Hey! I'm baaaaaaack! With a new story! I liked this idea for a long time, you know. It seemed just too coincidental for me that the Flock randomly got their Hogwarts letters, so here's a new crossover, hopefully with a more realistic meeting point for the Harry Potter characters and the Maximum Ride characters.

Prologue: Arguments

It all started with an argument. As usual. What happened was that we were all flying along, happy as you please, and then the big evil cloud of arguments came along and smashed us into bits.

Well, no, not really.

What really happened was that Angel decided that she was old enough to go off by herself, without telling anyone where she was going, or that she was going at all, and ended up in trouble. Not big trouble, as in captured-by-evil-agents-from-the-School trouble, but trouble, as in oh-holy-crap-I'm-lost trouble. We tracked her down pretty easily though, so she was only lost for a few hours.

And then there was The Argument, which is probably not so important as to require capital letters, but oh well.

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'Angel, why did you just fly off without telling anyone that you were leaving?' I demanded.

'You and Fang and Iggy do it all the time. I'm nearly as old as you!' Angel replied heatedly.

'You're six!' I exclaimed.

'I'm seven, Max.' she hissed in a cold voice that made me shiver.

'Still, even if you are seven, you're only half my age! Half Fang's age! Half Iggy's age!'

'I'm old enough to take care of myself! Thank you for finding me, but it really wasn't necessary. So sorry to have wasted your time.' With that, she flung herself into the air, and flapped away.

'Angel!' I called, more out of frustration than to get to come back. I gestured for the rest of my flock to follow her, and leapt into the air, about nine metres behind her.

And that's how we ended up in a little town in Scotland.

Actually, to tell the truth, we were fairly close to this town already, maybe fifty, sixty metres away?

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'Come back, Angel! I'm sorry, okay?!' I shouted. 'Just turn the fucking hell around!'

We were getting closer to some of the small buildings. I assumed it was a shopping village, or something like that. Luckily, there weren't many people around to see six mutants shouting at each other.

'Oh, whatever, Max!' Angel screamed at me, 'And when I come back, you'll just be all patronising again, won't you?!'

I didn't reply. I had to concentrate. If I flew as fast as I could, I might just catch her before she reached the buildings.

'Angel!' Nudge cried, 'Come back!'

Angel turned to reply. 'No! If you were smart, you'd run away, too!'

It was because she had turned that she didn't see a door open, and a few people step out.

'ANGEL! YOU'RE GOING TO CRASH!' I yelled frantically. 'STOP!'

Naturally, like the clichéd horror movie plot my life was based upon, it was too late.