The Girl-Who-Lived discovers the wizarding world and unearths secrets that could change her life forever, or just end it. Harriet Lillian Potter is is the only child of Lilly and James Potter and the Girl-who-lived. She was the only one who survived...
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It was several weeks into the school term, and Harriet was feeling more and more at home as time had passed. She had made several friends both inside and outside of Griffindor, including Blaise and Milli. There were Hermoine, who was quickly becoming her best female friend, and Dean, who helped her understand several aspects of the magical world she had trouble grasping. Then, there was Gavin the Ravenclaw, who was practically a Slytherin as all he did was lived in the boys' dorm. She was also on friendly terms with the rest of the Griffindor first-years with one sort of exception, but the group had not yet yielded universal friendship status.
All in all, Harriet was happy; she had friends for the first time in her life. But at the same time, she was losing two she wished could be her friends.
The first, Draco Malfoy, had started out on friendly terms with Harriet, but the situation quickly deteriorated due to his increasingly big-headed and snobbish behaviour. Not only did the blond prance around the whole Hogwarts like he owned it, but he also was starting a reign of insults against the other Houses. Malfoy had already been dubbed the "Slytherin Prince" by most of the student population, including a few of his older and quite peeved Housemates. None were fond of his arrogant behaviour nor his increasing cuts and slights against those with less than pure blood.
Harriet still tolerated his presence and was making inroads into hopefully reining in his arrogance, but her attempts seemed to be failing regardless of how much time she spent with him. Or rather, how much time he spent following her around.
Theodore Nott, on the other hand, remained an allusive mystery. Harriet initially had misgivings about him, but after spending time with Blaise and learning a little about both he and his family, she decided that she would seek him out.
Ron practically stopped talking with Harriet, after Draco insulted him infront of her at the Great Hall. She tried to make amendments regarding their frailed up friendship, but this was easier said than done because after the incident outside the Great Hall, Ron had not approached Harriet again. In fact, he seemed to be avoiding her. Clearly, he felt that he was either not welcome or not wanted… or possibly both.
However, this situation changed on the day of the first flying lesson of Gryffindor and Slytherin.
The lesson started out normally enough. The children stood in front of their brooms and said, "UP!" Harriet's jumped excitedly into her hand on the first try. Ron's almost took his head off in its exuberance to be in the air, which caused the nearby Dean to laugh heartily. They then mounted their brooms and pushed off.
But this is where the trouble began.
One Gryffindor, the ever troubled Neville Longbottom, pushed off too hard and ended up hovering several feet above the ground. The poor boy then lost his grip and plummeted to the ground, landing with a great thwack. The instructor, as well as several other students, Harriet and Ron included, rushed over to the boy as he clutched his clearly broken wrist. Madam Hooch sighed, rolled her eyes, and pronounced that she was taking him to the Hospital Wing.
