I have been in a run of reading harry potter fics the past few weeks and come up with this little weird idea for a different take on the series.
the start is like other and Harry gets sent to live with his evil uncle and aunt. The change is about the age of five or so or something like that. Vernon somehow pulls he head out of his behind and the family attands something rather diffferent for them. They end up attanding a greatfull dead concert. the thiing with this setup is that the dead are also wizards and are not worried about casting magic in the open....with how many people at a dead head event are on some type of mind altering drug everyone is going to just think they are seeing things. and the people who are not wacked out are just going to think its part of the show. the thing is harry does something magical and one of the band members see it and figure out he is a magical caster. they decide to take him under thier wing and after seeing how he is treated by his inlaws, it works out better for him and his family is happy to get rid of the freak as they call him.
now, the idea of harry growing up from that point on to understand magic and have his talent worked with in a different way then the books. everyone there uses wands, the greatfull dead use wandless magic and for longer stuff use music and he learns to be a band member and get into the whole drug scence....which leads to a new name. Harry Pothead, who does not use a wand for magic, and can not brew a potinn to save his life...much to the potions teachers fear....instead he uses a joint and a bag of weed for doing some really weird Sh&&. Harry showing up wearing tie died choths, sunglasses and carry his fav weapon, a six string on his back, and the never ending bag of weed from the masters of the stuff cheach and chong with ways to mix different types of weed for diffent effects and his nowhow of for to many drugs then anyone should now at his age. the last thing to think about is how many childrenn will he father in his years at school after he gets found....and the fight with dumbledork with the band and thier way of magic....
his breaking the rule of underage magic every time he turns around cause his way does not get blimbed by anyone. depending on the way he needs, rolling a joint or strum a few bars on the six string to peform magic whichs gets teachers banging thier heads trying to under stand and students loveing it....