Summary- All her life Harry, short for Harriette, had always been one of the boys and nothing was really going to stop that. Not even a Zombie apocalypse. So, what if the group she was currently in was under the mistaken perception that she was actually a male. After all, considering all that was going around them did it really matter? Fem!Harry

Disclaimer- I do not own Harry Potter, or the Walking Dead. Nor, do I make any money off of either one of them.

Chapter Ten

Harry, after she heard that Sophia had gone missing, felt her heart drop straight out of her chest; and begin to rest somewhere near her stomach. The sweet little girl that used to come to Harry for bedtime stories when she was scared and followed her around the camp when she had first arrived; acting like she was some kind of superhero, was now missing.

Harry knowing this began to feel guilty. Because with all that had been happening lately, and with how torn up her thoughts had gotten, she hadn't been paying as much attention to the children as she usually did. Hell, she hardly had been paying any attention to them whatsoever in the last day or so; which was something Harry found herself regretting immensely.

But no more, she had to find Sophia, and she could tell from just looking at them that both Daryl and Merle they felt the exact same way as she did. That's when one of Merle's earlier suggestions about how she could use her magic rang out in her head. The location charm, she could use it to see just what direction Sophia had gone in. Which when you include the tracking skills that Merle and Daryl had, would make it just that much easier to find Sophia with.

This in mind Harry ran after Daryl and Merle, who had already started off to the forest to look for Sophia; ignoring the sneering that Lori was doing at her back as she did so. Apparently neither Lori, nor Shane saw any reason why they had to look for a little girl. It seemed both of them wanted to leave and find a safe place to stay instead. Even if Shane was really the only one who was being seriously vocal about this suggestion.

Fortunately everyone, including Rick, was ignoring Shane and was instead either trying to help Carol or where making plans to find Sophia themselves. Though at the moment only Daryl Merle, and Harry were actually in the forest actively searching for Sophia.

What else was fortunate, at least where both Shane and Lori were concerned, was that neither one of them attempted to stop Daryl, Merle or Harry from going out to look for Sophia in the first place. Because if they had, anyone of those three would have broken them; in one way or another.

Harry once she caught up with the two brothers, and while making sure she wasn't getting in their way as they searched for a trail, she pulled out her wand and said in a clear, though low, tone that the brothers could clearly hear.

"Point me Sophia." The two brothers hearing this watched as the wand in Harry's hand began to spin around wildly before stopping and pointing to the north through a section of trees nearby. Seeing this Harry told the two beside her.

"Sophia, is in that direction, that was a locating charm. As long as she is still alive and isn't in another country or too far away, I can find her with that charm…just like Merle suggested earlier when I asked about ways to help the others with magic."

After saying this Harry followed the two in the direction the wand had been pointing in. Still making sure to remain careful not to walk in front of them as she did so; least she accidently mess up some tracks they could follow to Sophia. After all she knew magic wasn't always the most exact and having a second way of solving things would always be a good thing to have.

They had been in the woods looking for Sophia for a good ten minutes now, and they had been forced to use the locating charm once more when they ran a crossed a river. One Sophia obviously had run through for a while, and as of yet they still hadn't found her. That's when Harry remembered something else, she could do that would help further and as she remembered this, she felt like hitting herself on the head for not recalling it sooner.

Daryl most have noticed something was wrong with Harry, maybe from the way she was standing or something similar to it, because he could tell there was something on Harry's mind; something that was making her lose her concentration. It was because of this, and because he got the feeling that whatever it was bothering Harry could prove to be helpful to know in the future, asked her.

"What's wrong, is it something to do with Sophia or is it something else?" Hearing this Harry was knocked out of her thoughts of mentally berating herself for forgetting something so important, especially when she had actually mentioned in not that long ago, answered Daryl.

"No, I just thought of an easier way to find Sophia, not to mention a safer way as well. I can shift into my Animagus for and smell her out. Not to mention while I'm in that form the walkers tend to avoid me because the hell flames and all that. It's like they know the flames can destroy them or something like that."

Hearing this, both brothers were eager to actually see her Animagus form. Both because they could see how it could be helpful in tracking, and because, well how many people got to say they saw someone shift into something like a hell cat anyway.

Harry seeing the, hidden looks of curious and excitement on both brothers faces, quickly shifted into her Animagus form of a Hell cat. Leaving the brothers to be temporarily stunned at the site of a large horse sized, almost sabretooth looking, black and green flaming cat in front of them.

Not that they let their shock keep them down for long, because not even seconds after she had shifted Harry had caught onto Sophia sent and was racing after it; both Daryl and Merle hot on her heels as she did this. It was because of this that the three of them were able to hear a scream coming from ahead of them; a scream that sounded just like Sophia. Hearing this, the three took off even faster than they had been before; determined to get to the girl before she could be hurt.

Harry knowing her Animagus form would likely terrify the girl, not to mention raise too many questions back at camp. Questions which she honestly didn't want to deal with, if Sophia actually saw it, shifted back to her human form; just as the three burst into the clearing that they now knew Sophia was in. When they did this, what they saw the second they got to that clearing was Sophia in a tree trying to escape a trio of Walkers that were trying to pull her down so they could eat her.

Seeing this, the three adults now in the field became enrage, and all three of them sprang into action. Daryl had his bow and arrow out before any of them could blink before proceeding to shoot the Walker closest to Sophia down, and then another arrow went flying from his direction aiming for the one that was furthest away.

While Merle had one of his blades out and throw it at the last remaining Walker there, hitting it dead center in the head before it even realized he was there. Meanwhile Harry took advantage of her small size and twisted between the walkers and was up the tree helping getting Sophia out of it before the three bodies of the walkers even hit the ground.

Once Harry was out of the tree, and had a clearly terrified, sobbing, Sophia in her arms she began to smoothly pat the little girl on her back; looking almost panicked as she did so. Much to Daryl and Merle's amusement as they watched her; it was obvious Harry really wasn't used to anyone really crying on her like that. And she certainly wasn't used to a small child hugging her like she was the last thing on this earth; at least not anymore.

Harry seeing the fact that both brothers looked to be amused at what was currently happening to her. Glared at them and mimicked handing the child to them just to see what they would do. Only to get her own look of amusement when both brothers rapidly shook their heads, in a negative fashion, they didn't know what to do either, and both thought Harry was actually doing the best job. Seeing this, Harry rolled her eyes before getting hit with a burst of inspiration.

"Hey Sophia, why don't we get you back to your mom? I'm sure she's missing you just as terribly as you must be missing her." This seemed to do the trick as it got Sophia to loosen her grip from around Harry throat and caused her to rapidly nod her head; obviously she wanted her mom. Seeing this Harry grinned and after giving a quick thumbs up to both Daryl and Merle, she began to backtrack her way back to camp; knowing the two brothers would watch her back as she did so.

It didn't take the, now group of four, long to make it back to where the others had been when Sophia had been lost. Only to find out that everyone looked to be packing up and looking ready to leave; in fact currently the only ones still there were Amy, Andrea T-dog, Glenn and Carol. All of which were moving as fast as they could to repack everything back up in the vehicles.

Seeing this, Harry couldn't help but wonder if the group had been preparing to leave them all behind, and if so could they really trust the rest of the group now. Only to be torn from her thoughts as Sophia, who was still in her arms, started to struggle to get away from her hold.

Feeling this, Harry looked down and seeing that the little girl in her arms was looking at her mother not to mention trying her hardest to reach her. Seeing this Harry smiled slightly before letting her go. Watching with a warm look on her face as the Sophia ran to her mother and hugged her.

Causing Carol to fall to the ground from the sheer speed Sophia had picked up while running towards her. Not that Carol seemed to care in the least bit about this as she clutched her daughter to her; tears of happiness falling from her eyes. Harry seeing this, for the first time in a long time felt like crying herself; this time from the sheer warmth from the scene in front of her.

Carol, after checking on her daughter, and just holding her close to her for a little bit, slowly climbed back up and began to walk towards the trio who had brought her daughter back to her in the first place. Once she reached them, she swept Harry into the strongest hug she could manage at the moment, and still crying slightly told, the now wide-eyed woman.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you three so much. You found my baby girl, thank you. I don't even want to think about what I would do without her, and you guys have made it so I wouldn't have too. So, thank you so much, and I'm so sorry I miss judge you guys so badly, I'm so sorry about that."

This last bit was directed mainly at the Dixon brothers but Harry could tell that it helped, and that in at least some ways it had also somewhat directed at her at the same time; which honestly Harry could say did bring the respect she had for Carol go up in some degree. As at least she both apologized and thanked them for what they had done.

Still the hug was starting to get uncomfortable for Harry, who still really wasn't comfortable being touched by others, so she started to shrug her way out of the Carol's hug. Then once she was finally free Harry didn't hesitate in a second when it came to asking the question that had been bothering her since she had first walked back into the camp.

"Just why is everyone looking to be rushing around and packing up? Were you guys planning on leaving or something?" Carol hearing the question Harry had asked and seeing that both the brothers behind her looked to be rather tense, went wide eyed before answering.

"Oh, oh I can't believe I almost forgot! Rick, Shane and Carl went off a short while after you three did, to help look for Sophia as well. And well, while they were out, a hunter had shot clean through a deer and shot hit Carl as well. Rick was just here, and now all of us are going to the Farm Carl and the others are now at. Apparently, the Famer who owns it is also a veterinarian and will be hopefully able to fix Carl up."

Carol after saying this, went right back to work helping the rest of the other finish packing up. Daryl, Merle, and Harry right behind her as she did so. Though even as she helped everyone pack up Harry could help but think to herself.

'Why is it always the children who are the ones to get hurt the most?'