"I never realised how beautiful this place was"
Harry awoke to a voice next to him. Was that-? No it couldn't. Dumbledore died right before his eyes just some hours ago. But when he opened his eyes, he noticed that is was, in fact, Dumbledore talking to Madame Pomfrey. "Ah..finally awake, miss-?", Dumbledore asked. Harry blinked. "Wait...did you just call me miss?" Dumbledore looked at him in amusement and handed him a mirror. Harry looked at his reflection. He shrieked. He was indeed female. He had black, slightly wavy, shoulder-length hair and red lips. His - no...her eyes sparkled even more than usual. When she looked up and sighed, she started to explain her situation to both adults. "So...what should your name be now, then?" She thought for a moments, then said " Harriet Lily Tempus" Dumbledore nodded. "What year is it anyways?" "1977" Harriet was in her parents' seventh year at Hogwarts. "Ok...shall we go buy some clothes then?" "Why only clothes?" "Your trunk is standing at the right side of your bed, Harriet. Your old things are in there but you can not wear boys' clothes, can you?" Harriet blushed and shook her head. Dumbledore gave her some clothes, which she changed into and then they both flooed to the Leaky Cauldron. Harriet, still being bad with flooing, stumbled out of the fireplace into a person, who caught her. When she looked up, she found herself in the arms of Sirius Black- her future godfather. He smiled smugly at her and she blushed. She straightened herself and smiled at him. He looked really handsome, wearing a tight leather jacket and his eyes didn't look so haunted. " And who might you be, cutie ?", she blushed at his words and answered him. " Harriet Lily P-Tempus and who are you?", she stumbled over her name and grinned. Sirius bowed, playfully. " Sirius Orion Black. Pleasure to meet you." She giggled but turned around when someone cleared their throat behind her and saw Dumbledore. "Sorry to disturb you two but we do have to get going." Harriet blushed and nodded, walking off after waving to Sirius.
3 hours later...
Harriet sighed as she walked through the book shop in Diagon Alley. All the books she was buying for school, she had already read. In the last year, Harry realised that he would have to be prepared if war was now coming, so he decided to start studying NEWT year spells in sixth year. She stopped at another bookshelf and looked up. She once agasin sighed as she saw the book she was searching for on the last stacker. She stepped up on her toes and stretched out her arm, trying to get the book when she felt a hand over hers. The now Girl-Who-Lived looked to her right to see the killer of Dumbledore; Severus Snape. (A/N: Aww god. Now I have that one video in mind with some guy screaming 'Snape kills Dumbledore' :D)
Said boy realised that she was looking at him, flushed, grabbed the book and gave it to her before taking one himself. Harriet was shocked as she saw him blush. Her Potions-Professor never even showed any emotion and now she was seeing the exact same person blushing because of a stare- her stare! Covering up her emotions, Harry smiled kindly at him and thanked him, making the boy nod and blush once more. "Harriet Lily Tempus. And who might you be?", she asked kindly, shaking the boys hand. "Severus Snape. I have never seen you before. Did you just move here?" Harriet nodded, still smiling. " Yup. And I will be going to Hogwarts as a transfer student." Severus gave her a small grin. "Well, then I will see you soon, I guess. Which year are you in?" "Seventh. You?" "Me too. And I am a Slytherin. Do you know what house you'll be in?" "The headmaster said I was gonna get into Gryffindor with my bravery, but don't think that I have no cunning side." She grinned and chuckled. " Well, I must be going then. Bye, Severus" "Goodbye, Harriet"
Severus was in a state of shock. That girl had the same eyes and was as kind as Lily Evans was... Well, Lily Evans had been kind to him until the end of fifth year. And then she had suddenly stopped talking to him and started to ignore him, instead. But this girl was as kind to him as Evans was in her first year, when they still were best friends. He was pulled out of his thoughts by his bullys coming into the shop; the Marauders. Those four, James Charlus Potter, Sirius Orion Black, Remus John Lupin and Peter Pettigrew, were the biggest pranksters in place. Sirius was telling the others something and Severus hid behind a bookshelf and decided to listen.
"- tell you, Prongs. She was gorgeous. Her name was Harriet Lily Tempus and she had the most beautiful black hair and breathtaking green eyes and-"
"Whoa, chill Padfoot. So you are telling me, that you just fell in love with some random girl at the Leaky Cauldron?"
"That is excactly what I am trying to tell you!"
"Umm..Sirius? Even Moony finds that quite ridiculous."
"Argh, okay. Let's just talk about something else. how about Quiddit-"
Severus zoned out. Black had met Harriet too and claimed to be in love with her. Well,Severus would make sure he wouldn't be getting near Harry all too soon...
"Found all the books, Harry?", Dumbledore asked the time-traveler who nodded. "And I even met Severus Snape, who was not quite how I expected.", she and Dumbledore chuckled. "Shall we?",the headmaster asked the raven-haired girl who nodded and walked with him back to the Leaky Cauldron. As they walked, she came across the Quidditch shop and stopped, looking at the brooms. She grinned and asked for Dumbledore to stop. "Can I get new Quidditch-Gloves? My old ones weren't in my trunk." The old man couldn't help but smile. The girl really had her father's Quidditch spirits. He nodded and told her that he'd wait for the girl. After five minutes of waiting, she came back with a black pair of dragon skin-gloves. Together, they both went to the Leaky Cauldron and inside, they came across five people fighting pretty loudly in the middle of the room.
After Severus listened to the Marauders talking, he exited the shop and went to the Leaky Cauldron and sat down at a table, but before he could order something, someone spoke up from his right, making him look there. The Marauders were standing there, looking angry. " Oi, Snivellus! Eavesdropping again?", Sirius called. James snickered at Severus' shocked expression. " Thought we didn't notice, huh Snivellus?" Severus opened his mouth to say something, when he heard a familiar voice exclaim " What is going on here?" They all looked over to see Harriet standing there right beside Dumbledore, looking serious. "Harriet!", Sirius and Severus exclaimed at the same time, before glaring at each other. "Oh, sorry. I don't believe I have met you three yet. I am Harriet Lily Tempus, you?" Harriet looked at James, Remus and Peter, expecting an answer but not to see those three looking at her, dumbfounded. " So...Padfoot told us the truth?", Remus asked shocked and Peter nodded. "Well, I am James Charlus Potter, that is Remus John Lupin and that is Peter Pettigrew. Pleased to meet you.", James said and shook her hand. She smiled back at him. " Me too...so, what happened here?" " Well, Harry, Snivellus here was eavesdropping. thought we wouldn't notice, ha!", Sirius laughed. Harry shook her head, scowling them. " Severus, eavesdropping is bad and you four-" she pointed to the Marauders. "- that is no reason for you to start a fight, understood?" They nodded, looking downwards. Dumbledore chuckled and spoke up " I can second that, boys. I see that Harriet here can kind of control you pretty well" He chuckled and Harry flushed. "I think that'll come of use at Hogwarts" Sirius looked up at that. "You are going to go to Hogwarts? Awesome!", Sirius yelled and punched the air in joy, making Harry giggle. "Well, we gotta go now, guys! See you soon!" Harry said, smiling. She and the headmaster waved one last time before stepping into the firelpace and yelling out the school's name.