Disclaimer:
I don't own 'em don't wanna own 'em. I have my own to own so I'm just practicing with these.
Harry Potter and the Return of the Round
Harry Potter and Ranma Crossover Fanfic
By Sheya
Chapter 02
Questions answered.
Harry opened his eyes on the trip back to the castle he had passed out for a few moments but as soon as he could get air again he woke up. Just past the castles wards his ride stopped, in the middle of the Forbidden Forest.
"Uhh we shouldn't stop here." Harry whispered, "The Centaurs don't like humans." He looked up at his rescuer but couldn't see his face.
"Well we'll be out of here soon.... But, I just felt my moms wards go down. That means that she accomplished her goal.... I just wish suicide wasn't it." The young man laughed bitterly then started running again. Harry was amazed at the speeds they were going, he didn't think that the Centaurs would be able to keep up, let alone catch up.
He also understood that someone else died because they got in between Voldemort and his goal of killing one Harry Potter. It didn't matter to Harry that the woman wanted to die; she died stopping Voldemort. When they got out of the forest he realized that he was crying and it wasn't because of the wind whipping across his face.
"Is this a safe place to stop?" His rescuer asked.
"Yeah someone will find us." Harry answered and they stopped for a bit the young man sat down on the ground.
"Normally, I would do everything in my power to stop my mother from dying but she was adamant on the plane ride here that I not do anything." Harry was finally able to see his rescuers face when he finished talking and started studying the Boy Who Lived. He gasped in surprise because he had seen a very similar face in the photo-album that Hagrid had given him years before. There was only one picture but it was enough since he knew an older and more worn version of the same face from the picture. "The reason we came was because we received a message, but I think I'll wait to tell the story until who ever needs to know is here."
Harry nodded understanding that his rescuer would only want to tell the story once. "What's your name?"
"Oh I forgot you were unconscious, I'm Ranma."
"HARRY!!" The voice of Hermione startled the two, they both looked over to where her voice was coming from and saw most of the school running towards them from Hogsmead. "How could you disappear like that? You had us so worried we spent HOURS looking for you!!"
"I told you yesterday that I had to face Voldemort today. I don't know why I just did. Any way I didn't disappear of my own will."
"Your gift is awakening... well that is no surprise." Ranma was watching all the people who were surrounding them.
"Harry why were you crying?" Hermione seemed to be the spokesperson so far.
"Because...."
"How 'bout we take this someplace where the whole world won't know it in ten minutes?" Ranma interrupted Harry's explanation.
"Fine, we will go to my office." Albus Dumbledore had made the scene.
In Albus's office everyone had gotten comfortable but Harry wondered why Ranma had yet to put him down, but he didn't care all that much- he felt safe where he was.
"Well now that we are comfortable we can get started." Albus looked at Ranma and Harry.
Ranma shifted and pulled out a crystal ball.
"What? You're going to try divination?" Hermione snorted in exasperation.
"No, although the principle behind crystal seeing in Divination and this are the same. This is for contacting the dead."
"And just how are you going to do that? Call a ghost?"
Ranma smiled at the girl. "Your practicality does you service but in the realm of the less scientific branches of magic you will have to suspend your disbelief for a few moments. Has your Divination Professor be babbling more then normal about the Grim?"
"Yes all summer that is the only thing she talks about, usually she sees other problems too." Albus answered this time.
"Yes, well she seems to have the eye but it is blocked by something. Probability a morbid personality." Ranma then sent a shock of chi into the ball.
What happened next shocked almost everyone in the room. Sirius Black waved from within the ball. Then he was pushed aside by James Potter who dragged Lily in the picture. They saw in the background Angela helping Sirius up. He then pushed the others gently to the side. "I think there is enough room for all of us to say hello."
"Sirius?" Harry tremulously asked.
"Hey kid, Sorry for disappearing like that but sometimes things don't got the way we planned."
"I'll say." James huffed. "After all if they did we'd be with you instead of here. "
"But then we knew something like this could happen Angela told us. We knew if we didn't let it happen we would be in worse shape..." Lily explained.
"Wait you knew Voldemort would go after Harry before Sybil had her vision?" Albus asked.
"We knew that Voldemort had translated Helga's last prophecy and thought it was coming true. Therefore, I translated it too. Angela told us some of the things that need to happen but we didn't want to know everything... like how we would die. We knew we would have a child, because the prophecy wouldn't be true if we didn't, but Angela couldn't See him... and she left before he was born." Lily took a breath and Angela interrupted.
"Ranma in my vault is a crystal... it is the training manual for all Potter Seers. It is all the knowledge of all of the Seers it is for Harry. And you should send to Ku Lon for a few of the smaller versions of this ball so that we can contact you and Harry or vice versa whenever."
"Ok mom I'll send the letter in a bit."
"So your Angela's son... and Sirius?"
"Yeah he's mine too." Sirius smiled sheepishly. "I completely forgot about Angela and that she was pregnant when she left thanks to the Dememtors."
"So, Angela, how did you escape Voldemort?" Albus asked.
"I went to Japan And cast a glamour to make them think I and my son were Japanese. It wasn't too hard."
"My sister the master of a lost art." James flung his arm around Angela. "You do realize that Glamour's are impossible for most, right?"
"Only because they think the art is lost. It really isn't that hard." Angela tripped James right in to Lily's arms, smiling.
"Harry, Ranma is there to protect you, and I wish I could be there, we all wish to be there.... But things had to happen this way or we would all be dead." Sirius explained.
"Ranma there is a book in the main Potter vault, you have all the keys, you and Harry are the only ones who can open the vault even with the key. It will give you all the information you need to completely understand the prophecy." Angela watched her son and nephew, Ranma was still holding Harry but then Harry didn't look like he was capable of sitting on his own.
"Right, we'll get it next chance we have."
"Good, we'll leave you then, remember you can use this crystal if you want to talk again. Just call out the name of the person you want to talk to." James waved goodbye and the crystal went blank.
"Harry you should go to Madam Pomfrey. Ranma what did you mean that this was the reason that Sybil was talking about the Grim all summer."
"The only was that my father ever got her attention was in his dog form. Seems she ignores anything else."
"Sounds like her...." Harry stated, then he tried to stand and almost fell, but Ranma caught him and picked him up.
"You're going to hurt yourself more if you try to go down the stairs like this."
"Sorry, I thought I could walk."
"Well now that you know you can't right now lets get you to.... Madam Pomfrey?"
"Ok, Hermione could you show him the way? I think I need to close my eyes."
Hermione nodded and showed Ranma where the Hospital Wing was.