Chapter 7: The Dudley Problem, Part 1

AN/Sorry for the late update, life caught up with me. This Chapter has been pretty much left alone from Huffs original story and is still a short Chapt.

Once they arrived back at the house they got to work on their next major plan, a ball. They had decided to hold a ball a few weeks before leaving the portrait, and they had to send out the invites soon if they wanted to have it before they left for Hogwarts. They had decided on a rather large guest list it included:

-The entire Weasley family (Not including Percy, they were hoping Charlie could make it though.)

-Hermione

-Remus

-Dumbledore

-McGonagall

-Flitwick

-Sprout

-Hagrid

-Hooch

-Pomfrey

-Mad-Eye

-The Tonks'

-The entire DA and their parents – minus Cho on Ginny's insistence.

-Everyone in Harry and Ginny's years minus the Slytherins and Lunas main tormentors, as they were too big a headache, plus their parents

-Oliver Wood (He was allowed a plus one, just in case)

Harry then added one last name to the list of invites, The Dursley Family. They were to be invited to come to the castle so Harry could show them what he would have shared with them, had they treated him better. Ginny completely understood this he just needed closure, little did they realize this act would end up putting a small wrench in their plans.

"I don't think there should be a specific theme to it, just keep the ballroom as is and serve dinner at some tables and then we can have dancing." Ginny said as they started turning the many invitation into timed Portkeys. The invitations were a pure white with gold foil inlay around the edges that read:

You are cordially invited to a Ball at Potter Castle to take place on August Fifteenth beginning at six o'clock.

Dinner will be served. Dress is formal robes.

Please RSVP by tapping your wand, as many times as the amount of people attending in your house, no later than August Fourth.

This letter is a Portkey that will activate at five forty-five on the day for those who RSVP.

Lord Harry James Potter

They both knew that this letter would more than likely piss off a few people, but they were just fine with that.

It was now august fifth and the complete list of those attending had been finalized. The only people that were not coming were the senior Tonks' as they had a prior engagement.

"Good thing we planned for everybody coming anyways because we are going to have pretty much everyone invited to attend there." Ginny said looking over the list of names. They certainly had their hands full but with the help of the elves it would be simple.

The day of the ball had come around and they were both in blue-grey dress robes with the many crests on their right breast hidden under a concealment charm, powerful enough to fool even Mad-Eye's eye, and they were awaiting the arrival of Dudley Dursley, who was the only one to accept from that house.

With a swish he appeared in front of them in one of the many circles painted in the transport room.

"Hello Dudley Dursley Son of the Non-Magical House of Dursley, Welcome to Potter Castle." Harry said with a bow. They had decided that Harry would do a formal welcome to throw him off. Dudley looked very different then he used to, for example he had lost almost all of his weight and replaced it with some muscle.

"Uh, Hello?" Dudley said in a very questioning tone.

"So Dudley may I ask why your parents were not be able to attend?" Harry asked with a pointed look, he was quite looking forward to gloating.

"I-I never showed them. I needed to talk to you alone." Dudley said with a glance at Ginny.

"Oh yes, how could I forget. May I introduce you too my lovely wife Lady Ginevra Potter. Whatever it is you need to discuss with me can be discussed with her as well." He said with a hard stare. "How about we move this to my office, it's just down these stairs." He finished pointing to a piece of floor that suddenly turned into a spiral staircase, it was something they learned the owner of the castle could do while in the painting. Once they were all seated in the office Harry asked "so what is it Big D?"

"Well I'm going to give you the full story. It all started three years ago:

Dudley was walking down the main hallway of Smeltings, he had started his first cycle of anti-obesity medicine he was being given two months ago and had already lost twenty-five pounds. He stopped however when he saw a beautiful girl; she had long blonde hair, blue eyes, and very elegant facial features; she was picking up books and papers from all over the floor that had obviously fallen out of the ripped bag next to her."

Would you like some help?" Dudley asked

"Yes, thank you so much." She said in a smooth voice that mad Dudley shiver.

Once they had collected all the books and papers into two piles Dudley worked up his courage and asked "So Clarissa," she had told him her name when he started helping, "I was wondering if you would like to go out to dinner with me this Saturday?" he finished hopefully.

"I'd love to go out with you Dudley. What time?" She responded.

With that simple chance meeting a relationship was born. They had many dates and had dated for two and a half years before they both decided that they were ready, and sex. They had used a condom and she had been on birth control for a year now, so the chances of her getting pregnant were so low they were almost nonexistent. It shouldn't have happened but it did and Clarissa discovered she was pregnant two weeks later.

They were both shocked and decided they had too tell their parents. Both of those dinners were terrible, and both had said that they must get married. So three weeks later they were walking out of a court house with a marriage certificate.

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