Every meal was a feast, though paling in comparison to that first real feast. The four Gryffindors girls were fast becoming friends. They even got along with the four boys in Gryffindor in their age group fairly well.
Other than Ron at the dinner table. He was just so gross!
Hermione had dragged Harriet into studying a bit before each of the classes, so that they could both be prepared. After winning Gryffindor two house points, she was no longer totally against it either. They had managed to make it to almost all of their classes nearly on time too!
Mostly by leaving very early and making maps that soon proved to be futile. Hogwarts had almost no logic to its secret doors and hidden passageways.
It was Friday morning and the girls were quite happy. They had finally figured out how to get from Gryffindor tower to the main hall without mishap. They were even exceptionally early.
Harriet's brown owl, Hawkwind, landed in front of her with a parcel.
"What's that, Harriet?" Lavender asked. She started munching on her toast.
"It's a package from my mother!" Harriet said with a happy smile. She tore open the package. "Cookies! And some board games! You ought to like those, Hermione! It's Trivial Pursuit! Oh, and some make up."
"Blimey! You mother sent you all that?" Ron said with his mouth full.
"OOOOOH! Close your mouth when you are eating!" Harriet shouted.
"Makeup, Harriet? I didn't think you were so vain?" Parvati asked.
"Oh, just touch ups for a blemish or two," Harriet said blandly. She was almost out, for covering her scar on her forehead. It was really too distinctive and well documented. She didn't want everyone thinking she was some sort of freak now.
There was a commotion up at the head table. It looked like one of the professors was not feeling well at all. As a matter of fact, it appeared he had just finished throwing up.
"Hurry up! We have to get to Double Potions with Slytherin," Hermione called out as she stood up.
After a quick side trip to drop off her packages before potions, Harriet and Hermione just barely made it before Professor Snape. He managed to captivate them with his soft, slightly malicious words of introduction. He didn't seem to have a very high opinion of anyone at all, except a boy named Draco Malfoy.
Hermione did manage to earn a few house points for knowing some pop questions. That seemed to infuriate Snape a bit, but he did nothing other than take points for Neville melting down Ron's cauldron.
"He's a right git, he is," Harriet groused.
"I heard he's really good at potions though," Hermione said helpfully. She would almost never talk bad about the teachers.
"What's that saying? Those that can, do. Those that can't, teach? His teaching methods stink. He hardly gave us enough time to even do the potion, much less learn how to brew it!" Harriet seemed to dislike the potions professor for some reason. He just clashed with her, at some deep level.
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The next morning Hermione woke up first and read for a half an hour. Glancing at the old wind up clock on the wash basin, she decided it was time to get some breakfast and get her homework out of the way for the weekend. The sun was just starting to shine in brightly through the windows.
She opened the curtains to Harriet's bed carefully, a beam of light illuminating Harriet's face. Hermione started to lean over to prod the other girl awake when she noticed something unusual on the other girl's forehead. It was a lightning bolt, seemingly carved above one brow.
It wasn't new, but it didn't seem like it had healed fully either. Hermione noted that it seemed to have a little bit of heavy makeup that hadn't been fully washed off.
Harriet snored cutely after a moment.
Hermione, on the other hand, was confused. It was obvious that the other girl had gone to some pains to hide the blemish as she put it. But why? She had seen the other girl putting on her training bra and panties just yesterday, so she was definitely a girl and not a boy.
But why give yourself a scar like the famous Harry Potter's and then go to extra lengths to hide it? And she did have the feminine version of Harry's name too. Very, very odd, she thought.
Being Hermione, she immediately decided to figure this out in the most direct manner.
She would go to the library and research it out! After all, it had to be in a book, somewhere!
Hermione started shaking Harriet on the shoulder. "Wake up! Come on! We are wasting the whole weekend!"
Harriet suddenly snorted awake. "Wha-?"
"The sooner we get breakfast out of the way, the sooner we can finish our homework and then go outside!" the bushy-haired girl declared.
Lavender and Parvati both moaned, upset at being woken so early. They both grabbed their pillows and covered their heads.
"Come on, Harriet! Please?" Hermione wheedled for a moment.
"I'm up. I'm up. The suns barely up, Hermione!" the raven-haired girl groused.
"The sooner we get breakfast and homework out of the way, the sooner we can go outside and explore!" Hermione exclaimed.
"Oh, horror. She's a morning person!" Harriet said with a small laugh. "Okay then."
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