It was a beautiful Saturday morning in June when Ginny and Lily came to visit the Dursley's. Dudley had to go into work, so only Katherine and Perry were at home. Katherine was cleaning up breakfast when she heard a knock at the door. Perry ran down the stairs to answer it.
"Hi Perry, how are you ?" Ginny asked.
"Great Aunt Ginny! Lily I want to show you my new bike!" And the two of them ran outside. Katherine came and invited Ginny into the sitting room.
"How's Jack doing? Have you gotten any letters recently?"
"He's a little stressed from the end of the year exams, but he seems fine! He almost seems a little reluctant to come home! He really likes it there; I was afraid he wouldn't fit in, but he seems to be just like everybody else."
"Oh don't worry, my boys don't ever want to leave either. And Lily can't wait to go too! But I don't blame them, Hogwarts was the best years of my life! Besides getting possessed and almost getting killed multiple times...and seventh year that was awful. Always getting punished by the Carrows and of course my brother dying..."
Katherine looked utterly terrified. Ginny glanced at her face and laughed, "Oh don't worry, that was when Voldemort was at large. My husband made sure nothing of that sort will ever happen again".
This made Katherine feel a lot better, and the two ladies continued to talk about Hogwarts and the children.
Outside Lily and Perry were testing out his new bike. They were in the driveway riding in circles and talking about Lily going to Hogwarts next year.
"I can't wait! James and Albus say the castle is huge! I've never been there before. I tried to convince my mom and dad to take me to the remembrance Ball, but only people fourth year and up can go!"
"So you know you are going to get in?" Perry asked.
"Yep!" said Lily, "I've been showing signs of magic since the age of six. That was when James was annoying me so much, I lit his Quidditch cards on fire. Mum fixed them though."
As they were talking, some boys came riding up on their bikes. They were a couple years older than Lily.
"Oi! It's the nutter's brother!" shouted one.
"Hey kid! How's Jack? Is he still at the house for crazy people?" said the second boy.
Lily could tell the Perry was getting really angry. She said, "Jack is not at an asylum, he is at an elite school for talented children. Somewhere you will never get in."
"Who's the red head?" asked the second boy.
"The 'red head' is Jack's cousin. And we are done talking to you, come on Per," Lily said.
Lily grabbed Perry's arm and pulled him toward the house. Living with two older brother's she had learned to control her anger and walk away. The first boy shouted after them though, "Tell Jack to get well soon! Though I doubt that will happen". Perry lost, he turned around and started to shout at the boys.
"YOU LEAVE MY BROTHER ALONE YOU BLOODY IDIOT". The boys were laughing until their feet slowly began to sink in the cement. Their confusion was quickly replaced with panic which made them sink farther down.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO US?!" screamed the first boy.
"DON'T JUST STAND THERE, HELP ME!" shrieked the second.
Perry stood, paralyzed, staring at the boys. Lily ran inside and grabbed her mother. Ginny wasted no time and pulled out her wand to stop the boys from sinking anymore. She then pulled the two boys out , and quickly modified their memories so that they didn't remember anything before they rode their bikes down this street. She grabbed both children and brought them inside so no more harm could be done. All of this happened within a few minutes. Ginny was an expert at cleaning up messes like this, she did grow up with six brothers.
"Lily, I told you to control your anger around muggles. You are usually so good at that, what went wrong?"
"It wasn't me!" Lily said. They all turned to look at Perry, who was still stunned since the incident.
"Perry," Ginny said softly, "were those boys making you upset?"
"Yes," he whispered, "did I do that?"
Ginny nodded and turned to Katherine. "Well there's that. Perry is a wizard." Katherine was in utter shock. Ginny took her into the sitting room so she could process what just happened.
"This is actually pretty common," said Ginny, "I know lots of muggle born siblings who both turn out to be wizards".
"I just thought since Petunia wasn't a wizard when Lily was..."
"I know. But this is good! You know how Petunia not being a wizard ruined her relationship with her sister. You'll just to have to watch him carefully for the next year until it's time for him to go to Hogwarts. But accidents happen, so call me immediately if something goes wrong." She then turned to Perry. "Don't worry, your Uncle Harry once trapped your father in a snake exhibit at the zoo".
Lily and Ginny said their goodbyes. They would see them later in July, when all the Weasleys would spend two weeks at The Burrow. Molly Weasley insisted that the Dursleys come over too. After they were gone, Katherine turned to her son.
"Don't worry I'll talk to your father about what happened".
Perry went to bed that night excited, because he knew that in one year and a couple months, he was going to get to board that train just like his brother.
