"Ready?"
"As ready as I'd ever be, I suppose..."
Haruka did look quite nice in her neat casual-looking-at-first-glance business suit, Setsuna thought. As did herself.
Setsuna readied the vaguely official-looking suitcase, clipboard and pens.
"OK. Now, you let me do the talking..."
"I know, I know! As if I'd want to do that kind of thing."
"--Alright, then."
Ding-dong. Ding-donggg--
The doorbell of the Dursley household was rather oddly loud, that day...
Not that it entirely stopped the sounds of two children and one adult woman crying. Not really.
"Oh, oh, Mrs Dursley, Mrs Dursley, it's all right, shush, shush..."
And hello there, Harry James Potter. Floating right next to the ceiling and crying your ruddy head off. How do you expect your aunt to get you down, with a butterfly net or something?
Not that it was likely that he was really thinking of all this, considering that he was only one and a half and crying for his mama to boot. Crying for his just recently dead and murdered mama, that is.
Great thinking here, Albus Dumbledore. Just how did you expect Lily Evans Potter's muggle sister to handle this situation, anyhow?
Since Harry Potter was up there, on the ceiling, the sniffling from under the table had to be the other young child in the house.
"Hiya Dudley Dudley Dudley, now that's a good child now..."
Dudly sniffed, pudgy feet waving.
Petunia was already looking somewhat more composed. Well, what mother didn't like her children being coo-d over?
"...Oh...Oh dear. I..."
"Never mind, Mrs Dursley. We're used to this kind of thing. Magical children with their uncontrollable magical outbursts can be so aggravating, we know... You grew up with your sister, did you not?"
"...Oh. ...Yes. ...Oh...So you're..."
Petunia made a hand-waving motion, to which Haruka was quick to supply a tissue. She wiped her eyes.
"Lily...She, she once made mama and papa--my parents forget all about me..."
Awwwk. Setsuna and Haruka both made noises of sympathy.
"I was about eight, and we were fighting, and...It wore off in a couple of hours. --But..."
--You should be ashamed of yourself, Lily Evans. Well, she was later, Setsuna hoped...
"Just call us...friends of the family. The Potter family, that is? We know all about the ...unfortunate circustances that led to your family--"
Here Haruka shook her arms and pulled Harry down into them, in a flurry of--sparkles? Well, showy, but why not.
"--being saddled by your nephew's care. And yes, we know all about the so-called "blood protection", too."
"...But...Um...D-Dumbl--He said in the letter..."
"Not even Headmaster Dumbledore knows everything, Mrs Dursley."
Setsuna smiled, beaming as much as "I am trustworthy!" vibes in Petunia's direction as she could manage.
"There are some things that we need to discuss..."
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