a strange kind of magic

Characters: Big Cast

Summary: It was a known fact that the students of this school were crazy.

Author's Note

First things first. I would like the anon on tumblr and everyone else in the role play community who encouraged me to write this. It was an eventful afternoon, the day when flower crowns took over the world and when things were generally weird.

It was the day when I did a Harry Potter/Fairy Tail crossover edit and from the asks I got afterwards, this story was born. If you have a roleplay account yourself, my url is icemagemom.

I warn you. Characters may be – especially in the very first chapter – slightly OOC and the age differences have been changed as well so that a 23-years-old Laxus can still attend and so on.

Also, due to the sorting, some characters have different cliques and different ways to interact.

So if a friendship between Freed, Lyon and Lucy offends you, please leave now.

Prologue

Hogwarts was a school of thousand possibilities, a school of magic.

As one of the oldest and one of the most notorious magical schools in the world, the school's graduates had the reputation of being prepared for everything life might throw at them later on. As far as unity between the four houses of the school went, things might have been better. The century old feud between Gryffindor and Syltherin was still going on but with more responsible prefects, things had calmed down and the last time that a spontaneous duel had happened had been a year ago.

Even the most optimistic and hopeful teacher had given up any hope that the both rivalling houses would ever end their feud – especially not now, not with the ongoing tournament.

Cana Alberona, prefect of the Syltherin house, threw her hair over her shoulder as she walked down the always changing hallways of the school. She was feared and admired by many as she was one of the most skilled mages of the school. Her purplish blue eyes were trained onto the fighting students at the other side of the hallway and narrowed as she blocked a stray spell. "Evergreen Raijin, Elfman Strauss," she snapped. "Would you please stop fighting now before a teacher comes to scold you … and to take points away from us, Evergreen."

The slightly older brunette snorted but pocketed her wand again. "II have no business around here anyway," she said haughtily as she rushed away, flipping her hair over her shoulder as she disappeared into another hallway.

"You, leave as well, Strauss," Cana said before she continued her way to her own lessons.

The both students that had been standing by the window to compare their notes, smiled thinly.

"A typical moment," Freed Justine said as he closed his book. "Very well, Vastia-san, we see each other in Astronomy today, don't we? Until then, we should both think about this spell."

"Don't tell me that you are still working on that spell!" Lucy Heartfilia sighed deeply as she walked downstairs with them. "Seriously, Milkovich-sensei has told you to stop doing this! Can't you just stop wanting everything this badly? You won't beat Fullbuster in the next exam, Lyon, if you keep wanting it too much. And neither will you be better than Levy-chan, Freed-san, because you want it too much as well. You are too tensed, you need to relax a little more!"

"True, Lucy-san, but you also have to remember that you want to beat Lockser-san quite desperately as well, don't you?"

"Juvia-chan…"

"No daydreams now, Lyon!"

Just as usual, the Gryffindor was loud and full of laughter as Erza Scarlet took her usual place by the end of the table. The head girl usually arrived earlier but after an incident in the potions class, she was happy that she had made it in time for lunch in first place. She tied her deep red hair into a ponytail and poured coffee into her cup before she lifted her gaze – just in time to see a familiar flash of white appearing in the doorway and making its way over to the empty place by her side, the place that had always been the one belonging to Mirajane Strauss.

"I am fucking done with Dreyar!" the white-haired girl hissed as she sat down at her place, nearly smashing the table into tiny pieces as she punched it.

"Keep it down, screaming won't solve anything, Mira," her red-haired friend sighed as she grabbed a piece of cake from a plate. "But what did he do this time?" she added.

"Needlessly showed off in class," Mira drawled as she grabbed a cup of pumpkin juice. "Well, that is his usual behaviour but seriously, who does he think he is, Erza? The chosen one?"

"Actually, yes, he is indeed the chosen one," the redhead called Erza shrugged. "But stop complaining so much. It's not like his is the head boy while you are the head girl, right?"

"Not that he is actually doing his job properly, Erza," the black-haired Gray Fullbuster threw in with a smirk as he sat down with the both girls. "You can be honest … it's mostly Fernandes who attends all the important meetings and helps you, right? That guy's too good for Slytherin."

Mira did not comment on the crimson hue that covered their friend's face for a moment. "Well, it's not like he's any good at being a prefect," she said after a moment. "I mean, did you ever see him doing his primary job? No, it's all Alberona who runs around and tries to keep everything in order," she said with an afterthought.

"Not that anyone could keep that rowdy bunch in line," Gray said with a shrug before he flinched as a cold hand touched his neck. "Ultear," he sighed.

"I seriously hope that you aren't talking about my house, little brother," Slytherin's resident ice queen said sweetly before she crossed the room over to her own table.

"Like a snake," Levy McGarden sighed as she sat down on her usual place next to Gray. "Did anything special happen today?" she asked as she ran a hand through her messy blue hair.

"You are late," Laxus Dreyar, head boy and resident 'chosen one', said as he crossed his arms. "What's your excuse this time, Redfox?"

The tall boy with the messy black hair rolled his eyes. "Ya ain't my dad, Dreyar," he said as he sat down next to his best friend. "And ya're staring at Fullbuster again, rainwoman."

Juvia Lockser was a doll like girl with long blue hair that fell down to her waist in messy blue waves. She was maybe the kindest and sweetest person at the table and at the beginning, people had wondered what she was doing in Slytherin has she would have also fitted into Gryffindor. Well, this had been before she had broken Natsu Dragneel's nose after he had decided to go too far with a prank against Gajeel. By now, everyone knew why she was in Slytherin. It was because she was downright ruthless if someone messed with her friends, her family.

Right now, she was obviously once more daydreaming but then, she shook herself out of her trance. "Juvia knows," she said as she rose and brushed back her hair. "But, do you know too, Gajeel-kun?" she asked before she disappeared in a crowd of students.

"What is she talking about?" Cana inquired as she lowered her potions script. Just as usual, she was studying last minute for the upcoming test. "Gajeel?"

He averted his gaze. "Not important," he said as he got up. "Well, there's Wendy. I talk to her."

Evergreen looked up from her own book. "He's hiding something," she said with a smirk.

"And he's such a bad, bad liar," Ultear agreed. "Shall I investigate?"

Laxus shook his head. "No," he said. "Juvia knows and she won't allow him to do anything that might endanger our team. Our seeker keeps our beater in line, after all."

"You just have to ask Romeo out, Wendy-chan!" Lisanna Strauss encouraged the girl of the second year. "Look, he is staring at you again! That's a good sign!"

"Bixlow-san is looking too, Lisanna-chan, is that a good sign as well?" the younger girl asked innocently as she looked at her older and more experienced friend.

"N-no!" the white-haired girl exclaimed.

"Are you messing with Wendy again, Strauss?" the threatening voice of Gajeel Redfox asked.

"She isn't," the blue-haired girl replied quickly. "By the way, you good a strange bruise…"

"That is no bruise," Natsu Dragneel, the master of cluelessness grinned. "Lucy calls it a hickey."

"Gajeel-nii has a girlfriend?" Wendy asked with wide eyes.

"I haven't – and when did you start believing what Salamander says?" the older boy snapped as he glared at the chuckling boy. "I came over since Bixlow was staring – again. He gives me the creeps. Well, since Strauss' brother will be here soon enough, I take my leave."

"W-wait a moment, Gajeel-nii!" Wendy called out as she got up for a moment to grab his arm. "I … mom wrote me a letter … with sweets and I wanted to give you a few of them. There you go."

For a moment, the beater stared at the handful of sweets his younger sister had forced onto him. It was common knowledge that he hated anything sweet but it was also widely known that his sister paid this dislike no heed as she always gave him a fair share of the sweets her mother sent her. Some wondered how Gajeel got rid of them as it was unlikely that he would actually eat them but for now, the miracle was unsolved.

The gruff boy took a step forward before he turned his head. "Wait a moment, salamander … Lucy Heartfilia talked about … hickeys? With you?" he asked, obviously doubting the words of the other boy. "Bunnygirl never talks about that stuff – not even with her fanboys," he added with a glare into the direction of Lyon Vastia and Fred Justine who stood by the door where they chatted with the head of their house, Ur Milkovich.