Harry Potter and the Theories of Normalcy

So this story is partially to apologize for what happened with the Hogwarts Years and partially an idea that has been kicking around my head all October. So before I post the first chapter, here are some things you might want to know:

-Instead of being set in the canon timeline, this story is set about 5 years later.

-There will be a lot of analysis of Petunia and Lily's relationship, and how it affects Petunia's treatment of Harry.

-This story probably won't be very ship heavy.

-I plan on fleshing out the relationship between the Ministry for/of Magic and the non-magical government

-I am an American and thus no very little about British politics. That said, I have been researching a bit into the UK's political climate, and I will try to accurately portray the different figures that will be mentioned in the non-magical government.

-Because we are told very little about Hermione in canon, I considered her background a free-for-all, something I could twist to my will, as a result this Hermione will be different from the Hermione in canon, mostly because I don't actually know the background of canon Hermione.

-I have no set update schedule for this, but I never forget a story (even the ones I have deleted in the past). I will update as often as possible now that I have more free time than I did in the past.

-This is a fanfiction, meaning that I am not profiting off of the work of J.K. Rowling, the government of the United Kingdom, any car companies, Scholastic, Warner Brothers, the works of Charles Addams or any other entity that may be mentioned within this work.

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Introduction: Number Three Privet Drive

Harry Potter had been living with his aunt and uncle, Petunia and Vernon Dursley, at Number 4 Privet Drive for five years almost to the day before there was another of sign of the strange and unusual in Little Whinging.

Harry's second year of primary school had started, and since the end of the last school year, Aunt Petunia had enjoyed discussing with the other neighbors on how the couple in Number 3 had vacated the property after having only lived there for 3 months. This, Aunt Petunia was often heard speculating, was because Mrs. Number 3 had been having an affair with a delivery man one of the local restaurants ("I saw him, one evening, using the company vehicle. He knocked on the door, she invited him in, and he didn't leave for hours"). Towards the end of October, however, there was finally more news about Number 3. It had been sold, and "obviously" by someone well-off because Aunt Petunia had seen on the new Rolls in front of the house the day the "For Sale" sign had been removed. Try as she may, though, she had never caught a glimpse of Privet Drive's newcomers. In fact, none of the old residents had.

What they had seen, however, was a large assortment of odd and antique furniture being moved into the house. Why, Mrs. Number 2's daughter swore she saw a stuffed lion being brought in!

Petunia couldn't imagine what would possess someone to have any sort of stuffed animal, let alone a lion, within their quaint urban town. She wondered, for a brief moment, if this family had anything to do with her nephew, a boy whose mysterious appearance on Privet Drive she and Vernon had struggled to explain some years before. After all, how does one tell the neighbors that the headmaster of one's dead sister's secondary school had left a baby on the front step in the beginning of November and one wasn't, couldn't really, investigate the obvious crime that had been committed?

Petunia scowled as she peeked out the living room window where she had been vacuuming the curtains, trying to catch a glimpse of the Number 3's new residents. Even from the grave, Lily was causing her trouble.