A/N I will stop making promises about when I will update because it never goes right. an entirely Dudley centred chapter like all the others, lots of clues this time and if you are really sharp you could have guessed how and where by now.
Dudley Was more than a little nervous, as far as he was concerned this was tantamount to treason, in resent years he had begun accept Harry and Magic but only if it was kept at a distance. He had become a Police officer because he wanted to reform, the Dementors had caused him years of pain that at first he did not understand, Joining the police force was something he felt he could do it was something respectable. Not that false respectability that belonged to his childhood, and not that which he had always felt was somehow wrong. Of cause at the time he believed everyone felt like he did and not an uneasiness that belonged to his particular lower middle class family. Hogwarts is the epitome of all that he feared, was jealous of and all the wonder he could never imagine, Dudley smiled to himself as he thought this, what film was it where they said "fear and wonder a powerful combination". Dudley looked at Harry across the Kitchen, meeting a piercing gaze that Harry had used at the interviews. Suddenly a look of understanding passed over Harry's face, and Dudley was left to wonder at the talents the man that many years ago he had beaten and humiliated.
Suddenly there was a lot of bustle in the kitchen and obviously a decision had been made, Harry had sidled up to Dudley.
"Remember Dudley you have seen only the worst magic, you have also faced fear it's self and come through better for it, maybe it is time you see the other side of who we are." Dudley was unsure how to answer this so simply nodded and hoped that Harry would understand, Dudley rubbed his hands in his eyes and sighed long and slowly, the pressures of the case and the emotional pressure of working with Harry and with magic were beginning to take its toll on him. When Dudley looked up again Hermione was standing in front of him.
"Now Dudley for you to come with us I will need to put spell on you, its one of my own invention so I can honestly tell you I wont get it wrong and it is perfectly safe." again Dudley didn't speak but only nodded, while Hermione muttered a string of incomprehensible words at him, animadverto nostrum magus does that mean anything at all thought Dudley.
"You may notice some rather interesting side effects at the moment you should be able to see what a wizard sees." Dudley looked around him, at everything that seemed to sparkle with excitement and possibility, he marvelled at the warm feeling he had inside and the focus his mind now had. The most noticeable thing to Dudley was that wands no longer seemed to be powerful objects that both scared and amazed him but a tool that seemed to belong in the scene before him.
"The spell will last until I remove it from you, I will have to though, I got into an awful lot of trouble for leaving it on my parents for to long."
"Well are you ready then Big D." Harry interrupted before he had time to answer Hermione.
"Yes, as I'll ever be anyway." Without further ado they set off down the path out onto the country lane that led to Harry's house.
"Now Dudley we are going to disapparated to Hogwarts that how you travelled with Daedalus And Hestia remember?" Dudley nodded as Harry gripped his arm tightly, Dudley remembered the sensation of travelling like this and noticed a difference in the way it felt, it was still uncomfortable but no where near as painful. They landed out side a ruined old farm but as Dudley focused and Hermione's spell worked, People seemed to gather themselves out of a mist and buildings resolved themselves from the dust in the farmyard which no longer seemed to be there.
"That is Hogsmead the only all wizarding community in Britain although there is talk of setting up a new one further south."
"Where are we then?" Dudley asked in answer to Harry's statement.
"Oh, somewhere up north, near Hogwarts." The conversation continued amicably, but neither man was totally comfortable with the other yet. Eventually they reached a set of iron gates flanked by winged boars, Dudley looked up at the imposing Structure before him, the great battlements and towers dwarfing the country below.
"You came to school here." Said Dudley in an awed tone, still looking around he noticed a figure in the distance robes billowing out behind them as the spring winds rattled across the valley. As the man grew closer Dudley realised that the man was not as imposing as he had first struck him, but actually quite kind faced and genial.
"Neville how are things?" Harry asked as the man approached the gate.
"Oh not to bad, detentions and late homework, nothing like the trouble we caused!" Neville laughed at his own joke and opened the gate to allow all four in. Dudley was swept along on a wave of awe towards the main doors of Hogwarts, unable to take everything in.
They stopped out side a great hall without a roof and filled with floating candles, Neville walked in saying something about fetching Ron from dinner, and disappeared from view. While the group waited for Ron a small boy, Evidently finishing lunch early and heading for the library to finish homework, stopped dead still in the door way to the hall before shouting its "Potter!". Immediately a huge scraping noise filled Dudley's ears and they were surrounded by a huge group of students all yelling excitedly and asking for autographs. Suddenly a loud authoritative voice called from the top of the stairs.
"That will do. Now go and finish your lunches before the lesson bell rings." Dudley looked up and saw a powerful and severe looking woman, and immediately knowing he had just met the headmistress.
A/N How many film did i reference if you get it right I will send you a freshly baked Virtual cake.