Updated A/N as of 4/01/17, yo y'all. In the final chapter I said I'd start editing the story to accommodate for things I hadn't yet seen once I became up to date with One Piece. So surprise! I'm up to date and spent a day updating the chapters, I'll be adding the other ones as well. SugarPieCrumbles pointed out a lot of mistakes I made throughout the story so I have edited those, however, if you see any I have missed please feel free to point them out. If you are one of the people who have already read the fic then I apologize for updating this, not much has changed through the actual story but I cleaned up some of the things that made me cringe while I read it.

Anyways, on another note, for the newbies this fic contains spoilers for EVERYTHING. Please enjoy the story.

Now, obviously One Piece does not belong to me, neither does Harry Potter. (Always put disclaimer on your fanfiction kids, *brownie points if you get that reference*)

Wealth, fame, power, the man who had acquired everything in this world, the Pirate King, Monkey D. Luffy!

Monkey D. Luffy was one of the greatest men to have ever lived during the great Pirate Age, he began off with a small crew beginning with a swordsman intent on achieving his goal, one that was almost of the same calibre as Luffy's goal to become King of the Pirates.

His fleet is known to give terrors to the marines and their enemies alike. When somebody imposes that skull with a straw-hat, their fate has been sealed, they will die a long painful death for dare threatening the beliefs and ideals that the Straw Hats grasp.

However, the Straw Hat crew was also known for their kindness towards those suffering and never let a friend or ally suffer. Almost everybody who had met them understood their undying sense of morality and justice that was absent in most other ruthless pirate crews.

The Straw Hats achieved a great deal during their life-span, accumulating the One Piece left behind by Gold D. Roger, the undisputed – until Luffy that is – King of the Pirates. The bounties that were placed on their heads were incredible, beyond anything the world had seen.

However, all lives must end eventually and one day the original Straw Hats and their leader were inevitably captured and executed before a great audience that had gathered with the same morbid curiosity that drives all to see an execution of yet another pirate crew.

Sadly the members of the crew were executed first, saving the best for last. The King of the Pirates watched all of his closest friends be executed from chains of sea prism before the cold sweet embrace of Death took him away for good. But even after watching his closest friends die, Monkey D. Luffy was smiling, he grinned for there was no tomorrow for him or his crew.

His final words were simple, "To my remaining friends and allies, thank you for everything!" he did not disclose the location of the legendary One Piece, simply stating that; "You have to guess! Shishishi!"

And that was how the first death of Monkey D. Luffy occurred, he died like a true 'D'.

Centuries later (however it seemed like not a second had passed for him) Monkey D. Luffy awoke in the body of a small child (no older than 5 months to be precise). "What the hell is going on?" Unfortunately, not a word escaped from his mouth, only a gentle gurgle that babies often emitted.

"Where are all my friends?" He questioned silently, remembering the last events of his last life. "Damn this sucks." He thought, all of those years spent building up to become the Pirate King.

He sighed, what was even happening right now? He definitely just was stabbed straight through the heart from both sides, he had not expected anything like this to occur. Well, if he was back and apparently a small child, it meant that his crew must be experiencing similar findings, he would find them one day.

"Well this is… unexpected." Then he laughed and was satisfied to hear it come out, he even grinned his toothless smile as wide as he could, laughing again at the feeling of his unused facial muscles burn at the simple movement.

"Aww, aren't you the cutest?" A woman with beautiful auburn hair smiled at Luffy filling him with a warmth making him recognise that this was this life's version of his mother. She cooed gently so Luffy cooed back and giggled when the lady made abnormal faces at him.

A man with slicked hair and glasses entered the room, in his grasp was a newspaper WITH MOVING PEOPLE! It was one of the damn coolest thing Luffy had seen in his lifetime and he had seen some pretty cool things. "Naw, Lily he has your eyes." He smiled fondly at Luffy and Lily exchanged a look with him.

"I just hope he doesn't have your penchant for trouble mister." Lily said laughing gently, the sound reminding Luffy of soft wind chimes.

James laughed in response and replied, "Well young Harry, you hear that? Better become a prankster and be like your old man, I will protect you from the wrath of your mother."

Luffy laughed, "Harry huh? Well it could have been a lot worse." His mother Lily instantly put on a scolding face that Luffy could tell was just for show. "We'll see about that, it'll be you hiding behind your son."

They were both laughing, Luffy memorised the scene, every little detail that a novice would be careless and miss, it was a wondrous memory and Harry (Luffy) would treasure it like real treasure.

But alas, fate is a cruel mistress and Luffy watched as both of his parents were murdered in front of him, he had not felt this helpless since Marineford, hell even watching his friends be executed was a similar experience, he simply was not strong enough to act, the body he was in was nothing like his previous body that he had worked for years to achieve that level of strength.

The thing glided into the room, intent on destroying Luffy, but when it raised its' wand the curse that had stolen his family's lives away seemed to backfire, Luffy suspected that Lily had something to do with it, she always had been so powerful.

So he became the boy who lived, well the boy who twice lived technically, including his past life. He barely remembered the ride with an apparent half-giant, he had been too busy crying in bursts and trying to remember happy moments of both lives.

All of the adventures he had gone on with his nakama were happy memories but they were faintly bittersweet; they were another reminder of what he had lost and would probably never regain. However, all of the new memories that he had created with James and Lily also made him smile with nostalgia (only for him to begin bawling again).

"Get up! Get up now!" His aunt screeched as she slammed her wooden spoon against his door, well, door was an overstatement, it was more a hole that happened to lead to his hell ho- I mean room.

"Ugh" Luffy managed to groan before stretching his lips into a familiar grin that had yet to fade, today was going to be filled with chores and hardship but it was better than the alternative of nothing.

He got up stretching to (almost) abnormal lengths, letting his joints crack in ways that Chopper would undoubtedly yell at him for. He walked through the disgusting hallways that reeked of bleach and perfume and made sure to set the table for breakfast, he had been banned from the kitchen after a particularly disastrous incident where the entire house had been set on fire and it took five fire trucks to quench it.

It was only 6:00 as of right now and Luffy was seriously considering just dropping off to sleep, he could become a narcoleptic like… it didn't matter who he just wanted to sleep dammit.

"Argh I'm so hungry." He moaned clutching his stomach not so dramatically, he hadn't been allowed to eat in a while. The Dursleys were cruel people who were polar opposites of Lily and James. Where Lily had been kind and beautiful, Aunt Petunia was a cruel vicious woman with a neck long enough to catch the rudest gossip on everyone, she reminded him of a vulture.

James had been mischievous and very strong, he had not possessed the same level of intellect as his wife but it was still fairly high ranking. Uncle Vernon was a pudgy, red-faced man with an apparent lack of manner, he was incessantly greedy and always refused to acknowledge his name.

But Dudley took the cake, literally and figuratively, he was almost as fat as his father and used his weight and size to push Luffy about, he reminded Luffy of that stuck up blond boy, Hermodd? Was that his name? But then again, that was before the poor soul had been trained with Coby by his grandfather (poor guys).

But Dudley was spoiled and if he did not get his way there was a temper tantrum and Luffy would often take the brunt of his aggression, not that it actually hurt, after all, his body was made of rubber and would absorb the weak punches.

Finally 7:00 a.m. came about and Vernon and Dudley waddled into the suburban kitchen sitting at their respective seats. Dudley sat in front of a television, eyes already glued to its small screen. Vernon had a newspaper in his grasp and sat opposite Dudley, occasionally sending sleepy glares in Luffy's direction. Luffy carefully put the correct serving out of bacon, egg, sausage and hash brown. "Mummy, I want another hash brown, make him give me one of his." Dudley whined giving a particular hard glare and smug smirk in Luffy's direction.

"Of course sweety, anything for my Diddlekins." Petunia said in her overly sweet high pitched voice, it immediately returned to a growl. "Well don't just stand there get my son what he wants."

Luffy gritted his teeth and thought of all the ways he could steal some food later, the only comfort of losing that hash brown was that he knew that Sanji's cooking was much better than it. When he found him again (because he would) he would eat all of his favourite dishes, lots of meat.

That was also another comfort, he hadn't stolen his bacon, his oh so precious meat. Luffy scoffed down his breakfast before Dudley could obtain any more of it. He giggled under his breath as he imagined Dudley as a pig while he was eating his bacon.

"Boy, we're going out today to get Dudley his presents for tomorrow, I expect to see the house so clean that it sparkles." While he was talking Vernon pointed a sausage finger in his direction. "And no funny business or food."

"Yeah no problem sir." He refrained from calling him "old geezer", the last time he said that he had been locked inside the cupboard for a whole week! And only water and bread as sustenance, it was literally the same as a prison.

When the rude residents of the house left Luffy laughed "Shishishishi. This is gonna be a piece of cake."

He clapped his hands and shot his hands to the empty plates, "Gomu gomu no grab!" the plates were picked up and all but thrown into the sink, however Luffy made sure not to smash any this time.

When Luffy had discovered his powers had been retained through the carnate thingy, he had been absolutely overjoyed. Going as far as to swing across the support beams for fun in his tiny house, it also made chores a lot easier and instead he was able to dedicate his time to reshaping his body to how it had been before. However he had been extremely disappointed to discover that he lacked any muscle and his Haki was not working, and neither were any of the other gears!

He was in a different body that was not built to really create muscles and it did not have good stamina either.

Living where he was certainly didn't help either, living in a forest had been quite good training, that coupled with the hundred fights a day policy Ace, Sabo and he had adopted ensured that he became strong.

So living in a suburbia house with a family that didn't want him definitely did not bode well for his physical properties. But despite all of this he still trained as hard as he could.

He still had a long way to go of course, apparently pirates were long dead and gone and his powers would literally be thought of as Devilish or god (Petunia) forbid abnormal.

As it was they weren't even feeding him enough and he often now understood what Sanji had said about eating when there was food and never wasting it. Unfortunately, Luffy had gotten used to the lack of sustenance and that was a fact he sorely resented, he loved having a huge appetite.

Luffy hummed one of the pirate tunes Shanks had taught him as he washed up the dishes, it always kept him in high spirits. He even repetitively tapped the plates together to create a beat.

He made quick work of the dishes and soon they were neatly tucked away in the trap of OCD that Petunia had created. Next he scrubbed the bathroom clean, gagging at the scent of bleach and other chemicals. The bathroom was his least favourite chore so the Dursleys made sure to always leave it for him.

After escaping the toxic scent permeating the bathroom Luffy made his way outside to clear his nostrils and de-weed to garden. "He shoots and he scores! Shishishi!" Luffy threw his ball of crumpled weeds into the bin in one shot.

"Ahhh." Luffy completed all of his mundane chores and was now relaxing in the shade that their ugly trees offered him, soaking up the spring heat and consuming cold water.

He heard a car door slam and quickly got everything packed up before. "Gomu gomu no rocket!" and zoomed to his cupboard. He barely had locked himself in when the door was harshly thrown open by none other than his awful Uncle.

Thankfully the remainder of the day went by in a blur. Next thing he knew; the stairs were painfully creaking under the weight of his overweight cousin. "Wake up we're going to the zoo!" Dudley screamed jumping up and down making sawdust rain down upon Luffy, said boy groaned intensely.

Luffy tried – he really did – to prepare himself for the whining pathetic mess that his cousin would most likely be when he made it to their shrine; the kitchen.

Sure enough Dudley was complaining about not getting enough presents. He wanted to snap that neither Ace, Sabo nor he had ever celebrated birthdays, Christmases or even Easter. He didn't celebrate his birthday on the Going Merry or Thousand Sunny either. Nobody had. However, they always had done Christmas, it was tradition.

But he held his tongue and silently fumed on the inside, instead he began to hum the song that Brook had most often played, bony fingers (ha skeleton joke) dancing over piano keys and jovially singing out, it was one that usually occupied dinner time aboard the Thousand Sunny.

Later he realised that the song Brook had been playing was also a promise to an old friend – one the skeleton had finally met at the end of their journey before their demise.

"Come on boy we don't have all day." Vernon all but shouted at Luffy who snapped out of his reverie and followed the disgusting group of people he suffered calling 'family'.

Luffy yawned over the excited chatter and whining of the Dursley family, he could finally go to the zoo! He had heard of such places where all animals were gathered so that travellers didn't have to go far to see them! It reminded Luffy of a dream a certain chef had one day of seeing the All Blue, the zoo was leaning particularly close to it and Luffy couldn't wait to see his friends face when he told him that such a place existed.

Luffy jumped up and down excitedly in his car seat, momentarily forgetting his place, after a stern pat (slap) on his head the hyperactive boy calmed down and breathed slowly.

Finally they arrived at the zoo and Luffy grinned his trademark smile, stretching his face abnormally. "Shishishi! This is amazing!" He proclaimed loudly to the amusement of parents nearby.

Vernon's face was practically purple by the time Luffy stopped admiring the outside of the zoo. "No funny business from you boy! I see one thing go wrong and you'll wish you were never born!" Whoop, and there goes the sausage finger again.

"Shishishi, of course sir!" Luffy grinned (if possible) wider and accepted the glares from his cousin, aunt and uncle. "Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to explore!"

A new adventure in a new place was always an exciting experience, who knew who he was going to meet (he knew who he wanted to meet but making new friends was fun too)? And hopefully there was some meat he could snag whilst being ninja.

His sandals (yes, only Luffy would wear sandals in England) slapped harshly against the concrete of the walkway, the enclosures where the animals were held were of similar style. That is omitting the open enclosures that held penguins, crocodiles (there weren't any banana ones) and big cats.

One particular animal caught his attention. It was a snake and it was HUGE! It seemed to be sleeping as of now. "I know that it looks like you're sleeping but you're just waiting for the next unlucky prey to fall into your grasp. I WILL NOT BE THAT PREY!" He shouted proudly earning odd glances from adults and children alike.

Oh and the Dursleys were a few feet away, however the intensity of their glares made him feel like they were right beside him. And then amongst the situation the snake rose to look him in the eye. "I accept that King of the Piratesssss." The s dragged on but Luffy was more concerned about the actual words.

"You can talk?! That is so cool! And you bet your scaly hide that I'm King of the Pirates, Monkey D. Luffy, that's me!" In his excitement Luffy forgot two key factors, one, the Dursleys were watching him with mutinous expressions and two, the snake could speak! And he could understand what the snake was saying!

"Mummy! Daddy! Look it's moving!" And then a boulder rushed past Luffy and slammed into the glass, pressing his nose against it, trying to gawk at the snake better.

Luffy was so mad, why the hell did he think that he could personally ruin anything good in Luffy's miserable life. He was so godamn mad that he saw red, and suddenly a resounding 'splash!' echoed through the zoo and suddenly people were screaming at the snake that slithered its way through to escape.

"Thanksss." The snake hissed as it trailed past Luffy.

"No problem! Good luck snakey!" He yelled waving at the snake.

And then Luffy started to laugh, because somehow his cousin was stuck in the snake enclosure and it was taking many peoples efforts to remove the morbidly obese boy.

And Vernon fixed the strongest glare he could on the young boy, Luffy in turn, grinned back. "Huh, that disappearing glass was really weird." Luffy muttered, contemplating, thinking turned out to be too hard so he shrugged his shoulders and watched with unbridled amusement as his cousin was finally pulled from the enclosure.

His amusement lasted all the way back to the house, when they arrived and the "precious" Dudley was secured in many blankets and drinking hot chocolate. Then Uncle Vernon rounded on him "What the hell was that?!" He hissed, ironically sounding like a snake.

"What was what?" Luffy replied blinking blankly at his current guardian.

"I warned you boy! No funny business!" Vernon was progressing slowly from red to purple, a frightening process that made Luffy worry (hope) that he was suffocating.

"I didn't do anything though!" Luffy yelled back with twice as much vigour.

"Then what happened?!" Vernon roared back, spittle flying from his disgusting maw.

"I don't know! One second the glass was there and then it was gone, and then it was back again! It was almost like magic!" Luffy yelled back, he was used to yelling matches, sure they usually ended up in punishment but it always was fun.

"There is no such thing!" Vernon screamed and shoved him into the cupboard, locking the door securely.

"ARGHH!" Luffy screamed into his pillow. "Stupid hippopotamus and his stupid vulture of a wife."

He knew that they really couldn't be too mad at him for long because it really wasn't his fault.

Those thoughts accompanied him to sleep, surely enough at the usual time he was rudely awoken by his aunt unlocking the door and whispering harshly for him to get his lazy out of bed (if it could even be called that).

Luffy dragged himself out and set the table as per usual, he waited around until 7:00 a.m. and when his Uncle and cousin waddled in he served scrambled egg and toast. "Go get the mail for me boy." Uncle Vernon said, even that effort made him go purple and caused spittle fly.

Luffy still wasn't quite awake so he refrained from saying anything, instead nodding obediently, he looked through the letters, bank letter, brochure for the supermarket, postcard, letter to Mr Harry Potter, drill lice- wait a second. Luffy pulled the letter out cautiously looking at it.

It was made of the kind of parchment that Nami would always have around and it had a wax seal that had a badger, a snake, lion and an eagle. Huh, that was new, he shrugged and instead shoved it under his shirt, no doubt would the Dursleys confiscate it.

"What took you so long?" Vernon inquired viciously.

"Nothing sir, just looking at this spectacular morning." He said, voice dripping with sarcasm.

The day passed as most days do in this household, a day spent cleaning the house and the hours that were not consumed by housework were spent doing exercise, he had never really understood Zoro's obsession with training but as of now his mind and body were weak and he had to rectify it, if not for his sake then for his crew's.

Later that night he finally removed the letter from its hiding place under his pillow, the front was surprising, it read:

Mr H Potter
The Cupboard under the Stairs
4 Privet Drive
Little Whinging
Surrey

Well… this was a new one, it even stated the fact that he lived under the stairs, Luffy stared at it a little longer and then proceeded to open it.

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore
(Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear Mr Potter,

We are pleased to inform you that you have a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.
Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.

Yours sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress

Almost nothing in the letter made sense and Luffy quelled the rising disappoint in the letter not being from any of his friends. But the thing that stood out the most was magic! He had been accepted to a magic school?! But how was he supposed to get there? Where was he going to get his equipment from?

He slept on those questions, hand curled tightly around the letter from the magic school, he'd be damned if he let it go without a fight.

"Get up!" His aunt griped at him at the appointed time, but when he did not immediately get up she opened the door. "Well what are you waiting for!?"

Her words trailed off as she caught the sight of the letter, he eyes widening comically, jaw opening and closing like a fish and her skin turned an ashen pale. "Where did you get that?" She screeched, snapping out of her stupor and reaching down to try and remove the letter.

"It's for me! You can't have it!" He yelled, snatching his precious letter away from her reaching hands.

"No! You will not be going to that god awful school!" She yelled eventually snatching the letter away and tearing it into shreds.

"NO! You bastard!" Luffy screamed, eye watering from the sight.

"How dare you!" A roar was heard through the house, sure enough Vernon waddled through. "We gave you a home, a room of your own and we fed you and this is how you repay us!? How dare you speak to my wife like that!"

"Vernon they contacted him via letter! I tore the blasted thing into shreds but the point stands." Petunia grasped his beefy arm and looked the perfect part of a petrified wife.

Luffy remained silent, his only way to get out of this miserable hell hole was through whoever sent that letter. Tears began to form in his eyes, "No, that was my only way to find them… my friends." He murmured, blinking rapidly to clear his eyes.

"Your what? Did I hear you say friends? I must have been mistaken because you don't have any friends." Vernon asked, eyes narrowed to slits conveying his suspicion.

"You know what? Screw you Vernon, screw you, your wife and your son. You're all pigs and vultures and I would much prefer that you dropped dead. I have put up with all of your crap for years but there is only so much one can deal with when I know that my friends are out there. Make no mistake I will find the members of the Straw Hat Pirates and my allies." Luffy said, his voice gaining a dangerous edge. "And if magic exists in this world than that means there are much easier routes to take to find my friends. If you get in the way of my dream you will regret it you miserable excuse of a family."

Both Vernon and Petunia had backed up at the look in the boys' eyes, that look that was more often displayed on that of criminals. "You- you freak!" Petunia screeched. "If you go to that damned school you will never be allowed into this household again!"

Luffy shrugged. "Fine by me, I'll see you later." And with that he walked out of the cursed house and onto the streets of Little Whinging. However, he did not make it far, a man that was very old and garnered an extremely long and white beard approached him.

"Hello Mr Potter." The man stated warmly, blue eyes twinkling in the early morning streetlight. "My name is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore and I am the headmaster of Hogwarts. Would you care for a lemon drop?"

Luffy waved the proffered lemon drop away "Uhh, not to be rude but what are you doing out here?" He asked perplexed, how did this guy even know where to find him exactly and how did he get here so quickly?

"Well, Mr Potter, can I call you Harry? Very well Harry, you are a wizard, and you are a particularly special wizard, the only one to ever survive death." Albus continued, surprised when the information did not seem to faze the young boy.

"Really? Well that doesn't explain what you're doing here." Albus chuckled on the inside, this boy was quite perceptive.

"I have been keeping a close eye on you ever since you were placed in the Dursleys care, before you interrupt there is a reason you are with them. You see, there is a special warding at their house so that Lord Voldemort – the one who killed your parents – cannot harm you there." Dumbledore explained, waiting for impending questions.

Luffy nodded. "I think I get it, this mystery man killed my parents but didn't kill me and the Dursleys have mystery magic warding at their house preventing the mystery man from killing me."

"Yes, very well. It also means that when you leave its protection you become vulnerable." Dumbledore said.

"Huh, well, is there any way to get similar warding on a different house so that I don't have to live with them? And how am I going to be responding to the letter? And where am I going to get my equipment from?" Luffy asked in quick succession.

"I'm afraid you have to stay with them until suitable arrangements can be made to transfer you to another wizarding household. As for your reply and equipment, well you can accept now and I will tell the Headmistress, and you will be buying your equipment in a few days' time when Hagrid will take you to Diagon Alley." Albus smiled over his half-moon spectacles.

"So I'm just supposed to stick with those jerks while I wait for this Hagrid guy to show up?" Luffy enquired.

"If you would like I can arrange for you to stay in the Leaky Cauldron until the beginning of school. You see, the school year is similar to that of a boarding school." Albus said. "Now, if you'll grab my arm we are going to try apparition. It might make you hurl but it is the quickest way to the Leaky Cauldron."

Luffy shrugged and grabbed the old geezers' arm, he had sailed rough open Ocean, he was prepared for anythi- and there goes his non-existent breakfast.

Luffy gasped, the feeling of being pulled apart and put back together was a sickening unnerving experience, one that he knew he was going to have to withstand in the near future.

Albus looked on with slight amusement "The first time is always the hardest." He said, offering a handkerchief for Luffy to wipe the remaining vomit from his mouth.

"Yeah, so this is the leaky cauldron?" The bar was quite decrepit, with a fine layer of dust coating every available surface, cobwebs hanging from the corners and an assortment of either hungover or too drunk people.

"Yes, the owner, Tom, should be able to give you a room for a while." Albus spoke to the barkeeper who stared in wonder at Luffy, and then he began nodding in his earnest, unnerving Luffy with his unending stares.

Dumbledore walked back over. "It has been decided, once Hagrid comes to collect you, you will go to Gringotts – it's our bank – and pay Tom back. Until then, enjoy the grub and quarters. Now I really must be off Harry, please stay out of trouble and I will see you when term starts."

With those parting words Dumbledore was gone in a crack and Luffy was left with an overexcited barkeeper. "If you'll follow me Mr Potter I can take you to your room."

Tom was a hunchback with a toothy grin that was lacking a few pearlies. Luffy followed the hunched man to a room that overlooked "Diagon Alley", it was very simply furnished.

However, the bed was quite alluring and Luffy found himself falling onto a bed of feathers. It was so comfy! And better yet, it was all his! "Ahh." He murmured contentedly deciding that sleeping now would be okay and he could go exploring into Diagon Alley later.

Soon enough he was waking to the sound of "Room Service! Room Service!" Luffy groaned into his pillow, this surely meant he had slept the entire day away. "Dammit!"

But his stomach decided to give a hearty rumble making Luffy jump to his feet. He needed meat! He raced down the stairs to where Tom was just beginning to prepare for the new day. "Tom I want meat!" He yelled excitedly.

Several of the bar patrons shot him half-glares from where they were nursing painful reminders of what they did the previous night.

A slight clink was the only warning Luffy got before the smell of well prepared food reached his nostrils, it was nowhere up to par with Sanji's cooking but he was too hungry to care. "This is delicious." He said around a mouthful of sausage.

"I'm glad that it's up to your liking Mr Potter." Tom said, smiling widely at the boy.

In Tom's opinion the boy was nothing like he had imagined, he had thought that the boy would be a shy one, coming into the wizarding world from a muggle world was a very odd and exciting experience. He would know. But as he watched the boy scoff down his hearty breakfast he couldn't help but smile, it was always a pleasure to know that people appreciated his chefs cooking.

"So, how do I get to Diagon Alley from here?" Luffy asked while biting into a piece of toast.

"I'm afraid I can't let you explore yet Mr Potter, you have to get an escort and the only person I would entrust you to is not due here for at least another day." Tom explained carefully not touching the subject that Harry was extremely popular and well know through the wizarding community, most good but there was still a majority of former death eaters and other dark wizards that resented the boy for defeating the Dark Lord.

"Ok." Luffy replied, he knew that there was something the old man was keeping from him but he could wait for a couple of days. "Is there anything I can do here?"

Tom thought for a few minutes and then brightened. "Well, there are a lot of books on different things here and we also have a lost and found if you want to look for something. If you'll follow me Mr Potter."

Luffy followed the old man through countless corridors before stopping before a door way reading, maintenance in cursive writing. Tom pulled out a cardboard box that seemed to have some green stuff growing on it. "You can take it back to your room and 'ave a look through it, I assure you that there is nothing dangerous about it."

Luffy smiled. "Thanks old hunch man." He said, grinning wider.

"Of course sir, anything for you." Tom said, bowing respectfully, apparently electing to ignore the nickname and made his way out and back to the bar.

Luffy walked back to his room, he vaguely remembered what room number it was, unfortunately there was nothing in the room to signify that it was actually his, he hadn't brought anything from the Dursleys, he only needed one pair of clothing and nothing was of real interest that was kept under the stairs.

"Ok mystery box let's look through what you got." Luffy said dumping the contents of the cardboard box onto the bed.

Inside the box was disappointingly little. A weird looking watch that screeched every time a minute passed. A black silky scarf that whispered meaningless words, a hair brush that apparently did not require the user to hold. A few books, only one of them managed to capture Luffy's attention, it was a pirate book! "Pirates, a history".

"Huh, well there's nothing better to do." Luffy packed the rest of the contents away and set the box upon the wooden floor. He sat cross-legged on the head of the bed and began to read.

The book depicted the rules of Blackbeard's crew, it talked about great famous pirates during the centuries, mentioning Gold D. Roger, Shanks, even the Seven Warlords of the Sea. There was nothing about him or his crew. That is until he got to the end of the book.

There crammed into a chapter at the end of the book talked about the Straw Hat Pirates, or the Mugiwara no Kaizoku as they were known to the people who had provided information about them. Huh, it even mentioned that they were known to have kicked several asses through the years, there was a couple sentences on his devil fruit powers but were dismissed as exaggerations.

Luffy frowned at the book at the end and resolved to keep it. He was sure that the owner would not mind, he did say that it was a lost and found box.

"Welp, the only other thing I can do today is to train, I am so going to be stronger than everyone when I meet them." So that's what he did, stretching his body out so that it wound around the entire room several times, it hurt a lot and eventually after Luffy had stretched his body only 3 times around the room he had to snap back to his original size.

"Huh, well that is pretty terrible, eh." Luffy muttered to himself and began other exercises, ones that he had watched Zoro do hundreds if not thousands of the same movement.

It was a tedious process that lasted all the way up until Luffy's stomach made a rumbling noise that alerted him to the time, it was currently 7:00 and he doubted that the bar would be empty.

He walked down the hallways back to the bar. "Hello old hunch man, I want meat, anything with meat, and a lot of it."

"Of course Mr Potter." And he walked away, off to get the boy his dinner.

But murmurs had begun. "Is that Harry Potter?"

"Did he say Harry Potter?"

Luffy ignored them, he was used to some bars shutting up when they found out he was the Straw Hat Pirate captain. He could definitely deal with some people talking about his new name. "Boy, are you really Harry Potter?" One of the braver patrons had made his way up to where Luffy was sitting.

Luffy grinned. "Yep, that's me sir." He said, smiling at the expression of awe and surprise the man and everyone else in the bar took up.

Before anyone could ask any other questions Tom came back with Luffy's food: a mixture of steak, chicken, bacon and some other meats that he could not identify. "Thanks old man." And he dug in, surprising everyone with the speed in which he ate, with little manners either.

After he had finished Luffy's stomach had expanded a bit from its usual size, not that it bothered him. "Ahh. That was some tasty meat. Thanks old man."

"No problem Mr Potter." Tom replied, inclining his head gently.

"Well I'm off to sleep. See ya tomorrow." Luffy was already halfway to his room and stuck out his hand in farewell.

He drifted off to sleep, dreaming of times spent with his crew. When Luffy awoke he did not remember the exact memory, he just knew that he felt happier than he had been in a while. "Ahh." He yawned, stretching out all of his limbs.

He sleepily stumbled down to the bar. "Morning old man, I want some breakfast." Luffy said, plonking himself down onto the closest bar stool.

"Of course sir." Tom said and went to get more food.

When Tom came back a few patrons were filtering in and he turned to Luffy and said. "Hagrid is coming to collect you today, you'll be buying what you need for Hogwarts, until then just wait here."

"Sure, what does Hagrid look like?" Luffy asked as he munched his way through some toast.

"He's a half-giant, so extra big, he always carries a pink umbrella, it'll be hard to miss him." Tom walked off to serve other customers.

Luffy didn't have to wait long, as he was eating his way through his second plate of meat when Hagrid showed up. He was exactly like Tom had described; huge – probably the size of Jinbe, with black scraggly hair that rivalled Luffy's original hair.

"'arry? Is that you?" The half-giant announced, rather loudly too.

"Yep, I presume that you are Hagrild?" Luffy said, in his mind he was congratulating himself on remembering his name.

"Nah, I'm Hagrid." He replied.

"That's what I said." Luffy said, smiling broadly at the half-giant, making said half-giants' heart melt into tiny pieces.

"Alrighty 'arry, let's go get your new things. I assume you still have the list with what you need on it." At the mention of the list Luffys' expression darkened, however, it was for a fleeting second and Hagrid was half sure he imagined it.

"Nahh, it kinda, uhh, got ripped." Luffy scratched his head sheepishly, well it kinda was his fault for not hiding the letter in time.

Hagrids' face darkened minutely, he had a good guess of what had really happened, but if Harry didn't want to speak about it so be it. "Ye clumsy boy, not 'ta worry, I got another one on me in case of if ye lost it."

"Shishishi, let's go, onward to Diagon Alley!" Luffy proclaimed loudly, making the patrons smile in amusement, all except for one that is, Quirinus Quirrell, he was silently nursing a glass of water at the bar, silently watching the boy.

His beady eyes followed the Boy Who Lived and the half-breed walk out of the bar, he would talk to his master later so that they could exact a plan of revenge and resurrect the Dark Lord.