Chapter 1
Ten Years Passing
- No More You-Know-Who! -
Ladies and gentlemen of the wizarding world, there is no more You-Know-Who! News of his defeat occurred last night as we all sat at home not knowing how long all of us were going to live. The babies Harry James Potter, the son of Aurors James and Lily Potter and Serena Irene Argentum, the daughter of Obliviators Apollo and Selena Argentum were the cause of You-Know-Who's fall. The parents of these magical tots were unfortunately killed by He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named and there is much to celebrate at this historic event. No one knows what has happened to have lead to You-Know-Who's defeat except for the fact that he is finally gone! Where Harry Potter and Serena Argentum are now, no one knows either. Minutes after He-Who-Should-Not-Be-Named died, Harry was taken away from the scene with Serena following him. Hogwarts Headmaster, Professor Albus Dumbledore only has this to say: "Both children are in safe places."
The Tuskons of Number 9 Mossmerry Avenue were a lively couple that lived in a very nice house painted green. They were both muggles whom had a little girl that was nearly one years old and another along the way. Mr Tuskon was a tall man with blonde hair and blue eyes while his wife was petite with long strawberry-blonde hair and blue eyes as well. They were a very good-looking couple but from looking at them now, but there was a time when both seemed bedraggled and grieving. The couple had lost a very good friend of theirs by the name of Apollo Argentum whom they met while going to London at a very small café in 1980. The couple had gotten married and both were both nineteen years of age when they met him. He had just been divorced and Aileen who couldn't leave anyone with their grief asked him if he wanted to sit with them since the café had been full.
The couple treated him with kindness and soon after that they had all became friends. They found out that Apollo had gotten broken-hearted from a girlfriend of his but a year later, all three were happy. Aileen had her second child, a son two months after meeting him and Apollo sent him his congrats. The Tuskons were having financial trouble when their new friend told them about him getting married. When they congratulated him, he was shocked when he found out that they couldn't make it to the wedding, he sent them money. The Tuskons were grateful and as they joined Apollo at a wedding ceremony between himself and his new wife Selena Nule, they found a new world to explore. Apollo was a wizard!
Another year later, Selena was pregnant with their daughter Serena. Aileen and Selena exchanged words and so on when they found to their great horror that Selena's father died. The Tuskons rose magnificently to meet the challenge of helping Selena through the birth and grief. The year 1984 was a year all of them couldn't forget for they all had a good time. However, all good things had to end and just as their happiness seemed to overflow, 5 months after Serena was born; a murderer in their own killed both Apollo and Selena while they were out at a friend's home. It was also in this year that the couple felt grief beyond repair when an old man that looked akin to that of Father Christmas gave them a letter and handed Serena to them personally. Serena was legally handed over to the Tuskons seeing that they were to be her legal guardians. This all happened in the year of 1984 with the exception of Serena's birth. Close to three years of being friends with the Argentums.
Serena was happy. She had an older sister in Mina Lynn Tuskon despite their difference in names and an older brother in Samuel Jason Tuskon. All three got along and all three didn't know that they were in for the ride of a lifetime. It was in the summer of 1986. Mina was five years old, Sammy was four and Serena was barely three when all of them came in touch with grief. Their parents had died in a car crash and their wills stated that Mina and Sammy would all have to live with their own family friend Arabella Figg who lived short of ten blocks away from Number 9 Mossmerry Avenue.
Serena however was a different story. The Tuskons were her parents first choice guardians and in their own will since she was not to be adopted despite the fact they were her legal guardians, her parents had decided for her to live with Harry Potter's family or wherever Harry Potter was living. These made matters stranger and worse. The Dursleys, Harry Potter's only living relatives were an uptight lot who didn't want anything to do with their nephew Harry Potter. To take in Serena was a call for injustice and they wouldn't have taken her if it weren't for the fact that the Argentums had added that the Potters or those that were related to the Potters who took Serena in would get a million pounds when the little girl turned ten. An additional hundred thousand pounds was added after that if Serena stayed for longer. The Dursleys in the end took her in only out of greed.
As the years wore on, Serena and Harry became exceptionally good friends despite their year and three weeks age difference, with Harry being the oldest. The two would help the Dursleys and both went to different schools. A girl's school for Serena where she stayed with Mina and met some new friends all different and unique while Harry went with Sammy to a boy's school where the two was constantly picked on. If one were in trouble the other would bloody try the hardest to help their friend.
The Dursley family consisted of three mean people. There was Vernon Dursley a heavy-set man with three chins and a weak chin. His eyes were dark, beady and always seemed to be suspicious of something. He had disliked Harry from the moment that the boy had been left upon the doorstep when he was a baby. Then there was Petunia Dursley, a tall blonde woman whose neck was long, ears alert for gossip and eyes that were slit perfectly to make her look apprehensive of anyone. The last person in this sorry lot of non-magic folk was Dudley Dursley who was threatening to be the size of Big Ben who had greasy blonde hair and large eyes that wanted almost everything. It's almost safe to say though there are many uncertainties, that despite their fears, the Dursleys were a very strong lot of folks that grudgingly took on the challenge of raising two children not their own. The family themselves probably took a liking to Harry and Serena quite unconsciously for it showed in their daily actions.
For ten years, there was peace and quiet. At least as peaceful as it could get within Number 4 Privet Drive. There were many instances when Harry and Dudley would get into arguments. Harry would take the brunt of the blame but then would have Serena help him out of the tough situation with suggesting Harry's 'punishment' then work with him on it while apologizing profusely for she did not want to have suggested anything in the first place. Most of the time the two hung out together and it was on the rare occasions did they visit Mina Lynn or Sammy when the Dursleys went out.
The two children, however, were very strange or in any case found themselves in weird predicaments. There was one time when Harry was running away from Dudley and Piers, one of Dudley's friends who were chasing him with a large plastic sword. The two boys wanted to use Harry as a practice dummy and Harry ran for his life. This situation took around the afternoon that Mina Lynn and Serena were playing outside with Julian, one of Arabella Figg's cats. The two girls were walking down the street with Julian to show Harry when they saw the scene. No one knew how it happened except for the fact that Harry was safe in a tree and the two boys had fallen into a heap with their shoe laces tied in a way where it seemed that all of these things done by an invisible force.
Mina Lynn was told to go home by Aunt Petunia while Uncle Vernon locked Serena and Harry up in the cupboard where the two felt the unjustness of the situation. Serena had cried in Harry's arms telling him that she was the one that caused them to be in trouble but found to her own surprise that Harry thought that it was cool what happened. Both children were eight years old and nine years old, respectively.
Another strange occurrence that earned Harry and Serena an awful punishment of cleaning up the snow, cleaning the upstairs washroom and doing the laundry without breakfast or lunch for a week was around Christmas time. Piers, Dudley's friend, had been trying to kiss Serena from under the mistletoe for he thought that she was rather pretty. Mind you, having a boy chase you around is a sweat thing to do, but Piers had a knack for looking scary. He chased her into a corner while the Dursleys had turned pale with fright and both Harry & Dudley were laughing profusely. It wasn't until Serena squealed with fright that something bizarre happened. Harry stopped laughing and widened his eyes when he saw that Piers was hurting her. The room seemed to have exploded as the Dursleys floated in the air and Piers was upside down with the mistletoe above his head. Serena was unharmed but pulled towards Harry before the two left for their cupboard. The Dursleys yelled and Pier was screaming. After that day, the two had been once again given no food but for two days and made to clean the entire house without going outside.
Of course the oddest things happened when Serena or Harry were out of the house either shopping with Aunt Petunia or with Aunt Bella (at least that's what Serena called her, Harry kept insisting on Mrs Figg). The two would be just walking down the street and strange people in cloaks or top hats in bright colours would come up to them and shake their hands. Once outside of a grocery store a small man ran past them and Serena accidentally tripped, colliding with him almost instantaneously. The small man said it was quite all right and seemed to be at awe in front of Serena. Aunt Petunia picked Serena up and left almost immediately except the man saw Harry and began shaking Harry's hand. These people miffed Aunt Petunia apparently for they didn't go into the shop but left hurriedly with Aunt Petunia irritated beyond belief.
Therefore, it was, ten years passed since Harry and Serena entered the Dursleys' lives. Thus, it was that the Dursleys got more than they bargained when in the year Harry turned eleven.