Title: Double Life
Rated: R content, eventually
Summery: Harry wake up one morning after fifth year with an unpleasant surprise. He may not be a Metamorphmagus, but he will be able to spy in Slytherin without them knowing who he is.
Notes: The story is a WIP. I've calculated things and found that I can promise to update once a week. I'll put them up on Sundays, but it can take up to 24 hours before the page is actually uploaded on the site. So, new parts can be found every Monday.
Chapter 2 – Until School Begin
The next day, Harry already had made his decision. He would always be, during the school year, at two places at the same time. He even let the Headmaster know his decision at breakfast. Then began the preparation. He may be able to become a girl, but he still looked like James and Lilly Potter daughter. He needed to look like someone else. At least, Gendermagus were more like Animagus than Metamorphmagus on a point. Changing from a gender to another brought him back to what he last looked like as the other gender on two points: hair styling and clothes. If he was dirty as a gender, he would be as the other. It was a little bit like Animagus. After all, when Sirius got out of Azkaban, he looked as bad as a dog than as a human.
The hair styling that didn't change would be a great help to make a difference between Harry Potter and the girl he would be to spy. He only needed to use a Hair Lengthening Potion. Then came the problem of the scar. No spell both Remus and Dumbledore tried would work. They had to put that problem beside to be solved later. Another thing was his eyes, since they were such a bright and uncommon colour. Fortunately, a simple spell could change the colour. It was admitted that the spell could easily be broken, but as long as people didn't see those eyes too long, they would not make the links between Harry Potter and "her". Tired of mixing the two personae, they passed at least an hour trying to choose a female name for Harry. It was far more difficult than they could ever have guessed. This name was too presumptuous for Harry taste, while that other one sounded too Muggle for most pureblood families. Finally, the name Fortuna seemed to please everyone.
Now, Fortuna needed to have different strength than Harry, so nobody would compare them, ever. During the brief lunch they ate, they began discussing how to do so. The best way to do so would be by making sure that they had mostly different course. Except that Harry was pretty sure that it would be difficult, since Hermione would make sure that he took a logical list of NEWTs level course, even more that she knew that he wanted to try to become an Auror. It was then that Harry saw the perfect way to escape the problem he created for himself back in third year. Harry Potter had never done an Arithmancy course, nor an Ancient Runes one. Fortuna may even take Muggle Studies and have problems understanding things no Muggle-raised child would even think about. It seem like a good idea when he mentioned it, but he began changing idea when the Headmaster began preparing to teach 3 years worth for two different subjects during the summer. Dumbledore was so enthusiastic that Harry couldn't find the time between the older man sentences to tell him that it was actually summer. After that, he fund that it would look so lazy to refuse such an offer for courses that could probably help him to become an Auror.
Harry was then let to himself, when the Headmaster when to finish the planning and Remus when to speak directly to Tonks and to Mr Smethley, whoever that was. Not really knowing what to do, Harry went around asking questions to painting about how long they have been there. He had never truly seen how boring Hogwarts looked during the summer. Finding his trunk back in the hospital wing, he began sorting through his books, looking for something to read. Finding nothing he hasn't read already, he took a parchment and began to note what he already knew about all the Slytherins he knew. He even made categories: know son/daughter of Death Eater; know son/daughter of people that were not Death Eater and an unknown category. All the names Harry could find fitted in the first or the last ones. Still, it would be very odd if a quarter of the school was actually evil. That means that even his vision of things was screwed.
Dinnertime came quickly enough after that. Harry and Dumbledore discussed Harry's schedule for the rest of the summer. It had been decided that Harry would began using the Time-Turner right now, so he would already be in the beat in September. That way, he could be female and learn Arithmancy with the Headmaster one day and be male and learn Ancient Runes with Remus the other one. On weekend, Tonks would help him with girls' things he needed to know. Even now, hearing the Headmaster talk about him needing bras and being menstruated was very embarrassing. At least, it would be better with Tonks, since she was younger and female. Or maybe not, thought Harry, when he imagined himself talking with her about bras.
It was decided that the next day being Sunday, Harry would go with Tonks buy clothes for Fortuna, as Fortuna.
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The next day was a real nightmare. Waking up in the hospital wing made him believe he had injured himself again. Tonks came about five minutes later, far to energetic for so early in the morning and demanded of him that he was ready to go in ten other minutes, as a female.
When he was ready, fifteen minutes later, Tonks informed him that he would need to leave his glasses behind. They would need to buy new one. Then, she took some make-up from a pocket. It was foundation in about every shade imaginable. Tonks tried many before finding the one that seem invisible on Fortuna's skin. She used it to cover the scar and then explained to him the spell that would make it impossible to remove without ending the spell first. Finally, they walked to Hogsmeade to use The Three Broomsticks Floo directly to a store that sold magical glasses. The choice was great and Harry chose a pair that was pretty feminine and in neutral colour. The choice of spell that could be applied was enormous, but since it was only Fortuna's glasses, he chose only the minimum and an Unbreakable Charms. They went out to the next stop, the clothes. Harry never knew girls had so much clothing. He thought they would be buying some pairs of knickers and bras with one or two robes for when he would not be in uniform. Now he had ten sets of matching underwear and they were going to some store he never had hear of before to buy some summer robes. Then, only, they would go to Madam Malkin to buy his school uniforms and one or two winter robes.
***
Finally, with far more clothes than Harry ever had, him and Tonks came back to Hogwarts. There, Tonks began to teach him what he would need to know so that he would really act like a young lady. Over the weekend of the rest of the summer, Harry would learn to remove the far to male mannerism he had, while developing some more feminine one. Plus, they would take the time to make Harry learn how to manage the girl centre of balance to be able to walk, go up and down the stairs and fly. Even if in the end, it would quickly be decided that Fortuna would be dead afraid of flying, because Harry usual grace on a broom disappeared as soon as he was female.
***
The weeks for the rest of the summer were very tiring. Ten days of being Fortuna, then Harry, then Fortuna, then Harry… Ten days of studying two whole courses, so that he could take the OWLs at the end of the summer. Ten days of seeing what the student had seen in Muggle Studies, so he had an idea of what would be on the test. Because the Mr Smethley Remus had looked for had assured for Fortuna a real existence on paper. Fortuna was born the 5th of July in Great Britain to magical parents, but they moved to America were Fortuna was schooled in a small school. Since her parents and all her belonging disappeared in a magical fire of unknown origin, she was sent back home. She only had British citizenship, after all. Coming back to Britain, she hadn't done the OWLs yet, but she needed to do them to enter her sixth year. So he arranged for her to do them in the two last week of August. Since she was alone in doing them, she would have the result on the first of September. And that meant that Harry had to redo all of his revision during the summer. And since the subjects were not divided in the same way in America, she would take them all.
***
There was only three small breaks in the routine that was set at the beginning of the summer. The first one was when he received his OWLs results, those of Harry. He kept the letter with him everywhere, to remind him why he needed to study.
Mr. Harry Potter.
We are proud of announcing to you that you have eight OWLs. The results of each exam are noted bellow. We want you to remember that this achievement is not the end of your studies yet; the NEWTs are yet to be done.
To your future achievements,
Griselda Marchbanks, Head of the Wizarding Examinations Authority
Ancient Runes N/A
Arithmancy N/A
Astronomy A
Care of Magical Creature E
Charms E
Defence Against the Dark Arts O
Divination A
Herbology E
History of Magic P
Muggles Studies N/A
Potions E
Transfigurations O
He only had E in Potions. He couldn't take it as Harry. That meant that he would have to take it as Fortuna, if he could make it. He needed to make it. He went as far as asking help from Dumbledore so that he could get an O in Potions, this time. As long as he was taking the course, he could take the NEWTs at the end.
The second break in routine came with his birthday. He went to the Weasleys that day instant of doing any work. That was the first free day in a month and Harry had never been as happy to be free. Still, he insisted that the Dursley weren't that bad this year, since they thought that he was still there. For them, he was returning there due to the fact that Voldemort's apparent absence during the summer made the Headmaster weary of the Dark Lord plans. That day, he heard about every five minutes about the only exam were Hermione didn't have an O, Astronomy. Apparently, it was unfair because of the events that happened during the test. Every time, Ron complained that she was complaining for nothing, since he didn't even had an O to begin with. Like it was the end of the world to have less than three hundred percent on a test.
The last break in the routine was the retaking of the OWLs. Except for the Defence Against the Dark Arts test that he missed on purpose because it was too Harry Potter, he did his best on all of them. Contrary to the first time, there were no rescue mission or attack during these, at least.
Tonks had bought everything he needed on the 31st of August, both as Fortuna and as Harry. She came back with all of those and Fortuna's OWLs results that included almost the same letter before showing the result proper.
Ancient Runes E
Arithmancy E
Astronomy E
Care of Magical Creature E
Charms O
Defence Against the Dark Arts A
Divination E
Herbology E
History of Magic A
Muggles Studies O
Potions O
Transfigurations O
He had twelve OWLs. He was happy not to have to show these to Hermione, she would be jealous that he had two more OWLs than her. Plus, he could take Potions! He would be able to do all the courses he needed to become an Auror. Now he could tell the Headmaster which course he would be doing, both as Harry and as Fortuna.
After that, he would simply need to wake up before it was show time.
To be continued…