September Challenge - late entry

[lorelei_lynn]

This is for the AU challenge at omniocular.

Title: Best Mother in the World
Rating: PG
Length: approx. 1200 words
Prompt: Dudley was never born (or died very young), so Petunia felt very different towards Harry in her grief. Harry had a very different childhood.
Summary: With her own child dead and her orphaned nephew to raise, Petunia can’t stop trying to

Comments

[conuly]

Petunia has mostly untapped depths. Thanks, this one was good.

[lorelei_lynn]

Thanks!

[baruchan]

Lovely piece. :)

[lorelei_lynn]

Thanks for reading!

[themolesmother]

You've produced an excellent character study of Petunia.

Her current method of coping was to act as if anything Harry did, even talking to snakes, was perfectly normal.

This is a realistic extension of Canon!Petunia. You can just feel the fear she would be experiencing and her way of coping with it is spot on.

MM

[snorkackcatcher]

Agreed. That was a great line, very well-judged.

Rather sad story, although Harry would still care for the Dursleys I would think. It's the sort of situation where I'd like the story to be longer so we could see more.

[lorelei_lynn]

Thanks to both of you. That line was one of those fortunate things that happen by accident rather than design. Glad you liked it.

[alexandramuses]

It's so nice to see a sweet fic like this, especially after a long day. Awww.

*grins happily*

[lorelei_lynn]

Thanks!

[jennytork]

Very nice. I enjoyed this!

[lorelei_lynn]

Thank you!