Title: Innocent Ideas
Author: Nesma
Disclaimer: I, obviously, do not own Harry Potter or the characters, all that goes to JKRowling.
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Petunia felt sick after dropping Lily off at King's Cross with her parents.
Sure, her parents could tell that the two got into a fight, a big one. And granted they kept on giving her concerning looks or trying to gently talk down to her as if she was a small child. It was all irritating but there was that sense of guilt and crushing disappointment.
Petunia stomped her way up the stairs and slammed the door. On the outside, her anger was hot and raw and red. But she shuffled to her bed and let her handbag drop with a small plop in the middle of the floor. She curled up into fetal position and grabbed her childhood teddy bear and started to cry quietly; clutching the bear closely.
She had lost Lily to Severus Snape. That awful boy with dark hair and magic and snide remarks. They spent their summer days staying away from the river side while Petunia rushed towards it. The two were like peas in a pod and that was something that the neighbours would say about Petunia and Lily.
But not anymore. And it hurt more than anything that Petunia had lost this battle. That she couldn't get Lily to stay and be ordinary and quiet. That Petunia couldn't join her baby sister at Hogwarts to watch over her. And she could feel the knife in her back twist as she remembered how Lily was so eager to open a letter for Petunia. Something that she should have never done before.
Worst of all, it was just painful that Lily was gone. And it was clear that she was never coming home and that there would be no more Petunia and Lily. And that hurt.