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So, to explain basically the idea I had, Harry would have run away from the Dursleys and the UK for some reason (I'm still going to figure this one out), and somehow he would end up in Japan in Mahoutokoro (if you don't know, it's a magic school, but in Japan). Harry then would learn more about how to actually connect with magic and understand magic outside of the more slim view he had in the Wizarding Britain (and leaving part of their mess behind, thankfully)

One of the reasons I'm making this fic and consequently this post is because as a person from a western country (Brazil) living in a asian country (China), I noticed that we don't really receive a lot of information from this part of the world, and I wanted to explore it in a magic sense (Harry having a cultural shock about the way people think and about other paths of magic not mentioned in Hogwarts). However, I'm for sure not Japanese and have only been there once.

So, since one of the purposes of the story is to discuss cultural differences, I wanna make sure I am not being dumb or offensive to the culture or its people. I want to ask what a story with this premise could explore (mythology, magical creatures, types of magic....)

One example of that is that I wanted Harry to learn about magic that the British may look upon as "dark"; however, I'm not sure how your culture perceives dark and light or good and evil (the idea for the harsh labels there would be something related to the Christianism rubbing off)

PS: Since Joanne is clearly stupid enough to think one small school in Japan is enough for the largest continent in the world (especially considering conflicts and etc), while Europe has at least 3 schools, then I will definitetly need to create other schools for different countries, so if you have any ideas of other countries/regions that deserve and should have their own school the send your suggestions as well! (I know for sure at very least China and India will have one each, and if you consider cultural differences and even history in these other stories, then I would be SOOO grateful)

During this summer holiday, I was thinking of doing a writing project of HP, the idea is for it to be a long piece of work where I have Harry as MC and it would happen at 3th, 4th, 5th, 6th years or in the middle of the war, and I would try to expand the worldbuilding in at least one area (wizarding culture, magic system, etc), and I wouldn’t do character bashing (even in cases like Dumbledore. I would try to recognize fairly his failures and good moments).

The problem is that I don’t have any idea what this story could be about. So here I am asking you, guys, what you would like to see in an HP fanfiction that doesn't appear as much as you would like, that can include tropes, plot ideas, types of worldbuilding, genres, basically everything. The only thing I don’t wanna do is stories of the after 7th year or before/during first and second year, Evil Harry, Good/Sane Voldemort, and ships that include a teenager with an adult, no exceptions and no time travel excuses, either, especially if in canon both characters interact with each other.

I unfortunately can promise I will in fact write it (and if is even going to be good, since I'm still learning english and never wrote a story bigger than 3000 words) because I know myself and my hability of procrastinating, even the things like, but if I start to actually write and publish the story, I'm gonna leave the link on this post