[HP] Aunt of the Savior

Chapter 122 Cupboard New Home

Harry, who didn't know the current situation of the Dursleys, was nervously hiding behind the bushes in the small playground on Magnolia Road.He used to stay here all morning to avoid Dudley during the holidays, and today was no exception.Didn't have breakfast, but a sandwich suddenly appeared in his pocket, or Dudley couldn't hit himself anyway. Such miraculous things made Harry even more unable to divert his thoughts away from the mysterious woman in black, actually He hadn't even heard the nasty insults from Dudley and his friends when he left the house last day.

Ever since he was sensible, Harry even dreamed that one day a relative would suddenly appear and take him away from the Dursleys, but the Dursleys always claimed that he had no other relatives.But now, on his seventh birthday, it seems that dream finally has a chance to come true!

The unreality of the dream come true made Harry couldn't help worrying that everything just now was an illusion, or that the woman who claimed to be his aunt was driven away by Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia, and he still had to be with Dursley in the future. The Li family lived together.

So when Dudley and his mates were terribly bored (because the beanbag Harry couldn't "use" today) at the amusement park all morning, clutching their growling stomachs and getting ready to go home for lunch, ha Leigh was already running ahead of him towards number four, Privet Drive.

Harry was running as fast as he did every time Dudley tried to run after him.But he hesitated for a long time before entering the door, worried about Lao Gao, lest he would find out that everything just now was his hallucination when he got home.

But Jody was still sitting in the Dursleys' living room when Harry rushed into the living room in fear.Moreover, the atmosphere in the room was more serious than before Harry left the house just now, and the faces of the Dursleys were extremely ugly.

"Harry." Jody didn't care about the ugly faces of the Dursleys at all, and greeted Harry cordially.

"You... are you really my aunt? I mean..." Harry walked up to Jody with obvious surprise on his face, but he still turned his head in disbelief, trying to ask the pale-faced German Si Li and his wife asked for evidence. "I mean, this lady is really..."

"Yes... yes." Uncle Vernon squeezed out a short answer uncomfortably through his teeth.

"I know I'm going to surprise you, but I brought you this." Jody pulled a photo from the side pocket of his suitcase. "This is your father and mother. Your father and I are twin brothers."

Harry took the photo from Jody nervously and apprehensively, feeling extremely excited.He didn't know what his parents looked like yet, he'd never seen a picture of Mom or Dad at the Dursleys' house before.

——The people in this picture can actually move! ?

Harry showed a shocked expression when he saw the photo for the first time. He raised his head and looked at Jody, who smiled and made a "shh" gesture to him.Harry nodded desperately nervously, suppressing his surprise and curiosity, and carefully looked at this extremely precious photo.

The man and woman in the photo look extremely young, standing side by side with happy smiles on their faces.Harry looked greedily at the father and mother in the photo, and he was surprised to find that he could find all of them in himself: his father had the same hair and facial features as his, and his green eyes were very similar to his. Mom.

"Dad...Mom..." Harry carefully held the photo in front of his face and called out in a low voice. His initial expression of excitement and joy gradually turned into yearning and pain, and his eyes were filled with tears, falling drop by drop. on Aunt Petunia's cherished rug. "Is this... for me?"

Aunt Petunia looked away, unwilling to look at Harry, but for the first time she didn't accuse him of soiling her beloved rug.Uncle Vernon was panting heavily, with his beard twitching, it was ridiculous.

"I still have a lot of pictures of them, I can give you, I think you will like it."

Hearing Jody's words, Harry finally couldn't help crying out loud.Jody stretched out his arms and held Harry tightly in his arms, stroking his back tenderly to comfort him, bitterness overflowing in his heart.She had made up her mind, no matter what, she could never let Harry live the life he was living now.

Harry cried for a long time in Jody's arms. He had never had the opportunity to vent his inner pain and loneliness in such a loving embrace. The feeling was warmer and more beautiful than he had imagined.Finally, he stopped sobbing, only to find in horror that Jody's clothes were wet with his tears and snot. "Ah, sorry, I mean..."

He broke free from Jody's arms in embarrassment, and looked at Jody nervously and carefully, for fear that she would hate him because she was so angry with him.

"You can call me Aunt Jody, or you can just call me Jody." Jody rubbed Harry's hair, "As for this, you don't have to worry." She took out her wand and waved it, and the stain on the skirt disappeared. It disappeared completely.

"Wow!" Harry exclaimed, and a smile appeared on his face: "Aunt Jody, this is really amazing!"

"Mom, I'm so hungry! I want grilled lamb chops and ice cream for lunch!" Dudley, who was far behind Harry, rushed into the living room with a yell, and happened to see this miraculous scene .He looked at the wand in Jody's hand with the greedy eyes of a new toy.Aunt Petunia quickly pulled him between herself and Uncle Vernon, and hugged him tightly, as if afraid that Jody would use her "scary" ability to target Dudley.

"Harry, I just talked to your uncle and aunt." Seeing the flash of envy for Dudley in Harry's eyes, Jody simply held Harry in his arms and let him sit on her lap, " About your custody and who will take care of you."

"Can I get out of here with you?" Harry's eyes lit up, and the envy he had just seen Aunt Petunia doting on Dudley was immediately forgotten by him.

Vernon gave Harry a hard look and muttered something like "the ungrateful brat" under his breath, causing Harry to cower back into Jody's arms.But in fact Vernon seemed as eager for Jody's answer as Harry was.Aunt Petunia opened her mouth slightly, looking strange.

"No, I'm staying," but Jody said to the expectant Harry.

Harry looked at the woman in front of him in surprise. "Oh, Aunt Jody, I thought I could-"

"No, no, we have to thank the Dursleys for their kindness, because they took you in and insisted on raising you." A perfectly innocent smile played on Jody's lips.It was also a smile that anyone who knew Jody Potter would have shuddered at, and when you smile like that, it usually means that Jody is figuring something out again.

But of course none of the people present understood Jody's characteristic.So Harry felt very aggrieved. It's not that he didn't thank the Dursleys for adopting him before Aunt Jody appeared, but the word kindness was used on the Dursleys, which still couldn't satisfy Harry.

However, living in the Dursleys' house made him habitually afraid to argue with Jody, so he had to lower his head and not speak.Maybe his aunt's life is also very bad, so the thought that she has to come to him now keeps turning in circles in Harry's little head.If Jody used Legilimency on Harry now, I'm afraid he would be dumbfounded.

"But, Aunt Jody, where does Aunt Petunia let you live?" Harry scratched his head in doubt, "The guest room?"

"How could we let such a freak live in the guest room!" Aunt Petunia screamed, "No, we didn't allow you to stay at all!"

"Come on, Mrs. Dursley. You'd welcome me to stay, because then you wouldn't have to pay for Harry's living expenses, would you?" Jody didn't care much about Petunia's hysteria.Because of the magic she cast on them just now, the Dursleys were just ruthless and didn't dare to really mess with her at all.Jody knows all too well that their rowdyness is simply a fear that the neighbors will find out that they are involved with "deviant" wizards.

"Will you pay us? How much?" Vernon narrowed his eyes and looked at Jody in front of him, as if he was measuring how much oil and water she could squeeze out of her.Jody, visiting the Dursleys with such a modest suitcase, did not seem like a rich man to him.

"From today onwards, I will take care of Harry's food and clothing. After discussing with my lawyer, I will pay you a sum of money for the first six years of supporting him." Jody habitually Her long hair was thrown back and tied with a green ribbon trimmed with silver.The ribbon looked very old, which made the Dursleys even more skeptical, but luckily she was showing common sense. "But I still need you to provide me with a place to live. Of course, I won't cause you too much trouble. I will live with Harry in his cupboard-if you plan to use this place to earn rent and subsidize your family, I'll pay too."

When it came to the last sentence, Jody's tone finally revealed an obvious taste of sarcasm.Vernon blushed, but to Harry's surprise he didn't reject Jody's sarcasm to the end—was he really going to charge rent for the cupboard? !

"Cupboard?" But Harry finally couldn't help but exclaimed.How could that little cupboard house a grown woman after a seven-year-old boy?Also, sleeping with a grown woman - even if Harry was only seven years old, he would feel very embarrassed.It didn't even occur to him for a moment how his aunt would know that he was sleeping in the cupboard.

"Yes, the cupboard." Jody blinked happily at Harry, but looked terribly at the Dursleys, which made Dudley, who didn't know what had just happened, look at his parents in horror. Shrink around.

When Jody read out of the heads of the two Muggles what they had done to Harry, she was going crazy.Thanks to Merlin, she had the willpower to control herself from throwing a few Cruciatus or simply Avada these two hateful Muggles.

The Dursleys, who had just been taught a lesson, couldn't say the line of rejection, so they forced themselves to nod.

Jody was still looking sour when he followed Harry to the cupboard under the stairs.

Jody wasn't content with what the Dursleys had learned.But Harry kept looking at her cautiously from the beginning to the end, the kind of eyes like a frightened bunny made Jody feel so distressed that she could hardly speak.

"I, I live here, but my aunt..."

"Wait for me a moment, I think this place needs to be cleaned up a little bit." Jody forced himself to smile at Harry, otherwise this sensitive child would definitely misunderstand.She bent down slightly and squeezed through the small wooden door. "It might take a while..."

Harry watched anxiously as Jody disappeared into the cupboard, pressed the photo nervously to his chest, and sat on the floor outside the door to wait.After Aunt Petunia had calmed the crying Dudley, the Dursleys had gone to lunch, and they didn't ask Harry to do anything this time, nor did they ask Harry to eat.This played into Harry's favor - he didn't want to leave either, he was afraid that his aunt would leave him if she saw that he wasn't obeying.

The situation in the cupboard was even worse than Jody had imagined, narrow, dark, and dirty... Jody couldn't help gnashing his teeth while waving his magic wand to transform.She complained about Dumbledore, and was mad at herself too, if she'd returned to England earlier, or had taken the time to see Harry in the intervening years, and give the snobby Muggle couple some money, huh Can Li live a little better?

Fortunately, she came back and would never let Harry suffer again!

Of course, Jody didn't intend to live in such a small cupboard with Harry. She had already made up her mind to use magic to build a luxury apartment in the Dursleys' house, but now this apartment was going to be built. Just in the cupboard.

Reconstruction work requires advanced magic in expanding space, and this aspect happens to be one of the fields that Jody knows and is good at, although she learned the knowledge of space expansion in the first place to deceive Lily... Thinking of the past, Jody's eyes flashed A look of nostalgia.

Because it is a Muggle house, it is very limited to use the expansion spell alone, which not only consumes too much magic power of the wizard, but also is not stable enough, but if combined with some high-quality alchemy products, there will be no problem at all.After Jody put these space-expanding alchemy products in the right place, and then superimposed a few matching spells, the originally narrow cupboard became a spacious and comfortable apartment.This principle is exactly the same as those magic tents used by wizards, which are extremely magical to Muggles.Now there are two bedrooms, separate bathroom and kitchen, and a living room with a fireplace, and the porch is connected to the poor little broken door of the original cupboard.

The furniture needed in the new room was also difficult for Jody. Before coming to Harry, she had sorted out all the things that might be used, and had prepared some new furniture specially for the children.She shrunk the furniture and some of the necessary interior decorations with the Shrinking Charm, and carried them all into Privet Drive in her magic suitcase.Now, all she had to do was bring them back to their original size and direct them into place with her wand.

Jody looked around the room for the last time. The brand new apartment didn't match the old small door, so she used a transfiguration spell to make the small door look in harmony with the style of the whole room from the inside—— Now it looks great here.

"Harry? You can come in." Jody, who had easily completed this "huge project", had a pleasant smile in his voice.She couldn't wait to see Harry's face seeing all this.

Harry jumped to his feet almost as soon as he heard Jody's voice, and opened the cupboard door.

Everything in front of him almost made Harry think he was hallucinating.He couldn't help but look back in doubt, outside the door he just passed through, it was still the corridor of Dursley's house.So he's in his cupboard now?But... this is really unbelievable.

What used to be a cupboard barely fit a small single bed was now a comfortably furnished apartment.

"Aunt Jody, here..." Harry looked at everything in front of him in surprise, he couldn't imagine that Jody had made his cupboard so spacious and beautiful in such a short time.

This is simply amazing!

"Remember? As I said, we are wizards." Jody winked mischievously at Harry, "We're going to live here tonight, so I'll tidy up a bit first, and then we can take our time. Decorate, let's take a look at your room?"

Harry, who had the opportunity to own his own room for the first time, finally couldn't help raising his hand, and pinched his cheeks that were obviously not as round as those of his age in a daze. "... Am I really dreaming?"

"Of course not." Jody patted Harry's head affectionately, took his hand and walked into the room she had prepared for Harry.

The arrangement of the room left Harry speechless.Every piece of furniture in the room was just the right size for Harry's age.The light green wallpaper is painted with animal patterns that Harry doesn't recognize (Harry swore that the animals on those wallpapers he saw were moving), the wooden floor exudes the fresh fragrance of wood itself, and in the middle of the room there is a An actual bed, a four-poster that the Dursleys couldn't fit in, and matching desks, bookcases, wardrobes and toy boxes, all brand new!What's even more amazing is that there is actually a window in this room, which is obviously located in a cupboard. Outside the window is a green shade that blocks the hot summer sun. shaking.

The room was magical and wonderful beyond anything Harry could have imagined.He'd wager that even if Dudley had taken two bedrooms at the Dursleys', if he'd seen this room, he'd have wanted it for himself.

"This..." Harry moved his lips laboriously.He turned his head and looked at Jody, his eyes shy and excited and happy.In the face of successive miracles, he really didn't know what to say.

"Do you like it?" Jody put his arm around Harry's thin shoulders, with a somewhat disturbed expression. "If you think there is any need or dissatisfaction, you can tell me. I don't know the preferences of boys of this age..."

"No... ah, I mean... yes, I like it a lot, it's good enough for me," Harry said sincerely.

Harry had a wonderful birthday.

He suddenly knew that he was a little wizard, and he got a relative who really loved him, and a room that really belonged to him.During meal time, he can sit at the table and enjoy any kind of food he wants, and for the first time in his life, someone baked a birthday cake for him, and that cake will automatically sing happy birthday!

And after eating and drinking, he also received a birthday present for the first time.As his aunt waved the stick—no, Harry knew that stick was called a wand by now—those beautifully wrapped presents suddenly appeared in the middle of the living room, piled up like a hill, no bigger than Dudley's collection this year. Few birthday presents arrived.

"Harry, it's time to unwrap your birthday present!" Jody smiled and waved the wand to line up the presents and danced in front of Harry.

"Oh, no." Although Harry looked at the dancing gifts with surprise on his face, he didn't immediately reach out to unpack them. Instead, he took a deep breath, looked at Jody seriously and said, " I mean, you've given me enough, really. I can't..."

"But those are not birthday presents!" Harry's sensibleness made Jody feel joyful and sour in her heart, and she tried her best to maintain a happy expression. "And these gifts have been accumulated for seven years—I and your godfather gave you respectively."

"Godfather?" Harry felt as if his heart had been scorched by the July sun, hot and spicy. "I still have a godfather?"

If the sudden appearance of Jody is like the mother in Harry's dream, then a godfather can undoubtedly fulfill Harry's other dream of a father.

"Oh, yes, his name is Sirius, Sirius Black. He entrusted me to deliver some gifts to you." Jody squatted down and looked directly at Harry's eyes that were exactly the same as Lily's. "Harry, you should accept these presents, these presents are long overdue for you."

The presents were very interesting, though some were clearly toys for children younger than Harry.Harry put aside the weird candies and picture albums with moving people for a while, and his eyes fell on the two largest gifts-two brooms, one of which was bigger than the other. bigger.

"Oh, of course, Sirius will definitely give you this... This is a broomstick for children, and wizards can ride it to fly in the sky." Seeing the broomstick, Jody smiled bitterly. "We can find a place away from Muggles for you to try later."

"Aunt Jody." After unwrapping all the presents, Jody's gentleness finally got Harry up the courage to ask this question. "Since I have an aunt and a godfather, why did I live with the Dursleys in the first place?"

He's been wanting to ask that question ever since Jody showed up.Since he had other relatives, why did he live with the Dursleys who hated him?Why hadn't his aunt and godfather appeared during these seven years?

"Harry, I'm sorry I didn't see you until now..." The smile on Jody's face faded slightly, which made Harry a little nervous.But Jody neither showed anger nor yelled at him like the Dursleys did.However, there was a hint of complex emotion in her eyes that Harry couldn't understand.

"We all have some unreasonable reasons why we can't raise you, and it's not convenient to visit you. And I have to admit, I didn't expect the Dursleys to treat you like that. I'm sorry...I'm not sure how some things should be I shouldn't have told you when you were so old, I hope you can be as carefree as other seven-year-old boys."

Seeing Harry's ignorant expression, Jody smiled softly. "I'll tell you some things later on, and there's a lot you need to know. But not now, it's getting late, Harry, and it's time to go to bed, good boy."

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