Chapter 2: Dudley's Birthday Incident
Harry
Dear Diary,
Well that was certainly a day and a half. It was both a bad and a good day. Most of it was good, apart from being grounded to my cupboard for over a week. Today was my fat cousins special day as my aunt petunia likes to say. His birthday. He already gets spoiled enough as it is.
As he usual he was given a whole table full of preseants, and still complained. I normally don't get to go anywhere with my aunt and uncle, I get dumped at Mrs Figgs down the road but she wasnt't able to look after me, so went with them to Dudley's birthday outing. That itself was good,it really peeved him off.
Then the best thing ever, I made dudley fall in the python encoloure and get trapped there. I was talking with the python, I say that casually because it's not the first weird thing that has ever happened to me, I take it all in my stride now ha ha. Anyone when dudders saw me making the python more interesting[ it was sitting up nice and tall and awake] he raced over, knocking me on the floor. Then, it happened, the glass vanished and fell in, and the python got out. Then, when he tried to get out the glass had reformed. I laughed and smiled, until my uncle caught me and I knew I was in deep trouble.
I don't know what I did. It was me that made it disappear I am sure it was, when I was pushed down I seared with rage and I glanced at dudley and the glass and it just happened. I wish I knew what happened, when I tried to tell my uncle I said it was like magic or something, and he just said there is no such thing and pushed me in to the cupboard. I really hate my aunt and uncle sometimes.
Well, I will sleep now, not much else I can do trapped in here.
Harry
Dudley
Dear Diary
What a horrid birthday. First, I get 2 less gifts then last year, and then my stupid weird cousin had to join us on my birthday outing. I hate harry. Not sure why, I think its because I know mum and dad do, so I just haste him on principle or something.
Anyway, that was not the worst thing. At the zoo this afternoon harry did some trick or something and I fell into the python enclosure and got trapped there. I didn't see him do anything, but dad says he did, so he must have. Plus anything weird or unusual usally invloves him. That's why I dont like him, he is to strange.
Well I am off to tease harry about being stuck in the cupboard while we go out for dinner.
Dudley
Vernon
Dear Diary,
I sometimes feel as though I am at my wits end with the boy, harry. He just had to go and wreck my sons special day, and try to harm him while he was as it. He did some trick or other and my poor boy fell into the snake thing and got stuck there.
Thank god the snake left and my poor boy wasn't attacked. But that's not the point, the point is, he still shows sign of strange behaviour, and despite myself and petunias best efforts, it looks like we have not been able to make him normal. Just hope that his kind don't come here looking for him. That would be most embarrising and how the neighbours would talk.
That's the thing I am most worried about, our reputation.
Vernon
Petunia
Dear Diary,
A day of terror and shock, and a day where I was reminded of my good for nothing sister. Sometimes I wonder how I was kind enough to take little harry in, I should have dumped him somewhere else, but I had hoped with the right up bringing he could maker him normsal. Evidently not.
Today, he showed magic like behaviour, he was laughing when dudley fell into the snake pit. He face gave it all away, me made that happen. He made something weird happen and liked it. How very like my sister. He looked proud of what he did too, that's what reminded me of sister, and my bloody family being proud of her for being a freak.
Now that he is older, I think he will just exhibit more strange actions. Unsure how we can keep up this normal family facade.
Petunia