Pirates and wizards
Disclaimer: I don't own either Pirates of the Caribbean or Harry Potter
Authors Note: First things first. In the movie Pintel and Ragetti said that Bootstrap was with them when they first got the Aztec medallions, and then Barbosa sent him on a trip to Davy James Locker. Which means that he was cursed as well with the whole moonlight-thing and could've just walked straight to shore. And I also figure that this curse works on people who have been under it for a few years, and not for such a short while as Jack was.
Thanks to my good friend and beta, Paladin Steelbreaker.
Chapter Eight
It took some time to convince Bootstrap that what they told him was true. In the end they had to resort to showing him some of their powers to make him believe. By the end of it the man was confused and bewildered, yet still determined to come along on this wild adventure.
"Ye quite sure ye want te come?" Jack asked for the final time. "Once we start there's no backing out, and remember that we're gonna fight in a magical war. And magic can do a lot o' damage."
Bootstrap sighed. "For the last time Jack, I'm coming along and there's nothing you can do about it; besides, this also concerns me and you'll need the Turner blood to break the curse." Then he chuckled. "I assume that was magic which kept us from coming aboard?"
Harry nodded and smiled gratefully. "Thank ye, Mr Turner."
"Bootstrap lad. Call me Bootstrap." He stood up and stretched. "Well, you take care of your crew and I'll ask mine if they want to come. I'll have to tell them everything of course, and you'll probably need to demonstrate those powers again, but I believe most of them will come with us."
Jack nodded. "Take down the spell, Green-Eyes."
"Stop callin' me that!" Harry growled but took the spell down so that they could get out.
"Whatever."
"GAAAH!!!!" Harry stomped out of the cabin leaving two very amused captains behind.
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"The crew's goin' with us, whelp." Jack said half-an-hour later. "I think that Sparrow-charm has worked too well fer ye."
Harry grinned. "What can an 'onest lad do?"
"Just like I said te Barbossa: Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man ye can always trust to be dishonest.... honestly. It's the honest ones ye want te watch out fer, because ye can never predict when they're gonna do somethin' incredibly... stupid." At that moment Harry tried to hex him and Jack jumped out of the way. "See what I mean?"
"Yer impossible." Harry rolled his eyes fondly.
Both of them looked up when Bootstrap came back onboard with most of his own crew following. "They want to see magic to believe it."
"Well, then," Jack cracked his fingers. "That shouldn't be too difficult."
"No wait," Harry's green eyes twinkled in a devilish way. "I have a better idea."
Jack raised his eyebrows but didn't say a thing. Both crews watched as Harry quickly climbed the mast. He walked along the beam holding the sail, slipped and drew gasps from both crews as he fell. He had almost reached the deck when he suddenly disappeared. The others blinked and looked around, and only Jack and Anamaria noticed the golden eagle sitting on top of the mast. They smiled and shook their heads, Harry had pulled that trick on them several times before, and each and every time had nearly given them a heart attack.
"Where did he go?!" Bootstrap demanded from Jack, and the other man just pointed up. "That's just an eagle, Jack. Where did Harry go?"
"I've got one word fer ye, Bootstrap. Magic, savvy?"
"You mean that that bird is...?"
Jack just smirked and went over to Anamaria. "How long do you think he's gonna keep 'em on their toes this time?"
"Hmm, a minute I'd wager." The woman grinned. "Then again, 'ere 'e comes."
The eagle swooped down and landed in the middle of the deck. The crews watched it and the crew from the Pearl groaned and shook their heads. They had once again fallen for the same stupid trick! The crew of the Stormeagle however, jumped in shock when the eagle turned into Harry. Their mouths agape and their eyes bulging out of their heads they watched as Jack and Anamaria stalked over to the young man.
"Never, ever do that again!" Anamaria shrieked. "How many bloody times do I 'ave te tell ye?!" then she whacked him up the head, before hugging him.
"I really like that trick," Jack grinned. "We really need te find out if I'm an animagi as well."
"I don't doubt ye are," Harry grinned. "I think ye'd be a great animal with top instincts and everyone would be afraid o' ye. In other words: a penguin." He continued then hurried off before Jack could curse him.
Anamaria chuckled but marked it as a cough when the pirate glared at her. Jack shook his head and turned to a gob smacked Bootstrap and crew. "So, comin' or not?"
"I'm in, that you know." Bootstrap said after managing to pick his jaw off the deck. "What about the rest of you?" he looked at his own crew.
"Those who ain't comin' with us we'll leave at Port Royal," Jack said seeing the slightly worried looks. "We're goin' there first."
"Can we make up our mind while we sail to Port Royal and then give you our answers?" a sailor asked. It was the same young man that had walked first across the plank when Bootstrap came aboard the Pearl for the first time.
"Sure ye can!" Harry grinned as he appeared balancing on the rail beside the man. "How long 'til we get there with yer 'elp, Jack?"
"A day and a night without rest." Jack replied after thinking about it.
"Enough fer ye?" Harry turned back to the young man who was staring at him with wide eyes.
"Enough for me." An older sailor replied and several others nodded.
"'Tis decided then!" the green-eyed young man jumped off the rail and walked up to the helm. "The decision is te be made once we reach Port Royal."
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The journey to Port Royal took them one day and one night, exactly what Jack had predicted. The pirate-captain used his control over Air to make strong winds that worked in their favours, and Bootstrap stared at the man for a second before mumbling something about should have known with all his wondrous escapes and escapades.
Harry smiled and looked down on deck. "Port Royal straight ahead, ye can slow down Jack!"
Jack nodded and did just that.
Once again they docked away from the main port, and walked into town disguised in capes that Bootstrap had lent them. Said man was coming with Harry and Jack this time. He wanted to meet his son, daughter-in-law and his grandchild before he left.
It didn't take long to reach the mansion, and Christine let them in at once before hurrying off to find her employers. Will and Elizabeth walked into the room looking slightly confused as they hadn't expected Harry and Jack for another couple of days. When they saw Bootstrap standing there, both their mouths dropped.
"Father?" Will whispered.
Bootstrap smiled and nodded. "Hello son."
"My god!" Elizabeth mumbled and Harry placed a chair under her as her legs gave out.
"But why didn't you come before?" Will asked.
"Had to chase down Jack here, a difficult thing on its own, then I had to find out where you were, and the Caribbean is big."
"Can we 'urry along with this?" Jack asked unusually jumpy and nervous. "We 'ave somethin' te discuss with ye, so ye both better sit down."
Will had learned to trust Jack over the years, and sat down beside his wife. Then Jack started to tell the entire tale once again, and once again both he and Harry had to show off their magical skills. By the end the two Turner's were silent. An exchanged look, and they had both made up their minds.
"If you're going to the future, we're coming along." Elizabeth said and stood up. "There's nothing for me here. My father died a year ago, Jacqueline can grow up just as well in your future, Will is willing to come along, and if what you say is true – that girls can wear pants and whatnots – then I'm definitely coming along. I really am sick of these corsets."
Bootstrap was about to protest but stopped when he saw the looks the other three men were sending him. All three of them knew that to argue with Elizabeth when she was in this mood would be pointless from experience. Thought Harry did feel obliged to ask her once again if she wanted to expose her family to a Wizarding war. She just stared at him and declared that he was as much family as Jack was, then hurried off to pack some clothes and to find Jacqueline.
"Yer wife's impossible, Will." Jack said and shook his head.
Will shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
Harry had been thinking about the fact that the people from this age had no idea exactly what they could meet in the future, and in the end he decided on a course of action. He would use a spell and transfer his knowledge of the future to them, but that he could do back at the ship as they didn't have time now. Elizabeth had showed up again dressed in pants and a shirt, Jacqueline was dressed in the same manner as her mother and kept completely quiet knowing that this was an important and dangerous mission they were on.
"We're ready." Elizabeth said and put on a cloak while handing another to Will. She pulled the hood up. "Shall we get going?"
Harry and Jack nodded and led the way. They avoided the town itself and stuck to the roads around it until they came to the beach where the boat had been left. Bootstrap, Will, Elizabeth and Jacqueline took the boat while Harry flew ahead as an eagle and Jack walked on the water beside the boat. Elizabeth blinked and tried not to stare, but found her eyes constantly drawn to the water-walking man. Jack grinned and nodded to her before going on ahead to the Pearl where he was pulled aboard by Harry.
Jacqueline giggled and Elizabeth started to explain things to her. Will shook his head while Bootstrap didn't even bother to shrug his shoulders. He was getting used to the weirdness of Harry and Jack.
The crew helped the Turner's aboard the Stormeagle, then Bootstrap came over to the Pearl. "What now? Where do we go from here?" he asked Jack.
"Green-Eyes here has an idea." Anamaria nodded towards Harry. "'E wants te give us all 'is knowledge o' the future so that we can survive easier."
"And what o' those who want te stay?" Harry added.
"Yes, that. We'll let them off first." Bootstrap said. It didn't take long for them to get rid of those who didn't want to come along. There were only two from the Pearl who didn't come along, and not surprisingly it was Tipper and Pete as those two had never really liked Harry. From the Stormeagle there were a few more, but not so many that they couldn't handle the ship with those left.
Once Harry had done the spell he shook his head. "We're ready te go Jack."
"I'm not," Anamaria mumbled and held her head in her hands. "I 'ave an 'eadache. Ah, so those self-movin' carriages are called cars."
Jack shook his head to clear it and blinked several times. "Right. Ready Bootstrap?"
"As I'll ever be."
"Alright, then just follow me Pearl as close as ye can, savvy?" Bootstrap nodded and went over to his own ship to prepare. "Man the braces ye scurvy dogs!" Jack ordered and hurried up to the helm. He watched as Harry quickly climbed up to the crows nest, before he looked down at the magical ring. He pressed the diamond and said: "Diamanto!"
Right in front of the Pearl the air shimmered and he steered his ship that way. The Stormeagle followed though both crews looked highly anxious and worried.
To anyone watching they would see two ships gradually disappearing into thin air. Another shimmer of air came and life would go back to the normal. Those that saw the two ships disappear just blinked and mumbled something about hallucinating before hurrying into Port Royal to get drunk in hopes that the whole thing would be forgotten tomorrow.
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There, that's done. What do you think? And next chapter we go back to Hogwarts and their reactions to Pirate!Harry!
Thanks to:
Andine, Lunawolf, ReginaLucifer, chaser1, Launigsiae, MikiBaby, meoio, persona non grata, Korinna Myorin, Say Cheese!, Luna Negra, gaul1, Jeni Black, ERMonkey Queen of Insanity, WolfMoon, crazley, HecateDeMort, Kevin- McKay, eriee, Luna Excel Chi Lupin Sparrow, Rhysel Ash, Jupiter's Light, Digi Bonds, makulit, Fiery Phoenix, Firesenshi2, Lindiel Eryn, ShanniC, walker_in_the_shadows_99, Siri Kat, tat1, Foxy13, Prongsblacks, KC, insanechildfanfic, misty43, The Lady Reaper of the Shadows, the-Viking-with- the-blue-sword, cantfindagoodname, HarryPotter21, Calmest Card, Mr. Happy Java Man, SSSRoaB, Spizzy the Headless Spaz, Lyra Pendragon, :-), Serpent of Light, jesphoenix05, LuluIsALobster, Loony Moony, remmia, Fate, Coyote Anais, cheatachu82, Nyoko, logan, Darkfire1 and Ying FA18.
Disclaimer: I don't own either Pirates of the Caribbean or Harry Potter
Authors Note: First things first. In the movie Pintel and Ragetti said that Bootstrap was with them when they first got the Aztec medallions, and then Barbosa sent him on a trip to Davy James Locker. Which means that he was cursed as well with the whole moonlight-thing and could've just walked straight to shore. And I also figure that this curse works on people who have been under it for a few years, and not for such a short while as Jack was.
Thanks to my good friend and beta, Paladin Steelbreaker.
Chapter Eight
It took some time to convince Bootstrap that what they told him was true. In the end they had to resort to showing him some of their powers to make him believe. By the end of it the man was confused and bewildered, yet still determined to come along on this wild adventure.
"Ye quite sure ye want te come?" Jack asked for the final time. "Once we start there's no backing out, and remember that we're gonna fight in a magical war. And magic can do a lot o' damage."
Bootstrap sighed. "For the last time Jack, I'm coming along and there's nothing you can do about it; besides, this also concerns me and you'll need the Turner blood to break the curse." Then he chuckled. "I assume that was magic which kept us from coming aboard?"
Harry nodded and smiled gratefully. "Thank ye, Mr Turner."
"Bootstrap lad. Call me Bootstrap." He stood up and stretched. "Well, you take care of your crew and I'll ask mine if they want to come. I'll have to tell them everything of course, and you'll probably need to demonstrate those powers again, but I believe most of them will come with us."
Jack nodded. "Take down the spell, Green-Eyes."
"Stop callin' me that!" Harry growled but took the spell down so that they could get out.
"Whatever."
"GAAAH!!!!" Harry stomped out of the cabin leaving two very amused captains behind.
~~~~~~*~~~~~~
"The crew's goin' with us, whelp." Jack said half-an-hour later. "I think that Sparrow-charm has worked too well fer ye."
Harry grinned. "What can an 'onest lad do?"
"Just like I said te Barbossa: Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man ye can always trust to be dishonest.... honestly. It's the honest ones ye want te watch out fer, because ye can never predict when they're gonna do somethin' incredibly... stupid." At that moment Harry tried to hex him and Jack jumped out of the way. "See what I mean?"
"Yer impossible." Harry rolled his eyes fondly.
Both of them looked up when Bootstrap came back onboard with most of his own crew following. "They want to see magic to believe it."
"Well, then," Jack cracked his fingers. "That shouldn't be too difficult."
"No wait," Harry's green eyes twinkled in a devilish way. "I have a better idea."
Jack raised his eyebrows but didn't say a thing. Both crews watched as Harry quickly climbed the mast. He walked along the beam holding the sail, slipped and drew gasps from both crews as he fell. He had almost reached the deck when he suddenly disappeared. The others blinked and looked around, and only Jack and Anamaria noticed the golden eagle sitting on top of the mast. They smiled and shook their heads, Harry had pulled that trick on them several times before, and each and every time had nearly given them a heart attack.
"Where did he go?!" Bootstrap demanded from Jack, and the other man just pointed up. "That's just an eagle, Jack. Where did Harry go?"
"I've got one word fer ye, Bootstrap. Magic, savvy?"
"You mean that that bird is...?"
Jack just smirked and went over to Anamaria. "How long do you think he's gonna keep 'em on their toes this time?"
"Hmm, a minute I'd wager." The woman grinned. "Then again, 'ere 'e comes."
The eagle swooped down and landed in the middle of the deck. The crews watched it and the crew from the Pearl groaned and shook their heads. They had once again fallen for the same stupid trick! The crew of the Stormeagle however, jumped in shock when the eagle turned into Harry. Their mouths agape and their eyes bulging out of their heads they watched as Jack and Anamaria stalked over to the young man.
"Never, ever do that again!" Anamaria shrieked. "How many bloody times do I 'ave te tell ye?!" then she whacked him up the head, before hugging him.
"I really like that trick," Jack grinned. "We really need te find out if I'm an animagi as well."
"I don't doubt ye are," Harry grinned. "I think ye'd be a great animal with top instincts and everyone would be afraid o' ye. In other words: a penguin." He continued then hurried off before Jack could curse him.
Anamaria chuckled but marked it as a cough when the pirate glared at her. Jack shook his head and turned to a gob smacked Bootstrap and crew. "So, comin' or not?"
"I'm in, that you know." Bootstrap said after managing to pick his jaw off the deck. "What about the rest of you?" he looked at his own crew.
"Those who ain't comin' with us we'll leave at Port Royal," Jack said seeing the slightly worried looks. "We're goin' there first."
"Can we make up our mind while we sail to Port Royal and then give you our answers?" a sailor asked. It was the same young man that had walked first across the plank when Bootstrap came aboard the Pearl for the first time.
"Sure ye can!" Harry grinned as he appeared balancing on the rail beside the man. "How long 'til we get there with yer 'elp, Jack?"
"A day and a night without rest." Jack replied after thinking about it.
"Enough fer ye?" Harry turned back to the young man who was staring at him with wide eyes.
"Enough for me." An older sailor replied and several others nodded.
"'Tis decided then!" the green-eyed young man jumped off the rail and walked up to the helm. "The decision is te be made once we reach Port Royal."
~~~~~~*~~~~~~
The journey to Port Royal took them one day and one night, exactly what Jack had predicted. The pirate-captain used his control over Air to make strong winds that worked in their favours, and Bootstrap stared at the man for a second before mumbling something about should have known with all his wondrous escapes and escapades.
Harry smiled and looked down on deck. "Port Royal straight ahead, ye can slow down Jack!"
Jack nodded and did just that.
Once again they docked away from the main port, and walked into town disguised in capes that Bootstrap had lent them. Said man was coming with Harry and Jack this time. He wanted to meet his son, daughter-in-law and his grandchild before he left.
It didn't take long to reach the mansion, and Christine let them in at once before hurrying off to find her employers. Will and Elizabeth walked into the room looking slightly confused as they hadn't expected Harry and Jack for another couple of days. When they saw Bootstrap standing there, both their mouths dropped.
"Father?" Will whispered.
Bootstrap smiled and nodded. "Hello son."
"My god!" Elizabeth mumbled and Harry placed a chair under her as her legs gave out.
"But why didn't you come before?" Will asked.
"Had to chase down Jack here, a difficult thing on its own, then I had to find out where you were, and the Caribbean is big."
"Can we 'urry along with this?" Jack asked unusually jumpy and nervous. "We 'ave somethin' te discuss with ye, so ye both better sit down."
Will had learned to trust Jack over the years, and sat down beside his wife. Then Jack started to tell the entire tale once again, and once again both he and Harry had to show off their magical skills. By the end the two Turner's were silent. An exchanged look, and they had both made up their minds.
"If you're going to the future, we're coming along." Elizabeth said and stood up. "There's nothing for me here. My father died a year ago, Jacqueline can grow up just as well in your future, Will is willing to come along, and if what you say is true – that girls can wear pants and whatnots – then I'm definitely coming along. I really am sick of these corsets."
Bootstrap was about to protest but stopped when he saw the looks the other three men were sending him. All three of them knew that to argue with Elizabeth when she was in this mood would be pointless from experience. Thought Harry did feel obliged to ask her once again if she wanted to expose her family to a Wizarding war. She just stared at him and declared that he was as much family as Jack was, then hurried off to pack some clothes and to find Jacqueline.
"Yer wife's impossible, Will." Jack said and shook his head.
Will shrugged his shoulders and smiled.
Harry had been thinking about the fact that the people from this age had no idea exactly what they could meet in the future, and in the end he decided on a course of action. He would use a spell and transfer his knowledge of the future to them, but that he could do back at the ship as they didn't have time now. Elizabeth had showed up again dressed in pants and a shirt, Jacqueline was dressed in the same manner as her mother and kept completely quiet knowing that this was an important and dangerous mission they were on.
"We're ready." Elizabeth said and put on a cloak while handing another to Will. She pulled the hood up. "Shall we get going?"
Harry and Jack nodded and led the way. They avoided the town itself and stuck to the roads around it until they came to the beach where the boat had been left. Bootstrap, Will, Elizabeth and Jacqueline took the boat while Harry flew ahead as an eagle and Jack walked on the water beside the boat. Elizabeth blinked and tried not to stare, but found her eyes constantly drawn to the water-walking man. Jack grinned and nodded to her before going on ahead to the Pearl where he was pulled aboard by Harry.
Jacqueline giggled and Elizabeth started to explain things to her. Will shook his head while Bootstrap didn't even bother to shrug his shoulders. He was getting used to the weirdness of Harry and Jack.
The crew helped the Turner's aboard the Stormeagle, then Bootstrap came over to the Pearl. "What now? Where do we go from here?" he asked Jack.
"Green-Eyes here has an idea." Anamaria nodded towards Harry. "'E wants te give us all 'is knowledge o' the future so that we can survive easier."
"And what o' those who want te stay?" Harry added.
"Yes, that. We'll let them off first." Bootstrap said. It didn't take long for them to get rid of those who didn't want to come along. There were only two from the Pearl who didn't come along, and not surprisingly it was Tipper and Pete as those two had never really liked Harry. From the Stormeagle there were a few more, but not so many that they couldn't handle the ship with those left.
Once Harry had done the spell he shook his head. "We're ready te go Jack."
"I'm not," Anamaria mumbled and held her head in her hands. "I 'ave an 'eadache. Ah, so those self-movin' carriages are called cars."
Jack shook his head to clear it and blinked several times. "Right. Ready Bootstrap?"
"As I'll ever be."
"Alright, then just follow me Pearl as close as ye can, savvy?" Bootstrap nodded and went over to his own ship to prepare. "Man the braces ye scurvy dogs!" Jack ordered and hurried up to the helm. He watched as Harry quickly climbed up to the crows nest, before he looked down at the magical ring. He pressed the diamond and said: "Diamanto!"
Right in front of the Pearl the air shimmered and he steered his ship that way. The Stormeagle followed though both crews looked highly anxious and worried.
To anyone watching they would see two ships gradually disappearing into thin air. Another shimmer of air came and life would go back to the normal. Those that saw the two ships disappear just blinked and mumbled something about hallucinating before hurrying into Port Royal to get drunk in hopes that the whole thing would be forgotten tomorrow.
~~~~~~*~~~~~~
There, that's done. What do you think? And next chapter we go back to Hogwarts and their reactions to Pirate!Harry!
Thanks to:
Andine, Lunawolf, ReginaLucifer, chaser1, Launigsiae, MikiBaby, meoio, persona non grata, Korinna Myorin, Say Cheese!, Luna Negra, gaul1, Jeni Black, ERMonkey Queen of Insanity, WolfMoon, crazley, HecateDeMort, Kevin- McKay, eriee, Luna Excel Chi Lupin Sparrow, Rhysel Ash, Jupiter's Light, Digi Bonds, makulit, Fiery Phoenix, Firesenshi2, Lindiel Eryn, ShanniC, walker_in_the_shadows_99, Siri Kat, tat1, Foxy13, Prongsblacks, KC, insanechildfanfic, misty43, The Lady Reaper of the Shadows, the-Viking-with- the-blue-sword, cantfindagoodname, HarryPotter21, Calmest Card, Mr. Happy Java Man, SSSRoaB, Spizzy the Headless Spaz, Lyra Pendragon, :-), Serpent of Light, jesphoenix05, LuluIsALobster, Loony Moony, remmia, Fate, Coyote Anais, cheatachu82, Nyoko, logan, Darkfire1 and Ying FA18.