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swatkatA recent fic (Unresolved Tensions and Peace Treaties Time Forgot [Bagshot, B.] by sexonastick) the other day reminded me just how much I love Hogwarts AUs. I heart AUs of all sorts -- pirate AUs, space AUs, boarding school AUs, historical AUs, and so on. But Hogwarts fusion AUs especially are something I can never get enough of, and the last round of memeing just made me want more. I mean, wouldn't you want to read more about the adventures of Myka Bering, Ravenclaw Prefect and future Head Girl, and HG Wells, mad Slytherin (bordering on Ravenclaw) genius who just really wants to get into Myka's pants? For the sake of scientific curiosity, of course - she's only slept with a couple of Ravenclaws, and none of them female. And maybe some crack time travel adventures featuring a time turner, dinosaurs in the Forbidden Forest, one Pete Lattimer (Gryffindor Beater, Myka's best friend) and ickle Claudia (Ravenclaw second year, she just really looks up to Myka). Or the epic and unlikely friendship of Richard Cypher, Gryffindor Seeker, and Cara Mason, Hufflepuff Beater, forged after that infamous Quidditch match in which Cara hit Richard squarely on the head with the Bludger. Kahlan, of course, is the Slytherin Prefect, who is being relentlessly pursued by that slimy Rahl, Richard's half-brother and the current Head Boy. Then Nicci can jump into the fray and there can be SHENANIGANS, while Headmaster Zeddicus benevolently looks on and eats a lot. And so on. The possibilities are endless!*
* [I still want to write that Merlin Quidditch fusion AU, where Morgana Le Fay is Seeker for the Holyhead Harpies (even though her name or her surname does not begin with a 'G', and no, her middle name doesn't either, and NO SHE IS NOT CHANGING HER NAME). Her rivalry with Arthur Pendragon (who also happens to be her stepbrother)—currently Beater and Captain of the Montrose Magpies—is legendary, ranging back from their Hogwarts days (Arthur took great pleasure in aiming every Bludger at Morgana's head; however, Slytherin usually won). The Harpies, however, lost their British and Irish League as well as their European League matches to the Magpies the previous season, much to Morgana's dismay (which was further increased when the Quidditch Today only printed a tiny, five-page interview of hers and DID AN ENTIRE PHOTOSHOOT WITH ARTHUR). Apparently Merlin is that fandom I can't quite get over.]
And now I've gone and re-read a bunch of Hogwarts AUs:
+ The not toothache inducing adventures of Myka and Helena at Hogwarts bythedevilsheart: Adorable fluff that really, really makes me want to read A LOT more about Myka and Helena meeting at wand point.
+ John Egbert and the Goblet of Sick Fires by tigerpellets: Homestuck! With shiny art and Vriska playing an adorable cameo (among others)! A WIP I ♥.
+ No Glory Descends by gatty: Vriska-centric, in which Vriska is her very special brand of fucked up and heartbreaking. Aaaah.
Tell me about your favourite Hogwarts AUs, flist! What fandom should have more of them? Where would YOU sort your favourite characters? Who would play Quidditch? Who is Muggle-born? Etcetc.
sexonastick) the other day reminded me just how much I love Hogwarts AUs. I heart AUs of all sorts -- pirate AUs, space AUs, boarding school AUs, historical AUs, and so on. But Hogwarts fusion AUs especially are something I can never get enough of, and the last round of memeing just made me want more. I mean, wouldn't you want to read more about the adventures of Myka Bering, Ravenclaw Prefect and future Head Girl, and HG Wells, mad Slytherin (bordering on Ravenclaw) genius who just really wants to get into Myka's pants? For the sake of scientific curiosity, of course - she's only slept with a couple of Ravenclaws, and none of them female. And maybe some crack time travel adventures featuring a time turner, dinosaurs in the Forbidden Forest, one Pete Lattimer (Gryffindor Beater, Myka's best friend) and ickle Claudia (Ravenclaw second year, she just really looks up to Myka). Or the epic and unlikely friendship of Richard Cypher, Gryffindor Seeker, and Cara Mason, Hufflepuff Beater, forged after that infamous Quidditch match in which Cara hit Richard squarely on the head with the Bludger. Kahlan, of course, is the Slytherin Prefect, who is being relentlessly pursued by that slimy Rahl, Richard's half-brother and the current Head Boy. Then Nicci can jump into the fray and there can be SHENANIGANS, while Headmaster Zeddicus benevolently looks on and eats a lot. And so on. The possibilities are endless!* * [I still want to write that Merlin Quidditch fusion AU, where Morgana Le Fay is Seeker for the Holyhead Harpies (even though her name or her surname does not begin with a 'G', and no, her middle name doesn't either, and NO SHE IS NOT CHANGING HER NAME). Her rivalry with Arthur Pendragon (who also happens to be her stepbrother)—currently Beater and Captain of the Montrose Magpies—is legendary, ranging back from their Hogwarts days (Arthur took great pleasure in aiming every Bludger at Morgana's head; however, Slytherin usually won). The Harpies, however, lost their British and Irish League as well as their European League matches to the Magpies the previous season, much to Morgana's dismay (which was further increased when the Quidditch Today only printed a tiny, five-page interview of hers and DID AN ENTIRE PHOTOSHOOT WITH ARTHUR). Apparently Merlin is that fandom I can't quite get over.]
And now I've gone and re-read a bunch of Hogwarts AUs:
+ The not toothache inducing adventures of Myka and Helena at Hogwarts by
thedevilsheart: Adorable fluff that really, really makes me want to read A LOT more about Myka and Helena meeting at wand point.+ John Egbert and the Goblet of Sick Fires by tigerpellets: Homestuck! With shiny art and Vriska playing an adorable cameo (among others)! A WIP I ♥.
+ No Glory Descends by gatty: Vriska-centric, in which Vriska is her very special brand of fucked up and heartbreaking. Aaaah.
Tell me about your favourite Hogwarts AUs, flist! What fandom should have more of them? Where would YOU sort your favourite characters? Who would play Quidditch? Who is Muggle-born? Etcetc.
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Date: 2012-09-06 10:17 pm (UTC)Mr Bennet would be a former Ravenclaw, of course, and I imagined Mrs Bennet as a Muggle (she'd totally have been a Crabbe-and-Goyle-style Slytherin if she weren't, though). Jane's a Hufflepuff, and Elizabeth and Lydia raging Gryffindors (all three play Quidditch--Seeker, Chaser and Beater respectively--though only Lydia is seriously into it). Mary and Kitty got thrown into Gryffindor too, mostly because it fits less badly than anywhere else. Mr Collins is a Squib. Wickham's one of the jerkass Gryffindors you get occasionally; in a different way, so is Lady Catherine. Charlotte Lucas would have been Slytherin, but she's Muggleborn, so she ends up in Ravenclaw with Darcy; the Hat considered Slytherin for him for maybe two seconds. They're in the same year and become friends, which ends up being really awkward for her in later years (Elizabeth is seven years younger, so they don't interact with her there). Bingley's a Muggleborn Hufflepuff in Jane's year, who Darcy takes under his wing, and Georgiana's in Hufflepuff too. I imagine there's some kind of intrigue with proto-proto-Death Eaters and much sharper boundaries between Muggle and wizarding society, just because they're so different (especially wrt gender and such).
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Date: 2012-09-07 05:12 pm (UTC)Elizabeth is ridiculously Gryffindor, though I'm not sure if Darcy is Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. Why would you sort him into Ravenclaw, if I may ask?
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Date: 2012-09-07 08:25 pm (UTC)I would never have thought of Hufflepuff for Darcy! I considered Slytherin because he's a bit of a schemer--he's very like Emma in some ways (though much more successful, if you think about it), but I went for Ravenclaw because, well, here are some of the quotes:
In understanding, Darcy was the superior. Bingley was by no means deficient, but Darcy was clever.
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"I am astonished," said Miss Bingley, "that my father should have left so small a collection of books.—What a delightful library you have at Pemberley, Mr. Darcy!"
"It ought to be good," he replied, "it has been the work of many generations."
"And then you have added so much to it yourself, you are always buying books."
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"All this she must possess," added Darcy, "and to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."
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"He [Darcy] studies too much for words of four syllables."
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Darcy, at whom it was all aimed, was still inflexibly studious.
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"There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome."
"And your defect is a propensity to hate every body."
"And yours," he replied with a smile, "is wilfully to misunderstand them."
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"What think you of books?" said he, smiling.
"Books -- Oh! no. -- I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings."
"I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. -- We may compare our different opinions."
He could just be a clever, bookish, argumentative, verbose member of another House who flirts via philosophical debate, à la Hermione, but ... yeah, I'm thinking Ravenclaw.