Yo! Chapter 3 is now here. see if you can spot we I'm hoping to pair Harriet with.. ;) I know in the book Fred & George are in their third year when Harry starts but for the purpose of this story they're in their second year. #creative licence# CHEESECAKE!
Chapter 3-Running into brick walls is not advisable.
Harriet's P.O.V (This fan fiction is mostly going to be written in Harriet's P.O.V)
We got to Kings Cross station on the purple bus for ten to ten, plenty of time to find our train. Stan Shunpike, the conducer of the bus got us trollies and helped us get our things onto them. We found platforms nine and ten with ease but there wasn't nine and three quarters. Harry asked a nearby train guard for the platform but apparently there wasn't one, then unasked for a train theatre left at eleven but again we hit a blockade. The guard stomped off muttering about time wasters. "Packed with muggles." We turned to see a woman herding five children along, the four boys had trunks and the tallest had an owl. "Come on." I pushed my trolly over, followed. "Excuse me, we where wondering how to get onto the Hogwarts platform." I told the woman. "Watch Percy, don't worry, it doesn't hurt." She smiled as the boy with the owl charged at the pillar separating platforms nine and ten, but as he neared it a group of backpackers got in the way and by the time they'd gone so had Percy. "I don't get it." I shock my head. "Fred. Why don't you show them." She turned to a boy who was identical to the one next to him. "Mum! I'm Fred." The one on the left groaned. "Sorry. Fred."
"Just joking, I'm Fred." The one on the left grinned. They both had an equal amount of freckles, hazel eyes and messy ginger hair but some how I could tell them apart, the one running at the wall was Fred and the other was his twin. Fred passed through the wall and Harry gasped. "How?"
"Magic." I muttered. "Quite right dear." The woman smiled. "George. Go on." She turned to the other twin. "I'm Molly Wesley by the way, Percy's in his last year at Hogwarts an Fred and George are in their second, Ron's going to be in the first year with you two. And Ginny starts next year." She smiled down at the girl at her side. "Hello." I smiled at her as she hid begin her Mum. "Want to go before me?" The last boy, Ron asked nervously. "Sure." I smiled, I fleshed a grin at Harry, winked at Ginny and ran at the wall. I passed through it like water and stepped to the side as Harry came hurtling after me. There was a scarlet steam engine blowing steam over the foggy crowd. Cat mewed, owls hooted and people yelled. "Let's find some where to sit." We pushed our trollies off as Ron came trough the wall. As soon as we found an empty compartment Fred and George appeared next to us. "Need some help?" Fred asked. "Please." I smiled. George took one end of Harry's trunk and Fred took one end of mine. Together we easily got our trunks and animals on the train. I lifted the catch on Zoe's cage and she clambered up my arm. "I'm Fred Wesley." Said George
"And I'm George." Said Fred. "No, you're George." I pointed to George. "And you're Fred." I pointed to Fred. "How?"
"I'm good at reading people. Harriet Potter at your service my kind old chaps." I bowed, I'd gained a lot of confidence sine coming into this world and I was generally a happier person. "No way! You're the girl-who-lived." They turned to Harry. "Then you must be the boy-who-lived."
"Harry Potter." Harry grinned. "Awesome." The twins gave each other high fives. "We better go, our mother has some delightful sandwiches for us." Fred said sarcastically. "Will you come and sit with us?" I asked hopefully. "We'll try, see. We're terribly popular here at Hogwarts." George puffed out his chest pompously. "Fred, can we pencil them in?" Fred took out an imaginary note pad and pencil. "Yes I think we can." He nodded then smiled. "There's your answer our dear Potters, we shall sit with you." He grinned and followed his twin off the train. "That was interesting." Harry said after a moment. "That's one way to put in." I chuckled. Moments later Fred and George were back, with Ron. "Hello again my fine fellows." George bowed, his forehead touching the floor. "Idiot." Ron gritted his teeth. "Aw, poor Ronnie pooh." Fred pinched his cheek. "Get off." Ron pushed him away. "Can we sit?" Fred asked. "Nope, my elephant's taking up all the space." I grinned. "Damn. We'll just have to get rid of it then." George waved his wand around and flopped into the seat next to Harry. "All gone." Fred sat next to me and Ron stood awkwardly in the door. "Ron, take a seat." I gestured to the empty seats. "There's plenty to spear." Ron sat and then after a moment said quickly. "Are you really the Potters?"
"We told you they where." Fred raised an eyebrow. "Yes we are Ron." I ignored Fred. "Oh, I thought they where joking."
"I can't think why." Harry said. "Do you really have the scars?" Ron asked. "Yeah." Harry pulled back his fringe, showing the sibling his lighting bolt scar. "Do you have one?" George asked me. "Yeah. It's here." I pointed to the point just on my collar bone. "Can we see?" I rolled my eyes and pulled off my jumper. I was wearing one of the new shirts I'd brought in London with some wizard gold I'd converted into pounds. The one I'd put on today was a light blue and green stripy t-shirt. I pulled the collar down slightly to show my own lightning scar. "Cool." George grinned. Fred caught my left arm. "What happened to your arm?" There where ten long scars from Uncle Vernon's belt on that arm. "Nothing." I tried to gain control of my arm but Fred wouldn't let go. "What happened?" He asked again. Harry and Ron's chatter stopped. "Nothing happened ok? So please let go." I pulled again. "Hold out your other arm." George said. "No." I tucked my right arm into my body by the scars on the front of my arm stood out. "You're hiding something." Ron said. "Isn't everyone?" I looked at the ground. "Nothing this big. Who's been beating you?" Fred asked seriously, Ron looked at him surprise, I guess Fred's really serious. "We may as well tell them Sis." Harry sighed and tugged off his own jumper. He held his arms out for inspection. "It's our Uncle. He didn't like us, Harriet got it worse because she was always defending me an talking back to Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia, she nearly knocked out our cousin for breaking my glasses once." Harry said. "You should see her back." I went red. "I didn't want to lose another brother." I said quietly. "Not to them."
"What'd you mean?" George asked. "We'll tell you one day." I promised. "Ok." Fred let go of my arm and I pulled my jumper back on. "Sorry you had to see that." I muttered. "You should be proud, you stopped Harry getting hurt. You didn't let your relatives win." Fred pointed out. "Right. Proud." I absentmindedly stoked Zoe's head. Headwig hooted from her cage. "Show them Scabbers Ron." George laughed, breaking the tension. "Don't want to." Ron glowered. "Who's Scabbers?" I asked. "Ron's rat."
"Please don't get it out. I hate rats, no offence." I shuddered. Ron smiled gratefully at me. There was a knock on the compartment door. I looked up to see Hermione standing next to a pudgy boy who was sniffling. "Hermione." I smiled. "Oh, hay Harriet. Have you seen a toad? Neville's lost his." We all shock our heads. "I'll help though. Does your toad like water?" I asked the boy. "Yes." He nodded. "Good. Hang on." I found the nearest bathroom and looked under the sink, ad there was a big green toad. "Hello. Your owner misses you."
"He feds me too much." The toad complained. I'd learnt that I could communicate with any water animal when I was about nine. "And he keeps me in a dry box."
"I'll talk to him." I promised. "But you have to promise not to run away, Neville cares about you a lot." I picked up the toad. "You smell like the sea." The toad commented as I got back to the compartment. I frowned and handed the toad back to Neville. "How many times do you feed him?" I asked as I retook my seat next to Fred. "About three times a day."
"He only needs to be fed twice a day, once in the morning and once before you go to bed. And keep him in a slightly damp tank. He is a toad." Neville nodded happily. "How do you know so much about toads?" Hermione asked. "I like water animals." I shrugged. "Oh." There was a clattering in the corridor and the door was pulled open, an elderly lady pushing a food trolly smiled at us. "Any thing from the trolly?" Ron, Fred, George and Hermione shock their heads. I reached up and pulled mine and Harry's money bags out. "Can I have a box of Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans?" Neville asked shyly. "Of corse dear." Neville paid. "Can we have a little of everything?" Harry asked. The lady looked shocked but let us. I paid as Harry, Ron, George and Fred piled everything into the carriage. "Hungry?" Hermione grinned. "I don't know what half of it is." I admitted looking at the giant pile of confectionary. "They're not real frogs are they?" Harry held up a octagon box. "No, it's just a spell." Ron said opening a box of beans a packet of sandwiches forgotten on his lap. "It's the cards you want." George took a chocolate frog, it hopped out and towards the window. I jumped forward and caught it, accidentally falling on Fred lap. "Sorry." I blushed rolling into the floor. "Glad it wasn't the floor. By the look of you if I pushed you you'd shatter." Fred helped me up. "Thanks." I rolled my eyes and bit into the frog. "Mmmmmm." I sank into a seat and finished the frog in about three seconds. "You really like chocolate don't you?" George grinned. "Uh Hu." I nodded, taking as frog box and catching the frog. "Who wants the card?" I held it up. "Which one is it?" Ron asked. "Um, I don't know." I shrugged. "It's Godric Griffindor. I can read that from here." Hermione said. "Mine!" Fred plucked it from my hand. "Can't you read?" Hermione asked kindly. "No, I'm dyslexic." I admitted. "Don't forget the ADHD." Harry reminded my glumly. "We both have dyslexia and ADHD." Harry said. "What are they?" George asked. "Dyslexia is where numbers and words get muddled up and you can't read and ADHD is when you have a really short attention span and you can't sit still."
"Oh, that means someone will have to read the board for you, and you books and your homework." Ron said. "Well, we're dead." Harry said. "I'll help you." Hermione said. "If we're in the same house." I said. "I hope we are." I smiled. "Me to." The door opened again and the boy from the robe shop stood in the doorway flanked by two burly boys who looked like body guards. "They're saying all down the train that the Potter twins are in this compartment. So it's you two." The boy drawled, looking at Harry and me. "I'm Draco Malfoy. This is Crab and Goyel." He gestures to the two gorillas behind him. "I teach you that some wizarding families are better then others." He sneered at the Weaslys and Neville. "I'd appreciate it if you stopped judging my friends Malfoy." I stood up, wishing I hadn't packed my dagger. "We'll see, you'll come to see my understanding." Malfoy left. "That was joyful." Fred said sarcastically. "Yep. I fell like Little Miss Sunshine." I grinned. Hermione looked at her watch. "We need to get changed." Harry and Ron looked up from their animated talk on quidditch. "Ok." Fred shrugged and reached for his uniform. "Not in here you idiot." Fred looked at me. "I'm a girl, so is Hermione. Get out." I smiled sweetly. "We better go, get changed." Harry tugged Nevele out, knowing that this smile was deadly. The twins left and I grinned at Hermione. "Works every time." Quickly I pulled on my uniform and robes. "Hermione. What's this for?" I held up a long piece of black fabric. "That's your tie. Here." She took it from me and tied it round my neck. "Can't. Breath." I spluttered. I loosened the tie and undid my top button. "Much better.". I grinned. "You're hopeless." Hermione chuckled as she opened a box of Bertie's beans. "Hay! I like breathing." I protested, grabbing my backpack from the luggage rack. "Doesn't everyone?" Hermione asked. "Probably." I laughed, shoving my hand into my bag. "Who's laughing with out us?" George's head appeared round the door. "That would be me. I thank you of great and powerful King George Wesley, for allowing me to laugh outside your presence." I said seriously. "And I thank you for your thanks." He patted the top of my head as he sat opposite me. "Hay! Do you know how long it took me to do my hair?" I said disgruntled. George had messed up all the pins holding up my bun. "Thanks George." I growled. "Who upset Harriet?" Fred asked as he and the rest of the boys came back in. "Him." I gabbed a hair pin at George. "What's he done now?" Rob asked. "He patted my head which then displaced my hairpins so now I have to take it down." I pulled the last remaining pin out and felt my braid uncurl and fall to the bottom of my butt. "That's a long braid." Hermione said. "I know." It began to unravel, without a pin or band at the end what did you expect it to do? I sat down and rummaged through my bag again. "Jeez." I muttered and tipped the thing up. My money pouch, my dagger, my hair brush, my chocker and my notebook tumbled out. "Stupid bag." I muttered. "What are you doing?" Harry stopped his conversation with Hermione about Hogwarts. "What does it look like?" I asked. "Dumping you stuff everywhere?" Fred asked. "Nope, I was looking for this." I held up my brush. "Why do you have a dagger?" George asked."So I can slice people in to pieces, didn't they tell you? I'm a lunatic." I grinned evilly. Everyone blinked then the twins burst out laughing and clutched their belly's. Neville looked like he was about to pass out in fear and both Harry and Hermione looked slightly amused but Ron looked pissed off. "Neville, I'm joking. I have a knife because it came from the Potter vault, along with this." I held up the chocker. It glinted under the carriage lights. "Harry has a shield and a signet ring." I said. "Oh let's see!" Ron exclaimed. Harry laughed and pulled the arm guard out his pocket. "I'm confused." Ron sad. "Hang on." Harry put the guard on and the Potter shield hid him from view. "Cool." Ron looked at the shield in awe. "That looks like the shield on your sheath." Hermione said. I nodded. "This is the Potter family crest apparently." I shrugged and threaded my dagger onto my belt near my back. "Why are you taking that to the sorting ceremony?" Fred asked. "Malfoy." I muttered. "Good plan. We'll need some one to hit him at one point." Harry agreed. We all laughed. I hadn't noticed that my braid had completely come undone at this point until Fred accidently sat on it. "Ow! That's my hair you're sitting on." I tugged at it. "Sorry." He held his hands up in surrender and stood up. I pilled my hair into my lap and started brushing it. "That's a lot of hair." Neville said, I'd almost forgotten he was there, he was so quiet. "I guess." I shrugged. "Where does it come to?" Hermione asked curiously. "I don't know , I always keep it up." I admitted. "Lets see then." Fred pulled me up, I felt my hair tumble down my back and stop just above the back of my knees. "What?" I asked, brushing a stray curl away from my face. "How do you get it that long?" George asked stupidly. "I don't cut it. Duh." The train jolted to a stop. "Hogsmead station, please leave your belongings on the train, they'll be taken to your rooms later." A voice called through the train. "Come on" Harry grinned at me. "Don't wanna be late." I grinned back a slipped my chocker into my pocket, I pushed Zoe into her cage and piled the sweets into my backpack. "Hurry up!" Hermione called from the corridor. "Coming!" I left the compartment. "First year! Ova 'ere!" I spotted Hagrid towering over the crowd, holding a lantern. "Alrig' Harry? Where's yer sister?" He called down to my brother who was somewhere in the crowd. "See you later!" Fred and George called to me and ran off. "Harriet!" Hermione struggled throw the crowd. "There you are!" She grabbed my hand and pulled me after Hagrid, He led us to a collection of little boats in a large black lake. I spotted Harry next to Ron, he was looking rather green, Harry never was good with water. "No more then three to a boat!" Hagrid clambered into a boat and everyone followed suit. I was with Hermione and a boy called Justin. "Forward!" Hagrid called and the little fleet moved off. "You'll have you first glimpse of Hogwarts in a second." Hagrid called back, just then There was a disturbance in the lake, something was moving towards us. Fast. It barged into Harry's boat, capsizing him, Ron and Neville in to the lake. Neville and Ron bobbed back up Harry didn't. "Harry. HARRY!" I yelled. "Stay calm." Hagrid called but I'd already removed my robes, jumper and tie. "Harriet, what are you doing?" Hermione cried as I prepared to dive. "Saving my brother." I answered before leaping into the lake. The water was dark and murky but I could see and breath perfectly. Some how I could fell where every living thing in the lake was. I felt around and found Harry being dragged into the depths of the lake by the giant squid. The water worked with me and propelled me forward, in seconds I was in front of a dark cave. "OI!" I called out. "Giant Squid! Get yo ass out here!" The water shifted and out came the squid, it was pulsating red. "Hello daughter of the sea." It said politely. "What? Oh never mind, I want my brother back." I glared at it. "You mean the son of the sky? No princess, he is your enemy."
"You're wrong, he's my brother, now give him back before I turn you into sushi." The squid went pink. "Right way princess." The squid pushed Harry out the cave and then retreated. I grasped Harry round the waist and shot to the surface. We bobbed up next to Hagrid's boat. "Harriet!" Hermione called happily. "Hay." I said as Hagrid pulled Harry and I out the water. Water spurted from Harry's mouth and he coughed as Hagrid put his coat round us. When we got off the boats Hermione gave me my shoes and uniform. "Thanks 'Mione." I said. "Anytime." She shrugged. Hagrid led us up to a large set of doors, he knocked ant they opened to reveal a woman in green tartan robes and a green pointy hat. "The first year's Professor McGonagall."
"Thank you Hagrid, you may go sit down." Hagrid left.
A few minuets later we were walking out into a large hall that looked like it had no roof. At the far left of the hall sat students in bronze and blue, at the near left was the red and gold students, Fred and George grinned manically at us from that table, on the other side of us where students in yellow and black and next to them where people in green and silver. I was too busy looking at the celling to notice that the hat was singing. When it stopped Professor McGonagall read out names, Hermione went to Gryffindor, and the boy from our boat, Justin went to Hufflepuff. Finally my name was called. "Potter Harriet." As I waked forward people began to whisper. "Good luck." Fred and George whispered as I passed them. I grinned back at them and sat on the stool, the hat went on my wet hair and everything went black. "Well, well, well. What do we have here? Brave, loyal, short tempered, sarcastic, cheeky. You could go to any house but I'll have to take a look at your memories." I saw flashes of my life until the hat landed onthat day.
Flashback
I was vacuuming the upstairs landing when Severus came up the stairs with Uncle Vernon's breakfast tray. He was always a very clumsy boy and he was looking particularly pale from the beating he'd been given yesterday for dropping the tea pot. Severus tripped on the top step and he and the tray want crashing to the floor. Vernon came out his bedroom still in his pyjamas, belt in hand. "Stupid boy." He exclaimed when he saw the shattered crockery. The tray skidded to a stop at his feet and he picked it up. "You'll get it now." Vernon smiled evilly and raised the tray above his head. "SEVY RUN!" I yelled at my brother. But he couldn't, the tray came down on his head with a sickening crack and great speed. Time seemed to slow own as my brothers skull crumpled and blood spurted everywhere. I screamed.
End flashback
Fred's P.O.V
Harriet sat on the stool for ages before something happened, nothing good, but something. At first she was fine but then her tan skin went ghost white, her sea green eyes widened and her breathing quickened. I glanced at Dumbledore he was smiling placidly, like he couldn't see anything wrong with the female Potter. Tears began to fall and Harry ran up and snatched the hat from his sister's head. "Mr Potter! What are you doing?" McGonagall exclaimed. "Can't you see there's something wrong?" Ron said. "She's being sorted."
"So what?" Harry hugged his sister as she rocked back and forth. "What's wrong sis?" He asked. "It was that day, I saw it again. Sevy's death" She sobbed into Harry's robes. All the teachers looked at Snape who looked slightly dazed. "Who is Sevy?" Dumbledore asked. "Our brother. He died." Harry said sadly. "We're sorry for you loss." Dumbledore said. "Shut up." Harriet muttered. "Pardon?" Dumbledore looked shocked. "I SAID SHUT UP!" Harriet shouted and in one flued motion she stood and spun on her heel to face Dumbles. "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN HE DIED? WHERE WERE YOU WHEN HE HAD HIS BRAIN SMACHED IN? WHERE WHERE YOU WHEN I GOT THESE." Harriet ripped off her robes and jumper to show Dumbledore her scars. "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN HARRY WAS BEING BEATEN UP BY OUR COUSIN? WHERE WERE YOU EVERYDAY OF OUR LIVES?" Her bracelet glowed and a four meter long sword appeared in her hand. "WHERE WERE YOU EVERY SINGLE DAY WE WENT TO BED HUNGRY? WHERE WERE YOU WHEN MY BROTHER WAS MURDERED? ALL BECAUSE YOU PUT US AT THAT HOUSE. MY BROTHER DIED BECAUSE OF YOU, YOU HAVE HIS BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS AND YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE THE DESENCY TO REMEMBER THAT HE EXISTED!" Harriet's sword was as the headmasters throat. "Slytherin." He uttered. "No." Harriet shock her head. "I will NOT play to your stereotypes. Not all Slytherins are evil, they'd fed up because you're a bias, stereotypical asshole. If you didn't treat them like shit then maybe they'd behave. But I will put on that hat and I will be in Gryffindor, just to prove you wrong." Harriet pulled on her uniform and sat with her back facing us with the hat on her head. after a moment the hat screamed. "GRYFFINDOR!" The whole hall burst into applause, even the Slytherins, because an elven year old girl had proved the great and almighty Dumbledore wrong. She smirked at the old man and flounced over to Hermione. After that the evening was uneventful. Harry got into Gryffindor, along with Ron. Then the food appeared and we ate and after that Percy led us upstairs and we went to bed.