Fanfic / The Fated Task

The Fated Task is a crossover fanfic between Harry Potter and Hetalia: Axis Powers, written on Fanfiction Dot Net by Umi Mizu.

In 1934, England stumbles upon a strange young boy as he leaves a World Meeting. A boy he cannot help but think is tremendously bad news for the United Kingdom, but has to let go free.

It's now 1994, the Triwizard Tournament is about to unfold in Hogwarts, and England really would like to avoid for a second civil war in his country's magical side. Since his Minister refuses to heed his concerns, of course the obvious solution is to go undercover at the school with his fellow Nations as students!

And maybe it will finally help America with his attitude problem regarding magic.

Contains the following tropes

• Both Sides Have a Point: England's Ministers (Mundane and Muggle) rightfull point the other side is able to unleash a great deal of destruction — the atomic bombings outright razed the Japanese equivalent to Diagon Alley, while a trained wizard can mistreat a hapless mundane just because he carries a wand on his person.
• Cuteness Proximity: France's reaction to downsized America and Japan is to glomp them and gush his desire to have such cute colonies.
• Does Not Like Magic: Alfred's distaste for the wizarding world goes far beyond mere loathing for the magic suprematists, as he doesn't even bother introducing himself to the MACUSA. He argues he's busy enough with the mundane politics without adding the magic side of things on his plate, but when you're calling your own citizen a problem because she happens to be a witch...
• Enfant Terrible: A preteen Tom Jedusor manages to freak England enough for the Nation to consider murder, since he already feels the boy's potential for becoming a mass-murderer and terrorist.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • The reason why America Does Not Like Magic is because wizards tend to be condescending at best towards muggles, blatantly racist at worst, and meeting Draco Malfoy doesn't exactly dispel his opinion since the teen blatantly calls Alfred a Mudblood and treats the American as a dumb brute for his background.
  • On the other hand, America's unbending determination to ignore the wizarding world and consider them all as suprematists loops all around justified and dives into genuine discrimination. England is rather distressed by the other Nation's beliefs and seeks to expose him to more positive examples of wizards and witches to make him change his mind on the matter.
• Healing Factor: After getting covered with an acidic potion and falling from a broomstick, Alfred doesn't need to visit the infirmary, merely to lay low for a few minutes until his wounds close themselves. He's rather anxious about someone understanding it's very much not ordinary for a human to do.
• Innocently Insensitive:
  • When Ron pegs Kiku as a Japanese native, the redhead asks if the other boy has met his former penpal. George gently reminds his younger brother that a hundred thirty millions people live in Japan, so there's very low odds of it.
  • Ron also loudly claims every Slytherin is untrustworthy, only for Alfred to icily point Alfred and Kiku were Sorted there and he happens to be very good friends with them.
• Irony: England laments his Muggle Prime Minister is taking his concerns about a second wizarding civil war much more seriously than the actual Minister for Magic.
• Know When to Fold Them: Draco sneers at Matthew for having a Muggleborn background, but when the assistant teacher makes very clear that he will punish any attempt of throwing slurs around, the teen abstains from commenting.
• Language Barrier: In order to safely discuss their plans for protecting Harry and preventing a civil war, the Nations speak in Japanese.
• Loophole Abuse: Fudge refuses to grant any credit to the possibility of Voldemort rising again and insists that England ought to take some time for himself. England decides to follow the advice — by taking a gap year from politics to go undercover at Hogwarts.
• No-Sell: It's impossible for a Nation to fall prey to the Imperius Curse, since they embody every single citizen living in the country instead of a single willpower to dominate for the caster.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Barty the Younger quickly runs to warn Voldemort about four Wizarding Intelligence agents going undercover at Hogwarts to prevent a potential return of the Dark Lord.
  • Arthur when Dumbledore points the Nations have flubbed their disguise and now Mcgonagall, Snape and Moody are suspicious of them.
• Positive Friend Influence: What Arthur hopes to be for Draco. The other Nations don't share his optimism.
• Spotting the Thread: Minerva starts thinking there's something weird with Alfred when he claims it's been years since he faced a ghost, when his supposed former school Ilvermorny is very much haunted. Also, the Healing Factor causes not only Snape but the Golden Trio to wonder about the American...
• Stealth Expert: The reason why Arthur insisted on Matthew coming to Hogwarts as part of the squad. With Canada being constantly overlooked by everyone, he's the perfect spy — and it shows right after the Goblet of Fire pick the champions, since he stands in the room with them and the judges and nobody except for Dumbledore notice him.
• Token Good Teammate: Kiku and Arthur for Slytherin, as they refuse to drop their friendship with Alfred in spite of him being a Gryffindor and won't tolerate any racist talk.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Alfred is terrified by ghosts. He almost faints when introduced to the specters calling Hogwarts home, and almost ditches History of Magic because the teacher is dead.
• Would Hurt a Child: England confesses he would have killed a preteen Tom Jedusor to prevent his intial rise to power if he had been less hesitant (something Japan approves) and considered enthralling Sealand's people to confirm if it would force the preteen micronation to fall under the Imperius Curse.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: Kiku very politely and firmly puts Draco back in his place when the other boy starts spewing his prejudice about Muggleborns by pointing how smart and brilliant Hermione is, and reaffirming his friendship with Alfred.