IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY

By: PhoenixStAr

(Challenge: #218 – Battle)

It was a battle Dudley never wanted.

It started when pudgy one-year-old Vernon gnawed on Grandmum's pearl necklace during a visit to Grandmum and Pop-pop's. When Pop-pop snatched it away and gave him a syrupy disapproval, Vernon set off a red-faced bawl. In a flash, the necklace burst on its own accord and the pearls scattered, floating in the air.

Grandmum gasped, "Freak!" and Pop-pop puffed, "We'll fix him like that Potter boy."

Dudley stared and picked up his son. "No, no you won't."

Ten years later, when Vernon Harry Dursley was sorted into Gryffindor, Harry Potter nearly died laughing.