Dudley's birthday was the newest and worst real-life nightmare Harry had; had for a while. After Harry cooked the bacon and eggs to absolute perfection, put them on a tray, served them up to the 'family', in Dudley's and his twice as fat and cruel uncle, Vernon Dursley, he served them more than one over-flowing plate of the stuff, running away from Dudley, who got mad with him for not giving anymore bacon (Dudley and Vernon ate all of it), then running away from Dudley and his best friend, Harry had to go to the zoo with them for Dudley's birthday, which wouldn't be so bad and it wasn't at first. Dudley went off with his friend and did their own thing, leaving Harry to his own devices, something that rarely happened; so Harry relished the time in peace and quiet around the zoo.
However just before the end of the trip, he met up with the Dursleys and Piers and they went into the reptile house. Dudley and Piers both took interest in a Boa-constrictor that was about 9 meters long and not doing anything. After several unsuccessful attempts to make it move, the Dursleys and Piers left Harry looking at one of the most beautiful creatures he'd ever seen. Harry started talking to the snake and amazingly, the snake seemed to understand what Harry was saying.
'Don't mind them.' Harry said to the snake. 'They're all like that, they treat me just the same. But it must be worse for you, with people coming and pressing their ugly faces against the glass all day, ogling and-'. The sake looked up and seemed to be nodding in understanding and agreement. 'C-can you hear me?' The snake nodded. 'Can you understand me?' The snaked nodded again. 'That's cool. Where are you from?' The snake jabbed his tail at the sign beside his glass enclosure. 'Brazil huh? It must have been nice there.' The snake made the same jabbing motion at the sign. 'Bred in captivity. Oh that's okay. I never knew my parents either. I was told they died in a car crash; but I'm not too sure about that.' The snake looked at Harry, almost empathically and then Dudley saw that the snake was moving.
'It's moving? It's moving! Mummy; Daddy; Piers look! Harry made it move!' He yelled, running over to the enclosure, knocking Harry to the floor to get a better view of the Boa-constrictor rearing its head in shock as Harry's fat cousin charged towards it. As Dudley was gaping in awe of the massive snake and for a moment Harry wished that the snake and his cousin would swap places, he'd prefer to share his life with that snake rather that his cruel and uncaring cousin. Just as he thought about it, the glass to the snake's enclosure disappeared; Dudley fell forward into the enclosure and the snake 'leapt' out of the enclosure and onto the ground. Other people in the room quickly took notice of the large Boa-constrictor that had just fallen on the floor at Harry's feet; they started to panic and run for the door of the reptile room.
The snake slithered past Harry and he could have sworn that the snake said "Thanks amigo. I'll you round, boy wonder."
The worst part and for a fleeting moment, the best part, he saw Dudley soaked in water from the enclosure, scrabbling to try and find his footing. He was grabbing onto branches, the sides of the enclosure and anything that he could get his hands on. Harry thought that he looked like an Elephant Seal in the wrong home. Then it happened, as Dudley finally hauled his fat bottom up into a standing position, he turned to climb out of the enclosure, raised his foot to climb back on to the ground and just fell over again; like he'd hit an invisible barrier.
The glass to the enclosure had reappeared! Dudley was trapped inside the enclosure. Harry went into a silent state of shock. He may have wanted the snake to be free; but he didn't expect it to actually happen! 'What was that? Harry, c'mon, what'd you do?' He thought to himself. 'Since when could you play god?'
From there, once Dudley was safely out of the snake's former enclosure, uncle Vernon grabbed Harry by the ear and dragged him to their car.
'What did you do boy?' He snarled and brought himself face-to-face with Harry, so that Harry could look him in the eye (the unfortunate side effect being; that Harry could smell his uncle's foul breath). 'How'd you rig that up like that?'
Harry was shocked that his uncle would accuse him of such a thing. The tugging on his ear and smell of rotten eggs wasn't helping Harry think either. 'I-I-I don't know!' Harry stammered. 'I didn't do anything! I swear I didn't do it! It was just like magic!'
Uncle Vernon's look grew dark, not just angry. He threw open the car door, tossed Harry inside the car and slammed the door shut. He marched around the car to the driver's side door and got in. 'There is no such thing as magic, boy!' He growled. 'You'd do well to remember that one truth!'
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Author's notes/request: Hey guys, the support you guy are showing me thus-far in the series is much appreciated, the fave's and followers are really encouraging and I want to keep writing this fic' and many others.
However, there is one thing I'd appreciate more than the favourites and followers and that would be... If you guessed reviews, you'd be correct, even just a message saying something like 'Hey I like what you're doing' or 'This is pretty good but I think you need to work on this...' I know this fic' is in it's very early stages but if you've picked up on something I may have over looked, things like spelling or grammar. It'd be much appreciated. Cheers guys :)