A/N: So, just a reminder – chakra and magic are the same thing in this story. And thanks to all those that reviewed. And in this story the clone technique (bushin no jutsu) and the illusion technique (henge no jutsu) will be genjutsu techniques, not ninjutsu (which they really are according to – which is a very good Naruto source, better than Wikipedia).

"Don't be ridiculous! It's obviously a trap to get you into trouble and lose points for Gryffindor! I guess that wouldn't mean much to you," Hermione argued ""but some people actually work hard to get those points!"

"Oh quit complaining!" Ron retorted "you'll just earn them all back tomorrow, and that's if we even get caught! Besides, this is a matter of pride. There's no way we'll let that slimy snake call us cowards by not showing up."

It was around 11:30 at night during the last week of September in the Gryffindor common room and Harry, Ron and Hermione were the only ones up. Earlier that day Draco Malfoy challenged Harry to a duel at midnight in the trophy room, which Ron accepted on his behalf. Hermione didn't think they should go, to which Harry agreed since it was obviously a trap to get even with Harry showing up Draco in the flying lessons.

During Harry's second week of school, the first-years first flying lessons were scheduled to take place. Harry had been greatly looking forward to it – he remembered the enthusiasm with which McGonagall had spoken when explaining the sport to him, and who wouldn't want to be able to fly? Unfortunately it was with the Slytherins, which wouldn't have been too bad except Draco, embarrassed about their last encounter on the train, had been itching for a fight "to put the pathetic half-blood in his place".

Early on in the lesson Neville, who was too nervous to fly properly, fell, breaking his wrist. When the flying instructor left to escort Neville to the hospital wing, Draco took the opportunity to goad Harry into a flying competition by taking Neville's remembrall, which was a gift from the shy boy's Gran. Unfortunately for Draco, Harry was a natural in the air making Draco's plan to humiliate him in front of the entire Gryffindor/Slytherin first-year class backfire dramatically.

Knowing he wasn't going to win this fight, Draco launched the remembrall from over fifty feet off the ground, forcing Harry into a steep dive to save his friend's property. Harry barely managed to catch it with enough time to pull up and avoid the ground, but he did it. The gryffindors' celebration was cut short however when Professor McGonagall, sent by Madame Hooch to keep an eye on the class, arrived. Harry was pleasantly surprised when he only got a detention for unsupervised flying, but more importantly was drafted onto the Gryffindor quidditch team as seeker due to his spectacular dive and catch.

When Malfoy heard, he was furious since not only did his plan of humiliating Harry fail, he got three detentions compared to Harry's one, and an additional 20 points deducted from his house. And when he tried to complain to Madame Hooch about not being allowed to bring his own broom to school when Harry was, Madame Hooch explained that although Draco was skilled enough to fly without supervision, he wasn't mature nor responsible enough as proven by the fact that he disobeyed a direct order to stay on the ground for the sole purpose of destroying another student's property. Hence this duel so Draco could regain his tattered pride.

Ron, having enough of Hermione's lecturing, left the common room for the outside corridor, with Hermione storming after him. Harry considered letting them have at it and just go back to bed, but then he noticed Neville asleep on the ground in the outside corridor as Ron opened the portrait door. He had forgotten that Neville was to be released from the hospital wing that day – the day before Neville had another potions accident, and burnt himself rather badly. The poor boy probably forgot the password again and just camped outside the portrait door, waiting for someone to go by so he could enter. So Harry too left the common room, but for no other reason than waking the sleeping Neville up so they could go to bed. Unfortunately, no sooner was Neville awake and the portrait door closed, then the four first-years realized that the Fat Lady who guards the entrance was gone, and therefore they couldn't re-enter the tower. After more arguing from Ron and Hermione, Harry cut in.

"Well, we can't go back in the tower, so we might as well go to the trophy room. And before you say anything Hermione, I know it's a trap but I'd also rather not suffer through Malfoy's attitude on the off-chance that it isn't one. So we'll have to be very careful and quiet so we don't get caught." Harry said, stopping any further arguments before they could start.

They carefully made their way through the empty halls, filling Neville in about the situation as they walked. Harry and Hermione were right about it being a trap; no sooner than they entered the trophy room than they heard the school's mean-tempered janitor, Mr. Filch, and his pet cat Mrs. Norris approach. Unfortunately as they were sneaking away, Ron tripped over a suit of armor in his panic, making a huge noise and giving away their presence. Abandoning stealth, the four students sprinted as far away from the scene of the crime as they could, not caring where they were headed as long as they got away. They came to a dead end with a locked door as there only escape. Hermione did a quick spell to unlock it, and the four students scrambled inside before Filch could catch them.

Ninjas should always be aware of their surroundings – especially when their younger brother is a compulsive prankster. So as soon as Harry and his friends entered the room, Harry noticed the massive three-headed dog sleeping on the other side. No doubt they were in the forbidden third corridor.

'Well, at least I know why it's forbidden.' Harry thought. 'Though why they thought it's a good idea to keep a giant three headed-dog that could eat an adult with one bite inside a school is beyond me.'

The dark-haired boy stayed quiet studying the dog and hoping his friends didn't notice it and panic. It was still asleep thankfully, and around each dog's neck was a collar, to which was fastened a leash that eventually joined together with the other leashes and was then bolted into the wall. Though Harry wasn't one hundred percent sure, he was fairly confident that the dog wouldn't be able to reach them.

'Well at least they made some precautions in case a student got curious,' Harry thought 'Kami knows that the lock couldn't even keep out a group of first-years with less than a month of schooling.'

Even though Harry knew that he and his friends were probably safe, if the dog did wake up he was going to get everyone out of there, Filch or no.

Thankfully their luck held, and Filch left assuming that they had taken another route. But before Harry could silently usher his friends outside, Ron broke the silence with a loud bark of relieved laughter.

"Oh man! I thought we were done for! Good thing he didn't try to open the door!"

Harry didn't waste time on Neville's terrified face as he noticed the awakening dog, nor on hushing the lecturing Hermione who was trying to make Ron see that she was right all along, and the duel was a trap. Harry just threw open the door, pushed his friends out and slammed the door behind him, casting another spell to re-lock the door. That whole process took only seconds, just giving Harry enough time to see the growling dog stand up, revealing a trap door underneath it before the door was shut and warded, hiding the room and the dog inside it from view.

"W-what was that?" asked a nervous Ron, who had only heard the deep growl before Harry had shoved him outside.

"B-big d-dog..." Neville replied.

The four students were silent on the trip back to the tower, three of which scarred about their potentially life-threatening adventure, and the other about the probable location of the object Hagrid had retrieved from Gringotts...

"What do you think Naruto's parents did that was so awful?" Kiba asked his current skipping partners, Shikamaru and Chouji. Though Naruto had skipped with them that day, when they were pursued by the teaching aides to retrieve them Naruto picked the short straw to become the diversion for the other three. The blond was then caught by the chunnins and returned to class while Kiba, Chouji and Shikamaru retained their freedom.

For over a year Naruto, Kiba, Shikamaru and Chouji have been skipping classes to hang out, and even though they all got along and had fun they weren't close friends. They all knew the reason why – there was an invisible wall between Naruto and the other three put there by their parents and the other villagers. One minute they'd all be having fun, eating chips and reading manga, then once someone else came along (usually shooting Naruto a dirty look while they're at it), they were abruptly reminded that Naruto was the village pariah for reasons unknown. The other three boys even remembered their parents cautioning them of Naruto – they didn't forbid them from making friends with him like a lot of other parents did, they just told their children to be careful around him. They knew it wasn't the pranks that made everyone hate the blond – they were often roped into being accomplices since becoming skipping buddies and they never got a fraction of the hassle Naruto did. It wasn't because he was poor or an orphan; there was a girl in the year below them from the orphanage who no one had a problem with and she admitted that the staff of the orphanage had told her to stay away from Naruto as well. So the only possible explanation was that his parents had done something terrible, and so the villagers are wary of him being the same as his parents. But whenever the boys tried to ask their parents about it, they'd clam up and say it wasn't there business. And they couldn't find any trace of another Uzumaki, whether it be a civilian or a ninja. All that was left for them was speculation.

"You know we shouldn't be talking about this," Shikamaru said with no real heat in his words, "our parents will be mad. And my mom is such a drag when she's angry."

"It must have been pretty awful for everyone to hold it against him." Kiba mused, completely ignoring Shikamaru's warning.

"Well not everyone treats him badly." Chouji said, shooting his best friend an apologetic look for continuing the conversation. Shikamaru just shrugged his shoulders and lay down to look at the clouds, wordlessly saying that it was alright. "Iruka-sensei and the Sandaime seem to like him a lot. And I heard he's like an older brother to the Sandaime's grandson."

"Yeah, but most of the adults are pretty mean to him. Do you think Naruto knows what his parents did?" Kiba asked.

"No, he doesn't." Chouji answered. "A while ago my dad brought me to Ichikaru's ramen stand, and I overheard Naruto asking Iruka-sensei why everyone hated him, but Iruka-sensei said he didn't know."

Kiba mulled over that piece of information for a bit. "That sucks. I mean, if I was Naruto I'd want to know why everyone treats me the way they do, know what I mean? It's uncomfortable hanging out with him when the villagers are glaring all the time."

There was a pause in the conversation until Chouji suddenly spoke, gaining volume and confidence as he went. "I think we should still be friends with him." Chouji said. The other two boys looked over at the heavy-set boy, intent on what he was saying. Despite the fact that they had been hanging out with Naruto for so long and they all admitted that they liked the boy (especially Kiba who complained it was boring without the blond), they had never officially referred to him as a friend. "It's not fair that he isn't liked for something that's not his fault. And my dad says that good people look past appearances and how popular someone is, and become friends because of who they are as a person. Naruto didn't choose his parents, and it's not fair that he doesn't have many friends because of them." Chouji finished with flourish. Shikamaru and Kiba couldn't help but agree; and it was nice for them to hear Chouji speak about something so passionately that wasn't food. But Shikamaru wasn't really surprised – Akimichi's prided themselves on their unbreakable loyalty, something both Shikamaru and his father (who has Chouji's father as a teammate) would swear by.

"Well, class should be ending soon," Kiba said jumping up to his feet "let's go bust Naruto out of detention!" he finished with catching enthusiasm. Chouji looked over to Shikamaru to see what he thought of the idea.

Shikamaru gave a long suffering sigh. "Well I guess it's our fault he's in detention to begin with since he helped us escape from class..." Shikamaru said "so I guess it's only fair that we help him escape detention...even if it will surely be troublesome..."

Kiba whooped excitedly and Chouji gave his best friend a bright smile. Shikamaru proceeded to tell the other two boys how they were going to carry out 'Operation: Free Naruto' so that the four friends could play together until their parents came to pick them up.

Harry was practicing his taijutsu out in the quidditch pitch, early in the morning. His team wasn't going to arrive for another hour, so he had plenty of time to finish his katas before ending with a slow jog.

That was one thing he missed from being at the Dursleys; plenty of free time. It was never a problem to go out to the park early in the morning or late at night to do some drills and exercise. He could just leave his bedroom window open and jump down to escape, then use the nearby tree to climb back up again. But here, he had friends that would question where he was, the homework was more time consuming, he had his own personal research to do, there was a curfew and he had quidditch practice three times a week. And as much as he enjoyed the sport and spending time with his friends, he refused to be left behind in his and Naruto's shinobi training.

Harry finished the last series of moves, did a light stretch and then started his cool-down jog, letting his mind wander as he ran. It was hard to believe that it was already Halloween and two months had passed since the start of school. Sirius Black sightings have been few, but it was clear that the convict was making his way to Hogwarts. His professors haven't really said anything to him about it (Harry guessed that they had wanted to spare him from worrying too much, as if he wouldn't have figured out that he was a target), but he did notice that the professors always try to keep an eye on him.

Harry was doing well in all his classes except potions, mainly due to the Professor and the sabotaging Malfoy. It didn't really bug Harry that much though – he didn't have much interest in the subject and though he knew that he was better than Snape gave him credit for, he was hardly what you would call gifted in the subject. As long as he knew the material, the fact that he wasn't an ace at brewing was fine by him; he'll just buy what he wants/needs. Harry could perform all the spells he learned in class and the majority that he learned in his self-studies with his wand, and many of those he could also do wandlessly. But the spells that he could perform wandlessly sometimes fluctuated in strength and consistency when he practiced them.

Naruto was also learning the spells Harry knew (wandless of course). The blond had an easier time with the more powerful ones than Harry, but a much harder time on the ones that needed only a fixed amount of energy. He was also having some problems with his own studies (besides skipping school all the time) – though Naruto was first in his year for stealth and traps, and among the top in both ninjutsu and taijutsu, his genjutsu tanked and every year they had to perform at least one genjutsu technique to pass the genin exam; usually the Bushin no Jutsu (clone technique) or the Henge no Jutsu (illusion technique). Though Naruto was terrible at genjutsu, he could recognize its importance, especially when combined with other ninjutsu techniques. For example, the Kawarimi no Jutsu (or substitution technique), is a ninjutsu defence which substitutes the user with a log or another nearby object, so the object is the one who gets hit while the user is safely where the object used to be. But besides taking you out of the path of any attacks and giving you a new vantage point for the fight, it won't do anything. But if you use that technique with a genjutsu, you can make the substitute object look like you, so it takes longer for the enemy to realize they missed and giving the user more time to plan/carry out an attack/defence.

Both the fact that a genjutsu technique was always in the genin exam, and the fact that Harry could do them when he could not frustrated the blond to no end. Harry was at a loss to help his little brother, but he'd keep trying to find a way.

"Gee, and we thought that Wood was quidditch obsessed!"

Harry looked up to see the approaching forms of the Gryffindor quidditch team. Harry finished his jog and went to fetch his broom. It was just as well that no one knew about Naruto or his ninja training – Harry had a feeling that even in the magical world, having a little brother you could only contact in dreams wasn't usual.

Ron stomped over to Neville and Harry as their charms class drew to an end. They had been learning the levitation spell that day with Harry and Neville paired up together leaving Ron with Hermione. Even though as a group the four students got along, when Ron and Hermione were on their own they always argued. Today was no different. Seeing how Ron was mispronouncing the incantation and wasn't doing the proper wand movements, Hermione set out to correct him. Ron, feeling as though Hermione was just being high and mighty, took offense and told Hermione off. Hurt and angry with the other boy's behavior, Hermione proceeded to show Ron up by performing the spell perfectly. Ron continued to be in a bad mood since then, and still hadn't succeeded in performing the spell correctly.

"It's no wonder why nobody likes her," Ron groused at the other two boys "she's a bloody nightmare!"

Just then Hermione rushed by, and Harry could see that she had some tears in her eyes. Obviously she had been trying to catch up with Ron towards Harry and Neville and had heard his hurtful comment.

"I think she heard you Ron." Harry commented accusingly.

"Yeah, so? I was just saying the truth." Ron replied, looking more than a little guilty and uncomfortable.

"No you weren't." Neville responded angrily. He had stopped stuttering and being so quiet around Harry, Hermione and Ron, but was still very shy and nervous around others. "We are her friends. And if you don't want to be friends with her, then that's your decision, but me and Harry are still her friends." And with that said he stormed off.

"Hey, wait up!" Harry called after him. The brunette looked back at Ron before running after Neville. "Neville and I will be looking after Hermione, you can do what you want." Harry usually wasn't so short with Ron, but Harry couldn't stand bullies.

Ron guiltily followed the other two boys on their search for Hermione. The bushy-haired girl didn't show up for their last two classes of the day, and afterwards the boys couldn't find her either in Gryffindor tower, the library, Hagrid's hut or by the lake. Currently they were wandering the halls looking for any sign of the girl.

"I can't believe we're missing the Halloween Feast! I'm starving!" Ron groaned.

Harry gave the red-head a cutting look. "Well if you hadn't run off your mouth we wouldn't be missing it."

"I didn't mean it like that!" Ron said apologetically "It's just that Hermione might already be in the Great Hall for the feast. Besides, I can't search on an empty stomach."

"Well you can go back if you want," Neville said, not even bothering to look back at the tall boy as he opened every passing door and peeked inside for any sign of their female friend "but Harry and I are going to keep on looking. Besides, we've already been to the Great Hall; she wasn't there."

"Yeah, but that was before the feast even started and tons of students hadn't even arrived yet!" Ron argued "How do we know she hadn't gone down to eat while we're here wandering around looki-"

Ron was caught off by Neville's triumphant cry. "She's in here!"

The three boys entered the girl's bathroom, where they could clearly hear the sound of sniffling from the locked stall.

"Hermione...?" Harry ventured. He spared a thought to the embarrassment he'd feel if they were mistaken and it was someone else.

"What do you want?" Hermione asked harshly, her voice thick from crying.

"W-well, I can't speak for Ron," Neville said "but me and Harry have been looking for you all day. We missed you and we wanted to tell you that Ron was wrong – you're our friend."

There was a pause and then Hermione spoke again, her voice small and hesitant. "B-but no one likes me, not even the Gryffindor girls. They say I'm a bossy know-it-all."

"I don't think so." Neville said with more confidence. "You're just really smart. And that's a good thing or I'd be failing potions. You're a good friend and you hang out with me, even though I'm clumsy and not very good at magic."

"That's not true!" Hermione countered. "You're a good person and very good at magic; you just have some problems in potions." Then her voice became soft and quiet again. "And besides, I am a bossy know-it-all."

"So what?" Neville countered "You're our friend! And you're our bossy know-it-all!"

Hermione gave a chocked sob/laugh then threw open the bathroom stall door and jumped on Neville, giving him a giant hug. They stayed like that for a few moments, relishing in the knowledge that they had good friends. Harry looked on with a smile and Ron was torn between relief, happiness and guilt. Finally Hermione ended the hug, but when she pulled away she noticed Ron.

"What are you doing here?" Hermione asked accusingly, her eyes narrowed in anger.

"I-I just wanted to say I'm sorry." Ron said, truly apologetic. "I was just frustrated that I couldn't do the spell, and I took it out on you. I didn't mean what I said, and I'd like to stay friends with you." Ron finished looking at Hermione uncertainly.

The bushy-haired girl looked at Ron for a long time, seeming to be judging him and his words. Finally her face broke into a smile and she stepped forward, hand extended.

"Friends?"

Ron let out a relieved smile and took her hand in his. "Friends."

The four friends left the bathroom and started to make their way back to the Great Hall for the end of the feast. But before they reached their destination, they stopped as they caught sight of Professor Snape hurrying along the corridor heading towards the stairs, looking to be in a rush and up to no good as he looked around every which way for reasons unknown.

"What's he doing there; shouldn't he be in the Great Hall?" Hermione asked trying to keep her voice down.

"Who cares what the Greasy Git is doing, I'm starved!" Ron replied just as quietly.

"It looks like he's headed for the third floor corridor." Harry stated.

"But why would he want to go there!" Neville exclaimed. "Does he want to die!"

"Let's hope so." Ron responded.

That comment earned him a smack and reprimand from Hermione. Before they could get into yet another argument about the respect that a teacher deserves, Harry cut them off.

"He's probably going to try and steal that object that Hagrid retrieved from Gringotts." Harry said. Hermione had also seen the trap door all those weeks ago, and had come to the same conclusion as Harry. The only difference was that she shared her information with everyone else and then insisted that everyone look into Nicholas Flamel to try and find what the mysterious treasure was. So far they didn't find anything, but the presence of the three headed-dog confirmed their guess that whatever the object was, it was definitely either extremely valuable and/or extremely dangerous.

"And what better time to do it than when the rest of the staff are in the Great Hall for the feast?" Harry continued, explaining his reasoning "He could just say he had a lot of marking to do, or that he had to go to the bathroom, and then he was home-free for the next hour or so."

"But he's a teacher!" Hermione protested, sounding scandalized. "How can you imply that he'd do something illegal like that!"

"Look at the facts Hermione; all the teachers are in the Great Hall but him. His classroom, House dormitories and his own private rooms are in the dungeons, which are in the opposite direction. He's heading towards the third floor where we know something either very valuable or very dangerous, or both, is kept. And he's alone and looking around for any followers, so he's probably not going there under Dumbledore's orders." Ron pointed out.

Hermione couldn't say anything to that.

"I think we should follow him." Neville said. Everyone looked at him in slight surprise. Neville blushed under their stares. "W-well, if he's going to be stealing something like that from Hogwarts, he should be stopped."

"But we shouldn't stop him!" Hermione protested "We're just first-years! We don't even know for sure if he's doing anything bad! We should go get a teacher."

Harry looked up to where Snape was disappearing from view. On one hand, Harry was used to doing things himself and he was confident that he could stand to go after Snape who would be at a disadvantage for not knowing about Harry's shinobi training. But on the other hand, he's never had friends with him and he'd feel bad if they got hurt. He also didn't want to reveal his alternate training unless he absolutely had to – it would raise too many questions and he wanted to save it for when people like Sirius Black and the maybe-or-maybe-not dead Dark Lord came after him.

"I think Hermione's right." Harry said to the others' shock. "We don't know the full story and it can be dangerous acting on incomplete information. Besides, there's no guarantee that the dog is the only safe-guard protecting the object, and we don't even know how to get by it."

Decision made, they sprinted into the Great Hall, but were shocked to find it completely empty.

"Now what?" Ron asked.

"Well, we could always try the staff lounge or the common room." Hermione suggested.

"It'd take too long." Harry replied. "We already tried getting a teacher and it didn't work. By now Snape is already at the forbidden corridor. We should go there and at least try to stall him."

"But we don't even know if he is trying to steal the object!" Hermione objected.

"Well if he isn't, then he won't be there so we can leave. But if he is, then we'll try to stop him. But you might be right about getting a teacher; you three can split up and look for a teacher while I head off Snape."

"What?!"

"No way!"

"Yeah, we're going with you!"

"Fine then," Harry said as he started to run towards the forbidden corridor, ignoring the warm feelings in his chest from those words "but be careful and follow my lead."

And with Harry heading the pack, the four students were off.

A/N: Hey everybody! Looking back at my previous chapters, I realize that I stressed certain facts that aren't all that important. I was just reminding myself for the most part what differences and similarities I had worked out of the two worlds. This became more clear when I read some of the reviews (especially from The Door Is Locked). So I'm going to go over some questions to clear up any confusions. (Note that some of these questions are paraphrased and not the exact ones in the reviews.)

Since the magic eventually runs out for spells, what about magical objects? I don't see Moody using something that will eventually wear out (like his magical eye).

As I said before, spells can be tied to runes which either stores exces magic, and/or gathers the wild magic from the air which can make magical objects such as paintings and Moody's eye last indefinately. Even without using those methods its possible for a transfigured object to last years before it runs out of magic and reverts back to its original form (depending on how much damage it sustained, and amount of magic put into the spell, how simple the spell was and he object itself).

Early on, you mentioned that though Naruto way far stronger than Harry, Harry was much faster. However, at one point you droped that and made Naruto both faster and stronger, period, and brought up that wizards are generally inferior in both. I'm a bit confused about that inconsistency, to be honest. Plus, it does seem a bit of a generality--I understand that ninja have to be far fitter in order to survive, but that takes such a long time that I can't imagine the difference would be that clear-cut, especially as not all ninja come from ninja clans, and not all those in clans are powerful ninja.

I can see where I was inconsistant there even if I never meant to be. At first I had the idea that Naruto would be stronger while Harry was faster, then I meant to have Naruto improve on both strength and speed to a higher degree than Harry as they start to mature more physically (I know its a little early, since they're both so young but I see the people in Naruto's world developing slightly earlier and quicker due to their dangerous lifestyles). Apparently I made the gap seem larger than I pictured it because I kept commenting on it. So yes, Naruto is stronger but it's the sort of gap between the best kid on gym class versus the worst (for their age level). And for speed, they're about the same. Don't worry though, once they start learning how to manipulate chakra to their limbs to increase their strength and speed there won't be any difference (well, maybe Harry will be a bit better since I plan to give him better chakra control if you haven't noticed it yet).

And as for the difference between an average person in Naruto's world vs. an average person in Harry's world; like everything else I explained, they are just generalisations. There will be people in Harry's world who will be stronger than those in Naruto's world and so on and so forth. But of all the generalisations I made, the physical abilities between the worlds was the most clear cut. Even civilians in Naruto's world are fit and strong, let alone ninja's from non-ninja clans. They'd have to be since they don't have the creature comforts that those in Harry's world do (technology for muggles and magic for wizards) and even if they don't deal with ninja's they still have an active lifestyle and have to worry about bandits.

The comments that wizards would be superior with genjutsu and medical techniques as opposed to ninjutsu and wandless..I just don't get it. Sure, there's no 'natural selection' issue in Harry's world, but then again--is there really much of one in Naruto's? You said previously that most ninja only use a few ninjutsu techniques in battle due to high chakra costs, so how much of an effect could a propensity for that area of ninja training realistically have?

Ummm...you got me there. I got ahead of myself since I plan to give Harry good chakra control, so I just made it a generalisation to make it easier for myself later on in the story. But you're right, there really is no reason for people in Harry's world to prefer genjutsu and magical jutsus over ninjusu. My mistake.

Also, when I said that ninjas only use a few techniques in battle due to high chakra costs, I wasn't only talking about ninjutsu, but any techniques including genjutsus and medical techniques.

Could ninja learn jutsu wordlessly, or without handseals since wizards can cast silently and wandlessly?

Yes, but it takes a lot of chakra, effort and practice (just like wandless magic for wizards). On that note, don't expect to see much of it and it will mostly be for low level techniques.

If Harry goes to Naruto's world at the end of his third year, what about Voldemort?

You'll just have to wait and see. But as you can already tell, I'm messing around with the HP timeline so anything could happen.

Two words - no way!

I have had one reviewer saying that there is no way wizards could hope to compare to ninjas and I've portrayed them as too powerful, and another who says I'm selling wizards short and they aren't portrayed as powerful enough. So here's one last look at my little scale of wizards vs. ninjas.

First of all, it's no fun having one group uber!powerful compared to the other; then there's no point in having the crossover if one so completely outclasses the other. I wanted them to be about the same since that makes the story more intesting. And you guys don't really have to worry about this stuff yet since ninjas and wizards have yet to make contact.

Now my first level, genin vs. Hogwarts students.

Genins would be better at physical things like taijutsu, weapons and survival training but the Hogwarts students would have a far greater amount of spells/techniques to use in a fight (especially older students). A newbie genin is about equal with second or third year student, and an experienced genin would be about equal with a ffourth or ifth year student. Genins would have a slight advantage in that they would be far less likely to freeze during a fight (especially experienced genin) since they were trained for combat but once we get to the upper years, not only would the wizard know far more techniques, they'd also have a bit more experience in dueling (even if it's only in class dueling).

Chunnin vs. adult wizard

Same as above; ninja better at the physical aspects but the wizard would know more spells. But unlike before, in this level the ninjas would have a better chance than the wizards since chunnin already have plenty of battle experience while an average adult wizard would have only partaken in friendly duels (that's not to say that they're easy duels, just that the mortality rate would be extremely low since they'd aim for disarming rather than killing).

Jounin vs. auror/death eater

They all have physical training (though jounin beats auror beats death eater since jounin have trained physically for far longer and death eaters would only resort to physical violence as a last resort since it would be too barbarian and muggle for them). Technique/spell wise, they're about the same (especially jounins and death eaters who won't hesitate to take a life, though jounins will only do so when they feel it's necessary). They are all also experienced in battle and won't freeze up. So on the whole, jounins would be slightly better, but they are all about the same.

Sannin/Kage vs. Dumbledore and Voldemort

Physically, Dumbledore and Voldemort are obviously weaker. But they would more than make up for it due to thier magical powers and skills, since I could see them blocking and/or avoiding any physical attacks before they became an issue. And like the sennins and kages, they all have a wide array of techniques, mastery over their chakra/magic and plenty of experience. So yes, they are about equal.

Thus ends this session of questions and answers. Feel free to leave questions and comments and I'll try to answer them all.

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