Pepsilynn Harlowe and the Gauntlet of Ekrizdis

by Serpinator

11 Year old Pepsilynn Harlowe was unusual girl who could do things she couldn't explain, and has had a hard time fitting in with the ordinary world, until one night when a strange looking man escorted her home and when she came across a mysterious pentagon shaped card with a moving portrait of an old man inside, Pepsilynn realized her life was about to change!

PEPSILYNN HARLOWE AND THE GAUNTLET OF EKRIZDIS

A Harry Potter Fanfic

Disclaimer Summary: This is a fanfic about a character I created myself attending Hogwarts in the 1970s, basically around the same years as James, Lily, Snape and the Marauders attended school during the first wizarding war. Pepsilynn is a character created just for this fanfic only, and the events of this fanfic is not canon in any way to the books despite how accurate events are to the books, I do not own the rights J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Franchise or anything to do with the wizarding world.

CHAPTER 1: A STRANGE UNUSUAL GIRL

June,1970

"Are you alright, miss?" the lifeguard asked a 10-year-old girl she was running to rescue from drowning. The 10-year-old girl had wandered too close to the rough Aegean Sea waves on the beach when a large rogue wave nearly swept her out into rough, turbulent waters. However, as the lifeguard was running towards the sea to save the girl's life, the girl suddenly without warning seemed to just re-appear on the beach as if she magically teleported there.

"Pepsilynn, I told you not to go playing near the water!" a voice shouted from behind the lifeguard as a large, overweight man with brownish gold hair appearing in his mid-forties came rushing to the small blonde girl still coughing up water. "She your daughter?!" the lifeguard asked the man sternly as she helped the girl to her feet, "Yeah, she is." The man said annoyed, expecting to be lectured about bad parenting. "Could you at least keep her within your eyesight if you know what's good for her, and Yourself!" the lifeguard asked, not liking the big guy's tone. "Of course, I will!" the man said sarcastically, taking his daughter and turning away, "Whatever floats your boat!" he mumbled under his breath. "Excuse me, what was that?!" the lifeguard said slightly agitated, "That girl is your child, and as a parent you should take responsibility for your kid, Mr.… what is your name sir?!" The man turned and faced the lifeguard and said, "Connor Harlowe, ma'am!"

"Well, Mr. Harlowe, Sir, if you took better of your child…" The Lifeguard began, but was soon cut off rudely by Connor shouting, "What I do with my kids is none of your bee's wax, I don't live here, I'm just visiting! If you have a problem with me, take it up with the Queen of England!" He then grabbed the girl and walked off, not looking back.

"What the heck is wrong with you, Pepsilynn, horsing around by the ocean making me look bad in front of a bunch of nosy lifeguards, I told you a million times not to wander off like that you bonehead!" The girl, Pepsilynn retorted with "I can take care of myself, Dad, I'm not a baby you know!" Connor than went and slapped his daughter on her backside, causing her to fall to the ground. "WHO DO YOU THINK YOU'RE TALKING TO!" he shouted furiously, "I'M YOUR FATHER, WHEN I TELL TO DO SOMETHING, YOU DO IT, KAPISH!" Pepsilynn, sobbing tried to run off, but her father grabbed her and pulled her back so hard, he nearly ripped her bathing suit off! "YOU UNGRATEFUL POMPOUS TWIT!" he screamed, shaking her violently, "YOU'RE LUCKY YOU STILL HAVE A FATHER WHO LOVES YOU, UNLIKE YOU'RE GOOD FOR NOTHING MOTHER WHO ABANDONED YOU WHEN YOU WERE A BABY!" He then threw her to the ground, "NOW GET UP!"

Pepsilynn got up slowly, her backside and shoulders still hurting from the physical abuse she just received from her father. "You're now grounded until further notice! You are now forbidden from leaving the hotel for the rest of the vacation, no desserts, no TV, you'll only get very little at mealtimes, at home you will sweep the floors, wash the dishes, clean the toilets, cook breakfast, lunch, dinner, go to bed after supper, and wake up at six in the morning to do every household chore as punishment." Connor stated out loud. "You make me do those things all the time!" Pepsilynn whined, "You never help me with anything, am I nothing but a slave to you?!" "Well, you should think about that before you go and do something else stupid and unnatural, your just lucky you didn't get swept out to sea earlier today!" Connor said in a low angry tone. "Now let's get back home" and they walked back to the hotel.

Summer, 1971

One year has now passed since the incident in Greece where Pepsilynn was almost swallowed by the sea, and her father still wouldn't let her leave the house except for when she had to go to school. Life at school for Pepsilynn was just brutal as her life at home with her alcoholic father, she had a hard time fitting in with the other kids, and she barely made any friends, many of the kids happened to pick on her, making fun of her name, calling her names like, "Pepsi Head" or "Fizz Face" and making cruel soda jokes about her. One day, a very mean girl named Sharon referred Pepsilynn as an unnatural freak and caused her to have her face swell up and become bloated as if she came down with an extreme case of mumps like no one had seen before, with her head somewhat resembling a pig! And yet Pepsilynn has no idea of how she is causing these strange things to happen. Like that time last summer in Greece when she suddenly found herself back on the beach without any explanation of how she got there when she was struggling for life in rough water a just a few moments earlier. Another similar incident occurred when she was walking home from school a couple months ago when a few girls deliberately caused Pepsilynn to trip and fall into one of the neighbor's gardens which caused all the plants to grow wildly into a huge jungle! This however resulted in another colossal whooping from her father and was sentenced to trimming that entire garden back to normal by herself which took almost a whole week.

One clear July day while out walking while her father was out at work, Pepsilynn encountered a strange man she didn't know who happened to say "hi" to her, she looked once at the strange looking man who was dressed very oddly and ran off creeped out, usually people wouldn't talk to her, but this guy seemed to be interested in her all of a sudden. Pepsilynn was aware there were very bad people out in the world who would kidnap and molest children, especially a child like herself.

Later that day, she would come across Sharon and her very mean friends. "Well, well, well, look who we have here, Miss Pepsi Head Herself!" Sharon said, rudely pointing her finger at Pepsilynn, who tried to hide in the alleyway, but Sharon and her mean girl clique followed her there. "You think you can run from me Fizz Face!" Sharon said as she and her friends had Pepsilynn backed against a dumpster. "I know for sure that when you're around me and others strange things happen, like that garden growing into a huge jungle, or my head getting blown up like a balloon!" "So, what if strange things seem to happen whenever I am around!" Pepsilynn retorted out loud, "I don't give you any excuse to torment me about it!" "Whatever freak!" Sharon spat in her face. Sharon and her nasty friends advanced in on Pepsilynn whenever the strange oddly dressed old man from earlier suddenly appeared. "HEY! CUT THAT OUT! LEAVE HER ALONE!" the old man bellowed to Sharon and her friends as they ran off terrified. "Are you okay, Miss?" the old man asked Pepsilynn as he held out his hand. "I'm fine, thank you!" Pepsilynn said as she brushed her clothes off with ease. "You mind if I walk you back home?" the old man asked, "you seem to have lots of enemies out here!" "Uh, ok." Pepsilynn replied as the old man took her hand.

The two of them walked back to where Pepsilynn lived, and when they got there, the old man bid Pepsilynn goodbye and told her not everyone in the world hated her, she would make friends eventually when the day came. He then turned and left, walking down the road until he vanished around the corner. Pepsilynn then noticed the strange old man that helped her had dropped something on her doorstep, it was some kind of pentagon shaped card or token. She picked it up and attempted to run after the old man who dropped it, only for her father to come home and shout, "What are you doing out here, you shouldn't be out this late! Get back inside before I have you grounded for the next 10 million years!" Pepsilynn did as she was told and went back inside.

After cooking dinner, washing the dishes, and few other of her daily household chores, Pepsilynn decided to go to bed for the night. When she entered her room, she pulled out the pentagon shaped card she had found earlier and examined it. She had never seen anything like it before in her life, it was nothing like the baseball cards she was used to seeing in the local stores in her neighborhood, it had an iridescent blue color laden with sparkles rimmed with a shiny gold outline, a picture of an old man sat right in the middle of the strange card, a man way older than the man she encountered earlier that day, even stranger that the portrait of the old man on the card was moving as if Pepsilynn was holding some sort of futuristic portable TV set, and beneath the moving portrait of the old man were two words that read ALBUS DUMBLEDORE.