"Arry you said your Aunt liked 'er 'ouse clean," Fleur said. "Well I placed several stains zat will come visible over time and will not come up unless you use a magical stain remover."
"We added neversun to the fertilizer bag in the garage," George said and seeing the look on Harry's face he explained. "It's the stuff Vampire use to be able to go out in sunlight. If they liberally coat themselves in it and use strong sunglasses they are safe for a while. We expect when the stuff is absorbed into the grass and plants, they will stop absorbing sunlight and die."
"The time tape works great," Fred said. "We put it everywhere."
"It did work on that black cable thingy Hermione," George continued. "We put it on both it and the TV power cable so they would both go out at different times."
"They will not have hot water at all. I put a cold charm on the pipe that comes out of it," Remus said.
"The cabinet doors in the kitchen are charmed to randomly open."
"SLAM!" Petunia slammed another cabinet closed. "Vernon Dursley if you can't remember to close these cabinets you're never getting off that couch, do you understand me?"
"Uh...yes dear," The very much confused Vernon replied. He was positive he'd closed that cabinet.
"Sniff...Oh Vernon did you leave the refrigerator open as well? The milk is spoiled."
"No dear, I...I..."
"Like I'm going to believe you?" Petunia replied as she glared at her husband. "I honestly don't know what's got into you. Did the plumber get back to you?"
"Yes, he said he can't install the new hot water heater for three days," Vernon replied.
"Three days?" Petunia snapped.
"He said he couldn't find anything wrong with the one we have so he's ordering one from a different company."
Petunia pursed her lips but said nothing. Soon Vernon was out the door.
It was early afternoon when she finally sat down to watch her shows on the telly. She had her tea, and her box of tissues. Fifty minutes later she was wiping away a tear as he favorite character Edward was about to kiss his ex-wife's best friend's cousin whom he'd secretly had a crush on for years when the TV signal was lost.
"NO!" Petunia screamed at the snowy picture that now was being displayed on her TV. A call to their cable provider had her on hold for thirty minutes before she got to speak to a live person.
"I'm sorry Mrs. Dursley but we show no outages in that area. Do you wish us to send someone out there?"
"YE...no the signal's back now."
"Excellent. Have a pleasant day Mrs. Dursley," The customer service representative said and then hung up.
Petunia sat back down in the chair and as she did, she noticed a small stain in the carpet next to Vernon's chair. "What has that man done now?" she muttered. "Eating in here again probably," She spent the next hour trying to get the stain up to no avail. She tried again the next day and the next. Finally after supper later in the week she turned to her husband "You destroyed our carpet in the living room with whatever you spilled in there. We have to replace it."
"But Petunia dear, we can't afford it. We've already spent a good portion of our savings on the new hot water heater and refrigerator and now the plumber is saying he might have to redo the pipes in the house if we want hot water," The look his wife was giving him made it perfectly clear that they would be getting new carpet in the living room. No stain was going to be anywhere in a house she lived in.
Later that evening a strip of tape along the bottom of the master fuse box activated and every fuse in the box blew. Vernon stubbed his little toe twice as he made his way to the fuse box and reset them. Twenty minutes later, they all blew again.
"Bloody great," Vernon thought. "Now I've got to call a bloody electrician."
The next morning because the alarm clock wasn't working, Vernon and Petunia overslept. Vernon was an hour late for work and spent several minutes being chewed out by his boss. He was also chewed out again about the smell that seemed to always be around Vernon.
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