So I got this idea out of nowhere and ... I'm just writing it. By the way, major chance I suddenly drop the story (I will tell you of course, I won't leave you hanging) or take a break to gather ideas. I am a very uncreative person so I'm fast to go low on ideas.
I've edited the female name of Harry from Aluka to Ella. I hope i dont miss any one of them while switching
Starting fifth year.
It was another day at Hogwarts, where Harry James Potter and those in his same age were in year five. In just another potions class lead by Professor Snape, Harry was paired with Neville Longbottom, the one also known as the potion failure.
He sighed, again. Lately, Harry had been taken into a huge misunderstanding, or actually another lie, published by the newspapers, that made everyone hate him while Dumbledore ignored him the entire time, dodging his attenlgs to meet up wih the older wizard. His professors, Gryffindor students, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin -students who already hated him- did so with even more ferocity. Now, he was known as a spoilt and pampered boy by his relatives as he was the boy who lived, but now also the coward traitor lying to save his ass. He was considered a disgrace that he dared to come to school at the beginning of the year after claiming the rebirth of the dark lord. He couldn't understand their logic! They had been pushing him to kill that vile man, and when he told them he was out there roaming around Merlin knows where, he became the insane liar. It was just so obnoxiously frustrating!
Thankfully, Hermione believed none of those rumors and lies and still supported her friend, but those 'friends' can't help if they can get too oblivious. Even Ron looked sour, but he wasn't as obvious as fourth year. Harry now understood why that hat wanted to plop him in Slytherin. He hoped he could just request a resort by the sorting hat that will probably not put up any sort of fight knowing that it always wanted to put Harry Potter in Slytherin house. He just... never told his friends about it. Ron would have a hissy fit for sure.
However, back to the potions lesson, Neville of course did not fail to disappoint Snape once again as his potion was disastrous. Yet this time, it backfired immensely...
"NEVILLE NO!" Harry all but shouted and pushed Neville unconsciously away from the cauldron leading it to fall on Harry, not Neville. God knows what had gotten into Harry's mind to push the boy from his own disaster. Damn his hero complex, he cursed mentally.
Luckily, if that would be considered lucky at all, it was not being heated. A room temperature, failed, gooey potion was completely spilled on Harry as he let out a very un-manly shreik for a moment from the shock at the sudden contact with the disgusting mixture. While the slytherins were rather open about their snide remarks, it apparently was considered funny to the Gryffindors who at least contained themselves a little. Though Ron didn't bother hide his snickering.
Harry was embarrased as he'd fallen on all four, head down, drenched in greenish blue- close to turquoise coloured liqiuid as he lost balance from pushing Neville away. If it did not look nasty enough, it tasted real bad. Some had slid its way into Harry's mouth; he struggled as he attempted to cough them out roughly.
"Mr. Potter! What is merlin's sake were you thinking pushing yourself into that mess?! What if something happened to you? It is not me who cares at all, it is Dumbledore who will not let me live if something happened to you- and for merlin's sake ARE YOU EVEN LISTENING?" Snape scolded. He was fed up. He already detested the Potter, and he was treading on thin ice as it was.
Nothing was heard from the teen, neither had a movement been seen.
His vision went blurry, colours barely swimming in his eyes, and his professor's yells were ignored as his body felt numb. Harry unexpectedly collapsed to the floor with a pained expression on his face...
Severus shut the class up before anything was said. "I expect you all to write about what today's potion is used for, advantages and disadvantages, its ingredients- not shorter than 3 foot parchement. Understood?" A lot of voices said in unison after groaning in displeasure- yes professor snape.
"That imbecile. Now I will have to hold him. No. I will not touch him, drenched with this-" Snape muttered bitterly. He levitated the unconscious boy behind him to the infirmary.
"Hah, Harry is in for a gre~at hell today." said Ron mockingly, Dean Thomas chuckled at that. The others mostly did not even care about the boy. Well, maybe just the points that will be taken from their house.
"Ron! You know it was an accident and not even Harry's fault to begin with!" Scolded Hermione. Ron just rolled his eyes and ignored his crush childishly who he was rapidly losing.
In the meantime, Pomfrey was utterly astounded about what she saw and told by severus. She examined Harry thoroughly and came to a conclusion "Severus, please tell me you have a sample of that liquid with you so you can test it"
"Poppy, the sample itself has graced us with his presence, but I have collected some while bringing him here" He replied sarcastically.
"Anyways, he is pretty healthy beside one teeny tiny thing..." She trailed off. "That he is no longer a he, but, um, a she." She spoke nervously.
"Yes, of course he's fine, like always. Anyways- WHAT did you just say again?!" He snapped. He shook his head replying calmer than before "No, it is obvious that the potion probably changed his gender..." he attempted to think rationally, the boy really was just a walking disaster...
Then he muttered "What in the world will I do with hi- her? I will come back in a while and she is supposed to be awake by then." Then he turned around, Poppy hearing the muttering of something related to 'Longbottom must have added unicorn hair' or something else of that sort...
Harry woke up a couple minutes later with a faint headache, feeling unusual. wait, how can i feel different anyways? Harry thought. He felt some heaviness on his chest.
She (i will start to refer to harry as a girl) sat up as she saw slender wrists and hands. She looked down and saw that her chest had grown so much. It took up all her resemblence and composition to not scream in shock and fear when she realized the absence of... a certain other organ. She looked like a bloody FEMALE! A lock of her hair fell over her eyes as Pomfrey entered the room to see Harry very much startled with her own body.
"Harry dear, you are awake, the potion Mr. Longbottom brewed was wrongly made and thus... did this to you. I understand if you want some time alone. Professor Snape and the headmaster will be over shortly" Pomfrey said symathetically.
"N-no. i- i want to know what i will do with this... this, form. Madam Pomfrey there must be a solution! Right?" Harry was frantic and anxious as to what will happen next to her, overlooking the tidbit concerning Snape of all people having to be there.
Dumbledore came with a grumbling Severus a few moments later to the infirmary to evaluate the situation.
"Poppy, I believe you have examined... her" said Dumbledore pointedly. Pomfrey replied affirmatively then let the headmaster take over.
"Ms. Potter, I must tell you that this potion is an unknown one that Mr. Longbottom had created by accident. Severus told me he hadn't been able to identify it just yet. However, he will do his best to find it and its respective cure. Of course we will try all we can do and hopefully we shall find any sort of solution soon. But for this change to be easy on you, you will choose your new female attires and everything you need will be provided with as a lady. However, we expect you to go back to attending classes in three days maximum." Dumbledore stated with that gleam in his blue eyes, gently.
Harry replied when Albus was done "I- I do not- um, I can manage with that later." Why was Dumbledore so... cool with all of this and brushing aside all of Harry's confusion and thoughts about this. She felt so, disregarded.
"I see, also i suppose the name Harry doesn't suffice for a fair maiden like you at the moment. What do you suggest? Harriet, perhaps?" He inquired.
"What? NO! No, absolutely not. Harriet is horrible! It will ... um.. be" she went silent for a few moments, brows knitted together in concentration, then she finally went with "Ella."
"Alright, that will be coordinated. You should change your family name, we can't just tell the school that you are a girl. Any family name suggestions? Severus?" He looked hopefully at the potions master who looked like he was fairly thinking.
Silence took over before his head snapped up "Dursley. We will need an excuse in all cases for Potter's disappearance, so we will use his female form as a 'cousin'. He was taken to a hospital of a foreign country for proper healing. However, other measures should be taken in case something else has changed in you. Maybe if she could be sorted somewhere else, her presence will be more understandable. The less the personality similarities, the better the chances that the student body accepts the story."
The headmaster left the infirmary to fetch the hat, tension between Harry, now Ella, and Severus, who was staring down at the girl, more like glaring, was building up.
When Dumbledore returned after explaining to the hat the need of its placing on a student, Harry Potter, he found Ella seemingly down and Snape looking pissed off, arms crossed. Something must have happened.
Not a word was said while Albus placed the hat on Ella's head.
'What, have you turned into a new person now, Mr. Potter? Or should I say, Ms. Potter?" the hat said, but no one heard it except Ella who scowled. Unless the Hat wanted to be heard, it was considered silent. The only words that can be heard at any occasion is the name of a Hogwarts house. However, it wanted Ella to listen, and listen did Ella while no one else could.
"Oh shut up." She replied.
"What did you say, Potter?" Snape snarled at the girl.
"Nothing, just telling the bloody hat to just utter its word and not any other nonsensical things." She tsk- ed in annoyance.
"Language, Potter." Snape drawled.
The headmaster raised his eyebrows, Snape containing his surprise. She heard the hat?
'Well well well, this time, I shall put you in your rightful house. Now, SLYTHERIN!' it said smugly.
Snape almost fainted from shock.
"Nonsense, headmaster! I am not letting your Golden boy- girl- in my house just because the gender had been switched!"
"Where the hell had 'Golden boy' come from?! Hadn't the world hated me for being a liar and dropped the title? Why don't you too? All I have done since then was ignore you and your insulting remarks when you added them. Just two days ago I was a disgrace and a disappointment, and now I'm the golden boy again?" She said angrily, all of it directed to Snape.
He blinked. Then he regained his composition that he had not let waver. She was right, no doubt, but he wasn't willing to welcome the girl to his house.
"Oh, and just so you know. My sorting into Slytherin was not because of Neville's potion. It was something I pleaded the hat to change. I was supposed to be a Slytherin in first year, though thanks to Malfoy I decided against that. However, a resort back to my original house was exactly what I wanted, so no turning back, sir." She snapped. Now, Snape's shock hadn't been sealed, let as loose as his jaw.
Dumbledore reluctantly agreed to the unexpected turn of events and left Severus with the girl who was now from his house and went to his office.
"So, Potter, uh, Dursley, I suppose. Now that I am your head of house, I have a few explanations to make and inquiries to ask. First, I dont want any fights with any Slytherin. After all you are one now. Slytherins all stand for one another because all of the other houses despise us, you are not an exception either. Two, you will share an ordinary dorm with two other girls. Any questions?" Ella shook her head no, but said before Severus could continue. "Sir, I don't despise your house, really, just Malfoy."
"Then work on that. I already said it, no Slytherin should be at odds with another. If any was there, it is to be solved within the walls of the Slytherin common room with secrecy. Besides, no one will know about your change except the teachers, so Malfoy won't hate you."
"Except for being a 'mudblood'." He ignored the blatant insult, and resumed "I have a couple questions in order as well. Are you fine by having a short meet and greet with slytherin students in the common room after dinner in tonight or tomorrow?" Ella nodded her acceptance and Severus went on
"I believe you want to be introduced again as Ella Dursley, right?" Aluka nodded again. "I will inform you about the make up story leading up to the existence of 'Ella Dursley' by tonight."
Snape then led Ella to her dorm to get everything ready by herself.
While all slytherins were in classes, Ella walked freely to the dorm she was sharing in a few days and got out her wand. It was time she fixed her clothes and buy new ones fitting her new body. She marvelled at her robe that now had turned its Gryffindor crest to Slytherin crest.
Ella transfigured herself a new outfit matching her size. She was astonished when she looked at her body when she only wore a bra and a pair of palazzo jeans that showed off her waist well. Her body was pretty much perfect. However, magic had to help to put on the damned bra because it was hard to clip on.
Her bust was perfect C size. Ella's waist was small and her hips were round and her bottom was circularly perfect. Her legs were slender and long. But what made her beam over the gender change, was the long hair. It literally reached just below her buttom, and was silky smooth and charcoal black. Her face was flawless, one green eye, one red with black streaks under black long lashes. The nose was small and easy fitting with her face. Her lips were plump, pretty full and pretty pink. Cheeks lightly tinted in pink breaking the lightness of her skin with the perfect interocular distance.
She blinked once. Twice...
Wait- why was her right eye red? And why was there black? Ella panicked slightly, but she would have to tell Severus about it. It was all so unexpected. Ella quickly cast a glamour on her eyes to make it them both green.
She got everything ready and went back to the temporary private dorm before any Slytherin or another round of students started walking through the hallways.
Ella took a long, warm, bath in the tub of her private room peacefully. Or as peacefully as can one would be when their gender had been switched and their eyes had become multi coloured.
After she was done, she left Hogwarts grounds of course informing Snape by sending Hedwig with a short letter giving him notice. Ella then went straight over to Gringotts to make a withdrawal of a hefty sum of Galleons from her Potter trust vault. The goblin, Sholuko, had questioned her, but his suspicions about Ella being a thief were turned down when she submitted a minor magical blood test proving her identity, mind the fact she was a female that had been explained as the ancient gender switching potion near the section of 'gender'. She made sure to keep its name as a mental note to tell Snape that she knew now what potion the idiot longbottom had brewed on accident.
Next stop, Madam Malkin's Robes for Every Occasion! Off Ella went...
"Oh hello, dear." Gently greeted madam Malkin. Thankfully, it was not a busy day, and there was no cue.
"Hi, I would like to purchase a few robes please, and a Hogwarts uniform." Haruka said politely.
"How lovely, your manners are. Of course, come along." She was taken for some quick measuring.
After all was organized, Ella left Diagon Alley heading to Muggle London for some clothes. She did not really like wizarding clothes, so she decided that muggle clothes were in order.
As she shopped to her heart's content, seeing as she always was given Dudley's ugly, very large hand me downs, she remembered that she was required to get a familiar. While it was easy to say that Hedwig was familiar with Ella as she was with Harry, she still needed a familiar of her own to make 'Ella' fit in well.
Shrinking the newly bought muggle clothes, and a Zippo style lighter just because she wanted to, Ella made her way back to Diagon Alley to purchase a pet. She roamed the shop, eyeing multiple animals and creatures, crossing them out of her accepting list. Owls, mice, kittens... and snakes.
Yes, a snake would do. She walked back to the reptiles section, and looked for the smallest snake available. It would be better to choose a young snake since it would rely on Ella, ending up being completely loyal to her. However, an adult snake would be hard to tame, rigourous to train, impossible to trust. Having read a lot of books on repltiles, Ella recognized a few too many species of snakes, including a baby basilisk. Ella was just sure that the one who bought it to this shop hadn't known it to be a basilisk.
~Hello, little basilisk.~
~A speaker? Hello, indeed...~
Ella chuckled, and resumed to ask the snake if she preferred it that she was bought by her. The basilisk agreed, to Ella's pleasure.
She called for an assistant, not wanting to take the cage herself and look inappropriate.
"How can i help you, young lady?"
"I would like to purchase this snake, please."
"B-but snakes are ver hard to deal with. Are you sure you want the responsibility, young lady?" The man was horrified. This snake had been bought a couple weeks ago, but it, like most other snakes in this section, hadn't gotten bought by anyone.
"Yes, and please hurry, I am in a rush, sir." The man flinched, that was exactly what he planning on doing anyways. He was dead scared of snakes, and he preferred it that he went quick with handling it and giving it to it's new owner.
As she payed, she whispered to the clerk with a smirk "It would do you good to research what snakes you have in your shop, sir. After all, I just purchased a newly hatched basilisk." Then she headed out of the shop, back to Hogwarts.
~By the way, what do they call you?"
~I am an unnamed snake as of yet. Feel free to bestow a name upon me, mistress.~
~Mistress?~
~I am your familiar, am i not?~
~Yes, you are. Your name shall be, Adelaide.~
~Lovely, indeed, mistress.~
And its done! Guys please leave a comment in the reviews, and if you possibly you have any ideas don't hesitate to write them in the reviews.
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