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A Very Unexpected Letter
Chapter One
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Dudley Dursley gazed down at the neat, straight to-the-point letter he held in his hand, utter shock written all over his pale, chubby face. His hands were shaking; his legs felt as thought they were going to collapse beneath him; and droplets of sweat were starting to trickle away down the back of his neck. He could not believe what he was seeing.
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Dudley numbly stumbled over to the kitchen and dropped the letter on the worktop, sitting himself down onto a stool next to it. His wife took one look at him and dropped the cloth she was cleaning the dishes with and ran to his side.
"Dudley, what's wrong?" She asked.
Dudley muttered useless words until he finally gave up and pointed to the letter on the counter. His wife, whose name was Emily, warily picked up the letter in her tiny, delicate hands and proceeded to read it aloud,
"Dear Mr and Mrs Dursley," she read. "We are delighted to inform you that your son, Rodney Jack Dursley, has been accepted into Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
She paused and frowned at the letter.
"We never entered him for a school called Hogwarts," she said, confused.
"Just carry on," Dudley croaked.
"As Mr Dursley is of a Muggle-born descent, a teacher from Hogwarts or a Ministry of Magic official will be sent tomorrow at precisely eleven in the morning. Everything will be explained thoroughly. Mary Lamb, Deputy Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry."
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It was half an hour after the opening of that fateful letter that Dudley and Emily were sat in the living room. Emily was gaping at Dudley, completely flabbergasted.
"Your cousin, Harry Potter, the one with black hair and glasses who came to our wedding, is…is…" she whispered.
Dudley nodded weakly.
"That's why dear Rodders has been doing weird stuff all these years?"
Dudley nodded again.
"You knew?" Emily demanded.
"I guessed. I hoped I was wrong," Dudley said hoarsely.
"Why? This is brilliant!" Emily declared.
Dudley stared at his wife as though she had just sprouted fangs.
"Rodney has never fitted in here. You know that. Now he'll finally get a chance at this Hogwarts place."
Dudley closed his eyes. This was not, could not, be happening. How could his wife even agree with this? He had been brought up to believe that magic was evil. He had spent half his childhood trying to squash the magic out of his cousin and now his own son had been landed with the 'supernatural' gene. It was altogether too much to take in and Dudley closed his eyes and tried to block out his wife's ramblings. This was not possible. She kept asking him questions.
"Women," he muttered angrily.
He just prayed that this was nothing more than a really, really bad dream.
A/N Hope you enjoyed it! I know it was really short and the next one will definitely be longer.
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