[Disclaimer] I do not in any, way, shape, or form; own any rights for both Bleach and Harry Potter. I am simply enjoying myself as I smash the two universes together somewhat.

(Author Notes) Sorry for taking so long in getting this chapter out, You can chalk it up to me procrastinating and finding other things to occupy my time. You can once again thank username mabidso for sending me a private message and telling me in a very polite way to stop slacking and get to work. I would encourage you all to do the same because sometimes that is what an author needs. "Oh boo hoo hoo so your car broke down, so your wife is leaving you this is a good story get to work and post the next chapter." I want to point out that these things did not happen to me it was just an example of the way some readers might feel concerning a story. Sometimes people myself included can't wait to find out what happens next.

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That night Harry waited until the rest of his dorm mates had drifted off to sleep. Grabbing his Soul Candy he and popped one into his mouth and his dark cloaked Soul Reaper form was ejected from his body. As soon as he was released Harry could tell that something was different. His body felt odd, almost tingly or the tiniest trace of an itch. Whatever it was it did not feel normal.

"Something the matter boss?" Gigan asked, seeing Harry looking down at his hand as he rubbed his thumb along his fingers.

"No nothing, just make sure my body gets plenty of rest." He commanded turning and walking away without looking up.

He left Gryffindor Tower slowly pushing open the portrait of The Fat Lady, He quickly slipped out as soon as there was enough room to get through. The Fat Lady scoffed as it seemed the portal had opened by itself and then huffed in annoyance and closed the entryway.

Harry was not sure of what to do with himself, he was tired of exploring around the castle and reading in the library was extremely difficult because beside the problem of finding enough light to read by he had to hide whenever a ghost floated through on their way to somewhere else.

Luckily he did not have to wait long to find something to do, after wandering around for a bit he nearly bumped into the giant of a man Hagrid the groundskeeper. Curious as to what the large man was doing in the castle carrying around a large sack that smelled of blood Harry followed him.

Hagrid moved through the castle unknowingly leading Harry to the forbidden third floor corridor. Just as his title would suggest The Keeper of the Keys pulled out a large iron skeleton key from somewhere within his coat. Hagrid looked around for any sort of onlooker but failed to see the nearby Soul Reaper he unlocked the door.

Harry was able to slip inside unnoticed before Hagrid shut the door after entering. What was on the other side greatly surprised, a huge three headed dog filled the room.

'There are certainly some interesting things as far as magic is concerned.' Harry thought to himself, barely noticing Hagrid slowly approaching the massive multi-headed canine.

"Lo' there Fluffy how'r we doin' tonight?" Hagrid spoke in confident and soothing tones. "Are yeh hungry there? I 'ave somethin' for yeh."

Even thought Hagrid was sized very differently then most people, he was still dwarfed by the dog he was slowly nearing. For some reason he did not seemed very threatened by the beast before him, despite the different reactions he seemed to be getting from each different head. The middle head was growling a low warning to the large men. While the head on the left seemed to be sniffing the air tentatively. The right head simply released copious amounts of saliva creating a growing puddle of drool on the floor.

Hagrid seemed to have gotten as close as he was going to approach and he set the large sack on the floor which landed with a squelching sound. Reaching into the bag he pulled out a chunk of meat half the size of Harry.

"Who's doin' a good guardin' job?" The grounds keeper asked the monstrous dog before him as if he was talking to a cuddly puppy. The head on the right seemed to had had enough and released a grumbling whining sound.

"That's a good Cerberus, here yeh go." He said tossing the meat to the animal. The food quickly disappeared as one head shot out and consumed the flying meal. Harry then took his eyes off the fearsome creature and looked around the room. He then noticed under one giant paws of the Cerberus was some sort of trapdoor. 'Well that would explain the guarding job.' Harry thought to himself, at the same time being curious what might be under there. 'I might have to come back here some time and check it out.'

Harry watched Hagrid as he continued feeding the beast, until the bag of meat was empty. "There yeh go. Now be good an keep guardin' the stone, I'll be back later." He went and opened the door and Harry again slipped out.

"Now let's see here." Hagrid said, seemingly thinking out loud as he locked the door. "Probably should go an' see Aragon ter ask him if he knows any thin' bout that unicorn a few nights ago."

Harry followed the large man from the shadows as he headed towards the entrance hall. The had just about reached the ground floor when Hagrid stopped. "Lo' there Professor Snape." He said.

Harry saw the potions teacher as he walked briskly past the grounds keeper without returning the greeting. The Soul Reaper was torn between who he wished to follow. While he was curious about the unicorn Hagrid had mentioned, he also took note that Snape was out of the dungeons for something other than a meal.

He eventually decided on tailing Snape, eventually leading up to the seventh floor. "PopRocks." Snape said to a stone gargoyle, which then promptly hopped out off the way. Harry followed silently and snuck onto the moving stone stairs just behind the potions professor. At the top of the stairs Snape pushed open a set of large wooden doors with out pausing.

"Ah Severus, excellent timing." Harry heard the voice of the Headmaster as he entered a large well lit office. Harry walked around the many glittering doohickeys and found himself a quiet corner to stay in, to observer the two adults.

"You said you wanted to see me tonight." Professor Snape said.

"Yes, I was curious about your thoughts about the events at dinner."

The Slytherin head of house grimaced. "I was just as surprised as everyone else, although I should not have been seeing as how the boy seems to come up with new ways to show off."

"I take it you have never seen anything like it before?" Professor Dumbledore asked, tenting his hands together.

"I have not even heard about anything similar before." Snape confirmed, with a scoff" Another thing that surprised me was that after you left telling me to take care of Draco I tried to free him form the spell but was unable to. I tried every counter spell I could think of but nothing worked. I eventually took him to the hospital wing where Poppy also had no success. We were about to send someone to go look for Potter, when after about fifteen minutes the spell broke by itself."

The Headmaster nodded. "Thank you, that information might be useful. Although it is troubling that you could not come up with a counter spell. Perhaps it has something to do with the wandless nature of the spell. Anyway we won't know unless we find out more about Harry's abilities."

"What do you plan on doing about the boy?" Asked Snape. "If need be I could brew some Veritaserum."

The Headmaster grimaced. "No I'm afraid I will not have you dosing students with truth serum, but there is something I would like to check on this weekend, hopefully it should not take me very long. I would like to have no one know about my absence, anything you can do to assure that would be helpful." He said, then he leaned back in his chair with a sigh. "Although you did mentioned before about his Occlumency abilities. I would like you to see how strong his shields are."

"You want me to use Legilimency on a student?" Snape said, with a wide smile.

"Don't get carried away Severus, this is a very special case and you know it. I just want to know if his shields will hold against a focused legilimens assault. It could be that he simply has a strong mind that resists passive Legilimency. We need information even if it is though his mind, but if you think he is aware of your intrusion do not press further. I do not him to be harmed in any way and we don't need him becoming suspicious of you, or at least more suspicious of you, from what I hear of your actions he does not like you so much."

Harry filed away Legilimency and Occlumency to research the meanings of later. "They are most likely talking about reading my mind since they keep talking about my mind and pulling information from it. I will have to talk to Koukuudenkou about it." He thought to himself. Harry found it was humorous how the Headmaster did not want him to become suspicious about Snape seeing as Dumbledore did not know that he was in the room listening to everything being said. The Headmaster confused him a little, he was unsure about what to think about Professor Dumbledore himself. The old man seemed to be adamant about digging up information about him, and did not seem to care as to how it was done. Harry doubted that rummaging through someone's thought was an acceptable thing to do in magical culture. However at the same time it seemed as if he was concerned for his wellbeing, perhaps all the students wellbeing seeing as how he told Snape to control himself. The Headmaster did not strike him like Professor Snape who obviously hated him and bullied other students. For now he simply did not have enough information to be able to label Professor Dumbledore as an enemy yet, but he was most certainly going to be cautions around him.

"So you are asking me to be nice as I attack Potter's mind?" Snape asked. with a sneer.

"That's the basic idea, yes. Although I am not sure I would have used those words" The Headmaster confirmed. "That is all I wished to discuss with you, please keep an eye on Harry and tell me anything of relevance. So unless you have anything you wanted say you may leave."

"No, that is all. Goodnight." Snape said turning and leaving, his robes billowing behind him.

Harry followed in the wake of his flowing robes and back to the seventh floor. Once they passed the Gargoyle Harry paused and decided not to follow the Potions teacher anymore. Snape was obviously an extreme introvert, preferring to be by himself alone with his potions. There was unlikely anything else of interest he could glean from following him around for hours on end.

However that still left Harry with hours left in the night with nothing to do. He was kind of tired of exploring the castle new discoveries were becoming harder and harder to find. He had basically looked behind every tapestry, statue and suite of armor in the entire school. There was little doubt in his mind that he had a better grasp of layout of the building than anyone in his class, perhaps a better understanding than the majority of the students at Hogwarts.

Also reading books at the library at night was difficult for several reasons. Being a Soul Reaper and therefore completely comfortable in the dark still did not give him the ability to easily read without a light. While he could create a light using kido, there was also the problem of having to be wary of any ghosts that would float though a wall on their way to somewhere else. So it really did not allow him to have a relaxing time reading at night.

Still undecided about what to do the young Soul Reaper wandered around the school. His wanderings eventually took him by the by the entrance hall when a thought stuck him he had explored thought the interior of the school but had yet to really survey the outside. Besides the trek to the green houses and flying practice he had barely been outside. Harry exited the castled and slowly started walking around the perimeter.

As he was walking around the structure it was slowly dawning on him at how amazing Hogwarts was. The building's title of a simple school belied what it actually was, Hogwarts was nothing else but a fortress. The sheer daunting size alone seemed to laugh at any force that would attack. Everything about the castle spoke of impenetrable defense but still had a tranquil artistic look. Beautiful towers so high that an archer would be able to fire arrows without fear of any counter fire. The walls were made of large masterfully laid stone blocks that showed no sign of weakness or erosion after hundreds of years standing against time. The foundation and dungeons were carved out of solid rock that would allow no tunneling into the castle.

Even the seemingly artistic landscape around the school gave a tactical advantage to defenders while hindering an attack. A simple low stone wall could give cover for a defender looking out but just another obstacle to climb over and was too close to the castle to hide an attacker from arrows shot from the high walls.

Harry finally finished his journey around the perimeter of the castle It had taken him so much time to walk around the massive castle analyzing and admiring the building, that the sky was starting to brighten in the east.

Harry slowly made his way back to Gryffindor Tower content with his activities that night. As he passed by the entrance hall he heard a maniacal cackling that was most certainly the newly freed poltergeist.

"I need more much more." Harry over heard him saying to himself.

Ignoring his curiosity Harry continued till he reached the Portrait of the Fat Lady and waited for someone to exit. The entrance finally opened after a few minutes and Harry made to flash step inside, that is when something went wrong.

As he started moving it felt like something was slowing him down or holding him back. Without even meaning to Harry pored more spirit energy into the technique to even accomplish it to get through the entrance. The young Soul Reaper made it into the common room without disturbing anyone, but whatever had caused the strange occurrence had drained him enough that he needed to catch his breath. Eventually Harry recovered and sighed, he had performed the flash step plenty of time in Hogwarts without any trouble before. Also he was sure that he had released enough spirit pressure that would have been felt by all the ghosts throughout Hogwarts. Something was changing and he did not like not knowing what was happening with his own body. He would like to contact Death and ask if he knew anything. Harry's best guess what that maybe the magic of the castle was starting to effect his soul form. Whatever it was he would have to worry about it later as he headed up the stairs to his body.


Harry spent much longer getting ready for the day then normal his mind wandering on multiple things. The rest of his dorm mates had gotten up and were readied for breakfast the same time he went down to the great hall. Just as their group was walking down the large stairs a large group of Slytherins were headed up from the dungeons with Draco and his two thugs near the front. The quiet morning chatter was cut off suddenly by the loud laughter of the castle poltergeist. Every eye in the entrance hall watched as Peeves swooped in and floated about the stairs down to the dungeons. Jaws dropped and eyes bulged as Peeves grabbed a short rope that was attached to something hidden in the supports of the ceiling. As the mischievous spirit yanked the rope a gentle 'fooosh' sound could be heard as a large amount of water gushed from the ceiling. Many of the Slytherin girls screamed as the water descended upon them. The deluge of water hit sending the water down the stairs in a flood that soaked nearly every Slytherin on the steps. Malfoy was nearly swept away by the rush water but was saved by either dumb luck or perhaps the quick thinking or Crabb as he grabbed his leader preventing him from being carried down the stairs.

Even as the water stopped and the Slytherins were pulling themselves together Peeves decided to add insult to injury as he cackled madly again and started throwing handfuls of dung bombs down on the soggy group of students.

The Slytherins scattered and some even ran back down stairs, however one girl who wore a Prefect badge yelled up at Peeves over the others screaming.

"How dare you Peeves!" She shrieked, with her hair a mess and makeup smeared. "I'm telling the Barron the first chance I see him, you'll get it for sure!"

"Humph!" Peeves uttered, and then flipped upside-down in the air and put his hands to the side of his head in an impression of antlers. "Go ahead, see if I care." He mocked and blew a raspberry as he floated away.

Harry could almost feel the mix of emotions coming off the Slytherins as they collected themselves. Curiosity got the better of Harry as he made his way over and looked up at the ceiling, "Impressive." He said to himself as he saw no less then three bathtubs that would have been full of water still dripping up by the supports. Somehow Peeves had rigged them up there, How the small spirit had accomplished the task he was unsure of but it was quite ingenious.

"What are you looking at Gryffindorks?" One Slytherin a few years older then them said to the group of first year Gryffindor boys as he passed by leaving an unpleasant smell behind him.

The nearby Draco Malfoy had recovered enough to add his two knuts. "Yeah get out of here."

Harry kept silent as he rolled his eyes and headed towards the Great Hall, but he could not keep the smile off his face as he heard Seamus reply to Malfoy.

"Oh what's wrong Malfoy." Seamus said in mock sympathy. "You look gloomier than a cat caught in a rainstorm, oops bad example."


Friday continued normally, History of Magic was as boring as always Harry resolved to give the class one more week before he decided to let Gigan suffer through the class. Several people approached him to ask about his display with Draco yesterday. Even some Slytherins approached him despite an effort from Ron to drive them off. Harry politely as possible turned away everyone's questions, although several Ravenclaw students were almost demanding answers as if their lives depended on it. However Ron was just as bad if not worse because of his begging for Harry to teach him. Harry had to firmly deny him and tell him to drop the subject. This caused him to pout for a class before he forgot about it and became his normal self again. Harry tried his best to ignore this, despite his bouts of immaturity Harry still considered him a friend. He always seemed to be willing to help him understand something that would be common knowledge for someone that grew up around magic but was still a new subject for Harry. Ron was following him around more than he would have like and always tried get a seat next to Harry in classes even though Harry would try to switch up who he sat by in classes just to get a feel for the other students in his year. It was nice to be able to talk with other people and not have to worry about Dudley's gang picking on them behind his back. Several students were already on a first name basis with. Susan Bones, Stephen Cornfoot, Ernie Macmillan, and several others were all friendly towards Harry and even Daphne Greengrass had a polite conversation with him.

Dispite Ron's instance that all Slytherins were evil Harry decided on dealing with everyone on a person to person basis, although Slytherin house did seem to have more stuck up snobs than the other houses.

Gryffindor first years did not have potions on Friday so whatever Snape had arranged to do with Dumbledore would have to wait until next week. Although Harry did get into the library in the evening and after much searching was able to find references on both Legilimency and Occlumency and confirmed it was the reading and protecting of thoughts and memories, but he did not find anything on the actual practice of the arts.

Friday ended and Harry once again explored outside the walls of the castle finding a tree he had read about in a herbology book called a Whomping Willow. The young Soul Reaper questioned the wisdom of having such a dangerous plant out in the open on the grounds of a school. He guessed that it could be good for defensive purposes like many things around the school.

After talking to Koukuudenkou, and attempting a flash step by the edges of the castle grounds to ensure that he was far enough away that the ghosts of Hogwarts would not be able to feel his spiritual pressure: Harry confirmed that something was slowing him down. All of his Hoho skills required a much greater amount of spirit energy to perform. But every other skill that he possessed seemed to be unchanged by whatever was affecting him. As it were he could perhaps pull off two short flash steps before becoming exhausted, and that did not please him. That did not even take into account that he would have to release enough spirit pressure to be noticed by every ghost in Hogwarts every time he flash stepped. The ghosts were sure to take notice of something that caused them to feel anything and perhaps do something about it, if they had not started to do so already. So Saturday morning he had to stealth his way back to his body in the Gryffindor tower. He would need to be more cautious around Hogwarts because of whatever was happening to him, he just hopped nothing else would catch him by surprise.


Albus Dumbledore was dressed in a crisp lime green muggle business suit that he straitened as he walked towards his attended destination. Hopefully everything would be quickly taken care of and many of his questions answered so he could return to Hogwarts before he was missed.

The Headmaster stepped up and knocked on the door of the residence, and waited. The door was opened and a polite voice greeted him.

"Hello, May I help you?" The woman said.

"Good morning Petunia Dursley I was wondering if I could come in for a little chat." Albus said, stepping inside without waiting for an answer.

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(Author Notes) Slight cliffy sorry about that, (but not really a good author should put his readers on the edge of their seats for what comes next.) I would like to thank everyone who has reviewed over two hundred reviews. For a crossover of this length I think its pretty good. I will endeavor to stop procrastinating so much and get the next chapter out sooner. More reviews might help me do so, I know I am shameless.