A/N: A new story I'm working on. Core of Evil is going on temporary hiatus, as I have serious writer's block for the story, I will return to it soon, but not right away. This story is taking the place of that one until Core starts again, if people like this then I'll continue. Age chapters will have two or three out this week, one of them will be up Tuesday for sure. This is a crossover, which takes place in the Harry Potter world. It is Post HBP, and the crossovers include FFVII, FFX, Lord of the Rings and possibly one other at a later date, and maybe a few villains from other Final Fantasy games. Give it a chance, you may like it, you may not. Hope you enjoy. The A/N: will never be this long again. Part one in the Dark Trilogy

Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, FFVII, FFX, or any other videogame or book I may put in here, so don't sue. They belong to J.K. Rowling, Square-Enix, J.R.R. Tolkien and whoever created anything else I may put in the story later.

Summary: Harry Potter returns to the Dursleys only to discover they have a visitor, named Seth Roth, where elsewhere the arrival of a mysterious man named Rufus ShinRa is just the beginning of the changes the wizarding world is about to experience. HP, FFVII, FFX, and LOTR crossover.

Dark Trilogy: Dark War

Prologue

A man walked into the Ministry of Magic, causing every head to turn. The man was roughly 21 years old, height 5'11, and wore a white trench coat that held a muggle shotgun. His wand was in his opposite pocket, and he continued to walk coolly into the Ministry.

The voice had given him a pass quite easily, no one even checked to see if he was a death eater or even a muggle. The ministry quite frankly needed a few changes, his badge at the moment said 'Visitor ShinRa, here to take over the Ministry.' Frankly the defense and people in the ministry were sorely lacking.

"Hey, you!" A young Auror yelled at him, tripping over her own feet, he paid her no heed and continued on his way to see the Minister.

He continued walking, and it had not been even a minute before the girl with pink hair caught up to him. He poised himself, he recognized this witch. Bubblegum pink hair, slightly clumsy, and no doubt a member of the late Dumbledore's Order of the Phoenix.

"Yes, Miss Tonks?" He asked the auror in a collective and calm manner, slightly shifting his badge to the side, and in the process out of view. The look on the young Auror in front of him would have been priceless if he had cared of such things.

"W-what?" She asked him, before quickly continuing, "I mean how do you know who I am?" She demanded rather firmly, wand pointed at his throat. The man just took a hand to his head and moved the hair from his face before smiling rather cruelly at the young Auror.

"Nymphadora Tonks, currently trying to become involved with one Remus J. Lupin, and a fabled Order of the Phoenix member. From what I've heard in the Ministry the laws on werewolves specifically state that they are not able to produce offspring, unless with another of their kind, nor take a wife, unless they are sanctioned by the Ministry or are a werewolf themselves. Seeming as you are hardly either of them, I would hold my tongue and point my wand elsewhere. I know of quite a few people who would love to hear of your involvement with both a werewolf, and the Order of the Phoenix stationed at Grimmauld Place. So if' you'll excuse me."

The man left Tonks behind who quickly realized what had just occurred, she had to get a message to the Order, and fast, it seemed as if someone had found out where they were located, and knew things, many things that should not be known to anyone. She headed over to the floo and headed directly to Grimmauld Place. Not noticing the eyes of the man following her every movement and word, before heading back in the direction of the Minister of Magic.

(Headquarters of the Order)

Remus Lupin now joint leader of the Order of the Phoenix with Alastor Moody, and Arthur Weasley. Remus was currently looking into something for Harry about a locket when to his great surprise a very disgruntled Tonks fell out of the floo place and right on top of him, knocking both of them over. They had changed secret keepers almost immediately after the death of Dumbledore, the secret Keeper was actually all three of them, the Fidelus charm had been cut in thirds, so that each leader contained part of the word, the greatest safety measure they could come up with, unfortunately Severus Snape the traitor of the Order was still alive and helped create the first Fidelus charm, so he desired he could tell his Dark Lord without any problem, only he would be able to get in however. His word to Grimmauld Place was 'Number' and 'Grimmauld' where Arthur's was 'place' and Moody's was the number spelled out. There safety was almost guaranteed, he had just finished discussing plans of recruiting Albus's brother Aberforth and their very good friends Gandalf Randir and Saru Blanca. They were to fill in the vacant positions at Hogwarts, Aberforth teaching Potions, and Randir teaching Defense Against the Dark Wizards, where Blanca would teach the newly opened Transfiguration post since McGonagall had become Headmistress. He was busy brooding over these events and almost didn't notice Tonks at first when she flew out of the fireplace.

Tonks had landed upon Remus in a rather awkward position. Remus was lying face up on the ground, where as Tonks had landed right on top of him, both of their legs had intertwined and their faces were almost touching, it was in this moment that Alastor walked in with a huge grin on his face at the sight of them.

"Well, well, well. I should be leaving, leave you two kids to your fun." Moody said heading for the door, his magical eye heading behind him to continue watching.

"No, no. That's okay. This isn't what it looks like, we can explain." Remus said exasperatedly scrambling quickly out from under Tonks, both blushing profusely.

"I know what I see, but if you want to play denial fine by me." Alastor Moody said with another slight smirk.

"Moody, we weren't-" Tonks began only to be cut off, by Remus.

"It's no use, he'll believe whatever he wants. Now why are you here Tonks?" Remus asked her, softly sighing, and glaring at the older Auror.

"You know perfectly well why she's here, you old scoundrel." Moody said cheerfully, but after seeing the look on Tonk's face dropped his teasing. "So what are you here for? You should be back at Auror headquarters, like I'm going to trust the rest of them there without you? Heaven forbid, now why you here?"

"I was just at headquarters when a mysterious man entered the Ministry. He was quite handsome, not as handsome as you of course Remus." Remus snorted at that. "He wore a long white trench coat, and knew my name, even though I've never seen him before.

"Maybe he works at a department of the Ministry you don't know well?" Remus asked hesitantly.

"I thought that too, but I asked Arthur who as you know knows just about everybody and he didn't know who it was either. SO I went over to talk to him."

"You did, did you?" Moody growled. "What did you discover?"

"I discovered that the man is very good at discovering secrets. He had the nerve to blackmail me, before that though he knew my name without any recognition, and also knew I was an Order of the Phoenix member." Tonks said angrily.

"How?" Moody snapped at her.

"I don't know, but that's not all he knew more information that is confidential, and he knew about 'us' Remus." Tonks said close to tears.

"What? How? How dare this man have the nerve to blackmail us, I'll ri-"

"Remus, enough. You're letting you wolf side take control, let it go. What other confidential information did he have? Speak quickly, we may have to move against him." Moody growled.

"He knew. He knew, what only one of us knew." Tonks said quickly.

"Knew. Knew what? Speak clearly child." Moody snapped at her again.

"He knew the address of headquarters. Grimmauld Place is no longer safe." Tonks said and after followed a long silence.

(Ministry)

"So we have a deal?" The man with the white trench coat asked the man in front of him. This other man looked almost lion-like, and had a beard that looked almost like a mane. This man was also the current Minister of Magic.

Deal? So let me get this straight, you want to ally yourselves with us in hopes of pushing you-know-who back? You want to bring in your men and women and station themselves around Britain?" The Minister of Magic Rufus Scrimgeour asked the man in front of him.

"Indeed. That is not all, I want to be your second in command, like the Americans have a vice president, I want to be your vice minister. My soldiers will keep civilian casualties to a minimum, and any and all Death Eaters will be caught, tried, and/or executed. I want a private meeting with the Boy-Who-Lived and if this is given you shall have a good couple thousand men at your disposal."

"That's all, no money, or anything like that, just second in command and a meeting with the Boy-Who-Lived?"

"Yes." The young man replied.

"You do know what this will do to the purebloods that have not yet joined the Dark Lord?"

"I have an estimated guess."

"They Will join the Dark Lord, if I send in muggles to protect the-" he was cut off.

"My soldiers are not muggles, they are witches and wizards just like you and me, only they are skilled in the use of muggle weaponry as well as wand magic."

"Yes, but-"

"No buts as you put it. Agree to this or not, it is your choice, you deny me, I'll offer my group to a different power." The man said threateningly and the Minister had a good idea who he meant.

"Very well, I grant you all those rights, and shall have you meet the wizarding world soon, it's wonderful to have you on the right side Mr. ShinRa, I look foreword to working with you."

"Yes, me too father. Me too."

A/N: Pretty long for a prologue, but not all chapters will be this long, hope you enjoyed this, and please read and review.