Aunt Petunia
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(A/N) This was going to be a one shot but someone wanted to read more and I thought why not so Harry and his Aunt are going to have a talk in Little Whinging. Enjoy.
The next day Kingsley told Harry the Dursleys were back at 4 Privet Drive and Aunt Petunia wanted to talk with him so he called her on a Muggle telephone.
Dudley answered and got Aunt Petunia.
"Hello, Harry, could we chat at the Cafe in Little Whinging? The one by the playground?" asked Aunt Petunia. "I want to talk to you alone."
"Sure!" said Harry. "How was hiding?"
"Hestia and Dedalus tried to be sweet to us. I came around after a few days, Dudley was listening to Potterwatch with Dedalus. Vernon was kind of a hard head. He warmed up toward the end. Dudley was reading about Severus Snape in a book. I blew up at Dudley and threw the book and Hestia repaired in."
"Aunt Petunia we'll talk about it at the Cafe! I will come!" said Harry.
"You're not mad are you?" asked aunt Petunia.
"No way," said Harry, "but I've just been handed and extra piece of work so I need to go."
It was a lie but he need to get Aunt Petunia off the telephone. He had accidentally lead her into talking about wizards. He had enough Muggle street sense to know someone could be listening. He thought of Mad Eye's "Constant vigilance!" as he walked away from the telephone.
Then he thought of how the wizard he thought was Mad Eye had actually been Barty Crouch Jr. Barty could have taught NEWT level Defense Against the Dark Arts. Barty had wasted his life on the Death Eaters and been kissed by a Dementor. Barty had grown up with very little love. He'd turned to the Death Eaters Voldemort had destroyed him.
A few days later Harry put on nice Muggle clothes and went to the café in Little Whinging. He sat down to tea with Aunt Petunia. He cast silencing Charms around them.
"Lily always used to do that when we talked about her world," said Aunt Petunia and smiled. "I was a terrible step mother and I'm sorry."
"I do appreciate that but it's spilt potion," said Harry.
"That's where your wrong, Harry. It is not split potion or water under the bridge. I made mistakes and I don't want you to ever repeat them. You know how it hurt you. Promise me that you will love every child that comes to your household even if that child is a Muggle, a Squib or some Death Eater's kid."
"I will," said Harry and tears ran down his face. Aunt Petunia wiped his eyes as he cried.
"There is nothing to be ashamed of Harry," sobbed Petunia "Lily I'm so sorry!"
Putunia sobbed for a minute.
"Aunt Petunia tell me what happened while you were in hiding," said Harry.
"I started out with all of us feeling lost and in a strange world. Dudley missed the TV but soon he started to read books. One time he was reading a potions book and ran into an article about Severus Snape. I noticed it and threw the book. Hestia repaired it. I told her I was sorry and explained my problems with Severus. He was a bit rowdy. We all grew up in Cokeworth. Severus lived down on Spinner's End a place with a poor reputation. He did his best to explain to Lily she was a witch and he was a wizard. Lily was at first shocked and then fascinated," said Petunia.
"Severus could by an annoying boy. He was neglected like you and was a powerful little wizard. I wanted to go to Hogwarts, too. I was told I couldn't do the coarse work. It made me very angry. I was horrible to Lily. I was glad when she dumped Severus. I did not like your father but oh how I hated Severus! He became a Death Eater didn't he?" asked Petunia.
"For a short time," said Harry. "When he found out that my parents were marked for death he contacted Professor Dumbledore and had they went into hiding. Severus pretended to be a Death Eater right up to the night he died," said Harry. "While he was alive I hated him. It was part of his cover I suppose."
"So anyway what happened after Dudley had the book taken away?" asked Harry.
"Eventually I let him read it again. It went on past Snape and described potions that could be made without the use of magic. Dudley made some of them. It kept him out of trouble as they were harmless. He and Dedalus kept listening to that confounded wireless. I listened a few times."
"During the Battle of Hogwarts Potterwatch came on without a password. I heard you it as you were planning in the Great Hall on to the Death of Voldemort. We all thought you were dead and I remember Neville Longbottom's speech. We were crying like kids, even Vernon. Neville's speech gave us some courage. Then when you turned out to be alive we all got very excited."
"I was scared Molly was going to get it. We were glad when Bellatrix was dead. I heard Voldemort's last struggle. Then it was over. Most of us Muggles never knew it. We were kept in hiding a few weeks more."
"Your godfather would have been proud. I can remember when he escaped and it was on our television. I knew who Black was and like the wizards thought he had betrayed your parents," said Petunia.
Harry brought out copies of the letters Sirius had written in Azkaban.
"These are photocopies made to look like parchment. Each letter is on file at the Ministry of Magic," said Harry "When I was six some Death Eaters tried to enter your house but they couldn't. The local police arrested them and they ended up thrown into Azkaban. It's in Sirius's second letter. Were you aware of it?"
"Yes," said Petunia, "I saw them and Vernon called the police. We watched them carted away. We put in stronger locks. The police said they could not understand how they weren't able to get in. I explained to Vernon what they were. I explained we were safe. He felt scared for several days."
"Dumbledore did visit the winter after you came when I was alone with you and Dudley. He explained the old magic. I wish he'd have told me how to call the Accidental Magic reversal Squad. When Marge was put right I finally found out how. I made Minister Fudge tell me."
"Did you get them after Arthur was there?" asked Harry.
"I didn't need to, Arthur fixed everything, including Dudley, walked out on the lawn and disappeared with a crack. I knew what had happened because Lily did it a few times," said Petunia.
"So what happened after it was over?" asked Aunt Petunia.
"I crept to my dorm and fell asleep," said Harry. "I was going to go to the Burrow, the Weasley home, over the summer and go back to school on September first," said Harry.
"Our new Minister of Magic called me in after a few days and asked me to become an Aurora immediately. When I said yes he handed me my uniform. I was to put it on right away. I went back to Gryffindor tower and a little later I arrested Pansy Parkinson and Gregory Goyle. Each got a short Azkaban sentence. I took them there. The Dementors have been permanently sacked. They're not being tormented by them."
"Pansy made a fuss but Goyle was quiet. Because they are barely overage they got light sentences. Pansy was the girl who yelled for everyone to seize me and hand me over to Voldemort. Goyle was delighting in torturing students for Amycus Carrow."
"Who's Amycus?" asked Petunia.
"One of our favorite Death Eaters to hate. He spit in Professor McGonagall's face and I gave him a hard Cruciatus Curse. He rose up into the air. Professor McGonagall used magic to tie him up," He spent the Battle of Hogwarts tied up in Ravenclaw Towers and then he went to Azkaban!" said Harry.
"Harry, you didn't use an Unforgivable?" exclaimed Aunt Petunia.
"Aunt Petunia what we went through was all out war. I did what I had to do!" said Harry.
Harry was a bit surprized at Aunt Petunia's reaction to his use of the Cruciatus Curse. He could see Uncle Vernon and Dudley coming. He let down the silencing charms.
"Potter! I've got you now!" said Uncle Vernon in mock rage. "Why don't we go to the house and talk a while?"
What are you doing asked Vernon on the way to his house.
Harry took out his Auror badge. "I arrest Death Eaters and other wizarding criminals. I'm an Auror, a real one."
"So you're a cop!" said Dudley. "If you ever need me call this number. It's the Grangers. They're Muggles like you but their daughter, Hermione, is like me. As soon as she finishes school, she will go to work for the Ministry."
They entered 4 Privet Drive Everything was the same as when they left except Aunt Petunia was replanting much of her garden.
