UGH! This chapter being late is completely my fault! No one to blame but me! It just seemed...wrong. I reread it on the day that I was supposed to post and something felt off, so I pushed it off. On Friday, I edited one bit but it still felt wrong. Saturday I fixed another bit but I was still unhappy with the overall chapter. James was over today though and boy howdy did he help! I shifted some things and made the end more believable and BAM! Fucking finally ready to go! Enjoy my lovelies!

Disclaimer in Chapter 1. Will add as needed.

Harriet blinked down at Neville's unconscious form, "Huh."

Hulk frowned and leaned forward, sniffing at Neville, "What wrong?"

Harri looked up to her brother with a small smile, she knew that this was not a reaction he had come across before. Most who came into contact with Hulk usually either ran or started attacking. Harriet patted his hand easily, "Neville has just been through a lot today and seeing you was a bit of a surprise for him. He may be a Gryffindor but it seems he's used up his courage for the day."

"What Gry-fin-door?" Hulk asked, working his way around the word as he leaned down and nudged Neville, making him scrunch up his nose in his sleep.

"Gryffindors are lions big guy." Harri said with a smile, "Proud and brave."

"Kitty?" Hulk asked, stroking Neville's hair with a single finger like he had with Harriet moments earlier.

Harri stifled her snicker, "Yes, lions are cats." Her eyebrows shot up when Hulk started to pick Neville up, making him wince even in his unconscious state. "Careful big guy, he's not indestructible like you." She moved forward and helped Hulk adjust Neville so he was cradled in one big green arm loosely, "There you go, gentle. Got it?"

Hulk gave a jerky nod, "Gentle. No crush Kitty."

Harri giggled, only just suppressing the urge to take out her phone and take a picture. "Good." She said with a smile, "Now what happened Hulk? Your bracelet changed really fast. Was Bruce in danger?"

"Bruceman with puny people, make them better." Hulk grunted, "Badmen came, hurt puny girl. Hulk come to stop them."

It took Harriet a moment to fill in the gaps of Hulks speech, "Bruce was healing people and people came and hurt a little girl so you came out to protect them?" Hulk gave a gruff nod, "Did the men have guns?" another nod, "Did you chase them away or did you leave the people because they were afraid?"

"Puny people hide. Hulk chase badmen, stopped when Bluebird come." Hulk huffed.

Harri hummed, looking around at their heavily forested surroundings. "Probably a little village." She mused quietly before looking back up to Hulk, "Can you take me back to the people Bruce was healing? After we get a bit more information we can smash the badmen." Hulk gave a pleased grin and turned back along his path of destruction, leading Harriet back to the people. Before they went too far, Hulk got annoyed by Harriet's pace and lifted her by the back of her shirt to set her on his shoulder, leaving her sitting just above where Neville was being held.

A groan turned Harriet's gaze downward even as Hulk continued on, Neville rubbed at his face roughly before blinking his eyes open slowly. Harri smiled, "Hello Neville." She greeted.

Neville frowned up at her perched on a huge green shoulder before he noticed the equally large and green arm that was cradling him to an enormously muscled green chest. His eyes went wide and he started shaking, "Harriet?" he squeaked.

Harri smiled down at him, "Easy Neville. Hulk won't hurt you. Will you big guy?" she directed toward Hulk.

Hulk looked down at Neville who shrunk under the radioactive green gaze, "Hulk no hurt Kitty. Gentle like Bluebird say."

"Kitty?" Neville eeked out.

Hulk have a short but serious nod, "Bluebird say you a…a…"

"Gryffindor." Harri supplied.

Hulk nodded again, "Kitty."

Neville's mouth opened and closed silently for a few moments before pointing at Harriet, "Harri's a Gryffindor too!"

Hulk frowned, "Bluebird is Bluebird."

Harri grinned down at Neville, "I'd stick with Kitty Nev, trust me when I say it could be much worse."

Neville's cheeks reddened, "I-I don't kn-ow how." Harri's lips twitched. "So-o…how did you m-meet…"

"Hulk." Harri provided with a smile, Hulk grunted, "It's…complicated."

Neville looked at her incredulously, before drawing on some hidden well of courage, a well that Harriet knew from the other timeline that allowed him to stand up to Voldemort and kill Nagini, allowing him to say, "Harri…I was somehow transported in blue flames from the nicest greenhouses I've ever seen and am now being held by a large green man who is calling me Kitty. I think I can at least try to understand."

Harri laughed lightly, "Looks like he didn't use up all his Gryffindor courage huh Hulk?"

Hulk looked down to Neville again, "Kitty puny but brave like Bluebird say." Neville flushed and looked down to his hands.

Harri nodded, "He sure is." She tilted her head for a moment, thinking. Neville was the other prophecy child and while Dumbledore probably kept an eye on him just in case, she was sure he very rarely tried to enter Neville's mind. She could get him one of the blocking bracelets and any suspicion Dumbledore might derive from feeling that if he tried to enter Neville's mind could be brushed off as Frank and Alice's protectiveness and left over war paranoia. In the meantime, Harri could teach Neville the mind arts to protect himself more fully, bringing up his confidence and teaching him more as they went. Harri did like Neville, he had been one of her true friends in the last timeline; they had fallen out of touch when Harriet, Fred, and George had fled to America, but they were still friendly. Harri would really like to keep him closer this time and while his career as a fighter had begun and ended the year before the Battle of Hogwarts, he was an excellent herboloigst and (at least when she had checked last in the previous timeline) training to be a healer during the time he had off from teaching. Harriet thought telling Neville would be a positive and, just like she had threatened before and her mum had reminded her, she could always obliviate the knowledge if Neville reacted badly.

Mind made up Harri nodded again, "Alright Neville, we'll have to go over some rules when we get back to the castle but I'll give you what you need for right now." Neville looked up from his hands in surprise but his curiosity shone through. Harri drew her legs up so she could tuck them under her, "I'm from the future. I first met Hulk and his counterpart in another timeline where we were family. This time though I officially met him when he was being attacked by that bloody bastard Ross, a General from the American Army who is hunting Hulk, we kicked his butt then left." Harri smiled, "Good times."

Neville was staring up at her, slack jawed, "Time travel?" he rasped.

Harri wiggled her eyebrows, "Time travel." She agreed.

"Don't you ever catch a break?" Neville asked after several seconds of silence.

Harriet gave a startled laugh, "I think the time travel was my break Neville." She looked up from Neville and toward the path in front of them, "Where I came from. We were in the middle of a war. Even so I was happy. I had the best adopted family a girl could ever ask for, loving mates who stood with me through all the hardships that came up, friends who would share in our experiences. The war was brutal but we had each other, we fought together. Fought for our future, for our world." She stared at the trees ahead without seeing them, Neville shifted slightly as he felt dread rise in his throat. Harriet drew in a deep breath suddenly and looked down at Neville, her eyes heavy as they looked at him, "They all died Neville." Neville swallowed hard at the emotion in Harriet's voice, "I was the last one." She took a shuddering breath, "The time travel was unintentional. I was ready to die." The Hulk took a slightly awkward step around a crushed tree, jostling Harriet. A faint clinking sound came from her necklaces as they swung into each other. "I wanted to join my family."

The temperature dropped as Glacia gave an unhappy snap of her beak in the back of her mind. Harriet could almost hear Thor's denial of her wish,unhappy with her wanting to die, and Natasha's disapproving glare on her back.

Harri shook herself, "Uhg, talk about a downer moment." She stood up on Hulk's shoulder, just having caught sight of the village, "The point is Neville, this is my break. My second chance. I'm going to fix things! I won't let my family down." She jumped from Hulk and started walking ahead, "Merlin, I'm turning into a bloody Hufflepuff." She huffed, "Let's talk to these people and then go smash some baddies Hulk! Preferably before I turn into a badger."

Hulk gave her a wide grin, "Hulk smash badmen with sister Bluebird!"

Harri grinned, "You know it big brother!"

As Harriet, Neville, and Hulk were making their way into a tiny village to gather information on the targets, Hogwarts was greeting the newest element that would bring chaos to her hallowed halls. The red headed ghost floated along the familiar paths, a small smile fixed on her face as she took in her surroundings. As she floated she was greeted by the other ghosts, many remarking on her presence and inviting her to come talk with them when she had the chance.

The red head hummed as she approached the gargoyle guardian of the Headmaster's office. She wondered if she could get the Bloody Baron or maybe Peeves to teach her some ghostly tricks; a smile graced her face, that could be entertaining. Peeves was a poltergeist, not an actual ghost though so she may have to see if what havoc he caused would require some magic. She hummed, wondering if she would need to pull the power from Harriet or if she could do it on her own, or maybe she could pull it from another source.

"I'm dead. I'm not supposed to be actually working." She moaned to herself critically as she moved through the gargoyle and floated up toward the simple door that led to the Headmaster's office. She poked her head through the door, ready to throw out the first barb if her prey was in there.

Luckily he was not and she entered without hindrance, chuckling quietly to herself when she noticed that Harriet's ice still coated the room, "I wonder how long Rose is going to leave it?" a soft amused kree drew her gaze over to a pathetic looking chair that was sat awkwardly in front of the iced bookshelves. Sitting on the back was a magnificent phoenix, "Hello Fawkes." The ghost murmured gently, "She really wanted to see you, you know. You should go see her when she gets back." She looked around the room in amusement, "And you may want to at least unfreeze the Sorting Hat. Imagine how much the old man would screw that up." Fawkes cooed in agreement, putting his head against the ghost's shoulder and surprising her with actual warm contact, "Right, mysterious phoenixes. Cycling between life and death, you would be able to touch ghosts wouldn't you, you silly bird?" Fawkes clacked his beak in proud agreement. Fawkes suddenly looked pointedly at the door and the ghost grinned, "Show time!" she laughed before diving into the huge ice block that contained the Headmaster's true desk.

Seconds later, the door opened to reveal Albus Dumbledore, looking a bit too pleased with himself for the ghosts liking. Albus' eyes alighted on Fawkes and the pleased look dropped into one of annoyance, "Finally decided to return Fawkes? That binding isn't comfortable if its ignored long enough, is it?" Fawkes snapped at him angrily and the old man narrowed his eyes, "Know your place bird or it will be the binding chains for you again until you can behave."

The red headed ghost had heard enough.

"ALBUS DUMBLEDORE!" she thundered in her best Thor impression, she shot form the ice block to float above it. Her hair, though slightly washed out from her current state, burned red as it flew around her face like a crown, her eyes turned Avada green as her anger rose. Dumbledore gaped at her, his eyes wide with disbelief, "How dare you! HOW DARE YOU!" in the distraction, Fawkes flamed away again. "I have seen you from beyond!" she announced ominously, "I have seen your manipulations on my precious daughter! Do not think I will let you get away with this!"

"Lily?" Dumbledore said in astonishment before he shook himself from his shock, "Impossible!" he drew his wand and leveled it at Lily, "Ghosts don't form this many years after their deaths without some warning signs! You're impossible. An illusion someone set up!"

Lily gave a chilling laugh, "Hold on to that belief old man."

Dumbledore scowled and waved his wand in a complicated movement, "Ad quos eieci te de hoc mundo spiritum." Dumbledore spelled. A bright light broke form his wand and hit the ghost in front of him, it disappeared with a short scream and a pop. Dumbledore nodded to himself, "Just an illusion. Another tasteless prank." He moved over to his rickety table, sitting down in his less than inspiring chair. "I must find how people get into my office so easily." He muttered to himself.

"Perhaps it's the incredibly easy passwords you set." Lily said, popping up from the table in front of him suddenly. Dumbledore gave an undignified yelp as he jumped backward, almost toppling over. Dumbledore stared at her in shock as she rose easily from the table, "Did you honestly think that would work?" she asked, raising a dainty eyebrow; she leaned forward, her expression darkening, "Did you honestly think I would leave while you are still trying to control my daughter? No such luck you old goat. I'm haunting your wrinkled ass until you leave her alone or you die. Whichever comes first." Dumbledore's eyes widened at the statement and Lily gave another dark laugh, "Welcome to Hell."

"You're not seriously going to do this are you?" Neville asked, he had been allowed to move to Hulk's shoulder once they reached the village since Neville had tried to wriggle out of the embarrassing position. Now, Hulk stood on the edge of a small cliff with Neville on one shoulder and Harriet on the other and they were all looking down at the large band of mercenaries. These mercenaries were terrorizing local villages because they believed that another meteor that had landed in the area recently had one of the rarer metals within it. Harriet had rolled her eyes at this and, after examining the rock that all the fuss was about, discovered that it was a completely false belief. She had seen adamantium many times and was, of course, very familiar with vibranium. The metal in the meteor was neither, it was just plain old iron-nickel from a rather plain meteorite. Sure it had the tiniest trace of gold that her spell had detected but it was nothing to call the Swiss about. It certainly wasn't worth trying to raid a village over.

"Of course I'm going to do this Neville." Harriet said with a huff as she slid off of Hulk again, "These idiots will continue terrorizing those poor people if I just leave them. They won't take no for an answer and these people won't let it go peacefully, they see meteorites as blessings from their gods. Trying to take it from them will only end in a massacre of innocent village people." Dobby popped up beside Harriet with her mission clothes and she quickly did her changing spell.

Hulk leaned over Dobby curiously and the little elf peered up at Hulk without a trace of fear, "What you?" Hulk rumbled.

"Dobby is an elf!" Dobby squeaked proudly, folding Harriet's skirt and shirt carefully without breaking eye contact, "What you?"

Hulk beat a fist against his chest, "Hulk is Hulk!"

Dobby nodded sagely, "Dobby is pleased to meetin a friend of the Great Harri Potter!"

Harri giggled as Hulk frowned and cocked his head at Dobby, "That would be me big guy."

Hulk grinned in understanding, "Sister Bluebird!" Dobby looked to Harriet in question and she just smiled, Dobby looked back up to Hulk who had stood up from his previous position, "Bluebird smash with Hulk!" he stopped and looked down to Harriet, "Kitty smash?"

"What?" Neville asked, startled, "No-o sm-smashing Kitty!" he stuttered out.

Harri shook her head, "He doesn't want to smash you Nev, he wants to know if you want to smash with us." Harri looked up at Hulk, "Kitty doesn't know how to smash Hulk, give me a bit of time to train him and maybe he can join us next time."

Hulk slumped, his face falling into what could only be a pout as he looked over to Neville on his shoulder, "Kitty smash later?"

Neville's eyes went wide but he nodded, "J-just let Har-Bluebird teach me. O-okay?" Hulk gave him a short nod.

"Good." Harri hummed as she took her headset from Dobby, "Set him down so Dobby can take him home. Then we'll get to taking care of these baddies alright?" with that Harriet engaged her headset and was greeted promptly by Jarvis, "Hey Jarvis. Can you scan and see if you can find any information on the people below?"

"Of course Miss Potter." Jarvis replied.

Harri heard the familiar pop of Dobby leaving and looked up when she felt the vibration of Hulk stepping over to her, "Smash now?"

"Just a minute." Harri said, turning back to the people below, "I'm checking who all we have here so we can plan."

"No plan, just smash." Hulk huffed.

Harri laughed, "You want to know who will be the most fun to smash right?"

"Miss Potter. I have identified forty out of the forty-two beings below you." Jarvis announced, "All have extensive records ranging from petty theft all the way up to manslaughter. Ten of them are on Shield's wanted list and the two I was unable to identify seem to being putting off energy similar to some of the samples I was able to find of mutant powers."

Harriet hummed, "If you can actually sense them with what little equipment the headset holds they must be class four. Or a high end three at least." Harriet pulled the gloves that Fred and George had made her out of her pocket and slid them on, "Any who would respond well to jail time?"

"Highly unlikely." Jarvis informed her shortly, "They are the dregs. No morals at all if their records are any indication. Five" Jarvis actually pulled these pictures up in front of Harriet, unlike the others, "seem to enjoy playing with children. I shall have to wipe their deeds from my servers before my processor blows."

Harriet narrowed her eyes at the pictures, "We'll take care of them from this end."

"Much obliged Miss Potter." Jarvis answered.

Harri looked up at Hulk, "Ready buddy?"

"Who smash?" Hulk growled.

Harri tapped the holograms lightly, "Can you see these five?" Hulk moved closer to her and she held still so he could look at the little pictures, he huffed in acknowledgement, sending hot air over Harri's face and making her wrinkle her nose, "Smash them bad. They are the worst sort of people. They hurt kids" She pulled up her hood over her face.

Hulk swung toward the camp and leapt forward without any more prompting, landing on one the jeeps at the edge of the mercenary camp and letting out a roar. The mercenaries let out startled screams and many drew weapons while the smarter ones fled. Harriet grinned and flamed to the other side of the camp, cutting off their escape as she drew her guns, "Look what we have here Hulk! Why it's an absolute treasure trove of the worst scum on earth." The mercenaries drew to a stop and they all started to back into a defensive circle, "Murderers, rapists, and human traffickers oh my." She purred, Hulk growled.

"And just who are you?" one of the mercenaries demanded, Jarvis locked onto the bald man with a scruffy beard and presented her with his information, Harri narrowed her eyes at the many charges of rape and torture that had been stuck to the man, "You and your pet monster." The man, Robert by his file, demanded.

Harriet flicked the safety off of her guns, "He's the Hulk and I…I am The Queen."

Robert went down with a single bullet between his eyes and the camp exploded into chaos. Many started firing at Hulk and Harriet but she just put up her shield in front of her and he ignored what amounted to pin pricks to him. Harriet ran forward, firing kill shot after kill shot until her clips ran dry. She holstered her guns and met the next mercenary charging her with an ice blade that slit the woman's throat, splattering blood over Harriet who quickly flipped out of range of a machete that was swinging her way a second later. Before she could go after the one swinging at her, another of the camp's jeeps came down on the female, turning her to a smudge beneath the twisted metal. Hulk roared again as he sent three flying into the wreckage in front of Harriet, impaling them on bits of metal.

Suddenly a green mist surrounded Harriet and she felt her throat constrict, she tried to step out of the smoke, looking for a canister of tear gas, but the smoke stayed with her. Harriet growled and flamed three feet to the right, she looked back to see the green smoke solidify into a frowning man dressed in worn camo gear. Understanding, Harri flicked her wand into her hand and cast a concealing bubble around the man, sure enough he turned to smoke and tried to break out of the bubble. Green eyes flashed Avada Kedavra green and Harri twisted her wand in a slow movement; the containment bubble expanded, pulling the struggling gas particles with it, carefully dissipating the smoke until nothing was left.

Harriet sheathed her wand and turned toward the Hulk's furious growl, he was charging at a thin, black haired man who wore black lipstick and had beady black eyes. He moved in a strange dance as he directed a large amount of sand straight into Hulk's face. Hulk spluttered, turning his head aside as he barreled forward and the man side stepped in enough time to avoid Hulk. Harriet rolled her eyes as they started up their dance again, the man hissing dramatically at Hulk, she quickly changed the clip on one of her guns and shot the man twice in the chest.

Harriet looked around as Hulk made his way over to her, "Good job Hulk! It looks like we finished that up pretty quick."

Hulk grinned down at her, "Hulk go with Bluebird now?"

Harriet winced and pulled down her hood, flicking her headset off in the process, "Hulk, Bruce isn't ready for me yet. We've been writing in his journal but he still seems wary. I can't force him. He wouldn't like that."

"Bruceman puny! Not talk to Hulk like Bluebird say!" Hulk huffed.

Harri frowned, "You've been watching Bruce more? I thought you only watched him when he was in danger."

"Hulk watch. Keep puny Bruceman from run and hide." Hulk said.

"Ah," Harriet said, realization dawning, "I've been trying to go as slow as possible but his fight or flight is kicking in. Is that it?" Hulk grunted his agreement, "That's why you can't come with me." Harri sighed, "If his fight or flight is kicking in now, I'd hate to think what I'd put him through if he woke up at the castle." Hulk let out a wild huff and glared at her as best he could, "I'm sorry buddy but…Hulk!" Harriet ended on a squeak as Hulk started to fall toward her with his full weight; half way down Hulk started to shrink, his green bleeding out to make way for pale skin. Realizing what had happened, Harriet caught the half-naked Bruce before he could hit the ground. "Damnit Hulk." She growled lightly.

Harriet quickly maneuvered Bruce's limp arm over her shoulder and started making her way toward the edge of the camp where Bruce wouldn't wake up surrounded by bodies. Luckily, it seemed that Hulk had left one mode of transportation unharmed. Harriet wondered to herself if it was Bruce or Hulk who first took a liking to motorcycles. She huffed and tugged Bruce over to a soft patch of moss before going to start the clean-up, paying that she would be able to complete it before Bruce woke up. She cast a carefully controlled fiendfyre at the camp site to take care of the bodies before pulling the motorcycle over to where Bruce was laying.

Just as she was getting ready to stop the cursed fire a groan made her freeze.

Harriet looked back to Bruce warily, watching as he rubbed at his head and sat up, "Not again." He muttered miserably. Glacia cooed within Harriet, trying to lift Bruce's spirits and, despite that there was no actual sound, Bruce's head whipped around, his gaze landing on Harriet immediately. He frowned, blinking several times before his eyes flashed green momentarily, "Harriet?"

Harri let out a hesitant laugh and gave him an awkward wave, "Hey, Bruce." She mentally cursed Hulk, she knew what that green flash was, she just hadn't thought Hulk would be able to send Bruce a thought if Bruce hadn't contacted Hulk yet. "How's it going?" Bruce's frown grew before suddenly he started coughing almost violently, Harriet's wariness disappeared in favor of checking on Bruce, rushing over to him, "Are you alright?"

Bruce had a hand to his throat, "Why does it feel like I ate a beach?" he demanded in a strange raspy tone.

Harriet grimaced, "There was a mutant who controlled some form of sand in the group of mercenaries we took down. He got a blast in on Hulk's face, the big guy must have gotten some in his mouth." She quickly drew her wand and cast a simple dislodging spell that was often used for people choking, Bruce pitched forward and Harriet stepped clear just as sand came flying out of his mouth. Harri rubbed Bruce's back as he continued to hack up sand, "It shouldn't be much longer but I know you should fully swallow that." Bruce nodded, his face an entirely different shade of green than his usual.

As it slowed down, Harriet conjured a cup and angled her wand inside so that her Aguamenti spell would fill the cup, "Bruce." She called lightly, the doctor looked up at her and she pointedly took a drink from the cup before handing it to him.

Bruce took the cup hesitantly, watching her before taking a drink, once he was satisfied that it wouldn't poison him or knock him out he drank a bit quicker. Harriet vanished the pile of sand and phlegm with her wand, a motion that Bruce followed curiously. Once the glass was empty he finally looked to Harriet again, "How many did I kill?" he asked lowly.

"Well…" Harri started, dropping to sit cross legged in front of Bruce, the motion making her necklaces clink together, "I took out fourteen before I ran out of bullets, a fifteenth with my ice, and my sixteenth and seventeenth were the two mutants. There were forty-two in the mercenary band when this started so you got twenty-five." Harriet could almost hear Bucky and Clint arguing over whose kills carried more weight, like Harriet taking out the two mutants would bring her up even with Hulk's count.

"Mercenaries." Bruce deadpanned, "What about the village? That's where I blacked out." He swallowed hard and looked away, "God…that little girl."

Harri smiled as she poured more water into Bruce's cup, "Calm down Bruce, the village it fine and Villard is quite enjoying the pampering they're giving him."

Bruce's head whipped around, "What?"

Harri nodded, "Yeah, they're all fine. Hulk chased the mercenaries away and after he found me and Neville we went back to get more information on the mercenaries. Hulk didn't hurt any innocents and once the village found out that Villard was yours they insisted on taking care of their protector's pet." She leaned back on her hands, "Not that he's really a pet, at this point he's almost a familiar." She tilted her head, "I wonder if Hulk gives you the ability to make that connection? Usually you need magic to make it."

"You're lying." Bruce rasped with wide eyes.

Harriet cocked an eyebrow at him, "I think I would know more about magical familiars than you Bruce."

"No…the village. There's no way…" Bruce started.

Harri rolled her eyes with a sigh, 'Here we go again.' "Bruce, how many times have I told you that Hulk isn't always destructive? Do you want to know? Because I can pull out my side of our journal." "And about a thousand memories from another timeline where we talked in person.' Harri shook her head, "Hulk wouldn't have hurt those people. He came out to protect them. And honestly, I think he has a soft spot for kids." 'I know he does, he enjoyed those trips to the orphanages to play with the kids after all.'

Bruce still looked sick, "What about this…Neville person, where is he if Hulk left innocents alone." His eyes flash green and he frowned again, "And who is Kitty?"

Harri snickered, "Kitty is Hulk's name for Neville. I sent Neville home before we took out the mercenaries. He's relatively new to everything and throwing him into an impromptu mission and expecting him to stay for the action is a bit far-fetched." She shrugged, "But introducing him to Hulk went pretty well I'd say. Neville got to practice his courage; poor kid has been verbally abused into a timid little submissive by his Gran. This will boost him a bit I hope."

Bruce gaped at her before he took a shaky drink of his water, "What were you even doing here?" he asked once he had settled a little bit.

"I promised Hulk I would see him when he comes out." Harriet said easily, she raised her arm that held her bracelets and shook her coat sleeve down to reveal them, "Yours glows green when Hulk is out." She put her arm back down, "I did mean to leave before you woke up since you didn't call me yourself but Hulk seemed to think that we needed to meet. He passed out almost on top of me without even helping with clean up." She pouted at the last bit.

Bruce let out a startled laugh, "Good luck getting him to clean up."

"You'd be surprised." Harri grinned, sitting up again.

Bruce sighed, "You always say stuff like that. Are you going to tell me now?"

"Have you accepted magic?" Harriet shot back.

"Magic isn't real!" Bruce huffed, it was how most of their conversations went.

"What is that cup and water you're holding?! You saw me make the water come from my wand!" Harri exclaimed.

Bruce scowled down at the cup, "Sleight of hand! I've seen that in little magic shows!"

Before Harriet could answer a pop sounded behind her and she turned to see Fred and George in their mission clothes, wands already drawn. Harriet grinned, "Fred! George! I didn't know you had finished your apparating lessons with Remus!"

Fred and George relaxed when they saw her and quickly pulled down their hoods, "We haven't"

"finished the lessons. We"

"just tweaked a portkey and tracker spell"

"which we then placed on your headset."

Harri smiled as she climbed to her feet, "Ah, that makes more sense." They drew her closer to them as they checked her over, "I assume Neville told you?"

"Yep." George said, he looked over to the still burning wreckage, "Looks like you two had it under control."

"Yeah, it wasn't a very big group." Harri hummed as George slid an arm around her and kissed her temple. Fred looked over to the fire and redrew his wand to carefully dissipate Harriet's spell. Harri leaned into George but looked over to Bruce, "Was that sleight of hand Bruce?" she asked innocently.

Bruce was staring at Fred and George with intense curiosity, "Did you just…teleport?"

Fred and George shared a glance before looking to Harriet, "Is this"

"Bruce then?"

Harri laughed, "Yep, this is Bruce. Bruce, this is Fred and George."

Fred and George honed in on Bruce, "Well he certainly looks younger than the memory you showed us." George said.

"But we guess that's to be expected." Fred hummed, he tilted his head, "He can really turn into the Hulk?"

"Yes." Harri said in amusement.

"That's quite a transformation. He seems tiny." George noted.

Bruce looked somewhere between confused and uncertain with just a tinge of offended, "Gamma rays tend to do that." He said uncertainly.

Fred and George perked up, "Oh, do you give off gamma radiation?" Fred asked.

"Is it self-renewed or do you have to top up somehow?" George asked.

"Can we…" Fred started before Harriet smacked his arm gently.

"Fred, it's not polite to ask people for body parts for experimentation." Harri giggled.

Fred pouted, "I was only going to ask for some hair."

"I'm sure." Harri said with amusement, George snickered.

Bruce shook his head, trying to keep up, until he caught one specific part of the conversation, "What do you mean I looked older in a memory?"

Harriet feigned looking at a watch, "Oh would you look at the time. We best be getting home for dinner."

"Harriet!" Bruce called, shooting to his feet.

Harri waved dramatically as she started to draw her flames up around, "Bye Bruce! Hulk left you a motorcycle! Don't forget to look for your center while meditating so you can talk to Hulk."

"You can't just leave it like this!" Bruce shouted over the noise of the blue flames.

"Put some ice on it!" George called.

"It'll go down in a couple hours!" Fred laughed.

With that Harriet flamed them back to the greenhouses, giggling madly in her usual spot pressed between Fred and George.

Harriet looked up to her mates with a brilliant smile, "That is one of the many reasons I love you two."

Fred and George both arched an eyebrow at her, "And here we thought it"

"was because of our International Pranking Empire." They teased.

"Nah, that's what you do, not who you are." Harri giggled.

Fred drew her into a kiss, "We're glad dick jokes can ensure your love for us." He said softly against her lips.

Harri pulled back a little with a smile, "Not just dick jokes. Your guys' ability to break the tension of any situation even if only armed with dick jokes."

George tightened his arms around her, "It's our specialty."

"Um…g-guys?" came Neville's voice, the three looked over to see Neville standing awkwardly at the nursery table, his cheeks burning red. "Can y-you do th-at somewh-here else? I…d-don't want you tr-amatizing the pl-lants." He stuttered as he began to fidget.

Fred grinned, "Right…the plants."

"Nice way of telling us to get a room." George snickered.

"We'll have to remember that one." Fred added.

Harriet smirked, "Sorry Kitty." Neville ducked his head as his blush grew darker.

"What's this now?" George asked.

"A nickname we don't know the origin of?" Fred asked curiously.

"It's what Hulk called him." Harriet giggled. Fred and George snickered softly and Neville blew out a resigned breath. Harri smiled at him fondly, "Let me get cleaned up and then we'll go get your parents so we can all talk over dinner."

The dinner with the Longbottom's went over well.

Harriet first told them all about Dumbledore's manipulations and showed them the proof. To say that they were outraged was an understatement. Alice had started pacing like a caged animal, while Frank very calmly asked more in-depth questions that Harriet was happy to answer. This display let Harriet see the dynamic of their relationship, showing that Alice was clearly the firecracker and Frank the more level headed one; that wasn't to say that Alice didn't think, it's just that her emotions were held more closely to the surface than Frank's. Harriet was sure that if she hadn't intercepted Alice's rant and hadn't already tied the two to the castle wards, that Alice would have tried to go after Dumbledore right that moment.

Things got a bit more interesting when she talked about the time travel. They were actually much more skeptical than Harriet thought they would be. Sure she expected some denial but much less than they had given her, they had been part of the magical community their entire lives, she sort of expected them to know magic was sometimes strange and unpredictable. Remus had to gently remind her that most people raised in the magical community didn't think the way she did, most having the 'rules of magic' hammered home since they were little. Eventually, Harriet simply called for the courtroom pensive and showed them a memory progression of Neville from the last timeline. It was around the memory of Harriet giving Neville the sword of Gryffindor to kill Nagini that she saw acceptance and rising shock appear on the elder Longbottom's faces.

Through all of this Neville had just listened and watched with wide eyes. Practically shaking when she showed the memory of him threatening Bellatrix Lestrange in the Department of Mysteries. Wide eyed when Harriet showed the memory of Neville leading them through the secret passage to get into Hogwarts right before the battle. And nearly choking when he watched himself accept the sword and promise to kill Nagini. The ones after that were a little less nerve wracking for the Gryffindor but were filled with more embarrassment as his mother commented on what a looker he turned into.

Harriet was pleased in the end when the Longbottom trio offered their assistance in her mission to take down Dumbledore and protect people. They spent most of the remaining part of the evening going over plans and introducing the Longbottoms to everyone in the castle. Neville being pleasantly surprised to find his friend Sage was here even if he found out that his Sage persona was only a cover. The Marauders were happy to have their two friends back too, they took over integrating the elder Longbottom's to the castle, all but dragging the couple through the halls and making sure that Alice and Frank took a set of rooms that was one the same floor as theirs.

Now, as Harriet sat in Potter Manor alone, she prepared for something similar in her impending talk with Tonks.

Similar only because of the difficult choice she would have to present to the bouncy auror.

Harri had worries about involving Tonks, no matter how much she wanted to bring the woman in without hesitation. She wasn't just spitting words when she had said that Tonks had a conflict of interests. The Order part could be taken care of easily enough, showing her the truth behind the Order would turn her from Dumbledore but give Harriet another spy within the enemy camp. It was the Department of Magical Law Enforcement that was the real problem.

The DMLE had rules and regulations that prohibited them from withholding information if it in anyway lent to current case. Even if Harriet made Tonks swear to hide the information or managed to get a Goblin ward to force the secret, Tonks would be required by her contract with her department to inform the Head Auror of the block on the information if it was asked about directly. So if Madame Bones was to ask Tonks if Harriet had an animagus, Tonks couldn't tell her but she would have to tell Madame Bones that a block had been put on the information. That was as good as admitting guilt in cases like this and Madame Bones could get a warrant from the Wizengamot to bring said person under questioning.

There was also the fact the Tonks loved her job and Harriet actually didn't have too much of a problem with the DMLE itself. Sure it had corrupt aurors but Harriet had dealt with some corrupt cops in New York and corrupt aurors from the American Ministry, she knew not to judge the entire department by a few bad eggs. The DMLE did provide several important services, even if their training was lacking in places due to the community's current peaceful state, keeping illegal trading down and capturing criminals as well as maintaining Azkaban.

Talking this through with Loki had given her the line she needed to draw in front of Tonks, the decision she needed to give the woman. Harriet sighed, she really did think of Tonks as a friend and, while she was dating Remus, an Aunt, she didn't want to make her choose between something she loved and her forming attachment to Harriet. As a Hufflepuff, even if Tonks did choose the DMLE, it was likely she would continue to try and get closer to Harriet and, for her protection, Harriet would have to keep her at arm's length.

Hearing the floo come to life Harriet looked up to see Tonks appear through the flames, standing there in tight black pants and a Hufflepuff sweater, her hair black and yellow to keep with her theme.

Harriet got up from her chair with a grin, "Hufflepuff propaganda in my house? I'm afraid you'll have to leave with that right now before my house elves die of shock."

Tonks stuck her tongue out at Harriet, "No such luck lion! I'm here to spread the warm fuzzies to this den!" Harri giggled and Tonks laughed, "Wotcher Harriet! How have you been?"

Harriet accepted the hug from Tonks before pulling back a bit, "I've been great. I had a great time with the Lovegoods on that animal expedition and since I last saw you I've actually gotten the chance to get to know my god mother and god brother!"

Tonks grinned, "That's great! I'm glad you guys got to get together. Despite all of that potions business they did seem to be worried about you."

"Yeah, they're the best." Harri hummed, "So how about you?" she asked as she lead the older women toward the dining room, "How is Auror life treating you?"

"Pretty well." Tonks said, "Though since it is your case I'm working on how could it not be interesting right?"

Harriet rolled her eyes, "It can't be that interesting. You're just gathering evidence right now right?"

Tonks sighed, "Yeah. Say what you will but the Headmaster certainly knows how to get rid of evidence."

"You can say that again." Harriet mumbled, she briefly wondered if the house that she had found her father in was still there and if it would hold any clues for the DMLE. She shook herself from her thoughts and smiled at the Hufflepuff, "Alright, the elves said they wanted to try something new for lunch so just go with it." She made an exaggerated gagging sound, "But the last time they said that though they brought me tripe, so be careful."

Tonks wrinkled her nose, "Isn't that…"

"Animal stomach lining? Yeah." Harri frowned, "I'm sure it's good to some people but I could not get past the texture."

Tonks nodded, "I'll try anything once. Twice if it doesn't kill me."

They sat down at the table and fell into small talk as they waited for food. Luckily, the new thing that the elves wanted to try was not animal stomach lining. Though Harriet nearly rolled her eyes and groaned when they were served what amounted to fancy avocado toast and marinated chicken. 'When did my elves turn into every millennial ever?'

As they started in Tonks honed in on Harriet, "Alright, give us the goods girl."

Harriet gave Tonks a mock horrified look, "Tonks are you trying to be…cool?"

Tonks sniffed delicately, "I am cool Harriet. I'm awesome! And when you, Fred, and George have a hoard of little babies it will be me teaching them to be the best Hufflepuffs they can be."

Harriet laughed, "Please, my children are going to be proud Gryffindors or fierce Slytherins."

"You keep telling yourself that Harriet." Tonks snorted, flaring her eyes to match her yellow hair, "Badger is the way to go."

"Is it the nesting time?" Harriet mused.

Tonks looked over at her intensely, "How do you know about sacred Hufflepuff nesting time?"

Harri giggled, "I'm friends with a Puff. He blew off a study group for it."

Tonks nodded, "Definitely worth blowing off studying for." Harriet smiled as the topic fell, leaving the table in a few moments of silence.

Finally, she sighed, "Alright Tonks I know why you're here." The auror perked, "And I know what I said." Harri continued, "But I can't tell you too much more than I have as we are right now."

Tonks set her fork down a little too heavily, "Harriet…"

Harri held Tonks gaze and held up a hand, "Please Tonks. You have to understand. There is a lot I'm not telling you, a lot that I want to tell you. And I would like us at least be friends one way or the other, but what I am not telling you is for the protection of my mates, my people, and you as well." She set down her own fork and ran a hand through her hair, "Look, you are an Auror and I know, I can see very clearly, that you love your job despite its boring spells. What I want to tell you could jeopardize your place with the DMLE and I would never want to do that to you, I would never give you something that could possibly get you forcibly taken from a job you love."

Harriet took a deep breath, "With that in mind. I have a choice for you and I ask that you hear me out before you ask anything. I will give you a choice and then give you a couple days to think it through. Alright?" Tonks gave a hesitant nod and Harriet steeled herself, "You can stay with the DMLE and we can keep our interactions to professional ones, for the safety of everyone involved on both side, or you can quit the DMLE…" Tonks inhaled sharply and sat back in her chair, Harri gave her an apologetic look, "You can quit the DMLE and come work for a new division of an intelligence agency that I fund." Tonks looked a bit skeptical but Harriet plowed on, "Keep in mind that 'lot I'm not telling you' here." Harriet said as she pulled a stack of papers out of her pocket dimension, she slid it onto the table beside Tonks.

"This is a legitimate offer that you can confirm with the Goblins." Harriet said, "The new division is actually nonexistent at the moment but I only recently took on a major role in this organization giving me the ability to make it so and I already have a couple more people in mind for it. It will still be helping people, just not in the most direct way. The organization is called Shield and while it has traditionally only dealt with the muggle side of things, the world is about to expand to more than they can handle with just muggles." Tonks opened her mouth and Harriet held up a hand again, "Remember Tonks, 'a lot I'm not telling you'. I understand that you want to know but remember that people's safety is at risk." Tonks got a sour look but nodded in understanding.

"This division would mostly be for intelligence gathering and for hunting down magical criminals that the regular auror departments of the magical world at large just can't handle. It will be a lot of training for a bit, while you build up your skills but we will also be working toward taking down Dumbledore and promoting relations among those trying to protect the entire world, from muggles to magicals to mutants to Mystic Arts users." Harriet said, she flipped through the pages, "Of course this isn't a volunteer thing." She stopped and marked a page with a little highlighter charm, "This shows your pay and benefits." She flipped a few more pages, "This gives you a more in depth look at what the job might entail. I will give this packet to you before you leave."

Harriet let the pages fall back into place, "If you choose to come work in the new division I will be able to tell you everything." She met Tonks' gaze, trying to push forward her sincerity, "I know this will be a hard decision for you and I really hate that I have to make it like this but my concern for my mates' safety, the safety of my people, and you have to be taken into account. Like I said, I hope we can be friends no matter what you decide but if you choose to stay with the DMLE I'm afraid it will have to be a friendship where I keep secrets." She dropped her hands back to the table, "I will answer any questions you have but I will need your answer in the next week so that I know how to proceed."

So yeah, fixed!

The first thing I fixed was Lily's first cross with Dumbledore. I went a little too heavy on the first encounter. I drew it back a bit to give me room to grow and have fun in that area. We can't go full out just yet but for the haunting I will take little suggestions from you guys! Like Lily following Harriet around but Harri being 'unable to see her' just to taunt Dumbles, things that Peeves may teach Lilly, etc.

"Ad quos eieci te de hoc mundo spiritum" translates roughly to "I banish you from this world spirit" But I used google translate so take it as you will.

I never specified Harriet's guns but in my head her clips carry eight bullets each. She shot fourteen kill shots giving her only two that didn't get in critical hits, she was taught by Natasha after all.

Let's play who can guess who the two mutants are modeled after! I'll give you a hint! They are not (that I know of) from Marvel!

If you want to know more about how Hulk got into visiting an orphanage to play with little kids then read 'Outtake: Harri's True Power (Alternatively: Harriet's Bitches)' here on Ao3.

The second thing I fixed was the Bruce and Harriet scene. When I originally wrote it I had Harriet do some shock and awe to convince Bruce of magic but we I went over it again I saw a place to bring in the twins and their roles in the family unit. I found this a much better jumping off point for the rest of Bruce's interactions with the trio.

Hell yeah Neville grew into a looker! Have you seen Matthew Lewis? *fans self*

The part with Tonks is what James helped me fix. James pointed out that while Harriet might want to bring Tonks in pretty quickly the conflict of interest thing could cause real problems in the future that it would be pretty unbelievable for me to just move around without mentioning. So we came up with the choice. This choice and the implications of the new division of Shield will open up spots for the non-Avengers in the group for when the main group is off fighting the big baddies or at school or such.

Check out brand new fan art in the fanart post on Ao3! It is the second part of the series!

Next time: Harriet and the Longbottoms go Shopping! Tonks decision. Steve X Tonks foreva yo!