Ron = Meldrick. Not the brightest detective on the squad, but loyal and decent and lovable, and all heart.

I was thinking that! But I couldn't explain it any better than "he'd tell that joke about the bear".

Hermione and Kay are similarly awesome, it's true. And, of course, the hair. Ginny can be Russert. I can kind of make that work in my head.

Dumbledore = G?

Dumbledore = G?

Of course. And Scrimgeour could be Barnfather.

I haven't cracked open my H:LotS DVDs for a while. Gotta rectify that.

Quick! Which fandom would work best in a cross-over with HP? Right now, I think HP/Spooks would work nicely. Kingsley could be having interesting conflicts with Adam and Harry while guarding the muggle PM, for example.

Then there is Giles in his Ripper years, possibly clashing with the Marauders? Ethan totally could be a death-eater.

Or maybe I'm too cloistered and away from the main HP fandom.

They're too busy racewanking.

They're too busy racewanking.

Ahhh, I know that's been all over the blogsphere, but I stopped thinking of it as a specific HP wank soon after it broke, so it didn't register. But yeah, the wanktasticness of it is such that petty ship wars probably pale in comparison right now.

Normally the racewanking annoys me from all ends, but this one is so onesidedly clear that I can almost not believe it's happening.

Then again, you don't need to be certified to post on the interwebs.

I think HP/Spooks would work nicely. Kingsley could be having interesting conflicts with Adam and Harry while guarding the muggle PM, for example.

go old school! choose Tom!

I've seen some really implausible crossovers that have worked really well. I think it's probably a fandom that you can bring people into easily. Melding universes, maybe not so much.

What is the racewanking about?

Oh, dear, I knew someone would ask.

A Harry Potter kink comm used the word "miscegenation" as a prompt, and further defined it to mean all interracial and interspecies relationships, meaning that stories with Neville/Parvati were classed in the same category as Aberforth/goat.

A fan, who happened to be African-American, noticed this and wrote the moderators of the comm, asking if they realized that the word and the concept were actually very offensive, and could they change it to something like "interracial"? The mods said no, because they weren't going to let anyone censor them.

Then hell broke loose. Two days later, they took the prompt down and sort of apologized, but not before a lot of ugly stuff happened.

Oh yeah--I did read about that.