There have been some interesting fusions in the past and there are some interesting fusions now.

Taure's Watcher,The Sorting Cat's Harry Potter: The Last Avatar, Frantic Author's He Dreams of Stars just to name a few.

But certainly there are many more other 'verses that could merge well with the Harry Potter world?

In this thread, we could suggest some of them and our reasons for doing so.

To begin, I'll suggest The Addams Family, the 1964 TV series version, which in my eyes is superior to the 90s movies re-imagining. Here are my reasons:

 

Ishtar, Jeconais, and Tenhawk have all done Addams Family/HP crossovers that tick off many, if not most, of your list. Ishtar's sucks because it somehow takes the essentially Addams-ness out of the Addams family and turns them into just slightly eccentric but blandly wholesome Mary Sues who are just there to make British wizards look bad. Jeconais's series sucks because it turns Harry and Wednesday into blatant Sues, features an amiable, genial and adult Snape as a primary viewpoint character, and showcases Tim's strange fascination with codependent and unhealthy relationships. Tenhawk's only features Harry as a peripheral character, also crosses with Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and uses a truly staggering amount of fanon in his worldbuilding.

All three are basically abandoned, although Jeconais will post a new chapter about once a year maybe. Tenhawk has broken into professional writing and doesn't have time to do fanfic anymore, and Ishtar fell off the internet right about the time everyone realized how absolutely creepy her husband is.

 

With the right amount of world building, you can fuse HP world with practically anything you want (Except Naruto, it will always fail). The real problem is to fuse them without it loosing the 'Harry Potterness'.

 

Challenge fucking accepted.

I think I already have ~2k words written somewhere.

Give it a couple months with my current update speeds, though.

 

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell. Fantastic book! If you haven't you should go read it now and then read the rest of this post. I'll wait.

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So! How about we turn Harry Potter into an orphan under the tutelage of Childermass? Or perhaps he is one of Jonathan Strange's students? Or he could possibly start as a nephew to Mr Norrell and his first apprentice?

Seems to me that the pure-blood customs of HP canon align themselves quite well with 19th century mentality. Lucius Malfoy as a gentleman in London society makes perfect sense.

Tom Riddle, of course, would slot perfectly into this world, probably styling himself as an heir to the Raven King. Perhaps after the events of the novel, HP and Tom Riddle emerge as the new polar pair in the realm of English Magic?

 

I alway thought Stargate would work well. If you don't want to handle SG-1 you can just use the AU excuse.

 

I always thought Supernatural could be pretty good, of course that was nothing but utter disappointment. In FF.net there is like 1/1000 chance of the story not being slash...

 

..I've never seen a Supernatural story that wasn't slash. I'm pretty sure that h/c Wincest slashfics make up the entirety of the online fandom.

 

Most of the HP/Supernatural crossovers I've seen (in passing) usually have Harry taking it up the pooper from Castiel or Loki/Gabriel.

 

I came up with an idea for an HP/Stargate fusion that I never got around to writing.

Basically, everything technological in the series was actually magical: the Stargate is a magical portal to other worlds, the Goa'uld aren't physical parasites but rather powerful non-corporeal beings which possess people magically. In this version of the universe there would be no spaceships: the only way to travel between planets is via Stargate.

The story would then have the British Ministry of Magic finding the Stargate in Egypt in the early 1900s and figuring out how to activate it post-Voldemort. A team of British wizards go through the gate, including Harry.

Cue planet-hopping hi-jinx.

(Alternative version: set it in the early 1900s and have a young Dumbledore as the protagonist).

As noted above, I also think Buffy can fuse well with HP -- mostly in the form of HP characters and their backstory inserted into the Buffyverse, with a suitable expansion of magic.

 

Yes, yes and thousand times yes. It would be much darker than HP but if it works... It would be for the best if he started as a nephew of Mr. Norrel, meeting Strange only later. The British Raj, African Colonisation and so many other awesome historical events.

And the magical world, so many open worlds, the Fair Folk, We could always add some Celtic and Nordic elements, not the gods obviously, but some related to them. Lucius and the other Death Eaters could work perfectly as noblemen interested in magic.

But I think adding Voldemort would make it predictable or at least cut many of the paths. And of course, the King Crow!

I loved it. Should I dare to try? Maybe, it would be my first, so it would suck. If someone more experienced will give it a try... If not, maybe I should.

 

That sounds awesome.

Or, Harry with Albus' memories. *hint*

 

This is the best idea I've seen on DLP in ages, and if I weren't so awful at updating the fics I'm writing anyway, I'd be extremely tempted to have a crack at it myself.

 

HP/Hunger Games is an example of a very compatible crossover pairing, IMO. HP has all the needed components required to build something like the Hunger Games - sadists and/or madmen in positions of power, the ability to use magic to make a credible "arena," and the potential to use magic to kill, especially if you have good training or instincts for fighting. Magic also reduces the importance of size and strength even more than in Hunger Games.

The challenge of the crossover isn't in setting up the basic mechanics, but in making the story interesting in its own right. The author would want to add some of his own innovations so that the story doesn't turn into a straight retelling of the plot of Hunger Games with Harry Potter characters.

 

Taure wrote out a massive summary at one point of an HP/Hunger Games fic that sounded pretty cool.

 

Eh, honestly? If you're going to lop out everything that made Stargate Stargate (which includes the films, the novels, and the various TV shows), you might as well just write up your own fictional universe and cross it with Harry Potter.

It's exactly like Harry and his Quidditch teammates controlling golem-like mecha, fighting magical, bug-like horrors across the galaxy, and then calling it a Starship Troopers crossover.

 

I'm pretty sure the Ancients made the Stargates :awesome

Joking aside, what Taure suggested is a fusion, which is the entire point of the thread.

 

What made Stargate?

It had three unique selling points:

1. Travel to other worlds via foot rather than spaceship.

2. Bad guys who work by possession.

3. Combination of mythology with aliens.

All of that is preserved. I'd even go so far as to say that it works better with magic than technology, as a lot of the technology in the show really stretched belief. Especially the superhuman abilities of "advanced humans".

 

It even had Merlin, goddammit!

 

Yeah, there's a lot of Clarke's Third Law abuse in Stargate. The Nox are basically wizards. They resurrect the dead through a ritual by praying over the corpse. That's fucking magic.