Next chapter up! I hope you enjoy it, the clear differences in the story start here. Im not sure if its clear but basically because of having a girl the Dursleys are changed people, their son is less spoilt and they really do love Hatty. I hope you enjoy! Also I fixed some of the errors in the first chapter. Please review!

It had been nearly ten years since Mrs Dursley had found little Hatty Potter on her doorstep, not much had changed on Privet Drive, in fact it would appear to any one that time had frozen on this street. The Dursley's house was as it had been those ten years ago the only difference was the photos decorating the two storey house. Family portraits were dotted around the house, the thin long necked Petunia Dursley, the large Vernon Dursley, the equally large Dudley Dursley and the clear runt of the family Hatty Potter. A smiling normal family, but all was not normal in the Dursley household.

"Harriet Lily Potter!" Aunt Petunia shouted up the stairs, "get out of bed and get downstairs to celebrate your brothers birthday!" Petunia stormed back into the kitchen and continued preparing the bacon for her sons birthday. Hatty Potter pulled herself out of bed and walked up to her mirror, she pulled her long black hair into a bobble then put on a light blue dress.

"Stupid Dudley," she muttered to herself, "I just want to sleep." Once ready Hatty ran down the corridor and jumped into her brothers room.

"Morning Hatty," Dudley said as he pulled on his socks, "what do you want scarface? I want to open my presents."

"No need to be rude," replied Hatty, "cant I wish my big brother from another mother Happy Birthday?"

Dudley turned to her and smiled, "thanks kid, now come on let me open my presents. I'm expecting good things!" The two children walked down the stairs together and into the kitchen where they were greeted with bacon sandwiches and a small pile of presents. Dudley sat down and immediately started opening his gifts while Hatty started on the bacon.

"Happy birthday Dudders!" Petunia said as Dudley opened a new game for his and Hatty's playstation.

"Awesome!" He cried, "thanks Mum and Dad, Hatty have you seen this?" Vernon grunted his reply and Hatty pulled the game out of Dudley's hand to inspect it.

Petunia smiled at the two children, she loved to see them getting along. She would never tell Vernon but Mrs Dursley had always wanted a girl but Dudley was a miracle and she was unable to have any more children after his birth. When Hatty was left on their doorstep all those years ago Vernon had made a fuss and refused to look after her but Petunia convinced him. After a year of caring for the little girl both adults treated her as their own and though he would not say Vernon, like Petunia could not imagine life without Hatty. Even better for Vernon, there was no sign of any of that hocus pocus Dumbleface had written about in his letter to them, she wasn't a freak like her parents, she could be their little girl forever.

When Dudley had finished opening his presents and both children had eaten their breakfasts Hatty started pestering them about their day trip.

"Can we go now?" She begged, "I want to see the snakes!"

"Eww!" Dudley cried, "why cant you be a normal girl? Snakes are gross! And you know we cant go yet, Piers isn't here." Piers Polkiss was Dudley's best friend, he was a scrawny boy with a mean temperament and Hatty often worried that he would lead her brother astray but he was Dudley's friend so Hatty tried to get along with him.

Just before Hatty could reply the doorbell rang and the Dursley's sprung into action, Petunia put the packed lunches into her cooler bag while Vernon slowly folded up his news paper and finished his coffee. Dudley had run to the door and was greeting his friend as Hatty made sure her scar was hidden underneath her fringe, Piers loved to make fun of her lightening bolt. Although she was often teased about it Hatty loved her scar, it made her stand out and although she did not like the story it came with (her parents car crash and death) it still came with a story which she could always bring out when meeting new people.

"Hey Hat-hair," Piers greeted Hatty as they both got into the Dursley's car,

"Piers." Hatty nodded, she really did not have much time for the boy.

It was a very sunny Saturday and the zoo was crowded with families. The Dursley's bought Dudley, Piers and Hatty large chocolate ice creams at the entrance. Hatty licked her icecream as they looked at the Gorillas, "hey Dudley," Hatty shouted to her brother, "I didn't know you had a twin!" Piers sniggered and even Aunt Petunia suppressed a laugh when she saw the baby Gorilla which did bare a striking resemblance to her overweight son.

After walking around the zoo for an hour and eating a large lunch in the café (which much to Hatty's delight included another icecream) it was finally time for Hatty's favourite part of the zoo, the reptiles. Inside the reptile house it was cool and dark with lit windows all along the walls. Behind the glass, all sorts of lizards and snakes were crawling and slithering over bits of wood and stone. Dudley and Piers were not happy about being in the enclosure, they were both rather impatient and wanted to go home and try out Dudley's new video game. However Dudley did get excited when he found the biggest snake Hatty had ever seen, it was amazing!

"Make it move," she whispered to Dudley, who took that as an invitation to hit the glass as hard as he could.

"No you stupid git!" Hatty snapped, "you'll scare it, go away and let me look at it."

"Its boring anyway," Dudley moaned. He shuffled away. Hatty moved in front of the tank and looked intently at the snake. She wouldn't have been surprised if it had died of boredom itself – no company except stupid people drumming their fingers on the glass trying to disturb it all day long. Come on snakey she thought, just look at me, please! The snake suddenly opened its beady eyes. Slowly, very slowly, it raised its head until its eyes were on a level with Hatty's.

It winked. Hatty stared. Then she looked quickly around to see if anyone was

watching. They weren't. She looked back at the snake and stuck her tongue out at it.

The snake replied with its tongue and then jerked its head toward Dudley, then raised

its eyes to the ceiling. It gave Hatty a look that said quite plainly:

"I get that all the time.

"I'm sorry" Hatty murmured through the glass, though she wasn't sure the snake could hear her. "It must be really annoying, he's not always like that though."

The snake seemed to roll its eyes at Hatty in disbelief. "Where do you come from, anyway?" Hatty asked. The snake jabbed its tail at a little sign next to the glass. Hatty

peered at it.

Boa Constrictor, Brazil.

"Was it nice there?"

The boa constrictor jabbed its tail at the sign again and Hatty read on: This specimen was bred in the zoo. "Oh, I see - so you've never been to

Brazil?"

As the snake shook its head,

"i'm sorry," Hatty said sympathetically, "I really wish I could so something to help you." To Hatty's surprise just as that thought came into her head the glass separating her from the snake disappeared causing Piers who had been leaning against it to fall into the tank.

Hatty sat up and gasped; the great snake was uncoiling itself rapidly, slithering

out onto the floor. People throughout the reptile house screamed and started running for the exits.

As the snake slid swiftly past her, Hatty could have sworn a low, hissing voice said, "Brazil, here I come... Thanksss, amigo."

The keeper of the reptile house was in shock.

"But the glass," he kept saying, "where did the glass go?"

The zoo director himself made Aunt Petunia a cup of strong, sweet tea while he apologized over and over again. Piers and Dudley could only gibber, Dudley's fear of snakes was certainly not going to improve any time soon.

In the car on the way home Dudley, who was feeling much better, turned to Hatty,

"you were talking to that snake weren't you?" He asked, before Hatty could reply Petunia butted in,

"of course she wasn't Dudley!" She snapped, "don't be so ridiculous."

"Actually," muttered Hatty, "I was sort of talking to it, I thought about it being free and then the glass vanished!" Dudley stared at his sister in awe whilst Petunia and Vernon exchanged worried glances. They spent the rest of the car journey in silence.

Later that night as they laid in bed Petunia turned to her husband, a troubled look on her face.

"Vernon, what if..." Petunia couldn't bring herself to say it, she could not accept that her little girl was different like her sister. She would not let it happen.