Harry Potter - Series Fan Fiction ❯ Almost Perfect ❯ Epilogue ( Epilogue )

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Hey last chapter of Almost perfect hope everyone enjoyed it I enjoyed writing it actually I think it was one of the few things I actually finished writing……….

 

Almost Perfect Epilogue:

 

Days before Harry's 11th birthday:

 

Harry was almost to his destination when he heard Remus' voice behind him and he almost threw the bucket of ice water and seaweed he had in his hand. “ Uncle Remus,” said Harry whispering, “ you almost ruined the prank.” He said they were at the beach and it was their last day there and Harry had been planning this prank all week.

 

Remus smiled and shook his head Harry really was like a miniature James except like his mother he was extremely bright and he didn't like it when his father and godfather picked on Snape because Harry had taken a liking to the man ever since the first time he met him.

 

“ How about letting me help with your prank Harry.” Remus whispered back.

 

Harry thought about this for a second before he decided it was a good idea because Remus stilled owed his dad for waking up with an octopus on his chest. “Okay,” said Harry quietly explaining the prank he was trying to pull to his uncle.

 

Remus had to stop himself from chuckling aloud at Harry's idea and proceeded to follow him into James and Sirius' room.

 

There were two room one with twin beds, James and Sirius' room, and one with a queen sized bed Remus' room because he was just getting over a full moon when they had arrived at the beach so they gave him that room and Harry had taken the pull out couch which he thought was more comfortable anyway.

 

Together they quietly went into the room and Remus found another bucket full of ice water and seaweed and Remus grabbed one the bucket that was already up there and walked over and got ready to dump in on James while Harry walked over to Sirius and Harry yelled, “NOW!” and they both dumped the buckets over onto them.

 

James and Sirius woke up freezing, soaked and smelling like salt and Sirius had a mouth full of seaweed because he was sleeping with his mouth open.

 

Remus and Harry laughed as both James and Sirius tried to figure out what was going on after being suddenly awakened by cold water with seaweed in it.

 

James was the first to realize what happened and retaliated by throwing one of his pillows, which was cold and wet just like James, which resulted in a pillow throwing war.

After their pillow war James and Remus went to cook breakfast while Sirius along with Harry's help cleaned up the beach house they were staying in.

 

After they had all eaten breakfast and following Remus' third check of the whole house they left.

 

Remus and Harry went to Hogwarts to visit McGonagall, Snape and Dumbledore and to let Harry bug Snape one more time before he could get in trouble for it seeing as it would be his first year at Hogwarts this year.

 

James and Sirius had warmed up just a little to Snape thanks to Harry because he insisted that he be allowed to go and visit him though both his father and godfather couldn't see why Harry seemed to like the man.

 

Sirius had once said that he bet it had something to do with Lily, which had caused James to smile sadly at the mention of his deceased wife.

 

So while Remus and Harry were at Hogwarts James and Sirius were planning Harry's birthday party they were going to have two one so Bane and everyone James lived with when he had forgotten who he was, and another one so Harry could invite his friends over and there would be no chance of Bane and his friends finding out about the magical community.

 

James and Sirius were in the middle of making a list for Harry's party so far they had Ron Weasley who Harry had met soon after they had moved in their new house because Harry had mentioned that he saw broom he had liked in Diagon Alley when he was there with Remus and they had went to buy one. While they were in Diagon Alley Harry had met Ron and his brothers and his little sister and Ron and Harry had been best friends ever since.

 

Neville Longbottom was also on the list because James had been friends with the boy's parents and thought that Harry should be friends with the boy, James figured the boy could use friends after what had happened to his parents and He, Ron, and Harry got along great.

 

Another person who was one the list who surprisingly also got along good with Harry, Neville and Ron was Sirius' cousins son Draco who Andromeda had been able to turn around quite nicely and he reminded James of Sirius with bright blonde hair and pale skin and he didn't act anything like his father though he got to visit him and his mother once a year.

 

Ron's mom and dad would be coming also along with his Brothers except for Bill and Charlie and Ron's sister was coming too.

 

James and Sirius begrudgingly put Snape on the list because they both knew Harry would want him there Draco would be happy with the man there too, though they both wondered if he would show up.

 

They were also inviting Dumbledore and Minerva and Hagrid of course who had been very helpful during full moons because he would take Harry and bring him to see all kinds of weird and somewhat Dangerous animals but not dangerous enough to make James worried because he knew Hagrid would take care of Harry.

 

Snape had even taken Harry sometimes during full moons when Hagrid couldn't twice Dumbledore did and both times Harry came home with Lemon Drops falling out of his pockets.

 

Luckily they lived far enough out and were able to play Quidditch and they would definitely be doing that at Harry's party. They also planned on giving Neville, Harry, Ron, and Draco four custom-made Prank kits made by the self proclaimed Marauders.

 

Though that would have to be right before they got on the train or they would have to send it to them so Ron's mother and Neville's Grandmother wouldn't take them away.

 

So while James and Sirius planned what to do Harry and Remus were at Hogwarts and somehow Harry had talked Remus into giving Peeves water balloons and now he everyone but Harry was soaked from head to toe in water, though Harry thought this situation was funny a few people mainly, Minerva, Snape, and Remus did not and were trying to get as many water balloons as they could away from Peeves.

 

Dumbledore however found this whole situation almost as funny as Harry did and merely conjured a shower cap to put on over his head and commenced to walk around eating Lemon Drops and conjuring a towel here and there for the more grumpy people.

 

So almost an hour after all this started Peeves had finally used up all of his water balloons and had left cackling through the castle.

 

Snape was not happy about it at all and commenced to give Harry a good telling off or a warning at least. “ You wait until I can take points off of you for doing something like that, brat.” He growled at him, usually this would have been successful in frightening almost anyone but now it was just funny seeing a waterlogged Snape telling someone off.

 

The scene that James and Sirius walked in on was that one a drenched Great Hall and a waterlogged Potions and Transfiguration Professors. It didn't take them long to figure out what happened nor did it take long for them to start laughing though the favor was returned to them.

 

James was walking across the Great Hall going to congratulate his son on his prank when he slipped and fell causing everyone to laugh at him including Sirius who went to help his friend up and ended up on the floor beside him soaked like everyone else.

So while everyone including Harry was helping clean the and dry the Great Hall James, because Sirius absolutely refused to, walked over and invited Snape to Harry's party at first he didn't want to go mostly because what had just happened but James pointed out that Draco was going to be there and he would probably like to see him, so Snape agreed to come as did Dumbledore and Minerva.

 

 

Three Days Later:

 

Remus and Sirius were shopping for presents James gave them a list and money so they could buy Harry presents from him, meanwhile James and Harry were going to watch a Quidditch game, though Harry was disappointed at first when he heard that Sirius and Remus were going to Diagon Alley but got over it quickly enough when he heard he was going to a Quidditch game.

 

Harry loved Quidditch that had been one of the first things that he had learned and one of the first presents James had bought Harry after they were reunited was a broomstick.

 

So while James and Harry were enjoying an afternoon of watching Quidditch and arguing over which position was best Seeker or Chaser Sirius and Remus were walking around Diagon Alley arguing over which present would be best for Harry.

 

“ I'm telling you Remus he would like the Quidditch gloves and prank kit best.” Said Sirius sounding like a child.

 

“ Yes Sirius and I'm telling you that, that is what you would like best not Harry besides he won't need the gloves until next year anyway you know first years never make the team.” Said Remus sighing wondering how James had ever talked him into doing this anyway.

 

“ Yeah I would have liked a prank kit and Quidditch gloves to take with me my first year of Hogwarts what does that have to do with anything besides even if he doesn't need them he can still bring them and show them off.” said Sirius

 

“ Harry wouldn't show them off anyway even though he's been raised by two of the craziest people I know he still resembles his mother more than you or James.” Said Remus.

 

Sirius went to complain but he knew Remus was right, “ okay then what do you suppose we get him Moony?” asked Sirius his arms hurt from carrying the bags they already had. James had a habit of spoiling Harry especially on his birthday so he had made a list and gave Remus and Sirius a bagful of money and told them to get what they could on the list and if they had any money left over they could improvise.

 

“ Well he already has a prank kit remember we made one for him and Draco, Neville and Ron too.” Said Remus.

“ Yeah,” said Sirius, “ but you can never have too many prank kits.” He said smiling and Remus just rolled his eyes at him.

 

“ Sometimes Padfoot, I think it's you that's going for your first year of Hogwarts instead of Harry.” Said Remus, “ anyway like I said he already has a prank kit so I think we should go dig out that book of pranks that we made when we were in our third year.”

 

“ Did we even use any of those?” asked Sirius interrupting Remus he was trying to remember whether or not they had used any of the pranks out of the book.

 

He remembered making it they had sent each other letters all through out the summer before their third year. They each made up a list of ten pranks and the next person would add however many they wanted to the list and they eventually got over two hundred pranks. Remus had taken it the day after school started and turned it into a book.

 

“ No,” said Remus interrupting Sirius' reminiscing, “ we never used any of them we used some of them for ideas for better pranks but I don't think we used any of them.”

 

“ So why do we want to dig it up?” asked Sirius.

 

“ We want to dig it up so we can give it to Harry for his birthday Padfoot.” Said Remus shaking his head.

 

“ Oh,” said Sirius, “ but that still doesn't solve what we're going to buy him.” He said confused wondering what that had to do with anything.

 

“ We don't have to buy him anything James said to improvise remember.” Said Remus getting ready to go home they needed to get back before James and Harry did.

 

“Hmmm,” said Sirius thinking as he followed Remus they were going to Floo to Remus' house and leave the presents there and then go to Hogsmeade for a Butterbeer or two. “ Hey moony we should pick up a Zonko's order form while we're in Hogsmeade.” Said Sirius getting an idea.

 

“ Why is that, Padfoot?” asked Remus, “ running low on supplies?”

 

“ No, not for me for Harry.” Said Sirius, “ we could give him the order form and the left over money and tell him to get what he wants or need while he's at Hogwarts.” Said Sirius. “ What?” asked Sirius after a few seconds of Remus staring at him.

 

“ I think that's the most intelligent thing you've said all week Padfoot.” Said Remus laughing at the expression on his friends face as he said it.

 

“HEY!!!!!” yelled Sirius following Remus through the green fire.

 

They got to Remus' house and hid the presents, they would help James wrap them later, right before Harry came bursting through Remus' front door.

 

He was talking so fast that neither Sirius nor Remus could understand him James walked in a few seconds after Harry did laughing.

 

“ I guess that means you had a good time.” Said Sirius making fun of Harry for talking so fast.

 

Harry stuck his tongue out at Sirius before he answered him, “ yep it great and dad said we could go see another one over my Christmas Break.” Said Harry nearly hopping up and down with excitement.

 

Remus laughed, “ are you going to be able to wait until then, Harry?” he asked the boy who was jumping around his house.

 

Harry stopped jumping up and down for a few seconds to think and then shook his head yes, “ Can we go play a game of Quidditch now or at least fly a little bit?” he asked no one in particular.

 

Sirius laughed and summoned two brooms and raced Harry outside.

 

James watched the two run outside and hop on the brooms, “ so did you get the presents?” he asked Remus, “ I thought we would be gone longer but Harry wanted to come home and tell you two about it right after it ended I did managed to get him to stay for ice cream though.” Said James.

 

“ Yeah we just finished hiding them when you came in,” said Remus, “ we were going to go pick up a Zonko's order form in Hogsmeade and then we were going to search for our Third year prank book.” Explained Remus.

 

“ I think I have a Zonko's order form at the house,” said James, “ why do you need one anyway and why are you going to dig that old book up?” he asked curious.

 

“ We just going to give Harry the left over shopping money you gave us and an order form so he can what he wants for himself. We are going to give the prank book to Harry for his birthday seeing as we never used any of the pranks in the book, hopefully he can put some of them to good use.”

 

James nodded, “ well let's go look for that book and then if I don't have any Zonko's order forms then we can always send Sirius after one tomorrow.” He said following Remus upstairs to help him look for their old prank book.

 

Two hours later James and Remus were triumphant in their search to find their old prank book and just as they were coming downstairs a very tired Sirius and a not so hyper Harry were walking through the door causing Remus and James both to laugh at the expression on Sirius' face which was ` how do you make him stop.'

 

“ What's the matter Padfoot, getting tired faster in your old age.” Teased James.

 

Sirius gave James an `it would be better if you shut up now' look and collapsed on Remus' couch.

 

“ Well I think we're all pretty tired so I'm going to take Harry home, Padfoot are you coming or are you going to camp out on Moony's couch?” he asked his best friend as he didn't seem like he was going anywhere anytime soon.

 

Sirius groaned and tried to get up but ended falling back down, “ I think I'll just take over Moony's couch for the night if that's okay with you Moony.” Said Sirius rolling over so he didn't smother himself.

 

Remus laughed, “ I don't mind Padfoot, but I'm waking you up early.”

 

“ Well see you tomorrow then Padfoot, Moony.” Said James leaving through the fireplace.

 

“ Bye Uncle Sirius, Bye Uncle Remus.” Said Harry following his dad.

 

The next morning came too soon for Sirius who was rudely awakened by Remus who had warned him the night before that he was going to wake him up early.

 

“ Why did you have to wake me up this early for Moony I mean you could have let me sleep for at least another hour.” Said Sirius complaining.

 

“ We have to go get some muggle presents for Harry or don't you remember Bane and Aly are coming today, Along with a muggle girl around Harry's age they said they met her a few days ago when they moved into a new town they thought Harry might like to meet her.” Explained Remus grabbing one of Sirius' hands and pulling him off of the couch.

 

“ Oh,” was the only thing Sirius managed to say before Remus wrenched him up off of the couch.

 

“ So what are we going to get him?” asked Sirius stifling a yawn.

 

“ I don't know just grab him something you think he will like.” Said Remus summoning his shoes.

 

Twenty minutes later Sirius was dressed and ready to go though he was still hungry.

 

It took them nearly an hour to find something Harry would like when they did it was a muggle comforter with a dark blue background with a light green dragon on it and Sirius had to admit that it wasn't a half bad picture of one it was actually almost realistic.

 

They bought that and then saw a store that had water guns out front both Remus and Sirius agreed that Harry would probably love them seeing as most of Harry's pranks usually had something to do with water.

 

They bought one big water gun and two smaller ones they also bought two packs of water balloons to play with at the party. They also bought some muggle clothes and then apparated home to wrap them before Bane and Aly got there with their guest.

 

After they wrapped the presents they waked over to James' house with them and put them on the table that James had conjured for the party. There was already a cake and Balloons set up around the table and a few presents too.

 

Sirius was the first to notice that there was already somebody else was there, which was odd because usually it was Remus who noticed things first. “ Hey James who's that?” he asked referring to the boy that was talking with Harry it seemed like Harry knew him.

 

“ That's Dudley,” said James looking around to see whom Sirius was referring to, “ Harry's cousin.”

 

“ I'm surprised you invited him James.” Said Remus softly so that neither Harry nor Dudley would hear him say it.

 

“ Well I wasn't going to, but I figured that if Lily were here she would invite him so I went to see if he could come and surprisingly Petunia let him come back with me.” Said James to tell the truth he was just as surprised as Remus was.

 

“ That's a shocker,” said Sirius, “ hey Bane's here.” He said pointing to the Car that had just pulled into their driveway.

 

That was true enough though James was shocked when he saw that there were four people instead of three in the car. James had barley talked to or seen Bane since he regained his memories but he had talked to him enough to Know that Bane and Aly were now married but Bane had never said anything about a kid whenever he had talked to him.

 

“ James,” said Bane walking up and greeting him so I guess it's safe to assume the one that looks like you except younger is Harry.” He said referring to the two boys who were now standing behind James.

 

James laughed and nodded, “ Harry this is my friend Bane do you remember me telling you about him?”

 

Harry nodded, “ it's nice to meet you,” he said politely.

 

Bane laughed, “ it's nice to meet you too Harry and Happy Birthday as well.” He said even after all the years Bane never lost the weird accent he had it just mixed in with his new accent.

 

“ Thank you,” said Harry taking the present that Bane had handed to him.

 

“ Your quite welcome,” said Bane, “ and this,” he said grabbing a little girl from the woman beside him “ is Mila my lovely daughter.”

 

James smiled the little girl was apparently very shy because she had buried her head in her fathers shoulder the minute she introduced her.

 

“ Bane,” said Aly taking Mila back, “ she's really shy,” she said to James, after she had smacked Bane lightly on the shoulder, “ we've tried to get her to not be o shy but she insists on not talking to anyone except us or Bane's parents.”

 

“ Well,” said Remus, “ she has to talk sometime trust me I tried to go most of my life without talking and all that blew up in my face as soon as I met these two.” He said referring to James and Sirius.

 

“ Yes well let's hope she doesn't have to meet someone as crazy as James here to make her start talking, oh and this is Hermione Granger.” She said introducing the other girl that they had brought along with them.

 

She stepped forward, “ Hello it's nice to meet you,” said she to Harry handing him a small bag of sugarless candy.

 

“ Thank you and I'm Harry and this is Dudley my cousin.” He said introducing himself and his cousin.

 

“ Oh it's nice to meet you too Dudley.” She said producing another small bag of candy.

 

“ Thanks,” said Dudley.

 

“ So,” said James walking over to the table, “let's start with presents then games then cake oh and we can't forget pictures.” He said picking up the muggle camera that was on the table.

 

Harry opened Bane and Aly's present first, it was a stationary and a muggle magic kit which caused quite a few spontaneous laughing fits from Sirius and Remus, “ you father told us that you were going away for school this year so we thought you could use it to write home and he also told us you like pranks so we bought you the magic trick kit.”

 

“ Thank you,” said Harry he was trying not to laugh because he knew it would be rude but he thought it was funny.

 

Harry's favorite present was the dragon comforter until Sirius went into the house and came back out with a full water gun and sprayed Harry and Dudley with it.

 

Causing both of the to duck under the table and causing Hermione to shriek when the cold water hit her instead of them. Sirius apologized and then went to get the water balloons.

 

They broke into two teams for the water balloon fight kids versus adults.

 

Hermione had found a way to distract the adults while Harry and Dudley ran for the cooler where the water balloons were at they carried it back to were they were hiding and commenced to soak the Adults even Mila threw a couple of water balloons and though they didn't go far she was content to be happy about it.

 

Even though they had stolen all of the water balloons they were still almost as soaked as the adults when the water balloon war was finished mostly because Sirius had thought to grab Harry's new water gun that was still filled with water.

 

After they were done they played a few muggle games Tag, hide and go seek, Red Rover, Simon says, and Steal the flag.

 

After everyone was dry and tired they had cake and embarrassed Harry somehow they managed to have a food fight with just cake.

 

Soon afterwards though Bane and Aly had to leave because they had a two-hour drive and it was already getting dark.

 

“ So did have fun today Hermione?” asked James as they were leaving.

 

“ Yes Mr. Potter I did it was a lot better than sitting around and reading that's for sure.” She said confusing James.

 

Bane had to explain to James what it meant, “ she got an invitation to this school a couple weeks ago and from what her mother said she's done nothing but read about it since.”

 

“ Oh,” said James it made since now.

 

“ It was nice meeting you Hermione,” said Harry, “ maybe you can come up again sometime.” He said looking at his dad to see if it was okay.

 

“ Of course she can come up again, if you want to Hermione.” Said James as she got in the car.

 

“ That would be nice,” said Hermione as she shut the door to the car Harry stayed and waved goodbye and then went inside the house he was really tired.

 

Dudley surprised everyone including Harry by asking if he could spend the night, James didn't seem to have a problem with it so he decided to go ask Petunia to see if she would mind, amazingly she didn't mind at all so Dudley spent the night.

 

Soon after both Harry and Dudley went to bed Remus, Sirius and James had a discussion.

 

“ Does it seem weird to you?” asked James wondering if he was missing something because he would have thought that Petunia wouldn't see anything wrong with party that he knew because he explained that there would be no magic because of Bane but what he didn't understand was her letting Dudley spend the night because he told her that they were going to have a magical party for Harry the next day.

 

“ Yeah it does mate, but I don't know what to tell you.” Said Sirius who had only heard stories about Petunia from James and Remus he didn't know what she was like personally.

 

“ He's lost weight a lot of weight and he's gained some manners too.” Said Remus.

 

“ I noticed that too also Vernon wasn't there when I went to see if he could come in the first place and he wasn't there when I went to see if he could spend the night either,” said James wondering if something had happened.

 

“ Oh well it's not worth worry about tonight lets just go to sleep and we'll figure it out later.” Said Remus yawning, “ and I think I'm going to take over you couch tonight James.”

 

James laughed, “ Alright Moony whatever floats your boat.” Said James going upstairs.

 

Sirius followed barley awake and ran into his door because he forgot it was closed.

 

The next day Remus woke up to Harry and Dudley laughing and as soon he sat up he found himself soaked in water, they had obviously found the water guns.

 

“ Alright I'm up how about you go wake up James and Sirius.” Said Remus yawning.

 

“ They can't they already woke us up you've been asleep a long time Moony,” said Sirius and Remus knew by the tone of his voice that he had a grin on his face.

 

“ What time is it Padfoot?” he asked looking around for a clock.

 

“ Almost 11:30,” said Sirius grinning, “ they would have woken you up earlier but James said to let you sleep.”

 

Twenty minutes later Remus had already been home and gotten changed and was back to help set everything up.

 

Ron, Ginny, Fred, George, and Molly were the first to arrive shortly followed by Neville and his grandmother, then Draco, then Hagrid, Snape, who Draco was very happy to see, Minerva, and Dumbledore.

 

Soon after everyone got there they ate cake, which Snape refused to eat, actually he just refused to eat or drink anything because he had a suspicion that it would end up turning his hair or skin colors and he was almost right.

 

After everyone was done eating they started burping up large colorful bubbles, which made Severus very glad that he hadn't ate anything.

 

The effects of the food wore off after about five minutes and then it was time for Presents Harry liked the prank book the best and so did Draco and Ron. Neville wasn't really into pranking he found it funny but was too afraid of getting into trouble to actually pull any.

 

Dumbledore quite enjoyed the bubbles and so did Hagrid who had brought Lily home, she had been staying with Hagrid while they were on vacation. She was quite happy to see Harry and showed it too by licking his face quite a few times.

 

After everyone settled down and after Lily had gotten into the cake causing everyone to laugh, they decided to play a game of Quidditch. Dudley had been mostly quiet up until this point, “ what's Quidditch?” he asked which cause both Ron and Draco to look at him like he was from another planet.

 

“ How do you not know what Quidditch is?” said Ron and Draco at the same time.

 

Dudley shrugged and they explained it to him though he didn't get much of it because he didn't really understand the concept of brooms being able to fly.

 

However he wanted to learn once he saw how fun it was, “ how do you do that?” he had asked Harry after he got on his broom and flew around a bit.

 

“ Well,” said Harry, “ I don't really know how to explain it”

 

“ Oh,” said Dudley disappointed it had looked like fun.

 

James decided to ask Dumbledore if it would hurt anything if he taught Dudley how to fly he knew Petunia would probably kill him for it if she found out and Lily would too if she was here.

 

Dumbledore however seemed to think that it was a good idea so James summoned two of his old brooms and showed Dudley what to do.

 

“Well first put it on the ground and stand next to it.” Said James explaining it.

 

Dudley did so and then watched as James put his hand over his broom, which Dudley also did and said “up.”

 

James wondered briefly whether or not it would work for a muggle and was actually a bit surprised when the broom leapt up into Dudley's hand. He finished explaining and Dudley flew up to join the game.

 

Actually he wasn't half bad and James figured that if he went to Hogwarts he would be a pretty good chaser.

 

James sat back and watched as Sirius, Harry, Ron and Fred played on one team and Draco, Dudley, George and Ginny played on the other.

 

He would have played but he just wanted to watch for once, which was exactly what he was doing he was laying back on the grass and watching his son play Quidditch.

 

` It's almost perfect,' he thought briefly to himself, ` because it can never be perfect without Lily,' and he smiled softly at the thought of his wife and continued to watch Harry's game until his team won. ` If you were here Lily,' he thought getting up to congratulate his son, ` you'd probably be just as proud of him as I am.'

 

 

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Finally last chapter here I think it's the longest one too. Hope you enjoyed it those of you that waited this long for the end anyway. I wasn't planning on finishing this until December sometime because I was in the middle of Nanowrimo which I still haven't finished and I don't think I'm going to but oh well I got half way there. I'll probably have the first chapter of `Rewritten' up by Christmas or maybe on Christmas.

 

 

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27. bookworm622- ha I like your name that's what my friends used to call me all the time, but I'm glad you like Lily I made her like my dog except he's a boy.

28. Svana- Thank you.

 

 

 

I'll try to get the whole story finished in the future before I post any of it or maybe write the first chapter to see if anyone's going to read it so it won't be so long in-between updates. Somehow I always tell myself this but I never actually do it… oh well at least I actually finished this one instead of letting it sit for almost two years…yeah I've been known to do that.

 

Sorry if I left anyone out or misspelled your name just yell at me for it and I'll fix it if I didn't say anything besides thank you or I'm glad you liked it then I couldn't really think of anything to say but I did appreciate your reviews and I'm glad that so many people liked the story I thought that maybe only one or two people would like it but it appears that twenty eight people liked it enough to review and most of you more than once so thank you and I hope you enjoyed the last chapter of Almost perfect oh and again HAPPY THANKSGIVING.

 

Oh wait sneak peak that I promised though it might change some here it is

 

Rewritten:

 

Petunia Dursley was doing what she did best, which was spying on her neighbors, but today as different she had no idea that today she was going to receive a letter that would change her life forever.

 

She had just picked up her Binoculars and was heading to her favorite spying place when Dudley came running in the house.

 

“ Diddy Darling don't run in the house you'll fall and hurt yourself,” called Petunia after her son's back.

 

“ Oh Petunia let him run, he's a kid kids are supposed to run around the house and worry their parents.” Said Vernon following his son up the stairs but not before yelling at Harry who was locked din his cupboard for making Dudley's breakfast explode.

 

A few minutes later Dudley came running back down the stairs and out the door Vernon followed close behind, “ we're going out Petunia,” he called, “ you had better behave for your aunt boy,” he called out to Harry as he walked by his cupboard.

 

Petunia sighed and watched her neighbors put up birthday party decorations which reminded her that Dudley's birthday was less than a week away she would have to start planning now.

 

WTWTDHDYDFHDFYASDFGAEGADF

 

A week later and Harry found himself locked in his cupboard once again for blowing up Dudley's piñata though he didn't even know how he could have done that but yet he was being punished for it anyway.

 

Petunia was watching her son eat the candy that wasn't destroyed in the explosion while Vernon was busy on the phone trying to explain what had happened to all of the guests at the party.

 

A few hours later Petunia had almost cleaned up everything and her house was almost back to the way she liked it when she heard something rapping at the window she looked up and saw a bird almost as dark as the night sky sitting outside her window.

 

She opened the window with shaking hands wondering what any of the freaks wanted with her.

 

She took the letter that the owl had and watched as it flew off she excused herself and went up to her bedroom to read it, it was from Albus Dumbledore a man that Petunia never wanted to hear from again every time she did it always brought bad news for her family first news that her sister lily was a freak, a witch, then the news that her freak of a sister had gotten herself blown up and so she was stuck with her son, and now, now what did he want.

 

Dear Petunia,

 

I know that you may not want to hear this but I thought to save you from the shock of it later. I know that you may think that it was Harry who caused your son's piñata to explode today with accidental magic at his party but it was not.

 

As of today your son Dudley Dursley age 8 Number 4 Privet Drive has been added onto the list to attend Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry when the time comes that he is old enough to attend.

 

Petunia didn't even bother reading the rest of the letter she didn't want to she knew what she was going to do she was going to hide it and never speak or think about it again.