Chapter 1

Dinner with the Dursleys

Hermione was up at Dawn because once again she had forgotten to send out the Hogsmeade permission forms. Hermione crawled out of bed without waking Ron and sat down at her desk. She took out the permission forms, tucked them into envelopes then called over her owl. She then had him delivers the envelopes.

Fleur and Bill were in store for another noisy morning. As soon as the kids woke up, they nearly got knocked over by Ali, Billy Nina and Molly who raced to the front door. Bill and Fleur made their way into the kitchen with Fred, Bella, Felix, EJ and Dove. As soon as they were seated, the oldest four Delacour children raced in screaming their head off waving around their letters.

"Dear Miss M. Delacour, we are pleased to inform you you've been accepted at Hogwarts school of witch craft and wizardry" Molly read her letter out loud.

"Hey cool, I've got my Hogsmeade permission slip" Billy stated.

"Let me sign that for you" Fleur stated getting out a quill and ink.

Meanwhile Percy was sitting at the table in his house reading the daily prophet. Roxanne was eating a bowl of cereal, and Penelope came in holding Lucy who was still sleeping. Penelope placed Lucy on one of the chairs at the table as Victorie and Dominique came in with their letters. Dominque, who had blonde hair, had just received her acceptance letter, and Victorie had just received her list of school supplies.

At the Potter house, Albus' friend Austin Bones had arrived for breakfast, having been invited the day before. Austin was the son of Susan bones and the younger brother of Amy. Like his mother and sister he had red hair and was in Hufflepuff, he was a second year to be exact. On his way in Austin had picked up the Hogwarts letters and gave them to James, Albus and Olivia.

"Um Mummy have you seen my jumper" Lily asked coming into the room in her bathrobe

"Hi Lily" Austin said. Lily looked at him wide eyed, thwn looked down and realized she only wearing a bathrobe, embarrassed she ran back out.

"She's definitely you're daughter" Harry commented to Ginny, remembering she had done the same when he was 12 and she was 11.

Lily came back down a few moments later wearing leggings and her jumper, which her grandma Weasley had made her. Once Lily was seated, Sirius served eggs to everyone. It was obvious to tell he wasn't used to not having a house elf.

"Don't forget kids, we're going over to the Dursley's for dinner, and I expect all of you to be wand free" Grandma Lily stated.

"Mum, it's really not necessary, they don't even like us" Harry pointed out.

"Petunia made plans for us to have a family gathering, so put on a smile" Grandma Lily sternly ordered.

Harry didn't know much about what the Dursley's were up to nowadays. Over the years he had received a couple of short letters. Harry knew Dudley had two teenage children, and that he was divorced. Besides that Harry didn't know anything, and he didn't care about going to a pointless family gathering.

However Grandma Lily had won, so at 4:00 that day after shopping in Diagon alley, the family headed to the Dursley's. Severus and Sirius weren't going, but to keep them from fighting, Severus decided to pay a visit to the Malfoy family. Sirius decided just to stay at the house since he had nothing else to do.

The Potter clang arrived at Privet Drive, yep the Dursley's had moved back in once Voldemort had been defeated. Petunia answered the door, and boy did the aging catch up with her. When she smiled at them Harry could see she was missing two bottom teeth. Petunia let them in and led them into the living room, which hadn't changed a bit.

Vernon, who had also aged badly, along with Dudley and two teenagers stood in a line in the living room. On their faces were the stupidest most obvious fake smiles Harry had even seen. They teenage boy resembled Dudley quite a bit, he was fat with brown hair. However the teenage girl was quite pretty, she had long brown hair and looked about average weight.

"Hi Harry" Dudley said holding out his hand.

"Hey Big D" Harry said in a kind of tease as he shook Dudley's hand.

"Oh it's just Dudley now" Dudley informed.

"Anyways this my son Dusty, he's 14" Dudley introduced the teen boy.

"This is my daughter Angel, she's 13" Dudley introduced the teen girl.

"Nice to meet you both, this is my oldest son James, he's 14" Harry introduced.

"This is our daughter Olivia, we adopted her two years ago, she's also 14" Ginny introduced.

"This is our youngest son Albus, he's 12" Harry introduced.

"And this is our youngest daughter Lily, She's 10" Ginny introduced.

"Children why don't you get to know each other, while Petunia shows us adults around" Grandma Lily suggested.

The children nodded and sat down on the living room furniture. Petunia, Vernon and Dudley gave the others a tour of the house starting with the kitchen. Although they had been told to leave their wands at home, James and Olivia had brought them for…emergencies.

"So I heard you four are witches and wizards" Dusty straight out said.

"Yes we are" Lily admitted.

"So how does that work then" Angel asked.

"Well, you can do some magic with just your hands but not much. When you're 11 and you get accepted at the magic school you get your very first wand" Albus explained.

"Alright, let's see some magic" Dusty stated.

"Sorry, but we're not allowed to use magic outside of school until we're 18" Olivia informed.

"Oh come on we won't tell anyone, just one little trick" Dusty begged.

Suddenly a fight broke out between Grandma Lily and Petunia, turns out grandma Lily had just learned Harry had slept in the cupboard under the stairs for the first 12 years of his life. Dusty and Angel continued to beg and James had enough. He whipped out his wand from his pocket and without saying anything casted a spell on his cousins.

Dusty and Angel screamed as they looked at each other, they both had donkey ears, pig noses and beaver tails. They raced to the mirror on the wall and screamed as they saw their faces. Due to the screaming the adults raced down to see what the problem was. Petunia, Vernon and Dudley started screaming as well when they saw them. Unfortunately James didn't put his wand away fast enough and was caught by his mother.

"JAMES SIRIUS POTTER WHAT HAVE YOU DONE, WHAT PART OF LEAVE YOUR WAND AT HOME DIDN'T YOU UNDERSTAND. YOU COULD GET EXPELLED FOR THAT, YOU'RE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE MR." Ginny snapped.

"Well they wanted to see us use magic" Albus stated.

"ALBUS DON'T START" Harry snapped at him.

"Alright nobody panic, I can reverse it no problem, and then we're leaving! I'm so sorry about this Petunia" grandma Lily stated.

"There's no need for you to leave, I'm not going to let some magic incident ruin this" Petunia stated.

"Well there's no need for all of us to stay, mum you stay here and catch up with your sister, the rest of us can leave" Harry decided taking the opportunity to escape.

The car ride home was very silent and tension was high. When they arrived home Ginny had the children stand in a line so she could check their pockets. Sirius who was in in the living room seemed amused when Harry explained what had happened. Ginny confiscated James's wand and Olivia's when Ginny found it in her pocket.

"James, Olivia, I'm very disappointed in you two, you seriously couldn't go without your wands for one dinner? You're both grounded for the rest of the month" Ginny decided. That's when Severus apparated back to the house covered in mud and leaves head to toe, there were braches sticking out of the top of his head.

"What happened to you" Harry asked trying not to laugh, unlike Grandpa James and Sirius who were both laughing historically.

"Apparently the Malfoy's and I are not on good terms" Severus stated.

"What happened" Harry asked again.

"You really don't want to know" Severus stated and headed towards the washroom.

"As for the rest of you, get ready for Dinner, we're heaving sandwiches" Ginny stated.

Later that night when Grandma Lily returned she informed everyone they were all invited to another family gathering the following August. No one except Grandma Lily were looking forward to making these family gatherings a summer tradition.