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Chapter 3 – Zoo Days

Emma woke up feeling very startled as she was feeling her brother's arms around her and was asking herself why that was. Then she remembered. They had been thrown in the cupboard under the stairs after they had apparently done some freakish things. "Wake up freaks" yelled Dudley coming down the stairs. "Harry, I think we're doing the birthday breakfast." They got up and got changed in very close proximity and once done. They got to the kitchen and proceeded to make breakfast. "What are we going to do about the zoo trip?" asked Aunt Petunia. "What do you mean honey?" asked Uncle Vernon. "Well we can't take all the freaks with us." She was interrupted by Dudley wailing, "None of them can come, they'll ruin everything" in a tone which made it sound a lot more upset than he actually was. "We won't be a problem. None of us will be." Harry put in. "Well we can't leave them here and we can't leave them with Marge and we definitely can't leave them with Mrs Figg because she's broken her leg." Vernon looked at the two freaks standing before him as Petunia said that, "Well we could take two of them and let the rest do their own thing outside of the house until we come back" suggested Petunia, finishing what she had to say. It was agreed that Harry and Emma could come along to the zoo with the others going to a nearby park.

When Harry and Emma arrived at the zoo with their 'relatives', cousin and his best friend, Piers Polkiss, they had a relatively good time of it. They had got ice cream and they saw many interesting animals. The most bizarre series of events for them was when they went up to a snake. "Hey Emma, look at this." She looked at it and it seemed to have heard them. "Can you understand us?" she asked out of curiosity not quite believing her eyes. "Yeessss. Have you spoken with other snakes before?" He got a response out of the boy "no. Where did you come from?" The snake gestured its head towards a sign "never knew my family. What about you two?" as the two kids looked at it, it read bred in captivity. "We're as good as. Our relatives treat us like nothing and we never knew our own parents. The place we came from, the aunts and uncles who would be all but blood, the things we could've done. All of that was taken from us. Anyway we sympathise with you." Then Dudley rushed to where they were, punched Harry in the stomach and shoved Emma to the floor. With a sudden rush of anger, the glass had gone and the snake was free, scaring people who saw it slithering around. At the same time, Dudley suddenly found himself behind the glass which had disappeared. "Eww, he's wet himself" said Piers with Emma commenting, "Oh my god he has" and failing to stifle a giggle. Harry laughed as well which went unnoticed by all except Uncle Vernon.

Later, once they had got home, they were forcibly taken to the cupboard under the stairs by Uncle Vernon. "What happened there freaks?" asked an enraged Uncle Vernon. "We don't know anything. It was like magic, honest" said Harry frantically. "THERE IS NO SUCH AS MAGIC, BOY. Now get in that damned cupboard of yours. ALSO NO FOOD FOR A WEEK" yelled Vernon. He then forced Harry into the cupboard and he landed hard with his head hitting the back of said cupboard nearly knocking him out with Emma being shoved on top of him.

The same day. After the Dursleys, Piers Polkiss, Emma and Harry had left for the zoo. "I hope Harry and Emma are doing ok" said Lily Alice, deep in thought. "I wouldn't worry about them. They're survivors. We all are, at least they've been able to go somewhere nice, I think" said James. A few hours later, they were walking through the park when they unexpectedly ran into their primary school teacher who was with a woman with blonde hair and he noticed them and greeted them. "Hey kids how are you all?" asked Mr Jordon. "Yeah we're good, Mr Jordon" Michael was about to continue when Mr Jordon interrupted. "Any of you had any lunch?" asked Mr Jordon. They all shook their heads, "very well, any of you been to a fried chicken place?" once again every kid there shook their heads. "Tell you what; I'll get you some for lunch. If you wait here, I'll be back in about an hour maybe more but until then at least keep to this area so I can find you again." And off he went to get lunch.

It was some one and half hours later before Mr Jordon returned. "Mr Jordon, how can you afford all this?" asked Holly, out of curiosity. "Ask another time. Have you done anything so far this summer?" said their teacher. "Nothing interesting yet although Harry and Emma have gone to the zoo today" said Rose. "There are two animals which I like yet dislike at the same time. They are spiders and snakes, fascinating yet totally weird and gross at the same time. Get one of them to tell me if you remember to." There was moments silence before Mr Jordon decided to get them a McDonalds for dinner despite being aware of most of them having not finished all the fried chicken and they decided they wanted to get some for Harry and Emma for when they got back from the zoo. Eventually they parted ways and the Potters got home to find out Harry and Emma were locked in their cupboard and not to be given any food for a week. They decided to store away some of the food for when Harry and Emma stopped being starved. They eventually went to sleep, all of them trying to figure out how the day's events turned out.

Emma and Harry had just about started to fall asleep when Emma felt something poke into her bottom. Turning her head slightly so she could barely see what it was. "Harry" she whispered, "your thingy is doing that thing again." "Sorry about that" he whispered back and tried to adjust his position with little success, "any better?" "Not really. It's sticking into my back now but you did the best you could. Let's just get some rest now shall we?" replied Emma and both quickly fell asleep. And because it was the middle of summer, the rest of the Potters experienced varying degrees of heat affecting them at night. Holly experienced this by far the worst of all the siblings. She wore nothing above the waist and below the waist she was only in her underwear. The bed sizes and the way they organised themselves due to a lack of Sex Ed meant that neither male or female were segregated and it was typically one girl and one boy to a bed. Harry Kaz slept next to Holly and he often had to hug something when he slept and this meant that when hugging Holly, he was in fact touching her breasts but he had no idea what this in fact meant until he was told in future. They woke up in the morning not knowing what events had in store for them.