Chapter 1 The Zoo

"Dudley! Wake up my little Dudleykins! Wake up Sweetums! It's time to get ready to go to the zoo!" Harry could hear Aunt Petunia trying to wake Dudley up for the past half hour.

Sleepily Harry rolled over in his cot in the cupboard under the stairs and shut his eyes. He was just about to fall asleep when a loud rap came on his door.

"Get up boy! Get some nice clothes on and get in the kitchen," snarled Uncle Vernon in an angrier voice than usual.

Harry was just pulling on his socks when he heard his Uncle try to persuade a screaming Dudley that Harry would have to come along with him and Pierce to the zoo.

Harry's heart leapt! Never had he been aloud to go anywhere nice on Dudley's birthday! He wondered what could be the reason. Normally he went to Mrs. Figg's house across the street with her smelly old cats on Dudley's birthdays.

Harry walked over to the kitchen table and put some bacon on his plate. Dudley had caught his eye and gave Harry a scowl.

"Why does he have to come along with us?" Dudley asked as he piled half the plate of eggs on his own plate.

"Well honey, it seems Mrs. Figg has broken…" Aunt Petunia was trying to explain but Uncle Vernon interrupted her.

"Yes. Yes. She broke her leg, again! Seems she tripped over a cat. We did try your Auntie Marge, but she hates Harry. So there's no one else we can try. I'm sorry Dudley. We did try."

Dudley burst into tears. Harry started laughing, but stopped when Uncle Vernon shot a deadly glare in his direction. Just then the door bell rang.

At once Dudley stopped crying and rushed to open the door. Dudley opened the door and let Pierce come in. Harry quickly went to his cupboard incase they came after him.

In minutes time Harry found himself in the back of the car on the way to the zoo. Harry was so excited. Never had he been allowed to go anywhere fun. He couldn't believe it even as they pulled up into the zoo parking lot.

At the zoo Dudley and Pierce got a double chocolate chip chocolate cone while Harry, before Aunt Petunia could hurry them away, had been asked what he wanted by the lady selling ice cream so she bought him a cheap lemon pop. He'd never had a treat in his life so even that was a great deal.

Harry was having a wonderful day until a rather plump lady with a handbag the size of a horse bumped into Dudley. Dudley, being as abnormally large as he was, was only scooted sideways slightly, but enough to knock a scoop of ice cream off his cone.

Immediately he began to cry. Pierce looked at Dudley and then knocked off his ice cream and said that Harry did it.

Aunt Petunia was furious. She went over to Harry and scolded him. "But I didn't do anything!" Harry tried to protest, but that didn't stop Aunt Petunia.

Just then Uncle Vernon screamed and grabbed Dudley's ice cream cone from him. He threw it quickly into the trash. "Um Dudley, Pierce, how about some new ice cream and then we'll all go to the Reptile House.

At the Reptile House Pierce and Dudley found the biggest snake and were trying to get it to do something. It was lying still staring and Dudley with a lazy expression on its face. After many attempts by both Dudley and Pierce to get the boa to move they left and found another large snake.

Harry went over to the boa and said, "You must get stupid people like that a lot." The boa nodded. Harry gasped! "Can you understand me?" Again the boa nodded.

Out of nowhere Pierce yelled at Dudley, "Hey! Look at the snake! It's talking to Harry!"

Dudley ran up to the glass and pushed Harry away. Just then the glass disappeared and Dudley found himself face-to-face with the snake. The boa slithered out of his cage, waved goodbye to Harry, and left the through the doorway.

Harry found himself in the car on the way back to the Dursley's faster than he could say "pumpernickel pie".

When they dropped off Pierce and got back to the house Uncle Vernon locked Harry in his cupboard. He had tried to explain that there was no possible way that he could have made the glass disappear, but his Uncle did not listen.

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