Authors Note
This is a Harry Potter / X-Men crossover fic ...... enjoy
This will serve as the disclaimer for the whole fic
I do not own Harry potter or the x-men. Harry Potter belongs to JK Rowling and the x-men belong to
Stan lee and Marvel Comics
Stuff in quotes with squiggles ("~stuff~") = thoughts
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Chapter 4 – The New Look
As the group of friends made their way into the dining room just off the kitchen the majority of the X-Men, Professor Xavier, Tonks, and a large group of the students from the institute were already in the room arranged around the large dining table. As the small group found seats there was a voice in Harry's head "~Harry, I will be giving everyone a few basics about the wizarding world and your past years at Hogwarts and some of your summers; is there anything you would rather I left out?~" said Professor Xavier.
Harry who was sitting between Scott and Jean looked slightly nervous for a second but then he felt a hand gripping his own, as he looked under the table he saw Jean holding onto his left hand. Suddenly he heard another voice in his mind, this one was a lot softer and more feminine; it was Jean, "~Harry, you're not alone in any of this anymore.~" she said.
Harry made his decision "Professor, please explain everything that you need to." He said, but in his head he continued "~but please leave out the stuff at the Dursley's before I was at Hogwarts.~". Harry thought this but didn't expect a reply so when one came it was a bit of a shock "~Certainly Harry, any thing else?~" came Professor Xavier's voice.
Just then several dishes of food floated in from the kitchen, as this was happening Harry noticed that Tonks had her wand out and looked like she was controlling the floating plates "Everybody duck!" he cried. At this most of the students did actually duck and Kurt actually bamfed out of range of the plates not a second too soon, as just then the Wingardium Leviosa charm that Tonks had cast started to wear off and the plates started to go all over the place. Just before they got completely out of control, Jean managed to catch them and guide the mad plates to the proper places on the table.
Once the students and X-Men had helped themselves to the various dishes that had been cooked for them Professor Xavier started to speak "Now you may have noticed we have some Guests at the moment, well the Young lady to my left is Miss Nymphadora Tonks…" at this the Professor Received one of the Harshest death glares anyone at the table had ever seen, "Sitting in between Scott and Jean is their nephew Harry Potter and opposite him is his very good friend Ron Weasley. Now as you all know the majority of mutants are able to keep their gifts secret, well all over the world there is a section of society that has been able to separate itself from the majority of the population. This is the Wizarding world and our three visitors are part of this. Now Mr Potter is famous in the wizarding world for defeating the dark wizard known as Voldemort when he was only a year old. Since he joined Hogwarts at 11 he has faced either Voldemort or some minion of his each year at the school. In his fourth year because of a Death eater in disguise he was entered into the Tri-wizard Tournament and at the end of the third task in the tournament Voldemort regained his body and is now launching attacks on a lot of people and places in the UK. Up until spring this year his return was denied by the wizarding government and only because of an attack in the ministry that Harry and a small group of his friends were able to fend off is Voldemort's return now known to the public and is acknowledged by the Ministry of Magic. This is in part the reason that Mr's Potter and Weasley are now with us; they are in hiding. The other reason is that Harry obviously has family here, and he and Mr Weasley can receive combat training so they can defend themselves if needed. Now lets eat before this goes cold." With a cry of "Here, Here" from Ron they all settled down to the food.
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The next day at ten o'clock found Harry in an empty classroom with Tonks covering the Theory of Metamorphamagi. Harry had breezed through a lot of this, but instead of making a show of it, Tonks could see he actually understood it. Because of this she decided to move onto the practical part of the lessons
"Metamorphamagus training is much like Animagus training except instead of concentrating on changing arms or legs into paws or wing or other limbs, you concentrate on changing characteristics of yourself such as Eye colour, Hair colour, Skin tone, build, height, and so on" said Tonks, "So first get a good picture of yourself in your head and then pick an area you want to change. The easiest ones to start with in your case would be your scar and your eyes" she finished.
Harry was standing in front of a large mirror and concentrating on his face and as he watched the skin around his scar started to change so it was not shiny and along the length of the scar itself it looked as if it were being removed by a pencil eraser until the whole of his forehead looked as if there had never been a scar there. Next Harry began to concentrate on his eyes, again he watched as they slowly began to change from the intense emerald green that he knew so well, to a dark blue that was just as intense as before.
Harry, pleased with his success turned around looking for Tonks but she was no longer there. In her place there was a boy, about his age with reddish brown hair, the same intense dark blue eyes as his own currently were. The newcomer was about six or seven inches taller than Harry and was much broader and had a much more athletic build then Harry did.
"Who are you?" asked Harry
"Well my name is James Summers, but you can call me Tonks" Said Harry's teacher, "I just thought you might like a sneak peek at your new look." Tonks finished whilst changing back to her self with a grin on her face.
"How did you come up with the new face and body then, eh?" asked Harry, Intrigued
"Well, me, Professor Xavier, along with Scott and Jean spent a lot of time with a morphing program and photos of the aforementioned Scott and Jean and this is what we came up with. They then created a hologram of it so I could get the whole change correct. Once you get the hang of changing all the body parts we'll get to work on changing them to the new you 'kay." Replied Tonks "Actually one thing before I forget; all metamorphamagi have a 'home form' and there are spells that can force you back to this so once you have the transformation down as the 'home form' can be set to another form I'm afraid we are going to have to set that to the new you. After that we will explain your shapeshifting as a mutant ability so hopefully no one will think to try the spells on you." She continued
"So basically I have to give up my life as Harry Potter." Stated Harry, "If that's what has to be done, so be it." He said grimly, then with a grin he added "Well at least I won't have people gawking at my forehead or have to put up with any of 'The-Boy-Who-Lived' crap!"
Just then Scott strode into the room and threw a small cube with a button to Harry. As he caught the strange object he asked curiously "What's this?"
"That is the Hologram of the new you, if I'm not mistaken." Said Tonks, looking to Scott for confirmation. When he nodded in reply she grinned. "Now you have a model to work from instead of using me." She said. "Yeah" Scott added "We need to get this up and running pretty damn quickly so you can practice before going back to Hogwarts" he finished.
Harry turned around to look at Scott. "Well you seem to have a good start on things then" He said. Harry grinned as his features shifted again and Scott found himself looking at a younger double of himself. "A very good start on things then." He muttered, out loud he said "How did you manage to get so far so quickly? From what Tonks told us all when we were setting up the hologram it should have taken a few weeks to get that fast and accurate." Asked Scott, curiously.
"I would like to know that too, actually." Said Tonks
Harry blushed, "Well whilst I was at Privet Drive, I had a LOT of time on my hands, probably because of the threats you, Moody, and Mr Weasley made to Vernon. Anyway 'cause I had so much free time this year, I spent a lot of it studying, trying to find things that could be useful for when I have to face Lord Evil-Tattoo-Artist again. One of the most useful things I found was information about the animagus transformation, so I thought this would be one of the best ways to hide from the afore mentioned. The other main topic I read up on was oculmency but if anything I did worse then when Snape was trying to teach me." Said Harry
"Well considering the way that you just changed into Mr Summers over there…", Scott Interrupted "Call me either Scott or Cyclops or any thing apart from Mr Summers. Makes me feel ancient otherwise.", Tonks continued "Well considering the way you changed into Scotty Boy over there, I reckon we ought to have you up and running in about a week or so. Especially now that you have a model to work from." said Tonks, who was still looking rather shocked, but also immensely proud of her pupil. Harry noticed this and as he looked at Scott he saw a very similar expression on his face as well; one of pride.
(A.N. this is a change of P.O.V)
Scott was hurrying to the classroom where he knew his nephew's Metamorphamagus training was being conducted. He was to deliver a Holographic model to Harry's tutor so they had a practice model for Harry to work from. As Scott entered the room he tossed the small holographic device at Harry. As Harry caught the small cube with what looked to be amazing reflexes he asked "What's this?" in a questioning tone of voice. The Young woman who last night and whilst they were working on the model, explained a lot about the wizarding world and what Harry had faced in his past at Hogwarts replied "That is the Hologram of your new self if I'm not mistaken" She said sounding pleased "Now you have a model to work from instead of using me" She grinned. "Yeah" he added "we need to get this up and running pretty damn quickly so you can practice before going back to Hogwarts" He finished.
Just then Harry turned around to look at him, as he did Scott got a good look at his eyes and forehead; Harry's eyes that used to be so like those belonging to Jean Grey had changed to an extremely intense dark blue and his forehead was clear of any marks.
"Well you seem to have a good start on things then" he commented. Harry grinned again and suddenly his features shifted until Scott was looking at a younger version of himself. "A very good start then, how did you manage to get so far so quickly?" he asked, intreigued. "I'd like to know that too" said Tonks.
Harry burned red at this. When his face had calmed do he said "Well whilst I was at Privet Drive, I had a LOT of time on my hands, probably because of the threats you, Moody, and Mr Weasley made to Vernon. Anyway 'cause I had so much free time this year, I spent a lot of it studying, trying to find things that could be useful for when I have to face Lord Evil-Tattoo-Artist again. One of the most useful things I found was information about the animagus transformation, so I thought this would be one of the best ways to hide from the afore mentioned. The other main topic I read up on was occulmency but if anything I did worse then when Snape was trying to teach me." Said Harry
"Well considering the way that you just changed into Mr Summers over there…", here Scott felt he had to Interrupt or he would be stuck as Mr Summers for the rest of the summer "Call me either Scott or Cyclops or any thing apart from Mr Summers. Makes me feel ancient otherwise" he said. Tonks continued "Well considering the way you changed into Scotty Boy over there, I reckon we ought to have you up and running in about a week or so. Especially now you have a model to work from."
Scott looked over at Tonks and saw a shocked expression on her face but he could detect something else there as well; pride in her pupil. As he saw this he felt something similar himself but it wasn't quite the same, this felt more like the pride a father felt for a son.
"Oh yes, before I forget, you have a Danger Room session in twenty minutes with Ron. Go wearing clothes you feel comfortable duelling in." said Scott, and then laughed at the expression he saw on his nephews face. "No you wont be duelling Ron, but you will be duelling deatheaters; Tonks helped us set up a scenario." He finished.
Harry rushed out of the room followed by Tonks, obviously to go and prepare for the practice session ahead. Scott left at a more leisurely pace to go and find Professor Xavier.
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On his way to the room he shared with Ron, Bobby, and Kurt, Harry decided to play a joke on the trio. Concentrating on a mental image of his best friend, Harry's features started to change and by the time he had reached the room he was a perfect replica of his best friend and then he entered the room.
Ron, Kurt and Bobby were sitting around a small table and they were playing exploding snap, Kurt was facing the door and Ron had his back to the door. As Kurt was about to go out he looked up and without thinking said "Hey Ron" and was just about to go back to playing when his brain started to kick in "~uh I'm playing this exploding snap with Ron and Ron just walked in the door; what the hell is going on?~".
Just then Bobby noticed there were two Ron's in the room, however his brain was working a bit more clearly and he growled "Alright Mystique, what game are you playing this time?", the other Ron said cheerily "Well I'm not playing any games but looks to me like you lot are playing Exploding Snap".
The Ron sitting at the table was thinking furiously and then slapped himself on the forehead "We never did explain to you guys what a metamorphamagus is did we?" he asked. The other two in the room shook their heads, at this the other Ron's features shifted back to Harry "A metamorphamagus is a wizard that can change their appearance at will, I mentioned that we found out Harry is a metamorphamagus yesterday when we were outside. Because there was an identical copy of me in the room I would guess that Harry had been training and has picked it up rather quickly." He finished
"You're right on the picking it up quickly, but then when I was stuck with the muggles the amount of studying I did was phenomenal and one of the things I was trying to learn was the animagus transformation; I didn't have much luck with it but in its own way this is even better plus a lot of what I had read and tried has been really useful so…. Anyway Tonks reckons I ought to be up and running in a week or two at the most, now come on; I came to get you for a danger room session that Scott said we had in 20 minutes and that was 10 minutes ago." At this Ron blanched "Don't worry" Harry added "Tonks got them to set up some magical type scenarios for us. Just dress in clothes you feel comfortable in" he finished. At this the pair changed quickly and the group of four headed down to the danger room. When they got there the two X-Students went up to the control room to watch.
Harry and Ron waited outside the door for a few seconds;
"You ready?" asked Harry,
"As good as I'm gonna get" replied Ron.
"Now don't forget this is not real but we need to treat it as if it was 'kay." Said Harry
"Right; I'm good. Lets go do this" said Ron looking a lot steadier
Just then the green light above the door came on so Harry hit the button to open the door. As the stainless steel door lifted the pair walked slowly into the room…..
(A.N. Sorry for leaving you all on a cliffy but this was the ideal place to leave off and it gives you all something to look forward to)
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Voting and Opinions
1. I am considering reforming the marauders in this and I want the kids of Padfoot and Moony involved (O.C.s I know)
I would like opinions on this and suggestions for names
2. Even though Harry is a metamorphamagus should I give him an animagus form as well. I don't know if that is possible in canon but I don't want to give Harry (Or anyone for that matter) Gary stu/Mary sue syndrome
In this case I would like opinions and suggestions for forms. With the forms I will pick my favourites and post a vote next chapter
Reviewer Thanks
Sorry I cant be bothered to do individual reviwer thanks but thanks to the following:
Padfootgrim
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Hogwarts' A History Girl
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