This story is an alternate version of my other stories 'Sick Thoughts' and 'The Replacement', in the sense that it's about a 'self-insert' (as in, what I mean a self-insert is: a girl from our world that replaces and/or end up in the HP world, or any other fantastical/invented world) that replaces canon!harry, but she's a girl and will remain a girl as well, she doesn't take over Harry's body or anything like that.
This story will start in sixth year and it will eventually become Severus/FemHarry/Lucius (yes, a threesome, not a love triangle – though a sort of love triangle will probably develop at one point, but one that will resolve in a threesome).
Warning: This story will have explicit sex, underage sex (16 years old; though mentally she's 25, physically she's a teenager), teacher/student relationship, older men/younger woman. Also, Slytherin!FemHarry, Smart!FemHarry, Magically-Powerful!FemHarry, Manipulative!FemHarry, Ruthless!FemHarry, Morally-Grey!FemHarry, Misguided!Dumbledore, Manipulative!Dumbledore (like in canon; not Dumbledore bashing though). Not-really-good-but-not-really-evil-either!Lucius, mostly Opportunist!Lucius (still a bigot when it comes to muggles and muggleborns though) and Manipulative!Lucius somewhat as well.
IF ANY OF THOSE THINGS BOTHER YOU, DON'T READ THIS STORY! To anyone else, hope you like it, tell me what you think!
Summary: A wish and Harriet becomes Harry Potter, the Girl-Who-Lived, replacing canon Harry Potter. She ends up in Harry Potter's sixth year at Hogwarts but, because of her wish, things are different from canon. Eventual FemHarry/Lucius, FemHarry/Snape. Eventual Threesome Lucius/FemHarry/Snape.
Prologue
Harriet was reading 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' once again. She loved that book, it was her favourite in the series by far.
She loved Harry Potter, even though she was too old to still be so obsessed with it. She was 25 years old after all. Yet, she couldn't help it. There was just something so appealing about it, almost addictive in its brilliance.
Of course, the world JK Rowling had created had flaws, big ones; a lot of injustices that don't get resolved at the end of the books.
It wasn't only injustices about the pure blood vs muggle blood debate. It was, for example, the fact that Harry lived with abusive muggles and nobody did anything to change that, just like Snape and Tom Riddle.
It was about the fact that Sirius spent 12 years in Azkaban because he didn't get a trial and nobody intervened. It was about the fact that some of the professors at Hogwarts were just awful and Dumbledore didn't try to remedy the situation, instead he was the one who hired them, almost making it seem like he wanted his students to get out of Hogwarts as ignorant as possible.
Or the fact that Hogwarts was supposed to be the safest place in the Wizarding World and instead, every year, at least five students found themselves in mortal danger. Or the prejudices against Slytherins, or the fact that even Harry himself was prejudiced against them. They basically taught kids before they enter Hogwarts to distrust Slytherins (beside the Slytherin families of course); that was completely absurd and unfair.
Maybe that was what made it so interesting though, even for someone of her age. A flawed world is a world similar to reality after all.
There was also the fact that there were some things that were left to the reader's imagination but were never really explained. For example, the existence of muggleborns.
She had a theory about it. She was convinced that the muggleborns were descendants from squibs who lived in the muggle world and had procreated with muggles. The magical gene was recessive in them but appeared again in their children or a few generations later.
That meant that the muggleborns belonged to the Magical World because they had magic and they came from magical blood too. Muggleborns, moreover, offered new blood into those magical lines that were so inbred – like the Gaunts – that their magical abilities were severely depleted.
However, she agreed with those that wanted complete separation from the muggles.
The influx of muggleborns into the Magical World meant that more and more muggles knew of the existence of the magical world and that put the witches and wizards into very serious danger.
Humans were usually afraid of things they couldn't understand, rationally explain or gain for their own. Therefore, muggles finding out about the existence of the magical world wouldn't be a good thing. A solution needed to be found to allow the muggleborns into the magical world without involving the muggles. And have the muggleborns learn of the Wizarding World's traditions instead of trying to integrate muggle traditions into the Wizarding World to make the muggleborns happy.
A class at Hogwarts would be useful for the muggleborns to be really introduced into the magical world and a class for the purebloods to know the muggle world because they were really ignorant of it and that could be dangerous because they severely underestimated the muggles.
Another problem was the ban against the Dark Arts. Sure, she was sure a lot of curses were bad but everything depended on how those curses were used.
She was of the idea that magical people should at least learn them but not use them unless it was in self-defence. She was rather sure not all the Dark Arts were horrifying curses created to torture people. There must be more than that, it can't be all there is to an entire branch of magic.
She would sometimes think about how she would change the story events, because, why not? It was fun. There were so many possibilities, after all, so many what ifs.
For example, what would have happened if Harry had been sorted into Slytherin (or rather, if he had allowed the Sorting Hat to sort him into Slytherin?). What if Harry had become friends with Draco?
There were other things She liked to fantasize about, not only what she would change, but also what it would be like to be in that world, being a character in the Harry Potter world, in the Harry Potter story – even sometimes as Harry himself, or in his place, as Harriet Potter instead – well, still Harry for short. She could change so many things, save so many people, like Sirius, Remus, Snape, Fred, Cedric Diggory, Dobby, just to name a few.
The female version of Harry Potter she imagined would be much more powerful than Harry was in canon, that was for sure. That was one thing she didn't like about the books, how unexceptional Harry was. Sure, he was good in Defence, but nothing out of the ordinary. He wasn't a prodigy like Tom Riddle had been, or even like Snape. He wasn't even as talented as his parents had been at his age. That was something she would have certainly changed about the books. To justify the Chosen One being able to kill Voldemort – and being considered Voldemort's equal – he (or she, in this case) needed to be just as talented and powerful as Tom Riddle was, otherwise what was the point?
Academically speaking Harriet would be much more adept than Harry was in canon, excelling in all her classes, both because she studied a lot, like Hermione, but also because she was more magically gifted than everyone else. And of course, she would try to broaden her knowledge by studying ahead and in other subjects not taught at Hogwarts too.
She would be the best student in her year, even better than Hermione, magic would just come naturally to her, even before Hogwarts (she would be able to have some control over her magic even before learning she was a witch, like Lily Evans) a magical prodigy like Riddle was in…well, everything, and like Snape was in Potions and Defence against the Dark Arts.
After all, it would make sense for James and Lily's child to inherit his (her) parents' talent at the very least, right? Also, she liked the idea of Harriet not being a horcrux like Harry in canon – so she didn't need to sacrifice herself to save the world because that was pretty awful, and gross to be honest – but instead, she would be able to speak parseltongue like Voldemort, and being able to see into his mind, because Voldemort had left not a piece of his soul inside her, but a piece of his magic – and talent and intelligence with it – inside her instead. Reason why she was more powerful than she would have been otherwise and why that would make her equal to Voldemort – because Voldemort himself made her his equal (even their magic would be very similar and would feel similar to others as well).
She would be ambitious, of course, not like Harry. The Sorting Hat said that Harry was ambitious – thirsty to prove himself, or some such – but she really couldn't see it. Why didn't he try to learn more, to become more powerful? It was a natural desire for someone who found out he had magic. I mean, look at Hermione. Instead, he did the absolute minimum required of him and that was it. She would be different. She would work hard at school, not only with homework and studying from the curriculum, but even outside of it, to be the best witch she could be, and she would certainly not stop to learn only Ministry-approved magic, no, she would want to learn the Dark Arts as well, because, in her mind, all magic was worth learning and knowing.
Hermione was certainly intelligent, but she was also too obsessed with learning everything by heart, only following the books' knowledge, without going beyond it, like Snape did when he would invent spells and modify potion recipes. Hermione had never been able to do that. But she would, and that was what would set her apart from all the other students in the school – except maybe, Fred and George, who were the really brilliant ones, to be honest, much better than Hermione, in fact; they were just never very much academically inclined, but they were amazing inventors.
She would also be shallow and very concerned with her appearance, wanting to look pretty and feminine (and sexy and seductive once she would get older). She would learn how to sew and embroider just so she would be able to turn the rags the Dursleys would give her to wear, into beautiful, elegant dresses for herself.
She would also, after she visited Diagon Alley for the first time and finally having money she could buy things with, buy new clothes for herself, both muggle clothes and wizarding clothes as well; she would buy muggle makeup and hair products, but she would learn to cast beauty charms on herself as well as buy magical beauty products, and she would learn to brew beauty potions (including Sleekeazy's Hair Potion, the potion her grandfather had invented to tame her raven, unruly hair, which she inherited from her father). Oh, and she would also buy a seven-compartment trunk (with a potion lab in one of the compartments, a warded room she could practice magic in in another compartment, and in yet another one a library) and a handbag with an extension charm and a feather-light charm in it so that she could hide all her new purchases there so not to make the Dursleys suspicious and not having them realize how much money she had.
Since she would not have access to muggle money though, let's say that during her first time in Diagon Alley, she had requested a sort of credit card that worked both in the magical and the muggle world and that was directly connected to her vault. Also, just to make things more interesting, let's say that the Potters were rich like the Blacks (because of how much money Fleamont Potter had managed to gain thanks to his invention, money that was still flowing in since the Potion was extremely popular among both witches and wizards) and that the vault she would have access to during her Hogwarts years was her trust vault, and that she would have access to her full inheritance at seventeen, the year of majority in the Wizarding World.
After all, buying everything she had in mind would cost a lot of money and she didn't want to spend everything she had before finishing Hogwarts. She would end up becoming as poor as the Weasleys otherwise.
She would look like a mixture of James and Lily – not a copy of the one or the other – with Lily's green eyes (and no glasses) and James' unruly (though she would tame it with magic) dark hair, but her body would be much curvier than Lily's had been in the chest department, like her grandmother's, though she would be shorter than both her parents because of the Dursleys' treatment – (If she had to imagine what Harriet Potter would look like, she would say, like Taylor Hill, but much shorter – 5 feet 4 – with very vivid green eyes, – brighter than Taylor's, a bright emerald green – and with Sophie Mudd's boobs).
She would end up in Slytherin, of course, unlike Harry in canon. She would be the quintessential slytherin: ambitious, cunning, resourceful, a rule-breaker, but she would have a lot of Gryffindor qualities as well like courage, boldness, recklessness and impulsivity (sometimes) and idealism (she'd dream of making the world a better place; in fact, she would be more open-minded than Harry: no prejudices against slytherins, or the dark arts, but not against muggleborns either – though perhaps she would dislike muggles a little because of her upbringing).
She would also become best friend with Draco Malfoy and Daphne Greengrass, because why not? Instead of a Golden Trio, there would be a Silver Trio, with Draco and Daphne being with her in all her adventures like Ron and Hermione were in canon.
She would also become friends with Fred and George (from whom she would eventually get the Mauraders' Map) and, after second year, Ginny Weasley as well – who would be sorted into slytherin in this story.
Also, to stop Cedric from dying (though, she wouldn't know that, of course), Harriet would not share the Triwizard Tournament win with Cedric - being a slytherin and all - so she would be the only one to touch the Cup and the only one to be transported to the Graveyard at the end of her fourth year.
She would also really like for Lucius Malfoy to betray Voldemort at the end of fifth year, perhaps even during the battle in the Department of Mysteries. That would save him from ending up in Azkaban and would also save Draco from taking the Mark. (And, of course, Dumbledore would not be as stupid as he was in canon, deciding to put the Gaunt ring on his finger. He would resist the temptation and just destroy the Horcrux, without ending up being cursed. That would save Snape from having to kill him).
So, at the end of fifth year Voldemort would manage to lure Harriet into the Department of Mysteries by managing to capture Draco in Hogsmeade. Lucius would not allow his son to be tortured, of course, but Voldemort would still use him to lure Harriet into the Ministry. Since she could be reckless and impulsive when it came to save the people she loved, she'd leave the school and go to the Ministry – all Order members would be gone from the school, including Snape in this (Umbridge would find out that Snape was supplying her with fake Veritaserum and was not happy, so basically what happened to McGonagall, happened to Snape as well). With Harry, there would be Ginny, Daphne, Luna and Neville.
Lucius would already be conflicted enough because they were using his own son as bait. Then Bellatrix would almost kill him, in her zeal to get the prophecy from Harriet and Lucius would snap. In that moment, he would make the decision to go against the Dark Lord – purely to protect his son. He would start to fight against his own comrades, and he would then save Sirius when Bellatrix would throw a curse at him, redirecting the curse away from Sirius (so he wouldn't fall through the Veil) and then he would kill Bellatrix, fed up with his crazy sister-in-law at that point.
After that, Lucius would manage to avoid Azkaban once again and Dumbledore would decide to hire him as the DADA teacher for Harry's sixth year, both to protect him from Voldemort's wrath but also to keep an eye on him (though, after such a public display of changing sides, he wouldn't be very worried Lucius would go back to Voldemort; Voldemort would kill him anyway, if he did). Snape would remain as the Potions' teacher in sixth year, so no Slughorn (Dumbledore would manage to get Slughorn's memory of his and Riddle's conversation about the Horcruxes without Harriet's help so there would be no need for Dumbledore to hire Slughorn as the Potions' teacher at Hogwarts).
Narcissa would leave Lucius after that, both because he killed her sister, but also because if their son was in danger in the first place, it was all because of him. She would leave for France with her lover (a woman, because why not?) – they would be separated but not officially divorced.
She smiled. She liked this; she liked this a lot. She kept daydreaming about how her life would be like as Harriet – Harry – Potter.
She also couldn't help but think about Snape and Lucius Malfoy, how sexy they both were, though in different ways. Snape, while not attractive in the conventional sense…there was something so hot about him, she didn't know if it was his voice, his attitude as a professor, the pure authority he exuded – and he was just so smart and powerful, he was a genius. And Lucius, she didn't know what it was about him, it had probably something to do with the actor that played him, but she had a crush on him since the Chamber of Secrets movie. And both characters easily skirted the line between good and bad and she had never liked the goody two-shoes characters; she much preferred the morally grey characters.
With a hot new body, and having the possibility of being in that world, she would probably make it her goal to have sex with them both, as many times as possible. After all, why not? Being in the Harry Potter world would mean creating a completely new life for herself, having the possibility of becoming someone completely different from who she was, be someone new. There was a certain freedom in that and she would definitely try to make the most of it.
Of course, such a thing was impossible so she decided to stop thinking about it.
She closed the book she was reading, look out the window at the cloudless, starry sky and then closed her eyes, an involuntary wish on the back of her mind before falling asleep.
She didn't notice the falling star passing just in that moment outside her window.