"Morning darling, I dug out the spare high chair for Harry. Maybe later we should go shopping to get some more stuff for the boys," Vernon said, unfazed by his sister in laws hawk sitting next to him. He was slightly curious as to what was in the box but Petunia usually told him. He assumed that the letter had been sent by Lily before she was killed, however she was killed.
Petunia placed a boy in each of the high chairs and warmed their bottles up in the microwave before sitting down in front of the box. It was a plain cardboard box. Inside there was two vials, two wands, a photo that moved, a large piece of material, five golden keys, a mirror and a stuffed toy of a snake. On top of these items was a thick letter.
Dear Petunia and Vernon,
If you are receiving this letter then I am dead. I am very sorry. I wish I could have met up with you one more time. Enclosed is a key to a vault. Vault number 1059. This vault is what I have left to you. It contains all my diaries, my school stuff and some money. I want you to use that money to buy yourself only things that will make you happy. I love you very much sister and I had hoped that I could have had enough time to get to know my brother too.
However, that is not why I am writing this letter. I am worried for my baby's welfare. In my will I have written that I do not want Harry to be given to you. This is not an insult to your parenting skills but more of a test. I also mentioned to a few people that I didn't want Harry to go to you if I died because I though you might abuse him as you hate magic. I am sorry for this but it had to be done. If Harry was delivered to your house then my suspiscions are correct.
There is a prophecy made that says that Harry will be the one to vanquish the Dark Lord. That is why we were sent into hiding in the first place. There is a spell that can keep a house a secret so even if you are on the property but do not know it is there then you cannot see it. This is the spell that was used on our house. We tried to get Albus Dumbledore, our old headmaster and leader of the war effort to be our Secret Keeper (the person who can tell you where the house is so you can see it) but he refused saying that it would be the most obvious choice. He also stopped us from using James' best friend for the same reason. Instead he suggested that we use a friend who is very meek and feeble. If I am dead then it means that he has betrayed us. I have enclosed a mirror. Say into it 'Sirius Black'. It will let you talk to our friend. I implore that you do it quickly as he will most likely do something rash after our deaths. He was the friend that was not chosen. Tell him that you have a letter from me and you need him to come over here to see Harry. Do this before you continue reading because Sirius will need to help you with the rest of the things that I must ask of you.
Petunia and Vernon, who was reading it with his wife, decided that they would do that now. Petunia lifted the mirror out of the box carefully and spoke to it as she had been told to by her sister.
"Sirius Black," a face appeared in it that looked tired and drawn.
"Who are you? What do you want? How did you get this"
"My name is Petunia Dursley. My sister Lily Potter gave me this mirror. She told me to contact you as soon as I could. I need you to come to 4 Privet Drive to see to Harry," Petunia said to the man.
"I'll be there as soon as I can," the man said and disappeared off the screen. Petunia took this oppurtunity to feed the two boys and by the time dudley had finished his bottle there was a knock at the door.
"Hello, I am Sirius Black. Where is Harry?" the man at the door said. He had black hair and dark eyes. These were made even darker by the black circles around them.
"He's through in the kitchen with my wife," Vernon said to him and beckoned him inside. Sirius follwed him into the kitchen where Petunia was washing up the bottles the boys had just drank from. Sirius went over to Harry and picked him up to hug him.
"Unca Sirri!" Harry squealed in delight at the man. dudley, seeing this joined in an reached his arms up.
"Unca Sirri tooo!" Sirius chuckled and picked him up too.
"Why did you call me here? Harry is fine and you don't seem upset with him," Sirius inquired.
"Lily told us to before we continued to read the rest of her letter. She said that you might do something rash if we didn't call soon and that we would need you to help us soon. Apparently she had some suspiscions about Dumbledore," Vernon explained to the relative stranger holding his son and nephew. Sirius just nodded and Petunia picked up the letter again.
Hello Sirius. I hope that Pet got through to you before you did anything to Peter. Go to Moody and get him to give you verisateum so that it is proven that you are not the secret keeper. We will need you alive and out of Azkaban if what I fear is correct. When Dumbledore did not do everything he could to help us I grew suspiscious. He seemed to want to use my little Harry as a tool in this war. He almost gave us away without it looking like it. He was so sure that Harry would defeat the Dark Lord without trying. If Harry is here now then it means that he definitely wants him to be used as a tool. He wants Harry to be abused so that he will be easier to control when the time is right. So Harry worships him. No doubt he wrote a letter telling you, Petunia, not to spoil Harry. He probably also tried to scare you about Harry's accidental magic so that you would try to curb it. If this is the case then I want you to top Harry from getting into his clutches.
I did some research after I left school. I found out that I am not a Muggleborn but instead descendants of a line of squibs. We're related to Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. Slazar was also related to Merlin. This means that Petunia and I have very powerful magical blood running through our veins. Dudley will most likely show some magic if given the right environment. Harry has already. His favourite trick is 'carousel' where he makes all his toys rise in the air and spin around. Enclosed is two vials. Inside them are potions to detect how much magic the person who's blood is in the potion has. Sirius will be familiar with them so that is his first job. Find out if Harry and Dudley have magic and how much they have. There is also two small wands. These are for the boys so Sirius can teach them. It will not appear on any radar because they have not started a school yet.
Sirius' biggest task will be to teach the boys how to behave in the wizarding world. Remus will most likely help you here. They will need to know all the etiquette, laws and customs. Dumbledore does not want this because Harry will be more naive and so easier to mislead. It must be done if he is to continue the Potter line. Sirius, you were basically raised by the Potter's so you know their family customs. The other 4 keys enclosed are to the remaining Potter vaults. Use this money and the objects inside. Many are family heirlooms but some are useful. The goblins at Gringotts will tell you about each of the homes that James owns. You can use any of these. All but Godrics Hollow are well warded, unplottable and unknown to Dumbledore.
The final thing I must tell you about is another school for Harry and Dudley to attend. Many do not know about it because very few are eligible to enter. When the four founders set up Hogwarts, they also set up another school for the more powerful students. These students would easily surpass others and could possibly be a danger if not taught control early. As such this school takes children when they are 8 as well as 11. The school is called Schola Magicae. It has a different Headmaster than Hogwarts and the Ministry have no control over what is taught there. Slytherin made sure to include a law that cannot be broken about this. If the potion given to the boys turns black then they are eligible to attend at 11. If it turns black and then turns to bright red then they will be sent a letter at 8. Should the potion turn any other colour then I hope that you send the boys away to a magical school in France or Russia instead.
Petunia, Harry's favourite food is mushed banana with honey and he has an intolerance to gluten but he'll probably grow out of this soon. His favourite toy is the snake I put in this box. Be warned, he can talk to snakes. This is an ability passed down the Sltherin line so Dudley may be able to do this to. The cloak inside is an invisibility cloak. It is James' but he says to give it to you as we won't be using it again. The boys will have much fun with it though. It may be useful for Sirius too. The photo was the last one taken of all of us at your wedding.
I hope that this letter is not sent and if it is then someone has heeded my lies about you so I am proven wrong about Dumbledore. If not then I wish you the best of luck.
Lily and James Potter
The three adults in the kitchen were left fairly shocked, especially Sirius as he had always looked up to Dumbledore. However, now he thought about it, he could see how Dumbledore had never really done all he could do to protect them. Sirius knew what he had to do now. All thoughts of finding Peter Pettigrew and blasting him into pieces were forgotten. He had to help raise little Harry and his cousin Dudley. Firstly though he had to contact Remus.
He reached into his pocket and got out a mirror much like the one that Petunia had spoken to him on earlier. Into he said "Remus Lupin". A man with hazel eyes and golden brown hair answered the other end. He looked worse for wear also.
"Sirius! Have you heard the news? It's awful!" the man cried out the mirror distraughtly.
"Yes Remus. I'm at Lily's sisters house. Lily sent her a letter to be delivered after her and James' death. You have to come over here and read it. We'll need your help. Can you apparate to my location"
"Yes. I'll be right through," Remus said and then cut off the connection. a second later the was a pop and Remus had arrived.
"Harry!" Remus gasped and took him out of Petunia's arms where he was currently residing, "My poor boy"
"Remus, Lily and James sent us a letter. In it Lily tells us her suspiscions about Dumbledore and how we should help Petunia and Vernon bring up Harry and Dudley in the wizarding world. You should read it," Sirius said picking up the long letter and handing it to him whilst Vernon took Harry and placed him back into his highchair next to Dudley. They were soon both playing with the toy snake.
As Remus read the letter his facial expression changed from grief to disbelief to anger and finally to grim determination. His eyes had turned slightly amber as he ground out, "Dumbledore is never getting hold of our boys" to the other's present. They nodded in agreement. After reading that and seeing how sweet Harry was the all swore to themselves to protect him and Dudley as much as possible.
"The first thing we need to do is see whether they can get into Schola Magicae then," Remus said lifting the two vials out of the box. He grabbed Harry's hand first and teld it over the top of the vial. Two drops of his blood dripped into the potion but Harry did not cry out because the charm to cut his hand also healed straight after. Remus then repeated this with Dudley.
"The potion will take two hours to develop. Do you have another cot or should we go shopping now?" Sirius asked Petunia and Vernon who were slightly in awe of the wizards power.
"No, we need to get some things for Harry. Should we go and see the goblins about the other houses? Would it be safer to move to somewhere that the Dumbledore fellow can't find us? don't you have to go to see that Moody person about clearing your name or something?" Vernon asked the dark haired wizard.
"We'll go to the Ministry first so Sirius can talk to Alastor. Then we can go to Diagon Alley to talk to Griphook. He was the Potter family goblin. He is in control of all their affairs. You can go to the vaults afterwards with Sirius. I'll go and see what I can find in Flourish and Botts that will help us. There has to be something about Schola Magicae. Look in the vaults for any books too Sirius. Then we can get some money transferred into Muggle money and get new stuff for the boys. I suppose we should get you some Wizarding clothes as well for when you go there. Does that sound okay?" Remus asked. He was the best person to be in control. Petunia and Vernon knew next to nothing about the magical world so were happy that a wizard was taking charge. Sirius was happy for Remus to as well. Sirius would be the first person to admit that he was not a leader and would never be organised.
Remus transfigured some tea towels into robes for Petunia and Vernon before the left the house. Once they were far enough away from the house to avoid arousing attention, Sirius heralded the Knight Bus and before they knew it they were all off in the purple triple decker to the Ministry of Magic in London.