At 04:51 PM 12/25/2001 -0600, Thermopyle wrote:

This is just a strange idea that's been bouncing around in my head since
the Movie came out.
As the list seems very dead, I thought I'd stick it out there and see what
sort of reaction it provokes.

Looks interesting... I have to wonder how the situation with the Ranma cast
came about, though.

I'm following the format of the Harry Potter books where mysteries are 
revealed over
the course of the story. Why the characters are the way they are will come out
during the course of the story, if there is a story.

It will also give me a chance to gently break the Ranma cast to the Harry 
Potter fans.

My insidious plot is to addict them to the Ranma series. ^_^

 Sounds like Ranma is cured of his curse somehow, or at
least I'm guessing that is what the red hair symbolizes(unless, of course,
Ranma is misidentified when he's said to be a boy),

With an apparent age of 11, how easily could you tell a girl from a boy if they
were dressed as the other gender.

 but how that happened
while making Shampoo be stuck as a cat,

Is she?

as well as Ranma's lack of a
reaction to said cat,

That is not suppose to be the case. If I take this up for real I'll have to 
expand this section, and
make sure that it is clear that Ranma is making sure there is always 
someone between him and
Shampoo. As well as having him/her behaving in a very nervous manner.

I do not know... Then there's the whole bit with
everybody being younger than they should be.

The plot device for that comes right out of Ranma canon, and the reason was 
that I thought
it would be more interesting if the Ranma cast came in as young students.
One way would have been an alternative universe fusion, where Ranma is 
Harry, but I like
Crossovers better.

But you have to admit that Genma makes a good substitute for Harry's uncle
^)^

 So there are a number of
things that this teaser makes me wonder about, which is a good thing, I
think.

That was the idea. I wanted people going. "What the Heck!"

Something that is disgustingly common among Harry Potter fics is having new
students show up to interract with the Harry Potter cast, like what is
happening here with Kasumi,

That is a bit unfair. Every Harry book brings in new characters, and teachers.
Sometimes they are simply older students from other houses, or ones that 
were not
mentioned before, or they are younger students like Ron's little sister.

So I would say it is canon to bring in a small number of students and a 
teacher.
Care to guess what Job Cologne was tagged for? ^_^

 but based on your other stuff I'd have to say
that you could probably pull it off without making it be too annoying,

Thanks, I think. -_-;;;

especially since you're bringing Ranma, Colonge, and Akane along for the
ride.  I'm hoping to not see TOO much interraction between the Ranma
characters and Harry's trio, since they're seperated by a number of years
and it seems unlikely, but at least a certain amount of it wouldn't be too
much of a stretch.

The school has houses, so while the characters would not have classes 
together, they
would be in the Common room together, and they could interact outside of 
class.

So... are you going to write more?

It depends on inspiration, and feedback. I'm not sure I could do this 
without contributions from interested
readers who could offer ideas and information using the situation I've set up.

Speaking of which. I was thinking Kasumi would fit in Hufflepuff?

Input desired and appreciated.

It seems like there are a few different
Ranma/Harry Potter stories being started now, which is pretty cool, but none
of them have really gotten past the beginning stages, and this one is
actually further along than the others, since the Ranma cast has actually
met the main HP cast and not just Hagrid.  So I would like to see this go
further.

I need several things. A few first year students for the Ranma cast to 
interact with.
A bad guy, and a goal to attain.

it's possible that the Ranma cast and the friends they make would be having 
an adventure in parallel with
Harry, but not with him.  And not the same adventure. I have a feeling 
Harry is going to be dealing with some serious
stuff in book five, and I'm not that ambitious. I think just dealing with 
Hogwarts, and wizards could be fun to a certain extent.

Of course one major plot thread is going to be the fact that Dumbledore has 
brought three non-wizards into the school.
One of them as a teacher.

I should mention this was inspired by the end of book four where he sent 
Hagrid off to talk to the Giants, and where he said that
they had to reach out to non-wizards in order to stand up to Voldemort.

Then I got thinking about the components of your RPG quests.

you have Wizard/Warrior/thief/hero/cleric/barbarian.

I didn't try to fill all the roles, but it works a bit like this.
Ranma is a Hero.
Kasumi is a cleric
Akane is a Barbarian
Shampoo is a Warrior/thief, depending on form.

Harry of course is the Wizard. Not that I intend to follow that formula 
nessesarily, it's just one of the things that formed this story.

I should probably get more work done on plotting my own Ranma/HP idea out.
Wonder if we'll be seeing this crossover becoming as common as Ranma/SM
stories as time goes by... ^_^;

hheheheheheehehehe
could be. I expect to see a bunch of fusions. but as I said, I prefer 
crossovers.







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