AN: Hi~! Want a shout out to debygoebel for reviewing. The answer to your question is that I pushed the time date up a bit so it's not in the 80's anymore. There is laptops and cellphones and the like. I wanted an excuse to have Harry to understand and have the know how of different sciences. I hope that answers your question! To my other readers who have decided to follow, a big thank you! And here is the next chapter of my Fanfic! Enjoy!

Harry Potter Potion Master

It was a normal day in the household of number four privet drive. Vernon was sitting at the kitchen table drinking a mug of coffee and reading the day's newspaper, a plate of scrambled eggs in front of him. Petunia was drinking a glass of orange juice and nibbling on a piece of toast with marmalade. And Dudley was digging into a large stack of pancakes that were slathered with butter, jam and syrup. A large rasher of bacon was on a plate beside him and he had a large glass of chocolate milk. In the back of the kitchen, Harry was scrubbing a pan that he had used to make the pancakes and bacon. A soapy pan that had been used to make his uncle's eggs were in the sink waiting to get washed.

As he washed the pan, he heard the mail flap bang open as letters came in from the mailman. Vernon also heard the sound, "Boy! Get the mail!" He yelled out grumpy as he flipped another page of his newspaper. The newspaper crumpled in his hands as he gripped it slight to hard. "Hurry it up Freak!"

Harry quickly dried his hands on a nearby towel and hurried to the door to grab the letters. As he tried to sort the mail, junk in one pile and bills in another, he found a letter that was addressed to him. He looked at the envelope in astonishment for a second before realizing that he had to get the mail to his uncle still. As he passed his cupboard, he slipped his mail through the vents into his room so he could read it later. Quickly he got to the kitchen and handed the mail to his uncle in the different piles like usual. Uncle Vernon grunted in acknowledgment and and yanked the mail from Harry's hands. Harry winced as he received a paper cut from the quick movement with the junkmail.

"Well? Get back to washing the pans Boy!" Vernon growled at Harry as he looked over the bills. His face was starting to turn purple as he opened the bills and saw the numbers of what he had to pay.

Harry nodded in fear and ran to the sink and started to finish the pans. When he and finished and dried them, he started to put them away on the step stool. However as he tried to put one of the pan's away, the step stool wobbled underneath him and he fell while taking the pan with him. With a clang, Harry lay on the floor in a daze his wind knocked out of him. Looking at the pan next to him he saw a large dent in it and he winced.

Vernon thundered into the kitchen when he heard the noise and saw the dented pan. "Boy! How dare you ruin our pan! We fed you and give you a roof over your head and this is how you repay us?" he grabbed Harry by his collar and dragged him to the cupboard. "You will stay in here for a week, you hear me? A week!" Vernon wrenched open the door and threw Harry into the cupboard onto his cot. "And I'm locking the door!" he growled before slamming the door shut and doing just that.

Harry sat miserable on his cot that was too small for him in the dark. Sighing, he reached up and fumbled for a while before finding the string that turned on the small light. Once the light was on, Harry buried his face in his hands and let out a small sob. Feeling a small tickling on his arm he looked down and saw a familiar black widow spider. Sighing, he reached down and placed his palm next to her for her to climb on. She quickly moved from Harry's arm to his hand and just sat there. Harry lifted the spider up to his face and stroked the spider gently with his other hand. "Hello Bella." He murmured with a gentle smile as he looked and one of his best friends. "How are you?"

"I'm ok, but i'm worried about you dearie." Bella spoke back mentely to Harry.

For as long as Harry could remember he had a special connection with spiders, weather it was the ones in his cupboard or otherwise. He remembered when he was small and cold he would wake up with a spider spun blanket covering him. And he could always talk to them mentally. "I'm fine, Bella. I've had this punishment before and i've survived it. I'll live through this one too."

"That doesn't mean I don't worry none the less." Bella said with a sigh in her voice.

"Wait Harry got punished again?" Came a low male voice from above.

Harry looked up to see David a wolf spider on his web looking down at the two of them. Harry nodded sadly, "I got a week this time, David."

"Well that sucks" David said unhelpful. "Why don't you look at that envelop you tossed in here to get your mind off things?"

"Oh, yeah!" Harry nodded. "I forgot about that." He looked down at his feet and picked up the letter that had landed on the ground. Opening it, he pulled out the parchment paper. "Who writes on parchment anymore?" he mumbled to himself as he unfolded the letter. He quickly read the letter and then scratched his head. "Response by owl? Requirements are to get a potion cauldron? Is this some kind of joke?"

"Well that would explain how you can talk to us." Bella said as she rubbed a arm on her face.

"And the garden snakes! Don't forget the snakes!" David butted in.

"Yes, but magic? Me a wizard?" Harry looked at the letter again. "And my family would never let me go, let alone pay for all this stuff and tuition."

"True" Bella said with a sigh. "Go to sleep and David and I will plan a idea."

"Wait, we will?" David said confused.

Harry smiled at his only friends and raised his hand up so Bella could climb onto David's web. "Alright, I will sleep. Thanks guys for being here for me." he stuffed the letter into his pillow to hide it and lay down onto the cot to try and sleep.

"Your welcome Harry." Bella cooed as she looked at Harry gently

"Wait, what's this about me planning?" David protested again.

Bella glared at him and ran after him on the web, David screaming running away.

Harry laughed at his friends antics before closing his eyes and falling asleep quickly.

AN: I hope you enjoyed it! I had fun writing the twist where he can talk to spiders. Please review and comment! Love to you all! Swappappy.