AN: I use Japanese and English terms interchangeably, ie. shinigami-sama - Lord Death, DWMA - Shibusen.
Soul and Maka's clothes are the ones from when they dance in the black blood room.
Chapter 1
The start of a new school year and the Hogwarts carriages trundled along making the annual journey up to the Castle carrying the students within.
Luckily Harry had been found by Tonks in time to get into the carriages with everybody else.
As they neared the castle the carriage Harry and his friends were occupying came to a halt and Harry was forcibly reminded of when the train ride in his third year had been searched by dementors after stopping.
A moment later a loud knock on the carriage door interrupted the concerned chatter inside. "Security check," came a lazy male voice.
Closest to the door, Ginny moved to open it but Harry stopped her. He withdrew his wand and held it at his side, motioning for the other students to do the same.
Somewhat confused, Neville drew his wand after placing the rare plant he'd been holding on the ground at his feet. Luna meanwhile continued reading unperturbed. With the Gryffindors in various degrees of readiness Harry gestured to the cloth covering the window. Understanding his meaning, Ginny pulled aside the closed curtain revealing the head and upper chest of a strange man. His red eyes and white hair stood out prominently, and he wore what looked like a black muggle suit with equally black tie over a deep red shirt. One hand holding onto the carriage for support, the man gestured to the closed window. After Ginny slid it open he spoke in the same lazy tone, "can you open the door? I need to verify no one is hiding inside."
"Something wrong?" Harry asked, not too keen to let a stranger enter the crowded compartment, "Mr...?"
"Call me Soul kid." "Dumbledore asked us to act as extra security for the night as favour." "Maka found someone hiding on the train and subdued him." "So now I'm inspecting carriages for anyone suspicious in case he had accomplices."
Harry got a glimpse of sharp teeth as Soul spoke, 'They found someone hiding on the train?'
Still, recent events had left him somewhat paranoid, "how do we know you're not someone suspicious?"
"Harry!" Hermione hissed at his audacity.
Soul actually laughed a bit in response. "You've got gut kids, " he leaned forward and his face stretched into a terrifyingly wide grin showing off rows of sharp teeth that made them all shudder. "You don't, but it doesn't matter because we're currently inside the Hogwart's wards and if I had managed to get past them without trouble it would be highly unlikely you would be able to do anything against me."
Successfully cowed Harry adverted his eyes from that unaturally wide grin, "Ginny let him in."
"Thank you," Soul rolled his eyes exasperatedly as the door finally opened. "Not like I actually need to look to know" he muttered under breath just loud enough for them to make out, though Harry was sure they weren't meant to have heard it. Instead of entering he merely stuck his head in and looked around. While he did this everyone managed to get a better look at him. His clothes seemed to be made out of some unnatural material that seemed to shift and appeared almost alive with shadows, and yes, on closer inspection his odd hair was defiantly natural as were his red eyes and unsettlingly sharp teeth.
Harry, however, was not distracted by the clothing or the fact he had naturally white hair even if he found those red eyes and teeth unnerving. "Do you know the person's name? The one... ' Maka'? found on the train?"
The answer, however, came from Luna. "Oh. That was just Mr. Moody, who most definitely won't be teaching this year."
Soul raised an eyebrow in surprise, "you know the man on the train?"
"Mmm hmm," he said he was working security on the train when I asked."
"Tch, I'd better tell Maka," the man muttered as closed his eyes and seemed to concentrate while the others looked at Luna oddly.
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At the time she got Soul's message Maka was currently flying several hundred feet overhead sitting side saddle astride a thestral with the 'suspicious character' she'd caught bound in a tendril of shadow hanging from her finger.
She landed ten feet away from the hospital wing's outdoor entrance looking as if, for or the world nothing out of the ordinary had just occurred. Judging from the gasps and exclamations from the waiting Dumbledore and Pomfrey, riding a giant, winged, undead looking horse-like creature was something unusual for most people, even at a magic school. Though she had to concede, the beast did look rather intimidating with its imposing size and the night time background. The body she was transporting also failed to garner a reaction from her.
"Mr Moody was lurking about on the train invisible, you failed to mention his presence so I restrained him" Maka stated blandly as she rather ungently let the body fall to the ground still encircled by a thin chain of shadows.
Pomfrey immediately set about gesturing with her wand, before floating the unconscious man into the hospital wing and onto the nearest bed.
The man was definitely Alastor Moody; tall, intimidating, he had a wooden limb in place of his right leg, and was undoubtedly unconscious. A welt swelled at his left temple, and blood stained the rim of his mouth. Even knocked out he made a startling contrast to the petite girl who was responsible for his current condition. Pomfrey finished her examination and jabbed her wand toward the unconscious individual. "Rennervate, what exactly happened here?"
By the time, Maka had dismounted and entered the infirmary alongside Dumbledore, her mount having already flown away. "This man hid in a compartment, wearing clothing that rendered him invisible. I subdued him. Afterwards I brought him here as you saw. There is a chance some of the students on the lake may have seen my thestral flight over them."
"Muttering to herself darkly" the witch's left the immediate vicinity to retrieve some potions leaving Maka and Dumbledore alone with the unconscious man.
"I was informed you are familiar with this individual?" the blonde asked in a voice that pronounced her annoyance with the whole situation.
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Soul slowly opened his eyes message complete.
"Blimey, this Maka person took out Mad Eye Moody?! And he was invisible?!" Ron exclaimed.
"This Alastor Moody... he was supposed to be your professor the year before last, right?"
"Yeah, he's a retired Auror."
"I... see."
"Is everything alright, Mr. Soul?" Hermione hesitantly asked, the man seemed exhausted by the entire situation.
"Yeah, I suppose now that the mystery of the trespasser has been resolved, I should leave you be." "Tch, what an annoying favour..."
As soon as Soul left, the talking immediately began.
"Those were wicked clothes!" Ron declared, "but that grin was bloody creepy."
"And that white hair and those red eyes too," Harry added slightly unsettled. He did not recognize the material, aside from the fact that it wasn't anything he'd ever seen he didn't have a clue as to its nature. It didn't look like it had a muggle origin despite the clothes themselves resembling muggle dress.
"Maybe he's albino, though I don't know about the teeth, some kind of charm?" Hermione chimed in.
"Yeah... it looked... unusual... on him," Ginny giggled to herself in somewhat dreamy manner.
"I still can't believe someone took down Mad-Eye," Neville remarked.
"Yeah, I know," Ron agreed. "Maybe she surprised him?"
"How?" he has a magical eye that lets him see everything." " And he was hiding invisibly, and it's Mad-Eye!"
"You think this will be a problem?" Hermione interjected. "I mean, if this Maka attacked Mr Moody, then is she on our side?"
"It seemed like it was a misunderstanding, he said Dumbledore roped them into it " Harry commented, "I didn't really get the felling they were that into the idea, he probably got them to do it last minute, maybe he didn't mention Moody would be there, he is meant to be retired after all."
"That sounds reasonable I guess, or maybe she didn't recognize him?" Ginny suggested. "Or... well, maybe she thought he was a Death Eater under Polyjuice?"
Both suggestions sadly seemed rather reasonable.
At that silence finally filled the carriage as the thestrals once again began to pull them along.
AN:
Just some stuff,
In this high level partners like Maka and Soul can communicate wordlessly through Wavelength communication as long as they are within a relatively close distance to each other, that was what Soul was doing when he closed his eyes.
Maka is able to use and access her weapon blood like in the anime and as mentioned later in the story is at Death Scythe level.
She usually acts as a solo unit in much the way Stein and Justin often did, though she occasionally serves as Kid's weapon or partners with Soul.
Again this probably won't show up but I'll mention it anyway high level Meisters and Death Scythes can use mirrors the same way Death can to communicate with just about anyone, rather than just with Death.
Parts of this pulls heavily from WayFarer2000's Crosswinds of Fate, I heavily encourage you to check it out, while not complete it's one of the best Harry Potter/Fate Stay crossover's out there.
This was also partially inspired by Eleos Argentum's Death the Kid and the Broken Soul, again I highly recommend you check it out.
