By Ron Potter
Chapter 7: The Dursleys
POV = Harry Potter
After Herbology, the last class on May 13, Viktor finally invited me over to his little cottage across from Squid Lake. I was a little afraid of going alone so I brought along Ernie Macmillan, Neville, Ron, and Hermione. When we got there we already found Sirius, Bill, and Mrs. Figg sitting at the coffee table drinking what looked like fire whisky.
"What's up?" I asked as Viktor took his spot at the table with a glass of fire whisky.
"Hey can I have a sip of that stuff!" Ron asked excitedly to Sirius.
Sirius was just about to hand Ron his own full bottle of fire whisky when Bill stood up smacking Ron hard against the face.
"Ron, you know very well that it's illegal for underage wizards to drink fire whisky! I'm shocked Sirius even wanted to give you a full bottle."
"Chill out Bilius," Sirius said in the same calm tone of Dumbledore. "It was only Cherry syrup and soda."
Bill sat back turning as red as his hair color and sipping his hot steaming fire whisky.
"Ah where was I?" Sirius asked himself. "Yes, it's about your mother's family."
"The Clearwater's?" I asked taking a seat across from Viktor picking at my rock cake that seemed like Hagrid made it himself. "Is there a witch in their family?"
"Sort of but they aren't the family," Sirius replied now munching on a chocolate frog. "Your mother had a sister Harry, Petunia Evans. But now since she married that muggle it's Petunia Dursley. And of course they had a son Dudley Dursley."
Was this possible that mom actually had a sister? When I heard this I wondered why I never met her or where she lives in the wizarding World. Then it hit me, mother was a muggle born! This Dursley family was muggles. What on earth could their connection with the Wizarding World be?
"You see we found it only a few days ago," Sirius continued, "that there was a 70's flaw with the Wizarding Children Book that writes down names of all the children with magical blood. Apparently it skipped a few names like Mrs. Krum, Petunia Evans, Bilius Weasley, and Teresa Evans. Since Mrs. Krum was thought of as a squib she was never able to attend magical school but learn the hard Kwickspell way. And Teresa and Petunia are muggle borns as well and both older than Lily. Also Bilius Weasley was born three decades before this happened but he too was thought of as a squib. Because of this mishap, their descendants were denied entrance to Hogwarts. So Monday Hogwarts will have Petunia Dursley, Dudley Dursley, Kaman Krum, Benjamin Krum, and Abigail Clearwater become students."
"You never told me my little brothers were wizards Black!" Viktor roared.
"Oops, must have slipped my mind then," Sirius said but already this was the wrong thing to say as Viktor was about to explode with anger as Sirius would rather remember muggle borns rather than purebloods. "Sorry Viktor. Now sit back down! Or else Mobilar Corpus!"
Sirius moved his wand around making Viktor do little dances around the kitchen. Finally Mrs. Figg grabbed Sirius wand out of his hand breaking the spell giving Sirius a very stern look.
"Look Harry," Mrs. Figg said politely. "I really hope you don't mind but you're going to have to go with Bill and Viktor to the Dursleys home at 4 Privet Drive over the week. It'll take awhile though since we're using Oakshaft 79 brooms so that it'll be easy for Petunia, Vernon, and Dudley can come."
"Why will it take that long?" Ernie asked dumbfounded.
"Because we've got to go to the ministry first for one thing and then swing by Surrey taking a little bit at a time to convince them about magic," Sirius answered. "Also Arabella, Remus'll be going with them too don't forget."
Mrs. Figg handed me a map of Britain and issued Ernie, Ron, and Hermione out the door. But she said for Neville to stay a little while since his Gram is coming over soon. Once I'd finally memorized the map, Viktor tossed me a really old broom known as the Oakshaft 79...the first racing broom ever made. Then Sirius left as Remus entered sitting next to Neville.
"Doing alright with Severus are you Neville?" Remus asked pealing open a chocolate frog. "I hear Ol'Snivellus is giving you better grades even some better than Malfoy."
"Y-y-y-es sir," Neville stuttered.
"Right," Remus said. "Well we better strap on the old brooms now, we leave in a fifteen minutes."
Viktor, Remus, Bill, and me stood outside with our Oakshaft 79's at the ready waiting for red sparks form Dumbledore's office. As soon as Remus spotted the red sparks, we were off flying slowly in the air catching in the breezy afternoon air. Hogwarts became smaller and smaller. I realized this was the first time I've been a broom for a year. Too bad Quidditch was cancelled this year but at least I'm still able to go on a long distance broom trip.
Our first stop was the ministry of magic. The ministry building was located in a bad sort of neighborhood right in the heart of London. There we all had to squeeze into a telephone booth that sunk low into the ground down into the atrium of the ministry.
Once in the atrium, we walked around the magnificent fountain into one of the lifts next to an old man coughing up rats and another one-eyed witch staring evilly at Viktor. We got off at the ninth floor where the minister's office is. Sitting at the minister's desk was Cornelius Fudge wearing his long green robes without his bowler hat revealing baldness.
"What can I do for you?" Percy Weasley said sitting in a smaller desk off to the wall.
"We need to register a few more witches and wizards into our world," Remus said happily.
"Names?"
"Petunia Evans Dursley, Teresa Evans Clearwater, Abigail Clearwater, Kaman Krum, Benjamin Krum. Here I got a whole report on each individual."
Remus dropped a stack of parchments on Percy's desk. Percy gestured the four of us to sit on the leather couch on the other side of the room as he took two hours reading through the really long reports on each individual. Then Percy finally said, "Alright you're free to go fetch them and bring them back."
Privet Drive was the most normal neighborhood there is. All the houses looked alike, all the cars were the same, barren deserted streets. We all thought this was going to be easy until Bill decided to go in there alone and was literally thrown out by a big man.
"What happened?" I asked curiously noticing a purple bruise on his left arm.
"I went in their strolling happily telling them about our Wizarding World when suddenly my wand and Curses and Counter Curses: Pocket Sized Edition dropped out of my robe pocket and then this big man Mr. Dursley squeezed my left arm throwing me out the door. I suppose he thought I was going to hex his family."
Viktor and I looked horrified at what that muggle man did to him. But Remus just stood there laughing slightly and shaking his head.
"Watch a pro do this," Remus said disappearing inside the house.
We waited another three hours on the park bench outside before Remus exited the house smiling accompanied by three individuals of the Dursley family. Then out behind a bush Remus waved his wand at us all including the Dursleys' luggage as it was all blended in with the environment. Then we had to stay another two hours to show them how to ride a broom. When we were finally set we lifted off once more arriving back at the castle. Of course Vernon Dursley will become a caretaker with Filch while his wife and child study magic.