Favorite chapter so far, just thought I'd let you know that. Um . . . what to say, what to say . . . I've got nothing more to say, but enjoy and REVIEW, please! Oh P.S. I thought of something to tell you, Snuffles takes off for fear of being recognized by Snape. Just to let you know. REVIEW!!!!!!!

The Unexpected

Harmony arrived in New York at eleven thirty at night. She got out of the airport with Snuffles at twelve.

"How does Central Park sound? We can sleep there tonight and figure out what we're doing tomorrow." Harmony told Snuffles.

Harmony hailed a cab and took a forty-five minute ride to Central Park with Snuffles. She never imagined how beautiful New York would be, but the sight of it took her breath away. When they arrived at Central Park she paid the cab driver his fare and tipped him a good amount for letting her take the dog with her. She walked into Central Park with Snuffles by her side.

Harmony sat down on a bench and Snuffles laid down at her feet. Harmony knew it must be at least one o'clock in the morning. She never dreamed she'd get to New York, but here she was. She had also never dreamed of being in New York with so much money. Out of the 10,000 she'd left home with she now had 9,200, which was more money than she'd ever had in her life except for the 10,000 she'd started with.

She lie down on the bench and put her hand on Snuffles. She was thinking of what she'd do in the morning when she fell into a deep sleep. She only dreamt of Broadway and skyscrapers that night, which was just fine with her.

She woke up the next morning to Snuffles barking. She opened her eyes to see that he was wagging his tail and as happy as a lark.

"What is it, boy?" Harmony asked.

The dog looked at her as if to say, "Let's get going. We have things to do."

"Okay I'm up, I'm up." Harmony said and sat up.

She looked around. Central Park was really beautiful. New York was all she'd dreamed it to be and more.

"Well come on, boy. I guess we better find food." Harmony told Snuffles.

They found a little sandwich shop and Harmony got a sandwich to go and shared it with Snuffles as they walked around New York a little.

"We'll now that we're fed I guess we better find somewhere to stay, huh?" Harmony said.

Harmony went to a few hotels around Central Park and found one that allowed dogs. It was a pretty hotel that was high end and extremely clean. For a one-bedroom one-bathroom room it was three hundred and fifty dollars a day, which was fine and dandy with Harmony because the hotel was perfect and she was swimming in money. Harmony booked herself a room for three days immediately.

She ran up to the room with Snuffles and when she got there she was amazed. It was the most beautiful, clean, high-class room she'd ever seen in her life.

"Snuffles," she said. "A girl could get used to this."

Harmony spent the next half hour investigating her room. The bed was like air, the bathroom was huge, and the room was something that Harmony never wanted to leave.

When Harmony got done investigating it was around noon and they went to go find food once more. They found a hamburger place that looked good. They walked yet again around Central Park while eating.

They spent the rest of the day going to stores and just running around New York. They returned to the hotel around five in the afternoon. Harmony's hands full with forty dollars worth of clothes and they spent the rest of the time watching T.V. until they fell asleep.

Harmony liked being on her own, for a while. On her second day in New York, which was her third day away from home something happened to the fun. They had just gotten lunch and were walking yet again through Central Park, which Harmony never got tired of.

Harmony sat down yet again on a park bench with Snuffles jumping up beside her and her mind began to work as she saw a family walking through the park. Was her mother worried? Had she forgiven Harmony? Was she looking for her right now? Harmony tried to brush these thoughts away telling herself that she was on her own now, but homesickness is a hard thing to shake off. Suddenly Harmony sighed.

"I don't think we can stay here forever." Harmony told Snuffles. "I've got to go home sometime. I guess that we can stay here until we get down to about eight hundred, then we have to go home. That is if my mom still wants me."

Harmony unwillingly began to cry. She hadn't noticed how much she had missed home and the thought of not being able to go back to London was just as bad if not worse. She'd never be able to see any of her friends or her brother again due to the result of her temper. She'd be stuck in the Muggle world for the rest of eternity.

Snuffles rubbed his head against her arm as if to say, "It's okay, I'm here."

Harmony stopped crying a little later and then burst into anger.

"It's all her fault anyway! If she hadn't said those awful things then—" Harmony began then she cooled down. "Oh well who cares who started it. I won't worry about anything until it's time to go home. Then I'll work out everything."

Harmony spent the next few days spending as much money as she wanted and by her seventh day away from home and sixth day in New York the total of her money came to 1,000 dollars. Now she had seventy dollars worth of clothes, she'd spent a lot on food, she had needed three more days in the hotel room, some dork had pick pocketed two hundred from her, and she'd given 5,650 dollars away to charities to hopefully lessen the blow of stealing the money in the first place.

Harmony realized now that maybe she didn't want to go home. She'd been doing just fine in New York. She knew she had to find some way to stay in New York or go to some other place and stay there, but she'd made up her mind not to return home.

Harmony was walking in the park with Snuffles after lowering her total to 950 dollars by getting some nice shoes, some amazing ice cream, and some dog treats. She was just studying the people in the park, which was an interesting hobby to her, when she saw someone she hadn't expected nor particularly wanted to see. Creeping around the park in a black suit instead of his usual black robes; looking, if possible, paler than he did at school; his long black greasy hair draped around his face; and wearing an expression that leaked of unkindness was none other then Professor Severus Snape.

"Snuffles we have to get out of here." Harmony said and immediately threw away the ice cream and began to hurriedly leave the park with Snuffles trotting beside her on his leash.

Harmony knew she'd gone unnoticed because when she looked back Snape wasn't on her tail.

"Whew," she said when they got out of the park. "Sorry, Snuffles. That's a professor at my school and I don't want him to notice me just in case he—"

Harmony then realized something. Why was Snape there in the first place? He couldn't possibly be on holiday. Then it dawned on her, he was looking for her. That's why he'd been sneaking around the park he was looking for her to take her back, probably to get her wand snapped and to get arrangements for her Muggle life made. Well Harmony wasn't going to let that happen.

"Snuffles, we're in trouble. He's not just here on holiday; he's probably looking for me. We'll have to get out of New York; we'll go tonight when it gets dark. I don't know where we'll go, but we'll go somewhere." Harmony told the dog.

Snuffles nodded.

"Well, we'll and check out of the hotel and get my stuff. We can walk around until dark, but we'll have to keep our guard up." Harmony said.

She should have just gone back to the hotel room got her stuff and got out of New York right after she'd found out that Snape was there. She should have just packed up and left, but Harmony being James Potter's thirteen-year-old child, was entitled to a small amount of pig-headedness and believed that she could outsmart her potions master and only completed the task of getting her things. She was about to find out the consequences of her pig-headedness.

Harmony was looking at a display window when Snuffles suddenly started barking madly.

"What is it, boy?" Harmony asked looking the way the dog was.

She saw something that made her take off in a run, Severus Snape was not half a block away and he had seen her. Harmony dashed through random streets, crossing random places, bashing into people with Snuffles at her side. She was sure she'd lost Snape when suddenly he appeared around the corner she'd just come from. She ran faster weaving even more, but it seemed every time she lost him Snape reappeared.

Twenty minutes later she was positive she'd lost him. She sat down on a curb and began petting Snuffles on an utterly deserted street when suddenly Snuffles took off running.

"Snuffles! Snuffles!" Harmony called and began to go after him, but was caught by her shoulder.

"Well, well, what have we here?" A snide voice said.

Harmony spun around and found herself looking into the cold black eyes of her least favorite teacher.

"You've been trying to give me the slip all day Potter, I wonder why?" Snape asked coldly.

"Why are you here?" Harmony asked her face set into an unreadable expression.

"Why do think I'm here, Potter? Why would I be here instead of at the school preparing for the beginning of term? Why would I be here roaming the streets of New York?" Snape paused waiting for her to dare to answer him and she did, just not in the way he wanted.

"I don't know, Professor." Harmony said playing stupid. Snape's face hardened even more as he gave his answer.

"Because seven days ago Dumbledore was informed that you had lost your temper, blown up half your house, and then had the audacity to run off without telling anyone. Not that I'm a surprised; stupid, reckless behavior runs in your genes."

"That doesn't tell my anything about why you are here." Harmony said keeping her temper under control.

"Because, you stupid girl, after Dumbledore stayed at your house and you didn't return the next evening, he sent me out looking for you with only minimal information as to where you might be because, of course you didn't leave a note or anything telling anyone where you might possibly go. Sounds like something your father would try to pull off." Snape spat.

Of all the people Dumbledore could have sent, of course, he chose Snape. The teacher that had caused her the most grief in her two years at Hogwarts. The teacher that had hated her since the moment he laid eyes on her.

"Well, Potter, now that you've been found, I'm supposed to take you back to London. I assume you have everything with you." Snape said in the same icy tone she'd heard for two years.

"Yes," Harmony replied her face betraying a little anger.

She knew Snuffles wasn't coming back. This was why he'd left, she was sure of it. He knew she was about to get taken and he'd run off for reasons unknown, but she knew he wasn't coming back and even if he did there would be nothing to find except for the dog treats that she dropped on the ground in case he did come back.

"Good. We'll have to Apparate for lack of better transportation." Snape said as he held out his arm.

If Harmony hadn't done this with Dumbledore two years ago she wouldn't have had the foggiest idea what Snape wanted her to do, but Dumbledore had Apparated her to London in her first year and she knew the drill. She set her hand on Snape's forearm and gripped lightly watching his face the whole time. He let on no sign of emotion but hate as he Apparated them to London. They appeared right in front of the Leaky Cauldron. Harmony quickly let go and followed Snape as he strode quickly and purposefully into the pub.