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CHAPTER 7 -Age 20 Months
Petunia was exhausted, it was because she was taking care of two babies. She didn't want to take care of her sister's brat, but she had no choice.
When she had guests over, they always mistook Marie and Dudley as twins since they were so close in age. They always cooed over Marie since she was a cute little baby girl and had beautiful green eyes. Even in the afterlife Lily continue to make Petunia jealous. The only thing that made Petunia less jealous was that horrendous scar Marie had on her forehead.
She just finished putting Dudley back to sleep in the nursery and looked over at Marie's crib. Petunia at first didn't want to put Marie's crib in the same room as Dudley's nursery, but in the end it was more reasonable to watch over both babies in the same place. Marie looked at her and stretched her arms, wanting Petunia to carry her. Petunia was exhausted and so she lifted Marie and place her on her back and put a blanket over her. "Sleep." She quietly told the baby.
For some reason Marie never cried much, she only whined when she needed something. Other than that she was a peaceful baby. It's been half a year since her niece arrived, but Petunia still didn't feel comfortable around her.
Petunia went to her bedroom to try and take a nap. She was tired and needed some sleep. She left the door open so she would hear Dudley when she woke up.
A little while later she opened her eyes and looked at the clock. Four hours! She had to go check on Dudley, it was a little strange that he didn't start wailing. When walking to the nursery, she heard noises come from the room.
It looked like both Dudley and Marie were awake and standing in their cribs. They were both babbling and gurgling. It looked like they were having a conversation filled with giggles and smiles. Dudley saw Petunia and screeched out "Mummy!"
She took Dudley out of his crib and looked at Marie who arms were outstretched from her crib. "Mummy!" she copied. Petunia was shocked, Marie never called her mummy before. She tried to correct her, but it was hard to explain to the baby why she isn't "mummy".
Petunia took both of the them and brought them downstairs. She prepared some food for them and brought it out. Petunia first started to feed Dudley, Marie sat down next to her bowl and fed herself. Dudley could eat by himself, but Petunia liked to feed him to coddle him and avoid messes.
When Vernon came home he immediately picked up Dudley and played with him. Marie waddled over to him and tried to join. As much as Vernon hated the freak, he couldn't just ignore her. He took a tissue and wiped the snot coming out of her nose.
Marie laughed and stretched her arms, "Up Up!" she giggled. Vernon obliged and threw in the air once and caught her. She was a cute brat he thought.
Suddenly she sneezed and few flowers appeared next to her. Marie didn't think anything wrong, but Petunia and Vernon saw the magic.
Vernon got angry and started yelling, "See! She is a freak!" he pointed at Marie. She burst into tears and ran behind Petunia.
"Vernon she is just a baby." Petunia tried to placate him.
"No! I will not raise Dudley near that aberration."
Petunia tried to calm the crying baby, "Vernon, wait for her to get older, we will come up with a solution then."
"We should have just put her in the orphanage."
"We can't, her kind might be watching over us." Marie finally stopped crying and started playing again.
Petunia looked at the flowers the girl made appear. They were purple petunias.
AN: Apparently two year olds have an average vocabulary of 50ish words. I don't know much about babies, but I think it would be too cruel of the Dursleys to put Harry/Marie in the cupboard when they were just a baby.
