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Chapter 4: Yellow for annoyance

He was on the ground, body immobile even though there was nothing to tie him down. His eyes were the only thing that could move, they couldn’t close but with some effort he could look down and left and right. His body was heavy, weighted and he was big.

Back to the 200 something pounds he was before, the room was small compact and a man walked through the doorway. He was tall and thin, his greying hair thinning out. “This is the one, a stupid boy too fat and useless to use his gift, then I’ll just take it from you, yes?” he asked.

If he could move he would have shivered, the man had a crazed glint in his eye. He forcing something down his throat and Dudley couldn’t anything but watching with wide eyes. It tasted awful and it felt like something had come in and fled from his body leaving him empty.

Somehow it all felt too much like too much had been taken and left something vile in it’s place and he felt the need to expel it. Liquid pouring down his throat and he couldn’t gag or scream, just watch.

Dudley woke wide eyed and in a state of panic, shaking and in a cold sweat. “Hey, I’m here, you’re here” James gentle firm voice said and Dudley realised when his mouth closed that it had been open, had he been screaming?

Dudley energy dropped then and he hunched over trying to control to panic in his chest. He’d heard about nightmares like this from Harry, ones so bad it left you terrified like your heart would rip out of your chest and you had to scream to wake yourself from it.

His mind flashed back to the dream and the liquid again and naesea built up and covered his mouth and shoved someone out of the way to the bathroom. He coughed and gagged all the way of emptying his stomach, tears built into the corners of his eyes. His hands were white as he gripped the porcelain and after it he felt gentle hands rubbing circles into his back.

“Sorry” he said, his body shivering from the unappreciated purging of his stomach contents.

“Don’t ever say you're sorry for something like this” Ginny said firmly.

“I’m sor- thanks” Dudley caught himself blushing, standing a little shakily and sighed with relief when there was no extra nausea. He jumped a little when arm wrapped around his torso and found himself hugging Lily back.

“I’m probably going to be told things in the morning and dad’s the expert on nightmares so good night, Dudley” Lily said, standing on her tiptoes and kissing his cheek.

Albus hugged him too “see you tomorrow, good night” he said then walked in the direction of his room, coming up just a little higher than Lily.

Dudley wasn’t too surprised when James did the exact same, James was taller than him so Dudley’s head against James chest. “Um, if it would help, we could sleep in the same room” James offered.

“It might” Harry agreed “now before we go to sleep, tell us what happened” he said. Dudley nodded and began to tell what he saw in his dream, James made a face with the gross details.

“I would be sick too” James said.

“This is good” Harry told him then grimaced “well not good like having nightmares is good but you’re gaining memories back through dreams. That’s a good thing because we can eliminate a few possibilities. You’re not a clone, for example” he added.

Dudley let out a relieved sigh “it also gives us some information on what your captor’s goal was and narrowing down who it could be. If you said he was slightly older about 50 then he’d be much older now. We also need to think about what he was aiming to take from you” Harry explained.

“Is it possible to take magic? It could explain the liquid we found” Ginny pondered.

“It’s possible to split the soul into 7 pieces so taking magic? I think so, we’ll need to talk to Hermione in the morning so in the meantime get some rest” Harry nodded “James, if you could sleep in Dudley’s room just in case” he said.

“You alright with that?” James asked.

Dudley nodded simply and they both walked up the stairs and James laid on the opposite side of the bed Dudley lied on. Dudley fell asleep fast and this time, there were no dreams.

Dudley woke to find his hand clenching James shirt the next morning. “Morning” James greeted, turning his head slightly.

“Hi” Dudley grumbled groggily then let go of James shirt “how long have been awake?” he asked sitting up and rubbing his eyes.

“Not too long, about 10 minutes” James replied.

“I’m sorry” Dudley said.

“Don’t be, you grip’s kinda tight though, I was worried if I moved I’d wake you” James chuckled.

“I used to squeeze the life out of my stuffed animals when I was little, now it’s just the covers” Dudley replied, smiling.

“Makes sense” James nodded “let’s go eat” he said and they both trudged down the stairs. They were unsurprised to find Hermione, Ron, Rose, and Hugo all at the table eating pancakes and some bacon for breakfast including Albus, Lily, and Harry and Ginny.

“Good morning” they all called.

“Morning” Dudley mumbled as he sat down and took two pancakes and placed some butter on them ready to put some syrup on them.

“He’s worse than you in the morning” Ron grinned at Hugo who swatted his father's arm.

Dudley didn’t grace that with a reply and tried to get his hair to compromise even a little bit to his will, as a kid his mother kept it always short and combed, needless to say he knew why now. His mothers curls seemed to be his own, lucky they weren’t tight ringlets and more like waves or he’d be in trouble.

He sighed and gave up and just ruffled it artfully and dug into his food. “Your eyes are yellow” Hugo pointed out with his fork which his mother disapproved of.

He groaned “this sucks, I wish I hadn’t started changing them in the first place because now they change how they like” he said, he glanced at a window and found his eyes deepen in color from a subtle yellow to a near glowing yellow.

“Annoyance, huh, that’s Teddy’s color too; I think it’s cool” Albus said.

“Embrace it, you’ve unlocked something a lot of people would kill for, who wouldn’t want to change their eye color at will?” Ron said.

Dudley thought about it then smiled a little and sighed “I guess” he agreed.

“Your original color is really beautiful though, Dudley, just treat is as a gift” Hermione smiled and Dudley blushed, his eyes were probably pink right now.

“Right” he nodded. After breakfast was over, they all migrated to the living room. “Since Harry called me early in the morning, I looked through my Wizarding Research Books. Books that tell about what magic can’t and can’t do and testing that’s gone on back to a 100 years ago. I looked through studies about magic suppressing but I didn’t find anything until I look in old articles” she said.

“And?” Harry asked.

She sighed “a man named Ferdinand Wilmsten had been fired from St. Mungo’s research facilities close to 30 years ago. His main interest was wizards and witches with unique abilities, mostly studying animorphmagus, children who perform magic very early, and mostly people with out of the ordinary powers” she explained.

“Why did he get fired?” Lily asked with interest.

“He was creating a magic suppressor, the hospital thought it was to help keep those in the St. Mungo’s Wards calmer so they wouldn’t get hurt while treating them and to give to those in Azkaban instead of having Dementors there. A more humane way of dealing with crime. Towards the date before he was fired, he acted oddly and later performed an unapproved test for the magic suppressor. He used it on a child without the child’s or the parent’s knowledge and it worked perfectly. Something was learned that day in the research field, suppressing a wizard or witches magic is a good way to kill them” Hermione explained.

Dudley stared wide eyed “then what I was in, if it was a magic suppressor and I drank it shouldn’t I be dead or something?” he asked.

“That’s what we were wondering” Ron spoke up “it doesn’t make sense, we think it might be a good idea if you went to take a St. Mungo’s Magical Ability test” he added.

“We’ll need someone we trust” Ginny told her brother sharply.

“Lavander” Hermione mentioned “she’s a specialist with magic and everything that affects it. I think she’ll keep it secret” she said.

“But Hermione, she was a gossip in school” Ginny argued.

“She’s not now, I know her from when I jury court cases in the Ministry. They always call her when they deal with child magic cases. She’s never taken a single interview for the prophet about any of them” Hermione said.

Harry sighed “alright, lets contact her right now, we might as well do it today. Dudley waited around for an hour playing exploding snap with the kids when Harry finally came for him.

“Let’s go” he said.

Dudley nodded and they took the flew network there, his stomach was twisting itself into knots as he followed Hermione, Harry, and Ron. “There’s nothing to be nervous about, Dudley” Hermione said. He wanted to believe her and relax but wanting and actually relaxing was harder than that.

Eventually they walked through a door to light blue room with a window in it that was a mirror. It was like one of those police rooms then wasn’t it.

“Afternoon” a slightly chubby woman with brown hair greeted cheerfully “hello Hermione, Harry, Ron” she greeted then turned to Dudley. “Don’t be nervous, you can’t get a bad score on these, it’s just to see your magical stamina. Doesn’t matter if you have a lot or a little” she told him after seeing the look on his face.

Dudley relaxed a little, feeling better, she had a calming presence. “So tell me what’s happening” she took a seat first and they all followed suit.

“What makes you think anythings happened?” Ron said.

“People don’t come to a magical specialist if something was normal” she replied, smiling a little.

“Well, this is my cousin, Dudley Evans; he’s a Novomagus and we just wanted to see if anything was different” Harry explained.

“That’s very rare, I’ll just perform the standard test then and we’ll go from there. Dudley that window right there has a private room behind it. I’m going to bring you some things that will test your abilities and your family will go with me and you’ll be alone. If you feel overwhelmed or tired or sick, anything at all just say Stop very clearly and we’ll stop the test” she explained.

Dudley nodded “there’s a muggle speaker up there so I can explain what I want you to do so simply follow instructions” she added.

“Okay” he agreed, he watched as she placed several boxes on the table then led the way out of the room followed by the rest.

“The first we’re testing, Dudley, is repetition. A target is gonna float out of the box and what I need you to do is your wand at it and simply say ‘Arrow.’ It’s not a spell but after a while it’ll tire you out but do it as many times as you can until the Target turns green okay?” she said.

“Okay” he said then pointed his wand as the target floated out of the box.

“Start” she said and he did, saying the word over and over again. He wasn’t sure how long he was doing it for when it finally turned green. “Good, on a scale, one being not tired at all and ten being exhausted, what are you?” she asked.

Dudley had to think for a moment, he was didn’t feel tired much, “2” he said.

“Thank you, now in a moment you’re going to see a larger target float out of the box. You’re going to say ‘Arrow’ again but you’re going to have to concentrate for as you can to let it build up power. You’re trying to make as big an impact on the target as possible for you” she explained.

Dudley nodded and pointed his wand at the target and said “arrow” and concentrated hard watching as a blue light built up bigger and bigger. When he released because he felt the time was right it hit the target pushing it against the ball and the window on the side shook but didn’t break.

“W-Well done, Dudley, exhaustion level?” she asked him.

“2” he replied.

She didn’t answer for a long while “next test then” she said and after that Dudley did box after box after box until they’d gone through every test. Dudley didn’t know exactly how long he’d been here but he felt pretty tired. Like at least a 6, he could do more but he didn’t particularly want to when they ended the session. He sighed as they finally walked into the room and laid his head on the table a little wiped but too starved to sleep.

“Dudley, you did phenomenal” Lavender said in a careful tone.

“Then why don’t you sound happy about it?” he asked sitting up and frowning. In response to his stress, Ginny ran a soothing hand through his hair.

“You did a little too well, the test isn’t supposed to make it through all the tests like you did. You broke the record of an experienced adult auror of up to 9 tests” she said.

Dudley blinked “um okay… so I have a ridiculous amount of stamina, what does that mean?” he asked.

“It means that you 3, it is always you three isn’t it?, have something you aren’t telling me. I’m under strict patient confidentiality agreement, anything Dudley doesn’t want others knowing then no one will know” she said.

Dudley smiled a little, he liked this Lavender person, kind, professional, and with just enough sass to put them in their place.

Hermione began the story about Dudley going missing years ago when he was 17 years old and then them finding him in a strange house and them finding very little connection between the house, previous owners, or anything then all of the things Dudley had experienced over the past few days.

Lavender was quiet taking in everything then turned to Dudley “I’ll be sure that Dudley’s files stay secret, take them all home. “I’m not too sure about the vatt of liquid having anything to do with this level of power. Most potions that give supposed strengthening aspects don’t improve stamina at all. This has to be genetic in some way” she added.

Dudley tuned out after that, not understanding any of what they were talking about with chromosomes and spell memories acting like flesh memory or something. He didn’t get any of it so he simply sat there trying not to fall asleep.

Eventually they finally leave with Dudley a little grumpy, he just wanted to sleep and Hermione was talking about something. Something about catalogues and journals or something. He grabbed Harry’s hand and he ended up back at the house, he walked straight into the and house and fell on the couch. He hadn’t slept so well in his life.

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Chapter 4: Yellow for annoyance

He was on the ground, body immobile even though there was nothing to tie him down. His eyes were the only thing that could move, they couldn’t close but with some effort he could look down and left and right. His body was heavy, weighted and he was big.

Back to the 200 something pounds he was before, the room was small compact and a man walked through the doorway. He was tall and thin, his greying hair thinning out. “This is the one, a stupid boy too fat and useless to use his gift, then I’ll just take it from you, yes?” he asked.

If he could move he would have shivered, the man had a crazed glint in his eye. He forcing something down his throat and Dudley couldn’t anything but watching with wide eyes. It tasted awful and it felt like something had come in and fled from his body leaving him empty.

Somehow it all felt too much like too much had been taken and left something vile in it’s place and he felt the need to expel it. Liquid pouring down his throat and he couldn’t gag or scream, just watch.

Dudley woke wide eyed and in a state of panic, shaking and in a cold sweat. “Hey, I’m here, you’re here” James gentle firm voice said and Dudley realised when his mouth closed that it had been open, had he been screaming?

Dudley energy dropped then and he hunched over trying to control to panic in his chest. He’d heard about nightmares like this from Harry, ones so bad it left you terrified like your heart would rip out of your chest and you had to scream to wake yourself from it.

His mind flashed back to the dream and the liquid again and naesea built up and covered his mouth and shoved someone out of the way to the bathroom. He coughed and gagged all the way of emptying his stomach, tears built into the corners of his eyes. His hands were white as he gripped the porcelain and after it he felt gentle hands rubbing circles into his back.

“Sorry” he said, his body shivering from the unappreciated purging of his stomach contents.

“Don’t ever say you're sorry for something like this” Ginny said firmly.

“I’m sor- thanks” Dudley caught himself blushing, standing a little shakily and sighed with relief when there was no extra nausea. He jumped a little when arm wrapped around his torso and found himself hugging Lily back.

“I’m probably going to be told things in the morning and dad’s the expert on nightmares so good night, Dudley” Lily said, standing on her tiptoes and kissing his cheek.

Albus hugged him too “see you tomorrow, good night” he said then walked in the direction of his room, coming up just a little higher than Lily.

Dudley wasn’t too surprised when James did the exact same, James was taller than him so Dudley’s head against James chest. “Um, if it would help, we could sleep in the same room” James offered.

“It might” Harry agreed “now before we go to sleep, tell us what happened” he said. Dudley nodded and began to tell what he saw in his dream, James made a face with the gross details.

“I would be sick too” James said.

“This is good” Harry told him then grimaced “well not good like having nightmares is good but you’re gaining memories back through dreams. That’s a good thing because we can eliminate a few possibilities. You’re not a clone, for example” he added.

Dudley let out a relieved sigh “it also gives us some information on what your captor’s goal was and narrowing down who it could be. If you said he was slightly older about 50 then he’d be much older now. We also need to think about what he was aiming to take from you” Harry explained.

“Is it possible to take magic? It could explain the liquid we found” Ginny pondered.

“It’s possible to split the soul into 7 pieces so taking magic? I think so, we’ll need to talk to Hermione in the morning so in the meantime get some rest” Harry nodded “James, if you could sleep in Dudley’s room just in case” he said.

“You alright with that?” James asked.

Dudley nodded simply and they both walked up the stairs and James laid on the opposite side of the bed Dudley lied on. Dudley fell asleep fast and this time, there were no dreams.

Dudley woke to find his hand clenching James shirt the next morning. “Morning” James greeted, turning his head slightly.

“Hi” Dudley grumbled groggily then let go of James shirt “how long have been awake?” he asked sitting up and rubbing his eyes.

“Not too long, about 10 minutes” James replied.

“I’m sorry” Dudley said.

“Don’t be, you grip’s kinda tight though, I was worried if I moved I’d wake you” James chuckled.

“I used to squeeze the life out of my stuffed animals when I was little, now it’s just the covers” Dudley replied, smiling.

“Makes sense” James nodded “let’s go eat” he said and they both trudged down the stairs. They were unsurprised to find Hermione, Ron, Rose, and Hugo all at the table eating pancakes and some bacon for breakfast including Albus, Lily, and Harry and Ginny.

“Good morning” they all called.

“Morning” Dudley mumbled as he sat down and took two pancakes and placed some butter on them ready to put some syrup on them.

“He’s worse than you in the morning” Ron grinned at Hugo who swatted his father's arm.

Dudley didn’t grace that with a reply and tried to get his hair to compromise even a little bit to his will, as a kid his mother kept it always short and combed, needless to say he knew why now. His mothers curls seemed to be his own, lucky they weren’t tight ringlets and more like waves or he’d be in trouble.

He sighed and gave up and just ruffled it artfully and dug into his food. “Your eyes are yellow” Hugo pointed out with his fork which his mother disapproved of.

He groaned “this sucks, I wish I hadn’t started changing them in the first place because now they change how they like” he said, he glanced at a window and found his eyes deepen in color from a subtle yellow to a near glowing yellow.

“Annoyance, huh, that’s Teddy’s color too; I think it’s cool” Albus said.

“Embrace it, you’ve unlocked something a lot of people would kill for, who wouldn’t want to change their eye color at will?” Ron said.

Dudley thought about it then smiled a little and sighed “I guess” he agreed.

“Your original color is really beautiful though, Dudley, just treat is as a gift” Hermione smiled and Dudley blushed, his eyes were probably pink right now.

“Right” he nodded. After breakfast was over, they all migrated to the living room. “Since Harry called me early in the morning, I looked through my Wizarding Research Books. Books that tell about what magic can’t and can’t do and testing that’s gone on back to a 100 years ago. I looked through studies about magic suppressing but I didn’t find anything until I look in old articles” she said.

“And?” Harry asked.

She sighed “a man named Ferdinand Wilmsten had been fired from St. Mungo’s research facilities close to 30 years ago. His main interest was wizards and witches with unique abilities, mostly studying animorphmagus, children who perform magic very early, and mostly people with out of the ordinary powers” she explained.

“Why did he get fired?” Lily asked with interest.

“He was creating a magic suppressor, the hospital thought it was to help keep those in the St. Mungo’s Wards calmer so they wouldn’t get hurt while treating them and to give to those in Azkaban instead of having Dementors there. A more humane way of dealing with crime. Towards the date before he was fired, he acted oddly and later performed an unapproved test for the magic suppressor. He used it on a child without the child’s or the parent’s knowledge and it worked perfectly. Something was learned that day in the research field, suppressing a wizard or witches magic is a good way to kill them” Hermione explained.

Dudley stared wide eyed “then what I was in, if it was a magic suppressor and I drank it shouldn’t I be dead or something?” he asked.

“That’s what we were wondering” Ron spoke up “it doesn’t make sense, we think it might be a good idea if you went to take a St. Mungo’s Magical Ability test” he added.

“We’ll need someone we trust” Ginny told her brother sharply.

“Lavander” Hermione mentioned “she’s a specialist with magic and everything that affects it. I think she’ll keep it secret” she said.

“But Hermione, she was a gossip in school” Ginny argued.

“She’s not now, I know her from when I jury court cases in the Ministry. They always call her when they deal with child magic cases. She’s never taken a single interview for the prophet about any of them” Hermione said.

Harry sighed “alright, lets contact her right now, we might as well do it today. Dudley waited around for an hour playing exploding snap with the kids when Harry finally came for him.

“Let’s go” he said.

Dudley nodded and they took the flew network there, his stomach was twisting itself into knots as he followed Hermione, Harry, and Ron. “There’s nothing to be nervous about, Dudley” Hermione said. He wanted to believe her and relax but wanting and actually relaxing was harder than that.

Eventually they walked through a door to light blue room with a window in it that was a mirror. It was like one of those police rooms then wasn’t it.

“Afternoon” a slightly chubby woman with brown hair greeted cheerfully “hello Hermione, Harry, Ron” she greeted then turned to Dudley. “Don’t be nervous, you can’t get a bad score on these, it’s just to see your magical stamina. Doesn’t matter if you have a lot or a little” she told him after seeing the look on his face.

Dudley relaxed a little, feeling better, she had a calming presence. “So tell me what’s happening” she took a seat first and they all followed suit.

“What makes you think anythings happened?” Ron said.

“People don’t come to a magical specialist if something was normal” she replied, smiling a little.

“Well, this is my cousin, Dudley Evans; he’s a Novomagus and we just wanted to see if anything was different” Harry explained.

“That’s very rare, I’ll just perform the standard test then and we’ll go from there. Dudley that window right there has a private room behind it. I’m going to bring you some things that will test your abilities and your family will go with me and you’ll be alone. If you feel overwhelmed or tired or sick, anything at all just say Stop very clearly and we’ll stop the test” she explained.

Dudley nodded “there’s a muggle speaker up there so I can explain what I want you to do so simply follow instructions” she added.

“Okay” he agreed, he watched as she placed several boxes on the table then led the way out of the room followed by the rest.

“The first we’re testing, Dudley, is repetition. A target is gonna float out of the box and what I need you to do is your wand at it and simply say ‘Arrow.’ It’s not a spell but after a while it’ll tire you out but do it as many times as you can until the Target turns green okay?” she said.

“Okay” he said then pointed his wand as the target floated out of the box.

“Start” she said and he did, saying the word over and over again. He wasn’t sure how long he was doing it for when it finally turned green. “Good, on a scale, one being not tired at all and ten being exhausted, what are you?” she asked.

Dudley had to think for a moment, he was didn’t feel tired much, “2” he said.

“Thank you, now in a moment you’re going to see a larger target float out of the box. You’re going to say ‘Arrow’ again but you’re going to have to concentrate for as you can to let it build up power. You’re trying to make as big an impact on the target as possible for you” she explained.

Dudley nodded and pointed his wand at the target and said “arrow” and concentrated hard watching as a blue light built up bigger and bigger. When he released because he felt the time was right it hit the target pushing it against the ball and the window on the side shook but didn’t break.

“W-Well done, Dudley, exhaustion level?” she asked him.

“2” he replied.

She didn’t answer for a long while “next test then” she said and after that Dudley did box after box after box until they’d gone through every test. Dudley didn’t know exactly how long he’d been here but he felt pretty tired. Like at least a 6, he could do more but he didn’t particularly want to when they ended the session. He sighed as they finally walked into the room and laid his head on the table a little wiped but too starved to sleep.

“Dudley, you did phenomenal” Lavender said in a careful tone.

“Then why don’t you sound happy about it?” he asked sitting up and frowning. In response to his stress, Ginny ran a soothing hand through his hair.

“You did a little too well, the test isn’t supposed to make it through all the tests like you did. You broke the record of an experienced adult auror of up to 9 tests” she said.

Dudley blinked “um okay… so I have a ridiculous amount of stamina, what does that mean?” he asked.

“It means that you 3, it is always you three isn’t it?, have something you aren’t telling me. I’m under strict patient confidentiality agreement, anything Dudley doesn’t want others knowing then no one will know” she said.

Dudley smiled a little, he liked this Lavender person, kind, professional, and with just enough sass to put them in their place.

Hermione began the story about Dudley going missing years ago when he was 17 years old and then them finding him in a strange house and them finding very little connection between the house, previous owners, or anything then all of the things Dudley had experienced over the past few days.

Lavender was quiet taking in everything then turned to Dudley “I’ll be sure that Dudley’s files stay secret, take them all home. “I’m not too sure about the vatt of liquid having anything to do with this level of power. Most potions that give supposed strengthening aspects don’t improve stamina at all. This has to be genetic in some way” she added.

Dudley tuned out after that, not understanding any of what they were talking about with chromosomes and spell memories acting like flesh memory or something. He didn’t get any of it so he simply sat there trying not to fall asleep.

Eventually they finally leave with Dudley a little grumpy, he just wanted to sleep and Hermione was talking about something. Something about catalogues and journals or something. He grabbed Harry’s hand and he ended up back at the house, he walked straight into the and house and fell on the couch. He hadn’t slept so well in his life.