lonely m exile, Harah busied herself as Aha s guardian aad governess Trying to control a child like Alia was a frustrating job made more difficult by Alia's knowing and speaking of things beyond her years and by flouting traditional modes of behavior But Harah s devotion to Alia was unflagging, as evidenced by this passage from the Memoirs-"Alia is like my own flesh because she is sister to one who is like my brother I've watched over her and guarded her from the time she was a mere babe-and I always will" Besides raising Alia and becoming indis pensable to her husband Stilgar in the years that followed Paul's ascendance to the emperor's throne* Harah became Cham s closest female friend As dam's intimate she stood at the side of her fncnd when she gave birth to the Atreides twins, Leto and Ghanirna, and watched stone-faced as Chain died It was her terrible duty to guide the now completely blind Paul Muad'Dib first to the creche that held his children and wen to the pallet that held Chant's body Harah was able to perform her last duty for her fnend to be observer of the holy truth and stand beside Cham for the last time at tile deathstill At Paul's request, Harah, as a fnend of the mother, also stood beside Paul at die time of the naming of his son Leto for his paternal grandfather and of his daughter-over Harah* s understandable objections (in Fremen xhanima meant a spoil of war)- Ghanima With Cham dead and Paul swallowed by the desert, Harah felt destiny had once more called her to play the role in which she excelled, the Atreides twins needed a mother But the joy was tempered by disquiet for these children were much as Alia had been exasperating, unsettling, and sometimes terrifying However, with her Fremen back ground, her sagacity and the weirding ways she had learned from Paul she proved to be a match for the precocious twins Coming to love the twins as her own Harah was devastated by the news that Leto had fallen victim to Laza tigers She con soled herself by trying to console Ghanima to ease the pain Harah applied herself to providing Stilgar with every comfort She gave minute attention to his wardrobe and yah, supervising even the smallest house keeping detail-preparing coffee for example just as Stilgar preferred it grinding fresh roasted beans to a fine powder in a stone mortar then boiling immediately with a pinch of melange But once again the evenness of her days was shattered hj a crisis early one morning Stilgar called her to view the dead bodies of Javid and unbelievably Duncan Idaho and to tell her that he had sent Buer Agarves to Alia with his final obedience But the abductors Agarves had unwittingly led to the djedida overwhelmed the fugitives and car ned them off to Arrakis and Alia s prison cells While not present in Aha s quarters m the Keep on that disastrous day when House Atreides established its millennial dynasty Harah heard the terrible news soon enough the death of Paul (the Preacher), the suicide