Why I, Petunia Dursley, Hate Magic
It was a bright and sunny day, so many years ago. I remember me and Lily were playing in the yard with the little girls next door. One was Lily's age and one was my age. I was a year younger than Lily, and I looked up to her for everything. We were playing a game of hide and seek, and the girl my age pushed me into the goldfish pond outback. I remember starting to cry, and then Lily running out from her spot in the shed to make sure I was ok. Those were the good days.
A few weeks later, after the goldfish pond incident, the family was sitting down to breakfast, when an owl flew in the window. It scared me slightly, but I didn't want to show it until I saw if Lily was scared or not. As I said, Lily was my idol. She looked slightly startled, and even more when the owl landing on the half empty plate in front of her. She looked at it wearily, and took the letter off of its leg, despite Mom and Dad telling her not to, that they'd call animal control right away.
She took the letter from the owl and read it. She dropped it lightly on the table, and ran off to get Mom who had left to call the animal control center. I took the letter and read it. It was amazing. I never knew anything like it could ever exist. Well the school that she got accepted to anyway. Yes, I was very young and stupid then I suppose.
So we went and found this small grubby looking pub, it wasn't my kind of place, considering that I was just about to turn ten in about three months. We asked a nice bald man behind the counter how to get to a place called diagon alley. All the while I was just as excited as Lily. Once we got into this alley place, and to the bank that the man told us to go to get our money changed, me and Lily grabbed hands and ran off. Giggling madly and looking in all of the shops buying what she needed and then some, we ran into a group of boys. They were Lily's age, and I must say, I thought the one was quite cute, but anyway, as I said I was very young and stupid back then.
It turned out that these boys were all best friends and from wizard families. They were all very funny, and also helpful in getting Lily's school supplies. About an hour later, we met up with another girl, her name was Megan, but she told us to call her Meggerz. I only remember this because it was one of the biggest mistakes ever going into that damn Alley with my sister, who at the time was my favorite person in the world. Well I can't say that truthfully, there were two bigger mistakes, but I can't decide what one's worse, well get to those later.
For the rest of summer Lily was reading to me out of her books, and trying out small spells on stuffed animals. I remember one morning we were sitting on our bedroom floor, reading out of her charms book, I think it was. She grabbed a small stuffed bear from off of her dresser, and said something while moving that wand of hers. Soon the bear had turned black with little red hearts on it. She then said something else and waved her wand again, and a second bear that was similar to the first also had turned black with red hearts. She gave me one of the bears and she kept one. "That way you won't forget me when I'm gone," she said, hugging me. I do still have that bear by the way. I told her that I had burned it years ago, but I really hadn't. It was just one of those things that I couldn't stand to look at what had happened.
Anyway, I keep getting off the topic. The night before she left for that school of hers, we were lying in out bedroom, quietly as though neither one of us knew what to say. "I'm going to miss you Tunia," she had said suddenly.
"I'll miss you too Lily, I really will. You have to come home every chance and send me lots of letters" I said, starting to cry. Yes, I was quite a pathetic little person wasn't I? Crying to someone that I now hate, how shameful.
The next morning, after a quiet breakfast, we were in the car on the way to London. Luckily we only lived a short way away and made it there in just under an hour. We were standing on the platform, and I had just about got my wish to have her stay home, when her friends from Diagon Alley showed up and showed her how to get on the platform. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my sister go through the wall of a train station. I started crying harder when I found I couldn't follow her in to say goodbye one last time. Mom had grabbed my arm, and drug me back out to the car, then she too started to cry.
I received a letter from Lily the next day when I was getting ready for bed. There were too letters tied to her owl named Peppers food. One was labeled Tunia, and one labeled Mom & Dad. I decided that id not tell them that they'd gotten a letter till the morning, because I was already supposed to be in bed.
I opened the letter labeled Tunia, and looked at the familiar writing of my older sister.
"Tunia, Hey little sister, hows it going back home? Do you miss me, because I miss you, in fact right now I have my bear out. Well, after I went through the barrier with James and Meggerz and everyone, we were standing in front of this massive red train and there were students all around, and most of the people we wearing the same type of things that I needed for my uniform. The train ride seemed to take forever; we didn't even get there until about 8:00. Hogwarts is a wonderful castle. It's simply huge, there's moving stairs and talking pictures and oh it's just wonderful. I just wish that you could come and see it for yourself. Today I had some of my classes. They're great too, well I'm not that great at transfiguration, but I'm ok in everything else. Well I miss you much, and make sure you give Mom and Dad their letter! Love your sister Lily"
I would often receive letters like that from her, but there was really only one letter that I wanted from Hogwarts. Only one and I doubted I was ever going to get it.
Lily came home like she had promised for Christmas, but she also brought people home with her. It wasn't a problem, though, they weren't all that bad. She brought James, Sirius, and Megan home with her. We had a great Christmas, I saw more magical things than ever that Christmas, and well I can't say that truthfully either, as I see even more magic later, but let us just forget about that for a small time.
When I opened my gift from Lily, I found that it was an assortment of candy that I had never seen before. After trying everything, I decided that the chocolate frogs were my favorite. Even though they had to convince me to try one, they were still by far my favorite. I had a few too many nasty flavored every flavor beans to have them as my favorite.
The two weeks went by fast, everyday, waking up and finding Lily and her friends still sleeping in the living room. They didn't play with me much, they had a lot of work to do, but they let me watch, and that was enough for me. I was quite sad the day that they left to go back to Hogwarts. It was snowing, and we were stuck in traffic, mom and dad had got in a huge fight, and I was squashed in between the two of them in the front while they were yelling about which way to get to the train station.
Finally, we managed to get the four of them and their trunks and owls to the station before the train left. It was a pretty good Christmas now that I think about it, although I wish it didn't have any magic involved.
As the year when on and winter turned to spring I had received many letters from Lily, mostly telling of how wonderful everything was and how she missed me. Things like that. She told me about how her and her friends were constantly getting into trouble and that they were having so much fun. It did make me jealous at the time, but now that I think about it there was nothing to be jealous about. My friends and I could go and cause trouble if we wanted. And we could always get in trouble and have letters sent home. But anyway, that's completely off topic. Well not really, but still.
Lily might've been having a great time at school, but at home things were awful. Mom and Dad fought more and more every day. One day Dad cracked and threatened to leave Mom. She said that he couldn't "What about the girls?" she had screamed as he got into the car and drove off.
That was the last time I saw my father, but not the last time that I heard from him, unfortunately. He still kept in touch with me and Lily, but he wouldn't come visit or let us visit him because he couldn't stand the thought of seeing mother again. At least that's what Lily told me. After a while, I got used to coming home from school every after noon to see just my mom home from work on her lunch break, which she and Dad had always taken late in the afternoon for some reason. It was hard, I admit, but I got over it, and so did Lily, but I don't think that Mother ever really did get over it.
Finally, the end of the school year had come, and Lily had returned home. We were sitting on the swing set in the yard when father pulled into the drive way, he told mother he had come to see us. She said that was fine and that she'd be inside if we needed anything. We had a nice afternoon of talking and hanging out, like we used to, well almost like we used to, it used to be him and mother instead of just him with us at the amusement park.
Later that night, my father went in the house to thank my mother for letting him spend time with us. Lily told me to go outside with her and go for a quick walk. I think she knew what was going to happen. Sure enough as soon as we walked out the door, the yelling had started. Lily hadn't been here when they fought like that; it started mainly after she left. The shouting went on for almost an hour until the neighbors called the cops. Father left willingly so that there would be no more trouble, but only after he said "Wait until I get the girls, neither of them is going to go to that crack headed school,"
I didn't know what he meant; I thought maybe Mother was going to send us to a school somewhere far away, not a nice school either. It turns out I was wrong, but well get to that later.
After that, the summer went by fast, Lily's friends came to visit, but this time there were more of them. Sirius, James, Peter, Remus, Megan, and Alice were all of the ones that we there that time. It was quite a crowd, but they let me join in on everything they did the two weeks they were there. Those were probably the two most exciting weeks of summer. We would go swimming almost every day, and there was always some kind of magic going on. They even let me get my picture taken with them so that I could have a moving picture. It was fun, I wished they would have considered me a friend instead of Lily's little sister, but I guess we can't have everything.
a/n: this is a fic that I think might actually turn out to be interesting. This is just the prologue, the *real* reason is in the next chapter, and then in the third chapter, is when she starts realizing things. But I'm not going to tell you because its just better if you wait to read it. Well just tell me what you think. I know im not that great at writing, so if you could just please tell me what ive done wrong or something? Thanks
~*Megan*~
It was a bright and sunny day, so many years ago. I remember me and Lily were playing in the yard with the little girls next door. One was Lily's age and one was my age. I was a year younger than Lily, and I looked up to her for everything. We were playing a game of hide and seek, and the girl my age pushed me into the goldfish pond outback. I remember starting to cry, and then Lily running out from her spot in the shed to make sure I was ok. Those were the good days.
A few weeks later, after the goldfish pond incident, the family was sitting down to breakfast, when an owl flew in the window. It scared me slightly, but I didn't want to show it until I saw if Lily was scared or not. As I said, Lily was my idol. She looked slightly startled, and even more when the owl landing on the half empty plate in front of her. She looked at it wearily, and took the letter off of its leg, despite Mom and Dad telling her not to, that they'd call animal control right away.
She took the letter from the owl and read it. She dropped it lightly on the table, and ran off to get Mom who had left to call the animal control center. I took the letter and read it. It was amazing. I never knew anything like it could ever exist. Well the school that she got accepted to anyway. Yes, I was very young and stupid then I suppose.
So we went and found this small grubby looking pub, it wasn't my kind of place, considering that I was just about to turn ten in about three months. We asked a nice bald man behind the counter how to get to a place called diagon alley. All the while I was just as excited as Lily. Once we got into this alley place, and to the bank that the man told us to go to get our money changed, me and Lily grabbed hands and ran off. Giggling madly and looking in all of the shops buying what she needed and then some, we ran into a group of boys. They were Lily's age, and I must say, I thought the one was quite cute, but anyway, as I said I was very young and stupid back then.
It turned out that these boys were all best friends and from wizard families. They were all very funny, and also helpful in getting Lily's school supplies. About an hour later, we met up with another girl, her name was Megan, but she told us to call her Meggerz. I only remember this because it was one of the biggest mistakes ever going into that damn Alley with my sister, who at the time was my favorite person in the world. Well I can't say that truthfully, there were two bigger mistakes, but I can't decide what one's worse, well get to those later.
For the rest of summer Lily was reading to me out of her books, and trying out small spells on stuffed animals. I remember one morning we were sitting on our bedroom floor, reading out of her charms book, I think it was. She grabbed a small stuffed bear from off of her dresser, and said something while moving that wand of hers. Soon the bear had turned black with little red hearts on it. She then said something else and waved her wand again, and a second bear that was similar to the first also had turned black with red hearts. She gave me one of the bears and she kept one. "That way you won't forget me when I'm gone," she said, hugging me. I do still have that bear by the way. I told her that I had burned it years ago, but I really hadn't. It was just one of those things that I couldn't stand to look at what had happened.
Anyway, I keep getting off the topic. The night before she left for that school of hers, we were lying in out bedroom, quietly as though neither one of us knew what to say. "I'm going to miss you Tunia," she had said suddenly.
"I'll miss you too Lily, I really will. You have to come home every chance and send me lots of letters" I said, starting to cry. Yes, I was quite a pathetic little person wasn't I? Crying to someone that I now hate, how shameful.
The next morning, after a quiet breakfast, we were in the car on the way to London. Luckily we only lived a short way away and made it there in just under an hour. We were standing on the platform, and I had just about got my wish to have her stay home, when her friends from Diagon Alley showed up and showed her how to get on the platform. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my sister go through the wall of a train station. I started crying harder when I found I couldn't follow her in to say goodbye one last time. Mom had grabbed my arm, and drug me back out to the car, then she too started to cry.
I received a letter from Lily the next day when I was getting ready for bed. There were too letters tied to her owl named Peppers food. One was labeled Tunia, and one labeled Mom & Dad. I decided that id not tell them that they'd gotten a letter till the morning, because I was already supposed to be in bed.
I opened the letter labeled Tunia, and looked at the familiar writing of my older sister.
"Tunia, Hey little sister, hows it going back home? Do you miss me, because I miss you, in fact right now I have my bear out. Well, after I went through the barrier with James and Meggerz and everyone, we were standing in front of this massive red train and there were students all around, and most of the people we wearing the same type of things that I needed for my uniform. The train ride seemed to take forever; we didn't even get there until about 8:00. Hogwarts is a wonderful castle. It's simply huge, there's moving stairs and talking pictures and oh it's just wonderful. I just wish that you could come and see it for yourself. Today I had some of my classes. They're great too, well I'm not that great at transfiguration, but I'm ok in everything else. Well I miss you much, and make sure you give Mom and Dad their letter! Love your sister Lily"
I would often receive letters like that from her, but there was really only one letter that I wanted from Hogwarts. Only one and I doubted I was ever going to get it.
Lily came home like she had promised for Christmas, but she also brought people home with her. It wasn't a problem, though, they weren't all that bad. She brought James, Sirius, and Megan home with her. We had a great Christmas, I saw more magical things than ever that Christmas, and well I can't say that truthfully either, as I see even more magic later, but let us just forget about that for a small time.
When I opened my gift from Lily, I found that it was an assortment of candy that I had never seen before. After trying everything, I decided that the chocolate frogs were my favorite. Even though they had to convince me to try one, they were still by far my favorite. I had a few too many nasty flavored every flavor beans to have them as my favorite.
The two weeks went by fast, everyday, waking up and finding Lily and her friends still sleeping in the living room. They didn't play with me much, they had a lot of work to do, but they let me watch, and that was enough for me. I was quite sad the day that they left to go back to Hogwarts. It was snowing, and we were stuck in traffic, mom and dad had got in a huge fight, and I was squashed in between the two of them in the front while they were yelling about which way to get to the train station.
Finally, we managed to get the four of them and their trunks and owls to the station before the train left. It was a pretty good Christmas now that I think about it, although I wish it didn't have any magic involved.
As the year when on and winter turned to spring I had received many letters from Lily, mostly telling of how wonderful everything was and how she missed me. Things like that. She told me about how her and her friends were constantly getting into trouble and that they were having so much fun. It did make me jealous at the time, but now that I think about it there was nothing to be jealous about. My friends and I could go and cause trouble if we wanted. And we could always get in trouble and have letters sent home. But anyway, that's completely off topic. Well not really, but still.
Lily might've been having a great time at school, but at home things were awful. Mom and Dad fought more and more every day. One day Dad cracked and threatened to leave Mom. She said that he couldn't "What about the girls?" she had screamed as he got into the car and drove off.
That was the last time I saw my father, but not the last time that I heard from him, unfortunately. He still kept in touch with me and Lily, but he wouldn't come visit or let us visit him because he couldn't stand the thought of seeing mother again. At least that's what Lily told me. After a while, I got used to coming home from school every after noon to see just my mom home from work on her lunch break, which she and Dad had always taken late in the afternoon for some reason. It was hard, I admit, but I got over it, and so did Lily, but I don't think that Mother ever really did get over it.
Finally, the end of the school year had come, and Lily had returned home. We were sitting on the swing set in the yard when father pulled into the drive way, he told mother he had come to see us. She said that was fine and that she'd be inside if we needed anything. We had a nice afternoon of talking and hanging out, like we used to, well almost like we used to, it used to be him and mother instead of just him with us at the amusement park.
Later that night, my father went in the house to thank my mother for letting him spend time with us. Lily told me to go outside with her and go for a quick walk. I think she knew what was going to happen. Sure enough as soon as we walked out the door, the yelling had started. Lily hadn't been here when they fought like that; it started mainly after she left. The shouting went on for almost an hour until the neighbors called the cops. Father left willingly so that there would be no more trouble, but only after he said "Wait until I get the girls, neither of them is going to go to that crack headed school,"
I didn't know what he meant; I thought maybe Mother was going to send us to a school somewhere far away, not a nice school either. It turns out I was wrong, but well get to that later.
After that, the summer went by fast, Lily's friends came to visit, but this time there were more of them. Sirius, James, Peter, Remus, Megan, and Alice were all of the ones that we there that time. It was quite a crowd, but they let me join in on everything they did the two weeks they were there. Those were probably the two most exciting weeks of summer. We would go swimming almost every day, and there was always some kind of magic going on. They even let me get my picture taken with them so that I could have a moving picture. It was fun, I wished they would have considered me a friend instead of Lily's little sister, but I guess we can't have everything.
a/n: this is a fic that I think might actually turn out to be interesting. This is just the prologue, the *real* reason is in the next chapter, and then in the third chapter, is when she starts realizing things. But I'm not going to tell you because its just better if you wait to read it. Well just tell me what you think. I know im not that great at writing, so if you could just please tell me what ive done wrong or something? Thanks
~*Megan*~