Burning Silver
(Harry Potter + X-Men Crossover)
Prologue
It's a strange thing, how one small detail could create such a long lasting and exponential change to the vastly expanding river that is the descending events in our universe, flowing and rushing between each set path in its course.
In another alternate stream of events, one Mrs Naylor of no.6, Suffolk St, London, would have decided that on that cloudy Tuesday in a particularly rainy May, it would have been for the best to close the living room window, lest she let the cooled southern air in. However, in this reality, Mrs Naylor found the stuffy air of the attic she had cleaned earlier that day, a little too stifling and thus decided that perhaps a pocket of fresh air couldn't harm anyone.
It was unfortunate that she would only remember to close that specific window after the dilemma she and her husband faced when Sam –their son of sixteen summers whom was studying abroad in America- finally arrived home to relax for the summer holidays, only to inform his parents of his supernatural abilities; his status as a Mutant. It was also very unfortunate that this little titbit was overheard by the inhabitance of no.7; Mrs Gosper, a middle-aged woman with a spindly form and largely disproportioned ears which, admittedly, came in extraordinarily useful when inconspicuously tuning in to any interesting stories from the neighbours that just happened to drift in from their windows.
After all, it wasn't as if they couldn't close their windows if they really didn't want anyone else to hear.
Of course, it would have been remarkably selfish –in her opinion, at least- of her to hoard such an entertaining story and so she did not preserve when politely informing the milkmen, the man at the till in Sainsbury's, or the rest of the neighbourhood, in fact. Neither did she uphold when, the week after next, Mr and Mrs Dursley visited after a small shopping trip to Stratford Centre in preparation for the family's month due baby.
The Dursleys were naturally sympathetic of Mrs Gosper's plight of the unnatural family next-door due to their own unfortunate relation with a not-so-normal family by the name of Potter. Despite this, the information would remain largely forgotten until a year and a half later when a letter written in a suspiciously familiar looped handwriting and a fifteen month old infant by the name of Haydrian –shortened to Harry- appeared on their doorstep.
This information would not drastically change Haydrian's life at the Dursleys, only in this reality, he would not be labelled 'Boy', 'Freak' and occasionally 'Harry' during school times, but instead 'Boy', 'Freak', 'Mutant' and 'Haydrian'. This alone would not change much in the grand scheme of events, if it was not for the fact that Mrs Dursley possessed a rather soprano and sonorous voice as on one specific occasion, she'd chastised Haydrian as 'Mutant' –a name she was particularly fond of when in the comfort and secrecy of her home- instead of the usual 'Boy' she used while in public.
It was at the Dursley's misfortune that rumours of their dangerous Mutant nephew soon spread uncontrolled, fuelled by the family's previous statements branding Haydrian as an unrestrainable delinquent. Not long after, nervous neighbours and school staff alike began contacting the police in fear of the so called rabid Mutant of Privet Drive, many knowing the various news reports from America of the dangerous species.
Specially equipped task force members were sent a week after the numerous tips, to confine and contain the latest 'Mutant Outbreak'.
November the twenty-eighth of nineteen-eighty-eight would signify the day when Haydrian Potter (now Evans)'s path would not lead him to the death of one Tom Marlovo Riddle and in its place, a road to an uncertain station between the warring factions of the Homo-Superior and Homo-sapiens.
American Summer holidays either start at the End of May to the end of August, or beginning of June to the day after 'Labor Day' in the start of September (from Wiki) – that's why Sam Naylor arrived home in May for the summer holidays.
Mini timeline
(Tuseday 27th May 1980) - Sam Naylor arrives home + Mrs Gosper eavesdrops
(Sunday 15th June 1980) - Mr and Mrs Dursley visit Mrs Gosper
(Monday 23rd June 1980 – from HP Wika) - Dudley Dursley is born
(Thursday 31st July 1980 – from HP Wika) - Harry Potter is born
(Saturday 31st Oct 1981 –from HP Wika) - Voldemort's body is destroyed + Harry is sent to Dursleys
(Wednesday 23rd November 1988) - Mutant Harry Rumours start/Petunia calls Harry a Mutant
(Monday 28th November 1988) - MI5/Special Task Forces collect Harry
Disclaimer:
Harry Potter, its story, its universe and its characters, are all owned by J. K. Rowling
X-Men, its story, its universe and its characters, are all owned by Stan Lee.
The game 'Beyond: Two Souls' inspired part of the back story.
Original Characters and my own words are owned by me: J. Y. Anne
AN: I can't believe this short bit took a whole day. I tried really hard to write this in the style of J. K. Rowling - would ya tell me if it's any good?