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[[!meta title="Unwilling"]]
This is something of a meta-story; Harry decides to abandon the wizarding world,
and stops cooperating with authority figures. I'm fond of the meta-plot,
especially because the resulting plot would seem to depend *very* heavily on
which year Harry makes this decision.
The starting points I hope to use:
* Y11: Harry is never interested in the wizarding world to begin with. Most
likely this depends on nice!Dursleys. Harry just wants to be normal.
* Y12: Harry has just had a professor attempt to murder him. He is not inclined
to repeat the experience. This would have some decent interaction with
McGonagall about career placement options.
* Y13: Upon seeing the electives offered at Hogwarts and going through career
counseling, Harry realizes that Hogwarts is unable to prepare him for the
future he wants.
* Y14: Being unwillingly thrown into a life-and-death competition is the last
straw for Harry, and he decides that maybe he'd be better off without magic.
* Y15: Voldemort is back, and the Ministry refuses to listen to reason. Harry
had grown to accept that he'd have an evil supervillain out to kill him, but
he's not going to put up with the government badmouthing him in the press and
torturing him in class. There's another decent opportunity for career
counseling comedy here.
Y16 and onwards Harry is already somewhat too heavily committed to wizarding in
general, and rebellion stories no longer seem appropriate to this meta-plot.
For a Y15 example, see [Harry's Had Enough|http://m.fanfiction.net/s/7573003/]
and [Damn Wizards|http://m.fanfiction.net/s/7782623/] by [sprinter1988|http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2936579/].
[Potter's Wheel|http://m.fanfiction.net/s/6500428/] by [esama|http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1137344/]
is an amazing oneshot of this meta-plot in *Y17* of all years.
[Ravens and Lions|http://m.fanfiction.net/s/6952850/] by [lazywriter123|http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1121295/]
is a pretty decent Y11 implementation.
[[Banking on Her|http://m.fanfiction.net/s/7392700/]] by [[robst|http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1451358/]]
implies a Harry that would be OK with leaving the wizarding world, and begins to
move in that direction, but is offered a way to stay that is more acceptable.
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