Wolverine and the Death Bird
X-Men x Harry Potter Story Idea
The idea for this fic came about from reading yinngoh's story called Visiting the Anomolies of America, i suggest you all check out.
Wolverine/Logan/James Howlett x Harry Potter
Fem!Harry Potter
MOD! Harry
Animagus! Harry
her name shall be Xeranthemum, which means eternity and immortality on some flower meaning sights. Her nickname could be Eran, Era, Xera (like Sera), or Mum
Wolverine was born in the late 1880's in the comics, 1845 for the X-Men Origins: Wolverine movie, 1932 is also a possibly date
1845 is actually when James Howlett's mutation comes about, he is 13
*Canon Timeline*
April 19, 1774- April 11, 1783- American Revolution
1832- James Howlett is born
1845- Wolverine mutation manifests
April 12, 1861- May 9, 1865- American Civil War (Logan and Creed fight for The Union [North])
1861-'65- Logan (and Victor Creed) reach the physical age that they will retain for the next long while (let's say they physically look like they're in their late 20s, early 30s)
1914-'18- WW1 (1917-'18- Logan and Creed fight for U.S, Army)
1932-Xavier and Magneto born
1939-'45- WW2
June 6, 1944 - Creed and Logan participate in D-Day
August 9, 1945 - Logan saves Ichirō from Nagisaki bombing, after being a prisoner for an unknown amount of time
1954-'75- Vietnam War
1962- X-Men: First Class
1965- Xavier institute created
1969-'71- (Vietnam War) Victor kills senior officer, Logan defends him, both are executed by firing squad; they both meet William Stryker and join Team X
1973- Days of Future Past (movie); Logan quits Team X
1979- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
March 28, 1979- Logan loses memory
1980-'81- Harry Potter is born; Voldemort kills the Potter parents, and 'dies' (Logan is 148 years old)
1991- South Africa becomes mutant safe haven; harry potter starts at Hogwarts
1997-'98- Battle of Hogwarts; Harry becomes Master of Death
2004- X-men and X2 movies
2006- X-Men: the Last Stand
2013- The Wolverine Movie
2023- Days of Future Past Movie
Maybe once Logan and Victor reach the age of 200, they would physically reach/look like they are in their late 30s and early 40s. So like 100 hundred years for a decade (but only after they reached 20, like they age and grow normally to around 20, then it takes like almost 80-100 years for them to age another decade in appearance).
Though with Harry being the Master of Death, she really is technically immortal.
There is the fandom theory, where once the adamantium (spelling?) was applied to their bones, there aging slowed even more, becoming almost no existent.
I'm not sure where i should place Harry in the story, if i go by the timelines for both series, she could arrived at the Institute the same time as Logan (either before or after as well). By then i would think Harry has exhausted all possibly avenues of riding herself of the Hollows, and discovered the 'gifts' they gave; such as longevity/immortality (much like one of Logan's mutation), and the ability to do basically anything with magic without limits (the creating food rule is still up in the air), invisibility, much like she has absorbed the cloak. Perhaps she tried killing herself at one point (or many times actually), and there was a bug explosion, in which the 3 hollows were absorbed into her skin, allowing her to turn invisible, cast wandless magic, and recall shades of the dearly departed. Becoming MoD and the absorption also altered her appearance (after the war she also started taking potions to 'catch up' and try to look more 'normal'/healthy). I like the image of where her hair goes past her butt, but not to her knees, and is split in half between her original black and a bleached-bone white. She is still rather short and at a 5'3'', though her body weight now looks healthy, her hips have widened and her bust has grown, she basically has a very nice if shorter figure. Her eyes are still killing curse green, but now darken and lighten with her mood.
Could move Harry Potter timeline up a 100 years to the 1880's and 1890's, to make it so when Harry meets the x-men she has gotten used to her longevity and the idea of never having someone (husband and children) that she won't outlive. If this happens then most of the DA would be around 140, if they still lived and would probably have great-great (-great)-grandchildren by then. It would be funny/nice/cool if she had all these godchildren though, like her friends descendants know she's still around and kicking (she trusted her 'family' with her 'curse') and will continue to be so, so they keep naming her godmother, even Malfoy's scions.
*Hundred Year Shift Timeline*
April 19, 1774- April 11, 1783- American Revolution
1780-'81-Grindelwald and then Dumbledore are born
1832-James Howlett is born
1845- Wolverine mutation manifests
1840-'45—Grindelwald War, Dumbledore becomes leader of the Light
April 12, 1861-May 9, 1865- American Civil War (Logan and Creed fight for The Union [North])
1861-'65- Logan (and Victor Creed) reach the physical age that they will retain for the next long while (let's say they physically look like they're in their late 20s, early 30s)
1870-'81—Voldemort's first reign of terror
1880-'81- Harry Potter is born; Voldemort kills the Potter parents, and 'dies' (Logan is 48 years old)
1891- harry potter starts at Hogwarts
1894-'98—Voldemort's second reign of terror
1897-'98- Battle of Hogwarts; Harry becomes Master of Death
April 1898- Edward Remus 'Teddy' Lupin is born
1909-'16- Harry Potter sends her adoptive son Teddy off to Hogwarts, and starts to travel the world in search of answers while he is in school. Harry also attends Oxford University, where she gets her first degree(s) in medicine and languages.
1916-'30- Sometime in here Harry is involved in an 'explosion' that fuses the Hollows to her soul/spirit/body. Harry Potter 'dies' leaving everything to her godson Teddy and his family.
1914-'18- WW1 (1917-'18- Logan and Creed fight for U.S, Army)
1920-'33—Harry visits the States, where she goes into the smuggling business for booze for both magicals and mundanes. She also graduates from Harvard with degrees in languages and medicine (again).
1932-Xavier and Magneto born
1939-'45- WW2 –Grindelwald's great-great-grandson takes up his 'mission' and joins Hitler making WW2 into a magical/mundane war
June 6, 1944 - Creed and Logan participate in D-Day
1945- Harry comes out of 'hiding' and defeats Grindelwald's Second Coming
August 9, 1945 - Logan saves Ichirō from Nagisaki bombing, after being a prisoner for an unknown amount of time
1945—or thereabout, S.H.I.E.L.D. is funded
1945-2004—Harry once more goes away in search of answers and knowledge, on the 'family' know about her anymore, to everyone else she is just another figure in history
1954-'75- Vietnam War
1962-X-Men: First Class
1965- Xavier institute created
1969-'71- (Vietnam War) Victor kills senior officer, Logan defends him, both are executed by firing squad; they both meet William Stryker and join Team X
1973- Days of Future Past (movie); Logan quits Team X
1979- X-Men Origins: Wolverine
March 28, 1979- Logan loses memory
1991- South Africa becomes mutant safe haven
2004- X-men and X2 movies – Harry returns to America to 'explore', since she has finally accepted her 'fate' and has ran out of resources to look into, she meets with S.H.I.E.L.D. who send her to Xavier's school for the gifted
2006- X-Men: the Last Stand
2013- The Wolverine Movie
2023- Days of Future Past Movie
After the war she did help Andromeda Tonks raise Teddy Lupin (her first godchild), so she remained in England for at least a decade, till Teddy was ready for Hogwarts. And perhaps during this time she finished Hogwarts, got a master in Defense, and maybe became a qualified healer, since after the war she gave up on being an Auror. So once Teddy started at Hogwarts or even before she started to travel all over trying to find out why she wasn't aging like everyone else. During these years, while raising Teddy she was a speaker/professor at Hogwarts. Which continues through to Teddy's school years. But around the time he is finished, she gets into her 'explosion' accident that fuses the Hollows to her 'soul/spirit'. After this not many outside of the 'family' see her anymore, and the rumor is spread that she had died in the explosion (there was even a fake, public funeral for her, where the 'family' was really convincing, there was even a will reading). So after two decades of raising Teddy, learning of her 'immortality', she is starting to accept her fate. Soon after her 'death' she goes looking again for answers all over the world, she learns many languages and many different magics, she also makes connections all over magical and mundane alike.
So while she is raising Teddy, if we go with the 1880's birthdate/timeline shift, then she would be raising him during WW1, but i still want to have the Grindelwald War (which was with WW2). Maybe that will still happen, and during that time she comes out of 'hiding', but probably under an alias to help fight and defeat Grindelwald. Though maybe i should just make up a new guy or completely forgo the wizard/mundane war connection, because who would Dumbledore have defeated then? So I'll probably make it so there was a wizard/mundane war with Grindelwald and Dumbledore, and then have a new guy come along for WW2? The Grindelwald war ended canonically in 1945 (started 1940); so it would have to be moved up to 1845 i believe. Which would make Voldemort's first reign of terror (which was the 1970's canonically), the 1870's and the second the 1890's respectively. There are also no World Wars going on at that time (which would be fine, since these were wizard only wars). At most there were 'skirmishes' going on at the time between many different nations, this is for both the 1840's and 1870's.
Perhaps i will have it where it is a descendent (at least 4/5 generations) of Grindelwald who decides to take up his ancestors 'mission', and joins up with Hitler for the magical/mundane war for WW2. I rather like this idea. And Harry who has her 'family' fighting and not wanting to loose anyone comes and just dishes out justice to the Dark side, and wins the second Grindelwald War, she could also be honoring Dumbledore's legacy. After this she once more disappears, so while she was under an alias, she was mistaken as herself, even with her slightly different appearance, or as her own descendent (which had everyone mystified since it was known she never had children before her death in the late 1920's). And the public want to thank and praise there hero but they can't find her, so all these rumors of the Girl-Who-Lived returning from the dead go around, and only the 'family' really know the truth, but are keeping the secret like they swore to do all those ages ago.
Should look up whether or not there was a big explosion in the late 1920's early 1930's, so i could have Harry 'die' in that. She would also have died between the two World Wars. And then it would have been another 15 (at least) years before she would 'resurface', where technically she should be 65, and start looking like an old lady, not a late teens early twenty something woman. Which would explain why some think she is her own daughter/granddaughter. So when she died in the 1920-30's she looked like she was maybe around 20, when she should have been in her 40-50's and starting to get grey hairs and such, not look exactly like she did 20 years ago, even for a very powerful witch. But she was able to get away with it, since she wasn't in public eye all that often, and when she was she wore glamours and such to age her appearance.
I can imagine if she was living during the 20's before her death she visited the States, and got all caught up in the smuggling of booze and the prohibition...like she was a supplier for both magical and mundane for a couple of years. Just so she could say she did.
So after the Second World War, she continues her travels and sporadic family visits. She also probably during the early 1900's finally finishes her muggle education, and graduates from a top notch university, either in the America's or England (Like Harvard in Massachusetts or Oxford in England), which by this point is more publicly accepted, and is one of the reasons she put off on getting her 'education'. Women never had to worry about not getting a magical education once Hogwarts was built, at least in England. We can believe that mainly before this it was their mothers teaching them, while the boys got 'formal' education in schools and such. But education for witches was more acceptable then education for women in the mundane world, since magic was/is magic. Though witches still didn't have as much say, or that many rights at the time. It was pureblood society...which in the 1800s and early 1900s was much like there mundane counterparts thoughts on women.
I feel like Harry would graduate with a degree in languages, and something in the medical field (to counteract her magical degree in healing). By this point she knows English, Latin, French, Bulgarian, and Italian (the events of the books did happen, even if the time was moved 100 years), she is also working on her Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Spanish (which she will get probably by the time she meets Logan). So basically in the first 60-70 years of her life she learns the European languages, and then for the next half she learns to Asian/African tongues. So about 60 years for 4-5 languages doesn't seem that extreme.
There is a 48 year age gap between Logan and Harry with the 100 year Potter shift. When the two finally meet up around (X-Men Movie) 2004, Logan would be 172 (though he only has 25 years of memories of being the same age, at this point), and Harry would be 124.
I think by this point and by this age Harry would have finally mastered Occlumency and probably Legilimency...which with her healing knowledge (which she has kept up with, and renewed her license under alias when necessary) should allow her to help Logan recover his memories, much like Jean Grey tries to do. This would bring the two of them together.
I think when Harry finally shows up is because she finally ran out of resources to look into, so she decides to go looking for something 'new', but along the way runs into either Shield (who have been trying to track her for years, like they have been able to do for other magicals) or mutant groups... I like the shield idea better (kind of based off of the idea from the Harry Potter- X-Men crossover called 'Visiting the Anomalies of America'). So she finally returns to America since the prohibition era ended (80-90 years before hand) and runs across some shield agents, who have been attempting to follow her undetected (and obviously failing), but Harry has been humoring them. Eventually after maybe a week, of her 'popping' all over the place and visiting the 'new' monuments since her departure, she confronts the agents. And asks if there is anything she can do for them, and whether or not they are willing to point her in the direction of something interesting to occupy her time with. The agent (who is lower ranked) takes her to Fury, who then tries and fails to get her on the payroll, but added to their databanks (to a certain extent) escort her to the X-Mansion to meet with Xavier on the possibility of her staying there for a while, and possibly teaching the students or being the nurse (she doesn't want to stay for free, so she makes a bargain with Xavier). So she moves in and starts getting to know the residents, but like with the VtAoA fic, she doesn't tell anyone her powers, making them play a game of sorts, where they reveal theirs and she returns the favor. Xavier finds this to be amusing and goes along with it (he can't read her mind either, so this is really the only way to learn her secrets). I think i will take parts from the comics/cartoons about how Logan is an instructor, like with Defense and the Doom room (is that right?). And maybe a week into her visit (since she has now been in the states longer than a month) a ministry/department official visits her, with a shield tag-a-long, to register her. They have to fill out the basic questionnaire/form things (and much like VtAoA fic), Xavier and Logan are there, for the meeting. (By this time Logan has revealed to Harry that he doesn't really age, and that he doesn't really remember anything before 25 years ago). The meeting to Harry and the shield agent is humorous and stupefying/shocking/revealing to the other 3 people present. Since they learn that she is a witch (which she wasn't really hiding, since technically mutants are exempt from the laws, and are kind of considered magical creatures...or like werewolves, humans for the most part but also different from the known), and that she was the 'Savior' and victor of two 'magical' wars, and lastly that she is over 120 in age and doesn't look it (much like Logan, who is secretly very pleased with this news). Soon after this reveal the meeting is completed and the agent and official leave, life in the institute goes on, with Harry finding her place and expanding her 'family'. Her powers are slowly revealed one by one, by both student and staff, where finally they put together the whole picture and determine that she isn't really a 'mutant', (though technically witches and wizards are mutants just all with the same mutation) but a witch. Sometime during his time or slightly after this revelation Teddy's grandson comes to visit his 'great-grandmother' (Harry officially adopted Teddy, and made him her 'public' heir), so that he could introduce to her his fiancée, and to catch her up on the happenings in the family. The grandson gets to meet Logan and learns that his 'grandmother' finally has someone to look after her and to love her, he welcomes Logan into the family (after trying to scare him into swearing to never hurt Harry). I think the grandsons name would be something like Romulus (in honor of his great-grandfather Remus), but most just call him Ro'. His name is Romulus (?) Potter-Lupin (the Lupins' starting with Teddy added Potter to their names in honor of Harry, and being her 'heirs/legacy' and adopted children/family). I feel like he should also just be called Lupe, for a nickname maybe Romulus became an animagus (a wolf one at that, the werewolf gene still remains, but now really only affects the animagus forms if acquired, and the liking of red meats), which earned him the nickname of Lupe (like the 'family' kept the tradition of giving those that became animagi a nickname to fit them).
Harry does have an animagus form, which i think will be a crow/raven. Or a grim...but giving her the gift of flight would be nice, and her animal is a symbol of death.
I might actually change it so that there is no ministry involvement. Just have a shield agent coming by to check up on her. Perhaps the age reveal will be a private affair between she and Logan, that could come about from a discussion they have with each other.
I feel like when Harry was smuggling booze in the 1920s, and going to school at Harvard (probably or maybe Salem, if it had a school at the time... like one for both magical and mundane learning) she came across Logan while exiting a 'sneak-easy' (i think that is their name), who 'rescues' her from some drunkards. He pulls out his 'charm' and offers to escort her home, where in return she gives him a taste of her homemade alcohol (where he states it takes a lot to make him drunk, and that's the strong stuff). So she keeps giving him different types of booze, till where she has to pull out the magical variety. For she can sense that he is more than most folk, even though he isn't magical. So while Logan is getting buzzed, he starts flirting with harry, for even then his 'beast' (whom has not yet been named), knows that she is 'his', eventually the night leads to the two of them going to bed together. And either Logan or harry are gone by morning, though if it is harry who left, then she would have left a note, or a memento, stating how she will see him again.
So her booze smuggling is made easier by magic, such as apparition, and shrinking charms, and undetected expansion charms (all spells that were invented and used in canon will have existed even in the 1800s, cause i want them to have existed).
Also when harry and Logan finally meet again at the Xmansion, and she is helping him reclaim his memories, this is one of them that comes up, like harry has a pensieve that she shows him the memory through, and Logan surprisingly still has her 'gift/memento' that she gave him. Maybe it would be a pocket watch, that he keeps on him like he did his dog tags. And the watch had a message on the inside about how she would see him again in time.
Since Logan is technically a 'feral' mutant he has more animal instincts; like mating and such. He also has a slight personality disorder, one where he is Logan/James Howlett and the other where he is the Wolverine. The man and the animal. The Wolverine when it catches a whiff of Harry's scent goes ballistic and demands for Logan to take her and make her theirs, for she is their mate, their perfect other half. (And will give them many strong young [who would probably inherited his longevity to a degree]). Logan spends a good amount of time up to and slightly after the age reveal, fighting this mating instinct. For he the man has decided to get to know harry and go 'court/woo' her like he was raised to back in the 1800s, even if he's all gruff about it. And he doesn't really stick to all the courting traditions since some of if not a lot of his animal instincts are thrown in. There is also some influence from the modern era. (But by the time the courting has moved to a physical relationship, Logan has regained a great chunk of his missing memories, starting with the oldest [his childhood], and going to present day, with a few exceptions here and there).