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Hogwarts: Occulmency
Task 2 - Write about suppression
Hogwarts: 365 Prompts
Prompt - Guest
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Write out your favorite character's first name (mine is Hermione) - M for Muggle
Hogwarts: Fortnightly Challenge
Women's History - Helga Hufflepuff — Write about acceptance
Pending Future
When Lily got her letter, Petunia was curious. Lily was invited to a magical school. Where was her own letter? When she wrote to Dumbledore, and he told her she couldn't go to Hogwarts because she didn't have magic, Petunia had to stomp down on her jealousy.
Why did Lily get to go and not her? It wasn't fair, but it wasn't Lily's fault, and she wasn't going to take her anger out on her sister.
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The summer after Lily's first year, the pretty redhead was full of anecdotes about magic and the mischief some of the other kids got up to. She described pranks, wonderful food, and all of the interesting things she got to learn.
Once again, Petunia had to suppress her jealousy.
Their parents oohed and ahhed, taken in by the stories of magic.
Petunia just sat in the background, listening and wishing she'd get to go as well.
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By the summer after Lily's fourth year, she had come to dread Lily coming home. Whenever she was around, Petunia felt like a guest in her own home.
Still, although it felt like their parents forgot they had a second daughter when Lily was around, Lily never forgot about Petunia. For the first week, they'd stay up to past midnight, talking to each other.
Petunia told Lily about what she had been doing the whole year, and Lily listened as if it was the most interesting thing in the world.
So, Petunia kept suppressing her jealousy. It wasn't Lily's fault that she had magic when Petunia didn't, and she wasn't going to lose her sister over it.
They were best friends, and they'd forever remain best friends.
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As they both became adults, Lily's and Petunia's lives could have diverged, but they didn't. James and Lily visited often, and that brought Petunia into close contact with their friends, including Remus Lupin.
Remus was quiet and sweet, but he was also brave and protective. When he looked at Petunia, she felt like the most beautiful girl in the world. When they kissed, it was like she walked on clouds. She never cared about his problem during the full moon because he was only that animal a fraction of the time. The majority of the time, her was her kind, sweet, funny Remus.
James and Lily had an extravagant wedding. Her wedding to Remus was smaller and more intimate, but it was everything Petunia wanted because she got to pledge her life to the man of her dreams.
And when she gave birth to their son, Maxwell or Max for short, about a month before Lily was due to give birth to her son, her life got even better.
She no longer had to suppress her jealousy because although Petunia still didn't have magic when she was constantly surrounded by it, Petunia figured what was really important in life. That was family and love, and those were two things Petunia had an abundance of.
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