"So, are we continuing?" Zari asked.
"Hard to after all of that," Ron said.
"It was bound to come out eventually," Kara suggested.
"Maybe we should have taken them to the side and told them before now," Harry said.
"Not sure she would have reacted any better if you did," John said while putting ice on his face.
"I'll go and check on them in a little bit," Ava said. "Start without me."
"Right," Sara said. "Gideon if you will."
"Chapter Two" Gideon narrated. "Aunt Marge's Big Mistake."
"Ooooh fuck, her," Astra groaned.
"Mmm, maybe it's a good thing your parents aren't in the room for this one," Lita murmured to Harry.
Harry figured Lita had a point.
"That bitch," Mick said. "The second biggest bitch in the entire series."
"Normally, I would reprimand such language," Sara said. "But she qualifies."
"That's the one you…you know?" Percy asked.
"Mmm," Harry said. "Let's read."
Reintroduction to the Dursleys. And their new television, for the kitchen because Dudley had complained about the long walk between the kitchen and the sitting room.
"Dinky Duddydums, the living embodiment of first world problems," Nora said.
"You've got to be kidding me," Lena said. "They get that lump a television and put it in the kitchen, so he didn't have to walk."
"Should have gotten him a treadmill," Tonks said in agitation.
"Catering to a child like that isn't healthy," Charlotte said.
"No, it's not," Zari said. "And it's only going to get worse."
Astra's feeling of dread increased, with who was about ready to come in this chapter.
"Spoiled brat," Astoria murmured.
The news gives a report about an escaped convict named "Black."
"Hey, it's me!" Sirius sang.
"No, you idiot, it's obviously me," Bellatrix said.
"Here we go again," Regulus murmured.
"And there's the first you hear of the infamous…Black," Sara said.
"Well, quite the auspicious first impression Black is going to give you," Kate said.
Harry compares himself to the man on the television screen, saying that he's well groomed indeed compared to this Black.
"Well, unless there's something you're not telling us, Trixie, it's obviously me," Sirius said. "What the hell happened?"
"Offhand, I said prison didn't agree with future you," Remus said.
"My beautiful hair," Sirius said.
"That's a terrible mugshot," Mick said with a critical eye.
"And never fails that Vernon would take a shot at you," Astra said.
Vernon is upset the news didn't tell them where this man escaped from.
"Oh, he does have a point," Kara said. "People generally like to know where a person escaped from."
"The Ministry really weren't too helpful with the information," Andromeda said.
"No wonder he kept slipping through their fingers," Daphne said.
"Fudge behind the manhunt?" Junior asked. "Fudge couldn't catch a cold in a quarantine zone."
"I wonder what I did to get be landed in Azkaban," Sirius said.
"Maybe you offed Mother?" Regulus asked.
"Off hand, that haircut's more than enough to get you into Azkaban," Bellatrix said.
Sirius just rolled his eyes at his cousin's jab at his haircut.
Aunt Petunia would just love to call the hotline and turn Black in.
"Of course she would," Severus said.
"Well, it's not like you wouldn't," Sirius said. "You would have loved to turn me into Azkaban. Especially with how bitter your future self has gotten."
"If I thought you were guilty, Black," Severus said. "Let's see what you ended up doing."
"Or if I was framed," Sirius said.
Sirius looked towards Harry.
"So do I get a hint?"
"Yes," Harry said. "It's called reading the book."
"And here's his pouty face," Remus said. "Right on cue."
"Pretty adorable in its own way," Kate said. "Good thing Dad has nerves of steel."
"He gets it from Lily," Remus said. "Not swayed at all."
Vernon remarks that hanging is the only way to deal with people like this.
"I could say it's the only way to deal with people like you," Astra said. "How long do we have to deal with these clowns this year?"
"Not long," Harry murmured.
"I'm really hurt that the asshole who puts bars on a child's window thinks so lowly of me," Sirius said dryly.
"Given how he's always been a guilty until proven innocent type, not really surprised about his attitude," Kara said.
"I'm thinking an arrow to the knee would work for him," Mia said.
"I used to be a raving jackass, then I got an arrow to the knee," Lita said.
"Nah, he'd still be one, unfortunately," Sara said.
Sara did wonder what was going on, with Ava, Natalie, Lily, and James. Oh, she was confident that Ava would have it sorted out.
We find out Vernon's sister, Marge coming to town.
"Happy Birthday, Dad," Kate said.
"So, do we think this is worse than last year?" Peter asked.
"They're both really awful birthday gifts," Daphne said. "Harry?"
"I'd rather not exist than deal with Marge," Harry said.
"Me too," Astra murmured.
A nice little recap of Marge's past visits. Culminating in Harry being run up a tree by Marge's dog, Ripper, and not being called off until dawn the year before Hogwarts.
"Shortly after….it happened," John murmured.
"Yes, John, it was," Astra said through gritted teeth.
"Such a lovely, endearing woman," Astoria said.
"Oh, she makes Mother look sane and rational," Regulus said.
"This won't end well," Lena said.
"Hopefully Marge gets a reality check," Astra said.
Vernon needs to get a few things straight with Harry before he collects Marge. And Dudley is as giddy as a schoolgirl to see his dad bully his cousin.
"Makes you feel like a big man, doesn't it, Dinky," Zari said.
"I really don't want to blame him, because a lot of his attitude is on his parents," Charlotte said.
"Although, he would be taxing to deal with," Andromeda said.
"He needs a reality check as well," Peter said.
Some back and forth between Harry and Vernon, with Harry being a bit snarky.
"More of this Harry, please," Astoria said with a grin.
"Got to agree with you, the more of this Harry, the better," Fred said.
"You shouldn't provoke him," Percy said.
"Oh, and I suppose you think Harry should just lie there and take it," Ron said.
"There's a time and a place for standing up," Percy said. "After what Dursley did the last year, with the bars, I shudder to think how bad he could get."
"Didn't think you cared," George said.
"It is amusing to watch you needle him like this," Kara said.
"And after all of the shit he's put you through, it's a long time coming," Kate said. "Don't let him bulldoze you."
"I really should feel bad about Harry getting into a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent," Lena said.
"But, he deserves it," Sirius said.
"Yeah, go for it, stand up," Peter said. "Wish I could have done it with…people."
Needless to say, Harry's a bit shocked about Vernon saying Harry's going to St. Brutus's Center of Incurably Criminal Boys.
"Wait, what?"
Lily turned back up, along with James. She was not sure if she heard Vernon right.
"Oh, Vernon's sister, Marge is about to visit," Sara explained. "And he's told Marge that Harry goes to St. Brutus's Center for Incurably Criminal Boys."
"So, does that exist?" Astoria asked.
"Not since 1984," Kara said. "I looked into it."
"Oh, the days before a simple Google search was a click away," Zari said whistfully.
Sara briefly caught Lily and James back up to speed.
"I'm not going to like this chapter, am I?" James asked.
"You and me both," Lily said.
"A lot of us, don't like this chapter," Astra said. "So, Marge swallowed Vernon's lies."
"If she wants to think the worst of Harry, she's not going to do an inconvenient little thing like research," Lena said.
Dudley declines Vernon's offer to come along to pick up Marge. Petunia gushes over Dudley, saying that he needs to be make himself smart for his auntie, and Petunia's bought him a brand new bowtie.
"Going to take a lot more than a bowtie to make that lump look smart," John said.
"Petunia's still living a delusion, I see," Lily said, ignoring that John talked.
"Oh, that's nothing," Charlotte said. "They bought him a television. Because it was too far of a walk between the television in the living room and the refrigerator in the kitchen."
"What the hell is wrong with these people?" Mia asked.
"We've been asking that question since chapter one of book one," Lena said.
"I've been asking myself that question my entire life," Harry said.
"Me too," Lily murmured.
And to think, at one time, Lily used to be close to her sister. Petty jealous and misplaced envy turned Petunia into that. She was almost alien, in her attempts to be utterly normal. It kind of freaked Lily out.
"And now that Dudley's free entertainment is over, he doesn't care anymore," Kate said.
"He's got an attention span of a goldfish," Ruby said.
"That's insulting to the goldfish," Tonks said.
Harry casually mentions to Vernon about the form to Hogsmeade.
"Oooh, I know what you're doing," Tonks said. "I don't know if it's going to work, but I know what you're doing."
"It's Harry," Daphne said. "What do you think?"
"Point well taken," Tonks said.
"He gave you leverage, you should take it," Lena said.
"Move worthy of a Luthor?" Daphne asked.
"If the shoe fits," Lena said.
And then Harry casually mentions it might be hard to remember where he goes in front of Aunt Marge and he might slip up. Naturally, Vernon threatens to knock the stuffing out of him. But, that won't make Marge forget, will it?
"Keep threading the needle," Lena said. "You've got him. If something happens, he's the one in trouble."
"I do love it when a plan comes together," Lita said.
"But, this is Harry, so it's going to fall apart," George said. "Although, good one."
"Well, I would have preferred torture," Bellatrix said. "But, blackmail works well as well."
"I hate you had to be put into this position," Lily said.
"Believe me, I doubted he would have even considered signing the form if I played nice," Harry said.
"Screw him, he made his own bed, let him lie in it, bugs and all," Astra said.
Harry promises to act normal and Vernon agrees to sign the form if he does.
"I really hated that you had to do that though," Astra said.
"Potter, normal?" Malfoy asked. "That's like telling a bird not to fly."
"Hate him as I may, he has a point," Daphne said.
"I feel like Murphy is just knocking on the door," Lena said.
"Oh, yeah, that's how these Harry plans normally go, especially back then," Sara said.
"Well, it can't be worse than the house elf, right?" Peter asked. "Right?"
"Let's read and find out," James said.
He had been equally anxious to see how this transpired.
Harry sends Hedwig off to be with Errol and hides all of his birthday presents and books underneath a loose floorboard.
"That might be the saddest part," Nora said. "That you had to send Hedwig off."
"She was even with you during that awful time last Summer," Astra said.
"Oooh, you must have felt completely lost," Kara said.
"I really wanted to go to Hogsmeade," Harry said. "I was really willing to try anything."
"And even if you succeeded, are we sure Vernon wouldn't go back on his word?" James asked.
"Oh, the rotten bastard really would," Mick grumbled.
Upon Marge's near arrival, Petunia snaps at Harry to do something with his hair.
"Not going to work!" Ron and the twins said in a sing-song voice.
"And that's a good thing," Kara said. "Harry with straight hair is just weird."
"I can't picture any Potter with tameable hair," Sirius said. "Then again, anything's possible given how my grooming habits."
The one and only Marge Dursley arrives, with her ill-tempered bulldog under one arm, and a suitcase underneath the other. She shoves the suitcase into Harry's stomach and starts gushing about her "Neffy-Poo."
"Ugh, that's my lunch," Zari grumbled.
"You're not the only one," Daphne said in disgust.
"Well, she was almost polite to Harry," Tonks said. "So, that's something."
"Give her time, give her time," Astra said. "And that damn bulldog is still around. I hate that thing."
"So, you've met Marge, have you?" Lily asked.
"Unfortunately," Astra said.
Dudley gets a twenty-pound note from Marge. Because he only puts up with her due to being well-paid for it.
"Even Dinky thinks she's an insufferable bint," Astoria said.
"Even I don't get money to put up with relatives," Malfoy said. "Granted, I didn't see my relatives that much."
"I just got threats, if I misbehaved," Bellatrix said.
"Me too," Sirius said. "So, did they work?"
"Not at all," Bellatrix said.
"Of course, they didn't," Regulus said. "I swear, I'm the only sane one in this family."
"I'm overlook that slight," Andromeda said.
"You married the guy who nearly blinded himself with Christmas lights," Bellatrix said. "Is that really sane?"
"She's got you there, Mum," Tonks said. "Also there's the entire Nymphadora thing."
"It's a perfectly lovely name," Andromeda said.
"It really is," Sara said. "Fitting given your personality."
Tonks just rolled her eyes.
Ripper is drooling all over the place, much to Petunia's dismay.
"Normally, I would laugh at her discomfort," Astra said. "But, given that Marge is such an awful woman, I almost feel sorry for Petunia."
"That's extreme," Kate said.
"I know," Astra said. "This is how much I hate her."
"Oh, I'm sure she'll grow on us," Sirius said.
"As a fungus does," Mia murmured.
She did not know anything about Marge, but given how people in the room reacted to her.
Harry takes the suitcase upstairs, to keep himself away from Marge for as long as possible.
"I'm surprised you have any self-preservation instincts," Neville said. "You never showed them at Hogwarts."
"Not at all," Daphne said.
"They've got a point," Ron said.
"Past two years taught us that," Lena said.
"And you know, all of the times where Harry's risked his life," Sara said.
"Isn't that the truth?" Kara asked.
"I've gotten better, I think," Harry said.
"Compared to then, yes, a little bit," Kara agreed. "Although you've had problems in different ways."
Ripper announces Harry's arrival and Marge greets him, with a harsh "still here, are you?"
"It would have taken every bit of self-control in my body not to bite back with a "still breathing are you?" Bellatrix asked. "If someone took that tone with me."
"Please you wouldn't hold back, don't lie," Regulus said.
"That damn dog," Astra murmured.
"Normally, I'm a dog person," Sirius said. "But, that Ripper, he's not getting on my good side."
"Not really his fault he has a bad owner," Kara said.
"So, can we just send Marge to obedience school?" Kate asked.
"I wish," Harry said wistfully.
Everyone snickered.
Marge remarks that if Harry had been dumped on her doorstep, he would have been sent straight to the Orphanage. Which Harry would prefer.
"Being dumped at the city dump would be preferable than living with Marge," Astra said.
"Oh, she's worse than I remember," Lily said.
"She's an awful human being, garbage, one of the worst," Mia said. "She's not notorious in the history of the Dragon, but she's made her mark."
"I wouldn't be able to last ten minutes with her, let alone an entire week without snapping," Bellatrix said.
"It's not easy," Harry said.
"Especially considering she just grates at you," Lena said.
"The fact you…well we'll get to that, won't we?" Hermione asked.
Hermione assumed, wrongly, that Harry lost his temper for no good reason. But, if Marge had been rattling him for an entire week and treating him like garbage, it was remarkable his temper did not get set off sooner.
They have a discussion about St. Brutus's. And Marge asks if Harry gets the cane used on him there. And Harry confirms it is all of the time.
"I hate how casually you have to speak of that!" Sara yelled.
"Well, Alex is not here anymore," Kara said. "But, if she was, she would have some choice words to say about Marge right now."
"I have a few myself," Tonks said. "But, none of them are something are spoken in polite company."
"Wait, we're polite company?" Mick asked.
Marge comments that a good thrashing is all needed to straighten someone out, ninety-nine times out of one hundred.
"Then, get me the cane and I'll sort you out!" Astra hissed angrily.
"Oh, Nat's not here, thank….no don't want to thank him, we're not on good terms right now," John said.
"Obviously, who are you on good terms with?" Sara asked.
"With each chapter of these books, I'm not on good terms with myself," John said. "Natalie, you're back!"
"Don't talk to me, not now," Natalie said. "What's going on?"
"Marge Dursley."
"John, move," Ava said when nervously looking at the look of rage on Natalie's face.
"Already ahead of you, Sharpie," John said.
"We can't just attack her because she's an awful person," Ava said. "As tempting as it is."
"Can we burn down her house at least?" Mick asked.
"No arson, Mick," Sara said although her voice was strained.
However, Marge is none too impressed about Harry casually talking about his beatings and suggests Petunia recommend excessive force.
"Oh, I can't even right now!" Kara snapped.
"Damn," Sara murmured. "I forgot about this."
"It's burned into my memory," Harry said.
"Petunia, don't you dare," Lily said as she was shaking.
Astra had gone silent. Mostly because she was too angry to speak.
Vernon changes the subject.
"Well, he's got something other than fuzz between those ears," Tonks said.
"To be honest, I think he was worried how Harry would react," Natalie said.
"He might be scared of Marge himself," Zari suggested.
"It's possible, I guess," Harry said.
Marge is overly critical of Harry during her entire stay. And she buys Dudley gifts to try and bait Harry.
"She's impossible," Peter said. "You really are showing nerves of steel."
"Harry, the more you keep it in, the worse it's going to be when it comes out," Astra said.
"Oh, Lily wouldn't have held it in for this long," Andromeda said.
"No, I wouldn't," Lily said.
"You really wanted to go to Hogsmeade," Daphne said.
"Hogsmeade's not worth putting up with her," Ron said.
"It really isn't," Sirius said.
Others nodded in agreement.
Marge remarks if there's something wrong on the inside, there's nothing that anyone can do about it.
"So, burning you alive won't do any good," Lita said.
"It'd make me feel better," Mick said. "Vernon's a spineless bastard too."
"Really wish someone would do something about you," Lena said. "Kara, are you…."
"Just imagining throwing her into the sun," Kara said.
"What did the sun ever do to you to deserve Marge?" Ruby asked.
Kara cracked a smile, despite herself.
"She's testing all of our patience, yes," Ava said.
"It's that night," Sara said.
Marge brings up a basic rule of breeding. Something wrong with the bitch, they'll be something wrong with the pup.
The entire room went into angry screams. No coherent words could be heard, it was just a constant mess of people shouting over each other.
"That's it, I'm sorting her out right now!" Sirius yelled. "If I'm going to be guilty for something, it's going to be murdering her. And I'll take the Dursleys out while I'm at it!"
"I'll help!" Bellatrix shouted.
"Ava, give me your time courier," Lily said.
"No, they're all locked up, and only Harry can open the cabinet," Ava said.
"Security," Harry said.
Percy blinked. As strained as things might be with his parents, he doubted he would react well if someone said something like that about his mother.
And Marge's wine glass explodes in her hand.
"Play stupid games, win stupid prizes," Tonks said.
"I'm surprised it took that long," Kate said.
"You're not the only one," Harry said. "It was a long time since I lost my patience like that. And lost control."
"Well, she keeps needling you and needling you and needling you," Mia said. "Honestly, an exploded wine glass was the least you could do."
"The question is, does she notice anything odd?" Astoria asked.
"Given she shares DNA with Vernon and Dudley, I'm guessing not," Daphne said. "But, I could be proven wrong."
Petunia is horrified, but Marge assures her it's nothing. Same thing happened at Colonel Fubster's, and Marge assures she merely has a strong grip.
"Typical Muggle explaining away everything," Regulus said.
"Could Fubster be a wizard?" Lita asked.
"Don't know, never met the guy," Harry said.
"Petunia knew, she knew," Lily said. "But, they can't blame you."
"Marge…no I can't even say she's saved the day," Kara said "Not in any good conscience."
"Fair enough," Lena said. "Your heart must have been racing."
"Oh, yes, especially considering I was remembering the last time magic happened in that house," Harry said.
"Oh, right, the elf," Peter murmured.
"Crazy old Dobby," Tonks said with a fond smile.
Harry is frantic, because he is afraid of getting expelled from Hogwarts, after his previous warning about underage magic.
"The Ministry should figure out it's accidental," Percy said.
"Well, given how the Ministry couldn't figure out it is a house elf the last year," Astra said.
"That house elf was real?" Percy asked.
"Very real," Remus said.
"We could get you up to speed in the next break, if you really want us to," Ron said.
"Not that you'd believe anything that the Ministry fact-checkers don't say," Fred said.
Harry tries to block out Marge by thinking about his handbook on broomcare.
"Oooh, bold plan," Kate said. "But, will it work?"
"I wish it did," Harry said under his breath.
"You memorized it already?" Hermione asked.
"I spent the night reading it," Harry said.
"You're not the only one who can memorize a book, Granger," Daphne said.
"Keep your mind on something you enjoy is an effective way to block out that woman," Zari said.
Marge comments Harry's mentally subnormal.
"Oh, like you have any room to talk!" Astra snapped.
"Just a little bit further," Lena said. "Just a little bit further."
"You're cheerfully optimistic," Bellatrix said.
"Someone has to be," Lena said.
Although deep down, Lena knew that this was going to take a turn for the worse.
The final night of Aunt Marge's stay and it's a big dinner. Including several bottles of wine being uncorked.
"That won't end well!" Bellatrix sang.
Astra put her head in her hands and sighed deeply.
"Is that a spoiler?" Ruby asked.
"No, just giving idiots wine is never a good idea," Bellatrix said. "Never, ever, ever!"
"Well, Vernon Dursley by bringing out this wine, is the master of his own undoing," Lena said.
"Ready?" Kara asked.
"Yes, let's get this over with," Astra said.
She had a feeling this was going to turn around. Natalie and Lily both nodded.
"Damn, so close," James grumbled.
"I know, right?" Sirius asked.
Vernon tempts Marge with more wine. After Marge has already drank a lot. Her face is red.
"And now we're pouring gasoline on a grease fire," Ruby said.
"That's a fitting metaphor for Harry getting sent back to the Dursleys if there ever was one," Kara said.
"Marge is drunk, why would you give her more?" Astra asked. "Vernon, you idiot!"
"Maybe he's afraid she'll get violent if he refuses to give her more?" Peter asked.
"Wouldn't be surprised," Mia said. "Gasoline on a grease fire you said?"
"Yeah," Ruby said.
"Fitting," Mia said.
Marge remarks just a little bit. And a little more. And a little more on top of that.
"Oh bugger me sideways," John murmured.
"Just keep topping off that barrel, why don't you?" James asked.
"Doesn't your sister have any sense to try and put a stop to this?" Bellatrix asked Lily.
"Sense has left my sister's life when she married Vernon," Lily said.
"Point well taken," Bellatrix said.
"Just breathe deeply," Zari said. "It will be over soon."
Harry has to sit this one out, even though he can sense disaster coming
"Obviously, Potter, obviously," Malfoy said. "Your uncle might as well have just ripped the Hogsmeade form up in front of your face right now."
"As if he had any intention of signing the bloody thing in the first place," Kate said.
"Harry, I know this is happened ages ago, but damn," Ron said. "Rather have ten Christmases with Muriel, than one evening with Marge."
The Weasleys nodded.
"Oh, she's going to really push the wrong button," Hermione said fretfully.
Marge talks about how Dudley is a healthy-sized boy, and he'll be a proper sized-man just like his father.
"Yes, proper sized, for a landwhale," Mia said crisply.
"Just keep grinding a bit deeper," Astra said.
Lita's fingertips glowed for a second with fire.
"She's really hard to ignore," Kara said.
"She's got a voice that grates," Junior said.
And she comments Harry's got a mean and runty look, comparing him to a dog she had Colonel Fubster drown.
Lily took in another deep breath.
"Fucking hell, this woman is psychotic," Charlotte said.
"Yes," Harry said.
"I kind of feel sorry for the dogs," Sirius said. "If this is their owner."
"I would too," James said. "The form doesn't matter."
"Whatever you do, Harry," Lily said. "You're completely justified."
"Margie go bye-bye?" Bellatrix asked hopefully in a little girl's voice.
"She's had a brownie, hasn't she?" Lita asked.
"Nah, this is Bella being normal," Sirius said.
"My God," Lita murmured.
Marge asks what Harry's father did to a living.
"I don't think it would matter if I was the Minister of Magic, not to her," James said.
"She's just looking for more to rattle Harry," Kara said. "Oh, honey, I'm sorry."
"This is the last time I've seen her," Harry said. "She's out there still, but I wouldn't go out of my way to run into her."
"I wouldn't either, unless I'm driving," Lita said grimly.
Even Dudley gives Vernon a look, wondering how he's going to explain this one.
"Even Dudley knows this charade might come crashing down," Daphne said.
"Well, he's a bit smarter than Crabbe and Goyle," Malfoy said.
"Faint praise indeed," Ron murmured.
Vernon says that Potter was unemployed, much to Marge's joy and she starts in on James Potter, trashing him, calling him lazy, good-for nothing.
"He sacrificed himself to save his family from You-Know-Who you cow!" Peter shouted at the screen. "He was ten times the man than you ever will be!"
"Well, just because I didn't have a traditional job, does not make me good for nothing," James said.
"Of course it doesn't," Zari said.
"Being a wage slave is overrated," Mick said.
Harry jumps in to defend James. And Vernon tries to distract from the situation with brandy.
"You've got to be fucking kidding me!" Sirius yelled. "This is your idea to distract Marge. Get her drunker?"
"Well, her filter's completely off, not that she had much of one anyway," Andromeda said. "Harry, I understand."
"This shouldn't have been used against you at that trial," Percy said.
It would have taken a much stronger man than Harry.
A very drunk Marge talks about how the Potters got themselves killed in a car crash, and makes a comment about how they were drunk.
"YOU ROTTEN BITCH!"
Astra caused several windows to shatter when she lost her mind.
"Lily and James Potter would never do anything so irresponsible to get behind the car when drunk!" Astra ranted. "And you…dare…have the nerve to say that about them!"
"They never would, they never would," John said.
"And you have a lot of room to talk with how much you've been drinking!" Astra yelled.
"She's a filthy hypocrite," Mick said.
"That wanker of a woman is on my last nerve," Sirius said.
"And I think she might be on Harry's as well," Remus said trying to be the voice of reason.
"Good, fuck her up," Bellatrix cheered.
Astra threw herself into Harry's chest, and practically sobbed. The fact that this woman would accuse Harry's parents about getting drunk and getting in a car crash, just slammed Astra's berserk button.
"Just breath," Kara said. "She's not worth it."
"I'll kill her," Astra murmured into Harry's chest.
"There's a line for that," Mia said.
"Starts behind me," Sirius said grimly.
Harry loses his shit on Marge and Marge starts ripping into Harry some more until she's stopped cold.
"Finally," Nora murmured.
"Is it happening?" Bellatrix asked.
"It's happening," Nora said.
"Oh, she found Potter's limit," Malfoy said.
Draco Malfoy knew that Potter's parents, especially his mother, was not a subject to be used to rile him up. While it did get Potter kicked off the Quidditch team, the beating Draco received was not worth it. And Malfoy had a feeling that Potter still was thinking about that during his sixth year during their altercation in Moaning Myrtle's bathroom.
Unlike the Rowling books, Potter knew precisely what that spell did when he fired it at Malfoy. To be fair, it was only in response for the attempted Cruciatias.
Marge is blown up like a balloon thanks to Harry's emotionally charged accidental magic.
"Good," Astra said.
"Oooh, she's…she had it come," Hermione said.
"Yes, sis, she did," Kate said.
"Sorry if I lectured you about this," Hermione said.
Harry just waved it off.
It is pure chaos, with Vernon trying to yank Marge down from the ceiling. And Ripper taking a chunk out of his leg.
"Hey, the dog wins some brownie points," Sirius said.
"Poor thing is going to need its shots," Peter said.
Vernon demands Harry put her back. And Harry says that Marge got what she deserved and warns Vernon to stay out of his way.
"And this, Vernon, is the part where you run away," Sara said.
"Harry doesn't put him into the ground, unfortunately," Nora said.
"Oh, he's running on rage and adrenaline," Natalie said finally taking a deep breath. "I had to chase Lily down like this more than once, and well, not fun."
"Sorry for putting you through that," Lily said.
"Wasn't your fault," Natalie said.
Here she gazes at Severus.
Harry collects all of his things and is out of there as Marge is still on the ceiling.
"Good, get out of that house," Astra said.
"No cheeky retort this time," Fred said.
"Never seen you this angry until your fifth year," Daphne said. "When someone decided to open his mouth about your mother."
Malfoy just sighed.
"That's the chapter," Sara said. "So, are we good?"
"No," Astra said.
"Not really," Zari said.
"Not at all," Mia said. "How did you not blow her up sooner?"
"If it wasn't for Vernon getting his sister drunk, you would have not had that incident," Percy said.
"Well, nice to see you no longer blame Harry for that one," George said.
"Okay, everyone take a deep breath," Sara said.
"At least Harry got out," Sirius said.
"Harry is out in the middle of the Muggle world with his Hogwarts things," Peter said.
"Oh, shit, that's true," Sirius said. "Well, maybe he'll meet a friendly and kick-ass con who will help him find his way to a cool new adventure."
"We still don't know what you're in for," Regulus said.
"Well, if we keep reading, we'll find out," Sirius said.
"Astra?" Harry asked while kissing her in the forehead. Kara scooted in on the other end.
"Mind if I join you three?" Natalie asked.
"Sure," Harry said. "The chair will expand."
"Good," Natalie said. "Want to sit with my daughter after that last chapter."
The fact that put her further away from John, was just best for Natalie right now.
"And let's see what happens next," Ruby said.
"Nothing as bad as the last one, I hope," Lily murmured.
No one said anything who knew. And it was time to read on.
To Be Continued.