5116: Black Magic Woman - Aster Black
Today’s entry is short and hasn’t been updated in awhile.
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Title: Black Magic Woman
Perpetrator: AmericanAssassin-Kilo
Sue-O-Meter: Awful
Cover/Banner Art: The writer’s profile pic is a watercolor of a wolf-head only.
Summary: “Aster Black (fem!Harry) is recruited to the Avengers Initiative due to her company's agreement with SHIELD to provide armor and weapons in exchange for solace in America. When Director Nick Fury comes knocking after nearly five years of silence, the woman is intrigued. It doesn't take her long to meet the team and an old friend. Aster Black/Tony Stark (pairing)”
Full Name: Aster Black
Sueworts House(s): Quanonreip because there’s no connection to the HP canon and Tootsietramp because the goal is to pair her with Tony.
Species: She’s a “didn’t character bash the canon characters” Sue. For anyone not familiar with some of the other stories featured here on Pottersues, this is actually a good thing.
Physical Description: The color of her eyes is described as “evergreen”. Her hair is described as “chin-length black,” though there was a time when “her hair was significantly shorter in a quaffed pixie cut and her face was thinner due to her still recovering from being malnourished. It was taken five years ago when she first came to America from the UK, tired of being accosted by the Ministry of Magic and called a ‘danger to society’,” whereas I wish Sues would stop putting words into the ministries mouth. This is mind in comparison, but this may come from how the Harry Potter canon is simply name referenced through the entire piece.
Possessions: “It had been parked in-between a section of buildings where no cameras could see. The gray and black jet was a special order from Fury, it had enough technology and magic packed into it that it could blend anywhere it went unless the persons keyed into it carried the remote key. Normally Aster Black wouldn't dare to make such an advanced piece of technology for a government, let alone a muggle (with how much magic was packed into it they would surely find out), but it was the price for her ability to live in relative peace. She was required to make anything S.H.I.E.L.D. asked of her and in return they wouldn't force her to join in their fights and they would protect her from the Ministry of Magic. Her magical and technological genius for asylum in America.”
Origin: Says the writer on their profile, “I prefer writing Harry Potter as my protagonist and in crossovers with other series, there’s a lot of ways to take his character as a base line.. female and male.”
Connection to Canon: None. As the writer says, they simply used Harry as a base line. And then in the second chapter the writer remembered there was more to Harry than his connection to his godfather and added in magic and the word muggle completely forgetting the blending of technology and magic is super controlled. Fred and George are mentioned in the third chapter along with a bit of info regarding how magic works and how magic can interfere with technology and working on getting around these issues. Funny though this isn’t the only fandom where magic works this way. Funny how one of those fandom is Marvel, depending on which character and universe you’re talking about.
Special Abilities: She’s able to blend magic and technology together. She like Tony talks about her technology not being used for weapons. She and the twins solve the magic and technology problem-which, I’m not adding tags for Fred and George because I could see them (even female versions of them) doing just that, but not Harry, female or otherwise. We’re also supposed to believe the entire world is aware of magic, for that is what is needed for this to work.
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Notes: Do you know what kind of rating I would have given this story if the writer wasn’t attempting to pass this off as a Harry Potter fanfic, which it is not? It would have gotten the good or okay rating, although this might change in later chapters. The story hasn’t been updated since January of 2020, so two years.
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Sample:
The continuously growing company of Black Enterprises wasn't exempt from it's own problems, which was why the creator of said company was currently in the sub branch in England instead of vacationing in Cairo or at taking care of business at her main branch in America. Instead of being surrounded by the rich, silk fabrics of Egypt or the flashy metal and chemical contraptions of her own lab, Aster Black was surrounded by the old nuisances invested in her England branch. Rich, wrinkly old men that believed they had any ounce of control in how her business operated. Fools, she thought snidely.
"Countess Black, we implore you to consider creating weapons again. Your stocks will rise marginally if you provide buyers with nuclear weapons again, especially since Stark Industries has moved their attentions from weapons to clean energy. It would give our company a near monopoly and boost our sales." Hammond Davies was the biggest nuisance for Aster. The man would not give up on trying to bring weapons back under their company's domain and while Aster made weapons, she refused to retail them to people that she had no idea the affiliations of. The rest of the Board agreed with him, however.
"I'm sorry Dr. Davies but my company will not be used to sell weapons, I have made that very clear. At one point we did sell high powered weapons but after Parliament turned their attentions to us, the regulations would have simply run this company to the ground. I refuse to allow Black Enterprises to be involved in any war or have the government breathing down our necks. Instead, we aim to create protections from the struggles of war. We've done it for two years now and we will continue to do so if I have any say. I believe that is all today?"
Though she had asked the question, Aster didn't stay long enough to hear the answer. Instead she packed her tablet into her carrier along with other contracts that had been discussed earlier in the meeting and strode out of the door.