"Ella!" Rilla called into the darkness of the sewer, still clutching the bewitched timepiece in front of her. "Barnaby! Imogen! Anyone home?"

Courtney consulted the hands over her cousin's shoulder. "There used to be dozens of hands, weren't there?" She scrambled down the ladder. "Look, now there's only you and I, Dexter, Geoffrey, Brenda, and Alfred."

Ever logical, Rilla pondered. "Too old to be asleep and too young to be fighting. Except Dexter—he's just a coward, I suppose: he would be hiding with the rest. Well, it looks like our generation is all that's left of the great Dursley clan."

Courtney shook her head as Minister McClaggen cast memory charms within a five meter radius at the muggles. "So, Dorian, is this why you wanted us to kiss up to the Light Side?"

Mark nodded at McClaggen's disapparating figure. "The good minister has agreed to provide protective amulets to the muggles as the Bagnold administration did the last time this happened, before you lot were born. All that remains is to apologize—you were exactly right about the damage wizards are capable of."

Dexter and his younger cousins had cautiously peeked their heads out of their closet hiding space and emerged to greet the delegation. "Was that… was that Voldemort?" Brenda ventured.

Alfred looked suspiciously at Brian and Mark's nodding heads. "Then you were wrong," he challenged Dorian. "Magicians are evil."

"No," the beleaguered activist responded patiently. "Voldemort and a few dozen of his followers are evil. Most wizards fear and despise this one, but he seems to be gaining power again."

"Yeah," said Geoffrey, "You can't judge all of England by the Whigs."

The Dursleys glanced at each other appraisingly. "What do you say we make our parents proud?" asked Brenda.

"Proud?" Dexter repeated. "They'll be turning in their graves! However, they are not here anymore. I suppose I am now the eldest of the family, and I say we make sure this doesn't happen again."

Alfred smiled. "It's agreed, then. No more D'Angelo Dursleys and Real Dursleys. We're all in this together now."