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Chapter 13

Her Fate is Sealed

Harriet Jane Potter, more commonly called Harri, was not an average girl by anyone's standards. She was a gifted student, was the youngest seeker in over a century, was part Veela and defeated the greatest dark wizard in over a hundred years, and she hadn't even been of age.

Her scar had begun to fade as time passed, it didn't look like it had just been inflicted. It had taken on a light pink color. Harri doubted that it would ever disappear, a mark of death doesn't just leave a person, but it would fade.

The Ministry was picking up the pieces of its reputation and becoming a strong government once again, much to the delight of the general population. Sirius had been reinstated as an Auror, but he declined the position. He decided to start his own business repairing and creating motorbikes. Of course, he might modify some of them, but the ministry didn't have to know about that. Surprisingly, he wasn't bad at his job and some muggle companies had gotten in contact with him. Anne kept him in line and Harri just watched everything with a grin on her face.

Everyone seemed to be picking themselves up after the battle with Voldemort. With him gone, there was an air of hope among the Order Members...they didn't have to go on life threatening missions every other week. They could settle down, have a family without the worry of a dark lord taking them away.

Even Draco, who had lost his mother tragically, had started smiling again, with the help of Luna. She had forced him out of his room a week and a half after his mother's death. Apparently, she had snogged him silly and that snapped him out of his depressed state. The two are barely ever seen apart these days.

Draco had actually been helping the Weasley twins invent various prank products with his potion making skills. He had received a perfect mark on his potions OWL score. No one had done that since his godfather had attended Hogwarts.

Speaking of her sourly potions professor, he had been in a rather interesting mood recently. Bellatrix decided that it was going to be her personal mission to make him get over Lily Potter, with whatever means necessary. She had even gone so far as to dye her own hair red and skip around him all day. She had never seen her professor so embarrassed. Draco claimed that he broke a rib from laughing.

Bellatrix would often bring Snape over to Grimmauld Place with her frequently and try to make peace with Sirius and Remus. She claimed that he needed more friends.

Harri had a feeling that if Bellatrix hadn't been dosed with compulsory potions, she probably would have had a relationship with Snape at a much younger age.

Bellatrix had become really good friends with Tonks, who's going to be the permanent defense against the dark arts professor, since Hogwarts let out for the summer. Tonks even went so far as to make Bellatrix her maid of honor at her wedding.

Currently, Harri was sitting on a desk chair reading over a parchment with her OWL scores on them:

Transfigurations: O

Charms: O

Defense Against the Dark Arts: O

Potions: O

Herbology: O

Astronomy: O

History of Magic: A

Arithmancy: E

Care of Magical Creatures: E

Ancient Runes: O

The scores were expected, she had studied hard and she was determined to get top marks. She had promised Hermione competition for the Head Girl position after all. She had also received her book list for the next year along with Gryffindor Quidditch Team Captain badge. She would wear that with honor.

Sadly, she hadn't seen Hermione all summer. She was in France with Cedric. As soon as the school year starts he is going to begin his Auror training. Sirius and Tonks were scaring him the entire time he had been at Grimmauld Place, telling him a bunch of horror stories from their training days.

Harri figured that a bunch of them were lies, but she wasn't going to tell Cedric that, she liked watching him squirm, as did both the twins.

Harri chuckled at the thought of the twins. They were running their shop at Diagon Alley with ease. They had been making a large profit since Hogwarts let out. The two were born businessmen, even Molly Weasley admitted it after she saw their shop. She still had yet to accept Harri as her son's girlfriend, but she didn't yell at them whenever they were in the same room. So, Harri figured that it was progress.

Harri had visited George six times at his shop over the summer, he was busy and she knew better than to bother him while he was working. She saw him frequently over the weekends since Draco was helping with potion productions.

That left Harri with where she was now. She put her scores down and sighed, standing up from the chair and moving towards the mirror on the other side of her room, passing her open door. Today was a very important day, not for her, but for her family.

Harri was dressed in a form fitting, mint green dress, various pieces of jewelry scattered on her person, including her basilisk fang necklace. She brushed a piece of long black hair from her face and flicked it behind her head. Her hair had magically decided to grow back on her sixteenth birthday, when she had come into her Veela inheritance. It now reached her mid back and laid flat, much to her delight. She decided that today she was going to leave it down, it was a special occasion after all.

Something caught her eye on the other side of the room. Harri looked in the corner of the room and glared at a pair of heels that were laying innocently on the floor. She did not want to put those on, there was a very good chance that she would fall and would make a complete fool of herself.

"You know, if you glared any harder, the poor shoes would ignite," a male voice said from her open door.

Harri knew who it was and before she had the chance to turn around she was enveloped by two strong arms from behind. He kissed the top of her head and she turned around to kiss him properly. They broke apart briefly,"You look lovely by the way," he told her resting his forehead on hers. She backed away from him with a teasing smile and looked him over. He was in a black suite and tie and she nodded in approval.

"Well, I'd have to look nice for Tonks and Remus' wedding. Tonks would kill me if I didn't," Harri replied going over to the other side of the room and picking up her shoes.

She turned around and saw that George was looking at her OWL scores. "Enjoying the parchment?" she asked with a raised eyebrow. He grinned.

"I never realized that you wanted to be so smart! These are Head Girl worthy grades!" he told her and she pushed him playfully.

"I told Hermione that I would fight for the Head Girl position," she replied taking the grades out of his hand and putting them in the top drawer of her desk. There was a small duffle bag next to her bed with her vault key, a change of clothes and a few hygiene products inside.

"All packed?" he asked and she nodded. Harri wasn't going to be staying at Grimmauld Place for the after party. She knew her family and she knew that they could get a little loud when they were drunk... So, to avoid the issue entirely, George offered her the spare bedroom at his and Fred's flat for the night.

The wedding was simple, matching the styles of both Remus and Tonks. They decided to get married in a small chapel and invited only their closest friends. There were white bows on each pew and Harri was in the second one, sitting next to George. Andromeda was in the front, crying her eyes out and Sirius was standing next to Remus with a proud look on his face.

Remus and Tonks both looked extremely happy standing at the alter, looking each other in the eyes and smiling, promising to love each other forever. It was hopelessly romantic, if not a little cheesy. Harri could have sworn that she saw someone standing in the back, but by the time she turned around to look the person was gone. Harri brushed it off as paranoia.

Harri went to the after party, but only for the first part and laughed at the speech that Sirius made about his dear friend Moony. Bellatrix disappeared sometime after the party started. Apparently, parties weren't something she enjoyed.

When they arrived at the flat it was dark and empty. Fred had left a note on the kitchen table. He was at Angelina's for the night. George didn't ask for the details of the visit, all he knew was that his twin wouldn't be back till the next evening. So, he was taking full advantage of the empty flat. He didn't get to see Harri as often as he'd like and the school year was going to start soon, which meant that he was going to see her even less.

The two of them had changed out of their fancy clothes and into more comfortable clothing. They were cuddling on the couch in the sitting room together. There were empty pasta plates lying on the small table in front of them. George was playing with a strand of Harri's hair while she dozed off in his arms.

"When did I get so lucky?" he murmured and Harri laughed quietly.

"When you became the mate of a Veela, love," she answered, a cheeky grin plastered on her face. The ginger grinned mischievously and before Harri knew it she was pinned under him. She blinked twice, trying to figure out how he did that and decided that she was going to get revenge, she was enjoying the cuddling.

"What do you plan to do now?" Harri asked casually with a raised eyebrow, one hand tracing patterns on George's neck. They had both agreed that it would be better not to make things too intimate until Harri was out of school. Veela were notorious for getting pregnant early in relationships and neither Harri nor George wanted her Hogwarts schooling to get interrupted.

"Well, I had a few ideas in mind..." he told her, bringing his lips closer to hers with every word. Eventually, their lips met and Harri pulled George closer to her and deepened the kiss. He let his guard down for a second and she rolled him over so she was on top. She then proceeded to break the kiss and sit on his stomach.

"What are you doing?" he asked breathlessly, blue eyes confused and slightly disappointed.

"I was enjoying just sitting with you, talking, but your ruined that, so I riled you up a little bit," Harri told him teasingly, ruffling his hair. She kissed him one more time before getting off the couch. "I better head to bed. I'm going to have to get books tomorrow, along with new school robes, again. Being a Veela is hard, I keep needing to get new clothes..." Harri grumbled and George laughed, following her lead and getting off the couch.

"I don't mind that you need new clothes," George said with a roguish grin as he looked her over.

"Of course you don't, you bloody prat," Harri replied, smacking his arm lightly.

The two went their separate ways and eventually went to sleep in their respective rooms. The next morning was quiet affair. Harri had made breakfast, much to George's delight, he hated cooking. The sixth year had made chocolate chip pancakes and bacon. The two sat quietly, eating quickly because Harri had shopping to do before the Alley got crowded. There was always a good chance that she could get mobbed by fans when it got too crowded.

So, in preparation for that, Harri had a necklace with a powerful illusion charm on it that changes her appearance. When it was on she looked a lot like Fleur, she had golden blonde hair and bright blue eyes. The only difference was that she didn't speak in a French accent. George usually wore a charm with her because if he was scene with another woman it would cause an uproar in the magical community, and neither of them wanted that kind of negative attention. Instead of his usual ginger hair and blue eyes, he appeared to have light brown hair and dark green eyes. They were the only ones that could remove the necklaces, which made their lives a little bit easier, but it also left more questions unanswered.

Either way, the two of them went shopping. They both had fun, Harri and George ended up flirting with each other more often than not, making store clerks either roll their eyes or coo at them.

Harri bought her school supplies and put them in a small bag that Hermione gave to her for her birthday. It was a fabric pouch that she wore around her neck with an undetectable extension charm on it. It was decorated with an owl and fox. Harri usually kept a good amount of gold, a few changes of clothes for both her and George, she never knew when they'd be stuck somewhere together, the marauders map, her two-way mirror, her broom, as well as some potions for emergencies inside it. She found the trinket very useful, almost as useful as her basilisk fang necklace and her wand, which she kept on her person at all times.

The two were sitting outside a small coffee shop that had just opened in the Alley. Harri was sipping her coffee when someone she hadn't seen in months walked out of the dense crowd towards her. She had curly black hair, deranged black eyes, a grin on her face and something gold in her hands. Alya was back and no doubt going to try to kill her. Harri pulled her wand out, George not far behind. Harri realized that Alya must have been the person that she saw at the wedding. She must have put a tracking charm on her before she left. That was how she recognized them while they were in disguise. The girl would do anything to kill Harri and avenge her master.

Before either of them could utter a spell Alya ran up to them and threw what was in her hand down on the ground. Apparently, it was made of glass because it smashed to pieces and dust got all over all three of them. "This was your master plan...to cover us in dust?" Harri coughed holding George's arm.

"No, it was to permanently get rid of you. I know who you're named after and it all made sense," she smiled and gave Alya a confused look, but before she contemplate what she said she felt a pulling sensation and she held onto George who gave her a surprised look. It seemed that whatever Alya had done, she done it to all of them. Harri could feel the magic around her and before she knew it she had George were tumbling through a wind tunnel of darkness.

The two crashed hard onto the ground a few moments later, Alya nowhere in sight. Harri would feel cuts on her arms and legs from scratching against sticks on the ground. She groaned and opened her eyes and looked around, she seemed to be in a forest...and she could see a clearing up ahead.

Harri sighed and looked down, George was out cold, there was a deep gash on the side of his head, he was going to need a healer soon. Harri slung one of his arms around her shoulder and carried him to the clearing. She saw the Black Lake in the distance, she recognize it anywhere. Why was she at Hogwarts? What was Alya's plan? What did this have to do with who she was named after?

She felt something tug on her arm and came face to face with a giant spider. She screamed, loudly in surprise, despite having dealt with this creature before. She then fired off a round of stunners at its underbelly and eventually the spider curled up and died. She felt like it was the Tri-Wizard Tournament all over again.

Harri sighed and kept walking, dragging her unconscious boyfriend with her. Sadly, luck just wasn't on her side because she tripped over a tree branch, rolled her ankle and hit her head against a tree. George was sprawled out next to her. She was too dizzy to get up and her vision was slowly fading.

"Bloody Mondays..." she grumbled to herself as she tried to sit up. She knew that staying in the same spot wouldn't be good, but she nearly threw up at the movement.

Suddenly, footsteps could be heard in the distance. "Oi, I found the source of the screaming! Bloody hell, they're alive and she took down a giant spider!" A familiar, yet unfamiliar male voice called out to someone else. She could swear that she had heard his voice somewhere before.

"Do you reckon we should take them back to the castle?" another voice asked. She felt someone turn her arm over to check for the dark mark.

"What do you think? It would be the only safe option. There's nothing on either of their arms. There's a good chance that they were attacked..." a quiet voice said from next to Harri. She felt like she should be able to recognize the voices, but the names just weren't coming to her.

"It's your call, Prongs."

'A Time-Turner?' were the last thoughts running through Harri's head right before she blacked out.

Bam, plot twist. This was what I had been hinting at since the beginning of the fifth book with Snape. If you want you can go back and try to figure out all the clues. Now you know why Voldemort's back, he isn't dead yet! So, the fate of the future is in Harriet's hands. Will she change her parent's fate? Destroy Peter? Save Bellatrix? Or, none of the above? You know, bad things happen to those who meddle with time. Paradoxes are not fun!

So, no one was even close to guessing this. So, Alya got her revenge by removing Harriet entirely. With Alya in the past with her, things could get messy because the little lunatic has nothing to lose.

Okay, so there were a few concerns about the story, yea, I'm not following the canon and I'm adding new things in. There was also a comment about Weasley bashing. Well, I was just using the characteristics JK Rowling gave the characters. Percy was a prat, but he died for what he believed was right, even though he was wrong. Molly control her children and Harri isn't something she was prepared to deal with. She was raised by Sirius and isn't pushed around easily. In the books Harry was pushed around, beaten up and basically abused and he never did anything about it. He never told anyone that he was starved and beaten by his 'family' and that he didn't consider Privet Drive his home. I doubt the love shields would have actually worked anyway.

Alright, enough ranting. Somethings in the books annoy me, so I changed them. I got rid of Voldemort really early so I figured Harri needed another adventure to go on. This way we even get to meet her parents before they were killed. There are definitely going to be family moments in this book. =)

Review goal: 168…you didn't reach it this week, but I wrote the chapter last Wednesday, so I couldn't not post it.

~Animerocker

PS
I don't own Harry Potter