The Ancient Wizards of Hogwarts

Harley got off the bed. She stood there and looked at Aunt Petunia at a loss, not knowing what to do.

Penny looked at Harry, her body trembling slightly, and there was a slight cry in her voice:

"I know, I have always known, Lily loves me, she has always loved me!"

"But I never reciprocated this love. I would only hurt her with her love for me, even though she tried to help me again and again."

"Every time she comes back during the summer vacation, she will share her life at Hogwarts with me and the magical experiences she has encountered. Everything there makes me yearn for it, and it also makes me more jealous of her."

"Every time I see you, it reminds me of Lily, the sins I once committed, and how cowardly, inferior and shameless I was. I was so stupid and hopeless!"

"I thought about apologizing to her, but I couldn't say it every time, which made our relationship worse and worse until it was irreparable."

"But, but!"

She suddenly became excited: "If there was no magic, no that damn magic, everything should not be like this! Lily and I would not be like that, and she would not know your father, let alone be killed by magic!"

"Without magic, without wizards, none of this would have happened!"

"In the past ten years, without the interference of magic and wizards, we have been living very well, haven't we?"

Harley looked at the pleading look in her aunt's eyes, was silent for a long time, and said softly:

"Sorry, Aunt Petunia, but I have to go."

Penny's expression became increasingly bitter:

"Ah, yes, you must go, because you have a talent, the same talent as Lily."

"I think I am also jealous of you, just like I am jealous of Lily, so I tried to find a way to prevent you from going to Hogwarts."

"That's not the case," Harley whispered.

Petunia laughed at herself: "What else could it be like? Anyway, I am such a hopeless, stupid woman. God, how stupid a person would be to be jealous of his sister, and then he would be jealous of his sister after her sister died. Do you realize that you actually love her?"

"No, I don't think her sister would want this love either." She said, "She may have expected to receive blessings from her sister, even if it was just a letter, a sentence, or a word, but every time All she got was hurt every time, and she may have no longer expected anything from her stupid sister."

"..." Harry bit her lip tightly, feeling a little overwhelmed by Aunt Petunia's words.

Those words were so heavy that Harley almost suffocated. She could not bear such a heavy weight.

Penny suddenly said:

"Maybe I never loved her."

Harley's already petite body trembled slightly.

Penny's tone was hoarse:

"Maybe this is the truth. I never loved her, so I hurt her again and again as a matter of course."

"No, that's not the case!"

Harley said those words again, but unlike before, she shouted this time.

Petunia stopped and looked at Harry with an incredulous look, as if she didn't expect that she, who was always quiet, would be so loud.

Harley pursed her lips and whispered:

"Sorry, Aunt Petunia, I don't know what happened between you and mom."

"I don't know if she has forgiven you, or if she has never held a grudge against you. But I think..."

Harley paused and said softly:

"I think mom will be willing to forgive you because you are her sister."

"And Aunt Petunia, you must love your mother. If it wasn't for love, how could you feel guilty?"

Petunia looked at Harry's appearance, which looked very similar to her mother's, and her body trembled even more violently, tears welling up in her eyes.

She covered her mouth with some loss of voice and rushed out of the door.

But when she was at the door, she stopped again and choked:

"Sorry, Harley, I shouldn't have said this. Just forget about it, just pretend that nothing happened, and go to bed early."

She stomped downstairs, as if she was afraid of something.

Hearing the noise, Vernon Dursley went upstairs. He was fat and turned sideways, tightening his stomach so that his wife could go downstairs.

He came to Harley's door, looked at the somewhat overwhelmed girl in the bedroom, his eyes softened, and he whispered:

"Sorry, Harry, Petunia may have been stimulated by something, she didn't mean it."

"Well, you should have a good rest first. We will try not to disturb you."

"When you wake up tomorrow morning, everything will be back to the way it was before, I promise, okay?"

"Uncle Vernon."

Harley did not respond, but asked softly:

"What kind of person is my mother?"

Vernon hesitated for a long time and said softly:

"I haven't met her a few times, but I can assure you that she is a very gentle person, really."

Harley asked again:

"What about the other one? Mine, father."

Vernon's body trembled slightly, as if he remembered some unpleasant experience.

"I……"

Vernon's voice was a little hoarse:

"The first time we met was in a restaurant, before Penny and I got married."

“Penny actually wants to repair the relationship with your mother, otherwise she wouldn’t take me to meet her.

"That's what I thought at the time. I wanted to help Penny and at least let the sisters talk normally."

"Unfortunately, that meeting ended on bad terms, because not only your mother was present, but also your...father."

"It's also my fault. I knew nothing about everything he said. Whether it was broomsticks, Gringotts or Quidditch, I knew nothing about your magical world. My ignorance triggered his ridicule. , and that’s where things started to change.”

"I couldn't stand his teasing, and neither could Petunia, who couldn't stand his teasing at me."

"I remember when we left, Lily cried very sadly, and Petunia also regretted it, but she didn't want to apologize. It was not her fault, nor my fault, nor Lily's fault, but..."

Vernon sneered:

“The only person who did something wrong does not bear any responsibility, but the rest suffer for it.”

Harley said nothing, just lowered her head, not knowing what she was thinking.

Vernon continued:

"Then there was the wedding, and they were invited to the wedding, but Petunia was still worried about what happened before. She refused to let Lily be her bridesmaid. No matter how much Lily apologized, it was useless. Because she didn't need Lily's apology. That's not Lily. It’s her fault, that will only make her sadder.”

"I didn't say a word to him at the wedding, and neither did he, but Lily kept trying to repair our relationship."

"The only one of us who needs to apologize, duh, didn't do anything."

Vernon's eyes showed undisguised malice:

"No, he still made some 'efforts'."

"After the wedding, he came to our house alone. I thought he was here to apologize. I was so naive that I opened the door to him. And how did he do it? He used his damn magic to transform me Became a pig!"

His eyes almost burst out with anger, and those unbearable experiences were still vivid in his mind even after more than ten years. But he didn't continue talking, he just closed his eyes in pain, because he couldn't even express those truly painful experiences.

Harley whispered:

"So you didn't go to their wedding later."

She knew what happened next. Maybe it wasn't that they didn't want to go, but they just didn't dare.

She never understood why her uncle and the others were so against magic and her going to Hogwarts?

She understood now, because magic had caused them indelible pain.

That was brought by her father.

Although it was hard for her to imagine that she would have such a father, unfortunately, that was her father.

"I'm sorry." Harley pursed her lips. She didn't know how to compensate her uncle and the others.

Even though her father had done such extreme things, her uncle and the others still treated her gently.

"It's not your fault, Harley."

Vernon took a deep breath and suppressed the aroused anger:

"Go to bed early, I'll go talk to your aunt."

He closed the door, cutting off Harley's sight so that Harley couldn't see his suppressed angry expression.

But Harley didn't feel good. She covered herself with a quilt and suffocated herself inside.

"Like an ostrich," thought Hallie.

——

In the shadows near the Dursleys, Ash looked at Snape who had appeared across from the Dursleys at some point, holding a wand in his hand and looking at Harry's room through the window with gentle eyes, complaining in his heart. One sentence:

"Professor Snape, does Dumbledore know what you are doing?"

He originally planned to come over to take a look, but he happened to bump into Professor Snape using magic to interfere with the Dursleys.

In Ash's opinion, Professor Snape was acting as a pure idiot!

I can only say that I’m lucky I’m not on the train!

But obviously, since Snape had already met Harry in Diagon Alley, he would definitely not allow himself to leave Lily's daughter alone.

But he didn't go too far, he just guided the Dursleys' emotions a little.

Of course, Dumbledore will know about this sooner or later, and Snape will inevitably be held accountable, but the other party will probably be happy with it.

You may even feel like you are silently protecting Harley.

As for Ash.

Dumbledore wouldn't know that he was here, after all, Dumbledore didn't know that Ash knew Harley's home address.