It Will Find You.
By Rose Williams.
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Disclaimers: JK Rowling et al owns the Harry Potter universe. Josh Whedon et al own the Buffyverse. I don't even really own this computer.
This is a repost. There are nineteen chapters already written. Daily updates until I get up-to-date.
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Author's Notes: This is in direct contradiction to Don Sample's Harry Potter and the Key of Dagon, which I love. So; the main premise of the story is a long lost relative, maybe two. Giles graduated from Hogwarts and hid his wand. Draco Malfoy will be redeemed. I hope to keep this fic a silly as possible, which is not totally ridiculous.
There is an ongoing collection of challenges I'm answering in this fic. So far they are:
Xander/ Anya. Willow/ Tara. Buffy/ Spike. Hermione/ Draco. Snape [39]/ McGonagall [54]. Giles/ OFC. Gunn/ Fred. Wesley/ Faith.
Angel/ Cordelia. Harry/ Ginny. Dawn/ Ron. Not too lovey dovey.
Xander has magical abilities.
Ginny gets a good nickname.
Gunn and Wesley both have magical heritage (to some extent.) Gunn is Lee Jordan's uncle.
The Fang Gang inc baby Connor and Faith come visit Hogwarts.
Cordelia is a parseltongue.
Wormtail's cheese addiction.
Willow and Tara each build a wand. They eventually Dawn and Anya. Dawn's is rowan wood, possibly with Willow's hair as the core.
Anya writes a book to 'correct' the record on Vengeance Demons, including talking to other demons. Xander is weirded out, but supportive.
Snape uses Veritaserum on Buffy, but doesn't learn anything more than that she was in heaven, not hell.
Giles explains to Willow that she was never introduced to the Wizarding world because the Council ordered him not to.
Snape starts smartening himself up, and the entire school wondering if he is possessed or something.
Black family problems with Xander marrying Anya.
Wizarding test/ requirement for Xander to pass before his next birthday.
Riley makes an appearance, in a psychologist/ strategist and is okay about Spike.
Fred and George perform a Muggle inspired prank on Hagrid/Snape/Dumbledore thinking they are the three tenors and giving a concert, Giles, and one other.
Mention of a non-Scourge vampire.
If you have a challenge you would like me to answer, I'll include if it doesn't clash with what had already been written or challenged. Please email me with 'fanfiction' or the title of this fic in the subject line, thanks.
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Rodney looked first at his wife, and then back to his son.
"You've done well with your life, Xander," he said. "Better than Julie than I could have hoped. You've got your own place, a steady job, a nice girlfriend. So, we'd like to tell you something."
"You were six weeks old when we adopted you," Julie said. "Here are all papers. Willow should be able to track your parents down, shouldn't she?"
Xander nodded numbly. His parents weren't his parents. He wasn't related to Uncle Rory or Cousin Karen. He looked at the pages in front of him. His birth certificate, the form giving him up for adoption, and the papers his parents had signed to claim him.
He looked up at their anxious grins and smiled.
"Thanks," he said. Then he got up and walked out.
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Xander faced Buffy and Willow across the dining room table. They had been sitting like that for about three minutes now. Willow gave it another thirty seconds before someone broke.
"Alright," Xander said, as Willow counted 24. "I had something of an interview with my parents today."
"Interview?" Buffy repeated.
Xander pushed the papers across the table. "I'll need your help, Willow, tracking them down."
"Sure," Willow said, lightly. When she looked up from the papers her eyes held the understanding Xander knew he would find.
Xander had expected her to use the internet. Instead, she simply put her hands over the names on the paper.
"Your mother. She, she died about fifteen years ago."
Xander swallowed. He knew that what he felt was grief. But it was different from when Jesse had died, or Jenny. This was grief for someone he was supposed to meet.
"Your father. I can't find him. He's been hidden by some kind of spell. And the person how knows where he is protected as well. He's in England, though. The closest place I can find is a village called Hogsmeade. I wonder if Giles knows it."
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"Hogsmeade, good lord."
"Is that bad?"
"Maybe. You say that the only person who can tell us where Xander's father is, is hidden somewhere near Hogsmeade?"
"Yes," Willow said for the third time.
"Good lord."
"G-man, tell us something."
"Don't call me that. I'll have to speak to Professor Dumbledore. If Willow's right then someone at Hogwarts knows what's going on. And if someone knows, Dumbledore will too. Although, I'll have to word it carefully, things aren't great there at the moment. Give me the papers."
"Giles, explain," Buffy demanded.
Giles simply waved her away and started going through his drawers.
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"Dear Professor Dumbledore,
It has been too long since I heard anything of the wizarding world. But the signals tend be drowned out in this part of California. Forgive my interruption, I'm sure you're still busy. But a young friend of mine recently discovered he was adopted. His mother's name was Mariana Richardson.
We believe you can help us find his father.
Yours in gratitude,
Rupert Giles."
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Dumbledore sat waiting in his office. He wasn't sure how the meeting would go and was hoping now for quick. Sirius had been on the run before they'd set up the wards on the headquarters, so he should be fine getting from Hogsmeade to the castle as a dog. It was up to the headmaster to wait.
He hoped Harry wasn't reading the delightful map his father had made.
The door to his office opened and Sirius entered. It was hardly a safe place for him to be, but he looked happy about the danger. Dumbledore knew he was doing the right thing.
"Sirius, sit down," Dumbledore said.
Sirius was practically wagging his tail. He looked like he wanted to sniff out the entire room. Dumbledore's tone sobered him a little.
"Harry does not know you're here. Soon you won't be here. No one but I will know where you are. This portkey will take you America. You will have to be disguised as a Muggle."
Sirius looked suspiciously at the headmaster.
"Why am I going to do this?" he asked. "Why am I going halfway across the world and leaving Harry in this mess? How am I going to be able to disguise myself as a Muggle?"
Dumbledore waved his wand as the ceiling and a cloth trunk appeared on the floor between them.
"This is a Muggle suitcase. It contains everything you will need, including instructions on using Muggle appliances."
"Why am I going?" Sirius asked, slowly.
"Mariana had a son."