The next week went by slowly. Harriet was the center of attention, and rumours. But strangely enough, Draco Malfoy and the most of Slytherin seemed to leave her alone. Dumbledore had spoken and people left. But the worst thing going on was the daily prophet. They had sent out an article saying this:
Harry or Harriet Potter?
The famous Harry Potter won the Triwizard tournament just a few days ago, but in the labyrinth, something happened leaving the boy who lived as the girl who lived. Our sources tells us that it was the magnificent Potter necklace that saved them. The necklace was thought to be lost when the Potters were attacked by You-Know-Who, but it was miraculously brought to Potter. They have been seen wearing the necklace on photos all throughout the year. The necklace answers to any curse sent against the wielder, and turns the magic into helpful magic. But if the curse is too powerful, it transfigurates the wielder into something. Now, something happened inside the labyrinth, and now Harry Potter is Harriet Potter. Some believe that Cedric Diggory, (the other champion from Hogwarts,) attacked Potter inside the labyrinth, but the necklace saved Potter, then Potter sent a curse against him, which failed, and ended up killing Diggory. Others believe the champion from Durmstrang, (Victor Krum,) attacked Diggory, and Potter knocked Krum out. And to protect either Diggory or Krum, Potter made up the lie about being attacked by You-Know-Who...
When Harriet read that, she wanted to explode, to kill anybody who dared to say that to her face. It was scandalous! How dared they to do that against a dead boy's memory! On the last day of school, Harriet did something drastic. She walked up, in front of the whole school, and spoke. She didn't care what they thought, she spoke her mind.
"Boys and girls, Slytherins, Griffindoors, Ravenclaws and, most importantly, Hufflepuffs. I have something to tell you. I am sure nearly all of you have either read the Daily Prophet, or heard about it. In one of their latest articles, they did something dumb. And I am here to tell you something. Cedric Diggory did not attack me. I know that Cedric wouldn't have done that, and all of Hufflepuff does." Loud cheers of agreement came from the Hufflepuff table.
"Krum wouldn't have done it either." Clapping and some cheers came from the Slytherin table, surprisingly, Malfoy was clapping too, Harriet didn't know why she noticed that he was clapping, but it made her smile slightly over the frown she had been wearing. "The daily prophet are insulting Cedrics memory, and I will not stand by and watch that happen!" She pumped a fist into the air. "We have to stand together, whether you like it or not. Together we are strong!" And with that, Harriet was done.
She gave the great hall a daring look, and then it erupted into loud applause, all the tables were clapping and cheering. Harriet could see Cho Chang with tears in her eyes. Malfoy was clapping, again, she didn't know why she noticed him. All of Hufflepuff and Griffindoor were cheering loudly. Even Snape was clapping. McGonagall was smiling widely, with tears in her eyes, and clapping. Dumbledore was smiling a clapping as well. Harriet slowly made her way to the Griffindoor table, but in the way, she was stopped by a lot of Hufflepuffs wanting to thank her for what she had done, some Ravenclaws were there too, and even some Slytherins. When she sat down at her table, many wanted to talk with her. It was great.
But, as everything, that happiness had to go away after some time. Harriet had to go back to Privet Drive 4. She didn't know if she should be a little excited to see Vernon's face when he saw that she was a girl now. Or that she should be scared of what would happen when he saw it.
Nine hours pass quickly when you spend it with your best friends. Learning that Rita Skeeter was an unregistered animagus was very pleasing, because now, Harriet had something to hold against Skeeter, and that Hermione had made her stay away from writing for a year, only made her feel better.
And then, the dreaded moment came, the train stopped, and Harriet stepped out of it, she hugged both of her friends tightly, and waved them goodbye, when she walked out of the wall, she was met with the sight of both her uncle and aunt. She didn't know why Petunia was there. Vernon sneered, "there you are bo-" The stream of words came to a halt, when Vernon looked at Harriet, Harriet smirked, Vernon's eyes seemed to bulge out of his massive head, Harriet moved her gaze to Petunia, and was very puzzled when a small smile slowly started spreading across her face.
Vernon cleared his throat, and cast a nervous glance around, some people were looking at him, he glared at Harriet, "girl, I mean girl." He sneered, before he could say more Petunia whispered something in his ear, while smiling slightly. Vernon's face slowly turned slightly blue, and he looked at his wife, Petunia stalked over to Harriet, grabbed her wrist, and simply said, "come with, you've left us waiting for too long." The grip was strong and firm, and Harriet could do nothing but follow.
Once the group got outside, Petunia turned around, and inspected Harriet. "I don't want to know how this happened, but it can be a good thing." Harriet was surprised to say the least, Vernon was too. "How-!? Why!?" Petunia clapped her hands twice to make him shut up. "Well, I've always wanted Dudders to have a sister, the perfect family usually has two children, a boy and a girl." She explained, Vernon carefully nodded his head. Petunia continued speaking, "so, now he can have one. We will of course have to install some manners and proper etiquette into 'her'." Harriet was in shock, this was not how things were supposed to go.
"Excuse me, what?" She croaked out, Petunia turned to her, inspecting her further, her aunts intense stare made Harriet extremely uncomfortable. "She will also need a new name, contacts, proper clothes, and a haircut." Petunia gripped her husbands hand. "We're going shopping, let's get in the car." she walked towards the car, Vernon and Harriet following her. Both in shock.
Soon, the three arrived at the closest shopping mall. Petunia started with dragging Harriet into some hair salon, her ends were trimmed, and while that happened, Petunia was brainstorming names for Harriet. Apparently it was Evan's family tradition to name their daughters after flowers. After the haircut, Harriet was dragged into an expensive clothes store, where she was forced to try on outfit after outfit. To be honest, Harriet kind of liked it, actually trying on clothes, instead of just getting hand me downs, and uniforms. After they were done in that store, Harriet was wearing a knee long, emerald green, summer dress.
Now, it was time for contacts, they were a little uncomfortable, but it was probably just a matter of getting used to the feeling. And while they were walking between shops, Petunia was lecturing Harriet about being a woman, teaching her about the latest trends and such. Harriet was paying close attention to Petunia for once.
They reached a shoe shop, Hermione had made Harriet's shoes smaller to fit her, put Petunia insisted. They came out with two pairs of heels, and two of normal shoes. Harriet thought that the shopping spree was done, and was ready to go out into the car. Vernon, who was somehow carrying everything that had been bought, was looking hopeful as well. But Petunia insisted they bought Harriet some makeup. Now Harriet had to learn etiquette, how to walk in heels, and how to apply makeup, along with her homework.
Now they were done with the shopping, but Petunia reminded them all that they would have to go shopping several times in the future, since Harriet was a 'growing girl', and established that Harriet was going to have cooking classes. At this point, Harriet was sure that Hedwig was thankful she had let her fly home on her own. They retreated back to the car, when they were in it, Petunia began discussing Harriet's new name, and completely dismissed the name Harriet.
"Dahlia, no, Rose, no, way too normal..." Harriet cleared her throat. Petunia looked up, and stopped her mumbling that had been going on for around ten minutes. "How about Violet?" She asked, just wanting to end the mumbling. Petunia nodded, "that would work perfectly!" She exclaimed, "now for a middle name, James certanly won't do." The now Violet almost groaned, and then remembered it was not a thing a 'woman' should do, and kept her mouth shut, listening to to Petunia's mumbling. Violet cut her off in her mumbling. "Okay, how about Eden?" Petunia nodded in approval. And the now Violet Eden Potter sighed in releif.