Reborn In A Harry Potter Universe - 10 Accidental Magic

Dudley POV:

A few weeks later

Today is a normal day. The sun is in the sky, the wind feels great and the birds are singing. Unfortunately, it is ruin when I see Petunia take Harry to the kitchen and leaves him there to go take something upstairs.

I immediately infer that she is going to reach him how to cook since she left him in the kitchen. When I see her step out of the kitchen, I knew I could not stop her in teaching Harry how to cook so I call her and say,

“Mum, I want to learn how to cook” with the best puppy eyes I can make

“No, the kitchen is too dangerous for you”

“But Harry is learning why can’t I” I spoke in a whiny tone

“Because I do not want you to hurt yourself”

“But I want to learn how to cook those delicious food of yours”

“Still no”

“pwease” I said with puppy eyes

“uuurrggg fine, but no touching anything unless I tell you too”

“Yeash”

“Alright, now stop dilly dalling and let’s go to the kitchen.”

“Yes mam” I saluted

Following after Petunia, I step in the kitchen to learn how to cook again. During my previous life, I mostly lived alone so I had to find some way to eat. I admit I’m not the best chef out there but I could get things done enough for me to feed myself.

As I step into the kitchen, I see Harry standing by the isle looking lost. So, I approach him and say,

“Harry, you excited mate”

“Why should I be excited? Aunt Petunia just brought me here without explaining anything to me”

“We are about to learn how to cook mum’s delicious meals” I stated in my best excited voice. As he was about to reply mum interrupts

“Enough talking boys, prepare yourselves”

“Yes mam” we responded

So, we begin preparing ourselves by turning to face her and looking at her right in the eye. When Petunia sees that we are paying attention to her, she walks to the left side of the kitchen and open the lower cabinet. She pulls out three white looking aprons with flowering themes all around it.

She approaches us with the aprons and says,

“This is what you will be wearing in front of your clothes today.”

“Mum, why do we have to wear?” I questioned her when I see Harry’s confused face and also nodding along as I ask her

“In cooking, wearing an apron gives a chef protection from stains and such when they are in the kitchen. It also serves to show your dedication to cooking. As you can see, any decent chef wears a pure white apron when they are cooking. Do you understand why it is important to wear aprons?”

‘I bet in the original timeline, she didn’t bother to teach Potter this stuff and she would not have if I wasn’t here. What she would have mostly done is give Harry the apron and tell him to wear it without giving an explanation.’ this thought process is running through my mind while Petunia was explaining to us about aprons.

“Yes mam” we answered out loud.

“Mum, how do we wear it?” I asked her

“It’s simple, do you see the large circle at the top of the cloth?”

“Yea” we replied

“Well put it over your head like you would wear your normal shirt. After you do that, see that two ropes lying on the sides of the apron?”

We nodded our heads

“You take both of them and tie then to your back. That’s how you wear an apron.”

When she finishes her demonstration, she sees us imitating her. She walks up to me and say,

“Let me tie that for you son”

So, I turn my back to face her. While I was turning, I see Harry’s face and he looked sad so I whisper to him “It’s okay.” Petunia approaches me and ties the ropes of the apron nicely to my back. When she steps back, I turn around to face her and say

“Mum, I want to tie Harry’s as practice”

“Okay” she answered in a grumbly voice

With that, I approach Harry while winking to his face and say,

“Mate, turn around and let me tie yours for you.”

“Ok” he timidly replies back while looking at Petunia who I am sure is giving him a scary face right now.

So, he turns around as I reach him. Grabbing both sides of the ropes I tie it as I whisper to him saying,

“No matter what anybody says or does, I have got ya back so you can count on me.”

After I say that, I see water in his eyes and I say,

“Hahaha mate, are you crying?” I ask in a joking tone to offset the tension.

He reaches out and wipes his eyes and say,

“You wish”

As we are about to converse some more, Petunia interrupts and says,

“Son, if you are done with what you are doing stop talking to the boy, it’s time to cook.”

Since this is our first day, she did not let us do a lot of stuff. She mostly demonstrated on the process of how to make rice using a rice cooker as well as the steps needed to be taking such as washing the rice twice or thrice to remove some stuff in the rice itself before putting rice in a rice cooker.

She also shows us how to cut tomatoes onion, cabbage and other vegetables that we are to be eating for dinner tonight.

After that, she kicks us out of the kitchen and tells us to go play. In her own words, “It is enough for today and we will continue the lessons the following day”. We were happy of course to be away from the kitchen because, cooking looks difficult if you don’t know anything about it and the exercises one goes through daily to perfect their posture and remembering all the recipes in their head is tiring.

As we were going up to my room to play games on the PC, Harry asks,

“That stuff you said in the kitchen, where they true?”

“Of course. You are my little brother. Why wouldn’t I take care of you?”

He looks at my earnest face and after a while, he said” thank you” with emotions choking in his voice.

I turn my face to the side to cover my red cheeks and nod. After a little while, I face him and say in a faux serious face and voice,

“Let go finish the level on that game.”

As soon as I say that, there was silence for a moment then we both started laughing out loud. Because my face looks ridiculous when I am making a serious face.

It is due to the fat, my face looks plump so when I am making a serious face, I look more like a chipmunk. With that we continue walking upstairs.

When we reach the room, I head toward the bed to meditate on my magic and let Harry use the PC. Every time he asks me why I do not use the PC much, I always reply to him that it is boring to use.

The current age of games and internet are boring and kind off ugly to look at so I do not want to trouble myself figuring out all the complicated stuff.

If someone came to my room right now, they would see a weird scene going on. As Harry face is almost going in the monitor and the expression he has on, looks like a martial artist in a life or death battle where he would lose if he dared let himself be distracted for a split second.

As for me, they would see an almost human blob reaching into the air like it had stolen his stuff and owed him fees for the stuff stolen.

We are broken out of our reverie when, mum yells,

“Boys, dinner’s ready”

Harry immediately loses the boss battle and as if to respond to his frustration, the room shakes a little.

I believe Harry just did his first bout of accidental magic and he himself did not notice it as his head is in his palms groaning about how he was about to win the battle.

Due to the accidental magic spreading like a wave, I almost lose the magic I gathered in my body since it is unexpected and fast.

The reason why I gather magic into my body to is get my body more used to the magic energy around me as well as to claim the energy as my own once it is in my body.

‘*Groan* now I have to do this again. I just lost a weeks worth of magic’

“We are coming” we replied with a groan as we pick ourselves up and start trotting ourselves into the dining room.