From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com

On 1/8/15 8:35 PM, David Goldfarb wrote:
> In article ,
> Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)  wrote:
>> On 1/8/15 2:10 PM, Elaine T wrote:
>>    Some years ago he posted either
>>> here or on sf.written about reading a fanfic where Harry Potter uses
>>> the Kamemeha (?) Wave spell against his enemy.
>
> Kamehameha.
>
>> 	It was a short-short someone had written partly on my remarking on the
>> crossover potential. As I recall it, Harry had vanished and Voldemort
>> then made his move, Hogwarts is in ruins, and then Harry shows up.
>>
>> 	"Voldemort was puzzled. Harry wasn't even using a wand, just moving his
>> hands! And those words weren't Latin! He tried to make sense out of them:
>>
>> 	"Ka... Me... Ha... Me..."
>
>
> Hi!  That was me.
>
> Actually, I did have Harry using his wand for that one.  As I recall, you
> complained that a Potterverse wand couldn't channel that much power.
> I pointed out that his wand had a phoenix-feather core...and what would
> you expect to happen to such a wand after being incinerated in magical fire?

	Ah, yes, I remember that debate.

>
>>> I asked the daughter
>>> if she knew what that was (I don't watch anime/read manga and it was
>>> clearly from one of those) and she did, and was interested when I
>>> explained why I asked.  So she looked up the story read it, browsed,
>>> read more....starting writing her own.
>
> I don't think your daughter could have read my story, because I don't
> think I ever posted it anywhere -- if memory serves it right, I sent
> to Wasp by email.

	I *think* you actually posted it first, and then emailed it when I
mentioned it and couldn't remember where I'd seen it.

  (There's some chance that I'm misremembering, and did
> post it to rasfc or rasfw, but I'm sure I never put it up at any web
> forum.)  Probably she found a fic written by someone else, with the
> same idea.  Not at all a hard idea to come up with, to be sure.
>

	The basic crossover idea is obvious, although it's ludicrously
overbalanced in the favor of DBZ. Heck, even Dragon Ball, the first
series, goes way beyond the power level of anything in Harry Potter by
the time of the first Tenkai-Ichi Budoukai.


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