12 Three Years

It has been three years since the dayof the talk and life has been hectic for. Dudley has gotten taller and he looks live a miniature blob when he is walking.

During this period of three years, he has been mostly focused on the knowledge aspect of his training. Though he has been trying to train physically, his parents would not allow him to train seriously and when ever they caught him doing it, they would scold him. He decided it was not worth it so he stopped.

He decided to benefit from the situation and increased his fat gaining skill even more. He also strengthened his relationship with the people around him like Harry and his lackeys at school. Due to his thirst for knowledge, his room is filled with books and stuff relating to independent travel and the skills relating to that.

During this period, Petunia and Vernon have been trying to find a teacher for their son. Through an ad they saw on the tele they saw an opportunity to find a teacher for their son. Of course, they did not trust what they saw at first but looking for a teacher for three years had taken a toll. Even then they called and finally, they managed to secure a teacher for poor ole Dudley.

Though to do that,the people they contacted told them that they could come check out their services. They pick a school day when Dudley was out to go visit the place. They were pleased about what they found when they went there.

After seeing what they would be giving their son, they signed the contract. Though some of the clauses on there were hard to accept, they knew that eventually, it would benefit their son so they reluctantly agreed to accept the terms of agreement.

The trainer came a few months after Dudley's birthday to introduce himself to the family and also to inform then that the training will begin a few days from then. Everyone was happy with this information.

In the parents case, they were happy that they would have someone to properly take care of their son and also to get him off their back because it was due to him that it took a whole three years to finally find a teacher.

In Harry case, he was happy because he could finally stop the dreaded exercises that Dudley would put him through. Since his parents would not allow him to exercise, he had to vent on someone, right. That unlucky someone was poor Potter. He especially dreaded the so called Harry Hunting that he and his lackeys would made him participate in. One time, he asks Dudley,

"Why do you make me do this?"

"It's exercise, I also need you to get out of the house more and its fun doing it, right" Dudley responded

"No it's not" Harry retorted back at him

"kukukukukuku, you're jesting" Dudley replied

"Also, by the way, you better move because I have already started the game" Harry immediately dashed when he heard that.

"How can you move so fast when you are this fat!!!" Harry shouted behind his back

"It's a secret" Dudley replied behind him. After that, everything went blurry for Harry. With a jolt, Harry quashed the memory of another traumatic day.

He finally saw the light at the end of the tunnel.

With the case of Dudley, the reason why he was excited to meet this new teacher because he could tell from his posture that the new trainer would help him get stronger. Also from the anatomy books he skimmed, he could identify parts of the trainer's body that showed that he practiced what he taught.

During the first few weeks of training, his trainer noticed that he was getting muscles too quickly. He was concerned because he thought he was giving him too much. Also, the body was not supposed to be that fast in gaining muscles. So, he approached him and said

"Kid, have you noticed that you have been gaining muscles lately"

"No why"

"Well at your age, you are not supposed to develop a lot of muscles because your body has to grow. Developing it too much will make your muscles rigid resulting in you becoming shorter than the average person. So, in response to that, I'll be reducing your muscle training but I'll increase your flexibility regimen."

'Wow, did not know using magic to beef up my muscles will have such dire consequences. Better stop now, I don't want to look like Komatsu when I'm like sixteen.' While Dudley is in thoughts, he hears

"Do you understand boy?"

"Yes sir" He responded

"I said do you understand"

"YES SIR!!!" Dudley shouted

With that he took him home to inform his parents about the change in schedule. When they reached the house, Petunia came out to greet her son and teacher Marimo. After talking to her about the progress Dudley makes daily, he informs her about the change in schedule and tells her to let Vernon know.

Dudley left them to talk about his training, he heads straight to the bathroom to take a shower the moment he steps in to the house. After he finishes cleaning himself, he went to look for Harry to check up on him because they had not been talking to each other much lately.

"Mate, where are you?" Dudley called out to him

"In the kitchen Duds" Harry responds

After listening to where Harry's voice came from, Dudley heads to the kitchen. When he finds him, he asks,

"So, what has been happening around school?"

"Nothing much, though when you left by testing out of most of the classes, it was a shocker to a lot of people. They did not think the school boss was smart enough to test out of elementary school. Even though you are an acclaimed genius" Harry said with a chuckle

"Hahaha, I found my dream after all. I did not need to remain there. By the way how about you? I know lately we have not been talking much because of how busy I've been and the differing schedule we have." Dudley spoke the last sentence while scratching the back of his head.

"I'm alright with everything that has been going on. Nobody messes with me even though you are not around."Harry replied to Dudley

"That's good" Dudley said with a smile

"Want to go hang out?" Dudley asked Harry

Harry shudders and say, "Nah, I'm good. I have stuff to do." Dudley nods. Then Harry changes the topic,

"Oh, I remember the only notable stuff that happened recently was that, you know that teacher that wears wig in my class right"

"Yea" Dudley responds

"som...someone turned her hair blue two days ago" Harry spoke, on the verge of hysterics

"Wait, how did it happen?" Dudley asked with a smile on his face

"She was being more annoying than usual. Four days ago, she gave us an exam. Seventy five percent of the questions on the paper was not taught by her. In fact we did not even touch on the topic so that we could say that we forgot. Naturally, the entire class failed the exam. While she was returning our papers to us, she started to intentionally mispronounce our names. Of course, we were all pissed at her because we knew she was doing this on purpose" Harry takes a while to calm down.

"What happened next?" Dudley asks

"Though we were pissed at her for mispronouncing our names, what set us off the most was that she lied to the principal when he came to visit the class to check on what we were doing. She told him that she taught us everything that was on the paper. I don't know what happened next, but all I saw was that that her wig was turning blue while she was speaking. She did not understand why everyone was laughing at her during class until one of the perfectsnear the end of the day told her that her wig is blue colored." The boys started laughing as Harry finished the tale.

After the laughter died down, Dudley asked, "So, what are you doing in here?"

"I was helping Aunt Petunia cook when you came home."

"You know she said we could stop coming to the kitchen if we want to, right. After coming in here for less than three years, Aren't you sick of this place?" Dudley asked

Harry shook his head to Dudley's questions and responded " No I'm not, I know what you are talking about but I enjoy cooking. The process of adding ingredients, controlling the temperature, stirring, boiling, etc. I don't know but doing these things makes me calm."

'At least I manage to turn cooking into something he likes. Look at him bragging about cooking.

Oh wait, bloody smoking Dumbles balls, I read somewhere that Lily left some stuff from Hogwarts but mum moved it to the attic I can't believe I forgot about that. Time to remedy that'

"Well good luck mate, I've had enough of cooking for the rest of my life. *Yawn* I going to rest my head for a while and my body are killing me. Wake me up when it's time to eat."

Harry smirked and secretly thought 'hahaha, you feel my pain now.'

"Ok Duds." he responded

With that, Dudley exited the kitchen. He headed to his room to sleep but on his way, he saw his teacher in the living room.

"Eh, sir, you are not gone yet."

"No, I was discussing with your mum on what to teach you besides close combat and flexibility."

"You could have just asked me. I know what I want to learn. Speaking of mum, where is she?"

"She's at the loo, why?" Marimo answered

"I did not see her anywhere. By the way sir, if possible, I would like to learn how to fight with a sword" Dudley asked

"Oho why," Marimo said in a stern voice

"I want to be an explorer. I also want to see what the world has to offer and to do that, I must be strong and smarter than the obstacles in my way" Dudley says with conviction

"I assume you know what it means to be an explorer" Marimo asks, Dudley nods

"Are you sure you want to follow this path" Marimo asks again

"Yes sir, I ready to follow my dreams" Dudley says determined

"Alright, next week we are going on a long trip. You said you want to become an explorer, right?"

"Yes" Dudley responded

"Ok, go do what you were going to do"

"Good bye sir" Dudley said as he was heading up

"Sleep well" Marimo replied with a nod

Marimo watched as Dudley walked to his room suddenly, he said

"Three years"

Petunia and a just arrived home Vernon nodded with tears in their eyes.