"Harry?" The elf asked. "Why does Harry have three pictures of Harry in disguise and a picture of Missy Titania?"
"Who?" Harry asked.
"Missy Titania." Dobby pointed at the first frame, the one where the gender-swapped and blood converted Harry was shown.
"Titania?" Harry blinked, then frowned. "Is her name Titania Grimmley?"
"Yes, Harry."
"How do you know her?"
"Missy Titania is a Gryffindor, she shares a dorm with Harry's Wheezy's sister, Missy Ginny." Dooby answered.
"Oh, crap." Harry muttered.
Harry waited until Sirius, who wasn't Sirius anymore, woke up.
"Oh, my head…" Sirius lifted his hands and clasped them around the crown of his head. "Ooh, I don't like that…"
"Siri?" Harry called softly, from the table where he'd been writing notes.
"Pup?" Sirius' voice was similar, but not exactly the same, silkier and a little lower. Hermione would have called it 'seductive', Harry just called it warmer.
"It worked."
"It did? You're sure?" Sirius asked.
"Yep." Harry hadn't lifted his head or turned around.
"How can you be sure? You haven't even looked at me." Sirius argued.
"Because of the images. The one of me as a girl? Dobby called her-me Missy Titania and says sh- I share a dorm with Ginny and the Gryffindor second year girls." Harry answered.
"Oh…" Sirius breathed in surprise.
"Yeah, he brought me a copy of her- my enrolment stuff and a few things that I don't want to leave for Dumbledore to find."
"The Map?"
"And the cloak." Harry added. "I might have mine from our world, but that doesn't mean I have to leave this world's for Dumbledore to play with."
"He's not an evil man, Harry." Sirius said.
"No, he's not. He's just so focused on Voldy and finding a way to defeat him, that he can't see that making a thirteen-year-old, or even a seventeen-year-old, do it, is wrong." Harry sighed. "And he'll use everything he can to protect the magical world and if that means sacrificing one person, he'll do it, he just forgets that the person he's sacrificing is little more than a child."
"Yeah…" Sirius sighed, then frowned. "Did you say… Dobby recognised the image of the swapped you?"
"I did." Harry nodded. "Sh- I'm still a Gryffindor, but sh- I'm in Ginny's year."
"Ah… Okay, then, so we know it works." Sirius blinked.
"Yep. Oh and Hogwarts says that we will have to confirm your name with a special quill, the same sort used for magical name changes, to have your new name embedded in your core and that we should cast a fidelius on the knowledge that you used to be Sirius Black. I'll need to do the same with my name change, too. After that, nothing anyone does will tell them that we used to be Sirius Black and Harry Potter." Harry said.
"Anything else we need to know or do?"
"Dobby brought me a copy of Titania's school paperwork, for me to get all the details from. So, we're good there." Harry consulted a sheet of paper. "We've worked out how many turns of which time turner we need to do to get us back to 1st August 1990. Dobby also found a heap of clothes that will fit both of us and has packed a trunk for each of us, with a set of clothes to wear immediately. I have this Harry's map and cloak as well as mine and all my stuff from our world, in mine. And all the stuff from your vault is in yours." He pointed to a pair of trunks, one dark brown and one golden brown. "Yours is the darker one."
"Good."
"Oh and wands? Dobby said he could fetch wands that would match us, from the lost wand room, after I'm Titania, so we don't have to traipse halfway across the school."
"Great." Sirius sighed, he'd felt half naked without a wand.
"He also brough a note from Titania." Harry said.
"A note?"
"Yeah… She says to aim for her nineth birthday and for us to put the mirrors back where you got them, Remus is going to go looking for them. That we should take one copy of every book in the Room… Dobby's sorting that out now, putting them into a library trunk. She also said to keep the linked trunks, that she kept in touch with her father through them."
"Okay, that's… I don't know whether that's comforting of confusing…" Sirius tilted his head in thought.
"Let's go with comforting, Titania's in second year, so... We know the conversions work. We know the time turning works. We know the hide in plain sight stuff works. We know that we have a way to stay in touch." Harry said.
"Okay… Nice to have confirmation." Sirius nodded.
"You're all sorted, as far as identification is concerned." Harry handed Sirius a muggle travel wallet, opened to show all the various documents.
"Great, now all we need to do is you." Sirius laid the wallet on top of his trunk.
"Yep. I'm ready. This is going to be done in stages." Harry pointed a bookshelf. "The goblet labelled '2' is the de-aging potion, that should… should… get rid of the horcrux, but if it doesn't, you need to give me the potion marked with '2A', it's an exorcism booster. Okay?" Sirius nodded and Harry went on. "The potion labelled '3' is the gender-swap potion. Next is the conversion potion labelled '4', followed by the re-aging potion '5'. And last is the setting agent, needless to say, that is labelled '6'. Got it?"
"Got it. '2', then if needed '2A'. Then the rest in order, '3-6'. How long between potions? And will you be awake during the process?" Sirius paid careful attention.
"Wait approximately ten minutes for the de-aging, but the rest only need five minutes. And no, I won't be awake. Documentation that Hogwarts showed me, says it's very painful and better if I'm not awake. I'll take potion '1' which a variant of a dreamless sleep, before we begin, and you'll have to spell the rest directly into my stomach." Harry replied.
"I can do that." Sirius nodded. "Should I do the name confirmation before we start on you?"
"Probably a good idea, then we don't have to remember it later." Harry shrugged.
"Right." Sirius dragged himself to his feet and approached the table. He picked up a shimmering golden quill and after taking a deep breath, began to write on a sheet of parchment.
While he was doing that, Harry was stripping down to his underwear, completely unselfconscious of his body. Sharing a dorm with four other boys for six years and a tent with Hermione and Ron for months and Hermione for weeks after Ron left, drove any sense of modesty out of him. He sent a quick thank you to Hermione in his mind for oversharing the side-effects of being a female, at least he knew what to expect from the body he was about to get. Maybe this was why it never worried him when Hermione and Ginny talked about the 'finer details' of being a girl?
"Ready?" Sirius held out a phial, clearly marked '1'.
"As ready as I'm ever going to be." Harry closed his eyes.
"Pup?" Sirius waited until Harry opened his eyes. "I love you, I've loved you since before you were born. Nothing is going to change that. Not you becoming a girl. Not you deciding against it. Nothing."
Harry let a single tear fall. "I know, Siri, and I love you, too. The chance to have you as a parent? As my dad? I want that. The rest is just dealing with crap." He hugged the older wizard and took the phial, lifting it to his lips and drinking the tasteless, purple potion. He had time to hand it back to Sirius and lay down on the sofa before everything went black.
When he opened his eyes, next he felt decidedly different.
"You awake, yet?" Sirius leant over the back of the sofa. "You make a very pretty girl, pup. With Hogwarts' help I got a series of pictures of you and I at different ages, I kinda felt that we should have some to put on the wall, just in case we have visitors, sometime."
"Okay." Harry blinked, his voice had changed so much. He huffed, he wasn't a 'he' anymore he was a 'she' and she had to get used to thinking like that. "I thought it would be automatic, that I'd be a girl? In my mind I mean."
"No, not really." Sirius answered. "The automatic bit is how you feel, the thinking bit requires a time or a charm, the magical residue wears off in a few month, but by that time, it will have set in and won't register on a charms scan."
"Can you do that? It feels… wrong... when I think of being 'Harry' or a boy." The young girl whispered and wrapped a robe around her shoulders.
"I can do that. Should I call you Titania, from now on, or…?"
"I think so…?" Titania said up quickly. "Oh!" She gasped. "Did it work? Did the potions get rid of the horcrux?"
"They did, but there was a struggle, so I dosed you with the exorcism potion, too. Hogwarts put a shield around you so it couldn't re-infect you. It was… vile…" Sirius swallowed at the memory of the pain his pup went through.
"Yeah, it was kinda ugly." Titania remembered the thing under the bench in the ghost-version of King's Cross Station, where Harry had met Dumbledore after letting Riddle kill him.
"Alright, are you ready? We're running out of night, Pomfrey checks the wards at six and it's after five. We need to get out of here and you still need to get dressed, do the name change stuff and Dobby has to get us some wands." Sirius tilted his head. "Talking of wands? Are you leaving your holly wand behind?"
"Yes, I'm going to snap the one from this Harry and leave it under the pillow on the bed I was supposed to be in." Titania gave a cheeky grin. "And I want to flummox Snape."
"Snivellus?"
"Siri-"
"Better call me, dad, pup." Sirius cut in. "I'm not Sirius Black, anymore. Now, I'm Nigel Patrick Grimm. My family called me 'Paddy', as I wouldn't answer to Nigel."
"Then you better stop with the pup, too many people will remember Sirius calling baby-Harry that."
"Then what amI supposed to call you? Princess?" Paddy demanded and Titania started to snicker.
"I… will be the princess of pranks, Fred and George better watch out or I'll make them Slytherin green." Titania laughed, a delicate girly laugh, but also a decidedly evil one. "As for what to call me, I never completed my Animagus transformation, but the Room can provide the potion that will tell us what I am, we can base it around that." She suddenly looked unsure. "Can't we?"
"Of course, we can, Princess." Paddy came around the sofa and gave her a hug, before pulling her onto to lap. "You're my daughter, now. Oh, Princess, you're my daughter, now, and I'm never leaving you. Never."
Titania snuggled into her father's arms for a minute, before reluctantly pulling away.
"I need to get dressed and do the name stuff." She muttered.
"And you said you wanted to upset Snivellus?" Paddy asked.
"Snape… He… He saved me- no, he saved Harry's life. Many times. There was a Life Debt to James that passed to Harry, but as no-one told Harry about it, he couldn't dismiss it, so Snape had to keep saving Harry. Right up until the end, even dying he was still trying to save Harry." Titania blinked. "Did I tell you what I heard right after I woke up here? In the hospital wing, I mean?"
"No…" Paddy frowned. "What did Snivellus say?"
"I overheard him and Trelawney, they were right outside the hospital entrance." She took a sharp breath in. "Trelawney was the one to set us up tonight, the night Hermione and Harry rescued you. She was the one responsible. She said that…" Titania told Paddy what Trelawney and Snape had said.
"Really?" Paddy blinked in surprise. "Snape really thinks you'll defeat Voldemort?"
"He wouldn't bet against Lily and James' child and he actually asked Trelawney if she would. She just said 'oh', like that had never occurred to her before."
"She was never the smartest witch out there." Paddy shrugged. "So, what are you going to do about Snape?"
"I'm going to dismiss the Life Debt…" She hummed in thought. "If it hasn't already dismissed, because there's no Harry Potter, anymore. And leave him a note that pretty much says, Voldy's gone and Snape bet on the right person."
"Oh, that's going to rankle." Paddy grinned.
"Isn't it just." Titania stood, crossed to the table and picked up the golden quill and wrote her name.
Titania Dorea Grimmley.
As she wrote she felt the truth of those three words settle into her core.
"My name is Titania Dorea Grimmley." She said, sighing as she felt magic weave itself around her.
"Well done, Princess." Paddy smiled softly at his daughter. "Do the Animagus Identification potion, so I can figure out what else I can call you."
As Paddy said that, as goblet appeared on the table in front of Titania. She huffed at her father but picked up the goblet. Swallowing the vile brew, she forced herself not to gag. Once it was down, she felt the rush of heat flash through her veins, then it was a pulse of magic and she felt the transformation forced upon her.
"Oh, sweetheart…" Paddy whispered. "McGonagall's gonna love you. You're a… well… I'm not too sure. You're white and some sort of big cat, but I don't know which one."
Another pulse of magic and Titania was a girl again.
"That was… wicked…" She whispered, beaming at her father. "I wonder if you have a different form, now?"
"Huh… didn't think about that." Paddy huffed. "Kind of hope not, but kind of hope so."
"Can you take the potion and find out?"
"I don't know." Paddy looked up at the ceiling. "If it's safe for me to take, I'd like the Animagus Idenification potion, too, please." He barely blinked when a goblet appeared on the table. "Looks like it's safe, Kitten." A few quick swallows and another pulse of magic and a Grimm stood beside Titania.
Familiar, except for its colouring, the silver and grey Grimm stood up and shook itself, silver light glittering around him. Another pulse of magic and Paddy straightened up.
"Well?" He asked.
"You're still a Grimm, but now, you're silver and grey, instead of black." Titania crossed to the trunk and picked up the clothes that lay on it. "I need a shower, Da, and so do you."
"Do we have time for that? Or should we wait until we're out of here?"
Titania tilted her head. "After five, you said?"
"Yeah."
"Dobby?" Titania called.
"Missy Titania calls Dobby?" The elf emerged from wherever he'd been and trotted to her side.
"I did. Can you summon, from here or the lost wand room, the three wands most suited to each Da and I?"
"Dobby will look. Dobby suggests that missy Titania and Master Paddy wait for showers, Madam Pommy-frey is awake, but is still in bed." With that the elf closed his eyes and held out his hands, like he was holding a bowl or flat plat on them. Three wands appeared and Dobby opened his eyes. "Theses wands are for Master Paddy." He handed them to Paddy and closed his eyes, again. Four wands appeared and Dobby opened his eyes. "Theses four wand are too evenly matched to missy Titania, for Dobby to choose between them. Dobby thinks missy Titania should take them all." He held them out to her.
"Thank you, Dobby, I will. Can you find some holsters?"
"You're not wearing them, Kitten. Not until we get a home and can ward it. You're underage and we're not ready to front the Ministry." Paddy warned.
"Bugger." Titania whispered.
"And you better forget language like that, young lady, at least until you get to Hogwarts. What I don't know won't hurt your bum. Got it?" Paddy frowned.
"Yes, Da…" Titania mock-glared at him.
"Good. So… how are we going to get out of here, then?"
"We'll use the linked trunks, to get back to the tent and Buckbeak. Then Dobby will bring the trunk to us. Then we can turn back to August first 1990."
"I wonder how Pomfrey and Dumbledore are going to react to no Harry?" Paddy grinned.