Harry Potter and the Were-Squid
A/N: This was written to answer the request that I write a story including the character I created for The Teacher's Lounge RP thread. The character is named Larry Lupin. To make a long story short Harry Potter's parents, in order to save him, partook in a ritual that would cause Lily to have a child with each of the Marauders, Frank Longbottom and Kingsley. This means that Harry has 5 siblings. Dumbledore then took the baby Larry and gave him to the Merpeople to be raised as their own. In doing so, they changed his physical structure. In short Larry Lupin is a Were-Squid.
In this story Larry from our RPG world will meet and interact with Harry Potter from the canon world.
Oh and yes this is meant to be a crack fic with extreme prejudice.
Chapter 1: The Brother From the Lake
Harry Potter was brought suddenly awake. He hadn't had a nightmare like that in quite awhile. His t-shirt was stuck to him with a cold sweat. He checked the red head asleep beside him to make sure he had not disturbed her sleep. He slipped quietly out the room and padded down the stairs to the kitchen. He and Ginny were spending the night at the Burrow. Tomorrow was the 5th anniversary of "The Battle of Hogwarts", and the family was meeting at the Burrow before going to the ceremonies.
He was just starting to pour the water into the kettle for tea when an eerie green light from the pond outside caught his eye. Harry walked out the backdoor and approached the pond. The normally dark waters were lit with a green light and the usually calm water was roiling and sputtering. Harry cursed himself for not picking up his wand from the bedside table. Harry didn't know what to expect but green lights didn't usually lead to, in Harry's experience, hugs and puppies. Harry reached down and picked up a fallen tree branch and backed away slowly.
Suddenly the rolling surface of the water was broken and a form was expelled from the pond as if shot from a cannon. The form reached the apex of its ascent about 25 feet in the air. On its way back down Harry could hear a voice above the sounds of the churning waters.
"SON OF A BIIIITCH!" the voice screamed out, before slamming into the ground with a wet and muddy thud.
Harry watched in horror as the figure pulled itself out of the mud. The creature had the arms and legs of a man yet on each side of his body he was also sprouting three tentacles. He was using these tentacles to pull himself out of the mud. Across his back, the beast carried a large very, wicked looking axe.
He wiped mud from a glowing metal bracer that was around his wrist and pressed some of its buttons.
"That was a bit rougher than River said it would be," the creature said aloud to no one.
"H-H-Hold it right there," Harry stuttered brandishing the tree branch.
"Oh give it up Nancy," the creature said disdainfully knocking the branch out of Harry's hands with one of his tentacles, while not looking up from the device. The creature moved so fast that Harry had not seen the tentacle move.
"We haven't got the time so listen up. I am your brother, Well, not YOUR brother but I am the brother to a different you," the creature started to explain.
"I don't have any brothers and if I did, I don't think they would look like you," Harry said, his eyes flashing to the tentacles.
"Look no one here is bragging," the creature said smirking. "OK, quick lesson in interdimensional probabilities. There are an infinite number of yous in this universe just like there are an infinite number of mes," the creature saw by the look on Harry's face, that he had already lost him.
"Look, there are an infinite number of dimensions… Got that?"
Harry nodded.
"And, there are an infinite number of Harry Potters and Larry Lupins, (that's me by the way) in those dimensions, unn'erstand?"
Harry again nodded.
"The further out you go from a single dimension the stranger and more different things become. I come from a dimension, more or less, next door to this one. In that dimension Harry Potter has brothers and sisters. I am one of them."
"Assuming I believe you, and I don't, but assuming I do; why are you here?"
"According to Merlin… Yes THAT Merlin… don't interrupt," Larry said stopping Harry from talking, "You are the only version of you with the correct temporal signature to stop what's going to happen."
"What… What," Harry stammered, "what's going to happen?"
"The same thing that always happens," Larry looked and Harry and smirked "The bloody end of the world."
"What?! What am I supposed to do?" Harry exclaimed. "How am I supposed to save the world? Why me?"
Larry looked a Harry and shook his head, "Is there ever going to be a version of you that's not a whiney little bitch? I don't know all the details. I was sent here to tell you cause I could make the trip and not turn myself inside out."
"You're not taking me with you," Harry said finding his courage.
"You should be so lucky," Larry said. "I am here to help."
"Help with what?" Harry asked exasperated.
"Well, I was hoping you could tell me. You're the Chosen One, the Boy Who Lived… connected to the fate of the world. I'm just a guy with his ear to the ground and even I can feel it."
Larry reached forward with his tentacles and grabbed Harry's shirt and pulled him to where Harry's face was only inches from Larry's wolfish features, "There's something coming brother dear, and it's so big ugly and damned it makes you and me look like little bitty puzzle pieces."
Larry let go of the shirt and straightened up to his full height.
"So… You wouldn't have any Moonpies around would ya?"