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A (Hopefully) Bright Idea for Professor Potter
🕑 Added 2021-09-01 03:30:59 +0000 UTCTL;DR: Thinking about adding expies (character ripoffs from other settings) to Professor Potter. Is this something you would be interested in? Vote below!
So first things first, the next chapter of Professor Potter is already written and slated to come out tomorrow so get hyped for that!
But also, I had this idea and I need to know if it's a good idea or not. Basically, way back at the start of Professor Potter I'd already decided that all of the Hogwarts Faculty was going to be female for obvious reasons. I made a vague mention of this in an early chapter when Harry was at the Faculty Table in the Great Hall without going into too much detail because I hadn't fully decided who was going to be on the Hogwarts Faculty yet or not.
Then I had the thought... why not mix in character expies from outside of Harry Potter to make a truly hot faculty roster for this story. And where better to get a bevy of beautiful witches then the Witcher series? And also DC because why not.
Now I should be clear, I'm wholeheartedly stealing this idea from Shiro's A Sorcerer's Ambition. If you haven't read that yet, I highly recommend checking it out. I also want to be clear, these characters will be worked into the HP Universe, not actually ripped from their own universes entirely. They will be characters who always existed in the HP world and thus not completely the same as the characters they're ripped from.
That said, I don't want to kill Professor Potter as a story, so I figured I'd pass along the buck to all of you guys, my estimable patrons. Would this be something you might want to see?
To give a bit of an example, here was the rough draft of the Hogwarts Faculty with just HP characters:
Hogwarts Faculty (No expies):
Headmistress: Andromeda Tonks
Groundskeeper: Nymphadora Tonks
Defense Against the Dark Arts: Harry Potter
Potions: Narcissa Malfoy
Herbology: Pamona Sprout
Charms: Apolline Delacour with Fleur Delacour as Assistant Professor
Transfiguration: Minerva McGonagall
Astronomy: Aurora Sinistra
Arithmancy: Septima Vector
Hospital Wing Matron: Poppy Pomfrey
Hogwarts Librarian: Irma Pince
History of Magic: Lady Zabini
Ancient Runes: Bathsheda Babbling
Muggle Studies: Charity Burbage
Flying Instructor: Angelina Johnson with Alicia Spinnet and Katie Bell assisting
Divination: Sybill Trelawney
I'd probably try and sexify them up, but I know it can be hard for readers to find anything arousing about certain characters from the Harry Potter franchise. Even if I link sexier actresses and say "this is what this character looks like" I still get a lot of people who just can't separate them from their movie portrayals.
That said, here is a very tentative, not finalized list of Hogwarts Faculty if I went ahead and added in Witcher, DC, and Marvel expies instead.
Hogwarts Faculty (With expies) (NOT NECESSARILY FINAL, TAKING SUGGESTIONS):
Headmistress: Andromeda Tonks
Groundskeeper: Nymphadora Tonks
Defense Against the Dark Arts: Harry Potter
Potions: Yennefer of Vengerberg (Have Ciri visit as her adoptive daughter?)
Herbology: Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy expy) with Harleen Quinzel as her plucky assistant?
Charms: Triss Merigold with Fleur Delacour as Assistant Professor
Transfiguration: Philippa Eilhart
Astronomy: Emma Frost with Jean Grey as Assistant Professor
Arithmancy: Zatanna Zatara with Raven as Assistant Professor
Hospital Wing Matron: Shani
Hogwarts Librarian: Fringilla Vigo
History of Magic: Margarita Laux-Antille
Ancient Runes: Sile de Tansarville
Muggle Studies: Priscilla
Divination: Keira Metz
Flying Instructor: Angelina Johnson with Alicia Spinnet and Katie Bell assisting
Now, the names up above don't have to be final. I especially can't say for certain that I put everyone in their proper spot.
In fact, I'd love to hear suggestions for either rearrangement of characters into different teaching positions, or replacements to any of the lesser known characters. I'm really only set on the big names, and more than willing to replace some of the Lodge of Sorceress nobodies with more exciting and more popular female characters that I didn't think of.
But first I need to know if you guys are interested in this sort of thing for Professor Potter. If you are, vote for expies below and then throw me some ideas if you have any in the comments. I'll be sure to take them all into consideration if the majority vote for expies!
Comments
Dark Wolf Shiro
More Yennefer is always good, there’s only one option for me
Lex Kuzela
I would suggest keeping a universe consistent within itself. Adding a different universe's version of characters from different stories usually doesn't go well unless it's a proper crossover.
That black guy
would suggest maybe a Masquerade ball where the expies take on their more traditional look for a bit
Cambrian
I understand if that still isn't what you want, and I appreciate you making your concerns known. If the vote is too close to 50/50, I won't go through with it, but we'll have to see how it all pans out
Cambrian
What I'm saying is that the franchises aren't being mixed into the universe. I'm simply tearing the character names and looks from their original spots and then molding their backstories into something more HP-specific. So Philippa Eilhart is suddenly from France and an old friend of the Delacours for example. Raven and Zatanna will, instead of being superheroines, come from America's Wizarding World. But I understand if that isn't
Thomas
That is still a crossover which is multiple franchises mixed into one universe.
Cambrian
To be clear, it won't be a crossover. A crossover would entail me adding in the universes that these characters come from and I'm not planning on doing that. Instead, it will still be fully the HP universe, with the character expies adapted to have always been part of said universe. Still, appreciate your feedback!
Thomas
Stick to HP I hate crossovers, will personally stop reading if it goes crossover.
Cambrian
Extremely good catch, I've gone and flipped those around!
tornadoboy
Personally I'd flip Triss and Philippa. Philippa frequently turns into an Owl and also the sardonic, superior tone is very McGonagall anyway. Triss being a bubbly, bimbo charms seems more consistent to me
