Ok I like this story, I'm definitely gonna continue with this one, unlike the rest of my stories. Hope you like it and please r/r. it is an OC fic. Of course I don't own harry.all that must go to the great J.K Rowling. Karen and her mum Elaine are based loosely (just their names and eye colours) on a Parliamentary Affair by Edwina Currie. Hey ne Wogs (No offence btw I am a Wog and proud of it!) who reads this, e-mail me and we can cry together about Italy losing and Spain losing too. Right I've finished ranting. Wait. Does anyone know some good Oliver Wood fics. Oliver not with Percy. Ok?? Good. Tell me if you do! Thanks Love to u all!

Forever is Eternity

Chapter 1

She looked across to lonely boy standing out the way of Dudley and his Gang. Harry Potter, she had always wondered about him. His baggy clothes were very noticeable, and so were his sellotaped glasses. But even with those drawbacks he seemed nice enough, he wasn't a freak or a geek. In fact she was sure that most boys and girls would be willing to be friends with him, the only thing was Dudley. He might be fat and ugly but he could hit very hard, as she has seen many a time with other boys.

Dudley and Piers were getting bored with this new shrimp. He turned to see his cousin Harry, languishing by the wall. Nodding at Piers, they dropped the kid in the dirt and started to walk slowly over to Harry.

Looking up Harry saw them walking towards him, he started to run away, and he wasn't in the mood to be tormented. When was he? Dudley and Piers broke into a trot, trying to pick up speed to chase Harry. Harry ran up the path to the kitchen, faster and faster he ran he was picking up speed to jump the bins, he jumped up and found himself on top of the kitchen roof. A look of surprise crossed his face.

She has been watching him run he was fast. It was incredible to see someone so skinny run as fast as that. He sprung down ready to jump the bins, but it wasn't the bins he ended up jumping. it was the whole building. He was on the roof. "Karen, what are you looking at?" Laura asked her friend. Karen looked up "Oh Harry Potter. He is on the roof." Laura and Penny looked up to see their friend had been telling the truth. Giggling they turned back to their conversation, leaving Karen to stare at Harry a little longer.

Harry wobbled, stumbling on the roof eves. A crowd of children had gathered with a teacher. The teacher was shouting that a fire brigade was on its way to take him down. Harry wasn't listening very well his mind kept slipping back to the trouble he was going to be in.

The ladder snaked up the side of the building. A man in a thick waterproof coat climbed up the ladder shakily. Reaching the top he said, "How on earth did you get up here, boy?" Harry shrugged. Finding his foot on the rung he began the slow climb down. Getting down to the bottom a teacher grumbled menacingly at him "You're in a lot of trouble Harry."

Harry's trials endured with him being led to the Head Masters office. After a long time waiting, he was shouted out.and was promised a whole week of after-school detentions. Starting with today.cleaning up the grounds.

Karen didn't pay a lot of attention to Maths that afternoon. She had done it before it was long division. It wasn't that hard. Harry had been rescued off the roof and was spending a week doing detentions and a letter home. She mused on how he got up there. Maybe he was just like her.

Karen's mother was a Cabinet Minister for Parliament. Her father was the tycoon of an oil company. Her parents could afford to send Karen to high- priced Prep schools. At one stage she attended Hillcrest Road Preparatory School. That was before her parents whisked her out of that school into this co-ed school. The reason her parents had done this was because there were some odd happenings when Karen set her mind to it.

Karen had been nine when she attended this posh school. All the elements of the school were designed to angle the very best. It included many statues. One statue in particular annoyed Karen. It was a statue of a past head mistress the mistress had a very large frown on her face. It annoyed Karen because it didn't look quite right. It would have been better if she was smiling. One time the head master was taking her parents and her round the school and they stopped at this particular statue. Karen started at it very intently and suddenly the frown on the lady's face turned upside down into a smile. Karen smiled. It looked much better. That was the last time that Karen had been in that school.

Karen didn't mind this new school. It was not better or worse than her old one and she thought that maybe just maybe this Harry Potter was just a little like her.

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Harry bent over picking up little pieces of paper. It wasn't so bad, he was quite used to tending the garden for Aunt Petunia. He felt a shiver ride up his back. The shiver of some one watching him. He turned round and was met with they eyes of Karen Harding. "Need some help?" she asked him quietly. He sighed. "If you want." Karen obliged him by picking up the nearest piece. After another 15 minutes of silently picking up papers. She stopped and sat herself on the ground. "You should take a small break. Don't worry no one is watching." Karen told him. Harry looked around and then nodded. He sat down. "That was some stunt you pulled Harry." She grinned. Harry looked quite taken back. Harry stuttered a little, unsure of what to say. He fell silent. "Sorry, its weird isn't it? I did something like that at my old school. Quick as you could say gone that got me out that school and put me into this one." Karen started talking boldly but finished off in a quieter tone. Maybe she was wrong.

But Harry grinned. "What happened?" Grinning with him Karen started her story.

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"So this is it huh?" Karen told Harry. It was the last day of school and Harry had confided in her that he was going to Hogwarts. Their friendship was an odd one. It was sustained through notes at school and meetings after it. It wasn't openly suggested that Karen was Harry's friend. She had told him once that it was no use hiding but he had heard Dudley at home. It seemed Dudley had a crush on Karen. It was hard not to. She had light brown hair, straight, ending halfway down her back. She had light blue eyes like her Mother's Elaine. She also had a very pleasant smile.

Harry told her about Dudley. He was afraid that if the truth got out about them Dudley would go after him further and possibly go after Karen too. He wasn't going to risk them both.

"Where are you going?" Harry asked Karen referring to the Magical Schools. It ended up that both of them were prospective Witches and Wizards. "An Irish school, far away. Mum thought it would be the best." Karen gave a short laugh after her statement. "Will you be able to write to me?" Harry asked. She shook her head "Its unlikely Harry, I'm so sorry. I will never forget you Harry. Thank you for being a real friend." Her blue eyes crinkled with tears. "No, thank you Karen." He wanted to say more, but he didn't need to. Karen understood. They left the play ground that day. A promise with each of them, never to forget one another.