Harry Potter And The Philosopher's / Sorcerer's Stone
Chapter 2 (Part 7)
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Dudley came waddling towards them as fast as he could.
Dudley Dursley(Harry's Cousin)
*punching Harry in the ribs* Out of the way, you,
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Caught by surprise, Harry fell hard on the concrete floor.
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What came next happened so fast no one saw how it happened--one second, Piers and Dudley were leaning right up close to the glass, the next, they had leapt back with howls of horror.
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Harry sat up and gasped; the glass front of the boa constrictor's tank had vanished.
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The great snake was uncoiling itself rapidly, slithering out on to the floor--people throughout the reptile house screamed and started running for exits.
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As the snake slid swiftly past him,Harry could have sworn a low, hissing voice said:
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𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘭, 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘐 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦...𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘬𝘴𝘴𝘴, 𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘨𝘰
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The keeper of the reptile house was in shock.
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But the glass, where did the glass go?
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The zoo director hinself made Aung Petunia a cup of strong sweet tea while he apologised over and over again.
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Piers and Dudley could only gibber.
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As far as Harry had seen, the snake hadn't done anything except snap playfully at their heels as it passed,
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but by the time they were all back in Uncle Vernon's car, Dudley was telling them how it had nearly bitten off his leg, while Piers was swearing it had tried to squeeze him to death.
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But worst of all, for Harry at least, was Piers calming down enough to say,
Piers Polkiss
Harry was talking to it, weren't you, Harry?
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Uncle Vernon waited until Peirs was safely out of the house before starting on Harry.
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He was so angry he could hardly speak,
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He only managed to say:
Vernon Dursley(Harry's Uncle)
Go--cupboard--stay--no meals.
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He collapsed into a chair and Aunt Petunia had to run to get him a large brandy.
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Harry lay in his dark cupboard much later, wishing he had a watch.
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He didn't know what time it was and he couldn't be sure the Dursleys were asleep yet.
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Until they were, he couldn't risk sneaking to the kitchen for food.
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He'd lived with the Dursleys for almost ten years, ten miserable years,as long as he could remember, ever since he'd been a baby and his parents died in that car crash.
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He couldn't remember being in the car when his parents died.
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Sometimes, when he strained his memory during long hours in his cupboard, he came up with a strange vision:
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a blinding flash of green light and a burning pain in his forehead.
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This, he supposed, was the crash, though he couldn't imagine where all that light could have come from.
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He couldn't remember his parents at all.
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His aunt and uncle never spoke about his parents, and of course he was forbidden to ask questions.
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There were no photographs of them in the house.
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When he had been younger, Harry had dreamed and dreamed of some unknown relation coming to take him away, but it had never happened;the Dursleys were his only family.
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Yet sometimes he thought (or perhaps hoped) that strangers in the street seemed to know him.
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Very strange strangers they were too.
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A tiny man in a violet top hat had bowed to him once while out shopping with Aunt Petunia and Dudley.
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After asking Harry furiously if he knew the man, Aunt Petunia had rushed them out of the shop without buying anything.
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A wild looking old woman dressed all in green had waved merrily at him once on a bus.
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A bald man in a very long purple coat had actually shaken his hand in the street the other day and then walked away without a word .
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The weirdest thing about all these people was the way they seemed to vanish the second Harry tried to get a closer look.
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At school, Harry had no one.
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Everybody knew that Dudley's gang hated that odd Harry Potter in his baggy old clothes and broken glasses, and nobody liked to disagree with Dudley's gang.
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the end of another chapter!~
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chapter 3 from next time!
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I knew I promised a crazy update
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but because a new chapter will be starting from the next part, I wanted to give a break in between.
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after these two chapters are uploaded, I will definitely give a crazy update of atleast 5 chaps
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