Chapter two

After dinner, which was spent with all her new friends as well as her sister at the Ravenclaw table, Harriet was summoned to the headmasters office before bedtime. She smiled, when one of the older students said " Uh oh, called to the headmasters office first day? Not good."

Harri smiled and said " Actually, I'm surprised it hasn't happened before now, usually I'm called in the first hour, maybe I'm slipping?" this comment caused the student to choke slightly.

Harri followed the woman, Professor McGonagall to a statue of a gargoyle, it was an ugly one too, but Harri smiled and placed her hand to it's cheek and said " Well, aren't you delightfully ugly." if stone could blush, the Professor was sure that this would have.

Before she could give the password Harri said "You don't mind letting us through, do you? I've been asked to see the headmaster, and it would be much easier if you simply let us pass." to the older witches surprise the gargoyle sprung to the side and the young woman simply walked through.

When they got to the office, the headmaster was sitting behind his desk, he was an old wizard with a long white beard and long white hair too. He smiled as he saw her walk into the room, his blue eyes twinkling. " Ahh, Miss Potter, welcome!"

Harriet curtsied perfectly and said " Professor. I am an Addams." her tone was respectful, but firm.

" Yes, about that, how did you come to be in the care of the Addams family? I remember leaving you in the care of Vernon and Petunia Dursley." he asked.

She nodded and proceeded to explain how the Addams family had found her only a few days after her sister was born, how they had only found a scrap of paper that had the name Harriet Potter on it, how it was blackened and burned, as though it had been part of a larger piece. How they had taken her and raised her, adopting her when she was only two years old. How it was recognized by both the American council of wizards and the Goblin nation.

As she told this, both the witch and wizard looked stunned, then Dumbledore sighed and nodded saying " I see. And why do you feel the need to carry a weapon inside this school?" he asked, nodding to the saber that she was carrying.

McGonagall gave a start, then asked " Where did that come from Dumbledore?" she asked as Harry drew her sword and carefully handed it to Dumbledore.

The old man examined the sword, saying as he did so " She has had it all this time Minerva. Though if I had to make a guess it's hidden most of the time under a glamor spell of some kind or other?" he looked at Harri who nodded before he said " This sword, it's a weapon of Death, isn't it?"

Harri blinked, then nodded " Yes, it was left in my crib when I was five, the weapon has changed size to suit me as I have grown." McGonagall blinked, then looked between Harri and Dumbledore, a look of confusion on her face.

Dumbledore looked at her and said " The Addams family have been servants of Death since the Trojan war, some of them are chosen to be more then just servants, however. Some are chosen to be what are called her Ravens, her...Enforcers I suppose you can call them."

McGonagall looked between them again then asked " Her? What do you mean her? Death is a woman?"

Harri smiled then, a soft expression of delight and devotion " Yes, she is." looking at Dumbledore she said " Sir, if it's all the same I would like my sword back now." Dumbledore looked at her and nodded.

Handing it back he said " I trust I don't have to ask you not to draw that against any of the students? To use that only in the most dire of emergencies?"

Nodding Harriet sheathed her saber and said " No, you don't have to sir. My Lady has given me the same instructions. Indeed, while I'm in these walls I won't be able to draw my sword unless I'm either training or in a life or death situation." as she looked at the two Professor's, they noticed her green eyes were clear, but also had the solid hardness of conviction to them.

Dumbledore nodded, then asked " Professor McGonagall, would you be so kind as to escort Harri back to Ravenclaw tower? I'm sure she wouldn't mind a good rest before school tomorrow."

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The next day, Harri, her sister, Ron, Draco and Hermione left the Ravenclaw common room for breakfast as well as their first day of school. As they did, they heard whispers all along the corridors, all containing two words. Potter and Addams, it was truly enough to annoy the friends.

Harri looked at Draco and said " What's our first class?"

He looked at his sheet and said " Potions first, then Charms."

They then sat down at the Ravenclaw table, where there were plates of sausages, scrambled eggs, toast and so on. It was a typical healthy breakfast that was usually served in most households.

Needless to say, the Addams girls both wrinkled their noses at it all, even as they dished up the food that was offered to them, as their mother had taught them.

" They call this food? There's no tentacles or anything living in it!" Wednesday exclaimed as she looked at her eggs, a look of disgust on her face.

" I know, sister dear, but remember what Cousin Itt says." Harri said, then made a strange combination of whistles which, oddly enough, the others in the party almost seemed to understand.

" It doesn't mean I have to like it." Wednesday said, a grumpy expression on her face.

Draco watched this all, a fascinated look on his face. He looked at Ron and Hermione who both shared the same look, then he looked back at the sisters, who where now quietly eating the food on their plates.

Ron then asked a question that he had formed when he found out that Harri had once been Harriet Potter.

" Harri, How is it that your the ' Twin' sister of Wednesday? You should be almost a year older then her." he asked, genuine curiosity in his tone.

Harri smiled and said " Simple, my parents had adopted me by the Goblin laws. And according to Goblin Law, the day they took me into their home, I became ' Reborn.' meaning that I am considered to have been born on that day. So Wednesday and I are twins."

Hermione blinked and said " Really? I didn't know that the Addams family were close enough to the Goblins to use their own laws to adopt someone."

Wednesday answered " Yes, we are. In fact the Addams family are one of the few who the Goblins refer to as ' Lu'ku Konkia' True Friends."

Hermione, Draco, and Ron all blinked at this. Draco and Ron both learned from their families that the Goblins rarely used that term for Wizards, and Hermione had learned from her books that due to the deaths caused by the rebellions, Goblins and Wizards hadn't been on speaking terms for almost five hundred years.

" How did you get the letter then?" Hermione asked " If your officially an Addams, why did they have you down as Potter then?"

" Simple, the Goblins don't talk with the Wizarding world of Britain about legal things like that. They don't have to either, since they are recognized as a sovereign nation. All legal papers, such as adoption, are shared at their discretion. Which they don't do often."

" But they do," Wednesday said " however, share with the American Counsel. The American's tend to show them at least a little respect."