Well, this is a story that will be updated on and off, the beginings simple enough...it's the later years I have to work out, if I do time skips it shouldn't be too dificult, anyway. Karin and Yuzu attend Hogwarts...Marauder era...yup.
KarinxSirius possibly YuzuxSnape or YuzuxLupin

Disclaimer: I own neither Bleach, nor Harry Potter...hence the word FANfiction.

Chapter 1
Average?

Karin Kurosaki was an average eleven year old girl...well perhaps average wasn't the right word to use. After all, she was a Kurosaki; which meant her father was a certafied quack, her borther was an absolute knutcase, and her twin sister...well Karin would never say anything against her twin, but she secretly believed Yuzu should stop spending her free time knitting clothes for her dolls.

Yuzu, who had been born meerly seconds after her twin was her opposite in every way. Where Karin was dark, Yuzu was light, right from the color of their hair down to the clothes that they wear. Yuzu was also an 'average' Kurosaki. Infact, in many ways, she was more average than Karin. After all, she had never seen ghosts flying about, (even if Karin denied it Yuzu knew she still saw them) nor did she have the ability to use a soccor ball as a missile, she supposed she could cook an entire meal in under an hour...but that hardly classified as special in her books. No, Yuzu Kurakosi, much like Karin, was average.

Now, being as average as they were, I'm sure you can imagine their shock when they came home one day and saw a rather unaverage man in their living-room. Sitting next to their father with a cup of tea in his hand was an old man, if his white beard was anything to go by. Which, by the way, was so long that the stranger had taken to stuffing it through his belt. He was wearing what could only be desribed as a purple cloak, and, oddly-enough, high heels, his blue eyes seemed to twinkle behind his glasses with hidden knowledge.

One thing to note about Karin Kurosaki, if nothing else, is that she is not the most respectful of children. If she has something to say she will most certainly say it, and if you don't like it? Well you're out of luck. Knowing this about Karin, it should come as no surprise that she was the first of the two sisters to talk.

"Hey, Old man!" Karin drawled while dropping her soccor bag by the door, "what's with the weirdo?"

"Karin!" Yuzu hissed, a blush of embarassment making its way onto her cheeks, "you shouldn't speak that way about guests, and what did I say about leaving your bag in the passageway? Someone could trip!" She continued flailing her arms up and down. A second later, as if to prove a point, Yuzu took a step foreward and promptly tripped over Karin's soccor bag.

"Ah, my dearest daughter!" Their father cried while diving to catch Yuzu. Karin noted that the odd man seemed to find this situation very amusing. A fact that he confirmed with his next sentence.

"Well, Isshin, I see you're as emergetic as they say," the old man chuckled, "Masaki was right to call you a handfull."

"You knew our mom?" Karin questioned, picking up on the tone of the sentence.

"Quite right Ms. Kurosaki, or I suppose I should say Kurosaki-san, shouldn't I?" The man continued good humourly, "your mom would always get so mad if someone adressed her improperly."

"Karin's the same," Yuzu commented from admidst her father's hugs, "if anyone she's not close to calls her by her first name she sees red." Yuzu stopped to chuckle at a perticularly funny memory of when Karin had actually snapped at a teacher for miss-addressing her, "I don't care though," she continued, "you can just call me Yuzu!"

"Yes, well Ms. Yuzu, Kurosaki-san, I suppose you're curious as to why I'm here?" Both girls nodded, so the man continued, "first off, my name is Albus Perceival Dumbledor and I am the current Headmaster of a very prestiges school, a school where you'll find, if you so desire, you have a place at."

"Wait?" Karin interjected, "are you a scout or something, and how did you know our mom?"

"I believe the correct answer Kurosaki-san, would be an 'or something' although I suppose I can be called a scout, but you would have been scouted from the moment you were born for a talent you have no control over, and to your second question," Dumbledore continued, "I know your mom because she attended the very school I am speaking of."

"...and that is?"

"Why Kurosaki-san! That would be Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizadry. Now normally you would attend a local school, perhaps Alphonse's Alchestry Academy, or Shikon Shrine for Sorcerers, however, your father and I felt you should have the option of attending your mother's Alma Mater...it is one of the best school's running if I could be so bold as to say."

"Wait," Karin began, "you mean to say, that our mother is a-

-a witch!" Yuzu shouted, jumping up and down in excitment, "oh I always knew it!"

"You 'knew it' Yuzu?"

"Of course! Don't you see Karin?" Yuzu questioned, turning to face her twin. "What with you talking to ghosts and me befrending lion spirits we just had to be magic, it's the only thing that made sense!"

"That," Karin began slowly, "or we could just be mental."

"I assure you Kurosaki-san, you are anything but 'mental' you are one of the few true pure-bloods left in this time."

"Pure-bloods? What, you mean like a hundred percent magic?" Karin said, confusion lacing her words, "but the old man's not a wizard...are you?"

Isshin Kurosaki thought this was a very good time to start counting the number of threads that made up his rug. He got to about 60 before Karin kicked him in the side of the head, bringing him crashing back to Earth. "I would've told you," he started backing away slowly, "only I was charmed so I couldn't...you understand, right? I mean I wasn't techinically a wizard anyway..."

"What do you mean?" Yuzu called stopping Karin with the touch of her hand.

Isshin who was clearly relieved to still be alive launched into his explanation. "Well you see," he began, "your mom went to Hogwarts so she's a witch, if she went to Als or Shikon she'd have been either an alchemist or sorceress respectivly. I went to the Shinigami Academy in Seretei."

"Wait...where?" Karin questioned, having never heard of a place called Seretei...not that she'd heard of any of the places mentioned, but still.

"Seretei, it's the captial of the Soul Society." It was, surprisingly, Dumbledor who answered, "and before you ask Kurosaki-san, Soul Society is an all magic community hidden on an invisible island to the west of Hokkaido, it's true name is Kuroki, dark-tree, it became known as Soul Society when your Ministry of Magic...I believe you call them Centeral 46, passed a law in which ghosts could no-longer freely roam the streets. They were soon sent to live in the only completely magical community...Kuroki."

"So all the ghosts go there?" Yuzu questioned, trying to wrap her head around all the new information.

"Yeah," Isshin called, effectivaly putting the spotlight on himself, "well Seretei, like Dumbledor said, is the capital, and it's at the center of the island...but ghost can't enter it only shiniga-err, witches and wizards can travel trhough it, and only if they've graduated from the Shinigami Academy. It's the center of the Japanese Magical Community, like, um Diagon Alley in London...only more selective."

"Selective?" Yuzu questioned, neither her nor Karin brought up that they had no idea what 'Diagon Alley' was.

"Like your father said Ms. Yuzu," Dumbledoor picked up, obviously more comfortable explaining things, "only a fully recognized witch or wizard is granted passage, they call them 'shinigami' or Death Gods."

"That's conceited," Karin mummbeled to herself, garnaring a chuckle from Dumbledor.

"Yes, well, cosidering they are granted entry into a city that they've completely banned ghosts from entering, on an island known as 'soul society' I'm sure you can see their reasoning." Dumbledor continued, "nevertheless, I did not come here to discuss your country's history, although it is rather interesting. Locking Magical Creatures up in a prison known as the Maggot's Nest, and asignining a singal wizard to gaurd it...but I digress, I came here to offer you a chance to attend Hogwarts this coming school year, and, subsequently, the next 6 years as well."

Karin was shocked, she almost didn't believe what the old man was saying...but then again, she had been seing ghosts since she was 4, and she'd noticed Ichi-nii and his friends mentioning things about 'shinigami' and the 'soul society.' Even so, to suddenly ask them if they wanted to drop everything and attend a school on the other side of the world, for the next seven years? And considering the distance it would be unlikely they could visit except over summer break...if then. This was all so sudden, and Karin had to think carefully abou-

"I'll go!" Yuzu shouted, a large smile on her already cheerful face, "it sounds like fun!"

Well, looks like Yuzu made her choice for her, after all, hell would freeze over...or melt (depending on the your belief) before she would let her younger sister (twin or not) do something like this alone.

"Alright, I'm in" Karin drawled, a smirk on her face. It looked like Karin Kurosaki was not such an average girl after all.

I'm almost done with chapter 2. So if anyone's reading this that should be up soon...now, I suggest you REVIEW, Mwahahaha (don't make me imperio you!)