Watching the Movies - A George Weasley Love Story

Chapter 4 - Letters and the Game Keeper

[Cut back to the Dursley family's house. Aunt Petunia and a bundled up Dudley come in. Dudley is crying --because he is cold and wet-- and wrapped up in a towel.]

Petunia: [assuring a distressed Dudley] It's all right, sweetheart. Let's get you out of those terrible clothes.

[They walk in the living room. Harry and Vernon enter. Vernon slams the door and shoves Harry against a wall. Then he grabs Harry by the hair.]

Harry: Ow!

Vernon: WHAT HAPPENED?!

Harry: I swear, I don't know! [Vernon snarls] One minute, the glass was there and then it was gone! It was like magic!

"It was magic you naive child!" Barty yells banging his head on the table,

[Vernon scoffs at this, shoves Harry in the cupboard under the stairs and slams the door]

Vernon: There's no such thing as magic! [he blackens out the vent on the door]

"How dare he! No such thing as magic! Filthy muggle," Walburga scoffs tilting her nose up,

[An owl flies into view and lands itself on a TV aerial on one of the houses' roof]

[The camera slowly pans up to reveal Dudley in his smartest school uniform, posing and smiling grandly.]

Petunia: Awww, smile. [She takes a photograph of him. She gasps in joy.] Vernon, just look at him. I can't believe it. In just a week you'll be off to Smeltings.

"Smellingtons," Sirius and James cough under their breaths,

"What? Who said that?" They say acting confused and look around them, as everyone from the Marauders era and the Golden era rolls their eyes, while Fred and George snicker quietly,

Vernon: Caveat Smeltona. Proudest moment of my life.

Harry: Will I have to wear that, too?

[They draw their attention to Harry]

Petunia: What, you? Go to Smeltings? [Harry nods, questionably]

Vernon: Ha!

[They laugh in amusement]

Petunia: Oh, don't be so stupid, you're going to the state school where you belong. [Goes to the kitchen and fishes out a grey shirt in a boiler.] And this is what you're gonna be wearing when I've finished dyeing it.

Harry: But that's Dudley's old uniform. It'll fit me like bits of old Elephant skin.

Petunia: It'll fit you well enough. Go get the post. [Harry then heads to the hallway] Go!

"My son isn't a salve bitch," Lily grumbles under her breath, James reacts by pulling her closer to him trying to comfort her,

"Try Bitchunia, Demon liked it much better and found it more satisfactory to say," Draco points out plainly. Lily opens her mouth to say something but closes it and goes back to watching the movie,

[Harry leaves the living room area into the hallway and picks up some letters, one of which had his name on it with his address of where he slept. Uncle Vernon and Dudley sit at the table while Aunt Petunia is busy dying Harry's clothes. Harry walks in with the mail and hands it to Uncle Vernon, then walks to his seat with his letter.]