A/N: This is another look into what my possible Harry Potter/Mass Effect X-Over might look like. This follows the storyline set in Chapter 54, though I changed Shepard from male to female.

This snippet takes place right before the final charge in Mass Effect 3.

Harry/femShep, past Harry/Miranda, Shepard/Jacob

Harry Potter looked out over the ruined cityscape.

He could scarcely believe how much it had changed.

"You alright?" asked a voice from behind him. He turned to see the smiling face of a person who'd saved his life and had been saved in return multiple times.

"Jules," he breathed.

He'd been worried about her.

It had been one of the few times either of them had been in extreme danger in the last year without the other one to back them up- Juliet Shepard's escape from Earth and his mini war with Cerberus on Omega, notwithstanding. Waiting for Shepard and her squad- which had consisted of Garrus Vakarian and the Prothean, Javik- had been one of the most harrowing experiences he'd had in some time.

He still remembered the look on her face when she was certain she had been about to die at the Collector Base. Harry hadn't hesitated jumping off the ship to catch her, apparating them both back on board. He'd also remembered Thessia after Kai Leng hit him with that magic suppressor and the terror he felt when the floor had given out from underneath him. He had been certain he was going to die, yet just like he had caught her those months ago; she was there to make sure he didn't plummet to his death.

The Master of Death wasn't sure who'd made the first move; however, as each quickly found the other in a tight embrace. Suddenly, everything that had been said felt completely inadequate compared to everything that hadn't. There never seemed to be a right time, and now when all these feelings suddenly came to the fore at possibly the most horrible moment of all.

When Harry had first met Juliet Shepard, she was in shock at having lost two years of her life and was still mourning the loss of Kaiden Alenko, which, to her, had only been a couple of months prior. He, on the other hand, was still coming to terms with his own humanity, nevermind mourning the loss of everything he'd known and loved. By the time he had come to grips with everything, she and Jacob had been making a go of things, while he and Miranda had gotten rather cozy with one another. His and Miranda's relationship didn't last much longer than the Suicide Mission into the Omega 4 Relay. Imminent death, he supposed, had a way of bringing people together.

The less said about Juliet and Taylor's situation, the better… There were very few instances where he'd actually wished bodily harm on a person, and the man's betrayal of Shepard's feelings put him at the very top of that list.

In the months following the destruction of the Collector Base and the Bahak System Mass Relay, like all the others, Harry had gone his own way. He'd kept up with Jack, Jacob, Thane and Zaeed as best he could so he could be ready to heed the call when the Reapers began to attack, but that plan went out the window when Jacob went underground when he'd been contacted by some old friends looking for a safe haven and Zaeed had disappeared not long after when his continued dealings with Cerberus took an almost unsurprising turn south.

He'd tried maintaining some form of communication with the others, but Miranda and Mordin were quick to drop off the grid and Tuchanka didn't allow for any sort of easy communication, let alone any secure connections. He had contacted the planet on two occasions and found that the Urdnot Chieftain, Wrex, to be quite different from the rest of the Krogan he'd ever met- at least until he'd met Bakara.

Samara was on the move far too often to keep in any sort of regular contact, as was Kasumi Goto, who last he'd heard of, before she turned up at the Crucible Project, was being chased by a Salarian Spectre. Both Garrus and Tali were far too busy rallying their people, though the latter had sent him a quick communique when she had been made an admiral. As for Legion, there hadn't been any need to keep in contact with the Geth; he'd assumed that the intricate Geth platform would contact either Shepard or Tali when he'd rallied his own people.

Unfortunately, Gerrel, Xen and (to his surprise) Raan hadn't taken either his own or Shepard's advice and went to war against the Geth.

Maintaining, an open channel with Jack and Thane had been a simple matter with the former being stationed at Grissom Academy and the latter being admitted to Huerta Memorial Hospital on the Citadel's Presidium, at least until Cerberus had decided to take Omega for themselves so that they could have unrestricted access to the Omega 4 relay. In the end, he and Aria had been outmaneuvered and while Aria had been ejected from Omega, he was given no such quarter, having been cryogenically frozen to be shipped back to the Illusive Man.

That had been his first encounter with the bastard Kei Leng.

Seeing Shepard's concerned violet colored eyes instead of the Illusive Man's calculating electric blue implanted ones when he'd been awoken had been not only been a godsend, but an image that had stuck with him since it had happened.

It had been a defining moment in the way he felt about her.

Even now, Harry could see his own doubts mirrored in her eyes as neither truly believed a happy ending would be in store for them, though neither spoke those words aloud.

"What are you thinking about?" she asked him as they reluctantly released each other.

Harry briefly thought about answering Shepard's with the reply 'you', however, while not completely untrue, he knew she'd see right through it. Besides, it was a cliché answer and he was never overly fond of those.

"It's changed so much…" He said as he turned his head towards the cityscape he'd been looking at. "More than a century of development and all this mass destruction…"

"You were from here, weren't you?" Shepard inquired.

"Kind of, was born in Godric's Hollow and grew up in Surrey," replied Harry. "I moved into my grandfather's ancestral home about a year and a half after Voldemort had been defeated. I doubt it's there anymore, though. It's hard to tell, but I think it used to be right around where that conduit is."

"I… I'm not exactly sure what to say…"

Harry shrugged. "I'm not exactly sure what I should feel…" Harry then frowned, "Shep… Jules… Juliet… I…"

"I know," Shepard interrupted, before a slightly troubled look marred her own features. "Harry… If…"

Harry actually smiled. "I know."

Shepard smiled as well. "You ready to do this?"

"As much as anyone really can be," Harry responded.