Harry stood on the platform, waiting for Uncle Vernon to pick her up. Professor McGonagall had accompanied her, just in case Vernon wouldn't take her for any odd reason. Harry continued to plead with Dumbledore so that she could stay at Hogwarts, but the old man would hear none of it.

Harry then caught sight of Vernon stomping up towards them out of the corner of her eye and she bit her lip, moving so that she was behind McGonagall a bit.

Vernon took one look at Harry and then motioned for the two of them to follow him. Once they were at the car, Vernon faced the Transfigurations professor.

"What is this about! Why has this… this child gone to your school a boy and come back a girl!" He asked, his voice a loud whisper, his index finger pointing at Harry accusingly.

"Someone cast a spell on him, or should I say her, a few days ago. We have not been able to identify what spell it was and thus have not been able to reverse it. We shall try again once he comes back from the holidays." McGonagall explained.

Vernon cast his eyes over Harry for a moment, taking in the new form his nephew had taken.

"Fine. But if you figure out how to cure this beforehand, you will send for him!" Vernon yelled in a hoarse whisper, his face purpling even more.

"Yes, Mr. Dursley, I assure you."

Then Professor McGonagall morphed into her animagus form and sprinted off to find a good place to Apparate away.

Vernon stood there for a moment, staring at the empty space and then gruffly took Harry by the hair, pulling hard on it.

"If you so much as step one foot outside when we get home, I will kill you, got it?" the purple-faced man said as he continued pulling on the teen's hair, making tears form in her eyes.

"Yes, Uncle Vernon, I understand."

"What will I do if you step one foot outside!"

"Y-you'll kill me!" Harry answered in a hoarse whisper.

"Good… girl. Put your trunk in the back."

Harry did as she was told and took her seat in the back.

((The Pretender))

The dinner table was silent tonight, which was odd, because Petunia often talked about what she had spied the neighbors doing that morning and Vernon would talk about all of the incompetents at work. But tonight, not a word was spoken, and Harry had the worst feeling that it was because of her.

She swallowed her last bite of steak and then excused herself. She took the plate and glass into the kitchen, cleaning them off and putting them on the drying rack. She then tiptoed quietly to her room.

Harry lay on the bed, her mind spinning. If this was how the Dursley's were going to be the entire time Harry was a girl, maybe she should just stay that way. Well, until she turned seventeen, anyway…

She sighed and then began to change. She had bought a sleeveless shirt and sweatpants to use for night clothes, pretty much the same thing she had used as a boy, just now they actually fit instead of falling right off of her.

There was a knock at the door as Harry was pulling on her sweatpants, the sudden noise making her fall over in surprise.

"Um… a minute please?" she asked, pulling the pants up the rest of the way and then getting up on all fours before she stood up and went to the door.

The door opened and Dudley stood on the other side. Harry blinked a few times and then looked her cousin in the eyes.

"Yeah? What is it?" she asked, brushing a stray strand of hair out of her eyes.

"You can really do that? At your school? You can become the other gender just like that?" Dudley asked, his eyes wide as he took in his cousin's form.

Harry shifted uneasily as she felt Dudley's eye's raking over her, "No, not really. This guy just hexed me really bad. Nobody knows the spell that did it… and they don't know the counter for it yet either… until then…" Harry stopped. "Why do you want to know this?"

Dudley just stared at Harry.

"I'm going to close the door…" she said, suddenly feeling very nervous and slightly frightened. She never saw such an intense look on Dudley's face except for when the boy was playing video games or found his next victim for a punching…

Harry slammed the door shut and then jumped into bed.

She didn't sleep a wink that night…

Conditions Met:

These conditions have only been met half-way so far.

1. More than one character must have their gender switched.
2. They are switched involuntarily.