Hey everyone,
So this story is actually a crossover, but I checked the whole site and all possible search features and couldn't find this series as a category. However, I really like this series and while I won't be stupid enough to use the actual names of the people in the series, do I still hope that you will recognize said series.
Have fun,

Venquine1990

Preview #11
To Want A Hero

3rd of September
Transfigurations class
McGonagall's POV

Hogwarts is going through some horrid times and that horrible monster known as Voldemort isn't even the one responsible. Instead we are suffering under the tyranny of a woman who has no sense of style or color taste and who thinks that the Ministry is something that can oppress whoever they please when and wherever they please.
And the fact that this is happening because Albus just can't convince Fudge that Voldemort has returned and that my favorite little lion is the one suffering the most directly under this woman's tyranny is something I can barely stomach, yet I just know that, if I intervene, I will probably only make things worse for him.
"No, there is nothing I can do. I can only advise him to keep his head low and hope his hormones won't get the better of him." Is what goes through my mind as I teach the boy in question as well as his year mates of both his own House and Hufflepuff, yet then my lecture gets interrupted by a gentle knock on the door.

I look at this shocked and when I give my vocal response, does a middle-aged man with sleek brown hair, clear American facial traits and a suit that looks like a perfect mix between the Muggle every day cloths and a Magical set of robes enters the office with a small briefcase in hand and the man looks behind him before closing the door.
This confuses and worries me and the man seems to check one last time to see something he seems to hope not to see before he says: "Forgive my paranoia and my sudden intrusion, Professor McGonagall, but I'm afraid I must replace your lesson plan for today with something more – vitally important, I believe is the best term."
This normally would have made me feel angry and insulted, yet the gentle, caring tone of the man's voice with a hint of concern and warning hidden underneath calms my usual anger and I ask: "I understand. How can I help you?" And the man smiles: "Thank you for your understanding. My name is Connor Lones.

I am a Locator." This term confuses me and the man looks around before his eyes land on first Mr. Potter and then Mr. Weasley before he says: "Say something or someone were to separate all of the Weasley siblings and their parents, who – years later – would want them back. If they do so, they come to me and I reunite them all."
This seems to amaze and intrigue me and then, while I can clearly hear his American accent, does he then turn to me and say: "And while I usually only have jobs in America, did I now get a job from two people who, while born here, were taken from their homes, put in America and kept there for the last 14 years – 5 of which against their wills."
This shocks my entire class, the Hufflepuffs even gasping slightly louder than some of my Lioness Cubs and I move away from my desk and blackboard as I say: "Please Mr. Lones, tell us everything." And the man smiles and nods at me before he takes my spot at the front of the class and with everyone focused on him, he says:

"Let me start by saying I have never had a case like this in my entire career. I never had a case outside my home country and I have never had to jump as many hoops or get as much back-up or feel as cautious with my actions as I did with this case. Yet at the same time, I have never felt more determined to see a case through."
This instantly earns the man the admiration of my entire class and he takes a deep breath before he says: "A month ago, I was approached by a young couple, one who are in their mid-thirties and who were in their early twenties when they lost their son. They have been wanting him back for years, but were constantly kept at bay.
And the way that their son was taken from them as well as who took their son from them – those are the two factors that make me as determined as I feel." This makes me conjure a chair for myself and take a seat between the table of Mss. Granger and Mr. Longbottom and the one Mr. Potter shares with Mr. Weasley as Mr. Lones says:

"Fifteen years ago, a secret agent of the Department of Mysteries tricked a murderer into wanting to attack the young couple who are my case. The attack of this murderer was then predicted and interrupted by a group of Unspeakables, Aurors and Hit-Wizards, the latter two cursing the killer with spells taught to them by the first party.
Yet by the time that this attack was over, the Aurors and Hit-Wizards done and the killer taken down, but not out, the Aurors and Hit-Wizards suddenly noticed that, while both the parents and their son had been with them at the start of the attack, only the child was actually left in what was now a wreckage of a house.
And then the Aurors and Hit-Wizards were actually taken by the same Unspeakables again, yet at the same time the parents were shipped off to the American Department Of Mysteries and here they were kept for five years before they escaped. Since then, they have tried getting back to England and their son for years – without success."

This story has my entire class gasping for breath, my female students holding onto each other and some of them even crying in pain for the suffering the parents would have had to go through and then the man takes another deep breath, making many of my students sit on the edge of their seats as he continues and says:
"Please note that, like I said, I have taken care to make sure I have as much backup as I can get and I have already spoken with the President of the MACUSA. Rest assured that, at this very moment, the entire American Department of Mysteries is being thrown through their Veil of Death before the President herself will destroy that.
And I already have confirmation from the International Confederation of Warlocks and the MACUSA together that the same fate will befall this country's Department." Yet this instantly shocks me as I think: "If that Department gets destroyed, won't that instantly make the Order's most important mission invalid?"

Yet I ignore that question for the sake of the situation at hand and Mr. Lones says: "Now as for the escaped parents; they tried for years to get back to England and reunite with their son, yet both your former Minister as well as both Departments of Mysteries have kept ruining all of their efforts for five years straight.
After this, the parents decided to – as painfully as it was to them – just wait for their son to turn 17 – in two years from now – and to then send him a message that, they hoped, would initiate him into finding him. The reason I am here now, instead of them waiting even longer or me being here sooner – is because they never knew of me."
Here the man stops, pain visible in his eyes as he says: "I cannot describe how desperate they were when they came seeking me out. They only had to get my confirmation that I do indeed seek family members out in hopes of reuniting them before they actually started to beg me to get them back with their son, who they missed so much."

This story really has me close to tears and then the man looks back up at my students and me and he says: "I worked as hard as I could in the last week to see this case done, however there is still one thing I have yet to explain to you all; the reason your former Minister and the two Departments did all this in the first place."
This makes many of my students share concerned and curious looks with each other and then my heart misses a beat as well as my eyes widening as I see Mr. Lones turn to Mr. Potter with a heartfelt gaze as he says four words that break my entire world to bits: "They wanted – a hero." And instantly all eyes turn to Mr. Potter as well.

Okay, that happened.
So, why do you think Lones looked behind himself before he entered the classroom? What do you think the implications of all this will be like? And what did you think of what Minister Bagnold fabricated together with the two Department of Mysteries? And finally, who do you think is the DoM's Secret Agent mentioned?
Hope you know,

Venquine1990

Further Story Parts:

Harry gets reunited with his parents.

Lily and James risk a lot by actually being in Dumbledore's office while waiting for their son.

Harry demands of Dumbledore he gets Remus and Sirius to his office.

With the permission from Dumbledore and McGonagall, do more and more students leave Hogwarts for Ilvermory as they don't feel safe in England given their Ministry's past

Umbridge tries to stop the destruction of the Department of Mysteries, yet gets thrown through the Veil for this.

The Secret Agent tries to actually kill Lily and James, so that the Ministry can keep their scapegoat, yet gets overpowered by the Order

Voldemort overruns the entire Ministry for their disgusting act, yet fails to kill Arthur Weasley, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Nymphadora Tonks and Amelia Bones as all four of them have already resigned from their jobs before his attack

The President of the MACUSA instantly grants Sirius a full pardon upon arriving in America and he takes on his full role as Harry's godfather.

Molly, at first, refuses to believe that the Ministry could have done anything like what Lones implies, yet resigns to the truth when she sees that Lily and James are indeed alive

The entire Order divides itself between leaving England out of disgust and going to work at either Hogwarts or Hogsmeade until the war is over

After overrunning the Ministry, Voldemort grants amnesty to Hogwarts and Hogsmeade, granted that they don't turn against his actions and control over the rest of magical Britain, yet promises not to do anything in regards to influencing anyone younger than eighteen.

While in constant distrust of each other, Voldemort and Dumbledore grow to work together until, thanks to a stray curse cast upon Ravenclaw's Diadem by a curious third year, they both die of mortality and old age respectively.

Harry's great-grandson actually goes to Hogwarts for a single year as an exchange program between Hogwarts and Ilvermory and befriends heirs from Order members who stayed in England, aka McGonagall, Hestia Jones, Kingsley Shacklebolt, Dedalus Diggle.