What's up?

I got linked. Influx of comments. Not prepared to deal with people who are wrong who disagree with me.

That took nearly a week. I am kinda shocked. I don't disagree with you, just I assumed it'd bring all the commenters to your yard sooner when I first read it. Yikes! I hope it doesn't get too wanky.

Yeah, we can't have any definition of terms that requires any responsibility on the part of authors. Any definitive thought. Authorial intent, peoples!

Which is to say, want us to respond to the Wrong People for you?

You are welcome to jump in if you're interested in the conversation, but not obligated to on my behalf.

Question prompted by last night's Halloween costume, and pondering the implications of same: Do there exist, anywhere, any crossover fics that place Mary Poppins anywhere in Rowling's Wizarding world? It seems like between her serene self-confidence, her smarts and her obvious Muggle sympathizing there ought to be a decent historical fic out there somewhere, but I just made the mistake of randomly searching without Buffista assistance and the results were horrid (only two--one mildly irritating but so boring I had to bail within the first four paragraphs, and one at least impressive for containing a spectacular amount of wrong in only six paragraphs). I firmly resolve to do no more flailing in the dark and to only explore with the guidance of the hivemind.

So, um, do any such things exist? That aren't horrid?

What a neat idea. Mary is obviously a witch of some sort.

I read a lovely, mournful crossover with post-Narnia Susan Pevensie once, where Mary recruited Susan into the sisterhood of magic-wielding loners, drifting from lonely house to lonely house, healing the children and moving on. I could also totally see her being involved in setting up safe houses and underground railroads for Muggles in immediate danger during Grindelwald's time or Voldemort's first ascendancy or any of the other would-be wizard dictators who must have been springing up regularly for the last several thousand years.

Mary Poppins at the Archive of Our Own:

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No Harry Potter crossovers that I see, and the usual warning that the stories listed there may not be to everyone's fancy, click at your own risk.

Previous Mary Poppins stories at yuletide:

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May be some overlap, disclaimers apply, etc.

JZ, you could sign up for yuletide this year and request it...

Wouldn't it be lovely if Fay wrote it?