This is a Harry Potter/+Anima AU fanfic. NO ROMANCE. In this, Harry, Ron and Hermione have already met before the train and they're all in first year, as well as Cooro, Husky and Nana. Their ages have been changed to all be eleven. No, Senri will not be a student, but is still part of the group (Let's keep some realism here, ne?). The world is something in between the two series. It's the +Anima world, but with the actual names of cities and countries. I just always liked the +Anima world. I'd love living there. The plot has nothing to do with either series, it's entirely made up by myself and a lot of what I've thought up has nothing to do with the plot.

Disclaimer: I always wanted to own Harry Potter and +Anima. We can all dream, can't we?

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No One

By The Pierroist

1

An Unexpected Arrival

The cold wind blew over the frozen lake and through the forest as a couple snowflakes drifted down. The trees were, on the whole, bare, however a few brown leaves still flapped in the wind stiffly, as if refusing to acknowledge the end of winter. The stars in the sky slowly swept over three sleeping figures, finally resting on another, illuminating it as it sat there.

'Cooro? What are you doing still up? It's pitch black,' asked a silver-haired boy, rubbing his eyes and walking over to the over boy.

'I thought you were asleep,' asked the other boy with mild surprise.

The first one hit Cooro over the head with a staff, causing a resounding *thunk* sound. 'Ssh! You'll wake Nana and Senri!'

'Oh. Sorry, Husky,' said Cooro, rubbing his head. 'I can't sleep. I just have this feeling like something big is about to happen.'

'Oh. Well, you should go to bed. Why don't you have a snack?' suggested Husky. 'You always fall asleep after eating. Just quietly, okay?'

'Yay! Apples!' exclaimed Cooro, quickly rushing off to a brown sack off to the side of the sleeping figures.

'Ssh!' said Husky, hitting Cooro over head with his staff again.

'Sorry.'

It was springtime as the quartet finally made their way out of the forest, though the last leg had so many hostile animals and gave off such an eerie feel that it was as if the forest itself was trying to stop them from going through.

'Whew! That forest was creepy. I don't think I'd ever want to go back there again,' remarked Nana, stepping out of the forest. 'Next time we travel let's make sure we have a clear idea of WHERE we're going.'

Everybody began staring at Cooro, who seemed oblivious to everything as he ran up to an open field in the distance, laughing with a gleeful smile on his face. 'Hey, guys! Look, a hut!'

'Watch it, Cooro! The fog's too thick to be able to see you if you run too far,' yelled Husky.

Cooro seemed not to hear him and kept on running towards whatever hut he seemed to have spotted.

'Ugh, I'm too tired to run,' said Nana.

The fog started clearing and Senri said his first thing since stepping out of the forest, though he was pretty much the same as when he was in the forest. Senri didn't seem to get scared or nervous at anything. 'Castle...'

'Hm? Oh! You're right!' said Husky.

The fog kept clearing as a gentle breeze picked up from the direction of some hills off to the right, flowing into the open plains, which, as the air cleared, seemed to be well kept and cut short. Obviously somebody lived here, and was probably rich enough to afford hired help, either that or somebody must have been spending a lot of time tending to the grounds. Through the light mist they could make out some sort of emblem, probably one for an academy of sorts.

'Hey, look. That must be the hut Cooro was running to. Let's go check it out,' said Husky.

Hagrid had just finished his breakfast and was about to leave to tend to the grounds when he heard a knock at the door. Who could that be? No one's up this time of morning. He opened the door to a strange young child around eleven with black hair and odd outlandish clothing, including a strange sleeveless Indian woven shirt, revealing two odd tattoos on his shoulders.

'Hi!' he said, beaming.

'What the...'

'Hi, I'm Cooro!' exclaimed Cooro, extending his hand upwards. 'Do you live here?'

'Huh. Yes, I do. Are you lost? I should probably bring you to see mister Dumbledore,' said Hagrid, reaching out to grab the young child's hand, when suddenly another three children appeared around the corner, all with equally strange outlandish clothing, one boy older than the other two, about sixteen wearing more Indian clothing and an oddly blank expression, a young girl around eleven with startling silver hair and smooth, silky clothing with a short light blue cloak and odd black skin-tight pants carrying a staff and another girl around eleven with extremely frilly pink clothing. The one with the staff began to yell 'Cooro! Don't just run off like that...' before stopping and looking up at Hagrid with the other two. Senri eyes opened a bit more with surprise and astonishment, something that didn't happen too often.

'Er... hi,' said Nana.

'I think I better take you four up to see mister Dumbledore,' said Hagrid.

'Ah! Cooro, Nana, Husky. What a pleasant surprise. You too, Senri, although I'm afraid I don't have much good news for you,' said Dumbledore, his twinkling eyes dulled from lack of sleep. He was wearing his usual blue robe and silver half-moon glasses, though he was adorned with light green slippers and thick wool socks. He took off his spectacles and rubbed his sleepy eyes with a hand before replacing them.

Nana gawked at him while Cooro's grin grew even more, if that was even possible. Husky raised a suspicious eyebrow and asked, 'How do you know our names?'

Dumbledore put on a smile and said, mysteriously, 'I know many things. However, tonight I'm here to discuss another matter, as well as a fortunate coincidence. I hope you'll drop any suspicious for the moment, your highness, for let me assure you, this was as unexpected for myself as it must be for you four.'

At this Husky's eyes grew then narrowed suspiciously, staring at Dumbledore through squinted eyelids. Before he could say anything, however, Nana spoke up 'What's going on? And where are we?'

'You're at Hogwarts school for Witchcraft and Wizardry, I am the Headmaster, professor Albus Dumbledore. We're lucky that you came to us, we were afraid we wouldn't be able to send you an owl, seeing as it's so hard to actually find where you are at any given moment,' Dumbledore adjusted his glasses before continuing. 'You see, children with magical ability are usually from wizarding families, and thus are already introduced into the world of wizards. However, a small percentage of wizards and witches are from muggle families, the wizard word for non-magical people. Children with magical ability are sent to wizarding schools, however this ability is not actually manifested until the age of eleven, such as yourselves. You four, excluding Senri of course, who, as you can see, never developed magical ability, have manifested this quality.'

Dumbledore waited for a moment for all this to sink in before continuing, 'You three were to be sent to a school before the beginning of the school year. We were having an excruciating time trying to track down the four of you, since you're always flitting from town to town, spending the majority of your time in the wilderness, travelling. Thankfully, you came here in the nick of time, since you still have another two weeks before the start of school. I suppose that this would also settle the subject of which school you'd be going to.'

As Dumbledore ended Cooro exclaimed 'Wow! We get to be wizards! Isn't this awesome, Husky?'

Husky was still suspicious though, and raised an eyebrow at Dumbledore 'How do we know you're telling the truth?'

Dumbledore smiled once again, stating 'You don't.'

With one smooth motion he lifted his wand up from underneath his desk and gave it a flick, sending Husky's staff up into his hands. 'I must say, this is excellent craftsmanship. Still, I wouldn't expect anything else from one such as yourself, would I?'

He flicked his wand again and sent his staff back to float a few feet above the floor. Husky snatched the staff out of the air with a motion like a praying mantis snapping a bug, to hold it close to him. 'Come on, Husky, he hasn't given us any reason not to trust him. I think he's quite a nice man,' said Nana.

Husky sighed and finally gave in. 'Fine, I suppose you're telling the truth. Sorry for being so untrustworthy. I just don't trust people who know so much about me without explaining how.'

'That's perfectly alright, Husky,' said Dumbledore.

'But what about Senri?' asked Cooro with a concerned face.

'Although Senri will not be able to attend any of your classes, we can offer him lodgings here with you. However, he will have to earn his keep. We can offer you a job assisting Hagrid, our professor of Care of Magical Creatures and Keeper of the Keys,' Dumbledore addressed this to Senri. Senri nodded his agreement before being hugged viciously by Cooro.

'I promise we'll spend all our free time with you!' said Cooro, shedding a tear.

'Don't worry, Senri. We won't leave you alone, we'll still spend as much time as we can with you,' said Nana, looking up at Senri.

Senri smiled, 'I'm still here.' This shocked the other three, them expecting him to stay his usual stoic self and not respond.

'Well, I guess this means we'll be living here, won't we?' asked Husky. 'But what'll we do during the first few weeks before the school opens? We don't have anywhere to stay.'

'We will allow you to stay here at Hogwarts during the first weeks before school starts. Miss McGonagall will escort you to the Gryffindor common rooms,' he nodded his head at a thin, strict looking lady wearing all red and gold who walked into the room behind them. 'I'll send Hagrid to meet you tomorrow, Senri.'

'Professor Dumbledore has informed me of the situation,' stated Miss McGonagall. 'Now, if you'll follow me, I'll show you to your quarters.'

The four got up to leave with Cooro rather excitedly hopping up and down. Dumbledore had also gotten up and was preparing to head back to bed to continue his sleep when Senri walked over to his desk, took out a book and picked up the South-Eastern Lion's Tooth flower he had on his desk from its vase. He snapped flower off at the base and flattened it in his book, then placed his book back in its leather casing around his waist. Strange, I wonder what he did that for. The four left, following the Gryffindor head down the hall. Dumbledore sighed and looked over at the fruit bowl on the left side of his desk. An apple was missing.

'Cooro! You shouldn't take food without asking!' said Nana, noticing the apple he was currently taking a bite out of.

'Ah! Sorry, Nana. I completely forgot about that.' said Cooro, his eyes widening in realization. Husky hit Cooro on the head with his staff.

'You don't steal!' he said firmly.

Cooro rubbed his head and they continued following the headmistress down the hall, gawking at the talking pictures. After quite a few turns and corridors as well as many sets of stairs, several of which, to their surprise, moved sideways or upwards or even floated through the air, they finally arrived at another picture, this one of a fat lady wearing some very old clothing, frilly and rather dress-like with a bright blue carnation. 'Hm? A bit early for students, isn't it?' she said, looking down at the four behind Miss McGonagall.

'They're not here as students, they will be staying here temporarily until school starts and they are sorted into their own houses,' the Headmistress said to the painting.

'Very well, then. Password,' stated the fat lady.

'Leonadis,' replied Miss McGonagall. The painting swung open, Cooro giving off another laugh before they stepped through into the Gryffindor common rooms. It was magnificent. There were red and gold curtains of silk hung over mahogany windows and dark mahogany flooring topped with a deep red carpet along with an excellently designed fireplace on the left wall with lions moulded into the outer rim. A bust of a lion hung above the door and a large table carved with swirls and lion heads on the four corners rested atop the center carpet. A set of stairs proceeded off both the left and right of the door, supposedly into the rooms.

'Wow!' exclaimed Cooro, running over and looking at everything excitedly.

'Wow indeed...' said Husky, shocked. Nana and Senri didn't say anything, though both were amazed.

'This way, come on. We don't have all day,' said Miss McGonagall, urging them on. The four followed her up the stairs to the left and past a few rooms until they stopped at a one. 'You'll be staying here for the night. If you need anything, clap twice, and a house elf will come to assist to your needs to the best of his abilities. Should you need to leave the room, remember, to re-enter you will have to state the password "Leonadis" Any questions?' she paused for a moment for a response. 'Good. I hope your quarters will be to your liking.'

She quickly left the room and left the common rooms to go back to sleep. The four began settling themselves in for a long wait until the professors would wake up.


Well, there you have it. It sucks. Yup. My first fanfic. Well, actually, it's my thirteenth, but the others were typed up on a typewriter and I'm too lazy to type them up a second time. Review, because I know where you live. Oh and if you say everything is excellent, then I know where you live there too, because I already know it's not. SO HAH. ...Did that sound confusing? I think it does. Oh well. You know, originally I was going to end this with a cliffie but it just didn't fit. Oh and I expect a review from the Hisokist, because if he doesn't, I actually do know where he lives. BWAHAHAHA!

Next time on No One:

A bank, meetings and a mysterious german with cards.

There, a cliffie. BWAHAHAHA!

I like doing that. Let's do it again, shall we? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!