Harriet Potter and the Battle of the Seven Harriets

The Multiple Solution

Welcome to my teaser two-shot! This is basically a crack taste of what I have planned for my Fem!Harry Crossovers! Feel free to read for fun, but fair warning: this is not canon is any way, shape, or form. Almost all of the main characters of this "original" universe have been genderbent. Enjoy!

Despite the looming war and Snape's betrayal, Harriet Potter's summer before her seventh year was the best yet. She was spending it with her Muggleborn best friend, Hermes Granger, at his house in London.

On the train ride to King's Cross, he'd quietly admitted he had Obliviated his parents during Yule break and sent them to Australia. Harriet really hadn't wanted to spend one more summer with the Dursleys, but she also didn't want them dead so she took a page out of Hermes' book. A quick memory modification and Richard, Ashley, and Katie Williams were on their way to a new home in America, no knowledge of a freakish niece or magic at all. Harriet wasn't worried about the blood wards either; Hermes had figured out how to put the Fidelius Charm on his home (he made her the Secret Keeper) and only planned on giving the secret to Ronda and Gene Weasley, Nelly Longbottom, and Lumen Lovegood, with the possible exceptions of Remy and Nycasius "Nico" Tonks (Harriet's only living "relatives"). Their other allies could either take care of themselves or definitely had their own safehouses.

Harriet and Hermes spent the summer giving Number Eight Heathgate, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London every protective enchantment they could think of and stocking it with supplies, from air mattresses to Polyjuice Potion.

The blood wards crashed at the beginning of July and Harriet received several frantic messages from the Order of the Phoenix about her safety. She responded with Hermes' new barn owl Todd (Hedwig was too noticeable), telling everyone she was safe in an undisclosed safe house and that she would meet them at the Burrow in two weeks.

Dumbledore, despite recovering from a Death Eater assassination attempt at the end of the previous school year, tried to get her to reveal her location for the purpose of arranging safe transportation; she politely declined. Two fun weeks passed by and, satisfied with their new safehouse, Harriet and Hermes took small doses of Polyjuice as a precaution (pretending to be a Muggle teen couple) and Hermes drove them to Ottery St. Catchpole in his parents' car that they had "sold".

"Oh thank Merlin," Molly Weasley cried when she answered the door. "We were so worried about you two!"

"We're fine, Mrs. Weasley," Harriet assured her, looking around. As she suspected, just about everyone was there. A few checks to make sure she and Hermes were actually them and then Dumbledore immediately started interrogating her.

"Harriet, my girl, where have you been?" he asked solemnly. "Leaving the wards was incredibly reckless. What if something happened to your family because of your selfishness?"

"The Dursleys moved to America when the semester ended and sold the house," Harriet replied. "Aunt Petunia left a letter that since wizards are of age at seventeen, I was on my own. Don't worry, Professor, I found a friend with strong wards to stay with."

A white lie, but Harriet didn't want to explain how she learned memory charms and slightly-illegal defensive spells.

"You should have written someone, Harriet," Dumbledore chided gently. "We would have found a safe place for you."

"I'm sorry. I didn't want to assume just in case I was on communication black-out again."

The Order members winced. Harriet still held a grudge over being left in the dark after Cedric's murder and many members felt guilty about not reaching out after Madam Pomfrey discovered evidence of... unhealthy coping techniques and interrupted a meeting to tear her boss a new one.