Warning: Spoilers for Angel, Buffy season seven, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

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A/n: I still don't have a beta, so if anyone likes this story and would like to beta it please e-mail me. I would mainly like someone to proof read for grammar/ spelling and maybe ad a few British terms. Comments in reviews are welcome.

Chapter 7: No Privacy

Dawn was sent out of the living room, again. So much for wanting to show me the world Buffy, she thought. This was probably the most interesting thing since the First and she wasn't allowed in on it. Not much had happened since the First, besides moving and explaining to a bunch of slayers their destiny. Which Dawn found pretty boring after a while. Their shocked moods and hysterical remarks about vampires were getting old fast.

Really, if I hear that 'vampires don't exist' line one more time I'll just have to feed them to one. Then they'll know that vampires exist. Yeah, I'm only joking, but it does get that annoying, Dawn thought. We found ten slayers on the way to England. Willow thinks there are more in England. Which is really the reason why we're here. Giles has set up a new Slayer support system. Which isn't as strict as the old one. But strict enough so no one can get killed, Dawn mused.

Somebody knocked on the door.

"Come in," Dawn grumbled and Gryffindor Harry entered.

"I thought that Xander was watching you."

"No, they're too busy talking to baby sit me. Don't worry, I won't hurt you."

"But you're the evil Harry," Dawn stepped back. Harry was smart and didn't move anywhere.

"No I'm not. Fine if you don't believe me I'll prove it." Gryffindor Harry put his wand down on Dawn's dresser table. Eyeing him suspiciously Dawn picked up the wand and stepped away from Harry.

"Okay. That's good, I don't know if this is a trick but I'll give the wand to Buffy anyway."

"Thanks."

"For what?"

"For believing me."

"Who said I believed you?" Dawn walked past him, carrying the thin wand far away from her. In case Harry's evil had latched onto it somehow. Upon hearing people speaking in the living room, Dawn waited in the hallway to eavesdrop.

"He can't stay here. Not with Dawn," Buffy said to Professor Dumbledore. They looked at Buffy's little sister. Dawn frowned; she wasn't as stealthy quiet as she thought.

"I thought I told you to give us privacy," Buffy said.

"No, you told me to go to my room. You never said I couldn't leave it. Anyway, this is Harry's wand. His way of saying he won't kill us," Dawn grinned. Something they didn't even think of. Hey, I didn't think of it either, but that's not the point. The point is that he gave ME the wand; Dawn's grin grew broader when Buffy took Harry's wand.

"Looks like a really tiny stake," Buffy pointed it and nothing happened.

"Guess it's a witchy thing," she shrugged.

"You are quite right Buffy, a wand can only be used by witches or wizards," Professor Dumbledore explained.

"Could I use it?" Willow asked.

"No, Wicca magic is quite different from ours. I would not dare mock it, it is quite useful to cast a spell without a wand. We even teach magic without wands in some of our classes. If you would like to teach I'd be quite happy to make you an offer," Professor Dumbledore replied.

"M-me teach magic? Sir when I do magic I go evil with the big E and the not so good AH run away," Willow shook her head.

"I cannot force you. But I did hear what you did for the potentials. You didn't turn evil then."

"No but I have a lot of gray hairs from it, see, the entire front is white," Willow twisted her finger around two thick white strands of hair. It reminded her of Rogue from X-Men, which in her opinion was pretty cool. At least there was a great story behind it, that she, well, could only tell a few people who already knew about slayers.

"I cannot force you if you do not wish to teach."

"Good."

"Okay, back to the Dawn and Harry under the same roof with all those teenage hormones issue," Buffy stated. She placed the wand in her handbag, careful not to break it.

"As if that is a problem with you around," Dawn laughed.

"But you like the boy?"

"Buffy, please not now you're so embarrassing!"

"Yes now and the house rules, no anything behind closed doors. No leaving the house."

"Buffy …"

"No conversing with Harry's friends."

"I'll say but there," Gryffindor Harry pouted.

"NO buts. I'm not your relative Harry. I'm doing this for your safety. As soon as we find this other Harry you'll be allowed to contact your friends. It will be less confusing for them if they don't have to think the other Harry is you," Buffy set down the law.

"Fine," Dawn and Harry mumbled. Dawn blushed when she looked at Harry and noticed he was blushing and equally upset about the 'no privacy' dilemma. Not that I'm not used to this at the Dursleys, but I thought our neighbors would be different. I hate alternate dimensions, Gryffindor Harry thought.

"So if there is a possibility that this is our Harry, then where is the other Harry?" Pro0fessoor Dumbledore smiled.

"That's your problem," Dawn grouched. Still annoyed by Buffy's unjust rules. Luckily Professor Dumbledore didn't seem to take offence. For this Giles was glad.

"Sir …"

"Yes, Harry?" Professor Dumbledore acknowledged the boy.

"It's possible that the other me has tricked my friends into keeping him secret from us."

"That is Harry, I shall check it out now. I will keep you all updated," Professor Dumbledore dissaparated to Diagon Alley. Buffy sent Harry to his temporary room and Dawn stayed. Harry ignored their rules and listened from beneath his invisibility cloak in the hallway.

"The rules are so unfair!" Dawn complained.

"I don't mind if you want to date Harry but I won't let it happen until I know that it is this Harry not alien Harry. I don't want you to get hurt Dawn," Buffy said. She smiled in a sisterly protective manner.

"I thought you weren't going to protect me anymore. I thought you were going to show me the world," Dawn glared at her.

"This isn't our world we're dealing with. Don't you realise that if you fall for the other Harry then you'll just get heart broken?" Buffy asked.

"Buffy … I never said …"

"I'm your sister, I can tell."

"Tell what?" Dawn blushed.

"That the fact that your face goes redder and redder each time Harry is mentioned that you like him," Buffy giggled.

"But I've only known him a few days …" Dawn denied her crush.

"It's true Dawnie, you're transparent," Kennedy grinned.

"Keep out of it Kennedy. I AM NOT THAT TRANSPARANT!" Dawn growled. She excused herself and went to her room.

Angrily Dawn picked up her new journal that hadn't been written in, yet. She started at the top of a lavender scented page.

The All-New Dawn Files

November 1st

Diary,

Hi, I ran out of paper in my old journal. I know I was talking about the 'whole new Dawn' and all. But this is the All New Dawn Files. Since the 'whole new Dawn' thing doesn't seem to be working out. I only have two journals since I burned mine in Sunnydale. Fondly known as Sunnyhell. Of course if there were sun in hell, then it really would be hell for vampires. Since Angel survived it, I doubt there's much sun in hell. Maybe it's like Earth.

Okay I was rambling, back to the new point of misery for the day.

It's not like Buffy hasn't sent me out of the house so she can get up to no good loudness with her ex-boyfriend Riley. NO, not after they split up as far as I know. Well, not that that's what I would do … But can't I have a conversation or a kiss with Harry without everyone around? Hold on Dawn, you don't even know if he's a good Harry or not.

I mean it's not like he's a vampire or anything. Hey I didn't know the guy I kissed was a vampire at the time! Don't judge me so quickly. Yes, I'm talking to a diary like it's a person. Big whoop. Buffy so better not tell Harry that or it might ruin my social life in England before it even begins. I mean she doesn't seem to care about dating vampires, but they were good vampires and it wasn't my fault. Gosh I wonder if Harry even notices me, in a more than a friend way. Are we even friends? Or does he just see me as Buffy's little kid sister who has no special powers and is just there. Well, I was the key once and still can be. But it is such a completely useless power until someone wants to drain my blood to open a portal that will destroy the world. That was so last year. Apocalypses, or whatever, are so over rated. I've never seen one that Buffy hasn't crushed. So this double world Harry thing is no bigger than two Xander's.

No big deal.

On a sour point …

You know we can't even visit mum's grave? Well, unless we go to the whole in the ground that is Sunnydale no more. At least I saved a picture of us in my pocket before the fight.

We really didn't think about keep sakes, there were more perilous things like the end of the world in jeopardy. But I have mum's wedding ring and Buffy has her engagement ring. Even though Mum and Dad were divorced. I still wear it round my neck. Okay shook me before I get all depresso here. No I take that back. Notice how I didn't say the W. I. S. H. word? It's not even safe to write it together on paper. Horrible things can happen when you do.

Over and out (Riley speak)

Dawn.

Or should I change it to,

TTFN – like that potential … no, too depressing.

I'll stick to,

Over and Out,

Dawn Summers.