Hello there! First of all I'd like to thank everybody who has taken the time to read this little story. I hope you liked it, and I'd love to hear some feedback for it.

I originally wrote Solana Amell as a fun April Fool's Day project on the side of my other Harry Potter/Dragon Age crossover, Riddikulusly Awesome, which takes the Harry Potter story and re-imagines it as a Dragon Age game. That story is pretty much on an indefinite hiatus at this point, but if you'd like to check out what I had written so far, you can check it at hp-dragonage . livejournal .com

This story felt more compact and simple, so I decided to post Solana Amell on rather than the bulkier Riddikulusly Awesome. In this version, I took the story of Dragon Age: Origins and re-told it as a series of Harry Potter books (albeit much shorter ones).

I even drew a cover for the entire series, and may one day draw covers for each of the "books". You can see a bigger version of it on my deviantart page, octopus-patronus . deviantart .com

In Dragon Age, a lot of people are known only by one name, while people are often referred to by both names in Harry Potter. Therefore, I've had to come up with a lot of surnames for this story. In this spirit, let's have a bonus etymology lesson!

Solana Amell: Solana means 'place exposed to the sun', while Amell means 'power of an eagle' (this is why the Amell crest has two eagles on it in the game, btw).

Jowan: Jowan is the Cornish form of John, which means 'Yahweh is gracious', and the surname I chose for him, Mallory, means 'unlucky, unfortunate' (the closest thing I could find to 'biggest fuckup ever'). Bonus: Levyn, his alias during the sadly bugged quest "Jowan's Intention", is likely based on the Germanic name Leobwin meaning 'dear friend'.

Alistair: Alistair means 'defender of men'. I have no idea what Guerrin means, but it's the surname of his adopted family. Obviously calling him Alistair Theirin would ruin the "surprise" of finding out who he's actually related to.

Morrigan: Morrigan means 'great queen' and is the name of the shapeshifting Irish goddess of war and death. I didn't actually pull Hemlock (which is of course a type of poisonous plant) out of my ass. Behold, from Morrigan's page on the Dragon Age Wiki:

- Morrigan appears alongside Commander Shepard from Mass Effect as cameo characters in MySims SkyHeroes, the seventh game in EA's MySims franchise.[8]
- Similarly, a Morrigan Hemlock can be found in The Sims 3, via the Nightlife expansion pack. Appropriately, she has the Evil trait as part of the game's mechanics.

Irving is a Scottish surname meaning 'green water', Greagoir is the Irish form of Gregory meaning 'watchful, alert', Uldred may be based on Ulrich meaning 'prosperity and power', and Wynne means 'blessed, white, fair'. In this story, these are their surnames—if they must be called by their first name at any point, I'll have to make something up.

As I can't sort people to save my life, I have to once again give credit to .com, who responded to my desperate cries of help with comprehensive lists of Origins, Awakening, and DA2 characters and the houses they would most likely be sorted into.

With that said, I hope you show up for book two: Solana Amell and the Scrolls of Merlin, which features much more Alistair and Morrigan and introduces Duncan! Here is an excerpt:

Solana stretched as tall as she could (which admittedly wasn't far), reaching for the copy of Prefects Who Gained Power sitting just out of her grasp on a high shelf. She was about to give up and ask the librarian to summon it for her, but someone else's hand suddenly appeared, pulling the book easily from its shelf. It was Alistair.

"Thanks," Solana grumbled, taking the book and returning to her table.

"Happy to help," said Alistair. "I can also push open heavy doors, if those ever give you trouble."

"I hardly need a boy around to open doors for me," Solana said. She flipped to the book's index, scanning through the 'M's.

"Just thought I'd offer," Alistair said with a smirk. He sat down in the seat across from her. "Are you still looking for those scrolls? It's been months. Have you gone outside? Have you slept? Have you showered?"

"Of course I have," said Solana. "I've been to classes and everything."

"I know that. The Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs do have some classes together, if you hadn't noticed us," said Alistair. "I just wasn't sure if you did anything else."

"I've only skipped a few meals," Solana said, waving him off. "There are plenty of references that say Merlin attended Hogwarts, but none that go into any detail about his time here. I'm terrible with history, if only J—"

Solana stopped herself, pointedly turning the book to a list of former prefects only to find that the book didn't cover anything before the eighteenth century. She sighed and slammed the book shut.

Alistair said nothing. He simply pushed a chocolate frog across the table with a hopeful expression on his face. Solana took the offered candy and immediately felt a bit better. She hadn't realized how hungry she was.

The card that came with the chocolate frog was Merlin. Of course it was. "Now he's mocking me," Solana said, glaring at the old wizard. He smirked back and stuck out his tongue.

"You're too paranoid, he isn't—" Alistair took the card. "Oh. I guess he is. That's weird."

"If I just knew which house Merlin was in, that would be something," said Solana. "But I can't find anything that—"

"Merlin was a Slytherin, in fact."

Solana and Alistair jumped. Morrigan Hemlock had appeared quite suddenly around the edge of a nearby bookshelf. She was leaning casually with her arms across her chest, as if she had been listening to them for some time.

"No he wasn't," Alistair said. "Only Dark wizards are sorted into Slytherin, and Merlin wasn't a Dark wizard."

Morrigan laughed. "How little you know."

"Was Merlin really a Slytherin?" Solana asked.

"'Tis common enough knowledge in the dungeons," said Morrigan. "I assumed that everyone knew and simply did not believe it."

"Don't listen to her," said Alistair. "She's just pulling our legs."

Morrigan sneered. "I have no interest in doing anything with your legs, Alistair, unless several curses or a bone-saw are involved."

"See?" said Alistair. "Evil. Can't trust her."

Rolling her strange, hawk-yellow eyes, Morrigan turned her attention to Solana. "So, what has inspired this sudden interest in Merlin?"

"I'm sorry, are you looking for your business? Because we're fresh out," said Alistair. "You'll have to go somewhere else for your business, I'm afraid."

"It's nothing," Solana said carefully. "Just an extra-credit assignment for Professor Duncan."

"I see," said Morrigan. "Have it your way, then."

Alistair leaned closer to Solana once Morrigan had gone. "You don't really believe her, do you?"

"It's the only lead I've gotten so far," said Solana.

"So now you know which house Merlin was in—assuming she isn't just lying," said Alistair. "How does that help you?"

Solana just smirked.