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[[!meta title="Less Gryffindor"]]
Harry sets out to *lose* the Triwizard Tournament. Ships Harry/Hermione, mostly
drama and romance.
Some possibilities:
* Harry accused of being a coward by Draco, Ron, etc.
* Harry seen as taking the honorable route by other competitors, earning allies.
* What constitutes "participating" in a task? How about entering the arena and
casting a spell - Harry can use *sonorous* to announce he is not competing to
fulfill requirements.
* Magical oath that he is not a willing participant?
* Obviously, Harry shouldn't be winning the Triwizard with this approach. Does
Voldemort return by killing Cedric?
* Voldemort should work out what Harry's doing way before the end, so presumably
there may be additional murder/kidnapping attempts.
* Crouch Jr. will try to compel Harry into competing; does Harry work out he's a
fake earlier?
* If manipulative!Dumbledore, then he'll also try to compel Harry into
competing.
* Harry ditches Ron once and for all, uses the freedom from exams and "training"
excuse to catch up with Hermione and change electives.
* More critical examination of Triwizard rules, possibly with help from Sirius,
which leads to outing Dumbledore if going the manipulative!Dumbledore route.
There are similar stories:
* [[Banking on Her|http://m.fanfiction.net/s/7392700/]] by [[robst|http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1451358/]]
This is building up to Harry voluntarily losing his magic by abandoning the
tournament, which is a slightly different take on the theme.
* [[Harry Potter: Unchampion|http://m.fanfiction.net/s/3793741/]] by [[kb0|http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1251524/]]
Enormous painful-to-read oneshot. This has a lot of the general theme that I
want to write; Harry genuinely refuses to participate beyond a token effort,
Dumbledore tries to manipulate him into active participation, and Voldemort
changes his plans. There's no real resolution to the storyline, and very
little action. Dumbledore puts up at most a token resistance to Harry's will.
Voldemort is avoided almost completely by accident.
* [[Here's to the Losers|http://m.fanfiction.net/s/6302059/]] by [[MeghanReviews|http://www.fanfiction.net/u/414185/]]
This one sort of starts out with Harry not participating in the first task,
then he has the squid rescue his hostage, and for some reason he wanders into
the maze, rescues Fleur and Cedric, and winds up at the center with the cup.
His attempts to "not participate" are not taken seriously by anyone, so
there's no change in plot from Voldemort's perspective.
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