Entry: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Lily is dead.

Her son was dumped on my porch.

What kind of idiot leaves a baby on the porch on a cold, rainy November night?

Vernon checked the security footage, but it seems they thought far enough ahead to knock out all the lights. We got only a couple faint flickers and a faint audio track that Vernon is getting enhancement software for. It’s in there, we’re certain of it, but it’s faint enough the background noise drowned out the words when we simply turned up the volume.

I hope we can get names.

Because of the letter.

The letter that told me my sister was dead.

Whoever wrote that letter is so dead. He should have knocked, and maybe told me to my face, not written me a sleazy letter!

They didn’t even bother to sign it.

Vernon has sworn to ‘stamp out that dangerous nonsense’. While I can’t disagree that the magical world is a bunch of dangerous nonsense, I am aware it can’t be simply stamped out.

And Harry.

Harry is all I have left of my sister.

My beloved little sister never came back from Hogwarts that first year. The person that came back was a facsimile of her- already bewitched to do some old coot’s bidding.

To do James Potter’s bidding.

And Harry…

I pray he follows after his mother, not his father.

And I will ensure not that we stamp out the magic, but that I raise him to be skeptical.

That he be the kind of child that will force these wizards to play the long game to get him.

That he never be hoodwinked by those Black Wizards.

Especially when they wear other colors.

I wonder if this Dark Lord Voldemort was actually as dark as they claimed.

Sure, he killed Lily… but she was already dead, so maybe he just put her out of her misery?

And he didn’t kill Harry, instead he merely gave him just enough of a cut to make whoever send him to me.

I will make them pay for harming my family.

But… how should I do it?

The letter basically commands us to abuse Harry.

It doesn’t say as much, but it’s between the lines.

The lines of that P.S. that says our abuse will go unnoticed, no matter what happens.

And they call themselves Light.

So how best to do it?

If we don’t abuse him, they will come to force us.

I wonder… is it possible to treat him just right that he develops that skepticism as a self-defense mechanism?

We will have to be very careful.

Child Services would have our heads if they knew we were doing this.

Entry: Tuesday, November 8th, 2011

We got the audio enhancement software.

And it worked.

We were able to listen to the entire conversation.

There were three people.

Professor McGonagall seemed to be the most sane. Most of what she was doing was complaining to Dumbledore about various things the Wizards are doing wrong. Being in the streets without wearing ‘muggle’ clothes, creating shooting stars down in Kent, taking Harry to me and my husband because we’re so very not magical… dumping Harry on my doorstep with only a letter. I quote, “A letter? Really, Dumbledore? You think you can explain all this in a letter?”

That said, Professor McGonagall definitely does her research, despite initially not having known why Dumbledore had planned to visit. Apparently, she can turn into a cat or something, and had been watching us all day, after hearing that he was planning to come. And her opinion was that “You couldn’t find two people who are less like us!” Given how easily she accepted Dumbledore’s declarations, though, I suspect she might be bewitched.

Hagrid seemed to be in the middle, as far as sanity. He didn’t oppose any of the insanity that Dumbledore proffered, but he also had the sense to borrow a flying motorcycle instead of walking halfway across the country. I talked to Vernon about him, and we think Hagrid is ignorant muscle. A blind follower. He obviously genuinely cares about Harry quite a bit- he wears his heart on his sleeve, as they would say. He’s also very loud, relative to the others- and the only one with lines we could make out without audio enhancement.

Professor Dumbledore, however… is definitely a Black Wizard.

He dumped Harry on our doorstep. Insisted it was the best place for him, wrote that threatening letter.

He told me Lily was dead in a letter, rather than in person.

When McGonagall asked if he could do something about the scar on Harry’s forehead, he said he wouldn’t even if he could, because they can be handy.

I think that means there’s something horrible in that scar, that he doesn’t want anyone knowing about.

I wonder if surgery would take care of it…?

Author's Note

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