#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Fic Discussion - aparecium by oops_ohdear

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

I haven't read the fic, so maybe those years aren't in play. I was just responding to your comment of "if he has to be in Hogwarts at all," and if the only issue is that Russian-born wizards don't go to Hogwarts, I think that's a case where you should just handwave.

It would be different if you were exploring the HP verse itself, and wanted to really think about how a Russian education system maps onto the narrative. I think there's a Steve Rogers fic that looks at how he'd be if he were Captain USSR instead, for example.

But if you're just writing the average AU, you're most likely going to be duplicating most of what Rowling did anyway with different names, and asking your readers to mentally translate all the time. "Oh, right, that's the one that's like Gryffindor."

Re: Fic Discussion - aparecium by oops_ohdear

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

The fic does cover their Sorting, a little of their Hogwarts years, and then they're working as Aurors. The fact that they're Slytherins is important to both of them within the fic.

I don't necessarily disagree with you, in terms of ease of AU writing? Like I said, most of the time I give these arguments in the context of random Sorting conversations. Castiel a Gryffindor? Nope, Castiel's a monster in the forbidden forest. NEXT. Ovi's in Slytherin? Ovi wouldn't even go to Hogwarts. NEXT.

I do think you could easily write a Hogwarts AU or post-Hogwarts AU without sorting non-U.K. characters into Hogwarts houses, if you really wanted. The Goblet of Fire has students and professors visiting from different wizarding schools. You could have wizards moving to the U.K. and working as Aurors, since I don't recall anything about that being against the rules in the wizarding world. I'm not saying that's what everyone should be doing, since I think people write these things to replicate Hogwarts and the things they liked about Hogwarts, but it is a possibility.