So, this one is about how they decided to put Harry in the cupboard under the stairs.
"So where are we going to keep this kid?" Vernon asked Petunia. She really didn't want to have to deal with her nephew, but she didn't have any control over the matter. "Wherever he takes up the least space. And I don't want to see the brat," Petunia replied tersely. She had hated her sister, and now that she was dead, she was stuck with her son. This did not put young Harry Potter in her good graces.
Vernon's solution to these problems was the cupboard under the stairs. It was plenty big for a baby, it seemed to him, and kept him out of the way. It also conveniently had a lock on the outside that could not be moved from the inside. This could prove to be useful in coming years. Petunia was all for it. She found herself wishing that her parents had kept Lily in the cupboard under the stairs. Maybe she wouldn't have run off to Hogwarts and met Potter, and had this brat.
Of course, this was only spiteful thinking. It would likely have made Lily only more eager to go to Hogwarts, as would become the case with Harry.
Petunia simply hated everything magical, and family was no exception. She wished that she could stamp the magic out of him, and she would try as hard as she could. The first step was simply to stamp the hope and happiness out of him, as well. Maybe then he would suppress it, the way she had heard some children did. It would make life better for all of them, in any case.
There was very little debate over whether or not the cupboard was the right place for the child. They put in some blankets and a cot, put him down there, and ignored him as much as they could. At this young of an age, though, he needed a lot of attention and wandering range. As soon as they opened the cupboard to get him to shut up, he would jump out of it and start crawling around. Neither Vernon nor Petunia was keen to touch the child, so they let him wander around-until he broke something.
It was a horrid vase anyway, and she had often complained of it, but Petunia was furious that Harry had broken it. If it was her little Dudders, she would probably even be thankful, but she had her eye out for any excuse to get angry with her sister's innocent offspring. She locked the boy in the cupboard and swept the shards in there with him as well. He would learn not to break anything in her home.
Unfortunately for her, the plan backfired. When she opened up the cupboard door later to give him his food, she saw the baby playing with the unbroken vase. She had seen this happen before, when her sister was a child, and knew exactly what it meant. He was magical, as she had expected. Oh, well. It would not stop her determination to stamp it out of him. She snatched the vase away from him either way, as he seemed to be having far too much fun with it. She replaced it where it had been, as she could no longer justify throwing it away.
There was simply no winning with this child.
I know it's short, but these are meant to be super short one shots either way. Any ideas for future moments?
