AU Meme - Day 1 - Hogwarts

[redfiona99]

I understand the draw of Hogwarts AUs, and indeed, AUs into other fandoms where characters are split by some sort of personality feature into separate and distinct units. Because it allows you to play with "what's the most important facet of this character", "what's a hidden facet of this character that I want to explore", "what if half of them makes them a perfect fit for group 1 but the other half into group 2, how does that work?", "if I split this character away from the characters they are usually with, do they still become friends because destiny says so" etc.

Although it does lead to some odd moments, like sports fans trying to pretend most people aren't the Slytheriniest Slytherins that ever slithered. Seriously, sports fans, your favourites are Slytherins, just accept it. In F1 in particular, with the exception of Hamilton (Gryffindor) and Vettel (originally Slytherin, now mysteriously Hufflepuff), anyone driving now is a Slytherin. Particularly Max Verstappen. Who would happily sell his grandmother to win, and both his grandmothers would be fine with it.



Day 1 - Hogwarts - Meta
Day 2 - Zombies
Day 3 - Medieval
Day 4 - Spies
Day 5 - School
Day 6 - Mythical Creature
Day 7 - Fairy Tale
Day 8 - Futuristic
Day 9 - Aliens
Day 10 - Fusion with another fandom
Day 11 - Slice-of-life
Day 12 - Deserted Island
Day 13 - Buddy Cops/Detective
Day 14 - Allegiance-Swap Original instructions say bad guys are good guys and vice versa
Day 15 - Sex-Swap
Day 16 - Superheroes
Day 17 - Animal Transformation
Day 18 - Wild West
Day 19 - Idols/Bands
Day 20 - Trading Places
Day 21 - Fantasy
Day 22 - Horror
Day 23 - Pre-21st Century
Day 24 - Apocalypse/Dystopia
Day 25 - Time travel
Day 26 - Dopplegangers
Day 27 - Twins
Day 28 - Cross Over
Day 29 - Pirates A bit more of the Jericho/Regal with Barrett lurking fic for Opera
Day 30 - Crossover

Comments

[ioplokon]

I always thought the appeal was the boarding school thing bc a lot of fans are students and only know school.

Also Max Verstappen is like. Such a Speed Racer bad guy name? Do they do f1 Speed Racer AUs?

[redfiona99]

Friend who went to a boarding school did have someone at their A Level leavers, dressed up as Dumbledore, say "Hogwarts, reasonably accurate but not enough sodomy or drugs". Then again, colleague at work went to the same school as JKR and she says it's interesting how much was just direct descriptions of the teachers.

Oh he is very much a Speed Racer bad guy (I say this with some ... well not affection but understanding that he has basically been groomed/pressured to win the F1 world title since he was born so of course he is spectacularly borderline sociopathic).

I remember watching the Speed Racer film and going "Royalton is Bernie Ecclestone", because Bernie would do all that if he could get away with it (except putting drivers in danger, he was very hot on driver safety). Matters not helped by Racer X looking so much like Mark Webber.

I should encourage Speed Racer AUs.