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Harriet drifted in and out of consciousness, she noticed that she was being carried by someone, but heard hoof beats instead of footsteps. They were walking through a forest, but that was all she could gather through the pain. The next time she woke up, after fumbling for her glasses, she noticed she was in a familiar room, the hospital wing of Hogwarts. Internally she began to panic, if she was at Hogwarts, Dumbledore was probably here too. She could not trust that man anymore. As if waking up had summoned her, Madam Pomfrey appeared from inside her office and spoke in a calm voice, "You were brought to the castle by a kind centaur, do you think you could tell me your name?"
All Harriet could do for a moment was stare in shock, before scanning the room for some possible clue as to what was going on, and to procrastinate. She spotted the calendar near her bed, and to her shock it said that the year was 1975, not 1993 like it had been. Harriet turned back to the waiting mediwitch, and almost in a daze asked a question of her own, "Is it really 1975? I thought it was 1993."
At that Madam Pomfrey's face fell from the calm and gentle expression to one of shock. Harriet began to fade back into the embrace of sleep, but before she fell she said, "Don't tell Dumbledore I'm here."
The next time she woke up she was surprised to see a white curtain surrounding her bed. Harriet looked up and smiled when she saw her beloved owl perched protectively on the headboard of the bed. She could hear Madam Pomfrey speaking to someone else, before recognizing the voice of her head of house and transfiguration teacher, Professor McGonagall. She listened as their footsteps approached and turned her head to see the curtain pulled back. She smiled and said, "Hello Professor," in a tired, slightly dazed, voice. In return she received shocked faces, which made her giggle. She had a tendency for mischief that had been buried under the years of torture, but it still showed itself in small ways. Harriet assumed it came from her Dad, Godfather, and surrogate Uncle being pranksters. She then frowned and asked "Is it really 1975, Professor? And how did I get to Hogwarts? I'm supposed to be trapped with my relatives for the summer." She spat out the word relatives like it was something foul earning confusion from the professor, but a horrid realization from the mediwitch. "And if you haven't quite guessed yet my name is Harriet, Harriet Fawn Potter." She finished, and Professor McGonagall promptly fainted. Which caused Harriet to cackle like a maniac for a moment, only reminding Poppy more of the male prankster that she looked so much like. Maybe it was the blood loss, but Harriet was wondering why that was so funny and why she was being so open. Then she abruptly passed out again. Pomfrey shook herself out of her shock, and began to cast some diagnostic spells to get a record of every injury Harriet had ever gotten, small or not.
The list that appeared fell to the ground from the mediwitch's hands, and continued across the floor, it was the longest injury list that Poppy Pomfrey had seen in her entire life. Minerva woke up to Poppy standing shocked, with a gigantic list in her hands, and no color in her face. Then the mediwitch sprang into action, casting spells and summoning potions almost faster than the Gryffindor house head could see. All the while she was mumbling under her breath about how someone could do this to a child. She had also done a lineage spell, and Minerva picked up the parchment which proved beyond a doubt that this tortured little girl that was brought out of the forbidden forest and to the castle was indeed the child of two of her favorite students, and showed that her parents and both sets of grandparents were dead. After Madam Pomfrey worked for a little while longer, she collapsed into a chair next to Harriet's bed, she then looked up at McGonagall and spoke, "I have done all I can safely do for now, this child should be dead by now with all of her injuries, and her body is covered with scars, but all are in places that can be covered up. To top everything off she has a severe case of what appears to be some sort of flu. I did manage to bring her fever down for now. She didn't want me to get Dumbledore earlier, so I want to ask her about that when she wakes up, but in the meantime, Minerva, could you cast some glamours on her. I would but I just don't have the energy anymore."
McGonagall did as was asked, turning the small girl's hair from black with faint red streaks to blonde, and her eyes from vibrant emerald to a pale blue, before she carefully took the injury list for a sleeping Madam Pomfrey's hand, mentally bracing herself. She was not prepared to see on that list just how the monsters that had her had hurt her over the course of nearly twelve years, the extreme malnutrition, the whippings, the burns, the bruises, and many more. There was even a mention of Basilisk venom! Luckily that was listed as to have been healed by phoenix tears. She was horrified to see some of the injuries had dates that would have been when she was at Hogwarts, at it stated on the lineage test her age and birth date. She sat down in a chair on the other side of Harriet's bed, which ironically was the one James always stayed in when he was hurt. It was then that she noticed the snowy owl that was sitting next to the girl's head, grooming her hair as if the girl was one of her chicks. The sight made her smile as she levitated Madam Pomfrey back to her bed, and closed the white curtains around Harriet's bed, but she paused and told the bird, "If anything changes during the night, wake Poppy immediately." She then left a quick note for Poppy when she woke up, before retiring to bed, but she hoped that this had all been one strange dream.
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