Apparently Vernon's plan was to make it so Harry and Dianna will never go back to Hogwarts again. Vernon was so angry at Harry that he locked Harry in his room and put bars on his windows with a lot of screaming and crying coming from Dianna
" Enough out of you or I'll do the same to you too… thought about it actually" Vernon said with a glare
" NO YOU CAN'T" Dianna screamed
" Petunia, we will enroll Dianna into Smeltings tomorrow" Vernon said, " And Harry will go to St. Brutus's as planned"
Petunia nodded
" Please Mummy, Daddy, you can't" Dianna begged
" I have made up my mind" Vernon said firmly
Dianna had real tears in her eyes and she ran to her room crying
Vernon put in a cat flap for Harry's room so food could be pushed in
Harry was locked in his room for days, he could hear Dianna screaming at her parents and ripping up the enrollment forms that her parents brought home to enroll her into school
" We'll have to enroll her on the phone" Petunia said
" NO! I'M NOT GOING TO SMELTINGS! I'M GOING TO HOGWARTS! HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY" Dianna yelled, " I'M A WITCH! A WITCH"
" STOP YOUR YELLING!" Vernon yelled
" YOU STOP YELLING" Dianna yelled back
" You are not going back to that school" Vernon said firmly
" Oh yes I am and you can't stop me" Dianna said with a glare and she ran to her room and slammed the door
Harry and Dianna stayed in their rooms for three days, Harry by force and Dianna by choice, Dianna came out to use the restroom and to eat but she didn't talk to anybody
Her parents enrolled her into Smeltings thinking she was going to go
At night when her parents and Dudley were sleeping, Dianna would sneak out of her room and sit by the door and feed Harry food and talk
" You'll get out of there Harry, your friends will be worried about you, they'll think of something, no way is the boy who lived not going to Hogwarts" Dianna said
" What about you?" Harry asked, " Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia are pretty firm about you going to Smeltings"
" Dianna sighed, " I'm waiting for Milly to Owl me back, I'm going to run away to her house for the rest of the summer, no way am I going to Smeltings… I wish they could be supportive about the school we go to… I used to be Daddy's little girl… now I'm… I don't know"
" Well you still have them wrapped around your finger most of the time" Harry said, " You play the you love Dudley more than me card a lot"
" That's because I think it's true and that's the only way to make them feel guilty, for them to realize I'm their daughter" Dianna said, " Which is sad by the way"
Harry agreed
The next night was the night the Weasleys flew to the Dursleys
The day started out very normal, just Dianna and Harry in their rooms or Dianna yelling at her parents and Vernon yelling at Dianna back but night came and Dianna got a letter from Milly saying to meet her at the Leaky Cauldron tonight and she can stay for the rest of the summer
That sounded very good to Dianna, but she didn't know how to pull it off nor could she figure out what to do about Harry, she couldn't just leave him here
Later that night while everybody was in bed, Dianna started packing her things, she broke the lock on the cupboard under the stairs, she didn't care if her parents got mad about that she then quietly said the word that would make her trunk feather light so she could carry it upstairs. That part wasn't underaged magic
Dianna began filling her trunk with everything she was going to need at Hogwarts
Before she was done packing, to her amazement and horror, there was a flying car coming towards her house, it stopped right in front of Harry's window and in the car were a few Weasleys, the one in her year and those two twins whom she still hasn't forgiven them for what they did to her
Dianna watched as the Weasleys used a rope to pull the bars off
They were silent for a few moments but no sound was heard coming from her parents
" They really need to keep it down" Dianna thought
She saw two of the Weasleys get out and one of them pick Harry's lock
" Probably to go get Harry's things" Dianna thought
Harry knocked on Dianna's door
Dianna opened it
" I'm going to the Weasleys" Harry said
Dianna chuckled quietly, " I noticed… perfect timing, Milly just invited me to stay at her house"
Harry smiled, " We're both going to Hogwarts after all"
Dianna lifted an eyebrow, " Did you believe otherwise? No way were you going to St. Brutus and me Smeltings"
Harry smiled, " Well, I guess I'll see you at school then"
Dianna sighed, " Too bad school couldn't be different and we didn't have to be hostile towards each other"
" Yah, that's the only negative… well that, Snape and Malfoy" Harry said
Dianna rolled her eyes, " I'm going to miss you"
They hugged
" I'll miss you too" Harry said
" You better get back to your room, Weasley is just about up the stairs, don't want them to know about me" Dianna said
Harry chuckled, " That would be… awkward"
Harry left Dianna's room
The Weasley who was carrying the trunk accidentally bumped it into the door and it made a loud thump
Everybody was quiet but that thump woke up Vernon and Petunia
" What was that?" Vernon said and he opened up his door to see a red head with Harry's trunk
" PETUNIA HE'S ESCAPING" Vernon roared
" That's our cue" Weasley said
They hurled the trunk into the trunk of the car, Harry grabbed Hedwig as the last Weasley was in the car, Harry passed Hedwig over and was just about out of the window himself when Vernon grabbed Harry's ankle
The Weasleys pulled hard on Harry's ankle, harder than Vernon could tug
" DRIVE" Dianna heard Ron Weasley say
With one last tug and driving, they pulled Harry's leg free, but Vernon fell into the bushes down below
He wasn't hurt, just angry, he got up and yelled POTTER!
Dianna smiled, her cousin was free, now she just had to think of an escape plan
Petunia insisted taking Vernon to the Hospital, he just fell out of a two story window, she ' woke up' Dianna who surprisingly 'slept through the whole thing' and told her what happened
" A flying car? There's no such thing" Dianna said
" That's what happened, " They took him away in a flying car, and made your father fall out of the window" Petunia said
" Is Daddy ok?" Dianna asked
" I'm taking him to the hospital, I didn't want you to get worried if you woke up and Daddy and I weren't here" Petunia said
Dianna nodded in understanding, then she gave her mum a hug, " I'm glad you didn't fall too, and give a hug to Daddy for me, a… get well hug… when he's calm"
Petunia smiled and nodded, " I will sweetie… Well good night"
" Good night Mummy" Dianna said
She watched as her parents left for the hospital
" Well… Now all I need to do is take a bus or a taxi to London" Dianna thought with a smile
She wrote her parents a letter telling them that she wasn't going to Smeltings and that she is going to stay at a friends house for the rest of the summer and her parents will take her to the train station so she could get on the Hogwarts Express
She made sure Kiki was in her carrier and everything she needed was in her trunk, then she quietly headed downstairs with her carrier and her light trunk, she then began walking fast trying to get out of Surrey
She didn't realize how far she was going to have to go to find a taxi or a bus
" Maybe I should have thought this through more" Dianna thought worriedly, she put her trunk and carrier down and sat on her trunk to think
She was about ready to head back home thinking it was helpless and she would have to ask Milly another way to meet her
She stood up and stretched, wishing she had transportation when all of a sudden a bus came coming towards her out of nowhere
" Well, that's… convenient" Dianna said aloud
She waited for it to stop right in front of her and a man about five years older than her came out
" Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard, my name is Stan Shunpike and I will be your conductor for this evening" Stan said
" Wow, how did you know I needed transportation?" Dianna asked
" Well, you held out your wand arm did you not? And you need transportation do you not?" Stan asked
Dianna nodded, " Could you take me to the Leaky Cauldron?" Dianna asked
Stan nodded, " For 11 sickles"
Dianna nodded, " Thank you" She began to pick up her trunk
" Let me get that, you just get in" Stan said
She let him carry the trunk, she carried her cat
The bus she got on was a triple Decker bus, and there were beds to sleep on and it was
Purple
Dianna paid the man and he left her alone
" Ernie we're going to the Leaky Cauldron" Stan said
Ernie didn't say anything, he just put on his glasses, shut the door and started the bus
Dianna was shocked, the bus was going faster than any normal bus she's been on
" Aren't you a little young to be out on your own at this time of night?" Stan asked
Dianna shrugged, " I'm meeting somebody at the Leaky Cauldron"
Stan shrugged, " Ok, it's not my business anyway"
Dianna looked out the window, it was amazing how fast they were going, and how crazy they the driver was driving
" Won't the muggles see how crazy this bus is being?" Dianna asked
" The muggles can't see us" Stan said, " There's a lot these muggles don't see"
Dianna nodded in understanding
They were at the Leaky Cauldron in no time
" Thank you for the ride" Dianna said with a smile
Stan carried the trunk in the building for her which was very nice of him
Dianna watched the Knight Bus leave before she went looking for Milly
It didn't take very long, Milly and her mum were sitting at a table with butterbeer at their table
" Dianna" Milly said with excitement, " Over here"
Dianna smiled and waved, then she awkwardly picked up her trunk and her cat carrier, but before she got very far, her mom waved her wand and levitated the trunk and cat carrier over to their table
" Thank you" Dianna said with a grateful smile
" You're welcome honey" Mrs. Bulstrode said, " Now sit down and drink your butterbeer, you must be thirsty"
Dianna nodded her thanks
" So how did you get here? The way your letters sound, I don't think your parents dropped you off" Milly said
Dianna shook her head no, " I um…" She looked at Milly's mom, she hoped she wouldn't have to go back home this year, " I ran away"
Both Bulstrodes looked surprised
" Your parents do not know you are here?" Mrs. Bulstrode asked
Dianna shook her head no, " Please don't send me back, I had to, they weren't going to let me return to Hogwarts… they don't like magic"
" Your mother's a squib right?" Mrs. Bulstrode asked
Dianna nodded, " I think she's jealous because I am a witch and she and a few generations before her are not" Dianna was shocked about how good she is at lying
Mrs. Bulstrode nodded in understanding, " Yes, Squibs can be very jealous, but do you honestly think she would deny you the right to go to Hogwarts?"
Dianna sighed, " She and my Dad already enrolled me into another school, a muggle school, they are serious, that's why I had to run away… please don't send me back"
" Please Mum, you said she can stay for the rest of the summer" Milly said
" I don't want her parents to be worried" Mrs. Bulstrode said
" I wrote them a letter, I'll write to them tomorrow as well" Dianna said
Mrs. Bulstrode nodded, " I'm sure that will be fine, ok, well when you two finish your drinks, we will go home"
Milly and Dianna smiled at each other
