This is a Harry Potter & Familiar of Zero Cross Over Fanfiction Only.
Professor Lupin was actually quite proficient in his subject, I know the position is cursed and all, but deep down I hope he remains as our instructor of DADA, it would make the time spent in that class at least bearable.
Snape kept making all kinds of suggestions about someone having to take a Potion each month, and about having a furry little problem, to me the one with a furry little problem was the rat that slept near Ron. Somehow I just didn't like that rodent and from the way it always looked at me, the feeling was mutual.
It took me the grand total of three weeks to find out why the dementors were stationed at every entrance, the people that placed them there were absolute idiots, to dementors all the students were an all you can eat buffet, I know also that Sirius Black was actually one of the people who made the map, so if anyone knew the many entrances into the castle, he was one of them.
As for Professor Lupin, I had to do something that was not pleasant at all, and thankfully the man was more forgiving than others with his condition. I had developed a brand that had the same magical qualities as the potion he needed, so one night I was told to take to his classroom a tall pitcher full of coffee.
I, of course, added something to it, and that made the man fall unconscious the second he tasted it. The second that he was on the floor I took off his top and began to cast the spells needed to silence the area and burn the brand on his back. The second that he was awake he looked at his back, he then began to laugh at me like I had done something extremely funny.
"Honestly Harry, if you wanted to give me a wolf tattoo you only needed to ask," I told him to take a close look at it, that is when he decided to actually use two mirrors to do just that, he was speechless after I finished my cup of coffee.
"You still think this is just a tattoo? I guess this pretty much takes care of your furry little problem as Snape was so happy to tell us, and why tonight is a full moon. You didn't have the potion, did you? Well, do you feel any different?"
He was not expecting it, but he did transform into his wolf form since he didn't attack me, I would call that a success. For a second the large wolf looked confused, and then he began to smile. "That is right Professor Lupin, you have no reason to worry about student safety. Now mind telling me where is Sirius Black?"
He looked at me and after he finished changing he told me he honestly had no idea, but since the dementors were on his trail he thought he must be somewhere in the castle. I guess Remus Lupin simply does not trust me, I guess I shouldn't expect any better than that.
I saw Scabbers running through the corridor, I cast a stunner on the rat and began doing diagnosis spells on it. Sure enough, I knew exactly what that thing was. It was no rat at all, just a man that believed to be dead.
There is one place everyone would avoid like it was cursed, the one place not even the people that live in the village near the castle would come near. I took hold of the rat and decided to go to the whomping willow. I reduced myself in size and went through the opening in the trunk of the tree, I evaded a few good strikes from the tree and managed to make it into the Shrieking Shack. As soon as we got in, I cast the counterspell and we were both back to normal size.
The Rat was under a full body bind spell, nothing he would try would let him get free. "Mr. Sirius Black, Harry James Potter, sorry for the unannounced visit. Remus Lupin should have told me where to find you. I believe we have to call the Ministry and have them exam this rather long-lived rat, or should I say have them exam Wormtail."
He came out of hiding and I had to admit the man looked horrible, he had clear signs of malnutrition and his clothes looked like rags he put together from stuff he picked out of the garbage. "Harry, you don't know how happy I am to hear you say that, you know I am your godfather."
As soon as we entered the office of the Headmaster, he called for Cornelius Fudge to come. Cornelius, of course, thought that we were there to hand over the fugitive, too bad for him Amelia Bones was also with him, and I asked her to give Sirius some truth potion to ask him a few questions. Under the effects of the potion, he confirmed that he was not or ever was the secret keeper of my family, that it was Peter Pettigrew.
I placed the rat and did the spell to reverse him to his human form, he was being protected by some magic power I had no idea where it was coming from, so Albus Dumbledore and Susan Bones decided to help me by casting the spell on the rat as well. Sure enough, the rat began to change and where once was a rat, there was a man dressed in rags, and his face had quite a few rodent-like features.
The effect of the three spells had that it overpowered my full body bind and Peter tried to run away, till I pointed my wand in his direction. "Run Peter, and you will wish you had died. Make no mistake, there is no escape. You will receive no mercy, we will know the truth and then you will wish a dementor had kissed you, that will be merciful compared to what I shall do to you!"
He turned around and walked towards Susan Bones, he tried to use all manner of excuses but in the end, he was made to take the same potion Sirius had taken. He confessed everything, the mass murder of the muggles, biting his own finger off, revealing the location of the Potter home in Godric's Hollow. He even revealed that he had secretly been a rat to aid his master in keeping an eye on me.
Minister Fudge had no alternative but to dismiss all the charges against Sirius Black on the spot and reward him with a sizable fortune as payment for wrongful imprisonment. Peter seeing that he would be sent to Azkaban for the deaths of quite a few people decided to beg me to forgive him, thinking that would make me help him.
The only thing that managed to do was to make me angrier, the second that rat was able he took hold of the wand of the Head Auror, that being Susan Bones, and looked at me with a sinister smile, he tried to cast the killing curse, as he screamed he would finish what his master always intended to do.
I had once reflected the killing curse as a child, but that was thanks to the protection of my mother, but this time I had complete control of my faculties, and I was not the naive child he thought I was, I deflected that curse and this time with precision, and killed him instantly.
Looks like I was no longer going to be able to live in the castle anymore. Thanks to the fact that Sirius Black was innocent and is the head of his Ancient and Noble house, I was told that under the law I was to live with him. Personally, I had already finished reading all the books in the library, it would be nice to talk with my godfather. Ron was less than happy to hear that his pet rat was actually a full grown wizard, mass murderer, and according to Sirius suspected pedophile. Dumbledore at the end of the year decided to buy Ron an owl as a replacement pet.
Hermione kept asking me questions how in the world did I ever figure out Scabbers was not a rat at all. I told her that several paintings had told me how strange the rat was behaving, and I remember that a person could take an animal form. In truth, my familiar saw the rat turn into a human to speak into a mirror he carried, but I was not going to tell Hermione that.
Well, let's say that the home of my godfather had a few things that reminded me of a Russian prison I had to infiltrate once. The painting of his mother was making me remember a rather nasty warden I knew, funny thing is that under that supposedly horrible personality was actually a great guy, by the end of my mission we became rather a good friend. Now that I think of it, I wonder how Sergei is doing these days.
His mother had quite a few things to shout at me until I aimed my weapon at her and told her that a single shout, a single insult and I would send her to a place, not even the devil would save her from. The elf was upset that I said such things and kept insulting me, in truth I also saw the mounted heads on the wall. I have a slight suspicion that this house elf wants me to do exactly the same thing to him.
I did my best to smooth things over with the painting and as soon as both heard that I was in fact not as naive or as shall we say innocent about the world they both magically began to have a sunnier disposition about me living in the house.
Sirius would not stop asking me about my many different adventures, I warned my godfather that my activities were not the typical norm, I told him that many of the things would be shocking to him, did he listen? No, he did not. He simply told me that after so many years in a prison where the guards were soul-sucking, happiness devouring fiends, how much worse could be the thing I have to say compared to what he lived through.
I did my best to keep all the classified details of my many missions and by the end of one week, he was asking if no begging me not to mention anything more. I worked as a mercenary should it really surprise him that much that I had to kill so many people? Turns out I had a larger kill count that he did, and that made him actually worry about me that much more.
I told him repeatedly that I had no problem with what I did, mostly I took out criminal cartels, revolutions, civil unrest, and a few dozen other situations, from drug cartels to human trafficking, I told him that during the time before I entered Hogwarts I considered myself the world's janitor, cause the only thing I did was take out the garbage, clean the messes that other fools made, and had they not erased the memories of my adoptive father I would still be doing things like I told him I did.
"Harry, life is precious, it is something that should be protected and lethal force such be used as a last resort." For a person who spent so much time in prison, my godfather's believes were too soft-hearted for a person that went through what he did. I asked him if he would be that merciful to a group that kidnapped a bus full of teenage girls, forced themselves on them, force feed them drugs all to make them addicts and work in one of their whore houses?
"There are lives that must be saved godfather, I don't disagree with that, but there are people that are by nature so vile, so crooked, that the idea of repenting and becoming decent people does not even cross their minds, these people are the garbage I told you about, and to save the lives of a hundred then ten of these crooks dying is not such a heavy price to pay. The Magical world considers me a hero, I am no hero, I am a cleaner."
"By taking out the rotten and despicable criminal groups, I, in fact, made the world a safer place, you know if you think about it, you know what I say is true, you just need to realize that while life is precious, some people need to die."
I didn't waste my time in between school years, I secretly began a hunt of my own, to keep busy as it were. I needed to do something, this civilian life was making me feel like my skills were getting rusty. As of yet I have found all and destroyed all but one of the hideous items that my enemy made, honestly to butcher your soul simply to avoid death, you can't avoid it. Well, even death will one day die after all.
As I went back to school I was greeted by the very same Thestral that had been pulling the carriage each year, I was grateful, at least I meet one of my friends. The welcome feast was the same as always, people glaring at me from one table, and others laughing as they shared some funny stories as they went to share what they did during their vacation.
I knew something else would go terribly wrong this year, at least it kept my time in the school from being too boring, I looked at Dumbledore and sure enough he didn't look as happy as he always seems to be for some odd reason, and for some odd reason I didn't mind that much. "Welcome to our new students and our returning students, I have to tell you some grim news, the Tri-Wizard Tournament is going to be held this year, and hour school has been chosen to host it."
"The means to select those that will participate will be brought shortly. For those that are unfamiliar with this tournament, it was first established as a means for schools all over Europe to establish friendly relations and demonstrate their academic and magical talent, sadly only three schools ever agreed to participate."
That is when four house elves began to bring in a rather large and rusty looking goblet, I swear the thing looked like it was used by a giant in the Roman Age. The thing as soon as it was set on the podium began to make spark come out of itself.
"This is the goblet of fire, as you can tell it is an ancient magical artifact, an age line is being drawn as I speak, when the other schools arrive each school shall be allowed to have each student that wish to participate place their name in the goblet, be certain that you wish to participate cause it is a magical contract, failure means you lose your magic."
"As a safety precaution all three schools have decided that only students from the fifth year and up shall be allowed to enter, while this tournament is to foster friendship, I am sad to inform you that in the past it has claimed the lived of several of the people that participate in it. Now for our three resident troublemakers, I would suggest that you stay away from the goblet or suffer the consequences, for you see it is not I who will punish you, it will be the goblet and this particular artifact is not as forgiving as I."
The very next day we actually were told to wait outside as we watched as the other two schools arrived, The flapping of wings was heard and we saw as a giant carriage being pulled by four giant Pegasus landed on the ground, Dumbledore went to the Carriage as the door opened and a rather large Witch came out of the carriage. "Ah, Olympe nice of you two grace us with your presence, I imagine Igor will show up shortly. I hope you had a wonderful and uneventful ride getting here." Sure enough, as he said that the lake began to warp and shift as if something rather large was coming out of, a ship that looked like a sunken pirate ship came out of it, and as soon as the gangplank was set, a rather well-dressed man wearing a fur coat came from the ship.
Both schools had a rather large group of students, I guess we were so focused on the large woman with the French accent that we didn't even notice when her students came out of the carriage, well she is rather big that is true, she was rather attractive come to think of it, oh I am not talking about the headmistress, although she is quite pretty, I mean the blonde witch that was doing a marvelous job of giving us all a cold glare and even her own classmates were giving her a lot of personal space.
Morgana warmed me immediately to put up my defenses, that the woman I called secretly the ice queen was in fact not that cold, I was warned that she was, in fact, a Veela. I knew the reason for the warning immediately the Aura was said to have quite an effect on men, and seeing that the men around me were slowly turning into something of a bunch of drooling idiots I guess her Aura is instinctual rather than something that she must use or maybe she has her Aura active all the time and she stopped noticing.
She walked over to me and I don't know why but her blue robes seemed to shift into an even more revealing form, and I was getting quite an eyeful of her figure and her heaving cleavage. "That is strange, I never expected to find someone that can resist my aura." She looked at my eyes for a second before she and her headmistress walked into the school while talking in something I rather call a rather fast pace conversation in French.
Too bad for them I knew French quite well, Igor looked like he was staring at me like I was nothing more than a bug as he and his students entered, one of his students was looking at me in a rather challenging way, I hope the idiot tries to challenge me to a duel, I really hope so, I haven't had a decent fight in years.
