The Disappearing Glass-ELIZABETH POTTER'S POV

"Get up!" screeched Aunt Petuina. "Get up! NOW!"

I opened my eyes and sat up. I quickly swung out of bed and went to shake Harry awake. I thought, Harry, wake up. You need to wake up now.

Harry's eyes fluttered open. "Hello," he said. I smiled warmly.

"Are you up?" called Aunt Petunia.

"Yes, we are," Harry responed.

"Well, get to the kitchen, Harry."

He got up and pulled on some socks. When he walked out, Aunt Petunia was at the door waiting for me. I nodded my head as if to say "yes?" "You are comig with us to the zoo this year." She handed me a set of clothes and shoes. "Please wear these. The mother of Peirs Polkiss told me that her son has taken a small fancy in you, so please don't act odd."

I raised my eyebrows as I took the clothes. I quickly grabbed a pad of paper and a pen. I wrote, I won't act odd. I'll be on my best behavior.

I turned and walk into the cuboard. I quickly changed into the fitting tee and jeans. After I slipped on the sneakers, I went to the kitchen. Harry was flipping the bacon as I walked in.

Uncle Vernon looked up from his paper. His eyes raked over me. "Hide that scar!" he howled.

Me and Harry had similar lightning bolt scars on our faces. Harry's scar was on his forehead and easily covered. Mine, on the other hand, was on the left side of my face. It went from my temple to my jaw. I normally wore my bangs over my left eye and that side of my face. Right now it was pulled back. I sighed and rearranged my hair back to it's manditory part of style.

I walked up to the table which was covered in presents. Dudley and Aunt Petuina walked in then. He quickly made his way oaver to the presents and started to count them. After he finished, he looked chest fallen. "Thirty-six," he said. "That's two less then last year."

"You forgot the one from Auntie Marge, under the big one from Mommy and Daddy."

"Alright, thirty-seven than." He was going red in the face. Harry started to wolf down his bacon. He thought Dudley was going to have one of his tantrums and he could flip the table.

Aunt Petuina must have sensed it too, because she said, "We'll buy you two presents while we're out. How's that popkins?"

Dudley thought for a moment. "So I'll thirty... thirty..."

"N-n-ni-nine," I croaked slowly. My voice was barely above a whisper but everyone heard. My voice was soft and sweet as Harry described it, but to me it sounded like a dying frog.

"Yes," Aunt Petuina said. "Duddydums will have thirty-nine." She looked at me. "Thank you for helping him

I noddded with an inward smile.

The phone rang just as Dudley started to open his presents. He got a racing bike, a camera, a remote control airplane, sixteen new computer games and a VCR. He was unwrapping a gold wrist watch when Aunt Petuina came back. Apparantly, Mrs. Figg couldn't watch Harry. She had broken her leg. They tried to find a place for Harry when the Polkiss family arrived.

A little while later, me, Harry, Dudley, and Piers were all in the Dursley's car on the way to the zoo. We got chocolate ice creams. Well, me, Dudley, and Piers did. The Dursley's only got Harry a lemon pop.

We wandered around the zoo until about lunch. We went to the zoo resautant. Dudley had a tantrum when his knickerbocker glory didn't have enough ice cream on top. Uncle Vernon bought him a new one and Harry finished the first one.

After lunch, we went to the reptile house, Dudley found the biggest snake in the place. It was this huge boa constricter that could wrap twice around Uncle Vernon's car and crush it flat. But at the moment, it didn't really do anything. It was asleep.

Dudley and Piers their noses pressed up on the window. Uncle Vernon rapped on the glass. "Again." He did it again but the animal snoozed on. "This is boring," Dudley moaned. They shuffled away.

Harry and I moved up to the glass to gaze at the snake. It was a gorgeous snake. It had a brown diamond on it's back. Suddenly, it raised it's head and looked at us. "Hello..." I heard it say.

"Hello," Harry said back.

Harry and the snake talked for a few mintues before we were shoved to the ground. "Look at the snake!" shouted Dudley.

Suddenly the glass disappeared and Dudley and Piers fell into the habitat. The snake was unwinding and slide out of it's home. It hissed "Thanks, amigos."

My eyes grew wide and I scooted back from the snake. The zoo manger made both me and Aunt Petuina tea. After we calmed down, we went home.

Dudley and Piers were having hystarics, Dudley saying it almost bit his leg off, while Piers sweared it tried to squeeze him to death. But what was worse was when Piers said, "Harry was talking to it, right Harry?"

When we got back and Piers had left, Harry was sent to our cupboard with no meals for two weeks. I, on the other hand, was told to go to Dudley's old toy room and I couldn't aruge. In it was a cot that was big enough for me. I sat on it and thought of Harry's punishment. I should have been with him. I sighed and called it a day.

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