Halyn
By: MIA202
Summary: Harri Potter is a twin, not to mention a girl. Her older twin brother is named boy-who-lived, while she is swept aside, letting her brother have all the fame and spotlight. Eventually sent to live with the Dursley's. Harri grows up very different from her brother, and anyone else in the wizarding world. What happens though, when it turns out Dumbledore made a mistake? What if Harri has already made herself into a new person and barely remembers her past? Will she be bothered to save a world that has never thought anything of her?
Warning: fem!Harry, minor child neglect and abuse, offensive language, some violence
Disclaimer: I do not own or have any rights to any Harry Potter character or plots or universe. I only create plots and put the Harry Potter universe into them.
A/N: Happy Thanksgiving! (If you live in the US that is.) I know this is a bit short, but I felt it had to be. Like I've said before. I write when it comes to me and as it comes. This story really just flows from my head to the page, no planning done.
Chapter 5
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After the events of the Tri-Wizard Tournament at Hogwarts, and the events that unfolded after the final task, the world is currently searching for Harriet Potter, the twin of Alastair Potter, whom until recently everyone thought had defeated Voldemort as a child. When said boy finished the third task of the tournament and returned after being port-keyed away unexpectedly, information slowly came to light that the Potter boy was most likely not the savior of the wizarding world. Infact, it is now known that the defeater of Voldmort is most likely his missing sister. No one knew of this twin daughter, and after some bribery and in depth searching, Rita found enough information to write a front-page article on the girl.
The Girl-Who-Lived: Hidden Secret of the Potter Family
Harriet Potter, born five minutes after her twin Alastair Potter, was never seen as much by her family or anyone else for that matter. After Albus Dumbledore wrongly announced Alastair as savior of the wizarding world at the age of one, see page twenty for more details on the return of You-Know-Who, Harriet was pushed to the wayside and forgotten by her family as well the rest of the world. The young child, who was solely raised by the family house elf, was never allowed out with the family or brought about to public functions.
"I didn't even know they had a second child!" one socialite told me, "And I frequented the same circles the Potters did. Did they ever announce it? I don't recall."
Alastair Potter remained in spotlight, leading us to believe he was the darling of the wizarding world. Backed by his parents and Albus Dumbledore, who were we to say any differently. And while the world remained unaware of whom the young girl was, her presence was noticed on several occasions, though no one ever put much thought to it until now.
"I would often get odd book orders for the Potter home, and I had to wonder who they were for, if not for decoration, and who was ordering them. The whole world knew that the Potter family traveled a lot and were rarely home. Now I know they must have been for Harriet." A bookkeeper at Flourish and Blotts explained, "And let me tell you, the girl must have been a prodigy to be reading the books she was ordering at her age then."
If the Potter had paid any attention to their other child, one wonders how they couldn't see that perhaps there was something special about her, more so than her brother. The special little girl, however, was not encouraged by her parents, as she should have been. It seems as though they felt she was distracting from Alastair and they were not happy about it.
"I think I saw her once," said Madame Croly, whose daughter is in the same year as Alastair Potter at Hogwarts, "when we were invited to Alastair's seventh birthday party at the Potter's home. About an hour into the party a small girl with long wild black hair, who was quite dirty, burst into the house. Mrs. Potter quickly went and dragged her upstairs looking quite angry. The poor child could barely keep up. I didn't ever see the child come back down."
Shortly after the party incident, the Potters sent Harriet to live with Lily Potter's muggle sister and her husband. From what this reporter gathered from her visit to their house, they were not magic-friendly people. I was often glared at and told not to say the word 'magic' as if the word itself was an unforgivable curse.
"We didn't want the freak. She was dumped on our doorstep in the middle of the night, and I wasn't having the authorities called on me for child neglect." Petunia Dursley, Mrs. Potter's sister, told me, "I tried to get Lily to take her back, but they wouldn't respond to any letters I sent."
During her time at the Dursley's, Harriet lived in a little closet like room under the stairs and was required to help with the housework, even though she was only seven. She wore hand-me-down clothing often the wrong size, and there was no evidence otherwise of the small child being in the home. The walls, covered in muggle photographs, held no memory of young Harriet.
"We didn't have any other room for her, and you can't expect us to make our precious Dudley share his room with her. She might taint him. And it wasn't like we were being paid to take care of her, so she'd best earn her room and board." Mrs. Dursley said, unhappy to recall her niece, "It doesn't matter now does it, though. She up and disappeared when we were in London for shopping about a year later. I turned around and she was gone. I did my duty and asked around to see if she was spotted, but no one had. So I returned home. The girl knew the address and could tell authorities if she wanted to."
How far can an eight year old get in muggle London? No one really knows. No one has seen or heard of her since and no further effort was made to find her. This leads to the question that is on all of our minds. Where is Harriet Potter?
For more information of the misleading advice from Albus Dumbledore, see pg. 7
To find out what the ministry is doing to locate Harriet Potter, see pg. 5
For what the ministry is doing to prepare against You-Know-Who, see pg. 10
Accurate information on You-Know-Who's return and the true savior, see pg. 20
Hermione Granger threw the paper down onto the table, trying to wrap her mind around the whole thing. Much of the wizarding world was in shock and uproar about this new revelation. Hermione herself wasn't sure what to think. She was one of Alastair's best friends, and to think that his family had hidden things like this was shocking. She had spent holidays with these seemingly wonderful people! She wondered if Alastair even knew. He was in too much shock to ask then, because even if he had known about his sister, he surely didn't know that he wasn't the boy-who-lived. He built his whole life around the image, only to have the title suddenly and abruptly taken from him. Dumbledore was trying to convince people that Alastair could still be the boy savior, and that Voldemort was only trying to confuse them. But people could not reason why he would leave Alastair alive then, unless he really was no threat.
Rubbing her temples, Hermione pulled out a quill and some paper, determined to write back to Viktor, while his owl was still patient enough to wait. He had seemed upset in his past few letters, though he never said outright that anything was wrong. So she let it go, and tried to keep up normal conversation. He wasn't much for conversing though, at least with her. She'd seen him write out long detailed letters to someone back at Durmstrang, while he sat with her in the library. When she'd ask, he just said it was a good friend. He never spoke to his friends from school much as far as she could see, so she was still curious.
In his last letter, he mentioned worry over someone very close to him disappearing for a week when he returned to school, and wondered if this was whom he'd been writing to and perhaps why his letters were so dreary.
She felt bad she refused his invitation to Bulgaria this summer, so she filled her letter with whatever she could think of. She told him about the missing Harriet Potter, and the scandal with Dumbledore and the Potters, and even how she couldn't get a hold of shocked Alastair. She asked him his opinions, but knew she'd get short noncommittal answers. He never wrote much to her.
TBC…