Ch11

Disclaimer: No, I don't own Sailor Moon and nor do I own Harry Potter.

Harry stared at the professors in shock as they had announced what had happened the night before. The terrifying shriek that had awoken everyone from everyone's slumber had come from a monster that was trying to kill their DADA teacher. How a monster managed to get into a well-protected school such as Hogwarts was beyond their comprehension? Another question that pondered everyone's minds was why their DADA teacher and not Harry Potter, the destined victor over Voldemort?

The Slytherins just scoffed at the idea at how their teacher, who was supposed to be highly trained and powerful, managed to get hurt so easily. Well…all of the Slytherins, except for Hotaru, who looked like she was ready to whip out her glaive and annihilate all those who had even dared to insult her adopted mother. The expression on Haruka's face revealed that she wouldn't mind helping Hotaru in her task, but the look on Michiru's face warned them both, mainly Haruka, to not do anything rash.

Harry thought silently as to why his sister would be attacked like that and if she was okay. Then it hit him; he never got to tell Remus that Usagi came back. He was too young to remember, but in that dream he had once, Remus and Sirius were very much attached to Usagi. He took a parchment and wrote a message to Remus stating that his sister has returned, mutely hoping that he would come back to the school.

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Setsuna had returned back to the Time Gates and watched with a slight smirk on her face. She heard footsteps coming from behind and turned around. "It appears that we will have to move our hands earlier than we've planned," she said to the two figures in the shadow.

"I didn't calculate him finding her too soon," one of the figures said.

"But the problem isn't him any more," the other one sighed, "We still have to focus on Voldemort. He is the bigger problem of the two, dark-lord-wannabe or not."

Setsuna turned to the two beings in the shadows. "Get to your places, the last thing we want is to suspect something," she said, "Continue seducing him since he already seems to be under your spell already."

"With pleasure," she said with thrill in her voice, "I can't wait for the day I could strangle him with my chain."

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The small group of the inner senshis stared at Mamoru in shock when he told them that he had discovered the location of their target and was almost successful in eliminating her, but the youma he sent didn't take heed of his warning and lowered his guard while fighting her. Rei and Makoto shook their heads when they heard the news and wondered why Mamoru would go and choose a youma that was killed so easily by the princess.

A twisted grin appeared on Mamoru's face. "He may have failed to kill that brat, however, he did manage to poison her."

"Do I sense a 'but' in that sentence, Mamoru?" Ami asked, arching an eyebrow.

Mamoru glared at the blue-haired girl. "But somebody handed her the antidote before the poison could kill her," he said angrily.

Minako was sitting on his lap when she wrapped her arms around his neck. "That's all right, Mamo-chan," she said, giving him a kiss on the cheek. But as quickly as she embraced him, Minako slid off and looked away in frustration. "However, you broke your promise to me. You said that you wouldn't go ahead with the plan without confirming me."

Mamoru draped his arms around her shoulders and tried to pull her back into his lap. "I'm sorry, Mina-koi," he muttered, hiding his face in her hair. He planted a kiss on her cheek. "Tell me what to do to make it up to you."

"Take us there," Minako said quickly. Mamoru and everyone stared at her in complete disbelief. "I want to see her bow down to us before conquering this world more than anything," she said, bringing a smile on Mamoru's face when he heard that.

"That sounds like a great idea, Mina-chan," Makoto said, cheering.

Rei nodded her head. "It's perfect. It's so much better to hear her say that she surrenders and then kill her," she said, leaning back on her seat.

Ami opened her computer and started typing. "Let's go in a week," she said with a smile, "That'll give us enough time to prepare for her defeat."

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Usagi opened her eyes and sat up. She felt a slight pain in her head and brought a hand up to rest it there. "What happened?" she asked herself, after looking around to see that she was in the sick room, "The last thing I remembered was that Mamoru sent that youma and…" Her face flushed red when she remembered the very last thing before she fell unconscious. Severus Snape, the arch-nemesis of her father, uncles, and younger brother, kissed her…true it was to make her drink the antidote, but it was still a kiss nonetheless.

"Hime?" Setsuna said, coming into the room from the Time Gates, "I see that the antidote is working well." She caught sight of Usagi blushing and couldn't help but smile. "I've come to warn you that they're planning to attack in a week's time."

"I see," Usagi said. She got out of the bed and started to leave when she remembered something. "Setsuna, did you have something to do with Severus coming to my aid?" she asked, turning around.

Setsuna just continued to smile enigmatically. "Actually Crookshanks was the one who got Severus to come, considering he was the only one in the hallway at the time," she said. "Though I did help a bit in sending him to you," she said silently.

Usagi narrowed her eyes and shook her head. She couldn't shake the sneaky suspicion that Setsuna may actually have a hand in trying to hook her and Severus together. But she had to relay the information to the rest of her scouts so they could prepare to fight so she continued on her way to the Great Hall where everyone would be eating supper. Perhaps with the help of her friends and spies on the other side, they could triumph over the traitor.

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Remus quickly hurried into the hall, surprising everyone and causing them to drop their food onto the table and themselves. "Is it true, Harry?" he asked, rushing over to the Gryffindor table. "Is she really back?"

"If you're talking about Serenity, then yes, she's back," Hermoine replied, "She's the new DADA teacher."

A relieved grin appeared on Remus' face as he slid down to the bench beside Harry. "When I heard that you were the only one that Hagrid had found, I felt my heart stop. Sere had a lot of potential in magic, even at a young age, so I was afraid that He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named had taken her and would use her to hurt others."

"What exactly is your relationship with Serenity anyway?" Ron asked, "I mean, if you-know-who was Harry's godfather, then are you…"

"Yes, I am Sere's godfather," Remus replied with a soft smile, "She was such a dear little girl, always so happy and willing to please others. But your parents refused to let anyone of the wizarding world to know that she even existed."

Harry's head tilted to the left a bit as he stared at the close friend of his parents. "Why is that?" he asked, "Is that why nobody even became worried when she was missing?"

Remus nodded his head. "You see, Sere had such a great potential in magic and was even showing signs of being able to do wandless magic," he said, "Your parents feared that if He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named had found out, then he would try to brainwash her into joining his crusade against muggles and muggle-born wizards and witches, so not a lot of people from the wizarding world knows about her."

Harry nodded his head and was about to ask another question when the doors to the Great Hall opened and there stood the last person anyone, students and faculties alike, had wanted to see, the Minister of Magic himself, Cornelius Fudge. "Albus, just what in the world is going on here?" he shouted, storming into the Great Hall with aurors trailing behind him. "What is all this I've been hearing about? This DADA teacher, who I was not even notified or even heard of, was attacked by some THING that managed to get into the school? Just what is wrong with you, hiring these under qualified people to be teachers? And these lessons, swordsmanship and defensive training, don't tell me that you're training these students to be against me."

Haruka glared at Cornelius and stood up. "We have better things to do than to train these students to go against you," she said, "We're training them how to survive when the time comes."

"And what time would that be? When they're storming up against the ministry in rebellion?" Cornelius shouted.

"Good God, bakayaro," Haruka shouted, earning a glare from Michiru, "Not the entire world revolves around you. We're training these children in case Voldemort, that pathetic dark lord wannabe, decides to be stupid enough to come here."

Everybody stared at her in complete shock. Not only had Haruka just called out the dark lord's name without fear but she had openly mocked him. Cornelius stared at Haruka and then sneered, "And who exactly are you? Perhaps you're the reason why this creature had managed to get into the school."

Haruka looked over at Michiru and asked softly, "Did he just went and suggested that I was the one who got this youma into the school and commanded it to attack koneko-chan?" Michiru shrugged her shoulders. Haruka looked over at Hotaru for an answer and saw her nod her head. "Ah," she said, turning back to the minister, "So you think I was the one who went and joined the dark side and ordered for koneko-chan's death. Well then…IF YOU ACTUALLY SPENT MORE TIME AND POWER TO GET MORE COMMON SENSE OR EVEN TRY TO KNOW WHO I AM THEN YOU WILL KNOW I DON'T WORK FOR ANYONE WHO TRIES TO CONQUER THE WORLD OR WANT TO CREATE MASS GENOCIDE. ALSO, I WILL NEVER EVER HURT KONEKO-CHAN SO I SUGGEST YOU GET THAT OUT OF YOUR FREAKING MIND!"

The doors slammed open once more and everyone turned their heads and saw Usagi standing in the entrance as if nothing had happened the night before, in fact it just looks like she had woken from a good night sleep not from an attack. There were no scratches or bruises on her skin, which looked very healthy, and it caused confusion in the student body since they were informed that she was injured. Cornelius and the other aurors all wondered who this girl was.

"Usagi-mama!" Hotaru shouted. She quickly got up and ran over to Usagi, embracing her tightly.

Remus wasn't told the specifics about Usagi, but he couldn't believe his ears when he heard Hotaru call his godchild 'mama' nor could he believe that she was given a new identity. He stood up and took a deep breath. "Sere," he called out softly.

Usagi turned around and saw Remus standing there; she gasped and ran over to him. "Uncle Remus!" She hugged him tightly. "I missed you so much, you and Uncle Sirius. I'm so glad that that rat didn't hurt you yet, but don't you worry. He's gonna pay dearly for hurting mom, dad, and Uncle Sirius, him and that pathetic boss of his," she said.

"I thought it was Harry's destiny to fight He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named," Ron said, scratching his head in confusion.

Usagi shrugged her shoulders. "Who knows how the fates work nowadays?" she said, "I mean, look at my life, past, present, and future, it's all dictated by the fates. I mean they screwed it up all ready by sending me here rather than in the other dimension I was supposed to go to."

Snapping out of his daze, Cornelius stomped over to Usagi. "Who in blazes are you?" he shouted.

Usagi stared at him, as if just noticing that he was there. "Pleased to meet you, my name is Serenity Lillian Potter or otherwise known as Usagi Tsukino, my alias for the past twenty years," she said.

"P-Po-Potter!" Cornelius shouted, "Just what is your relationship with that boy?"

"That delusional boy as you called him before, just so happens to be koneko-chan's younger brother," Haruka said. The aurors and Cornelius all jumped when they saw that Haruka was right behind them. The students weren't as shocked since they all knew of her speed from training.

"But Potter was a single child," Cornelius said, "His parents never had another child. Potter was the only one found after the dark lord vanished."

"I was taken out of the household that day before Voldemort attacked," Usagi said, "Not to mention I didn't wander about the wizarding world as much and my parents never told anyone about me, other than Uncle Remus, Uncle Sirius, Uncle Albus, and Auntie Minerva."

"Albus? Albus Dumbledore? So he is behind all of this?" Cornelius shouted.

Hotaru, Haruka, and Harry all slapped themselves on their foreheads. "What a moron," they thought at the same time.

"Behind what exactly?" Usagi asked.

Remus shook his head and leaned over to his goddaughter. "He thinks Albus is going against him and the ministry," he whispered.

"Well, if that's the way he acts, then I don't blame Uncle Albus," Usagi said in a disbelieving tone, "However, we have more important business to attend to other than rebelling against a self-absorbed bias ministry who only cares about the amount of power they have and influences of wealthy and high-ranking families rather than the welfares of the people." When she had said that, she didn't even notice the angry face Cornelius had or that everyone was trying to hold in his or her laughter.

"Who…are…you?" Cornelius said, angry that this girl had gone and insulted him like that. He is the head of the ministry of magic and deserved respect from everyone, not really noticing that his line of thought had proved Usagi right, he was self-absorbed.

"I just told you, my name is Serenity," Usagi said, "I'm also that "under qualified" DADA teacher you're going on before. Though I would most appreciate it if you don't go calling people under qualified since you don't know us or the powers we have." She turned around and started to head back out, but before she stepped foot outside the door, she turned her head to the large audience. "We have a week until they come," she said, "And I'm not talking about Voldemort and his pathetic lackeys." With that, she left with everyone, other than Haruka, Hotaru, and Michiru, wondering whom she was talking about.

AN: As you can see from this chapter, I really, REALLY despise Cornelius Fudge. I think he deserves to die, maybe I'll have Usagi do the honors, it's either her, the senshis combine their attacks, Harry, or he got killed while trying to run away during the war.