Jan. 8th, 2011

rionaleonhart: final fantasy x-2: the sun is rising, yuna looks to the future. (the end)
I've been thinking too much about the [livejournal.com profile] respectawoman Hogwarts AU I wrote a short fic for last year. HAVE SOME NOTES.

- Hunter is a Gryffindor student. Her father is a Muggle; her mother is a witch. She's grown up quite close to Muggle society, and in some ways she prefers it; underage witches aren't allowed to use magic, after all, so when she's in the company of Muggles she feels less restricted. Most of her friends were Muggles before she came to Hogwarts. She has a pair of cat ears magically attached to her head most of the time.
- Smoker is a Squib born into a prestigious American pureblood family. Her parents didn't exactly kick her out, but it was clear that they felt she was a disappointment, and she wasn't going to put up with that, so she moved to the UK and found work as the Hogwarts caretaker.
- Jockey is a Muggle-born Hufflepuff student. She's good friends with Luna Lovegood. THEY HANG OUT BEING BLONDE AND A BIT ODD TOGETHER AND IT'S ADORABLE. (I think she'd be able to use her past experiences to support herself when she's persuading herself that terrible things aren't really happening; she thought magic didn't exist, right? And then she found out that she was a witch. So anything can change. This can't be a hopeless situation, because nothing's fixed. Nobody's died; the people saying that are just wrong, like she was wrong about magic.)
- Charger, who used to be a Gryffindor student, is the Professor of Care of Magical Creatures. Both of her parents were magical, but she's not a pureblood; there's some Muggle in her background somewhere. The scar on her face in this universe is a burn scar from a dragon-wrangling gone wrong; she's lost the use of her left eye.

The question: what would be this universe's equivalent of the zombification outbreak? Perhaps Hunter, Smoker, Charger and Jockey find themselves having to work together to survive when the Death Eaters take Hogwarts. There's a possibility that I may end up writing this.

("It's gotta be an exam," Jockey says, with conviction. "They're testin' us for Defence Against the Dark Arts."

"Jockey," Hunter says, "I don't think it's an exam." Her cat ears are drooping. Smoker doesn't understand why she gave herself the ears in the first place; why would anyone want something broadcasting their mood to everyone with eyes to see?
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