Uncle Quentin's Spy
Summary: In the summer following her 4th year at Hogwarts, Hermione...
Summary: In the summer following her 4th year at Hogwarts, Hermione...
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Interesting. Shades of Buffy, with a subtle but very real attraction between Harry and Hermione.
Will be reading.
You're really rocking the HP fics, aren't you?
This is interesting. HP and Buffy tend to be a common fanfiction cross, but rarely is it done well. I like the tone of this though, and what especially seems promising is that Harry, Hermione, and the current Slayer all seem important. Harry is getting a lot of characterization, Hermione has her uses without being ridiculous, and the Slayer seems legitimately dangerous even if the reality can't quite live up to the reputation.
Quentin swooping in to pick up Harry and Hermione as agents is very well timed here, with a large threat brewing that the Wizards are eager to ignore, and a particularly brutal press period for Harry on top of that.
Oh, this is very good. I wonder how Harry and Hermione's actions will butterfly things on the Buffy side, though. Also, will they be sent to Sunnydale after graduating from Hogwarts? They'd be around Buffy's age, after all.
Given that, as far as I can recall, no vampires every actually appear in HP, you can swap that bit out without damaging anything.I can't really like this at all. In the beginning of things Harry Potter and Buffy have stupidly incompatible metaphysics and cultures. They just don't slot in well. I mean Vampires as full fledged Sapients in Hp if considered dark and have magical food that works for sustenance and their own society.
One does. At Slughorn's party. As some background character. But you are correct that they are easily replaced without altering Harry Potter in a significant way.Given that, as far as I can recall, no vampires every actually appear in HP, you can swap that bit out without damaging anything.
I can't really like this at all. In the beginning of things Harry Potter and Buffy have stupidly incompatible metaphysics and cultures. They just don't slot in well. I mean Vampires as full fledged Sapients in Hp if considered dark and have magical food that works for sustenance and their own society.
Then there's Magic and it's opness and abject dominance of combat in middle ground to an obscenely large degree before you start hitting Buffy high high level bullshit.
A large quoroum of demons are literally chumps for Wizards and hostile in the sense they'd be eradicated marginalized or tamed like what happened to most magical threats.
I mean the Slayer boost would have to be vastly more impressive than what you get in canon to really matter before the sheer weight of wizards. Not to mention Wizard magic trivializes many many magical healing issues that happened in Buffy canon.
I mean you could with alot of work fuse the canons well but it would likely take a deep respect for both world and alter the nature of wizarding culture in face of more extant extradimensional threats.
Which brings me to my next reason for disliking it. There is not respect for Harry Potters world, wizarding culture, or the wizarding world. The author starts on the side of Buffy and proceeds to slam on them from position of Buffies more 'serious' concerns and leave wizard 'alone' to stand as evil in the light ot this darker dangerous moonlight world despite apocalypse crafters.
Despite different style of magic that everyone can learn. Despite how the presence of wizards who stand about other magic users and demonic incursion work, despite the government being in on the masquerade in both world.
Oh our characters feel important but there a clear side to thing.
I mean Dumbledores simply being a prick or barmy for doing a contact black out or won't simply talk about reasonable master containment reasons.
The Watchers don't have potioneers cause of the fanon bias against muggleborns in class and not the actual distatse for Harry and co in particular. And this is somehow an obstacle in the least. I mean books exist and they have Money.
Wizards despite the fact they pest control everything else, have contact with muggle governments don't do things about demons that aren't on their door step.
Despite the long and storied histories of the Watchers and there noble lines and their magician they don't have a militant pureblood line or two.
And the Masquerade that they totally agreed with before the statute even existed, and push forward despite industrialization favoring them (the watcher) is suddenly the Wizards fault.
Do note - that's the justification for hiding magic as explained by a kindly but none-too-bright man to an 11-year-old. There are a lot of much better reasons to explain it, if you wish to give them the benefit of the doubt.Indeed. Just as they do not bother with curing cancer or removing pandemies, and generally do not care at all if muggles die from hunger. Did you even read Harry Potter? Wizards in canon are said to have hidden their entire world just so they do not have to help muggles! They are, in canon, just that damn selfish.
Do note - that's the justification for hiding magic as explained by a kindly but none-too-bright man to an 11-year-old. There are a lot of much better reasons to explain it, if you wish to give them the benefit of the doubt.
That said, they could certainly do a lot more for us that they do without compromising their secrecy - just a couple wizards working as orderlies in each muggle hospital, subtly casting healing charms on the patients, cleaning charms on the rooms, and repair charms on the equipment, would save a lot of lives. But that doesn't make them particularly selfish - how many lives would be saved if every American donated 20% of their disposable income to 3rd-world starvation relief charities?
Hagrid is simple but there is no indication that he has a different opinion than most wizards. No one ever corrects this view. The majority of wizards seems to have no problem with thinking they hide so they do not have to help muggles.Again - the canon explanation doesn't make sense because it's given by a dim and simple man to someone who is too young to notice how bad an explanation it is and follow up with more questions. We never hear any competent, intellectual adult weigh in on the matter. Do you really think that, say, Dumbledore would give that answer? No, he'd probably say something about how it would simply to be cruel to show the wider world all the wonderful, incredible things magic can do, then tell them that only 0.01% of them will ever be able to do it. Moody, on the other hand, would probably point out that wizardkind is outnumbered 10,000:1, and that if even 10% of muggles decide the old 'witch-burning' movement had the right idea, they'd be in a war that nobody wins.
No one corrects this view because it never comes up in discussion. We only have Hagrid's view and therefore no way to judge whether or not said view is typical.Hagrid is simple but there is no indication that he has a different opinion than most wizards. No one ever corrects this view. The majority of wizards seems to have no problem with thinking they hide so they do not have to help muggles.
Which, given canon descriptions of other wizards, makes him an average wizard in that regard.That the kind, gentle wizard accepts and repeats a simple, childish explanation like that tells us only that he's rather simple and has poor critical thinking skills.
Yeah, how dare they all not spend every hour of every day in a sweatshop churning out potions and magical items? Those greedy bastards.
You're still assuming that the only reason given in-story is the only reason there is.
Though this thread isn't the place for attempts to justify all the horrors barely hidden in HP's Wizarding Britain. This story is set in an alternate universe. It's a crossover with its own background and explanations.
The bolded line would just tend to piss off a lot of the people who are asking. Starfox5 said something a bit different from that, as she actually is explaining why things work that way in this setting.This is the part you should have started with honestly. The best way to deal with these complaints is "It works this way in this story because I say it does!" and point back to that every time someone says whatever isn't like that in canon.
I'm not suggesting that Hagrid is the only one who thinks that way, or that he has been deliberately deceived. I'm saying that that is a simple explanation suitable for children, and that Hagrid, being rather dim, never developed the critical reasoning skills to question it and get the more complete story as he grew up - or, alternately, that he did, but decided not to try to explain a lot of complicated moral reasoning that he only half understands himself to an 11-year-old boy.Which, given canon descriptions of other wizards, makes him an average wizard in that regard.
But more importantly, there is no indication that Hagrid is telling Harry something that only Hagrid thinks is true. No sign that someone played a trick on him. No indication that JKR considers this explanation wrong. But even if he was lied to - isn't it weird that a kind, gentle character sees no wrong with hiding to avoid helping others?
There simply isn't enough material on this subject in canon to make a definitive determination. Sure, you can assume that Wizarding society as a whole is a bunch of selfish bastards. But it is an equally valid interpretation to assume that Hagrid is a simple man repeating a simple explanation, and that the more intelligent and wise members of Wizarding society - the ones who actually make decisions about things like the Statute of Secrecy - have their own, better (or at least more nuanced) reasons for it.