Hey guys! This chapter is SUPER long, this is only because I didn't want to split up the retelling for several chapters, wanted to get the changes to you, as well as not totally bore you. All that resulted in a fourteen page chapter so...wow.
Questions(unspoken or otherwise) that popped up in the comments:
Twins will show up the first time in CH. 11!
We will not abandon the Marauders during the school year!
Yes she's a bit OC however she went through two wars (three depending on if you count the one she ended as a baby) and her mates and child were killed not that long ago from her perspective and she also spent a good chunk of time with the Avengers so... OCness.
Jarvis shows up in chapter 9. We check in with Tony, Clint, and Bruce in chapter 13. Harri officially meets Tony in chapter 16. Harri saves Loki in chapter 25. So just hang in there, it is a cross over so they will be in here it will just take a bit. I'm still writing about four chapters ahead of you guys so rest assured the Thursday update will happen every time!
Disclaimer in Chapter 1. Will change if necessary.
"Which of course leads us to now. Where I am about to tell you all about the last time I lived the next fourteen years."
"What?!" James exclaimed, his mouth hanging open unattractively.
Harriet snickered at her father, "Its expressions like that, that makes me question why mum ever agreed to marry you."
That seemed to break the others out of their shock and Remus and Sirius both started laughing. James shook himself and gave her a halfhearted glare, "This is serious!"
"No, he's Sirius." Luna butted in, pointing at where Padfoot was now howling with laughter. James was fighting his own laughter but attempting to keep it together so he could get answers.
Harri gave her dad an innocent look, "What? I wouldn't be what Sirius once called the Heir to Marauder Glory if I didn't at least tease you about it." James finally gave in and grinned at her, she returned a smile, "Besides, the story already has a lot of bummer moments. No reason to make it more so with this constant shadow over everything."
"You're alright pup!" Sirius exclaimed as he and Remus finally calmed down.
Harriet gave a mocking half bow from her seat, "Alright, onto the main event shall we? Now the first time through I was ridiculously trusting, so much so that I didn't even suspect things were wrong until my fifth year and didn't even go to Gringotts to get the full work up done until after my sixth, so I will be adding bits about the manipulations I found out about later as we go." Harri said, pulling out her journal, "I went over everything with my occlumency after I came back so this should be accurate but keep in mind this was fourteen years ago for me."
She quickly found the page she needed and nodded, "Alright, originally the Dursleys kept my Hogwarts letter from me. Every single one that came they burned or put in the trash. It wasn't until my eleventh birthday that I finally got it; they had moved us out to some shack on the sea when Hagrid showed up to deliver my letter, knocking down the door, bending Vernon's gun, and giving Dudley a pig tail in the process. After that, Hagrid took me to Diagon Alley for the first time. He took me to Gringotts where I saw my trust vault for the first time and where he oh so discretely removed the Philosophers Stone from another vault. Later I found out that Dumbledore had manipulated the Flamels to give up the stone to him so he could use it as bait and then destroyed it without their permission. Anyway, I went shopping, met the Malfoys which I could probably have lived without, got my owl Hedwig as my first gift in ten years, and then was shuffled back to the Dursleys to wait for school time."
Harri flipped the page, "Alright, Kings Cross. Another bit of manipulation. I didn't know how to get onto the platform, instead of detailing that in my letter like it was for the rest of the muggle-raised and muggle-borns I was left hanging. That being the case I was ready to believe that a clearly all wizard family would barrel through the mundane part of Kings Cross, screaming about muggles and a platform said muggles clearly didn't know about and a whole slew of other things from the magical world, completely ignoring the statute of secrecy that even I was aware after one trip to Diagon. That's how I met the Weasleys, a light family so far up Dumbledore's arse they can't see the sun. Except for three of them of course." She said with a small smile.
"On the train I was waylaid by one of the family from before claiming there were no other free compartments. Ronald Weasley, who was the first of the traitors I met." She frowned, "Although I guess you have to be true friends for it to be considered a traitorous act. He was one of the ones being paid from my accounts to befriend me, he was also the one who they keyed the love potion into. I met the second paid friend on that ride as well, a little know-it-all muggle-born who fancied herself better than anyone and everyone." Harriet's face softened, "Only good thing about that ride was I met my mates for the first time. I didn't know who they were to me at the time, the bind on my soul bond kept it from me but we got on instantly." She looked up at her father, "You'll like them, I promise. Fred and George Weasley, they are magical twins born on April Fool's Day. They took up your pranking mantle when they went to Hogwarts, they even have Wormtail's copy of the map, the one Flich confiscated." She looked to Sirius and Remus as well, "They idolize the Marauders. When I officially introduced you guys last time they started following you around like little lost puppies."
Sirius grinned, "A couple of fans huh?"
James smiled, "Nabbed yourself some pranksters did you? I approve. Are they redheads? Potters love redheads."
Harriet laughed, "You bet their redheads."
"That's my girl." James crowed.
Harriet blushed before going back to her book, "I was sorted into Gryffindor of course." She continued, leaving out the bit about the hat wanting her in Slytherin for now.
"Of course you were!" Sirius exclaimed, "You're a Marauder!"
Harriet rolled her eyes, "Anyway, so I don't make first year too long, I'll skip to the important parts. Snape was an arse to me because of how you all treated him, during my first broom riding lesson I took to the air like a duck to water leading to me being appointed the youngest seeker in Hogwarts history," this made all three of the men grin proudly, "I fought a mountain troll that was let into the school, then had my first game which we won but only after I caught the ball in my mouth after my broom was hexed."
"In your mouth?" Sirius interrupted with a snicker.
Harriet crossed her arms over her chest, "Yes, in my mouth. After the hex broke it put too much power into my dive and I caught up to the snitch right before I hit the ground. Hence almost swallowing it." She sniffed delicately, like she was offended, "No matter how unconventional, I always get my snitch. I've only lost once and that was because dementors were surrounding me and I fell off my broom."
"When where you around dementors?" Remus asked worriedly.
"Third year." Harri said, waving him off, "We're still on first. So, after that the next big thing that happened was Christmas break, the Weasley children stayed in the castle for the holidays, the official reasoning being that their parents were going to visit their brother Charlie in Romania though I'm not sure if that was the truth or they just wanted Ron to stay close to me. Again the only highlights of the holiday were my mates who made sure to eat all of our meals together over the holidays. On Christmas, Dumbledore gifted me your invisibility cloak which he had illegally."
Griphook nodded here and interjected, "It was recorded as being taken from the main artifact vault almost three years ago. Even if Dumbledore was legally Miss Potter's magical guardian, which he is not, he should not have had access to the lower vaults."
Harri nodded, "We found pretty much the same last time. If I remember correctly, right now he also has our family pensive and a couple Potter grimoires. We'll need to shore up the security and the family scripts because he continues to take heirlooms for his own personal use."
"I'll make note." Griphook said with a nod.
Harri inclined her head to him, "Alright, after I got the cloak, I did what any curious child did and explored after hours."
"Any child." Remus snorted softly, "She's been a Marauder from the very beginning."
Harriet drew herself up proudly, "Of course. What did you expect? I'm my father's daughter." James grinned while Remus moaned something that sounded suspiciously like 'not two of them'. "Back to it. I was exploring and stumbled across the Mirror of Erised, which shows you your deepest desire. I saw you and mum, since my deepest desire has always been and continues to be having a family." James' smile turned a bit sad, "I drug Ron to it the next day and the idiot apparently saw some fane whores wet dream." She pointedly ignored Sirius's sniggers. "Disgusted, I left him there and came back later just to see you and mum. Dumbledore found me and said the usual cryptic bull before telling me the mirror was moving. Loose lipped Hagrid let slip it was something of Flamel's hidden on the third floor. I and the traitors figured out it was the Philosophers Stone. We thought Snape was the one trying to steal it but it turned out it was the DADA professor who was in fact being possessed by Voldemort. There was a confrontation which I won of course, when I woke up in the infirmary the Headmaster was there with his normal run around routine. I begged not to be sent back to the Dursleys and was denied, thus ending my first year."
Harriet shifted the last of her food on her plate, "Second year, where to begin? Ah, let's start with the crazy house elf who caused the Dursleys to lock me in a room for the remainder of my holidays. He came to warn me about a plot his master was cooking up that would put me in danger at Hogwarts, despite the warning I refused to stay at that house the entire year. Hoping to get me expelled, he levitated a cake to drop on the Dursley's guests which apparently set off the Ministry trace; they were convinced that I had done intentional magic despite the underage magic laws. That left me to be locked in a room where my lovely mates ended up rescuing me like some fairy tale damsel in distress. Vernon had bared the window and was only feeding me once a day through a cat flap in the door. My twins stole their dads flying car, broke the entire window to get the bars off, and we flew off to the Burrow."
Remus chuckled, "I'm liking these two more and more."
Harriet laughed lightly, "I hoped you all would." She flipped through her notes to get back on track, "The next day we went to Diagon Alley for school supplies. I got waylaid by some famous prick who, in addition to being a fraud, was a loud mouth attention whore. He figured our fame together would be worth the front page and used that opportunity to announce he was the new DADA professor. After that we all ran into the Malfoys, again, something I could live without. Lucius slipped a diary into Ginny Weasley's bag which ended up being the first horcrux of Tom Riddle."
"Woah," James said, "Back up. What is a horcrux? Who is Tom Riddle."
"Tom Marvolo Riddle is the real name of Lord Voldemort." Harriet said, "A horcrux is a bit of dark magic that splits one's soul into pieces and holds them in an object. As long as someone has a horcrux they can't die. Voldemort made seven. Well technically he made six, he put one in me by mistake." Seeing the horror on their faces she reassured them, "Don't worry. I already got rid of it this time around."
"Thank Merlin!" James breathed.
Harri smiled, "Anyway, no one noticed the diary. When we went to get on the train the crazy house elf managed to lock me out. Luckily my mates were with me, Ron had gone on ahead. We stole the flying car again and flew to Hogwarts. We almost had a problem when the flight generator started to give out but my mates are geniuses and managed to fix it. We hid the car in the Forbidden Forest and continued on," she looked slightly smug, "We got away with it. Which I wasn't so sure we would have, but the twins used a strong switching spell to send the car back to the Burrow and bring us a little wrench."
"Anyway, nothing really exciting happened until dueling club where I found out that speaking parseltongue wasn't common." Harri said.
"You're a parselmouth?" Remus said skeptically.
Harriet nodded, "Yes, I got it as a result of the horcrux and kept it after its gone. It's quite useful, most snakes will obey the first speaker they come across. They make excellent spies and can be persuaded to help with pranks, they have quite a sense of humor." She snickered at their disbelieving looks, "Anyway, since I could speak parseltongue everyone thought I was the heir to Slytherin, which I am but not for the reasons they assumed. I'm heir by conquest, not by blood." She clarified, seeing the confused faces.
"Moving on. Mrs. Norris turned up petrified with a message on the wall saying that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened again. I and the traitors began looking for the heir to Slytherin, we even made up polyjuice and snuck into the Slytherin dorm to interrogate mini Malfoy. Several students and nearly headless Nick got petrified. When the know it all traitor was petrified we figured out the monster in the Chamber was a Basilisk. After another message appeared saying that a student had been taken down to the Chamber and would die, I and Ron forced our fraud DADA teacher down into the chamber ahead of us. The idiot attempted to obliviate us with a broken wand which ended up backfiring, erasing all of his memory and collapsing the tunnel. I continued on alone as Ron was conveniently on the other side of the cave in. I faced a sixteen-year-old Tom Riddle, battled and killed a Basilisk with the help of Fawkes and the sorting hat which gave me the sword of Gryffindor, was bitten by the snake in the process but was cried on by Fawkes to heal me. Before that though I took the fang that had been lodged in my shoulder and stabbed the diary with it, effectively destroying the horcrux." Harriet sped through, ignoring the worried faces across from her. "When I killed the horcrux I saved Ginny Weasley, who had been possessed and controlled by the diary. When I met to explain things to Dumbledore he spouted some bull about Fawkes coming because I showed him loyalty and me being able to pull the sword from the hat because I was a true Gryffindor. The first part is complete shit, Fawkes came to me the same reason the sword did, I am the heir of Gryffindor through Dad. Despite what he likes to have people think, Fawkes is not Dumbledore's familiar. He is in fact tied to the Gryffindor line and was charged long ago with the task of watching over the school by Godric. The only reason he listens to Dumbledore is because the man messed with the bond that allowed Fawkes to communicate with heirs." Harri looked around as everyone took in that information, "Anyway, I tricked Lord Malfoy into freeing his crazy elf and so ended my second year."
Looking around Harriet saw that everyone was finished, "We might be more comfortable continuing in the den." They all agreed and trooped into the den. Luna and Harriet settling on a love seat with Luna's head in Harri's lap, the Marauders took a longer couch, and Griphook settled in an armchair by the fire.
"Anybody else wanting to go hunt down those horcruxes so they won't do damage this time around?" Sirius muttered darkly to his friends, both nodded.
Harriet smiled, "I know where most of them are currently, but we have to move and plan carefully so Dumbledore doesn't catch on and begin to make erratic decisions I can't plan for. Understand?"
Sirius let out a low whine, "Yes, but I'm not feeling the best knowing we can't do even a little."
Harriet studied him before nodding, "Call Kreacher."
Sirius frowned, "That pest? Why?"
"Do you want to take care of a horcrux or what?" Harriet asked.
Sirius frowned but called for the elf, the grizzled elf appeared, "Nasty Master be callin' Kreacher?"
"Kreacher this is my Goddaughter, she is also my heir so treat her well. She wanted to speak to you." Sirius said.
Kreacher turned to Harri, "Nasty Master's heir be needin' Kreacher?"
Harriet nodded seriously, "I am aware that you currently have an unfulfilled order Kreacher." She stated smoothly, "What do you have to say for yourself?"
Kreacher's eyes widened and he began to tremble, "Kreacher is sorry! He be tryin' everything! Nothin' work!"
Harriet raised her nose into the air, "I don't know. Maybe you weren't loyal enough to Master Regulus to fulfill his last order."
"No!" Kreacher moaned, tugging his ears, "Kreacher loved his Master Regulus! Nothin' work! Kreacher be tryin' burnin', breakin', stabbin'! Nothin' work!"
Harriet softened her face, "Alright Kreacher, I believe you now. If I help you with Master Regulus' last order will you try to be a bit nicer to me and Sirius?"
Kreacher nodded with wide eyes, "You be helpin' Kreacher with Master Regulus last order he be bein' the best elf!"
"Alright. Go get it and I will destroy it." Harriet said.
"Yes Young Miss!" Kreacher said, disappearing.
"How the hell?" Sirius asked, looking at Harriet in amazement, she gave him a secretive smile.
"Remus can I borrow your wand?" Harri asked. Remus silently handed her his wand, eyes wide.
Kreacher popped back in a second later holding a locket, "Here Young Miss!"
Harriet took it and smiled, "Thank you Kreacher. Stand over here so you don't get hurt." The elf scrambled to the side of the couch and watched as Harri cast a containment bubble around the locket and let it raise into the air before she hissed, *Open!* Instantly the locket opened and with a screech, black smoke burst out. Harriet flicked Remus' wand and cast, "Feindfyre!" A small snake of the cursed flames flew from the end of the wand, it encased the black smoke and with one last rising screech it was destroyed. Forcing the wild fire out, Harriet held out her hand for the crumpled locket. Once she had inspected it she handed it to Kreacher, "Its done. You have completed Master Regulus' last order."
"Thank you Young Miss!" Kreacher cried, "Can Kreacher be doin' anything for you?"
"No but you can begin putting Grimmuald Place back to rights. Could you imagine what Mistress Walburga would say if she saw the state it's in?" Harriet asked, widening her eyes in mock horror.
Kreacher squeaked in fright and bowed low, "Kreacher be starting right away! Just call if you be needin' Kreacher!" He bowed again to Harriet before doing a shorter bow to Sirius and disappearing.
"You certainly know how to get your way don't you Miss Potter." Griphook chuckled as the three Marauders stared at her in shock.
"Who me?" Harriet said, giving the goblin an innocent look. The goblin shook his head with a smile. Harri turned to the three on the couch, "You want to hear the rest of the story or listen to me explain what just happened?" They looked torn so Harri rolled her eyes, "Story now, questions later." She said firmly as she handed Remus back his wand.
"New characters!" Luna cooed.
Harri brightened, "Yes! New characters! See my third year marked the return of the notorious criminal Sirius Black!" Luna made an exaggerated 'ooo' of excitement as Sirius perked up.
"Notorious is right." Remus muttered as James laughed.
Harri grinned, "Our tale begins after my second year where I was once again with the Dursleys. They had Vernon's horrid sister, the beluga whale also known as Marge, over for several weeks much to our hero's misery. After the beluga whale made several horrid comments about our hero's mother, our hero inflated the whale in a bit of accidental magic and made her float away. Knowing the vile Vernon would beat her, our hero ran away!" She smiled, "Not very heroic but no one's perfect. Anyway, when she stopped to come up with a plan on a park bench she found a mysterious black dog was watching her from across the road. It was rather stalkerish." Harri teased with a grin at Sirius, "Before our hero could confront the foul beast the Knight Bus almost ran her over in an attempt to rescue her. She was whisked away."
"While staying at the Leaky Cauldron our hero was warned that the feared criminal Sirius Black had escaped Azkaban and was thought to be coming after her. Taking that into account our hero still returned to Hogwarts. On the train our hero and the traitors were talking about the breakout and why it was thought the escapee was after her. About that time a dementor attacked the train, targeting the hero. Before the dementor could suck her soul from her, she was saved by the Good Wolf." She said with a smile at Remus, "It turned out that the Good Wolf was the new DADA professor."
"After that, nothing really show-stopping happened until Halloween. Because of the escapee our hero was banned from going to Hogsmeade, however her mates finally revealed to her a mysterious map. With that and her cloak they helped her sneak down to Hogsmeade." Harriet gave a small smile, "She later found out that they considered that their first date."
"You were a third year!" James protested.
"They're my soulmates." Harriet deadpanned, "Be grateful it was third year. Depending on how you define a date one could argue that first year when we spent all our holiday meals together were dates." James deflated a bit at that. "Anyway, when our hero and her mates snuck back in they found the crazed criminal had been in the castle and tried to break into the Gryffindor rooms. He had destroyed the fat lady's painting. Everyone was forced to sleep in the great hall while the castle was searched. The next big thing that happened was our Heroes only failed quidditch game. Despite the storm she noticed her stalker dog in the stands at the start of the game and then while she was looking for the snitch she was surrounded on all sides by Dementors. Their effects made her fall off of her broom and plummet fifty feet, resulting in two other great atrocities. The first being that bloody Hufflepuff won." The Marauders looked scandalized and even Luna was pulling a face. "The second was that our Heroes beloved broom was destroyed when the storm threw it into the Whomping Willow." Harriet gave a sad sniff, while James looked sympathetic.
"Anyway, after that our Hero and her mates snuck out together for another Hogsmeade weekend. With some spying they found the new information that the Azkaban escapee was in fact the Hero's Godfather, which drove the Hero to speak about that with the Good Wolf." Harri skimmed down the page, "Next big event was Christmas. The Hero's stalker sent her a new broom, which was temporarily confiscated when the know-it-all traitor told McGonagall that they didn't know who it was from. Soon after the Good Wolf taught our Hero the Patronus Charm."
"What's your patronus?" James asked curiously.
Harriet smirked, "Prongs." James puffed up his chest proudly. "Moving on. The Escapee attacked Ron which made our Hero and the traitors begin to think something was off about the story they were told. Eventually our Heroes stalker dog, who was course the notorious Sirius Black, drug Ron off under the Willow and the Hero and the know-it-all traitor went after him and that was when the truth was revealed. Sirius hadn't been going for our Hero or Ron he had been after Scabbers who was Ron's pet rat, who was actually Pettigrew who had been hiding out as the Weasley's pet for the previous twelve years. Soon the Good Wolf showed up and reunited with Sirius, Pettigrew was forced out of his rat form, Snape showed up and our Hero knocked him out, which was mostly on accident," James smirked, "the rest decided to take the rat to the castle so Sirius could be freed. Unfortunately, before they could get there the Good Wolf was turned under the light of the moon. Sirius turned back into our Heroes stalker dog and attempted to draw him away but was waylaid by the dementors who had been on school grounds all year to find him. A howl drew the Good Werewolf away, our Hero ran after her stalker dog, the rat escaped, and the traitors were taken back to the castle by Snape. In the meantime, our Hero and Sirius were surrounded by dementors, too many for the Hero who had not yet completed her Patronus to drive off. A Patronus appeared but too late and they both ended up passed out."
"Who cast the Patronus?" James interrupted, "And who managed to draw Moony away?"
Harri huffed, "I'm getting to that."
"And would you stop callin' me a stalker dog?" Sirius pouted.
"No." Harri said bluntly, "You were watching me from some bushes through half that year, that's pretty stalkerish." Remus snickered and Sirius pouted harder. Harriet rolled her eyes, "Anyway, our Hero woke up in the infirmary, of course worried about her wayward stalker Godfather who she had learned was innocent. She found out he was being held in preparation to be kissed. With the help of the know-it-all traitor who conveniently had a time turner, they went back in time to save Sirius. They stole a hippogriff slated for execution due to mini Malfoy's dramatics, drew Moony away with a howl, the Hero cast a full-fledged Patronus in a moment of panic to save herself and her Godfather, then they flew on the hippogriff to the tower Sirius was being held in, our Hero broke him out of the cell, and he flew off on the Hippogriff into his new life as an escaped convict."
"A life of adventure." Luna sighed.
Harriet snickered, "More like an extended camping trip."
"Why did he run though? Surely if he was innocent he could have demanded a trial as Lord Black or you could have as his heir." Griphook said, "In fact why didn't he get a trial in the first place?"
"Everyone just assumed I was guilty." Sirius answered, "It was a time of war. Many went to Azkaban without a trial."
"As for why I didn't say anything." Harri said, "I was unaware at the time both that I was his heir and what I could do with that. Even if I had I'm sure that Dumbledore would have found a way to block it as he did the first time. He rushed the sentencing through to get Sirius out of the way." She gave a bitter smile, "After all, if he was free there would be absolutely nothing he could have done about Sirius taking me. I would have grown up with full knowledge of the magical world, been rebellious and hard to control, and willing to question what was said to me. He couldn't have his weapon anything other than downtrodden and submissive." Griphook grumbled his understanding.
Harriet nodded, "Alright, I'm going to really take fourth year down to the basics. The important part doesn't happen until the end of the year anyway. The year started off with my mates inviting me to join their family at the World Cup, there was a Death Eater attack after the game. On the way to school I found out that the Triwizard Tournament had been started up again."
"Why do I get a bad feeling about that?" James grumbled.
Harriet laughed, "Because I'm pretty sure I got my shitty luck from you. Remus used to say that it was the bipolar Potter Luck attracting all this weird stuff to me." Remus nodded in agreement and James gave her a sympathetic look. "Anyway, so of course I was entered despite being under the age restriction they had put up for safety. The contract was apparently unbreakable so I had to compete or lose my magic. The traitors abandoned me but my mates stuck by my side. That's really when I started to lose trust in them, I wasn't aware I was being played at the time but I did know that true friends weren't supposed to abandon you. In the end it brought me closer to my mates." She gave a soft smile, "Anyway, the first task was to get past a nesting dragon to retrieve an egg, I was paired with a Hungarian Horntail and kicked butt as usual. After that the traitors came crawling back, I think Dumbles scolded them or something. The next big thing was the Yule Ball which was fun, Fred and George asked me together and McGonagall made a point to say that only one could go with me so they spent the night switching out, trying to trick me into confusing them."
Harriet flipped through a couple pages before nodding, "Alright, after Christmas was the second task. They took George and hid him in Black Lake for me to rescue. I came back with him first but also managed to save the Beabuton Champion's person as well. When George and I found Fred afterward and I explained that they took what I would miss the most for me to save. Fred spent the next several hours pouting and George bragging until Madeye, our DADA professor for the year, overheard and told the twins that the goblet had chosen both of them as my people to save but the rules were clear that a champion could only save one so McGonagall had chosen between the two of them." Harriet laughed softly at them memory of her mates being extra cuddly after that, they had drug her off to one of the secret alcoves and they had cuddled her between them for several hours. She very carefully didn't mention that to her father.
"The third task was a maze full of dangerous creatures. I fought my way through and managed to come to the Triwizard Cup at the same time as the other Hogwarts champion. Wanting to be fair as well as get back to the entrance so my wounds could be treated I offered to grab the Cup at the same time as him so we shared the victory. The Cup didn't take us to the entrance though, it took us to a graveyard." Harriet's eyes glazed over a bit and her voice changed, "Wormtail was there. He killed Cedric, the other champion, and then managed to get me trapped by a large angel headstone. He proceeded to go through the ritual that resurrected Voldemort fully; cutting off his hand, stealing a bone from Voldemort's father, and taking blood from me. A bit of Latin later Voldemort was back." She frowned at the floor for several tense and silent seconds before Luna rubbed her knee.
Harriet shook herself out of her stupor and smiled gratefully at Luna, "Of course the arrogant asshole called his followers and gave a little impromptu speech about being disappointed in them and such. When that was done the attention came back to me. The moron wanted to prove himself capable of killing me so he let me go and started a farce of a duel. Eventually, due to the fact we had brother wands, our spells connected and created a dome around us. Spirits of the people he'd killed started breaking out of his wand, a couple people later mum came out." She looked to her father who was looking forlorn, "I always wondered why your spirit didn't come out as well but I guess I know now. Anyway, mum told me to hold the connection for a bit longer then when I finally had to break it she had the other spirits rush Voldemort so I had enough time to grab Cedric's body and the Cup to get back to school. Dumbledore in all his infinite wisdom didn't even allow me time to be treated for the wounds I had received both from the tournament and the little Voldemort detour, he forced me to his office so I could tell him what happened. After that Moody offered to take me to the hospital wing but instead took me to his office where it seemed he had gone even more insane than normal. Turned out it was Barty Crouch Jr. polyjuiced as Moody and he was the one to put my name in the cup. My mates arrived just as I managed to subdue Crouch, they sent an elf for Dumbledore, then made sure I finally got medical attention. Thus ended fourth year."
"You just can't catch a break can you Prongslet." Sirius sighed.
Harri gave him a lopsided smile, "My mates and family outweigh the bad."
"I've liked what I've heard about them so far but they must be pretty kickass for you to think they balance out all the shit you've been through princess." James said softly.
Harri smiled wide, "They're the best. Truly."
James nodded, "Then I will be happy to welcome them into our family."
Harriet's smile turned blinding, "Thanks Dad." She looked back down to her journal and winced, "Fifth year. So I was back at the Dursleys once again, I was completely cut off. No one sent me letters or anything, after what had just happened I'm sure you understand why that put me into a bit of depression."
"Why wouldn't we have sent you anything?" Remus asked with a frown.
"Dumbledore had you both convinced it was for my safety, that your letters would be tracked. Never mind that there are other ways to communicate or that there are spells to put on letters to protect them." Harri said, rolling her eyes. "The traitors of course followed their employer's orders. My mates managed to get one through but after that Dumbledore caught all of the other letters and destroyed them after realizing he couldn't read them."
"We always were too trusting of the old man." Sirius grumbled, "Look what's to come of it."
Harriet grinned, "Now you're getting it." She looked back to the journal, "Where was I? Ah yes. I was in a bit of depression from being cut off. When at the park, about to be beat up by Dudley I was attacked by dementors who I found out much later were sent by the Ministry in a bid to get me out of the way. I tried making a run for it to adhere to the statue and everything but they followed us and began to kiss Dudley. My whole 'saving people thing' came up and I couldn't just let the waste of space die at the time so I cast my Patronus. The lead to me being charged with the use underage magic as well as use of magic in front of a muggle. I went to trial and they tried to claim that the dementors hadn't really been there; they made no attempt to make a formal investigation, no attempt to question me under veratiserum, just said I was a child trying to show up my muggle cousin. Then Dumbledore came and got me declared innocent."
"Only thing that man is good for." Remus grumbled.
Harri smiled at him, "Yes. Anyway, after that I was taken to Grimwauld Place for the first time. Sirius had offered it up to the newly reinstated Order of the Phoenix for their headquarters. All the Weasley's had practically moved in. Later I found out that Molly used that access to administer a bit of a top off on the love potion I was receiving. It never worked like it was supposed to because, even though we didn't know and hadn't completed the bond, the nearness of my Soulmates countered the potion. Then I went back to school," she smiled down at Luna, "That's when I met my dear sister for the first time." Luna gave Harri a bright smile, her eyes clear. "We met when I saw the threstrals for the first time. She explained them to me, that I could only see them because I had seen death."
Sirius frowned, "So you haven't technically met yet? This time around I mean. How did she know to come here? And that you two were close enough to consider each other sisters?"
Harri's smile brightened, "Luna is a special kind if Seer. She doesn't get visions like a traditional Seer. She just Knows things, some of which she can share, some she can't."
Luna looked over to three men, "The Nargles tell me things as well. They told me all about the last time I sided with Harriet and then earlier I Knew that she would need my support for this conversation."
"I am glad your here." Harri said, leaning down and giving the blonde an awkward sideways hug. When she pulled back she checked her spot in her journal, "Ah yes, at school we discovered that the Ministry was interfering at Hogwarts, they had appointed a horrid woman as the DADA professor. She was truly terrible, like I would take Voldemort holding me under constant crucios to this woman if that tells you anything. I and the twins took to calling her Umbitch. Anyway, Umbitch completely ruined DADA. She didn't allow us to practice, it was only book work, spouting off nonsense like we would never need it and if we knew the theory well enough we wouldn't have trouble on the off chance we would actually need it. She also gave horrible detentions, forced students to write with a blood quill every time. The Ministry granted her a lot of power in the school, she made decrees that everyone had to follow, reviewed all of the teachers and fired a bunch, and she replaced Dumbledore as Headmaster. Eventually however she became convinced the Dumbles was hiding a secret weapon out in the woods and had me and the know-it-all traitor show her. The centaurs came across us and, after she made several derogatory comments, she was drug off by the herd."
"While all that was happening I was also teaching almost the entire school DADA on the sly and dealing with visions from Voldemort. The DA was the traitor's idea, I went along with it because I was going to practice on my own anyway and the twins convinced me I was a good teacher. So we held this club secretly, as clubs had been prohibited by Umbitch, in the Room of Requirement." Harriet stopped as the three Marauders gasped, "What?"
"We looked for the Room of Requirement our entire time at Hogwarts but by the end was convinced it was a myth!" James said excitedly.
Harri cocked an eyebrow, "Did you ever ask the elves?"
Sirius pouted, "It's not real exploring if you get directions."
Harri laughed, "Well if it makes you feel any better I wasn't looking for it. When the elves told me about it I had only asked for a safe room big enough to teach a large group in."
"It doesn't." Remus huffed.
Harriet looked amused at all of their reactions, "Very well then. So we used the RoR for our club meetings and I successfully taught everything up to the Patronus before we were caught and disbanded. The visions from Voldemort, well the visions showed me various things he was doing and one even allowed me to save Arthur Weasley's life when he was bitten by Voldemort's snake Nagini. Dumbledore decided though that if Voldemort happened to use the connection to see into my mind it could be a problem so he ordered Snape to teach me Occlumency which of course went terribly. Also, apparently Voldemort found out or was already aware I was getting visions from him. He used that to lure me to the Department of Mysteries to retrieve the prophecy about us."
James frowned, "You're very smart princess, didn't you think that might be a trap?"
"Of course." Harriet snapped, "But the vision showed him torturing Sirius and when I woke up I couldn't get an answer on the mirrors." James winced and nodded in understanding, "Anyway, so I, Luna, Neville Longbottom, my mates, and the traitors went to the Ministry. When we got to the DoM, Death Eaters were waiting for us and demanded that I retrieve the prophecy. I did but instead of giving it to them I sent the shelves toppling and we ran. We ended up jumping out of a door that fell down into a room that held the Veil Arch. The Death Eaters followed us and we began to fight. Soon Sirius, Remus, and the rest showed up to help." Harriet began to fidget and Luna sat up and moved to wrap her arms around Harri, James and Remus frowned at her in confusion. It became clear though when she started again, though this time a bit shakily, "I and Sirius were fighting together near the veil when two different spells hit him and sent him back into the veil." The Marauders eyes all went wide at this.
Harriet clutched Luna for support but continued on nonetheless, "I thought at the time the it was all Bellatrix. She was the one I saw send the spell but later after I reviewed my mates and Luna's memories I saw that Moody had sent a spell at the same time. His was lethal, Bella's was just supposed to throw Sirius off balance so she had an opening. It was on Dumbledore's orders." Remus began to curse under his breath and Harri gave him a weak smile, "I went after Bellatrix as soon as it happened and held her under the Cruicatis for two minutes."
"You cast an Unforgivable and didn't get caught?" James asked with a raised eyebrow.
"With all the other dark magic that was going on at the Ministry that night it got lost among the others." Harriet said, she wiped quickly at her eyes, "Before I could do anything else with Bella, Voldemort showed up. He distracted me so Bella could get away. We fought a bit but I wasn't in the right mind to do anything. Dumbledore swept in and fought Voldemort a bit, then Voldemort tried to possess me through our connection. I managed to push him out and he retreated but not before all the Ministry fools who thought I was crazy showed up and saw him. After Voldemort escaped Dumbledore tried to get me to stay with him to face the press but my mates got me out quickly. That was pretty much it for my fifth year."
"Sixth Year was pretty light event wise. It was mostly information and the building of mine and my mate's suspicions. Dumbledore used my status as Savior to get Slughorn to come back to school. I spent the rest of my summer avoiding the traitors, who had become clingy and a bit pushy which I later found out was because Dumbledore thought my mates were turning me from him and I was plotting something bad with them. Dumbledore gave me a few 'lessons' throughout the year where he pussyfooted around the existence of the horcruxes. He himself had gotten cursed retrieving one of them, though Snape had managed to counter it. Through all of this I was beginning to see several things for what they were. My 'friends' weren't loyal to me, they were loyal to Dumbledore and, despite all his talk, Dumbledore didn't really care if I got hurt."
Harriet tapped her fingers against her journal in slight agitation, "That's when I started questioning every interaction I had ever had in the Wizarding World. The only ones I found to be genuine were the interactions with my mates, Luna, Neville, and mini Malfoy of all people (even if it was only genuine hate). I started writing my suspicions to the twins, who at that point were out of Hogwarts, and we began setting plans in motion."
"But we couldn't truly start until school ended for the summer. Before that happened, Dumbledore took me to hunt for the locket, though after that fiasco we found out it had been replaced by Regulus who begun to turn away from Voldemort."
"Regulus was coming over to the light?" Sirius breathed.
"Yes, he started having doubts after Voldemort started going crazy over taking out a one-year-old. Unfortunately, he was killed by the inferi who surrounded the locket before he could come over." Harriet said with a sad smile. Sirius slumped in his seat and James patted his back gently. "After we retrieved the fake locket Dumbledore had Snape help fake his death so that Snape's loyalty wouldn't be in question with the dark. They let school out early because of this. After Dumbledore's fake funeral I was able to put the first plan into action which was going to Gringotts."
"There I found out the extent of my problems. Dumbledore had set it up with the previous manager to have payments going from my account to him, the Dursleys, the Order, and Mrs. Weasley since about a month after I was placed at the Dursleys. Later on Ron, Hermione, Ginny, and Madeye were added. Dumbles had also placed a bind on my magic, set several compulsions on me, and gave me a slew of loyalty and soul bond suppression potions as well as the love potion keyed to Ron. They also found the horcrux in my head."
"He bound your magic?!" Remus exclaimed, "That could have turned you into a squib or worse!"
"The sanity of Dumbles is not the current concern though we may come back to it later." Harri giggled, "Anyway, I got all of that taken care of, claimed my Ladyship's, appointed Griphook to manage all the accounts under my name, then went to meet the twins at their apartment above their shop. The second we saw each other the freed soul bond reacted and we..." she cleared her throat and ducked her head to cover her blush, "bonded."
"Well you guys better not bond this time around until your twenty!" James said sternly.
Harriet rolled her eyes, "First of all dad, there are ways to partially complete the soul bond without jumping straight to sex. We only did because we were already suppressing feelings for each other and the soul bond had been compressed for so long and under the strain of a love potion. Secondly I don't want to hear it from you. I had access to the Marauders Journal last time. I am well aware that you lost your virginity fourth year. And that wasn't even to your soulmate. You losing your virginity at fifteen to a sixth year Hufflepuff loses you the right to complain about how I lose mine this or last time around."
James was beet red at this point and Sirius was laughing at his friend's embarrassment. Remus simply smiled at Harriet, "I'm sure you'll know when the time is right."
Harriet returned his smile, "Thank you." She waited until her father and Sirius calmed down before continuing. "After we found out who we truly were to each other things changed. I was originally going to hunt for the horcruxes with Neville and Luna but discovering they were my mates we knew we couldn't and didn't want to be apart that long. So they left their joke shop in the hands of their friends Lee and Angela and came with me on the hunt. It took a year but we destroyed all of the horcruxes but two before managing to make it back to Hogwarts. The school became a battle ground, Voldemort was trying to take over but they had the Order and the students I had trained to go against. Moony went down in that battle, taking out Greyback." Remus gave a small bittersweet smile. "We quickly destroyed the diadem, I sent Neville after the snake, and I and the twins went up against Voldemort. We succeeded in sending his own Avada Kedavra back at him just seconds after Neville killed Nagini."
Harriet sighed, "After the battle we got two weeks. Two weeks to mourn all the losses and rest before Dumbledore started getting serious about the keeping me under his control. Ron showed up at the twins' apartment where we were staying at the time and proposed to me like we had been dating for years which never happened." Harriet shuddered in disgust, "The twins reacted rather violently to that, which I found hilarious. In the end it resulted in everyone in Diagon Alley knowing exactly who my soulmates were. That got back to Dumbledore and he didn't like it but he didn't give up. He tried to get my soulmates to go along with his plan. Which was to marry me to a Weasley, get me pregnant, and then kill me once they had control of the child and all of the money. My mates refused of course and that made Dumbledore very angry. Before he could enact the next part of his plan I and my mates went to Gringotts were they officially left their family, managing to take the Prewett Lordships on a technicality. When we left Gringotts we were met by Dumbledore, who had assembled a mob and proclaimed me a rising Dark Lady. Just as the spells started flying my mates used a portkey we had just received for one of their properties to escape. That's how we ended up in America."
Harriet closed her journal and shifted in her seat, "Now I'm going to skim over the last seven years because it would involve a long in depth conversation about many aspects of muggle culture and most of the events won't matter this time because I'm being selfish and want the rest of my family back and don't want to wait another seven or more years for that to happen."
"We made it to New York however were picked up on a camera by a man named Tony Stark who would eventually become like a big brother to me. He is part of a group of extraordinary muggles who have powers and use it to protect the earth, they are called the Avengers. The Avengers are made up of Tony, a genius who made a flying metal suit; Steve Rodgers, a super soldier who goes by the name Captain America; James "Bucky" Barnes, another super soldier who goes by the name the Winter Solider; Clint Barton, an archer and master assassin who goes by Hawkeye; Natasha Romanoff, a master assassin who goes by the name Black Widow; Thor, God of Thunder, and Bruce, a scientist who turns into an indestructible green giant named Hulk when he gets angry. They had already had a scare with a couple of magic villains and came after us to assess us, subtly at first and then bolder as their tactics failed to get past our magic. We didn't officially meet until Loki escaped and tried to take over New York again."
"Loki?" James questioned.
Harriet grinned, "Norse God of Mischief, Loki. He became part of the family too."
"You consider the God of Chaos and Lies family?" Sirius squeaked, his expression excited.
Harri nodded, "Yep, he taught me a bunch of stuff. You'll get to meet him eventually." Her eyes sparkled with amusement, "Maybe you can tell him about the shrine."
"Oh dear Merlin not the shrine." Remus moaned.
"Anyway, they were going up against him and having some trouble. My mates and I were trying to get the civilians to safety before I got caught up in the action as usual, when I got closer to Loki I saw a few signs of what I recognized as Imperius but I later found out was a different form of control. I forced my way into his mind and cleared out the presence that was controlling Loki. The rest is history, after I explained to the Avengers, SHIELD, and Asgard what happened they pardoned Loki and asked myself and the twins to be consultants, which we agreed too. After that for about a year they would just show up randomly and we slowly became a family. We moved into Avengers tower and helped them out when they had trouble, had adventures, and were generally happy for four years before disaster hit. Dumbledore came after us again, we were never sure if he ever truly lost us or was simply biding his time but he came ready to finish me. We were thrown back into war with a single attack, that was the attack Dumbledore killed my son and took down the Avengers tower." Fury flashed in her eyes. "He had managed to make an agreement with Thanos, the one who was controlling Loki, so he had the full might of the chitauri as well as most of Wizarding Britain behind him."
"Why would he go from wanting to get your child to just killing you?" Remus asked.
"He declared war on me when proclaimed me a rising Dark Lady so in the eyes of the Goblins, as long as my mates were dead and I had no offspring he could claim ALL of my accounts by right of conquest." Harri said.
"How did we never see that he was so messed up?" James muttered.
"We grew up being told he was all that was light and good in this world, the champion of muggleborns, the defeater of Grindelwald." Sirius growled.
Harri gave them sad smiles, "Anyway, because of all that we moved everyone here to keep safe and then later we moved to LeFay castle when Asgard sent us soldiers to fight with us and SHIELD needed a base." Harriet continued, "We fought for three years until we came to the final battle. Thanos was getting impatient and Dumbledore had to deliver." Harriet let out a shaky breath, "He knew I wouldn't just engage without purpose so he had Fred and George killed. Then when he and his army showed up the next day and managed to bring down the wards we fought. It went on for hours, almost the entire day, until I was the only one left standing on my side." Harriet's face hardened and her eyes flashed icy blue, "That's when Glacia brought us back, so I could fix what happened, protect my mates and my family, and avenge my child who never got the chance to live."
She stared into the plush carpet unseeingly for several tense and silent seconds before she shook herself out of it and looked up, "So, that's my story."
