AN: Yay. First Chapter. Yet another crossover between FMA and Harry Potter! :D Gotta love 'em.
This occurs during Half Blood prince for Harry Potter, and some time while Ed and Al are traveling everywhere looking for the Stone for FMA.
ATTENTION: I have read all the Harry Potter books but I don't remember them. THUS. This will follow the movie.
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Hurried footsteps and excited conversations filled the air. The students of Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry were ready for another year of excitement and magic. The first years were tentatively heading towards the giant man who had called the group of them to him. Older students were already boarding the horseless carriages that were to take them to the school. Everything was normal… except for the giant suit of walking armor that stood nearly two feet taller than most of the crowd. It wore what appeared to be a loincloth and had spikes studding various parts of its body. As its heavy footsteps clanged on the ground students turned to look at the strange spectacle.
The suit of armor was dragging something behind it. Oh yeah, and the suit of armor seemed to be talking, too.
"Why won't he get up. WHY won't he wake up. Stupid Brother! All he does is sleep, and eat, and get in trouble, and act stupid, and…"
The armor continued ranting. It seemed rather frustrated.
Suddenly, another voice was heard.
"Wha- Alphonse? Wha's goin' on-"
The Armor suddenly lifted whatever it had been dragging above the crowd. What appeared to be a first year with blonde hair and some kind of red robes dangled by its hood above the students.
"Stupid Brother!" The Armor bellowed, red eyes furious. "The train stopped 15 minutes ago! I've been trying to wake you up for almost 30!"
"Sorry-"
"We're supposed to make a good impression and I end up having to DRAG you off the train!"
"AL-" The first year seemed to be attempting to defend himself, but the Armor was just too upset.
"And now EVERYONE is going to hate us-"
"AL WOULD YOU GIVE IT A REST ALREADY!" The armor looked taken aback as the red cloaked first year thrashed around. "What the hell, Al? Why are you so worked up over this?"
The Armor somehow managed to look sheepish despite the fact that its helmet couldn't make facial expressions. "Eh… Sorry brother, I guess I'm just nervous…Its been a long time since we've been to school…"
The first year relaxed. "y…yeah. It has, hasn't it."
The armor nodded furiously. Suddenly it began to do some kind of I-gotta-pee-dance. "Brother! We're gonna be late!" It rushed off, the first year still in its grip.
In the distance, a frustrated yell could be heard. "AL! Would you PUT ME DOWN?"
The Armor paused and carefully set the first year on its feet, hurriedly shouting the names "Alphonse and Edward Elric!" to professor Flitwik, who appeared to be in charge of the gate, before hurrying towards the closest carriage and jumping in. "Hurry up, Brother!"
The crowd of students was almost completely silent. The older students who hadn't gotten in a carriage yet looked nervously at the few left. No one seemed to want to go in the same direction of the two bothers... No one, that is, except for a certain brand-new prefect who took her job very seriously. Hermione Granger rushed after the two of them, bushy hair bouncing on her shoulders, pulling her fellow prefect, Ronald Weasly along behind her.
Ron tripped and slid as he tried to keep up with her. "Hermione! Just a second ago you were worried about Harry, and now you can't wait to get out of here! What gives?"
"You heard those two, 'it's been a long time since we've been to school'… They're obviously new students and that first year doesn't know that he's supposed to be getting in the rowboats. We've got to catch them before it's too late!"
She pulled him forward and finally launched herself and Ron into the same carriage as the two brothers. The first year was sprawled out along one side of the carriage…sleeping. Hermione couldn't help but be a little taken aback. He'd just been yelling a few minutes ago, and now, here he was, snoring his face off. The suit of armor that had been sitting on the other side of the carriage now turned to her.
"Oh, ah, hello. My name's Alphonse. Sorry about my brother, we were up late last night."
Hermione fixed Alphonse with a disapproving glare. "You really shouldn't be staying up late before the first day of school."
Alphonse looked crestfallen…or at least, as crestfallen as a suit of armor can look. "But, but, we were staying up late studying for school!"
And Hermione couldn't help but smile. Ravenclaws, no doubt. "well, if it was for studying I suppose it's okay. Anyway, you need to wake your brother up. Even if he wants to come with his older brother, first years need to go across the moat in the row boats."
Alphonse tensed up and slowly looked towards his brother. The boy was still snoring away, showing no signs of waking up. "um, actually, he's not a first year."
"Really?" Ron questioned, leaning over the blond "Short little bloke like that? I'd of thought he'd be pretty young!"
A gloved hand suddenly shot out from the sleeping boy and latched around Ron's tie. He tried to jump back in surprise but just ended up choking himself. The not-first year slowly pulled himself up so that his fierce gold eyes could meet Ron's. And then burst into frantic yelling. "WHO ARE YOU CALLING SO SHORT HE COULD FALL IN THE GRASS AND NEVER FIND HIS WAY OUT AGAIN AND THEN BE STEPED ON BY A CATERPILLAR AND BE STUCK TO IT'S FOOT LIKE THE TINIEST PIECE OF REALLY FLAT AND BY EXTENSION SHORT PIECE OF GUM YOU EVER SAW!"
"Wha-"
"Brother! He didn't say any of that!" Alphonse had leapt over to the spazzing blond and was now holding him back so he couldn't tear Ron to shreds.
"Calm down brother, I'm sure he didn't mean it!" Alphonse looked desperately at Ron, a plea to play along heard clear in his voice."
"Uh, yeah, right, I'm really sorry about that mate." Ron scratched his head.
"See? He's sorry."
Edward carefully scrutinized the redhead. He seemed properly contrite, but GAH! This guy was just too tall. Being seen with him would make Edward look shorter. "Fine. Just don't do it again."
The Carriage started rolling towards the school and Ron and Hermione sat awkwardly next to Alphonse as Edward closed his eyes again. "Um, So, exactly how old are you guys?"
"Oh. I'm 15 and Brother's 16." Ron face-faulted and nearly fell on the ground.
"Wow, So he's only a year younger than us, Ron!"
"He- HE's the OLDER brother! Older than Alphonse? 16!" Ron would have continued except for the fact that Hermione had stomped on his foot and Edward had turned around and was now giving him the patented Glare of Death.
"I, uh, I mean how completely obvious that he is the older brother, ha ha ha. Ha. So obvious."
"So, you two are entering the school as Fifth and sixth years? That's interesting; I don't think Hogwarts has had many students join in the middle of their schooling. Oh! But wait, you said before that you hadn't been to school in a long time. Does that mean that you two are going to be taking classes for a younger year?
"Well, actually we've gone through the material for students up to seventh year. However, we're not going to be normal students. My brother and I are trained as specialists for a particular subject that you guys don't actually offer here. We had to go through the material for most of your subjects independently, so while we're registered as seventh years we're going to be taking a hodgepodge of classes from different years."
"Oh my gosh, really? Wow, I've never heard of something like that happening before. What subject do you specialize in?"
Unfortunately for Hermione, the carriage chose that moment to stop, and Alphonse gave an excited squeal. He grabbed his brother and vaulted out of the carriage, heading towards the school. From far away she heard him call.
"See you inside Hermione, Ron!" The suit of armor bounded up the front steps like a hyper five year old, his sleeping brother bouncing around on his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.
"Hey, Hermione?"
"Yes, Ronald?"
"Why was he wearing a suit of armor?"
"I have no idea."
I noticed a surprising lack of Armor!Al in most of these, so I decided to remedy that. Don't Worry, Harry will show up later. In case you missed it, He's Creeping on Malfoy right now (train scene with the instant darkness powder and the bloody nose), so… If you DON'T want harry to show up much, or if you have a powerful hankerin' for some Harry RIGHT NOW, please tell me.
If you notice any mistakes please tell me, Kay?
Ages may be off.