and his robes swirling around him like smoke. 

“There are bodies in here!” said Harry, and his voice sounded much higher than usual and most unlike his own. — Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Chapter 26 “The Cave”, pg 565-566; US edition

And meanwhile… Regulus Arcturus Black floats in the water, dreaming… 

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Haunting space

DPxDC

Danny has been living with Constantine for reasons he would rather not say and it’s been cool so far. The bastard is sorta fatherly but falls more into the weird uncle who says “fuck it sure” to most ideas you have. (He sometimes calls him his kid) There aren’t that many rules in the house other than don’t touch shit that can make you deader than you already are.

Obviously Danny doesn’t listen to that rule as strictly as he should which ended up with him getting hurt and Constantine rushing to get him to Frostbite as fast as possible. Ever sense then Constantine has been a helicopter parent and borderline over protective. He finally had to leave Danny alone to go to a Justice League meeting that Zatanna is dragging him to.

As payback and to just be a little shit in general Danny decided to haunt the watchtower during the meeting.

And that’s how he got here: in trouble for sticking a ‘kick me’ sign to Green Lanterns back. In his defense he didn’t know Flash would actually do it!

Along with a few of the braver young heroes…

He should probably take the ‘I’m a furry’ sign off of Batman’s back.

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dp x dc prompt #36

i’ve seen a lot of prompts about de-aged danny running around gotham from the GIW, and one of the bats find him and practically adopt him on the spot.

what i want to see is a very self sufficient four year old danny that has already been successfully escaping for a while with just some minor help from gotham, and is only found because he’s doing something stupid while running away from someone.

i want danny getting chased by the GIW through the city, and the bats only notice when he tarzan swings by them with laxer fire chasing him.

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dp x dc prompt #39

It started with the GIW kidnapping Miss Martian under the assumption that she’s secretly a ghost.

It ended with Young Justice + 1 teenage king Phantom piled in a shopping cart pushed by Kid Flash, with GIW alarms and sirens screaming as they barreled out the front door as fast as the little cart wheels could spin without coming off completely. And for some reason, Wally had Cotton Eye Joe blasting on his phone speakers, still heard clearly even over the sound of collapsing government lab.

Robin really has no idea what the heck is going on.

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Submitted Prompts #56

Wayne Enterprises opens an Engineering factory/R&D facility in Amity Park, Bruce notices the people have a different definition of safe, even by Gotham Standards.

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dp x dc prompt: "never ever let a fenton drive", or team phantom's dimension-hopping adventure

danny inherited the abysmal driving skills of his parents. the people in amity park are used to it though so this wouldn't be such a problem if he hadn't started learning to create portals recently, as seen when he opened a portal under his car while driving to avoid crashing into someone else while pursued by the GIW (sue him, it was a stressful situation). jazz is passed out right next to him, sam and tucker are screaming in the backseat while dani's cackling between them, adrenaline junkie that she is. the car is falling into the ghost zone and right out of another natural portal. they land right in front of a group of weirdos dressed in colourful costumes.

"... the only reason why i'm not killing you a second time is because this city looks super goth," says sam, waving the fenton thermos threateningly.

"there's nothing stopping me," mutters tucker, eyeing the costumed people warily.

danny squirms. "well, at least the GIW can't get us there?"

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Do ya'll ever think about how every character in MDZS is living in a radically different genre of story?

Cause yeah, sure Wei Wuxian is living in a danmei fantasy novel with strong romantic comedy elements, but if you slide over a bit Lan Wangji is living a serious and heady drama about regret, loss, yearning, the passage of time, and ultimately atonement.

Scooch on over to Xichen and your in a straight up Greek tragedy, right down to the parable about hubris and trust. Jin Guangyao is living meanwhile in a political dark fantasy al'la Game of Thrones, Nie Huaisang is in a Gothic moody Monte Cristo-esque reflection on revenge and deception, and while Lan Sizhuhi and Jin Ling are living in two VERY different YA fantasy books ('magic boarding school/secret orphan of destiny' and 'Steven Universe style coming of age/discovering all your family are some flavor of evil and magic' respectively).

Everyone connected to Yi City is living inside a dark psychological thriller/horror flick, except for Xue Yang who is in a Found Family/Enemies to Lover fic right up until he isn't.

Jiang Cheng's entire life has been one long soap opera, and it is showing no signs of stopping anytime soon.

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Scrape Off My Skin

Cuddle pollen, but with Danny being affected in his ghost form, he wants to be under someone else's skin, AKA overshadow someone. Which. Of course, it has a lot of awful implications. But the pollen is getting so bad, he's beginning to wonder if overshadowing would be worth it.

His human form is getting hives while he's being afflicted by the pollen. So. He tries being creative. Overshadow a stray cat, a pidgeon, even a rat, but no dice. Animals don't seem to cut it.

Finally, he cannot take anymore of this, and he overshadows the first human being he sees. This is, of course, The Bat.

(Late additions:

Imagine if Bruce's will is enough to keep his wits about it. So now he's got a ghost kid inside his own body and he's clumsy because he's constantly fighting for control.

Danny does petty commentary at the most inopportune moments, like a little devil on the Bat's shoulder.

Bruce is completely livid at Constantine and Zatara's sudden unavailability, so he's stuck until the ghost goes away on his own.)

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the fact that jon was dreamsharing for probably pretty much the entire series (i dont think there’s confirmation on when they started, but it’s not a leap to assume “pretty soon after the first live statement”) and the audience didn’t hear him say shit about it until elias spilled the beans during his coma is so funny actually. what other weird shit was happening that just never came up. all your wildest headcanons of extra eyes or telepathy or fucking wings are totally plausible cause this man just didn’t think it was worth mentioning.

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#DCMK tag for Detective Conan/Magic Kaito.

#Wizarding World tag for the Harry Potter franchise.

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DP x DC Prompt where when Amity Park is returned from the Ghost Zone after Pariah Dark’s defeat… it doesn’t get put back in the right place.

There’s a new island off the coast of Gotham– possibly overlapping parts of it– and no one is happy about it.

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mildly obsessed with the idea of tcw Obi-Wan and Anakin getting thrown into the middle of the tpm final duel while exploring the trope-typical ~mysterious force temple~ and because it’s them, obviously they start arguing with no regard for anyone around them (“wait, what was that?” “This looks like—“ “—the Theed generator complex, I know. *sigh* Anakin, what was the one thing we weren’t supposed to do?” “Touch anything.” “And why, do you imagine, are we here?” “I didn’t even touch it!” “Oh no, you just knocked it over and kicked it into a wall.”) except this time the people around them are Qui-Gon, Maul, and young Obi-Wan stuck on the other side of a ray shield. Qui-Gon is very confused, Anakin is very confused, both Obi-Wans are very confused, and Maul is downright offended that his climactic duel where he gets to murder Jedi is being interrupted.

Anyways, the second tcw Obi spots Maul, he calls him by name and engages him in a sporting lightsaber duel, because, well, he’s Obi-Wan and that’s his thing. And of course, because it’s Obi-Wan, there’s horrible amounts of flirting to which Maul has absolutely no response, because, y’know, hot gingers dropping out of the sky and fighting you very familiarly while already knowing your name isn’t the sort of thing you train for in Sith school.

What this is really all working towards is Qui-Gon and Anakin standing off to the side, watching Obi-Wan fight, and Qui-Gon going “Does he normally do this?” and Anakin going “Does he… not flirt when fighting? Is this new?” and Qui-Gon having a genuine moment of ‘oh so THIS is what happens when I do stupid shit like leave my should-have-been-knighted-three-years-ago padawan in the dust without telling him anything important like ‘you should have been knighted three years ago and I’m proud of you’ and let him raise a child.’

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DC/DP Crossover Idea #53

In a moment of late night genius (or dumbassry) Danny decides to ask Clockwork for a favor to allow him into a different dimension on the condition that nothing gets permanently wrecked like people dying.

It’s allowed and then Danny brings his ghost gallery through and they all play a big game of irl Risk

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decided to rewatch the Million Dollar Ghost episode and… guys. Vlad says the skeleton key (used later on to free Pariah Dark) can be used to “travel to any realm”.

…why don’t we use the key for crossover shenanigans???

Danny, too tired to phase back into the house, mixes up his house key and the skeleton key and accidentally steps through the doorway into a Completely Different World and just has to Deal With That with 0 preparation, almost no powers due to how tired he is, and like 2 hours of sleep in the past 4 days.

This leads to a very very tired Danny collapsing into the first bed he finds.

…Who’s bed it is depends on the crossover you want, but just think of the POSSIBILITIES of “finds Danny in their bed” being the first meeting.

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I know balanced obsession is focused on Danny, but I can't help but imagine how vlad's obsession with that football team would manifest

Oh man his secondary obsession would be that football team wouldn’t it.... oh my god I never even bothered to think about Vlad before in that scenarioshdflkjflksjflskjfs i just. hate the man. so I did not consider him.

i have... no goddamn idea how that would manifest tbh.

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DC/DP Constantine Bingo

When Danny gets crowned High King he gets loaded with mountains of paperwork all because of one John Constantine. So instead of dealing with it he turns Constantine's sold soul pieces into a currency for favors from the King. (Claming John's soul for himself to end all debates)

Then because Constantine will likely continue to sell his soul carelessly Danny makes an official decree that anyone who wants can create a 5 by 5 grid of beings/situations/etc. John will se his soul to and send it to Clockwork to officially enter the bingo, creating a realms wide bingo with prices. Along with this comes a ruling that of John comes to you and wish to sell his soul in return for a favor that you can do, you must accept, preventing people from cheating.

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This of course makes John very paranoid. It suddenly got very easy to trade his soul and many beings even seemed eager to do it. Despite them knowing it would not give them the ownership of his soul.

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What happens when Danny receives an update on the bingo, in the form of a green postit-note, in the middle of a dinner at Wayne manor.

It could either be a meet your partners family dinner or a adopted danny dinner.

Anyway now he either has to come clean about being a ghost, the ghost king, or make up a story about befriending ghosts and getting invited to the bingo that way.

Bonus points if Danny name dropps Constantine without knowing that the Wayne's are the bats and that John had shared his paranoia with his coworkers.

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