If you ever wanna kill the mood for Harry Potter/Marvel/DC crossovers. Just take a jump on over to fanfiction.net and read the stories by MegaMatt.

 

I was expecting a new Crack Crossover from Jon.

I am disappointed.

 

The quality of the stories themselves might be sad but you have to appreciate his update rate. It's kind of ridiculous how many he's writing and updating simultaneously. It seems like every time I run across his stuff there's something exactly the same as everything else, but technically new.

 

Watermage has one too, though the name escapes me.

 

Good HP/Comics crossovers are (and always have been) few and far between. Recently, the popularity of comic book movies has been the catalyst for something of a boom in crossover production, but most of those are limp, poorly-written, Harry/Bruce Banner or Harry/Tony Stark, or Harry/Loki hurt/comfort slash... because, I guess these days if something engorges the genitals for a passing moment, that means one is sufficiently inspired to write a story about it.

Oh, wait; they aren't, which is why most of those stories get abandoned after a couple chapters with word counts in the hundreds. :facepalm
Anyway.

Wading through the shit has gotten harder, but the number of decent stories may be making a slow climb. You know, like Sisyphus.

To Ride Upon Svadilfari -In Progress- HP/Thor, starring a Harry and Hermione who were aurors, before becoming longtime partners with the Hit Wizards. The canon pairings are in place until the two find themselves in the Marvel reality, with no readily apparent way to get back, so who knows which way the pairings will go, now. Some have found the opening chapters hard to slog through. If you're into comic crossovers for the fights, there are a few here, but they're interspersed with a lot of intrigue, internal monologues, and self examination. You've probably already seen this in the Almost Recommended thread.

Grim Fate -Complete- Harry helps the X-Men during the Dark Phoenix storyline. A big twist is that it takes place fifty years after the Battle of Hogwarts, and Harry killed Voldemort back in 1940. This is not really a recommendation because I have not read the story, but I mention it because I am reading the sequel.

Grim Vengeance -In Progress- Twenty years after the events of Grim Fate, Harry gets a call from Nick Fury to help the newly-formed Avengers deal with Loki, during the events of the Avengers movie.

EDIT: I should note that the author of the Grim stories has the annoying habit of dipping into present tense from time to time, but it's still less irritating than reading a story written entirely in first person by an amateur writer.
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A third Path to the Future -In Progress- The Fantastic Four enter the Negative Zone and end up running into a Harry Potter who has been trapped there for years. He follows them back to their world and begins to make waves in the Marvel Universe. Yes, the pairing falls under the "harem" category, but in nowhere even remotely approaching the numbers, shamelessness, and shallowness of the slew of MegaMatt stories, so you certainly won't be bombarded by cookie cutter scenes out of stale 90's pornos every time you read a chapter. Harry's pretty powerful, but he's not a twat about it, and does not effortlessly dominate fights versus Marvel's heavy hitters. While this story does, in some ways, run alongside the storylines of the Marvel movie studio's universe, the story usually only briefly visits them, in favor of following Harry's own exploits alongside some of the X-Men, and Emma Frost's maneuvering around her 'family' and the members of the Hellfire Club.

Mr Potter Goes to Smallville -In Progress- This story is listed as HP/Smallville, but... Honestly, it could have just been listed as HP/DC. Clark is already Superman, there's Zatanna, Green Arrow, Aquaman, and so on. Prepare to be frustrated, at least mildly, though: Despite having spent four years as head auror, Harry comes off as rather naive and inexperienced in this story, and gets really badly hoodwinked at one point, which has ramifications for several chapters. The author tries to justify why Harry fell into this trap so easily, later on, but it comes off feeling like an attempt to appease annoyed readers with flimsy magical jiggery pokery that doesn't compensate for the frustration. This falls into that middle ground where it's not badly written (it's not the typical horse shit one has to wade through in HP/Comics, anyway), but some of the characterization and handling of plot will conspire to make you grind your teeth. Harry doesn't have to be perfect, but after years as a married man and an auror (with four of those as Head Auror), he really shouldn't come across as having all the savvy, skill, and awareness of Half-Blood Prince era Harry - you can chalk it up to him being a fish out of water, what with all the superhero stuff he now finds himself embroiled in, but (for me) that just doesn't wash.

Weapons of Magic: A Harry Potter and Raven story -In Progress- I'm mentioning this one solely because I'm desperate -desperate- for a fucking Harry/Raven story that isn't complete shit, or abandoned, or abandoned and complete shit. The title would seemingly make it obvious that it's HP/Teen Titans, but it's actually the sequel to a HP/Artemis Fowl story (which, again, I have not read); which makes this more of a "HP/Artemis Fowl with Raven thrown in for good measure" story than a HP/Comics crossover, at least one other Titans character has made some appearances. Since this story takes place in a reality that is home to the Harry and Artemis world, while the DC world is in an alternate reality, you probably won't be seeing many other DC characters.

 

Well my Harry Potter/Marvel crossover from way back when made it into the library so someone thought it was worth reading.

Harry Potter: Agent of MI6 (Dark Lord Potter)
Harry Potter: Agent of MI6 (Fanfiction.net)

 

I recommend skipping Mr Potter Goes to Smallville . Completely. Don't even bother looking at it. Don't look past the title, don't bother with the summary and by all that is holy don't read the last chapter, because if there was ever a single thing I detested most in fanfics about Harry Potter is the retarded, nonsensical even, 'forgiveness' factor he has.

 

I haven't read the Smallville fic (not having seen smallville and not wanting spoilers) but it's fairly certain to be a SI at some point, given the author's predilections.

 

It all depends on how much the reader is willing to forgive, in order to read HP/Comics. Sometimes, the desperation wins (at least for a little while - much like me with my Harry/Raven).

I think the thing that rankles the most is the notion of Harry coming off as knowing less about magic, or at least less powerful/practical magic than someone who casts spells by fuckin' speaking backwards! However, that's less about the story and more my problem with the basic concept of Zatanna's spellcasting: Some ridiculous and embarrassingly juvenile nonsense born from a combination of Silver Age comic sensibilities, the oppressive presence of the Comics Code Authority, authorial laziness, and the fact that the main target audience for comics back then were prepubescent boys - in other words, "They're just kids, they won't care." 'nikcuF lleh.

The fact that some (truly awful) fan fic writers try to get away with the cheesy backwards spelling, instead of coming up with their own incantations, should be an indication of just how lame that idea is.

She has a nice, iconic, look, and I have no problem with the concept of her (I said, sincerely wishing to avoid displeasing the great Paul Dini)... but those incantations. Ugh. :facepalm

SI?

 

Self-insert perhaps?

 

SI = Self Insert.

Edit: Ninja'd. The name of Water Mage's fic is Project M, and it's one of the only tolerable HP/comic crosses out there. Pretty similar in some ways to Wand and Shield, but with more grounding in the comics than the movies.

Edit: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4602483/1/Project-M

 

Harry Potter and the Invincible Techno-mage is around 2.5-3/5. Really goes downhill towards the end though.

 

Oh... of course. I think the reference to the story being SI threw me, since it's usually characters, specifically, that get that label slapped on them.

Well, if the Smallville crossover is a self insert, it's apparently a very modest writer. After all, self inserts tend to be more super!Harry than we-hope-he's-competent-but-who-knows!Harry.

 

This Harry is quite pathetic. In terms of personality and magic knowledge. It's honest to god sad, I was somewhat enjoying it, guiltily though I'll admit, and was kind of hoping to read about how Harry would slap Constantine's shit around, but after that scene with Ginny where he just acts all meekly, forgives her for all the shit she's caused him and she actually acts indignant about the whole thing just a few paragraphs above in her monologue, I can't bother to read it any further.

 

How did you come to this conclusion?

 

Oh, it's not Harry. It's always some random OC that plays a mysterious role for the entire story, then in the end turns out to have orchestrated the entire plot to some degree. I might be wrong - he might have stopped doing that. But he did it in every story I read by him, so I wouldn't predict otherwise.

 

Wait, you actually liked that Story?

The one that relentlessly Bashes Dumbledore, gives Harry awesome friends in all four Houses (and all but one of them girls), and constantly reminds us that (his vision of) Wizarding Britain is so pathetically stupid and primitive compared to everyone else?

I will admit it has some nice ideas, but between the Bashing and part-Sue Harry, it was overall quite lousy.