Chapter 5- THe Explanation

Petunia let out a small gasp of surprise and rushed forward to catch Harry before he hit the floor. She put him on his bed and immediately turned on her heel to face the three stunned wizards.

"'Auntie Minne, Uncle Sev'vy, Auntie Poppy'? Could you please what the he-heck is going on?" Petunia asked sharply, barely able to keep herself from swearing.

Before they could answer, Dudley came running into the room.

"Mommy? What's going on? Who are these people? Why are they dressed so weird? And why is Harry sleeping? I thought he was playing?" he asked speaking a mile a minute.

"Dudley, Dudley slow down! I'll answer all of your questions, but could you sit down on the edge of the bed please?

"Ok, Dudley, you know how daddy is always very mean to Harry and sometimes me and you, right?" she waited for a nod of his head before she continued. "Well, these people are magical and are going to help us to never be found by daddy again so he can't hurt us. As for why Harry is sleeping and why they are dressed 'weirdly', maybe they could answer." Petunia answered, gesturing to the others in the room.

"Hello Dudley, my name is Minerva, but you can call me Minne. this is Severus, or Sev, and this is Poppy. Sev can explain our clothes." Minerva started, pointing to the people with their respective names.

Severus had a lot of emotions running across his face. Firstly, shock from the fact that he had forgotten how much Harry looked like James, except of his eyes, eyes that he would never be able to forget. Secondly, surprise from when Harry had called him Uncle Sev'vy, a nickname he hadn't heard from anyone since the defeat of Voldemort, except from his godson Draco. And lastly, anger when Minerva told the little muggle boy to call him- Severus, one of the best Potions Masters in all of Europe- Sev.

"Severus, are you ok?" Poppy asked, concerned.

"Minerva, call me when it is time to move them." forgetting about Dudley being a muggle child, he apparated on the spot, leaving a gasp of surprise and someone fainting. "Probably the muggle spawn." he thought to himself as he entered the Leaky Cauldron and ordered some firewhisky.

Minerva was going to curse Severus to high hell once this was all over, and there was no changing her decision.

"Getting on my nerve when we were kids, getting on my nerves now. Figures." Petunia muttered as she laid a recently fainted Dudley next to Harry.

"I can check up on them to make sure the fainting didn't cause anything else." Poppy started, moving towards the two unconscious children. "By the way, what did you mean about Severus getting on your nerves as a kid? And how did you recogni- oh right, never mind." She stopped talking suddenly and focused on the kids instead, realizing what the glare Minerva was shooting her meant.

"It's ok. I've got to come to terms with it after all. But could I tell you guys after all of this is over? It's a long story and I don't think we have time for it right now. Also, I think the kids are about to wake up." she finished, gesturing towards Poppy working on reviving the two boys.

Harry was up first. Minne rushed forward to explain everything before he flew into a storm of questions.

"Hello Harry, I presume you remember me based on your earlier reaction. If you don't mind, could we go talk in the living room about what is happening?" mainly directing the last question to Petunia.

Seeing her nod, Minerva left with Harry, leaving Poppy and Petunia to explain mostly everything to Dudley as he didn't need to know too much about magic and Harry being a wizard.

"So, Harry, I already know that you remember me, Poppy and Severus. What else do you remember, if you don't mind me asking?" She wanted to know what Harry knew before rekindling his memory on the Wizarding World and more.

"Well… When I overheard someone talking downstairs, I decided to take a peek because I knew Auntie 'Tunia rarely calls anyone over at this time. So I snuck up to the stairs and peeked through the railing and saw you guys. when I did that, I guess my brain started correcting me about your robes and wands. And then I had a flashback- at least I think it was a flashback- about my first birthday, I think. I saw you and Poppy give me a cat- no a kneazle- named Crookshanks, and I think you guys were a couple? And Sev'vy gave me a book on Potion Making for Toddlers. How do you make potions by the way? And how often and for what? When can I start to learn?" Harry had started by speaking slowly and quietly but slowly grew more confident and ended with a million questions.

Filing everything Harry said about his flashback- and how stange of a flashback it was, so detailed- Minerva tried to calm down the ecstatic boy. "Ok, ok! Calm down, there will be more time for questions later. First of all, yes, Poppy and I are a couple. We have been together for quite awhile now. I'm surprised you had that detailed of a flashback. Secondly, I will answer all of your other questions later as I need to talk to you about what is going to happen in the next hour or two."

Minerva started off by explaining how Petunia wanted to leave Vernon and how they were going to go live in a cottage of Severus' by Wiltshire. She then continued on with how they were going to be using magic to speed up the packing and moving. That part, of course, had no effect on Harry as it seemed he was slowly remembering what little he knew of magic after meeting the three wizards. She finally ended with how quickly they were going to have to move to do this in time.

"Do you understand what the plan is?" the wise witch asked Harry, and after seeing his nod said, "Well then, that's great! Why don't we head up to everyone else so we can get this done with before your oaf of an uncle comes home."