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For the first time in many days, Harry was looking forward to spending his time in the library.  Not because he was anxious to spend endless hours looking through dusty tomes, but because he was anxious to see whether his plan would work or not.  Harry walked into the library and sat down with a not-quite-smothered grin.  Although a group of around 15 girls had again found him, he was ready.

"Have you met my friend, Kenneth?" Harry called out to the group.  Several girls gaped at him – that was the first time he had actually talked to them.  A few of the less stunned mutely shook their heads.

Just then, the library doors opened up and admitted an impossibly good looking man in his early twenties.  As if on cue, the collective crowd of women turned to face the new arrival and Harry stifled a laugh at the naked admiration on their faces.  And unless he was mistaken, one of them was actually lightly drooling.

If they only knew Harry mused that 'Kenneth' was Hogwarts: A History twenty minutes ago.  He had transfigured the book to a cross between himself and his memory of Gilderoy Lockhart, and then altered the appearance even further, making 'Kenneth' possibly the best looking guy in England.  And after giving him an appropriate personality (taken in large part from Lockhart as well) there was only one more thing to do…

"You might have heard of him," Harry offhandedly said, "He defeated a banshee when he was nine years old.  He's a dragon-slayer for the ministry now."  Harry smirked and said loudly to the semi-fictional character, "Ken, I'm pretty busy.  I don't suppose you could talk with these girls."

Kenneth flashed a winning smile, which made him look even more like Lockhart, and smarmingly said, "I would be delighted!"  The girls didn't believe their luck, and followed Kenneth to a table in another section of the library.  Harry couldn't believe his luck, either, and a large grin spread across his face.  He could work in peace, now!

Harry searched the library for several hours, although he didn't notice how much time had passed until he shut the twelfth book he had skimmed through and glanced at his watch.  2:30!  He had even missed lunch.  Harry started to go down to the kitchens, when he heard a small creak from the floorboards within the room.

"Hello?" Harry asked hesitantly, looking around.  There didn't appear to be anyone in the room.  Just as Harry was about to get back to packing up the books again, the wood resettled again.  Harry went through the possibilities, and figured out what was going on.  He quickly modified his eyes to see invisible people and looked around again.  Sure enough, someone familiar was staring at him.

"There appears to be an intruder," Harry loudly said, while trying not to look at the uninvited guest.  "It's my duty as a responsible citizen to bring them to justice.  Titillo!"  Harry cast the spell at the 'intruder' and was shortly rewarded be an involuntary snort of laughter.

Harry smiled and called out, "Had enough yet?  Titillo!" Where there was snorting before, now there was full fledged laughter.

"No, please!" the guest called out through their laughter, "Not the tickling charm!"

"Titillo!" Harry called again, trying not to laugh himself.

Finally, the guest pulled off her invisibility cloak and choked out, "That's not nice, dad!"

Harry finally relented with the tickling charm.  His daughter crossed her arms, but was still smiling.  "Serves you right," Harry said, "Sneaking around in that cloak.  Just imagine what your mom would do if she caught you, Janet."

"Really?" Janet said disbelievingly, "She told me about all the stuff you used to pull with it!"

"All lies," Harry said, although he couldn't help but grinning guiltily as he did so.

His daughter obviously saw through it, and crossed her arms again.  "Ok," Harry admitted, "maybe I did sneak around a bit."

Janet smiled, and Harry quickly said, "Still, try to exercise a little restraint with it."

"Why?" Janet asked coyly.

"Because," Harry replied gravely, "You never know when you're going to get hit with… Titillo!"

Janet burst into laugher again, doubled over on the floor.  However, before she could try to get her wand out and perform the counter-curse, Madame Pince came storming over and yelled, "Mister Potter!  I believe even you should know that there are NO SPELLS ALLOWED IN THE LIBRARY!"

"I'm sorry," Harry said, trying not to grin.

"And you," rounded Pince, "I don't believe that cloak will be needed here!"

"I'm sorry," Janet replied, although Harry was able to hear the tint of amusement.

Fortunately Pince couldn't and marched off.  Harry smiled and asked, "Where's your sister at?"

Janet grimaced.  "She and her friends are mooning over some guy named Ken."

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Ok, everyone.  There's your glimpse of the little potters.  Hopefully nobody resents the fact that one of them is spending her time going after a Lockhart imitation.  Also, I apologize for the delayed posting.

So far, we have several suspects for the sphere-opener.  They are: Dumbledore, Nora Joss, Teenage Fan-Girls, and Harry himself.  Keep 'em coming.

Lakergurl13: It is an odd sentence structure.  I think the thing that makes it that way is that I purposely threw 'back' in there – sort of a bad pun.  Yeah, he's worried about the behavior of the girls.  Hmmm… looks like something I needed to lead into better…

Interesting theory.  I can see it now…

"Voldemort…" Harry whispered

"That's right," Voldemort hissed harshly.

"But… but how," Harry stammered, "I made sure you couldn't let yourself out!"

"You're forgetting one thing," Voldemort slyly replied.

Harry looked at the new figure coming in from behind the Dark Lord, and couldn't believe his eyes.  "Mary-Sue?" Harry asked in disbelief.

"I'm sorry!" Mary pleaded, "But Voldemort promised me autographed pictures of you!  How could I resist?"

Kim: Ooh, another interesting theory!  Yeah, I suppose Harry would be the most unexpected character to open the sphere.  Don't worry; the entire story is only going to be around 10k words and we're about halfway through the plot.  On the other hand, I can guarantee you won't find out who opened the sphere until the final chapter…

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