Disclaimer: Harry Potter is owned by J.K. Rowling and Akame Ga Kill is owned by Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro. I own nothing.
Harry sat alone in his room reading over some of his school books. Even though he was close to both Esdeath and Ran, and was glad that they would be teaching this year, Harry knew that they would not give him any special treatment, and would treat him as they would anyone else, so it was best to be prepared, especially with Esdeath.
While he would not be able to take Ran's class until his third year of school, it never hurt to get some reading in beforehand. Esdeath on the other hand would be handing out this year's books in class. She had said this was not a book that students would be able to buy at Diagon Alley. He was sure Hermione was going to go absolutely crazy when she found out one of her idols would be teaching her this year. Harry had written to both Hermione and Neville to tell them of their new teachers, but so far he had heard nothing back from either of them.
Harry found that strange for sure, but he just brushed it off as them just being too busy, or maybe they were away on vacation somewhere and couldn't write back.
Harry couldn't wait for Malfoy to say or do the wrong thing in front of Esdeath. The Empire's strongest was sure to take the self proclaimed Prince of Slytherin down as many pegs as need be. He didn't think she would go as far as to make the annoying blonde one of her toys like she did with Pettigrew, but he had been wrong before.
He shut the book he was reading and went to leave his room when a very sudden and loud crack emanated from behind him. It sounded similar to a gunshot. He wasn't the only one to hear the noise since Akame and Tatsumi came running into his room to see what was going on.
"Harry are you okay?" Tatsumi asked. "What was that noise… and what is that?!"
Harry turned to look around and saw a creature with large floppy ears, a long thin nose with giant tennis ball looking eyes, wearing a filthy stained pillow case standing on his bed. Harry thought it looked kind of familiar, and apparently so did Akame.
"You're a house elf," Akame said, her hand resting on the hilt of her cursed blade.
"Misses knows of us house elves?" the elf asked in a squeaky voice.
"When I found the kitchens at Hogwarts they were the ones who gave me meat," Akame told him. "Do you work at the school?"
"No misses, Dobby has a master," the elf now known as Dobby told her.
"Master?" Tatsumi repeated. "Are you saying you're some kind of slave?"
"Dobby is bound to serve one wizard family forever," Dobby told him.
"Well do you get paid for serving them?"
"No, we houses elves do not accept wages for their work."
"That sounds like slavery to me."
"Well Dobby supposes that master can-," Dobby began but soon caught himself in what he was about to say. Out of the blue Dobby began to bang his head against the stand of Harry's bed. "Bad Dobby!" Dobby shouted as he continued to beat himself.
Harry and Tatsumi both grabbed one of Dobby's arms to pull him away from the bed. "What was that?" Tatsumi asked confused by the elf's action. In a way it reminded Tatsumi of the time he had to knock some sense into himself after he unintentionally made Akame cry. It was as if Dobby was punishing himself for something he regretted.
"Sorry sir, please forgive Dobby," Dobby apologized. "Dobby was almost about to speak ill of his masters."
"Well does your master have a way of knowing if you say something bad?" Harry asked not sure how speaking one's mind had to result in inflicting self harm.
"No master does not know," Dobby admitted. "But it does not sit well for a house elf to speak ill of master."
"We're getting off topic," Akame spoke up. "The real question is why are you here?"
Dobby looked real squeamish about answering this question. "Well Dobby shouldn't be here," Dobby admitted. "But Dobby had to come, Dobby came to warn Harry Potter."
"Warn me about what?" Harry asked.
"Warn Harry Potter that he must not go back to Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry this year."
"What why?" asked Harry surprised by the elf's reasoning as to being here.
"Terrible things are going to happen this year," Dobby warned cryptically. "There is a plot. A plot to make most terrible things happen."
"What kind of terrible things? Who's plotting them?" Harry asked the elf.
"Dobby can't say his name," Dobby told him, looking as though he might start beating on himself once more.
At this point Akame drew Murasame and placed the blade at the elf's neck. "If you have any value for your life you'll tell us." The red eyed woman stared blankly at the elf.
"Dobby is used to death threats miss," Dobby told her. "Dobby gets them five times a day from his master."
"If you really expect Harry to believe you, you're going to have to give a better answer than what you did," Tatsumi told Dobby.
"Dobby does not know all of this plot, he just overheard his master talking and-," Dobby seemed to realize that he just revealed that his master was the one behind this plot. Dobby ran towards Harry's desk and began to slam his fingers with the drawer. "Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby! Bad Dobby!" Harry and Tatsumi again pulled the elf away from his source of self harm.
"Can you please stop hurting yourself?" Harry asked the elf.
"Dobby shouldn't have said that," Dobby said more to himself than to the others.
"Look Dobby," Harry began, "if you're worried about me being in danger this year don't be. Hogwarts has two new teachers this year, and I can guarantee you that they aren't about to let anything bad happen in the school, and if you tell us how these terrible things are going to happen we can have them put a stop to them before they even happen."
"Dobby does wish he can help the Great Harry Potter, but Dobby knows only what Dobby heard."
"Which is?" Harry pressed on.
"Something about a diary," Dobby answered looking ashamed at what he just told them.
"Is that it?" Tatsumi asked clearly hoping for more information than that.
"That is all Dobby heard of."
"Well um, thank you anyways for telling us that Dobby," Harry told him.
Dobby looked totally caught off guard by what Harry had just said. "The Great Harry Potter just thanked Dobby." Harry got ready for another one of Dobby's self harm fits, but instead the little elf began to openly sob. Tears streamed down his face and down his long nose, which was now dripping with snot that he blew away using his pillowcase outfit.
"Hey don't cry," Harry said unsure what to say to Dobby, and judging by the looks on Akame and Tatsumi's faces neither did they. "Look I'm sorry if I offended you or something."
"Offend Dobby?" Dobby said as wiped the tears and snot from his face. "Harry Potter did not offend Dobby, it's just that Dobby has never been thanked by wizard before, to be spoken to as if by an equal."
"It's uh no big deal really," Harry said a bit uncomfortable by the way Dobby reacted to a simple thank you.
"Dobby has heard of your greatness but to witness it first hand is a true honor. And Dobby has a confession to make." Reaching into his pillowcase Dobby pulled out a handful of letters with names Harry recognized as being from his friends Neville and Hermione.
"Is that my mail?!" Harry asked angrily now understanding why he had not heard anything back from his friends.
Dobby nodded which caused his large ears to flop about wildly. "What Harry Potter must understand is Dobby believed that if Harry Potter believed that his friends were not writing to him then perhaps he would not want to go back to school."
Akame snatched the letters from the elf and handed them to Harry. "Look Dobby," Tatsumi said, "it's like Harry said, whatever terrible thing you're talking about isn't going to happen, especially not with Esdeath there."
"You are sure that the Great Harry Potter will be safe?" Dobby asked, his large green eyes looked between the three of them.
"If something does happen to him we'll just hunt you down to find your master and kill him," Akame bluntly told him.
Dobby took a visible gulp at Akame's statement. "Dobby hopes it will not come to that." With a snap of his fingers Dobby vanished into thin air with a crack just as he had appeared.
"Well at least that wasn't weird," Tatsumi remarked.