The Tale of the Three Sisters (A Lily and Petunia fanfic) (Book 2)

Chapter 6: Our Children

Sirius and Petunia entered the great Entrance Hall of Hogwarts. It was wonderful to Petunia. It was clean and mysterious. There were many doors and staircases, which to her astonishment moved and changed direction.

Sirius looked and saw no one in the Great Hall, so there were really only two places that the two Lilys would go if they were not there or in the grounds; the Gryffindor common room or Albus' office.

"Come on. They're upstairs." he said to Petunia.

"Are those stairs safe?" asked Petunia.

"As long as you keep hold of the bannisters and don't look down." smiled Sirius.

Petunia took his hand cautiously and he helped her onto the staircases which casually changed and then Sirius decided to see if they were in Albus' office first.

"This way." he said.

"Ok." said Petunia timidly.

They entered the door which was to the office. Through the door were the two Lilys, James and Severus.

James and Severus were standing back in silence and respect. Both Lilys were standing before the Mortal Glass, clearly to see Harry.

"So proud of him." they murmured.

Petunia couldn't understand, of course, what they were talking about. As far as she could tell, the Mortal Glass was merely a mirror.

Her duplicated sisters turned and were surprised by her and Sirius' arrival. James and Severus looked at Petunia with most mistrustful and disgusted expressions.

"You came back?" said the two Lilys in surprise.

"Yes, what of it?" said Petunia sternly, "Can't go home, can I?"

Sirius nudged her warningly.

Petunia reluctantly apologised. "I'll try to reconcile, but I'm not promising anything. And don't expect me to forgive you making me so unimportant to our family."

James and Severus looked livid, but their wives, on the contrary looked delighted.

"All I wanted was for us to try." Lily Snape said. Lily Potter nodded in agreement.

"Let's get this over with," said Petunia impatiently, "what I really want tis to get back to Vernon."

"Are you sure that's what you really want?" asked Lily Potter.

"Obviously." said Petunia.

"Because we think we have something here that you'd want even more." said Lily Snape with a knowing look in her eye.

"What can you possibly offer me?" said Petunia disbelievingly.

"Stand in front of the mirror." said both of her sister.

Petunia was hesitant. "What will happen to me?" she asked nervously.

"Nothing, but you'll see something." replied Lily Potter.

James, Severus and Sirius knew what to expect so decided to step outside. This was between Lily, Lily and Petunia, so they silently gestured their departure and left them.

Petunia was placed before the Mortal Glass by her helpful sisters. She looked inside of it. But instead of her reflection, she saw a graveyard. In the graveyard, she saw a group of people. Some were neighbours, some were former workmates, some were friends of Dudley's and Dudley himself was there. He had just placed flowers on his mother's grave. He was sobbing strongly. A comforting hand was on each shoulder. One was his wife's, who stood beside him and their children, all of whom were either crying or bowing their heads in silent respect. The other hand belonged, to Petunia's astonishment, to Harry.