TSS: Chapter 3: An Unexpected Equal

> *“I said no fuckin’ magic!” he slurred. “I don’ give a shit if it’s you or her. No fuckin’ magic means no fuckin’ magic, you hear?”*
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— Josh Norwich to Julie Davis over Tracey Davis's use of accidental magic.

## Summary:

The Greengrasses plan and execute the rescue of Harry Potter. They spirit him away to Greengrass Manor where he meets the next morning with Blaise Zabini and Tracey Davis. At some point Tracey takes Harry away and reveals to him the story of how her father killed her mother some years back.

## Plot:

The Past

**July 13th, 1992:** Daphne, after another week passes without any news about Harry, decides to break her silence and tell her mother about her worries in regards to Harry and his treatment at the hand of the muggles with which he is residing. They then proceed to make a plan to rescue him.

The Present

**July 17th, 1992:** In the evening, the Greengrasses carry out their plan and arrive at Privet Drive to rescue Harry, arriving under the ruse of a potential business deal with the firm at which Vernon Dursley was a top executive. When a creak interrupts their dinner, Vernon Dursley goes to investigate, with the Greengrasses following him. They stumble upon him trying to strangle Harry. They rescue him and his belongings and spirit him away at Greengrass Manor. There the two of them talk and Daphne informs Harry that he will be moved to Weitts Manor as Dumbledore would not be able to reach him there.

**July 18th, 1992:** The next morning, Harry is visited by Blaise and Tracey. After a while, Tracey and Harry are left alone and the girl tells Harry the story of her early years.

The Past

**June 23rd, 1978:** In a nightclub in London the witch Julie Davis (Tracey's mother) is separated from her friends. She bumps into the muggle Josh Norwich at the bar and he buys her a drink, then they dance together. At the end of the night they get a taxi to a hotel room.

**June 18th, 1980:** Tracey Davis is born at *Chelsea and Westminster Hospital*, London to Julie Davis and Josh Norwich.

**November 11th, 1983:** A young Tracey experiences her first bit of accidental magic in front of her mother and father. Julie decides this is the time to come clean and tells Josh that she is a witch. Josh takes the news badly and goes to the pub to get hammered.

**November 12th, 1983:** Josh stumbles out of the pub he has resided in after he found out that his daughter and wife are witches. He contemplates on what to do next.

**August 15th, 1984:** Julie reflects on her current life. She is miserable as Josh is always drunk and he had forbidden her from using magic. Tracey is forbidden from attending Hogwarts when she turns eleven and shall be conditioned to never use magic. On top of all that, her parents have just passed away three weeks ago. When Tracey trips and breaks a light, with her magic subsequently fixing it, Josh grabs her hard enough to make her cry in pain. Julie distracts Josh which ends up lashing at her instead, by yelling at her his displeasure pertaining to magic: “I said no fuckin’ magic!”. When Josh leaves the room, Julie grabs her purse and Tracey and leave the house.

**August 16th, 1984:** Julie and Tracey are in a cafe in London when the Greengresses walk in. Tracey and Daphne hit it off as the Greengrass pay for ice cream that Tracey wanted as Julie cannot afford it.

**October 18th, 1984:** After a couple of weeks Julie and Tracey return home. On the night of October 18th, Josh is drunk and knocks boiling hot coffee over Tracey, Julie fixes the burns with magic. Josh attacks Julie for using magic and she end up at the bottom of the stairs dead.

The Present

**July 18th, 1992:** Tracey finishes off her story with how Josh ran after killing Julie and is now in prison. The Greengresses had found her shortly after Julie's death and have arranged for her to live with Annabel, her best friend from Hogwarts, and Daniel, her husband. how she now lives with friends of her mother; Annabel and Daniel. Tracey tells Harry that she needed to see a therapist to get over it and be able to talk about what happened to her. Then she expresses her availability to talk to Harry about his personal life.

## Characters Introduced:

Julie Davis.

Josh Norwich.

Annabel.

Daniel.