A/N: I own nothing pertaining to Marvel or Harry Potter.
A/N 2: Thank you to those who read year one and wanted to see more of it. This is The Avengers in Hogwarts Year Two.
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Clint had been back at the circus for two weeks and was already looking forward to going back to school. He tried to hang out with his brother, but Barney wouldn't even give him the time of day most of the time. When he did talk to Clint it was usually in the form of sarcastic or hateful remarks. Clint had wanted to take his place again as The Amazing Hawkeye, but the Swordsman wouldn't let him. Barney had taken his place while he was gone.
"I'm better than him." Clint muttered as he scratched out part of his Charms essay during his nightly hour of homework time.
"Yes you are." Lady Elizabeth said.
She was storing his trunk of school things in her trailer and gave him an hour a night to do his school work. She explained to him when she picked him up at King's Cross that this would be the best way to keep his stuff from being looted and people finding out what he was.
"It's not my fault I was chosen to go. It's not my fault I'm the way I am."
"No it's not your fault, and do not let them push you to thinking that way. You are special Clint, I've always said so."
"You've only known me a couple of years." Clint pointed out.
"And with the trouble you used to get into, it has felt like so much longer." She arched an eyebrow a him. "Try to finish that up tonight."
Clint grinned and bowed back over his work. "Yes, ma'am."
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"So have you even started working on your Transfiguration essay?" Bruce asked Tony.
"I'll do it eventually."
"There's only a few weeks left before we go back."
"Three and a half weeks."
"Mr. Technical." James said.
"Thank you." Tony retorted.
"So are we meeting up with anyone else when we go to Diagon Alley next week?" Bruce asked.
"Bucky said, he and Steve won't be able to go until the following week." Tony said.
"Pepper said she will be there, Helen, Jane and Laura won't." James said.
"What about Clint?" Bruce aked.
"The reply he sent back with Jarvis said no." Tony said.
"So us three and Pepper it is." Bruce said.
"Maybe we can push it to the end of the week, stay the weekend and meet up with Bucky and Steve?" James pondered.
"That's a good idea, I'll take care of it." Tony said.
"Yeah I don't think my parents are going to be okay with us just staying on our own there." Bruce said.
"We will have a couple members of my security team there too." Tony said.
"I'll have to ask."
"Use Jarvis." Tony offered.
"Thanks Tony." Bruce pulled out a new piece of parchment and set to work.
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Maria woke up to the tapping on her window of a large eagle owl. She climbed out of bed and opened the window to let in a bird she had gotten pretty familiar with the last couple of years.
"Good flight, Bandit?" she removed the letter from his leg while he turned his head to keep his one eye on her. "If you don't want to fly back right now, you know you can join Athena." She looked to her own eagle owl. Athena hooted at the other owl and moved over on her perch. "Looks like an invitation to me." Maria said, shutting the window as Bandit glided over to Athena's large enclosure.
She was lucky the people she lived with now supported her magical possibilities. They had turned one of her two closets into a home for her owl, that she had worked odd jobs over the last two summers to save for.
She crawled back into bed to read Nick's latest letter.
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"Hey Andrew, you have visitors."
Andrew looked up from the desk he was currently working at. "Hey guys, I wasn't expecting you."
"Just thought we'd come by and see this place for ourselves." Nick said.
"We we're kind of hoping we could steal you away for lunch." Phil said.
"Our treat." Melinda said.
"We want to hear stories." Maria added.
"I've written you all about it." Andrew said.
"Yeah, but it's different in person." Phil said.
"So what do you think?" Melinda asked.
"Let me ask my supervisor if I can take a half a day." Andrew pulled a sheet of light purple parchment out of the desk and after writing for a moment he folded it into an airplane and throw it toward the door, where it flew out and away.
"So anywhere good to eat around here?" Phil asked.
"There's a pretty good dinner down the street. The owner is a squib, so the workers here get a discount."
At that moment, the airplane flew back in and once it landed on the desk, Andrew checked it and chuckled.
"What's so funny?" Melinda tilted her head.
"Dr. Potts said I can go, but I have to send back a cheeseburger for her. That's all she ever gets from there." Andrew explained.
"Uh huh." Melinda said, turning toward the door. "So we going or not?"
"Just let me finish this last note and file it away and I'm all yours for the rest of the day."
"I'll meet you at the elevator." Melinda said.
"Uh oh." Phil staged whispered once Melinda left,
"What did I miss?" Andrew asked.
The other three looked at each other.
"I'll do it, you two go find Melinda." Nick said.
Nick waited until the other two left before moving over to the desk.
"You know she likes you right?"
"Yes."
"You know you like her too right?"
"Yes."
"Does she know that?"
Andrew looked up at his friend.
"I think so?" he made a face.
"Are you asking me if she knows, because I don't think she does."
"Does Maria know about you?" Andrew tried to deflect.
"Yes she does. We talked about it last year before we left school."
"And how is that working for you?"
"Pretty well actually. We've been conversing all summer."
"Well, Melinda and I are not you and Maria."
"Well duh." Nick said, "But it still stands to reason you need to clear things up with her."
"Alright. Alright, you're right."
"Of course I am." Nick smirked.
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"So little Grant thinks he's going to Hogwarts."
"Shut up Christian."
"You're going to get there and then you know what's going to happen?"
"I'll get to be away from you."
"They're going to say they made a mistake and you won't be allowed off the train. You'll have to go home and spend the school year at public muggle school."
"Shut up, Christian!"
"Or what?"
"You're wrong about me." Grant said as he walked out of the house.
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"Weekly reports, Natalia."
"Yes, sir."
"Details, even if you don't think it is important, report it."
"Yes sir."
"Remember your training, but do not let them know the extent of your knowledge."
"Yes sir."
"You may go now."
"Yes sir."
The eleven year old turned her cart and went to the wall that would gain her entrance to platform 9 ¾. She took a deep breathe before closing her eyes and pushing straight through the wall. She was a little surprised it let her through.
'Don't be silly Natalia, you're ready.' She told herself.
She pushed her trolley down the line looking for a compartment toward the front of the train. They had gotten there in plenty of time for Natalia to get her stuff boarded and start observing.
She parked her cart by one of the doors and taking her owl, a male barn owl called Leo, she placed his cage inside the corridor before coming back down for her trunk.
She readied herself and grabbing the handle, began pulling it up the stairs. She had made it into the compartment with the trunk and Leo, but realized it was going to be harder than she thought to get it put in the overhead compartment.
"How on Earth do they expect a bunch of kids to lift these things above their heads?" she grumbled aloud.
"So we have to ask each other for help." Came a voice behind her.
She turned around to see who had been able to sneak up on her, while mentally chastising herself for being distracted.
"I guess, but still this is a pain."
The newcomer laughed a bit, "Yes, it is, my name is Andrew by the way."
They stared at each other for a moment.
"So would you like some help…" Andrew trailed off.
"Oh." Natasha let a smile form on her face, "Yes, please."
The older student leaned back out into the hall, "Hey Nick, give me a hand will ya?"
A tall guy came into the compartment as well, "Hey."
"Hello." Natasha said.
Nick and Andrew picked up her trunk and standing on the seats, lifted her trunk pretty easily.
"You two made that seem so easy." She observed.
"Lots of practice, right Andrew?"
"You could say that." He grinned.
"Well thanks for the help, but I think I'll explore the train a bit before it gets too full."
"What's your name?" Nick asked.
"Natasha Romanoff."
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"Hey Jane! Jane!"
Jane turned around just in time to avoid being taken down by an overly excited Laura.
"Hey Laura, have you seen the others?"
"Yeah, I've already gotten us a compartment with Pepper, Helen and Clint. Come on, we're down toward the end."
She waited for Jane to tell her parents bye and the helped her take her trunk to the stairs closest to their compartment.
"Good grief Jane. What do you have in here?" Laura struggled pulling the trunk up the stairs.
"I might have picked up some new books this summer." Jane said
"You know Hogwarts has a library, right?"
"I think it's wonderful she wants to gain knowledge."
"She can always wait till she gets to school to learn, then we wouldn't have to struggle to carry this thing." Laura retorted to Thor.
"Well allow me to relieve you of this burden." Thor grinned at Jane when he took over carrying her trunk.
"Which way ladies?"
"We're right down here." Laura took off through the crowded hall.
"I'm sorry about her, she can be kind of…" Janes trailed off.
"It's quite alright. I'm sure she means well." Thor said as they made it to the compartment.
"Thanks Thor." Pepper said after he and Clint lifted Janes trunk up.
"Anytime." He said tossing a wink at Jane as he went to rejoin his friends.
Before any of her friends could get past the giggling stage Jane cut them off.
"Don't even think about it."
"Whatever you say Jane." Clint said with a wink.
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"Peitro, Wanda, you two take care of each other okay."
"Yes ma'am."
"Stay out of trouble and make new friends."
The twins were leaning out the window talking to their parents. As the train started blowing its whistle, they made their final goodbyes and settled into their seats.
"Hey, my name is Daisy, Daisy Johnson. This is Mike Peterson."
"Pietro Maximoff and my sister Wanda."
"So you're like twins, right?" Mike asked.
"Not like, we are twins." Wanda said.
"That's cool, though. Having a sibling?"
The twins shared a look.
"Sometimes." They said together.
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