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Chapter 2
Meetings

Dudley's pov

Once the doorbell rang I knew it was Harry. Part of me was excited to see my cousin but the other half was on edge. I thought Harry would hate my whole family for the rest of our lives, but here he was, sending wedding invitations.

I robotically went over to the door and opened it and there he was, leaning on the doorframe with a mischievous glint in his eyes.

Once he saw me, he straightened out and stuck out his hand smiling.

"Dudley" He greeted.

I took his hand, while saying "Harry, come in."

He stepped in and I lead him to the sitting room were Elise was, looking anxious.

"Harry, this is my wife Elise" I introduced "And Elise, this is my cousin Harry"

Harry stuck his hand out again, and Elise shook it with a warm "Nice to meet you Harry" and seeing the look of contemplation on his face she added "And Dudley has told me about you."

He smiled and said "Good, that will make things a lot easier this weekend, and it's a pleasure to meet you too Elise."

The he clapped his hands together and said "We should be going now, everyone's out and I wouldn't want you to be smothered the minute you walk in."

"How many people are there going to be?" I questioned

"Oh, there will be quite a few at the actual wedding; they're calling it the 'wedding of the century' in the wizarding world. But at the house there will be less, still a lot but less than there will be at the wedding."

"Ah" Is the only thing I had to say, making a mental note to ask somebody why his wedding is going to be the best in a century when we got to wherever we were going.

"Yes, well do you have all your bags packed?" He asked.

Elise nodded her head, and looked out the window "How are we getting there? I don't see a car."

Harry shook his head and said "We wont be traveling by car" then added "if you could just get your bags, then we will be on our way"

Once we got our bags Harry stuck out both his arms.

"You're going to want to hold on tightly" he said.

Elise and I gave him a confused look and he continued "We'll be apparating, mind yourselves it feels like your going through a tube."

We nodded our heads and grabbed a hold of his arms, and the last thing I saw was Harry winking at me.


I felt sick. It really did feel as if I was stuffed down a tube. When my feet hit the ground I thought my knees were going to give in, but I still had a death grip on my cousin's arm, who looked rather uncomfortable with having two people cut off his circulation.

Once me and Elise let go, he sighed and said "There you have it, apparating." And started up a dirt path with my wife and I on this trail.

Once the house came into view I automatically wondered how it stayed stable. I saw Elise look around with interest, as she saw the chickens, unkempt grass, and what looked like a potato with arms and legs.

Harry following our gaze, looked at the creature a minute before saying "Garden Gnomes, vicious little beasts they are." And he started up the path again.

Once we were close to the doorway, it opened and something bolted and knocked Harry to the hard ground.

I saw clearly that it was a little girl about 5 or 6 years of age. She was on top of Harry, and smiling a bright smile down on him. Harry groaned and the girl spoke.

"Hi, Uncle Harry." She spoke in a clear voice.

Harry gently pushed her off him, and stood up wincing slightly. He looked down at the girl and smiled "And who might you be?" He asked with mock curiosity, to me I knew he was joking, but to a little girl I can see how she would be either distraught or confused at this as she obviously knew him.

But this girl knew better, she giggled and said as if it were very obvious "You know who I am Uncle Harry."

But Harry still had the look of innocent confusion on his face "Hmmm, I don't seem to remember, would you be so kind as to tell me your name?"

She giggled and curtseyed her white summer dress and said "Jesse Parker"

Then another person came through the same door, though she looked the same age as Harry and was very pretty. But right now she had worried written across her face.

Once she came closer I had a familiar jolt when I saw her eyes; as much of a sea green color as they were when she was 11.

As she saw the girl with Harry, she let a breath out and Harry chuckled "Worried 'Lane?"

Her eyes flashed at Harry "You never know, you especially should be more careful." Then she turned to the girl Jesse a glance,

"And you" she shrilled "You know better than to run off" Jesse got wide eyed then looked down and stepped forward to the woman and reached for her hand.

She smiled softly and clasped the younger girls hand, and then looked up to see Elise and I giving her an odd look, I was pretty sure she was thinking the same thing I was; was this her daughter? She did look like her but I noticed a sad look go across her face when she looked into the little girls eyes.

She met my eyes, and still with Jesse holding one hand she stepped forward "I'm sure you don't remember me…"

I shook my head "I remember you, with the two sisters who predicted something bad was going to happen moments before a snake was set loose in the reptile house when we were 11."

She gaped at me "How did you remember that?"

Harry chuckled at her "So the twins were like that even then?"

"Yes" she said exasperated "You weren't the only Parslemouth. I could understand how it was feeling, having its cage smashed on. And I'm pretty sure the twins just wanted to scare them."

"Yes, my mother was mortified at seeing you lot there for some reason." I said, confused at the statement parslemouth. I saw the look on her face change to a hard one, Harry sensing the uneasiness in the air moved on to a new topic.

"We weren't expecting you until tonight. Is it just you two here?"

She regained her composure and shook her head "No its us two plus Evie and Luke."

She then noticed Elise and stepped forward "I'm sorry, I don't think we've been introduced; I'm Elaine Wise, and this is Jesse." She shook her hand.

"Nice to meet you I'm Elise, Dudley's wife"

"Well let's go inside, while the boys talk." Elaine suggested, as Jesse tugged on her hand. Elise nodded.

I looked at Harry hoping for some kind of explanation, but he just shook his head,

"If you don't want to have another pigs tail, then I wouldn't bring it up to Elaine or any of her sisters."

There was a pop and two girls who looked about 3 years older than me appeared out of nowhere and clasped onto Harry's shoulder.

"Because we know everything." They said at the same time, in a mocking tone.

Harry jumped about an three inches in the air and he turned to see the two girls laughing at him.

"Oh Harry…" one started

"That really never does get old." The second one finished wiping a fake tear from her face.

The two strangely reminded me of someone else from when Harry went to school.

"Yes hilarious" Harry said to the two, then turned to me "Dudley, these are Lexi and Lorraine, Elaine's obviously twin sisters."

"I remember you from when you were like-what eleven?" One of them said turning to the other, who was nodding in agreement.

"How do you know who I am?" I asked one or the other one, confused at who was who.

The one who remembered me laughed "I'm Lorraine, this ones Lexi" she gestured to her sister.

"And we were the ones that came up to you and your mum while she was talking to our other sister, and said that something bad was going to happen." Lexi started

"And then two minutes after we left, a boa constrictor got loose, and you got stick in it's cage." Lorraine finished, laughing again

"Yes, well if you're here I'm almost positive everyone else will be here soon." Harry said, and we all went to the, what looked like kitchen door.

Once we got in to the house, I saw that a lot more people got there and I saw the twins head over to one area of the house, completely unfazed at how crowded it was. I looked over to Harry, to see him searching for something, then caught my eye and smiled slightly.

I went to look for Elise and found her talking with Elaine and a girl who looked about 18 years old, and had three long scars from her cheekbone to above her collarbone. Elise saw me and waved me over causing the other two women to turn. I walked over, once I was in there little circle Elise jumped into explanation

"Dudley, this is Elaine's sister Evie" I looked at the girl, and the light illuminated her scars even more.

She must have caught me staring and stepped forward and I saw Elaine shift her feet uneasily "They're from a werewolf" she said staring straight into my eyes, and I saw that she had light brown eyes, and what was left of a once flawless face.

"A-a We-werewolf. They exist?" I asked suddenly fearful of the girl.

She laughed a humorless laugh "Yes they exist! Even ask Bill. Bill!" She yelled over to a red haired man that was standing with a blonde woman and a blonde toddler that was probably his daughter.

He came over and I saw that he had about 4 or 5 scars running down his cheek and neck.

"Bill we're having a little werewolf intervention over here." Evie said excitedly, Bill looked at me

"Have you told him all the gruesome details too Evie?" He asked her sarcastically

Evie just rolled her eyes "Fine go" and he left

"But not all werewolves are bad. Roxanne!" She called to yet another person, and I feared for seeing how many of these people had scars. I turned to look at Elise to see how she was taking this but I noticed she had went over to more of the family.

Then another person came over, and it was an older woman who looked like she hadn't slept in two days.

"See, werewolves like these I love." Evie stated, hugging the woman who rolled her eyes.

"You're a werewolf?" I asked her

"Yes"

"An-and you're here? Isn't that dangerous?"

"Ask me how dangerous I am tonight, then be with me next full moon."

And with that she walked away.

From just the people I had met today I knew it was going to be a long week.

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