For the next few hours, Dumbledore sat and played with Harry and Dudley, meanwhile Severus brewed all of the dreamless sleep he was going to need.
Eventually, it was lunchtime. Dumbledore insisted on taking them out for pizza, despite Severus' protests, so they ended up sat in a Pizza Hut. Harry and Dudley were sharing a vegetable pizza (Severus chose) on separate plates, with half each. Dumbledore had a large pepperoni pizza, and Severus had a ham and pineapple pizza, and had received some very dodgy and harsh glares from everyone within earshot, including the waitress, except for Harry, Dudley, and Dumbledore. It seemed that nobody else was a fan of pineapple on pizza, but Severus didn't care. It didn't even bother him in the slightest. He didn't care what some random strangers thought, nor would he care for for their opinion on his pizza preference if he knew them. He had endured so much than a few looks in his life, and yet so much of it was still ahead of him.
They washed their pizzas down with a glass of coke each (even Harry and Dudley - Dumbledore had snuck it to each of them against Severus' will), then they finished off with an ice cream - vanilla with a small squirt of chocolate sauce for Severus; chocolate for the other three with lots of chocolate sauce, caramel sauce, and sprinkles. Severus knew that children of Harry and Dudley's age weren't supposed to have fizzy drinks and lots of sugar, but being at dinner with Dumbledore made it impossible to shield them from such things.
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