Wizard and Deat Reaper: Hogwarts
Chapter 32's

Harry and Hermione looked at Grawp, who was chasing after the centarrus and Umbridge, in a doldrums manner. While the galloping of the centaurs' ponies and the giant's big steps grew faint, Harry's scar was painful.

Both of them were silent for a moment. Harry felt they had wasted a lot of time here. And without the magic wand, both of them were completely useless. Harry also has no idea how he could get to the Ministry of Magic if they were stuck in the middle of a forbidden forest without any transportation.

"We must return to the castle" said Hermione.

"By the time we get back to the castle, Sirius may be dead!" harry said beaveringly, kicking the stump of a nearby tree furiously.

"Well, we can't do anything without a magic wand" said Hermione desperately. "But, Harry, how exactly are you planning on going to London?"

"Yeah, we were just wondering, too" said a familiar voice, from behind Hermione.

Ron appears, along with Ginny, Neville, and Luna behind him. Everything seemed messy and got some cuts, bruises, or abrasions, yet looked very satisfied.

"Well," said Ron, handing over Harry and Hermione's wand, "any idea?"

But Harry asked first how his friends had escaped from the Inquisitorial Squad. Ron briefly explained that their skills in defense spells trained at LD were helpful. Ron and the others were astonished at the unfriendly centaurs who left two students lost in the woods and took Umbridge away, until Harry added a description of Grawp.

They began to argue about how and who would go to the Ministry, when an odd rattling sound rang out behind them. They simultaneously raised the burning magic wand. A very familiar face framed by that orange hair emerged from behind the bushes, his expression solemn.

"Yet you are finally, too" he said satisfied. "You know, I've never been an expert at tracking reiatsu! Why try Toushiro told me to pick you up..."

"Ichigo!" harry was shocked, along with his friends.

"Yeah, yeah, I know my name, really," Ichigo said, stepping into the halo of their magic wand, and making everyone dumbfounded.

Ichigo's appearance is completely different from what Harry once knew. The young man was wearing a black kimono. There is something like a tattoo on the bottom of his neck, wrist, and ankle, X-shaped. He carried a large sword on his back and another sword of similar but different size that was tucked in his waistband. There is no mistaking it, this is the form of the shinigami Ichigo Kurosaki.

"You.." whispered Hermione.

"The explanation is waiting for you in the castle" Ichigo said firmly.

"But... Sirius..."

"The vision was just a trick" Ichigo said, frowning. "Sirius-san is fine, really. We managed to contact him."

"W-what?" harry was shocked. "Hows it? What the-what?"

"Really, I'm not very good at explaining. But all right, I'll tell you a little bit I can tell you," Ichigo said, sighing. "Voldemort gave false visions to lure you to him."

"How do you know it's fake?!"

"Not me, but Toushiro. He predicted that that was the case, after you had that vision during the test, as soon as we confirmed Sirius-san was at Grimmauld Place. Toushiro said the vision was just bait to get you to Voldy. We had intended to find you after the exam was over, but Umbridge held us back, until Filch finally came and said that you were caught by him…"

"Yeah, and the members of his Inquisitorial Squad," Ron added.

"Well, while we're taking advantage of your arrest by Umbridge – that's an unexpected advantage, Umbridge's actions will buy you a little time because – and we share the tasks, including contacting Grimmauld Place, and Sirius-san is safe there. But then you went into the woods with Umbridge and Hermione, so we had to move fast, because our enemy also came to this place."

"Well?!"

"Yes" Ichigo said, not wanting to be interrupted for a while. "We're on duty, I picked you up, Urahara-san told McGonagall-san and Snape-san who were directly in contact with the Order of the Phoenix, and Toushiro contacted Seireitei. And if you want to know, everything is already here, in the Great Hall, including Sirius-san, and my shinigami friends will also come."

Then, they follow Ichigo through the trees to get out of the forest. Harry was somewhat astonished because of how lightly Ichigo walked, unaffected by the thorns of the shrubbery, and casually stepped over the protruding tree roots on the ground. His kimono was not torn apart by twigs or thorns, like Harry and the others. Speaking of the others, Ron looked at Ichigo, precisely his sword, with awe. Neville and Ginny looked rather scared, while Luna looked curious.

"We have a method of communication unknown to you" Ichigo said when Hermione asked how Ichigo and Toushiro had contacted Grimmauld Place undetected. Ichigo showed me his phone. "We can't use this Soul Pager because the Order of the Phoenix doesn't have one, so we used this to contact Seireitei. We tell the Order with Hell's Butterflies. I don't have one because I'm not an official shinigami, so Toushiro did."

"Kupu-Kupu's... Hell?" ask Luna to know.

"Spirit insects, they're like ordinary butterflies, but they're all the same color, black. They're usually used to send messages, even stuff."

"The butterfly can do that?" chirped Ron wonder.

Ichigo turned his head, grinning thinly. "You guys have your magic, shinigami also have their own magic, eh?"

Finally they arrived at the edge of the forest. The lights of the castle are still on, the omen of the night are just beginning. Ichigo directly led them to the front steps. Harry suddenly remembered something.

"Ichigo, if you say everything's in the Hall, what about the Hogwarts kids?" ask Harry immediately.

"Ah," Ichigo said, scratching the back of his non-itchy head. "On that, well, it seems that it can no longer be hidden, about our whereabouts. You know, right after I found you in the woods earlier, before I showed up in front of you guys, anyway, I got a contact from Toushiro that Voldemort knew you weren't coming to him. He instead sent magic proclaiming that he would come to Hogwarts. Baffled by the responsibility, everyone now knew he had made his move. Therefore the Order came here, including Sirius."

Harry was shocked. Voldemort is coming to the castle?! Just be right!

"We won't let him get you" Ichigo said in earnest, before he opened the Great Hall's double oak door, looking at Harry's anxiety and fear. "We'll protect you and all your friends."

Ichigo pushed the door with both hands. Harry Yang and the others were stunned. The hall is almost full. All the students, teachers, and ghosts gathered there uneasily. Not only that, there are also the faces of members of the Order of the Phoenix; Mr and Mrs Weasley, Bill, Lupin, Moody, Tonks, and Sirius! The latter so-called darted straight towards Harry, ignoring the timid gaze of a large number of students.

"He almost went with Thestral" Ichigo said kalem.

"But the vision... Ichigo said it was a trap..."

"Oh yes" said Sirius immediately.

"Ichigo said Voldemort would be here." said Harry. Many witches immediately shuddered at the name. Harry saw Sirius' face become more grim and serious.

"Yeah, right as soon as the members of the existing Order get here. Somehow, she knew you weren't coming to her, and it sounded like she was mad…"

"I know," murmured Harry. It's worth the scar getting hotter and painful.

"Then he sent his magic," said Lupin bitterly, "saying that he would come with his army to fight. It's not said frontally, anyway, but he said that 'hand out Harry Potter before midnight and I'll leave Hogwarts without bloodshed'…"

"Old deception," Ichigo said exasperatedly, loud enough that the entire Hall heard him, "hand you over and he'll just walk away? No. gabe. Get you and go after the castle's level with the ground, then yes." Ichigo looked around. "Then, where's Toushiro? Urahara-san too?" ask Ichigo, looking around.

"It looks like it's still with the Headmaster" Lupin said. "They said they needed to make preparations to make the inter-dimensional gates for your friends accessible directly to Hogwarts without being affected by magic protection here."

"Kisuke already knows how, take it easy" Yoruichi said calmly, surprising all of them, except Ichigo. "That's good he has a brain."

"Who are you?" ask Bill wonder.

"Yoruichi Shihouin, greetings know," said Yoruichi cheerfully, smilingly showing off his pointy teeth.

"Yo-Yoruichi?" repeat Hermione surprised. "Black cat Urahara-sensei? You-then you're Animagus?"

"Well, for the magician's word, I'll take it for a while."

"I thought it was just the three of you" said Hermione puzzled.

"They agreed I was a secret agent" Yoruichi grinned, while Ichigo snorted. Yoruichi turned his head towards Ichigo; his hair was wagging following his movements. "Be careful of your attitude, Boy, if there's no me who will keep that shinigami ability honed? Someone needs to get you both battered to prove that you and Hitsu-chan are still kids. Done already?"

The sound of the wooden slippers made all eyes look at the doorway. The teacher of the Japanese Classical Defense Method entered the Great Hall quietly, his wooden stick in tune with the sound of his steps. Albus Dumbleore walked to his right, his blue eyes gleaming. Meanwhile, Toushiro walked to the left of Urahara, his expression solemn. And the tiny white hair that immediately became the center of attention.

This was the first time Harry had seen Toushiro in his shinigama form, the first time that all students and most teachers had seen his true figure. The white hair also wears a black shihakuso, along with a white haori with no arms on it. He also wore a green-colored scraf, the same color as his eyes, which wrapped around his neck. A long katana caused many eyes to be glued to the weapon carried on its back, propped up by a shiny black chain with a star-shaped bronze brooch at the center.

"Yes," Urahara answered Yoruichi's question casually. "They're on their way; some time they'll be out of Dangai."

"And who did you say boy, Shihouin?" gerutu Toushiro was irritated. Yoruichi just grinned happily.

"Who will come?" ask Ichigo immediately, looking curious.

"A little more than I expected," said Toushiro, frowning. "I don't know who exactly, but I think I can predict it; I know enough about the nature of the Supreme Commander."

"Is that easy to guess?" chirp Ichigo, who then looks around him. He raised an eyebrow looking at the expressions of most of the Hall residents who looked extremely astonished.

"You really are." whispered Ron, pointing at the katana Toushiro with trembling fingers. "The clothes are. That sword…"

"Now did you first see the original form of shinigami?" toushiro said calmly. "You'll see more, Weasley." Toushiro fell silent suddenly, reached into the front of his shihakuso and pulled the object that Harry thought was the phone – Soul Pager.

"Yes?" toushiro said slowly, attaching the phone speaker to his ear. Mr. Weasley looked at him inquisitively, while almost all the students and teachers looked at him in wonder and amazement, wondering how Muggle communication tools could be used at Hogwarts. Ichigo himself seemed rather amused at the gaze most of the witches had on his white-haired friend, some still looking at him, precisely the large sword that was carried on Ichigo's back. Toushiro himself ignored the others. He speaks quickly in Japanese, or answers with short words such as 'Hm', 'Yep', 'Ha', or 'Hn'.

"How does the phone work here?" ask Hermione to Ichigo.

"That's no ordinary cell phone, as I said earlier; Soul Pager, made by Division 12, Soul Society's Research and Technology Department. He doesn't work because it's the same battery as a regular cell phone, but the spirit particles, so there's no need to charge them like human phones, automatically also undisturbed by the magic field at this Hogwarts," obviously Ichigo, also took out his own black Soul Pager.

"This is one way shinigami communicate," said Urahara ceria. "We used it to exchange information with the Seireitei without being noticed by Umbridge or the Ministry; the owl was just camouflage for them."

Harry had to marvel at the idea, using alternative methods to communicate and using the usual methods as a distraction.

"So Ichigo said about the Hell Butterfly." said Ginny slowly.

"That's another way" said Toushiro, closing his phone and returning it to his shihakuso. "The magic butterfly was used to exchange messages, but only the official Shinigami Seireitei got it. He was also used as a 'safe ticket' across Dangai without the need to worry about being bullied by Koutotsu…"

"What's that?" chirp Sirius.

"Cleaner," Yoruichi grinned. "It is shaped like a train, but its function is to swallow all foreign objects that exist in Dangai or the entrance between the Spirit World and the Human World. It could be dangerous to swallow, because you won't be able to come back. That is why passing through shinigami requires the Hell Butterfly. If you don't have one, you should be able to run faster than that crazy train."

Right at that moment, they all felt an odd sensation wavering out in the Great Hall. For some reason, the air suddenly felt as though it was thinning. Only the shinigami looked calm. And then, a red horizontal line appeared in the center of the Hall, which widened as if it had formed just like that in empty air. Then, a sliding door appeared there, and accompanied by thick white smoke, it swiped open.

A group of – shinigami – people who are very foreign to witches step out of that odd door. The first to appear was a slender and small young woman, yet taller than Toushiro, with black hair braided in two. He also wears a haori, like Toushiro. Along with him, there are four other shinigami who also wear haori. Harry learns that those wearing white coats are commanders; he recognizes Byakuya Kuchiki and Juushiro Ukitake among them. After the commanders, there were eight shinigami without haori and two other figures in human clothes. Harry recognizes two of them, who appear in the events of Boggart Toushiro; a beautiful strawberry blonde haired woman and a kind-faced girl whose brunette is brushed off. It seemed that it was not just Harry, many other witches recognized the two women; harry saw Toushiro's eyes directed directly at the girl with a paw, who smiled kindly at him even though Toushiro only nodded once.

"Welcome," said Dumbledore kindly, making all the newcomers turn to look at him, his voice as if echoing in the silent Hall, "at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."