I do not own Harry Potter or any of the characters that are apart of the series. I own my OC Iris Lily Potter. If any of the characters or OOC I am sorry. I am writing this story just for fun so I hope you enjoy.

I heard pounding on our door and our Aunt yelling at us to get up. Groaning I pulled off my thin blanket and groggily grabbed my clothes. I started to get dress once done I called out to my brother to see if he was done dressing.

"Yeah I'm done Izzy." I heard his voice drift over to me. I smiled as I pulled open the curtain that separated us. "Mornin' Harry. Did you sleep well?" I asked as I pulled him into a hug.

"I guess I did no nightmares this time." He smiled back at me. Glad that he had at least one night with no nightmares. "Come on we better hurry before Aunt Petunia drag us out there like last time." I drawled back before opening the small door.

We walked into the kitchen and once our Aunt saw us she commanded us to make breakfast. She wanted everything to be perfect since it was our cousins birthday today. I just rolled my eyes and started making the bacon and Harry started on the eggs.

Once we got done Dudley came running in and sat down looking through all his presents. I dished out some bacon on everyone's plate with Harry following behind me with the eggs. I saw the pissed off look on Dudley's face when he realized how many presents he got.

"Thirty-seven…thirty-seven. I had thirty-eight last year." He yelled at his parents. I glared at him before I turned back to my breakfast. He doesn't understand how good he has it. I heard Aunt Petunia calming him down telling him they will get two new presents when they are out.

The phone started ringing and Aunt Petunia got up to answer it. I saw her face fall in the middle of the conversation. Turning away I started to clean up since everyone was done eating. I started washing the dishes with Harry rinsing and drying.

I heard Aunt Petunia hang up the phone and started whispering to Uncle Vernon. I caught some of the hushed conversation with our neighbor braking her leg and not being able to watch us today. I looked over to Harry and saw that he heard what I did. Both of us hoping that they would leave us here alone while they go out.

We weren't lucky. They had to take us with them and Uncle Vernon threaten us with no meals for a week if we do any funny business. It's not our fault if something strange happens around us. Sighing I climbed into the back in between Harry and Dudley.

We arrived to the zoo with Dudley running towards the reptile exhibit. He was pressing his face against the glass that held a large boa. I noticed the snake was fake sleeping as Dudley pounding on the glass trying to wake him. Harry yelled at him that the snake was sleeping and leave him alone.

Once Dudley left the cage Harry started to talk to the snake apologizing about our idiot cousin. The snake winked at him and startled him. He asked the snake if her could understand him and the snake nodded. I was intrigued so I walked closer.

"Can you understand me also?" I asked unsurely. I was surprised that the snake nodded his head again. I smiled at the idea talking with snakes. As we were talking with the snake Dudley came over and pushed us out of the way.

I glared at my idiot cousin and soon the glass between him and the snake disappeared. He fell through and the snake slithered over him and out of the exhibit. He said thanks to us both and started scaring the people as he escaped. I looked back towards the cage and saw Dudley stuck inside it. I snickered at the sight and Uncle Vernon caught me.

Once we arrived back home he threw Harry and me into our room and locked the door. He told us that we won't be having any meals for a week and we would be staying in here the whole time. Sighing I sat on my bed and pulled out a book that I stole from the bookshelf. I gave a sad smile towards Harry before I started to reread the book. It was going to be a long week.

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