The Vanishing Glass

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[The scar's glow immediately dies down, and the camera pans to see Harry who is now 10 years old, still sleeping. Then, the light turns on outside his bedroom cupboard under the stairs]

„You slept in a cupboard" shouts Lily Evans outrageously. The purebloods look shocked, that the heir and Lady of the noble house of Potter are living in such conditions. Draco Malfoy meanwhile feels guilty, since he thought the Potters lived spoiled.

Petunia: Up! Get up! [She knocks on his closet door repeatedly] Now! [Smacks door of closet and walks into the living room]
[Harry wakes up, turns on his bedroom light and puts on his glasses with tape on the bridge, indicating that it was partly damaged. A large, tubby boy, Dudley Dursley, suddenly comes running down the stairs above the closet. He stops half-way down and goes back, jumping on the staircase.]
Dudley: Wake up, cousin! We're going to the zoo!

„He looks like a walrus" says Elijah. „No hunny, thats an offense against walruses" replied Lizzy, what makes Elijah blush. Meanwhile that I
Lizzy  is seen to eat a whole cake alone, what attracts Hopes attention. „Can i have a piece too" asks Hope Iris. The future is baffled when Lizzy replied „Sure my star"

[Harry looks up to the join works of the stairs with small amounts of dusts rising. Dudley laughs, comes down the stairs, and runs for the kitchen. Harry tries to come out of the closet but is pushed back in by Dudley. Petunia is in the kitchen, where Dudley has gone.]
Petunia: Oh, here he comes, the birthday boy!
Vernon: Happy birthday, son.
[Petunia and Dudley giggle together. Harry comes into the kitchen, dressed in outgrown clothes.]
Petunia: [to Harry, unpleasantly] Why don't you just cook the breakfast with your sister, and try not to burn anything.

„They aren't houselves" shouts every body

Harry: Yes, Aunt Petunia.
[Harry then gets to work on cooking the bacon, while Lizzy makes eggs]
Petunia: I want everything to be perfect for my Dudley's special day.
Vernon: [to Harry, who is taking his time placing the bacon on the plates] Hurry up! Bring my coffee, boy!
Harry: Yes, Uncle Vernon.
Lizzy takes the coffee from Harry's hand and spits in and then hands it to Vernon.

„Lizzy" is heard from Cedric Diggory. He looks so done with Iris. „While i understand why you did it, just why? Thats disgusting"

[Petunia leads Dudley over to the family room, where there are a vast amount of presents. Dudley stares.]
Petunia: Aren't they wonderful, darling?
Dudley: How many are there?
Vernon: 36. Counted 'em myself.
Dudley: 36?! But last year... last year I had 37!!
Lizzy whispers: You can count? Applause!
Vernon: Err, yes, well, some of them are quite a bit bigger than last year.
Dudley: I don't care how big they are!
Petunia: [calming him down] Oh, now, now, now. This is what we're going to do, is that when we go out, we're going to buy you two new presents! How's that, pumpkin?

Every mother shouts outraged: „Thats bad parenting"

[Outside the house morning. The happy family is heading to the car. Echoing from the book, Harry was meant to be staying with his babysitter Mrs. Figg. While Dudley's parents took him and a friend --from Dudley's school-- out for the day --on his birthday-- either to amusement parks, hamburger restaurants for lunch or dinner, or the movies, Harry and Lizzy were meant to be staying with Mrs. Figg. Mrs. Figg was a mean old lady who lived two streets away. But since she broke her leg, the Dursleys were forced to take Harry and Lizzy to the zoo. That is because there was no one else to replace Mrs. Figg. Not even Aunt Marge --Uncle Vernon's sister-- nor Aunt Petunia's friend Yvonne. Yvonne --Aunt Petunia's friend-- was on vacation in Majorca. In the meantime, the viewers now see the house morning. And the family is heading to the car.]
Petunia: This will be a lovely day at the zoo. I'm really looking forward to it.
[Harry then goes to go in the car, but Vernon stops him, pointing his keys at him.]
Vernon: I'm warning you now, boy! Any funny business, any at all, and you are not going to have any meals for a week! Get in!
[At the London Zoo, the Dursley family is in the reptile house. After lunch --at the zoo restaurant-- Harry, Lizzy and the Dursleys went to the reptile house to see the reptiles. Harry looks at a large Boa constrictor.]
Dudley: Make it move.
[Vernon taps the glass of the cage.]
Vernon: Move!
[Dudley taps the glass much harder, and Vernon nervously winces.]
Dudley: MOVE!
Harry: He's asleep!
Dudley: He's boring.
Lizzy: You're boring
[Dudley and his parents head over to another enclosure. Harry and Lizzy are left with the snake.]
Harry: Sorry about him. He doesn't understand what it's like, lying there day after day, having people press their ugly faces in on you. [The snake looks up and blinks.]

„The snake blank, she blank! Moony, what is that?" shouts Sirius Black in panic.

Lizzy: Can you...hear me? [The snake nods] It's just...I've never talked to a snake before. Do you...I mean...do you talk to people often? [The snake shakes its head] You're from Burma, aren't you? Was it nice there? Do you miss your family? [The snake turns its head in the direction of a sign which says, Bred in Captivity] I see. That's me as well. We never knew my parents, either.
[The now awake snake has attracted Dudley's attention. He comes over to the glass, knocking Harry to the floor.]

„You two are parselmouths" shouted somebody unimportant. While the Mikaelsons ask: „What is a parsekmouth" „A parselmouth is a person, who can talk to snakes, in most cases its frowned at, since its marked evil" explains Hermione.

Dudley: Mummy, dad, come here! You won't believe what this snake is doing!
[Dudley puts his hands on the glass wall. With his back turned, Harry glares at him. Suddenly, the glass disappears, causing Dudley to wretch forward, losing his balance.]
Dudley: Whoa! Ahh! Ahh!!
[Dudley falls into the snake enclosure, sputtering in a pool of water. Lizzy snickers at what she saw. The snake gets out of the exhibit, stopping in front of Harry.]

Snake: Thanksss.
Harry: Anytime.
[The snake slivers off to the exit.]
Man: SNAKE!
[There is a lot of people screaming throughout the reptile house as the snake heads for freedom. Dudley gets up to get out, but the glass is now back over the enclosure. Seeing that he is now trapped in the snake exhibit, he pounds the glass in panic.]
Dudley: Mum, mummy!
Petunia: [notices him in the exhibit and screams]
Dudley: Mum, help! Help me!
Petunia: My darling boy! How did you get in there?! How did you get in there!? Is there a snake?!
[Harry grins and snickers, Vernon notices this and glares down at him. Harry's grin disappears, knowing that he is in trouble with Vernon.]

„If he does something to you, im gonna make him regret it" says James Potter dangerously quiet.

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