Once Amelia gets back with Emma, she asks if she can come back in to talk to them.
As they'd already called off for the morning Emma agrees. Over breakfast she outlines the responsibilities that they will be expected to uphold as members of the magical world. These are things that span all magical beings, not just witches and wizards. The most important one, and the one that has the most serious penalties for an egregious breach of the law, is the Statute of Secrecy. She goes through an overview of the history of it, and how the Christian church made it necessary.
"We had one of Petunia's friends over last night after she couldn't control her magic around her. Her name is Karen and she works at the Library in Little Whinging. She promised to keep stuff a secret, and she's already helped us in what we were researching. Before you say anything, consider Nixie here.
"Unless you're going to tell Petunia to cut off all contact with her, you won't be able to remove her memories permanently. There's also that other idea, especially if you can persuade her to be scanned before anything could happen.
"After all, all of us, including the kids, are practicing meditation in order to deal with the potential problem before it occurs.
"Finally, Petunia can't be relocated from Little Whinging, as that's where whatever protections Albus Dumbledore put up for Harry's protection are"
"You raise valid points, but I'm still duty bound to deal with the breach. However, it does give me more leeway to apply for an exemption from the statute for her. Typically, they are only given out to people who are absolutely essential to being able to maintain the statute, such as the Queen and the sitting Prime Minister. Though the latter is only given out in a time of an emergency, the last was Margret Thatcher during the war. Not even spouses are exempt, though I suspect that if word of this becomes public knowledge, a lot of people with muggle spouses will be trying it, so we'll need to get ahead of that. Great, another thing I need to worry about, and I can't trust Fudge as he's as easily bought as a chocolate frog.
"I'd like it if you would both consent to a full medical exam at St Mungo's to see if there is any difference between you and a normal magical. I would also like to do it for Hermione wasn't it?"
Dan answers this one "I think I'd like more information about what exactly would be involved in this, and what the consequences are. Also, no offence to you personally, but I don't think I'd like it to be part of our legal record no matter what we decide."
Amelia laughed, "don't worry I see your point."
They talked about their children for a bit, and eventually Amelia had to go.
"I've got to go and check in at St Mungo's to find out how Petunia is doing. Would you like to come, and you could also talk to one of the Healers at the same time."
Dangling the carrot in front of them she added "I'm going to be getting Harry from Hogwarts later, as Petunia is his legal guardian. He's going to need somewhere to stay tonight. Of course, I'd be more than willing to offer the use of my home, and bring Susan home to keep him company."
As expected Emma bites "He already knows us and has stayed with us overnight with Hermione, he's always welcome here. I'll come with you." She looks at Dan.
"You too and we close the practice for the day?"
"Yep, I'm in, I'll give Laura a call."
A short time later and the wonders of side-along apparition, Emma and Dan enter St Mungo's with Amelia. After talking to the welcome witch, Amelia leads them an impossible distance into the Hospital before they arrive at Petunia's ward. Where they meet the lead healer. They find out that as she's stable she's been transferred from Trauma to an in patient ward, Emma ensures that she has a good hold on Nixie, as she doesn't want to put a patient at risk by losing track of her. Even so she can see her waving her tentacles around excitedly. This leads to questions from the Healer, which leads to more discussions and the discovery that they are qualified muggle doctors. Eventually, Amelia gives up trying to get more of a status update than "She hasn't woken up yet." And interrupts them long enough to let them know she's going to Hogwarts to pick up Harry and Hermione.
An hour later and the conversation is well and truly derailed when Hermione barrels into Dan with a hug that takes him off his feet. She started babbling about how her term had been going, the new stuff she'd been learning, her progress with meditation, the fact that Harry was now a girl, making new friends, and the absolute tradigy that was the fact they were limiting her book reading time in the evenings. Oh and thank you for photocopying the charter.
Emma looked at the pair with a fond expression before glancing over to Harry who was stood there with a wistful expression on her face. Walking over she slowly enfolded him in a hug, Nixie climbed onto his hair chittering excitedly before settling there, her tentacles rooting through it.
"How are you?"
"I'm fine."
"And the rest?"
"I'm worried about Aunt Petunia."
She led him over to one of the chairs, and slowly coaxed his concerns and worries out of him. She was absolutely mortified that she'd been mentally calling her a him when she found out that they were currently female. Emma pretended to be offended when she laughed at her reaction, and explained that it was fine, it confuses her too.
Amelia watched this with a wistful smile on her face before asking the doctor to let her know once Petunia woke up, and then heading back to the office.
Nixie's Big Day
Nixie was excited, her person had just started letting their magic do what it did naturally. It tasted so much better when they did that rather than holding it till it got stagnant. She was almost dislodged from her meal when they got up and rushed to the place they stored the stuff that they used to repair their personal armour. Then they started to cut off their nest material, this was good until they almost got her tail, so she fled to hide for a while. Her person left before she brought up the courage to go back to them. Quickly checking that she was the only one left in the cave, she retrieved as much of the nest material as she could. It still had some food in it, so it would good to tide her over next time her person left without her.
She didn't realise when she took the nest material that she'd need it so soon, but her person hadn't come back yet, and the sun was starting to go down. She'd watched a lot of tree people walk past they just weren't worth the effort of breaching their armour, she'd tried it once when she was young before she came to this place. It took too long for too little return, she'd almost been eaten by a larger predator ground walker, and the food just wasn't that filling. She even saw a weak person walk past, as well as some weak armoured predator ground walkers, if she could get out of the cave she supposed the weak person could feed her given that she hadn't seen any predators that would be able to catch her. She ended her desperate search for an exit at the transparent wall that the light was coming in to avoid the temptation to waste more energy looking for an exit she already couldn't find.
Just as the sun was touching the caves that she could see out of the clear wall the tree person came into the cave and resealed the cave before she could get to that side of the cave. Ooohh, she could sense it carried treats around with it so once it stopped moving around she gorged herself on treats and then went and laid down in her nest.
Her person came home later and the tree person brough them up to their nest while she was digesting the treats. Later she was able to feed on her person and returned to her nest to sleep.
Her person and the tree person had left the cave without her waking up, this was a disaster. She ran around the cave to check, but they didn't return before the sun rose. She went to the clear wall where she could see tree people walking past and waited to see if they would come back, but no one came and she was starving. She'd wasted so much energy looking around the cave and she'd eaten the food she'd stored in the nest. Just when she wasn't sure whether she'd be able to hang on any longer weak people that looked stronger than that almost tree person, she decided that these were not-tree people, and the other one was an almost-tree person from the previous day breached the cave. Normally she'd try to defend the cave, but they were carrying treats and they'd left treats outside the cave and she was so hungry. Going with the safer option she went out and gathered gorged herself on treats. The not tree-people then came out and started making more treats, so even though she wasn't hungry she started gathering up the treats and storing them in her nest. She wanted to be sure that if her person was gone for a long time again she wouldn't go hungry for at least a day.
She was in heaven, there were no predators, and the not-tree people kept putting down treats, she liked the flavour and texture of the ones they placed in the air best, but she had to jump to get those. The ones they placed on the tree people were harder and less filling, but still nicer than scavenged food. She paused running around once her nest was full, sniffing around she realised that there was no scavengeable food, only the people and the treats the not-tree people left around. Deciding that she didn't want to be stranded away from her nest, she started to make more nests amongst the roots of tree-trees. Eventually some of the not tree-people started leaving small treats on the ground amongst the grass on the other side of the cave from where the tree people walked. Finally, a person arrived with a not-tree person, as she was exhausted she climbed up to their nesting material and started to nap.
When she woke up the person had gone to a place where there were so many different treats around that her tentacles itched to taste them all. But the person she was with caught her before she could get to one.