Chapter 4
A/N: A major time jump here, hopefully as the story is progressing you will have any questions you have answered. If not pm me. attention: Disclaimer Ahead - I do not own Harry Potter, this is not for profit. I do not own the Harry Potter Universe characters. This disclaimer respresents and covers all additional chapters included in this fanfiction by Fangirl_Friend2
If Harry would ever think back to what he could remember of his childhood with the Dursleys he would say he had lived an ok life. He wasnt the favorite child. But he got everything he needed. His mum was strict, and his father was bland. He recieved 3 square meals a day, only had to do chores on the weekend during the school year and was allowed as much playtime while his father was away as he liked during the summers.
The housing community of Privet was located in Surrey England it was cookie cutter in its design. All the houses the same, all the cars the same. All the Mail Box's the same. The slight differences being door color, cars, plants and seasonal decoration. It wasn't an enviroment that encouraged individuality. Children didnt play in the street, they tended to congregate at the local park. This is normaly where the Dursley boys spent their summer days.
Today would not be a good day for the family living at number four Privet Drive, Surrey.
Harry Dursley started his day as any other, waking up to the sound of his brother yelling at his mum over having to take a shower. It was the normal daily routine in the house. Dudley acted as a sort of alarm for him. And his mum was the alarm for Dudley. She never bothered to wake Harry since he would always take his showers before bed, and Dudleys yelling always woke him.
But today wasnt a day like any other day. Today was the day Harry Dursley turned 6! As with any birthday in the dursley household, certain traditions were always upheld. A large pile of Birthday pancakes covered in frosting sugar, syrup and bacon!. He would get a Birthday cake and Presents when they came back from the zoo.
It was a tradition started before the boys could even remember. In all honesty the zoo was an easy place for petunia to take the children, they had mini tours for the younger children. You drop the children off at the office up front, pay a small fee and someone else watches your children for 3 hours. She could sit at the cafe, drink a latte while awaiting for the children to return from making rounds to all the exhibits. Unfortunately, her routine would be interupted by people she had hoped to never see again. People she had hoped her harry had been spared from joining. Petunia had gotten over her jealousy of her sister lily, but she still held a fear of magic. The fear was only compounded by the knowledge that magic had taken her sisters life, and left her to raise her orphan nephew as her own.
But boys will be boys, and elsewhere at the zoo that's exactly what the Dursley boys were doing.
The boys had seperated themselves from the childrens tour, and been walking the facility with each other. They had been every year since they were 2, plus had come here on class field trips. The boys didnt feel the need to be walked around like babies. The boys had already taken them selves through all the exhibits, and had only one left to finish up in. It was the reptile exhibit, the boys favorite since for ever. Sometimes a zoo keeper would be walking around holding the animals, and allowing the children to pet them. But that wasnt happening today, so the boys had instead become bored while examining each cage. And thats what caused the rough housing to begin, and for Harry to recieve his introduction to the world of Magic.
"Come on, move harry! I wanna see the boa!"
Dudley's shove had set into motion a series of events that would mark the end of the four person dursley family unit.
The entire debacle itself spanned only ten minutes. No sooner had harry hit the floor, then dudley fell foward through the vanished glass and into the boa terrarium. The boa inside then glided onto the floor beside harry.
A smooth hissed "thanks" was uttered quickly in his direction, deciding to be polite and nod back harry responded with "Any time"
The boa began to slither away, children screaming and stomping over each other to flea the reptile exhibit. From one direction harry heard and saw his mum yelling while coming his way. From the other he heard multiple pops, fallowed by people in fancy dress coming there way. Sticks pointed about searching for something.
Before his mum had reached them, dudley snapped out of the shock of somehow landing within the exhibit. His screams on any other day would have been hilarius, but the combination of events leading to it only made harry's guilt feel worse. muttering to himself "I dont know how, but i could just feel i was at fault." Dudleys panic could clearly be seen and heard rising when he attempted to exit the cage, only to find the glass had solidified. His pudgy fists attempted to break the glass, but it was no use.
"Harry, get me out! HELP HELP SOMEONE PLEASE!"
The people in funny clothes and sticks finaly reached them, looking at dudley and then at Harry then back at Dudley.
"The boy in the cage or the boy on the floor" The other, a blonde man said to the other. The other was a wild haired woman, with black eyes and a jutting jaw that looked down her nose at harry and then at dudley. Stepping forward she thrust her stick into harry's face, to his shock the tip lit and blinked a couple times before going dark.
Stick quickly withdrawn as if Harry would contaminate it being that close to him, the woman began to speak when mum interrupted her as she finally reached them.
"Harry? DUDDERS!" The question unspoken but implied by her shrill screaming only increased Harry's guilt and worry ten fold. How ever before Harry could respond the crazzy haired woman finally spoke up.
"Harry was it? No Matter, I am Bellatrix Lestrange and I am here to bring you in for processing at the ministry of magic. As of 5 minutes ago, under age and unregistered magic was detected within a 10 foot radius of this vicinity. As I have just completed my field exam, I have no doubt you are the culprit. So you will be coming with me, and you 2 will be obliviated. Smith handle them, I havent the time or the will to linger in this filthy muggle place"
It was only a couple seconds, quick really. Time seemed to slow down as Bellatrix clawed hand reached toward harry. His eyes turned to Petunia, her eyes also focused on his. Harry could see the knowledge, and the regret in her eyes. Their was no fight, their was no words. Only a deep sadness. Within the space of there eyes meeting Bellatrix had grabbed harry's upper arm and the world quickly swirled into a whirlwind of color and sound. that was the last time Harry ever saw his mum and dudley.
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