I have the whole first book/arc planned out! I'm so excited! I just really want to bring the whole crew together but that is still a while off. Enjoy some Straw Hat shenanigans and some flying lessons.

The first time Blaise Zabini joined the Gryffindor table, a kind soul tried to gently turn the Slytherin around and send him off to his proper table. It was well known, even just a few weeks into term how awful the boy's sense of direction was. Blaise had merely scoffed and took a seat, next to a laughing Harry Potter, muttering darkly.

When Draco Malfoy, loudly, asked the Zabini boy why he was choosing to spend his time with pathetic Potter and his ginger sidekick Weasley the black boy just arched an eyebrow and calmly asked the blond why he wasn't friends with Potter. Draco stormed to the dorm in a huff and Blaise went about the rest of his day with a smug smirk.

Still by the time flying lessons were due to start Blaise Zabini was practically a normal fixture at the Gryffindor table, the boy was a master at fending off Potter's wandering hands during meals times. Professor Snape had more than once told the boy to remain at the Slytherin table for meals but Blaise just shrugged it off and continued to join his friends for meals.

More than just having a seat at the table the first year Slytherin could also often be found lounging in the Gryffindor common room or waiting just outside the portrait of the Fat Lady for his friends to join him. Some of the older Gryffindor students grumbled about having a snake in their space but after one fourth year tried to tell Nami and Luffy not to invite the other boy back and found himself the victim of a rather humiliating prank, no one brought it up again.

"You'll like flying lessons," Nami said petting Shirohige's chest. Since Luffy didn't have anyone to write Nami had requested use of his owl to write Robin. Luffy had, of course, said yes and the navigator and the archeologist regularly exchanged letters. "Robin says hello, and to tell you she and her father are going back to Sweden. Something about those books you found offering a clue to some kind of creature."

"Oooh, the crummy horn snorlax!" Luffy said cheerfully.

Nami just shrugged he had no idea what Luffy was talking about, "Yeah probably."

"Have you flown before Zoro?" Luffy asked with his mouth full. Luffy had been practically bouncing with excitement since he had heard they were going to learn to fly.

The Slytherin nodded, putting another helping of eggs onto his plate. "It's not bad but I prefer to play Quidditch if I'm going to fly."

"What's that?" Luffy asked tilting his head to the side curiously.

"It's a sport," Nami answered jumping in to explain the rules. Both Zoro and Luffy stared at the navigator wide-eyed. Quidditch didn't quite seem like something Nami would enjoy. The redhead just shrugged when he noticed their confusion. "I grew up playing with my brothers, flying comes pretty naturally to me, it's almost like the waver from the sky islands, remember? And there is a great betting market on the teams and I never lose."

Zoro nodded like all was well with the world again. Luffy swallowed down his last bite and sighed happily. "I can't wait!" He shouted practically bouncing in place.

"Settle down," Zoro said giving his captain a shove when the boy bounced too much and nearly lost his balance. "We still have a few hours before the class starts."

Luffy reluctantly settled and continued eating. Zoro warily eyes his captain, as Luffy was rare calm for long and began eating his own breakfast.

"Huh," Nami said staring at the paper in his hand.

"Hmm? What's wrong Nami?" Luffy asked turning his attention to his navigator.

The redhead flipped the paper he was reading around and tapped the headline. "Someone robbed Gringotts," Nami said looking rather shocked.

"What, no way," Zoro said grabbing the paper from Nami forgetting about his plate for the moment. Luffy casually leaned over and began eating from Zoro's plate, the swordsman not noticing. "Someone actually broke in! I thought it was impossible?"

"It is," the navigator said thoughtfully. Gringotts was supposed to be one of the safest places in the world, no one was supposed to be able to break in. Of course, Nami knew that just because the government said some place was impenetrable didn't make it so, but all the stories Bill had told about the bank had made the legends seem true.

"The vault had been emptied earlier that same day," Zoro read from the newspaper, his brow furrowed. "So it wasn't really robbed, someone just broke in."

Nami nodded reluctantly. "That's true, but still no one is supposed to be able to break into the bank. Trust me, I've considered it…"

Zoro shot the redhead a dry look, that didn't surprise the Slytherin even a little.

"I wonder what kind of treasure was in the bank," Luffy said through a mouth full of food, making the swordsman and navigator turn to him in surprise. They hadn't thought Luffy was listening.

"Hey! That was my food!" Zoro shouted, having just connected the full mouth and the empty plate in front of him.

Luffy turned his head, guiltily and before Zoro could move to strangle his captain the bell for classes chimed.

"I made the cabbatch team!" Luffy shouted throwing himself at Brook. The tall skeleton cheerfully let the pint-sized captain scale his thin body as he babbled about his flying lesson.

"Quidditch!" Nami and Zoro shouted together clearly exasperated by having to repeat that over and over. ,

Brook looked at Luffy confused. "The quidditch team? How did you manage that?" He asked curiously. First years never made the team, and today was supposed to be the first year Gryffindor and Slytherin's first flying lesson, not a team try out.

That's part of the reason they were all gathered. The crew tried to meet up as much as possible, it was difficult with the children's classes and with Brook being a professor, but after important classes like the first flying class they made sure to meet on the Sunny.

"Malfoy was being a jerk to Neville so I beat him up!" Luffy declared happily from his perch on Brook's shoulder.

The skeleton musician turned to Nami concerned, while the crew was much weaker in their new lives the Straw Hats had found out by accident just how strong Luffy still was only a few days ago. The pint-sized captain had accidentally stuck his arm through a solid wood door and even as weak as he was comparatively, Luffy was far stronger physically than any of the other children.

Nami waved off the concern. "It was fine," he said knowing Brook was worried about the young Malfoy. As much as Nami would have liked to see Luffy really beat up the little pain, the navigator knew it wouldn't be anywhere near a fair fight.

Zoro snorted and crossed his arms. "Luffy didn't touch him," the swordsman said. "It was all broom work."

At Brook's confused look Zoro explained. "We were lined up for the lesson…"

Madam Hooch has separated the children by House, they faced each other in long lines with a wide enough gap for the professor to walk between them. Luffy and Nami stood at the end with Zoro directly across from them. Neville Longbottom was two down from Nami and Draco Malfoy was four down from Zoro.

"Everyone, take your hand and hold it over your broom," Madam Hooch directed. "Then, very clearly say 'up!'"

The crew followed her directions and held their hands over the brooms. "Up," Nami said firmly. The broom snapped upward and slapped into his hand. Beside him, Luffy's broom was in his hand before he said up. Nami's eyebrows shot up and he could see Zoro's thoughtful frown as well.

Nami didn't have the chance to think about it too much instead, Madam Hooch began instructing them on how to properly mount the broom and gave instructions on how they should begin to leave the ground. "On my whistle, three, two, -"

Before anyone could push off from the ground, Neville shot upward. "Get back down here boy!" Madam Hooch shouted. Nami and his crewmates watched as Neville was bounced off the castle walls several times before being bucked off and landing on the ground with a sickening crunch. Luffy was one of the first people to reach Neville, with the flying instructor not far behind.

"Tsk, tsk," Madam Hooch said getting a look at the now crying boy. "Broken wrist."

Luffy and Madam Hooch managed to get Neville to his feet and the stern instructor turned to the gaggle of children watching her tend to the injured student. "Stay put, if I see even one of you in the air you'll be sent packing before you can say the word Quidditch."

The stern witch led a still crying Neville off of the field and into the castle leaving the two houses standing together on the grounds. Zoro immediately wandered over to his crew standing near Luffy who was focused on a small glass sphere that Malfoy had just picked up.

"Ha, looks like Longbottom dropped this," Malfoy taunted tossing the delicate little ball into the air and letting it fall back into his hands.

"Give it here, Malfoy," Nami demanded marching up to the blond.

Malfoy just sneered. "Mind your own business, Weasley."

Nami glared and Zoro could tell from the look in the redhead's eyes that Malfoy would find himself significantly poorer the second Nami got the opportunity and he was really unlucky with a bo staff to the head.

Zoro watched as Luffy look from the glass sphere to Malfoy then to his navigator and nodded, and the lazy swordsman smirked and crossed his arms. No need to get involved. Luffy would handle it.

Sure enough, the pint-sized pirate marched right up to Malfoy and stared him down.

"W-what are you doing Potter?" Malfoy sneered taking a small step back.

"Give it back," Luffy said. Zoro and Nami felt their spines straighten at their captain's tone...it had almost sounded like…

It took the blond a moment but he managed a sneer and shook his head. "How about I leave it somewhere for Longbottom to find? Like, say, the roof?"

Luffy watched Draco mount his broom and ascend into the sky and then without any hesitation Luffy did the same quickly rising to the same height meeting Malfoy's shocked look with a wide grin.

"Give. It. Back."

Draco grinned and tossed the ball up in the air and caught again. "Fine, but you've got to catch it first!" With that, the blond took the sphere and threw it as hard as he could toward the castle wall. Nami and Zoro watched tensely as their captain took off in a flash of color.

Luffy pushed the old school broom as fast as it could and wished not for the first time that he had still rubber abilities still so that he could reach out and catch the ball. Instead, the boy had to rely on his broom and his skills.

Luffy raced forward and barely managed to catch the glass ball before it smashed itself upon the stone of the castle. Quickly to avoid his own impact Luffy jerked the broom up at nearly a 90-degree angle and looped back around to the group of cheering school children.

Luffy landed with a bright grin which Nami and Zoro returned. "That was amazing Luffy!" Nami said excitedly.

"It was a great catch," Zoro began but a loud angry voice cut him off.

"Harry Potter!"

And that's what happened," Zoro said finishing the story. "McGonagall saw him flying and offered him a position on the Gryffindor team."

"I thought she was going to expel you for a minute, Luffy," Nami said remembering their head of house's face when she came up on them. "She looked furious."

"Shishishishi," Luffy laughed. "Me too!"

"Minerva hates losing to Severus," Brook said, providing a little background about McGonagall's actions. "She likely hopes that you will help Gryffindor win the Quidditch Cup again. It's been years since Gryffindor won."

"Ooooh," Luffy said nodding. "She said something about beating Slytherin, I thought she wanted me to beat up Draco."

Zoro snorted a laugh. "The professors won't ask you to beat anyone up, Luffy," he said shaking his head.

"And remember, we are much stronger than them right now," Nami said hoping Luffy would remember that. "It wouldn't be fair."

"Fiiiiiine," Luffy said dragging the word out childishly. "I'll just beat them at the Quaditch."

"Quidditch!" Zoro, Nami, and Brook all corrected.

Okay, this chapter took a long time. No excuse, but it was a pain to write but I'm really excited for the stuff that comes next so hopefully it won't take nearly as long next time. See you then!