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00:25The Vanishing Glass

00:28Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew

00:32on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all. The sun rose on the same tidy

00:40front gardens and lit up the brass number four on the Dursleys' front door. It crept into their

00:46living room, which was almost exactly the same as it had been on the night when Mr. Dursley had

00:51seen that fateful news report about the owls. Only the photographs on the mantelpiece really

00:57showed how much time had passed. Ten years ago, there had been lots of pictures of what looked

01:03like a large pink beach ball wearing different colored bobble hats. But Dudley Dursley was no

01:10longer a baby, and now the photographs showed a large blonde boy riding his first bicycle on a

01:17roundabout at the fair, playing a computer game with his father being hugged and kissed by his

01:22mother. The room held no sign at all that another boy lived in the house too. Yet Harry Potter was

01:30still there, asleep at the moment, but not for long. His aunt Petunia was awake, and it was her

01:37shrill voice which made the first noise of the day up, Get up now. Harry woke with a start.

01:45His aunt rapped on the door again. Up, she screeched. Harry heard her walking towards

01:51the kitchen, and then the sound of the frying pan being put on the cooker. He rolled onto his

01:57back and tried to remember the dream he had been having. It had been a good one. There had been a

02:04flying motorbike in it. He had a funny feeling he'd had the same dream before his aunt was back

02:09outside the door. Are you up yet? she demanded. Nearly, said Harry. Well, get a move on. I want

02:20you to look after the bacon, and don't you dare let it burn. I want everything perfect on daddy's

02:25birthday. Harry groaned. What did you say? His aunt snapped through the door. Nothing. Dudley's

02:33birthday. How could he have forgotten? Harry got slowly out of bed and started looking for socks.

02:41He found a pair under his bed, and after pulling a spider off one of them, put them on. Harry was

02:47used to spiders because the cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where he

02:52slept. When he was dressed, he went down the hall into the kitchen. The table was almost hidden

02:58beneath all Dudley's birthday presents. It looked as though Dudley had got the new computer he

03:04wanted, not to mention the second television and the racing bike. Exactly why Dudley wanted a

03:10racing bike was a mystery to Harry, as Dudley was very fat and hated exercise. Unless, of course,

03:17it involved punching somebody. Dudley's favorite punch bag was Harry, but he couldn't often catch

03:23him. Harry didn't look it, but he was very fast. Perhaps it had something to do with living in a

03:30dark cupboard. But Harry had always been small and skinny for his age. He looked even smaller and

03:38skinnier than he really was, because all he had to wear were old clothes of Dudley's, and Dudley was

03:44about four times bigger than he was. Harry had a thin face, knobbly knees, black hair, and bright

03:51green eyes. He wore round glasses held together with a lot of cellotape. Because of all the times,

03:59Dudley had punched him on the nose. The only thing Harry liked about his own appearance was a very

04:04thin scar on his forehead, which was shaped like a bolt of lightning. He had had it as long as he

04:11could remember, and the first question he could ever remember asking his Aunt Petunia was how he

04:17had got it in the car crash when your parents died. She had said, and don't ask questions,

04:23don't ask questions. That was the first rule for a quiet life with the Dursleys. Uncle Vernon

04:31entered the kitchen as Harry was turning over the bacon. Comb your hair, he barked by way of a morning

04:37greeting. About once a week, Uncle Vernon looked over the top of his newspaper and shouted that

04:44Harry needed a haircut. Harry must have had more haircuts than the rest of the boys in his class put

04:50together, but it made no difference. His hair simply grew that way. All over the place, Harry was frying

04:59eggs. By the time Dudley arrived in the kitchen with his mother, Dudley looked a lot like Uncle

05:06Vernon. He had a large pink face, not much neck, small watery blue eyes, and thick blonde hair that

05:14lay smoothly on his thick, fat head. Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel.

05:21Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig. Harry put the plates of egg and bacon on the

05:27table, which was difficult as there wasn't much room. Dudley, meanwhile, was counting his presents.

05:35His face fell. Thirty-six, he said, looking up at his mother and father. That's two less than last

05:41year. Darling, you haven't counted Auntie Margie's present. See it. It's here, under this big one from

05:49Mommy and Daddy. All right. Thirty. Seven, then, said Dudley, going red in the face. Harry, who could see a

05:59huge Dudley tantrum coming on, began wolfing down his bacon as fast as possible, in case Dudley

06:05turned the table over. Aunt Petunia obviously sent a danger, too, because she said quickly,

06:12and we'll buy you another two presents while we're out today. How's that popcorn? Two more presents.

06:19Is that all right? Dudley thought for a moment. It looked like hard work. Finally, he said slowly,

06:27so I'll have thirty, thirty, thirty, thirty-nine. Sweetums, said Aunt Petunia.

06:34Oh, Dudley sat down heavily and grabbed the nearest parcel. All right, then, Uncle Vernon

06:40chuckled. Oh, little tyke wants his money's worth, just like his father. Attaboy.

06:47Dudley. He ruffled Dudley's hair. At that moment, the telephone rang, and Aunt Petunia went to

06:55answer it, while Harry and Uncle Vernon watched Dudley unwrap the racing bike. A Sydney camera,

07:01a remote-control aeroplane, sixty new computer games, and a video recorder. He was ripping the

07:07paper off a gold wristwatch when Aunt Petunia came back from the telephone, looking both angry

07:13and worried. Bad news, Vernon, she said. Mrs. Figgs broken her leg. She can't take him.

07:23She jerked her head in Harry's direction. Dudley's mouth fell open in horror, but Harry's heart gave

07:29a leap. Every year on Dudley's birthday, his parents took him and a friend out for the day

07:35to adventure parks, hamburger bars, or the cinema. Every year. Harry was left behind with Mrs. Figg,

07:43a mad old lady who lived two streets away. Harry hated it there. The whole house smelled

07:49of cabbage, and Mrs. Figg made him look at photographs of all the cats she'd ever owned.

07:55Now what? said Aunt Petunia, looking furiously at Harry as though he had planned this.

08:02Harry knew he ought to feel sorry that Mrs. Figg had broken her leg, but it wasn't easy

08:07when he reminded himself it would be a whole year before he had to look at Tibbles. Snowy?

08:12Mr. Paws and Tufty again. We could phone Marge. Uncle Vernon suggested. Don't be silly, Vernon.

08:22She hates the boy. The Dursleys often spoke about Harry like this, as though he wasn't there,

08:28or rather as though he was something very nasty that couldn't understand them like a slug.

08:33What about? What's her name? Your friend Yvonne on holiday in Mallorca, snapped Aunt Petunia.

08:40You could just leave me here, Harry put in. Hopefully he'd be able to watch what he wanted

08:46on television for a change, and maybe even have a go on Dudley's computer. Aunt Petunia looked as

08:52though she'd just swallowed a lemon and come back and find the house in ruins. She snarled.

09:00I won't blow up the house, said Harry. But they weren't listening. I suppose we could take him to

09:06I suppose we could take him to the zoo, said Aunt Petunia slowly, and leave him in the car.

09:13That car's new. He's not sitting in it alone. Dudley began to cry loudly. In fact, he wasn't

09:20really crying. It had been years since he'd really cried, but he knew that if he screwed up his face

09:26and wailed, his mother would give him anything he wanted. Dinky daddy, dumbs. Don't cry.

09:34Mummy won't let him spoil your special day, she cried, flinging her arms around him. I don't want

09:40him to come, Dudley yelled between huge pretend sobs. He always spoiled everything. He shot Harry

09:48a nasty grin through the gap in his mother's arms. Just then the doorbell rang. Oh, good lord,

09:56they're here, said Aunt Petunia frantically. And a moment later, Dudley's best friend Pierce Polkas

10:04walked in with his mother. Pierce was a scrawny boy with a face like a rat.

10:09He was usually the one who held people's arms behind their backs while Dudley hit them.

10:15Dudley stopped pretending to cry at once. Half an hour later, Harry, who couldn't believe his luck,

10:22was sitting in the back of the Dursley's car with Pierce and Dudley on the way to the zoo for the

10:28first time in his life. His aunt and uncle hadn't been able to think of anything else to do with him,

10:34but before they'd left, Uncle Vernon had taken Harry aside. I'm warning you, he had said, putting

10:41his large purple face right up close to Harry's. I'm warning you now, boy. Any funny business,

10:49anything at all, and you'll be in that cupboard from now until Christmas. I'm not going to do

10:54anything, said Harry, honestly. But Uncle Vernon didn't believe him. No one ever did. The problem

11:02with strange things often happened around Harry, and it was just no good telling the Dursleys he

11:07didn't make them happen. One Aunt Petunia, tired of Harry coming back from the barbers, looking as

11:13though he hadn't been at all, had taken a pair of kitchen scissors and cut his hair so short he was

11:19almost bald, except for his fringe, which he left to hide that horrible scar. Dudley had laughed

11:25himself silly, and Harry, who spent a sleepless night imagining school, the next day where he was

11:31already laughed at for his baggy clothes and cellotape glasses. Next morning, however, he had

11:38got up to find his hair exactly as it had been before Aunt Petunia had sheared it off. He'd been

11:44given a week in his cupboard for this, even though he had tried to explain that he couldn't

11:49explain how it had grown back so quickly. Another time, Aunt Petunia had been trying to force him

11:55into a revolting old jumper of Dudley's brown with orange bubbles. The harder she tried to pull it

12:02over his head, the smaller it seemed to become, until finally it might have fitted a glove puppet,

12:08but certainly wouldn't fit. Harry, Aunt Petunia had decided it must have shrunk in the wash,

12:15and to his great relief. Harry wasn't punished. On the other hand, he'd gotten to terrible trouble

12:21for being found on the roof of the school kitchens. Dudley's gang had been chasing him,

12:26as usual, when, as much to Harry's surprise as anyone else's, there he was, sitting on the

12:32chimney. The Dursleys had received a very angry letter from Harry's headmistress,

12:38telling them Harry had been climbing school buildings, but all he had tried to do, as he

12:43shouted at Uncle Vernon through the locked door of his cupboard, was jump behind the big bins

12:48outside the kitchen doors. Harry supposed that the wind must have caught him in mid-jump,

12:54but to-day nothing was going to go wrong. It was even worth being with Dudley and peers to

13:00be spending the day somewhere that wasn't school, his cupboard or Mrs. Figg's cabbage-smelling living

13:06room while he drove. Uncle Vernon complained to Aunt Petunia he liked to complain about things.

13:12People at work, Harry the council, Harry the bank, and Harry were just a few of his favorite

13:17subjects. This morning? It was motorbikes roaring along like maniacs.

13:24The young hoodlums, he said as a motorbike overtook them.

13:28I had a dream about a motorbike, said Harry, remembering suddenly it was flying.

13:34Uncle Vernon nearly crashed into the car in front. He turned right around in his seat and

13:39yelled at Harry, his face like a gigantic beetroot with a mustache. Motorbikes don't fly.

13:46Dudley and peers sniggered. I know they don't, said Harry. It was only a dream, but he wished he

13:53hadn't said anything. If there was one thing the Dursleys hated even more than his asking questions,

13:59it was his talking about anything acting in a way it shouldn't, no matter if it was in a dream

14:05or even a cartoon. They seemed to think he might get dangerous ideas. It was a very sunny Saturday

14:13and the zoo was crowded with families. The Dursleys bought Dudley and Pears large chocolate

14:18ice creams at the entrance. Forget all chapters of the Harry Potter audible supporting me by buying

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14:31because the smiling lady in the van had asked Harry what he wanted before they could hurry him

14:36away, they bought him a cheap lemon ice lolly. It wasn't bad either, Harry thought, licking it as

14:43they watched a gorilla scratching its head and looking remarkably like Dudley, except that it

14:49wasn't blonde. Harry had the best morning he had had in a long time. He was careful to walk a little

14:56way apart from the Dursleys so that Dudley and Pears, who were starting to get bored with the

15:01animals by lunchtime, wouldn't fall back on their favorite hobby of hitting him. They ate in the zoo

15:06restaurant, and when Dudley had a tantrum because his Knickerbocker glory wasn't big enough,

15:12Uncle Vernon bought him another one and Harry was allowed to finish the first.

15:18Harry felt afterwards that he should have known it was all too good to last.

15:22After lunch, they went to the reptile house. It was cool and dark in here with lit windows all

15:29along the walls. Behind the glass, all sorts of lizards and snakes were crawling and slithering

15:36over bits of wood and stone. Dudley and Pears wanted to see huge poisonous cobras and thick

15:42man-crushing pythons. Dudley quickly found the largest snake in the place. It could have wrapped

15:49its body twice around Uncle Vernon's car and crushed it into a dustbin, but at the moment

15:55it didn't look in the mood. In fact, it was fast asleep. Dudley stood with his nose pressed against

16:03the glass, staring at the glistening brown coils. Make him move, he whined at his father.

16:10Uncle Vernon tapped on the glass, but the snake didn't budge. Do it again,

16:17Dudley ordered. Uncle Vernon wrapped the glass smartly with his knuckles,

16:22but the snake just snoozed on. This is boring, Dudley moaned. He shuffled away.

16:29Harry moved in front of the tank and looked intently at the snake. He wouldn't have been

16:34surprised if it had died of boredom itself. No company except stupid people drumming their

16:40fingers on the glass, trying to disturb it all day long. It was worse than having a cupboard

16:45as a bedroom, where the only visitor was Aunt Petunia hammering on the door to wake you up.

16:51At least he got to visit the rest of the house. The snake suddenly opened its beady eyes.

16:57Slowly, very slowly, it raised its head until its eyes were on a level with Harry's. It winked.

17:06Then he looked quickly around to see if anyone was watching. They weren't. He looked back at

17:12the snake and winked to the snake, jerked its head towards Uncle Vernon and Dudley,

17:18then raised its eyes to the ceiling. It gave Harry a look that said quite plainly,

17:24I get that all the time. I know. Harry murmured through the glass,

17:30though he wasn't sure the snake could hear him. It must be really annoying.

17:34The snake nodded vigorously. Where do you come from anyway? Harry asked.

17:41The snake jabbed its tail at the little sign next to the glass. Harry peered at it.

17:47Boa Constrictor, Brazil. Was it nice there? The boa constrictor jabbed its tail at the sign again,

17:55and Harry read on. This specimen was bred in the zoo. Oh, I see. So you've never been to Brazil.

18:03As the snake shook its head, a deafening shout behind Harry made both of them jump.

18:09Dudley, Mr. Dursley, come and look at this snake. You won't believe what it's doing.

18:16Dudley came waddling towards them as fast as he could. Out of the way, you, he said,

18:22punching Harry in the ribs. Caught by surprise, Harry fell hard on the concrete floor.

18:29What came next happened so fast no one saw how it happened. One second, Piers and Dudley were

18:36leaning right up close to the glass. The next, they had leapt back with howls of horror.

18:43Harry sat up and gasped. The glass front of the boa constrictor's tank had vanished.

18:49The great snake was uncoiling itself, rapidly slithering out onto the floor.

18:54People throughout the reptile house screamed and started running for the exits

18:58as the snake slid swiftly past him. Harry could have sworn a low hissing voice said,

19:05Brazil, here I come. Thanks, amigo. The keeper of the reptile house was in shock,

19:11but the class, he kept saying, where did the glass go? The zoo director himself made Aunt

19:17Petunia a cup of strong sweet tea while he apologized over and over again.

19:22Piers and Dudley could only jibber. As far as Harry had seen, the snake hadn't done anything

19:28except snap playfully at their heels as it passed. But by the time they were all back in Uncle

19:34Vernon's car, Dudley was telling them how he'd had nearly bitten off his leg while Piers was

19:40swearing at had tried to squeeze him to death. But worst of all, for Harry at least, was Piers

19:47calming down enough to say Harry was talking to it. Weren't you, Harry? Uncle Vernon waited until

19:53Piers was safely out of the house before starting on Harry. He was so angry he could hardly speak.

20:00He managed to say go cupboard, stay no meals before he collapsed into a chair, and Aunt Petunia

20:06had to run and get him a large brandy. Harry lay in his dark cupboard much later, wishing he had

20:13a watch. He didn't know what time it was, and he couldn't be sure the Dursleys were asleep yet.

20:20Until they were, he couldn't risk sneaking to the kitchen for some food.

20:25He'd lived with the Dursleys almost ten years, ten miserable years as long as he could remember.

20:31Ever since he'd been a baby and his parents had died in that car crash, he couldn't remember being

20:37in the car when his parents had died. Sometimes, when he strained his memory during long hours in

20:43his cupboard, he came up with a strange vision, a blinding flash of green light and a burning pain

20:50on his forehead. This, he supposed, was the crash. Though he couldn't imagine where all the green

20:57light came from, he couldn't remember his parents at all. His aunt and uncle never spoke about them,

21:04and of course he was forbidden to ask questions. There were no photographs of them in the house.

21:10When he had been younger, Harry had dreamed and dreamed of some unknown relation coming to take

21:15him away, but it had never happened. The Dursleys were his only family. Yet sometimes he thought

21:23or maybe hoped that strangers in the streets seemed to know him. Very strange. Strangers they

21:29were to a tiny man in a violet top hat had bowed to him once while out shopping with Aunt Petunia

21:35and Dudley. After asking Harry furiously if he knew the man, Aunt Petunia had rushed them out

21:42of the shop without buying anything. A wild-looking old woman, dressed all in green, had waved merrily

21:49at him once on a bus. A bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken his hand in the

21:57street the other day and then walked away without a word. The weirdest thing about all these people

22:04was the way they seemed to vanish. The second Harry tried to get a closer look at school,

22:10Harry had no one. Everybody knew that Dudley's gang hated that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old

22:17clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley's gang.

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