26dont own Harry Potter or rwby
Team R_WBY frowned as breakfast time was nearing its end. Nobody had seen Harry that day at all so far. Nora, Yang, and secretly Blake, were a little disappointed that the daily beatdown Harry gave Cardin Winchester for bullying a faunus didnt happen today.
"We should probably see If he is ok." Yang commented
Weiss huffed, "as long as we are not late for class."
"Oh! I wanna come too!" Nora said.
Ruby opened the door to Harry's room when she hadn't heard a response to her knock. Nobody was in the room.
"Hey Ren! This looks a lot like storm Flower!" Nora said as she reached towards a cauldron of bubbling liquid.
"Nora..." Ren started, slightly surprised by the weapon she had pointed out, and the three others next to them.
"I wouldn't touch that if I were you."
Everyone froze at that. That was not Harry's voice, it was a females. Everyone turned to see a picture on the wall...a picture that was moving. "That's Harry's Parents! I thought he said he carried the only picture he had of them." Phyrra said, the resemblance was uncanny.
The picture laughed, surprising everyone. "Oh. He wasn't lying at the time. He painted us, using the memories he got from us and his magic he created a magical portrait of us. I believe he is making one of Sirius as well."
Ren cleared his throat, " pardon me, but why did you stop Nora from getting that weapon?"
"Because the substance is toxic. Harry asked me of a way to help you, so after explaining the way you all fight I helped him make that concoction. He is literally embueing magic into the metal, he had done the same for his own team, but they already got theirs.
Nora grinned, "so Harry is making us new weapons that are better?"
Lily just nodded as she met the silver eyed girl. "You're Ruby are you not?" Ruby squeaked and nodded.
James grinned, "he may have succeeded, but Harry accidentally imprinted some of his own memories into us as well, he thinks about you a lot." Ruby's face turned red.
"So, where is Harry?" Blake asked, even Weiss had been distracted by the magic portrait.
"Oh! He is in the library, he's been using his magic to put a copy of all his magical knowledge into books. Literally recreating the family library, and then some." James said, "come on in." The portrait swung open revealing a room behind the picture.
Blake literally began salivating upon entering the room. It was a literal library, book everywere.
"Hmmm...what do you think about this potions inscription Sirius?" They walked down the eisle and found Harry talking to another portrait of a man with long black hair and silvery eyes like Ruby's.
"Hmm...I'd keep it, some of those may come in handy." Harry nodded and the book lifted and inserted itself into the shelf.
"Magik most Evil..." Harry asked.
"Destroy it. That contains the most foul magic I have ever read."
"Hey Harry! It's almost time for class." Yang called, enjoying the book being burnt and seeing the pile of ashes under him, it wasn't the first.
"Hmmm? Oh. Sorry Sirius, we'll continue later...mum and dad are at the entrance if you wanna visit them." The man almost instantly vanished.
A wave of his hand and he was cleaned and ready for class, "sorry guys. Lost track of time."
They began to walk back, "where did he go?" Weiss asked perplexed, portraits dont just dissapear.
"To my parents portrait. Most magical portraits are connected so they can travel to another frame. Though I suspect Padfoot forgot that my mum knows what happened to me..." sure enough, once they exited the portrait Lily was beating the other man viciously.
As Harry watched Phyrra beat down team CRDL he felt a nudge, "do you mind if I read some of those books?" Blake asked.
Harry shrugged, "sure. Most are family history or magical guides...not sure how much you could enjoy those, but be my guest."
Harry winced as Phyrra slammed Cardin down onto the ground headfirst, he was pretty sure if that guy didn't have aura he'd be badly hurt. "That's the match." Glynda announced. "We have time for one more match. Any volunteers?"
Nobody raised their hands. "Well then, miss Beladonna, you haven't participated in a while..."
"Actually professor, if it's ok with you i would like to challenge an opponent." Phyrra spoke up, a fraction of a second before a silver haired boy spoke up.
"Oh? Well, since your still at full aura I wont protest. Who is it you wish to fight?"
"Harry."
Murmurs rose through the room, Harry and Phyrra were two favorites to watch fight. "Very well then. Mister Potter, please come down."
Harry grinned as he grabbed the newly dubbed star buster. Ruby had named his Blade that not long before now. Phyrra's semblance was something that confused him greatly, she could control metal, but she restrained it to the point that she only uses it to seem untouchable...his blade wasn't made of ordinary metal though, so of she wanted to win, it wouldn't be with her semblance. He just hoped she had control of her semblance, because If not when she used it in excess she would lose control.
"Alright then, let the match begin."
Phyrra dashed forward and swung her spear, Harry burst into red dust particles and re appeared behind her, taking a swing that she blocked with her shield.
"That's him isn't it?" Emerald asked watching the fight.
"Yea. I have a score to settle with that punk." Mercury scowled.
"You're going to have to wait until Cinder figures out the problem with your legs." Emerald started. "He crushed you last time." Mercury growled. "Besides, Cinder says she needs him. He can use magic. So she would need his help to control her maiden powers."
Harry took a swing at Phyrra's unprotected leg to try to sweep her off her feet, and Phyrra's eyes widened as a black aura surrounded her hand. "Nice try Phyrra...cant control my blade like that." Phyrra was flung into the wall after the follow up kick when she lost her balance.
"And that's the match. Well done you two. Tell me miss Nikos, what did you do wrong?" Professor Goodwitch asked.
Phyrra eyed Harry's blade, "I relied on my semblance to save me. But it didn't work."
Goodwitch nodded, "indeed, while you have extraordinary skill Miss Nikos, I have noticed you rely on your semblance quite a bit...not all metal is magnetic my dear. Perhaps you can begin to improve against opponents that dont give you that advantage." She knew Phyrra would be an amazing huntress, but she was used to fighting humans that she could...alter the weapon of. So she needed to find that skill level against Grimm as well.
"Of course professor." She smiled.
"That's the class everyone, don't forget the dance is this weekend and your first mission is Monday i won't accept any excuses."
Ruby blinked at the paper swan that came flying towards her. She unfolded it and smiled as she saw a moving drawing of her and Harry dancing, with a question mark on the side. Looking up and meeting his eyes she smiled and nodded, with a red tinge to her cheeks.
Harry grinned, that was a lot easier than the Yule ball back home. Why didn't he think of that before? Fred had done something similar in the study group that year to show up Ron.
"I don't have time for a stupid dance." Hary blinked and was pulled from his memories as Blake passed him...with bags under her eyes.
Harry frowned as he bottled a potion he was making. Exiting his room he saw the rest of his team trying to get Blake to relax finally, "I think this whole dance is a colossal waste of time."
As she went to get up she found herself stuck to the couch. "Stay kitty." Harry growled as he sat down next to Ruby and placed a potion down infront of her. "You are gonna drink this."
"What is it?" Blake asked.
"A dreamless sleep potion. The girls are right Blake, while I admire your drive to help, rushing headfirst into a confrontation is not a good thing. Especially when you sacrifice your own health. Both mental and physical. The last time I did what you are doing now Blake, I walked right into a trap that ended up with my friends hurt, my godfather dead, and if it weren't for that stupid tournament I would be dead as well."
Weiss blinked and looked at the concoction, "this can force you to sleep?"
Harry nodded, "yes...but It is an addicting potion. Bad for your health if used in excess, so I would only use one every now and then."
Weiss nodded. The things Harry's people made, she was planning on mass producing it if she could. They would make a fortune.
Blake sighed and steered back to the matter at hand. "Harry. You of all people should understand where I am coming from."
The only Male team member of RHWBY sighed and sat back. "I do Blake. All my life I've had to look over my shoulder, but you are slowly losing your mind. If Torchwick beat you at full health, then you would stand no chance now. It is good to want to help. But you shouldn't destroy yourself in the process. It is not your job to save everyone. That is not even possible, instead...focus on who you can save. Torchwick is nothing but a racist thief, hopefully Neo can see that soon. The man is nothing compared to some other terrorists and the Grimm Blake."
Blake scowled. "You dont understand."
"No Blake. You dont understand." He sat forward, his eyes glowing with power. "The white fang are terrorists. They are not misguided. They are not being tricked. They are doing this willingly. You want to show that faunus are not represented by them, then stop justifying their actions and show what a faunus really is." He waved his hand and Blake could get up again. "You will take that potion, or I am going to shove it down your throat tonight." He stood up and walked away.
Ruby watched him go with a frown. "While I disagree with the delivery, he is right Blake...you are becoming so focused on saving the bad guys your ignoring their victims."
Blake frowned, "why would he tell me that though? Harry seems intent on saving everyone more so than me."
Weiss sat back and sighed, "because you are being just like the adults in Harry's homeworld Blake. They let off known terrorists and extremists due to them paying money. The goverment was pretty much useless in his home, when the man who murdered his parents came back Harry tried to tell people, but they didn't listen. They said that the 'fine and upstanding' former terrorists were not doing anything wrong. They ignored everything, the killings. The robberies, the people vanishing. They instead ran a smear campaign against Harry. You are doing the same thing Blake, ignoring the innocent and justifying the guilty. That is why he is so frustrated with you."
Blake looked down at the bottle Harry had left. Was she really doing all those things?
"So am I ready to leave Harry?" Amber asked as she stared in amazement as Harry's magic had combined with hers and gave it the extra boost she needed to eliminate the grimms essence in her face, now her scars were just faint and barely noticable if you didn't know they were their already.
"Yea, I dont detect any more problems, let's see how your body stands up to movement again. You have been in here for a long while." He hit the button and the pod opened. He grabbed her hand and she slowly walked out, her leg muscles had atrophied during her coma slightly so she was glad he was holding her up.
"Ah...it is good to see you walking around again Amber." Ozpin and Glynda walked up. "Or at least, trying to." He took a sip of his mug.
"Thank you professor. It will take a while to be at perfect health again, but I'm just happy to be out of that pod."
Glynda frowned at the data she was getting from her scroll, "your aura levels are significantly lower than before..."
Harry sat her in a chair and sighed, "that is probably due to the magic being ripped out of her Body...it's a theory that magic is very closely linked to the soul...if that theory is correct, then that girl stole a chunk of her soul too, especially since she didn't take the whole maiden power parts of it will be like Amber. It is probably why she doesn't use her magic in excess, because she had to expend more effort to use it due to the piece of Amber still residing in the magic."
"Hmmm...it does make sense, any time a maiden's power is taken forcibly, unless the previous maiden was dead the new maiden seems to have to fight the magic..." Ozpin replied.
Harry yawned and waved them off, "I'll see you tomorrow Amber, I'm sure the adults among us would like a word with you anyway."
"Bye Harry." Amber waved.
Harry was nearing his dorm when he saw a visibly depressed Jaune. "Jaune...what's up man?"
Jaune jumped in surprise and shook his head, "oh, hello Harry."
Harry blinked, those three words said more than his posture ever did. "Come on, let's go talk."
Phyrra entered her dorm and blinked in surprise to see only Ren and Nora in the room, "where's Jaune?"
Ren put his book down and frowned, "I had figured he was still training with you."
"Oh! Maybe we can ask Harry! He can magic up some way to find him." Nora said as she back flipped off her bed and led her other team out.
"Hey Ruby! Is Harry in?" Phyrra asked.
Ruby blinked in surprise and moaned in disappointment when Yang beat her at the fighting game they were playing. "No sorry...I actually haven't seen him since he gave Blake that potion to help her sleep."
Yang nodded, "me either, I had to have a talk with Blake to get her to take that potion, but I do know where he tends to hide when he isn't in his room."
Weiss blinked in surprise, she had been reading up on some things from Harry's library, and she knew for a fact that if Harry didn't want to be found...he never would be. "How do you know that?"
Yang grinned and stood, "I was punching some Grimm to calm down one day and stumbled upon him by accident. Said it was a slice of home for him. Grab your weapons, were going into the forrest."
Yang had lead them towards a massive lake not far from the school, when voices were heard, "so, what's eating you Jaune. I've never seen you so upset before..."
Jaune skipped a rock, "girl problems. I asked Weiss to the dance earlier and she shot me down. Phyrra tried to talk me out of my funk too."
Everyone blinked in surprise at the big belly laugh that Harry let out, "you asked Phyrra for advice about picking up Weiss?"
"Yea...Phyrra has people stampeding over themselves to be with her, I figured she would know."
Harry's laughter cut off instantly, "your right, tons of people want to be with her, but let me tell you something about Phyrra, Jaune. Not a lot of people see Phyrra. They see the Invincible girl, the goddess of victory...and whatever other stupid title she has earned. It really is incredible how similar Phyrra and I are. What people saw in us was our titles, they wanted to use us to prop themselves up higher. Even Weiss did so at first."
Phyrra was stunned at the whole speech, Harry had put every feeling she had ever had in reference to her fame in words...
"As to Weiss, Jaune I dont think she would be good for you. Weiss is an amazing girl, but you and her clash on a personal level to an extreme. Weiss is someone who needs her partner in life to be able to help keep her ego in check, and be strong enough to force her to relax and enjoy herself sometimes. I've seen it in her studying, she would not stop unless someone forced her to or her body gave out on her. You have potential Jaune, but you dont have that strength within you to say no to her.
You however, you are much like my friend Neville from back home. You have a ton of Potential, but no confidence to achieve said potential. That is who you need Jaune, someone who will always hold out her hand and help you back up, someone who can stand alongside you to make you, and her, stronger."
A beat of silence stretched out, "so...what about you Harry? You seem to get along with every girl you meet and I know for a fact that some would do anything to date you."
"Me? I've never been into girls throwing themselves at me. That was my godfather, but me? Jaune, I'm hard to define. I was raised in an abusive household. I would get beat or starved if I did anything my aunt and uncle didn't like, which includes doing better than their retarded son. Me Jaune? I have many different options for an ideal future wife. I could fit in with Weiss, we fit on a decent level, I could keep her on the straight and narrow, and with my abilities and her business leanings we could live a comfy life.
Or I could be with Blake, fight for equality for all. Be their when she gets so obsessed with something that she loses sight of everything else, and she could so the same with me.
Hell, I could be with Yang...she could show me how to loosen up and not take everything seriously while I could teach her to think before she acts, a lesson i learned when I just about died.
But for me Jaune...I'm thinking Ruby is the one that would fit me the best. Ruby has that uncorrupable aura around her, she could show me a world I missed out on. She could help me realize that even though I'm almost an adult now, I'm still a kid...she could give me a whole portion of my life that everyone back home denied me. I understand pain, responsibility, hardwork. Ruby could help teach me the value of pretty much everything I was denied as a child."
Jaune huffed, "so...what, just give up on Weiss?"
"Yea Jaune, she wouldn't work for you. Personally...I'd say try going for Phyrra. I'm not saying do it, but I do believe you two fit together more than I've ever seen before in anyone else. Including my ex-bestfriends, all those two did was fight..."
"You're oddly knowledgeable with this Harry."
Harry chuckled, "this is mostly from my dad and mum...and some from my godfather, but not much. If I hadn't gotten their memories before I left, well...let's just say Ruby, Yang, Weiss, and Blake would've killed me by now because I didn't even understand much of the difference between girls and boys. Would've lead to some funny scenarios I guess."
"Thanks Harry...you have actually helped me in a way."
"Come on, I'll make you some dinner. Hopefully we can eat our fill before Nora comes along and eats everything." A soft pop and they were gone.
Internally Phyrra was dancing with joy, she had found very good friends here at beacon, Jaune had stolen her heart almost instantly, and Harry came along after that...and neither cared for her abilities beyond what they truly were. Harry understood stuff she had never been able to voice to another, and Jaune just simply didn't care about her fame.
Weiss clearing her throat broke her from her memories, "well...let's head back then. Also, I apologize Phyrra. What Harry said about me was completely true at first."
"It's alright Weiss...not many people can understand my situation." Phyrra said.
"REN! Can we go back?! Harry always makes the best food!" Nora said, having blanked out when she heard Harry saying he was going to cook dinner.
Ruby sighed, "not to mention we should probably go dress shopping for the dance soon..."
Yang's grin grew, she knew her sister better than anyone, "you hate dressing up Rubes...got a hot date?"
To her surprise Ruby didn't begin her rather accurate imitation of her hood at her teasing, "yea...Harry asked me to the dance."
"Huh...and how did he do that? I know for a fact neither of you were alone today." Weiss asked.
"This came flying towards me in Goodwitchs class today after Harry and Phyrra sparred in the shape of a swan. Ruby held put the picture.
"Oh, I'm going to have to remember to send dad a few pictures. He is going to love this." Yang grinned.
Blake eyed her partner, "I'm surprised you haven't gone into protective sister mode yet Yang."
Yang shrugged, "I already threatened him. Besides, I doubt even his magic could stop dad's rampage when he finds out that Ruby is dating now."
Blake huffed remembering her own father's attitude to when she first began dating. "True enough I suppose."
Team R_WBY blinked at the headmaster infront of their dorm, "professor Ozpin?" Weiss asked.
The headmaster blinked and turned, "ah...that would explain why nobody has answered your door."
"Can we help you sir...apparently I'm in for a long nap." She raised the potion Harry had given her.
"Fair warning Blake, those things taste like ass..." Harry walked up from the opposite side, plates filled with food floating behind him, Jaune had a smile on his face for the first time today.
"And you can't change that?"she asked sceptical.
Harry hummed, "I'm not sure truthfully...mum could help me find out, but I think so. Some of the ingredients i find in the forest around here are better for potions than even some stuff back home. I'm sure I can find a good combination to improve the taste and maintain its effectiveness."
"Thanks." Blake mumbled.
"Anyway, Mr. Potter. I'm here to return your book." He held out a rather large book.
Harry smiled and took it back, "thanks. Feel free to use my library at any time. Just tell my mum I said it was ok."
Ozpin blinked in surprise, "I was under the impression your mother was no longer with you."
Harry's grin wavered, "yea...but my people have many different ways to impart knowledge to future generations. Come on, I'll introduce you." He waved his hand and the dinner all floated to the table. He opened his door and turned to the right, "hey mum, dad. I'd like you to meet headmaster Ozpin."
Ozpin was honestly stunned as the painting moved and smiled, "it's a genuine pleasure headmaster."
"Truly your people did wonderous things with magic Harry. How is this made?"
"Ordinarily, after the portrait is painted a small drop of blood inserted into the painting would be given every memory the real person had until the day the blood was inserted, so normally it would be updated yearly or so. Naturally i couldn't do that, but luckily before I came here my godfather transferred all of his knowledge to me, along with all the knowledge of both of my parents...so it was a small step to adjust the spells to allow me to use their memories instead of blood."
"Incredible...and I feel more magic behind the portrait as well."
Harry smirked and nodded to his parents, and Ozpin smiled as the portrait swung like a door and revealed a room beyond. "Welcome to my families library Professor. If you can't find what your looking for here, then it probably doesn't exist. The Potters were one of the oldest families to exist in all of the magical world, from when we were known as the Peverells, to Gryffindors, and finally Potters."
"Truly incredible. What's in that section may I ask?" He looked towards a section that had a chain and a sign that read "do not enter Blake."
Harry frowned at that, "not all magic is good...my grandmother was from another ancient magical family known as the Blacks, and then my godfather came from that same family. They were obsessed with dark magic mostly. That section has Soul magic, blood magic, and some rituals that can be devastating if done incorrectly...and not really worth the payoff anyway. Speaking of my godfather," he waved to another portrait above the fireplace, "meet my godfather Sirius Black."
"A pleasure Mr. Black. If I had need of that knowledge in that section could I use it?"
Harry shrugged, "you've got the experience to not be completely disgusted from that knowledge. I trust you professor, Sirius over their could help too...he hated it, but he was raised with that knowledge." Ozpin nodded.
Harry sighed as he waited outside of the ball room. calm down Harry. Unlike last time you aren't going just to help Ron or because you were forced to.
Ruby stumbled into his view, "ugh...stupid last stilts."
Harry chuckled, "you look beautiful Ruby."
She pouted at him, "can't you magic me new shoes..."
He offered her his arm, "course I could. But we have to get through inspector Yang first."
"Oh my God! You guys look so cute together!" Yang was bouncing around when she saw her sister and her boyfriend. Ruby was predictably wearing red. Harry had gone the distance to match with a golden tie and a black suit with silver dress shoes and even somehow managed to style his hair to look more windswept than bed raggled.
Harry grinned as he saw Jaune and Phyrra dancing off to the side. "Come on, we have to dance at least once."
Yang shot her a thumbs up and snapped a picture. Ruby sighed, it was going to be a long night...but at least Harry was only going to force her to dance just once.
"Relax Ruby...just look at me."
Yang turned at the tap to her shoulder, "oh hey Weiss. What's up?"
Weiss had a smirk on her face, "someone's having a good time." She pointed over to the dance floor. Yang's grin grew and she snapped another picture of her sister dancing with Harry.
Harry smiled as he watched Jaune and team JNPR dance, they seemed to be back on track. "Csn we get some air Harry?"
"Sure." They walked out to the balcony and Harry twitched his finger and Ruby sighed as her heels changed into dance shoes with no heels.
"Thanks...I want to know how Weiss fights in those."
Harry chuckled, "practice probably." His eyes narrowed, "am I seeing things?" He pointed and Ruby frowned at the person running across the roof.
"Let's go." Harry nodded and they vanished with a crack.
Harry frowned at the bodies on the ground, "they're still alive." A crash sounded and Ruby pulled out the scythe Harry had made for her. "Let's do this." He followed her inside and into the elevator.
Once the ding was done Harry's eyes narrowed and he sent a piercing hex through the phone destroying it. She whirled around with a scowl. "You know, normally I'd be all for a masquerade ball. But when you knock out the guards and break into the CCT, then it becomes a crime."
Ruby planted the blade in the ground and began shooting the girl, who deflected the bullets with her hand, her clothing glowing slightly.
The woman pulled a cylinder out of her clothing and shook it, the dust. Particles shaping into glass arrows. Harry frowned and snapped his finger as the glass approached and they changed to snakes. get her. he spoke, but to everyone else it was just a hissing.
Her clothing flashed red and two blades formed.
The ding of the elevator distracted the Duo and Ironwood stepped into he parlor, his eyes narrowed and Harry turned back to the woman, who was now gone. "Damnit. She got away."
"Did she manage to do anything?" Ironwood asked.
"We're not sure, she was still doing something on the main computer, but Harry destroyed her phone before she finished." Ruby pointed to the busted phone in the phone port.
Ironwood nodded and grabbed the phone. "Harry." He held the phone out and the hole repaired and the phone sparked to life. "Ozpin will want to see you two before your mission tomorrow." He entered the elevator.
Ruby smiled, "you really know how to show a girl a good time huh Harry. Dancing, juice, fighting a bad guy." Harry chuckled as they left the CCT.
Her master was still alive, she could feel it. The last few months had been spent with the moon child collecting all of his stuff. Hedwig would get to him. Even if she had to abandon this world, she couldn't stand the red demons much longer. Soon she would be with Harry again, and she would meet the new connection she could feel with him.
