Disclaimer: Neither Harry Potter or The Avengers belong to me, only the plot and original characters are mine. No money is being made from this story.
Warnings: Violence, Swearing, Slash, AU. Ignores everything after the first Avengers movie and the events of Harry Potter after year five are AU though some events did occur (including the Horcruxes).
Pairings: HP/SR, DM/GW, BZ/NR. RL/BB, TS/PP, CB/LB, Thor/JF
Chapter Four
"Ah, Director Fury. What can I do for you?" Isaac Walsh asked as Nick Fury stormed into his office.
"When were you going to tell me that Harry Potter was in New York?" Fury asked, getting straight to the point.
"I wasn't. How did you find out?" Isaac asked the irate man.
"I found out he was here because he thought it would be fun to see how far into Avengers tower he could get before he got caught."
"Really? How far did he get?" Isaac was amused, while he wasn't happy that Potter had exposed himself to the Avengers, he was highly amused at the reaction of Fury. That man didn't like being left out of any loop and it looked like Potter had just thrown him for a big one.
"All the way to the top. Even then he wasn't noticed until he interacted with Stark. Apparently one of them thought that it would be a good idea to shoot at him and he vanished into thin air." Fury informed him as he finally stopped pacing.
"Well, he is good at his job. Why he is here has absolutely nothing to do with you so there is no point in you asking." Isaac told him.
"What is going on, Isaac?" Fury knew the man was hiding something.
"Nothing that concerns the muggle world, Potter's team was brought here because they are the best. They'll be able to close this case in no time at all and you'll have nothing to worry about."
"If whatever they are doing spills into the muggle world then I will be stepping in." With that final threat, Nick Fury stormed from the room. He would get to the bottom of this.
"Wow, someone has some serious issues. I better get in touch with Kingsley." Isaac mumbled before pressing the button on his intercom.
"Abby, put a call through to Auror Shacklebolt, please."
"Of course, sir."
Shaking his head, Isaac went back to the pile of paperwork in front of him. While he wasn't happy with Fury for storming into his office and demanding answers, he was a bit glad for the distraction from paperwork no matter how brief it was. He really hated paperwork.
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"Finally!"
The loud exclamation roused Harry from the light dose he had fallen into whilst laying on the lounge in his hotel suite. It had been three days since his little bout of fun at the Avengers expense, he hadn't been back to the tower but he and his team had seen the members of the Avengers patrolling the city. Looked like he had put them on edge, that was always a fun thing to do.
"What's got you so excited?" He asked the source of the shout.
"I finally found the source of the magical signature that you picked up at the tower. It took longer than I thought but then again I have been searching for just one individual in a city of thousands." Blaise explained.
"That's great, where is he?" Draco asked as he sat down at the table.
"Harry, where did you say Stark's nearest warehouse was?" Blaise asked.
"The nearest one is in New Jersey, from what I saw in the file it currently houses all of the old Stark weaponry that has been decommissioned and is scheduled for destruction." Harry told him.
"From what I'm seeing here, it looks like our little stalker is in New Jersey with at least four other wizards because I'm seeing more magical signatures. What is the address of Stark's warehouse?" Blaise explained.
Harry walked over to his pile of folders that he had put together for the case they were working, a folder for each Avenger and what they had gathered on their little stalker so far. He rummaged through the messy pile and pulled out the folder he needed. Once he had gone through the file and found the paper that had the warehouse's address on it, he put the file back on the desk and walked over to Blaise to give him the paper.
Blaise took the paper and then proceeded to type in the address on his computer to see if the person they were after was anywhere near the warehouse. When the computer showed the magic signatures at the warehouse, all three boy's turned to look at each other.
"That's not good. If they get their hands on any of Stark's weapons then we are going to have a major problem on our hands." Draco said as they watched the screen.
"You can say that again, we need to get there before they take anything. It's a guarantee that Stark will have good security there but even that won't stop these guys for long." Harry added as he stood from his seat to put his shoes on.
"How are we going to get there?" Blaise asked as he too put his shoes on.
"I've been there already, a little bit of reconnaissance just in case we needed to go there." Harry informed them.
"Good thing you think two steps ahead, then." Draco said as they all headed for the door.
"We'll head to the alley down the block and apparate from there."
The three wizards exited the hotel in silence and made their way to the predetermined apparition point, Harry would have to take the other two wizards in side along apparition. Apparition on your own was bad enough but the feeling that accompanies the action is ten times worse when you are bringing someone else along with you. Only a handful of wizards and witches could take multiple passengers when they apparated, Harry being one of them.
It took a good ten minutes to get to the alley that they needed, it was Friday night and the streets were teeming with nightlife. Thankfully the alley was empty when they arrived so apparating out was quick and simple. Their final destination was behind a dumpster next to the visitor parking lot, not the best smelling destination but it was in a dark area of the lot and they went unseen by anyone in the vicinity.
"This place reeks." Draco noted as he tried not to breathe through his nose.
"I've smelt better things but at least we are out of sight." Harry told the blonde.
"They're still here." Blaise added as he looked at the screen of his laptop, having pulled it out of his bag right after they arrived.
"Okay, we'll need to see what's going on. I knew this little guy would serve his purpose." Harry said as he pulled a metal box the size of a tissue box out of his back pack.
Tired of their surveillance spells not always working, Harry had created the perfect surveillance bug. It was about the size of his palm and was equipped with a cloaking device that utilised magic and electronic components making it impossible to be detected by muggle's or magic folk. This would be its first field test and Harry really hoped that it would work.
He opened the lid of the box and pulled the bug out along with the USB stick that had its control commands on it. He transfigured a can into a table and pulled his laptop out of his bag and placed it on top, Harry then plugged the USB into the laptop and set up the bug whilst he waited for the program to load on his computer.
Everything was set and ready to go five minutes later and Harry placed the bug on the ground, he activated the cloak and sent it on its way. Blaise and Draco crowded around Harry as he controlled the bug, Draco was still fascinated by how good Harry had created a device that could escape detection from both magic and muggle tech.
"There's the side door, it's open. Let's see what we have." Harry said as he sent the bug in through the door.
The further the bug went, the more noise they could hear. Boxes were being moved about and several people were yelling back and forth over the expanse of the warehouse. The bug came to a gap between two crates and as it inched towards the end the room came into focus. There were three guards tied up and unconscious in the far corner, another one seemed to be helping the thieves with their little mission. Several crates had already been loaded into the back of a track that had been backed into the warehouse.
They couldn't see into the back of the truck from where the bug was positioned so they had no idea how long the group had been there. They weren't even sure how full the warehouse was to begin with so that was of no help. Harry pressed a few buttons on his laptop and the Magic Pulse software showed up in a split screen. Once the program had loaded up, the three wizards looked at the screen to determine how many of the current occupants in the warehouse were magical.
"Looks like four wizards, the other three are muggles." Draco pointed out.
"It's a very good guarantee that the muggles will all be armed, so we need to be even more cautious of them." Blaise added.
Harry manoeuvred the bug further into the warehouse, careful to keep to the shadows of the weapons crates. As it moved further through the warehouse they noticed that there were another two muggles on the other side of the truck, bringing the rooms total occupants up to nine, not including the two tied up guards.
"This is going to get messy." Harry stated.
"Should we wait until the group is smaller?" Draco asked.
"Hmm, I don't know yet. Let's wait a few minutes, just in case anyone else turns up." Harry told them.
"I wonder what types of weapons are stored here?" Blaise asked.
"Well, considering what Stark used to make before he became Iron Man, I'd say that whatever is in those crates would not be good in these guy's hands." Draco said as he pulled up the digital copy with the information of the warehouse on his laptop.
"It doesn't say what's in there, only that the warehouse is full of old Stark tech assigned for destruction." Draco informed the other two.
Before either of the other two wizards could reply they heard a noise coming from behind them. The sound got louder as it drew nearer and all three wizards looked up just in time to see Tony Stark in his Iron Man suit fly over them. Looks the man had discovered the break in.
Thankful that they were under a notice-me-not charm, the three wizards watched as Stark was joined by two other members of the Avengers. Harry was rather happy to see that Captain America was one of them.
Stark, Rogers and Black Widow stood huddled in the parking lot arguing over how they were going to go into the warehouse. True to his usual form, Stark decided to just storm the place not caring if it was the wrong move or not.
"Should we go in?" Blaise asked after the other two Avengers followed their hot headed team mate into the warehouse.
"No, we knew that this might happen. Guess it was wishful thinking that we wouldn't have a run in with the Avengers. Any other city and we would be fine but these guys just had to pick New York." Harry told them, he wasn't happy but this situation was bound to happen sooner or later.
With the group of wizards deciding to rob Stark's warehouse they set in motion a turn of events that were bound to get the Avengers involved. There was no telling whether or not the situation would have occurred if they hadn't chosen this particular warehouse, so Harry and his team would just have to adapt and go a different course of action.
"What do we do now?" Draco asked.
"If they catch anyone then we'll go to Walsh, maybe he can get in contact with the head of that S.H.I.E.L.D group and we'll get access to whoever they catch." Harry told them.
The three wizards stood there and watched the camera footage from the bug, as soon as Stark had stormed the building one of the wizards had apparated out with one of the crates in his arms. One of the muggles jumped into the truck and tried to drive out of the warehouse through the closed door but was stopped by Stark who had fired into the engine block disabling the truck.
Rogers had managed to knock one of the wizards out with his shield and he was currently dodging spells thrown at him by the other two. While he was preoccupied with them, Romanoff was fighting with the turn coat security guard. Just when she was about to get the upper hand, the guard pulled a necklace out from under his shirt and with a whispered word he disappeared.
"Figured as much." Draco said as they continued to watch the video footage.
"We knew that the muggles working for them may have portkey's. Now we know without a doubt that they do." Harry said as they watched two more of the muggles activate theirs.
Once the muggles had all managed to portkey out of the warehouse, the other two wizards attempted to get to their fallen comrade only to have their path blocked by Stark. They had already noticed that their spells couldn't penetrate the man's suit so they thought better of their idea to fight him more and instead apparated out of the warehouse.
"Well, that's our cue to leave. They won't be able to get that guy to talk anytime soon so we have plenty of time to get in contact with Walsh and let him know what's going on." Harry said as he started to bring the bug back to where they were.
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The three wizards arrived at the Woolworth building, they made their way to the Auror office to speak with Walsh. They arrived at his assistant's desk only to find she wasn't there, they waited ten minutes before she turned up.
"Gentlemen, what can I do for you?" Abigail asked as she sat down at her desk.
"We need to speak with him, it's really important." Harry told her as me moved to stand in front of her desk.
"Just let me see if he's available." Abigail said as she rose from her seat.
"No, you don't understand. We need to see him now, whether he has someone with him or not." Harry said as he stood in her way.
"Alright, I'll let him know." She said as she went and knocked on the door, upon being told to enter she disappeared into the office.
"Sir, Harry Potter and his team are outside. They say they have something important to speak with you about."
"Okay, let them in. I may know what they are here for."
"Of course." Abigail said as she stepped out of the room and headed towards Harry.
"He'll see you now."
"Thank you, Abigail." With a smile directed towards Walsh's assistant, the three wizards headed for the door and entered into the office.
"Gentlemen, what can I do for you?"
"We have a problem." Harry said as he and his team mates sat down in the chairs in front of the desk.
"What is it?"
"We discovered that the wizards we are after were in the process of robbing one of Tony Stark's warehouses. They were loading a truck with old Stark tech weapons that were scheduled for destruction. Before we could go in and apprehend the perpetrators, Stark and two other members of the Avengers turned up." Harry began.
"This is not good; this is exactly what I wanted to avoid." Walsh said as he sat back in his chair, a look of unease on his face.
"All but one of the people there managed to escape. The one wizard who has been following us around the city for the last week was knocked out and taken by the Avengers." Draco told Walsh.
"We need you to get in contact with Director Fury, we need to interrogate the man they captured. I think it was wishful thinking that we would be able to keep this a secret from the Avengers, considering what city we are in." Harry told the head Auror.
"I want to keep Fury out of this as much as possible. Ever since he became the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D and found out about the wizarding world, he has been wanting to recruit Auror's to work for him."
"With all due respect, sir, Fury being involved is unavoidable. We need him to verify our story as well as who we are. Before we came here I got in contact with the British Minister of Magic and he has given us permission to let the Avengers in on the Wizarding world. He also got in contact with your President, both the Magical and Muggle ones and they both agreed as well." Harry informed the man across from him.
"We came to you so that you could get in contact with Director Fury." Draco told Walsh.
"The man they captured will not reveal anything to them, I very highly doubt he'll even tell them his name. The Avengers will want to be involved because these guy's picked New York to base their operations, Stark will involve himself based on the fact that he's nosy as all hell and it was his warehouse that was broken into." Blaise added.
"Alright, I'll get in contact with Fury and set up a meeting for tomorrow. You may as well head back to your hotel and await my call." Walsh told them.
"We'll organise our files on these people so that we can give the Avengers proper details about what is going on." Harry said as he stood from his seat.
Once all the pleasantries were out of the way, the three young wizards left the office and headed back to their hotel. Tomorrow would be interesting.
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Nine o'clock the next morning found Harry standing outside of Blaise and Draco's hotel room waiting for one of them to answer the door. He had just received a phone call from Walsh asking for he and his team to meet him in his office at ten. Apparently he had been called to a meeting with the President of the Magical Congress of America and he was informed that he needed to hand the case fully over to Harry's team and that he needed to inform the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D about what was going on. Full cooperation between the Auror department and the Avengers was to be top priority.
Harry raised his hand to knock again when the door was opened to reveal Draco still wet from a shower and a towel wrapped around his waist. With a smirk at the state of undress his friend was in, Harry walked into the room and watched as Draco closed the door and headed over to his bed to get his clothes before heading back into the bathroom.
"I'll be back out in a couple minutes, wake Blaise up will you."
With a laugh, Harry walked over to the bed that Blaise was occupying. The half Italian was a rather heavy sleeper and they had quite a bit of trouble getting him to wake up most mornings.
Harry grabbed a hold of the mattress and tipped it to the left so that Blaise would fall off, sheets and all. The tipping of the mattress resulted in a loud thump followed by a yelp from the previous occupant of the bed.
"What the hell, Harry?" The older wizard yelled as he sat up from his prone position on the floor.
"Draco said to wake you up, it seemed like a good idea." Harry said with a laugh.
"Nice, Harry. I should try that next time." Draco said from the bathroom doorway.
Blaise got up from the ground and walked towards the bathroom, grumbling under his breath about annoying friends and their inability to let him sleep. Draco and Harry just laughed before heading towards the door to head back to Harry's hotel room.
"We'll see you next door, Blaise. I got a call from Walsh this morning about the case." Harry called out as he opened the door.
"Okay, I'll be there soon. I'll just grab a quick shower." Blaise called back through the still open bathroom door.
"I put coffee on before I left my room, we're going to need the extra boost today." Harry said as he and Draco entered into his room.
The two friends sat at the counter drinking their coffee waiting for Blaise to turn up, not only was he hard to wake up but he had a habit of taking really long showers. The older man was very anal about having two showers a day and he was beyond annoying whenever they were on a mission that didn't have them in a hotel. Cleaning charms only did so much.
"Okay, what did Walsh want?" Blaise asked as he entered into Harry's suite.
"He was called into a meeting with the Magical President, he has handed the whole case over to us and has ordered Walsh to get in contact with Director Fury and inform him about why we are here. We have also been given permission to give full disclosure to the Avengers, not just about the case but also about the Wizarding world." Harry explained.
"We have a meeting with Walsh at ten o'clock, Fury will be there so we will most likely be heading over to Avenger tower once the meeting is finished. I've packed a vial of Veritaserum into my bag for when we interrogate their captive." Harry told them.
"What's the time?" Blaise asked.
"It's just gone on nine thirty, we should leave in about ten minutes so you have just enough time to have a cup of coffee." Harry told him.
"Right, I'm going to the loo."
"I really don't want to know about your bodily functions." Harry yelled as the blonde walked away.
"Sharing is caring." Draco yelled back before closing the door.
"Some things really don't change." Blaise said, chuckling at his best friend's antics.
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The meeting with Walsh started on time even though they were still awaiting the arrival of Fury. Walsh had further explained the details of his meeting with President Anders about the case and what the man expected of them. He had reviewed several of the team's case files and he was really impressed with their closing rate, he was even contemplating implementing muggle tech into their own investigative methods. Especially Hermione's MPS invention as well as the Magic Pulse program.
Walsh and President Anders had been in conference with Kingsley and the British Minister of Magic for most of the morning starting at six. They had agreed to let Harry's team run the operation and would send in any Auror's from the American Ministry when and if they were needed. Arthur had even offered to send over Hermione once it was all done so that she could help out with the muggle technology that had already been implemented into the British Ministry.
By eleven o'clock, Fury had finally showed up. He was running late because of a little altercation on his helicarrier that had left several of his men in the infirmary and a stack of incident reports to review. He was not a happy man but then again Harry didn't think he was ever a pleasant man so him not being happy wasn't much of a surprise.
"Fury, I've called you here to talk about the assignment that Harry and his team are currently on. Seeing as it now involves the Avengers it has been decided that they are to be let in on one of this country's biggest secrets." Walsh began.
"Why now, why not the other day?" Fury asked, his curiosity peaked.
"Last night your team managed to capture one of the wizards that Mr. Potter and his team were sent here to stop. This puts a wrinkle in the operation that they have been tasked with." Walsh informed the other man.
"And what exactly does this operation entail?" Fury asked, his interest was definitely peaked now.
Harry and his team proceeded to inform the Director about why they were in America, who they were after as well as what they knew so far. The older man was greatly impressed with their skills and insight. However, he was not looking forward to Stark's reaction when he finds out that magic is real and not just a big part of fairy tales.
"So, what is it you want me to do?" Fury asked once they had explained everything that they had so far.
"We need to interrogate that prisoner, considering he has been following us around he is most likely a disposable echelon but they will still try and get him back before he can be interrogated." Harry told him.
"If Stark and the others can't get anything out of him then what makes you think you can?" Fury asked.
"Oh, we have our ways." Draco replied with a smirk.
"We need you to get us up to the penthouse and verify our story, they won't believe us unless you are their telling them that what we are saying is true." Blaise added.
"Alright, it's nearly twelve o'clock so we should head over there soon. I originally had agents Romanoff and Barton scheduled for a mission but I'll have to assign someone else. I'll call Agent Hill and have her organise that then we can head over to Avengers tower." Stark told them as he stood from his seat and pulled his cell phone out of his pocket.
"Okay, here are the files pertaining to you and your team." Walsh said as he handed over the three files that Kingsley had Floo'd over to him that morning.
"I guess it's only fair they know about us considering we have been studying their files." Harry said as he took possession of the three files.
"That is all sorted so we can head out now." Fury told them as he ended his phone call.
After shaking hands with Walsh, the three wizards and one spy headed out of the office. They would have to take a car over to the tower because they knew that Fury would most likely not find their way of travel enjoyable.
By the time they did reach the tower is was almost one in the afternoon, traffic in New York was ridiculous and it didn't help that they had gotten stuck behind a traffic accident. This meeting was sure to be informative.
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"He's not talking; he's not even looking at anything other than a spot on the wall." Natasha announced as she entered into the main room of the penthouse.
"Great, how are we going to find out why he was at my warehouse if he isn't going to say anything?" Tony asked from his usual spot behind the bar.
"That's where we come in."
All the occupants in the room turned to where the elevator was to see Fury standing there with three young men. One of them looked vaguely familiar.
"Who are your friends, Fury?" Stark asked.
"I'm hurt; you don't even remember me. And I thought I was pretty memorable." Harry said with a pout as he walked further into the room.
"You! What the hell are you doing here?" Tony yelled as he stormed across the room and stopped in front of Harry.
"You have what we want." Harry told the irate man, an amused smirk started to form on his face.
"Enough, gentlemen. There are more important things to discuss than your ego, Stark." Furry said as he walked further into the room.
"Sir, what is this all about?" Steve asked.
"We are here for the man you captured last night." Draco explained.
"I have no idea what you are talking about." Tony denied as he moved over to where Pepper was sitting.
"Can it, Stark. You asked me about who this man was and I have been given permission to offer full disclosure to all of you." Fury said.
"Director, what is all this about?" Bruce asked.
"The man you have is a member of a group we were sent here to stop. We were called in after several others had failed miserably at finding out who and what they were up against. Several agents even lost their lives." Blaise started.
"Who would ask for you? You all look barely out of your teens." Clint spoke up.
"Hey now, don't be jealous of our youthful good looks." Draco retorted.
"Put it this way, I'm closer to thirty then I'd like to be. Now can we get on with this?" Harry said as he sat on a bar stool he pulled closer to the sitting area.
"These three gentlemen are Harry Potter, Draco Malfoy and Blaise Zabini." Fury introduced the three wizards.
"We'd like to speak with the man you caught before we do anything else. He has information that we need and there is no way he'll give it to any of you." Blaise told them.
"Maybe we should give them the basics first, they'll want in on the interrogation and there will be things said that they won't understand." Harry said.
"Before any details are given, I have non-disclosure forms that each of you need to sign before you are to be told anything." Fury said as he started to hand out the forms that had been approved by the Magical President.
"I'm not signing anything." Stark said, refusing to take the form.
"Well then, you can leave. Don't expect to be involved with anything from here on in." Harry told the stubborn genius.
"Tony, please just sign it. If it wasn't important then they wouldn't have these forms." Pepper implored her stubborn fiancé.
"Fine. But I do it under protest."
"What don't you do under protest?" Bruce asked.
The billionaire sat there grumbling as he signed the paperwork that he had been handed. His attitude just reaffirmed Harry's thoughts about the man, he really was a child in a man's body.
Once all the forms had been signed, Fury had collected them all back before taking a seat. This was going to be a really interesting conversation. Pepper was the most open minded of the lot, Thor would be easy to accept it, however he was currently visiting Jane Foster and hadn't been informed of the Avengers captive yet. Natasha and Clint would take some convincing, so would Steve. Tony and Bruce on the other hand were essentially scientists and they would be the hardest to convince.
"When I was promoted to Director of S.H.I.E.L.D I was made privy to several secrets that the government was keeping from its people. One of those being about a secret society that was living, hidden, right beside our own. This community had been hidden from the No-Maj world for centuries and was only made aware to the heads of the countries they were residing in." Fury started.
"What the hell is No-Maj?" Tony asked.
"It's a term used here in America to describe people like you. In Britain you would be called a muggle." Harry explained.
"This story is making no sense." Clint spoke up.
"Put it this way. Do you remember the Salem Witch Trials? There was more than a grain of truth to all that. All the killings and captures of witches caused our ancestors to completely segregate our world from yours." Blaise explained.
"Wait. Are you actually trying to tell us that you are witches?" Tony asked, an incredulous look on his face.
"Well considering we are all male, that would make us wizards but yes, that is what we are trying to tell you." Harry replied.
"Bull shit!" Came the expected response from Tony.
"Exclaiming about animal excrement won't change the fact that what we are telling you is the truth." Blaise told the older man.
"We can and will give you proof." Draco added.
"Like what?" Pepper asked.
Blaise pulled his wand out of its holster and cast Accio on the lounge cushion next to Bruce, the pillow zoomed across the room and Blaise plucked it out of the air.
"Oh please, you used technology for that." Tony said.
With a look of annoyance and impatience, Harry stood from his seat and waved his hand at the coffee table in the middle of the sitting area. Before every one's eyes, the table turned from an inanimate piece of wood to a very animate dog that started to bark and jump around the room.
"Believe it now, or should I do some more?" Harry asked as he sat back on the bar stool.
"That's not probable." Bruce mumbled as he got closer to the newly transformed dog.
"We can show you more if you'd like." Draco told them.
"What, like pull a rabbit out of a hat?" Tony asked, dubiously.
"Blaise, show them. We'll be here all day otherwise." Harry told the older boy.
Blaise got up from his seat and moved to where the coffee table had once stood, he pulled his wand back out of its holster and pointed it at himself. Before the eyes of the Avengers, Blaise began to transform. By the time he had finished, a Rottweiler was in his place.
"Woah, that is cool." Bruce had an excited look on his face as he moved over to Blaise from the now untransformed coffee table.
"The three of us have the ability to transform into an animal, it's called our Animagus form. Not all witches and wizards can transform into an animal, those that can have to register their form with their local ministry." Harry explained.
"So there is an entire society out there that is exclusively made up of people who can do magic?" Natasha asked.
"Yes, here in America there are two ministries. The one here in New York is the main one, there is another one in California. It's called the Magical Congress of the United States of America. Back home it's just called the Ministry of Magic and is run by a Minister for Magic. Like in the muggle world here in America, the magical world is run by a President who keeps your President up to date on anything going on in the magic world." Harr explained.
"There are three classifications of a magical person, Draco and I are known as Purebloods and Harry is a Half-blood. There are also Muggleborns." Blaise added.
"What do those titles mean?" Clint asked.
"A Pureblood has a family background of purely magic folk, Half-blood's have one magical parent and one muggle parent. Muggleborns are a witch or wizard born from non-magic parents." Draco explained.
"So one of your parents is a muggle?" Bruce asked Harry.
"No." He replied.
"But he just said that a Half-blood was born from one magic parent and one non-magic parent."
"I'm kind of a first generation Pureblood, my father was a Pureblood wizard and my mother was a Muggleborn." Harry explained.
"Was?" Pepper asked.
"They were murdered when I was a year old." Harry told her.
"I'm so sorry." Pepper told him.
"It happened twenty-seven years ago, the man who killed them got what was coming to him." Harry replied.
"You killed him?" Steve asked.
"With great pleasure." Harry replied.
Although Harry wasn't too keen on killing people, Voldemort's death was a long time coming and it was well deserved. It wasn't revenge for what the man had done to his parents, it was vengeance for all those who had been killed by the insane wizard.
"You sound like you have no remorse about killing another human being." Bruce said.
"Trust me, Voldemort's death is a highly celebrated event in Britain. Think Hitler but ten times worse." Blaise explained to them.
"Voldemort?" Tony snorted.
"Yeah, the man was a megalomaniac that got great pleasure from torturing and killing those he deemed beneath him. He wanted to eradicate the world of every last muggle, he didn't care who got in the way. If you opposed him, then he killed you." Harry said.
"Even the American wizards were starting to get a bit worried about him, when he came back into power the heads of all the muggle agencies were informed of him." Fury added.
At the curious looks on the Avengers faces, Harry decided it might be beneficial to explain the madman to them. He and his team spent the next half hour explaining every detail of both wars that were started because of Voldemort. None of them looked impressed with the man they were being told about and eventually they understood Harry's hatred of the man.
Pepper looked the most upset, she couldn't believe that a bunch of adults had relied on one boy to do something none of them could do. Instead of having a childhood full of fun and rebellion, he had a childhood of pain and death.
"You actually died?" Bruce asked.
"Yep, had to. The piece of Voldemort's soul that was inside of me needed to be destroyed for him to be able to die and stay dead. So I walked into the forest ready to die, knowing that I was giving my friends the chance they needed to stop him for good. I was not expecting to come back though." Harry explained.
"Wow, that's one hell of a story." Natasha spoke up.
"Now that all this has been explained and we have proven our abilities to you, we need to go and speak with the man you caught." Harry told them.
"He's not talking, I spent an hour with him and he didn't even look at me." Natasha told them.
"Don't worry, we have ways of making him talk." Harry said as he held up the vial of Veritaserum for everyone to see.
"What is that?" Tony asked.
"It's a potion called Veritaserum, it is a very potent truth serum. Just one drop and you'll be compelled to tell us every little dark secret you have." Blaise explained to them.
"Sorry Fury but as much as you would like to get your hands on this, we have been told not to give you any." Harry told the man when he noticed the eager look on the spy's face.
"What exactly is it you three do that made you ideal for whatever job you were asked to do?" Natasha asked.
"We're Auror's, the magical version of police officers. We're an elite team that is bought in to do missions that others are unable to do." Draco explained to them.
"Exactly why were you all asked to come here if you are British?" Clint asked.
"Because the Auror's in the American ministry were having problems with this case, the President put a request through to our boss and we were given the assignment." Draco told him.
"What exactly is the assignment you have been tasked with?" Steve asked.
Harry, Draco and Blaise spent the next twenty minutes filling the Avengers in on the case they were currently investigating. They showed them what they had managed to find out in the short time they had been in New York and Harry had been asked by Stark what types of spells they had used to track the people they were after.
The billionaire became very intrigued when Harry went into full detail about the MPS and the Magic Pulse, he was already thinking of several things he could help the wizard to integrate into the magical world. Harry's explanation of the two devices lead to an explanation of how they had started to implement muggle technology into the magical world. Tony was very interested in meeting Hermione Granger.
"As interesting as all this is, we have already spent too much time talking. We really need to speak to the wizard you caught before his friends find a way to get him out of here." Blaise said, interrupting the very in depth conversation that Harry was having with Tony Stark.
"Okay, we have him held in Hulk's play room. No one can get out of there unless the door is opened by one of us." Tony told them as they all got up from their seats to follow the man to the elevator.
It was a tight fit but they managed to fit everyone inside the elevator and a short ride later they had arrived on the floor they needed. Once Tony opened the door to the room that their suspect was currently sitting in.
He was tied to a chair that had been placed in the centre of the room, the look on his face went from displeasure to fear when he set sights on Harry and his team. He knew he was screwed now.
"Well now, don't you look nervous?" Harry asked as he walked into the room, he conjured a chair and sat backwards on it.
"You know who we are, don't you?" Blaise asked as he sat next to Harry.
A stubborn look appeared on the man's face but it didn't really cover up the look of fear that had formed since Harry and his team had entered. He knew what was coming next but he also knew how to be obstinate.
"Now, now, there is no need to be stubborn. Either you cooperate or I'll hex you three ways from Sunday and force this down your throat." Harry said as he pulled the vial of Veritaserum out of his pocket.
When he still refused to cooperate with them, Draco and Blaise got up and help his mouth open while Harry put the required amount on his tongue. Once done, Draco and Blaise sat back in their seats and the Avengers stood watching.
The wizard's eyes took on a vacant look and his body relaxed from the tension that had filled his body upon every one's entrance. Taking out a pen and pad, Harry cast a charm on them so the pen would write everything that was said.
"Right, first order of business. What is your name?" Harry asked.
"Simon Powell."
"When were you born?"
"April eight, nineteen ninety."
"Where did you go to school?"
"Durmstrung Academy."
"Who do you work for?"
This next question seemed to get a reaction from the wizard, as though he was trying to fight the Veritaserum.
"There is no use trying to fight it." Draco told him.
"Alden Latton."
"There we go, that wasn't so hard." Harry told Powell in a condescending way.
"How many people are in your group?" Blaise asked.
"Eight."
"How do you know if he is really telling the truth?" Tony asked the three wizards.
"You can't lie under the effects of the potion. A lot of wizards and witches over the years have tried to find a way around it but no one has ever even come close." Draco explained.
"The best way to verify the answers he is giving us is to ask a question that will give us an answer we can confirm." Blaise explained further.
"How many people were at the Stark Industries warehouse last night?" Harry asked.
"Nine."
"How many of those were wizards?"
"Four, including me."
"Is that right? We didn't really pay attention to how many people were in the warehouse." Natasha asked.
"Yeah, that's right. There were four wizards and five muggles, including the security guard that worked for you Stark." Harry told them as he turned around to look at the aforementioned man.
"He won't be working for anyone ever again if I get my way." Stark did not look impressed with the knowledge that one of his employees had allowed access to his warehouse for those people to take his weapons.
"What is it that your group is doing?" Draco started the questioning again.
"Muggles are a plague upon this earth, they breed like vermin and their hate and ridicule spreads like wild fire. The only good muggle is a dead one, wizards are the superior species."
"Wow, was he channelling Voldemort for a minute there?" Blaise asked as he look at Harry.
"Great, we've stumbled upon a group of Voldemort sympathisers. That's just what we need, a group of diehard Voldemort fans." Draco added.
"Why are you stealing muggle weapons?"
"There's nothing more satisfying than killing them with their own weapons."
"Where is your base of operations?" Draco asked, disgust was written all over his face.
"I don't know."
"Why don't you know?"
"I don't rank high enough to be told where it is."
"Why don't you rank high enough?" Blaise asked.
"I'm Muggleborn." The potion must have started to wear off because the look of disgust at his own lineage that marred his face should not have been possible under the full influence of the Veritaserum.
"Great, we're going to have to try and capture someone higher up. He's of no more use, I'll call Walsh and have him send an Auror squad to pick this piece of shit up. Be lucky you're not in Britain, I'm pretty sure there would be a nice cell all waiting for you at Azkaban with your own personal Dementor." Harry told the wizard as he stood up and banished the seat.
"What is Azkaban?" Bruce asked, his curiosity had been peaked ever since the three wizards had turned up and explained things.
"It's a wizarding prison in Britain, it used to be solely guarded by these creatures known as Dementor's but after they revolted and joined Voldemort their number was drastically reduced and they are now only assigned to the worst of the worse who are sentenced to there." Harry explained.
"What is a Dementor?" Stark asked, he was grudgingly accepting of the situation. What he thought was impossible turned out to be improbable until the three wizards proved it to be true.
"Dementors are among the foulest creatures that walk this earth. They infest the darkest, filthiest places, they glory in decay and despair, they drain peace, hope, and happiness out of the air around them... Get too near a Dementor and every good feeling, every happy memory will be sucked out of you. If it can, the Dementor will feed on you long enough to reduce you to something like itself... soulless and evil. You will be left with nothing but the worst experiences of your life. (1)" Blaise explained.
"Sounds pleasant." The sarcastic reply from Clint had Harry and his team snorting with humour, they were far from pleasant.
"What do we do now?" Blaise asked as he turned to look at Harry.
"We search for the wizard that followed me home the other day, hopefully he's a higher rank then this guy." Harry replied as he pulled his phone from his pocket.
"I'm going to call Walsh and we'll go from there once this one has been picked up."
"You still have the information in these files to tell the Avengers." Fury spoke up as he held up the three files he was still holding.
"Okay, once Powell is gone we can go back upstairs and we'll answer any questions you lot have." Draco told the Avengers before he followed Harry out of the room.
Draco had thought it would be beneficial to bring the course books from all seven years he spent at Hogwarts. He knew that the Avengers would have a lot of questions they would like to ask and supplying them with the books would make the explanations easier and faster. While they waited for Harry to get off of the phone with Walsh, Draco pulled his phone out of his pocket and waved it at Blaise before dialling his home phone as he walked out of the door.
"Where is he going?" Fury asked after the blonde left the room.
"To call his wife." Blaise told him.
"He's married?" Pepper asked.
"Yeah, to a spit fire of a red head. She's pregnant with their second child and on forced medical bed rest so he rings her every day to check up on her." Blaise told her.
"What about you?" Pepper asked him.
"Single, like Draco I come from a long line of Purebloods so my family is old money. Most of the women I have dated are just interested in my family's money. Harry has the same problem, his father's family dates back to the time of Merlin and with him being the sole heir to his family fortune he's only ever sought after for that and his fame." Blaise explained to them.
"Merlin is real?" Bruce asked, awe colouring his voice.
"Yeah, all the questions you guys have will be answered once those two come back." Blaise told the intrigued scientist.
"Okay, let's head back upstairs." Steve suggested as he moved towards the door.
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"Security has been tightened at the Avengers tower, we weren't able to get in to get to Powell."
Alden Latton was not happy with the report that he was currently being given, Powell knew just enough about their operation that it could put a kink in their plans. He knew that the incompetent wizard would be taken to the Magical Congress building once he had been questioned by that Potter brat. He should have known that the boy's presence in New York was not a coincidence, the fact that he was here with his whole team meant that they had been sent for to deal with him and his team.
He would have to enlist the help of his contact in the Woolworth building, he did not tolerate incompetence lightly and Powell would need to be silenced.
"Contact Gordon, tell him I need that favour." Alden told the wizard in front of him, the Hayes brothers had proven to be very reliable wizards.
"Of course, is there anything else you want done?"
"You and your brother need to take up Powell's job, do not fail me like he did."
"We'll head out right away."
Michael Hayes was not a stupid man, he knew when to obey and when to not stick his neck out for those who weren't family. If things came to a head he would not back Latton in his quest for vengeance, the life of his brother was more important than the life of a man who was beyond crazed that he thought all muggles needed to be killed.
He never should have gotten his brother involved, it was time to make a contingency plan.
A/N: Phew, all done. The longest chapter yet. They have all met and there may just be an ally in the ranks of the enemy, maybe.
