Hello! I hoped you guys enjoy this fanfic! I am enjoying typing it up and dreaming about it while I should be listening to my Biology teacher!

Warnings: Ahem, there shall be mild swearing in this; but that should not be a problem. The magna series swears more than I do so you should all be able to read this and keep your innocence in tack!

Background Info: This story will take place in Harry's sixth and Inuyasha finds himself in the HP world after he defeats Naraku.

Oh, and I cannot do Hagrid's accent no matter how I try. Please leave reviews folks!

Strange Magic

Chapter 1: The New Professor

By yllom21

Disclaimer: I do not own either Harry Potter or InuYasha. If I did everybody would know my name and I would spend all my time in a Hot Tub.

It was quiet in the dark and dank forest; the only sound that could be heard was the small sounds of animals and the faint sound of birds singing. There where no humans in plain sight; for this wood was called the Forbidden Forest and almost no one had the balls to enter, except for a few brave idiots that is.

However there where a few creatures that had human characteristics; a few centaurs where near the lake grazing with an almost mystical air as the complained about the folly of men and not that far away where the merpeople, happily swimming throughout the lake. These creatures where normal for they had lived in the woods longer than the humans had even know of its existence and a good amount of secrets where known only to them. However sleeping peacefully with a look of plain innocence on his face was a creature never seen in the dismal forest; a creature that became extinct hundreds of years ago… a demon!

The only knowledge humans had of demons was from long forgotten myths and tales. These yarns had been passed down by generation to generation so many times that there was no truth to any of them, and no one believed that such creatures had truly existed. And yet one demon still lived.

The demons hunting the imagination of children where evil creatures that loved the taste of human blood and where so horrendously ugly that they bore no resemblance to humans at all; and yet this demon was far from such expectations. He was sleeping too peacefully to be a creature that survived on the killing of innocents. That and he was more beautiful than any human could ever hope to be; even with the use of many illegal spells.

He was probably one of the most beautiful creatures in existence. His hair was a white purer than snow, his eyes (although they where now closed) where a beautiful golden yellow. On the top of his head where two fox-like ears proving that he was demon as well as the fact of his fangs and claws. His skin was the color of porcelain with no blemishes except for his demon markings; a thick black band under each eye and a star on his forehead. He was small and slim; clothed in a dark red kimono held together only by a golden sash. Sandals that once adorned his feet had been cast away in discomfort and a bag of the same dark red was held closely; most likely filled with all of his prized possessions. A sword was gripped in his hand; proving that he was obviously ready for any attack of any sort. This demon was the younger lord of the western lands; the hanyou that became a full demon and who held enough magic to serve as a challenge to the most powerful of wizards.

His name was Inuyasha.

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Inside the famous and unusually old school sat Albus Dumbledore; current Headmaster of the castle. For someone who had such an important stasis and was currently known by every wizard currently alive, he did not seem happy at all. In fact he seemed depressed; which was unusual on its own. Besides being the most powerful wizard currently alive, Dumbledore was one of the most insanely happiest people alive. Known to start a feast with words that intellectual people knew didn't exist; Dumbledore just wasn't acting like his intelligent and somewhat crazy self. And it all had to do with the fact that his staff was lacking one crucial member.

The Defense Against the Dark Arts was infamous when it came to the fact that in decades the professors only lasted a year at most. The Daily Prophet had a place reserved for the job notice come every June and as the years rolled by it was becoming noticeably more difficult to get either a witch or wizard to apply for the post; whether they where skilled enough or not.

This year not one single person applied for the post and Dumbledore did not want a repeat from last year in which the Ministry of Magic stepped forward and hired perhaps the most horrible professor Dumbledore every had the pleasure of meeting.

Granted the Ministry of Magic was no longer his sworn enemy now that they saw Voldemort and his Death Eaters with there own eyes; but still, if he couldn't find a good employee how would Minister Fudge be able to? He was beginning to get a severe headache from to much thinking (something that almost never happen) and he was almost to the decision that he would teach the course. After all; he was currently the most powerful wizard alive, couldn't he teach children and teens how to protect themselves from the second most powerful wizard alive?

But he didn't want to unless he absolutely had to; he was, after all, the current Headmaster of the school as well as the leader of the Order of the Phoenix. Making sure the school was safe and battling Voldemort in that shadows was hard enough; now he had to teach teens with raving hormones? He was getting old; didn't he deserve a break of some sort?

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Back in the Forbidden Forest the creatures scurried around like usual, not even caring that soon hundreds of students would be captivating the place a few miles away from there sanctuary. After all, almost everybody was scared of walking into the Forest let alone disrupting them, so why should they care?

Only one creature seemed to be completely oblivious, however he appeared to be waking up from his dead-like sleep. He stirred for a second before he raised his eyelids revealing yellow eyes hidden by long eyelashes. He blinked for a moment before he began to comb his silk-like hair examining the forest around him with a critical glare, "Where the hell am I?"

His question would have surely shocked anyone listening; for it seemed weird to be escaping the mouth of such a beautiful lord-like creature. However the demon in question did not care; after all wasn't waking up in an unrecognizable place slightly more disturbing?

Yawning slightly, Inuyasha sat up and blinked yet again when he realized he wasn't wearing his Fire-Rat robes but a delicate and obviously fancy kimono. Frowning at this weird turn of events, Inuyasha was about to scream for everybody to come out of there hiding places when it hit him; Naraku, they had finally beaten Naraku!

It had taken them all to defeat Naraku and in the end Kagome sacrificed herself so Naraku would never be able to walk the plane of existence again. Before he could help it, Inuyasha began to cry, swearing at himself as he did so. After all; shouldn't he had been able to save Kagome? It didn't matter than he had broken several bones and was bleeding in several places; he still should have done something!

"Dammit!" he finally screamed, startling several birds and a stag. Crying severely; Inuyasha started to stagger over to the lake that was close judging by the scent. When he finally made it, after tripping over three roots and a rather large stone, Inuyasha sank to the ground ready to disappear any traces of tears on his face when he noticed another development.

"Crap!" he screamed almost falling into the lake. He didn't look like a hanyou at all, but like a full-blood demon! His face was different with markings (slightly different than Sesshomaru's, his half-brother) and he was slimmer and more delicate looking while wearing an expensive kimono. His wish of becoming a full demon must have come true, but how? And where was he?

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Hagrid; current Groundkeeper and Care of Magical Creatures Professor of Hogwarts looked up with a start, was that a scream? Besides the Headmaster he was the only one currently living on Hogwarts grounds. The other professors and members of the staff had left to go on vacations and others were doing missions for the order. Perhaps one of the citizens of the nearby village had accidentally wandered into the village and had gotten attacked by one of the creatures that lived in the forest. Hagrid had seen many foolish youths in his day; and being the noble half-giant that he is, he decided that he would save the child from whatever beast had decided he would be a nice brunch.

And so Professor Hagrid scurried into his hut and grabbed his crossbow (he was not allowed to use magic after being framed for a murder) before trouping into the Forbidden forest in the direction he had heard the scream. The child had better be ok; no child deserved to be attacked so brutally.

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Inuyasha suddenly figured out how he had transformed into a full-blood demon.

It had to have been Kagome's doing; when she started to perform the most uttermost sacrifice the Shikon Jewel had sank back into her body before she enveloped into a blinding light. She must have been able to use the one wish of the Shikon Jewel to turn him into a demon! But why would she do something like that? She should have used it to save herself, and after all, hadn't she always wanted him to become a human instead of a demon?

That and he was not where they had defeated Naraku. This forest was unfamiliar and where was Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Koga and Sesshomaru? They had all been fighting Naraku when Kagome finally annihilated him. He knew none of them where killed due to Sesshomaru's healing sword, so where was everybody?

It was then; while he was crying in grief of Kagome's death, that he suddenly smelt a man approaching… or was it a man? He was most certainly part human, but there was something foreign in his blood. It wasn't demon, for that Inuyasha was certain. And it wasn't similar to anything Inuyasha had ever had the pleasure of meeting. He was close and Inuyasha was torn between fleeing or waiting for the unknown specimen to approach. The half-man could be dangerous and he was not certain if he could draw his blade now that he was a full demon. The sword had been used to keep his demon side in check when he was a hanyou but who knows how its magical properties would response to the new and most certainly improved Inuyasha?

It was then that he decided to flee; knowing how much he depended on his sword to keep him breathing. It was when he was grabbing the bag that Inuyasha hadn't previously possessed when he heard a strange and unfamiliar voice.

"Use the necklace!" it cried; sounding as though it was muffled from some type of cloth. It wasn't coming from the approaching human but it almost sounded like it was coming from the small sack-like bag. Glancing at the bag with his golden eyes Inuyasha suddenly paused from his worrying development of the approaching half-breed and suddenly wondered what the bag possessed. He had never carried his possessions around in a bag; in fact he had only owned his sword and the Fire-Rat robes which had disturbingly been replaced by a kimono. The sack had never been carried around by his companions and Inuyasha decided to open in then and there. He could run away by the time the stranger appeared and perhaps he could find the necklace in which this invisible voice was referring to. Inuyasha had a sudden thought of how crazy he was becoming; listening to unknown voices, but before he knew it the bag was open and Inuyasha was digging throughout the cloth.

At first all he saw where kimonos, causing him to wonder if Kagome (who he decided had sent him to this weird place with the bag) was slowly turning insane as well. The voice was noticeably louder as he hurried the dog demon on. Inuyasha, who was becoming annoyingly pissed, was about to tell the voice to fuck off, when he suddenly discovered the necklace in which the said voice was referring to. Wondering how such an expensive ruby necklace had found itself into his peasant hands, Inuyasha pulled it on seconds before the half-human emerged from behind an oak tree.

The human was probably one of the largest creatures Inuyasha had ever gazed upon. He was at least eight feet tall with long frizzy hair covering almost all the skin on his body that was not currently covered in cloth, his eyes where the darkest of the dark and in his hands was an equally large crossbow; close enough for him to be safe but it was not pointed directly at the staring demon.

Inuyasha knew in an instant that the gigantic creature would not harm him for when he pulled on the ruby necklace he knew Kagome had been in fact sane. He was curious about his kimonos, but she was a girl after all, and if she was going to turn him into a demon and send him miles and miles away, he supposed she had a right as to what he was going to wear. But the threads where not important, but rather the necklace was. It must have been cursed with an illusion charm much similar to Shippo's shape-shifting powers. For he no longer appeared to be a golden-eyed demon but a lavender-eyed human child; yet he could still smell and see as well as any demon.

The giant lowered his bow; gazing at the boy before him with a friendly and curious gaze. Said 'child' gazed up at the hairy man, cranking his neck as he did so and deciding that asking, 'what he was' would be to rude (Yes, he can be polite. Besides being rude would not tell him where he currently was any faster) and so he piped up, "Who are you?" crinkling his brow in a questioning glance.

"Hagrid," he grunted to the newly colored brunette, "An' who might ye be?" His tone was slightly uneducated and rough, but yet he seemed rather friendly, something Inuyasha was new to as he lived most of his life as a hanyou outcast.

"The name's Inuyasha," he said with a proud-like smirk whipping his hair behind him like a shinning shawl, "Would you happen to know where we are?" his expression lost it's arrogant smirk and turned back into a questioning look. He didn't like waking up in strange places with memories of his friend being sacrificed to save all of humanity. He would rather know where he was. Since he was a hanyou he learned to always be on the top of the ball if you wanted to survive one more day. Granted he was no longer a hanyou but that didn't mean the lesson suddenly evaporated.

"The Forbidden Forest," he said with a look of pure confusion on his face, "Right outside Hogwarts. How can ye not know where ya are? Everybody knows Hogwarts," there was a paused as Inuyasha struggled to remove the puzzled look of his face, "What are ye doin' in here? It's dangerous!"

Inuyasha was about to thunder that he could take care of himself, thank you very much, when he suddenly remembered that he was pretending to be a human child. "Traveling," he shrugged like he walked through dangerous and dank forests all the time, "I think I wandered a bit too far to the left,"

Hagrid blinked down at him in such a way that Inuyasha was beginning to wonder if they ever received visitors, it didn't seem so guessing by the look of pure confusion on the giant's face, "I'll take ye up to the headmaster," he finally grunted, "Follow me," he began to tramp through the underbrush that was beginning to become a trail. Inuyasha grabbed the bag, stuffing a blue kimono in that looked like it was about to fall out, and bounded after the impossibly large man yelling a question up to the giant, "Whose the headmaster?"

Hagrid almost fainted.

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During the walk up to the large castle Inuyasha found out that sandals hurt one's feet… a lot. Perhaps it had to do with the fact that until now he always walked barefoot and he was not used to the feeling of being elevated an extra inch or so. However he was pretending to be a human and humans always wore shoes. Whether it was sandals or boots, Inuyasha had never caught sight of a human trekking barefoot. It was like the law of the law. This was pissing the demon in disguise considerably.

But besides the pain in his feet; Inuyasha felt perfectly fine which was rather odd since he had been half dead not that long ago. When Kagome had turned him into a demon and teleported him to this forest she must have healed him as well. She must have been more powerful than it was earlier thought; she had done all that while defeating Naraku and absorbing the Shikon Shards. The only thing that concerned him was that she had died to do so, that and he was absolutely and completely lost.

The forest around him was started to loose it's dark and dank look and was starting to become more bright; the air smelt fresher leaving Inuyasha to believe that they where almost out of the forest and would soon be in the castle.

"We're almos' out!" Hagrid suddenly called out, distinguishing the silence he had kept for so long, "Get a good look, lad! Hogwarts is always amazin' people!" Inuyasha was about to retort that nothing amazed him, that was until he caught sight of the castle of course. It wasn't exactly beautiful like his family's castle, but there was some majestic air about it that practically deemed it important. It was rather large and dark, seeming to fit perfectly with the wood that was just next door. Inuyasha gazed upon it with slightly enlarged purple eyes and turned to give Hagrid the thumbs-up-sign, "It's pretty neat!" he admitted, "You live there?"

"Not actually," Hagrid grunted, although he didn't seem disappointed, as he turned to point to a small hut just a few meters away from there present resting spot, "I live there! I like me privacy; that and I can watch me creatures!"

Inuyasha licked his chops, "I like my privacy to!" there was a pause before he added, "Don't we have a date with a certain headmaster?" the majesty of the estate had left him and his curiosity about this famous headmaster was starting to erupt. Although Hagrid had been silent most of the trip; he had explained all about Dumbledore before he hushed into a rather long moment of silence.

That caught Hagrid's fleeing attention. "Follow me!" he said as he began to head off towards the castle with a rather admiring fast pace. And so Inuyasha followed, eager to meet this headmaster and figure out why Kagome would send him here of all places, that and the castle would probably look even sweeter inside.

After all he didn't have any magic… right?

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The walk up to the professor's office was albeit, very amusing as well as severally annoying. One of the staircases they had traveled up moved when they where halfway up, he had been endangered when two steps decided to disappear beneath his graceful steps and he had almost ripped his kimono when he caught sight of a picture moving. With all these strange happenings and his sandal issue, walking was not fun; but watching the scenery fly by certainly was.

Fortunately the headmaster's office was not on the top floor and before long Inuyasha saw himself standing before a statue and a wall, "Here we are!" Hagrid thundered before yelling "Ginger Mints". Inuyasha was starting to believe that everybody was turning mad when the wall disappeared and Hagrid was shooing the demon up a moving staircase. "Up ye get," he whispered, "Tell the Headmaster that I found ye in the forest,"

For one of the most powerful demons in current existence, Inuyasha's eyes where noticeably wider, "What the hell is wrong with my life?" he muttered as the staircase came to a halting stop. Licking his lips with sudden apprehension, Inuyasha threw his bag over his shoulder and walked silently into the office; his sandals not making a single scrapping noise and his kimono ruffled around him with an air-like grace.

"Headmaster?" he called out, hating how quiet and shy his voice was before he changed his tone and nearly shouted, "Are you in?" His change in tone certainly surprised the pictures who where moving and whispering in oddly-loud voices, "He's in, dear," a picture of an elderly old lady kindly said, "I'll fetch him for you, dear," and with that said she disappeared and Inuyasha knew that if it wasn't for his demon instincts he would have jumped with shock.

Looking around with amusement; Inuyasha noted just how strange this room was. There where millions of pictures lining the walls and odd possessions littered around the room in the most unusual of places. Catching sight of the desk and the strangely elegant chair that was positioned behind it, Inuyasha headed towards it before he sat down with noticeable grace in the ordinary chair positioned in front of it; laying the bag on his lap.

"I wasn't aware that I had an appointment for today," and elderly old man suddenly said; however he wasn't able to surprise the always alert demon.

"I never said I had an appointment!" Inuyasha smirked, "Your Care of Magical Creatures teach wanted me to talk to you. I was traveling and… err," here the teen lost his arrogance, "I kinda found my way into your forest,"

The old man was wearing the oddest sets of robes; they where a bright purple that mirrored Inuyasha's own purple eyes and freckled all over it where stars and moons. A lop-sided had sat askew on top of long silver hair that appeared to be the same length as his beard. The old man's nose appeared to have been broken several times and hiding beneath spectacles were bright blue eyes.

The old man never seemed to loose his jolly attitude or his twinkling eyes, "Indeed," he said before sitting down in the beautiful chair, "And may I ask your name?"

"Inuyasha," the demon snorted, suddenly wondering how he was going to address the old man about his current dilemma without adding the fact that he was a demon; humans hated and feared humans, "I was wondering if I could stay the night and continue to travel when dawn approaches," That would work. He had always been an excellent fibber when it truly matter and now he was able to converse with the headmaster with an innocence face. Staying the night would allow him to collect his thoughts and check out the library he had captured sight of before Hagrid shooed him off to his current position. Libraries had the answer to everything… almost.

"I have a better idea," the Headmaster announced and Inuyasha suddenly wondered if the elderly fellow already knew his heritage; there was a knowable look in his eyes. Dumbledore blinked down to him and announced in the same voice Kagome had whenever she brought home candy, "Would you like to be Hogwarts Defense Against the Darks Arts professor?"

There was a very long irritably quiet pause before Inuyasha almost fell out of his chair with roaring laughter, "Like that would ever happened," he laughed again, this time falling out of his chair and revealing skinny thighs before he adjusted his kimono, "Am I going to stay the night or not?"

There was another pause and Dumbledore stared at Inuyasha with a look that made him feel like he had done something very naughty before they turned back into twinkling blue eyes all over again, "I'm serious… the placement of professors into my staff is very important business,"

Inuyasha was about to thunder that if it was so important then there was no way in hell that he was teaching when he suddenly remembered his current dilemma. He seriously doubted that he would be able to figure out a way home in a day or so; it would take weeks. The library would help loads but how could he access it when he lived in the forest? That and Kagome had sent him here for a reason and the only place around that was highly unusual enough to catch such interest was Hogwarts. She had died saving him and he did owe her big time. Besides; how hard could it be teaching human children Defense?

"Professor," he smirked, "I'd be happy to be the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor," he just hoped he wasn't making a serious mistake.

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