First off, a note: If you're going to write a review that's bashing my story, make sure you actually read the story before bashing a certain aspect of the plot… *cough pstibbons cough* decided to bash how Ron and Hermione didn't push for a trial, without reading the part where they were under the Imperius curse. Bravo my friend, you get my "Idiot of the Month" award!

Anyways, thanks for all the alert list and favorite list notices, but I'd also like reviews. Of course, if you post something similar to what pstibbons there said, expect a very sarcastic, witty, and highly insulting response.

Disclaimer: I only own my plot line. Okay? Happy? Good! (Of course I wish I owned Umbridge so that in everything I ever wrote she died a horrible, gruesome death…)

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Manor of the Zodiac Keepers

In a flash of light, Samantha appeared standing on her feet, and Ron, Hermione, and Ginny all landed rather painfully on their rear ends. Hermione was still stark raving mad at Samantha, as was Ginny, but Ron's reaction made the two of them seem like angels.

Ron immediately got up, went over to Samantha, grabbed her by the arms and threw her up against the wall so he could demand answers.

"You have some explaining to do! Well?! How the bloody hell do you know my best mate!" Ron yelled at Samantha, angering the young Zodiac Keeper. Ron was so blinded with rage that he didn't notice the house crest appear in her eyes, nor did he notice that the signs themselves were glowing very brightly.

Samantha focused hard, and disappeared in a flash of light, reappearing behind Ron with spear in hand. She held the weapon's blade up against Ron's throat, making the red-haired boy let out a small whimper.

"I'll explain if you would be so kind as to stop attacking me, Ronald," Samantha spat with venom creeping into her voice. She pulled the spear away from Ron's neck, and transfigured it back into a wand. Samantha didn't know quite how to say what she wanted to with words, so instead she decided on an alternative method.

She went over to a shelf, and pulled a pensive off of it. She put her wand up to her head, and pulled out the memory of the prison, and of Leonidas' ghost visiting her, as well as the memory explaining her transformation.

Once the memory was in the pensive, she put it out on a table, and beckoned her three friends to come over.

"I don't quite know how to say what I want to in words without sounding like a blundering idiot. So instead I'll let you see the memory; hopefully it will explain things better than I can myself." Samantha went over to an armchair and settled in as she watched Hermione, Ron, and Ginny enter the pensive.

12 Grimmauld Place

Tonks and Mad-Eye Moody apparated directly into a meeting of the Order of the Phoenix. Dumbledore got out of his seat, very interested at what the two had to say, especially considering the long string of expletives streaming from Alastor's mouth, and the fact that Tonks' hair was constantly changing colors.

"Moody, Tonks. What do you have to report?" Dumbledore said sternly. Everybody was very interested in what had transpired, and instead of talking Alastor pulled out a pocket pensive, put the memory inside, and attached it to an apparatus that projected the memory onto the screen.

Nobody spoke until the memory showed the four teens teleporting away in a flash of light, when the entire order meeting went up in bursts of loud screams, heavily dominated by Molly Weasley.

"Where did she take my children?! If she does anything to hurt them, I'll make her wish she never lived!" Molly was as red as her hair, an obvious indication of her anger. Everybody near her backed away from the woman, afraid that her emotions may cause accidental magic.

"Calm down, Molly," Dumbledore said calmly. He called for an owl, and Hedwig of all owls appeared. He gave the owl a Hogwarts letter, whispered a name in her ear, and sent her off. Dumbledore turned back towards the rest of the order. "Hedwig is being sent to find Samantha, hopefully also leading us to where Miss Granger and Mr. and Miss Weasley are. I am fairly certain that Samantha means no ill will to her new friends."

"Then why don't we go follow Hedwig?!" Molly cried, exasperated. Dumbledore raised his hand, silencing her.

"That, Mrs. Weasley, is exactly what we are going to do. Are you all ready for a search?"

Manor of the Zodiac Keepers

Samantha had calmly been sitting for roughly twenty-five minutes when her three friends pulled themselves out of the pensive. Ron was opening and closing his mouth like a fish, so surprised at what he had seen that he couldn't speak. Ginny and Hermione, on the other hand, darted over to Samantha and hugged her so hard that she felt the wind get knocked out of her.

"Can't… breathe!" Ginny and Hermione withdrew, and Hermione started yelling at Samantha.

"Harry James Potter, how dare you not tell us that you were alive! Do you have any idea how much we were grieving, or how guilty we were?!"

"I have every idea how you felt, Hermione. And besides, how did you expect me to tell you? Did you expect some girl you'd never met before to come up to you and say 'oh hello there, I'm actually Harry Potter' and then think that you would believe her?" A look of surprise, shock, and guilt flashed across Hermione's face very quickly, and she just stared down at the floor. Ginny gave Samantha another hug, before she looked up and saw a very confused Ron.

"But… that memory was just a lie, right?" Ron spluttered out, turning redder than his hair.

"Was the memory cloudy?" Samantha asked. "If so, then yes, it was a lie, but since the memory was crystal clear, then no, it wasn't a lie. That actually happened." Ron's confused frown grew larger, and his brow furrowed deeper.

"Then… that means that my best mate is… a…"

"Yes, Ron?" Ron couldn't bring himself to say the word. Apparently, he had been sent straight back to a certain river in Egypt.

"You're a… I mean, you're no longer a… I mean, how is it possible that you're a…" Ron continued to stumble, sputtering out random, meaningless phrases. Samantha grew perturbed, and the house crest appeared in her eyes again. If they had been looking closer, her friends would have noticed that the signs Leo, Aries, and Taurus were glowing, clearly showing Samantha's anger.

"Damn it, Ron, just say it! I'm a girl! Yes, that's right, your best mate is now a girl! Why the hell can't you just say it and accept what happened?" Samantha said, stomping her foot on the ground. For a second, everybody thought Ron was just stunned at this new realization. That is, until Ron's eyes rolled way back in his head, and he fell to the floor, passed out.

"Oh bugger."

Somewhere over the United Kingdom

"I'm fairly certain we passed Hogwarts about thirty minutes ago chasing that damned owl Hedwig," Sirius Black called out from over the howl of the wind. "Are we absolutely sure that she's leading us to this Samantha girl?" Sirius didn't receive an answer from any of his comrades. After about three minutes, he didn't bother to venture asking another question.

The Order of the Phoenix had formed a small search party to follow Hedwig to wherever she went to deliver the letter to Samantha. It didn't matter whether or not Samantha was on unplottable land; Hedwig was a magical owl and tracked the recipient of a letter through his or her magical signature, which she identified through the name of said recipient.

The search party consisted of Dumbledore, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin, Molly Weasley, Nymphadora Tonks, and Mad-Eye Moody. All of them were flying on brooms, with the exception of Sirius, who was flying on his modified Harley motorcycle, which Hagrid had graciously returned to its previous owner. The six of them were madly following Hedwig, hoping that wherever this Samantha girl was, Hermione, Ron, and Ginny wouldn't be too far behind.

After another ten minutes or so of silence, a large manor came into view. Everybody was startled at how close the structure was to Hogwarts: maybe two hundred miles from the school.

"Did you ever know this home was here?" Lupin asked the Headmaster.

"No, Remus, I did not. Somehow the home must have been under concealment charms, which have only recently been removed. How I didn't sense them, I don't know. They must have been in place long before my time," Dumbledore replied.

The group of seven swooped down to the house, landing on the large roof. Dumbledore opened up the skylight with an unlocking spell, and levitated the other five down into the hall before levitating himself down at the end.

"Moody, do you see anything with your eye?" Moody immediately looked around in every direction, before his eye fixated on something beneath them… no, below them.

"Four magical signatures, underneath us. Three of them I recognize, and the fourth… well, it's not staying the same for more than three seconds. It's switching between one, two, three…" Moody trailed off. "Thirteen different signatures? That's… unprecedented."

"It doesn't matter. I just want to know what that girl did with my children!" Molly Weasley shrieked, tearing through the manor, searching for a way down the stairs. Mad-Eye let out a small chuckle, and the others turned to him.

"Ron just passed out."

A few floors down, Manor of the Zodiac Keepers

"Enervate!" As soon as Hermione had finished casting the spell, Ron bolted dead upright, and started mumbling to himself.

"Please tell me this is all a dream. My best mate isn't a girl, my best mate isn't a girl, my best mate isn't—"

"A girl?" Samantha interrupted. Ron's eyes grew wide again, and he started whimpering softly.

"Oh no, now it's a group of two girls and one guy… what am I going to do?" Hermione, Ginny, and Samantha all burst out laughing so hard, their sides hurt. Ron just hung his head in shame, and Samantha knew all too well what was going through his head.

Of course, Ron didn't get the chance to put the thoughts in his head (well, lower head) into words, because at that moment a very angry Molly Weasley somehow burst into the room, followed by Sirius, Dumbledore, Tonks, Moody, and Lupin. How on earth did they all get to the manor?

Samantha's unspoken question was answered when an owl flew into the room. Samantha felt a pang of nostalgia as soon as she realized that the owl in question was Hedwig. Her former self's owl flew over to her with a letter in her beak. A brown letter bearing the Hogwarts seal.

Samantha took the letter from Hedwig, who proceeded to perch on Samantha's shoulder, the way she had when Samantha was still Harry, drawing surprised murmurs from everybody in the room aside from her three friends.

She opened the letter, and quickly scanned the contents. She was already familiar with what the letter would say, but read it for old time's sakes.

Finishing with the contents, she looked up at Dumbledore.

"Yes, I would very much like to go to Hogwarts next year." Molly immediately became infuriated.

"Albus, you would let this girl, who kidnapped my son and daughter go to Hogwarts?! How do we know that she's not working for He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named?! We don't!" Molly turned towards Samantha, hands on her hips. Samantha was completely unfazed; she'd seen Mrs. Weasley in this state far too many times to be concerned with whatever the woman might say. "Give me one good reason why we should trust you!"

Samantha didn't answer, instead pointing at the pensive still sitting on the table. Mrs. Weasley was about to say something else, when Dumbledore raised a hand to stop her.

"I think, Molly, that perhaps we should see what Ms. Zodiarkus would like to show us," the wizened Professor said, the familiar twinkle in his eye. He motioned for the other five to go with him, and simultaneously, they entered the pensive.

"Do you think they'll believe what they see, mate?" Ron asked Samantha.

"I certainly hope so," the silver-haired girl replied worriedly. "I most certainly hope so."

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Okay, not the best ending, but I still think that the option of whether or not to tell everybody who she used to be should be taken out of Samantha's hands. More interesting that way.

I would like to thank the following people for reviews: nxkris, GinnyLover14, Shadow High, Angel, and SerenityMoonlight. pstibbons can go dig himself a ditch, jump into it, and light himself on fire for being too stupid to continue actually reading.

As a response to Shadow High Angel, of course the way I said that… er… time of the month line *dodges a couple more shoes* was definitely the way a guy would, for multiple reasons: (1) I am a guy, and (2) Samantha used to be Harry, thus some of her thoughts would still be masculine. I'm still deciding on whether or not I want there to be a pairing… that might be interesting. Don't expect Samantha to be paired with Draco Malfoy, and definitely not with Severus Snape *shudders*

Anyways, thanks for all the alert list/favorite list addings, and REVIEW!