Magi-Science
Harry Potter/Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
First off, this is more of a way to fuse/cross the settings than to actually cross the stories over though I'm not discounting the idea of an actually HP-character meets MGLN-character crossover.
In Harry Potter fanon it's a pretty accepted notion that the European Wizarding World is rather backwards socially. England is the primary example we have as the entirety of the book series is based there, but the rest of Europe is implied to be roughly equal in terms of development with England with some minor variations. Some play this idea to the extreme and make it a draconian society where anyone not born into privilege is essentially/effectively a second or third class citizen and/or females being regarded as property, etc. Others simply show it as a messed up society that has some mysteriously modern elements that are completely overshadowed by everything that's backward. I'm not going that far, but I'll be playing with the idea that European Wizards are "backward" somewhat though I'll try to avoid bashing.
A second fanon notion that seems to be equally widespread is the idea that arithmancy is the "math" of spells and that all spells can be described with arithmantic equations similar to the way advanced mathematics can describe things like atomic reactions and gravitational forces. Linked to this notion is the idea that, with the exception of happy accidents, new spells are developed through the use of arithmancy and are fully described by equations before being attempted.
The second notion links directly to an MGLN cross-fusion setting because in MGLN magic is a scientifically understood phenomenon and is the basis of most, if not all, Mid-Childan technology. Further, all spells shown in MGLN are actually mathematically calculated and the foci used are in fact purpose built computers that do the number crunching for the mages. Here, HP mages wouldn't do their own number crunching either, but their foci are not computers; instead the spells used by HP wizards are standardized in a way that the TSAB and the Mid-Childans never even thought of. The basis of the two magic systems is the same, all spells are based on mathematical computations, but HP wizards have a standardized spell library that doesn't require the user to actually know or understand the process behind what they do, only what the end result is.
The first notion, that European wizards are less socially advanced comes from the fact that Wizards in general seem to be ignorant and/or contemptuous of "muggle" science and that their society does not appear to have experienced any of the changes wrought by the industrial revolution or later events. It's not really important to a fused setting, but I thought it would be interesting if in another country/continent there existed a wide-spread magical society that had not only experienced social change due to the industrial revolution, but had also embraced the scientific study of magic. Given that I'm an American I want to say that North America as a whole has just such a magical society with Japan (as a result of the American occupation at the end of WW2) joining them. Would be fun to maybe have Harry go on a world tour/vacation following his defeat of Voldemort and end up connecting with the North American wizarding world just as they're getting in a buzz about a magical space-ship being launched or a magical expedition to Mars or something of that nature. Just because I want to see wizards in space :-P Though it does give a vector for introducing the TSAB to the Wizarding societies of Earth.
First off, this is more of a way to fuse/cross the settings than to actually cross the stories over though I'm not discounting the idea of an actually HP-character meets MGLN-character crossover.
In Harry Potter fanon it's a pretty accepted notion that the European Wizarding World is rather backwards socially. England is the primary example we have as the entirety of the book series is based there, but the rest of Europe is implied to be roughly equal in terms of development with England with some minor variations. Some play this idea to the extreme and make it a draconian society where anyone not born into privilege is essentially/effectively a second or third class citizen and/or females being regarded as property, etc. Others simply show it as a messed up society that has some mysteriously modern elements that are completely overshadowed by everything that's backward. I'm not going that far, but I'll be playing with the idea that European Wizards are "backward" somewhat though I'll try to avoid bashing.
A second fanon notion that seems to be equally widespread is the idea that arithmancy is the "math" of spells and that all spells can be described with arithmantic equations similar to the way advanced mathematics can describe things like atomic reactions and gravitational forces. Linked to this notion is the idea that, with the exception of happy accidents, new spells are developed through the use of arithmancy and are fully described by equations before being attempted.
The second notion links directly to an MGLN cross-fusion setting because in MGLN magic is a scientifically understood phenomenon and is the basis of most, if not all, Mid-Childan technology. Further, all spells shown in MGLN are actually mathematically calculated and the foci used are in fact purpose built computers that do the number crunching for the mages. Here, HP mages wouldn't do their own number crunching either, but their foci are not computers; instead the spells used by HP wizards are standardized in a way that the TSAB and the Mid-Childans never even thought of. The basis of the two magic systems is the same, all spells are based on mathematical computations, but HP wizards have a standardized spell library that doesn't require the user to actually know or understand the process behind what they do, only what the end result is.
The first notion, that European wizards are less socially advanced comes from the fact that Wizards in general seem to be ignorant and/or contemptuous of "muggle" science and that their society does not appear to have experienced any of the changes wrought by the industrial revolution or later events. It's not really important to a fused setting, but I thought it would be interesting if in another country/continent there existed a wide-spread magical society that had not only experienced social change due to the industrial revolution, but had also embraced the scientific study of magic. Given that I'm an American I want to say that North America as a whole has just such a magical society with Japan (as a result of the American occupation at the end of WW2) joining them. Would be fun to maybe have Harry go on a world tour/vacation following his defeat of Voldemort and end up connecting with the North American wizarding world just as they're getting in a buzz about a magical space-ship being launched or a magical expedition to Mars or something of that nature. Just because I want to see wizards in space :-P Though it does give a vector for introducing the TSAB to the Wizarding societies of Earth.