Title: A Mother's Job 21 - Why

Author: BertaS

Date: May, 2015

Pairing: None

Rating: G

Word Count: 297

Warnings: none

Summary: Time travel, but hopefully with an element of the unexpected. A series of 'Slice of Life' Drabbles.

A/N: 'My Alternate Reality' ask to: "see the flash back on how she (Petunia) realized what she was doing was wrong!" this is what dribbled out of my brain. This one was writen as saved on my thumbdrive (gosh I wish I had saved everythhing to it) so I didn't have to recreate it.

Anything you recognize I most likely stole so I could play with them. Please review.

A Mother's Job 21 - Why

Many in the old time line would wonder why, why Petunia Dursley nee Evans who hated magic would agree to do what she'd done. Would not only agree to it, but actually ask her nephew to make it happen. Would spend six months in research on child psychology and recent history, both mundane and magical, while Harry and his friends worked out how to do what she wanted.

It's simple really… she shuddered even now, sanding on the platform waving good bye to her nephew, as she thought of the possibility things hadn't change enough.

She found them all, when she went to visit her young grandson, Dudley sitting calmly watching the telly and drinking a beer while the bodies of his wife and their two year old son lay battered and cold on the kitchen floor. His answer when she asked 'why?' shocked his mother to her core.

He said, "But Mummy he was a Freak, like Harry. I couldn't have that in my house. You and Daddy taught me that."

He had no idea that what he had done was wrong. During the trial Petunia had to reevaluate her own attitudes and actions. To reexamine every action she had taken since Dudley was little, since Harry had come to live with them. Everything she had said and done to and about Harry that influenced Dudley's thinking. Everything that influenced his vision of right and wrong. She had to fix that. And if that fixed things for Harry and saved Vernon from the massive heartattack that killed him, then so be it. She would count it a win all the way around.

But she simply had to make everything all better, for all of her boy's, after all that is a mother's job.

AN: When I wrote this (way back before chp 3) I had entended it to be the end, but there's actually more. The next couple will be in the form of letters written by Harry to Petunia, and I have one I have to recreate of Harry and Dudley talking via their mirrors. If you have any suggestions as to scenes you would like to see, let me know in a review.