Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. Nor do I earn anything from writing this. I merely use Ms. Rowling's characters to have some fun of my own.
Disclaimer 2: I know that some of you misinterpret the sentence that ends like "...while Ginny had an on-and-off relationship with Seamus Finnigan and she got married to Ron." as Ginny marrying Ron, but that is not the case. The story is mostly written with Harriet's thoughts etc, so it basically means Ginny has an on-and-off relationship with Seamus, while she, Harriet, herself, married Ron. I hope this clears up some things.
Oblivious - Rewritten Version
Summary: Harriet finds a huge magical library in her home and finds out some things she should've known all her life. How does this influence her life? Dumbledore Bashing, Selective Weasley Bashing, Time Travel Fix It.
Prologue
"Trust is built over years, but can be destroyed in mere seconds."
Harriet Potter-Weasley thought she'd lost all she could when Voldemort was finally defeated in 1998. She thought losing her parents before being able to form full sentences, losing her godfather before knowing him properly, and losing her honorary uncle and his wife, leaving their son Teddy an orphan before turning two weeks old.
Sometimes Harriet wondered what there was even left for her to lose. Voldemort was dead, and she found that she had gotten so used to losing people in the almost 18 years she had been on earth, but that quickly changed when her, Hermione and Ginny graduated in 1999. Ron had already gone on to his Auror Training that her and Hermione had been offered after the war just like him, but unlike him, the girls decided to redo their seventh year as they didn't want to take jobs for granted, but actually work for it and get the grades required.
And after graduating, Hermione had moved to Bulgaria to marry Viktor Krum, while Ginny had an on-and-off relationship with Seamus Finnigan and she got married to Ron.
Harriet had started her Auror Training right after graduating, but just seven years after that, she gave birth to her firstborn son, James Sirius Potter-Weasley and was forced to stop working. Albus Severus was born two years later, and Lily Luna took her first breath on earth in 2009.
Harriet was supposed to start working again in September of 2012, just at the time she and Ron had planned to put Lily in nursery school, but a week before Ron's 30th birthday, she realised that all this just wasn't meant to be.
The 22nd of February in 2010 had started out normally, just like every other day did in the Potter-Weasley household. Ron had left the house for work at about 7am, and the kids would usually wake their mother up about half an hour later.
She made breakfast and brought James and Albus to nursery school while Lily decided to whine and throw her unicorn plush to the floor repeatedly, even with Harriet picking it up every single time. The rest of the day was mostly spent reading while watching Lily play as to make sure nothing would happen and often times producing coloured bubbled with her wand until she put her one-year-old daughter down for her nap just after lunch.
Now, what to do? Ron was at work, the boys at nursery school, and Lily was sleeping. Normally she would spend that time with Ginny, but the redhead had gotten the Chaser position of the Holyhead Harpies and today was a match against the Tutshill Tornadoes, she wasn't available. And Seamus had started taking Potions classes in the last few months since he obviously hadn't really learned much in school and didn't make it into the NEWT class.
That left Harriet alone until she had to pick up the boys from nursery at 4pm, which was in roughly two hours. She could, of course, sit down to read once more, but at the moment the bookshelf just didn't call her. Cooking was out as well since she had just had lunch, which left her wondering what else there was to do. They didn't have a television since Ron thought Quidditch was so much more interesting and it was already enough that Arthur had acquired one after the war.
Her and Ron had decided to move into the cottage in Godric's Hollow after restoring and claiming it back from the Ministry, who'd made it a tourist's attraction in 1981. And in that house there really wasn't that much to see. Just what she'd already seen while she was here with Hermione on Christmas Eve in 1997. No pictures, no clothes, nothing had been there when Harriet had first stepped foot in it at the age of 18.
But there was one interesting room that Harriet had only discovered a few days ago. She had once ventured into the cupboard under the stairs when she heard something creak underneath her feet. Turns out there was a huge room full of books directly under the house. After living with the Dursley's and sleeping in a cupboard for years, Harriet was really left curious about what the cupboards under the stairs looked like in other people's homes. But this was really the first house she was in that even had one.
She hadn't been able to look further because Ron had come home, but now that she was alone for two hours, she had enough time to venture down and see what she would find there.
Fortunately there was a ladder attached, so Harriet didn't have to conjure one with her wand, which she took with her for obvious reasons, silently casting a charm that would alert her when it was time to pick up the children or when Lily started screaming. And then she went down.
The whole room was full of massive bookshelves, maybe twice as many as in the Hogwarts Library, which Harriet had previously thought to be impossible. She had thought hat Hogwarts had the largest supply of books in the world. Apparently, she was very wrong about that.
But as she stood in the huge library she and apparently everyone else had never known about, she wondered if her parents had known. This was their house, wouldn't they know if there was a library in their cupboard? And maybe it was them who put that library in it in the first place.
Harriet decided to look around, in the hopes of finding some more information about her parents and extended family. At first she found nothing, but continued browsing until she found a registry on which you could tap your wand, either saying or thinking what you want to know more about, and all the books talking about that topic will glow a bright green.
So she took her wand, tapped it lightly on the registry paper, and thought clearly, The Potter Family. Immediately, books started glowing green and, as Harriet took notice, most in the same section.
Walking over to the books, she took out a book called The Sacred Twenty-Eight. Harriet had heard about the Potter Family being removed from that list sometime in the 1800s, but apparently there were still some records of the time before that.
And as she kept reading the chapter about the Potters, and continued on with The Wizengamot: All You Need To Know From A-Z, there was so much information that she had never been told. She hadn't ever been told that every family had their own vault, and that there weren't just those, but also a Family Vault with all the gold, and another separate ones for the trinkets and other important heirlooms.
Another apparently very important fact was that heirs and heiresses were allowed to take their heirship rings at the age of 11, and their lord or ladyship rings at the age of 17, though orphans could take the lord or ladyship at 11 already. The Potters apparently had a seat on the Wizengamot and 7 votes in total, all which Harriet hadn't been told about. There also was a certain etiquette heirs, heiresses, lords and ladies have to follow, one of which was to always greet other high-standing wizards and witches with the appropriate greeting.
Apparently, her and Malfoy hadn't really taken that very seriously, though in her case it was more due to ignorance than arrogance. But since Harriet intended to change her ignorant behaviour, she decided to spend a few more minutes in the library, scouring about.
A few more minutes turned into one and a half hours, though, when the alarm went off, telling her that Lily had woken up and demanded to get fed.
With a sigh, Harriet stood up, put the book back in the shelf and climbed back up the ladder and out of the cupboard to feed her daughter.
While feeding her daughter, she started thinking about what she had just read. She knew she had never been told about anything of that. But why? Gringotts was supposed to have sent her a letter on her 11th birthday about the, in her case of being an orphan, the ladyship ring. And if not then, they should've at least given her the heirship ring, and the ladyship should've gone to her on her 17th birthday at the latest.
Now why didn't that happen? She was at Diagon Alley with Hagrid that day, she remembered. But then, why didn't they tell her while they were at Gringotts? It all just didn't make sense, just like she just realised that as the Girl-Who-Lived, and now the Woman-Who-Won, she should've gotten loads of fanpost, but even now, she had only gotten post from her friends and family. The whole world knew her name, people should have written her since she was 15 months old, even though she couldn't even talk in full sentences at that point.
She hadn't even gotten any letters from Fleur and Viktor after the Triwizard Tournament. Sure, they'd eventually gotten married to Ron's oldest brother and Hermione respectively, but she still realised that she could only talk to them in person. For some reason, Fleur's and Viktor's written letters never came through unless Bill or Hermione sent them.
There just had to be an Owl Redirection Ward on her house in Privet Drive, at Hogwarts, the Ministry, and now here in Godric's Hollow. Dumbledore probably set it up, and even though she had to admit that it was a good idea for Privet Drive, she really had the right to know at least from the age of 10 or 11. Maybe things would've gone completely differently if she'd just known the etiquette and about her standing and fanpost earlier in life.
And as the clock signalled 4pm, she decided to go check in with Gringotts at the earliest opportunity she got.
AN: Hi everyone! This is one long AN, but the ones in future chapters will either be short or completely non-existent. Anyway, I'm going to explain some things about this.
To start with general stuff, some of you might have already read the original version of this book, Oblivious. However, I have found many plot holes, things that don't match, unnecessary information dumps and so on. This is one of the reasons why I am rewriting it. I also realised that I literally have 26 chapters, and not even a week passed in the story.
Now some other, deeper things. I've changed the plot just a little bit. In the original version, Harriet gets killed and sent back in time by death's daughter. In this version, as you already know, Harriet finds this huge library in her house and realises some things about her childhood and even her life after Hogwarts.
This may become a series, it may not, we will see. However, if it does turn out to be a series, it will be the time before Hogwarts in one book, then years 1-4 in a book, and then 5-7 in one book. And then maybe another for after Hogwarts. Once again, maybe it's a series, but maybe I'm just gonna put it all into one book.
Other than that, this version will be way better written, hopefully have less plot holes and mistakes, and won't be a day in about 20 chapters. I have also not yet decided to which year I'm going to send Harriet, but I know that it's not going to be her 6th birthday.
There will also be a poll up on my profile about what house she's gonna be in after travelling back in time. It will close once I publish the sorting chapter, so you will know when it's too late.
Now, if you still have some questions, ask away, but remember that I can only answer them directly if you have an account. I won't be able to answer guest reviews directly. However, I can answer the most important questions and the guest questions at the beginning of each chapter.
Please review, I love reading people's feedback.
Sarah
