The Potter twins
and the Philosopher's stone
A/N I don't own any characters that you recognize. I only own Arnold Potter Harry's twin who was born an hour after Harry so yeah Arnold is younger, and his wand is 11 inches unicorn hair core made out of birch wood. Also Harry and Arnold not only talk normally but also through thoughts.
"talking out load"
" Potter twins talking to eachother through thoughts"
'a person thinking to him/herself'
Charter 2: The vanishing glass
"Up! Get up!"Shouted the voice of Aunt Petunia through the cupboard door.
"Aunt Petunia... Should we?" Harry asked his his brother, Arnold in a whisper.
"Yeah I think we should 'cause if we don't she'll yell louder." Arnold whispered back.
Arnold stretched as much as he could (Which wasn't much as he was under the small be Harry was sleeping on in the cupboard)and said "c'mon bro get up." Before Harry could move anywhere, though, they could hear from upstairs the banging and jumping from their cousin, Dudley.
"Wake up Potters! we're going to th zoo!" Dudley shouted while jumping off the stairs, making dust fall from the staircase and into Harry's eyes.
Harry opened the door enough for Arnold to get up off the floor and sit on the bed , allowing him to get through the door.
Before he could make it to the kitchen, he was shoved back into the cupboard and onto Arnold by Dudley.
"How we keep restraining ourselves from murdering that guy I don't know." Arnold said really harshly.
"Me neither." Harry said, getting up off his younger but taller twin brother and going into the kitchen with him soon following.
In the kitchen, Aunt Petunia was kissing Dudley repeatedly on the nose while Uncle Vernon said "Happy Birthday, so!"
Dudley went to hug his dad and Petunia said to Harry and Arnold, "Why don't just cook the brekfast and try not to burn anything!"
"Yes Aunt Petunia." The twins said in unison doing what they were told.
"hey Ar" Harry said through thoughts using his nickname for his twin brother while cooking.
"Yea" replied Arnold through thought speak while helping cook.
"I had a weird dream last night about a flying motorbike" Harry said almost finished the cooking.
"Yeah I had a dream anout a flying motorbike last night If it was the same one Hmmm I wonder why ." Arnold wanderer.
"Me to." thought replied breaking thought speak contact finishing cooking the meal.
"36?! but last year I had 37!" Dudley shouted Harry and Arnold happy that he didn't interrupt their conversation.
"Yes, but quite a few of them are bigger then last year." Vernon said.
"I DON'T CARE HOW BIG THEY ARE!" Dudley screamed.
"Spoiled brat" both twins thought-spoke the they laughed in inwardly together.
"Now, now here's what were going to do. When we go out, were to buy you two new presents, how's that pumpkin?" Petunia said, trying to calm her son
Dudley thought about it for moment and then said. "So then I'd have.. 30... 3?"
"38, sweetums."
"Oh. I guess that would be okay." Dudley said He sat down and said, "I want my breakfast, now Potters." He said directed it straight to both Harry and Arnold.
"If he wants breakfast why doesn't he just get it himself?" Arnold thought-asked Harry.
"uhm I dunno bro but I don't want him to hit either one of us now so lets get him breakfast." Harry a plate.
"Yeah lets" Arnold thought-said getting some bacon. Arnold grabbed the salt and began putting some on. When he was certain no one but Harry was looking, he brought the snot from his nose and spat in his cousins food.
"A masterpiece" Arnold thought-said, admiring his work.
"He IS going to notice, you know?" thought-replied while making Vernon a coffee.
"He won't notice. I bet you he'll shovel this down his throat within 20 seconds. even if he does notice it will be to late." Arnold thought-replied.
Arnold walked over to Dudley and placed the plate in front of. As he had predicted , Dudley started spooning the lumps of saliva and snot mixed with bacon, sausages and scrambled eggs (which I didn't think about when the cooking was happening.).
Neither Harry nor Arnold had ever gone to the zoo. Their family made it look like they couldn't be trusted. But today they counted themselves as lucky.
As they were just about to get into the car, Uncle Vernon slammed the door just and put his car key in front of Harry's face.
I'm warning you now, Boys. Any funny business, any at all, and neither of you will have any meals for a for a week! Do I make myself clear?"
"Yes, Uncle Vernon." The boys said in unison.
He looked at them both and then harshly said "get in."
Arnold got in first and was sitting beside Dudley, and Harry was sitting beside Arnold and was looking out the window.
When they got there, they went to the front gates and went in.
So, where first, Dudley?" Vernon said as he handed his son the map.
"Um... The reptile house!" Dudley said, pointing as the map at a green snake.
Dudley started off at a run towards the house with the others soon following.
"This going to be fun..." Arnold thought-said, his thoughts dripping with sarcasm.
"Wake up!" Dudley shouted. "Dad, make him move!"
Vernon tapped the glass and said "Moved!"
The snake did nothing.
Then Dudley tried. He smashed his huge paw like hands on the glass and shouted "MOVE!" "He's asleep!" Harry said.
"He's boring." Dudley said said, moving away from the glass.
"Sorry about him, doesn't understand what it's like. Lying there day after day, watching people press their ugly faces in on you." Harry said the snake.
"You do realize your talking to a- whoa." Arnold said.
The cobra had woken up. It raised it's shiny head so it was eye level with the pair of them.
"Can you hear us?" Harry asked, dumbfounded.
Slowly, the snake nodded
"We've never talked to a snake before. Do you talk yo people a lot?" Arnold asked.
This time, the snake shook it's head.
"You're from Brazil, aren't you? Was it nice there? Do you miss your family?" Harry asked.
The snake poked it's head the sign on the wall which said, "This animal was bread in thw zoo."
"I see." Arnold started as both he and Harry brought thier heads back t look at the snake.
"That's us as well. Harry continued
We knew our parents either." they finished together
MUMMY! DAD, COME HERE" You won't believe what the snake is doing!" Dudley said, shoving Arnold into Harry, knocking them both to the floor.
Arnold got up and was about to punch Dudley right on the nose, but as he was flat against the glass, he fell through it. No... the glass wasn't there anymore! It had vanished."
Dudley landed right next to the snake in the water. The snake began to move, taking the opportunity to leg it. It raised over the bars and land in front of the twins.
"Thanksssss" the snake said.
"A-Anytime." both stuttered
Then, the snake began to move again. It slithered out of the reptile house and people began screaming and shouted that there was a snake loose.
When Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon came back to the snake. T hey were surprised to see there son in the exhibit instead.
Dudley tried to get back, but his hands were stopped by the glass. It came back.
"Dudley! My darling boy!" Petunia said. "Somebody help help him!"
Both twins were now openly laughing. But Uncle Vernon wasn't.
He looked at the twins and wickedly smiled.
They got into the house, Dudley wrapped in a huge towel, and Arnold and Harry were frog marched into the house.
Uncle Vernon closed the door and grabbed both twins by the collars of there shirts.
"What happened?" Vernon asked
"We don't know!-" Harry started
"One minute the glass was there and then,-" Arnold continued.
"it was gone, it was like magic!" they finished together.
Vernon let Arnold go and pointed to the cupboard. He understood this and squeezed under the bed, and Uncle Vernon shoved Harry on the bed. He slammed the cupboard door shut and said through the door, "There's no such thing as magic!"
There was silence for a few more seconds until Arnold thought-asked, "Why It's not fair always blame us..."
"No use complaining about it, it won't change them."
"Still."
For the little 'stunt' they pulled, Harry and Arnold, like they were promised, didn't have any proper meals for a week and had to spend the whole time in their cupboard.
By the time they were allowed out again, it was half way through the summer holidays. The twins spent as much time as possible out of the house from then on, only returning when it got dark.
"Do you think we could run away, get away from here?" Arnold asked one day when they were at the park.
"And go where?" Harry replied.
"Anywhere, as long as it's not with them."
"To be honest, we should count ourselves lucky. We could have been deserted, or put in a home with hardly any food or a place to sleep. I know they treat us like dirt, but what we've got is better then nothing"
Harry was saying to try and convince his younger twin brother, which didn't work, and to try and convince himself,m which also didn't work.
They really should have counted their blessing, be grateful, but it was extremely hard to do that with a family like theirs.
Both of them would have anything to go away, only, they didn't have anything
Little did they know, the answer to their prayers was only a few days away.
Chapter word count: 1716
story word count (so far): 2999
