Imagine if Dudley did have a magical child though.
He and Harry havenât spoken since âI donât think youâre a waste of spaceâ and heâs matured enough to realise his parents were not good to Harry, especially since the birth of his own little girls because God forbid anything happened to him and they were treated like Harry was.
On Daisy Dursleyâs eleventh birthday theres a knock on the door and his wife, Anita, just stares and he feels his stomach drop because the stern lady on the doorstep is wearing a cloak and pointed hat.
They listen to the woman - Professor McGonagall - explain and Anita is surprised but receptive, Daisy is excited and Dudley is terrified of what this means.
Itâs a surprise to his wife and little girl when at the end of her explanation, while Daisyâs flicking through a book with moving pictures and Anita peers over her shoulder, Dudley blurts out âitâs safe now then? Your world?â
Professor Mcgonagall gives a wry smile and assures him that the magical world is indeed safe. It dawns on him that she was expecting this, that sheâd perhaps researched him and was aware of his relation to Harry.
He then admits to Anita and Daisy that his cousin is a wizard, before turning to the Professor and asking if she by chance knows a Harry Potter. Looking amused, professor Mcgonagall acknowledges that she does.
âD'you know where he lives?â
That does surprise her a bit, and she tells him that yes, she knows and that though Daisyâs acceptance into the school has been confidential up until this point, Harry would likely not mind a visitor if he wanted a word.
Daisy begs to come along and he relents eventually, bringing Anita and their youngest, Poppy, along.
All four of them stand on the doorstep of a modest house that Dudley would call nice if there werenât squat little creatures snickering and running around the front garden.
The door is opened by a slouching boy with turquoise hair who arches a purple eyebrow at them. He yells over his shoulder for someone named Ginny and steps back to let them in, and, when he notices Daisy staring at his hair, he smirks and a second later itâs bubblegum pink.
Daisy squeals in delight and Dudley is still trying to get his head around that when young girl and boy around Daisyâs age with bright red hair and thick brown curls respectively, hurtle down the corridor.
âTeddy you promised youâd practice the sloth grip roll with us!â The girl yells in an accusatory tone.
A woman with hair the same shade of flaming red as the little girl appears with what Dudley recognises as a wand in her hand as the boy with blue hair flashes a grin at them before chasing the two younger children outside to a shout of âNo higher than the treetops Teddy!â
Harry is much like Dudley remembers him, lanky with a pointed face, straight nose and mess of untameable black hair. Itâs awkward, but, apparently forewarned, Harry greets him pleasantly and introduces his wife before Ginny goes outside to reign in a gaggle of children he assumes arenât all Harryâs.
A woman with thick, bushy hair pulled into a messy bun with a wand stuck in it smiles and makes an effort to talk to Anita. Sheâs not too strange, he thinks, and reassures them that her parents were just as baffled when they found out she was a witch.
âWhy donât you take Daisy outside to see the broomsticks, Al?â Harry suggests to Daisyâs obvious delight and Dudley swears Harryâs trying not to laugh.
By the end of the visit Dudley is more informed about the wizarding world than he ever thought he would or wanted to be. Daisy, with a bruise on her forehead and scraped knees, because despite both his and Harryâs warning she hadnât been able to resist trying to fly, is bouncing off the walls because âdaddy how could you not tell us?!â
They visit Harryâs a lot over summer and Daisy befriends Lily Luna Potter and Hugo Weasley. Dudley doesnât feel up to the trip to Diagon Alley but regrets his decision to not go when Daisy comes back with two owls, âuncle Harry bought the second one for me! So you can write without having to wait for me to send my owl!â
Petunia Dursley faints when she finds out, and Vernon spends a good half hour cursing and brandishing things aimlessly before retreating to his shed.
Dudley being introduced to what he calls âall those bloody gingersâ some of whom are only just on the right side of civil to him (one cheerfully introduces himself as someone who once visited his childhood home in a flying car and asks if heâs going to need to do the same for Daisy or will she be allowed to attend without punishment).
Daisy is shocked to find out Harryâs famous, and finds out as much as she can about him during her first term, which she relays to an increasingly guilty feeling Dudley, whoâs gradually coming around to the idea.
Itâs not as bad as his parents made out it was. Heâs learned to understand Daisyâs ramblings about her subjects and spells and is proud of her achievements at school. Heâs met a handful of witches and wizards through Harry and the world that heâs always been told is terrible doesnât seem too bad anymore, after all, how could it with his little girl in it? He is prepared come excitable little Poppyâs eleventh birthday, for her to join her sister at Hogwarts instead of standing jealously on the platform as she leaves.
Poppy Dursley never gets a letter.
No, but imagine. Three generations later, this family FINALLY gets the one wizard kid/one Muggle kid thing right. Poppy is never made to feel less, even though sheâs disappointed. Daisy is never made to feel like a freak. Poppy is accepted by Harryâs kids, they play with her and she doesnât need magic to play wizard chess or toss gnomes and Teddy takes her flying sometimes (she becomes a hell of a Quidditch referee and strategist with Ginnyâs help, though she never plays).
Anita and Dudley talk to Poppy about what sheâd like to do for school and she goes to a prestigious Muggle school, and as it turns out she becomes really, really good at tech and coding. She takes lots of time off to visit Daisy at Hogwarts where she becomes a favorite of McGonagall (so many clever questions). Eventually she meets Luna and spends most of a summer with her, following Crumple-Horned Snorkacks with the help of some trackers Poppy built to work around magic. Everyone is terribly impressed, and although Poppy tries to be blasĂ© about it, sheâs actually really proud.
And soon enough Daisy is graduating and working at the Ministry in the Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office with Arthur Weasley, who has been working on loosening some of the legislation, and when Poppy graduates she has a marvelous idea. She and Daisy open a shop in Diagon Ally for all these Muggle technologies that Poppy has fixed to work around and with magic. Dursleyâs Muggle Magic, they call it.
And suddenly wizards are running around with iPhones and Kindles (Hermione made a digital copy of Hogwarts, a History RIGHT AWAY) and everyone is catching up on decades of video games and a century of movies. Scorpius Malfoy has an Apple Watch. And itâs all thanks the Poppy Dursley, the Muggle.
