Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Veelas
Chapter 4: The Zoo
Opening his eyes Harry remembered from his dream, only a flash of green light, a woman screaming, and a flying motorcycle, the meeting of the red-headed family, meeting the beautiful girl, her family, and her friend. More thumping came from the roof, "Wake up cousin, we're going to the zoo!" yelled an excited Dudley. "Alright I'm up!" Harry yelled as he slipped his glasses on his face. "Wake up and help me cook breakfast for Dudley!" Aunt Petunia said while knocking on the cupboard door. "Yes, Aunt Petunia." he said while getting out of bed and slipping on his pajamas, that way they wouldn't know he fell asleep in his clothes; his aunt and uncle had a fit the last time he did it.
After he was done changing, he went into the kitchen and immediately started cooking breakfast and by now he knew to have uncle Vernon's plate and coffee set before he got into the kitchen. "Good morning, everyone" Uncle Vernon said as he walked into the kitchen. "Good morning" everyone chorused in sync, "Breakfast looks good this morning Petunia dear." He said while looking at the eggs, bacon, sausage, and hash browns. "Thank you dear." she replied.
After breakfast, Dudley and Harry went to get ready, and since uncle Vernon had already gotten ready before coming downstairs, they brought Dudley's birthday gifts into the kitchen and waited for Dudley to come back downstairs. Dudley came in a few a few minutes after Harry did and almost immediately started to count his presents.
A few minutes later Dudley said, "Thirty-six, that's two less than last year." by then he was glaring at his parents. Aunt Petunia sensed danger and said, "You didn't count the one underneath the big one, you have thirty-seven, but we'll buy you two more presents while were out today, how does that sound, pumpkin?" "Then I'll have thirty-nineā¦ok!" he replied and then grabbed the nearest parcel.
Dudley ended up getting a racing bike, a video camera, a remote control airplane, a new computer, sixteen new computer games, a new TV, a VCR, a gold watch, and some other things. Then the doorbell rang, "Oh, they're here" aunt Petunia said happily. Dudley rushed to the door and brought his best friend, Piers Polkiss and his mother into the kitchen. "Look at all my cool new things Piers" Dudley bragged gleefully. "Cool Dudley!" Piers replied coolly.
After about half an hour, they were on their way to the zoo, for the first time in his life, Harry actually got to go with them on one of Dudley's birthday outings. Normally he would have to go over to Ms. Figgs' house, but since she broke her leg, she couldn't take Harry. However, Dudley threw a temper tantrum when he found out that Harry had to go with them to the zoo.
Right before they left, uncle Vernon, whose happiness from last night had worn off, took Harry aside and nastily said, "No funny business today, if there is any, any at all, you'll be spending time, a lot of time in your cupboard, like weeks, maybe even months in there." "Ok, uncle Vernon," Harry said.
While they were on their way, uncle Vernon started complaining about a group of motorcycles that had just zoomed by their car. Then Harry remembered his dream and said, "I had a dream about a motorcycle last night, it was flying!" Uncle Vernon slammed on his breaks almost causing an accident, and then bellowed, "MOTORCYCLES DON'T FLY!!!!" which caused Dudley and Piers to start laughing at Harry. "I know they don't uncle Vernon, but it was just a dream." said Harry quietly; the car ride was silent the rest of the way to the zoo.
At the front gate, there was an ice-cream cart, uncle Vernon bought two big chocolate ice-creams one for both Dudley and Piers and bought Harry a cheap lemon pop, which Harry enjoyed immensely actually. They looked at gorillas, monkeys, tigers, lions, leopards, cheetahs, and elephants before lunchtime.
Dudley got a large plate of nachos, Piers got a plate of chili cheese fries, uncle Vernon and aunt Petunia each had nachos, and Harry got a large slice of pizza. Uncle Vernon bought everyone another ice-cream and Harry even got another lemon pop. Harry was having the best day of his life, but little did he know it would soon end.
After everyone was done with their ice-creams, Dudley asked excitedly, "Can we go to the Reptile House?" "Of course Duddykins," Aunt Petunia replied. As they walked into the place they saw what looked like hundreds of lizards of all sorts and different kinds of snakes. Dudley easily found the largest snake there.
He, however, was sleeping so he asked uncle Vernon to make him move. Uncle Vernon tapped on the glass but his attempts failed as the snake slumbered on, so Dudley gave up and looked at the other reptiles. Harry looked at the snake and said, "Sorry 'bout him, he doesn't understand what it's like to lay here day by day and watch people gawk at you." The snake opened his beady black eyes and shook its head yes, as if to say "It's ok, I'm used to it by now." Harry was wide-eyed at this point, "Can you understand me?" and the snake shook its head yes again.
"So you're from Brazil?" Harry asked as he looked at the sign that said: Brazilian Boa Constrictor. The snake shook its head no and pointed at the sign that said: Bred in Captivity. "Oh so you've never met your parents either? Mine died when I was a baby." Harry said. The snake gave him a look that seemed to say, "I'm sorry" "It's ok but I still wish I could see them again." Harry replied.
At that point Dudley ran up and bumped Harry to the floor and pressed his fat, ugly face against the glass and said, "Look at what the snake's doing" Harry started to glare at Dudley for knocking him to the floor but it quickly changed into a look of surprise, because the glass disappeared and Dudley fell into the snake's water. The snake quickly uncoiled itself out of its cage, as it left, it said to Harry, "Thankssss Amigo, good-bye zoo, hello Brazil" And it slithered off into the screaming crowd. When Dudley had finally come to his senses he was cold, shivering and the glass had reappeared.
When they got home Uncle Vernon was still pissed and told Harry to get in his cupboard and he wasn't allowed to eat. Harry lie in his cupboard until he was sure the Dursley's and Piers were asleep. He crept into the kitchen; it was midnight in the dot when he looked at the clock. He looked in the fridge and found the remnants of dinner, he heated it up in the microwave and for once he got to eat dinner without interruptions.
After
he was done, he cleaned what little dishes he used, put them away,
and snuck back to his cupboard. When he got back into his cupboard,
he changed into his pajamas.
He then lie there in bed until the
effects of being full took affect and he fell soundly asleep.
A.N. Well there's the 4th chapter, sorry it wasn't that long but I didn't know what else to write. Well I hope you enjoyed it anyways! I'll look forward to your reviews! -
