Augustus Blake from MACUSA
The Dursley living room is very quiet except for the sound of sipping and the short clung of the porcelain tea cups. Petunia invited Mr. Blake to her house for tea. She looked calm but inside she is freaking out.
Petunia has some familiarity with the wizarding world back in Britain and is aware of the Ministry of Magic. Imagine her surprise that Mr. Blake explained that the MACUSA predates the Ministry of magic or any other official magical government in Europe and they were the local government body in the United States for the magicals in the country.
"I am surprised you are familiar with the magical world," Augustus commented.
Augustus Blake is a nice-looking man who looks to be in his early 30s. He looked clean, with black hair, glasses, and brown eyes and the odd thing is that, unlike most wizards in Europe, he was wearing "no-maj" garb. As a representative of MACUSA, he knows how strict the MACUSA is against the "no-maj".
Historically to prevent the knowledge of magic among the no-maj community, the government has been drastic against its use of magic. This includes taking away first-generation wizards and witches from their no-maj families as it was common in the past for these kids to get persecuted and killed. Even some parts of Europe also practice this in the past. They even have to separate relationships if a wizard or witch is with a no-maj person. This is why relationships like these are illegal. Although this was already repealed, it took a lot to validate a no-maj partner or family member to ensure the secrecy of magic is not revealed to the no-maj public.
Because the no-maj have become more and more advanced with their gadgets and technology including the rise of information-gathering techniques and tools, it has become vital for the magic community to protect themselves. There have been a lot of publications about the fact that no-maj people were not exactly stupid as they were previously viewed. This includes the establishment of the No-Maj Monitoring Squad. They are divided into various departments such as monitoring no-maj activities, businesses, or even technology and the last is the monitoring for accidental magic from no-maj families. This is the department where Augustus Blake works. He is often assigned to the field to monitor the health and well-being of any first-gen witches and wizards which was never easy as it is common for them to
The United States has a very dark history of fighting between no-Maj and wizards and witches. There are still existing groups out there who would persecute wizards and witches, some are from religious groups and they often use the excuse of exorcising children which was horrible. So it is becoming common for MACUSA to monitor any first gens as it is very rare to have no-maj parents accepting of their magical children. They already find it difficult to accept their children who are different from the norms. What more if the child is magical?
However, this assignment was different. There were records of bouts of accidental magic in the area but the department could not point out where it is, which was weird. It is often difficult to identify who uses magic in magical communities because magic is everywhere. While illegal magic may be detected but it can't exactly identify who it is however, in the no-maj community, this is different. It is easier to identify any magic in no-maj communities because magic is not constantly erupting around them. So this is why this case is weird.
This is why Augustus, or Oggy as he was usually called, has to go to the field. He noticed that the magical bouts happen in a local kindergarten but also in the area where the Dursley lived. Since most of the children at the daycare also lived in the area, it was hard to know which child is a potential magical. So he has to live in the area to do his survey. Over the few weeks, he has been observing the area but could not find any vital conclusion.
He knows that his neighbors were British (the woman's accent was too obvious) and she has three children (triplets probably?). But he still could not conclude whether or not any of the children are the first gens. The woman is a no-Maj. That is until he saw the little boy with messy black hair, green eyes the glasses running outside. He was sure the boy wasn't supposed to be outside. He has observed how protective their mother was. He was about to try to help lead the boy back but he saw the boy leaning near their fence and hissed!
HE HISSED! He noticed a small green snake that seem to be enjoying a conversation with the little boy.
Augustus recognized it! It's parseltongue!
Parseltongue is a very rare magical gift and is often reserved for those coming from the bloodlines of said Salazar Slytherin. However, due to the first wizarding war in Britain. You-know-who, who stigmatized the once ancient and beautiful gift.
How does he know? Because Augustus graduated from Ivermony. The founder of the school was a parselmouth and is said to be the relative of Salazar Slytherin (A/N: Parseltongue refers to language, parselmouth refers to the person who speaks parseltongue). Also, there is no way a child like this is the first generation!
First-generation witches and wizards do not have gifts. Gifts are often developed through enforcing magical bloodlines usually by having a union with another magical person! So this is how Augustus found himself in the presence of Petunia Dursley who he finally found out is the boy's aunt, not his mother. One of the parents of the child needs to be of magical descent in order for parseltongue to happen.
"My sister is a witch but my family is what you call muggles". Petunia said. "I didn't expect to be found out this fast. I did expect wizards to probably find my nephews and niece but I just didn't expect it since there hasn't been any communication at all."
"Wait. Your sister is their mother and she is the witch? Is your sister dead?" Augustus asked surprised.
"No, in fact, she is very much alive with her husband and the other child. They had triplets." Petunia answered.
"Huh?" Augustus is even more confused. "Why would your sister leave her children with a no-maj?"
"A no-ma what?"
"It is short for non-magical. That's what we call muggles in America. Other countries have their versions as well. But back to my point, why?"
Petunia sighed. "I don't know much. All I know is that my sister suspected that the children don't have magic so she left her with me." She didn't even bother to talk to me first. Petunia thought bitterly but didn't bother to say anything about it.
"I see. But the children are obviously not squibs." Augustus commented. He noticed a few small heads peeking at the door frame in the sitting room but decided not to comment about their eavesdropping.
"Yes, I know," Petunia answered.
"Do you wish help to reach out to them?" Augustus asked. "It is often encouraged for us for magical children to stay with someone with magic to help them out. Children at this age have bouts of accidental magic and it's dangerous not just for others but also for you. Most magical parents are often equipped to deal with it."
Petunia was surprised about this. "What?"
She has always wanted to talk to Lily about the situation but it has been almost five years. Even though Harry and Iris are both magical, she still raised the two and she already claimed them as her own. Why would she allow the two to be given back? If Lily and that husband of hers ever cared, shouldn't they have bothered to do some regular correspondence or even regularly monitor their well-being? This usually means they don't care and she doesn't want to put the two children in a situation where their parents might not be receptive to them.
"But I raised them," Petunia stated. "They didn't even bother to talk to me when they left the two on my doorstep in the middle of the night and I didn't even notice until the morning!"
"Wait, what now?!" Augustus was even more shocked. "What kind of..." He took a deep breath. He needs to calm down. This changed everything. MACUSA is very strict about abuse. This is why they have systems in place to take away first-generation children in abusive homes but this doesn't seem to be the case with the Dursleys.
"Might I ask, who are the children's parents?" Augustus asked.
"Oh, my sister is Lily Evans. Her husband, I forgot his name. I think it was Potter."
Augustus has another shock in his life, "Potter?! As in James Potter, the father of the boy who lived?"