Knight 25: this chapter links with the original manga, when I started this fic, I had only seen the anime, but having read the manga, I figured this would make a great chapter.

Chaos Dragon Fox: I took inspiration from another fic I liked, and with three Yami's on the Gryffindor team the other teams had better watch out.

The Ruby Red Raven: I'm not really keen on the Malloy friend fics, as his character in the books seems to indicate if he's not utterly evil, he is at least quite evil.

Weirdgirl322: we take a little trip back to the beginning of Yugioh.

Anime monster: it stated in the book that he was a fifth year and so would have been in year 4 during the 5th book and that he hadn't taken part in the trails then as he was in the hospital wing, since my story is AU already with the YGO cast in it, and I came up with Bakura's opinion of him that seemed funny I decided to have him take a turn…did you notice? Hermione tried to confound Rakura and failed!

Chapter 48) Facts about Muggles Part 1) In which Dumbledore uncovers some truths about the foreign students

"I have the information you requested" a tall proud looking woman in green robes with long scarlet hair informs Professor Dumbledore in his office she sounded grave, the matter was serious.

Dumbledore regards her with a serious expression yet the twinkle in his eyes remained "I am grateful for your assistance Madame Narue" he inclines his head.1

Narue's serious expression remains "it is mainly from muggle sources but I believe the information within to be reliable" she replies stiffly taking out her wand she presses it against her forehead pulling it away with several strands of silvery misty strings which she deposits into a stone basin on Dumbledore's desk in front of the aged wizard, repeating the process several times. 2

"If that is all" she bows but Dumbledore holds out his hand to stop her. "What is your personal opinion on the matter?" he asks.

Madame Narue hesitates clearly in two minds finally she makes a decision "to be brutally honest I'd expel them immediately, but you've always had a less prudish attitude concerning…special cases"

Dumbledore considers her answer "why didn't you send Mr.'s Bakura and Motou a letter five years ago?" he already knew but it didn't hurt to receive confirmation.

"Yugi Motou's magical aura was practically non-existent until about a year ago, it was decided by the ministry that he was too old to receive a magical education" Madame Narue the Headmistress of the Chinese imperial Academy of Sorcery states stiffly. 3 "Ryo Bakura was English, yours, also his aura was unstable" 4

Dumbledore nods his head thoughtfully, it was regretful but inevitable some would miss out on their world by the narrowest of margins "perhaps the Mejia in Egypt have the right answer, they look after their own and train in the arts of magic in secret…not that I'm saying there's anything wrong with schools and as Hogwarts Headmaster I should probably say that more often" he smiles tiredly. 5

Narue doesn't smile back as she waits for him to get to the point.

"they claim to have never heard of Mr. Ishtar, although they have been acting even more paranoid and secretive than usual of late…maybe they know something we don't…maybe they can sense the oncoming storm" muses Dumbledore.

"He who must not be named is gone Albus" claims Narue quickly "he can never come back"

"Are you trying to convince me or yourself?" he asks continuing before she can become offended "I discovered Mr. Kaiba quite by chance while I was checking up on the other three, why has he not received a letter?"

"Until recently his aura was weak, he would most likely have ended up a squib, and yet now you say his aura is as strong as most wizards, maybe stronger…I am afraid I can offer no explanation for this, all I can tell you is that he did receive a letter but declined the offer"

"He did?" Dumbledore asked her. 6

Narue nods her head slowly "his adoptive father refused to allow him to go to Jadeforge" she admits "we couldn't go against his wishes, by the time his adopted father died he was to old and besides from what I've found out about him he adamantly refused to believe in magic, until you managed to convince him to attend Hogwarts of course" a touch of bitterness entered her voice it irked her to see three of her students go to another school but the governers would never accept them at Jadeforge.

Dumbledore chuckles "Minerva is very persuasive and persistent" he replies "again, I thank you for your time and effort" Narue returns a smile albeit forced "I can see myself out" she declares as she strides from his office.

Dumbledore examines the pensive before and taps his wand against it the white silvery mist liquid within forming a shape which solidifies into a muggle school teacher.

"Of course their were incidents" he claims offhandedly as he pushes up his specs "Yugi was a bright child but he was often childish, spending most of his time solving puzzles and playing games and bullying is regretful but not unexpected" he looks around uncomftable "there were a few…odd occurrences, several suspected bullies had psychotic breaks last year but there was never any evidence to suggest such a docile child ever had anything to do with that…although" he looks nervous to be talking about it. 7 "he was hanging out with his friends, at the Burger World joint during his dinner hour when an escaped convict showed up with a gun, demanding booze and cig's, Yugi was chosen to deliver them while a girl in his class…Tea or something was held hostage at gunpoint and somehow the convict managed to light himself on fire! Hee, Russian vodka 180 proof, go figure…anyways both the girl and Yugi escape unscathed…ah the lucky punks" the image warps and wavers becoming a shaking man in bed, wearing a hospital gown. 8 "crazy kids…crazy…played a game" he titters to himself "scorpion in my shoe…! Coins gotta grab the coins, all about the coins…te-ten thousand yen fer each one…hee, hee, cheated! Cheated the Game king himself" his maniac grin is replaced by a look of sheer naked terror for an instant "Yami no Game!" he whispers before slumping back against his pillow in a dead faint. The scene changes to a young woman in a nurses outfit "he suffered a scorpion sting, he used to own a shoe shop, the junky scorpion" she states in a low voice so not to wake up the patient "sold really cool trainers, was quite the fad, at the time. He was getting better but something set him of again, ever since he watched the battle city finals broadcast, guess he's not a big fan of card games" she smiles at the joke, but appears worried by the patients condition.

The scene changes to another person a child wearing a pair of brainy specs, apparently bewitched with truth serum and under the control of a spell "I used to be in Mokuba Kaiba's gang he was our leader" he said in a monotone voice, Dumbledore knew of Kaiba's brother. 9 "Mokuba challenged Yugi to a game of capsule monsters, he wanted revenge for his brother" pause "Seto Kaiba slipped into a coma for a few weeks after loosing a game of Duel Monsters with Yugi, he fell into another even deeper coma for months after the second time he lost top him, he seemed different after he emerged from the last one, not that I have any in depth information on it or anything, Mokuba severed all ties with us after his brother lost his second duel" he hesitates "when Mokuba lost he started screaming about the dark and acted like he was trapped in a box and couldn't get out, he recovered after a few days"

The scene changes to a man in a long black overcoat wearing shades he snickers "oh yes I'm sure Kaiba would love to forget project Death T but I happen to have a long memory you see" he cackles briefly. 10 "what does it do? Exactly what it says…Death T was designed specifically to kill Yugi Motou, not only that but it completely failed as well" he cackles madly. "Stage one Laser tag with a twist Motou and two deadbeat friends fought and beat three trained mercenaries. Kaiba wasn't to pleased by that especially as it turned out the stage one guide was one of their friends and started helping them" he cackles madly again "Stage two the murders mansion, they survived the secondary traps and went on to beat the main trap, a cell with chop man, a convicted serial killer, he should have been able to kill wheeler one of Yugi's deadbeat friends, not only did he save that brat of a baby, the bait, but he escaped the cell, toasting chop man in the process" he grins dementedly. "Stage three live Tetris, well if you survive it anyway, all of them, except Taylor, the second deadbeat escaped he would have died if Mokuba hadn't saved him for some reason" he snorts "Stage four Capsule monsters, Kaiba predicted his brother would lose to Yugi, weren't wrong either, set it up so the poor sucker received the illusion of death, nightmare holograms designed to drive a guy out of his skull, would have finished his own brother of if Yugi hadn't have rescued him" rolls his eyes. "Kaiba set up stage five personally which was Duel Monsters, he took on Yugi he was the world champion, he held all thee Blue Eyes White Dragon cards and he still lost, somehow Yugi was able to assemble and summon Exodia aint no one ever done that before. Mind crushed him or so he claimed Kaiba was cationic for months. Spun Mokuba a yarn saying Kaiba was reassembling the shattered pieces of his soul course the kid bought it hook, line and sinker. You know what really gets my goat?" he asks rhetorically "When Kaiba woke up and found out Pegasus of Industrial Illusions was trying to take over his company he blamed me, heck I hadn't even jumped into bed with I2 unlike the Big five, Bastard fired me, swore I'd never work for another company bigger than a news stand, little thumb sucker after all I did for Kaiba Corp, acted like he couldn't even remember Death T the little Prick"

"Ryo Bakura?" A prim school mistress asks "nice kid, a little effeminate though" she admits. 11 "normally I wouldn't give out such personal information but since your from his new school I guess it's alright" so that was how Madame Narue had obtained most of the information. "He's had a tragic life loosing his mother and sister one after the other, and his father aint exactly in the running for Dad of the year, you know what I'm saying?" she takes a drag on a cigarette "if you ask me Bakuras a constant reminder of happier times that he can't stand to be reminded of. Been an archeologist hardly helps as he's away most of the time. And moving to Japan couldn't have been an easy transition for him, but he's adapted well. Plays a table top RPG game monster world so of course he was extremely distressed when several of his friends played the game with him and fell into coma's and never woke up"

The image shifts to a Japanese newspaper translated so Dumbledore can understand it, it was an Asian style Daily Prophet or rather the Daily Dragon ball. It described in graphic detail (although if it was anything like the Daily Prophet it would be riddled with mistakes, and blown out of all proportion) "the next You know who!" with a muggle picture of Ryo Bakura aged about thirteen it went on to describe "unimaginable darkness within" and "My son was invited around to play a muggle board game and the next thing I know I'm visiting his cationic body in St. Reveries Hospital!" and "clearly something enthralled in the dark arts is at work here" and "you could be next" typical fear mongering "Beware Bakura Ryo the next You know who!" The image shifts to another edition of the Daily Dragon ball dated after the previous edition. 12 "Ryo Bakura exonerated by Japanese Auror's, he is not the next You know who, he does not contain unimaginable dark powers, he is a normal muggle boy who has been unfairly accused. It is advised that wizard and Witch children should not mingle with muggle children as they have a tendency to release magic by accident and are liable to blurt out magic secrets on purpose."

A boy about Bakura's present age with ruby red hair glares out at Dumbledore he was wearing an emerald green Jadeforge uniform. 13 "I don't care what the ministry says, he aint no ordinary muggle, 'sides me mum told me his mother was a witch before she got herself killed" he sneers "you know half the time he pretended to be innocent and forgetful, the other half2 he looks around before continuing "he had a mean streak enjoyed inflicting pain, never touched me though, never seen him touch anyone either but I know it was him who slit me Kneazles throat! It never liked him; it could sense like I could that he was wrong; it knew what he truly was, evil! And he couldn't stand that it would hiss and spit at him so he stopped it, huh, he always claimed he got on well with cats as well" Dumbledore hadn't liked the sound of that it sounded to like a certain Tom Riddle to him. Then again trained Auror's had declared that the boy was in no way responsible, but then they also said he was a muggle and since Ryo Bakura was attending classes at Hogwarts he clearly wasn't a muggle. "Last I saw of him, he was leaving town, him and his creepy doll collection, good riddance I say"

A man with cropped grey hair and a short moustache in a business suit appearing to be bewitched into giving the information. 14 "I am Mr. Pegasus's right hand man, I was present at the Duelist Kingdom Tournament I2 invited several dozen top ranking duelists from around the world to compete including Yugi Motou" he pauses "He was instrumental in the plan to take over Kaiba Corp, Seto Kaiba was in a coma, Mokuba had been kidnapped, the Board of directors at Kaiba Corp promised Mr. Pegasus control of Kaiba Corp if he managed to beat Yugi Motou in a duel, several traps over the island had been arranged in order to measure the strength of Yugi's skills and his deck" he pauses again "Mr. Pegasus was defeated in the duel, he released Mokuba as per the agreement at the start of the duel, Kaiba who had recently came out of his coma flew to the Island and per Mr. Pegasus's request left the Island with him. After the tournament Mr. Pegasus fell ill, he was in recovery for some time, recently he has recovered his strength, after a break in where three rare cards were stolen, a calling card was left with the phrase 'an eye for an eye' upon it, he was furious but soon after his health seemed to increase after the incident"

Dumbledore hadn't know until now that his new Care of Magical Creatures Teacher knew the new students, despite this Duelist Kingdom affair they hadn't voiced any complaints so he could only assume they didn't bare the man a grudge.

A man in a trench-coat and trilby unshaven stubble decorated his chin drinking a slug of scotch in a seedy looking bar. 15 "Sure I know the Kaiba's, slippery Bastards all of them" he states "something big went down during Battle City Kaiba's card game tournament but when I try and investigate" he shrugs "the super 'tendant told me to 'drop it or lose my badge' huh Baka superiors" he downs his drink in one shot. "I'm telling you Kaiba Corps covering something up; do you know there were several severe medical cases handled by Kaiba Corp medics during the tournament? Or none if you go by Kaiba corps official records" he snorts "not to mention the city was crawling with those rare hunting Ghoul creeps during the tournament, purple robes, sadistic nature, stole Duel Monster cards for the black market" mutters "a black market in cards" to himself." I mean back then you couldn't throw a rock without braining a duelist and if you threw ten rocks about half of 'em would have laid out Ghoul's. Even when we arrested them and believe you me they resisted arrest like a stripper resists clothes, didn't do any good though, they refused to talk, one we had, looked like he was gonna break and then up and died of a heart failure…ha that means they have no frickin' idea why he's dead, tox reports came up clean as well. Word on the street said some Arab was in charge the name Rishid was mentioned once or twice…and get this right after Battle city ended all the Ghouls up and disappeared, yep must have turned in their cloaks for another profession, course Kaiba Corps sitting on all the answers, rumor has it the leader of the Ghouls dueled in the finals and lost, which is why the rare hunters were disbanded. If only that bastard Kaiba would give up the Battle city files…!" he slams his glass back onto the counter. "Bartender another dram! Damned Seto Kaiba just as bad as his old man, he was a gangster in a fancy suit, Kaiba's just replaced guns with cards"

He is replaced by another man in a business suit, wearing shades. 16 "I am Seto Kaiba's chief aid" he was under obvious bewitchment, despite this he smiles ironically and adds "for the moment at least, Marik Ishtar did attend Battle City appearing at first under the alias of Namu, he was allowed to compete in the finals even after his true identity was revealed as Master Kaiba thought he had a rare card that he sought, his Sister miss Ishizu Ishtar and brother Odion Ishtar also made and dueled in the finals along and indeed against Yugi Motou, Mai Valentine, Joey 'the mutt' Wheeler, and a boy called Ryo Bakura although not originally entered in the tournament he had obtained six locator cards and a Duel disk So Master Kaiba who was also dueling in the finals allowed him to compete, he fell ill after the first round duel against Yugi Motou and disappeared for a while before returning at the end after Yugi's defeat of Marik." The image wavers and fades the white silvery liquid mist pools back into the pensive.

Dumbledore leans back and frowns this would require a great deal of thought.

Chapter notes

1) I'd just got the world of Narue anime box set and needed a name for a Japanese witch.

2) A pensive where one can view ones memories at ones leisure.

3) I already stated Japanese Wizards would attend an imperial academy of sorcery in china, maybe in this universe world war happened differently and china and Japan don't dislike each other or maybe and more likely the magical populations don't care what happened in a muggle war and so don't share the muggles prejudice

4) Yugi didn't have enough magic until he solved the puzzle and his soul merged with Yami, we can't be sure when Ryo was given the Ring but as he didn't become aware of Bakura until after he touched the Millennium Puzzle, his magic was unstable as his Yami took over his body and he wasn't aware of his existence. (Marik was a tomb keeper he obtained his magic when he took control of the Millennium Rod, but as underworld brat he didn't officially exist. Kaiba always had magic but its full potential started to be unveiled when he lost to Yugi in a duel, and again during battle city.)

5) As previously stated Dumbledore contacted the Media clan to enquire about Marik, the clan claim to know nothing about Marik…or are they protecting the tomb keeper clan?

6) A twist here, Kaiba is the reincarnation of priest Set and many fic's feature him having his own magic, although his magic aura was low, it was significantly higher than Yugi and Ryo's and so he received a letter, his father would of course considered it nonsense or some kind of elaborate joke pulled on him by Seto or Mokuba and wouldn't have let him go.

7) Just a teacher from Domino High, recounting the odd occurrences that surround Yugi. Yugioh Manga duel 1: Yami's penalty game drives a bully insane with his lust for money (he survived but his sanity didn't) and in Duel 4: he saves Tea from a dangerous escaped convict tricking him into setting himself on fire (he died)

8) Yugioh Manga Duel 8: A hip hop shoe shop owner rips of kids including Joey by selling them expensive and exclusive trainers and hiring a street gang to steal them back. Yami played a game with him where they each take turns reaching into a trainer with a scorpion inside to pull out a coin promising to pay the man 10 000 yen for each coin, naturally he cheats and try's to grab them all by stabbing the scorpion, fails and gets stung, (survives, at the end it states that he's been taken to the hospital with a scorpion sting so I decided to have him survive, however his experience drove him insane and just after he's started to recover, he watches the Battle City finals and sight of Yami gives him a relapse, hee, hee, indeed.)

9) Duel 24: Mokuba, Seto Kaiba's brother appears looking for revenge over his brother's defeat they play capsule monsters. Mokuba and his gang were real tough they threatened Yugi with a switchblade, a taser and a machine pistol. Their warehouse was ironically an abandoned warehouse probably used as a hideout for the ghouls during battle city.

10) Just a random ex-Kaiba Corp employee dishing some dirt on Kaiba. Duels 27-40: Project death T Kaiba's attempt to kill Yugi. At the end Yami mind crush's Kaiba shattering his soul leaving a young inner child version of Kaiba to replace the pieces one at a time to rebuild his soul. During Yugioh Duelist volume 2: Kaiba wakes up and becomes nobler, he's still a cunning glory hog with an attitude problem, but he's not nearly as sadistic and twisted as he once was.

11) Bakura's previous teacher from before he moved to Domino and transferred to Domino high.

12) As stated in the Manga Bakura was originally unaware he was possessed by a Yami, he remembered many of his friends who played Monster World slipped into comas and never woke up (their souls were stolen by Yami Bakura)

13) A (wizard) friend of Bakura's who always suspected there was something wrong with him, Almost all cats (Crookshanks excepted) like and respect Bakura and his Yami, the cat like Kneazle however knew he was untrustworthy so Yami Bakura killed it for been…wrong.

14) Pegasus's right hand man Croquet bewitched into giving what little he knows about Duelist kingdom, where Pegasus attempted a hostile take over of Kaiba Corp by kidnapping Mokuba. Yami Bakura returned the Millennium Eye which improved his health stealing the sacred beast cards while he's at it.

15) A bad ass OC Detective, unlike the previous one, he's the sort of cop who doesn't mind cutting corners to get results, hasn't got a few grasses, is in charge of an entire lawn type of guy, reminiscing about Battle City and the Ghouls.

16) Kaiba's right hand man Roland a loyal and obedient Kaiba Corp Exec.

Trailer-next time on HP and the MI

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