Fred ran to the door and took down the protective charms to allow the dots on the map to enter. Dumbledore entered followed by Mad-Eye Moody, Tonks and Remus Lupin; Harry and his guards recognized the three people immediately but Mr. Dursley became overwhelmed, "What the hell is this?! First I am waken up by these red-headed heathens!" Mr. Dursley motioned to Fred and George, "I then find the neighbor I have trusted for years is another one you freaks!" He nodded his head towards Mrs. Figg, "And worst of all I find my wife knows way to much of your kind! And then, I have more freaks walking into my house! My house of all places! Why don't you take the boy and get out of here!"

Mad-Eye grabbed for his wand and Dumbledore motioned for him to leave it be and approached the large man, "Mr. Dursley, we finally meet. I am Albus Dumbledore Headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry." Dumbledore grabbed Vernon's hand and shook it. For some reason this calmed Vernon Dursley. It could be guessed that Dumbledore had ways of employing magic over people without the use of a wand, but that was a secret only Dumbledore would know. "Now Mr. Dursley I would like to introduce you to some of the people I have had guarding your house." Dumbledore pointed to each Order of the Phoenix member as he introduced them, "This is Alastor Moody, Nymphandora Tonks, Remus Lupin, and I am sure you are well acquainted with Fred and George Weasley and Arabella Figg by now." Dumbledore lifted his hand from Vernon Dursley's grip and went over to Petunia, "Hello Petunia, I haven't seen you in years! My have you changed, last time I saw you, you were about seventeen? It wasn't long before you had left home if I remember correctly." Dumbledore grinned at Petunia.

"Well now standing about the kitchen isn't very comfortable now is it?" Dumbledore announce to no one in particular and with a flick of his wand he enlarged the table and cleared it of Fred and Georges mess and chuckled, "Always running into messes where the Weasley twins are involved." Then with another flick of his wand her conjured up several large fluffy purple chairs. Dumbledore walked over to one of the large purple chairs and plopped down. He motioned for the rest of the room to join him around the table. "Now isn't this better? Wait almost forgot the tea and pastries" with another flick of his wand Dumbledore conjured up a glass of tea for the occupants of the table and several plates of pastries.

Vernon still in a bit of a daze looked to his wife, "How does this freak know you so well?" Petunia turned pale and looked from her husband to Dumbledore.

Dumbledore leaned over to Petunia and genially put his hand on her shoulder. "Petunia I think it's time to tell him about your past. There is no sense in hiding from it anymore."

Petunia dropped her gaze to the table, "All I ever wanted to be is normal, why should I come clean now?"

"Petunia if you don't tell them now I will have to inform Harry and the Order of the Phoenix at some point. Since its your story I prefer you tell it."

"I don't even know where to begin."

"Petunia start at the beginning, it's always the best place to start."

Petunia looked up from the table to Dumbledore's encouraging smile and then to her husband who was staring at her confused. "Vernon, I never wanted to hurt you. I well, I guess I was protecting myself by not telling you who I really was. I told you I left behind my home and family after school because they were horribly freakish people, but that's not true. I was the freak in my family, I was the odd one out and I only wanted to be as normal as I could be… You understand this right?"

Vernon snorted and stared at his wife, "Are you trying to tell me you are one of them?"

"Not exactly. Let me try this from the beginning. I was born Petunia Ann Thomas my Dad was a plumber and my Mum was a waitress in the town dinner I also had a little sister, Lily. Lily was only two years younger than me and we got along well, but then again we were only eight and six when it happened. From what my adopted parents told me my real parents were killed in one of the first attacks, Crutacious curse and then the killing curse. Voldemort was just starting to show himself and he began with torturing and killing muggle families. They came when Lily and I were at school and that evening when we got off the bus we weren't greeted by our parents but by several police men. They told us our parents had been killed and we had to live with family. They took us to live with Alexander and Isabella Evans, who they told us were cousins of our Mothers. The Evans happened to not be any long lost cousins of ours but the Aurors that had been left to disguise our parents murder to the muggle police. Normally they would have left us to the muggle child services system but they claimed there was something so special about us and adopted us. They never said anymore as to why we were special but I suspect there is more to that story."

At this Dumbledore broke in, "There was more, there was a prophecy that was made about Petunia and Lily , there wasn't much to it at the time, but we were told that by all costs we should keep Petunia and Lily safe. There was no given reason but we now know that the reason was because one of their children would be the person prophesized to defeat Voldemort."

Petunia stared at Dumbledore, "So there was more? They had to protect Lily, why then did the prophecy include me?"

"We now believe that Lily looked up to you and that without you she would have never gained her powers. It is hard to say why this is, but sometimes a witch or wizard needs something to provoke their powers, you were Lily's provocation, a sisters love does wonders for a witch, but I think it is best for you to go on with your story to explain it all."

Petunia again started her story, "The Evans adopted us and slowly began to introduce us to the wizarding word. They slowly introduced us to magic while raising us as their own children. It was a bit hard for them at the beginning because we were having trouble adjusting to the wizarding household but we slowly learned their ways. Then things changed, Lily began to show that she was a witch. The Evans tried not to notice or make a big deal out of it. But, they couldn't avoid it; especially when Lily got her letter from Hogwarts. Our parents were so proud of her, and I was left the odd one out. Before her letter me and Lily were equal we were both muggles but the Hogwarts letter changed that. At first I would steal her books and read as much as I could when she came home from the summer. I even stole her wand at times and I will admit I even saved up my money and ordered the Quick Spell Lessons. Sometimes even though it was forbidden by our parents Lily would teach me charms and a few useful hexes. I was fascinated by the wizarding world and wanted to know it all." Petunia stopped to giggle, "Our parents use to joke that Lily's high marks were because I would do all of her homework for her which was partially true, I would help her whenever I could during the summer but during the school year I had my own school assignments. It was always so hard to explain to my friends in town why I couldn't invite anyone home or why my little sister attended a school different from mine. I soon started losing friends because of that. They soon started to put together that I was lying to them and left me on my own. While Lily was away at school with people who accepted her I was left at home in a muggle school and a social mishap. My adopted parents did their best to try and make me feel better but it just never worked. I remember at times they would sit down with me when I came home from school and try to help me with homework, that was a mistake." Petunia burst into a fit of giggles, "One should never try to explain home economics to a wizard. Needless to say I was having trouble in my classes because that I wasn't living in a normal home. I began to hate Lily and the Evans. I left home when I graduated from school and never looked back." Petunia again looked up from the table she had been so intently staring at and looked at Harry. "I am sorry for saying all those horrible things about your Mum and Dad and about their world. Their world was once mine."

Harry didn't know what to say. He was getting an apology from one of the people who he thought hated him the most. Instead of saying anything Harry only nodded semi acknowledging the apology.

Vernon glared at his wife, "You have been lying to me all along! You wretched woman! You are no better than them, no better at all! I can't believe I have been married to you all this while and its been a lie!" Vernon Dursley pushed his chair away from the table and stood up. He glared down at Petunia and several of the wizards at the table fingered their wands afraid he would physically lash out. "I am leaving tonight and by tomorrow afternoon I want you all out of my house, including you Petunia, you might as well take that son of yours as well." Vernon stormed out of the door leaving everyone shocked.

Petunia glared at the door. "I never wanted to marry that man, but what was I left to do? I was barely out of school and had no means to support myself." The woman burst into tears. "Our marriage was horrible. I always wanted to go crawling back to my parents, but I couldn't leave. It wasn't until I became pregnant with Dudley the bruises he gave me stopped. Then when Dudley was born things changed, but he was always a control freak. Thank God he is gone… I just don't have anywhere to go now. I have no money, no family, and I have a 15 year old child to think about."

Dumbledore rested his hand on her shoulder. "Don't claim you have any family. You do have a nephew and you were once accepted into the wizarding world you never lose that, you are apart of a large wizarding family for life."

"How can Harry even consider me family, the awful things I have done for him. I was just so afraid of Vernon. I tried to protect myself the only way I knew how, I hide under him following his every command even if it meant hurting a child." She looked up at Harry, "I am so sorry, I don't know if I can express that enough."

Harry again found himself in an awkward situation. Here was the woman who helped cause him so much pain sobbing and begging for forgiveness. Could one ever accept an apology for that? Harry didn't have to worry about responding because Fred and George broke into a burst of giggles, "Dumbledore! You may have to do something about Mr. Dursley!" Started George

"Our wards made him a bit sluggish…" Finished Fred.

Fred and George looked at each other and burst into a fit of giggles. Dumbledore looked at the Weasley twins with his eyes sparkling. "I always knew we could put your twisted sense of humor to use" Dumbledore then turned to Petunia, "I would like to invite you and your son to stay at headquarters with us until we are able to find a better place for you to live. Tonks and Harry can help you pack what you will need. I'll be sending Arabella and Alastor home and the twins, Lupin, and I will bring down the protective charms surrounding the house and then modify a large slug's memory a bit." Dumbledore chuckled at his last comment and pulled out his wand and followed the Weasley twins out of the room.

Tonks took charge of those remaining in the kitchen, "Mrs. Dursley… er… Petunia, how about you go upstairs and change into something comfortable. I am sure Harry can help me find your trunks so we can charm em a bit so we can fit more into them. I don't think waking your son up right now would be the best idea. We should pack his stuff first then wake him. This might over whelm him a bit."

Harry snorted, "Waking him up to pack would be the worst idea. Even with a charmed trunk the boy couldn't fit everything he wanted to bring." Harry then looked up at his aunt and mumbled, "Sorry Aunt Petunia."

Petunia headed up the stairs and led Tonks to the cupboard under the stairs where he had lived for eleven years and turned to Tonks, "The trunks are in there but its locked. They keep my school stuff in there, but little did my Aunt and Uncle know the Fred and George taught me to pick locks. I could pick the lock for you, but I assume you using your wand would take a lot less time."

Tonks pointed her wand at the door, "Alohomora" The door swung open and Tonks peered in and wrinkled her nose, "Seems even the best looking house has its hidden disaster areas."

Harry looked in after her and reached in to pull a string attached to a single bulb light hanging in the middle of the small space. He grimaced, "Hasn't changed much since I lived in here." He nodded to the small cot, "They still have my old bed in here."

Tonks looked disgusted, "You mean you use to sleep in here?"

Harry nodded, "This is where I slept and when I was being punished this is where they would lock me for days at a time." Harry sat on the bed and buried his head in his hands, "What am I suppose to do now? Forgive those that made me miserable for my entire life?"

Tonks sat down next to him and wrapped an arm around him, "Harry in time they might grow on you but for now you don't have to forgive them for anything, now lets get these trunks out of here."

Harry and Tonks magicked three trunks, including Harry's school trunk, up the stairs. Harry pointed Tonks in the direction of Petunia's room and then went to his own room to pack the few things he had. When he was done he went to his Aunt Petunia's room where he found her and Tonks throwing random things into the trunk. Harry sat on the bed and watched. His Aunt Petunia pulled open a drawer of which contained his Uncle's undergarments and smirked. "Harry I was wondering, can I borrow your wand for a minute. I just want to know if I still know how to do this." Harry afraid to disobey handed his Aunt his wand. She pulled out a large pair of Vernon's shorts, pointed the wand at them and firmly said, "Widgyish" the shorts glowed a shade of pink for a moment and then returned to their normal state.

The witch standing next to Petunia snorted with laughter, "I remember using that on my ex boyfriend! The boy walked funny for a week until he figured out his pants had the wedgy curse placed on them."

Petunia smiled gently at Harry who sat on the bed looking somewhat astonished and confused. It was a shock to him that his rigid Aunt knew magic let alone was able to have a gentle smile for him. She spoke up, "Harry that was something you mother taught me. She was a great teacher, even though she was my little sister I looked up to her."

Tonks looked around the room and broke the awkward slience between Harry and Petunia by announcing, "I think we have what you need here, lets go pack your son's things."

Petunia led the way to Dudley's room and flipped on the light, "This probably won't wake my little Dudkins, he can sleep through just about anything."

Tonks stared at Harry holding back a giggle. The whale-like mammal sprawled out in the bed was anything but little and she assumed had grown out of the pet names years ago. Tonks summoned the trunk she had left in the other room and performed a simple enlargement charm on it. "There you go Petunia, I am sure you would like to talk to Dudley in private. Harry and I will go see if we can be of any help to Dumbledore." As Harry and Tonks turned to leave the room Dudley snorted in his sleep and rolled over exposing his hideous wrestling themed shorts.

Tonks couldn't help but burst into a fit of giggles when she and Harry finally got out of the range of hearing, "I suspected your cousin was bad… but that is just scary."

Harry grinned, "You haven't seen him awake yet."

As if on cue a loud voiced boomed down the stairs, "We're going where?"

Tonks and Harry busted into giggles, "I am almost tempted to invite you to stay at my flat with me until they get a better place to live."

Harry grinned, "Oh no you have to stay at Grimauld place to protect me!"

Another whine wafted down from above, "But Mummy I can't live without my television!"

In sharp reply they heard Petunia, "Dudley there is no electricity in wizarding homes so it is the last thing you need. Now hurry up and help me pack!"

About twenty minutes later Petunia was followed down the stairs by Dudley who looked scared out of his mind. Dumbledore quickly jumped up, "Ah, you must be Dudley! Pleasure to meet you!" He held out his hand to the boy but Dudley only hid further behind his mother. Harry suspected that Dudley had been told to keep his mouth shut. It wasn't normal for Dudley to keep quiet in the presence of someone different. Dumbledore beckoned the two back to the table where he sat and began talking. "Well since most obvious methods of transportation wouldn't be fitting for this situation I think we should take the Knight Bus to Diagon Alley where we will go to the Weasley Wizarding Wheeze shop which has the only fireplace connected to head quarters."

This broke Dudley's silent spell, "Mum! Did you hear what he said? Us travel through fireplaces like those freaks!"

Petunia glared at her son. "I don't ever want to hear you call them freaks again! I explained to you why things ended up this way. I never wanted this to happen but it's our only choice. I trust Dumbledore not to harm us."

Dumbledore led the group to the sidewalk and stuck out his wand hand and with a large pop a large purple bus appeared; Dudley squealed like a pig and hid behind his mother. By now Harry was use to the chaotic rides of the Knight Bus and held onto his seat with the hopes of not being thrown around to much. When they reached Diagon Alley Fred and George led the way to their shop and quickly let everyone in and light a small fire in magically concealed fireplace that was hidden in a dark corner of the shop's basement. Lupin was the first to go through followed by Harry. Dumbledore then looked expectantly at Dudley and nudged him towards the fire. With a whimper Dudley walked into the fire followed closely by his mother. Dumbledore was the last to enter the fire and turned to the Weasley twins, "Well wish us luck."

Fred grinned, "Now now, they can't be that bad. But if the little pig gets out of line give him this." Fred handed Dumbledore a toffee and grinned, "Oh and tell Mum we'll be over for dinner tonight."

Dumbledore fell through the fireplace with a large thump landing on his butt. He stood up and started brushing off his robes and smirked, "It's been awhile since I have had to do that."

Mrs. Weasley was bustling around the room making a fuss out of the new arrivals, "Now to bed with all of you! Harry I prepared your room I thought you might be coming back. Ron is already up there asleep." She looked to the other two new arrival. "Now two extra people I didn't even think to make up an extra room!" She went to run up the stairs to prepare a room but Dumbledore stopped her.

"Molly dear, I'll take care of them. Maybe you can see if there is anything Tonks needs, I am sure that after the excitement of tonight she isn't in the best condition to be apperating home."

Mrs. Weasley's eyes lit up and she led Tonks up the stairs to a room followed by everyone else to go to their respective rooms. Harry opened the door to the room he shared with Ron and glanced at the small window. The sun was starting to rise already. Harry went over to his trunk which had somehow found his way to the end of his bed and changed into pajamas and wondered if it was ever normal to go to bed before sunrise in the wizarding world.