A Mugiwara Goes to Hogwarts

By: WhiteFang72

Disclaimer: I do not own One Piece or Harry Potter or any of the related characters. Also, this story takes place right after Skypiea in the One Piece universe and during the fourth book in the Harry Potter one.

Okay, I know some of you were content with not mentioning the rest of the Strawhats yet, but I feel that Usopp's shipmates are too important to his character and the plot to ignore completely. Don't worry, though. The story will continue to be Usopp centric. On another note, I will probably finish this… someday, but I'm also working on writing stories I can publish (not that it's going so well), and I'm probably the worst author there is for updating, as I'm sure most of you know, so it is going to take a while. Be prepared. ;)

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Nami clenched her fists at her side, annoyed that she had to put up with Luffy and Zoro in such a claustrophobic setting. The boys were interrogating a tavern owner, Luffy had even found a bright lamp to shine on the poor man's face, but they weren't getting anywhere at all.

The bar they'd entered was cluttered beyond belief. Barrels of brew were thrown against one wall, some standing on end and some lying empty, while old bottles rolled around under the tables when people kicked them. Another wall had some worn out poster for a play draped over a bulletin board, jutting out from the stone and making it impossible to sit in the corner table. So many chairs filled the room that there was barely any space to stand. Nami could have stood all of that, of course, if not for the fact that there was nothing worth stealing anywhere in the building. The pub's customers were keeping their valuables, what little they had, close by and the beer wasn't good enough to fetch a decent price at market.

Nami's hands itched to do something, anything. But, she knew that pulling a fast one on the villagers would only make her feel a little better. What she really wanted to do was bash some baddy's face in with her Clima-Tact. Well, okay, what she really really wanted to do was send Luffy or Zoro to bash some baddy's face in. It's been three days Usopp. Where the hell are you? Nami sighed and forcibly unclenched her fists before she left nail marks on her palms.

Three days earlier Nami and Robin had noticed that Usopp hadn't come back from selling their goods. Nami hadn't really been worried at first. Usopp sometimes lost track of time while looking at weapons and didn't come back until dark. By the time midnight rolled around, though, everyone was back on the ship but their sharpshooter. The boys, minus Chopper, volunteered to go look for him, but when they returned near dawn, they hadn't seen him anywhere. For two days, the whole crew had searched the town from top to bottom. Even placid Robin was starting to become tense. Nami had ordered the crew to stick together in groups of three. So far, nothing else had gone wrong, but she was feeling pretty edgy. Maybe if she shouted telepathically Usopp would somehow hear it. You still owe me money Usopp, so you'd better show your face! Maybe that'd get his ass moving. Leave it up to Long-nose to make us all worr-

Nami's head snapped around as Luffy shouted something, abandoned the lamp, and took off out the door. Nami and Zoro ran after him. "Hey, Luffy!" She yelled. "What did I say about sticking together!?"

Luffy stopped dead, leaving a cloud of dust around his sandaled feet from the road. His face looked as serious as it did before a fight. He lifted his straw hat out of his eyes as he spoke. "Nami. Usopp said something before he left the ship. I just remembered! So I think I know where he is."

Nami looked at Luffy in surprise. "Where?"

She watched, a little pit of fear in her stomach, as Luffy's face crumpled in despair. "He said that he didn't get any consider, consive, con, well I don't know what it meant," Luffy's face was getting steadily redder as his voice reached a wail, "but then he said that he'd join the circus!"

With that, Luffy took off down a side street shouting, "You can't join the circus Usopp. We'll miss you!"

Nami wasn't sure whether to smack Luffy or start wailing herself at the stupidity of her captain. Zoro, standing relaxed with a bottle of beer in one hand, just traded a look with her that said she should be used to these things by now. Nami settled on massaging her aching head while, once again, running after her wayward captain.

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It had taken thirty minutes to convince Luffy that the actor in the town's little theater was not a clown and was not, in fact, Usopp disguised as a clown disguised as an actor. It was a good thing that Robin, Chopper, and Sanji showed up near the end of the little fiasco, and said that they'd found something.

Robin quietly led the group out of the theater door, closing it behind her, and tucked her dark, shoulder-length hair behind her ear. "We found some children who know something about Usopp. They said we might find him at 'the meeting place.' But they did not say what the 'meeting place' was."

Sanji spoke up, "They said that they'd show us the place. I'll lead the way if you'd like me to my beauties." He directed the last portion of the sentence to Nami and Robin with what he seemed to think was a gallant glance. Gag me.

After turning down a few alleyways, the group stopped in front of a door. The wood was sunken in and looked pretty old. Beside the door were two barrels and a mound of stinking trash. Two kids, a boy and a girl, stepped from behind the pile. The boy looked worried. He wouldn't look up from the ground. The girl looked scared as well, but looked them straight in the eye and said, "It's this way," she turned to Sanji, her mood becoming brighter, "Did you bring some?"

Nami saw Sanji grin out of the corner of her eye. "Of course." He then dumped a handful of candy into the girl's outstretched palms. The girl nearly squealed as she handed half the treats off to the boy. He didn't seem nearly so excited, but pocketed the candy anyway. Then he muttered something in a strange language, a language that sounded kind of familiar, and turned to follow the girl into another alleyway.

They followed the kids for a few minutes before they came to a stop in a dingy, one-way alley with only one doorway and cellar. The girl nodded to the cellar hatch, her pigtails bobbing as she whispered, "Look in there, kay? Thanks for the candy."

Then the two kids took off. Luffy prepared to storm into the cellar in search of their missing teammate, but Robin grabbed him by the arm with one of her extras. Nami caught on. "Luffy, stop charging into things. Have you even noticed?" She pointed at the entrance to the cellar. "Everything else in these alleyways needs a good scrubbing. The hatch here is in good shape. The latch is polished. The wood is new. There's no debris at this end of the lane. I know you don't know what caution means, but that doesn't mean we don't. We go in separately, in two groups."

Nami snorted at Luffy's huff of frustration. Then she blinked in surprise as Zoro ignored her orders, unhooked the latch, and casually walked down into the subterranean room beyond. Luffy followed him. Boys…

Nami noticed Chopper "hiding" behind one of the nearest barrels, his reindeer fur visibly shivering. Well, some boys have sense.

Sanji put his hand to his blond head and dramatically shook it. "They should listen to such wonderful angel's advice. Ingrates." He paused. "I'll protect you two ladies with all of my smitten heart."

Robin smiled politely at Sanji, but Nami decided she'd had enough. "Not necessary."

She heard Robin call softly back to Chopper, "We may need a doctor down there. You are the only one who is qualified."

Nami grinned at Robin's diplomacy, ignored Chopper's "outraged" shouts of thanks, and walked in after the rest of her crew.

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The cellar was pretty bright for being what it was. But even so, the lamps flickered as they came in and left shadowy pools at the corners of the massive room. In most of the room, though, the light shined off dark woods and glittering surfaces. Most of the room seemed to be covered in plush furniture. The chairs and benches were lined with rich fabric. The lights were covered in shades of exotic colors. Even the floor had rugs that were woven with incredible detail. Nami looked around in awe. I've hit a thief's paradise. She quickly pocketed a few embroidered handkerchiefs and a jeweled mirror.

Beside her, Chopper shouted, "Wow! It's beautiful."

There were murmured sounds of agreement from everyone else. I wonder why the rest of the town is so poor when this little area is so extravagant. Then Robin spoke. "There is something…odd over here."

Luffy was the first to bound over and as Nami followed, she saw what Robin was talking about. In a corner of the room there was a large, blue circular rug resting on the ground. There were no chairs or tables around it. One corner hadn't been straightened out completely and what looked like part of a wooden circle was inlaid into the ground. Surrounding the rug were odd words carved at five axis points on the stone floor. Robin used her extra arms to lift the rest of the rug off the circle. Nami saw Luffy looking at the weird circle in boredom. "A stupid circle won't help us find Usopp!" He huffed and began exploring the rest of the room.

Sanji traced one of the words on the outside of the circle with his finger while Robin flipped through a notebook of other weird runes. Zoro's voice startled them all. "Found something else." He then muttered, "Almost sat on it."

Nami turned around and saw the swordsman holding a book by the edges of its spine. The leather was smooth where it wasn't encrusted with sharp rubies and emeralds. Nami could almost see the beri signs. Robin took the book and began reading. She paused after a few minutes. "This book is in English, one of the lesser known languages, but… Perhaps I am reading it wrong. It seems to be talking about magic."

Luffy and Chopper's excited voices both squealed out, "Magic!?"

Zoro snorted while Sanji lifted a curled eyebrow. Robin ignored the interruption. "Yes. The first few pages are a summary of the tale of how the island's inhabitants came to be here. They wrote that they once belonged to a different world, a world filled with witches and wizards who could do magic. Then a dark wizard, Grindelwald, who wanted to kill "half-bloods" and enslave non-witches, drove them from their homes. It doesn't say what a 'half-blood' is, however." She thoughtfully ran a finger down the page. "They were looking for a way out of their homeland and somehow, it looks as if it was an accident, found ours. However, it seems that a lot of time has gone by since the incident. Apparently, they only recently found a spell to bring them back to their world. Not many of them seem to want to go back now though, if this writing is anything to go by."

Sanji seemed to be shaking his head in exasperation. He spoke, "So, we're stuck in a town full of people who either practice a very different religion, or are nutters. I vote for option B."

Robin frowned down at the book. "It seems that we were mistaken about the townspeople's attitude towards us. Well, at least some of the people… This book shows evidence of a great hatred of pirates." She leaned over to let Nami look as well. The page showed a flag, a flag with the Jolly Roger symbol painted on it, being strangled by a snake in the shape of a noose. "It says here that they send pirates and other vagabonds 'Through the ritual circle and back through the realms to the dangers of the Old World.'"

Zoro looked up at Robin from his seated position on the floor. "Didn't Usopp say something about 'magic' and 'dark wizards?'"

Luffy nodded vigorously. "He did! He was yelling about evil magic in his dream." He stopped talking for a second and his eyebrows drew together, his mouth pulling down into a serious frown. "D'you think someone magicked him to the other world?"

The statement earned a gasp of horror from Chopper, a blank look from Zoro, a thoughtful silence from Robin, and a kick to the head from Sanji. Nami decided that she'd seen enough weirdness to justify magic being real. Luffy continued, "Well, we've gotta save him! As your captain I say we all jump in the circle until it takes us to Usopp!"

Oh mighty Seakings… Nami scowled and ran a hand through her orange hair, "We won't do Usopp any good by jumping in magic circles, Luffy. We should figure out how to get back from wherever they sent our sharpshooter before we decide to go in there after him."

Nami turned as Zoro stood up behind her. He drew a sword as he said, reasonably, "Then lets just go ask the townspeople what's going on."

Hmph, well they might tell us something with Luffy and Zoro breathing down their necks, but I think I have a better-

Nami didn't get a chance to finish thinking as the door to the cellar opened and let bright daylight into the shadowy corners of the room. The next second a figure blocked out the light and came storming down the stairs. The figure was cast in shadow from the backdrop of light at first, but as it came down Nami noticed that it was wearing some kind of stupid looking robe. The person was followed by two more and as they stopped, about five feet away, she realized that she couldn't see any of their faces.

They all tensed for a fight. Well, everyone except Luffy, who just stood there. Nami hid behind Sanji and quietly reached for her Clima-Tact, taking care not to jingle the rubies she'd jimmied out of the magic book. She watched in silence as the leader of the gang reached inside its robes and pulled out a… stick. A stick? To each its own I guess…

Luffy's voice reached her ear just as she grasped her weapon in tightening fingers. "Are you nuns?"

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Author's Note: Whoot! Writing a chapter with so many different main characters is difficult. You can't include any of them as much as you'd like to and you can't be sure they're all completely in character. Oh well. I tried… Anyway, as you can probably all tell, the time the two worlds move at is completely different once you've jumped between them. Intriguing ne? I'm going to try to write the next chapter, an Usopp-centric one, right away. Please feel free to leave a review or critique if you want!