The Hofstadter Pancake Decay Anomaly
Triple Bill
Harry was standing in a hallway with Penny, Raj and Leonard, waiting for Leonard's speech on something to do with supersolids.
He watched as Penny adjusted Leonard's tie, because Leonard can't do simple things without a helping hand, and waited for when Wolowitz came back out for him to make his sharp exit from the group, not wanting to be caught in a situation where he doesn't understand a 'joke' that they tell.
The reason being is because they only tell physics jokes and not actual proper jokes.
So when Wolowitz came back out of the room, Harry left Penny to the humour of physicists.
When Penny entered the room and sat next to him, he got a bit of an angry Penny, quietly ranting about leaving her alone with super-crazy smart people.
About 2 hours later and after Penny had fallen asleep with boredom, Harry nudged her awake and quietly whispered, "Penny, Sheldon and Leonard are gonna be here for a while we can probably go wait in his car."
A half-awake Penny just agreed and after waiting another 30 minutes and talking to Penny about her acting career and how she went for a show part but didn't get it, Howard, Raj and Leonard all came back and drove back to the apartment block in silence.
Harry and Penny wouldn't know what happened until they both saw the viral video about Sheldon and Leonard's fight a couple of hours later.
Harry was waiting for Penny at the staff door of the theatre that she performed at for that night.
It didn't go that well for Penny, her singing wasn't that good and in the end it was only Harry and one other person left watching.
Of course, Penny's actual acting was OK. It was the fact that she couldn't sing to save her life that made the show hard to watch.
But he stayed through it because it would've hurt Penny's feelings if he left during the show.
When she came out she looked like she had been crying.
Of course, having no idea what to do, he just put an arm around her shoulder and told her to give him her car keys.
He drove her home and then sat and talked her through the good and bad things about her performance, having a little teaching experience from when he had tried to teach students some basic defence and offence spells before Hogwarts was attacked.
After giving her some tea and helping her realise that musicals were not the way to go for Penny, he went to leave her apartment.
But not before Penny pulled him into a hug, worthy of a Weasley, and a light peck on the cheek before he fully left, a little dazed from the sudden affection from her since she had a boyfriend.
Mike was actually a nice guy but was not a long term relationship kinda guy. Harry just hoped that Penny realised that before she starts to fall in love with him.
Shaking his head and grimacing, remembering the awful singing, he just got under the shower and tried to sleep away the memory of Penny singing so badly.
It was 6.30 when Harry was woken up by a knock at his door.
He opened his door and saw a worried and alerted Leonard, holding his shoes in his hand.
"Sheldon is ill" Was the only thing Leonard said as he walked into his apartment.
Harry paled and ran into his room, as Leonard called Howard and Raj, he grabbed some clothes and a hoodie and shoes and ran back out into the living room, putting clothes on as Leonard was finishing making plans with Wolowitz, Planet of the Apes marathon.
Harry remembered the dreaded ear infection of '06 that started code 'Milky Green'.
It was that whenever Sheldon was ill, they hide away for a period of 18-24 hours and have no contact, answering no phone calls or text's until Sheldon starts to get better.
"Let's go." Harry said once he had his shoes on, they checked to see if Sheldon had come down to 3B, but it seemed that he hadn't thought of that yet, and they left the building quickly and raced in Leonard's car, to the movies.
As they were going into the cinema, wearing ape masks and carrying popcorn.
That was when he got a phone call from Penny saying that Sheldon was at the factory and that he was eating soup.
He told the others about the update in the situation.
When he told Penny to tell Sheldon to go home, Penny asked him to come and get him.
Harry quickly made the excuse that he was helping Leonard with an experiment, he then got the others to make meltdown noises and quickly cut off the phone before she could get too inquisitive.
Harry did feel a little bad, but after she experiences Sheldon being ill, she would probably do the same thing.
The first movie started and as Leonard was taking his mask off, his glasses fell off, during the search, Howard crushed them.
So they made the trip back to the flat block to pick up a new pair of glasses.
Harry, Raj and Howard all stayed outside and when Penny caught him sneaking around, they all bailed to go back to Raj's place.
After watching Fellowship of the Ring, Raj drove Harry back to his place and he went to apologise to Penny, hoping that she would understand.
He would then try again the next day when she had calmed down.
And then after a second day, and near-death experience, Penny forgave him but getting a favour out of him before she did.
Harry was talking to multiple people around a table, all of them looking down at a map of the world. The map was black, with small red dots scattered across it.
Each red dot signified active resistance bases, the black signified Voldemort controlled locations.
Then suddenly, the red dots started to go out, or diminish in size, a wave spreading outwards from England.
Harry knew Voldemort was preparing something, but using some sort of magical pulse to remove all of the resistance seemed like a bold and dangerous step. After all, it could kill everyone.
Then suddenly, half the table collapsed dead.
No sign they were going to die, they just dropped dead, like they were dying from the killing curse.
During the week chaos where the resistance fragmented into fighting their local ministries instead of Voldemort as a whole, people began to realise that only muggle borns had died.
Anyone with mixed or pureblood blood had survived, but anyone without a drop or pureblood blood in them died.
Harry remembered the faces of the people as they realised that muggleborn magic had been removed from them by Voldemort, using a ritual he had been building since leaving Hogwarts.
That was the moment everyone realised that all was lost, because without new blood getting into the community, then they would die out slowly, over a matter of generations.
Then Harry saw the dead eyes of the final resistance attack team, leading an attack on Malfoy Manor.
A/N - I'm glad that people are enjoying the story.
In response to a review. Yes I do think Harry will date as well as Penny before they get together, but the only women introduced were for Leonard, so I might have to create Original Character.
Things will get good soon, don't worry.
EDIT - Some small changes made.
