Different Kinds of Magic by Rokeon (G)

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Show: SGA
Rec Category: Crossover
Characters: John Sheppard
Pairing: none
Het/Slash/Gen: Gen
Warning: none
Author on LJ: anthropomorfic
Author's Website: Fic listing on LJ
Link: Different Kinds of Magic

Why this must be read:

Crossover With: Harry Potter

Just.... wow.... Rokeon's tie-ins with Harry Potter into John's beginnings and past just makes my jaw drop in awe and pleasure. This little 750 word blurp made me chuckle and go "That so makes sense!!" too many times to count. From feather's for hair, Arithmancy, and a witch for a mother, you will find so many wonderful infusing points to this fic. I also really enjoyed the subtly of the Harry Potter stuff in this; things like Voldemort and owlpost gets hinted at but not explicitly pointed at. Go enjoy the crossover fun!! Also, don't forget to check out the remix version here.

Story Summary: none

John knows he's not much of a wizard. Hell, he doesn't even own a wand; his mother taught him how to use a pocketknife as an athame if he needed to cast spells, but she refused to buy something so obviously magical. A purchase like that, she told him, was exactly the way to get noticed. And Emily Sheppard did not want to be noticed.

She never told him the whole story, but John managed to piece a lot of it together. Most of her family got themselves killed fighting some evil overlord during World War Two, and she starting hearing rumors of another one just after she graduated from magic school. Within six months she'd met, married, and moved in with James Sheppard, an Air Force officer stationed in Germany. (John's always half-wondered if there was a love potion involved, but he was never stupid enough to ask.) When he was reassigned to California ten weeks later, she was thrilled.