Beauty and the Beast

A House/Harry Potter fan fiction

DISCLAIMER: House belongs to Fox, Harry Potter to the genius that is JK Rowling. I only hope one day I can write as well as she does.

AN. Ok, I've had a few requests from people to post my House/HP crossover, so I am, thanks to Marietta... just warning you though, this is not your typical crossover. It's hard to explain, but I've done it my way and if you don't like it, I really don't want to know. I mean seriously, if you read HP and didn't like it, I'm assuming you didn't send letters to JK Rowling abusing her, so please don't do it to me. It's a readers choice as to what they read, but they should treat writers with respect.

Also, because obviously House is set in New Jersey, and HP in England, I had to change that- so I set HP in New England... it made sense at the time.

PLEASE NOTE: This was my first ever fan fic. So, keep that in mind whilst reading.

Prologue

Allison Cameron was sixteen years old when she fell in love for the first time. A young witch attending Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry her entire world had changed in the summer before her seventh year. She had arrived home to suddenly discover her parents were in the midst of finalizing their divorce, and her father would be married again before the leaves changed- to the woman who had lived down the street her entire life with her two sons, Shaun and Dylan Harris. Allison, hurt and upset had rebelled against her parents, cutting off any contact with her father, and sook refuge in the homes of her two closest friends, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley.

Harry too was adjusting to change, although his changes were more positive than Allison's. Sirius had been given a formal pardon by the Ministry, Lupin and Tonks had married and were expecting their first child. Most significantly, a recent discovery by a team of alchemists was the Arvadek Adava Potion, which had the ability to reverse the effects of the Avada Kedavra Curse. Lily and James Potter had been the first successful test for the potion, which was under strict Ministry control. He had moved out of the Dursley's home, and moved in with his parents to number 12, Grimmauld Place where he seemed bewildered to suddenly find himself in a home where not only was he loved and wanted but had everything he had been neglected the first sixteen years of his life.

As the two friends attempted to deal together with the extreme changes in their lifestyle, they formed a much closer and deeper friendship which gradually evolved once they returned to Hogwarts for their seventh year. It wasn't an easy year for the two, it seemed everyone in the Wizarding world had an opinion on their newly fledged romance, and they were attempting to juggle their new changed relationship with their respective friendships with Ron and the other Gryffindors. Allison was struggling with her new roles in life as a child of divorced parents, step-daughter, step-sister, girlfriend and the choices she had to make regarding her future. Although a gifted witch, she wasn't entirely sure she didn't want to pursue a career outside of the Wizarding world, reluctant to give up her childhood dream of becoming a world famous doctor.

Then there was the fact that Lord Voldemort was still a very large factor in their lives, often Harry joked it felt like he was a third party in their relationship; and he was as equally determined to keep Allison safe as he was to have a real, normal relationship. Somehow, Harry managed to defeat Voldemort, thus fulfilling the prophecy and they managed to survive their NEWT year and move their growing relationship into the real world. Allison made the difficult decision to take some college courses instead of pursuing a career in the magical world, after receiving support from Dumbledore himself on the idea.

"You cannot deny that the first life you ever knew was one without magic," he told her one afternoon the summer after they had left Hogwarts. It had been at the end of one of the Order's meetings, and Dumbledore had found her immersed in a college catalogue for Massachusetts State and Massachusetts Community College, frantic over the seemingly impossible choice she was facing.

"I know," she had sighed wearily. "And my mom loves the idea... ever since I was little I always said I was going to be a doctor. But it feels like, I'm turning my back on magic, like I think a career in magic is below me."

"Below you or above you?" he had asked her seriously, and she had been stunned.

So, she had promptly enrolled in a few elementary classes, to readjust to an education of no magic, and maybe decide where she wanted her life to take her. She was nineteen when Harry had proposed, and the entire Wizarding world rejoiced as the news spread throughout the world. When they began to plan the wedding, they sat down and considered the places and people closest to their hearts. It was Harry who realised there was really only one place they wanted to get married, and they had made a special return visit to Hogwarts to visit Professor Dumbledore, a week after the news had been announced.

They had both been rather nervous as they sat in Dumbledore's office, and it was Allison who dove headfirst to make the request.

"We started to make wedding plans the other day, and we started talking about where we wanted to get married," she'd began, as Dumbledore listened patiently.

"Neither of us are particularly religious, so it would just seemed ridiculous to have a church wedding. But when we started to think of alternative venues, the only place we could think of... was here. I mean, we spent so much time here, it was our home for seven years and so much happened in those seven years, it just seemed natural. So, we were wondering if it would be possible for us to get married here?"

She and Harry had waited with bated breath, and Dumbledore took a moment to answer. His eyes seemed wet as he spoke finally.

"You know, you're right, Allison. Hogwarts has been a home to thousands of witches and wizards over the years. My mother used to have a saying that a house wasn't a home until it had had a wedding, a birth and a death. I'm sorry to say that we've had our fair share of deaths within the castle, far more than I'd like. We've even had a birth here, Rowena Ravenclaw's own daughter was born in the castle. But Hogwarts has never seen a wedding since its founding, and I cannot think of anyone who deserves the honour more than the two of you."

They were married nine months later, in a beautiful ceremony that took place by the side of the lake at Hogwarts on September first, as dozens of young witches and wizards were boarding the Hogwarts Express from Platform 9 ¾ on their way to begin a new year, two short weeks before Allison's twentieth birthday. Dumbledore married them, and at Allison's request, having no contact still with her father, Sirius had given her away. It had been her attempt to convey to him what Sirius meant to Harry, and hence to her. After the wedding, the newlyweds moved into number 12 Grimmauld Place, as Lily was reluctant to have her son leave her home so soon. And then Harry returned to his Auror work in the Ministry, and Allison to her college courses and the two were blissfully happy for a moment.

And their joy seemed unstoppable, when the following July, after ten months of marriage, Allison and Harry announced they were expecting their first child. And that was when their luck ran out. Allison was four months pregnant when Harry was brutally murdered while on the tail of a rogue Death Eater. Devastated and inconsolable the only thing that kept Allison going was knowing she had to be strong for her unborn child. For Harry's child. And then barely two months after she had buried her husband, she had awoken in the middle of the night with contractions. Neither doctors nor Dumbledore had been able to stop the labour from progressing, and Zachary Sirius James Potter had been born and pronounced stillborn, crushing the last of his mother's faith in love, magic and God.

Allison had moved about in a stupor for months, oblivious to the letters and gifts of sympathy and support that poured in from around the globe. Suddenly, just before what should have been Harry's twenty- second birthday, she made an impulsive decision to change her life. Despite all protests, she transferred to Michigan State University and left number 12, Grimmauld Place; stunning the Order with her intention to go to medical school.

Remember, please don't review if you don't like it! Just stop reading, like the rest of the world. And yes, Sirius, Dumbledore, Lupin and Tonks are alive. Because i love them.