I liked this story. It really made you feel for Petunia and see things from her point of view. Good job.

I enjoyed this piece - however you do seem to have a few spelling and punctuation errors. In Petunia's letter it's good - it gives her character, yet later on it should be fixed up.

You do have a lovely idea here though! I don't think I've ever seen a character sketch on Petunia written in the first person - it's a nice change! Also, I really love the last line. That itself is a stroke of inspiration.

Keep Writing!

i'm not a big fan of 1st person pieces in the HP fandom, but this really was a lovely, original look into Petunia- and i thought the detail of her trying to work Lily's wand at night was absolutely brilliant, a heart-breaking detail. i caught a couple typos that should be no prob to fix quick: Magic. - needs a period; gentle-mannered w/ a hyphen; *Truly (though the misspelling could be on purpose, since she was, what, 13?); not talented, rather than non-talented; *her son; *couldn't w/ the apostrophe. and when you switch to the past, since you're already in the past, you might want past perfect- had shook- and oh jeez, i sound like a grammar guru (i'm not, just coming off of months editing my college literary magazine and i always am so glad when ppl catch errors i missed in my work- so just fyi :)) love the description of James as 'tosspot', the quiet imagery of the tea, and the very human version of petunia you present here. nice job, keep writing!

Very believable portrait of Petunia, and explains her actions and thoughts well. I especially liked the letter.

I thought that a couple of the decriptions were overdone - "My long fingers sought the warm ceramic", "a lone tear wrangled its way from my lids" - but cerainly not enough to spoil the story.

The last sentence was just brilliant, and sums Petunia up well.

I really like this. It's nice because we never see anything fromj Petunia, so this was a nice change.

That was awesome! How did she get sparks out of the wand??