A/N: Can I tell how much I keep thinking 'Your friendly neighbourhood Spiderman' in my head when I read that title (which was totally unintentional). Anyways, on with the story: Arabella compares herself with young Harry Potter. RxR. FxF.
Prompt: One drabble must involve your given character in a platonic/familial relationship
Arabella would often watch the young Potter from her living room window, hiding in the shadows or behind the curtain so he would never notice. He was very thin and always had dark circles under his eyes. She would ask him about his home life, but he was very quiet, not offering much information and quickly changing the topic to something else. How she wished she could take him in her arms away from those Dursleys and show him all the wonders of the world he never knew.
She found it a bit ironic compared to her own life. He was a wizard being raised by muggles, while she was a squib who was raised by wizards. She knew magic all her life but was unable to partake, while he didn't know anything about it but one day would be expected to embrace it completely.
It was hard when she and her family found she was a squib. Her older and younger brothers had exhibited magical ability when they were both 5. Andrew had accidentally lit Mum's curtains on fire, while Adrian had levitated a cake Mum had put on the top of the highest shelf.
Arabella did none of that. Arabella did not show any signs. And once she passed the age of 8, they had given up all hope. She was a squib, a social pariah in the wizarding world. Her mother was disappointed and her father grew a little distant with her.
She remembered all the times she would cry over her inability. Why was she different? What was wrong with her?
But one night, her Mum came into her room as she was crying softly. With a comforting hand on her back, her Mum told her that she was special, she was rare. Although she was not magical, there was a different kind of magic inside of her. She had the magic of compassion and care, always looking out for others and doing things even those would magic never found it in their hearts to do. Arabella was strong and she could defend herself as well as any other magic user.
Though Arabella found a hard time believing it then, her mother's words comforted her and they followed her throughout her life. While her brothers went to Hogwarts, Arabella stayed home with her parents and embraced the muggle world. At the muggle schools she attended and working in the muggle, Arabella stood up for herself and those around her. Arabella used the magic in her own heart to care for others and help them in times of need. You didn't magic powers to be magical.
She saw that same magic in the quiet young boy living with the Dursleys. She saw how polite and caring he was to her and others despite the abuse shown by his relatives for his kind. He would be even stronger than she was, and other wizards of his time, for he was very magical - he had magical powers and he had the magic of heart.