45Vernon took his sweet time getting to the door as he had figured it was Petunia crawling back to him after realizing she had wronged him by leaving his house with those filthy freaks. More knocking sounded, sounding more urgent then he thought necessary at the door. After a few more insistent knocks he finally got his walrus sized body out of his armchair.
"I'm coming already stop banging on my ruddy door like the bloody bobbies!" He all but screamed at the person behind the door. As Vernon slowly waddled to the front door he started contemplating what he was going to do with the two freaks and his lying wife.
Once he finally got to the door he made a production of unlocking it, taking his sweet time doing it. He slowly opens the door and starts gloating, "So I see you've decided to come crawling back – WHAT THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE OLD USELESS MERLIN WANNABE GOAT FUCKING HALFBREED!?"
Albus was furious, 'Who does this squib think he is? I'm the greatest wizard since Merlin HIMSELF!' He took a moment to compose himself before he responded to Vernon. He smiled at Vernon with a twinkle in his eyes.
"I'm here to talk to young Harry," Albus said with a firm tone, making it clear he wasn't here to see Vernon.
"The Freak isn't here and you shouldn't be either. Now leave!" he snarled.
"Then where is he if he isn't here, if I may be so bold?" Albus's voice was tight.
"How the bloody hell should I know!? The freak is with the greasy big nosed weirdo that showed up on my doorstep! Looked at my wife and the next thing I know my wife is gone, the freaks are gone, and I have a pounding bloody headache!"
Albus looked away from the large man, 'What was Snape doing here? He didn't know the boy was here. If he was here that's not good… has he regained his memories? No. I made sure of it. Maybe Minerva sent him although I specifically told her to send Hagrid.'
He looked back at Vernon, "If that is so I apologize for taking up some of your time."
After he turned to leave, but before doing so he placed a detection ward around the house, then apparated back to Hogwarts.
Meanwhile at Potter Manor Hermione was exploring the massive three floored Potter Family library with a look of utter excitement and fascination.
"This is the most amazing library I've ever seen! Look at all these books!" Hermione shouted out in excitement.
Unknown to Hermione she was heard by Petunia who was passing by the library right at that moment as she was trying to make her way to the kitchen for breakfast.
"That voice sounded familiar but I thought that only my Dudley, Harry and I were currently here."
Curiosity getting the better of her, Petunia stuck her head into the library to see Hermione running back and forth between the shelves taking books off to look at them and then placing them back if they didn't interest her at that moment of time. Petunia was shocked to see Hermione here though and started to wonder to herself if her best friend (as good as a sister) was also here and how.
"Hermione? Is that you?" Petunia questioned the fast-moving girl with the frizzy hair and the mocha colored skin.
Hermione jumped in surprise at the voice that sounded just like her mother's best friend and Harry's aunt. She turned around to see just the woman that she was hoping not to see due to her conflicting memories.
"Oh! Auntie Petunia um… hi? Um… what are you doing here?" Hemione nervously asked.
"I could ask you the same thing little lady," Petunia stated in a matter of fact tone of voice.
"Well you see I, um," Hermione started but never finished explaining as a new voice entered the conversation.
"That's because she was invited here Ms. Evans, in fact if you would be so kind as to wait another 5 minutes or so Harry and Hebe will gladly explain the situation to you and you will also be granted the one thing you wished to have most in the world for your patience," Came the dreamy voice of Luna, "OH! Silly me I forgot to introduce myself, my name is Luna Sol Lovegood."
Hermione looked between Luna, Petunia and the books that surrounded her trying to determine which should take priority for the next five minutes that Luna said to wait. But as this was the most amazing library she had seen outside of Hogwarts. It was a very hard choice to make and within seconds she had at least five different books in front of her at the small study table located in the center of the expansive book domain. Petunia giggled at how quickly her honorary niece got over her new apparent shyness and was back to her normal book loving self. While she was waiting for Harry and whoever this Hebe person was, she had decided to sit in one of the comfortable arm chairs in the corner closest to the doors of the library.
"Well Harry, we have one more thing to do before I leave here today so come along now. Luna has already diffused a near volatile situation," Hebe said in a way that brokered no explanations needed.
Thus the two got up and left the office with Hebe leading the way to the library at a leisurely pace. Along the way Harry saw some of his other house elves and was quite surprised to see how drastically different they looked to when he first met them. All of them looked more like the elves described in Tolkien's Lord of the rings except they kept the skin tones that the had before and the males kept their bald heads (mind you Harry was comparing their height to that of when he was in an older body that was much taller than his eleven year old self).
'I wonder if the male house elves can't grow any hair or if they prefer to have shaved heads,' Harry pondered, 'I'll have to ask them.'
The pair entered the library and Harry was surprised to see his aunt in there with two of his fiancés and he was about to comment on it when Hebe spoke up, "Great now that we are all here we can get done to business. Petunia, my name is Hebe and I am your nephew's Angel of Death. I am here to help him right the wrongs in the magical world starting with one Tom Marvolo Riddle also known as Lord Voldemort."
Petunia did not expect what she was just told and promptly fainted in the chair she was sitting in.
"Oops I guess I just shocked her system with the whole Angel of Death bit."
Hebe snapped her fingers which woke up Petunia.
"Wh-where am I?" Petunia stuttered.
"You are in the Potter family library and a bit of information I just told you made you faint and for that I am sorry."
"Wh-why are you here if Harry isn't dead? How can I see you?"
"In order I was given special permission to enter the world of the living to help out your nephew, and you can see me because I want you to see me," Hebe explained simply.
"O-ok."
Hebe proceeds to then make a chair appear out of thin air to sit on and motioned for Hermione to join them and to put her books down for now.
"Now then Petunia, I'm going to do something for you by returning something that was taken from you before you were even born. Now please close your eyes."
Petunia nervously looked around at the three children, more particularly Harry and Hermione, that both gave her reassuring smiles and nodded their heads. Hebe then started to inscribe complex looking runes in the air around Petunia. When the last was finished they all glowed a bright green color that then slammed into her filling her with the green light. It was barely a moment later when the light dissipated.
"There we go. All done. The curse that was placed on you while you were in the womb has been removed and your magical core has been restored," Hebe preened.
Everyone, including Luna, looked gobsmacked at Hebe who was wearing the biggest shit eating grin.
Petunia was so overwhelmed she promptly fainted again.
"Ah fuck," Hebe muttered as a pout replaced her grin.
AN: Sorry for the late update I've been having a lot going on and I hit a major writers' block. I didn't forget you or this fic and I think about it even while working since it helps me when I'm upset. I just struggle putting thoughts into words. Thank you for reading, hope you liked the twist :) Reviews are always appreciated and are a great motivation.
