What a melancholy and yet hopeful story! I actually thought the fic was winding up with Heather's winning line about the vandalized playground, but then there was Petunia's (tragic) back story, and the suggestion that Dudley might learn to live with magic, and make some choices his mother wasn't able to make. It really rounded out this fic, to suggest real change for Dudley, which never came in DH. Enjoyed! M.