Hogwarts AU

Hogwarts AU is a popular AU (Alternate Universe) within the Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons fandom. In the AU, Rapunzel, Merida, Hiccup and Jack Frost are all students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Because it is not canon, ideas for this AU are shown through fanfiction, fanart, and other fan-made works.

About the AU
The world of Harry Potter has been a popular universe for fans to use for crossovers, and this is especially the case in the RotBTD fandom. Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is the perfect location for the Big Four to interact because of a number of reasons: it is an educational institue that gives an excuse for the four to be in the same area, it allows for the use of magic and the idea of dragons, and it adds elements of competition and rivalry between the Big Four and their friendship.

In most cases being being sorted into seperate houses along with other characters from their respective movies allows for relationship development in unique and creative ways. However, there are few authors that do sort them all into one house to set the rationality of their closeness as friends. Because of how Hogwarts separates their Houses had has a sense of rivalry between them, its students rarely get to meet up at the same time outside of double classes.

Featured Characters
The Big Four are often seen sorted in seperate houses, although some house choices are almost universally accepted, whereas others are more debatable. Below is the generally accepted sorting choices of the big four.  

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III
Hiccup is also a hard character to sort from the group and often debated amongst authors for where he truly belongs. He posseses the hard working and loyal nature of a Hufflepuff, but also contains the thirst for knowledge and quick wit that is admired and portrayed by many Ravenclaw students.

In his feature film, How to Train Your Dragon, he is shown to be intelligent, observant, and clever, as well as being able to use his friends and their dragons' weaknesses and strengths to defeat the Red Death. Often in this universe, he is known to still have Toothless as a pet dragon, oftentimes going through the same befriending and training as his film, but within the Forbidden Forest.

Jack Frost
Jack is commonly sorted into Slytherin for his mischevious and at times slightly destructive nature which is seen more towards the start of his feature film, Rise of the Guardians. As a result, many fanfiction stories feature him as a darker character compared to the other members of the Big Four, using his sorting as a point of tension and plot drive.

Other stories and artists have portrayed him as a Gryffindor, showing him more as a trickster to replace the Weasley Twins or the Maruaders. This could be to account for his traits of being brave and daring, taking from his heroic traits he developed near the end of his film.

Merida DunBroch
Merida is almost always sorted into Gryffindor, due to her bravery and sometimes foolhardy courage. Gryffindor's are seen as strong willed and sometimes do not think all of their choices through. This often is justified by the character traits she takes on near the end of her feature film, Brave. Alternatively, some people have shown interest in sorting her into Slytherin because of her ambition and resourcefulness.

Quite often in the fandom, Merida is shown to be on the Gyffindor Quidditch team, usually against Jack as a Beater or Chaser. She also is shown as not being the most astute studier, often forgoing it for the more exciting activites.

Rapunzel Corona
It is widely disputed on whether Rapunzel should be in Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw, as she posseses qualities indicative of both. As shown in her film Tangled, her creativity, thirst for knowledge, and her drive to know more about the world outside her tower could sort her to Ravenclaw. However, she also has the traits that could place her in Hufflepuff, such as loyalty, honesty, and paitence. Additionally, she is often portrayed with her long blonde hair, however there are some artists that include her with her pixie cut.

Notable Fandom Authors/Artists

 * Bente36

Fanfiction
In Progress Complete
 * The Big Four Chronicles: Legend of the Golden Flower by ayoungwriter
 * The Big Four, Hogwarts Day by InfiniteShadowRealm
 * Chamber of Nightmares by FantasYAnDMadnesS
 * Clever, Cunning, Brave and Loyal by kai1234
 * Dangerous Doors by hiccups pickle
 * The Four Legends by Silver Star Lake
 * The Golden Four by Tomcat2425
 * Hogwarts Meets the New Generation of Troublemakers by Chiaki Hamano
 * A Hogwarts Story by Palleas
 * Making Magic by Animaneya
 * Rise of the Brave Tangled Dragons Hogwarts Edition by goaliegirl12
 * ROTBTD: Hogwarts Storybook by LegendaryRaconteuse
 * The Big Four and the School for Witchcraft and Wizardry by theohbm
 * The New Generation of Troublemakers in Hogwarts by ayoungwriter (Discontinued)
 * ROTBTD: Four Against Fear by LegendaryRaconteuse
 * The Big Four and the Sorcerers Stone by F-A-Jackson