OMG, everyone in the world MUST DROP EVERYTHING right now, and run and read
this story!
It's SPN / Harry Potter crossover, and it just . . . I . . . Dean . . . *flails*
I've never even read Harry Potter, and I loved it. Totally and completely, with so much love. This is-- yep, this is definitely Dean at Hogwarts. Without a doubt.
astolat throws some great lines into her stories. Here's the one that made me laugh so hard, I scared the dog:
"Great," Dean said. "I've been mugged by an owl. Shut up, bitch, it's not funny."
Oh, Dean, honey, you're so wrong-- it *is* funny. Also smart and sweet and just so right. I'm now quite convinced that this is canon.
Dean is the way I love him best . . . trying to get along as best he can, the crunchy exterior hiding the heart of a marshmallow, a good man even when he doesn't want or mean to be. And Sam is his usual self, too intense and too dedicated and just too . . . everything.
I think there are a few things that I might understand better if I'd ever read the Harry Potter books . . . for instance, I don't understand why the unicorn loved Dean quite so much. Or the thing about the wands? Or why they can't keep a steady instructor for the DADA course? Or really, the enmity between the different houses?
What I loved best, I think, is the ways that showed the brothers and their relationships with others. How the Slytherins, led by Draco, got Sam off the hook for destroying a boggart; how Dean unifies the Hufflepuffs without even meaning to, just by handling kids the only way he knows; how he becomes an honorary goblin, of a sort.
*squees quietly*
Well, why are you still sitting here, watching my antics? Go and READ!!!!