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?

She'd do a stellar Mary Poppins.

She could even fix Bert.

Hah. I heard Dike Van Dyke on "Wait Wait" recently, who claimed that Bert's accent was a result of the dialect coach the studio had hired, and not his fault! He was very amusing.

I heard Dike Van Dyke on "Wait Wait" recently, who claimed that Bert's accent was a result of the dialect coach the studio had hired, and not his fault!

Aha, the Kendra excuse.

If so, I can only assume the dialect coach was a member of the IRA who chose a unique way of striking a blow against England.