I've still got that Potter/ 'Fate/Zero' (How do you mark crossovers correctly with F/SN?) idea bouncing around in my head, and a thought occurred to me. Voldemort is a lot like the Dead Apostles, except not a literal vampire. He threw away his own humanity to escape death and to obtain power, which is the same reason Kiritsugu's father was trying to become a Dead Apostle.
The two worlds can be meshed fairly easily, if you assume that it is simply different ways of performing magic. Wizard style magic is safer to learn, as it requires an outside tool to channel the magic with any control, but is somewhat weaker for the same reason. Normally, wizards wouldn't have active magic circuits like magi do, but occasionally a wizard gains control of their magic circuit through extreme stress, allowing them to use what they see as wandless magic. Accidental magic is the magic circuit momentarily opening, then closing itself off, like how Shirou was at the beginning of F/SN. The wand serves as a sort of artificial magic circuit.
Magi style magic is both more dangerous and more difficult to learn than Wizarding magic, but it is also more flexible, and is better suited for combat.
As for relations between the Wizarding World and the Magi Association, I think they would acknowledge the other's existence but not really interact much beyond various formalities and such. The Association's headquarters is under the British Museum in London, so they might summon the Magus Killer without telling the Ministry of Magic about it. Wouldn't that be a shock? Though for some reason, I like the idea of a Ministry bureaucrat sending the Association a request for help, and they send Kiritsugu.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
The two worlds can be meshed fairly easily, if you assume that it is simply different ways of performing magic. Wizard style magic is safer to learn, as it requires an outside tool to channel the magic with any control, but is somewhat weaker for the same reason. Normally, wizards wouldn't have active magic circuits like magi do, but occasionally a wizard gains control of their magic circuit through extreme stress, allowing them to use what they see as wandless magic. Accidental magic is the magic circuit momentarily opening, then closing itself off, like how Shirou was at the beginning of F/SN. The wand serves as a sort of artificial magic circuit.
Magi style magic is both more dangerous and more difficult to learn than Wizarding magic, but it is also more flexible, and is better suited for combat.
As for relations between the Wizarding World and the Magi Association, I think they would acknowledge the other's existence but not really interact much beyond various formalities and such. The Association's headquarters is under the British Museum in London, so they might summon the Magus Killer without telling the Ministry of Magic about it. Wouldn't that be a shock? Though for some reason, I like the idea of a Ministry bureaucrat sending the Association a request for help, and they send Kiritsugu.
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Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea.
"Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.