Two Little Ghosts

Part 7

Two Little Ghosts chapter 6

Harry was 9 years old when a change happened. He'd been in the now too small cupboard for a long time. sixty days or so by the tally marks on the wall. Harry had to eat his spider friends to keep his stomach sated.

Harry felt really weak nowadays too. His body was really bony and nothing was comfortable to lay on. Whatever had been keeping him warm had turned extremely cold.

Had he truly been forgotten about? Harry wondered. Surely not? He still had to make Aunt Petunia's perfume (her favorite was roses and honey). Uncle Vernon hadn't given the annual birthday beating (July 31st) or the beating on when he was found on the porch like a milk carton (November 1st). Dudley had yet to yell in his face for being a lousy punching bag.

Harry breathed in & out, in & out, in & out as he laid to sleep. He awoke outside of his body after a while. He could pass through walls and could eat! The food tasted so good! Despite after he touched it the food would smell afterward.

Harry was free! Although his body had filled out somewhat away from his bony body still in the cupboard. His legs were no longer there but in a misty zone. Kinda like that blue genie, he saw on the telly of a neighbor's screen while he fixed their pipes.

Harry stayed in the neighborhood for a while. A week later he saw the car that had been a perfect blue with the same pretty couple outside the house.

Aunt Petunia met them with growing horror. The couple came to adopt him? That he was such a perfect child with lovely green eyes that they never forgot about him. Did they want him for himself? But he hasn't attached to his body anymore? He couldn't go with them. As he passed through the man he felt weird. Was he a ghost? Was he actually dead? Death had always sort of lingered around him but he hadn't thought about it much. So he wasn't sleeping? He was really dead? Were all the animals he thought were sleeping dead before he'd touch it? For a few hours, he was listless seeing the Dursleys get arrested and seeing a body bag (his body) get carried away by the police. He ended up riding in the blue car in the backseat of the couple.