auction - little mermaid au, or the part where they don't get human items
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Petunia knows that she shouldn't be going into Lily's room. Still, Lily's out for the day and she can't resist. Making sure her parents are nearby, she creaks open the door to Lily's bedroom.
Perfect. Lily left all of her witchy things just laying around. Petunia can see what they all are for herself.
Slowly, she approaches Lily's desk. There are all sorts of things scattered out around it. For instance, there are a bunch of—feathers? She picks one up gingerly. Doesn't Lily know that random feathers can give diseases? They don't know where those birds have been. Sighing at Lily's foolishness, Petunia looks at the next thing.
It's a weird ball, with a soft powder inside of it. Petunia thinks she's heard Lily talk about this before—a fergasphere? She can't remember, but she picks it up gingerly. It turns red in her hand and she drops it on the ground with a little yell. That doesn't seem good.
After glancing behind her for a second to make sure she didn't alert her parents that she's in Lily's room, she looks at another object. She promises to herself that this'll be the last object she looks at.
It's some weird bowl, sitting on the floor. It's bigger than any bowl Petunia has ever seen and it almost makes her want to laugh at Lily. Wizards have to eat food out of a huge bowl?
Petunia would not want to join that world, not one bit.