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This is a rewrite of a fic I wrote under Glasswolf. The original Unexpected Reunion kicked off what I called my unexpected verse and was 468 words. It was my take on the cliche Duddley has a magical daughter scenerio. I wasn’t originally going to rewrite it but then I got inspired the new version is 604 words.
Unexpected Reunion.
He couldn’t help but sigh as he stared at Number Four Private Drive. He hadn’t had a good time in this house and now he was back on such an unexpected errand. When he left that last time it had felt like forever and he never would have imagined being back here with this letter. He knew from Professor MacGonogal that his Aunt and Uncle were off at their home in Majorca and that Duddley lived here with his wife and daughter.
He heard a noise then and saw his cousin wearing a silly pink birthday hat being chased around the garden by a little girl who was clearly his daughter. She was slightly plump but better looking than her father he assumed she must have taken after her mother. Even as he was thinking how lucky the little girl was a pretty blonde woman stuck her head out of the house. “Did you have a good Birthday popkin?” She asked in a pleasant voice.
“Yes.” The little girl said happily and then in a slightly pleading tone. “Can I open the presents Grandpa and Grandma sent?” Harry didn’t miss the slight eye twitch and assumed that Duddley’s wife didn’t get along very well with her in laws which made Harry like her already. He could just imagine how many gifts they’d be sending their grand child considering the haul Duddley had gotten every year.
“You can open one the other thirty will have to wait.” He watched as his cousin’s wife sent him a look that clearly implied he wasn’t to contradict her. He felt a bit more hopeful about the letter he had to deliver now. He hadn’t been thrilled when MacGonogal had asked him to do this for her. He knew that she was hoping the fact he and Duddley had parted on some what good terms would help him break the news. He still couldn’t help but worry that there wouldn’t be thirty presents from his Aunt and Uncle at little Veronica Dursley’s next birthday.
He was still dwelling on that rather gloomy thought when he rang the doorbell and began trying to figure out what to say to Duddley. He was thrown for a loop when Duddley opened the door and hugged him before pulling him into the house. “I knew it would be you they sent.” Duddley turned toward his wife happily. “Annie, this is my cousin Harry I told you Veronica was special.” Harry stared dumbfounded as he was introduced and Veronica came over curious holding a new doll that obviously came from one of the thirty presents.
The next few minutes were a surprise Duddley of all people had figured out early on that Veronica was magic and simply expected Harry to turn up. He found himself laughing when Annie Dursley admitted privately to him that she had worried her husband was out of his mind with his stories of witches and wizards being real and his cousin being one.
However, the most excited of everyone was Veronica Dursley who was soon jumping for joy at the knowledge that her father’s fairy tail stories were true and she was going to be a witch. He found himself agreeing to going with them to buy Veronica’s school books and things next week instead of the usual Hogwart’s representative.
As he left pondering how completely weird that reunion was he once again found himself wondering how Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon were going to take having a magical grandchild. He wondered if his Aunt’s old jealousy and his Uncle’s bigotry were something they could get past or not.
The End.
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This is a rewrite of a fic I wrote under Glasswolf. The original Unexpected Reunion kicked off what I called my unexpected verse and was 468 words. It was my take on the cliche Duddley has a magical daughter scenerio. I wasn’t originally going to rewrite it but then I got inspired the new version is 604 words.
Unexpected Reunion.
He couldn’t help but sigh as he stared at Number Four Private Drive. He hadn’t had a good time in this house and now he was back on such an unexpected errand. When he left that last time it had felt like forever and he never would have imagined being back here with this letter. He knew from Professor MacGonogal that his Aunt and Uncle were off at their home in Majorca and that Duddley lived here with his wife and daughter.
He heard a noise then and saw his cousin wearing a silly pink birthday hat being chased around the garden by a little girl who was clearly his daughter. She was slightly plump but better looking than her father he assumed she must have taken after her mother. Even as he was thinking how lucky the little girl was a pretty blonde woman stuck her head out of the house. “Did you have a good Birthday popkin?” She asked in a pleasant voice.
“Yes.” The little girl said happily and then in a slightly pleading tone. “Can I open the presents Grandpa and Grandma sent?” Harry didn’t miss the slight eye twitch and assumed that Duddley’s wife didn’t get along very well with her in laws which made Harry like her already. He could just imagine how many gifts they’d be sending their grand child considering the haul Duddley had gotten every year.
“You can open one the other thirty will have to wait.” He watched as his cousin’s wife sent him a look that clearly implied he wasn’t to contradict her. He felt a bit more hopeful about the letter he had to deliver now. He hadn’t been thrilled when MacGonogal had asked him to do this for her. He knew that she was hoping the fact he and Duddley had parted on some what good terms would help him break the news. He still couldn’t help but worry that there wouldn’t be thirty presents from his Aunt and Uncle at little Veronica Dursley’s next birthday.
He was still dwelling on that rather gloomy thought when he rang the doorbell and began trying to figure out what to say to Duddley. He was thrown for a loop when Duddley opened the door and hugged him before pulling him into the house. “I knew it would be you they sent.” Duddley turned toward his wife happily. “Annie, this is my cousin Harry I told you Veronica was special.” Harry stared dumbfounded as he was introduced and Veronica came over curious holding a new doll that obviously came from one of the thirty presents.
The next few minutes were a surprise Duddley of all people had figured out early on that Veronica was magic and simply expected Harry to turn up. He found himself laughing when Annie Dursley admitted privately to him that she had worried her husband was out of his mind with his stories of witches and wizards being real and his cousin being one.
However, the most excited of everyone was Veronica Dursley who was soon jumping for joy at the knowledge that her father’s fairy tail stories were true and she was going to be a witch. He found himself agreeing to going with them to buy Veronica’s school books and things next week instead of the usual Hogwart’s representative.
As he left pondering how completely weird that reunion was he once again found himself wondering how Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon were going to take having a magical grandchild. He wondered if his Aunt’s old jealousy and his Uncle’s bigotry were something they could get past or not.
The End.
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