Chapter 2

Author's note: This chapter mentions child abandonment.

A week later, Darius and Petunia pulled up in front of Number Four, Privet Drive, in Surrey. Along with the house, Petunia had also inherited her father's station wagon, and Darius had gotten his driver's license.

Darius got out and went around to the passenger's side and helped his wife out of the car. David hopped down from the backseat, to join his parents.

They all stared at the four bedroom house. They walked inside. David looked around the house with wide eyes. It looked better than their house on Spinner's End.

Darius smiled at his son and said, "Why don't you go pick a room, kiddo?"

"OK," said David. Then, he ran up the stairs.

Petunia giggled. Then, the doorbell rang. Darius went to answer it. He opened the door to find the rest of their family standing there. Lily came in with James, followed by Severus and Rachel. James was carrying his daughter, Emily, and their son, Harry, was clinging to his mother's hand; and Severus was carrying his daughter, Resae, and Rachel was carrying their son, Jack.

"Hi, Tuney," said Lily.

"Hi, Lil," said Petunia.

"Auntie Tuney? Where's Davie?' asked Harry.

"He's upstairs, sweety," said Petunia.

Harry ran up the stairs in search of his cousin.

Lily and Petunia looked around the house, remembering the times they spent here, growing up, during the holidays. Some of the times, after Lily and Severus' fifth year at Hogwarts, Petunia and Lily had even been joined by Darius and Severus, during the time after their mother, Eileen Snape, had passed away, and their father, Tobias Snape, was arrested for nearly killing Severus. The Evans' had looked after them and treated them as part of the family.

After they were all finished looking around the house, Darius called David and Harry to come downstairs.

The boys came running down. Darius and Petunia would be moving things in the next day. More like, Darius, James, Lily, and Severus would be doing the moving, while Petunia would have the children at the daycare center, and Rachel would be visiting her best friend, Luna Tonks. None of the men, or Lily, would allow either of the pregnant women to help.

As they all made their way outside, they heard a child crying. They looked towards the house next door and saw a little girl standing there, with her parents standing in front of her.

"I d...didn't m...mean to," the girl cried. The grass in the yard had been turned a bright pink.

"How did you manage to turn the whole yard pink?' said her father, sounding exasperated.

"I don't know," she cried. "It just happened!"

Darius, Severus, James, and Lily all looked at each other. They were pretty sure the child had done accidental magic.

Lily walked over to the family and said, "Hi. I'm Lily Potter. My sister just inherited our grandmother's house, next door."

"Hi. I'm Charlotte Summerson, and this is my husband, Drew," said the woman.

Lily looked around at the pink grass. "I see you have a small problem here," she said.

"I don't know how she did it," said Drew Summerson. He was a slim man, with short brown hair and round glasses. His wife had shoulder length blonde hair and blue eyes, and the little girl had black hair that went past her shoulders, and hazel eyes that were shimmering with tears.

"I do," said Lily, looking back at them, smiling. "Your daughter is very special."

"Foster daughter, actually," said Charlotte. She bent down and picked up the small girl. The girl layed her head on Charlotte's shoulder. "She was left by her parents and was brought to us. If her parents don't come back and claim her, then we mean to adopt her."

"I see," said Lily. "What's her name?"

"Mary Beth," siad Charlotte. "She's six."

Lily smiled. "Well, I can explain how she can do things without meaning to. This might be hard to believe, but Mary Beth is a witch."

The Summersons gaped at her. Lily continued. "What she does is accendental magic. And, by her reaction, this isn't the first time something like this happened. Is that right, sweety?"

Mary Beth nodded. "One time, I made my stuffed bunny fly around my room. My mummy came in and started yelling at me. Then, she ripped up my favorite bunny."

Lily nodded. Then, she said to Charlotte, "Mary Beth here, is like me. We're what wizards call muggleborns. We're the first in our families who have magical powers. You and your husband are what we call, muggles, nonmagic folk. My sister, Petunia, is also a muggle." She gestered at her sister, who was still standing in the driveway next door, then at the three men. "Her husband, Darius, and his brother, Severus, are half-bloods. Their father was a muggle, and their mother was a pure-blood witch. And, my husband, James, is also a pure-blood."

"What about that woman with dark skin, standing with them?" Charlotte asked.

Lily said, "That's Severus' wife, Rachel. She's not a witch. There's this forest, called the Mystic Forest. There are five villages in it. Two of them are indian tribes, the Ocean Rain Indians, and the Canazian Indians, one is a harpy village, one is called Milano Village, which is full of normal people, and the last one is the dragon village, home of the dragon shifters, which is in the Mystic Mountains. Dragon shifters are people who can change at will into dragons. Rachel is from the Ocean Rain Village. The indians have their own brand of magic."

Drew and Charlotte looked at each other. Drew said, "This is a lot to take in."

Lily smiled and said, "It was a lot for my parents to take in too, at first. Severus is the one who told me when we were nine, when he saw me do magic. There is also a school young witches and wizards go to, when they turn eleven, to learn how to control their magic. Its called Hogwarts."

Drew said, "I'm not sure we can believe any of this."

Lily smiled again, and drew out her wand. She waved it over the pink grass and said, "Finite Incantatum." The grass turned back to green.

Drew and Charlotte gasped, and Mary Beth said, "Wow!"

Lily put away her wand and said, "Our children will also be going to Hogwarts. Mary Beth would be in the same year as two of ours." She turned around and said, "Boys? Come here, please."

Harry and David ran to her. Lily smiled at them. "This is my son, Harry, and my nephew, David. They are also six."

Charlotte sat Mary Beth down on her feet.

"Hi," said Harry.

"Hi," said Mary Beth, shyly.

Lily said, "You know, my friend, Abby, owns a daycare center. She has wizard kids from one to seven going there. My sister works there. she could take Mary Beth with her, if you want. So, she can get to know kids just like her, that she'd be going to school with."

"Alright. That would be nice," said Charlotte.

"Where is the daycare center at?" Drew asked.

"It's in a place called Diagon Alley. It's where witches and wizards go to do their shopping. It's also where you would go to get Mary Beth's school supplies, when she starts at Hogwarts," Lily explained.

Charlotte nodded and said, "Thanks for explaining this to us. Mind you, its still shocking to find out that things like this exsists."

"No problem," said Lily. "Now, we must be going."

"Alright. Thank you again," said Drew.

Lily nodded and said, "Come along, boys."

They rejoined the rest of their family, and the Potters and Snapes all went their seperate ways home.