[Still So Many Dreams]

Monkey D. Luffy, at the ripe old age of forty (which was pretty damn good for a pirate really) had finally passed away. "Passed away" of course meaning that he was publicly executed on the block for being the Pirate King. The whole crew had been captured eventually and they were all being killed in front of an audience at was the first to go.

Now, generally when one dies, one does not expect to open their eyes again– the non-religious folk that is. And we all know that the only god Monkey D. Luffy believes in is the God of Meat. So, Luffy died, expecting to be dead, and was therefore very surprised when he woke up, because most of the time dead people don't do that (MOST of the time). Sitting up, he rubbed the places on his chest where the blades would have exited and looked around, troubled.

"Monkey D. Luffy," A hoarse voice whispered. There in front in him stood a decrepit old man with an equally decrepit and scruffy beard. "You have done many great things in your life." The old guy mumbled, scribbling something down on the notebook in his hands. "A GREAT many things. Without you, the death toll would have been quite a bit higher, in quite a few places."

Luffy blinked and shoved a finger up his nose. Who was the old guy and what was he talking about? Also, where were his nakama? His stomach growled and Luffy puffed out his cheeks. "Hey, old man, you got any meat?"

The Old Man blinked, then shook his head. "No. No, I don't have any meat. But as I was saying–"

"Look old man, I don't really care, alright? I just wanna find my nakama and get some food." Luffy got to his feet slowly and dusted himself off. "Do you know where they are?"

"Know where... your nakama? Well of course I do!" The Old Man hmphed and crossed his arms, staring down skeptically at the boy.

"You do? Tell me then!" Luffy grinned, swinging his head around to look for his crew members, as if they would suddenly appear.

"Well, yes, but I need you to listen to me–" The Old Man pursed his lips, staring at Luffy with increasing annoyance.

"Where are they, where are they?!" He bounced up and down on the balls of his feet now, craning his rubbery neck higher to look for them.

"Look– would you just–"

"Tell me, tell me!"

"–I need to talk to you–"

"–Where where where where–"

"SHUT UP!" The Old Man yelled, smacking the 40-yr-old child upside the head. Luffy simmered down abruptly, rubbing his temple with a pout. The Old Man glared back. "Now, if you are sufficiently calm..." The Old Man paused, raising his brows as if daring Luffy to speak. "I have a matter of great importance to discuss with you." Luffy opened his mouth, as if to object, but shut it again when Old Man's glare intensified.

"Now then." The Old Man very seriously looked him dead in the eyes. "Monkey D. Luffy, you are dead."

Luffy paused momentarily, then blinked and scratched his head. "What, really?" He asked calmly.

"Yes really." The Old Man continued, pleased with his quiet reaction. All too often the dead would kick up a fuss in denial of their demise. "Now, you've done a great many things in life and it has earned you–"

"Look Old Man, I heard you before–" Luffy went to interrupt him again, impatient, hungry and bored.

"I'm not finished!" The Old Man snapped, a low growl growing in his chest. With another scorching glare, he cleared his throat and began again, looking at his clipboard. "Yes, so. A great many deeds, a great many lives saved. This has earned you a lot of good karma– so much in fact that the Gods are now indebted to you. Therefore, now that you are dead and you can no longer spend your karma, we must come to an agreement on what to do with it." The Old Man scribbled something on his clipboard, then raised an eyebrow, waiting for Luffy's response.

"... What's karma?" He asked, tilting his head. "Can I eat it? 'cause I'm kinda hungry and if I can just eat it then–"

"No, you cannot eat karma." A vein pulsed on Old Man's forehead and he sighed. "Karma is... Like good luck. But now that you're dead, you can't use your good luck even though there's still a lot left over."

"Why can't you just give it to someone else?" He asked, swinging his arms.

"Because– you can't just give karma away! You have to earn it!" The Old Man was beginning to get a little red in the face, his knuckles turning white as he clutched his pen.

"You kinda look like a tomato old man... I don't think that's very healthy." Luffy laughed and went to poke the other before Old Man slapped his hand away.

"Stop it." He hissed angrily before continuing. "One of the ways that we'll be able to get rid of your remaining karma is to reincarnate you. That way you'll be alive again so you can spend it."

"Wait– like you'll bring me back to life?" His eyes narrowed and Luffy crinkled his nose. "You can do that?"

"Only in extenuating circumstances, understand. We can't just bring anyone back from the dead. And you won't becoming back as you. You'll be born again, as someone else. You will not be Monkey D. Luffy anymore." Luffystopped short at this. Not... be him? Be someone else? Luffy wasn't very attached to his name exactly, but it was his name. His life. Could he be someone else? Could he really do that, abandon everything that was... him? "Well... I guess that sounds alright–"

"Wonderful. We can begin right away then."

"But– wait!" Luffy shouted, waving his hands. "Not– I'm not gonna go without my nakama!" His brows furrowed only the slightest. "I'm not going unless they can come with me."

"Go with– but that's..." The Old Man floundered, flabbergasted. A... multiple reincarnation? The amount of karma needed for one person alone was– The Old Man stopped and looked down at Luffy's karma number. That was an awful lot of karma... Probably too much to spend even in two lifetimes... But... nine reincarnations? "I... Well, we might be able to make arrangements..." The Old Man spoke slowly as he thought. "Hmm... yes, that might work..." He jotted a few more things down with his pen.

"Very well." The Old man nodded and ruffled through his papers, pulling out eight others. He then threw them into the air, where they promptly disintegrated, only for seven glowing figures to appear. When the light faded, the rest of his crew was standing there.

"Luffy!" Usopp yelled, tackling his captain and friend. Chopper too ran up to him. The crew swiftly reunited, only to realize they were missing someone.

"Where's Brook?" Franky asked, looking around. There was nothing else but them in the black void.

"Him, yes. There appears to be a problem. Hold for a second." The rest of the Strawhats, who had just only noticed the old guy, gaped as he disappeared with a crack and a flash of light.

"Luffy, who was that?" Nami asked, still wary of her surroundings.

"I dunno. Some old guy who says I've got too much caramel." Luffy shrugged, then pounced on his cook. "SANJI. I'M HUNGRY."

"Shitty captain!" Sanji stopped him from getting any closer with a boot to the face. "Don't you ever think about anything besides food?!" He stomped the boy into the ground then looked around "Where are we anyways?"

Robin was the one to answer, with a decidedly creepy response at that too. "I'm almost certain that we are dead,Sanji-san." She said calmly. "I distinctly remember the pain of the spears piercing through my chest." She smiled serenely as everyone stared at her in horror.

"... You're one freaky chick Robin." Twenty years sailing together and her sense of humour still freaked him out sometimes. His reaction was better than some others though.

"DEAD?!" Usopp shrieked, paling as he grabbed onto Chopper. "What do you mean we're dead? If we're dead then why are we talking?!"

"Maybe we're not– maybe this is all happening inside our heads." Sanji took a drag of his cigarette, blowing out a skull shaped cloud of smoke, and smirked at his trembling crewmates. Chopper and Usopp, both on the verge of panicking, screamed as two more figures appeared with a flash and a bang. There stood the Old Man and Brook.

"Brook!" Luffy yells happily. "What took you so long?"

The Old Man scowled while Brook laughed jauntily. "As my companion here explained it, death had a hard time taking me– because I was already dead! Skull Joke! Yohohoho!"

Luffy clapped like a retarded seal and laughed along with him. "Skull Joke!" Usopp and Chopper guffawed loudly as well, laughing along with their captain.

"Ah-hem." The Old Man cleared his throat, casting them disapproving looks. "Now. As I had previously been explaining to Monkey D. Luffy: by himself, Monkey D. Luffy has collected too much karma–" with this, he directed a piercing stare at Usopp, who had been about to interrupt." –which is like a form of good luck, if you will. As you are now all dead, you cannot spend your luck and we must decide what to do with it." He flipped through his papers once more. "I suggested reincarnation. However, Monkey D. Luffy has refused to reincarnate without the rest of his... nakama." The Old Man's disapproval on this choice is plain as day and the crew glared mutinously at the old codger.

"Alone, Monkey D. Luffy has enough karma to reincarnate three people, including himself. That is not enough for the entire nine of you." Eyes wide, the crew's breath stopped as one for a moment. "But, by combining the karma of everyone else in the crew– and subtracting the bad karma–" Here the Old Man glared sternly at a few sheepish members. "–there is enough karma to reincarnate only six of you." Shoulders slumped at these words and Luffy's mouth pursed into a thin line.

"This would be where the deal comes in." The Old Man continued, and hope alit once more. "We can make an accord to reincarnate rest of you, but only if you agree to do God's will."

"Do God's will?" Zoro spoke up for the first time. "You mean like become Priests or something?" His tone riddled with contempt.

"No." The Old Man soured at having been interrupted. "There are certain men that have found ways to escape death." He looked pointedly at Brook, who held up his hands in apology. "Normally, the Gods can let this slip by, but when these men become too corrupted and throw off the balance of the universe, something must be done." His statement had a certain feeling of profundity that gave the crew a feeling of being part of something much larger than the world they knew. "If you should agree, you shall all be reincarnated. You will be reborn as different people in a different reality and you will have a mission to complete, in order to fulfill your side of the bargain."

"Wait– different reality? You mean like... Not part of the Blues?" Nami interjected, stepping forward. "A whole different world?"

The Old Man snorted contemptuously. "Of course. You didn't really think you we're the only world that existed, did you?" When he saw indeed that she had, he tsked disapprovingly. "Yes, an entirely different world. Different powers, different places, different people."

"Will... Will we still all be together?" Chopper questioned timidly, poking his head out from behind Luffy's leg.

"... That can be arranged." The Old Man, it seemed, appreciated Chopper's more respectful manner, replying to without the snark he'd been giving the rest of the crew.

They all shared a glance, thousands of words exchanged in only a few seconds of eye contact. With a few decisive nods, it seemed everyone had come to an agreement. "Alright old man!" Luffy grinned. "It's a deal!"

"Very well." The Old Man nodded in turn and signed something with a flourish. "The arrangements shall be done." He closed his clipboard and looked at them all, each in turn.

"You will be reborn with all your memories, as to make the task easier. The man whom you must kill is named Tom Riddle. In his world, he goes by the moniker 'Lord Voldemort'."

The black void they'd been standing in began to fade to white and the Old Man's words got quieter and quieter.

"I wish you all..."

A bright flash of white light, blinding them all as the world began to fade around them.

"... good luck. "

"The King must die so that the country can live."

Yes, yes, yet another HP x OP crossover. I just can't seem to get enough of them. Now, obviously things are going to change. I'll be flopping some ages around and other things, but I've tried to have everything fit as well as I possibly can.

Luffy- Harry Potter ;Slytherin '80
Zoro- /Zoro Roronoa ;Hufflepuff '79
Usopp- Dean Thomas ;Gryffindor '80
Nami- Ginny Weasley ;Slytherin '81
Sanji- Draco Malfoy ;Gryffindor '80
Chopper- /Tony Chopper ;Ravenclaw '82/81 (Werewolf)
Robin- Cho Chang ;Ravenclaw '79
Franky- Marcus Belby ;Ravenclaw '79
Brook- /Brook Bones Hufflepuff '78 (Son of Edgar Bones, Nephew of Amelia Bones)

Also, I don't actually know anything about karma or the afterlife or what-have-you-not. Basically, I made it all up! :D