Okay here is chapter 2. I enjoyed writing this chapter. I enjoyed it immensely. Anyway I think there might be a little more of my own writing in this story. Of course as soon as she gets to London you will probably see more of Rowling's words appear, but until then you'll have to deal with me. Enjoy reading! Oh, and, can anyone guess who the dog is?

The Mistake and a Dog

One week later Harmony had not heard from Harry at all and she was afraid that something had happened. She waited for Pandora everyday, but the owl never came. Harmony started getting bored and she was always afraid of hearing word of bad news. Where had Harry gone? What had happened? Was he hurt? Were her aunt and uncle holding him prisoner once again like they had done the year before?

These days Harmony was always on edge. She was always taking long pointless walks or listening to music restlessly. Watching windows for signs of owls had become habit. Constantly studying people around her for someone that she knew from the wizarding world, showing up to either get her to take her back or bring her news of the world she had left. It was not normal for her to be as she was.

It was on this day that Harmony would have to learn how to survive on her own, for on that day something unexpected happened. She had never thought what would happen if she had to leave this house early with no way to contact Dumbledore, but this is exactly what happened.

"Hey," Harmony said walking into the kitchen to see her mom.

"Hi, what's going on?" Her mom asked.

"I haven't heard from Harry in a week, his letters always come, but they haven't. I haven't heard anything from anyone else either." Harmony answered.

"Well I wouldn't worry too much, I mean if worse comes to worse all that will happen is that you'll stay here for the year." Her mom said.

Usually Harmony wouldn't have let this bug her. Usually she always had the fact that her mom wanted her home in her mind, but under the current circumstances her temper flared.

"What's that suppose to mean? You of all people should know I HAVE to go back." Harmony said somewhat heatedly.

"I only saying that if worse comes to worse you'll stay here." Her mom said calmly.

"No, if anything happens I will have to go back and help with whatever it is. I'm a witch and I don't really belong here." Harmony said trying to keep her voice even.

"Harmony, you will stay here if need be." Her mom said forcefully.

Harmony knew she should have just walked to her room and stopped it. She knew she should get away, but unfortunately she fired back.

"What are you? My mother." Harmony said.

"Yes I am—" Her mom began.

Suddenly the lights began to flicker and a breeze came out of nowhere and Harmony's breathing quickened.

"No, you are not. My mother died to save me from Lord Voldemort and so did my father. They are my parents not you. You're just a stand in." Harmony answered beginning to shout.

"Now you listen to me young lady. Who raised you, clothed you, fed you, and whatever else? That was me! I'm more of your mother than that—" Her mom said. Usually her mom was kind and understanding, but apparently Harmony had touched a nerve.

"Don't you say any more! Don't you say any more about my mother!" Harmony shouted.

"I will if I have to get my point across! You are more mine than you are hers!" Her mom shouted also.

"Shut up!" Harmony screamed and then suddenly there was a sound like a bomb going off and Harmony found herself looking out at the night sky. She had just exploded half her house. Everything behind her was gone. The living room, the entryway, everything.

Harmony looked back at her mom. She had never seen her so mad.

"OUT!" Her mother screamed. "You could have killed us all, now OUT! Taking you was a mistake! I want you away from my family! OUT! Get your things and get out!"

Harmony ran to her room and threw all her stuff into her trunk. Grabbed a jacket just in case and went out the sliding glass door leading to the deck on the back of what used to be her house. She turned the corner and went out the gate, ran over the lawn to the sidewalk, and ran down the street dragging her trunk behind her.

When she got to the bottom of the street she realized what had just happened. She had blown up half her house, been kicked out, was now homeless, and completely alone. She decided to change into her true form to be less recognizable. After it was done and she had stored her wand safely in her back pocket, she began to cry. She hadn't meant to get that angry, but it was too late now. She walked down the street in her true form letting the tears run freely down her face.

It was dark and she really shouldn't have been walking the streets. She knew it must be at least midnight. She walked about six blocks to the park where she'd played many times in her childhood. She sat down on one of the swings and cried the hardest she'd cried in months, possibly years.

She had cried for what felt like hours when she heard something move. She turned and saw a black four-legged shape coming out from behind a tree. She started to back away and the animal stopped. It moved sideways into some light. What Harmony saw made her heart melt. It was a black dog, somewhat large, and clearly a stray.

"You won't hurt me will you boy?" She said and walked slowly toward the dog with her arm outstretched forgetting all that anyone had ever told her about stray animals.

The dog quickly moved to her hand and put its head under it. She petted the dog for a long time receiving some comfort in no longer being completely alone. Then the dog gave her a look that seemed to say "Why are you here?"

"I guess I'm kind of a stray like you." Harmony began. "You see I made a huge mistake. I made my mom mad and she threw me out. I can't blame her though, it was pretty awful, what I did."

The dog gave her another look that seemed to say "What did you do?"

"I can't tell you—I don't know who might hear." Harmony answered.

The dog seemed to nod than he pointed his nose to her trunk as if to say "What are you going to do with this?"

Harmony turned her back on the dog pulled out her wand and shrunk her trunk to pocket size.

She had just pocketed her trunk when she heard the sound of male voices. She spun as fast as lightning. There were some guys coming toward her that looked about fifteen or sixteen. They didn't seem to know she was there, yet.

"Hey!" One guy called, he was looking straight at her. "You're on our territory."

They weren't very far away, maybe twenty feet at best and Harmony knew she'd have to talk her way out of this one.

"Sorry-- I didn't know-- I'll just go—" she said and she began to turn to leave.

"She's wearin' a black shirt. And look at that hat. It's a white fedora with a black strip above the brim. Sounds like a WB to me." Another boy said.

"Yeah," said the first boy, who seemed to be their leader and then Harmony found the first guy walking toward her.

"What's the WB?" Harmony asked still backing away.

"Oh, don't play dumb with us girly. We know you're part of the White and Blacks. No one else wears those kind of clothes." The boy said beginning to circle.

The black dog, which was next to Harmony, began to growl at the boy and got positioned to pounce.

"You better stop. My dog doesn't like strangers." Harmony said in a slightly smaller voice than she would have liked.

"Oh that mangy mutt can't hurt me." The boy said and came even closer.

Then the black dog did pounce. The boy landed on the ground with a thud and Harmony heard the boy screaming. His friends seemed paralyzed, watching their friend get mauled by a dog. The dog got off and backed toward Harmony still growling in protective mode.

The boy got up and Harmony saw what damage had been done. There were a few deep scratches on his face, his shirt was ripped with his chest bleeding a little beneath, there was one or two bite marks on his arms, and he looked pretty frightened.

The dog growled louder as if to say "You deserved what you got, now go away and leave her alone."

"Let's go before that demon dog attacks again!" The boy said and all the boys took off running.

"Wow you're a brave one, aren't you?" Harmony said to the dog.

The dog barked as if to say, "No one's going to mess with you while I'm around."

Harmony plopped down on the grass and the dog sat next to her.

"What am I going to do now?" She asked looking at the dog and starting to pet it. "I have to get to London, but how am I going to do it? I've got no money. I haven't the slightest idea of how to Apparate. Oh wait I probably shouldn't have said that."

The dog looked at her as if to say, "Why not?"

"Because no one is suppose to know the truth about me." Harmony answered the dog.

The dog put its nose to her back pocket, the pocket where her wand was.

"No it isn't a stick, well it is, but it's a special stick. Not for playing fetch." Harmony said taking her wand out.

The dog put its paw on her wrist and looked at her as if to say, "I know what it is."

"How could you? You're just a dog. Wait . . . I guess it's possible that you belonged to a wizarding family. Is that it?" Harmony asked.

The dog bobbed his head.

"That's . . . amazing. I run away from home with no clue what to do and I run into a wizard dog. I guess it was just meant to be." She said laying her head on the dog's head and yawning slightly.

The dog seemed to know that Harmony was tired and barked once as if to say, "We better get you where no one can find you." The dog got up and Harmony followed him to some cement tubes that Harmony had used many times to play hide and seek when she used to come here with her family.

Harmony crawled in the biggest one and the dog got in next to her. Harmony put her head on the dog's stomach, curling herself into a ball. She lay awake for a while just thinking and listening to the sound of her companion breathing. Then sleep took her and she slept soundly.