Such Sweet Sorrow
As Famous playwright, William Shakespeare once said, parting is such sweet sorrow. It took over thirty years for Petunia Dursley to realize that those words were true.
When Lily Evans had first gotten the letter accepting her to Hogwarts, petunia had been happy for her younger sister. But when she had learned that she couldn't to this so-called wonderful school she had become jealous of Lily and that was the first time the siblings parted. She spent the holidays ignoring Lily and not admitting that magic existed.
Lily had sent Petunia an invitation to her wedding to James Potter but she had just thrown it away. And when Lily had sent her a letter telling her about her newborn son she had barely spared a glance at the neat handwriting before tossing it away with the passing thought that Harry was a horribly common name. Nothing like her precious Dudley.
The morning of November the first, 1981 was the second time the sisters were parted, this time with no chance to ever bridge the gap that had formed.
But it wasn't until sixteen years later that Petunia Dursley learned the meaning of Shakespeare's words. Her nephew, Harry, the only remainder of her younger sister was about to leave, and she was sure she wouldn't see him again. She wanted to just leave, not more then one word of goodbye but at the door she paused and looked back that the lonely boy she had spent years all but ignoring.
And for one moment she saw Lily staring back at her and a flood of emotions opened up inside the woman. She wanted to apologize to Harry but the words stuck in her throat and she couldn't make a sound. She tore her gaze from those bright green eyes. She turned around and left, this time parting with the only left of her sister. But somewhere in those green depths she had seen understanding and knew that –somehow- Lily had forgiven her.
FIN.
A/N: I wrote this before I watched the Seventh movie, hoping that I wouldn't have to post it to get across what I felt was done so well in the books. I think that the book made it seem more...more of a close to what we learn later on about the two Nee Evans. I wished they had done this scene so much better in the movie and given the proper chance to Petunia.
