Written for the 10 Pairings-Challenge

Thank you to my wonderful Beta MrsBates93

without whom my story would have been full of mistakes.
You are a really great help, MrsBates!

Quick Note: I want to apologize in advance for every OOC that might appear and for the fluff-overload in later chapters!

Dudley Dursley pushed the door of his flat open and dropped his briefcase in the hall. Taking off his jacket, he went into the living room, turned on the television and dropped down onto the sofa. He flicked through the television channels for a while before he got stuck on a channel on which was some game show in which two families competed against each other. Then he picked up his post, which he had put on the coffee table before.

Bill, a magazine, another bill. And a letter without any sign of who it was from.

Dudley looked at the letter for a moment before he ripped the envelope open and pulled out a wedding invitation.

"Who do I know, that is going to get married?", Dudley wondered.

Then he opened the invitation.

Dear Mr Dursley,

it read,

We are happy to invite you to

in the wedding of our daughter

Ginevra Molly Weasley

to

Harry James Potter.

The ceremony will take place on

August, 1st

at

3:00 pm

at

The Burrow.

Molly and Arthur Weasley

Dudley stared at his cousin's wedding invitation.

Then he realised that there was a scribbled PS at the bottom of the card: "Dudley, I'd be very happy if you came to my wedding. I've also sent an invitation to your parents, though I'm afraid that was a hopeless act. But it would mean a lot to me if you at least came. After all, you're the only family I have."

Dudley furrowed his eyebrows, staring at the PS note. Before he had read it, he was sure that he was not going to this wedding. He didn't even like meeting one of...them, even if it was his cousin. But at this wedding there would be loads of them, and he wasn't even very close to Harry.

But there was too much truth in Harry's last sentence. He was his only family (well, and his parents but they hadn't talked to their nephew for years). And Harry was also his only cousin. A few years ago he would have strictly refused to go there, no matter if Harry was his cousin or not. But now that he had gotten older, Dudley regretted quite a few things that had happened in his youth and he didn't want to regret not going to his only cousin's wedding, when he was older and looking back on his life. Now that he was living on his own and had made up his own opinion on matters, Dudley saw quite a few things in a different light. Maybe he should just prove that he was a man and go to this damn wedding.

But that led him to another problem. He certainly couldn't take Kimberley, could he? She would be shocked, meeting all those people. And if he told her that his cousin was a wizard before, she simply wouldn't believe him.

Mulling the problem over in his mind, Dudley turned the card around absent-mindedly.

Suddenly he found another note on the back of the card: Please send your reply to this P.O. box followed by a postal address.

Dudley sighed, looked for a piece of paper and started writing a reply.