RJStephenson: Hey ladies and gentlemen sorry for the late update. You see, I've been busy during past two weeks. Two weeks ago, I was busy because of many events and last week, I had to go on a trip and I couldn't bring my computer. So, my apologies for a late chapter.

Deadpool: That's right! He was on a trip and was lazy! Where did you go anyway, Wakanda?

RJStephenson: Sadly no. So Wade, how have you been?

Deadpool: Oh nothing much, just the usual. Cutting off some assholes face, kick name, take asses… That's all. Oh, and I also watched the new season Family Guy.

RJStephenson: Looks like you enjoyed yourself. To the story! Harry Potter series belongs to JK Rowling. The X Men belongs to Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and the Marvel company.

eXtra power twin

Chapter 38: Skeeter's new article

Next morning started like any regular day, except for couple of things. First, Harry didn't go straight to the Great Hall. He went to the Gryffindor common room and waited for Ginny.

Harry was patiently waiting for Ginny when the portrait swung open, and the three Weasley brothers came out.

"Well, look who it is." said George.

"If it isn't old Harrykins." said Fred.

"Who just happens to have started to go out with our ickle Gin-Gin." said George.

"You better not let her hear you call her that." said Harry. "Also, how did you know we decided to go out with each other?"

"It was rather hard to miss when she came back to dorm last night grinning ear to ear." said George.

"Anyway Harry." said Fred, this time more serious. "You better treat her well."

"Because the last person that hurt her… Well, let's just say it didn't end pretty for him." said George.

"Like Ronnikens here, we care for out sister deeply." said Fred. Harry saw Ron and he nodded.

"Well, that's all." said George brightly. "See you later than."

After the Weasley brothers left, the portrait swung open and a person stepped out. It took everything within Harry not to laugh.

Half of hair on Aiden's head was gone. And the remaining half was colored in bright pink. Feathers could be seen on his left arm and his right arm was covered with polka dots.

"Did you have a wild night?" sniggered Harry. Aiden just glared at Harry and left the corridor.

Soon, Ginny came out of her common room. "Morning Harry." said Ginny brightly. "Did you come here just for me?"

"Of course. I wanted to go to breakfast with my girlfriend." said Harry.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go to breakfast then!" said Ginny.

Another thing that made this morning different then regular morning was that when Harry entered the hall, people looked at him and begin to whisper.

"What is this about?" wondered Harry.

Harry and Ginny went to the table Neville and Hermione were waiting. For some reason, they looked upset, or angry was better way to describe them.

"Hey, what's going on?" asked Harry as he took a seat.

"This… This newspaper." said Hermione.

"If we can even call things like this a newspaper." spat Neville.

"Why? What's wrong with the newspaper?" asked Ginny.

Hermione was about to answer when Bobby and Kurt entered the hall, the whispering among people got even louder. "Is something going on?" asked Bobby as he took a seat next to Hermione.

"Yes. This is what's going on." said as Hermione handed her newspaper to Harry.

Dark Creatures lurks at Hogwarts

That's right ladies and gentlemen. Dark Creatures are in Hogwarts! And not just one or two, in fact it is reported that there are more than dozen Dark Creatures at Hogwarts.

What Dark Creatures am I talking about you say? Those Dark Creatures are none other than Mutants. Since the start of the Triwizard tournament, Mutants had begin to inhabit within Hogwarts ground.

Mutants have been classified as creatures with "near human intelligence". Mutants also possess various dangerous powers and therefore the Ministry has regulated them as Dark Creatures.

"I was nearly killed by those mutants!" said Minister Fudge. "They are nothing but Dark creatures and must be removed from Hogwarts!"

But why aren't those dangerous Mutants removed Hogwarts yet? For some reason, the heads of Durmstrang and Beauxbatons has declared to pull out of the tournament if the Mutants are removed from the school. Also, it is reported by Minister Fudge that Minerva McGonagall, the deputy headmistress of Hogwarts has refused to kick the mutants out, claiming that they were "guest of Hogwarts."

Are our children safe within the Hogwarts when Dark Creatures are freely wondering around? When will our children be attacked by those creatures? Why aren't the staff of Hogwarts working harder to remove those dangerous creatures?

Harry threw down the newspaper in anger. "Who wrote this?" said Harry and he trailed his finger to find the author. "Rita Skeeter? So she did publish it. Even though I warned her not to."

"We better find her quickly and hex the light out of her." growled Ginny.

Hermione looked at Bobby with concern. "I can't believe they would let her publish such vile things about you guys."

Bobby shrugged. "It's not like it something like this hasn't happened before."

"Ve are not naiffe. Ve know there vill be discrimination nein matter vere ve ko." said Kurt.

Sirius Black was making his way Daily Prophet. He too have read this mornings Daily Prophet and he was not pleased.

He knew that it will probably be only matter of time until Fudge starts making anti-Mutant laws. How would he not when he and his disgusting under secretary already established what they thought about Werewolves?

Both Sirius and James had read about the Mutants and the X Men and needless to say, they were very impressed and grew respect for them.

They were also at Hogwarts under Fudge's order when he brought auror unit to Hogwarts to arrest the people of Xavier institute. That night, Sirius and James both had a good laugh over how Fudge nearly pissed himself when Logan threatened to cut off his head.

But that wasn't the only thing they saw that day. They had stayed at Hogwarts longer than other aurors and they also saw how much Harry cared for the X Men. How he treated them like irreplaceable friends, siblings and family.

They both knew this article would probably hurt Harry.

So James started investigating on ways to prosecute Skeeter. Sirius, he had something else in mind.

The problem with Skeeter's articles was that there were idiotic people who actually believed

stuff like this. Sirius was going to make sure that he does everything in his power to minimize the damage that has been done. After all, he had been a lousy excuse of a godfather to Harry. This could be a way to make up to him.

"I'm here to see the editor in chief." said Sirius to a Daily Prophet employee.

"This way please." said the employee and she led Sirius to an office marked as "Editor in Chief's office".

"Mr Black." greeted the editor in chief.

"Mr Golan." said Sirius.

"What brings you here today?" asked Mr Golan.

"This." said Sirius as he shoved today's morning paper to Mr Golan. Mr Golan took a look at the paper and then at Sirius.

"This paper is unfit to even be used as a toilet paper and I'm pissed at it. But what I'm more pissed at is Rita Skeeter." said Sirius angrily.

"I can't contr-"

"Don't give me that." snapped Sirius. "She's your employee and you better control her better. She also wrote a story without hearing the other sides opinion. Is this a newspaper of a gossip column?"

"The other side?"

"I don't see any word from even one person from Xavier institute. What kind of a news reporter is she? But again, why am I not surprised? This isn't the first time she wrote complete bullshit without people's permission." growled Sirius.

"I told you I don't have any power over-"

"You're the bloody editor in chief. Even if you can't control what she write, you can still choose not to publish it. But I guess the Daily Prophet just can't say no to any news that can bring them money can they?" snarled Sirius.

The editor in chief could not say anything.

"You do know that I own 40% of Daily Prophet don't you?" said Sirius.

"How could I not? Black Family are one of the wealthiest family in this country." murmured Mr Golan.

"Now what would happen if I sold all of them?" said Sirius.

Mr Golan gasped. "That could ruin the business."

"You don't want that to happen do you?" said Sirius rhetorically. Mr Golan frantically nodded.

"Here's what you're going to do. First, you're going to make an apology about today's article. Then, you're going to fire Skeeter for being a disgraceful journalists. Lastly, you're going to tell me everything you know about Skeeter and publish her dirty secrets on tomorrow's paper. Got it?" said Sirius.

Mr Golan could only nod.

Next day again started out like a typical day, with few changed. Firstly, Harry once again went to Gryffindor common room to go to breakfast with Ginny. Then, when Harry and Ginny went down to the great hall, almost everyone in the hall was reading the morning's paper.

"What's wrong today?" asked Harry.

"Nothing's wrong. It's actually the opposite of good." said Neville as he handed Harry the newspaper.

Rita Skeeter fired

Yesterday, on the request of the largest shareholder, Daily Prophet has made a decision to fire one of their long time employee, Rita Skeeter.

It has been discovered that Rita Skeeter is actually an illegal unregistered beetle animagus, secretly gathering informations without consent.

Auror James Potter has commented on the situation. "She is a disgrace to all journalist. Her methods were dishonest and her writings were less than desirable. She will be arrested as soon as possible. Investigations have shown that her articles have caused couple of people to kill themselves in the past. She will be prosecuted when caught."

Whereabout of Rita Skeeter is currently unknown.

Furthermore, Daily Prophet would like to retract yesterday's article about the mutants as the Daily Prophet deemed that there weren't enough evidence about the issue.

"Well, at least Skeeter is fired." muttered Harry.

"But the Daily Prophet still didn't properly apologized about the slander article." fumed Ginny.

"It's better than nothing." said Kitty.

"As I said yesterday, we know these type of people exist." said Bobby "It's a small victory but it's better than nothing."

"It's creepy if you think about it." pointed out Rogue. "I mean, she transformed herself as a beetle and spied on people. And her articles have caused death. How did they allow such person to work?"

"Probably because her scoops brought them good money." said Neville dryly.

"Still, I'm just glad that they are going to arrest that vile women." said Hermione.

"Hey Harry? Logan said he wanted you out in the Hogwarts ground after breakfast." said Jamie. "Special training he said."

"He also said you lot are welcome to join him if you want." said Sam to Hermione, Ginny, Neville and Luna.

"Really?" asked Hermione. "I can really go as well?"

"Yep. He said he has no problem with couple more trainee." said Sam.

"Well, I'm nearly done with breakfast so I'll head out in 20 minutes." said Harry.

"Oh, and Logan said he wants you out in 10 minutes or its 50 push ups." said Jamie.

"Shit! You couldn't have told me earlier?" said Harry as he shoved a toast and glass of juice into his mouth.

Lily Potter sat from teachers table and looked at Harry with a sad smile. Seeing him interact with his friends and his real family from the Xavier institute made her feel guilt and little bit of jealousy at how close he was with the X Men.

How she wished she could have that bond with him. But she knew that she'll probably never have a traditional mother and son bond with her eldest son.

When Lily and James approached the instructors of Xavier institute, they were little cold to them at first but when they saw the genuine guilt and sadness, they listened about how they foolishly listened to Dumbledore and put him with Lily's magic hating sister. For the millionth time, she wondered: Why did she and her husband listen to Dumbledore about ditching their son and didn't be a better mother?

But Lily knew there was no point on blaming Dumbledore. Because ultimately, it was herself and her husband who made the choice to abandon their child. One of the instructor, Logan, summed it up nicely: You can give all kind of shitty ass excuse but you still won't be able to excuse ditching your kid in abusive home.

Lily and James both often thought about how their bad relationship with their eldest son was just one example of how much of a failure they were as a parent. Their other son Aiden had the lowest grade in his year, got so many detention and lost so many house points to the point it would be impossible for Gryffindor to win house cup this year. Aiden's actions were nothing short of shameful and embarrassing. He was rude and selfish and believed himself above the rules. What was worse was that being a Triwizard tournament inflated his ego and Dumbledore wasn't helping at all by being blatantly biased and excusing his bad actions.

Well no more. Thought Lily. She needed to stop Dumbledore from interfering with her sons. Aiden needs to learn that things weren't just going to be handed over to him and she and her husband will continue to do their best to earn Harry's forgiveness, even if they had long way to go.

"You're late." said Logan.

"I know I know." sighed Harry and begin to do push ups. Then, he felt water falling onto him. "Hey is it raining?" frowned Harry.

"Only to you Harry." said Ororo.

Harry looked up and saw that small cloud had formed over his head and started dripping heavy rains.

"You're going into a lake so I figured you should start getting used to the water." said Logan.

"This is my special training? I'm cold and I'm wet. This is going to be a great day." said Harry sarcastically.

"You two." said Logan pointing at Hermione and Ginny. "Just do what you did during the summer. You can teach Planter and Moonshine."

"Planter and Moonshine?" said Neville.

"That's what I decided to call you two." said Logan shortly.

Then, Snape came out of the castle and went to the training ground. He had agreed to help Dumbledore prevent the Potter brat from getting training, though he would have done it even if Dumbledore didn't ask.

"Potter, Weasley, Granger, Longbottom, Lovegood. What is the meaning of this?" snarled Snape.

"Training." said Harry.

"Well stop this nonsense at once. And 50 points from Ravenclaw and Gryffindor for not being in Hogwarts. Also, detention." said Snape smugly.

"It's weekend. We are allowed to be out on the ground." said Hermione angrily.

"Enough! That's 50 more point for arguing. Now get back in." said Snape as he grabbed Hermione by her arm and pulled her towards him. Then, Snape received a punch on the face with enough force to break his nose and send him to the ground.

Snape felt a feet on his chest and saw Logan smoking a cigar. Logan looked down at Snape and blew smoke on his face.

"You have no fucking business here." growled Logan. "Get the hell out of here and interfere with me again and I will cut off your balls and shove it down your throat. That is, if you even have one."

Snape turned red with anger. "Get off me you filthy-" that was as far as he could go as two of Logan's outer claw struck both side of his neck and the middle one pointed at his throat. One wrong move could get his throat ripped out.

"Go on greasy. What were you going to say?" growled Logan.

Dumbledore, McGonagall and Moody came out to the ground when they saw what was going on with Snape.

"What's going? Release my potion teacher at once. And Mr Potter, that's-"

"Can it Oldilocks. This sad excuse of a teacher was interfering with my work. And let me make one thing clear never interfere when a soldier is training someone."

"True words." nodded Moody.

"Regardless, let him go at once. Also, Severus is a good teacher." said Dumbledore angrily.

Logan let out a loud laugh. "Him? A good teacher? Forget the fact that this grease bat probably won't even be able to teach skunk how to stink, I'm not sure what your twisted standards are but you don't get the best teacher of the world award when you physically manhandle your student."

McGonagall gasped when she heard that. "Mr Logan, what do you mean mandhandle?"

"Exactly what it sounds like." said Jean as she entered the scene. "I saw how Professor Snape physically tried to pull Hermione by her arm."

McGonagall looked livid. "Severus! How dare you physically lay your hand on a student! What was your reason for doing such behavior?" demanded McGonagall.

"She and her group of brats refused to return to the castle." said Snape.

"It's weekend. Did you forget that they are allowed to be out here?" scoffed Moody. "Maybe what they are saying is true. You are a piss poor teacher if you don't even know the school rule."

"Alastor, enough." said Dumbledore. "As the headmaster, I order them to return to the castle. Furthermore, I ban them from associating with the people from Xavier institute."

"Don't be ridiculous Albus. You're the headmaster. Not some sort of king." snapped McGonagall.

"Why are you so dead on doing that Dumbledore?" questioned Moody. "I was considering giving these five extra credit for training out of class. Extra training is what everyone needs these day in this world."

"The fact that Professor Snape has been assaulted doesn't change. So Mr Pott-"

"Wasn't it Logan who punched Snape? Why is Harry getting the blame?" asked Ororo.

"If you have problem, take it up with Professor Xavier. What is it with you and punishing Harry for what he didn't do? Did you trade your brain cell for couple of sweets?" said Logan with scorn.

Dumbledore tried to hold his anger at failing to keep Harry from training for 2nd task and what this filthy low life was saying to him. "Will you release my potion teacher?" said Dumbledore through gritted teeth.

"Gladly. It repulses me to be near this ex KKK anyway." said Logan. When Logan turned around Snape pulled out his wand to teach this filth a lesson for humiliating him. But before he could utter a word, Logan turned around and slashed through Snape's wand into four pieces. Snape could also feel a wand pointed on the back of his head.

"Nice try but you better have something better than magical stick to do any good blow." said Logan. "Now get out of my sight before I actually carry out what I promised to do."

Snape looked furious but knew there was nothing he can do. He angrily head back to the castle.

"Trying to curse someone from behind?" said Moody. "Disgusting coward. Though I expect nothing less from a death eater scum like you."

"I'm going to have a word with Severus about this." said McGonagall. "And I won't let him just get away with this."

Dumbledore also tried to leave but Jean stopped him. "Hold on Headmaster. They had points unfairly taken away and given detention. Aren't you going to do something about it?"

Dumbledore turned to Jean. "Punishment? Let me think." said Dumbledore pretending to think. But in reality, Dumbledore had started using legilimency on Jean, hoping to gain information that could be used against them.

Dumbledore started to see various things. He saw a large fire phoenix with power practically radiating from it. He saw the people of Xavier institute, then he saw a yellow maksed man with a glowing fist. He could see a dragon fighting that phoenix. Then-

Dumbledore was pushed out of Jean's mind with a force enough to fall back on his bottom.

"What were you doing?" demanded Jean.

"I-I have no idea what you are saying!"

"I felt your presence in my mind. Now what were you doing?" said Jean.

"I…"

"You were looking at her in her eye. Don't tell me you were using legilimency on her!" barked Moody. "I can't believe how low you got Dumbledore. Using a legilimency on a muggle? If I wasn't retired, I would have shipped you off to Azkaban."

"He just read your mind Jean." said Harry.

Jean lifted Dumbledore with her power. "Don't, ever, do, that, again." said Jean angrily. And she threw Dumbledore towards the castle.

"Serves him right." muttered Ginny.

"Gran once told me that people can get into serious trouble if they use legilimency on non magical people." said Neville.

"But I doubt he will face any legal punishment." said Harry. "He'll probably use his status to weasel out."

"Alright, 15 minute break." said Logan. "Get back here sharp."

That afternoon, Harry observed the black lake. The task was happening in 10 days and he was trying to find the most suitable plan.

"There you are Harry." said Scott and Jean as they approached Harry. "There's something Jean and I caught that will interest you" Jean was a glass jar.

"Take a look at this." Scott pointed at the jar. Inside the jar, there was a large beetle.

"You caught a beetle?" said Harry.

"Not just any beetle. I could read its thoughts." said Jean.

"Which means, it's an animagus." said Harry.

"An animagus named Rita Skeeter. I remember from the newspaper." said Scott.

"Rita Skeeter?" said Harry. "Well Skeeter I told you not to publish that article. Now look at you. Lost your job, wanted and captured. I guess karma came to bite you for ruining people's life with your articles."

"How did you catch her anyway?" asked Harry.

"Scott and I were out on the grounds for some alone time when we heard Hagrid and Madame Maxime talking. I then heard someone's thinking "This will be a nice scoop." I caught that beetle and Scott put it in this jar." said Jean.

"Jean then sensed the beetle thinking something in lines of Minister Fudge and Dumbledore ordering her to make us look bad in the eyes of the magical world." said Scott.

"Typical Dumbledore and Fudge. Well, what do we do with her now?" asked Harry.

"Hey, what you holding there?" said Logan when he spotted the trio. "A bug? Is this one eyes new hobby?"

After explaining about the beetle Logan took the jar and examined the beetle. So she's the one who wrote that crap?" said Logan.

"Yep and apparently that's not the first time she did it." said Harry.

"Well what to do." said Logan and then he dropped the jar in the black lake.

"Oops. My hand must have slipped." said Logan nonchalantly. "And I can't swim. Well, there's nothing we can do about it. Now, instead of wasting time and wondering around the lake, go and practice spells."

A/N: I sincerely apologize about being so late. I had lot of stuff to do. Next chapter will be coming soon, thought I'm not sure when. But I can promise you that it won't take this long. Hope it was satisfying. Constructive criticism and suggestions are always welcomed!

Please give round of applause for Dark Mage Wyvern Lord, Archdruid89 and Red Dragon for fantastic ideas and suggestions!

EXTREMELY IMPORTANT PLEASE READ: A recent review made me realize that one thing I said in A/N might be interpreted differently than what I intended. So here I go. I once stated that the M Day event didn't happen in this universe. What I meant to say was that the event from House of M series did happen. What didn't happen was the last thing, the notorious "No More Mutants". The X Men managed to stop that in last minute.

Dreamjanus: Thank you for the information. That has been fixed now.

Archdruid89: Sorry you felt that way. I do utilize other reviwer's suggestions. I just don't immediately use it the next chapter because I plan on using it on another chapter. I normally almost always use Red Dragon's idea in the very next chapter after he gave suggestion. I'll soon be using other reviewer's suggestion so my apologies if it looked like I was playing favorites.

Sandmanwake: You are right. I guess my excuse is that Lily and McGonagall knew that Aiden wasn't very powerful (as his poor grades show) and that the cutting curse won't have done too much damage. Or I admit that I just didn't think it carefully enough. Thank you for pointing that out.

Svenion: Not really. They have no resemblance to each other besides the fact that they have red hair. Though, to be fair, Jean and Lily both are redhead with green eyes.

Maxblade33: This never was a Harry Hermione story. Ever since the first chapter came up, it was written that this will be a Harry Ginny story.

SJ: Thank you so much for your support.