"Sooo Raven, why does a complete stranger know more about you than your teammates?" Robin asked suspiciously.
"No one was ever supposed to find out about anything like this. Yes, I have secrets, no I did not want to share them, but seeing as how most of my secrets are now going to be obsolete in a few days I guess I can share a little."
"But friend Raven, we are teammates, why did you not wish to be telling of the secrets?"
"Starfire, I know you are still new to all the Earth customs, but everyone has their secrets. Just look at Robin, we don't even know his name or eye color. And what about Beastboy's past. No, you and Cyborg are the most open about with your secrets."
"But…"
"She's right Star, and we can discuss this later. Raven said she had a story to tell us?" Cyborg questioned.
Getting nods of agreement from everybody, Raven took a breath and began. "Very well, I guess I should start with the fact that I am not human, nor am I alien. Instead, my mother was a mortal who feel in with a bad crowd and my father is a demon lord. Because my mother had joined a cult to escape her troubles she was offered to my father by his loyal human followers. He forced himself upon her, raped her, and thus began me.
"You all know that I was taking to the dimension of Azrath and trained by the monks there. The monks spoke of a prophecy which basically stated that I would become a portal for my father so he could rule everything in this dimension. I think you can understand now why I have stayed silent."
There was silence in the tower as the team tried to process what was just said. To know that one of your friends was a living sacrifice just waiting to be called upon was unnerving to say the least. Raven was slightly worried of rejection as well. Now that they knew about her, would the team still want her to be a part of it?
The silence dragged on until finally Beastboy broke it by saying, "Dude!"
"No kidding, I can understand why you wanted to keep that little tidbit a secret," Cyborg agreed.
"It is glorious that friend Harry arrived when he did, is it not?"
"Indeed Starfire, but now I have a question, what did he man by the book and the connection?" Robin asked.
And then the sign of the apocalypse appeared as Raven blushed, "I, I need to go meditate," she said and teleported to the roof.
"Well," Cyborg stated, "That was a little odd."
Harry arrived on the roof of the tower exactly two hours after he left to find Raven in her usual meditative position. Calmly Harry morphed back to his human self and sat on the edge of the roof beside her. Harry felt a sense of peace as the soft tones of Raven's voice go through her chant. Idly, as he waited for her to finish, he wondered if his so called family had noticed his absence yet. Probably not, he snorted in his head, after all it has only been three days since summer started, it would be another two weeks when a summer ball was held that he would be noticed missing and by then he would most likely be back at the manner. So far into his thoughts was Harry, that he hadn't noticed Raven remove herself from her trance because of the frustration that she felt from him.
"You know if we are going to be bound together for the rest of our lives, you will need to work on your emotional control."
Startled out of his musings, Harry sent a sheepish grin Raven's way. "Sorry, I must have forgotten to put my occulmency barriers up when I landed. That won't happen often."
"Oh, and what is this occulmency?"
"It's the practice of protecting your mind. Those with skills in legimency are able to see into your mind and occulmeny keeps them out. It also helps to organize the mind, gives near photographic memory, and allows me to cover up my emotions with a screen preventing them from leaking out or showing."
"Sounds useful."
"Dead useful, especially when the headmaster and potion professor regularly take trips down a student's secrets."
"Wait, so those in positions of power use mind reading on insecure teenagers? And it's legal?"
"No, it's not legal. They just do it to hold their positions of power. Snape is the vindictive professor that everyone is scared of and Dumbledore is the grandfatherly headmaster. I think they take some pleasure in holding all the cards."
"Well why doesn't anybody report them then?"
"Raven, if we stick together after the ritual, there is one thing you absolutely need to know. The magical world is filled with sheep. They have also praised Dumbledore as leader of the light for half a century now. Combine those two facts, and he is practically untouchable and has been called the greatest wizard since Merlin multiple times. Unless I were to find more of his dirty laundry and air it at the same time, I would be considered crazy."
"You know you aren't making a favorable argument for me to come with you after we take care of this dark lord thingy."
"True, but in a few years, Dumbledore will be dead and I will have enough political power to make quite a few changes in the world. Plus I'm filthy stinking rich. That's always a plus, or so I'm told."
"Compelling arguments, but we'll see," Raven said with a small smile. "Now come on, I'm hungry and we need to head off Beastboy's and Cyborg's arguments. Hope you like pizza."
"So," Cyborg asked as the waitress left with their order, "What can you tell us about your world?"
"Oh yes friend Harry, please tell us about your stick waving people."
With a small smile at Starfire's words, Harry began. "Well technically I can't tell you anything because of the Statute of Secrecy, but since you aren't regular muggles and have your own mystic on your team, I can share a few secrets with you. What would you like to know?"
"How were you able to shift into an animal? Are there others like you?"
"I am an animagus which allows me to shift into a falcon. There are numerous animagus in the world, but we can only shift into one animal each. The animal usually reflects your personality. Every magical is able to change, but there are few that go through with the discipline as it takes a fair amount of time and focus and the magical world is inherently lazy."
"Alright, so what about technology?"
"I told you before, that we were stuck in the Middle Ages, our most advance piece of technology is gas lamps. Magical communities also seem to put off magic which fries circuitry. You can shield it, but again we are lazy and since magic seems to work out most of our problems there's no need to advance." Cyborg was slightly depressed at this.
"How's the education set up?" Robin asked curiously.
"Education begins for magical children at age 11. Before then it is up to the parents on how they teach their children. There is little in the way of mathematics, and no language or sciences what so ever. The education is rather pitiful to be honest and I am so thankful for the Potter library and the occasional trips to the muggle library.
"Now every country has one magical school that the children are sent to. I, since I'm in Britain, go to Hogwarts which is supposedly the best school in the world, but that is debatable. Our education lasts seven years and we are divided when we first arrive into four separate groups called houses. Honestly the animosity between houses is beyond weird and escalates quickly into duels and rather malicious pranks. There's Gryffindor for the brave, Ravenclaw for the smart –which I am in- Hufflepuff for the hardworking, and Slytherin for the ambitious and cunning.
"Our classes range in all sorts of magical fields except for muggle studies which is about seventy years out of date. Magicals aren't even aware that we have landed on the moon."
By now the pizza had arrived and the teens were all indulging in their pizza loving ways. "Friend Harry, what of the food in the magical world? Do they have the mustard?"
"Well, pizza has never been heard of before," Which elicted a small number of gasps from Beastboy and Cyborg, "And I honestly don't think we have any sort of condiments including mustard. We do have pumpkin juice though, which is very strange." Odd looks were exchanged between the group while they processed all of the new information.
"Well then, the last two questions of the day." Raven said as it was getting late into the day and it had been a very trying day as well. "One, where are you staying?"
"Oh I have a reservation in one of the nearby hotels for the week."
"This is unacceptable friend Harry, you must stay with us."
"Seriously due," Cyborg said, "You are welcome to stay with us. Plus it would be kinda cool to see a little more magic." Nods came from every member, even Robin which caused Harry to smirk a little.
"Alright then, I can tell when I am beaten. I'll come stay with you guys."
"Good, and now the main question, when can your ritual be performed?"
"Ah yes, the main reason why I'm here. Well there are a few things I'll need from you guys, but when everything is ready it will take about two day to prepare and a couple hours to complete, so you should be "cured" so to speak in less than a week."
"Well what do you need?" Robin asked. This team was his family and if something could help one of them, then he was sure to do everything is his power to help.
"Well, I need a clean room, two pounds of iron, and for all the males to stay well away when the ritual is performed. I have the rest of the items in my trunk."
"I'm not even going to ask about the iron, but why do you need to have myself, Cyborg, and BB removed? Raven is our friend and we should be there for her."
"Commendable, but I doubt she wants any of you to see her naked." Which cause both Starfire and Raven to blush furiously.
"Ah, yeah I just remembered we have something to do that day. We'll let you take care of that!"
A/N:So how was that? I woke up this morning and had forty different messages that someone like my story that I was just compelled to write this next chapter. If your an author, you know that it is probably the greatest feeling ever when someone likes your story.
So, if you have any suggestions on what you want to see in the story feel free to comment on it. How do you all want Harry to interact with the wizarding world? He will have some friends of course, but is he aloof with his family and family friends, never there? What?
Until next time, PEACE!