Meet the Dursleys

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Well, enjoy this chapter, it's got a lot more going on than the last one!

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"Welcome, welcome! As you all know, we're here today so that I can officially give the title of the world's best Seeker. He was put on his school's Quidditch team at the young age of 11, and has helped them win countless times. Please welcome —"

SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP
DON'T WANNA HEAR IT
GET UP, GET UP, GET UP
GET OUT OF MY WAY...

"Wha—?" Harry woke up and sat upright in his bed. He had just been having quite a pleasant dream, but it was suddenly disrupted.

"Harry, turn down that music," Hermione said groggily next to him.

"It's not me, it's coming from..." Harry suddenly realized who it was. He jumped out of bed, ran across the hall to Dudley's room, and bellowed, "TURN THAT BLOODY MUSIC DOWN!"

The song stopped and Dudley turned around in his chair with a smirk on his face. "Did I wake you? So sorry." Harry gave him a deadly glare, but Dudley just sat there smirking.

Harry stomped across the room and pulled Dudley up by his shirt collar, and he had never been more glad that he was half a head taller than Dudley. "Listen, Dud. Your parents are at least making an effort to get along with Hermione and I. I'm not going to let you be the one to mess up our summer, okay?" He let go and Dudley plopped back onto the chair, obviously shocked because he didn't expect Harry to be that aggressive.

Harry left the room and went back to his own, where he found Hermione sitting up in the bed, looking confused.

"What just happened?" she asked.

"It's Dudley," Harry said angrily. "I think his main goal this summer is to make our summer a living hell."

"Aw Harry, we'll get through it, don't worry," Hermione said, sliding off the bed and wrapping her arms around him. "Besides, we can still threaten him with magic. Your idea, remember?"

Harry smiled, then said, "Well, since we're up already, might as well go down and get some breakfast." Hermione nodded, and they changed, then headed downstairs, where they found Vernon sitting at the table, glaring at them as they walked in.

"Oh great, they're going to start complaining about something again," Harry muttered to Hermione.

"Dudley told us that you were yelling at him. Is that true, boy?" Vernon asked, narrowing his eyes.

Harry rolled his eyes. "He played his music extra loud to purposely wake us up, and you expected me to just sit there and ignore him? And another thing, don't call me 'boy'."

"Might I remind you that this is not your house, and Dudley is allowed to play music at any volume that he wants," Vernon said angrily.

"Fine then," Harry said. "You know what, we're going out for breakfast."

He grabbed Hermione's hand and pulled her out of the room. As they were leaving, he could hear Petunia saying something that sounded like "Don't make trouble with them Vernon, and you too Dudley," and he was glad that at least one of them had a bit more sense than the other two.

"Harry, you shouldn't have been so rude," Hermione said as they walked along the street. "I mean, they might not give us their approval then."

"Don't worry Hermione, we have two whole months to persuade them. Trust me, we can do it," Harry said, smiling at her reassuringly.

They went to eat breakfast at a diner about two blocks down, and afterwards they headed back to the house. They found Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley standing in the front hall waiting for them.

Petunia nudged Vernon, then Vernon said reluctantly, "Sorry for that trouble before." Petunia looked satisfied, and she said, "Harry, Hermione can I have a word with you two? Alone?" she added, seeing the looks on Vernon and Dudley's faces.

She brought them out to the backyard, and said, "Harry, I'm sorry for not treating you like one of my own before. It was actually mostly Vernon that disliked my sister, so I was usually forbidden to speak of her. Well, I just wanted to let you two know that no matter what, I promise to give you my approval at the end of August. You know, you two make a very good couple." And with that surprise, she turned around and headed back into the house, leaving Harry and Hermione standing there in shock.

"Was...was your aunt actually being...nice?" Hermione asked after a moment.

Harry finally got over his shock and replied, "Yeah, I think she was. I mean, she always had more sense than the other two."

"I'm glad at least someone's on our side," Hermione said as they walked back into the house.

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Vernon knocked loudly on the door. "We're going to the Johnson's house. Dudley's staying here. I expect you two won't want to come along, so we're leaving now and we won't be back till night." Harry and Hermione heard his footsteps fading away as they sat on the bed, reading the Daily Prophet.

"Well, we won't have to deal with him all afternoon," Harry said as he skimmed over the front page. "But instead we've got Dudley."

After going through the whole newspaper, they quickly became bored. "Hey, you know, I can go out and rent a movie. Any requests?" Harry asked, getting up and putting on his shoes.

"Hm...bring anything back, it doesn't really matter," Hermione said.

"All right, I'll be back soon." Harry bent down and kissed her forehead, then left.

Hermione went downstairs a while later to go get a snack, when the front door suddenly burst open. Dudley and 2 of his friends came in, laughing and talking loudly. One of his friends suddenly stopped at the sight of Hermione.

"Hey Dud, you never told us you had a girlfriend," he said, looking Hermione up and down in a rather rude way.

"She's not my girlfriend, she's Potter's," Dudley replied, going red. "They're staying here for the summer."

"Oh?" His friend stepped forward and held his hand out to Hermione. "I'm Piers Polkiss." Hermione shook his hand, but when she tried to pull back, he wouldn't let go.

Hermione glared at him. "Let go of my hand, please," she said coolly. Piers let go and smirked at her.

"So where is Potter? Haven't seen him since those old days when we used to torture him," he said to Dudley.

Dudley turned to Hermione. "Yeah, where exactly did he go?"

"He went out to rent a movie," Hermione replied. She had lost her appetite for a snack, so she turned around and began going back up the stairs.

Piers reached out and grabbed her wrist roughly. "Going somewhere?" he asked.

"Yeah, anywhere but in this room with you three," Hermione replied, trying to shake his hand off, but not having much success.

"Cheeky aren't you?" Piers said, and he tightened his grip on her wrist, making her wince in pain.

"Piers, stop it, really," Dudley said quietly, and Hermione knew that he was afraid that she would use magic on them, which she would've done, but unfortunately, her wand was out of reach, lying on the desk in their room.

"I think you'd better let go of her. Now," a threatening voice said, and they all turned to see Harry standing there, holding a DVD in his hand and fuming.

"Well, well, if it isn't Potter himself," Piers said nastily. "And what makes you think that I would listen to your orders?"

"Because," Harry said calmly, "if you don't listen, I promise you that you won't be able to walk properly anymore after today."

"Is that so? What are you going to do?"

"Harry, please don't do what you're about to do," Dudley said in a timid voice. "Piers, John, let's go. Come on, I mean it. Piers, if you don't move this instant, I'll tell Kathy you've been cheating on her with—"

"All right all right, fine! Let's get out of here," Piers said hastily, and they left quickly, but not before Piers turned around and gave Harry a death glare.

Harry put the DVD on a desk and walked swiftly over to Hermione, who was cradling her wrist. "Hermione, are you all right? I shouldn't have left you here," he said, worry clearly evident in his voice.

"Harry, I'm fine, really. I'll just put a healing spell on my wrist, don't worry about it," Hermione said.

"You sure?"

"Yes Harry, I'm positive. And Harry?"

"Hm?"

"You worry too much."

"Of course I have to, it's my job." And with that, Harry leaned over, picked Hermione up, and carried her up the stairs and into their room, forgetting all about the DVD.

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A/N: Okay, that's the end of another chapter, I really hope you guys are enjoying this story! I ended it there so your imaginations can do the rest of the work because this is not an M-rated fic lol:) Reviews please!

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