Chapter Three
Harriet was getting used to Hogwarts; she liked it much better than her previous school. She specifically found it humoring that Malfoy got hurt by a Hippogriff during their first Care of Magical Creatures class. Serves him right, she thought.
Malfoy didn’t go to classes all Thursday morning, which she found good. He turned up in Potions though and made Ron and Harry do his work for him, which she found extremely annoying.
She was looking forward to her first class of Defense though, so when they got into the D.A.D.A classroom and took their seats Harriet was grinning excitedly, everyone took out their books and quills but her Uncle Remus just smiled,
“Good afternoon,” he said “Would you please put all your books back in your bags. Today’s lesson will be a practical lesson. You will need only your wands.”
A few curious looks were exchanged, but Harriet just smiled wickedly.
“Right then,” said Uncle Remus when everyone was ready. “If you’d follow me.”
Most of the class was very curious, Harriet on the other hand was just excited, everyone got to their feet ad followed Uncle Remus out of the classroom. He led them along the deserted corridor and around a corner, where the first thing they encountered was Peeves the Poltergeist, who was floating upside down in midair and stuffing the nearest keyhole with chewing gum.
Harriet cursed under her breath at the sight of him
“Language Lily,” said Uncle Remus, Harriet rolled her eyes
“Sorry.” She mumbled
When Peeves finally saw Uncle Remus he broke into a song
“Loony, Loopy, Lupin,” Peeves sang. “Loony, Loopy, Lupin, Loony, Loopy, Lupin –“
“I’d take that gum out of the keyhole if I were you Peeves,” he said pleasantly. “Mr. Filch won’t be able to get in to his brooms.”
But of course Peeves wasn’t paying attention, he instead blew a loud wet raspberry. Uncle Remus sighed and took out his wand.
“This is a useful little spell,” he told the class over his shoulder; Harriet had a good idea to what it was and raised her hand “Yes Lily?”
Harriet smiled
“Professor, can I help?”
Uncle Remus just smiled and nodded; Harriet smiled wickedly as she got out her wand and went up front to stand next to her Uncle.
“Kiss up,” she heard Pansy Parkinson cough as she passed her, the Slytherins beside her snickered, Harriet rolled her eyes, as she secretly hexed Parkinson to make her tongue stick to the roof of her mouth.
“I saw that,” said Uncle Remus as she stood beside him, Harriet rolled her eyes
“She provoked me,” she pointed out, Uncle Remus just sighed as he pointed his wand at Parkinson who was practically crying and muttered the counter curse, he then turned his attention back to Harriet and Peeves,
“Don’t do that again.” He mumbled as he raised his wand, Harriet just grinned as she raised her’s too
“Waddiwasi!” they both shouted the gum in the keyhole shot out and flew straight into Peeves’ nostril; he whirled upright and zoomed away cursing.
“Cool, sir!” said Dean Thomas in amazement as Uncle Remus and Harriet pocketed their wands
“Thank you Dean,” said Uncle Remus “Shall we proceed?”
Uncle Remus led them down to a second corridor and stopped right outside the staffroom door.
“Inside please,” he said opening it and standing back
The staffroom in Harriet’s opinion looked very old. It was empty except for one teacher, Professor Snape was there sitting in a low arm chair, he watched as the students filed in sneering. When Uncle Remus was about to close the door,
“Leave it open, Lupin. I’d rather not witness this.”
He got to his feet and headed towards the door when he reached the doorway he turned his head and said,
“Possibly no one’s warned you, Lupin, but this class contains Neville Longbottom. I would advise you not to entrust him with anything difficult. Not unless Miss Granger is hissing instructions in his ear.”
Neville went scarlet. Harry glared at Snape, Harriet did too
“Well maybe if you just believed in him –“ But before Harriet could finish or even make her voice louder, Uncle Remus held up a hand to silence her
“Hold it Lily,” Uncle Remus said to her quietly, Harriet took a deep breath and just crossed her arms
“Right well, I was hoping Neville would assist me with the first stage of the operation,” said Uncle Remus, Harriet was doing her best to hold her tongue, “and I am sure he will perform it admirably.”
Neville’s face went redder, Snape on the other hand left, shutting the door with a snap.
“Right then,” said Uncle Remus as he redirected the class towards the end of the room where there was nothing but an old wardrobe. He stood beside the old wardrobe as it moved, the class looked taken a back, but Harriet wasn’t.
“Nothing to worry about.” Said Uncle Remus calmly “There’s a boggart in there.”
He then started explaining as to why there was a boggart in the closet and how it got there, when he asked his first question
“So, the first question we must ask ourselves is, what is a boggart?”
Hermione’s hand shot up in the air, she glanced curiously at Harriet who didn’t even bother to raise her hand. Harriet just smirked, she had other ideas.
“It’s a shape shifter,” she said “it can take the shape of whatever it thinks will frighten us most.”
“Couldn’t have said it better myself,” said Uncle Remus and Hermione glowed, she specifically glanced at Harriet who was just all cool and still smirking,
Uncle Remus then explained more about boggarts for the next few minutes
“Now we will practice the charm without wands first,” he said “after me please….. Riddikulus!”
“Riddikulus!” the class said together
“This class is ridiculous.” Harriet glared at the person who was behind her, Draco Malfoy who just smirked
“What’s up with you Evans?”
Harriet just looked away and ignored him, and put her attention back to the boggart. Uncle Remus had now released the boggart and it was now facing Neville, Harriet moved forward to watch, she was quite excited.
The boggart took in the form of Snape, Harriet had to stop herself from laughing.
“R-r-ridikkulus!” Neville stuttered but it did nothing, the Snape boggart just kept on walking towards Neville,
“R-r-r-ridi I c-c-can’t Professor! R-r-riddikulus!”
Neville was now in the verge of tears, the other people who were beside Neville were trying to help them but they too were scared. Even Hermione tried but she backed away as soon as she came forward.
Harriet stepped forward
“Ridikkulus!”
she shouted, pointing her wand at the boggart, the boggart of Snape then transformed into Snape wearing women’s clothing. The whole class laughed
“Very good Lily!” said Uncle Remus “Try again later Neville, now who wants to go next?”
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Harriet Lily Potter
FanfictionHarriet Lily Evans was raised by her Uncle Remus, a close of friend of her late parents. Her parents died in an accident when she was still a baby, or that was what she was told to believe. Harriet is about to begin her third year when her Uncle Rem...
