#1.4k words and none of them are NaNo-valid

[phoenixyfriend]

Have my other Harry Potter/Star Wars crossover

Fifth year, a group of Weird Adults move into Harry's neighborhood. It's a young-ish married couple, their baby twins, and some middle-aged dude always wearing sweatervests. None of them speak English very well, but they're rapidly improving even through the accents, and while the Dursleys are definitely racist, at least the older dude is white-and-bland enough to sort of ease the acceptance into the neighborhood.

Harry doesn't pay them much mind because, like, they're just passably odd muggles, right? There was some rumors at first about the nature of the relationship, but then someone went nosing with "welcome to the neighborhood" pastries and got an explanation, that the older fellow is the husband's brother. He’s helping around because twins are a lot of work and the birth was hard on the mother, and the father is having some issues with War Injuries. See, the brother moved in with them for a bit to help out with the kids, and the fact that nobody can get more information out of them about what's going on with why they moved here etc. is charted up to the language barrier. Mostly, though, they're just a little weird, but not wizards weird.

Anakin--the husband--sees Harry passing by one time and asks him to come help out with something (there are pastries offered as payment), which turns out to be "I'm working on this car engine and the hood prop is broken, can you hold it up while I get the prop rod fixed?" Harry, bored out of his mind for the summer and not wanting to go back to the Dursleys if he doesn't have to, ends up spending a lot of time learning about car engines. He promises himself that he'll explain everything to Mr. Weasley when they see each other again.

Harry gets to meet the babies, and Anakin's wife--who's absolutely gorgeous, but seems super stressed--and also the older brother, who's got an office filled with books in an angular alphabet Harry can't recognize at all. He'd almost guess it was magic, but there isn't even Floo powder, so.

Oh, also to note: I'm going with the AUs where Padme is of at least partial desi background because of her name, and so is Harry because I like those AUs, while Anakin is racially ambiguous. Just for fun. I think it would be nice if Harry met Padme and was like "oh hey, she's like me" but it's Padme so she's Refined and Commanding and Gorgeous even when she's exhausted and recovering from near-death, so Harry has no idea that she's a little insane (she's been dealing with assassination attempts since she was fourteen, that kind of trauma does things to the brain, it's fine).

Then there's the dementor attack, and before Harry can even draw his wand and deal with the problem, Anakin is there! With a glowing sword! What the fuck, dude! The dementors are quickly dead, and Dudley is delivered to the Dursley's house, and Anakin is his very specific brand of 'I know what I'm doing but also I have no idea what's going on' and just kind of wanders off with Harry in tow instead of sticking around to explain things to the Dursleys? Because. Anakin. Yes Dudley saw his laser sword, no the Dursleys aren't getting an explanation, it's metallic and sci fi instead of magic-y, and Anakin's a military dude, mind your own business.

(They do not mind their own business, they start conspiracy theorizing that Anakin's a spy from another country.)

He drags Harry to his house and demands an explanation for the magic stick, while Harry wants an explanation for the magic sword, and Padme comes down from the twins' room to hiss at them to calm the frick down, the babies can feel you being upset and Obi-Wan isn't here to help her, be nice or do this Somewhere Else.

Harry gets part of an explanation! They are not from around here. They do not know where they are from, compared to Earth, because the Milky Way doesn't match up to the galaxy they know, and they aren't sure if it's just incompetent imaging technology and them being in Wild Space, or if they got shot into the wrong dimension or galaxy or something.

Harry wants to call them insane, but Anakin can float things with his mind and no wand, and Padme has a hologram projector that is very clearly tech-based, and that's kind of helping their argument that they are from space/another dimension.

He asks how they got the money for a house, or fake IDs, or whatever. Anakin says something about Obi-Wan playing poker. Harry tries to pursue that line of questioning, being fifteen-at-most, and fails because if Anakin doesn't want to tell you something, you will not hear it.

Harry doesn't get explanations for how they got here, mostly because they don't know, and he doesn't get an explanation for the Space War beyond the fact that one happened and it gave Anakin that nasty scar and his arm loss (and like... that PROBABLY explains the shell shock he's seen on Anakin and 'Ben').

He asks why the birth was so hard if they're from a place with reliable interstellar travel. Wouldn't that kind of place have better medical care?

Anakin tells him not to ask those questions. He looks a little wild-eyed when he does, so Harry listens on the premise of 'that's how Sirius looks when someone asks him about Azkaban or Wormtail'. Maybe the pregnancy was part of the shell shock thing. Harry doesn’t know enough about pregnancy to say.

Obi-Wan gets home. They talk a bit more. Harry resolves to ask Dumbledore about interdimensional travel after he gets to Hogwarts. At some point, Ms. Figg gets involved. I haven't figured out her effects, but whatever.

Harry gets to Grimmauld Place! He does not have a hearing, because Anakin dealt with the dementors before Harry cast a Patronus. Shit happens. It's fine. He gets to Hogwarts.*

There's two new, adult faces wandering the school. Umbridge hates them, and nobody seems to agree on what they're there for. One of them looks barely older than the seventh-years, and the other is mid-twenties, but wearing full armor that literally nobody can get an answer about. Rumors abound. They confirm none of them. The girl has an accent Harry thinks is familiar, but he dismisses it.

He's talking to some classmates about how he spent his summer. He doesn't mention interdimensional bullshit at all, but he does talk about how he learned about muggle car maintenance over the summer with a neighbor by the name of Anakin Skywalker, and THAT is when the girl half of Dumbledore's Weird Hired Guards (Ahsoka Tano, he knows, but everyone calls her Miss Tano, even though she's barely any older than them) grabs Harry by the shoulder and demands that he repeat himself. She basically interrogates him in the middle of the hall, and then begs him to send a letter for her because she needs to get in contact with Harry's weird neighbors, just on the off chance...

Harry's like. Not sure what's going on but he can sort of guess. And he agrees to send the letter. And then goes to Dumbledore and asks if uhhhhh hey, if it turns out his neighbors know Rex Fett and Miss Tano, and they're sort-of magic, can it be arranged for them to come to Hogwarts, or for Fett and Tano to go out to Little Whinging? Or something?

And that all happens, Ahsoka's 'enchanted object that makes her look human because being a Togruta on a planet that's never encountered extraterrestrials and is really human-centric is just a pain in the ass' gets turned off in the middle of the Great Hall when she sprints to Anakin, because if she's going to hug her brother and cry on him then she wants to look like herself, and Rex talks to Obi-Wan and looks very depressed, but Harry doesn't have any context about why (it's about Cody and if Cody made it and no he did not), and IDK that's where I peter out.

* Harry meant to talk to Dumbledore about the Skywalkers, but kind of missed the boat on that since he was a bit preoccupied with Being Angry About Voldemort Things, and also there was no hearing. This felt like a "have in person" conversation and Harry was meaning to get to it once at school.