I know it's a bit odd, but I've always been into James Bond. Having just rewatched Casino Royale, I'm sort of in the mood for a good crossover between the two universes. I was just wondering if they're were any at all good ones?

 

I'm a huge fan of Bond, novels and movies alike, but this is a terrible idea.

 

The Bond novels are immense, I remember reading some of them a few years ago. But why on earth would cross them with Harry Potter? It just wouldn't work...

 

What's the point of Q making a car that runs on water and sunshine, when Harry/James/main character can just hop on their broom or apparate?

No this sounds like a bad idea.

 

Because James needs his awesome!car to fight the terrible duo of crime (The Dentists) whilst his adopted son battles their genetically engineered daughter at a magical school up in Scotland.

Basically all Bond/Potter crossovers I've seen have had the Grangers as arch-villains. And then most are abandoned before third year.

 

The Grangers? How very boring. Are they going to take over the world with their evil dentist powers? Perhaps they should get in contact with Vermin Supreme. Sounds like the authors of those fics have a bit of a dentist phobia.

 

"Do you expect me to talk!?"

"No Mr. Potter, we expect you to FLOSS!!"

 

I can imagine some ridiculous story set around book 6 or 7 when the Muggle prime minister realizes that the wizarding world is beyond the comprehension of any mortal man...with the exception of one person in specific. Then he sends out Bond to try to infiltrate the wizarding world somehow and tries to gain some sort of knowledge about what's going on. Problem is that it still has a pretty high chance of coming out unreadable since the "somehow" part would be pretty difficult to write.

It could be decent, but the odds are against it. I mean it would be ridiculous, but given the right amount of self-awareness and good writing it could turn out decent.

As for already existing stories, sorry but I don't think I remember ever reading a good Bond/Potter crossover.

 

You'd have to write it with, perhaps, a rogue muggleborn working for Q. They could enchant things, like a pair of glasses to see through anti-muggle charms. An amulet to ignore the muggle repelling charms. Maybe some sort of item to mimic a wand for the purposes of accessing Diagon Alley. That sort of thing. Really the only way it could work I think.

 

Lol, I remember reading that story. I think it was a Rorschach's Blot oneshot, maybe?

But yeah, I just don't see how a good Bond/Potter story would go. Mordecai's suggestion seems interesting, but has a high chance of devolving into a 'Queen is the true ruler of Magical Britain D8' 'I now pronounce you Lord Potter, Knight Steward of the Magical Kingdom of Britain' crap that we all have seen.

A good Bond crossover might work if we had him assigned to work out the causes of several disasters (the HBP stuff) - MI6 suspects it's terrorist action, though they don't realise it's magical terrorism. Slowly, he unravels a conspiracy (through, perhaps, some sort of muggle connection for alchemical supplies) which he initially thinks is some sort of cult.

Of course, given the MoM has a highly trained auror inside the PMO, I find it unlikely that they haven't got somebody in MI6 as well, just to head off the possibility of something like this occurring. And while Bond is good, he is hardly able to work blind against a fully informed and trained auror out to obliviate him.

 

Although that could be interesting - even more so if we see it through Bond's eyes. So If he gets obliviated, we don't actually see what happens in the memories he has removed. It might make an interesting ~mystery fic.

 

The problem with a mystery, is that if written only moderately well, a good mystery makes a very bad story. But you're certainly right that would make a good starting point, the disasters in HBP I mean. Definitely would be the place to start.

Perhaps...hmm, how could it work...Bond arrives at the site of the latest disaster. He sees a pair of aurors there, discussing whats going on. He overhears that, and then, maybe Diagon Alley is close by and the Aurors walk there? Bond follows them, somehow gets into the Leaky Cauldron, maybe his focus is enough to overcome the charms? Follows them through into Diagon Alley. Thats how he finds the wizarding world and learns about it?

 

Hmm... the Obliviators usually have some story cooked up to explain magical disasters (and by somebody more competent and knowledgeable than Arthur Weasley, if they are the go-to guys for such occurences), but they could be overworked and have missed a detail that piques Bond's curiosity. The Muggle-repelling charm initially works, but his focus eventually leads to a self-realisation of sorts, of what is happening, leading him to push forth, while the rest works.

Though I do have problems with him finding the Leaky Cauldron. It has surely stood up to more arduous tests than somebody following someone else. If nothing else, often enough in the Bond movies we've seen him follow somebody, only for them to disappear into an alley or something, foiling his plans. It would make more sense if he couldn't see the Leaky Cauldron, and simply assumed they gave him the slip - which would leave your story back to square one.

 

Thats basically the problem. Unless you leave a loophole somewhere for him to work through into the magical world, you need to have a wizard working for MI6.

 

The problem is, as I said above, there is almost certainly a wizard already working for MI6 - though his primary task would be to deflect, not manage, any potential investigations into magic.

Them hiring a muggleborn to do something like that would almost certainly come to the notice of this agent, who then realises there's a leak. Cue coverup and imprisonment of said muggleborn.

There's an idea, though. The muggleborn comes to Bond - or perhaps it's a parent of a muggleborn who was killed in purges, just to make things a little more difficult. Bond is convinced of the existence of the magical world - not fully, perhaps, but enough to have his suspicions aroused. He is open to the possibility that MI6 has been compromised, so he begins working alone, starting with what he knows (perhaps abandoned magical areas, like the Gaunt's cottage - bad example, because of the (presumed) protections Voldemort laid around it, but similar areas where magical families previously lived but are now neither occupied not protected), and working from there. Perhaps it could even escalate into an issue with MI6 believing he has gone rogue/insane (since he refuses to tell them what he's working on, and his excuses are easily proven false).

 

He can possibly visit the Potter home, or depending on the time period, the destroyed Lovegood house.

 

Why do all of you guys think of Bond infiltrating wizarding world? Why can't Harry, unused to the quiet life of Auror after killing Voldemort (I am sure it's very quiet otherwise the Aurors wouldn't be so incompetent), searching for adventures to quench his adrenaline thirst decides to join MI6. He outperforms even the best in tests and they pair him up with Bond for a mission. Said mission goes awry and Harry rescues Bond using magic secretly. Thus begins the conflict, Bond thinks Harry has infilrated MI6 (due to some inconsistencies in his rescue story) and Harry trying hard to keep his magic skills secret.

I don't think anybody will write the above story. But if they do
PS: Having some other wizard in this story either as part of villianist group or as US CIA fucking ruins the story. So don't.
PS: I wanna see Harry seducing someone (with actual smut)

 

That sounds too much like a super-Harry fic.

Harry is average at best- except in defence- with no badassery.

Bond is Bond... nuff said.