I don't own the rights to Harry Potter, but I did add some text to the books. If there isn't a reaction between what I add and what is in the book I will be cutting out the middle pieces.
"Chapter 3 - Letters From No One," Fabian started.
"Ahh, good times," Aurora laughed, earning chuckles from Neville and Fred who had heard some of the stories about Aurora trying to get her letter.
The escape of the Brazilian boa constrictor earned Aurora her longest-ever punishment. By the time she was allowed out of her cupboard again, the summer holidays had started
"His birthday is the end of June," Hermione asked, a soft seething starting in her voice.
"Yes," Aurora answered hesitantly.
"You were locked in that cupboard for A MONTH!" she shouted.
"Well, I mean I was let out to go to school." Aurora replied, shying away from her irate friend.
"Because that makes it so much better," Ginny said sarcastically.
Dudley had been accepted at Uncle Vernon's old private school, Smeltings.
"How in the world did he manage to get in there?" Ted asked, "That is an elite school, and we've already seen that this child can't do basic math."
"Other than tests, I did all his school work for him," Aurora explained, "plus Uncle Vernon did go there, and I believe that he donated a lot of money to get Dudley in."
"No, thanks," said Aurora. "The poor toilet's never had anything as horrible as your head down it — it might be sick." Then she ran, before Dudley could work out what she'd said.
"You sound just like your mother there," Alice said. "She can be quite cheeky."
"She got her mother's temper too," Ron added, ducking out of the way of a swat headed towards him from both Aurora and Hermione. "You would swear that she's a natural redhead with her temper sometimes."
"Only once she gets past the seething disappointed angry," Hermione added.
"She gets that from James," Sirius said.
She let Aurora watch television, and gave her several etiquette lessons that she said Aurora would need in the future, how to curtsy and how to shake people's hands, and how it is appropriate for a lady to wear their hair, and after the lesson gave her a bit of chocolate cake that tasted as though she'd had it for several years.
Remus whimpered, "That poor chocolate."
They also carried knobbly sticks, used for hitting each other while the teachers weren't looking. This was supposed to be good training for later life.
"You would think that Petunia would see the parallel in her son walking around with a wooden stick that is training for later in life," Lily snarked, causing Aurora to let out a bark of laughter.
"Oh I can't wait to tell that to Dudley," Aurora whispered to Fred, however both Sirius and Remus heard.
"Oh," she said, "I didn't realize it had to be so wet."
"She doesn't understand sarcasm," Snape sneered, "if anything it will only make her more angry than she normally is."
"I love it when you get all sassy," Fred laughed.
"You love it when I do a lot of things," Aurora replied, running her hand up his leg.
"I do not want to know that about you two!" Ron yelled, switching places with Hermione on the couch.
"Don't be stupid," snapped Aunt Petunia, swinging her hand at Aurora, catching her unaware, her ring cutting Aurora's cheek. "I'm dyeing some of Dudley's old things gray for you. It'll look just like everyone else's when I've finished."
Aurora seriously doubted this, but thought it best not to argue, grabbing a towel to wipe the blood off.
...
"Get the mail, girl."
"Has he ever called you by your name?" Remus asked.
"Once or twice maybe," Aurora said, contemplating, "I actually think this was the first day he ever did, usually it was girl or freak."
a letter for Aurora.
"You grew up muggle though," Flitwick said, looking from Aurora to Dumbledore. "Why were you sent a letter, not have one of the four heads come and give it to you."
"It was assumed that I was told what I was," Aurora answered, trying to not glare at the Headmaster who thought that magic hating muggles would tell her anything about her heritage, and then sending Hagrid to introduce her to the magic world instead of an actual teacher. She loved Hagrid, but even Aurora knew that he was not the best person to send to introduce a muggle born or raised person to the wizarding world.
Hermione grunted, "Well you know what they say about people who assume things."
Aurora picked it up and stared at it, her heart twanging like a giant elastic band. No one, ever, in her whole life, had written to her.
"But I wrote to you all the time," Neville said. "Gran told me that mum is your godmother, plus you were the girl-who-lived, everyone wrote to you."
"Mail redirection ward," Aurora said, knowing that all the mail sent to her before she went to Hogwarts was redirected to Dumbledore. "I had it fixed before 3rd year."
Miss A. Potter
The Cupboard under the Stairs 4 Privet Drive
Little Whinging
Surrey
"Well we apparently will be checking all the envelopes before they are sent out from now on," McGonagall said to her other professors, receiving nods from Sprout and Flitwick.
a lion, an eagle, a badger, and a snake surrounding a large letter H.
Fabian was interrupted by the nursery door opening, and a small boy with light brown hair and purple eyes walked out looking confused. "Aun' Rory," he said quietly, his r's sounding more like w's.
Aurora jumped up and ran over to the boy, picking him up. "I'm right here Teddy. I thought you were asleep."
"Bad dream," the little boy said, snuggling into his godmother's arms. Aurora just wrapped him tighter, carrying him back over to her seat, Fred wrapping his arms around the both of them, with Hermione placing a blanket over the three of them.
"I take it this is your godson you mentioned," Sirius asked.
Aurora looked down at the sleeping boy in her arms and smiled. "This is Teddy."
Fred smiled softly at his girlfriend, looking a little wistful, while everyone else was looking at Aurora and Teddy, waiting for her to explain more. Aurora just shook her head and said, "Seventh book," hugging the boy closer once more, barely keeping her eyes from drifting to Remus.
Seeing they were going to get no more answers from the girl, Fabian cleared his throat and continued reading.
"Dad!" said Dudley suddenly. "Dad, Aurora's got something!"
"Snitch," Peter said, causing Ron to almost growl at him if not for Hermione's hand on his arm.
Within seconds it was the grayish white of old porridge.
"Might be an improvement," Fred said, careful not to wake the sleeping child in Aurora's arms.
"I WANT MY LETTER!" she shouted.
"Ahh yes, I see Lily's temper there," Marlene said. "Always straight to yelling she is." She added sticking her tongue out at her friend when Lily glared at her.
"Let me see it!" demanded Dudley.
"OUT!" roared Uncle Vernon, and he took both Aurora and Dudley by the scruffs of their necks and threw them into the hall, her head bouncing off the wall as she slammed into it from the force of the throw, slamming the kitchen door behind them.
...
"Watching — spying — might be following us," muttered Uncle Vernon wildly.
"Yes because that is what we do in our spare time," Alastor grumbled, "spy on muggles."
"Well maybe someone should have been watching the Dursleys if you were going to place the savior there," Regulus snapped, he did not like what he was hearing about his brother's goddaughters home life, and from the sounds of it she was more than that, she was going to be his niece as well.
"Why?" said Aurora. Thinking that this is the first time she had ever heard her uncle say her name and not just call her girl.
"Don't ask questions!" snapped his uncle. "Take this stuff upstairs, now."
The Dursleys' house had four bedrooms:
"There are four bedrooms in that house?" yelled the Marauders, Lily, Alice, Marlene, Molly, and Regulus.
one for Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia, one for visitors (usually Uncle Vernon's sister, Marge), one where Dudley slept, and one where Dudley kept all the toys and things that wouldn't fit into his first bedroom. It only took Aurora one trip upstairs to move everything she owned from the cupboard to this room. The only things she had were three changes of clothes, a light purple blanket with her name embroidered on it, and a stuffed black dog. It was the only toy that Aurora had ever been allowed to have, without sneaking Dudley's old broken toys. She remembered hearing her Uncle complaining about how it should be given to Dudley but her Aunt had actually stood up for her and said that it was the only thing that had kept her from screaming when she was first dropped off, so she could keep the ugly thing. Aurora however thought the dog was the most wonderful thing in the world, and it felt like home to her.
She sat down on the old toddler bed, with no pillow and a thin blanket, and stared around her. ...They were the only things in the room that looked as though they'd never been touched.
Hermione and Lily both whimpered at the thought.
thrown his tortoise through the greenhouse roof,
"That child needs some major discipline," Molly scolded. "His behavior is completely unacceptable, hitting his own parents, and throwing a pet."
"There's another one! 'Miss A. Potter, The Smallest Bedroom, 4 Privet Drive —'"
"Very discreet," laughed Peter. "Why didn't he just open it in the hall?"
With a strangled cry, Uncle Vernon leapt from his seat and ran down the hall, Aurora right behind him. Uncle Vernon had to wrestle Dudley to the ground to get the letter from him, which was made difficult by the fact that Aurora had grabbed Uncle Vernon around the neck from behind.
"Gotta get that practice in early, huh Ro," Ron said.
"Well it is how I knew what to do," Aurora laughed, with Hermione and Neville snickering, and Amice trying to hide a smile in Draco's shoulder.
She had a plan.
"Well that's never gonna work," Draco said.
"You don't even know what the plan is," Sirius said, looking confused.
"No but it's one of Ray's plans," Ginny added. "If Ray is the main contributor to a plan, just expect it to not work."
"My plans work just fine, thank you very much," Aurora defended.
Amice just looked at her for a second before saying one word, "Dragon's."
Aurora just blushed and looked away, while the Marauders looked worried, what was Aurora doing around dragons. Multiple, by the sounds of it.
"Mommy, I wanna see a dragon," Charlie piped up from where he was sitting, looking at Molly with longing. Fred, Ron and Ginny just laughed.
She was going to wait for the postman on the corner of Privet Drive and get the letters for number four first.
"That's not a bad plan, too bad it isn't going to work," Ron chuckled.
"Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.
"He should really listen to her. She obviously knows what she's talking about," Pandora sighed.
rolled up and hidden inside each of the two-dozen eggs that their very confused milkman had handed Aunt Petunia through the living room window.
"I wanna know what a Professor hasn't gone yet," Barty grumbled. This was getting out of hand, and starting to become a matter of secrecy if the letters are replacing actual eggs.
"Who on earth wants to talk to you this badly?" Dudley asked Aurora in amazement.
"A lot of people," Amice said. "I think I sent four or five letters to you and Cedric sent one or two a year after he learned to write."
Aurora looked down sadly, grabbing for her necklace.
The Dursleys ducked, but Aurora leapt into the air trying to catch one —
"Again with the practice," Ron laughed.
"Out! OUT!"
Uncle Vernon seized Aurora around the waist and threw her into the hall, her head hitting the same spot making her see stars for a few seconds.
...
computer in his sports bag.
"Spoiled brat," Frank said.
They didn't stop to eat or drink all day. This was day two of no food for Aurora as punishment for the letters showing up like they had been, between replacing the eggs and flying out of the fireplace.
"Two days with no food," Lily cried, clutching James' hand. "My baby." Aurora refrained from telling her that two days was nothing, and that she had gone much longer.
They ate stale cornflakes and cold tinned tomatoes on toast for breakfast the next day, and they immediately came back up from the lack of food the prior two days. They had just finished when the owner of the hotel came over to their table.
...
Aurora made a grab for the letters but Uncle Vernon knocked her hand out of the way, breaking a couple of fingers in the process. The woman stared.
"Is she not going to do something," Andromeda asked. "You have obviously just been hurt, and he is obviously not a Miss."
"He was about three times the size of her, and looked more than a little crazy, I don't blame her for not doing anything to help me."
"Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?" Dudley asked Aunt Petunia dully late that afternoon.
Aurora couldn't help herself, "Daddy's always been mad," she told her cousin in a mocking tone.
"Punish the girl for me Dudley," Uncle Vernon said, and Dudley didn't even hesitate before punching her in the face, breaking her nose.
James, Lily and Sirius cried out in horror.
Uncle Vernon had parked at the coast, locked them all inside the car, and disappeared. It started to rain. Great drops beat on the roof of the car. Dudley sniveled.
...
Still, you weren't eleven every day.
Everyone frowned, eleven was a big birthday for a witch or wizard, and here Aurora's was just being ignored. The Marauders were all thinking of plans that they could do for all of her birthdays to make up for all the ones the Dursleys forgot.
It was freezing in the boat. Icy sea spray and rain crept down their necks and a chilly wind whipped their faces, making Aurora's nose hurt even worse with the biting cold. After what seemed like hours they reached the rock, where Uncle Vernon, slipping and sliding, led the way to the broken-down house.
"That is no place to take children," Columba cried.
Uncle Vernon's rations turned out to be a bag of chips each and four bananas, and the chips and two bananas went to Dudley with Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia eating the other two bananas.
...
Obviously he thought nobody stood a chance of reaching them here in a storm to deliver mail.
Everyone just shook their heads knowing how wrong Vernon was.
BOOM.
Fabian had yelled the word, and quickly apologized seeing the glare aimed his way from Aurora, luckily Teddy continued to sleep.
The whole shack shivered and Aurora sat bolt upright, staring at the door. Someone was outside, knocking to come in.
"That's the end of this chapter," Fabian said.
Aurora stood with Teddy still in her arms, "We will continue tomorrow," she said and started walking to the hallway off the main room. "There are rooms for everyone, the room knows what is needed." Fred got up and followed after her, ignoring the glares that he was receiving from James and Sirius.
"There's bathroom's attached to all the bedrooms. Those with children, their rooms will open into yours. Alice, Lily and Marlene you all will share a room. Marauders, you and Frank are sharing," Hermione started explaining. "Severus, Regulus and Barty, you three are together as well. Pandora and Xenophilius, do you mind sharing?" They both shook their heads, and Hermione smiled, "great. Everyone else has their own rooms. Please sleep well, and we will see you all for breakfast in the morning."
With that all the time travelers got up and headed to their rooms, Ron and Hermione pairing off, Neville with Luna, Draco with Amice, while Ginny grumbled, "Wish we had brought Blaise as well."