Alright guys. Here is another update. Short chapter, and more dialogue. Lot's of more dialogue. Enjoy the chapter and will start working on the next chapter ASAP.

Harriet Potter Chapter 10

Harri was not having a very good night. It was the third time she had woken up due to a nightmare. In it the troll and Professor Quirrel plagued her. She could not put a finger as to why. She shook her shoulders and checked on her room mates. They all had their curtains drawn around them and were oblivious to her plight at the moment. Good! She thought. She did not need them seeing her in a moment of weakness. Albeit it was only a nightmare, not even reality. She let out a sigh and went to the bathroom once more. She washed her face and glanced at her reflection. She may have joked about her mother's being proud of her, but she knew they wouldn't be. It had been a front. A lie to make her Gryffindor tormentors scared, a warning given, so that they would back off. The cold water against her pale face felt good. She wished that she could go to sleep. She hoped that the dark bags under her eyes would not be present when she went to her classes tomorrow. She dried her hands and returned to bed.

Once back in bed she tried meditating to get back to sleep. Clearing out her mind of all thoughts, all worries, and anything else besides her need for sleep she closed her eyes and relaxed.

"Xena are you alright?" The blonde hair woman asked. The blue eyed warrior looked up at her wife, her soul mate.

"I don't think so." She cursed herself. She should have just said fine as the worry filled the blondes green eyes.

"Neither am I. What should we do?" She asked clasping her wife's hand in her own.

"I think we should request a meeting with Dumbledore, and her head of house." Xena said after a moment's pause.

"What about Harri?"

"She will need all the comfort she can get. I can bet she's having nightmares." Xena said. "I know I did after I made my first kill." Xena pulled her hand away from Gabrielle's and pulled her into a hug. "You did as well. We are going to have to talk to her."

Gabrielle smiled into the larger woman's neck. "I think that'll be best. I will write and ask them for a meeting." She gave her wife a peck on the cheek and left to run her errand.

Xena's eyes narrowed. My daughter never should have been in a position to have to kill anything. I don't even care if it was a troll. She is barely eleven and she is at SCHOOL! Her hand crumpled the letter that had come from Head of Slytherin House, Severus Snape, and then tossed it onto the floor.

"Harri, Draco, we need to talk." Hermione said the minute they met outside the transfiguration class room.

"Now? Class is going to start." Draco stated.

"Not now, after, oh all right after we get lunch," she gave in as Harri's stomach let out a growl. "Did you eat, did you even sleep?" She looked at her Harri.

"Barely, we will talk. Let's just go inside. McGonagall is looking at me- us funny." She replied pushing past her two friends and sitting in the back of the classroom. Hermione and Draco looked at each other before following her into the room and sitting on either side of her.

The day moved by slowly and it felt like it had been twelve hours in instead of five. The afternoon bell rang signaling lunch and Hermione and Draco had both grabbed each of her arms and dragged her down the stair cases to the great hall. They picked up several different items, wrapped them in a napkin and lead her outside. A nice looking lone tree was by the great lake, an area that was luckily not occupied by anybody else.

"You need to eat." Hermione said as soon they sat down shoving the napkins into Harri's lap.

"I'm not really hungry." She said giving it back.

"Harri!" Draco said her name annoyed. "You didn't eat, and both Pansy and Daphne told me you didn't even go out and do your drills like you normally do. You slept in later than normal. You wouldn't even wake up. They tried. Professor Snape is going to give you a detention for missing breakfast."

"I don't care. He can kiss my" Harri was interrupted.

"Harri don't say that!"

Harri just glanced at her. "Look you can keep beating yourself up."

"Beating herself up?" Draco parroted. "Over what?" He asked confused.

"For killing the troll."

"I don't want to talk about this." Harri went to stand up, but Hermione grabbed her and pulled her back down.

"Yes you do. If you don't talk to us then I will go to Professor Snape." Harri let her jaw drop.

"You wouldn't?"

"Yes I would. You're bottling this up. It isn't healthy." Hermione said looking into the other witches green eyes. "You're my friend and I want to help you. Just like you and Draco came to help me. That's what friends are for." She said with a smile.

Harri allowed her eyes to analyze her friend. She was being sincere, and Draco was taking into consideration the conversation. Finally, he snapped out of his thoughts and voiced them, "wait, you mean she really did kill the troll. I thought you said that to scare the Gryffindors."

"Really Draco." Hermione snapped.

"Yes I killed it." Her eyes were still on Hermione though. "This isn't exactly what you wanted to talk to us about, is it?"

Hermione shook her head. "No, it's about the other night, when Draco set up Weasley and the others."

"What about it?" Piped up the blonde.

"I followed them, well, trying to warn them that it may be a trap."

"You didn't believe that we would show?"

"No, of course not," she sent him a scathing look, "no offense but you are Slytherins. Anyways, I followed them and after you guys were no shows we ended up running away from Mrs. Norris, though she did get Filch on our tails. We ended up going through a door on the third floor corridor."

Draco gasped, "rule breakers."

"Shut up and listen. I turned around to see what was in the room after shutting the door and there was a trap door in the middle of the floor."

"What's so special about a trap door in a school of magic?" Harri asked.

"Yeah?" Draco said agreeing.

"There was a three headed dog on top of it. I mean it was huge. It could have swallowed the others or me." Hermione said grimly.

Harri took a moment to think about what Hermione was saying. "It's guarding something isn't?" She asked.

"I believe it is." Hermione said.

"Who would want to hide something in a school?" Harri replied.

"Wrong question," Draco stated. "What is being hidden and what is its value?" He inquired of his friends.