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Why is it that all of a sudden there is a abundance of Harry Potter/Twilight cross overs in fan-fiction that have Edward and Harry as a couple. neutral To me this is weird. I mean JK never real developed the vampires in her books but I get the impression they never really sparkled and the 'werewolves' seemed to be very different to me, so I don't understand where all this is coming from. I realize people loved both series, and while I didn't enjoy Twilight nearly as much as HP, I did give it a shot. I've just read to many vampire/mortal books. Every turn of the page I was reading something that was hitting remarkably close to something else I had already read and it just wasn't as fun for me when you can predict the turn of events.
As for Edward and Harry... neither showed any gays tendencies to me, both had sol female love interests so I'm not getting it.

As well I understand that people are just flexing their imaginations but if you want to go flying wildly off cannon and character personalities (Example is Draco just starting off as Harry's best friend in a till that point cannon moment. There has to be some build to the change if you do this.) then just change the characters to original characters of your own and you'll have your own book instead of just a fan-fiction and then you can really swing the creative battle axe.

This is just me and I was wondering what everyone thinks of this new kind of cross-over between these two series.

I hate cross-overs period. I mean if you can make it work then great but most can't. In order to make it work you need to really come up with a scenario where these two completely different series would somehow meet. AND I really hate fanfics where the characters don't act like themselves. I mean you write a fanfic to include the characters you liked. You liked them because of the way they were so why go and change all that. I usually don't read slash fanfics. I don't have anything against them but I don't like when the characters are out of character. I mean really, Harry/Edward just doesn't make sense to me.

I don't understand the Twilight/HP crossovers...the characters aren't even related at all...now I guess I could see a Lupin/Jacob fic, since they're both werewolves, but no Edward/Harry. I mean, Edward's a 100 year old vampire stuck at 17, and Harry's just a regular wizard that happens to be famous. See a connection there? Well, I don't.

I like some of the weirder pairings...I've seen Snape/Lupin fics (I'm a slash fan as well as some others), Percy/the twins, ya know, stuff like that. But I've also seen Dumbledore/Hagrid...I don't even know if it's there anymore...

But I'm not sure of crossovers...I've seen HP crossed over with Wizards of Waverly Place before. I think people think it'll work just because there's witchcraft and supernatural stuff in both of the series' that they're crossing over. But that's not always the case.

I both hate and love crossovers. For the most part, I completely and utterly hate them because, like everyone has said, they very rarely are well written enough to make sense. But, very rarely, I find one that I like because it is so well done. Those of you that were here when the monthly fanfic contests were running, do you remember the month we did crossovers? The Room with the Computer was a Harry Potter/X-Men crossover, something that shouldn't have worked in a million years, but it was amazing. I love that fic. And I admit I did write a Twilight/Harry Potter crossover, and I tried to handle it well, but it could have been much better. If I'd had more time, it would have been. I write crossovers on occasion to challenge myself. It's hard to make these things make sense.

I mostly like Twilight because it's so utterly ridiculous. I can see everything that is wrong with the series, I know that it's silly, and Bella's obsession with Edward totally creeps me out. But for some reason that I can't fathom, I enjoy reading it. Although I have to disagree about the character bit, Min. In Twilight so much of the story was built around Bella and Edward that nothing was really done about the others, but you do get their stories and development if you read the rest of the series. Twilight really is the worst of the books. Breaking Dawn was just ridiculous, but it was fairly well written.

And I just went to the fanfiction sub and read both The Room with the Computer and my fanfic from July's contest... I love TRwtC, and I found myself liking mine more than I did when I thought about it.

It's not, even if you like yaoi and slash fics and all that.

Edward and Bella are both very flat, I agree. The others aren't after the the first book. My reason behind mentioning that the characters gave their stories in other books is because that is part of the process of adding layers. You have to know why people feel the way they feel. The most complex character is Rosalie, she doesn't want to be a vampire, but made Carlisle turn Emmett. And Edward gets layers when you read Midnight Sun on S Meyer's site. The only character that stays flat is Bella.

And Edward/Harry is gross.