{"id":106372,"date":"2016-04-07T21:04:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T21:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/07\/ainedubh-avian-dynamics-omgpadfoot\/"},"modified":"2016-04-07T21:04:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T21:04:51","slug":"ainedubh-avian-dynamics-omgpadfoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/04\/07\/ainedubh-avian-dynamics-omgpadfoot\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

ainedubh<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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avian-dynamics<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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omgpadfoot<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Imagine if Dudley did have a magical child though. <\/p>\n

He and Harry haven\u2019t spoken since \u2018I don\u2019t think you\u2019re a waste of space\u2019 and he\u2019s matured enough to realise his parents were not good to Harry, especially since the birth of his own little girls because God forbid anything happened to him and they were treated like Harry was. <\/p>\n

On Daisy Dursley\u2019s eleventh birthday theres a knock on the door and his wife, Anita, just stares and he feels his stomach drop because the stern lady on the doorstep is wearing a cloak and pointed hat. <\/p>\n

They listen to the woman – Professor McGonagall – explain and Anita is surprised but receptive, Daisy is excited and Dudley is terrified of what this means. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a surprise to his wife and little girl when at the end of her explanation, while Daisy\u2019s flicking through a book with moving pictures and Anita peers over her shoulder, Dudley blurts out \u2018it\u2019s safe now then? Your world?\u2019 <\/p>\n

Professor Mcgonagall gives a wry smile and assures him that the magical world is indeed safe. It dawns on him that she was expecting this, that she\u2019d perhaps researched him and was aware of his relation to Harry. <\/p>\n

He then admits to Anita and Daisy that his cousin is a wizard, before turning to the Professor and asking if she by chance knows a Harry Potter. Looking amused, professor Mcgonagall acknowledges that she does. <\/p>\n

\u2019D’you know where he lives?\u2019 <\/p>\n

That does surprise her a bit, and she tells him that yes, she knows and that though Daisy\u2019s acceptance into the school has been confidential up until this point, Harry would likely not mind a visitor if he wanted a word. <\/p>\n

Daisy begs to come along and he relents eventually, bringing Anita and their youngest, Poppy, along. <\/p>\n

All four of them stand on the doorstep of a modest house that Dudley would call nice if there weren\u2019t squat little creatures snickering and running around the front garden. <\/p>\n

The door is opened by a slouching boy with turquoise hair who arches a purple eyebrow at them. He yells over his shoulder for someone named Ginny and steps back to let them in, and, when he notices Daisy staring at his hair, he smirks and a second later it\u2019s bubblegum pink. <\/p>\n

Daisy squeals in delight and Dudley is still trying to get his head around that when young girl and boy around Daisy\u2019s age with bright red hair and thick brown curls respectively, hurtle down the corridor. <\/p>\n

\u2018Teddy you promised you\u2019d practice the sloth grip roll with us!\u2019 The girl yells in an accusatory tone. <\/p>\n

A woman with hair the same shade of flaming red as the little girl appears with what Dudley recognises as a wand in her hand as the boy with blue hair flashes a grin at them before chasing the two younger children outside to a shout of \u2018No higher than the treetops Teddy!\u2019 <\/p>\n

Harry is much like Dudley remembers him, lanky with a pointed face, straight nose and mess of untameable black hair. It\u2019s awkward, but, apparently forewarned, Harry greets him pleasantly and introduces his wife before Ginny goes outside to reign in a gaggle of children he assumes aren\u2019t all Harry\u2019s.<\/p>\n

A woman with thick, bushy hair pulled into a messy bun with a wand stuck in it smiles and makes an effort to talk to Anita. She\u2019s not too strange, he thinks, and reassures them that her parents were just as baffled when they found out she was a witch.<\/p>\n

\u2018Why don\u2019t you take Daisy outside to see the broomsticks, Al?\u2019 Harry suggests to Daisy\u2019s obvious delight and Dudley swears Harry\u2019s trying not to laugh. <\/p>\n

By the end of the visit Dudley is more informed about the wizarding world than he ever thought he would or wanted to be. Daisy, with a bruise on her forehead and scraped knees, because despite both his and Harry\u2019s warning she hadn\u2019t been able to resist trying to fly, is bouncing off the walls because \u2018daddy how could you not tell us?!\u2019<\/p>\n

\nThey visit Harry\u2019s a lot over summer and Daisy befriends Lily Luna Potter and Hugo Weasley. Dudley doesn\u2019t feel up to the trip to Diagon Alley but regrets his decision to not go when Daisy comes back with two owls, \u2018uncle Harry bought the second one for me! So you can write without having to wait for me to send my owl!\u2019<\/p>\n

Petunia Dursley faints when she finds out, and Vernon spends a good half hour cursing and brandishing things aimlessly before retreating to his shed. <\/p>\n

Dudley being introduced to what he calls \u2018all those bloody gingers\u2019 some of whom are only just on the right side of civil to him (one cheerfully introduces himself as someone who once visited his childhood home in a flying car and asks if he\u2019s going to need to do the same for Daisy or will she be allowed to attend without punishment). <\/p>\n

Daisy is shocked to find out Harry\u2019s famous, and finds out as much as she can about him during her first term, which she relays to an increasingly guilty feeling Dudley, who\u2019s gradually coming around to the idea. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s not as bad as his parents made out it was. He\u2019s learned to understand Daisy\u2019s ramblings about her subjects and spells and is proud of her achievements at school. He\u2019s met a handful of witches and wizards through Harry and the world that he\u2019s always been told is terrible doesn\u2019t seem too bad anymore, after all, how could it with his little girl in it? He is prepared come excitable little Poppy\u2019s eleventh birthday, for her to join her sister at Hogwarts instead of standing jealously on the platform as she leaves. <\/p>\n

Poppy Dursley never gets a letter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I TRUSTED YOU<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No, but imagine. Three generations later, this family FINALLY gets the one wizard kid\/one Muggle kid thing right. Poppy is never made to feel less, even though she\u2019s disappointed. Daisy is never made to feel like a freak. Poppy is accepted by Harry\u2019s kids, they play with her and she doesn\u2019t need magic to play wizard chess or toss gnomes and Teddy takes her flying sometimes (she becomes a hell of a Quidditch referee and strategist with Ginny\u2019s help, though she never plays). <\/p>\n

Anita and Dudley talk to Poppy about what she\u2019d like to do for school and she goes to a prestigious Muggle school, and as it turns out she becomes really, really good at tech and coding. She takes lots of time off to visit Daisy at Hogwarts where she becomes a favorite of McGonagall (so many clever questions). Eventually she meets Luna and spends most of a summer with her, following Crumple-Horned Snorkacks with the help of some trackers Poppy built to work around magic. Everyone is terribly impressed, and although Poppy tries to be blas\u00e9 about it, she\u2019s actually really proud.<\/p>\n

And soon enough Daisy is graduating and working at the Ministry in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office with Arthur Weasley, who has been working on loosening some of the legislation, and when Poppy graduates she has a marvelous idea. She and Daisy open a shop in Diagon Ally for all these Muggle technologies that Poppy has fixed to work around and with magic. Dursley\u2019s Muggle Magic, they call it.<\/p>\n

And suddenly wizards are running around with iPhones and Kindles (Hermione made a digital copy of Hogwarts, a History RIGHT AWAY) and everyone is catching up on decades of video games and a century of movies. Scorpius Malfoy has an Apple Watch. And it\u2019s all thanks the Poppy Dursley, the Muggle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ainedubh: avian-dynamics: omgpadfoot: Imagine if Dudley did have a magical child though. He and Harry haven\u2019t spoken since \u2018I don\u2019t think you\u2019re a waste of space\u2019 and he\u2019s matured enough to realise his parents were not good to Harry, especially since the birth of his own little girls because God forbid anything happened to him … <\/p>\n

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