Warning: Spoilers for Half Blood Prince and OTP.
Most HBP spoilers are later in the story. The Big OTP spoiler is right in this ver chapter.
Disclaimer: I own nothing. The Buffy and Harry Potter Characters belong to Whedon and Rowling respectively. No money is being made from this. It's all for fun.
Postings: Fanfiction and Twisting the Hellmouth. You can post it wherever. Just let me know so I can come and visit sometime.
Character Bashing: Nothing really for the BTVS characters. Dumbeldore may seem OOC. But it's my impression of him from the books. You don't get as powerful as he is without being a lot more than a kindly old school master. If you don't relish the idea of my exploring his more ruthless side, this fic is not for you. All flames regarding him will be cheerfully ignored. (Because I did warn you up front.)
Timeline: After Spike and Angel go looking for Buffy and find her with the Immortal. The HP stuff is set right at the end of OTP and picks up from there, and quickly goes fairly AU. (But what X over doesn't?)
Lost Potter
Chapter Three
Dangers
-Dumbeldore's Office-
A few hours after Dumbeldore revealed the existence of Harry's great aunt Melody to Remus.
"Why didn't we have this meeting at the Orders Headquarters? Remus voiced the question that was on everyone's mind. Dumbeldore was always careful to keep the Orders business as far away from the school as possible.
"With the death of Sirius in the department of mystery's headquarters is no longer safe for us to use." Dumbeldore replied as he looked around at the gathering. Other than Shacklebolt who wouldn't be attending and Arthur and Molly who should arrive momentarily the whole order was gathered for possibly the first and last time until Voldermorts defeat was arranged.
"Professor was it necessary to bring everyone here to your office. Things are a bit camped you know." Snape sounded as snide as ever.
"Severius this meeting is vitally important. It could change irrevocably our war with Voldermort." Dumbeldore inwardly chuckled at the gathered wizards visceral shudder at the name. It was one of his greatest sources of amusement. He turned his head as Arthur and Molly Weasley came through the floo. "Good day Arthur and Molly. Now that you've arrived I'll bring everyone up to date. Please no outbursts or questions until I am finished. We have limited time." Dumbeldore watched the mixture of trepidation and curiosity fill the faces of his audience.
Dumbeldore dropped most of his kindly old man routine as he started speaking. "For those who don't know, the Dursleys have been reported to have died in an automobile accident on their way to pick up Harry at the train station. Without Harry living in the domicile of a relative the Blood Magic Protections that have protected Harry will fade away to nothing, making him even more vulnerable to Voldermort and his Death Eaters. He could see the explosion of questions coming and simply raised his hand in a stop motion. "Please let me finish. The following is something only Remus among you knows. There is a Lost Potter, Harry's great aunt Melody didn't die in a freak splinching accident. She actually slipped into another dimension. What we who are gathered here must ascertain is who will accompany me to retrieve her and bring her back so that she can provide the blood link that will extend the protection for Harry and consequently help save us all. Now I will entertain a few questions. Remus I've already answered yours so please let everyone else speak."
There was a general furor until Dumbeldore imposed order and said that he would indicate who would speak next. "You can't be serious Headmaster." Snape was beside himself with out rage.
"I am indeed serious. The Blood Protection magic is quickly fading away to nothingness. It's almost absolute protection when he was at the Dursleys protected him greatly during the time he spent away from his home. Why do you think most of Voldermorts attack occurred late in the school year. It was when the protective aspects of the magic were at their weakest. If we don't get Harry within range of a relative soon. The magic's protection will be permanently broken. The only truly grievous problem is that the protections are strongest with a blood relative of Lily's. With the magic going through Harry to gain access as it were to the Potter bloodline it will bound to be weaker than if Melody was another Evans. The more distant the relationship the weaker the protections will be. Either they may take a longer period to recharge or they might provide a weaker level of protection needing to be renewed more often or a combination of the two." Dumbeldore then nodded to Arthur and Molly to speak.
"Are you sure Melody Potter is still alive?"
"No I'm not sure. It's been years and the magic I used was difficult and time consuming to cast. At the time I was content to let things be. Now we have no choice. We must get Melody Potter, or one or more of her possible children to come back with us to care for Harry and strengthen the magic's."
"Albus traversing dimensional planes is extremely dangerous. Is there no other alternative?" McGonagall couldn't wait to be motioned to speak so she butted in.
Dumbeldore was amused by his old friends misplaced concern for his welfare. "Minerva I traversed the dimensional barriers many times when I was younger. I daresay I could still do it at need."
The question and answer session went on for hours into the depths of the night.
-Next morning:-
"Master, I have news Master." Pettigrew said as he knocked on the door to the Dark Lords chambers.
Voldermorts voice responded to his minions. "Enter."
Wormtail opened the door keeping his head bowed as he went to his groveling spot before Voldermorts dark throne. "My Lord we have received a report from Severius.. He says that there was a large gathering in Dumbeldore's office that went on for hours. From what he reported it seems that the last of Potters relatives are dead."
"Hum this could be very useful. Continue with your report."
-Meanwhile.-
Minerva McGonagall and Headmaster Dumbeldore were exiting the great hall. "Albus are you sure this is safe?"
"My dear Minerva, when have we been safe over the past five years? It may not be safe but it is necessary." Dumbeldore was starting to get annoyed by Minerva's mother henning of him. After all he was old enough to be her father. Not the other way around.
"Have you gotten permission from the Ministry to cast your plane walking spell?" Minerva asked him and he simply nodded his head no. "Then tell me why you have to cast your plane walking spell there of all places?" Surely you could cast it in a more inconspicuous place that isn't monitored by the Ministry? Stonehenge is simply to public a place for such great magic's. You could get charged with violating the secrecy acts."
"Don't worry. There are enough unobtrusiveness spells on me and the others to keep any curious muggles from seeing what happens. I will even be using my own invisibility protection to help keep me in the background." He reassured his long time friend once again.. "I need to cross the dimensional borders at that location. It will greatly simplify the process of getting to the same world that Melody traveled to. I could do it elsewhere. But the drain in magic's would be greater and I might have need of as much of my power as I can carry across. Now please don't worry. We went through all of this last night. There's no need to go through it again."
"I guess I'm just a teensy bit jealous about whose going. I've never traveled to another world. But I've always been fascinated with the idea." Minerva sounded rueful of her desires to travel.
Dumbeldore stopped and reached out to her. "Minerva after the war is won, I promise you a chance to do what you've always dreamed of. For now simply wish me luck."
BTVS/HP,BTVS/HP,BTVS/HP,BTVS/HP,BTVS/HP,BTVS/HP,BTVS/HP,BTVS/HP,
Don't worry the BTVS crew will start showing up in the next chapter.
But who do you think will go with DD? I have at least one definite person and a couple possible. (Kingsley and Minerva are set no's. I need them for other later parts of the story.) Lets here from the peanut gallery and I may be able to stick a couple of them in. There will probably be no more than five (including DD) going.
Authors Comments:
I want to thank IntoOblivion for correcting my Blood relative bit. Since I needed an Evans, but I choose a Potter. I added some dialog in this chapter to explain how it works. And as a way to CYA.
There was a comment on how it's obvious that the Lost Potter would have to be Willow or Xander since it was assumed that only a Sunnydale native could be a relative. But I never planned for the crossover to have been at the Hellmouth. Considering it is England, Stonehenge always made much more sense to me.
There will be many more clues as the story goes on. But it won't be for a number of chapters until I finally reveal who the LP is. (I like to keep ppl guessing, but I'm evil that way.)