Title: Petunia Evans and the Foundation of the Wizarding World

Rating: T

Summary: No one knows how wizards and witches got their magic and most have given up trying to figure it out. This is the story of Petunia Evans suddenly falling into magic and how one moment unlocks the foundation of the Wizarding world.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of Rowling's characters and I'm making nothing from this.

Chapter 2: Going to St. Mungo

Petunia's nerves were rattled due to the windows of the car exploding and all around her things floated. No, this wasn't Lily's doing this; this was what she was doing. What the heck had that dog given her?

"Petunia, you need to calm down."

"How can I damn calm down," Petunia asked. "I'm making things float."

"I'm going to take you to St. Mungo," Mrs. Snape told her. "However, you're going to have to tell them what happened."

Petunia nodded, not caring that she was going to a hospital that might be for freaks. She just wanted some damn answers.

Petunia had no idea how they had even got there, but when tables started to dance most of those that were inside the waiting room got up and moved to another part of the room. Mrs. Snape told the nurse, that's what Petunia thought she was, about what was going on.

"Her blood status," the nurse asked.

"She's a muggle," Mrs. Snape told her.

"I'm sorry but-."

Lightning hit the wall and the nurse backed away in horror.

"Just get me better," Petunia begged.

"Okay, what happened?" the nurse asked and Petunia told her about the dog.

She was taken to magical bites and left there. A man came around and waved his wand and Petunia could 'feel' something going around her area. Mrs. Snape wrote something down and left. She came back five minutes later and sat down.

"I doubt you were bitten by a werewolf," she said. "Even if the thing appeared during the full moon."

"Then what was it?"

"I have no idea," Mrs. Snape told her.

The man came back and walked up to the field that Petunia was now surrounded by. Petunia was waiting to hear that she had some freak disease or something.

"I'm going to take some of your blood to make sure that the thing wasn't a werewolf," he told them. "I won't use needles, as we don't believe in them."

Petunia had no idea what he was going to do and that made her bed float a couple of inches off the ground.

"It looks like she's got uncontrolled magic," the woman that had walked in said. "Accidental magic, you might say."

"I'm non-magical," Petunia said. "How can I have uncontrolled magic?"

"I have no idea."

Thankfully taking her blood hadn't been as bad as her nerves told her that it would be and she calmed a bit. Everyone waited and Mrs. Snape told her that she had sent a letter to her son, to let Lily know, that she was at St. Mungo.

"Don't you need to be home," Petunia told her.

"This is more important," she said. "What I want to know is what made you decide to come to me?"

"Because I knew that you were like Lily."

Three hours later the man came back and he gave Petunia a really odd look. He took a seat and said, "Well I can tell you that you don't have to worry about becoming a werewolf. You don't have the disease in your blood. However, your blood is overly saturated with magic, like we see in Purebloods.

"How is this even possible?" Mrs. Snape said.

"I don't know," he said. "I'm going to have to get ahold of the Ministry, the Department of Mysteries. This is a mystery and it needs to be solved."

"My parents," Petunia said.

"I'll have someone let them know."

"How long will I be here?"

"Until we can find out what gave you magic and how to control what you have," he told her. "I'll make sure that you enjoy your time here."

And he got up and left.

For the first day there were odd people that came and checked her over. Mrs. Snape told her that they were from the Ministry. The second day her parents finally arrived. Petunia cried out when they tried to touch her and the field wouldn't allow that.

"Oh my baby," Mrs. Evans cried out.

"Miss Evans, can you draw?" one of the Ministry workers asked her.

"Yes," Petunia answered. "Why?"

"We need for you to draw the animal that bit you."

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"Well we can say that it's not a werewolf," Thomas Wilt, Head of the Department of Mysteries said.

They were pouring over the drawing that Petunia Evans had given them.

"So how come a muggle girl has magic when she wasn't born with it?" Mary Wilcox asked.

"I don't know," Thomas said.

"Could she be making this up?" Sam Drop asked.

"We brought in a mind healer and she made it clear that this actually happened. The fear that she saw in that girl's mind can't be faked."

"So this animal bit her and somehow she's got magic."

"If we can find this animal then we might be able to learn from it."

"You sound like Newt Scamander," Mary stated.

"You don't think that he'll want to see this drawing," Thomas told Mary.

"I'll get him," Mary said and she left the boys behind.

Everyone knew who Newt Scamander was. He had fought Barebones back in the twenties and thirties and had made many amazing discoveries. His book 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' was a required reading book for all students. When he entered Mary showed him the drawing.

"I must admit that I've never seen this creature before," he said to her. "Who did it attack?"

"A muggle girl that now has magic," she answered.

He gave her an odd look and asked, "How is this even possible?"

"I have no idea."

"How old is she?"

"Thirteen from what St. Mungo tell us," Mary said. "I'm worried about what this is going to do. I mean, the Daily Prophet will have a field day if they find out that there's a creature that can give muggles magic."

"And probably hunt it down," Newt told her.

"That's what I'm getting," she said, shaking her head. "And I thought the only thing that we had to worry about is some disappearance of muggles."

"Any clue who's doing it?"

"None," Mary said.

"I'll go to where the attack took place and see if I can find any evidence that it was around," Newt told her.

"Thanks," she said handing a piece of parchment. "Miss Evans told the Healer where it happened. Hope it helps."

"Thanks," Newt said and he left.

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Petunia was getting bored. She had never been this long away from anything normal and St. Mungo was freaking her out. Still there was no answer to how she had suddenly become like Lily. Mrs. Snape had left to head home, most likely to get beaten by her husband, and Petunia had no one to talk to. Her parents came around three times a week and by the third week Petunia was worried about her grades.

And still no Lily had arrived to see her.

She had plenty of people from this Ministry to poke and prod her, treating her like she was some experiment that they had to know everything about. Petunia hated feeling like a damn lab rat. The fourth week something else happened that made Petunia wonder what else had this animal given her. Her hair changed color.

When it happened the second time it was when the healer assigned to her was checking up on her. He wrote it down and then asked her, "How are you doing today?"

"I'll feel better if I can leave."

"We can't let you leave until we know how you gained magic," he said. "Of course I don't like you here anymore then you like being here."

Petunia glared at him and he left.

"Some people are like that," the nurse told her. "Mr. Dawson believes in blood purity."

"And that's important, how?"

"It means that he's not someone that you want to be around," Mrs. Snape said, walking in.

She was sporting a bruise and her arm was in a sling.

"Mrs. Snape, I don't know how you stand that muggle that you're with," the nurse told her. "This is the third time in a month that we've had to treat you."

"I'm fine."

The nurse snorted at that.

"There's someone talking about making wizards masters over muggles," Mrs. Snape told Petunia. "I'm worried that my son is going to fall into the group."

"He's got Lily."

Mrs. Snape sighed and asked, "Will that be enough? Speaking of Lily, why isn't she here?"

"I don't know," the nurse said. "I sent a letter to the Headmaster, telling him that Miss Evans was in St. Mungo. And that was a month ago."

"I bet that blasted old fool has a hand in this," Mrs. Snape told them. "I'll go there and find out what's going on."

"Please do."

When she left her father walked in, with flowers. Petunia almost cried when she saw they were her favorite, red roses. He put them down and Petunia told him that Mrs. Snape was going to find out why Lily wasn't visiting."

"I'm going to have a long talk with that girl," he said. "Just because we allowed her to attend doesn't mean that she's suddenly better than us."

"Mrs. Snape believes that Dumbledore has a hand in it."

"Oh I'll have a word with him if that's the case."

Petunia wondered if Albus Dumbledore could handle the anger of her father.

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A/N: Mrs. Snape will find out why Lily isn't visiting, which will be covered in the next chapter. I also wanted to put Newt in this story, because I really love him as a character and he's one of my favorites in the Harry Potter world. Also Newt will be the one that will connect the creature to another artifact that was there long before the Ministry.