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Oh, thanks for the nice long answer! (Aha, I'm just catching up with my e-mail and found this. :\)

I can see being leery of Austen fandom and HP fandom. They are, indeed, very opinionated. (But hey, I just recc'd Back Again, Harry to a friend as the best HP fic ever. You know. If it helps!)

Much easier to hire a tutor to teach them the bits they'll need, and make sure they meet only the right people and don't get ideas about magical careers, etc., etc.

Oh, I see! I assumed Hogwarts would be a more gender-neutral wizarding Eton, but I think I'd figured it was more transplanting Austen into HP than the other way around -- if you're looking primarily at the Austen setting, yeah, that would totally make sense. So, younger sons who are also wizards would still go into the aristocratic Muggle careers, right? I'd been sort of wondering if alt!Colonel Fitzwilliam might be an Auror or something like that, but in your version he'd actually be a colonel?

I picked Jane as the one in a nonmagical partnership because I thought she'd deal with it better.

She would, definitely. At first, it didn't even occur to me that they might not have married wizards, but as soon as you mentioned it, it seemed to fit. (And parallels aristocratic Darcy befriending Bingley-of-the-fortune-in-trade anyway.)

Oh, I'd hoped Lady Catherine would be a witch! And that whole conversation about how Anne would be wonderful at x if she'd ever learnt would be... hm, super awkward with Anne as a Squib.

t's that there's a whole range of people between the "wizard culture only" and "muggleborn; jump in wholesale" categories that have their own ideas of how integral magic should be to their lives.

Ohh, that's an interesting idea. Even for just canon! It'd explain a lot, too.

But if he had gone under the Hat.... I'd probably have put Darcy in Ravenclaw.

Awesome! Myself, I can't really see him anywhere else (maybe Slytherin -- he can be scheming and ruthless at times, but he's not sly or ambitious while he is clever and bookish). So no variance here!