Disclaimer: I do not own either Harry Potter or Tokyo Ghoul
Prologue:
He felt light, weightless. His body was free of pain, yet he felt like something was missing. Was he dead? Should he be dead? He tried to look through his memories, yet he was drawing up blank. Faces and images flashed through his mind, yet they were too shallow to grasp. He distinctly remembered piercing pain through his head, yet what did pain feel like?
Floating in the middle of nowhere, he wasn't sure how much time had passed. A few seconds, months, years? His mind and conscious grew clearer as time passed, and his thoughts grew more stable and logical.
He thought he could feel something next to him, something solid. Voices and sounds penetrated his ears, and he could hear someone talking.
"Lily blossom, let me try talking to them." A male voice.
"Fine, James, if you think they would understand you." A female one, this time, though it sounded a bit exasperated.
"You know old Snivellus I was talking about last ti-"
"James, I've told you to stop calling him that!"
"Of course, of course, it's just that old habits die hard and- well you know...but anyways, so Snape, the old bat-"
"How many times do I have to tell you to stop?!"
The world around him grew clearer and clearer, and he could recognise the voices yet couldn't understand them. He grew restless as the time passed, and tried moving his...body?
"James! I think I can feel something kicking!"
"Really? Do you think they're due yet?"
He tried kicking harder, and wanted to get out. After what seemed like millions of years, he could see a light. His mind seemed to clear abruptly, memories flashing up to meet him. Hide, Touka, Anteiku, the Owl battle, his death, everything. As he was born, Kaneki did what most babies did upon birth, he cried.