Petunia Dursley sat on her ridiculously clean porch and watched her 2 year old son and nephew playing peacefully in the sand box. "Thank goodness Vernon isn't home" she thought "or he would break the boys up as fast as he could". Her husband never let Harry and Dudley play together, he thought that Dudley could be "contaminated" by Harry's "strangeness", by "strangeness" he meant the fact that Harry's parents had been wizards. In fact Harry's parents were very powerful wizards, until they were killed by an evil wizard named Voldemort. The same night Harry had survived the curse that had killed his parents and had been left on the doorstep of number 4 Privet Drive with a letter addressed to his Aunt and Uncle explaining it all. Since then Vernon had been very vigilant about keeping the cousins apart.
Petunia was suddenly awakened from her thoughts by the sound of a car door slamming and realized her husband must be home. She quickly went over and separated the boys by picking Harry up and placing him farther up the lawn with a dump truck toy. She felt bad about ruining their cousin moment, but she really didn't want Vernon to yell at her. "Why can't I stand up to him? It's not fair to the little ones and I can't love Harry as much as I want to with Vernon around." she thought, and with that she decided to bring it up at dinner that night.