AN: I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! Everything is so crazy and I know that's the lamest excuse but it's the truth. I had wisdom teeth pulled out last month, the anniversary of the passing on a friend of mine, crazy things happening at work, everything is just insane. ALSO I had to rewrite this chapter so much and I hope you like how I finally did it and I hope no one is to OOC, I tried my hardest and all my other attempts were awful, I was trying to get it perfect. So hopefully you like it. Anyway, enough babbling from me. Hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own anything Harry Potter
Previously:
"Hey Freak, what are you doing here?"
Harry's POV:
I stiffened when I heard Dudley's voice. This is just my luck though isn't it? Nothing good happens to me without something bad too.
"Oh hell no." I heard Sirius mutter before he made to go after them to do Merlin knows what. Luckily Dad and Remus were able to hold him back and mum pulled me close to her, while pulling out her wand discreetly so as not to let the few muggles that had turned to see what was going on notice it. She muttered something and flicked her wand, and then muttered something else, flicking her wand once again. The air around the muggles rippled sort of, they got a glazed look on there faces for a second before it went away and they walked away, avoiding the area around us and the Dursley's as if they didn't even see any of us.
"I erased the memories of the past few moments from their brains and put up a notice-me-not charm." She explained to me without me voicing my thoughts. I nodded in acceptance.
"What did you just do!?" Aunt Petunia shrieked in fear while looking around at all the muggles walking around them as if there was an invisible barrier… which there sort of was.
"Just ensured that we wouldn't be disturbed." Mum replied coolly.
"You used that- that- freakishness- you mean! I won't have it! Not around my precious Dudders!"
"You don't really get a choice, besides would you really like it if we made a scene?" Mum asked and I smirked a bit.
Aunt Petunia looked as though she was conflicted, which she was I suppose. She hated anything out of the normal, but she also hated making a scene where she would look bad.
"Well why don't you just go then? You were dead! Go back to being dead! And take that freak spawn of yours with you!" Vernon shouted, face turning purple.
I couldn't stop the gasp that released from my breath, I felt tears prickling at my eyes. I know they hate me, I don't like them either, but that doesn't mean it still doesn't hurt.
"How dare you! You're the ones that should die! You filthy vermin." Sirius spat, struggling against dad and Remus, who didn't look all to thrilled to be holding him. Remus was growling and his eyes had turned an amber color and it was freaking me out. Dad was looking murderous, mum was just standing there, looking angry, sad and resigned all at once. I pulled on her sleeve. I don't care how childish it was, I never got to be a kid, or have my parents, or anyone really, to comfort me.
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Lily's POV:
I was horrified by what was happening. I couldn't believe how far they were willing to go to hurt us. I felt a tug on my sleeve and looked down to see Harry. He was crying and looked lost. Hurt and lost. I tugged him close and felt his small arms wrap around my waist, holding on tight as if he was afraid we would all disappear.
"Let me go!" I heard Sirius snarl.
"Sirius- "
"It's like their asking me to hurt them! I won't kill them! I promise! I would never get myself sent back there! Not now especially but please! Just one punch…. Or hex…" Sirius tried to reason.
"How dare you!" Petunia screeched.
"How dare you!" Sirius retorted. "Harry is your flesh and blood! Your own nephew! He was a baby! He's only a child! Same age- actually a month younger- than your precious Dudders" Sirius shouted, mocking her at the end. "Imagine if the roles had been reversed. How would you like to know your sister and her husband treated your son the way you treated Harry? Not that they would. They would have raised him as their own just as you should have done!" He was going a bit hysterical at this point.
Harry let go from the hug and moved a little more towards Sirius, he went to say something but Vernon interrupted him.
"You ungrateful freak!" Vernon shouted at Harry who looked up shocked at Vernon. "What lies have you been telling them!? You were left on our doorstep! You were a burden that we took in, fed, clothed, put a roof over your head- and you spread lies?" He snarled. Harry looked as though he was taking every word to heart and believed him completely. He looked at his sneakers, tears prickling from the corner of his eyes.
"I-" Harry never got to finish his sentence. In trying to get to Sirius he had moved closer to Vernon a bit due to Sirius, Remus and James being closer as Sirius had gone to charge at Vernon. Due to this, Harry was the closest to Vernon, in which Vernon had taken advantage of.
He moved forward more quickly than any of us thought he could. In the blink of an eye he slapped Harry across the face and was holding him in the air by the throat very tightly.
In a flash Vernon was-quite literally- thrown away from Harry-who dropped to the ground- by four stunners. James and Remus let Sirius go, who made a mad dash at Vernon. My sister was screaming his name over and aver again and Dudley was shouting in fright, both trying to ask Vernon if he was okay.
James and I ran over to Harry as Remus ran over to Sirius-who by that time was lost in anger. In those few second Vernon had Harry I had seen the fear in his eyes as he clawed at Vernon meaty hand. We reached Harry and found him shaking terribly. He was coughing and holding a hand to his throat. Tear were running down his sweaty and red face. Vernon may not have had him for long but he squeezed hard, harshly cutting off Harry's breathing. I could already see the very visible finger print bruises forming on his neck, and the red hand print on his face from being slapped. James gathered Harry in his arms and held on for dear life, I sat next to him and he moved one arm so it was around me. Both James and I were shaking badly as well. I stroked Harry's hair and kissed his scar and he closed his eyes and snuggled deeper into the hug.
I heard Remus cast the binding charm on all the Dursley's but I didn't care at this moment. As much as I wanted to kill Vernon for laying his meaty paws on my child and Petunia for being more concerned about her husband than what he did, I just couldn't move. I couldn't take my eyes off my baby. My beautiful baby boy, who wasn't even a baby anymore, and who had been through enough hard times in his life. It's our job to protect him, I speak for myself and James when saying that now that we are back, we intend to do just that.
AN: Hope you liked it. I rewrote this chapter a lot and hope I characterized everyone pretty well. Sorry again for the long wait but hopefully it was worth it! Trust me when I say this is way, way better than all the other versions I wrote. Next chapter you will find out what James and Lily are thinking about the Dursley's. Right now they realized Harry needed comfort and they could always go back and get the Dursley's later. So yeah, please review! Leave your suggestions as it's your story too! You're the ones reading it so I want you to like it, though if I can't work in you suggestion I'm sorry, but I will try my hardest too. So please review! Love you guys! And check out my other stories PLEASE! Until next time!
