Disclaimer: With great regret I must inform you readers that I am not the owner of either the Harry Potter books or the Final Fantasy games. If I owned the Harry Potter books I would be on permanent vacation and if I owned the Final Fantasy games I would have made SURE that STUPID Dirge of Cerberus game would have NEVER have hit the market in any country. (No offence to Vincent who is one bad a$$ mother f?!#$)
Personal Note 1 (here after referred to as P.N.): This is my first fan fic so please don't try and kill me if I get a few things wrong. If you have helpful suggestions feel free to give them. I hope you all enjoy my first ever story.
P.N. 2: I HAVE NOT READ HARRY POTTER SIX OR SEVEN if you have corrections based on the books listed above please do not give it to me. This story is based on the events in books ONE THROUGH FIVE.
P.N. 3: This is Harry's sixth year at Hogworts if you haven't guessed
Chapter 1 New Blood
The night was cold and dark. Rain was pouring heavily down on the town. Even with the storm looming overhead it was a fairly quiet night. All were in their home sitting by the fire talking about old times, however one house was any mood but happy.
This house was special because nonmagical people could not see it and even several magic users could not find it. This house is Number Twelve Grimmauld Place, which is the house of the famous family Black, and also the headquarters of the Order of the Phoenix.
Number Twelve Grimmauld Place was looking as dark and grim as ever except for one window. The room that was lit was the dining room, judging from the size and shape of the table, the many chairs, and a kitchen area. Of course the place is a complete mess from what it was just one year ago when the place was full of life and laughter.
Three figures were sitting around the table talking in hushed voices even though no one else was in the room.
"It still feels strange," said a tired looking man with gray hair and shabby robes. "It's hard to believe that Sirius is …"
"He's dead Remus," growled a man with grizzled gray hair with a normal small, dark, and beady eye. But the other was a large, round, blue magical eye that could see through any object even the back of his head. "A sensible man like yourself should have accepted this fact a while ago!"
"You don't have to be that blunt Mad-Eye!" yelled a woman who had a pale heart-shaped face, hard twinkling eyes, and short bright blue hair.
"It's alright Tonks," Remus sighed heavily. "I know Alastor is right, it just feels strange that's all."
"Well anyway," Mad-Eye said gruffly "Are you going to tell us why we are here or are we going to sit here and stare at each others faces!"
"Ah yes, it's about Harry," Lupin said in a hurried voice. "As we all know Harry has been through a lot in his years in Hogworts, all the attacks of Lord Voldemort, his parents dying and now Sirius is dead."
"So… what can were do about that?" asked Tonks "I mean it's not like we could pat him on the shoulder and say 'Sorry about all your troubles Harry old boy'!"
"Oh no, no" said Lupin quickly "I was thinking of extra protection for Harry."
Both Tonks and Mad-Eye raised their eyebrows at Lupin. They all knew Harry hated above anything else in the world was to be forced to travel in a large group as "extra protection".
"I was thinking," Lupin said guessing what their expressions meant, "that this time we only use one person to protect Harry."
Both Tonks and Mad-Eye stared at him with bulging eyes, with Moody's extra large magical eye this was quite a scary sight. Tonks had her mouth hanging open with shock.
"My God Lupin," started Tonks after a few moments recovery, "have you lost your mind! How could only one person stop both You-Know-Who and his Death Eaters! No one in"
"The Order would be able to do that." said Lupin softly
A slight pause followed this statement then…
"What are you trying to get at?" asked Mad-Eye while looking at him with slight confusion.
But before Lupin could answer, the door to the dining room banged open. All three of them jumped to their feet and pulled out their wands.
"It's alright," said Mrs. Weasley, slightly red in the face "It's just me." Mrs. Weasley was normally a plump, bright, cheerful woman with flaming red hair but today everything about her, even her hair seemed to be duller. She smiled weakly and moved in to the room.
"Sorry we're late. The kids wanted to come to the meeting and refused to go to bed." explained Mrs. Weasley
"I dare say it was quite good of Bill to perform that sleeping charm behind their back. We might not have gotten out of the house without his help." said Mr. Weasley coming alongside his wife. Mr. Weasley was tall with faming red hair; of course it was hard to tell because he had little hair on his balding head.
Tonks and Lupin put away their wands and sat down but Mad-Eye stood there pointing his wand at the two of them. His normal eye stared at their faces, while his magical eye looked over their entire bodies carefully.
"How do we know they're not being controlled?" growled Mad-Eye still not looking away.
"Because," said Mrs. Weasley taking a step closer to Mad-Eye, showing him a warm smile with a slight feeling of insanity. "If you continue to point that wand in my face Alastor, I will break your neck!" still not removing her smile.
"That's her alright." Said Mad-Eye in a quiet voice while putting away his wand and sitting down.
"So… what did we miss?" asked Mrs. Weasley clapping her hands together.
As the Weasleys sat down, Lupin explained about the plan of getting extra protection for Harry, how no one in the Order could handle this job, and how the protector should be someone from the outside. When he finished Mrs. Weasley was in total shock but Mr. Weasley was quite interested.
"And who did you have in mind, Remus?" asked Mrs. Weasley with still some shock in her voice.
"Well…" began Lupin "that is why we are all here. I wanted to see if any of us had someone in mind."
They all took several minutes to think of someone who could handle this kind of job. After a long pause Mr. Weasley was the first to speak.
"I… think…" began Mr. Weasley slowly "I just might know someone." Everyone stared at Mr. Weasley in disbelief
"Who?" yelled Mrs. Weasley excitedly "who would be crazy enough and skilled enough to take this job?"
"Well… it was a man I met in the Ministry of Magic and he said to me…Oh!" Mr. Weasley suddenly stopped and had a sad expression.
"What is it dear, what's wrong?" asked Mrs. Weasley, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"I forgot," said Mr. Weasley looking even sadder "He died last month."
The faces around the table, even Mad-Eye's, seem to be taken over by grief. They stared at Mr. Weasley hoping he would know someone else. But when he shook his head they all looked down at the table.
"Well…" shouted Mad-Eye suddenly "If we are finished wasting time I'll…"
"Hold on there Alastor!" shouted Lupin. When they looked at him he was scratching his head as if trying to remember something. "Yes… yes… I think I remember someone."
"Out with it Remus! Who are you talking about?" roared Mad-Eye
At these words Lupin seemed to remember whom he was talking about and started to search through his luggage. "I have a picture of him," said Lupin suddenly very excited. "I'm not sure why I kept it but… Ah ha!" Lupin pulled out an old looking photo not because it was old but because it had been folded and crumpled so many times.
Lupin passed the picture to Tonks and with one look at the picture came a sudden scream. "Ooo… Lupin he's perfect!" and then quickly passed the picture to Mrs. Weasley.
Mrs. Weasley looked at the picture a little more carefully than Tonks but said "I see what you mean darling." And patted Tonks on the arm who in turn blushed a bright red that could out shine any of the Weasley's hair any day. She passed the picture to Mr. Weasley.
As soon as he saw the picture and tried to ask Lupin important questions such as "Is he a Muggle?", "Does he use a telephone?" and was just about to ask if he ever saw a "basketball" game when he saw the look on his wife's face and passed the picture on to Mad-Eye.
When Mad-Eye got the picture, Lupin found himself holding his breath. He quickly released it to breath normally but even so, Lupin knew Mad-Eye's opinion would mean the success or failure of the mission.
"Is he capable?" asked Mad-Eye gruffly. The question caught Lupin off guard but hequickly recovered.
"Ah… yes, he once told me he was a mercenary at one time." said Lupin quickly
Mad-Eye passed the picture back and said, "Well, who is he? What is his name?"
Lupin stared at the picture in his had. To be honest Lupin had not thought about this man in several years. In the picture, there was Lupin looking a little less shabby and his face was a brighter color. He was standing next to a man who was easily a head taller than Lupin, with a muscular body, and spiky blond hair. But the most interesting thing about him was not his rigid stance, emotionless face or his oddly shaped black robes, but his eyes. His eyes were blue but had an eerie glow around them. Lupin was transfixed by his eyes "Who is this man?" Lupin thought.
"Well, who is he?" growled Mad-Eye in a more irritated tone.
"H-Huh," Lupin said jerking his head up suddenly. When he looked down again the glowing was gone. "Had I imagined it?" thought Lupin. Shaking his head he started "Umm…" but then he turned over the photo and saw one sentence on the back.
Remus Lupin & Cloud Strife
Ending Note 1: This is the end of Chapter one! (Takes five to do a victory dance). I hope everyone will like my story. Hopefully this story will post correctly (never know with stone age computers) and also hoping more chapters will come soon.
Stay cool and bring peace to the world:)
Ending Note 2: In case anyone forgot I will tell you once again. Ahem…
I DO NOT OWN ANY PART OF HARRY POTTER OR FINAL FANTASY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ending Note 3: Next chapter coming in about one month. Please read and review.