Finding Out You're a Witch
By: SiriuslySweetGryffindor
Chapter 7: Petunia's Thoughts
To Reviewers: I'd like to thank everyone who has reviewed me so far. Below are my newest reviewers. Niceven – Yes, I recognize the name. Hey girlie. Thanks for reviewing! You know it's addictive! Sashiness will keep reading, yesiness? SnowyAngelMidnight – Thanks for reviewing! I hope you keep reading.
Beta Reader: I'd also like to thank my beta reader for doing such an awesome job... Even if I don't make all the corrections he points out! Beta Reader I heard that, or more accurately, proof read that, and reserve the right to say "I told you so" when/if my corrections prove to be... Correct. :P
Also, anyone who has any ideas for the story, please feel free to post it on the reviews, or e-mail me!
Back home, Lily's older sister Petunia sat around after school, muttering about her sister. What a freak her sister was. How can it be that her sister was a witch when no one else in the family was abnormal?
Her sister, the one she had actually liked before. Such an abnormal person! No! She'd never look at her sister again. How could her parents allow her sister to go off and learn magic tricks taught by some freaks that they knew nothing about?
Petunia couldn't believe that her parents would be so shallow as to allow her sister to go zooming off to some 'magical' world of entrances only 'magical people' could see, to learn in some school to which only 'witches and wizards' could attend.
Did these freaks have so much to hide that they had to make it so only their kind could see the entrance into their world? And how do we know there really 'is' their kind? How do we know Lily is really even one of 'them'?
Petunia's parents come down to talk to her. "Petunia, turn off the television, your mother and I need to speak with you." Although her father had told her to turn off the television, she didn't. She was so angry with her parents she decided that she'd disobey them until the end of the year, hoping that they'd tell Lily that she couldn't return to that rubbish school of hers.
"Petunia, your father has told you to turn the television off. If you do not comply with what he has asked you to do, you will be grounded for two weeks, am I understood?" Still, Petunia didn't budge to turn off the television. She was sick of her parents being so mean to her about everything.
Lily got a letter to some mysterious school that they have no idea about, and they're letting her go, she thought angrily. What's wrong with Mirristans Institution for Advanced Learning? But no! Her parents wouldn't let her go because she's not perfect little Lily! She was really getting sick of it. She'd plead, "Please Mummy?" and get told no. She'd ask her dad and he'd reply with, "It's to far away for our liking. No." How unfair!
Trying again, Petunia had pleaded with her parents after they allowed her abnormal freak of a sister, Lily go off to some magical school named Hogswart or whatever the stupid place was called. But they won't let her go off to a highly respectable school in California!
Her mother stalked over to the television set and turned it off. "Petunia, when you are being talked to, you will acknowledge the person who is speaking to you. When they ask you to do something, especially if it is your father or myself, you are to do it. I am tired of how rude you've been ever since Lily got her letter." So her parents knew, she thought, that the whole reason she was upset is because they let her mad sister go to that Hogswart or whatever it is they called it. "Pay attention Petunia!"
Turning her back to her parents she stood there, arms crossed and defiant. "I refuse to listen to unfair, rude and inconsiderate parents." She turned long enough to glare at her parents. "You've gone mad I tell you! Mad! Ever since Little Lily got that bloody letter! I'm sick of it! You've both gone mad! She's a freak, don't you get that! A little, bloody, mad freak!"
"Damnit Petunia, shut the hell up and go to your room." Ordered her father angrily. Sulking she complied with her father's orders, even though she really wanted to yell back at him. But, she knew that wasn't wise. She'd get into even more trouble, which she can tell she was already in enough when both her mother and father raised their voices; and especially when her father used 'curse' words.
In her room, Petunia lays there crying. Why were her parents going mad? Why couldn't they see her sister for what she was? A complete freak, a loser, and a mad nutter, but none of that seemed to faze her parents. Maybe they were going mad too, like she'd yelled at them earlier.
She was sick of being treated like the baby of the family. She was older then Lily, and they're letting that stuck up snobbish freak travel to a school that they probably couldn't even lay eyes on – like that little pub, "the caldron" or whatever it was called. She really didn't care about that though. "I want to go to Mirristans Institution for Advanced learning, but no! I'm not the Little Angel Lily, so I'm not allowed to. I'm just CinderUnia."
By: SiriuslySweetGryffindor
Chapter 7: Petunia's Thoughts
To Reviewers: I'd like to thank everyone who has reviewed me so far. Below are my newest reviewers. Niceven – Yes, I recognize the name. Hey girlie. Thanks for reviewing! You know it's addictive! Sashiness will keep reading, yesiness? SnowyAngelMidnight – Thanks for reviewing! I hope you keep reading.
Beta Reader: I'd also like to thank my beta reader for doing such an awesome job... Even if I don't make all the corrections he points out! Beta Reader I heard that, or more accurately, proof read that, and reserve the right to say "I told you so" when/if my corrections prove to be... Correct. :P
Also, anyone who has any ideas for the story, please feel free to post it on the reviews, or e-mail me!
Back home, Lily's older sister Petunia sat around after school, muttering about her sister. What a freak her sister was. How can it be that her sister was a witch when no one else in the family was abnormal?
Her sister, the one she had actually liked before. Such an abnormal person! No! She'd never look at her sister again. How could her parents allow her sister to go off and learn magic tricks taught by some freaks that they knew nothing about?
Petunia couldn't believe that her parents would be so shallow as to allow her sister to go zooming off to some 'magical' world of entrances only 'magical people' could see, to learn in some school to which only 'witches and wizards' could attend.
Did these freaks have so much to hide that they had to make it so only their kind could see the entrance into their world? And how do we know there really 'is' their kind? How do we know Lily is really even one of 'them'?
Petunia's parents come down to talk to her. "Petunia, turn off the television, your mother and I need to speak with you." Although her father had told her to turn off the television, she didn't. She was so angry with her parents she decided that she'd disobey them until the end of the year, hoping that they'd tell Lily that she couldn't return to that rubbish school of hers.
"Petunia, your father has told you to turn the television off. If you do not comply with what he has asked you to do, you will be grounded for two weeks, am I understood?" Still, Petunia didn't budge to turn off the television. She was sick of her parents being so mean to her about everything.
Lily got a letter to some mysterious school that they have no idea about, and they're letting her go, she thought angrily. What's wrong with Mirristans Institution for Advanced Learning? But no! Her parents wouldn't let her go because she's not perfect little Lily! She was really getting sick of it. She'd plead, "Please Mummy?" and get told no. She'd ask her dad and he'd reply with, "It's to far away for our liking. No." How unfair!
Trying again, Petunia had pleaded with her parents after they allowed her abnormal freak of a sister, Lily go off to some magical school named Hogswart or whatever the stupid place was called. But they won't let her go off to a highly respectable school in California!
Her mother stalked over to the television set and turned it off. "Petunia, when you are being talked to, you will acknowledge the person who is speaking to you. When they ask you to do something, especially if it is your father or myself, you are to do it. I am tired of how rude you've been ever since Lily got her letter." So her parents knew, she thought, that the whole reason she was upset is because they let her mad sister go to that Hogswart or whatever it is they called it. "Pay attention Petunia!"
Turning her back to her parents she stood there, arms crossed and defiant. "I refuse to listen to unfair, rude and inconsiderate parents." She turned long enough to glare at her parents. "You've gone mad I tell you! Mad! Ever since Little Lily got that bloody letter! I'm sick of it! You've both gone mad! She's a freak, don't you get that! A little, bloody, mad freak!"
"Damnit Petunia, shut the hell up and go to your room." Ordered her father angrily. Sulking she complied with her father's orders, even though she really wanted to yell back at him. But, she knew that wasn't wise. She'd get into even more trouble, which she can tell she was already in enough when both her mother and father raised their voices; and especially when her father used 'curse' words.
In her room, Petunia lays there crying. Why were her parents going mad? Why couldn't they see her sister for what she was? A complete freak, a loser, and a mad nutter, but none of that seemed to faze her parents. Maybe they were going mad too, like she'd yelled at them earlier.
She was sick of being treated like the baby of the family. She was older then Lily, and they're letting that stuck up snobbish freak travel to a school that they probably couldn't even lay eyes on – like that little pub, "the caldron" or whatever it was called. She really didn't care about that though. "I want to go to Mirristans Institution for Advanced learning, but no! I'm not the Little Angel Lily, so I'm not allowed to. I'm just CinderUnia."