Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ A Thousand Words Paint a Picture ❯ Ring Around the Rosie ( Chapter 1 )

Vernon was eighteen months old when he learned monsters existed.  His encounter was nothing as exotic as a troll or giant spider.  Rather, a garden-variety drunkard—the one he called Dada—stumbled into the kitchen, grabbed his mummy by the hair with one beefy fist, and turned her face into a colorful abstract landscape using the other.  Mummy cried and cried, and the sound made him scream.  At some point Marge snuck into the kitchen and rescued him from his highchair.

Together they cowered in her room, as she sang in a trembly voice, “Ashes, ashes, we all fall down…”