Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter or The Outsiders.

Chapter One

Just a day in Tulsa, Oklahoma

A trail of smoke ascended from the thin lips of fourteen year old Ponyboy Curtis. The wind blowing the tree's in the vacant lot of Tulsa, Oklahoma, caught the smoke rising from his lips and sent it flowing through out the sky. Hanging in between two skinny fingers was a cigarette, it looked as if he hadn't been smoking it long. Tapping the cigarette before replacing it between his lips, small ashes plummeted to the ground and hissed into nothing as it fall on the green grass.

Ponyboy took another drag on the cigarette, then tossed it on the ground and kicked dirt over it with his dirty, raddy old white converses. Running his fingers back through his short, slicked back black hair, Ponyboy looked around the empty lot for any signs of the gang.

Walking up the side and turning into the vacant lot was the greasy-haired, sixteen year old, Johnny Cade. Johnny's hand were shoved in the front pockets of his jean jacket and is feet scuffed against the the dirt as he mad ehis way to Pon.

"Hey Johnny... you alright?" Pony asked him in relief to see that he didn't have to stay there alone and worry about Socs by himself.

"Yeah.. I'm alright... you got a cancerstick Pony?" Johnny asked him lifting his head up and taking his hands out of hte pocket of his jacket.

Ponyboy nodded and reached into the back pocket of his tight, blue jeans and pulled out a pack of Kools. Sliding out a cigarette he handed it to Johnny who stuck it in his mouth and waited for Pony to light it. Sitckign the pack back in his pocket, Pony then pulled out a small lighter, flipped the top open and lit Johnny's cancerstick.

"So.. what brings you around here Johnnycake?' Pony asked Johnny as he shoved his hands into his jean pockets and leaning against the brick wall of the lot.

"I was looking for you, and Sodopop said you'd be here." Johnny told him taking two drags of the cigarette then throwing it on the ground.

Pony nodded then stopped an looked across the street and noticed the familiar striding figure of twenty-one year old Dallas Winston.

"Hey.. it's Dally." Johnny said seeing him too. The two looked at eachother then headed over the otherside of the street to meet their fellow greaser.

Dallas Winston was always easy to spot, he always had the same stride in his walk. The same cocky, big-tough-man stride.

"Dally... hey Dally wait up man." Johnny called from behind him as him and Pony ran to keep up with Dally.

"Whats up kiddies" Dally greeted them ruffling Johnny's hair and giving Ponyboy a playful, but hard punch in the arm. In his hand, Dally held a half empty beer bottle. He was sucking it down like there was no tomorrow. After taking one last gulp, Dally tossed, it, literally. He tossed it aside and let it smash into the road.

"Hey.. check out what I found. I swiped it at the bookstore." Dally said puling a book out from inside his jacket.

"Bookstore? What were you doing at a bookstore?" Ponyboy asked him raising an eybrow and lookign at Dally.

"I was following some hot babe in there... man was she smoking... she had this real tight-"

"Harry Potter?" Dal's description of the girl was off by Pony turning the book around in his hands and reading the title. Opening up the front cover, Pony read the inside of the jacket cover.

" 'The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle goverments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long strtched of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate -- and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes are never straigthforward, though Harry receives some extraordinary held from the mysterious Half-Blood Prince.' "

"Oh... such a teen tragedy... I think I'm gonna cry." Dally said sarcastically grabbing the hard cover book back form Ponyboy.

"Hey.. cut it out Dal, it sounds pretty interesting." Johnny said grabbing the book and looking at it. "Hey maybe you can read this bok to me Pony, sounds cool."

Dally grabed the book back and opened up to a random page and started reading. "Harry spun around to see..." he paused, " Her... her-my... her-my."

"Hermione." Pony corrected Dally peeking over his shoulder.

Pushing him away, Dally continued, "Harry spun around to see Hermione pointing her wand at Ron." Dally chuckled closing the book shut. "Ha... Ron... what kinda name is that... It's not even a name.. it's three letters long."

Grabbing the book, Pony held it in his hands and said, "I'm heading back to the house, you guys coming?" he asked the door as he took off in the direction of the Curtis' house.

Johnny and Dallas followed him closed behind.

Once home. Pony found that all the rested of the greaser gang was there. Darry was sitting in the large chair lifting dumbell, Two-Bit was sitting in front of the t.v with a beer watching Mickey, Steve and Sodapop were playing a game of goldfish at the dug their dirty fingers into a large chocolate cake that sat on the table next to them.

"Hey... whats that you got there Pony?" Darry asked looking up as the three walked in.

"A book... its called 'Harry Potter'." Ponyboy said sitting down on the couch with Johnny.

Standing up from the table, Soda grabbed the remote and turned off the television.

"Hey." Tow-Bit complained but reluctantly stood up and made his way over towards the couch were they were all standing looking at the book in Pony's hand.

"It sound pretty tuff to me." Johnny said nodding looking up at everyone.

"Yeah.. real tuff." Dal commented sarcastically throwing his head back and laughing.

Darry pulled on the tight black t-shirt that was set on the arm of the couch. Sodapop took a seat on the arm of the couch next to Pony boy and looked over his shoulder at the book.

"Harry Potter, uh? Sounds interesting." Soda nodded and looked over at Steve who had a puzzled look on his face like he was thinking hard.

"Don'tpop a brain cell Steve." Two-Bit said seeing his puzzled face.

"Shut up.. That name sound familiar... Harry Potter.. Harry Potter... wait.. wait.. no, I was just thinking of something else." Steve shrugged and fixed his button up shirt, that was his uniform down at the gas station.

Raking fingers through his unruly, grown hair Dallas shook his head smiling and laughing, "C'mon you guys, its a stupid book with stupid with stupid words on them." he said picking up the book and looking it over. Thrusting it back into the hands of Ponyboy Dally scoffed, "Have fun with your words on pages." And with that said, he headed to the kitchen, threw open the fridge door, reached in and grabbed and beer. Popping off the top he slammed the door shut and headed back out towards the living room where they were all sitting around staring at the book and discussing it. Shaking his head an sitting down in a chair farthest away form them Dally simply said, "Wiseasses." and sipped his beer.

As Darry grabbed the book he flipped the pages and looked at the last page, reading the numbver of it he raised his eyebrows, "Six-hundred fifty-two pages... man, thats a lot."

Pony shrugged and took the book back, "I've read longer books."

"There were like a million different books there.. the same thing.. just different books." Dallys told them as he crossed his legs and flipped the t.v on.

"Really... cool. Now you got a whole series you can read Pony." Johnny said grabbing the book, he opened it up and read the inside cover, "Sixth book in the Harry Potter series. Geez... six."

"Yeah six.. thats higher than Darry can count." Steve joked.

Darry grabbed Steve and pulled him into a headlock and playfully pretended to beat him up, stopping his fist just inches away from his face everytime he went to take a fake punch.

"Let me go Darry." Steve complained pushing Darry and his large muscles off of him.

"Yeah well six is about how long you can spend with a girl Steve, six as in six seconds." Two-Bit cracked a joke bursting out laughing.

"Shut up Two-Bit... or I'll hang you." Steve threatened shaking a fist at him.

Two-Bit just merely let out a stupid laugh as he set his empty beer bottle on the top of the television set.

Sodapop reached down to grab the book, but Pony pulled it back and looked up at him.

"You ain't touching this book... your hands are filled with cake. You too Steve." Pony scolded them shaking his head.

"Okay Mom." Soda said chuckling and making his way into the kitchen pulling Steve a long with him.

"You're pretty protective over that book." Two-Bit commented smiling and ruffling Pony's greasy hair.

"No I'm not... its just that... its hard to read a book when there's chocolate finger prints on every page." Pony said shrugging and setting the book on couch cushion beside him.

Hours later, when all the guys left and it was just the Curtis boys Ponyboy sat in his room looking over the book. As he flipped the pages he read random words on the pages that were in italics.

"Oppugno? Levicorpus? Muffliato? Sectumsempra?" Pony flipped through the pages more and read a little bit more.

"Hissy, hissy, little snakey, slither on the floor, you be good to Morfin or he'll nail you to the door."

Ponyboy raised an eyebrow closed the book.

"Pony... c'mon... get to bed." Sodapop called him over his desk that sat on the corner of the room.

Since the two boys let Darry have his own room ever since their parents died, Ponyboy and Sodapop shared a bed. But Pony could admit it to anyone, he loved Sodapop, sometimes he felt he loved him more than Darry. But Soda always said that wasn't true.

Pony climbed into bed and turned on his side. The moon shone, full, into the dark room, dimly lighting it. And that night Pony fell asleep, every thought in his mind focusing on that book.