a/n: I'm sorry it has taken so long for me to get this chapter out. Everytime i get the idea in my head to work on it, other things keep coming up and it slips my mind. Rest assuerd i will endeavor to write more in the future.

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Chapter Nine

She couldn't believe what she held in her hands. She knew Dan was mad, but she never believed it would lead to this. Emma sat there looking at a letter from a solicitor stating that Dan was filing for divorce. Emma was heartbroken that after so many long years together he would do this to her, and to Hermoine. "Oh my god" she thought, "how am I gonna tell her. She will be devastated." It didn't say but she knew that Hermoine being a witch was what caused him to go this route and if Hermoine found out she would blame herself and turn her back on what she was. She finally decide she would sit on this for a couple more days until the kids started school and then she would go talk to Petunia.

Petunia Dursley nee Evans was having problems of her own, namely her soon-to-be ex-husband Vernon. She had to call the plice on him twice for harrasing her. Thankfully he hadn't come to the house since that first time, but she was afraid that it was only a matter of time until he did. She knew that he wouldn't give up. She was grateful that her relationship with her son Dudley, as well as with her nephew Harry, was doing really good. She knew that if things had not changed, that it would have been really bad. She shuddered when she thought of the future would have been like if things had just kept on the route they had been on. Sadly all good things must come to an end.

Harry and Hermoine got off the bus after the first day of school and looked around before spotting Emma Granger. Harry wondered for a moment where his Aunt and cousin were at before he remembered that Dudley had a doctor's appointment, which is why he hadn't been at school. They met Emma at the corner down from their homes and started walking towards them. Hermoine was rattling off everything that they had learned today, mush to Harry's and, surprisingly, Emma's amusement. Harry had to shake his head and smile at his friend's excitement, even though in his mind they hadn't been taught anything, with it being the first day and all. They stopped in front of Harry's house and Emma waited til he got to the door and went inside before Her and Hermoine walked next door to their own home.

It was quiet when he got inside his house. Harry was puzzled because he knew his family should've been home by now. He walked to the kitchen to look for his Aunt but all he saw was a puddle of some red liquid on the floor and remains of lunch on the table. He was really puzzled because he had never known his aunt to leave the table dirty like that. It used to be his job to keep everything clean, but that had changed weeks ago. He looked closer and he saw more drops of the red liquid leading out of the kitchen and towards the stairs. He set his backpack on one of the chairs and started following the drops.

He got to the bottom of the stairs and stopped. He called for his aunt but all he could hear was his cousins tv on in his room. He shrugged his shoulders and figured his aunt must have laid down for a nap and Dudley couldn't hear him over the telly. He made his way upstairs until he got to his aunt's room and saw the door was ajar. He also saw the same red liquid smeared on the door handle and the frame. He nervously pushed the door open and froze at the sight in front of him. There, laying on the bed, was his Aunt Petunia, covered in that same red liquid. It hit him all of a sudden what that liquid was... Blood. He tried to scream but no sound would come out of his mouth. It was like his whole body was frozen in place. He had no clue how long he stood there but he was finally able to move when he heard a sound come from Dudley's that he was sure didn't come from his tv.

"Dudley" he called out when he got to the closed door. He received no answer but the sounds from the telly. He saw there was more bllod on the door handle and he knew he should run but for some reason he felt like he had to see if he could do anything to help. He pushed open the door and looked in. There, in the middle of the room was Dudley, laying on the floor in a pool of blood. That sight seemed to finally register to him because he turned around and bolted down the stairs knowing he had to get to the phone and call the police.

He made it to the phone and dialed the emergency number just like his aunt had taught him. As soon as someone answered he started to tell them what he had found, but was hit from behind before he could utter a word. The phone dropped from his hand as he hit the ground. His head was really foggy and hurt from the blow to it. His glasses had also been knocked of his face so he couldn't tell who it was that was towering over him. That was until the person spoke. "Did you think that I was goiing to let a little freak like you take my family away from me," the voice asked? Harry was really scared at hearing the voice of his uncle Vernon. Vernon reached down and picked Harry up by his shirt and pulled his face close so that they were eye to eye. "You are going to die now now boy," Vernon said menacingly, "just like your parents." All Harry could do was scream before he finally blacked out from fear.

Amelia Bones was a no-nonsence kind of witch. She had rose through the ranks of the auror corp even though it was dominated promarily by men. She had finally reached the top of her chosen field as head on the Depatment of Law Enforcement. She demanded the smae attitutde from her aurors so she acted quickly when one her aurors barged into her office and told her that there had beena huge surge of magic in Crawley. She gathered her best two arurors and they left immediately.