Violence Inherent in the System

**Violence Inherent in the System** is a crossover fanfic (with Sailor Moon and Ranma ½) written by Darth Drafter; it is the immediate sequel to The Girl Who Loved and should not be read as a stand-alone work. It is rated **Mature**, contains almost 250 000 words and was published between 2009 and 2011. It can be found on FanFiction.net together with TGWL. The story is set in the school year of 1996/97, maybe a year after the end of Sailor Moon and several years after the end of Ranma ½, except for a few flashforward scenes from the far future.

Beyond the two major crossovers, there is a minor one with *Tenchi Muyo!* as well as throwaway references to at least *Demon Hunter Yohko*, *Ghostbusters*, *Monty Python and the Holy Grail* and *Tomb Raider*, plus just about any magical girl series the author knows about.

## Plot summary

*For readers not acquainted with the crossover universes, the Wikipedia articles on **Ranma ½** and/or **Sailor Moon** may be useful.*
Harry sets off the ride on the Hogwarts Express in style with two major pranks, one with the help of Usagi's ghost and the other courtesy of Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. He enters the train in his Heather Snape form, which prompts Draco Malfoy to engage her flirtatious small talk. To stop him, Usagi posesses Vincent Crabbe and gives him a deep kiss, starting rumours of an affair. Later, they place magical marbles throughout the train which cause a quarter of the students each to take on the appearane of Harry and princess Usagi, respectively. This confuses a portkey trap at the Hogsmeade station, resulting in Hannah Abbot and Draco Malfoy being caught instead of the intended targets – luckily without major repercussions. Finally, after dinner and sorting when the transformations have faded away, "Heather" confronts the headmaster and manages to wring magically binding oaths of non-interference out of him.

Inspired by Harry and Usagi, Colin Creevey starts dating Moaning Myrtle. Meanwhile, Nabiki Tendo slowly gets to know Chibiusa and starts to put pieces of the puzzle together.

The Wizengamot gives the magical guardianship of Harry, for the last ten months before his seventeenth birthday, to Lord Damien Greengrass, father of eight-year-old Luthien Greengrass, one of the people whose souls Harry managed to return after the dementor attack on Diagon Alley. While a Slytherin, he has been quite successful to stay neutral between light and dark politically, but in thanks for his daughter's life he is ready to swear a binding oath to see to Harry's best interests. To survive the backlash in Slytherin house, his older daughters Daphne and Astoria try to spin it as part of a plan to turn Harry to the dark side.

When Harry and his friends witness Katie Bell getting cursed by the necklace, they are able to quickly fetch help while Harry heals Katie with a Moon Healing Escalation. Later, Dumbledore reveals that Snape is missing, with no known return date, and offers to make Harry and Hermione Assistant Professors of D.A.D.A. responsible for teaching the first-to-fourth-years.

Ranma and Shampoo, having discovered the benefits of airplanes, show up earlier than expected. The fact that their ki mastery allows them to ignore magical wards even though they're technically muggles causes quite a stir. However, their quick dispatch of five giants attacking Hogsmeade shows their mettle, and Dumbledore hires them for school security and non-magical survival training. Luna, noting the bad shape of Hermione's guardian angel, asks Harry to check her plate for potions and it turns out Draco Malfoy has been feeding her love potions for weeks. Partly as a way to help her cope, Harry leads the D.A., plus Ranma and Shampoo, into the Chamber of Secrets to train broom-to-broom and ground-to-broom combat.

Daphne Greengrass earns detention with Assistant Professors Potter and Granger, and ends up inducted in the D.A.. Ginny causes a scene, demanding a chance to have sex with Harry, since so many other witches apparently already have. Astoria's plan to fake a kidnapping of Harry to flood the upper-year Slytherins with white magic is ruined by Malfoy's interference and he is only saved by Ranma having followed him under the umisenken.

Usagi gives Hermione an early Christmas present: a night with Harry, on their own. The next morning, rumours quickly spread, and realizing that this means he will never be hers alone, Ginny finally takes the plunge and digs out her mother's old potion recipes. After all, she will be much happier if she's in love with Neville Longbottom instead... Pansy Parkinson gives Draco a means to attack Usagi, and a direct order from Voldemort to do so. When Chibi-Usa suddenly turns transparent, the senshi teleport to Hogwarts, forcing Draco to initiate the attack before he is close to his target. Instead, every ghost in the Great Hall is affected, slowly sucked away by a dull stone shard. By bad chance, Nearly Headless Nick is close enough that he is gone before anyone can react, and when Sailor Uranus tries to grasp the stone she falls unconcious. Harry tranforms into Super Sailor Moon and floods the room with white magic, temporarily countering the pull on Usagi, Myrtle and the Bloody Baron. Ranma releases his ki, grabs the stone and leaps through a window to find some place without people in to destroy it. Meanwhile, desperate for more power, Harry calls the pendant necklace of Queen Tranquility, gifted to him by Kiima so many months ago, to herself, and it grants him the control needed to fulfill his deepest wish: not just to save Usagi, but to bring her back!

The newly resurrected crown princess of the Moon holds court, sentencing Draco to exile on Nemesis and warning Pansy that the same awaits her unless she agrees to stay in Hogwarts until Tom Riddle is dead. The equally resurrected Myrtle Merryweather recieves her old school trunk and wand, which Dumbledore has held on to for 53 years, and is welcomed back to her studies as a fifth-year student. The headmaster then explains that, according to the laws of Magical Britain, her resurrector Harry must now do one of four things: declare her either his concubine, his wife, his sister or his daughter. Options a, b and d are immidiately rejected, so sister it is. As the rest of the students head off to the Hogwarts Express, the senshi bring Harry and Hermione to Japan with a Sailor Teleport. And Chibi-Usa is finally reunited with her mother in the flesh.

And the next day, Usagi is reunited with hers... Since the upcoming wedding – and the scoops of Nabiki – will make it impossible for Usagi to keep her identity secret anyway, Pluto has prepared her family but Harry still has to face his in-laws-to-be.

Harry and Usagi give an interview for TV Tokyo (Nabiki), the Daily Prophet (Arthur Anderson) and Witch Weekly (Luna), complete with the history of the Moon kingdom, Usagi's life as Sailor Moon, Jusenkyo, Harry's struggle with Voldemort and the upcoming marriage. Luna stays with them over Christmas since her father – busy hunting that most elusive of creatures, the Honest Politician – has completely forgot about the holidays.

Sailor Pluto brings Ranma and Harry to Reserve Vault 3, deep under the Sea of Serenity, in the hope that they will find a way to open it. Due to the chaos power of their Jusenkyo curses, she knows that they have the potential to do so but cannot simply check the time stream to find out how. After much futile experimentation, they eventually remember some experiments they did with ki and magic back when they first met, and after a quick sidetrip to the Amazon village to fetch cursed water they are able to use it to turn the ki-infused vault doors into ducks. They bring back some 40 000 Lunar Crowns (containing gold estimated to be worth 215 million yen or £1.3 million) as well as various trinkets and artifacts. As TV Tokyo airs the interview, an invitation is extended to meet the Imperial family, members of the Diet and the British ambassador to Japan. And then it's time for Harry and Usagi to leave for the Yule Ball at the Ministry of Magic, with the Inner Senshi as honor guard.

Meanwhile, Pansy finishes work on Draco's vanishing cabinet, releasing the magically enslaved Herb into Hogwarts. He has orders to kill the headmaster, but no orders *not* to kill anybody else... Within a few seconds, Pansy herself is the first victim. Chibi-Usa suddenly showing off martial arts knowledge she shouldn't have prompts Sailor Pluto to grab Ranma and teleport out. As Voldemort crashes the Yule Ball with Narcissa Malfoy and twenty-four death eaters, Ranma and Herb duel to the death in a half-ruined Hogwarts.

With minister Scrimgeour dead, Dolores Umbridge tries to take the reins of power "until a[n] Interim Minister is appointed or a new Minister is voted in. /.../ Which means /.../ until I say otherwise". Luckily, Pius Thicknesse, head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, realizes she isn't the right woman for the job. Instead, Lord Greengrass steps up to coordinate work until an emergency session of the Wisengamot can be called. Mad-eye Moody reports the death of Dumbledore, and after a Sailor Teleport to Hogwarts Sailor Pluto explains how, due to Herb's Jusenkyou curse, she nearly didn't catch on in time and the bleak future that could have resulted. Later, back in Japan, Christmas presents are exchanged. When Usagi puts on the ring Harry picked up for her in the Reserve Vault, a ring belonging to the Moon Queen, she symbolically accepts her place as the Lunar Royal Sovereign; her hair turns silver and the sigil on her forehead becomes permanent. Ranma takes the opportunity to present his own Lunar ring to Shampoo – without magic effects, but that very night they file the paperwork needed to make their marriage as valid in Japan as it has always been among the Amazons. Back in England, Pluto saves the Greengrass family from Death Eaters trying to influence the policies of the soon-to-be-elected Minister, and offers to house the sisters and their mother in Japan until the next term starts.

Konatsu stumbles on a long forgotten daimon egg hidden in the back alley behind Ukyou's new restaurant, and is possessed. Nabiki, who was about to visit, calls in her news team and then calls Ranma so he can tell the senshi. Before they get there, however, the daimon is challenged by Magical Girl Pretty Sammy – who immediately gets caught by its magical bondage ropes. Not wanting to destroy the restarant, Ranma and Shampoo flash their ki to draw out the daimon. As soon as it is out, the magical contingent (recently strengthened by the previously planned arrival of Ron, Ginny and Neville) starts casting unbreakable charms and unlocking charms on the storefront, to make sure it stays out. As the fighting breaks out, however, the daimon turns out to be able to use Konatsu's ninja skills and is much harder to pin down than is normally the case. In the end, Ranma needs to hold it still while Usagi fires off a Moon Gorgeous Meditation – resulting not in any physical damages to the martial artist, but a supercharge of love energy. As the victims' heart crystals are returned, Ukyou offers her saviors lunch on the house. Sasami "Pretty Sammy" Jurai's big sister Ayeka, and Ayeka's fiancé Tenchi, show up to collect the young girl and when their connection to the alien empire of Jurai is clear, they are promptly invited to the wedding – while Chibi-Usa gives Sasami and Luthien Greengrass some pointers on the finer arts of being a magical girl. Just as Pluto had planned...

As the spring term starts, headmistress McGonagall hires Harry and Hermione as full professors, teaching D.A.D.A to all seven years, and turns the post as Head of Gryffindor House over to Hermione.

Juliet Granger is not happy about the way her parents have been treating her older sister, and when Hermione gets a day off teaching – because Harry and Usagi need to visit the Wisengamot for the election of the new Minister for Magic, so Ranma and Shampoo are called in to demonstrate the more physical side of defence – she takes the time to visit her at school. Surprisingly, Juliet sees her through the muggle-repelling charm! And she has a lot of trouble with computers, and her library seems to sort itself... Was she perhaps sent a Hogwarts letter too, only her mother caught it and declined?

Harry and Usagi receive an invitation to attend a Japanese state visit to Britain, which prompts the suggestion of a Hogwarts Valentine's Day Ball. Usagi sets up a blind date for Hermione: Prince William! A few days later, Voldemort's research into Avatar magic finally bear fruit, giving Bellatrix Lestrange the power of a senshi – and a black upside-down moon crescent sigil... As can be expected, their attack on the state visit ultimately ends with her banished to Nemesis; after all, the timeline needs to be kept intact.

With the help of Sailor Pluto, Ranma and Shampoo start actively hunting the death eater terror squads, quickly reducing the forces vailable to Voldemort while giving hope to his enemies. Considering this, and the fact that the Greengrass Ministry is now supported by the resources of two modern muggle nations (UK and Japan) as well as a far more active I.C.W., he decides that it is time to leave Britain for some time and search out the powers wielded by Potter – avatar magic and Jusenkyo – himself. Meanwhile, Prince William asks Hermione for a second date, and she accepts – prompting his mother, Princess Diana, to visit the Grangers. This undeniable proof that it is possible to reach a position of prestige in the "real world" even with a Hogwatch education gives their younger daughter the chance to finally begin her own magical education, more than a year too late. Obviously, she is sorted into Gryffindor.

Dumbledore's portrait starts instructing Harry about horcruxes. While the accidental one in Harry was destroyed the first time he turned into Sailor Moon, he is not very happy to learn what the original plan to get rid of it was... Voldemort eventually reaches Jusenkyo, only to learn that the Spring of Drowned Senshi lost its power after Harry and Usagi left. However, some quick legilimency on the Jusenkyo Guide reveals three other pools granting forms of human females, which should be sufficient to use the ritual that bonded avatar magic to Bellatrix. He picks one of them more or less at random, and slips into... Spring of Drowned Blushing Bride! Suddenly the now teenaged heiress of Slytherin realizes that her feelings for Harry Potter have drastically changed.

The senshi use the Mercury Computer to hunt down the horcruxes; with twin Moon Gorgeous Meditations from Sailor Moon and Sailor Chibi-Moon they can be cleansed without destroying the original objects. In an effort to increase understanding between purebloods and muggleborns, by the end of the school year Harry and Usagi arrange a portkey trip to Japan for any student with a signed permission slip. Mary Riddle, waiting for her love at King's Cross, only gets more mad when the Daily Prophet article explaining the absence features a picture of Crown Pricess Serenity wearing the diadem of Ravenclaw *and* the locket of Slytherin. Not only had she taken her Harry, now she was taking her horcruxes too? Best check on the rest...

Mary Riddle takes a muggle flight to Japan, carrying her last remaining horcrux (the cup of Hufflepuff). For our friends in Tokyo, sightseeing is mixed with wedding preparations and monster fights. Some yakuza bosses kidnap Nabiki to get information on the civilian identities of the senshi; perfect time for an object lesson from Pluto! Hermione organizes Harry's bachelor party, with support from Luna.

The wedding day! First a small private shinto ceremony at the Hikawa shrine, just Usagi's family and their close friends... and the Imperial family of Japan and the House of Windsor. Then the showy public ceremony in the Tokyo Dome, with more than 150 000 tickets sold, live television coverage and an open invitation to any magical girl in Japan. Mary Riddle, disguised as the vampire hunter Mari, tries to hide in the latter group but is noticed by the Mercury computer. She puts up a good fight but is eventually outgunned thanks to the sheer number of magical girls present. Harry and Usagi are called in, and Mary confesses her love. Harry casts a Moon Gorgeous Meditation on her, causing her to throw up the ritual ingredients from the resurrection ritual two years earlier, and Tom is finally gone.

Back to the main event! After a dazzlingly spectacular ceremony, presided over by Yosho Masaki Jurai, the happy couple lose themselves in a deep kiss while Mendelssohn's Wedding March plays out. Then Sailor Pluto, acting on the wishes of Queen Serenity, formally proclaims the beginning of Usagi's reign as Queen Serenity the Second. She responds by dubbing Harry with the Sword of Gryffindor, naming him king and her equal. At the end of a long reception, a penitent Mary Riddle is brought before the couple and confesses her crimes. Harry, knowing the effect of the white magic he used on her, is ready to forgive her acts against him and Usagi, and suggests a kind of community service sentence: help the Ministry root out *all* the deat eaters, remove the curse from the position of D.A.D.A. professor at Hogwarts – and then take on that very position herself! After all, who else might know more about the subject? Mary swears a magical oath of service, loyalty and fealty to King Harry. And then it's time for Chibi-Usa to return home.

## Characters

### Main characters

* Harry Potter
* Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon, aka "Love"
* Chibi-Usa/Sailor Chibi-Moon, aka "Cuteness"
* Luna Lovegood
* Hermione Granger

### Minor characters

* Ginny Weasley
* Nabiki Tendo
* Ranma Saotome
* Sailor Pluto, aka "Hotness"
* Shampoo

### Non-canonical HP characters mentioned

* Annabelle White
* Arthur Anderson (ch 3, articles in 4, 5, 7)
* Christine Stuart
* Claribelle White
* Constance Brown
* Damien Greengrass
* Heather Snape
* Juliet Granger
* Luthien Greengrass
* Manfred Marchbanks new Chief Warlock (ch 15)
* Mary Riddle
* Melian Greengrass
* Richard Davies Lord in the Wizengamot (ch 15), nominated Damien to Minister, possibly Tracey's father
* Stewart Ackerley 1-4th-year Ravenclaw (ch 5)
* Terry Nesbitt-Pepperpot DP reporter, article in ch 13

## Non-canonical spells

* Protego Diligo 50-meter shield spell (ch 5)

## Non-canonical places

* Black Manor (ch 16)
* Castle Anthrax
* Magic Store in Tokyo (ch 10)

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 1
2. ↑ Chapter 2
3. ↑ Chapter 3
4. ↑ Chapter 4
5. ↑ Chapter 5
6. ↑ Chapter 6
7. ↑ Chapter 7
8. ↑ Chapter 8
9. ↑ Chapter 9
10. ↑ Chapter 10
11. ↑ Chapter 11
12. ↑ Chapter 12
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 A *Tenchi Muyo!* crossover
14. ↑ Chapter 13
15. ↑ Chapter 14
16. ↑ Chapter 15
17. ↑ Chapter 16
18. ↑ Chapter 17
19. ↑ Chapter 18
20. ↑ Chapter 19
21. ↑ Chapter 20
22. ↑ Chapter 21