Harry stared at the small winged blue girl, who looked at him with infinite sadness in her eyes.
"Uh, um... Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia, and Dudley are all Magical... but I'm a muggle?"
Ami sighed.
I Believe The Proper Term Is "Squib", Harry. As You Were Born Of Wizarding Parents...
Uh. Oh.
"That's...crazy. I'm the one who goes to Hogwarts, while the Dursleys are the mugglest muggles that ever lived. They hate Magic."
Ami shook her head, sorrowfully.
Your Uncle Vernon Works At Grunnings, Which Is A Wizarding Firm That Branched Out Into Muggle Business. Your Cousin Dudley Is The One Who Goes To Hogwarts, As Both His Parents And Yours Did.
Right.
Harry rubbed his head, sighed and grabbed another rice cracker, reaching for the tempeh. He needed a pick-me-up.
"But..."
His eyes landed on a boxy shadow in the corner of the kitchen, then.
"But the Dursleys have the telly. Three of them, in fact. Whoever heard of a Magical family that has television?"
Ami blinked.
Both Your Aunt And Uncle Grew Up Between The Worlds Magical And Muggle. Many Magical And "Mixed" Households Which Are Not In All-Magical Neighborhoods Do Have Television And Other Electrical Amenities, Harry - Those Are Not Too Hard To Shield As Long As The Entire Area Is Not Being Bomborded By Magical Energies, After All...
...Uh...
Well, now that he came to think about it, Mrs Figg had a Telly, and so did Hermione's parents, he bet. If Muggleborns or Halfbloods were living in the Muggle areas - Or even Purebloods for that matter, though he couldn't imagine any Pureblood willingly going out to live for any length of time in muggle-dom, even the Weaseleys - and they could "shield" the electrical stuff against magic, why not use them?
- No, wait...
Harry went cold.
If he was really a squib and wasn't going to Hogwarts, then were had he met Hermione? Or Ron, for that matter?
- Or had he?
Harry tried to remember Ron and Hermione. Ron - Ron was red-haired and freckled and had 5 brothers and a sister. Hermione had bushy hair and studied all the time and her parents were dentists. He knew what they looked like, how they smiled...
But.
But why - why didn't he know- feel- more about them? All that came to mind was them smiling and waving, like in a -
In a Wizarding photograph?
Harry stood up.
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