It was a quiet night in London, England, when a lone figure walked out of the shadows, a cat walking briskly behind him. "I knew you couldn't stay away, Minerva" the lone figure said as the cat transformed into a woman of wisdom and grace, she sighed, "You think this is a good idea? Lily's half-sister is only 19 years"Dumbledore paused, "Would you like it if we left Harry with the Dursley's?" Minerva scoffed, "Absolutely not! I mean, is there no one else?" Dumbledore shook his head sadly, "Unfortunately is our only choice" Minerva sighed, "At least she has a home and not an flat" Dumbledore chuckled, "Yes, it was given to Marjorie after his death, after his wife left him for his indiscretion" Minerva huffed, "Hagrid should be here any moment now". A rumbling in the night was hears, when a motorcycle appeared from the sky and landed right by the Headmaster and Professor, "I hope your trip was a safe one?" Hagrid nodded, "Yes, slept halfway through"
Hagrid handed Harry over to Dumbledore, who walked into the steps of her darkened home, placing the baby on the doorstep. "After tonight,everyone will know his name and what transpired at Godric Hollow"Dumbledore started, "but here he will be safe until his time to start at Hogwarts" Hagrid sniffled behind the two, "It's okay,Hagrid, it's not goodbye forever" Hagrid nodded. And with one last simple knock on the door, all three staff members of Hogwarts of Witchcraft and Wizardry disapparated.
Marjorie Evans furrowed her eyebrows when she heard a knock on the door, "Who is knocking on doors at this hour?" She placed her book on the table and made her way to open the door to find a bundle on the doorstep. She looked around the darkened street to see if anyone was around, she picked up the bundle along with the letter that was on top and closed the door behind carried the small child into her room and placed him on her bed, "Where did you come from, kid?" I opened the letter that was with the small baby.
As she read through the letter she let out a shaky breath sitting on the edge of the bed, her eyes glazed with tears that she dared not let fall. Lily Evans was her half-sister, two years her elder, when she was introduced to her, although not willingly. Her father had a hard time staying faithful and had gotten her mother pregnant, but alone,when Marjorie was 7 she was dropped off onto their doorstep with a letter attached to her shirt. Marjorie never read what was on the letter, but to her guess it was her mother abandoning her because she didn't want to take care of her anymore. Needless to say, Lily's mother tolerated her for 2 years before taking her two daughters and leaving her with her father and the house. Marjorie and Lily kept incontact despite their berating of their parents, but the letters had dwindled when she had been accepted to Hogwarts or to Marjorie it was a boarding school that didn't allow letters out other than her mother. So, when she received a letter 7 years later asking her to be Maid of Honor, she was shocked and surprised.
Lily and Marjorie reconnected as only sisters could and met her husband to be, James Potter, who was more than eager to meet a sister who wasn't aware of Magic and would call her a freak. The Potter Wedding went without a hitch, Lily was happy that she could share this day with at least one sister, before leaving to their honeymoon, Marjorie said,"Thank you for having me" Lily hugged her, not knowing that that was the last time she would ever see her. It never occurred to Marjorie that her half-sister would have someone drop off the only survivor of the Potter Family to her, but in a way she was Lily's sudden disappearance with her husband, Petunia Dursley took it upon herself to contact Marjorie and have her become part of the family, if only to dote on her since she was pregnant with Vernon Dursley's child.
Despite her her father leaving a sum of money and the house in her name, she worked hard to graduate from the University of Oxford and even studied abroad in the Americas, taking Harry with her since she was his sole caregiver. It never bothered her that she never went out orpartied like the other College students, she adored Harry the moment she laid eyes on him and nothing, not even a man, was going to take him away form her. Marjorie turned toward the baby on the bed that begun to fuss, she cleared her throat and walked over to Harry Potter, smiling down at her nephew she said, "Hello Harry, I'm your Auntie Marjorie" she said.
One year later, Marjorie was sleeping in her room, when she heard Harry begin to cry, willing herself to wake, she went to the kitchen to make him a bottle, when the lights began to turn on and brighten to the point they popped, bursting all the light bulbs in the house. She quickly ran to Harry's room to see if he was hurt, but all the glass seemed to have missed him completely, she furrowed her eyebrows in confusion, but her sleep addled mind took it as a the glass on the floor she grabbed Harry and carried him with her to the kitchen giving him his bottle. Once asleep, Marjorie took him to her room and placed in the center of her bed with pillows on all sides and headed to clean all of the glass from the bulbs. She sighed, "I wonder what caused this?"
Three years later, Marjorie is making dinner for Harry and herself when he saw the plate of cookies by the high shelf, "Auntie, I want cookie"Marjorie shook her head and continued cutting, "No, Harry, you'll spoil your dinner. You can have one after" Harry harrumphed and crossed his arms, mumbling to himself how much he wanted the to both parent and baby, was that a cookie started floating up off the plate a headed towards Harry sitting on the stool watching her Aunt cook. Marjorie chuckled at his expression when she looked up to see the cookie floating in mid air and moving towards the toddler, her eyes widened and her mouth opened and closed before hastily grabbing it and slamming it on the counter. Harry jumped at the sudden sound and looked at his Aunt, who shrugged her shoulders,"I saw a spider" Harry scrunched his face in disgust. She washed her hands and kept cooking, her mind wandering to the cookie before shaking her head and convincing herself it was an illusion.
Four years later, Marjorie had become accustomed to the weird and strange that happened with Harry, she called them 'Tricks of the Mind'. Petunia always had Marjorie and Harry over at the Dursley home,despite Petunia and Vernon's slight disregard for Harry, but it gave Dudley someone to play with, even it meant most of the time Harry ended up crying or running to Marjorie for help. Marjorie would shake her head at Petunia's for allowing Dudley to be so heavy handed when playing with Harry, but Petunia would wave her hand and say, "Boys will be boys" Marjorie didn't really like that. Marjorie tried her best to shield Harry from the Dursley's, always finding a reason to not go to dinner with them or see them at their place, Harry was grateful for having an Aunt like Marjorie.
Two years later, Marjorie woke up that morning, got dressed and made her way to the kitchen to make breakfast. Harry woke up to the noise coming from the kitchen,"Morning Aunt Marjorie" he said, Marjorie smiled and turned to him "Good Morning, excited about your Birthday, 11 is a big milestone" she teased. "Oh yes, I feel old and brittle already" "Ah, yes I remember when I turned 11 and now look at me almost on my deathbed". As they continued their conversation of what they were going to do for his birthday the phone rang, Marjorie answered the phone, "Hello Petunia" she greeted, "No I'm actually taking the day off for Harry"Marjorie rolled her eyes, "Yes, I know it's Dudley's Birthday,but this is the only day I was able to get off work" She scoffed, "That's rude, she was my sister, I don't care! Ugh,fine, but only for a little" and hung up the phone.
"One of these day I'm gonna tell her to shove it where the sun doesn't shine" Harry frowned, "We have to visit Aunt Petunia, don't we?" She nodded, apologizing to him. Both Harry and Marjorie disliked the Dursley's, but unfortunately they were family and family is better than none. Marjorie and Harry met up with the Dursley's at the zoo, much to Marjorie and Harry's protest, but Petunia and Dudley wouldn't take no for an answer. So there they were following Petunia,Vernon and their spoiled little boy Dudley; although he isn't very little. "Look Auntie the snake" Dudley said and in a flat tone Marjorie responded, "Yes, I see it" Harry snickered at her tone and she elbowed him.
Dudley yelled at the snake, "Do something! Dad make it do something!"Vernon knocked the window, "Come on, move" Dudley was not amused, after announcing that it was boring the Dursley's moved along to the window of animals that would tortured to seeing their and Marjorie got closer to the window of the snake, the former apologizing for Dudley's behavior when the snake raised its head as if it understood what Harry was saying, "Can you understand me?"He asked, the snake nodded, Marjorie's eyes widened at the snake, but before Harry could say anything Dudley pushed him out of the way,making him fall on the floor. "Harry, are you okay?"Marjorie asked, Harry didn't listen but glared at Dudley, when all of a sudden the window on the exhibit vanished and Dudley fell in while the snake escaped, Marjorie shrieked in fright and grabbed Harry. The snake slithered out before anyone noticed, turned to Harry thanking him and slithered out of the zoo.
Once the snake was out of sight, Marjorie and Harry looked at Dudley to find that the window had reappeared and Dudley was trapped, "MUM!"He yelled, Petunia screamed of fright of her darling son trapped,Vernon on the other hand looked at Harry, "This was your doing!"He exclaimed. Marjorie stood in front of Harry, "You're not really accusing Harry of this, Dudley is a Neanderthal he brought this upon himself" Vernon scoffed, "He's a freak just like his mother" That was the last straw for Marjorie, "Harry,get up, we're leaving. Don't bother contacting me ever again, is that understood? I want nothing to do with your complete disregard ofHarry" Harry and Marjorie made their way out, she turned around and said, "Oh and I never liked Dudley anyways." Marjorie and Harry made it home without another incident, once inside Harry spoke first, "I'm sorry" she furrowed her eyebrows, "For what?" "For what happened at the zoo", she smiled,"Harry that's wasn't your fault, I'm sure there was something wrong with the window or it another one of those Trick of the Mind things". Harry shook his head, he knew that there was something wrong with him, "No, I know I did that, I was so angry with Dudley and all of a sudden the window was gone, it was like magic"She sighed, she didn't want to say something and make him upset or seem like he's going mad, but what could she say.
"Magic?Well whatever that was it was hilarious, I mean did you see the look on Dudley's face?" Marjorie chuckled and Harry chuckled,allowing the tension to end. "So how about we go get some ice cream?" Harry nodded. Marjorie and Harry decided to just walk around London and eat their ice cream, "Aunt Marjorie?" he said,"Yes, Harry?" she responded, "Why don't they like me?"Marjorie sighed, "I don't really know. When you were a babe, I needed help raising you, so I contacted her for help. She was happy I had a child, but when I told her you weren't mine, but Lily's she didn't want to help me. I practically had to find books to for help"Harry looked at his Aunt, "Do you think I'm a burden?" Marjorie quickly narrowed her eyes at him, "Who told you that? Was it Petunia? God, I am going to rip her hair off" Harry looked sullen when she didn't answer and Marjorie saw it, "Harry, don't for one second think that I regret or think you are a burden. You are a part of my family and whether or not I never knew her very well, you were brought to me for a reason" Harry looked at her curiously, Marjorie took it as a question, she smirked, "Because I am awesome" Harry laughed and the mood lightened, "You're so weird, Aunt Marjorie"
"Yeah and proud of it" she returned, "All right, let's go home, so you can eat your cake I baked and open your present I bought you" Harry smiled broadly at the sound of present, "What is it?" "Well, it wouldn't be a present if I told you now would it". Harry then began to pull his Aunt to quicken her pace to get home sooner, Marjorie laughing on the way. Harry and Marjorie sat on the couch eating the chocolate cake she has baked with loose wrappers of the 4 presents she had bought him, "Why did you get me so many presents, one would have been fine" Marjorie knew where his concern was coming from,being a teacher didn't bring that much money, but for her it was worth it. "Because I wanted to, you've been such a good boy, you work hard and you don't make such a fuss like Dudley" Harry leaned into his Aunt. After Marjorie and Harry had their cake and opened his presents they sat against each other, "I love you, Aunt Marjorie""And I love you, Harry. Now, it's getting late, time for bed,Birthday boy" Harry chuckled softly and nodded, kissing his aunt on the cheek he shuffled into his room, Marjorie shuffled into her room, both going to sleep quickly.
Marjorie and Harry slept soundly, when large heavy footsteps caused the house to shake, that Marjorie and Harry fell off their beds. Harry running into his Aunt's room yelled, "What is happening?" Marjorie had a scared look on her face, "I don't know!" she grabbed her cricket bat and with Harry behind her walked into the living room, where the intruder had already walked in the door on the floor from being knocked from it's hinges "Sorry 'bout that" a large man at the door said, "'Ello? Anybody h're?" Marjorie looked at the man and ran towards him hitting him with the cricket bat, "Ow!'ey! 'atch it!" before grabbing the bat and holding it above him,"'hat do ya think you're doin'?" Marjorie breathing heavily, "I'm calling the police" she claimed, Hagrid chuckled making her more angry "I'm not joking!" "I'm not h're to steal from ya" he said, "I'm h're to help 'Arry and ya"
Marjorie became confused, "What?" Hagrid told her that he was there to give Harry and her an explanation for the accidental magic that was coming from Harry. It was too much to process for Marjorie her breathing became short and then suddenly her eyes rolled to the back of her head and fainted in front of Hagrid. "I think I scared the poor lass" Hagrid picked Marjorie up to take her to the couch, "Um, not to be rude, but who sent you and why are you here?" Harry asked. "I came to bring you and your aunt these letters, Dumbledore thought it would be best if someone explained what was going on. You're a wizard, Harry" he simply stated, "A Wizard?" Hagrid nodded at Harry's skeptical face, "You ever wonder why strange things happened when you got mad or sad and couldn't explain what caused it?" Harry nodded,he knew he was different from the rest of the kids, he didn't realize just how much. "You'll be going to a school with students just like you and under the tutelage of many great Professors and Headmaster"Harry smiled.