A/N: Hey guys! This is my first Harry potter and avengers crossover so I hope you like it! I won't be able to write all that much until Endgame comes out but I'll try and upload a couplec of chapters untill then. Also, I'm looking for a beta if anyone is interested? Please send mema message if if you're up for it. Also i've moved the Harry potter world up so that the timelines are relatively the same, this story is taking place in 2017. If there's any specific characters, or character interactions you'd like to see in this please leave a review and tell me your ideas, and leave a review to tell me what you think! :') happy reading!
Chapter 1.
Harry never thought it would end like this, floating through the dark pits of space to his death. He thought they'd finished it, he'd thought they'd saved everyone. They'd worked so hard to save the universe and it was all for naught, for the first time in his life Harry prayed, he prayed for his family, his mum and dad whom he'd never met, his godfather Sirius who he'd barely had any time with before he'd died, Remus and Dora, people he loved who did not at all deserve the fate they'd been given. But most of all, he prayed for the avengers, earth mightiest heroes, some of the strongest people he'd met. He hoped that they'd get through this without him, they needed to bring back order to the universe, whatever it takes.
4 weeks earlier.
Harry sighed as he surfed the internet, when the war finished Harry had started to integrate himself back into the Muggle world, and he constantly found himself visiting local internet cafe's to stave off his boredom. Almost everyone he knew had died during the war, the British magical community was now only a fifth of the size it once was and witches and wizards who remained had to work to build up the community to it's former glory. But Harry needed to travel and experience the world before he could even think of settling down in the magical community. So he'd started to spend his time in internet cafe's, researching different countries and trying to decide where he should visit first on his travels. He knew he had some houses in different countries so he'd always have a place to stay if he needed it, but he wanted to experience back packing life, staying in hostels and camping, he wanted the real traveller experience. He'd briefly thought about doing a walkabout in Australia, but dismissed the thought because he didn't want end up stranded in the middle of Australia alone. Harry figured the best option would be to start off in Europe and make his way around the world, stopping at any historical places. He also wanted to visit the world's magical districts and learn as much magic as possible from people around the world.
He began sifting through the internet again whilst sipping from a cappuccino. He'd been at this for close to three hours now and nothing much had shown up, nothing that interested him anyway. Finally, as Harry was just about to shut down the laptop and call it a day, a breaking news story popped up on his screen.
"Aliens sighted in Manhattan!"
Harry began to read the article with an intensity that surprised even himself.
When he finished reading, Harry sat in contemplation for several minutes before he hurriedly shut down the laptop, grabbed his bag and exited the cafe. He found a taxi rank and got into a cab.
"Where to kid?" the taxi driver asked.
"Just take me to the nearest airport please" Harry replied almost absentmindedly, the news article he'd read still at the forefront of his mind.
"Oh, off to somewhere nice"? The driver commented as he pulled out onto the road, almost colliding with another car. Harry quickly pulled the rather dusty seat belt over himself as he prepared himself for what was undoubtedly going to be an uncomfortable ride.
"yeah I suppose so, I'm heading to America to do some sightseeing".
"Ah America nice, I bet that'll be a long flight". The cabbie said with a small chuckle, Harry replied a grunt as he stared at the passing scenery out the window.
Half an hour and 43 pounds later Harry finally grabbed his bag and made his way out of the taxi saying a quick thank you to the driver before he made his way up to Heathrow airport.
Harry walked through the large automatic doors and immediately swerved to the left as a woman dressed in a business suit dragging a suitcase behind her practically ran through the doors. Harry hated airports, he hadn't visited them often but each time he did, something happened to stress him out. Grumbling, Harry quickly made his way to the front desk to buy his ticket, he was already anxious after almost being knocked over by a large trolley and having his foot squashed under a large suitcase, he hoped it wasn't bruised although that wasn't likely with how it was throbbing.
"Hello, welcome to Heathrow airport how may I help you today"? The woman at the front desk questioned.
"Hi, I was just wondering if I could get a ticket to Manhattan airport"? Harry asked.
"Just bear with me one moment and I'll see when the next flight is" the woman murmured as she began looking at her computer.
"The next flight is at 8:30 PM in two and a half hours is that okay for you sir"?
"How much will that cost"? Harry enquired.
"Since it's a last minute ticket that will be £425.70, is that alright with you sir"? Harry grinned slightly, he had more than enough on his bank card which he quickly pulled out.
"Yes that's absolutely fine, thank you, can I pay now?"
"Of course, I just need to take your card and your passport please and then I will get you the ticket and boarding pass". Harry handed everything over and within minutes he had everything he'd need for his flight. He quickly walked over to the luggage station and put his suitcase onto the large baggage carousel before making his way to the security stations.
Forty five minutes later Harry made his way to the correct gate with a coffee and a croissant which he absentmindedly munched as he thought over what he was going to do. He definitely wanted to check over where the so called "aliens" had landed. He'd heard stories of UFO sightings and aliens invading earth but he'd never really believe in any of them. But apparently, this UFO had been seen by hundreds of people and had also been caught on camera, so he figured he'd at least check it out.
Twenty minutes later the flight began to board and Harry quickly stood up and made his way to the queue that was forming near the gate, when he got to the front he showed his passport and boarding pass and made his way onto the plane and into his seat. He grabbed a book out of his carry on and quickly settled in for the 8 hour flight, he definitely wasn't looking forward to being squashed for hours.
10 hours later he made his way out of the airport and hailed a taxi, it was almost 2 in the morning and he needed to find a decent hotel to stay in for the next few days until he could find an apartment of some sort. He got in the taxi and told the driver to take him to a decent hotel nearby and was dropped off at the Bentley hotel. He made his way inside and paid for a rather large hotel room for three nights. He doubted he'd be needing a room for any longer but if he did, he could always pay for a few extra days.
He got into the lift, no, elevator they call it in America, Harry automatically reminded himself, and went up to the 13th floor. He found his room and made his way to the bed, he didn't manage to get any sleep on the plane and Harry had no idea how he was still functioning properly with the lack of sleep.
He got undressed and dove under the covers, falling unconscious within seconds.
The next morning Harry woke up rather early despite the lack of sleep, had a quick shower, got dressed and headed out. Making his way to the front desk he asked the receptionist for directions.
"Can you tell me where I can find a cafe to get breakfast please?"
"Of course! If you go out the main doors and turn left, three blocks down there's a small cafe that does an excellent breakfast and coffee to die for, you, can't miss it" The lady said with a kind smile. Harry thanked her and made his way out of the hotel. He wandered down the road looking at different stores and watching the people passing by. He'd almost made it to the cafe when he heard a loud bang from above, looking up he saw that a helicopter had crashed into a rather large building. He looked around himself as people began screaming, cars crashed into each other, the driver's mysteriously disappearing, and right before his eyes people began to vanish, turning to dust. His heart pounding in his chest Harry quickly spun around, carnage was everywhere, the once bustling streets were now filled with dust and scrap metal. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a large black man with a bald head and an eye patch step out of an SUV that had collided with another car. Harry quickly ran over to him, pulling his wand out of his pocket he quickly banished some of the rubble around him. The man looked up from his pager and noticed Harry using his wand, the man eyes widened as Harry stopped in front of him.
"Sir, are you okay"? Harry questioned the man.
"Find the avengers" The man said to him in desperation before his arm started to turn to ash.
"Aw motherfucke..." Harry gasped as the man disappeared, he picked up the pager he'd dropped and glanced at it. It was showing an emblem of some sort, but he had no idea what it meant. The man had said to find the avengers and Harry knew Avengers tower was somewhere in Manhattan, he carefully put the pager into an inside pocket on his jacket and made his way through Manhattan, hoping the Avengers could help him and he'd find out where everyone has mysteriously disappeared to. But firstly, he needed to get the rest of his things from his hotel, with that in mind he quickly jogged back to his hotel and made his way up to his room. He grabbed his bag that had an undetectable extension charm on it, and began packing it with books, potions, clothes, money, his invisibility cloak and broomstick. If he was going to figure out what was happening and some way to help, he was going to need every little bit of information in those books.
Once Harry was satisfied he grabbed his things and once again left the hotel. He'd though about apparating to avengers tower but he had no clue where it was, and he wasn't sure if there were any people left in the city so he decided that walking was most likely the best option.
Harry hurried through the abandoned streets of Manhattan, trying to find the infamous avengers tower, he knew it was a rather large impressive building, but most of the buildings in Manhattan were like that so he was having trouble finding it. Eventually he saw the large silver A in his peripheral vision and quickly darted towards it. He found himself in front of a large glass building. The doors were locked but there was a buzzer on the wall so he quickly pressed it hoping someone would answer.
"Hello?" Said a miserable female voice on the other end of the line.
"Uh Hi, my name's Harry. I was told to find the avengers by a man wearing an eyepatch" Harry said hesitantly. After several seconds of silence Harry worried he was making a mistake, should he even be here? Maybe the best bet would be to go back to his hotel. Just as he was about to turn back around the woman on the other end spoke again.
"Get the elevator up to the 25th floor" She said and with that the buzzer clicked off and the doors opened. With a deep breath Harry walked through the doors and made his way to the elevator, pressing the button for the 25th floor. He internally freaked out as he made his way up, what if he couldn't help? What if all hope was lost? And why the hell did that man send him here. Harry frowned in confusion, who even was that man.
All of a sudden the elevator doors dinged and he looked up to see a rather pale red headed woman dressed in a business suit stood in front of him.
"Hello, my name is pepper Potts, please follow me to the living quarters. Harry obediently followed the woman into a room filled with comfortable looking sofa's and a large flat screen television. The curtains were open and from this high up he could see most of Manhattan. Despite the carnage, Harry gasped at the amazing sight in front of him.
"Would you like a drink, Tea, coffee?" Pepper asked him.
" A tea would be great if you don't mind" Harry replied timidly. Pepper gave a brisk nod before bustling around making some hot drinks and preparing a small plate of cake and biscuits.
"Please take a seat on one of the sofa's, I'll be over in just a minute". Harry quickly made his way over and sat down on a large sofa placing his bag down on the floor beside him he slowly relaxed trying to let go of his anxiety. Pepper returned and passed him a large cup of tea, placing her own down on the table opposite him.
"You said a man sent you here"? She enquired. Harry nodded back with a large sigh.
"Yes, a large man wearing an eye patch. He told me to come here before he turned to dust" Harry replied with a frown.
"Oh, he also dropped this" Harry pulled the small pager out of his pocket and placed it on the table. Pepper quickly picked it up and a small sob left her lips as she looked at it. She looked at Harry with such sadness that he almost joined her in crying.
"The man you met was Nick Fury, he used to be the director of shield" she said quietly.
"Shield"? Harry questioned in confusion.
"The strategic homeland intervention, enforcement and logistics division. Shield used to deal with large scale problems that other divisions couldn't handle".
"Like the alien invasion a few days ago"? Harry asked trying not to laugh. Pepper gave a brisk nod.
"Alien invasions, god's, super humans, enhanced and anything in-between" Pepper said seriously.
Harry gave a brief laugh,
"You have got to be joking, right"?
"I assure you that I am not, 2 nights ago aliens did indeed invade earth, and the avengers were dispatched to handle the problem, my fiancé went to space to try and stop it, and I haven't seen him since, Fury must have sent you here for a reason" Pepper mused.
"Are you enhanced"? She questioned.
"I have no idea what enhanced is so I'll go with no. Fury saw me using magic" Harry admitted. Pepper stared at him for several moments before bursting into laughter.
"Yeah right, magic. The only people I know of who can use magic are Asgardian". Harry gave a confused look and she rolled her eyes.
"You don't know much do you"? Harry gave a helpless shrug in response.
"I don't tend to spend all that much time in the Muggle world. Human world" Harry amended when he saw the look Pepper was giving him.
"Look, I'll prove it to you" Harry pulled his wand out with a small sigh. Looking around himself he noticed a book on the table, he pointed his wand at it and quickly transfigured it into a bouquet of flowers which he proceeded to hand to Pepper. She gaped at him in surprise as she cautiously took the bouquet off of him.
"Okay so I guess you can do magic" Pepper murmured still looking baffled.
"The rest of the avengers should be back soon hopefully so you can wait for them if you'd like to"? Harry nodded his acceptance and settled in, absentmindedly chit chatting with Pepper to pass the time. He could feel the nerves bubbling up again so he quickly took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.
Harry jumped as he heard the elevator ding and a cacophony of voices from down the hall.
"They're all back, let me go greet them and tell them that you're here and I'll be back in a few minutes" Pepper gave him a small smile before she left the room. Harry quickly stood up and faced the door trying in vain to flatten his hair and make himself look as presentable as possible. Eventually the remaining avengers walked in, the group was larger than he expected, and for some reason they had a racoon with them.
"You say Nick Fury sent you"? Said a man standing at the front with short blonde hair.
"Uh, yeah he saw me doing magic and told me to come to you" Harry replied with a frown.
"You can do magic"? Stated one of the men incredulously. In response Harry pulled out his wand and levitated the man several feet in the air, eliciting a small squeak out of the man. The group stared at him for a moment before a large blonde haired man welding an impressive hammer gave a short laugh.
"Maybe you can help us out then, we could definitely use all the help we can get"
"Steve, are you sure about that, we don't even know this kid" A blonde haired woman admonished.
"If Nick sent him here then he did it for a reason, the best we can do is get to know this kid and see if we could work together" The man snapped.
"Sorry, it's been a long day" He sighed staring intently at Harry.
"First of all, let me introduce everyone, my name is Steve, this is Natasha, Thor, Bruce, James also known as Rhodey, rocket and Nebula" Steve said pointing at each person in turn.
"It's nice to meet you all, My name's Harry. Could you tell me what's happened to everyone"? Harry questioned them whilst sparing a glance out the window.
"It's a pretty complicated story, take a seat and we'll tell you everything" Rhodey replied as he gestured towards the sofa's. Harry quickly retook his seat and waited patiently as the avengers found somewhere to sit. Pepper returned and hand out pots of tea and coffee for everyone. Despite the strange situation, Harry desperately wanted to know how he could help out, Hermione called it his 'saving people thing'. Harry settled back into his chair as Steve turned to look at him.
"It all started with the battle of new York..."