Hogwarts: Voldemort, don't stop me from studying

Chapter 113 Should I call the police? I can help

The Dursleys were having dinner. There were shortbread, fried haddock, sausages and vegetable soup on the table, and Dudley had a plate of delicious mashed potatoes.

"I don't want to eat this!" Dudley said angrily, "I want cheese bread! I want barbecue too."

"Do it tomorrow morning, Dada." Penny looked at her chubby son lovingly and said, "You have to eat well and get fat before school starts."

She always felt that her son would not have enough to eat at school.

"I want to eat barbecue now! Otherwise I won't eat!"

Dudley said stubbornly, and tears quickly accumulated in his eyes, as if he had suffered a great injustice.

Petunia Dursley panicked and said quickly, "Okay, okay, wait a moment. Mom will make you a barbecue."

She stood up and went to the kitchen, and just then the whole family heard the doorbell.

"Who's coming to visit today?" Penny asked curiously.

"No guests... maybe someone came to deliver the mail."

Fenon originally wanted to call Harry to open the door, but suddenly remembered that the boy had been locked up by him, so he had to push away the chair and open the door himself.

There were two strangers, one big and one small, standing outside the door. They were well-dressed and had extraordinary demeanor, and they were not holding any mail.

"Hello."

Fenon's unhappiness at having his dinner interrupted quickly disappeared after he saw who was coming.

He began to try hard to recall... Was the man in front of him a business partner?
Vernon asked politely, "What can I do for you, Excellency?"

When Penny heard the voice, she also came out of the kitchen. When she saw the man at the door, she felt that he looked familiar.

"Hello, Mr. Dursley," Lupin said indifferently. "I do have something important to do, but it's not to you."

Fenon didn't know what was happening to him. He involuntarily made way and watched this man, whose name he didn't even know, walk towards his home.

"Wait—who are you looking for?"

Fenon hurriedly caught up and asked.

Petunia at the door suddenly gasped, her arms trembling as she pointed at Lupin and said, "You...you...you are...you are the best man..."

"Remus Lupin." Lupin looked at the thin woman and said, "It's been twelve years, Mrs. Dursley."

Vernon looked at them suspiciously, but he trusted his wife more after all, and asked doubtfully, "Do you know him, Penny?"

"Actually, you should know me too, Mr. Dursley."

Lupin walked into the house and took a quick look before looking at the owner of the house:

"—we were all there at James and Lily's wedding, weren't we?"

Fenon was surprised and asked, "You are...you are the wizard...who is with that person?"

His voice sounded like it was squeezed from a gas tank.

Dudley, who was eating fried cod, suddenly screamed. He dropped the plate, covered his butt in panic, turned around like a headless fly, then rushed into the bathroom, locked the door and refused to come out.

——The last wizard he saw was Hagrid. When they parted, he had a pig's tail as a souvenir, but he had to go to a private hospital to have it cut off.

"Oh - my poor Dada -"

Penny hurriedly chased after him, trying to comfort her frightened son, but she heard a "bang" and the door almost hit her face.

Vernon was also startled. He stepped back, grabbed a table knife, pointed it at Lupin with both hands, and shouted, "What do you want to do? Get out! Penny, call the police!"

Lupin was too lazy to deal with them and turned and walked upstairs.

Penny rushed over to make a call, but the receiver had already been lifted up.

"Call the police, huh? I can help."

Wade said slowly: "999? Or 116111? I think both are fine."

As he spoke, he dialed the phone number. But before he got through, a pair of cold hands pressed it. He raised his eyes and saw Penny saying palely, "Don't call the police... Don't call the police, Vernon..."

"What?" Vernon asked loudly. He wanted to go upstairs to stop Lupin, but he was worried about leaving his wife and son behind, so he was too busy to think.

"Bang!" There was a loud noise from upstairs, as if the door of the small bedroom was blown open.

Then came Lupin's angry voice: "That's what they give you to eat?"

Vernon's face was full of anger, but Penny's face showed a bit of embarrassment.

But they had to listen to Wade.

"116111 is the hotline number of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children."

Wade kindly explained: "This is the only charity in the country with statutory powers."

Fenon looked at him in astonishment, his small eyes moving rapidly.

In the small bedroom, Harry jumped out of bed and looked in horror at the stranger who suddenly broke in.

"You...who are you?"

He panicked and grabbed a pillow to block the way.

"Come with me, Harry." Lupin took a deep breath, his eyes moist, and said, "I am a friend of your parents... I am here to take you away."

Harry hesitated for only a second before jumping out of bed and grabbing his hand.

To him, there was no worse place in the world than the Dursleys', and many times he suspected that he would starve to death.

"Wait, Hedwig!"

Harry ran over and picked up his owl cage.

Lupin glanced with disgust at the bowl beside him. There was only a little clear vegetable soup at the bottom of the bowl, and there were only a few wrinkled vegetables in the owl's food bowl.

Living room on the first floor.

"You can of course call 999 to report the incident, but I want to remind you that as a guardian, it is illegal to deliberately fail to provide adequate food, clothing, medical care or accommodation to a child under the age of 14 if you have the financial means to do so."

Wade said calmly, "If I'm not mistaken, Harry is locked in the room upstairs by you? The windows are nailed shut."

"Imprisoning children, abusing children, and neglecting children are all crimes. Physical abuse, emotional abuse, and domestic violence are all child abuse. If reported, you will be fined and imprisoned."

"Your actions have violated the Child Abuse Prevention Act, the Child Guardianship Act, and the Children's Act enacted three years ago."

"If you don't believe it, feel free to check it out. Or call the police and let them decide what is right and wrong."

"I just wonder, if you and your wife are arrested by the police and sent to jail, what will the neighbors think of you? What will happen to your dada...his situation at school?"

"How...how do you know all this?" Penny asked in disbelief, "You are the same...weird...same person as them, right?"

Not only wizards, but even ordinary people don't know much about these laws.

"My parents don't know magic either. I grew up in the same environment as you."

Vader raised his voice slightly, "What do you say, Harry? If you choose to call the police, I'm sure this couple will be punished."

The Dursleys turned around in panic, only to see that Harry had followed Lupin downstairs without them noticing.

The two were immediately frightened.

The police... jail... Dudley will be bullied by his classmates at school... maybe even asked to drop out...

Their future was suddenly shrouded in a terrible shadow, and this shadow was brought by the little devil whom they had never taken seriously.

Harry felt hatred boiling in his heart.

For a moment, he really wanted to call the police, send the couple to jail, and let the whole world know about his grievances.

But he opened his mouth and tried to speak several times but couldn't make up his mind. Finally, he scratched his hair and said, "I... let's go..."

(End of this chapter)