After speaking, Aunt Petunia began to walk towards the door behind Harry, Harry pursed his lips slightly, his body shook stiffly, turned sideways and made way for his aunt who came in a hurry, he stayed in the kitchen for a while, walked around the kitchen aimlessly, opened the empty cabinet, closed it again, hardly knew what he was doing, and after a while, he slowly walked to the living room.

Harry noticed the storage room under the stairs where he had lived for ten years, and the small door was opening weakly, and the piles of shoes and umbrellas were scattered on the floor, apparently ruthlessly abandoned by their owners, and two spiders crawling out of it unhurriedly on their long legs.

The storage room evoked more nostalgia for Harry than the room upstairs, which didn't spend much time in, and he unconsciously walked over to look through the door, caught by the two rusty toy soldiers on the cement counter in the cupboard.

The two wrought-iron toy soldiers sat next to two empty glass jars, one standing and the other topping. The soldier standing with his sword in one hand held high behind his back with the other, and the soldier who fell to the ground had a red rust on his waist - for a long time, the two toy soldiers were Harry's only toys besides grass and stone.

Harry leaned into the locker, holding the two wrought-iron toy soldiers in his hands, when suddenly there was a deafening thud from upstairs, Harry straightened up and slammed his head against the low doorframe. He rubbed his head and slipped out of the cupboard and closed the door.

"Boy, how did they get here?" Vernon snorted as he pressed his weight on the handrail of the stairs, spraying his beard with a foul breath as he looked at the sealed fireplace in the living room, and turned his head to Harry in a foul voice, "Are you going to get out of this unfortunate fireplace again?"

This fireplace has been sealed since Harry can remember, and there is an electric stove in front of it that pretends to burn coal, and if the Order of the Phoenix chooses to fly over, they will be blocked between the real fireplace and this fake one, and if it is a bad-tempered wizard, there is no doubt that it will explode again, and it will be powerful enough to affect most of the living room...

Harry shook his head, "Of course not, the Floo Network is monitored by the Ministry of Magic, they won't..."

"We've arrived, Dursley. Sirius lifted the illusion spell from his body, and then put his hands in his trouser pockets, which was undoubtedly wise in his impatient tone, lest he lose control of himself and pull out his wand and give Vernon Dursley, who had been abusing Harry for a long time, a curse.

Harry cried out in surprise, "Sirius!

"Ahh In his heart, although Sirius had been proven to be wrongly convicted by Harry and the people over there, Vernon didn't believe it too much, in his heart, even if Sirius was wronged, he would be more than happy to blow up a street at any time if he wanted to.

However, due to the long-term intimidation brought to him by the other party during the holidays, the frightened Vernon did not dare to say anything, he just moved his foot to the left a few steps, blocking Penny and Dali at the top of the stairs.

"Good evening, Mr. Dursley. Lupin stepped out, trying to soothe the frightened-looking fat man by shaking hands with Vernon Dursley, but Dursley did not stretch out his hand, but quickly shrank back and looked at Lupin in front of him vigilantly, as if he would make a pig's tail out of his highness on the moon.

Sirius, who was standing beside Harry with a frown, snorted coldly, and then said in a bit of a rage: "Stupid Muggle, if Remus wants to hurt you, he still needs to shake your hand?"

"Say no more, Sirius. Kinlath glanced at Sirius with some strange surprise, and he reassured in a deep voice, "You've made yourself too nervous these two days, don't worry too much about Harry... Sirius, have faith in Dumbledore, we will be able to transfer Harry safely this time, and your godson will not have to get along with his Muggle relatives in the future, you should be happy. ”

Vernon's beard shook with rage, but he didn't dare to refute, and he shrank back in horror.

Realizing that the other party would not shake hands with him, Lupin, who had experienced similar things many times, skillfully withdrew his hand, and then his eyes fell on the hill-shaped salute in the corner, "It looks like you've packed your things and are ready." Can I put them away first?"

"Hurry up, Remus, they've got enough of them. Tonks yawned, urging.

"Tonks, are you worried that you didn't sleep well last night? now that you have time, you can sleep for a while, and I'll take these Muggles on their mission. Moody glared at Tonks with a tired look with his own magic eyes, and said in a gentler tone than usual - as Tonks's Auror senior, Moody had always taken good care of her.

"No, I'm just—" Tonks waved his hand a little incoherently, "I mean... I've been staying up a bit late lately. ”

"Don't worry!, Dora just doesn't know why she likes to look through the history of medieval magic lately, and she always sees it late at night, so she is a little lacking in energy now..."Lupin quickly explained as he looked at him from the people in the room, righteously and without embarrassment.

"Hah! You can check each other's calibres next time. Sirius seemed to be a little more normal, joking with his friend and niece.

Lupin shook his head with a wry smile and didn't explain any more, he took out a cloth pouch that had been cast with the Traceless Stretching Charm cast, opened the pocket so that its opening was wide open, and then waved his wand, using the levitation charm, to direct the pile of salutes to fly into the backpack.

Vernon looked at the dwindling things piled up in the corner, thought of the group of people who had just appeared quietly in the room, and asked, "So, how do we get out of here?"

"Mr. Dursley, all you have to do is pretend you're going out shopping and drive out of here without Harry. Lupin admonished, "Tonks and I will use the Illusion Charm to follow and protect you." ”

Sirius raised an eyebrow and sarcastically said, "I guess it's easy, as you're used to doing." ”

Vernon's chubby face turned red looked a little annoyed, but instead of pleading, he exclaimed, "Well, it's time to say goodbye, it's great." ”

Vernon stretched his hands upwards as if in surrender, not wanting to entangle himself with the eccentric bunch in his heart any longer, and when his palms fell, he turned around and wanted to leave.

Lupin and Tonks recast the illusion charm on themselves, and Petunia stood up and followed him, and began to check the clasp of her handbag without any trouble, her eyes completely ignoring Harry's direction, "Ready, Dada?"

"Let's go!" Vernon had already reached the door of the living room, he stopped, and urged in annoyance, "Dudley?"

"I don't understand, isn't he going with us?" Dali stood there, mouth slightly open, and raised a finger as thick as a ham to point at Harry.

Vernon stared at Dudley as if Dudley had just said he wanted to be a ballet dancer, and then, shaking his head in annoyance, his fat double chin swaying, "Of course he doesn't. ”

However, Dali was not satisfied with his father's short answer, he narrowed his eyes slightly in puzzlement, and continued to ask a little blankly: "Why?"

"Why?... Because... Because—" Vernon stammered a little as he was asked, "he didn't want to." With that, Vernon simply turned his head and pointed at Harry, "Huh, boy?"

"Absolutely not. Harry answered the question before Vernon could finish asking, his voice resolute, his face raised, his tone mocking, "Besides, I'm a waste of space, am I?" - Harry put his hands behind his back, thinking that he would be separated from them - perhaps never to see each other again, his heart was full of joy, and after sixteen years of extreme dislike for each other, Harry felt that his choice was not difficult to decide.

Vernon, who had a big belly, shook his body after being squeezed by Harry, he put down his raised hand and said indifferently, "Yes, this is goodbye... Dudley, let's go. ”

Vernon strode to the front door again, but Dudley still didn't follow.

Under Vernon's bewildered gaze, Dudley looked at his father, he shook his body, pressed his hand on the small sofa that had been left between him and Harry, stepped directly on the sofa, and climbed towards Harry with some slow and awkward movements, the sound of his weight crackling footsteps and dust, Harry unconsciously recalled that when he lived in the storage room under the stairs, this cousin deliberately ran up the stairs to interfere with the footsteps he made when he was resting and the scum that fell through the cracks in the stairs and fell into his eyes.

But at this time, Dudley's expression did not sneer at him as usual, the big man's lips kept moving, his face was swollen and red, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't, and finally he gave up, and slowly reached out to Harry.

Harry hung his head in disbelief as he looked at Dudley's fat pink palm, and tentatively reached for his hand too unsure, and finally the two shook hands.

Dudley raised his face, his gaze a little dull but sincere, he opened his mouth, his eyebrows raised, and he struggled to organize the language, and after opening his mouth for a long time, he finally struggled to say a word, "I don't think you're a waste of space. —and Dudley's lips pursed slightly, as if to pull out a smile.

Harry seemed to lose his ability to express himself for a while, "Thank you." He said dryly.

Then time seemed to stand still for a few seconds, until Harry and Dali looked down at each other's hands, and finally realized that Harry would not change his mind because of his words, Dali smiled almost sadly, and then turned around and began to walk towards his father, Vernon, with heavy steps.

The impatient expressions of the Order of the Phoenix were much calmer, and they had no intention of urging. Tonks, who was invisible, looked approvingly at the pair of cousins in front of him, Sirius' expression was sad—he remembered Regulus.

Harry then vaguely realized that the cup of black tea he had kicked earlier might not be a prank at all—he was a little moved, but he was relieved to see that Dudley's ability to express his feelings seemed to be exhausted.

However, Dudley, the big Muggle man, still didn't choose to go around, he stepped on the couch again, only halfway up his foot before stepping over, Dudley looked back at Harry with some hesitation, and finally he raised his arm and snapped his fingers as if he were at his fox friends.

The smile on Harry's face was a little relieved, he watched his cousin completely step over the sofa, his eyes slightly condensed, as if to suppress his tears from flowing, he looked at the back of the big cousin and his uncle leaving the door, his mouth opened tightly, and he said in a voice that he didn't know whether to say to the other party or himself, "Goodbye, Brother D" (Big D, as Dali's fox friends call him). ”

Aunt Penny, who had been checking the clasp of her handbag, looked up at the sound of the Vernon father and son leaving the door—she didn't seem to expect to be in the same room with Harry again because she was lagging behind, so she hurriedly buckled the clasp and said dryly, "Alright...... Goodbye. Then she didn't look at Harry, and strode towards the door.

"Goodbye. Harry said.

Aunt Petunia stopped and looked back.

For a moment Harry had a particularly strange feeling, as if Aunt Petunia wanted to say something to him: she looked at him with strange and timid eyes, and seemed hesitant to speak, but then she shook her head and rushed out of the room, and chased after her husband and son. (Author's note: In a later interview, J.K. Rowling said that Aunt Penny wanted to say, "I wish you will be safe.") ”）