Ollivander was used to a steady trickle of wizards over the course of the summer so he was surprised when, two days after Hogwarts started, a cloaked wizard stumbled into his place of business and sat on a seat that hadn't been there when he'd unlocked the door in the morning.

"Hello there sir, I'll be with you," He assured the cloaked wizard who just gave him a thumbs up.

Ollivander finished putting a box on a shelf before grabbing his typical first start wands and carting them over to the front counter and setting them down in front of the cloaked man.

Ollivander was unpacking a wand when the cloaked man stood up, took three purposeful strides toward the door, locked it, and tightly pulled the blinds closed.

"Um excuse me? You uh, can't do that."

The man turned back to him and made his way back to the counter.

"Sir I must ask why you see these acts as necessary!"

The man looked back at the owner of the wand shop before removing his hood.

"... Oh." Ollivander understood now why the cloaked man

was taking such preparations.

The man standing before him was young appearing no older than nineteen with long blond hair tied back into a ponytail, his red cloaK hood was covering up a grey scarf. Shining brightly towards him were the stunning gold eyes so often documented but not well described when one stood right up close.

"Mister Elric, sir, I wonder why you saw fit to appear in my humble place of work when, when we last spoke, you decided it best to appear in my home unannounced. Is your brother's wand serving him well?"

Elric looked at him with clear disrespect, having not a high opinion of the man in front of him.

"Listen gramps, I need a wand. I've been getting by without one but it's becoming a hassle."

Ollivander hadn't realised that the well known terrorist in front of him was without a wand. He didn't want to say anything derogatory about it though so he continued grabbing the box and pulling out a brown, polished wand an handed it to him.

"You know there's a ten thousand galleon bounty on your head," The wandmaker asked, pulling the wand out of Elric's hand and putting another there before switching it with a long black wand.

"I'm aware. I also know that you won't be the one to cash me in." Elric gave him a shit eating grin before twitching the wand and settingfire to a desk with all of Ollivander's tools.

Ollivander absentmindedly put out the desk before picking the wand and examining it.

"How much do you think the prophet would pay for knowledge of your arm and leg? A hundred galleons? A thousand? And I know you did that on purpose. I see the wand chose you. Put on your cloak and leave from the roof. Leave the twelve galleons you owe me on the desk."

Edward left a sack of more than twelve galleons on the desk, put on his coat, and flicked up his hood, before heading up the steps and onto the roof.

POV SWITCH

"How was your meeting Edward? I've got a meeting with madame Bones so if you want to be dropped off somewhere or I can let you borrow my invisibility cloak?" Van Hohenheim was sitting on a broom stick and waiting for his son.

"You can drop me off at the manor. I'm going to Fidelius it."

"Okay, Edward."

POV SWITCH

George Weasley locked eyes with the first year who had made a bigger splash than even Harry Potter.

He looked scared.

"Fred we've got a tail." He nudged his brother who looked up.

"Hullo there young man! Don't you know it's against the rules to be out of bed after curfew? You could lose your house a lot of points! Joking of course! Name's Gred and this is my brother Forge!"

"Hi Gred, I'm Alphonse Elric... Could you two show me how to get to my room?"

Fred and George looked at each other, then back at Alphonse, and then back at each other, and then again at Alphonse.

"Isn't the Slytherin common room in the dungeon? And also, why aren't you in bed right now? A young man needs eight good hours each night!"

"Yes but I'm roomed somewhere else..." He looked down at his feet.

"We'd be happy to, but would you like to come with us instead?" Alphonse looked George in the eye before nodding his head vigorously and following them to their common room.

When they reached the portrait of the fat lady Alphonse had to cover his ears while they said the password so when it had been said Fred had to grab Alphonse's hand to bring him inside.

Once inside the Gryffindor common room, Alphonse felt as though he'd made a huge mistake.

His green and silver Slytherin robes stood out like a sore thumb.

POV SWITCH

Ron Weasley was waiting for his brothers to get back with some food when in they walked...

And they had a Slytherin following them! What were they thinking? Did they not have the sense to know that the house rivals shouldn't be in the common room? Ridiculous!

"And just who exactly is this? Don't you know it's against the rules to have someone from another house in our common room? What if McGonagall finds out?" Percy had been sitting in one of the armchairs when he noticed the boy just after Ron did.

Good that he's talking some sense into them.

POV SWITCH

Harry saw the Slytherin shuffling on his feet and realised with a start that he was the boy who'd been sorted and had caused such a fuss.

Alphonse Elric.

Even the muggle world knew about Edward Elric, but only as the supposed mentor of a German rocket scientist, and not as a terrorist, and he was almost certainly not in his seventies.

"Hey Ron, how old is Edward Elric?," Harry nudged Ron who was intently watching Percy tear into the twins over their visitor.

"No one knows exactly since he only really made a name for 'imself about a year ago when he stole the Malfoy fortune, serves 'em right. I've seen pictures of him though. Dad met him at the ministry once with Lucius. He says he didn't look older'n eighteen. Gold eyes and long blond hair."

"What did he do that makes everyone so afraid of him?"

"Well like i said, he stole the Malfoy fortune, but then about eight months ago he broke into Gringotts and released a few dragons and collapsed a coupl'a old vaults. Supposedly he even has his hand in counterfeit currency though Merlin knows why he'd need it." Ron explained.

Harry's attention was drawn to Elric again. He was crouching by the fire warming his hands, and then from his robe he pulled out a scroll of parchment and started writing.

Harry wanted to know what he was writing and apparently Hermione Granger was wondering the exact same thing since she walked right up to him to ask that very question.

"Hi there, I'm Hermione Granger, you're in Slytherin house? That's interesting! Is it true that you're Edward Elric's brother? Are you two really muggle born? What are you writing?" On this last question she gave him time to answer.

The poor boy looked a bit overwhelmed but he just said "I'm writing a letter"

Hermione, though, tackled this four word sentence with complete zeal.

"Oh a letter! Do you have an owl? Who's the letter to? Is it to your brother?"

Alphonse stood abruptly. He turned to Fred and George.

"Do either of you have an owl I can use? I need to send this letter."

Harry perked up at this.

"I have an owl you can use."

Alphonse rushed quickly over to the pair, "Are you sure?"

"Yes." Harry nodded.

"Thank you very much! I owe you!"

Harry went up to the first year boys dormitory quickly followed by by Ron.

"Harry what are you doing? You can't just let the little brother of a known menace to society use your owl like that! Bloody hell are you mad?" Ron was clearly not thrilled with the idea.

"Look Ron, he's just sending a letter. You heard Hermione, they were muggle born, he's probably sending a letter home or to his girlfriend. Anyway, s'not like I'm using her."

He grabbed Hedwig and brought her downstairs.

"So I just tie it onto her leg? " Alphonse was clearly unfamiliar with the mechanics of sending a letter by owl. Harry helped him tie the letter onto the owl and they brought her to the window where she swiftly took flight.

happy easter guys. hows it going?cool. so i justwrote this really fucking awful fullmetal alchemist shrek thing so i could get a beta and yall can go read that but its reallg bad. also... how do i get a beta? anyway sorry for the late one. ive not been busy just lazy.five reviews anf o get to the next one. cheers!5\4