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Chapter 27: The Reunion
7th, August, 1998...
At the Burrow Harry had just arrived with Ginny, Amber and little Cecelia. They were in the garden and Dudley and Petunia were waiting on them at the gate.
"Come on then." Ginny said, still holding Harry's hand. "Follow us." she walked towards the house, with Harry beside her and everyone else following her.
Everyone was in the kitchen when they walked in.
"Hello." Ginny said pleasantly, greetings were called back from everyone, except Lily who was staring at Petunia.
"Hello Petunia." she said stiffly.
"Lily." Petunia breathed.
"Everyone this is my Aunt Petunia and cousin Dudley." Harry said, "And this is his wife Amber and their daughter Cecelia." most nodded politely at them.
"Lily before you say anything I'm sorry." Petunia burst out. She then explained about what Vernon had done. Most were shocked to hear what had gone on.
"Petunia." Lily said tears in her eye's, she got up and hugged her big sister, who also had tears in her eye's.
"So who is everyone? I know a few face's but I don't know names." Dudley explained.
"Everyone introduce themselves and add something if you want to. Hermione you start." Harry said.
"Well I'm Hermione Granger, one of Harry's best friends." she said.
"And I'm Ron Weasley, Hermione's boyfriend and Harry's other best friend. I'm also the youngest Weasley son."
"I'm Bill Weasley the oldest Weasley son and this is my wife Fleur. We both work for Gringotts, the Wizarding bank." he added.
"I'm Charlie Weasley, the second oldest and I'm a Dragon Tamer."
"I'm Percy Weasley, the third oldest and Senior Undersecretary to the Minister."
"We're Fred and George Weasley." the twins said together. "Pranksters extraordinaire and owners of Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes." Fred added.
"George is the one who has a hole in the side of his head instead of an ear." Ginny said, "Otherwise you can hardly tell them apart." she added chuckling as the twins pouted.
"I'm Arthur Weasley and this is my wife Molly." Arthur said, "We're the parent's of the 7 Weasley's."
"Wow that's a lot of children." Amber put in.
"It is." Molly agreed, "But we wanted a big family." she explained.
"And that's what we have." Arthur said smiling kindly.
"I'm James Potter, Harry's Dad and Lily's husband. I'm also known as Prongs." James said smiling as Lily re-joined him after hugging Petunia.
"And obviously I'm Lily Potter." Lily said smiling.
"I'm Remus Lupin, also known as Moony, and this is my wife Nymphadora -"
"Don't call me Nymphadora, Remus! Its just Dora." she said to those who didn't know. "And this is our son Teddy." she added, looking at Teddy who was on her knee, eating a mashed up banana.
"I'm Andromeda Tonks, Nymphadora's Mum. Just call me Andy." Andy smiled.
"Mum." Dora complained, "Dont call me Nymphadora!" most chuckled as Andy smirked at her daughter.
"But it's your name darling." she said innocently.
"It's a stupid name." she muttered, pouting.
"I'm Narcissa Black, Andy's little sister, and this is my son Draco Black and his fiancée Astoria Greengrass. Please just call me Cissy." Cissy cut in before Andy could start arguing with Dora.
"Oh and we were Malfoy's until this month." Draco added. "Just so you don't get confused by references to the past."
"I'm Sirius Black, also known as Padfoot." Sirius grinned, "I think you've heard of me before?" he added to Petunia who nodded.
"Of course I have, you were all over the news when you escaped that prison. Harry told us that your innocent before we came." she replied smiling.
"I'm Regulus Black, Sirius's younger brother and we're both the cousins of the other Black's in the room." Regulus smiled.
"I'm Neville Longbottom, I'm one of Harry's year mates from school and one of Ginny's best friends."
"I'm Luna Lovegood." Luna said dreamily her eyes unfocused. "I'm Ginny's other best friend and Neville's girlfriend."
"And Ginny, Luna and I are known as the Silver Trio while Harry, Ron and Hermione are known as the Golden Trio." Neville added grinning.
"And I'm Minerva McGonagall. Headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I was also everyone here's Transfiguration teacher." Minerva smiled.
"Well that's everyone." Harry grinned.
"We will try to remember everyone's names." Dudley said grinning, "But that's a lot of names to remember."
"Sure is Big D." Harry smirked.
"Remus? Are you related to John and Laura Lupin by any chance." Amber asked suddenly.
"Yes they're my Aunt and Uncle but they adopted me when I was four why?" he asked curiously.
"Because, and I know this is hard to believe, but I think your my brother." she replied hesitantly. "My birth parent's are Brian and Lucy Moon. They died when I was 3, but I was told I had a brother when I landed in hospital about 4 years ago." she explained. "And that you had been bitten by Fenrir Greyback, from there I guessed that my parent's had abandoned you and that you were sent away, but I didn't know where." she added.
Remus was shocked. "I was told that my birth parents died when I was 19. I got an owl from St. Mungo's about it. I didn't get told they had another child." he said.
Amber nodded, "You wouldn't have, they pretended I didn't exist and kept me locked away from other people..."
"Why would they do that?" Dora asked.
"Well I have an idea. I don't think they wanted Greyback to know they had another child incase he came back. I was sent to a muggle orphanage in london when they died. I got adopted by an old couple who lived on the outskirts of London, they were magical and noticed I had magic too so they adopted me and raised me." Amber explained.
"Why didn't you come to Hogwarts then?" Minerva asked, frowning.
"I never got a letter from any of the schools, I wasn't registered with the magical world, just the Muggle world. So my adopted parents home schooled me." she explained.
"So I have a sister?" Remus asked still shocked.
"Yes you do, that is if you're this little boy in this picture." Amber took out an old photo from her pocket. "When I turned 17 three years ago I inherited my parents bank vault and I found some really old pictures. I felt that I would need to bring one today so I got this one from the vault this morning." she explained handing the photo to him.
He nodded, "That's me when I was 4." he confirmed looking at his four-year old self smiling and waving at the camera. "Just before I was bitten if I'm not mistaken." he added. Amber smiled.
"I've been looking for you for a few years, then your death was reported in the Prophet." she told him.
Dudley nodded, "I have a subscription." he admitted, "I wanted to know what had happened to Harry so I followed the stories." he explained taking an old clipping out of his pocket and holding it up so everyone could see.
The title of the article was: The-Man-Who-Conquered, and was accompanied by a photo of a very tired looking Harry with Ginny, Ron and Hermione beside him, looking equally tired. All of them, except Ginny, were so thin you could see their bones through their skin and their clothes hung off them drastically.
"That was about two days after the battle." Harry sighed. "We were forced to do a photo shoot when we just wanted to rest and grieve in peace." he explained.
"I have more article's at home." Dudley explained, "We had no other way to find out and I didn't know how to contact you until I saw Mrs Figg last week."
"Hey Harry?" Hermione asked.
"Yeah 'Mione?"
"I'm guessing you're going to change them before we start the 2nd year memories?" he nodded, "Well since me and Ron want to be changed as well why not do them first then we can help before you change us?"
"That sound's like a good idea actually. If you two don't mind that is." Ginny said making Petunia and Dudley shake their heads.
"Remus, Sirius can you help too?" Harry asked. "Using Padfoot and Moony?" he added.
"Sure." Remus said for them both.
"Okay let's go upstairs then."
"If you want to be there for Dudley, Amber, I can hold Cecelia for you." Lily offered.
"Thank you." she smiled and handed her daughter to Lily.
"It's no problem. I am her Great-Aunt after all." Lily replied.
After that Harry and Ginny led Sirius, Remus, Ron, Hermione, Dudley, Petunia and Amber upstairs and into an empty guest room.
"Okay so Aunt Petunia you first." Harry smiled. "Lie on the bed and just relax, you need to accept the virus into your body in order for it to take over the Werewolf curse." he explained as she climbed on the bed and did as she was told. "Remus, Sirius can you change into Moony and Padfoot please?"
"Hold on." Ginny said, she turned to Dudley and Petunia, "Remus is a Lycan and we can change at will. Sirius is an Animagus he turns into a big black dog, Animagus's almost never have the same animal. Just thought I'd warn you before you saw a big wolf and dog." she explained.
Remus and Sirius smirked and changed into Moony and Padfoot respectively.
"Cool." Dudley said wide-eyed.
"I'll give you a warning. Shadow's bigger than Moony and so is Misty." Ron said.
When Dudley, Amber and Petunia looked confused Hermione added. "That's what they call their animal forms, like with Moony and Padfoot. Remus is Moony because he used to be a Werewolf and only changed on full moons and Sirius is Padfoot because he's a dog and has pads on his feet. And in Sussex, there is a legend about a giant, black, spectral dog similar to the Grim it's called Padfoot and he resembles drawings of that one." the wolf and dog nodded their agreement.
"Oh, okay, that makes sense." Petunia said.
"Are you ready?" Harry asked as Ginny became Misty. Petunia nodded and relaxed her body closing her eyes and holding out her left arm with the sleeve rolled up. Harry changed into Shadow.
"Wow, you are massive." Amber commented quietly as Shadow and Misty moved closer to Petunia's arm.
"Told ya." Ron said smirking.
Shadow and Misty ignored them and bit into Petunia's forearm at the same time, then moved back, changed back to human and watched as the bite marks faded in the pale blue light of the healing power.
A minute later Petunia opened her eyes.
"That felt weird it was like fire then ice then normal again." she said.
"It worked then." Harry said happily.
"Yeah. Ok, Dudley you next." Ginny said as Petunia got up, Dudley nodded and took her place with Amber following him and taking his hand.
"We will help you change into a wolf in a minute once we have Dudley done, just stand beside Moony for now." Harry told Petunia, she nodded and went to stand next to the tawny furred wolf. "Right Dudley, relax your body like your Mum did." Dudley nodded and closed his eyes relaxing his body with his arm hanging over the end of the bed.
Harry and Ginny became their wolves again and moved forward biting Dudley the same way they had bitten Petunia.
They moved and change back to human again waiting about five minutes when Dudley opened his eyes.
"It does feel weird I got the same feeling as Mum only it went fire then ice then fire again before going back to normal." Dudley explained.
Moony changed back into Remus who nodded, "That's what I had as well. It must be something to do with the male genetics how we got fire twice." he commented before changing into Moony again.
Harry nodded. "It must be." he decided, "You ony got fire then ice, didn't you Gin?" she nodded "Alright lets help you two find your wolves. What you have to do is to stand up with a bit of space between you about 5 meters." they did. "Now imagine what a wolf looks like, not a Werewolf like in the books or movies but an actual wolf, like the wild ones you see on TV."
"Now imagine yourself changing into the shape of a wolf." Ginny took over. "Take the image of the wolf you have and think 'I want to be that wolf.' and allow your body to change." she said calmly.
After a few minutes Dudley had managed to turn into a dark brown wolf with one light brown ear and a lighter brown tail. He stood at about 6 foot 3, the same height as Moony, he had slightly glowing dark brown eye's and was visibly very muscled.
"Well done Dud." Harry congratulated, "Moony can you stand next to him for a minute?" Moony nodded and went and stood next to him. "Aunt Petunia, try to relax a bit more, it doesn't hurt or anything." he said.
Petunia nodded with her eyes closed. Then slowly her form blurred into a dark blonde wolf. She had bits of white on her back and ears. She stood at about 5 foot 12 tall and was quite thin but still looked like she could cause damage if she wanted too. She had light brown eyes that were glowing slightly.
"Congratulations Aunt Petunia." Harry smiled. "You did it."
"Yes well done. Why don't you try to take a few steps forward's?" Ginny asked before changing into Misty.
"Watch how Misty's feet and legs go, it might help." Hermione suggested as Misty nodded and walked across the room and back.
Petunia and Dudley both tried to walk forwards and Dudley stumbled a bit but soon got the hang of it. Petunia almost fell but Padfoot darted forwards and stopped her just in time.
"Fantastic!" Harry exclaimed when they were both walking around easily. "Right to change back just focus on becoming human again, basically the reverse of the change into a wolf."
Both wolves nodded and a minute later both were humans again.
There had been a few changes to them both. Dudley now had even less weight and he had more muscle, the scars on his face were gone and he was slightly taller at about 6 foot tall the same height as Harry. Petunia had changed completely, she was now 5 foot 12 tall, the bite mark Harry noticed earlier was gone, had a little more fat on her previously boney figure and looked much, much healthier.
"Wow." Ron commented. "You two look really different."
Hermione conjured a mirror and they both looked at themselves in shock.
"Your right." Dudley said grinning at his reflection. "We do look different."
"I feel healthier too." Petunia said getting a nod from Dudley in agreement.
"Right well, Ron, Hermione who want's to go first?" Ginny asked as Dudley went and put an arm around Amber and Petunia went and stood next to them.
"Ladies first 'Mione, if you want to go first that is." Ron said, grinning when Hermione rolled her eyes and went and sat on the bed.
"Ready?" Harry asked Hermione and Ginny. Both nodded so he and Ginny changed into wolves and moved towards Hermione who held her arm out confidently. Both wolves bit and walked backwards a bit and Misty motioned to Ron to sit on the bed beside Hermione, he went and sat down putting an arm around Hermione and holding his other out. Both wolves bit again and stepped back changing into Harry and Ginny again.
"So how are you feeling?" Harry asked looking at his two best friends.
"I feel like there's ice in my veins." Hermione shivered. "Oh no... its gone, there was fire then ice, now it's just normal. What about you Ron?"
"There was fire but it's feeling like ice now." he started, "Nope, now it's like fire again." he winced, a minute later he said, "That's it back to normal."
"That proves Remus's theory that it has to be something to do with the male genetics." Hermione commented, "Women don't seem to get a second round of fire while the men do." she frowned.
"It might be the different genetic build ups." Dudley put in, "Males have testosterone which is said to be responsible for some male characteristics." most people in the room looked shocked. "What I did pay attention in school when I was at Smeltings." he said defensively.
"Okay... Well you two do you want to try and change into your forms?" Ginny asked her friend and brother. They nodded and stood up taking the places Petunia and Dudley had been in. "You know what to do?" they nodded and closed their eyes in concentration.
Ron, surprisingly, was the first to change. He stood just short of Shadow at about 6 foot 5.5, he was dark red but not as dark as Misty and he had patches of white on his back and chest as well as on all four of his legs. His light blue eye's were glowing slightly.
Hermione managed to change a minute after he had. She stood at around the same height as Misty at 6 foot 3.5 and was a light brown, and she had white patches on her front legs and chest as well as on her neck and her eye's, a deep mahogany brown, glowed slightly like the others.
"Wow." Harry said. "You two look quite cool as wolves." he smirked and the wolves gave him a look that clearly said 'Shut up'.
"Come on, try and walk. One at a time though." Ginny said they nodded and Ron tried to walk forwards. He almost fell until Moony got to him he gave Moony a grateful look and tried again, this time he fell before anyone could get to him landing on his chest with a yelp.
"You okay Ron?" Harry asked, the wolf nodded and got up again.
He tried to walk again and was a little steadier he only stumbled once before he was walking perfectly around the room, he stopped next to Hermione and sat down.
Hermione then tried to walk and Padfoot followed her to make sure she wouldn't fall, she only stumbled three times before she too was walking perfectly.
Moony and Padfoot changed into Remus who was grinning and Sirius who was looking at him confused.
"Well done to the four of you. That was faster than it took Padfoot to learn how to walk properly, it took him two days to stop falling over every few steps." Remus chuckled.
"Moony." Sirius whined, as Dudley, Petunia and Amber, who hadn't known this, laughed.
"It is tricky on four legs." Ron commented sympathetically, "It's easier if you see someone else doing it first."
"Too true." Hermione agreed.
"So that's it then?" Amber asked, "My goodness that didn't take long we've only been up here about 20 minutes."
"Really? It feels longer." Harry commented. "Let's go back downstairs."
They all headed downstairs to find everyone now in the living room.
"Done already?" James asked shocked. "It's only been 20 minutes."
"We know." Amber replied taking Cecelia back from Lily smiling. "That's what I just said."
"There's something I forgot to tell you all." Dudley said, "When we got married, we got married under Amber's name so I'm not a Dursley anymore I'm a Moon."
"Oh and I went back to Evans." Petunia added, "No way was I keeping Vernon's name."
"Petunia you look different." Lily said smiling, "You look healthier."
"I feel healthier too." she admitted.
"Has there been any word from Kingsley yet?" Harry asked, "He said he'd return in the morning to join us with the memories."
"Yes actually." Arthur replied, "He Floo'd us when you were upstairs, he can't make it today, but he will let us know when he can." he explained, "He said something about mountains of paperwork that needed to be done."
"Who's Kingsley?" Amber asked curiously.
"It's Kingsley Shacklebolt isn't it?" Petunia asked and Harry nodded.
"You remember him then." he said, "If you've been getting the Daily Prophet you must have seen he was elected as Minister for Magic at the end of the war."
"Wait it's that Kingsley? I thought it was someone else you were talking about." Amber said, "Not the Minister of Magic."
"Right then since everybody's already here why don't we start the memories of our 2nd year?" Hermione put in from where she had sat down with Ron next to her and Ginny on her other side with a space for Harry to sit down.
They all nodded and Harry got the Pensieve from Minerva.
"What is that?" Petunia asked curiously.
"It's a Pensive. It allows people to show their memories to others." Minerva explained kindly. "This one has a charm on it at the moment so a screen comes up and so that we can hear Harry's thoughts."
"Kind of like TV." Harry added.
"Cool." Dudley whispered. "So we will actually be able to hear Harry's thoughts?" he asked.
"Yup Dud. You will be able to hear my thought's, though most of it seems to be from an outsiders point of view." Harry replied with a shrug, taking a seat beside Ginny. "Okay lets start."
TO BE CONTINUED...