So a while ago I was searching for HP crossovers, mainly because I like them, since the HP world is very easy to merge with other books/series, but also because I seriously needed a break from the usual dark!Harry fics that I read.

At any rate, I was browsing FFnet through its search engine in order the find the aforementioned x-overs, when I came upon this jewel. Now, I didn't like it instantly. Hell, had I not been so goddamn bored, I'd probably have ignored it. Why, you ask?

Because it's a Harry Potter/Card Captor Sakura crossover. (Most of you will probably now what that last part means. If you don't... well, use Google. )

Alright... you're all probably going "wtf?" right about now.

To be honest, that's exactly what I did. I read the summary, blinked, blinked again, then felt a near irrepressible need to smash my head against my desk. I'd seen a few episodes of the Card Captor Sakura anime a few years ago, and thought it wasn't as bad as some people had told me it was. Of course, that was a few years ago. Today, however, my recently acquired darkness-obsessed mindset cried out against the abortion that I imagined a Harry Potter/CCS crossover would be.

Still... I was bored, and boredom can lead people to do things that they'd never do otherwise.

Thus, I decided to check the fic out. I was... pleasantly surprised. Instead of the fluffy pile of shit I expected, I got a good fic that had a smart!post GOF!Harry and Fleur of all people travelling to Japan to help out (that's right, no "Harry needs protection and Dumbledore calls upon *insert other series character here") the main character of the CCS series at Dumbledore's behest. What's even better - it was actually well explained. Dumbles didn't just get up and say "Harry, get your ass to [insert location here]" without anything other than a shitty excuse for merging both worlds, but with an actually reasonable explanation. Overall, 'twas great, and it kept me reading until...

...I reached the last chapter (they were short) and found out that the last time the fic had been updated was in 2001. Obviously abandoned. *Angst*

Still, my curiosity was piqued, so I decided to do a bit of digging. Just for kicks.

Turns out there's this moderately large community in the Card Captor Sakura fandom dedicated to CCS/Harry Potter crossovers. Using C2s, I managed to find like a 100+ of them. By this moment, I was thinking something along the lines of "great, if some of these ones are as good as the one I just read, I'll have a great way to pass the time." So I checked them out.

Dear Jesus, it was awful. I'll spare you the details, but it was an abortion of epic proportions. Canon pairings, no originality, no explanation for merging the two worlds, and last, but definitely not least... lil' bitch!Harry.


In the end, I left the CCS section with a bad taste in my mouth.


So, why did I post this? My answer...

1) I wanted to discuss the matter with intelligent people and not the idiots on my MSN contact list.

2) So people could discuss about their own experiences with things like this.

3) So those (probably few) members of our community who have actually seen good HP/CCS crossovers can talk about them.

 

Hmm the only decent one I've seen is Card Captor Harry by Shadow Crystal Mage. Its the best CCS crossover I've seen so far. Though others have argued that it seems plotless. *shrugs* to each their own i guess. It should be in the alternate's somewhere i think...

 

I used to watch the anime, liked it too. (I was like 7 >_>) A while ago I came upon a CCS crossover as well. But I couldn't get into it as I haven't seen the show/series in about 8 years, I'd forgoten the characters.

What I'd rather rant about, is the lack of any other good crossovers. Like a smallville one I'd read a few months or go, great idea, bad exicution. It seemed like it would go pretty good, Smart!Dark!Superpowered!Harry, indy too. Then, oh then. He tried to splice it with x-men.

>_< I wish people would get it into their heads that if its not a paradoy, merging more than one universe together at a time gives results better left in the closet. From that point on, the writing took a nose-dive and he stopped updating.

Made me so mad...

 

i don't really know what this ccs show is all about but i *was* going to watch it but never had the chance to and now, i don't think i ever will. Anyway, the ccs/hp i've read is all done by Shadow Crystal Mage and the only reason i've even ever heard of the ccs was because of the author shadow crystal so i have no idea what to expect.

About the fic, it was a pretty decent story and very well done. again, i tried searching for other stories like this one and sad to say it's all a bunch of crap where i couldn't even pass the first 5 sentences. Since then, which was a very long time ago, i've given up on it.

 

Really? Sigh... well, I guess that's just another reason to hate FFnet's nazi admins. Pisses me off, though. No wonder I couldn't find anything dark when I searched.