Bear with me for a bit of silliness... to wit:
How Harry Potter would have come out if various other writers had written him.
First up, John Steinbeck.
Harry Potter and the Grapes of Wrath
The little wizards watched evil creep
up on them like the tide. They studied Defense Against
the Dark Arts and learned no counter-curses, they cried
Expecto Patronum but could summon no patroni. And the wizards of
great knowledge have worked, have studied, have considered, and the
Death Eaters are gathering in the graveyards, and the Dementors'
psychic rot and general air of extreme Depression is poisoning the
air.
These little wizards will be Death
Eaters next year, for Voldemort's lure will have choked out the last
scrap of decency from their little wands.
Hogwarts will belong to the Death
Eaters. Only the Death Eaters can survive, for they have drawn great
powers that the little wizards cannot dream of. And these powers may
cost your soul, but they put pumpkin bread on the table, pumpkin
bread and canned peaches and butterbeer, which costs two
sickles. And a wizard must feed his family. A wizard must have
sickles and knuts to feed his family.
The evil spreads over Hogwarts, and its
creeping is a great sorrow on the land. Wizards who can accio
anything and make great maps, maps that trace everybody's location,
can find no way to locate Voldemort. Big wizards can find no way
to stop the little wizards from becoming Death Eaters. Wizards who
have discovered twelve uses for dragon's blood cannot create an
educational system which stops turning one-fourth of the little
wizards evil. And the failure hangs over Hogwarts like a great
sorrow.
And so the Second War begins.
Interesting.
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