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Chapter 2- The Boy Who Lived Part 1
The Dursleys who lived on number 4, Privet Drive were proud to say that they were completely normal, thank you very much.
"Well your completely welcome very much", Sirius stopped reading to reply to the book.
"Wait, I thought this book was about the Potters", said Lily snapping out of her gloomy mood.
"So listening now are we", James commented in return.
Before Lily could reply to that with a good come-back she was interrupted.
"Please guys, can we stop arguing for once", Remus intervened hoping desperately that his friends would actually listen to him and not start duelling.
When no one replied Sirius shook his head before continuing on to read.
They were the final family anyone would expect to be associated to anything mysterious or strange since they just didn't stand such nonsense.
Mr Vernon Dursley was the director of a drill firm.
"What are drills?", James asked.
"Lily, isn't Vernon Dursley - ", Marlene had begun asking but was immediately cut off by the glare Lily sent her way which quite definitely said Not until the book says my name.
"It's a muggle thing", Lily said not bothering to meet James's eyes as she was already mad that her brother-in-law was in the same book about a Potter and didn't want an excuse to hex him.
James nodded in understanding and decided to find out later when he saw Lily's temper rising.
When everyone turned to face Sirius again, only then had he began reading.
He was a beefy and large man with barely any visibility of his neck although he did have a very large moustache.
"He sure doesn't look pleasant", Marlene said, having already met the man before.
"Of course he doesn't, he is trying to impersonate the crossbreed of a whale and a chimpanzee", Sirius stated causing everyone, even Lily, to chuckle.
Mrs Petunia Dursley was a thin blonde with twice the usual amount of neck which was a useful tool to have when she spent so much of her time looking over garden fences and spying on neighbours.
"So we have the crossbreed of a whale and chimpanzee mating with the crossbreed of an owl and a horse, interesting, I wonder what their crossbreed will be like", James commented, causing everyone else to laugh or smile in response.
Lily had smiled first at thought of Petunia's reaction to someone saying that but immediately removed it as soon as she realised that James was insulting her family, her blood.
"Just because people don't live up to your standards Potter, doesn't mean you have to bully them like that, even if they never find out about it", Lily stated firmly.
Sensing another argument coming up, Sirius continued reading.
The couple also had a son named Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.
Dudley, seriously Petunia, where was I when you named your son, Lily thought while shaking her head at her sister's peculiarity, something she truly admired in Tuney.
"Well it looks like James's question was answered. I can't believe they repro- ", Marlene was once again cut off by Lily.
"Marlene, if you should need to be reminded, I don't befriend people who bully others especially when it is people I care for", Lily said calmly to her best-friend.
Marlene took a while before completely understanding what Lily meant, and looked slightly ashamed of herself.
Sirius though understood something completely different. He seemed to conclude that Lily didn't like Marlene hanging out with them and seemed outraged that her friend would do something like this to Marlene and not allow her to make her own choices.
His eyes met James and without even saying anything they both knew that the other was thinking the same thing.
Remus however, didn't agree to his friends and seemed to wonder is Lily was of ant connections to the Dursleys. He was pretty sure he heard her say the name 'Petunia' a couple of times every year at Hogwarts.
The Dursleys owned and had everything they could ever ask for and wanted but they also had a secret and their deepest fear was that a person might one day discover it.
This revelation caused all the teens to move forward in their seats. Lily wondered if it would be really that terrible if someone ever found out about her magic?
They didn't think that they could stand it if anyone was ever to find out of their relationship to the Potters.
Everyone's eyes widened at the mention of the name.
Mrs Dursley was Mrs Potter's sister
Everyone gasped at the news but for different reasons each.
Lily and Marlene for obvious reasons. James at the thought of marrying someone who wasn't Lily, no that there seemed to be much of a chance there anyway, and there also seemed to be no way that Lily could be related to Dursley.
When Lily hadn't noticed or seen him, James watched as Lily stood up for others and helped them and was kind to the core and probably would also be to them if they weren't as mean to Severus Snape or so eager on pranks.
She wasn't afraid of standing up for what she believed in, a quality that played a huge role of her being a Gryffindor.
Sirius' throat tightened when he saw what he was to read next but loosened soon enough and continued reading.
but they hadn't communicated or seen each other in several years; in fact, Petunia pretended that she didn't have a sister because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as UnDursleyish as possible.
Everyone in the room was silent.
Sirius had fumes spreading inside him as he knew what it was like to be hated by your family and truly hated people who cast out their family members on their own free wills.
James wondered who on earth would treat their own sister that way when he noticed the trail of tears streaking down from Lily's emerald eyes.
"Lily?", he asked wanting desperately to comfort her. Sirius and Remus looked over at her in curiosity and Marlene relaxed her shoulders when she noticed all the boys diverting their attention to her. Maybe she will be able to tell them now.
"I thought she was truly my sister, I thought she loved me", Lily sobbed and pulled the nearest person to her, which happened to be James and buried her head in his shoulder.
James, not knowing what to do just wrapped his arm around her and held her there.
Sirius didn't know if he could read after witnessing something he believed impossible so just instead handed the book to Remus who nodded in understanding and began reading.
They shuddered when they thought what people would say if they were to ever find out that they were related to the Potters. The Dursleys knew that Mr and Mrs Potter also had a small son around Dudley's age.
James's face immediately brightened, even though he was in shock that Lily finally accepted him, he was angrier to hear of what her sister had done to her. Knowing this little detail of the future seemed to have partially soothed him.
This boy was another good reason for keeping away from the Potters; they surely didn't want their precious angel mixing with a child like that.
"Well, I wouldn't want my children or my godson to be mixing with one like yours either", Marlene said in return.
Lily looked up at Marlene.
"What makes you think that you'll be godmother? I might as well name Alice and you sure know how clumsy she is", Lily exclaimed with a smile while Marlene just huffed in return.
When the couple woke up on a gloomy, Tuesday morning, our story begins.
"I thought it had already started", Sirius said looking around at the atmosphere and emotions of the people in the room.
There was nothing outside apart from the cloudy skies to even suggest the strangely mysterious occurrences which would be happening that very day, all over the country.
Vernon hummed to himself while he chose his most boring tie for work-
"Why would you want to wear the most boring tie?", James asked.
"The book is being sarcastic Prongs, even I knew that", Sirius replied.
"Books cannot be sarcastic Padfoot, even I knew that", Remus added.
Marlene and Lily watched amusedly as the three friends continues to banter with each other like first years. By the time they were done, they had already forgotten why they weren't reading and Remus set off again to read.
while Petunia wrestled her screaming son into his high chair and happily gossiped away.
"Looks like Petunia is well suited to her life", Lily remarked.
Neither of them noticed the tawny owl fly passed their window.
"How can you not notice an owl flying passed you?", Sirius questioned.
"Muggles don't use owls, they pay people called 'post-men' to deliver their mail for them", Lily told him, eager to spread knowledge whenever she could.
"Hold on, I thought you were taking Muggle Studies for NEWTS?", Lily asked him as an afterthought.
"No, I took it as an owl subject and got an E by studying just a week before and forgetting everything after the test. I would have taken it for NEWTS if it weren't for the fact that you don't need it to be an auror, anyways I only took the class to annoy my mum so I usually caught up on my beauty sleep in that class", Sirius answered with a grin.
Lily and Remus both shook their heads, not knowing what to say about his behaviour. Remus waited for Sirius to get back into serious mode before he continued on with the chapter.
At eight-thirty, Vernon took his briefcase, pecked Petunia on her cheek and tried to kiss his screaming son goodbye but failed since Dudley was having one of his tantrums and was throwing his breakfast at the walls. 'Little tyke', chuckled Mr. Dursley as he left the house. He moved into his car and backed out of number four's driveway.
"Petunia always hated children, I wonder how Vernon convinced her to have a child?", Lily wondered aloud.
"Well, you can obviously tell how terrible they both are at parenting, I wonder how your mum let her stay apart from you, obviously she would have tried forcing you guys back together by now?", Marlene enquired.
"Um, well you know how there is the war with Voldemort and how I want to fight to stop him?", Lily cautiously began speaking.
Marlene nodded in response while James just stared at her with pain in his eyes when he thought of Death Eaters pointing their wands at her.
"As I am a muggleborn, I didn't believe that it would be safe to leave my parents unprotected and as you might already know, they would be visiting and keeping in contact with me almost whenever they could", Lily spoke getting more cautious by every word.
"Well, I decided that once I turn seventeen, they will forget that they ever had any daughter other than Petunia, and as Petunia is so opposed to me, and since I don't believe that I could bare to wipe her memories, I decided to leave her as she is. It's not like she's going to miss me or even ask my mum about me, she is quite obviously enjoying the change", Lily assumed.
All the teens looked astonished. They were struck by how selfless she appeared to be and how much courage it would have taken her to do that. James, who believed that he had already done many, many great deeds, didn't know that it was possible to be so selfless and caring for anyone, even your parents.
He felt a sudden burst of even more adoration for the girl he already loved.
It was at the corner of the street when he noticed the first sign of something strange- there was a cat, reading, what appeared to be, a map.
"He really has gone bonkers this time, I suppose", Marlene spoke.
For a moment, Vernon didn't grasp what he had seen—
"Well, no one expects someone like him to actually comprehend what they're seeing, more so since his brain has a huge distance from his head", Sirius commented making Marlene giggle.
For the first time in her life, Lily truly appreciated a Marauder insulting someone.
-then he turned his head around to look again. There was a tabby cat sitting on the corner of the road, but there wasn't any map to be seen. What could have he been thinking of? It must have been a trick of the moment. Mr Dursley blinked a few times then turned to stare at the cat again. It stared back at him.
Sirius and James looked over at each other and flashed wide grins across their faces.
"You know, that is really creepy sometimes", Lily said to the pair.
"Well, it is quite obvious", Sirius stated.
"Yeah, I mean you'd have to be thicker than Peter not to know", James agreed.
"Will you guys stop acting like bleeding Legilimens and tell us already!", Remus shouted at his friends as he was getting tired every time he had to stop for them.
Lily and Marlene both telepathically agreed with Remus but weren't bothered to really say anything to the two.
"Well, it is obviously old Maggie, since no way is this a normal cat", James said.
"We'll see about that", Lily said, smiling.
"Want to bet?", James asked with a grin.
"You're on, Potter"
"Loser has to do a dare of the winner's choice", said James and with that the pair shook hands.
A/N: I can't believe I left this on hold for so long or that this chapter is actually finished. I'll work on making the next ones slightly shorter with the same amount of details.
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Until next time.