OK... my first story on ff.n
I've started posting this on TFN forums back in January, so it's quite far advanced back there. (No, it isn't finished, and by the time it will be, I'll catch up posting here.) I just decided to make it available for a larger audience.
Well... what do you think, from the title? It's a crossover between Star Wars and Harry Potter. More specifically, the story brings Harry Potter characters (the trio) into the galaxy far, far away at the time of the original trilogy. Naturally, they run into all our favorite SW characters and get caught up in the war against the Empire...
This is not (like some crossovers) written for the purpose of denigrating one franchise over another. I love both SW and HP (they are actually quite similar, from a certain point of view), and while I enjoy SW more, I have no reason to diminish HP.
The HP universe is simple. Six books, and a seventh one on the way. SW is much more complex, and there is an active debate among the fans as to what constitutes "real SW". In the simplified version, the debate is between purists who believe only the SW films (and for some, only the original three movies, but not the prequels) are "real", and completists, who think all officially released SW material (books, comics, video games) is SW. It's a spectrum, not a dichotomy; however, I personally lean on the completist side. You do not need to have read any of the Expanded Universe of SW to get the story, but there will be EU references, and EU characters (one of whom plays a crucial role).
As I said already, I have begun writing this story in January, before either Revenge of the Sith or Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince came out. As the movie is set in the OT era, ROTS did not cause story continuity problems. HBP, however, did. I rewrote parts of it to fit in, but decided to leave others standing because they worked too well. Chapter 1 is such a part, so make sure you read this.
The story is set in an HP alternate universe, which differs from the canon universe in the ending of HBP. The differences are:
Dumbledore still dies, but either it isn't Snape that kills him, or Harry doesn't witness it and can't prove it. Snape vouches that Malfoy was acting under the Imperius Curse, allowing him to stay at Hogwarts. Snape is still a teacher. McGonagall is the new headmistress. In his seventh year, Harry is dating Ginny, and Neville is dating Luna.
Snape returns to Voldemort (or seems to), but it happens after the trio's crossover.
Almost all of the story will be set in the SW universe, this will rarely come into play.
Yeah, yeah. I'm not George Lucas, I am not J.K. Rowling, and I am not their son and heir to both franchises. I own nothing, except the plot...
And now... the story begins. Harry, Ron, and Hermione's seventh year at Hogwarts, Christmas Day...