Harry and Draco finished up early and decided to go home. There was nothing more to do. Everything had been fairly quiet since Voldemort's downfall. Harry considered it a blessing, while Draco felt relief. He wouldn't be able to handle it if something terrible happened, and everyone blamed him. He just couldn't.
Harry and Draco ventured home, not before stopping at the Leaky Cauldron for two butter beers. Draco noticed a car parked on the side of their lawn as they returned to their house. It wasn't any car he recognized. There was a man sitting inside the car with a child in the backseat. As Harry pulled into the driveway, the man and the child stepped out of the car and walked up to them. Draco quickly stepped out of the car as they approached.
The man was pudgy. Not overly fat, but still had a couple pockets of flubber. He wore a pair of dark jeans and a red tee-shirt. The child was a little girl, no older than eleven. She wore a bright blue dress. Her bright blonde hair was a few shades darker than Draco's platinum blonde.
Harry, seemed to know these people. "Dudley." Harry spoke.
"Harry." The man, Dudley, stated. "First off, I want to say I'm sorry for the way I treated you."
Draco's first though was, What the fuck did this man do to Harry?! His second thought was, Who is this man?!
Harry responded, saying. "We were children. Uncle Vernon put it into your brain that I was no good. I like to believe we would have been great cousins had he not have been so prejudiced against me."
Cousins? Draco thought. He breathed a sigh of relief. He was still concerned about what happened to Harry as a child, though.
Harry looked to Draco. "Oh, Dudley. This is Draco Malfoy. We've been dating for the past year." The man just nods with a look of confusion.
"Is this the same boy you said always bullied your friends?" Draco's face flushed while Harry chuckled.
"Yeah. We were kids, teenagers. We didn't know any better." Harry started to walk to the door and said, "Come on in, and then you can explain why you've come." So they went inside. Draco set his briefcase down on the hall tree bench and hung his coat on one of the hooks. Harry just threw his stuff onto the couch. "You two can sit down." Harry looked at the little girl. "What's your name little one?"
"R-Rivera." She stuttered shyly. Harry just smiled.
"Would you like some chocolate milk?" He asked. Rivera nodded. Harry smiled and went to fix her up the drink. "So, Dudley. Is she your daughter?"
Dudley nodded. "She's not my biological daughter though. I met her mother when she was a baby. Her mom was single and we started dating. We eventually got married and then I adopted Rivera. She grew up as my daughter. Colleen, my wife, recently passed. I don't know who else to turn too, seeing as you are the only person I know who can help."
Harry scrunched his brows in confusion while handing Rivera her drink. Draco took a seat on the other side of the room in a recliner, interested in the conversation. "What do you mean?"
Dudley pulled out a piece of cream colored paper that made Draco and Harry hold their breath. "We received this in the mail a few weeks ago. It took me awhile to find you." He held the paper out to Harry, who took it into his hands. Draco leaned over to look and see if his suspicions were correct. They were.
Rivera had received a Hogwarts letter.
Harry was standing, staring in open mouthed shock at the paper. "Wow. I mean, um… Just wow. What are you gonna do?"
Dudley gave a small smile and shook his head. "I'm gonna send her. I can't let her not go. Her magic will seep through like yours did. My problem is, I don't know where to get any of this stuff on the supply list. I know you wizards use a completely different currency than us, and I don't have any of it!" He covered his face with his hands and muttered. "I don't know what to do, and I'm begging you for your help."
With that, the front door unlocked with a sharp click. The door opened and three boys plus a young girl ran inside. Ginny stepped through the door and waved. "Hey! I brought them back. Scorpius was wonderful Draco. He never complained." Scorpius had a sleepover with Albus over the weekend, and Ginny offered to bring him back. Ginny made her way over to Harry and Draco. She gave Harry a friendly side hug and pat Draco on the shoulder. She turned to Dudley and Rivera. "Who are your guests?"
From a few rooms over, Harry heard Lily scream, "Albus! Give it back!"
Harry sighed. "Albus! What did you take?"
"I was showing Scorpius Lily's acceptance letter!" Albus shouted back. "There! I gave it back!"
Harry laughed feebly and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Dudley, be happy you only have one. I have three and Draco has one. Ginny, this is my cousin Dudley and his daughter Rivera. Rivera just got a Hogwarts letter."
Ginny seemed surprised, but she didn't question it. "Interesting. You guys can probably tag along when we go school shopping." She moved to the fridge and pulled off three separate supply lists. "Rivera and Lily's supply lists should be the same. Some of these things James and Albus used to have. Scorpius should also have some of these things. Of course there are new books required." Ginny casted Draco and Harry a glare. "New books for Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts classes." Harry coughed and Draco shrugged.
Dudley interrupted saying, "I don't have the money to buy these materials. You people use something completely foreign to us."
"Dudley," Harry started. "You can exchange muggle money for wizard money."
"Oh." Dudley mutters. "Great. How do we get these things though? It's stuff I've never heard of!"
Harry sighed and turned to Draco. "We'll have to take him to Diagon Alley." Draco just nods. "Okay. Dudley, we'll take you to the wizard's shopping area, but you can't tell muggles about it."
"Muggles?" Dudley muttered to himself.
He had a lot to learn about the wizarding world.