Harry Potter Yu-Gi-Oh crossover – Disclaimer: I own neither
/Ryou and Bakura mind link/
Koe – Voice (What Ryou calls the spirit of the ring)
Yadonushi – Landlord (What the spirit calls Ryou)
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Ryou Bakura stayed in the hospital wing for the first few days he was at Hogwarts. As the week steadily progressed, more and more students faking illness or injury came wandering in. Ryou really wondered how a kid could fake vomiting that often, or how a piece of candy instantly rid them of their fevers, but after each case, the nurse just scolded the children and sent them on their way. It got to the point where the nurse drew the curtains around Ryou, blocking him from curious eyes. Just as expected, word spread quickly that he was blocked from view…almost as quickly as the rumors about his presence at the school in general. The curtains did little to stop the flow of students, but at least Ryou was offered some privacy.
It was Sunday by the time Madam Pomfrey decided he could finally get up and explore. She had wanted to make sure his arm was completely healed up as well as to keep him out of the way of the students who weren't trying to spy on their guest and actually do some learning at this school. Now that it was the weekend, it wasn't as big of an issue if he distracted the students.
The curtains surrounding his bed parted and a green eyed boy peeked in along with a freckle-faced ginger.
"Morning Ryou." Harry greeted.
"We came to bust you out" Ron added with a smirk.
"Bust me out? I guess those curtains are pretty reinforced" Ryou giggled as he finished buttoning his gray shirt and placed his folded borrowed Pajamas on top of his already made bed.
"Blimey. You're a neat one, aren't you?" Ron commented as he watched Ryou smile and blush just the tiniest bit.
"Come on. The first thing we're going to show you is the way to the Great Hall for breakfast. Just stay close to us on the stairs…they like to move." Harry said with a grin as he pulled the curtains all the way back, revealing Ryou's bed to the rest of the world for the first time in a long awhile.
"What likes to move? The STAIRS?" Ryou's eyes were wide with excitement as he followed the two boys out of the room.
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The boys talked excitedly on the way down to the morning feast. Most of the time was spent laughing at Ryou's utter fascination with each and every moving picture frame. The white haired boy greeted every new face he passed, and considering most of the halls were lined with pictures, it was safe to say Ryou said hello more times in 10 minutes than Harry had in his whole life. But as soon as they entered the Great Hall, Ryou fell quiet. The beauty of the room and the magic laced through it was lost to the boy upon seeing the massive body of students. At first it was just a few people looking up at the sound of the door opening, but a few quick whispers and everyone's attention was on the white haired boy without school robes. Ryou blushed and stayed close behind Harry as his glasses wearing friend led him over to the Gryffindor table. Harry sat Ryou down so his back was to the other three houses. He knew from experience how uncomfortable unwanted attention could be.
"It's like they've never seen an albino before" Ron said as he sat down across from Ryou and Harry and instantly reached for some toast, ignoring the silent staring of his fellow Gryffindors.
"I'm not albino. My eyesight is fine." Ryou sighed quietly as he looked down at his plate. He didn't want to look up and see people staring at him. For this reason, he didn't see Ron's baffled expression.
"But Harry said your hair was natural. Only albinos have white hair." Ron said with a nod, as if Ryou's stark white hair made any and all arguments null and void. "Besides, what does being albino have to do with your eyes?" He added with a quirk of the eyebrow. Another Gryffindor plopped down beside him, laying a book beside her plate.
"Actually Ron, not all people with albinism have white hair. A better trait to identify someone with albinism is by checking their eye sight since all people diagnosed with albinism generally have some sort of vision impairment that varies depending on the type of albinism." Hermione smiled at Ryou as she reached for some pancakes to put on her plate.
"There's more than one kind of albino?" Harry hadn't known that. Then again, it wasn't like he researched this type of stuff.
"Okay then. If you don't have … albinisiyism, then why is your hair that color?" Ron looked pointedly at Ryou and waited for a reply.
"The melanocytes in my cells don't recognize the Keratin in my hair." Ryou's answer was smooth and without hesitation, but the only one who really seemed to comprehend what he just said was Hermione. She had nodded in understanding while Ron and Harry just kind of gave him a dumbfounded look.
"So….you … don't eat enough carrots?" Ron asked as he tried to figure out what exactly Ryou just said. The whitenette chuckled lightly and decided to give them a simpler response.
"It means for some reason whatever gives hair its color doesn't realize that I have hair, so it doesn't color it." Ryou explained as he at last reached for some food for his own plate. This light hearted discussion was a great way to get rid of the awkward tension that filled the room upon Ryou's arrival. Now the normal chatter of a school filled the hall and Ryou didn't feel so out of place. Well, not as much as he had anyway.
"Why hello there!"
Ryou jumped slightly as something popped out of the wall. A transparent figured floated through the table and turned to face the Gryffindors with a smile.
"Hey Nick. This is Ryou. Ryou, this is Nearly Headless Nick, the ghost of Gryffindor." Harry smirked as he glanced towards Ryou, their resident occult fan. He wasn't disappointed. Ryou's face lit up and he stared at the ghost with obvious awe.
"It is a pleasure, my good man. I am Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington" Nick began, "And do my eyes deceive me, or am I seeing double?" He added as he looked at Ryou with a whimsical smile. Ryou looked confused, an expression shared by the golden trio as well, and the four teenagers looked around quickly to try to spot what Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington was talking about. They all returned their questioning gaze to the ghost, who looked just as confused as they did.
"haha, well clearly it was the former. I suppose being denied to join the Headless Hunt yet again has had a stronger effect on my stress levels than I thought. Well, good day to you." The ghost smiled and tipped his head – literally – before floating off. Hermione had looked away as soon as Sir Nicholas gripped his head, but Ryou was absolutely enthralled by the nearly decapitated ghost's display.
"Sorry if he freaks you out Ryou… Sir Nicholas does enjoy showing off his…wound." Hermione said as she finally turned back towards Ryou. She was surprised to see her apology was completely unnecessary.
"No, no. I think it's really cool. Are there other ghosts at Hogwarts?" Ryou asked with a cock of his head. Harry, Ron, and Hermione nodded and gave Ryou a quick briefing of the different ghosts he might encounter. They made sure to include which ghosts were best avoided…like a certain trouble making Poltergeist. By the time they had finished answering Ryou's questions, breakfast was over and the small group was walking out of the Great Hall.
"Did he really dump a bucket of water on you? I guess that means ghosts can interact with… oh." Ryou stopped as he caught sight of a small cluster of yellow and the occasional bit of blue blocking the door. The Hufflepuff students shuffled their feet and cast curious yet nervous glances Ryou's way. Finally one plucked up enough courage to step towards the group of Gryffindors plus one.
"Um…are you... by any chance Ryou Bakura?" The young boy, most likely a first year, asked as he looked up into Ryou's soft brown eyes, than quickly down to his feet. Ryou hesitated a moment, wondering why the wizard in training was looking for him.
"Yes. I am." He said and at his words the Hufflepuff looked up with a bright smile.
"I'm a big fan. Have been since I first saw you duel. I'm muggle born you see, and I watched you compete in Battle City. When I told my classmates about you, they didn't believe me. They didn't think there was a chance you'd be here, you see, and the others don't know the game so they didn't really care. But it really is you! Just wait until I tell my friends at home that I met you. THE Ryou Bakura!" The kid sputtered. He looked up at Ryou again with a shy gaze before thrusting out his hand rather stiffly. Ryou shook it and the kid turned and bolted towards the waiting Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws. The loud whispering and looks were instant and Ryou was glad they were leaving the room.
"What the bloody hell was that about?" Ron asked as they headed down the hall. Ryou blushed and focused his attention on a painting.
"Apparently I have a fan here. I honestly didn't expect anyone in a wizarding school to know me." He replied, but that didn't really answer Ron's question.
"Remember that game he showed you on the train Ron?" Harry decided to step in. At Ron's nod, he continued. "Well Ryou's really good at it." He said with a shrug. Ryou's blush deepened and he rubbed his hair.
"…not really." He mumbled and Harry just rolled his eyes.
"You were in a commercial. You placed in a worldwide tournament, didn't you?"
"Yeah but – "
"Commercial? Ryou that's fantastic!" Hermione smiled at the flustered duelist, but their praise only increased his embarrassment.
"Fantastic? Now what-"
"Exactly, is so fantastic?"
The twin voices of a set of identical redheads caused Ryou to spin on the spot. He blinked in surprise as he looked at the gingers, who for some reason of another reminded him of Ron.
/They're his brothers Yadonushi. Four eyes said the Weasel had many siblings./
Ryou blushed yet again at the reminder from a voice that had been surprisingly quiet lately. He almost forgot about the spirit's presence in his mind.
Almost.
"Oh, bugger off you two. We're showing Harry's pen pal the castle" Ron said as he shooed the older boys. The twins just seemed highly amused by their younger sibling's actions.
"The last thing we need is for you two to fill his head with nonsense. And don't try using him as a guinea pig for your ridiculous experiments either." Hermione interjected as she folded her arms. She disliked the gleam the twins had in their eyes as they looked over a potential victim…friend.
"Pen pal? Oh my gosh. Do you know what this means Fred?" Asked one of the twins as he turned to his mirror image. Fred nodded as he pushed Ron aside and stepped closer to Ryou.
"I do indeed brother. This must be the one and only— "
"Are-You!" They ended the sentence together and had cheesy smiles on their faces that actually made Ryou uncomfortable. To make matters worse, they each leaned on his shoulders.
"So Are-you, you're the one our dear Harry's been sending secret love letters to."
"I must say, I thought you'd be a girl. But who am I to judge a person's tastes? … You're not a girl are you, Are-You?"
Ryou's cheeks were a new level of red as he tried to string together a reply, but between the smirking twins and the laughter echoing in the back of his mind from a rather unhelpful mental roommate, he wasn't having much luck.
"I told you two, we weren't sending love letters. And his name is pronounced 'Re-you', not 'Are-you'." Harry sighed. He couldn't decide whether or not to be angry or amused.
"Well then, my apologies Reee-you" Chuckled Fred as he straightened himself up and ruffled the boy's white hair. Ryou reached up and tried to stop him in the politest way possible, which was by holding his hand over his hair as a deterrent. Luckily this was enough to get Fred to back off… or the red head was just finished messing up his already messy hair. Who really knew?
"Anyway, allow me to introduce myself. I'm Fred." The red head said as he moved back a step and bowed his head in mock respect. His brother pushed him just slightly.
"Hey, would you stop doing that? You're just going to confuse the poor kid. I'm Fred, not him." The second twin announced as he stood tall.
"Oh that's just nonsense. If you're Fred, then what's my name?"
"You're George."
"Oh that's right! I must have forgotten."
Ryou's head jerked back and forth as he followed the conversation. He just didn't know what to make of these two. His head was already starting to hurt and even with their introduction he still didn't know which twin was which.
/If you'd like Yadonushi, I can get rid of one. Then you'll only have to learn one name./
"So, Harry, can we get on with the tour?" Ryou asked hurriedly as he stepped closer to the black haired fifth year.
"Oh, yeah. Sure." Harry said as he started walking on passed the Weasley twins. "See you guys later." He added as he waved at their disappointed and totally fake frowns.
"Nice meeting you both." Ryou said quickly as he hurried by.
"Don't let them get to you. They're specialty is annoying people, but it's all in good fun…I guess." Ron said as he walked beside Ryou. They had only walked a few steps before the twins shouted their goodbyes down the hall.
"Oh be careful Reeee-you"
"A certain lady in pink is wandering the halls. We'd hate-"
"if you were to get kicked out of Hogwarts-"
"Before we could have some fun first."
"So try not to let those three drag you into trouble."
Ron rolled his eyes and Harry seemed annoyed for some reason. Ryou glanced back at the snickering red heads that were already disappearing around the corner. Was that supposed to be some kind of warning or were they just messing around? It was pretty obvious that they were jokers. No. The more important question was how in the world they could talk in sync and finish each other's sentences so perfectly and consistently without a break.
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The group continued to tour the castle unheeded. The gossips they passed were unavoidable but easily ignored and Harry was careful to steer clear of the most common Slytherin hangouts. No need to give Ryou a bad impression so soon. By the time lunch came and went Ryou had met many of the ghosts that called Hogwarts home and had walked through numerous halls. Harry only stopped when he saw Ryou looking out a large glass window. He followed his white haired friend's gaze and found himself gazing down at the courtyard dusted with a thin, fresh coat of snow.
"I'd show you the courtyard, but it's not exactly the warmest out right now so we'll save that for later." He said, causing Ryou to look up at him and nod. Although the robes Harry, Ron, and Hermione were wearing seemed quite warm, he had left his own coat back at his bed in the hospital wing. Still, even this indoor view of the school grounds sparkling under the ice crystals that hugged each blade of grass was impressive. Ryou looked out the window for a second longer before stepping back and smiling at his tour guides.
"So, where to next?" He asked, but the Hogwarts students did not get the chance to answer. A light 'hem hem' sound came from behind the group. Ryou instantly turned around in surprise but the other three just sighed and faced the source of the sound with slumped shoulders.
Ryou was a little taken aback by the amount of pink this woman was wearing. He instantly blushed and felt rude for staring, deciding instead to lock his eyes on the floor. This must have been the lady the twins had warned them about. The woman was looking over him with a scrutinizing gaze too, which only heightened Ryou's anxiety.
"Good afternoon children. I see there is a new face wandering the halls. That child must be the … I'm sorry dear, are you a boy or a girl?" The woman batted her eyes and cocked her head in a show of false curiosity. Harry was positive all the teachers had been told about a 'young boy arriving at Hogwarts to recover from a magical accident.' He was disgusted when she acted surprised at Ryou's announcement that he was, in fact, male.
"I see. How unusual for a little boy to look so very much like a little girl. Now, mister Potter." said the pink clad witch as the finally took her eyes off of the flushed face Ryou and stared intensely at Harry.
"The child that was brought in should not be wandering the halls. A muggle should not even be here at all. Now take it back to its room like a good boy so that the magical world does not overwhelm the poor thing. We can't have things like that just lying around in our halls, causing problems for people." She said with wide grin, ignoring the fact that Ryou was still well within earshot. Ryou of course did not say anything in reply and kept his eyes locked on the floor. He had been wondering on and off throughout the day if it was okay that he was at Hogwarts. Clearly it wasn't.
"Professor Umbridge, ma'am, the nurse said Ryou was allowed to explore since he has fully recovered from his encounter with a Dementor. It was the first time he had seen them." Hermione quickly explained, stressing that Ryou could see Dementors. Even Dolores Umbridge would know only the magical could see them. There was no need to add fuel to her fire and mention anything about Ryou's lack of magical education or that Death Eaters were after him -especially since she seemed so adamant in her beliefs that the world was full of pink rainbows and fluffy kittens that couldn't hurt students, not Death Eaters and an evil dark wizard formally known as Tom.
"Miss Granger, I believe I was talking to Mr. Potter. Now then Potter dear, if you have anything to say, speak up properly." The witch's reply was sugar coated ice and she only glanced at Hermione for a moment before staring Harry down, just waiting for him to give her something to use against him.
"Well, if you insist on my opinion ma'am, then I think Ryou can do whatever HE pleases. HE has magic but it seems the ministry overlooked him, which is why HE wasn't prepared when Dementors decided to knock on HIS front door. It is a true shame that he still won't be able to learn anything to defend himself despite the fact he's in a school." Harry was bitter with his tone, and his indirect insult at Professor Umbridge's teaching methods as well as the ministry she served so loyally did not go unnoticed. She pursed her lips just slightly and narrowed her eyes.
"I tell you now Mister Potter, the ministry's system is flawless. If there was an issue than it was entirely the child's fault, not the Ministry's. I thought by now you had learned your lesson Mister Potter. You must not tell lies." Although the pink toad's voice was still sickly sweet, it was easy to hear the threat in her voice. Harry stared straight back into her beady little eyes, never faltering in their staring contest.
"Come on Harry. Let's just go to the common room." Ron offered as he motioned with his head to move down the hall. Hermione gently touched Harry's shoulder and at last Harry turned to go, leaving Umbridge with a satisfied smirk on her face.
"I believe I said to take it to its room."
Harry froze midstep and spun around. He had had enough. It was one thing to torture him during class, but she was not going to insult Ryou so openly, talking as if he were a thing rather than a person. He opened his mouth to speak but the very person he was about to defend stepped in front of him with his hand out, stopping Harry in his tracks.
"Wait. Harry, she's right." He said, earning four dumbfounded looks in his direction. The professor's face instantly melted into an accomplished smile as she looked at Ryou. Scarily enough, Ryou gave quite the pleasant smile back.
"I am new to this whole magical world and I shouldn't be annoying the students with any questions. Somebody who has little experience with magic really shouldn't be wandering around so freely without an adult to supervise them and make sure they don't touch something that could cause trouble. You must be a brilliant teacher. You were the only one to really bring attention to this, so clearly our safety is your priority." Ryou didn't seem offended in the least by Umbridge's behavior towards him, and his own reasoning as to why he shouldn't be wandering about made much more sense than the professor's half baked excuse. He smiled once more at the teacher before turning to look at Harry.
"Besides. You told me before that the common rooms are for students of that specific house only. I am not in any house, so I am not allowed to enter them. Rule breaking isn't something I want to do, so let's just go back to the hospital wing." He gave that smile again, so unfitting for the situation. Even Umbridge wasn't sure if she had won a complete victory here or if something else was going on. Eventually she decided on the former and her face just glowed with triumph.
"Please don't let me delay you any longer, madam. We will leave for the hospital wing right away, no detours." Ryou added as he turned towards Umbridge and gave a deep bow. As usual, bowing had a strange effect on people unfamiliar with Japanese culture. It was a stroke to the pink toad's over inflated ego, just as it had been when Ryou bowed to the older Dursley. The woman in pink giggled and nodded.
"Good lad. Off with you then." She said with a too happy smile before turning to leave. Ryou gave a polite 'yes ma'am' and one more bow. Harry, Ron, and Hermione could only watch in silence, sending saddened glances Ryou's way. To their surprise, they watched Ryou's face go from a true obedient smile to an angry frown in a split second. Ryou glared at the professor's back as she walked away from them. You could see the disgust in his sharp brown gaze.
"Woah. Faker much?" Ron said aloud as he stared at the drastic change in Ryou's expression. Ryou instantly smirked at that and gave Ron a short, deep chuckle.
"When you're faced with a pest like that pink wart, the better route is to tell them what they want to hear rather than give them the ammunition that will ruin you." Ryou grinned at the red head and glanced back down the now empty hall. His grin disappeared as quickly as it came and he looked down at his shoes, fidgeting. His face was swiftly turning red from an intense blush.
"Besides…teachers should be obeyed. Y-you know, since they're the authority in a school." The boy's words were genuine despite the contradiction they offered to his previous statement. Harry, Ron, and Hermione exchanged confused looks and turned their baffled expressions in Ryou's direction.
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After their encounter with Professor Umbridge, Ryou insisted he should go back to his place in the hospital wing, if anything to avoid getting the trio into trouble. While Harry had no doubt that pink toad would use Ryou as an excuse to give them all detentions, he wasn't the type to just bend to someone else's orders. He would have been more than happy to completely ignore Umbridge's ridiculous demands, but Ryou was quite adamant about staying in the hospital room. He couldn't really argue with the whitenette. What was he supposed to say? Ignore that old bat and let's keep going? Well, shockingly that didn't really work.
As soon as they group returned to the Hospital Wing, Ryou sat on the edge of the bed and glanced towards the wall.
"If you're that nervous about wandering around the school, we'll just stay with you in here." Harry offered, earning a 'what?' from Ron who was promptly elbowed in the chest by Hermione. She nodded and said she was more than happy to stay too. Ryou just shook his head.
"No no, it's fine. You guys can go and do what you want. I… I'm feeling a little tired anyway. I guess I'm not as fully healed as I thought." Ryou said with a fake smile. Hermione frowned but didn't question it. Ron wasn't very helpful since he was smiling.
"Right. We won't bother you then. Feel better Ryou." Chimed the ginger. Ryou nodded and tried to give one more convincing smile to Harry and Hermione before pulling back the bed covers and lying down. Even then the others were hesitant to leave, but after Ryou failed to respond to them, they finally headed out of the room.
Time ticked by as Ryou laid there wide awake, staring at the freshly drawn curtains.
/Yadonushi, I know you want to explore the school. You cannot hide your thoughts from me./
Ryou sighed and just tugged his blanket a little further up.
"I don't belong here, Koe. That professor even said so. The teachers don't want me here and the students keep staring at me funny." Ryou mumbled as he rolled over, causing the golden ring that linked him and the spirit together to slide across his chest.
/You act like that's different from the way your life has always been./
Ryou flinched at those words. The spirit was right and it hurt to acknowledge that. He had always been the odd one out, the third wheel, the one that didn't quite fit in.
/Yadonushi, rise and explore the castle. The pink wart will not catch you as long as I am with you./
Ryou thought about the spirit's offer in silence. This wasn't the first time the spirit told him he'd protect and help him, but he knew by now that there was usually another motive behind the spirit's actions.
/You wound me, Yadonushi. Can I not act out of the kindness of our heart?/ The voice said with a chuckle. His insincerity was not lost on Ryou, but the boy chose not to comment on it.
"I already told them I was going to stay here. I don't want to go back on my words." Ryou closed his eyes and tried to will his body to go to sleep even though he wasn't tired in the slightest. He could feel a tiny trickle of irritation coming from the spirit's soul room. Irritation aimed at him, no doubt. That was fine. Ryou wasn't important to anything nor anyone. If he wasn't there, life would go on and might even be better for the people he came in contact with… so what did it matter if people hated his existence?
/….Yadonushi…. your pity party is disgusting./
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"Good god mate, he said he wanted to sleep!" Ron rolled his eyes as he grabbed a piece of chicken from the platter right in front of him. Harry just shrugged as he absently picked at his own dinner.
"Yeah, but I feel like he was just saying that." He admitted. He glanced up at Ron who was still happily eating after spending the previous hour practicing Quidditch.
"If he wanted to hang out with us, he would have, so stop thinking about it." The ginger said after swallowing one last bite and staring at Harry. Hermione sighed and laid down her fork.
"Ron's right Harry."
"I am?"
"If Ryou really wanted to come with us, he could have. I know it seems like we should have stayed with him even though there was no reason for him to stay cooped up in that room, but he probably was tired. It's been a long day, he's been confronted with a wall of new things, and he only just recovered from..." She paused and glanced left and right before quickly whispering, "being attacked by Death eaters." Her words hung in the air as Harry sat there in contemplation.
"Besides…you went and played Quidditch in the snow. I doubt he would have enjoyed that anyway." She added.
"Hey! Quidditch is amazing. And the grass is barely even white. That so doesn't count as snow. Ryou, like everyone normal, would LOVE Quidditch." Ron defended and Harry finally cracked a smile and bit into his food.
"But seriously, that is one weird kid. I really don't know what page he's on half the time. First he came off as kind of a rude little git, then he was all nice and …well… Neville-ish, and now he plays suck up to the local abomination pretending to be a teacher." Ron shivered as he thought about it. How could anyone agree with that woman's twisted logic, especially when she refused to even call Ryou a 'he' ?
"Ryou said he doesn't like to go against authority, you heard him." Harry reminded.
"Yes, but he also said he told the professor what she wanted to hear." Hermione glanced at Harry nervously, but Harry just shook his head.
"He's not the type of person who starts trouble, trust me. When I was talking to him over the summer, he'd occasionally get cocky or pushy, but it's not anything to make a big deal out of. You guys both have your moments to." Harry grinned at his friends, who both seemed a bit affronted at his jab. Hermione blushed and looked away while Ron just huffed and took another bite of chicken.
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" Hey. Hey Harry." A few minutes after their discussion about Ryou, Neville and a few other curious looking Gryffindors sat down at the table.
"Hello Neville. Dean. Seamus." Harry greeted as he looked at them with a mix of intrigue and wariness.
"That kid from breakfast and lunch you were hanging around with… the one with the white hair… we just were curious. Who was he? I mean, we've heard really different rumors, but since you talked to him and all…" Neville began as he fidgeted with his robes.
"The whole school knows he's staying in the hospital wing, but nobody knows the details. Except you. It's always you, right? So come on, you've got to know why he's here." Seamus added as he looked at Harry.
Harry blinked in surprise. He had a feeling he'd get questions about his white haired friend but not this quickly. He let his shoulders slump and put on a semi-pleasant smile.
"Ryou's a friend of mine I met over the summer. He…attended muggle school for awhile, but… it was in the papers. A school got attacked by witches and wizards. Ryou got caught up in it and was treated here." Harry decided to summarize instead of giving up Ryou's whole story. There was no reason to explain everything.
"Muggle school? If he's a muggle, why didn't they treat him at a muggle hospital?" Seamus crossed his arms and gave Harry a disbelieving look.
"He's not a muggle" Harry shrugged. He'd leave out that Ryou was being chased by Death Eaters. No need to put more spotlight on him, or raise questions nobody could answer.
"Then why was he at a muggle school?"
Harry paused and looked over at Dean.
"I…don't really know" He admitted. So much for avoiding the un-answerable. He glanced at Hermione, remembering her different possible excuses as to why Ryou had never been sent a letter to attend a magical school. It really was a mystery.
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Kit: Out of curiosity, reviewers, do you expect replies to your reviews or are you guys alright with me just smiling in RL when I read them? In all honesty, I wouldn't know what to say in reply and would end up sending a smiley face or something similarly stupid over and over again.
side note: Ryou's not albino. I know a lot of fanfictions explain his white hair and pale skin that way, but if you do your research, you'll discover Ryou just doesn't have the other, negative traits that come with Albinism.