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Time to face the reality
There in the shadows stood a little girl looking at her parents arguing with her grandparents. It was a strange sight for her as she had never seen them, her dear beloved family argue before .And here they were screaming their lungs out at each other .It was frightening her, not the fact that they were arguing because her mum had always said a little friendly argument and disagreement is always healthy for a family because it keeps things interesting it was what they were arguing about that frightened her.
She was scared that this would not end on a happy note. And most of all she was scared of the fact that it was all her fault.
Her grandpa was saying, "She is a freak A freak in our family it is just unacceptable"
Her grandmother was stuttering and muttering from the shock of what had happened.
Her mother was screaming at her dad for not telling her that he knew, all the strange things surrounding their daughter were magic.
Her dad was asking her to let him explain to her his reason for not telling her such an important fact about their daughter. He was saying that he himself wasn't sure of it and he was afraid that she might think he was crazy or worse yet, that she might be afraid of what their daughter can do, just as his parents were afraid of what his cousin was capable of doing.
Yes, her being a witch was the reason the perfectly normal family was arguing
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Earlier today she had received a letter addressed to her in heavy yellow parchment,
Ms. Caroline Dursley
2nd bedroom
No. 5 Privet drive
Little Whinging
Surrey
Hogwarts school of witchcraft & wizardry
Head Master Filius Flitwick
Order of Merlin First class, Grand sorcerer
Dear Miss Dursley,
We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted to Hogwarts school witchcraft and wizardry to study amongst the finest wizards and witches of your time. The term starts on the 1st of September. We await your reply owl.
Sincerely,
Deputy headmaster
N. Longbottom
Note -Enclosed is a list of all the necessary books and school equipments.
Along with this letter had come a woman with bushy hair who had introduced herself as Hermione Weasley and said that she is a friend of her dad's cousin and that his cousin had thought it advisable that she be the one to deliver the letter instead of a school representative which is normally the procedure for she has some idea of what reaction his uncle and aunt and cousin might have to this particular bit of information then she explained to her parents that their daughter was a witch just like her. To which her father had responded that he had a suspicion that this might indeed be the case and to which her mother had said nice try but this is not going to work on me. With this the woman had pulled out a stick which she called a wand to which her father had reacted please do not curse us and her mother had just laughed and the woman had turned her mother's favourite chair into a dog who had done a lap of the room and was turned back again into a chair.
Seeing her chair turned into a dog her mother had used a very inappropriate word and her father had exclaimed wow.
After this the woman had said that she works at the ministry of magic and it is the ministry that detects underage sorcerers and informs the school of muggle borns and then it is the school that contacts the muggles that is non magical people about their childs ability and that the school in question was the same school that her dad's cousin used to go to and it is very unwise to try and suppress Caroline's gift and that they should embrace it to make her feel happy and accepted something that Caroline's grandparents could not do with their nephew. She also warned them that trying to suppress magic can turn the magic inwards and that is dangerous for the subjects as well as those around them. With that she got up and bid them goodbye and also said that he will come here tomorrow. Harry Potter her dad's cousin to take their daughter to Diagon alley to get her school supplies and he hopes that this matter will be completely solved by then. And that they will not repeat the same mistake as Dudley's parents.
Suddenly Caroline was snapped out of her reverie by her older brother who told her to go to her room. Who, then went to her granddad and punched him in the stomach and said no one calls his sister a freak and gets away with it.
Daniel punching his grandfather had finally brought an end to all the other arguments and distractions. Samantha Dursley after registering what had happened screamed at her son to go up to his room. To which he replied, "he called Carol a freak in case you did not notice" to which she said that we don't punch others no matter how good the reason is except perhaps in self defense.
Then at the same time Dudley turned to his father and said he is right you know, I suggest you leave but before you do that apologize to my daughter and it better be a good sincere apology.
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Up in his room Daniel started to remember the events of the day. He was at his grandparents when he had heard his mother shouting and that his grandparents had heard it too and wanted to find out what was happening so with the pretence of dropping him at home they had decided to come over to his dad's place which is technically next doors .And that it was his sister who had answered and that she was all excited when she showed him a weird prank letter and that after seeing this letter his grand mother had fainted and his granddad had screamed not again.
After this outburst his parents had come skidding into the room and that his dad had carried his grandmother to the sofa and his mum had collapsed into her favourite chair which was not in its usual place by the fire.
After that a huge explosion had occurred his grandfather had screamed that we are not going to tolerate this and that we will stamp it out of her don't worry son it will be alright at these words his gran gran had started to stir
And his mother had exclaimed stamp it out what does he mean stamp it out Dudley what does he mean, at this his father had given his own father a very cold look and turned to his own wife to say, "he doesn't mean it that is he wouldn't dare for I will not let him"
Then his dad had turned to Vernon Dursley and said "I don't live under your roof so you have no right to dictate what will and will not be allowed in my house. No, not any more. I will not let you treat her the way you treated Harry, and if she wishes she will go to Hogwarts and learn to control her magic properly and also to perform spells, to tell you the truth I do not mind in the least for as I recall it can come in handy many times for example when Harry saved my life ---"
"Wait a moment" his mother had cut his dad off "that woman was telling the truth, this Harry he really is your cousin I thought she was mistaken or something, I thought that when you said that you had a suspicion you were being sarcastic and when you didn't contradict her I thought you were in shock, but you really did have a magical cousin and you never told me. We are married we are not supposed to have any secrets remember"
That's when his granddad had called his sister a freak and danny had noticed the colour drain out of his sister's face that is when he had decided to teach his grandfather manners which as danny had noticed he certainly lacked.
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While downstairs Petunia Dursley was now back on her feet and even though she had been left speechless for a while by the shock of learning that finally her family had gained the special genes that her sister and nephew had, genes that she was so jealous of that she had called her sister a freak and treated her nephew like dirt.
She turned to her husband and said "Vernon let it go, its time to face the reality she has magic in her blood and no matter what we do its not going any where"
At these words Vernon Dursley's purple face suddenly turned pale. He was left opening and closing his mouth gaping at his wife as if he had been hit by an invisible hammer.
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