bizarre, but potentially enjoyable?
I'd see a problem with feel, though. Bugs can do all sorts of wacky things, but he *isn't* a potterverse wizard. He's also not much of one for being in a class without causing serious disruptions - and (at least natively), he doesn't really do character growth. Allowing him to remain true to that basically means he'll be getting away with flouting the rules at every turn, which in turn makes him rather unpleasantly Marty Stu. Thoughts for a fix on that...
- Make him something that is not a student. If he actually managed to wangle some sort of privileged role (like outside observer on behalf of one of the more influential families or whatnot) that could work well. Ghost would work just fine except that he'd have to figure out inventive ways around not having a physical body to work with. Familiar might work, if you're willing to bend the rules about familiars a bit (and while I'd have a hard time seeing even Dumbledore bend the rules for students enough to let Bugs fit in, I can totally see him bending the rules for familiars to let bugs be one - and then letting him exploit the heck out of some of those rules as a way fo letting Bugs get away with doing whatever). He might even manage something as a "house elf" - if you let him bend his Trickster Schtick in such a way as to make him indistinguishable from all of the other house elves to anyone he needed to fool. (Bugs has soem really amazing abilities at fooling people utterly with really poor disguises). Any of these might let you have something very similar in feel to the story you're going with.
- Actually let him have some character growth. Bugs is capable of having really bad days. Let him head into things, raring to go, and get seriously slapped down - not in a way that he can fight back against (because that just revs him up) but in the "you are harming your friends with your disruptions" sort of way, which might actually bring him back down a bit. A more subdued Bugs goes back to attending classes, learns the use of the wand (because while he doesn't know anything at all about wand magic, and is sweating to try to learn everything in the new paradigm, he is a sufficiently magical creature that he can make the spells go) and basically spends time stressing out about getting under control... until he wakes up one day and realies exactly how much of a raging (fill int he blank) Umbridge is, and decides it's time to pull out the old tricks again... with the addition of wand magic, now that he has wand magic. Of course, he puts some effort into putting Harry back together again, too.
- make it sufficiently short, fluffy, and near-mindless that you don't even get to the point of asking those questions. Won't last that long, won't go that deep, will leave gaping plotholes, would probably still be a fun read.
I'd see a problem with feel, though. Bugs can do all sorts of wacky things, but he *isn't* a potterverse wizard. He's also not much of one for being in a class without causing serious disruptions - and (at least natively), he doesn't really do character growth. Allowing him to remain true to that basically means he'll be getting away with flouting the rules at every turn, which in turn makes him rather unpleasantly Marty Stu. Thoughts for a fix on that...
- Make him something that is not a student. If he actually managed to wangle some sort of privileged role (like outside observer on behalf of one of the more influential families or whatnot) that could work well. Ghost would work just fine except that he'd have to figure out inventive ways around not having a physical body to work with. Familiar might work, if you're willing to bend the rules about familiars a bit (and while I'd have a hard time seeing even Dumbledore bend the rules for students enough to let Bugs fit in, I can totally see him bending the rules for familiars to let bugs be one - and then letting him exploit the heck out of some of those rules as a way fo letting Bugs get away with doing whatever). He might even manage something as a "house elf" - if you let him bend his Trickster Schtick in such a way as to make him indistinguishable from all of the other house elves to anyone he needed to fool. (Bugs has soem really amazing abilities at fooling people utterly with really poor disguises). Any of these might let you have something very similar in feel to the story you're going with.
- Actually let him have some character growth. Bugs is capable of having really bad days. Let him head into things, raring to go, and get seriously slapped down - not in a way that he can fight back against (because that just revs him up) but in the "you are harming your friends with your disruptions" sort of way, which might actually bring him back down a bit. A more subdued Bugs goes back to attending classes, learns the use of the wand (because while he doesn't know anything at all about wand magic, and is sweating to try to learn everything in the new paradigm, he is a sufficiently magical creature that he can make the spells go) and basically spends time stressing out about getting under control... until he wakes up one day and realies exactly how much of a raging (fill int he blank) Umbridge is, and decides it's time to pull out the old tricks again... with the addition of wand magic, now that he has wand magic. Of course, he puts some effort into putting Harry back together again, too.
- make it sufficiently short, fluffy, and near-mindless that you don't even get to the point of asking those questions. Won't last that long, won't go that deep, will leave gaping plotholes, would probably still be a fun read.