Help From Afar

A series of oneshots that boil down to various crossover girls showing up to yell at Dumbledore over his treatment of Harry and possibly burn his beard off.

And we're back with the first of a few ideas I have based on the Worm-verse (surprise surprise). Lets start with someone you might not expect. THis assumes a few things about the woman's age, but since we don't get a solid answer anyway, I can pretty much bullshit my way through it. Enjoy!

Contessa

Dumbledore was worried. Everything had been going so well for his plans. Tom had come back according to plan, the Ministry was properly playing their part to make sure that Harry was properly pliable by making him a piraha (although he could have done without being targeted as well) and he'd 'convinced' Harry's friends to not write to him. It had taken a few spells and potions on Miss Granger, but his plans were progressing as they were supposed to. That is until Harry vanished.

The first indication that something was wrong was the Blood Wards falling and the Dursleys getting arrested. Naturally, the old man had hustled down to get his personal weapon crafters freed, only to find that they were all arrested again the moment he popped away. He'd been so surprised that he nearly Splinched himself, something he hadn't done in over a century. The same scene had repeated another three times, before whoever was behind it had put an end to it by putting a bullet through Vernons head and the other two had refused to allow him to return them home. They looked scared out of their minds and screamed loudly when a detective in a fedora had entered the room. Now Dumbledore was stuck trying to figure out how he was going to make sure that Harry remained weak and malleable.

While Dumbledore was busy with that, Severus Snape was hard at work at the job he utterly loathed. To be fair, he loathed all of his current jobs, but this one especially rankled. He was an independent man and hated to be beholden to anyone, especially idiots like Voldemort and Dumbledore. Still, he'd do his job for long enough to see the man who killed his beloved Lily dead and, hopefully, James Potters brat as well.

"Ah, Severus, welcome," said Voldemort as the Potions Master entered the Malfoy Manor dining room.

"You summoned my lord?" he asked as he glanced around with a frown.

For some odd reason he could hear something ticking rather loudly.

"And, forgive me for asking, but what is that ticking sound?"

"We are...unsure," said Voldemort, looking rather annoyed as well, "It started yesterday evening and no one has been able to locate it. It is most mysterious. I have Wormtail looking into it. For now though, tell me what you have discovered."

Snape opened his mouth to respond, but before he could, the door opened again and Wormtail slithered inside with a bundle in his hands.

"A-ah, pardon me my Lord, but you told me to inform you the moment I discovered the source of the sound," said the rat, "I think this is it."

He held out the bundle, which was actually a number of pipes bound together with wire and with a large keypad and screen attached. A screen that currently said 00:03.

Now, neither Tom Riddle nor Snape liked Muggles, in fact it would be more accurate to say they loathed them, but both men still acknowledged that their Non-Magical counterparts were extremely capable when it came to the creation of weapons. As such, both men recognized a bomb when they saw it. Unfortunately, it was much to late to do anything about it.

"OH SHI…"

KABOOOM!

Meanwhile, in a white base located in on a completely different version of Earth, a young girl in a school uniform and a fedora nodded and scratched a name off her list.

"Path to Vengeance step completed," she muttered, "Door to 25 feet above the Burrow cooker."

Another portal appeared and the girl stuck her arm through and dropped a handful of faintly glowing petals into the soup that was boiling away in a pot. Within seconds, they dissolved, turning the soup into a rather nasty concoction that would render any female who ate it barren. Harsh? Maybe, but the girl couldn't really bring herself to care. After all, the only people it would affect were people who were plotting to steal her Harry.

"Alright, Ronald has been nabbed and is currently undergoing testing with Doctor Mother, Granger has been cleaned out and has moved to Australia with her Parents, Bones has everything she needs to get Sirius off, next up I just need to deal with Fudge and his lickspittles and I can finally get on with dealing with the old goat," said Contessa, "But first, Path to Date."

The girl who would grow into a woman who could accurately be compared to the Terminator giggled softly as she called for a doorway and stepped through onto a world inhabited by an entire ecosystem of organisms with bioluminescence, creating a beautiful vista that glowed with a rainbow of colours. In the middle of a luminous meadow, a picnic blanket was set up and one Harry Potter was busy setting up the last of the sandwiches he'd been busy making since before dawn. As the portal closed, he looked up and smiled.

"Hey Fortuna," he said, "Your just in time."

Fortuna smiled as she took of her hat and joined her boyfriend on the mat. Her power had and would direct her to do horrible things, but if it meant keeping those she loved safe, it was more than worth it.

Dawww, sweet ending. I know this is a bit short, but these honestly don't need to be all that long.

I originally planned for Snape to get dissolved by a carefully sabotaged potion, but blowing him up with a pipe bomb was funnier.

And with that, this entry is done. Don't forget to leave a review on the way out!