A/N: Have a Merry Christmas/ Hanukkah/ Kwanzaa/ Happy Holiday! :D (I personally celebrate Christmas but some of my friends are Jewish and others don't have a religion and etc. No matter what/if you celebrate, I hope you have a good time this upcoming week!)

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or Harry Potter.


Danny woke up the next day somewhat naturally, already forgetting the man from the day prior who had looked like one of his old enemies. Instead of being awoken by the blaring sound of an alarm clock or a rude awakening by a ghost like he was used to, Danny was awakened by a very annoyed Sylvania wanting to get out of her cage to stretch her wings.

Back popping as he stretched, Danny realized that he felt substantially drained of power- and actually; he was still feeling some of the strain now. He looked out the window to see a powdery snow- barely visible; it was such a small amount- lightly falling onto the streets below before the snowfall stopped completely. The streets themselves were blanketed, creating a calm scene.

A calm scene that was almost immediately broken when he realized that no matter how close it was to school starting, it was still summer.

Realizing why he felt so tired today and why he had been shivering the day before, Danny got a strong urge to facepalm at his stupidity for not realizing that his ice powers needed to be released yesterday.

At least there wasn't really any major harm done, the snow would melt in the sun after all, and it wasn't like he could turn back time. Well, he couldn't turn back time without Clockwork, anyway. So he decided to ignore the snow and instead look at the weird circular object that his wand had made.

After getting dressed, Danny took the orb out of his backpack and looked at it. It was cold to the touch and fairly see- through, with a foggy mist inside. It looked a bit like glass. But what was it for? What did it do?

Sam burst through the door of the conjoined rooms they had, slightly flushed and snow on her boots.

"What were you thinking, freezing the shops!?" She exclaimed, stomping the snow off.

"I- wait, what? I froze the shops?"

"Yes, the ice isn't melting and the spells the wizards are casting to get rid of it aren't working!" Sam explained, "Well, at least the snow is melting." She added as an afterthought.

"It was an accident!" Danny insisted, a touch of laughter in his voice, "You know how I was shaking yesterday?"

"Your ice core acted up again didn't it." Sam stated amusedly.

"Yeah."

"Well you have to help them melt it before someone gets suspicious." Sam commanded. Danny put the orb aside as Sam pulled him to his feet.

Protesting without avail, Danny was pushed out the door, leaving the unknown object's secrets to be discovered later in time.


The rest of the days before Hogwarts passed in a whirlwind of shopping, laughter, and the testing of Sam's new broomstick The Nimbus 2001, which she bought almost on sight so that she could go flying with Danny. It was expensive, but she claimed it was worth it and Danny wasn't about to complain; he really liked flying with Sam. Hagrid had left the day after they had arrived; he said he had to set up for his class. But soon the day to go on the train to Hogwarts had arrived.

That day had started with last-minute packing…

Danny had given Sam the ghost weapons he had brought for her, including one set of Fenton Phones in the mix, telling her that since it worked in the ghost zone, maybe it would work in the wizarding world too. So she tucked it into her pocket and went back to finish packing.

As Danny packed his own bag, he came across the strange ball that he had set aside so many nights ago.

The mist on the inside of the glass swirled slowly, forming shapes and patterns. He picked it up with both hands and peered inside to get a better look, and the fog swirled by his fingertips, giving off a faint blue glow where his fingers touched. "Maybe I should ask Clockwork what it is." Danny began to say, but before he could finish, Sam came in to tell him that they had to leave to get the taxi cab so that they could catch the train. Tucking the orb into his backpack, they walked out of the Leaky Cauldron to the 'muggle side' with their luggage in hand.

"Who were you talking to?" Sam asked as they got into the cab.

"I'll tell you later."

After a boring, uneventful car ride, they paid the driver and walked through the crowd to find Platform 9 3/4. Hagrid had warned them that it wouldn't be in plain sight; they had to go through a wall to get there. However, he neglected to say which wall, and they were soon stuck between Platform 9 and 10 wondering where to go, and eventually Sam asked someone how to get there.

"You go through that wall there." The helpful girl pointed. She extended her had to Sam, "I'm Luna Lovegood."

While Sam said hello, Danny's eyes were drawn to the blood- red ruby- like gem that was attached to a bracelet on her wrist. His eyes flashed red briefly before they turned green and then back to normal.

Luna noticed him looking at her bracelet and said, "Isn't it pretty? I found it just lying on the ground next to my house." Her eyes seemed they were looking far away.

Danny felt disoriented and slightly confused. Why was he here again, "Um," Luna was looking at him, "Oh, yeah, it does look nice. Thanks for your help! He said before grabbing Sam's hand and pulling her through the wall Luna had pointed at along with him and their luggage, not even blinking at the sudden area change as they went into the waiting train and into an empty compartment.

Well, it wasn't completely empty, there was an exhausted, shabbily dressed man sleeping on the floor (he must have rolled off the seats in his sleep), but it was close enough to empty as it looked like it was going to get.

"Who is that?" Danny asked, "He looks familiar."

"It's probably just one of the teachers. I haven't seen him before. So, what was that thing you wanted to tell me about? And why did we run away from Luna?"

Danny glanced towards the teacher before leaning towards Sam and whispering, "I think that Frea-"

The compartment door opened abruptly as a red- haired, freckled boy with slightly shabby clothes poked his head in. "Is there room for three more?" He asked before a brown- haired girl pushed him out of the way.

"Sorry about him. The rest of the train is full. Could we…?" She asked before turning to the orange- haired and smacking his head with her hand, "Honestly Ron, barging into a compartment without knocking!"

"OW!" The boy – Ron – exclaimed, rubbing the back of his head.

"He reminds me a bit of Tucker." Sam whispered to Danny.

"Hey guys, you don't need to fight." A black- haired boy with blue eyes and a weird lightning shaped scar said, walking in the compartment behind them. Making eye contact with Danny, the two stared at each other for a few seconds.

"Do I…know you?" Danny and Harry asked each other in unison. Their foreheads creased in thought.

"I know you from somewhere, I'm sure of it." Harry continued.

"Do you live in Amity?"

"No, but I'm sure I've seen you somewhere before…"

Snapping out of their small reverie, they realized that everyone was looking at them.

"So, uh, yeah, go ahead and sit down." Danny said to break the silence, "My name's Danny Fenton."

"And I'm Sam Manson."

"Harry Potter."

"Ron Weasley."

"Hermione Granger. I haven't seen you around here before, and you look too old to be first years." Hermione eyed them somewhat suspiciously, "How old are you two?"

"We're both twelve. We are being put in the third year of Hogwarts even though we've never been here before." Sam explained.

"If you're twelve, shouldn't you be in the second year then?" Hermione asked.

Danny shrugged, he didn't really get it either, and he wasn't in the most talkative mood. There was too much to think about. Was it really Freakshow he had seen earlier that week? Why did his eyes flash red? He didn't remember seeing the staff. Besides, didn't he break the gem inside it? Should he tell Sam?

Meanwhile, Harry was mulling over his thoughts as well. He was positive that he had seen Danny before, but where? School? No, he would have noticed him more. Maybe in a store or passing by on the street somewhere?

Sam was thinking about Danny as well. What had gotten Danny so worried? She thought back on earlier that day when his eyes had turned red for a second, and gasped slightly as she realized what it could potentially mean. Hopefully it was just a new power or an old one acting up. Her eyes flicked towards Danny; he seemed to be in control. She hoped it would stay that way.

On the other hand, Ron's thoughts were filled with games of Quidditch and the feast that was sure to come once they got to Hogwarts. His stomach rumbled; he was so hungry.

It seems there is a thought party, because Hermione was thinking about multiple things as well. Of course, all at the same time. Multi- tasking was just one of her great qualities. How had Sam and Danny gotten into the third year without taking the prior years? Did they take some sort of special system? Could she take that special system? No, probably not, she was already taking far too many classes, they would have already offered it to her instead of letting her use the time turner – which they were already very wary in offering to her- And maybe she should let out her cat now?

Of course, all this thinking only took a couple of seconds as Harry and Danny sat in silence, Ron fidgeted, Sam glanced at Danny, and Hermione absentmindedly leaned down to pick up the basket she had been carrying and started to unlatch it.

"Don't let that thing out!" Ron exclaimed. But it was too late. A shabby cat with a squashed face came out of the basket, running to Ron and leaping up to paw at his jacket. Muffled squeaking came from it and gradually grew louder as a terrified rat tried to escape the cat's claws.

"No, Crookshanks, NO!" Hermione shouted as she lunged for her cat, tripping over the sleeping professor – who, strangely, still didn't wake up.

"You have a cat too?" Sam smiled as she took out Kali, who hissed at the rat but was being held by Sam and was content to stay there and let the other cat chase it.

"Who is that?" Harry asked as he saw the professor for the first time. Next to him, a slightly bedraggled Hermione dusted herself off before trying to trying to pry Crookshanks off of Ron.

"Professor R. Lupin." Hermione panted, finally managing to peel Crookshanks off of Ron and drag him to her seat to set Crookshanks on her lap, "You have a cute cat by the way." She told Sam.

"How do you know that?" Ron asked.

"It's on the suitcase, genius." Sam pointed it out to him.

Another wave of memory lapped at the edges of Danny's mind. He knew that name. It was so familiar. He looked closer at the professor and frowned. He definitely had seen that face before. But where?

The train stopped abruptly, making nearly everyone fall off their seats.

"Finally, we're there! I'm starving!" Ron made a move toward the exit before being pulled back by Hermione.

"We can't possibly be there yet; we're in the middle of nowhere!" She said as she pushed him back to his seat, "They're probably refueling or something."

"Hermione, this is a magic train." Harry said.

"Does this usually happen?" Danny asked as the lights above their head flickered.

"No, it doesn-" Hermione started before the whole train was plunged into darkness and rain started to descend onto the windows.

"What's going on?" Sam asked as Ron wiped a hole in the fogged- over windows.

"I think people are getting on the train." Ron gestured to the window as the compartment door opened and a shadow tumbled in.

"Do you know what's going on?" The shadow asked.

"Hi Neville." Harry said, "Go ahead and sit down."

There was a strange sort of hissing noise from Kali as Sam pushed Neville off her, "Don't sit on me!"

Another figure entered the compartment, "Hello?" It asked.

"Ginny? What are you doing?" Hermione asked.

"Looking for Ron."

"Come and sit down."

"Not on me!" Danny said as Ginny made to sit on him.

"Not here, I'm here!" Harry continued.

"Ow, that was my foot!" Neville said as Ginny tried to step over him and misjudged the distance.

"Quiet!" A slightly scratchy from sleep voice interrupted. Everyone went silent as a dim light filled the entire compartment; Professor Lupin was holding a handful of what appeared to be fire.

"Stay where you are." He instructed. Ginny slowly sank down into an open seat. As she did so, Danny's ghost sense went off and he tapped Sam's shoulder.

"I need to find a place to go ghost, something's coming." He whispered.

"Ok, I'll cause a distraction so you can -"

The compartment door slowly started to open as a cloaked shadow glided in, wreathing tendrils of black smoke wafting out in a curling motion before dissipating. The unknown being stuck out its decaying, rotting hand into the compartment as if testing the waters before taking a tiny step forward and taking a huge breath inward, sucking the heat from the room. Everyone shivered at the sudden drop in temperature. Well, everyone except Danny, anyway.

The creature breathed outward with a sort of gasping, raspy moan. A feeling of dread swept over them all. It felt a bit like Nocturne, he decided, like Nocturne but more fear- based instead of dream- based. Danny, also feeling the effects of the creature, frantically tried to find a way out of everyone's sight so he could change and fight. Any second now and he would resort to transforming in front of…

…in front of…

…everyon-

Icy tendrils tore at his chest, piercing his soul, memories of places exploding and Dan laughing in his face and depressed feelings leaving him to fall into unconsciousness along with Harry as a silvery something pushed the potent shadow back out of the compartment.

But for Danny Fenton, the world had twisted into a nauseating black.


A/N: *cue music* DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUN! Poor Danny. BTW, Luna isn't evil- she was telling the truth when she said she found it. And I know that the firebolt is out but that's kind of Harry's trademark broom so Sam gets the Nimbus 2001…Now, before I go to the reviews, I want to say a huge thank you to all who followed, favorited, read, and/or reviewed this story: I less than three you all! 3 :)

Congrats to: Reid Phantom ; jeanette9a ; Fluehatraya ; NekoAmi1216 ; kat ; ichigo-lover-1412 For correctly guessing that it was Freakshow! And sorry, jeanette9a I can't draw. Like at all. I'm absolutely terrible at it.

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Reid Phantom: Yes he will be able to see them!

kat: Who doesn't want a llama with superpowers? I like snow too! :)

ChopSuzi: It seems you'll have to wait a bit longer to figure out what the orb does… :D