Authors Note: Taking place after season 7 of an alternate Buffyverse and during Harry's 5th year, strange things are afoot. We do not own any of the characters from Marvel, Harry Potter or BTVS that are featured here.

Chapter 4

Hermione was in the middle of a problem. No not with studying, that was finished. Owls too didn't seem to difficult, even though they were imminent, at this moment though she was really interested in the mystery of that new Professor, Xander Harris.

At first it really didn't matter. None of her close friends nor her, herself was taking the course so she really didn't mingle with him. She had heard rumors about the man's strange behavior, but that also paled in comparison to the troubles with Umbridge.

But still, even with the threat of Umbridge, there was a …certain air of mystery around that man. Professor Harris was a walking puzzle that she at least had to press to see what he was all about.

Luckily it was her free period so she decided to check in to see what his Muggle class was about.

Surprisingly the class was packed. Students from all different houses were crowding into the class room. As she mingled, gently moving to the front of the class to get a good view of Professor Harris he was in the process of talking about…muggle entertainment?

"Now as I was talking about before, this is one of the greatest movies ever created. Everyone who's anyone has seen it so, I'm about to show you this special treat."

As he inserted the Dvd she wondered what he was going to show. Perhaps Citizen Cain or something of that ilk, but then suddenly a thought popped in her head bringing her back to the reality of the situation. Raising her hand , Xander gave her a puzzled look.

"But…but professor Harris?"

"Huh, IT'S Xander, thought I told you guys Miss…"

"Granger. Hermione Granger. Pro…Xander. Technology doesn't work here…"

"Really?"

As he pressed a button and the Television blared to life as the opening theme of the movie started…

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."

STAR WARS? He wasn't showing the students STAR WARS? But what was even worse…it worked. The television, the DVD player, everything worked!

"Seems to work fine to me." Xander gave Hermione a lopsided grin.

This was… incredible, impossible even. There was no way for it TOO work! But it had and the students were engrossed in the film about the Jedi's quest. What was worse, she could swear she saw Dumbledore himself in the rear of the classroom, eating what seemed to be, a bag of popcorn?

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Flashback

The First Day the School Year

At te Hotel where he was staying Xander yawned as the alarm went off. Stretching he got up, showered and did his morning routine. After packing his things he smiled as he brought out the massive black, high collared cape.

It was many years ago when strange helped him find the Cloak of levitation. It allowed him to fly even though he really didn't need it for that, as well as acting as another set of hands.

He smirked remembering the little problem with it.

"Xander…why is the cloak black…" Strange had said, shaking his head in an exasperated tone.

"Well uh…Dawn thought it looked dirty and put it in the wash…."

"YOU COULD HAVE SPELLED IT CLEAN! It's dry clean only…"

"Yeah…we found that out afterwards…it came out some pinkish-red color."

Strange slapped his heads into his hands.

"I didn't want to be, you know, the Thorcerer Thupreme" He said with a lisp just making Strange shake his head all the more.

"So Willow, Tara and I had it died black and it's stayed that way ever since."

As he packed it away he yawned, checked out of the hotel and moved out into the cool morning mist.

Taking a bus to the train station, King's Crossing, if he remembered it right, he had the worst luck. The bus got a flat five minutes before the train at some weird platform, nine and three quarters, was about to leave. Getting off the bus, gathering his bags he ran the rest of the way to the station.

Running into the train station he saw the pillar near the third platform and ran to it, and promptly ran into the heavy stone pillar.

People looked at him strangely as he gave a very funny wave and bow as if he meant to do that. Wrong pillar.

Looking at the next one this time he tried to find it with magic…he was one off. Running into the next one and through it, he appeared at another train station filled with all the robed wizards and witches of their world.

He had arrived, but as his luck would have it the Hogwart's train was no where to be seen. Moving to the office Xander asked the man in charge. He replied, "Oh the train left five minutes early for some reason. You could catch it if you had a broom on you."

He sighed to himself, but didn't argue. Moving out of range of the other wizard and witches he pulled out the cloak from his large bag. Glancing at his bags he thought to himself, there is no way I'm going to carry them so he teleported them to the school. Fastening the cape around his neck, concealing himself with a spell, he followed the tracks.

Suddenly he stopped in mid air, he spied at least one hundred forms racing across the fields, following the tracks as well. They were gaining on the train as Strange instantly, shouted into Xander's head, "MY god, Xander those are the N'Garai demons…"

"The wha-zit?"

"N'Garai, their a class of inter-dimensional demons. They are capable of hopping from one dimension to another up. They were created by an elder demonic god. Usually the Midnight sons or the X-Men seemed to find them the easiest, but that doesn't matter. What does is they seem intent on getting to that bus."

Xander had no intent to let that happen so he dropped behind the train and uncloaked, just in time to say an in incantation and fry the first demon he met. The others stopped, snarling and growling the leader moved forward. A reptilian being about ten foot tall, green and scaly with glowing red eyes, stood up from all fours.

"Out of our way human maaaage. We have ordessssss to dessssstroy that train and all itsssss inhabitantsss…"

"Uh huh, well I'm sorry no can do. I, well, you know sorta have a problem…" As he talked one of the demons tried to pounce at him from behind, Xander fried him too, it squealed as it burnt to nothing but cinders.

"Well aren't you rude. I was trying to say. This doesn't sit well with me. So, can I just ask you to like stop?"

They growled, some hissed, "Craaaazy mortal. There'ssss over a hundred of ussss and one of you. What do you think…."

A second later the demons head exploded as did a few demons behind him.

"Well if your going to be rude, then so am I. That wasn't nice. I can do this all day, you can't, and the worst part of this…I think your going to make me miss dinner."

He gave a dark smile, some of the N'Garai shivered. Maybe they underestimated this Mage.

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Umbridge put her head in her hands. Her biggest triumph had turned into the biggest blunder. Nothing was working anymore. Things were getting more and more insane. The pranks, the injuries, even her high inquisitor squad was falling apart, each of them couldn't be alone anymore or else it seemed they'd be cursed or pranked from five different angles.

Her classes were getting smaller by the day too. Everyone in them seemed to get sick just by entering her class. The other teachers weren't helping at all either. They must be all incompetent. All these pranks and not one of them able to find the right spell to stop it. She must be the most powerful one there.

Even worse was the ministry still hadn't found Dumbledore. That old crazy wizard was causing havoc all over just by name alone and he couldn't be found. She had an idea that the giant, Hagrid, had an idea of his whereabouts but the truth potion wouldn't work on him. She was going to have to make up a way for him to get in trouble so she could…interrogate him.

The worst…oh the worst example so far was what happened to her babies.

She had walked in one day after chasing down a few random fireworks when she heard her babies crying. Rushing into her room, her kittens were jumping around their respective plates and pictures. Someone had put dogs into them, chasing them all around. Even worse, the dogs marked their territory too, yellow paint dripping from the plates.

After that mess was cleaned up, she had to buy a whole new collection… her old ones ruined beyond repair. Luckily though when she came in today she noticed someone left her a tray of brownies. The brownies must have been an apology for all her recent troubles. After having it checked for all the usual spells and potions, Dolores tested a small piece on a child of course. She decided to offer it to Fudge as he visited with them to give her an update while she gave him one.

She smiled brightly as he walked into the office, tipping his hat.

"Dolores…"
She smiled back, her usual wonderful smile as she picked up the tray.

"Would you like some brownies, Minister? I baked them for you myself."