The Defeat of Lord Voldemort

Puella Deorum (previously God'sGirl88)

Summary: When will Harry face Voldemort? What did Dudley see when the dementor came near him? What sorts of secrets do the Dursley's keep from one another? Post OotP.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. They belong to J. K. Rowling.

Author's Note: I'm sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out. After HBP came out, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do with this story.

- - - - Chapter 4: Vernon's Past - - -

Vernon Dursley was not the man that he appeared to be. No one knew who he really was except for one man. That man wasn't a person that his family would ever dream that he had been associated with - let alone knew like a friend. The truth was that the man had once been his best friend in the entire world.

It all started years before Vernon was even born. Mr. Charles Dursley had just graduated from Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and couldn't wait to see his parents again (They hadn't been allowed to come to the graduation ceremony because they were muggles.) when he accidentally bumped into someone a few blocks from his house.

As he looked up to yell at the person for getting in his way, he saw the most beautiful girl he'd ever seen. She said that she was new to the neighborhood once they'd introduced themselves. Two years later, they were married in a small church in front of their families. But Charles had never told her that he was a wizard. He got a muggle job at a drill factory and lived a regular muggle life until his wife became pregnant.

Then Charles had become a nervous wreck. What if their baby was magical? Nine months later Marge Dursley was born. When his wife went to the mall one Saturday afternoon, Charles took Marge to the Ministry of Magic and had her tested for magical abilities. The tests had come back negative. Marge was completely muggle, and Charles' secret was safe.

Unfortunately, he wasn't so lucky the next time. His son Vernon had magical abilities. It was so obvious that there was no need to even have him tested.

Charles spent the next eleven years hiding the signs of magic from everyone. On Vernon's eleventh birthday, an owl came with a letter addressed to:

Mr. V. Dursley

The Last Bedroom

413 Maple Avenue

Little Whinging

Surrey

On the back of the letter, Charles saw the official Durmstrang School Seal. He pulled Vernon aside that afternoon and explained his well kept secret to him.

On September first, Vernon set off for Durmstrang which was known as Smeltings, a special private school for boys, to the rest of the family. It was an experience that most children only dream of until his fifth year of school. Lord Voldemort began attacking the world just before school let out. Many of the students became Death Eaters. Teachers sent the rest home immediately with a warning that they were probably on Voldemort's hit list and should look for a different school far away from Durmstrang.

Vernon transferred to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, and Marge left for college leaving their parents all alone for the first time in years. Life was very different for all of them, but it was also great. Vernon had absolutely no trouble making friends at Hogwarts. Within a week, he and James Potter were nearly inseparable.

James spent hours and hours playing quid ditch which gave Vernon plenty of time to work on his flying. He may have been born a half-blood, but he was raised as a muggle. Flying was the only that he'd never really mastered, but James taught him everything he needed to know.

Vernon also joined James, Sirius, Remus, and Peter in pranking the slytherins. The slytherin common room had been turned red and gold so many times that the rest of the gryffindors quit counting. The slytherins cared though. Their common room had been ransacked by some gryffindors eighty-two times this year. They set out to find out who had figured out their password. Eventually, they did figure it out too.

At the end of the term, everyone left for home. When the train reached King's Cross Station, Vernon said good-bye to his friends and went through the wall to find his parents. When, he couldn't find them or their car anywhere, he called his sister's cell phone, and she picked him up on her way home from college that evening.

When they got home they saw a huge skull in the sky over their house. There was a snake sticking out of the snake's mouth. Vernon knew exactly what it was, but he didn't tell Marge. His father had told him never to tell anyone what he really was - not even his family.

Marge got a small apartment near her college and began waiting tables, and Vernon got a summer job. Everything was going better than they'd thought it would.

Near the end of August, Vernon decided not to go back to Hogwarts. It was just too dangerous. He'd just lost his parents; he didn't want to lose his sister too. He forged his transfer pages and enrolled in Little Whinging's public school. He never saw his best friends again. Sure, he did make new friends, but they could never replace his magical ones.

When he graduated, he married Petunia Evans who he'd met in London. She didn't live with her parents either. They were still alive but had sent her off to a boarding school in London. Several years later, they had a son, Dudley. As far as Vernon could tell Dudley was one-hundred percent muggle.

- - - - End Chapter 4: Vernon's Past - - - -

Author's Note: I would especially like to thank Modern-Day Zarcon (Harry will be in the next chapter.), la harlequin, and samus18 for reviewing. If anyone has any suggestions on where I should go with this story, I'd love to hear them.

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