Raised Heroic

This little idea was inspired by Harry Potter and the power of Oa ยป by bluminous8. A very good story and if you haven't read it you should try it as it has a definite twist in someone other than Dumbledore approved parents raising the kid. Dumbledore doesn't just suddenly find out he's HP and goes through a good chunk of the tale unknowing that HP is in his school. I think he's too powerful personally but it's still a great story. This is a bit of a merger of the various cartoons and comics.

Don't own any characters here either property of JKR and DCU

The master of vengeance watched as two children that were important to another world that was not their own were forced into a delicate balance. One was a child that was destined for greatness and power, this child was destined to be the hero that his father and prankster group of friends had only dreamed being. The other child was destined to help and aide the first, to show the child the way to greatness. The child would rise above and beyond all before her with the power of her mind. Yet something was disturbing the balance that would alter everything unless things were not helped to right themselves. Both had lost their parents who were supposed to set them on the paths of heroes, now if nothing was done they would be destroyed from within. The figure appeared before the protected house first and after a moment's work passed through the low powered blood wards that were used to guard the home. The figure checked under the stairs and in a broom cupboard where a boy of three years laid. Wrapping the child up within its green cloak the figure waved its hand and destroyed all of the various spells that had been placed on it for the last couple of years. Soon the only magic left on the child was the magic within the scar, as much as the being would love to affect that spell it was not up to it to deal with that piece of magic and the rules demanded that it not mess with the scar. The being gathered the child in a protective embrace and left the house of number 4 Privet Drive. It reappeared in an orphanage and found another young child that would help the world gathering the child in its arms it disappeared with a swirl of light.

The figure reappeared in another dimension where it often came when it was making decisions. It could not keep the chosen one and its companion here. They would learn much under its guidance it was true, but if they remained here then what they learned here would tip the balance in the other direction. He needed to find beings that could care for a child, that would teach and nurture the child to be powerful on their own without cosmic interference. He needed them not to be insanely powerful, but strong in their own ways to deal with the challenges that were coming in their future years. There were two humans that fit this bill. They could teach the children to stand on their own two feet. One was dark and one was light, arrogant and cautious, serious and playful. They each had a mission though and they each were devoted to it. Waving its hand it created a shadowy place and then with another wave it summoned the two champions it had chosen. One figure was dressed in a black cowl and cape that seemed to suck in the shadows leaving no view, the other seemed to gather the light creating a natural spotlight above him.

"Greetings heroes." The figure said towards the two vigilantes that it had pulled to it.

"Why have you brought us here?" The dark one snarled at the cosmic being.

"Simple Batman, I come with a request for aide. I have two children here with a destiny but I cannot keep them here they need teachers and caregivers. If I were to take them I could upset the balance of power. That is something I am unwilling to do."

"So why are we here," the other said with a smirk, "Batman here and I are hardly the best people to do this job we don't exactly live normal lives."

"Despite your nocturnal activities Green Arrow, you are both uniquely suited for this duty. I can think of none better to teach these children how to survive and how to fight back. They need your help for none but you two can show them what they need. Would you rather I try the Kryptonian who has to constantly judge his strength, maybe the Atlantian King in his underwater palace, or the childlike speedster? Or perhaps you think I should give the children to one of your other meta human allies who could never understand or care for the child like you. Or more importantly teach the children how to fight a war using the gifts that they have. They need to learn how to live more than one life and none can teach this as well as the two of you can."

"What are the conditions," Batman questioned cautiously.

"That is something that will be learned in time by the children. I will not let them train solely for this destiny. For there are other things they will need to prepare for. The only thing that I can tell you is that in a few years I will tell you it is time for them to begin their training of skills other than what you can teach them but they shall always be yours."

The two heroes nodded as they looked at the cosmic being. "Very well then who gets which kid then?" Green Arrow questioned the being.

"You Green Arrow shall take the boy. He shall be ruled by his heart and luck. You can teach the child how to use these skills to save those that need saving. As for you Batman, the other child is a child of knowledge if given the chance. This child shall be the perfect candidate to memorize information she will be the information and skill source to the boy's power and luck." Batman nodded and walked toward the girl while Green Arrow took the boy. Each hero checked on their new charge before heading preparing themselves to leave.

"We will talk again Spectre," Batman promised the cloaked being who nodded before returning them to Star City and Gotham city.

The Batman trained his child in the arts of the mind and body while the Green Arrow trained his in fighting and how to be lucky with the bow. The two children trained as part of their respective families and clans as well as together under the eyes of their mentor and father figures and the Justice League. Some members were concerned when they heard that the pair were now the guardians for the children, but no one really felt like they had a right to argue with what was the equivalent to the spirit of vengeance. Besides the devoted manner the two men took to their children meant that those that threatened their relationship would be treated as enemies.

The two were trained to defeat anyone or anything that could be thought of. They knew that if the Spectre had left the pair with them then their destinies had to be great indeed and they would need all of the support that they could get when the time came for them to do their duties. As near as anyone could tell they were normal, but then there were the times that they would perform some unexplainable feat. During a sparring incident Hermione caused Robin's cape to seal him inside forcing the acrobat to the ground. Harry once managed to make some of Green Arrow's arrows to change from boxing glove arrows into powder glove arrows. By the time they were old enough to help in crime fighting both children were capable of a form of teleportation when they were in danger and could affect the area around them with a limited degree of control. The two had the power but they seemed to lack the control that they needed. Batman kept a very careful record of each of their displays of power and a list of potential uses that they could have in fights or investigations. Dr. Fate and Zatana had taught them basics in meditation and spell casting, but until the pair were older and their powers more stabilized there was little that the two mystics could safely teach the children of the two vigilante's.

Harry Queen looked at the owl that had delivered its letter to him. He and Hermione Wayne had each accepted the letters and looked to their fathers curiously. "Magical school?" Harry asked in disbelief while Hermione snorted in amusement at the thought of a magical school.

"Do not mock what you do not understand child." Spectre admonished the girl as he appeared in front of all of them. "Once again we are together, though I see that each of you have grown in number." The figure noted as it looked at the other heroes that were gathered around the group. Robin and Speedy stood in one corner ready to move should they need to. Wonder Woman and Black Canary stood high above where they could observe everything that was going on. They both cared deeply for the men and children below them however this was something that they had to deal. They may have acted as surrogate mother's to the children but they were still not really theirs, the choices made tonight were ones that they could make.

"The beginning of your destiny awaits you two. "The Spectre explained as it turned to the youngest pair. "While you train in magic, you will learn how to help those that need your help. You are Harry Potter the Chosen One, it is your destiny to someday fight the darkness that is rising in England it is your duty to be the balance to the coming darkness."

"England?" Astrol questioned looking slightly nauseated, "why would I want to save England from a darkness when I have my duties here? Star City needs me."

"The magical Britain needs your strength even more though. It may not know it, but it does."

"Our letters for magic are for someplace in Salem though." The girl argued to the cosmic being before them.

The being smirked in amusement at the girl. "The children of two of America's wealthiest denied their place at Hogwarts? The Wayne's are one of the wealthiest families in the world, and the Queen's are on the rise once again, retaking their place as the masters of Star City. Once they learn that you wish to enroll your children they will gladly allow you to do so. Money talks, I believe is the saying that you mortals use."

The girl nodded in acceptance while the boy stilled looked rebellious. Batman then spoke for them all. "Very well, if we have no choice then they shall go but it shall be under our terms not yours or theirs." The Dark Knight informed the being. "They shall not give away their former names to this magical world. They are Hermione Wayne and Harry Queen that is how they shall enter the magical world not as puppets or weapons of some other they are their own beings. I have seen how this magical world works and I am not impressed with their way of doing things. Might makes Right is the key to their society. Many hold the power but few see to want to do what is right. I will not let them be used by this Ministry of Magic or Dumbledore."

"You have already investigated the magical world and all of its primary figures then?" Spectre questioned Batman who nodded at the being while Green Arrow, Speedy and Robin all snorted at the comment. Of course Batman had researched the possibility that they would have to do their schooling in Europe. "Then I have nothing left to tell you that you and yours cannot find out." With a flash of light the cosmic being was gone.

"So you want to start explaining?" Green Arrow questioned his fellow crime fighter.

Batman nodded as his hands began flicking toward the computer keyboard as various images began coming up on the monitors.

Dumbledore sighed as he looked at the crowd of children Harry Potter had not come as he had hoped. He had prayed that the boy would somehow miraculously reappear and he wouldn't have rely on the other boy as his champion but fate it seemed had declared what he wished for null and void. The son of James and Lily was not there instead he had to deal with a bunch of children the only ones of real interest were the two Americans from prominent muggle families and they were barely all that noticeable as they were pushed to the side for the scions of many old and prominent pureblood families. It was a feather in his and Hogwarts hat though to have them here rather than at Salem. In fact it had been a rather large coup once he learned how shocked and embarrassed his American counterpart was at loosing these two prominent students. He had looked into it and found that they were the equivalent to purebloods in their hometowns. In fact with the money numbers from them they were considered the monetary equals if not superiors to the Malfoy and Zabini families.

Harry headed after the troll he knew his best friend better than that and knew that she wasn't hiding because of what some idiot boy said and he wanted an answer as to why she was hiding in the bathroom instead of at the feast. There was also the fact that she could be in some serious danger from the troll. He had read a little about the great beasts and was not sure he ever wanted to meet one without at least a couple of other people to back him up. Still he wouldn't be a member of the Arrow family if he let a pretty girl be attacked by a monstrous troll. Sure the girl was a Bat, but that didn't change the fact that he was honor and duty bound to try and save her. As he rounded the corner he watched the troll enter the bathroom not even hesitating he activated the spell that revealed his bow and arrows and charged into the room it was game time and he was in the mood for some exercise anyways.

The two young heroes were breathing hard as the troll finally fell down. They hadn't used any magic against the giant creature and had performed a feat that they didn't know most adult wizards had trouble performing. The fact that the pair had managed to perform the task with only their muggle equipment was a source of pride for the both of them. "You know, the way the books went on about these guys I thought that they would be a lot more difficult to fight." Harry panted as he folded his bow up and returned it to its hiding place. "Course they didn't mention the smell was as bad as this either."

"We were fortunate that we had the resources to deal with it." Hermione returned to her friend. Her cloak wrapped around her in a similar manner that the Batman's cape did after a fight.

Harry rolled his eyes as he picked up a batarang from the ground and tossed it to the girl. "Remind me to find something that can shoot gas out to add to my gear over the break I so need that." Hermione nodded as she grabbed the weapon out of the air. "So, what were you really doing in there anyways?"

"I was putting together some information that had been left out for Longbottom he is being slowly but surely being herded toward something I want to know what it is I am also composing a list of possible items that may be protected here at the school until I know more I'm not going to bore you with the details though."

"Thanks I think."

"Come on, it wouldn't do for us to be caught here with the troll. Let them think someone or something else managed to deal with the beast. It is better that they do not know of our full capabilities. It will also be a good chance to observe their investigative techniques." Hermione said as she stepped into the shadows and disappeared. Harry rolled his eyes at the security paranoid girl before he followed after her.

"So, Longbottom is required to save the stone and all of that as a test then?" Astrol questioned his companion.

Hawkshaw nodded as she looked over at her friend from the book she was reading. "Yes, Dumbledore believes that he can stop the thief from taking the treasure that he has that is being protected by the primary teachers defenses. I believe that it is all a type of test or obstacle course for Longbottom as no one else has contributed to the guarding of the stone that many would want."

"So, do we need to add our own layer of protection or do we need to figure another way to combat whatever is being guarded?" Astrol questioned.

"With everything that we have learned about the stone I would suggest that we proceed carefully as I don't want anyone to know that we are here." Hawkshaw returned to her friend. "It wouldn't take much work to get past everything that they have here though. It would be similar to combating in the training room on the tower or some of the villains hideouts that we have been to."

"Alright there is one last question though." Astrol said as he examined the potential mission.

"Yes I agree we should wear our costumes and masks." Hawkshaw said not even bothering to look up from where she was planning things. "I have supplemented some of my usual arsenal with potions and fanged Frisbees. By using these items we lessen the chance of being discovered if we are forced to leave behind any of our equipment."

Harry nodded in understanding he was used to her predicting him from time to time no matter how annoying it was. "I agree, I plan on only using my arrows if required and have a few arrows coated with potions. Hopefully we'll be able to clean up any mess that we make with them before they investigate. I also have some throwing knives that I may use as they're coated with a sleeping draught."

"Good, we'll be able disable any attacks before they become a problem then."

Harry grinned evilly as he looked at the giant snake and the shade before him. "So you're the idiotic overgrown lizard and its ninny brained, shit for brains master that thought it was okay to attack Hermione then?"

"You think that I am impressed with your sense of bravdo mudblood?" The shade of the older boy questioned him arrogantly.

"Not really, but I'm not here to fight for her or anything else like that. Do you know how far she would kick my ass if she found out I did that?" Harry gave an exaggerated shivered at the thought. "I'm only here to watch while the master deals with you."

"What Master?"

"Me." A voice said as a figure loomed in the shadows.

"Who's there?" Tom questioned as he looked into the darkened corners for the owner of the voice. His only response was a black object being thrown at the ground causing smoke to billow out when the spirit of Tom Riddle opened his eyes and there standing before him was a demon of some kind. Two brightly colored lesser demons flanked the creature that had appeared before it. Tom Riddle looked both fearfully and hungrily at the primary figure and wondered how he could bend this being to his will.

"Robin, Batgirl keep the snake busy". Batman ordered. "Astrol you may help them."

"Yes sir," the boy said as he turned toward the snake sliding the visor down over his face and letting the built in radar do its job.

"Astrol the Archer, for the ninth sign of the zodiac is it not?" Riddle said conversationally as he tried to figure out what the demon wanted from him and how he might get away if he needed to.

"It's a good thing that you're not really human, I won't feel guilty for killing you: Batman said as he strode forward his cape seeming to billow in an unfelt wind in the cavern.

"Kill me, but why? Surely a demon such as yourself can appreciate my power." Riddle said nervously.

"You attacked one of mine with your snake," Batman informed the spirit as he drew a ninja sword made from Thangarian metal from a sheath. "For that you must die."

"Perhaps this person isn't strong enough to be one of yours." Riddle suggested now scared of the demon. "Maybe I can take their place. As the heir of Slytherian I am sure I have more than enough power to be one of yours."

"You may have power but you lack character." Batman returned.

"The two of you are going to Japan this summer." Batman told the two teens. "I want you to study under some of the ninja mystics that have agreed to train the two of you in their arts. Astrol will be learning from a Samurai who studied in the uses of the bow in particular. Hawkshaw will study under another master who is a master of silent moving. After the two of you are done with them I have another ninja master who will teach you both stealth and any other ninja magic that you may not have learned."

"But you said we could try out for the Titans this year!" Harry argued to the man that was like an uncle to him. He turned to his own father and looked at him pleadingly. "Dad are you behind this? You both know that all the training in the world means nothing without experience."

"Yeah I am," Green Arrow told the boy sternly, "when you get done we'll see if you have any time to join the team if not we'll consider it next year besides training along side of a Bat is good for you. May have to change your name to Black Arrow though if you make your uniform any darker. Besides you always like telling people your half Arrow and half Bat. This is part of being that."

"Fine," the teen grumbled knowing that when the two were in agreement like this there was literally nothing that he could do or say to change their minds when it came to training.

Harry smirked as he looked at the results of the spell work around them. "I love magic." He said as his grin widened.

Hermione smiled at her friend. "Don't let my dad hear you say that, he might get angry at you. "You know how he is Mr. I hate magic."

Harry turned to look at his friend at that. "You know I've never been able to understand that. How can he hate magic when he's dated Diana and Zatana though? One of them has magical abilities that allows them to affect reality itself, and then the other is a magical based being. For a man that loves logic as much as he does it doesn't make a whole lot of sense to date people that defy logic unless it's the whole opposites attract thing."

"Why don't you tell him that to his face." Hermione challenged her friend with a grin.

"Um, because I don't have a death wish and there is no way that I want him to start looking into any relationships that I might have in the future. Harry replied to her looking nervous at the idea. "Cause we both know he would make a habit of keeping track of every girl I dated and then when something came up he would rub it in my face. Your dad is a bit obsessive when it comes to paybacks."

"Just remember that and that he's taught me everything as well." Hermione said with a smile before walking off.

"Not likely," Harry muttered before heading the other way.

Harry sighed as he looked at the dragon that he was now facing, he wasn't sure why he was facing a dragon but he sure as hell wasn't going to let it win the game though. Besides he had this great bow that shot mystically charged arrows that he had been dying to use. Besides it was only one dragon what could go wrong? He had some cables and other things as well he could use if things got crazy. These people wanted a show though and he was bound and determined to give them one it wouldn't be right not to enjoy himself and let them get their money's worth after all. Grinning he summoned his bow from where it was resting in his room. Oh well show time. He thought as he snagged the bow out of the air and headed toward the dragon.

"So, how does this work? Astrol asked Nightwing, "I mean how can you actually plan for problems as big as what's coming?"

"We do what's required of us," Nightwing returned to the other boy, "and as to how I plan on keeping this a secret I'm not. You two are going to tell Batman and Green Arrow that you're dating his daughter and that you have a witch that knows your secret identities."

"Which one will likely get me killed the least?"

"I don't know, but you better tell him before he finds out on his own." Nightwing advised the boy.

"Come on, Katie Bell is a friend of ours and isn't going to give us up she's a half-blood and a good friend of ours."

"Uh huh." Nightwing said as he examined something under a microscope. "And you started training her before you got permission too didn't you?"

"Well maybe a little bit." The younger hero admitted to the other dark haired boy.

Nightwing looked up at the other boy. "You guys are the ones that have to explain it to Batman and Green Arrow not me I hope that you two are prepared to live with the trouble that you could get into things with them. Is she worth all of the trouble?"

"She's our friend and a teammate of mine she's also helped us out of a few jams over the years if nothing else she deserves the benefit of the doubt and maybe a hint of respect."

"I'll check on the girl, but you have to tell him that your dating his daughter not me."

"Sure you can't help with that one to?"

"Hawkshaw is my sister." Nightwing reminded him looking up to face the other boy. "Hurt her and anything that she and Batman leave will be turned into something that not even Starfire would be willing to try and eat." Astrol grimaced at the mental image that the older boy gave him.

Hermione squeaked in fear as she looked over her boyfriends shoulder. Her position in his lap became very rigid as her legs tightened painfully around his waist. "Umm Harry, I think that you should turn around and see this." She said nervously.

Harry groaned and since they were sitting down spun around on his butt and faced something he really didn't want to see. The Batman was standing there just visible in the shadows, on either side of him was Nightwing and Robin, off to the side he could see Huntress and Question. A nearby monitor showed the avatar for Oracle that the computer hacker sometimes used when people needed a face for the computer genius. Up above them were Black Canary and Wonder Woman. Yep he was dead there was no way that he was getting out of this the fact that her cape was draped over a chair and the top of her costume had become a bit loose wasn't helping him either. He might get some help from Black Canary but that was only because she was his mom he doubted that the rest of the Gothamites were going to be so forgiving and with Hermione's adopted mom hovering above them and giving him the evil eye he wasn't sure that the heroine would chance the wrath of the angry looking Amazon Princess to help him. Where were his dad, Conner, Red Arrow, and Speedy when he really needed them anyways?

"Something tells me we should have waited till we got back to Hogwarts before exploring what our feelings are." Harry said nervously as he let her climb to her feet before he stood up.

"What I wouldn't give for a super villain to try and hold the city hostage again right now." Hermione muttered as she stood up.

"Yeah a prison break is something I almost wish could happen." Harry muttered as he climbed to his feet making sure that his hands stayed well away from Hermione. He somehow doubted that he would be allowed to touch the girl right now. Not with the looks that her dad and brothers were giving him right now.

Harry and Hermione stepped out from behind the curtain in their new costumes wondering what everyone would think of their new costumed identities. Hermione had followed her father figure's footsteps, and found a scary looking animal to base her costume off of. She had chosen the Black Eagle from the Arabian and now went by that name. Her costume was a bit more bird themed now but it did have the right look to it. Harry on the other hand had based his costume on Conner Hawke's version of the Green Arrow costume the only difference was that he had made the costume black and gray. "I give you the Black Eagle and Mystic Arrow." Nightwing said as he nodded to his sister and her boyfriend in their new identities. "They used to be Hawkshaw and Astrol but they figured that it was time to move on to different costumes. Grow beyond Batman and Green Arrow."

Red Arrow nodded and gave his brother a wink as he watched his brother turn to him for approval. Hopefully his brother wouldn't have the problems that he had with Ollie when he had left his original name and become Arsenal.

"Greetings friends." Starfire greeted them happily as she flew forward and gave the pair bone crushing hugs. "It is a joyous occasion for you to rejoin us."

This one sounds like fun and may be done after I'm done with a Buffy crossover I'm working on.