HP/Avatar fusion musings

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I spent about 10 minutes pondering the lack of entertaining Avatar/Harry Potter crossovers on the internet, and pondering whether I wanted to bother even outlining one. I decided I didn't-- HP fanfic is just too hard to write. Takes too much preparation and research. Even 2 years ago, when I was writing plenty of HP fic, I frequently invented my own magic names and stuff because I couldn't be bothered to fact-check with the books.

But I couldn't resist making a "What If They Were Sorted" list for the ATLA characters. Here you go.

Slytherin:
Toph
Azula
Mai
Jet

Ravenclaw:
Sokka
Teo
Song

Gryffindor:
Aang
Katara
Yue
Haru

Hufflepuff:
Zuko
Ty Lee
Suki
Jin


Toph is a born Slytherin, from the secret combat identity to lying to her parents to hustling street-people to being a pain in the ass. Love that girl.

Azula and Jet are also Slytherins, for basically the same reason. They just also happen to be crazy and malicious, two things Toph is not.

Sokka is a Ravenclaw, because even though he's an idiot, he can be smart sometimes, and seems to relish in knowledge for knowledge's sake.

Aang, Katara, Yue... Gryffindor, because they each have the hero's heart. So does Haru, though he's a bit like Neville I think.

Ty Lee, Suki...Hufflepuffs. These are awesomely talented and professional ladies who know their stuff and practice till they kick ass. I stuck Jin here because I've no idea where to put her.

Zuko is a also Hufflepuff, because his most defining feature is that he never gives up, he never stops trying, and he never backs down. He may be an immature asshat sometimes, but you can't say he's not a hard worker. (Second choice would be Gryffindor; anyone who thinks he'd be Slytherin needs their head examined)

Comments

[jakia.livejournal.com]

I agree, and would love to read a nice HP/Avatar crossover.

But you know what I'd enjoy more?

A Naruto/HP crossover. A well-written one. For some reason, Naruto/HP seems more plausible than Avatar/HP. Same timeline, I suppose?

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

I would say it's more plausible because the plots are essentially the same story: a young boy in supernatural school has special hidden destiny, grows up with peers and learns to use his abilities. It's merely the decoration that's different. They even begin at about the same age.

Although, take out "school" from that summary, and its the ATLA plotline too.

I actually found a pretty cool Naruto crossover fic, once. I can't remember what it was called. But it had Naruto, Hinata, and a few other characters being sent as adult ANBU to act as guardians of Hogwarts grounds, watchdogs of a sort. It was a good action fic. Unfortunately I just tried to find it on FFNET, and couldn't, just a lot of yaoi fics or lame ones.

[jakia.livejournal.com]

I know! Yaoi is almost all I can find in the Naruto section. Avatar...doesn't have that big of a love for yaoi (other than jet/zuko). It's weird.

I think I know what fic you're talking about, I just can't remember what it's called. Hm...

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

For a long time, like the first two years of the fandom, Naruto was almost exclusively yaoi. Now its evened out a lot-- there's a decent amount of het fic to be found for numerous pairings, canon and unconventional.

I've noticed how het-normative ATLA fic is. I'd guess this comes from two things:

1) the fact that Zuko doesn't have any males his age to interact with in the cast except Aang's group or Jet, neither of which are easily to work with in terms of arranging story situations. Except Jet, because he's great.

2) Sokka and Aang have, like, ZERO chemistry. They're like two alien species, and thus no one's willing to write fic about them.