"Oh, Ron, you didn't have to be so rude!" Hermione said as she plopped down into her seat.
"That man was twice your age and flirting!" Ron cried, earning a few odd glances. "He's as bad as Lockhart was."
Harry who had remained quiet this whole time decided it was time to tell them about the wand weighing ceremony. "I think he's a lot more powerful than Lockhart ever was if Hatake was any indication." Harry said as he glanced down the table at the boy in question.
Ron, who had shoved a spoon full of potatoes into his mouth, looked confused. "What do ya mean?" he asked.
"I mean, that they don't use wands to do magic." He said, lowering his voice to a whisper incase Hatake overheard. "During the wand weighing, Mr. Ollivander asked him to do a bit of magic, then he moved his hands into funny symbols before there was a cloud of white smoke and he had transformed into Mr. Ollivander."
A bit of potato fell out of Ron's hanging mouth. "Blimey." He said in awe.
"What?" Hermione said. "But that's impossible, wandless magic is just a myth! And to transform with just a spell and no polyjuice potion? That's absurd!" clearly Hermione was flustered.
"But Hermione, Harry saw it himself." Ron argued.
The two then began to bicker on whether or not wandless magic was myth or fact and if maybe Harry was ill with hallucinations. For the most part Harry ignored them, instead choosing to watch Hatake. If the rest of his magic was anything like what he had shown earlier then there was no way he could ever even hope to win the tournament.
"Well that settles it." Hermione said standing up and startling Harry. "We'll just have to ask him." And with that said she marched down to the end of the table where Hatake sat by himself.
XxX
Kakashi was glad his mask hid the grimaced on his face as he saw the bushy haired girl make her way down the table, her eyes fixed on him. What could she possibly want, probably wanted to know if Minato had a girlfriend.
"Hello Kakashi." She said pleasantly, though it seemed like just a formality.
"Granger." He acknowledged.
"Harry seems to be confused, he thinks you can do magic without a wand, just some silly hand movements." She said waving her hand dismissively. "Oh, and that you transformed into Mr. Ollivander without polyjuice potion."
"I did every one of those things, though transformations are a basic spell where I'm from." He said, truthfully, he had mastered the transformation jutsu when he was four.
"But, that's impossible." She sputtered.
"I assure you that it's not." He said, very bored by now.
She stared at him, open mouthed. A moment later she seemed to gather her bearings and snapped her mouth shut and sat down. "How does it work?"
Kakashi wondered if Minato would get mad if he put her in a genjustu. "I'm not allowed to explain it all, it's like a trade secret." He said. "Basically we channel our magic into our hands and instead of saying a spell we use hand seals."
"Fascinating, can you show me something?" she asked, her mood swing nearly giving him whiplash.
"You'll just have to wait for the first challenge." He said.
"Of course!" she said with a smile and jumped up to go sit back with her friends.
XxX
Minato was getting annoyed with the mission as a whole. He had never noticed it when he was younger but these wizards mostly looked out for themselves. In their high and mighty culture, they believed that those lesser than them were to do the dirty work. But Minato knew that no good leader would put his soldiers through anything he wouldn't do himself. How Jiraiya put up with these people was beyond him.
Minato glanced down to Kakashi as they walked to the Three Broomsticks, a local watering hole in the village next to the school. It had been two weeks since the wand weighing and he could tell the itch to kill some of the students was growing strong. The fact that he and Kakashi could do 'wandless magic' had spread through the school like wildfire. One boy, about the age of Kakashi had actually tried to intimidate him into using his magic with a pair of thugs that always flanked him. Kakashi had hung them upside down by their ankles with ninja wire, Snape was still furious about it.
"Sensei." Kakashi said, pulling Minato from his thoughts. "There's something wrong with Moody."
Kakashi was as blunt as ever.
"Yes," he agreed. "I've noticed. I want you to avoid being alone with him so he doesn't get a read on us. We'll have the advantage if he is a spy for Riddle." Kakashi nodded.
"Why exactly are we going to Hogesmeade?" Kakashi asked.
"Butterbeer." He said with a smile at the memory of it. He briefly considered taking some back for Kushina.
"What's butterbeer?" he asked.
"You'll find out soon enough." Minato said.
They walked the crowded streets a few more minutes before they came to a dingy little hole in the wall, a sign with a picture of Three Broomsticks and a cauldron singing above the door.
The first thing he noticed was Hagrid and Moody over in the far corner talking to Hermione Granger, one of Potter's friends. Then he noticed something else, something odd, Hagrid and Moody appeared to be talking to the empty seat next to Granger. Someone was in that empty seat. Kakashi might be able to detect the person with Obito's eye but he knew they both couldn't risk him exposing it.
"I read about invisibility cloaks while in the library, I think Potter may be under one next to Granger." Kakashi said, staring intently at the table.
"Maybe, we'll have to bring it up with Dumbledore at our next meeting." Minato said as he and Kakashi maneuvered to an empty table behind Potter and Granger.
They sat down and waited for Madame Rosemerta to come take their order. Behind him, he could hear Hagrid's heavy footsteps and the mismatched footsteps of Moody. From the sound of it they were heading his way. These thoughts were confirmed when he felt a heavy hand slap his back.
XxX
Harry had expected Moody and Hagrid to leave after they had stopped by to talk to him and Hermione. Instead Moody lead Hagrid over to the table behind him where Hatake and his headmaster Namikaze sat.
He slide a glance to Hermione who had her eyes set on the S.P.E.W. paper in front of her but he knew that she was trying very hard to listen. Harry decided to do the same.
XxX
"Minato!" Hagrid boomed as he slapped Kakashi's sensei rather hard.
"Hagrid." Minato said pleasantly. "How've you been?" Apparently Minato knew the giant man, maybe on his journey here with Jiraiya.
"Same ol', same ol'." He said heartily. "I see you've got a student of yer own now."
Minato turned to Kakashi and gave him a look that clearly said that he needed to behave. "Yes, meet Kakashi Hatake, Kakashi meet Rubeus Hagrid. I met him when I came to Hogwarts with Jiraiya-sensei."
"A pleasure to meet you." He said.
"So, you've been here before Namikaze?" Moody said, looking at Minato with his normal eye and Kakashi with his magical eye.
"Yes, to the last Triwizard Tournament actually, but back then my school wasn't participating." He said as a woman with a large chest and too much make up put two foaming mugs of some gold liquid on the table. Kakashi noted that she looked like she wanted to stay but bar was so busy that she couldn't afford to chat.
"Rumor around the school is that you lot can do wandless magic." And so the grilling began.
"That's quite right." Minato confirmed.
"Maybe you two wouldn't mind sitting in on a few of my Defense Against the Dark Arts classes." He said, clearly this was his attempt to challenge them and then when they rose to it he would gauge them of their strengths and weaknesses. Not even an academy student would fall for this obvious ploy, well maybe Gai.
"That sounds like a great idea." Minato said. "It will give Kakashi here a chance to get an idea of your cultures defense from the dark arts." Kakashi knew instantly that this would be recon, and he couldn't wait to find out what this eat up old man was made of.
"Good, good. My first class is in the morning, fourth years." He said.
"I'll be seeing ya Minato, say hi to Jiraiya for me." Hagrid said as he and Moody made their leave.
Minato waved before turning back to Kakashi and pushed the foaming mug of questionable substance toward him. "Drink, trust me, you'll love it." he assured.
Kakashi knew for a fact he didn't love anything, let alone a mere drink, but decided to humor his sensei and brought it too his lips. The instance he swallowed the sweet warm Butterbeer his whole body lit up with warmth. He narrowed his eyes and sniffed at it before looking back at his sensei. "Is this narcotics?" he asked completely serious.
A/N
Sorry for not updating when I said I would and I know this chapter is short but I had to rediscover my muse. Please review and feed my muse so that I may update more often