Warning: Characters might be slightly OOC and do not be fooled by the word counter.

Disclaimer: J K Rowling owns Harry and Malfoy, Rick Riordan owns Percy, Anthony Horowitz owns Alex, Eoin Colfer owns Artemis Fowl and last but not least, Mark Walden owns Otto. The only thing I might own is the plot and even then, well, imagination can take claim on that.


For those of you who have never read Harry Potter, which I find hard to believe, this is a summary of his background: Harry is an orphan. For half his life he lived with his aunt and uncle and his cousin Dudley. At the age of eleven, he finds out that he is a wizard. He finds out that he is the Chosen one of the wizarding world fated to bring down the Dark Lord Voldemort which he eventually does during his seventh year at the wizarding school of Hogwarts.


Chapter 2

Harry Potter

Things would never be the same again after that fateful day. He missed his friends and there were times when he felt lonely and the absences of his friends were even more apparent. Ever since the day of the massacre he had been living in one of Malfoy's many houses. Though they had been rivals at Hogwarts, maybe even enemies, but he had to say that Malfoy was being extremely generous considering their history. It seems that the Malfoys had been conducting business outside of the wizarding world. Malfoy was now the new boss of MToys. It was lucky that he had a house in America that was barely ever used. In fact, he had several houses in America; he had just been generous enough to give me one.

However, there was one silver lining to all of my misfortune; I now had a means to escape the wizarding world. Malfoy and Luna had told everyone back home that I had died in the massacre. I know that it was cruel to those back home, but I had to escape. The fame was getting too much and I could barely handle it any more. Everything I did was recorded and nothing of mine was private any more, I was going crazy. So now I live in the Muggle world where I have continued with my studies, after one crash course after another, I finally felt I was ready and soon found myself applying for university, Hermione would have been proud of me.

I would be taking a course in Law, I had always wanted to be an Auror, Ron had actually made it. He would have experienced his first day as an Auror if not for the massacre, he was meant to have reported in to the ministry the week after it had all happened. I had chosen Law as my subject as that is the closest I was willing to get to becoming an Auror. However, that was only one reason, the other was that Hermoine had always been interested in Law ever since SPEW. This in turn had led me to take an interest in my rights as a member of the wizarding community. Thanks to her, I was able to clear Sirius' name, the one thing I was not able to do when he was still alive, it was unfortunate, but after all, better late than never. At the time, I made an oath that if Sirius' name was cleared and he regained his innocence, I would pursue a career in Law, so here I am.

On the day of my orientation at the university, I was feeling really nervous. After all, this was the first time in years that I was back in a 'muggle' curricular system. I was worrying about so many things, if I could catch up with the other students, if I would make any friends there; it all built up into a large swarm of butterflies fluttering in my stomach.

When I got to the university, I felt a little insignificant compared to the large student body present there. It felt like I was drowning in a sea of bodies, and suddenly I panicked. It all reminded me of the day of the massacre, when everyone was rushing about bumping against me and pushing me away from my friends. It was kind of how I felt right now; I was suddenly scared that someone would die. I started hyperventilating; at least, until someone placed their hand on my shoulder, I turned around and saw a familiar face. It was one of the boys that were there that day. If I remember correctly, his name was Alex Rider. I had not expected to see anyone from that day ever again, let alone at the university I was attending. Noticing the panicked look in my eyes, he told me to calm down and tried to comfort me; it worked. After I had calmed down, we both talked a bit. It was awkward, we had not seen each other for such a long time, at least until he told me that he might have gotten a glimpse of one of the others. As if in silent agreement, the both of us stood up at the same time and went to find him.

When we found him, he was standing next to the information counter asking for a map of the campus and where the lecture halls were. The boy was Percy Jackson, my look-a-like. It seemed that he too was going to the same place, what a coincidence. Suddenly a white haired boy popped up next to us nearly making me jump out of my skin. It was Otto, now the only person needed to complete our group was the boy named Artemis Fowl. Since nearly all of us were here, I decided to ask Otto if he knew whether Artemis went here too, and if he did, whether Otto knew where he was.

When asked, he seemed surprised that we did not know, he then told us that Artemis had graduated just last years but was doing his Honours year here at the university. When we asked if he was doing the same, he said that he was still in his second year here at the university, he was majoring in Political Sciences, although we were all the same age, it was apparent who the brains in our group were. We then split up to go find our own dorms. You see, even though I had my own house, courtesy of Malfoy, the university was quite far from there. So I decided to get a dorm room which would be shared with two other boys, I was fine with that, after all, I had done that since I was eleven. I had soon located my dorm room, Room 13, an omen?

I was the first one there, my roommates had not arrived yet and I wondered who I would be bunked with. As I unpacked, the door opened and Percy walked in followed by Alex. Well, things were becoming suspicious. I mean what were the chances of all five of us going to the same university and getting the same dorm room? Zero to none. Yet it has all happened, maybe some charm had been put on us all so that we would always unconsciously seek each other out.

Since three of us shared a room, all five of us hung out there after classes or in Artemis' case, work. We even had our own schedule, first, Artemis and Alex would have a sparring match, and sometimes Otto would join in. Artemis had decided to learn some form of self-defence as he had lost his bodyguard Butler during the massacre. However, Otto was mostly on his laptop doing something or other, we never knew what exactly what he did. Although, I had heard Artemis and Otto discussing something about the effects of a person's mental state had on the overall effect of a political speech. Percy would once in a while join in on the sparring too, but he mostly practiced sword fighting by himself. They once commented on Percy's hand-to-hand combat saying that it was more like street brawling and needed some refining. They had all offered to teach me some moves once, but I declined. To keep in practice, every once in a while I would sneak off and practice my magic on my own. I knew I would not be able to always depend on my magic to help me, but I was tired of violence, the choice I made may be the worst mistake I ever made, but I made it and I will have to live with the consequences.

Since we all hung out nearly every day, it wasn't long before some of us noticed that Alex had been acting more hostile than usual. When one of us confronted him, he would not say a thing. Then came the day when we all decided to face him together, though Artemis was slightly unsure as he claimed not to care much. We surrounded him during one of our 'meetings' and forced him to tell us what was wrong. He just gave us a funny look and kept quiet. After some time and constant questioning, Alex eventually gave in and burst. "You really want to know what's wrong? Alright I'll tell you what's wrong. What's wrong is that you, Artemis, are a leader of an international criminal organisation! You Harry, don't exist. Otto, you just disappeared from your orphanage one day and never came back, until today that is. The only one who can even be considered close to normal here would be Percy, and even then there are 'abnormalities' in your supposedly normal life."

"Well," Otto started "you, Alex, are constantly absent from school, yet you always manage to be one of the top students in your class. Your friends call you 'Druggie' and most of your family seems to have died suspicious deaths. Why don't you scrutinize your life before doing ours?"

The Artemis piped up, saying, "We all have our own secrets, some of which we shall never reveal, but listen up, I don't know about the rest of you, but I can guarantee that my secrets shall never hurt nor threaten you, at least, not anymore."

The days that followed were quite awkward. After all, secrets that we never even meant to give anyone, not even our best friends a hint about were nearly spilled that day. Perhaps the tension eased somewhat after weeks had passed without a word about our secrets, but they would always be on our mind now, we would always be wondering, 'is there anything else they're keeping from me?' Sure, we all seemed to understand that there were some things that none of us were willing to share, but even so, we cannot help but wonder if the secrets being kept are as harmless as we say they are.


A/N:

Well, here's the end of another chapter, sorry if it's shorter than the last one. The polls are now down and the results have been decided. If you want to know the results, you will just have to wait for the next chapter. The thing about Sirius was just for closure.