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

Oh, you sneaky bastard!  Evil!  Evil!

Heh. I'm thinking I might post this to Fanfiction net on the Harry Potter Page.
Of course that means I have to make it a strong H.P. story.

 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.

Yeah, I'm aware of that possibility, but enough things seem different that
Ranma's being cured could also be the case.

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

Is she?

Well, it seems a bit odd that Cologne would say that Ranma and Akane were
her students, yet have Shampoo go along with Kasumi, for Kasumi's
protection, apparently...

I do agree that I was a bit short sighted on that point. But I do want Shampoo
there as a Kasumi's cat.

 Also, the question that must be asked is, 'Why is
Kasumi going to Hogwarts?'  There are certainly other schools out there, and
I would certainly expect there to be at least one school in Japan, so my
guess is that there is something going on that would put Kasumi in danger,
otherwise it doesn't make sense for them to be worried about her.  Something
else which really needs to be answered at some point is why Kasumi is going
to Hogwarts NOW, rather than the first time she was 11 years old.  You said
that they are all 11 years old because of a plot device which comes from
Ranma canon, and unless I completely missed something, that could only be
the mushrooms of aging (although Wishbringer is a possibility...), but the
mushrooms certainly wouldn't cause the newly chibified Kasumi to suddenly
have the ability to become a wizard... so why wasn't her ability picked up
on earlier?  That really needs to be answered...

It's simple really. Nothing forces a student to go to a school as far as I 
can tell.
Harry could have refused his invitation.
Kasumi was invited as a child, but her mother had been dead for two years 
at that point
and she would have refused to leave what she thought of as her duty to look 
after her parents.
Also money can be an issue. Much is made of how poor Ron's parents are. 
Soun might not
have been able to afford to send her.

So, Cologne was brought to Hogwarts as an instructor, she wanted to bring
Ranma along as her student for some reason, and Akane just tagged along...
We'll need to know why Kasumi is going to Hogwarts rather than a school
local to Japan,

Because Cologne is going to Hogwarts, and Soun would never allow her to
go off to some strange school without someone he trusts to look after her.
And Kasumi would never go against his wishes.

and why Shampoo is going as Kasumi's cat rather than as an
extra student of Cologne's (if Cologne could get Ranma and Akane accepted as
her students, I really don't see her being unable to do the same for
Shampoo)...

That I will have to think about, and maybe change my back story to figure out
some way of trapping Shampoo.
Such a thing would not be out of place for either Harry or Ranma universes.

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? ^_^

Actually, Ron's little sister was one of the first people introduced.  She
was certainly introduced before Hermione.  She was at the train station when
Harry arrived for the first time.

True, but she only appeared in a brief cameo, and then was fairly major in 
the next book, and now
hardly plays a part at all.

By saying new characters that show anp to interract with the Harry Potter
cast, I was referring more to the transfer student cliche, or the mystery
kid who has great powers that simply never came to Hogwarts when he/she was
11 like everybody else and instead arrives in Harry's 5th or sometimes 7th
year cliche... Those are very, very common among HP fics.

I've not been reading H.P. Fics, but I have seen one that crossed over
the Circle of Magic books, which was badly done.

 There's nothing
really wrong with that, but it's annoying that nobody writes fics where the
new student shows up at the same time as everybody else, or the new student
(in fics) is just somebody from a different house that Harry would never
have run into, which would be perfectly reasonable as well--after all, they
have classes as a house thing, the Gryffindor's are usually all together,
with the only exceptions being Potions and broomstick flying with Slytherin,
iirc.

Good point. And for that matter. We have not met all the Gryffindor students
So there is lots of opportunity to bring in new characters without 
stretching belief.

Well, Cologne as the DADA teacher could be interesting... Of course, you've
already said that Cologne doesn't know magic, so I'm not sure how that would
really work, unless DADA is expected to include non-magical lessons that
would be appropriate to the class subject as well.

Cologne knows all sorts of ways to kill Magical monsters, and to deal with 
them.
And while she is not a wizard herself, she knows the Wizard ways of doing so as
well.

But one thing I intend to have her focus on is reaction time. She could 
easily kill a wizard while
he was still reaching for his wand. Preparation, and speed are going to be 
her bywords.

 She could easily just be
the instructor for some kind of self-defense class, in addition to having
somebody else who was new teach traditional defense against the dark arts.

Well, Defence against the Dark is a sort of self defense course. ^_^

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

Input desired and appreciated.

Actually, I think Kasumi would fit better in Slytherin, but I have a much
different view of her character than most people seem to.  All those
sarcastic comments delivered with an innocent expression... bleh.  She's
faking, I know it.

Heh. Maybe I can use this story to show the 'real' Kasumi.

Actually, a part of me rather likes the idea of making her the central 
character.
What Quidich position could she play? ^_^

She might make a good keeper. Bet she can handle a broom real sweet.

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.

Four, counting Shampoo, unless she really IS stuck.

Ahh, but no one knows about Shampoo. She's a mystery.
I don't intend to let what she really is come out till the end of the story.
I did say this was aimed at H.P. Fans, with Ranma fans being able to
get the injokes.

There are likely a lot more Ranma fans who know H.P. then the reverse.

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.

Well, I don't know about that RPG thing... Although the Akane as a Barbarian
thing is cool.  I really like that. :)

Bet you Akane doesn't^_^

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.

Fusions seem to be rather rediculous most of the time, but that's just a
personal opinion.  Crossovers keep the original characters intact a lot
better, at least for me, while fusions (if done properly) make changes that
make them different to a much greater extent so that it just doesn't FEEL
like the same people anymore.  *shrugs*
\

That's my take. You change the characters so much that you wonder whats the 
point.

T.H.



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