Chapter 1 Ditching the verse
This fic is made containing parts of plotbunnies from the author skyflyte12. It is a rendition of their stories until chapter three, which will be all original.
This is a crossover that starts in two different worlds. It will branch out to cover more but it will really take off when the four travelers meet.
Disclaimer: All the stupid has been said, there is nothing I can add.
And so it begins.
Hermione Granger was what her neighbors considered an upstanding paragon of virtues. She was smart, polite, never back talked her parents, and from the age of eleven she was accepted into a prestigious boarding school.
The other teens in her neighborhood couldn't stand the way their parents went on and on about her. Hell as far as they were concerned if she hadn't gone to boarding school they would have rose up and killed her. But fortunately for Hermione none of her childhood peers ever committed homicide.
What was unfortunate for this paragon was her boarding school was no ordinary school, it was a magic school. Of course it was exciting to find out she had magic, even if she was skeptical at first. But as it turned out she was under more pressure there than in the mundane world.
As every other muggleborn, magical child born from non-magical parent, she romanticized about Hogwarts. She thought she would finally find somewhere she would be accepted. Somewhere she would be normal. But like every other dream it was crushed viciously under a wall of oppression and children's cruelty. She was as much a freak in that world as in the mundane world.
That is until she met Harriet Potter, the savior of the wizarding world. From the moment she saved Hermione from the troll on Halloween Hermione had never strayed far from the girl. But in her time close to the savior who was the same age as her she noticed what no one else seemed to. Harriet Potter was a bit unhinged. She was often seen commenting darkly about things. Though she wasn't as smart as Hermione she was never without a book in her hand, no one ever knew what these books were but once Hermione caught a look at the words enemies, entrails, and explosions. She never bothered with asking after what she was reading again.
But it wasn't until third year that Hermione finally got a whole picture of Harriet Potter. She had decided to keep an eye on her what with a mass murderer on the loose. She was concerned when she saw Harriet sneak out of the common room at night and followed her to the Slytherin part of the castle where Harriet proceeded to threaten sixth and seventh years. She couldn't hear what they were saying but the majority of slytherins looked displeased. When Harriet turned to walk away one of the sixth years drew his wand, but before Hermione could shout out a warning he was already on the ground and bleeding out of all orifices. She hadn't even seen Harriet draw her wand. The next thing she knew Harriet was barking at the rest to "Clean that shit up" while taking what looked to be the leader aside. He handed Harriet a coin purse and she walked away.
"Hermione don't fall behind." Harriet called over her shoulder. Not seeing how she was caught but hurrying to comply she followed behind Harriet silently as the same thing was repeated at the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw dorms though in a much more relaxed atmosphere. It turned out ever since second year and the basilisk Harriet owned the school. She would never think the carefree Harriet had the patience to run such a complex operation.
And it turns out she didn't have the patience, because the next day in an abandoned classroom Hermione was swearing secrecy and privacy oaths to Harriet so she could take over the paper aspect of everything while Harriet handled the people.
For the next year Hermione was in the thick of things. She watched as Hari got further and further immersed in survival, though she had a hell of a time doing it. No matter what the problem Hari made sure she had a laugh.
Hermione was there the night Sirius captured Pettigrew. She watched as her best friend and a supposed mass murderer tortured and killed her parent's traitor and she couldn't help but feel that he deserved it. When prof. Snape arrived it was Hermione who convinced them not to kill him as well, but she also obliviated the last few hours from his mind and helped cover their tracks. When the dementors attacked there was no time to summon up a happy memory s Harriet proceeded to light them all on fire, which worked rather well.
They got Sirius out of danger and set him up a bank account while giving Harriet control over the Black family as proxy. No one ever found the remains of Pettigrew, though Hermione woke some nights in cold sweat.
The next year when the Tri-wizard tournament came and Harriet expressed her concerns over it Hermione looked up everything she could, she even searched through the restricted section in case her friend was thrown into it. So when Harriet's name was called, Hermione performed a revealing spell on the parchment, showing that it was not her magical signature. She immediately declared an oath that she would not participate in the tournament. Harriet then watched as Barty crouch Jr. was revealed and stripped of his magic, though Hermione saw this she made note of every other wizard or which that tried to stop Harriet which included all of the school staff, a few seventh year Slytherins, and Ludo Bagman.
Even though they were forewarned Voldemort escaped and Fudge declared it was the ranting of a madman. The tournament continued and Victor Krum was named champion. He still took Hermione to the ball and Harriet attended with George Weasley.
That summer Hermione would hosting Harriet for two weeks and she would spend the rest of the summer with her other friends, as she never spent more than a day at the Dursleys' since she was nine.
The next school year Hermione was introduced to Luna Lovegood, a smart but weird girl. Though she never spoke about cryptozoology around the girl she often enjoyed debating with her. She could admit to herself that Luna was the smartest person in the whole school. They had a horrible defense teacher that year, Madame Umbridge. When she tried to preach how the ministry would keep them safe the whole school pointed out how Crouch Jr. had escaped from Azkaban and so did Sirius Black, and how it was Harriet that had stopped Crouch and they had no leads on Black. Umbridge was not amused but she could not rightly refute those statements, so to save face she brought in an auror cadet to teach them what to do in an emergency.
Voldemort had managed to gain a body by using the caretaker of Riddle Manor in place of Harriet. He used his new, but magically weak body to break into Azkaban and to try and lure Harriet to the ministry. But Harriet checked in with all her people and found that no one was in danger. That summer Harriet went to the ministry and took out the prophecy about her and Voldemort. It was clearly stupid and they she didn't give it another thought.
It was during sixth year that things got out of hand. The children of Death Eaters and Dark Purebloods started getting bolder and had to be constantly reminded of their place until they went too far and started disappearing. Those in the know said nothing and the purebloods started to get back in order. Dumbledore though wouldn't let it go and started to hound Harriet's friends, Hermione in particular, but he got nothing out of it. Though the missing students wouldn't be seen in again for the duration of the war, they got the better deal of things.
It was that summer that Voldemort announced his return and the war was thrown into full swing. The muggleborns under Harriet's protection had some cover for their families and were willing to follow her into war. Hogwarts once again became a safe place for students, but everywhere Harriet or her top troops crossed paths with Death Eaters a swath of blood was all that was left of the enemy. They quickly became feared by the opposition and the only ones to get away were Voldemort and his top soldiers. Many people were killed including Dumbledore, Remus, Sirius, most of the order, and random citizens.
When Harriet found out Tonks was pregnant and still insisted on fighting after Remus was killed, she knocked her out and sent her away. It wasn't until after the final confrontation with Voldemort where Harriet used a spell to eradicate the soul and Voldemort was finally defeated that they found out that Tonks had given birth and soon after entered the battle where she was killed.
It was the next week after the battle that Harriet had contacted Hermione out of the blue. She arrived at her friends location to find her covered in blood and trying to convince the aurors that she really had only killed the Death Eaters that had attempted to kill her first and that she hadn't used some new and extremely Dark spell to make their heads explode (really, Hermione still wondered just where her friend had gotten that many muggle weapons, let alone found the time to enchant them and learn how to use daggers like that, her expertise having been displayed while… convincing the Aurors to make Vows of Silence on the matter). The only reason they weren't arrested is because the aurors couldn't prove they used dark spells and Harriet hadn't completed her seventh year making her technically not responsible according to ministry laws. The Dark Side's Defeat (as it was labeled in the Daily Prophet, coupled with words such as 'Confusing', 'Nauseating', 'Lack of Suspects' and 'Maybe a New Dark Lord was removing the Competition?').
So here Hermione was with her best friend at the Dursley residence watching as the other girl flittered around the room throwing seemingly random objects into a small duffel. Of course, with all the magic she had gone to the trouble of enchanting that bag with appearances were deceiving, as was displayed when her friend shoved a folded tent into it. Expansion charms and lightweight charms were definitely the most useful when aiming to travel. She had another bag already packed with Teddy's clothing and things as he slept on the small bed in the room.
"And you are absolutely sure you want to do this?" Hermione Granger, bookworm extraordinaire questioned doubtfully, obviously questioning the err… sanity of her best friend.
The long and short of it was that Hermione thought that her friend had finally gone off the deep end.
"Miaaa~" came the strangely chipper voice of her friend from across the room. Hermione inwardly shuddered. Her friend was almost never 'chipper', and describing her as such came hand-in-hand with her aforementioned friend's homicidal side. The chipper voice just ploughed on "Of course I'm sure! This will be awesome! I mean, it's just gotten so boring around here –"
"If you think having half the Ministry after you counts as 'boring' I just don't know how I was deceiving myself into thinking you still had a few screws in the proper place to begin with" Hermione muttered petulantly under her breath.
Ignoring her friend's byplay completely, "– so this will be a chance to put spice into my life, experience 'the great beyond'; find a life for myself away from the Ministry and all that poly-tic shit!"
"Politics, Harriet; its politics. NOT poly-tics, no matter how many times you contend that all politicians catch some kind of virus that leads them inevitably to the 'dark side' when they take it up."
"Lucius Towel-boy was a politician." Harriet pointed out in a voice that said clearly that the case was closed.
"Malfoy, Hari, Malfoy. And I'm pretty sure that he tortured puppies as a child; being a politician was secondary." Hermione sighed. This was the latest of a seemingly endless line of similar conversations that she'd had with her black-haired, green-eyed friend.
Harriet Potter raised a brow at her friend and rolled her eyes before focusing back on pulling up a few loose floorboards for any scattered possessions that she may have failed to collect, and Hermione took the moment to examine her friend.
Harriet was short, barely reaching 5 feet tall – most people in their year towered over her; even those younger than her (which Hermione knew to be something of a sore spot for her friend). Even so, her body was lithe and toned and all of her movements carried a deadly feline grace – which Hermione knew to be borrowed from her animagus form. Her hair was a blue-black shade and a perpetual cross between wavy and shaggy, reaching just past her shoulder blades. Blazing emerald eyes drew attention to her aristocratic features.
Hermione had gotten a call from Hari early that very morning (yes, an honest-to-god phone call; she had wondered if the shorter girl even knew how to operate a phone before then) and her friend had vaguely said something about a 'trip' and if Hermione wanted to be there to send her off.
Like everything related to Hari, Hermione had gathered up the absolute necessary items before getting to her friend's location – the Dursleys house on Private Drive – as soon as humanly possible.
Hermione was honestly surprised to find only an immaculate house with a decided lack of blood and/or police/auror presence that usually indicated a Potter Problem.
That she had been cheerily informed that the Dursleys had taken a spur-of-the-moment vacation (and she hadn't missed the telling glint in her friend's eyes that indicated the 'vacation' had likely not been their idea, thank you) before promptly being dragged into the house and simultaneously filled-in on Hari's latest crackbrained scheme.
This one involved dimensional travel. And nothing Hermione could say was going to convince her stubborn friend that just up and going would be a bad idea.
Seeing that her friend wasn't going to relent she decided to step in at least for baby Teddy's sake.
"I'm going with you." She stated in a way that wasn't to be refused. "I know that." Hari said not even stopping as she opened the window let in a nondescript owl with a small box. Shocked Hermione didn't even bother to ask how she just got to work preparing. She took one of the duffels and enchanted it for food storage then sat down to write up a note for Gringotts that she had Harriet sign.
"All right we leave in two hours. I will go to the market and stock up on provisions and baby formula and food while you go to Gringotts and empty my account and whatever you don't want the ministry to have. I'll have to swing by my house to grab a few things and tell my parents I'm leaving" she said while picking up Teddy.
"I'll go to Gringotts but you don't need to stop by your house I took care of it." Hari said tossing Hermione the box the owl dropped off. On the top of it were the words "Room in a box." It seemed Harriet had kidnapped her room.
Sighing at Harriet's audaciousness she grabbed the keys Harriet tossed her and took Teddy to the car in the drive. After transfiguring one of the stone pots into a car seat she pulled off and headed to the closest market. There Hermione cleaned out there canned goods and baby foods, before remembering the refrigerated section of the duffel she made. She then got a liquids, dairy products, and meat they could cook on open flames. She did not want a repeat of the horrible camping experiences her parents had subjected her to. She also made sure to get can openers, pots and pans, and dishes they could eat and drink out of. Deciding to get a few extra things Hermione brought sewing and knitting kit along with various fabrics she found appealing, winter clothes for Teddy, and on the spur of the moment she brought what seemed to be the whole sweets aisle. When ring it up at the register she knew she wouldn't have enough so she hurriedly enchanted a card to confuse the cashier as she slowly stored all the bags into the duffel. In the end she only paid for Teddy's winter clothes.
Teddy must have had a real tiring day because he didn't wake up once while in Hermione's care. Taking the duffel in one hand and Teddy in other Hermione entered the house and called out to see if Harriet had returned. Indeed she had as the call was answered from the kitchen. She opened the door to find the table floating in the air and laden down with the duffels and what looked to be a few orders of fish and chips with butterbeers.
On the floor where Hari was standing was a runic spell circle that would supposedly take them away from this world. Looking at Hari once again she noticed runic tattoos drawn on her friend that were not there earlier. Looking closer she saw the symbol for storage and decided to question Hari on it while she dressed Teddy in the warmer clothes and handed Hari the coat she got for her.
"What are those arrays on your arms?" she asked as Hari reached for her food. "I got them at Gringotts. Turns out I had a lot more than I thought, what with the Potters, Blacks, Lestranges, Voldemort, and a few other families gone. I took half of the gold from all the vaults except the Potters, I took every book except family grimores which I made copies of, then I took all the jewelry, furniture and other knick knacks. Luna was named Potter and Black heir, while Neville was named Lestrange heir and the rest were passed to the next in line. Oh and I also emptied your vault like you said." She said handing over a slightly larger than normal Gringotts bag.
"Hari what is wrong with Teddy?" she asked suspiciously. "Oh, I just stunned him, fish and chips?"
"Hari you can't just stun a baby, they are supposed to cry and yell it's how they talk." She said moving to enervate the passed out Theodore. "I know that. It wasn't the crying, that I can deal with. He started freaking me out though. For like a whole hour he just stared at me and I swear he wasn't even blinking. When I put my back to the wall he started laughing. That baby is mad." Harriet tried to argue but Hermione wasn't listening. When Teddy had woken up she started to make him a bottle.
They all ate and the cleared the space while Harriet showed her how to put the duffels into a seal on her own body (she only needed to see and hear a spell once and she could instantly remember it, though she had to practice with it.)
Teddy was strapped to Hermione's chest and they moved to the middle of the circle with Harriet standing in front of her. Hermione put her hands on Harriet's shoulders while they both closed their eyes and concentrated.
Hermione could feel the gathering energy, the shift of magic in the air as Hari's power was freed. She then felt how I wrapped around her and Teddy. It stirred and whirled around the circle, becoming a visible golden glow surrounding them as Hari furrowed her brow in intense concentration, her arms lifting in front of her, palms together.
Suddenly the power pushed down on the air around her, and the emerald eyes snapped open, and Hari's voice was brimming and bubbling with pure power as she enchanted "Eo trans dimensions quo ego sum necessarius!"
A blinding flash of light entered the kitchen and when it disappeared so did the two witches and baby.
What was left of Harriet's magic disappeared and the table came crashing from the ceiling the same moment a squad of aurors rushed the scene. No doubt they had been dispatched to search out the insane concentration of magic that had just been released.
Though all that was left was an empty house and a quickly fading magic circle resting under the broken table.