Chapter 3: Meet Grandfather
"What's going on?" Harry asked the founders.
"We forgot to tell you; your body is growing so it can hold all the power you've been given." Godric said.
"Ok"
"Wake up, boy, now" Aunt Petunia said, "Their here…" Then she paled, "W-w-what h-happened?"
"Why do you look like you've seen a ghost?"
"I think that I'm seeing a ghost." Aunt Petunia said as she helped him up. "Go to the bathroom and clean up; then came downstairs and make dinner." [1]
"Ok, Aunt Petunia." Harry said. He walked into the bathroom and started to wonder if he was looking in the Mirror of Erised because he thought he was looking at his father. Now he knew why Aunt Petunia looked like she saw a ghost.
He when downstairs to cook dinner and brace himself for the worst.
the bell rings
"Boy, get the door!" Uncle Vernon yelled.
"Yes, sir." Harry said as he went to the door and opened it. Marge Dursley and her dog, Ripper; and a man with green eyes and graying red hair, holding a gray and black tabby cat, where standing in the doorway.
The man let the tabby cat down and it ran to Harry because Ripper started barking at it; Harry picked it up to protect it.
"Hello, Marge. Hello, Mr. Evans." Uncle Vernon said.
"Hello, daddy." Aunt Petunia said as she came forward and hugged her father.
"Hello, my daughter." Grandfather said as he hugged his daughter.
Marge sees Harry and asks, "You're still here?"
"Yes, ma'am." Harry replied.
"You know, you're so lucky that you were dropped on their doorstep. If you were put on mine, off to the orphanage you'd go!" Marge said.
"Yes, ma'am." Harry replied.
"If you did that, my wife and her boss would be very angry. So angry, in fact, that there might just be consequences." Grandfather said.
"What are you talking about? Mother hasn't been alive since I was 5 years old. Do you feel ill, daddy?" Aunt Petunia asked all at once.
"She works for 'Felix'?" Harry asked.
"Yes, Harry, in fact you know her quite well." Grandfather answered.
"I'm hungry, lets eat," Marge said, rudely interrupting.
"Yes let's." Grandfather. Then in a lower voice heard only be Harry, he said, "I'll talk to you again later."
Harry just barely made it though dinner. He thought heavily on what he would ask Grandfather about and what answers the night might bring.
"Harry, I'll meet you up in your room soon." Grandfather said. "Can you take my cat with you?"
Harry quite confused, did what Grandfather asked him to do.
"Why do you even talk to the boy. Do you know he's nothing but trouble!" Marge said.
"The only trouble he gets in is being on the wanted list of one very bad person." Grandfather said.
"But Dudley…" Marge stated to say.
But Grandfather cut-in, "Did not lose his parents to evil when he was one. Did not face his parents' killer not once, not twice, not three times, not four times, but five times; including when he was one. Did not face the person who betrayed his parents. Did not lose his father figure to evil either. And does not put his life in danger for others."
"Well at least Vernon has a job and is not a drunk." Marge said.
"No. Both James and Lily were not drunk when they died or at any other time, and before they went into hiding; James was a police officer and Lily was the defense teacher at the school she went to."
"At least my brother and sister-in-law didn't get themselves killed." Marge said smugly.
"No. James and Lily died to protect Harry. And the whole reason why evil is after Harry now is because he's done something other haven't seceded in…"
"And what's that" Marge said interrupting.
"Living."
"He's back?!?" Petunia asked as she paled. Then turned to Dudley, "Go to your room. NOW."
"But…" Dudley started to say.
"Dudley, please go upstairs for a while." Grandfather said interrupting.
"Yes, Granddad." Dudley said. Then he left the room.
"Yes, my daughter, he's back." Grandfather said.
"And why is that important?" Marge asked.
"Tom Riddle, the man who killed James and Lily, is back and has put Harry high on the list of the people that he wants to kill in person." Grandfather answered back.
"And how do you know this, daddy?" Petunia asked.
"Your mother." He answered.
"But..." Petunia started to say.
"She work at the school that Lily and James went to and where Harry is going to now." Grandfather said interrupting.
"First off, you said that the Potters were murdered. I was told they where killed in a car crash. And I was told he goes to a school for criminals. Are you trying to tell me that my brother is a liar?" Marge asked.
"What? I know for a fact that they were murdered. Harry goes to the best school ever created. He goes to the school that was created by his ancestors. And you know what, he just learned the truth sometime ago." Grandfather answered back, trying to keep his emotions under control.
"Sir, why do you defend him?" Uncle Vernon asked.
"Vernon, do you what to find yourself the same way your sister was almost three years ago. Because the lies you have told have just about put me over the top!" He said as he mover his hand for something in his pants pocket.
"You don't know how much trouble he gets into..." Uncle Vernon started to say.
"I bet he and his friends get into the same amount of trouble that his father and friends got into but for different reasons." Grandfather said interrupting.
"Different reasons?!?" Aunt Petunia asked.
"Harry gets in trouble for doing things that he things that he thinks is right and ends up defending the school and the students with in it." Grandfather said. "James and his friends got in trouble for pulling pranks when they were in school. Now if you excuse me, I would like to talk to Harry."
UPSTAIRS
"You know their talking about you and no one is defending you." Dudley said.
"Go away."
"He doesn't..." All of a sudden his mouth was moving but nothing was coming out.
"Dudley." A voice said.
Dudley turned and saw Grandfather standing behind him with a wand out.
Harry peeked out of his room and saw one very fat pig running around squealing.
"Oink, oink, oink" The pig said.
"Oh, gosh!" Harry said stunted. "Is that Dudley?"
"What is going on up here..." Aunt Petunia started to say as she came up the stairs but stop short when she saw the pig. "Boy, what did you do?!?"
"Nothing."
"Don't lie to me, boy." Aunt Petunia said
"Petunia, I accidentally did it." Grandfather said.
"WHAT?!?" Harry and Aunt Petunia exclaimed at the same time.
"I'll change him back." Grandfather said, and with a wave of his wand Dudley was back to normal. Dudley was shaking.
"Come, Harry," he said, "we need to talk."
[1] Harry looks more like James now with all of his new power.