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Can You Make It To The End Challenge, Round 1 - Petunia Dursley
Special Isn't Everything
Petunia was happy once upon a time. Until that boy, and that letter, and the feeling of complete inadequacy swallowed her whole. Lily was special, Lily was magical, Lily was beautiful and intelligent and…
Why couldn't Petunia be the special one for once?
Why did Lily get beautiful red hair, while Petunia had limp brown?
Why did Lily get sparkling green eyes, while Petunia had average hazel?
Why did Lily get to go to a magic school, while Petunia stayed home and went to the ordinary school for ordinary people?
Why did Lily get to be special, while Petunia was normal and ordinary and dull?
But then Lily got herself killed. For all of her specialness, she was dead and Petunia wasn't. Normal, and boring and safe, Petunia would get to see her son grow up.
Jealousy still coursed through her whenever she thought about her younger sister, but running directly alongside it was a smugness that while Lily was special she was dead, and Petunia wasn't.
Perhaps special wasn't everything.