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FoT: Meeting ‘Elizabeth’
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wayya reminded me I never finished posting this to LJ. Oops!Title: Foundation of Truth: Meeting ‘Elizabeth’
[Previous parts found here.]
Summary: Edward gets to meet a few new friends and makes a startling discovery.
PG-13, Gen. Post Series (spoilers), no movie information, post book five AU.
Note: Main reason for writting this series was the sheer amount of FMA/HP crossovers on FF.net that made NO sense. I tried to take a lot of the clichés they used and make them reasonable. Not sure how well I did.
Chapter 4: Meeting ‘Elizabeth’
Wand selection had actually been very simple. Ed now had an eight inch wand made of maple wood containing a single phoenix feather. In a matter of two weeks he mastered the first year material. Harry had been rather jealous and annoyed until Ed explained it. “I’ve been channeling power for alchemy most of my life, specifically though my hands. After I got past the point of using an array and only had to impose my will and allow myself to act as the information for an array instead of the symbols most people use, I became even better at focusing that power. Once I got the hand of channeling through a wand it was just a matter of practice and memorizing the spells.”
And Ed was extremely good at memorizing. Sometimes Harry wondered if he should have a competition between Ed and Hermione to see who could memorize more. It also helped that Ed had spent the last month learning magical theory. Unlike most Hogwarts students, he understood exactly how and why magic worked. The blond’s drive didn’t hurt either. The spells he would need to return home were complicated and he could only get there by working his way up.
As it neared mid November Harry reflected it might not be a bad idea to introduce Ron and Hermione to Ed. Hermione for certain. They were quickly approaching third year material. The teen witch would probably be able to undo anything that went wrong. Harry could handle anything when it came to Defense Against the Dark Arts but Transfiguration and Charms could cause problems.
With this in mind, Harry took advantage of the commotion at supper to ask his question. “Are you doing anything after this?” Harry asked his two best friends, glancing back and forth between their faces.
“No,” Hermione answered. “The prefect meeting was canceled. Why?”
“I have someone I need you to meet.”
“Alright mate! Who is she?” Ron looked at his friend eagerly.
Harry gave Hermione a confused look. “What?”
“Your girlfriend!” Ron answered. Harry choked. “When you started vanishing off so much we figured you must be seeing someone. No way you’d spend so much time researching.”
“Leave me out of this Ron,” Hermione interjected. “This is Ron, Dean and Seamus’ idea.”
“So what’s her name? What does she look like? What house is she in? I bet it’s a Ravenclaw, you’ve been doing so well in class lately.”
“Blond, about my height…”
“Uh huh.”
“And it’s a he, not a she.”
Ron and Hermione froze. “You’re seeing a boy?” The red head gasped. He started running through the boys they knew. There was only one who fit that description since Harry was rather short for his age. “You’re not seeing MALFOY?!”
Harry nearly fell off his seat he was laughing so hard. “No,” he finally managed to gasp. “And I’m not ‘seeing’ anyone. Ed’s my research partner. And I’ve been teaching him stuff.”
This attracted Hermione’s attention while losing Ron’s. “Really?”
“Yes. I was hoping you could help since we’re getting into more difficult subjects.”
“So when do we meet him?”
“Right after dinner in the library.”
“Sorry to point this out to you, Harry, but you’re getting as bad as she is about that place.” Ron ducked as Hermione chucked a roll at him.
“He’s from another dimension?” Hermione gaped as they walked down the hall.
Ron had other concerns. “I can’t see you teaching anyone potions.”
“He didn’t.” The Gryffindor trio turned to face the wall. The figure leaning against it seemed to be a Hogwarts student except for his gloves and the lack of a crest. “I’m specializing in charms, transfiguration and defense. The rest are rather useless to me since the creatures, plants or people they study don’t even exist in my world.”
“You must be Edward Elric.”
“And you must be Hermione Granger. I’ve heard a lot about you.” Ed pushed off the wall and walked over to the group. “The Ravenclaws are having a study session in the library. We better head down the hall.”
“You have us at a disadvantage,” Hermione observed. “Harry hasn’t told us anything about you.”
“Yeah well I asked him to keep quiet about it. Most of the teachers don’t even know I’m here.” He pushed open a door to an unused classroom.
“Actually,” Harry spoke up with an evil grin as he followed his research partner inside, “Ron thought you were my girlfriend.”
It was a good thing they had closed the door. Hogwarts classrooms were built to silence most noise since magic often caused quite a racket. Try taking a test when the next class over is practicing exploding charms. “WHO IS SO SHORT HE CAN BE MISTAKEN FOR A GIRL!!!”
Ron waved his hands in a calming gesture while Hermione stared. Harry broke up laughing. “You knew this would happen.”
Harry’s grin only increased. “Yup.” He dodged Ron’s mock punch.
“If you don’t mind,” Ed glared at the two. “I would like to get some work done.”
Hermione smiled. “What are you studying at the moment?”
Ron and Harry worked on their homework as Hermione walked Ed through the first five charms of the third year material. An hour later the blond and brunette sat down next to the two working boys. Harry produced an array (no, not that kind of array) of treats from his bag and the four friends dug in while exchanging tales.
“…so then I changed all the coal back. You should have seen his face!” Ed grinned.
“Sounds like you get into as much trouble as we do,” Ron grinned in a scheming manner. “Wonder if we could pull something over on Snape.”
Hermione frowned. “I think your older brothers have had too much influence on you this summer.”
“But they sent me some good stuff to try out!” Ron protested. “Fred and George run a joke shop,” he explained to Ed. He ripped open the chocolate frog in his hand. “Dumbledore again. You aren’t going to collect are you?”
“No.”
“This brings back memories,” Harry took the card from Ron’s hands. “Remember all that time searching in the Library first year for Nicholas Flamel? And it was right here.”
“Nicholas Flamel?”
“Yes. We were trying to figure out what they had hidden on the third floor. Turns out it was the Philosopher’s Stone.”
Ed barely heard what was said next. For the next few minutes he was back in the library with his brother, overwhelmed by the truth of the Philosopher’s Stone. Distantly he heard Hermione comment that Dumbledore had worked with Flamel on Alchemy. He stood and ran out of the room and right up to Dumbledore’s office. The gargoyle jumped out of the way at his approach. He stormed right up the moving stairs and into the office. “Mr. Elric-”
“You helped someone create a Philosopher’s stone.”
Dumbledore’s eyebrows hit his hair line. “Yes I did work with Nicholas-”
“What were the ingredients.”
It wasn’t a question; it was a demand. Dumbledore gripped his wand carefully under his desk. The young man in front of him had obviously been practicing magic as his aura focused dangerously on him. If provoked Ed might attack the headmaster without even thinking about it. Dumbledore quickly recited the list as Ed scrutinized him. When he finished the youth’s shoulders sagged in relief. “Mr. Elric?”
“The Philosopher’s Stone does not have nearly such a clean history in my world. I had to make sure it wasn’t repeating here.” Ed bowed. “Please excuse my intrusion.” He turned and left without another word.
Authors Note: Ed’s wand.
The fact that Ed has a phoenix feather core has NOTHING TO DO WITH HARRY. It wouldn’t matter what Harry had, Ed would have a phoenix core. Why will come up later. To the best of my extremely limited knowledge of trees, the one next to their old house looks like a maple. Please correct me if I’m wrong. And tell me if you see any errors, please!
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Aaah, it's to fast! (I've just realized that I still have to find out how 'Occlumency' and 'Department of Mysteries' were translated in the French books, as I read the last ones in English. And I'm still exiled in England, so it's not so easy)No, no, that's good. And for comment... The misunderstanding about Harry's girlfriend made me burst into laughing, with a improbable Malfoy!EdxHarry pairing fluttering in my head. And
of courseI like the angsty ending.no subject
Hey, I just realized today I forgot to ARCHIVE a HP/FMA crossover from a while back. OOPS! Good luck with that, BTWThe thought amused my non-FMA knowledgeable friend as well when I told her about it. And PS = instant angst machine, of course. :)
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And Philosopher's Stone = pain is the *** when you have to write it I-don't-know-how-many-times in the same fic
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but whattavery ou are the author x]
such yummy goodness xD
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and yey for spellcheckfreaks are love! xD
should it be uh huh instead of uh hu? in:
“Blond, about my height…”
“Uh hu.”
“And it’s a he, not a she.”
mreeuu~ you make few of the most amusing fics ever x3
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glad im somewhat of help.. and yey for fixing xD
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“He didn’t.” The Gryffindor trio turned to fact the wall.
And I’m not sure at all, but shoudn’t you say “study session” instead of “study secession”? (school vocabulary, uuuh.)
Sorry, but I don’t know how to translate the pun with ‘array’. This word doesn’t even exist here! Grr.
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Just do your best. Not your fault the language isn't cooperating!