Title With Friends Like These / / / Rating M

Chapter 09 - Epilogue – The Dursley's

-With Friends Like These-

Previously on With Friends Like These...

Leaving the foursome of Luna, Ginny, Neville and Ron to their own devices, their wands being left at the Potter house at Salou, snapped in pieces by Hermione and Lily, who had been there until just after Harry had left.

Turning to Katie, Harry smiled at the sight of four of his former friends, left on the motorway, stark naked. "Ok babe, let's go to the safe house. We should be there by dawn."

Having no clothes and no wands between them to transfigure something into clothes, the four remaining invaders went off in search of something to wear and hopefully someone to help them. It took them two hours to find a farm building with some clothes left out on a washing line, having the dead weight that was Ronald Weasley, wanting to take a break every few minutes.

Having stolen the clothes, they then went in search of the local wizards, with the hope of obtaining a wand. All the time Luna had been walking she could not stop thinking of how things might have been had she not listened to Ron and Ginny, and how she had submitted to the control of the Headmaster.

Eventually they managed to get back to the centre of Salou, where they found a Wizard who managed to Apparate them, one-by-one, to the Consulado Mágico de Gran Bretaña, who managed to help them in their return to Britain.

They didn't, however, manage to get a report on the Potters, and their illegal mission, to Albus Dumbledore, as by time they had managed to get new wands, and Floo themselves to Hogsmeade, Albus Dumbledore was dead.

Calle San Enrique 9, Leganés, Madrid, Spain

15th April 2000

Vernon Dursley was getting incensed with his brother-in-law, James Potter, and the members of the Potter family that had apparated into his living room, completely unannounced.

He was trying to get some sleep, knowing that he had to be up in a few hours for work, approaching his Forth year as Vice President of European Operations, his promotion to President of Grunnings being a dead cert to him in the next few years. Over the previous year and half, he had presided over a 1.8bn Pta deal which expanded the operations of Grunnings into Greece, Germany, the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Russia and Egypt, merging with their competitors, Transwelt Bohrer, with the Grunnings board getting 60% of the control of the newly combined board of directors.

As he started to shout at James Potter, he saw his wife, Petunia, cooing over his great-nephew and nieces. It was then that he realised that his wife was bonding with the newer members of her family, especially as, up until that fateful June in 1996, Petunia had thought the only person alive, apart from herself. that was even associated to her sister was her nephew, Harry.

Watching as Petunia was singing a lullaby to a very restless Cassiopeia Black, he was reminded how she had done the same for their son, Dudley, as a baby. It was those memories, alongside the memories of Dudley when he was 16 and joined Grunnings as an errand boy, along with Dudley's face when he was told by his fiancé that he was told he was going to be a father, had kept Vernon sane. It was these memories especially that Vernon kept, since the death of Dudley, Violeta and their two month old baby son in a train crash a year after Dudley had got his job at Grunnings.

A few hours later, having stayed up all night and been told by his wife that his deputy could watch 'the shop floor', and telephoning orders to that effect, he watched as a Land Rover came up to the drive at the Dursley's and saw a raven hired man with a blonde haired woman get out of the car.

As Petunia opened the door to the Dursley's house, she saw her nephew gesture to James, Lily and Hermione to come outside, Katie going in to collect the three children.

"Are they all sorted?" James Potter asked his son.

"Sorted? Who?" Petunia asked, shocked as to what her brother-in-law meant.

"Just a certain 4 people plus their greasy haired pet." Lily said, holding her husbands hand tight, not letting him go anywhere. "Harry killed Severs, mainly as that bastard had the audacity to threaten us."

"You mean that...that boy." Petunia spat. "I told you my dear sister that he was bad news."

"You were right Petunia." Lily said, frowning over how she had ignored the sogns when she was little, ignoring her sister for the person who had eventually called her a Mudblood.

As the Potter-Black family crossed over the road to the six bedroom property that Harry had brought ages ago, just in case the Potters need to leave Salou for any reason, Hermione had heard what Katie had to say about the four betrayers, using very colourful language in her efforts to say what she thoight, but the former bushy haired girl she knew she had to have the last line.

"With friends like these, who needs enemies.."

-With Friends Like These-

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Story ID 058 - Publish Date 14/02/2017