A/N: Warning, course language used!
Chapter 14
The Birth of Harley Quinn
The next few weeks were frenzied with planning to infiltrate the Ministry of Magic to steal that locket. Ron, Hermione, Ivy and Harry took it in turns to eavesdrop on the Ministry and decided the perfect day to steal it.
Harry and I were going over the plan the night before when he dropped the bomb on me.
"Han, I think we should split up."
I gaped at him "Split up? But we work the best in a pair!"
"Han, listen. If we split up, we can cover more ground on the Horcrux hunt. You take Drosie and Emily, and I'll take Ron, Hermione and Ivy. That's reasonably numbered. We've destroyed two of the seven Horcruxes, so that leaves five, so you find two and Mione, Ron and I'll find three and destroy them. Then we can go after him and kill him."
"Harry, I don't know the first thing about Horcruxes, or destroying them, how am I supposed to manage without at least you?" I asked.
"Han, listen." Harry said "I never said you had to destroy them. We'll meet up someplace and destroy them together before we go after You-Know-Who. Then we'll kill him."
I paled "But-But Harry, we've been together since before we were even born, we shared a womb, a bed, a school, everything, how can we possibly separate?"
"We'd have had to anyways." Harry pointed out. "We couldn't live together forever."
I sighed "Fine. Fine, I'll try to find them. But I make no promises."
Harry smiled "I knew I could count on you, sis. I don't expect you to find any. But, we're looking for the locket, Helga Hufflepuff's cup, the snake and something of Gryffindor's or Ravenclaw's."
I nodded "Ok." I said "Thanks for letting me know."
"Oh," Harry said, handing me a couple of Dark looking book "Hermione managed to take these from Dumbledore's study. They'll tell you how to destroy Horcruxes."
I smiled. My brother was just the best sometimes.
"And when we're done, and he's dead, you can be with Malfoy." Harry finished, reluctantly.
I smiled. "Harry, I love you."
Harry smirked back "Love you, too, Ferret Queen."
"Piss off, I'm trying to have a sentimental moment with you, and you're ruining it." I snapped.
Harry laughed. "Sis, you're so melodramatic sometimes, what's your deal?"
I huffed "My deal is that you're taking this whole war so light-heartedly and treating it like a joke! You have absolutely nothing to fight for whereas I'm fighting for my ass and trying to get my love life back! It's not fair that you're the Chosen One and I'm not! Sometimes I just wish that I'd be on top for once!"
Harry looked at me "That's what you think? That I'm treating this mess like a joke? And what about all this Chosen One stuff?"
"I hate that you're being so admired because you're the Chosen One and I'm not. I hate you for being better than me! I mean, name one time when I was better than you outside Quidditch and school!"
"Try music." Harry grinned "I couldn't play anything or sing anything to save my life."
"That doesn't count. Nobody cares about me because I can sing a diphthong well or play Living on a Prayer on my guitar. They only care about you. Harry Potter, the stupid Chosen One!" I huffed.
"Han," Harry said, taking my hands "I promise you that when the time comes, it won't be just me killing him. You'll be with me, too. I promise I won't do it all myself. I need your help."
I smiled. It felt good to hear from him that I needed his help.
"You still hate me?" Harry said.
I scoffed "Nah! I couldn't hate you!" I said, hugging him "You're my brother, you're my other half. And if I hated you, who'd I slap for being stupid?"
"Malfoy."
"Sod off." I said, laughing and yawning "Seriously. I gotta get some sleep."
Harry stood up from the bed I was in and walked to the door before turning back to me. "Oh, sis?" he asked.
I looked up from my pillow "Yeah?" I asked.
"In case I don't see you tomorrow, be careful."
I smiled "You, too." I said, watching until Harry shut the door.
I pulled out my backpack and started packing all my stuff into it. I had a hunch I was going to need it.
…
The next morning, after eating all of Kreacher's increasingly marvellous cooking, the gang and I set off for the Ministry, Apparating to an alley nearby.
"Ok, here's the plan." Watson said "I'll go get some hair for you guys, you just stay here and wait."
I nodded and I sat in a corner by a dumpster with Drosie and Emily. I decided to wear black that day, a black turtleneck and a pair of black jeans. Drosie and Emily, oddly enough were wearing dark purple turtlenecks and dark wash blue jeans.
"It's a little chilly out." I had said "So I wore this. And I love the colour. Helps me blend in."
Drosie huffed "How long is Granger going to be gone for?"
I sighed "Calm down, your Highness, it'll be a bit!"
Emily laughed "Is she always like this?" she asked.
I nodded "Since the day I knew her." I replied, shaking my head in annoyance.
…
A while later, someone with the nametag "Mafalda Hopkirk" came up to Drosie, Emily and I holding three transformed Polyjuice Potions.
"Here, Hannah's is in the middle." Hermione's voice said.
I sighed, taking my share and gulping it. Within minutes I was a girl with long dark brown hair and deep green eyes.
"I got her nametag. Your name is Janessa McPhee." Hermione said as I took the girl's purse.
"Oh, joy." I said, going into the ladies' loo where my "coworkers" were lined up outside a toilet.
"Why do we need all this security, Janessa?" a woman with greying blonde hair asked me "Who do you think will turn up? The Potter twins?"
I laughed nervously and stepped into the cubical and into the toilet as I had seen been done. My feet were dry as I flushed it, sending me into the Ministry of Magic.
As I stood in the dark Atrium, I saw that the statue from when I was last there had changed.
It was a bunch of disfigured men, women and children being sat on by a handsome couple of a witch and wizard. Three words were carved into the base of the statue:
MAGIC IS MIGHT
"Muggles." Hermione said "In their rightful place. Come on, let's split up. Harry, Ron, Ivy and I will go this way." she started, nodding towards the elevator "Han, you look for Umbridge."
"And take Drosie and Emily with you." someone with long black hair and brown eyes said "It's me, Ivy."
I nodded "Ok. That'll work." I said "We'll meet back here when we get the locket?" I asked.
We all nodded in agreement and walked off. Suddenly, I heard the voice of someone I would know from anywhere.
It was Lucius Malfoy.
I paled. He was supposed to be in Azkaban! What was he doing out?
But of course, Voldemort must have busted him out.
"McPhee!" he shouted, making me freeze.
"Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap!" I hissed.
"I'm talking to you, McPhee, now turn around." Malfoy ordered.
I muttered a quick "Skinner, give me strength." and turned around. "Good morning, Luci- I mean, Mr Malfoy." I said with a nervous smile.
"McPhee," Lucius said, looking me in the eye as he grinned evilly "These need to head up to the Auror Office." he said, handing me some blue folders "These," he continued, handing me red folders "Need to head up to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. These," he continued further, handing me a large, heavy bundle of purple folders "Are to head immediately to the Muggle Born Registration Commission. And these," he finished, handing me a few pink folders "Must go to the Department of the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures. All are very important documents, and must be delivered forthwith. Am I understood?"
I nodded, grunting under the weight of the folders "Yes, Mr Malfoy…right away, Mr Malfoy."
Lucius nodded "Excellent. I have labelled the top folders of each colour for the department, in case you forget."
I nodded "Yes, Mr Malfoy, thank you, Mr Malfoy." I said, walking off under the weight of all those folders. "Skinner, Fanelli and Faksa, these things are heavy." I mumbled. "Of all the fucking people Hermione could have given me, she had to have given me the person that was Lucius fucking Malfoy's fucking pack-mule!" I swore, cursing Hermione with every breath I took as I stepped into the elevator when I saw someone very familiar.
"Good morning, Janessa." Mr Weasley's voice said behind me.
I grinned, turning around "Good morning, Mr Weasley." I said shakily, the folders making my knees shake.
"What has Lucius Malfoy got you doing?" he asked, tutting as he looked over all the folders.
I took a deep breath "I have to take the blue folders to the Auror Office, the pink folders to the Muggle Born Registration Commission, the red folders have to go to the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and the purple folders have to go to the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures." I explained before sighing "Or was it the purple folders to the Muggle Born Registration Commission and the pink folders to the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures?" I asked myself.
"Here, dear, let me give you a hand. I'm headed down to the Auror Office myself to talk to Kingsley Shacklebolt, and the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures is on my way. I'll take those folders off your hands." Mr Weasley said, taking the blue folders and pink folders out of the pile, making my load a lot lighter.
"Thank you, Mr Weasley. Thank you so much!" I said happily, beaming at him as I got into the elevator.
"My pleasure, sweetheart." Mr Weasley said, holding the elevator for me to get on. "Do you need a refresher on where the Departments are? You still are relatively new."
I grinned. So this Janessa McPhee was a new assistant to Lucius Malfoy? That was good for me. "Please, Mr Weasley, if it wouldn't be too much trouble."
"Of course, the Department of Magical Law Enforcement is a floor up, you can get off with me. And then you ride all the way down to the old courtrooms for the Muggleborn Registration Commission. Ask for Dolores."
I nodded "Thank you." I said as the elevator started upward and Mr Weasley started talking to a tall man named Runcorn and his companion, Reg Cattermole, according to what it said on his navy blue cloaks.
I huffed, steadying my grip on the folders I was holding on to as the three men got into an argument over Mr Weasley reportedly being tracked by the Ministry.
The elevator doors opened, and I was just about to follow Mr Weasley out into the corridor when the tall man named Runcorn pulled me back by the cloak. I screamed and Cattermole slapped a hand over my mouth.
"For shit's sake, Hannah, you need to stop that! You're going to get us killed one day!" Runcorn said.
I turned around and saw a glint of my brother in his eyes. "Harry?" I asked.
"Han, look, it's me and Ron. We have to warn you, Hermione's with Umbridge, and you need to find Drosie and Emily and get out of here, your identities are all wanted for being-"
"Ah, Miss McPhee, I've been waiting for you." a high, girlish voice said.
I paled, turning around at the sight of a toad faced woman who barely reached my elbow, Hermione's disguised self at her side and the new Minister, Pius Thickness behind her. Drosie and Emily were with a couple of known Death Eaters. Drosie was grabbed by Yaxley and Emily was grabbed by her own mother.
The toad faced woman in pink was none other than Dolores Jane Umbridge, former Defence teacher, former Headmistress and all around bitch extraordinaire.
"I heard from a very reliable source that you are not a half blood." Umbridge said, grabbing my arm. "You're coming with us."
I swallowed. "Uh…" I stammered, turning to Harry.
"Tried to warn you." Harry said "But we were too late."
"Ah, Lucius Malfoy even had you bring up your file. Excellent." Umbridge said, taking the files off of me and leading me back into another elevator.
"Harry!" I mouthed "Help!"
"I'm sorry, sis!" Harry mouthed back as the grilles on his elevators closed. Umbridge, meanwhile, lead us all into another elevator, where Emily and Drosie looked to me.
"What do we do now?" they mouthed to me.
I bit my lip, not knowing. "Let me think, let me think!" I whispered, looking from Hermione, to Thicknesse, to Yaxley, to Ravenwood and to Umbridge.
"Hannah!" Hermione gaped "The locket!"
I looked to Umbridge's neck, and there rested the locket.
"Uh…that's a very pretty locket, Miss Umbridge." I said, trying to sound friendly.
"Don't try to butter her up, cupcake." Yaxley growled.
I swallowed "I say we Stun them all and take the locket." I mouthed to them all.
"How, pray tell, are we supposed to do that without looking guilty?" Drosie asked.
I swallowed "I…I don't know at the moment." I said, as we lowered down to what I had thought was our doom.
…
When we got to the old courtrooms, our escort dropped us in a group at the end of a long line of Muggle born people, some sitting in groups, some alone. Next to a set of double doors, there stood two hooded Dementors.
I paled. I hoped I didn't need to defend myself.
Then, we heard Umbitch's voice trill: "Mary Cattermole."
A pale, mousey haired woman, stood, trembling and walked into the double doors, shuddering at the sight of the Dementors.
Emily, Drosie and I turned to each other. "Now what, Potter? We are absolutely screwed over!"
"No, no, let me think!" I muttered, twirling around a lock of hair as I heard a loud commotion from in the corridor ahead of us.
"WHERE ARE YOU, VOLDIE, YOU FUCKING MOTHERFUCKING CUNT!" a female's voice shouted, followed by a series of bangs.
"What is that?" a man up front said.
"I don't know, anyone want to investigate?" a woman close to me asked.
Drosie and Emily grinned, a look I knew all too well.
"Janessa will do it!" they shouted together, pushing me forward.
"I hate you two!" I hissed, stepping towards the sound, opening the door.
"WHERE ARE YOU!?" the woman shouted again, busting a wall near a fountain.
The woman had long black hair, tanned skin and electric blue eyes. She was wearing dark clothing, like I was and black boots, when she saw me, she glared and rose all the water out of the fountain.
"You!" she shouted, knocking me over "Who are you?"
I swallowed "W-Would you mind putting the fountain water back, please?" I asked.
The girl raised the water higher "I think I asked you a question."
"M-My name's Hannah Potter." I said, forgetting that I was supposed to be in disguise "Who're you?" "Raven." the girl said. The girl had an American accent. "You know where Snake-Dude is?"
I shook my head "No, if I ever did, I'd kill him…why?"
"I have a bone to pick…bastard killed my mother. Why, what's your beef with him?" Raven asked, setting the water down into the fountain. "Oh, yeah, you're a Potter. He killed your parents."
I nodded "And now he's after all these Muggleborns." I said, shaking my head.
"Hey, why don't we just spring them?" Raven asked.
I nodded "That is a good idea. But, first, we gotta get through the Dementors." I said.
"I can do a Patronus." Raven said. "You?"
I nodded "Of course I can. Come on, let's go kick some Dementor ass!" I said, walking off.
"Oi, before we do anything, I thought you had black hair?" Raven said, looking me up and down.
I nodded "I do, I just took Polyjuice potion and now I look like this. It'll wear off. Anyways, let's go kick some Dementors ass!"
We grinned for a moment, then pulled out wands and ran into the room. "Everybody out! Your asses are getting sprung! Em, Drosie, help me out!"
Emily and Drosie drew their wands and stood as the Muggleborns started filing out.
"Ok, Drosie and Emily, lead the gang out to the Atrium, Raven, stay here and help me!" I said as the Dementors started to swoop towards us.
"EXPECTO PATRONUM!" I hollered, waving my wand and expecting to see my familiar doe.
It came, and so did a silver snake and lion, growling as I screamed along with Raven. I looked down to my neck, and my charms were gone that were bequeathed to me!
"Wait…silver…lion and snake. HOLY CRAP! Those are the charms from my necklace!"
The Death Eaters seemed to be roused by the commotion and came out. The lioness growled and I made out something like "Stay away from my baby!"
The Death Eater, Emily's mother pushed the lioness out of the way and went for me, drawing her wand.
"Crucio!" she shouted.
"Ah, shit!" I swore, dodging out of the way and pointing my wand at her, and saying the first curse that came to my head.
"AVADA KEDAVRA!"
A blast of green light blew me to the other side of the room, nailing Ravenwood in the chest with it. She crumpled over spread eagled on the floor. She was dead.
I had killed someone for the first time in my life.
I paled, my heart hammering in my chest as I fainted.
…
Emily's POV
Drosie and I successfully got the Muggleborns out to the Atrium, and a man named Runcorn was getting them out of there safely.
Drosie and I grinned to each other and ran back to the old courtrooms, where the girl Hannah called Raven was still duelling a Death Eater I knew as Yaxley.
Hannah, however was on the ground, her face pale and her body spread eagled.
"Jan!" I shouted, remembering her pseudonym and rushing to her side.
"She's not dead, she fainted." Raven explained, still fighting Yaxley.
"Why?" Drosie asked. "Big girl got scared."
"No, she was shocked." Raven explained. "She killed someone."
"Good on her! Who?" I asked.
"Uh…her." Raven said, nodding to the familiar mess of jet black hair far from Hannah.
It was my mother. Hannah Potter had killed my mother.
"Mother!" I gasped.
"Hey, in her defence, your mother was trying to torture her, she must have used the first curse that came to her head." Raven said.
I nodded. It had to have been coincidence. Besides, my mother did nothing but torture me and pressure me to be a Death Eater, that, and she tried to kill me when I refused to kill Hannah.
Hannah groaned, her hair starting to return to black.
"What hit me?" she asked, shaking her head.
…
I groaned, rubbing my head as my world came swimming back into focus.
"What hit me?" I mumbled, shaking her head.
"Nothing. You fainted." Drosie said, snickering.
"What? Why'd I faint?" I asked.
"You killed my mother." Emily said.
I gaped, looking to the body of Emily's mother. I had killed her.
"Emily…I…I'm so sorry!" I said, paling again. "I-I-I never meant to hurt anyone, I-" I stammered.
"Hannah, it's fine. I hated my mother." Emily said "It's good. I'm rather grateful you killed her then, now I have my brother, who I haven't seen in ages when he quit the Death Eaters."
I nodded, paling when I felt my eyes turn back to normal. "Crap!" I hissed "How do we hide our appearance?" I asked before I beamed "Genius!" I said, grabbing my wand and conjuring up four black cat burglar masks.
The silver lioness and snake looked to each other and went up to me, embracing me before they shrunk back to their charm size and connected back to my chain.
I beamed, handing out masks to my comrades in arms. "Here, put these on."
"Hang on." Raven said, before Stunning Yaxley. "Ok, gimme it." she said, taking a mask from Drosie and putting it on. "Thank you."
We grinned when we put them on. "Ok, let's go into the Atrium and Apparate out of here. Everyone have what they need?" I asked, nodding to my backpack.
Drosie held up her purse, Emily held up her backpack and Raven did the same with her own backpack.
"Sweet, let's go!" I said, heading to the elevator and going up to the Atrium, wand still drawn along with all my friends (and Raven, I really didn't know about her yet.)
…
When we got to the Atrium, there was pandemonium, Death Eaters were trying to Stun Muggleborns, who had somehow gotten their wands back.
I growled. "HEY, SNAKE FACED LITTLE SHITS!" I shouted, taking a tapestry and swinging on it, heading up to a rafter not too far off the ground "Stupefy!" I shouted, Stunning Death Eaters and dodging Death as my comrades did the same.
Before long, all the Death Eaters were either Stunned or had retreated, and I grinned, watching as the Muggleborns looked up at me in wonder.
"Who are you?" the woman who had asked what the commotion Raven was making down in the courtrooms asked me.
I thought about it. Would it have been smart to give them my real name, give them hope that I was going to help them get rid of Voldemort? Or, to save my own ass, was I going to give a fake name?
I decided on the fake name. The name of someone very misunderstood from one of my favourite Marvel comics: Batman. This girl was insane, like I was headed with the friends I had, and was the girlfriend of one of the villains, like I was…except I didn't call Draco a villain.
"My name…" I said, pausing for a moment to think my choice through "Is Harley Quinn." I announced before jumping down from the rafters, grabbing all my friends and Apparating away.
And from that day onwards, Hannah Potter died. I became Harley Quinn, beloved by rebels to Voldemort's reign, loathed by Death Eaters, killer of Death Eaters . And the one who started the trend of calling Death Eaters "Snake Faced Little Shits"
A/N: Well, there we go, Hannah's dead, Harley's born, baby! Now, question time, question time! Come on out, Draco and Harry (wow, too many Draco questions not enough OC questions…please review who's on the Q+A thing and ask more questions to Drosie and Sheila and She-Cat).
Draco: Ok, let's go with me first!
Hannah: Actually, there's a question for you and Harry.
Harry: Yes! Eat it, Malfoy!
Hannah: Harry, piss off! Anyways, HarryPotterAlways11 wants to know how you two deal with Drarry shippers.
Harry: I'll gladly sit down and talk to them all, but I am seriously not gay, and especially not for Malfoy.
Draco: I HATE THEM! I am not a gay dude, I am in love with a GIRL! Her name is Hannah Lillian Isabella Marie Potter. I will never marry Harry James Potter, I hate his guts, but I love his sister, am I clear?
Hannah: Testy about Drarry shippers, ok. But, Draco, please don't say you hate anyone for people to read anymore, hate's such a strong word.
Draco: *grumble grumble*
Hannah: Ok, ME QUESTION TIME! Ok, ok, GeishaXnoXHimisu wants to know if I could have stopped Draco from being a Death Eater, would I have done it and how. Let's start with would I do it. YES! Of course I'd stop him from being a bleeding Death Eater, Death Eaters are assholes! It's my creator's screen name DownWithDeathEaters! Anyways, how would I do it? I'd kidnap him and have him stay with me!
Draco: Hero!
Hannah: You know it! Anyways, Draco, hi wants to know what you love the most about me and what I love the most about you. Since I've already answered, I'll start. What I love most about Draco is that he's so sweet and funny, romantic and spontaneous. Draco?
Draco: One word. EVERYTHING! She's hot, she's smart, she's funny, she plays Quidditch, she's perfect! What every Malfoy should have!
Hannah: Awe, thank you! *blushes* Now, Ron, Hermione and Ivy come up, hi also wants to know if you think Draco and I belong together and why or why not. Harry, you first.
Harry: Well, granted, Malfoy is a ferret faced git, and I hate his slimy guts, but he makes my sister happy, so I guess I have to go with yes.
Ron: NO! Malfoy's a bloody Death Eater and Hannah's a saint who broke my brother's heart! Hell no!
Ivy: Meh, I have no comment. Malfoy's a git, but he's also dating my best friend and is my boyfriend's best friend. So neutral about it. I guess so.
Hermione: Yes, absolutely! Malfoy, despite his stupid prat tendencies is so romantic, and so sweet to Sherlock. I give them my : *beams* Thanks guys. That's all for this chapter, thanks, bro, Watson, Ron, Ivy and Dragon for your time. And I'm still accepting applications for the Hannah Stuffed Dragon Naming Contest. The application process will close after the next chapter is posted, so get your apps in! so far, what I'm accepting for polls is:
Bob (The Sixth Kuchiki)
Draco (Slytherins Prinsess)
Draco Jr. (Luna Lovegood the Rabbit)
Spitfire. (Slytherins Prinsess)
