A pair of lavender eyes slowly open, immediately greeting the blinding light of the morning sun. Princess Twilight Sparkle yawned as she sat up, stretching her limbs. She searched the tiny room she and every creature slept in. It was frightfully cramped given how small it really was, the sleeping arrangements slightly bizarre.
Spike was fast asleep atop the old computer, scratching his ear in his sleep. Rainbow Dash and Applejack slept soundly, as they were pressed against each other due to the cramped mess… but they didn’t seem to mind. Fluttershy slept on an old blanket atop some old boxes, while Rarity and Pinkie Pie slept atop the desk where the computer was resting. Both ponies were so close to falling over the edge. Meanwhile, the Student Six slept together like a giant ball of bodies off a corner.
Slowly, one by one, the whole group started to wake up and stretched their sore limbs.
“And I thought sleeping in the badlands was uncomfortable,” Spike groaned.
“Yona not this sore since she carry huge boulder all across Yakyakistan,” Yona agreed.
“I’d ask… but I really don’t want to know why,” Gallus replied.
“Oh, what I would give to sleep in my own comfortable bed,” Rarity moaned. “With my husband wrapped around me, instead of sleeping on some hardwood desk.”
Rainbow and Applejack were the last two ponies to wake up. The minute their eyes opened, they noticed just how close they were to each other. Their eyes widened over the fact they were a mere few inches close to each other.
“Why does this keep happening?!” Rainbow asked horrified.
The two mares quickly pushed away from each other, scrambled up to their hoofs, and proceeded to dust themselves off.
Oye, why don’t those two just admit they like each other and move on?
I know, crazy right?
I get they’ve had this competition going on for so long, but personally I think it compensates over the fact they cannot admit their true feelings.
… I totally blame the writers.
Twilight Sparkle approached the door to the room, peeking out to make certain the coast was clear. Seeing no one around at the moment, she shuts the door and turned back toward the rest of the group.
“Alright every creature, let’s head downstairs and meet up with Harry,” She said.
“With any hope, his horrible family is gone for the day,” Ocellus responded.
With Twilight at the lead, the whole group left the room and make their way downstairs one by one. They stop just outside the cupboard door, shaking their heads, and released a sigh. To think such horrible people would have such a sweet boy like Harry sleeping there like some kind of animal. Just as Twilight reached to know, Aunt Petunia came through the kitchen door and they quickly ran toward the front door so as not to bump into her (Invisibility spell or not). They watch silently as she rapidly knocks on the door.
“Up!” She demanded. “Get up! Now!”
She smacks the closet door for good measure before returning to the kitchen. The group stared after her in disbelief.
“Of all the adventures we’ve been on so far, aside from that demon witch, ain’t recon ah ever saw one person be so mean!” Applejack said.
“The Wicked Witch of the West?” Pinkie asked.
Applejack turned toward Pinkie Pie, who smiled innocently. The two possible cousins stared at each other for a second or two.
“Okay… make that two!” Applejack corrected.
“Seriously, who spit in her food?” Rainbow asked, folding her front hooves.
It was then they heard a loud ruckus upstairs and they looked up to see a rather portly-looking boy running down the stairs. This boy was Harry’s spoiled and rude cousin, Dudley Dursley. Dudley was halfway down the stairs when he stopped, went back up wight above the cupboard, and began to jump up and down.
“Wake up, cousin!” He yelled. “We’re going to the zoo!”
“Jeez, this kid could use a good kick in the butt!” Smolder grumbled.
“Just say the word fellas,” Gallus offered, cracking his talons. “I can take care of this quickly.”
“Now Gallus darling,” Rarity spoke, restraining herself. “Let’s not do anything rash…”
Dudley laughs as he comes running back downstairs toward the kitchen. Just as Harry opened the cupboard door, Dudley pushes him back inside and kicks the door shut. He rushes into the kitchen, shutting the door behind him. This left the group staring toward him in shock.
“Apparently the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree,” Sandbar stated.
“Darn right it don’t,” Applejack shook her head.
“Yona have half mind to stomp puny human like railroad spike!” Yona growled.
“Yeah… wait what?” Spike asked, wide-eyed.
The young bovine was about to charge after the disrespectful boy, when Silverstream flew right up in front of her.
“Whoa there Yona!” Silverstream warned. “Remember what Councilor Starlight said about controlling your anger?”
Yona’s face showcased immense anger at Harry’s horrible family, along with her desire to teach them some respect. But Silverstream’s words slowly started cutting right through her mindset. Eventually, Yona calmly took a deep breath and recalled Starlight’s words.
“Anger make yak do bad things, and bad things not good,” Yona sighed.
Silverstream nodded, patting Yona’s back to calm the young yak. Harry slowly opened the door again, emerging while clutching his head.
“You alright Harry?” Twilight asked.
The young boy faced the group of creatures with a nod.
“I’m fine,” He answered. “Happens every single morning anyway. Anyway, thank you for helping me clean up last night. If it weren’t for all of you, I’d probably still be cleaning by now.”
Every creature smiled back at him, as Pinkie bounced right up to the boy with a chipper smile on her face.
“No need to thank us new best friend!” She replied happily. “It’s just what we all do for our friends! We help them anyway we can, even when they don’t want it. Everything we do is simply because it gives us that super-duper good feeling inside. Like eating a whole bunch of sugar and you start having that really jittery feeling. Which reminds me of one time…”
Twilight used her magic to trap Pinkie inside a magical sound-proof bubble while she kept babbling on. Harry turned toward the lavender alicorn princess.
“Trust me,” Twilight said.
Harry chuckled a bit before he turned to walk toward the kitchen area with the rest of the group following close behind. Inside, Uncle Vernon sat at the table while Aunt Petunia fawned all over Dudley.
“Oh, here he comes, the birthday boy!” She praised.
“Happy birthday, son!” Vernon said kindly.
“Wow, and I was thinking we’d never hear them say anything nice,” Gallus remarked sarcastically.
“Don’t get used to it kiddo,” Rainbow replied.
Petunia and Dudley giggle together, as Harry walks in dressed in his usual ragged old clothes.
“Why don’t you just cook the breakfast?” Petunia ordered him. “And try not to burn anything!”
“Yes, Aunt Petunia,” He responded.
Harry quickly gets to work cooking the breakfast, in this case bacon, as Petunia covered Dudley’s eyes and draws him into the living room.
“I want everything to be perfect for my Dudley’s special day.”
The group of creatures peek into the living room, where a whole mountain of presents stretched nearly to the ceiling met their eyes. They all stared wide-eyed at the scene, while Pinkie squealed with glee.
“Ooh… a birthday party!” She exclaimed excitedly.
She reached into her mane and pulled out her signature party cannon, which fortunately the Dursley’s couldn’t see any of it. Pinkie raised her hooves to fire the cannon, when her friends held her hooves back.
“Pinkie, what are you doing?” Ocellus asked.
“Hey when I see a party, I have to celebrate!” Pinkie responded.
“Don’t y’all remember these here folk are a buncha jerks tah poor Harry?” Applejack asked.
“Yeah, but… still… party!!!”
Everyone just looked at her disapprovingly until she finally pouted and put her cannon back into her mane. All the while, Harry finished prepping the bacon and was now setting the table.
“Hurry up!” Vernon barked. “Bring my coffee, boy!”
“Yes, Uncle Vernon.”
Petunia lead Dudley into the living room and uncovered his eyes so he could see the vast amount of presents. Dudley stared wide-eyed while Petunia smiled.
“Aren’t they wonderful darling?” She asked hopefully.
Dudley continued to look at all the presents, till he started to squint his eyes. He slowly turned back toward his father.
“How many are there?” He asked suspiciously.
“Thirty-six,” Vernon responded. “Counted ‘em myself.”
“Thirty-six?!” Dudley yelled. “But last year I got thirty-seven!!”
“Yes, well, some of them are quite a bit bigger than last year!”
“I don’t care how big they are!” Dudley screamed. “Size doesn’t matter!!”
Rainbow couldn’t help but chuckle over his choice of words. Rarity turned toward her with a disapproving frown, shaking her head.
“He said it, not me,” Rainbow said defensively.
“I can’t believe him,” Twilight said in disbelief. “So spoiled and selfish, he’d yell at his own parents because he got one less gift than last year!”
“Reminds me of myself that one year I turned full dragon,” Spike shook his head.
Twilight and Rarity both nodded, recalling the memories of the year Spike started acting the same way. The year when it was his birthday, he expected every pony to give him a gift and it slowly turned him into a full dragon. But thankfully, Spike learned his lesson… sadly Dudley was very far behind.
“Oh now, now, now,” Petunia said calmly. “This is what we’re going to do. When we go out we’re going to buy you two new presents! How’s that, Pumpkin?”
Dudley started counting the number in his head… and on his fingers.
“So that would make… thirty-eight?” He asked.
“That’s right,” Petunia nodded.
Dudley thought for a moment, then nodded in approval before walking over and sitting at the table. He proceeded to stuff as much food into his mouth, as Harry looked on and shook his head.
“You cousin is unbelievable,” Sandbar whispered to Harry. “You do know that, right?”
“Yes… I know it,” Harry whispered, nodding. “One year he almost tore the entire living room simply because he didn’t get any ice cream for breakfast. Felt he was ‘entitled to it’.”
Every creature shook their heads.
“Here I was thinking Diamond Tiara was bad when she was snobby and spoiled,” Rainbow remarked.
“I never thought we’d ever find worse parents than Filthy and Spoiled Rich,” Rarity added.
Harry looked around making sure the whole family wasn’t looking before he quickly made some new plates of eggs. Slowly he left them on the ground for the group to eat. Everyone smiled and quickly ate before anyone noticed.
“Thank you Harry,” Twilight thanked him.
“Ya really didn’t have to do this for us sugarcube,” Applejack assured him.
“We’ve brought enough food to last us at least a week,” Fluttershy added. “We really don’t want to get you in anymore trouble.”
“Don’t worry about it,” He shrugged off. “They were going to make me clean everything anyway. What’s a couple more plates going to do?”
Everyone once again smiled at the young boy. To think someone like him had so little to smile about and still be so nice. They continued to eat as quickly and quietly as possible, so Harry could wash the plates before his family noticed. Just then, the phone rang, and Aunt Petunia went to answer it.
“Hello?” Petunia spoke, pausing. “Uh-huh… uh-huh… I understand. Thank you…”
After the conversation was over, she hung up the phone and turned toward her husband.
“Bad news Vernon,” She said. “Mrs. Figg broke her leg. She won’t be able to take the boy today.”
“Well, what about Marge?” Vernon asked.
“She hates the boy, Vernon.”
“What about your friend, Vaunette?”
“She’s out of town.”
As they went back and forth, trying to figure out what to do, Harry looked down toward the group and he actually looked excited for once.
“I hope they’ll allow me to actually stay here by myself,” He hoped. “Better than actually going to the zoo.”
“I’m with you on that,” Smolder nodded. “Anything to get them away from here is okay in my book.”
“And while they’re gone, we’ll have more time to talk to Harry about this whole ‘important mission’,” Twilight whispered to the group.
They all nodded in agreement, actually hoping Harry’s family would just leave him with them. Harry turned back toward his aunt and uncle and silently stepped forward.
“You know… you could just leave me here by myself,” He suggested.
Hearing the suggestion, Vernon and Petunia sat silently for a few seconds… before bursting out laughing. Harry and the others just stood there with blank expressions, as his relatives kept giggling themselves to death. Eventually they settled down long enough, allowing the message to sink in.
“Good lord you’re serious?” Petunia asked.
Harry Potter nodded his head feebly.
“And come home to find the house destroyed?” Vernon asked. “Well… we could always take him alone and make him stay in the car.”
They both pondered over the thought for a moment. But ultimately Petunia shook her head.
“No, then people will start complaining and I don’t wish to deal with that today,” She said annoyed. “I’m afraid it looks like we have to take him with us.”
Hearing this, Dudley violently lifted his head toward his mother and father.
“I don’t want him to come with us!” Dudley whined. “He’s going to ruin everything!”
Seeing her son distressed, Petunia ran to his side and tried her best to ease him down.
“No, no, no, no,” She assured him. “He won’t ruin anything on your special day. We won’t let him.”
“Boy!” Vernon yelled to Harry. “Looks like it’s your lucky day; you’re going to the zoo with us. Now go on back to your room and find a decent pair of clothes.”
Sighing, Harry nodded his head and walked out of the kitchen and into the hallway while the others followed close behind. Once in the hall, Pinkie Pie approached Harry with the biggest smile on her face.
“Yippee!!!” Pinkie cheered joyfully. “Look on the bright side Harry: You’re actually going to do something fun today!”
“You know what… I must agree with you Pinkie,” Harry smiled hugely. “I haven’t been to the zoo since… I can’t remember when.”
“I’ve never been on to advocate for a zoo,” Twilight shook her head. “Just the idea of having animals all penned up in cages. Seems more like a prison.”
“Oh, those poor little creatures,” Fluttershy said sadly.
Harry Potter knelt down to rub Fluttershy’s back.
“I know how you feel Fluttershy,” He said. “Truth be told I don’t really want to go with them. But not like we really have much choice. If I have to go, might as well make the most of it.”
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A little while later, the entire family was dressed and ready to go. Petunia led Dudley out to the car and they both got in. Just as Harry was about to get in, Vernon stopped him pointing the keys at him.
“I’m warning you now, boy,” He threatened. “Any funny business, any at all, and you won’t have any meals for a week. Get in.”
They both step into the car and they pull it out of the driveway. As they drive off towards the zoo, the group of ponies and their friends stare off after them from the window of the house.
“Well everyone, looks like we’re going along after him,” Twilight declared.
She started to fire up her horn and this made Gallus look slightly nervous.
“Uh Twilight, maybe we could just fly after them because honestly…”
Unfortunately, Gallus didn’t get to finish because Twilight used her magic to trace where the family was going and quickly transported them to the London Zoo. When the blinding light of the teleportation spell faded, Gallus and a few of the other students stumbled about dizzily.
“Aww man!” Gallus moaned. “I hate that teleportation thing. I always feel like I come out the other side missing a few body parts!”
He quickly checked himself over to make sure nothing was missing, counting his talons, his limbs… everything. To his relief, they’re all in place. The group looked up toward the gigantic London Zoo, a massive establishment with many people walking in and out every second.
“So… how are we going to find Harry in all of this mess?”
Pinkie slowly peeks her head up beside Gallus, who eyed her weirdly. The pony merely ignores the Griffin as she looks around with a pair of binoculars over her eyes. She twists and turns searching for a family of four amongst all the kids and adults. Then her binoculars catch sight of the sign reading ‘Reptile House’ and she slowly puts her binoculars back in her mane.
“I may have a hunch where they might be…” Pinkie nodded.
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The ponies and their friends casually enter the Reptile House in search for Harry and his family. While normally such a group of colorful ponies and a multitude of other creatures would easily attract attention especially before humans, they remembered the spell that made them invisible to human eyes. A good thing too because the last thing they wanted was to stir a panic nor have anyone looking oddly toward a certain pink party pony sniffing the grounds like a dog.
Suddenly, Pinkie quickly lifted her head up and points ahead with her tail.
“Told you I’d find ‘em here!” Pinkie spoke.
Sure enough, they found Harry Potter and his relatives standing beside one of the glass cages of the reptile house. They were all staring at a large Boa constrictor that appeared to simply be lounging along the branch of the tree. Judging by how the family was hunched over, the ponies and the gang could see they were frightfully bored.
“Make it move!” Dudley demanded.
Vernon raps the glass of the cage.
“Move!”
Impatient, Dudley taps the glass much harder. The whole group winced silently.
“MOVE!” Dudley shouted.
“He’s asleep!” Harry spoke.
“He’s boring,” Dudley shook his head, walking away.
Twilight watches silently as Dudley and his parents retreat to another enclosure. Tilting her head over, she ushers the group to follow as she marched toward their friend. Sure enough they find Harry left all by himself with the sleeping snake. Harry turned and lightly smiled as Twilight and her friends walked beside him.
“Looks like the birthday boy’s not having a good time,” Rainbow replied.
“Nope… he’s not,” Harry replied.
Standing beside Harry, they turn toward the snake enclosure as Harry watches the creature.
“Sorry about him. He doesn’t understand what it’s like, lying there day after day, watching people press their ugly faces in on you.”
Then, much to their surprise, the snake suddenly looks up… and blinks. To say the group were in shock is a major understatement.
“Did that snake just blink?” Spike asked.
“Can you… hear me?” Harry asked.
The snake nods its head and lifts itself slightly, its attention dead set on the boy.
“It’s just… I’ve never talked to a snake before.”
“Says the kid who talked to a group of ponies, some dragons, a yak, a griffin, a hippogriff, and a Changeling,” Smolder snickered.
“Do you… I mean… do you talk to people often?” The boy asked the snake.
In response, the snake merely shook its head. Fluttershy reads the small sign in front of the glass before turning back toward the snake.
“Um… excuse me sir,” Fluttershy spoke politely. “I couldn’t help but notice you come from a place called Burma… I imagine it must be lovely there. Hmm… do you miss your family?”
The snake turned its head toward another sign and the gang followed its direction. According to the sign, the snake they spoke to was ‘Bred in Captivity’.
“I see…” Harry nodded, understanding. “That’s me as well. I never knew my parents, either.”
As the group listened to Harry Potter talking to the snake, with Fluttershy saying a few words in between, the most solemn of the group is Applejack herself. She faced Harry Potter with a worried expression, of how he ‘never knew his parents’ really hit a nerve. She had seen how it pained Harry’s face when the subject had been brought up. And deep down she knew that feeling all too well, a sore subject she dares to never bring up… even if it hurts her too.
With the snake now fully awake, Dudley’s attention is drawn. He zips toward the cage, knocking Harry to the floor.
“Mummy, dad, come here! You won’t believe what this snake is doing!!”
Gasping in shock, the group rushed toward Harry Potter to help him while Dudley placed his hands upon the glass wall. As they carefully lift Harry up, the boy glares at him. Even Twilight, who had tried to keep it together, felt a twinge of anger as she stared at the boy. All of a sudden, before their very eyes, the glass wall disappears, and Dudley starts to wretch forward.
‘Whoa! Ahh! Ahh!!”
The spoiled boy falls into the snake enclosure, sputtering in a pool of water. Staring in shock, the group slowly turned toward one another. Most of their eyes were toward Twilight Sparkle.
“Good gracious Twilight,” Rarity gasped. “I know that kid was a brat, but I thought we agreed not to draw attention.”
“That… wasn’t… me…” Twilight spoke slowly, in shock.
The group, along with Harry, turn back as the snake slowly slithers out of the exhibit. Dudley, shivering with fright, sits perfectly still as the snake passed him. Once the boa was fully free from imprisonment, it stops before Harry and his pals as they looked on in silence.
“Thanksssssss,” The snake spoke.
“Anytime,” Harry replied.
And just like that, the snake slowly slithers off as the group looks on.
“SNAKE!!!” A man shouted.
It isn’t long before chaos erupted throughout the zoo, as the entire area filled with the screams of men, women, and children trying to get out of the snake’s way. All along, the snake just slithered on toward its newfound freedom as the group stands in complete shock. Eventually, Dudley picked himself up ready to get out… only to find the glass is now back over the enclosure.
The startled boy, now stuck in the snake’s former cage, pounds on the glass frantically.
“Mum, mummy!” Dudley cried.
In that moment, Petunia and Vernon were just returning but the moment she saw Dudley she screamed.
“Mum, help! Help me!” Dudley begged.
“My darling boy!” Petunia screamed. “How did you get in there?! Dudley, oh, Dudley!”
But Vernon’s attention was not on his son at the moment. Instead, his eyes glare toward a certain boy who grinned and giggled at the scene. The moment the boy saw the anger in his uncle’s eyes, that grin disappeared just as quickly. All of Harry’s Equestrian friends, invisible before Vernon’s gaze, nervously watched the big man loom over the boy.
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It took a while before everyone got back to the Dursley’s house. Twilight and her friends followed closely behind, keeping watch as Harry was forcibly dragged back to the house. Petunia had Dudley all wrapped up in a blanket, as the boy shivered and whimpered from the frightful experience.
“It’s all right,” Petunia said. “It’s all right.”
As Petunia and Dudley disappeared around the corner, Harry and Vernon entered last. Twilight and her friends cautiously approached the opening…
*WHAM!*
The door slammed shut… smacking right into Spike’s face. Moaning in pain, Spike rubbed the bridge of his nose to sooth the pain. Pinkie Pie quickly takes out a glass from her mane and quickly places it on the door to listen. All the others listened with their own ears.
“What happened?” Vernon shouted.
“I swear I don’t know!” Harry insisted. “One minute the glass was there and then it was gone! It was like magic!”
They could hear Vernon scoff and what sounds like their friend being shoved back into the closet, the door slammed, and the bolt clicked.
“There’s no such thing as magic!” Vernon growled, banging the door.
The group were horrified over Vernon’s response to Harry’s explanation. It wasn’t enough that a boy’s own uncle would intentionally starve him for something he barely did but treating his own nephew like a lunatic for claiming ‘magic’ was behind what happened to Dudley. Frankly, Twilight and her friends couldn’t understand it themselves. Neither Twilight nor Rarity used magic themselves to get back at Dudley, even though they didn’t approve of what the boy did to Harry. Which lead back to their motive for being in this place, why they were sent to guard Harry in the first place.
“Guys… you think this is why Dumbledore sent us to look after the boy?” Silverstream asked.
“I’m not sure yet, Silverstream,” Twilight answered. “But after what we’ve seen, I think it’s all starting to come together.”
Ouch, poor Harry. But things will get better.
I'm surprised Twilight didn't freak out by the snake like she did in the "Winter Wrap-Up" episode.
Yes, a new chapter as Young Harry and friends are in for a treat that the gang just saw Harry’s accidental magic at work. Also, I don’t like the Dursley’s at all.
I wish that the ponies would cheer up Harry after this fiasco and the next one will be a very interesting once the mail are coming in.
Incredible
There they go again. They were due for a hint.
I’m sure things will really start to get interesting once the letters start popping up.
Aww...poor Harry...well, at least I know what comes next *wearing Hufflepuff scarf and holding a wand and Niffler plushie* What?
Man I hope the dudley will finally freak out when twilight and friends and students reveal themselves
I know I'm going to get a lot of flack for this but I've never been a fan of the AppleDash ship.
I wonder if Twilight and friends will be able to help Harry get one of those Letter's early so they can better prepare.
the mane six spike the young six look after harry and that's nice and I Never understand why his uncle away been mean to harry.
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who said she wasn't, internally? but trying to keep a brave face for others. She wasn't scared initially due to its inside the glass enclosure. Also im sure she's too surprise by the glass vanishing to register the snake being close to her either
Looks like Dudley got what he deserved, but what I’m wondering is why did the others not wonder how the snake could talk or even it understood Harry and vice versa, I get a lot of animals talk in Equestria, but snakes aren’t one of them
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Fluttershy talks to animals all the time, even ones that can’t talk
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Maybe when the letters start flying around the house, the mane 6 and students will just sit back and let events unfold. And to add insult to injury they could read a book or drink tea like nothing’s happening. Oh man that’ll be hilarious.
NOT YET GALLUS!!!!
Snakes ain't evil Harry aunt and uncle are
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I don’t get it?
Hmm...should I feel bad for Dudley for what happened to him at the zoo?....NAH! He really deserve it! *Nelson Laugh*
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Okay, brief lesson. The Wizarding World equivalent of teleportation is called Apparition, and it can be extremely dangerous. If done improperly, you could end up leaving behind an eyebrow, a hand, or any other part of your body. You could end up bleeding to death if you mess it up badly enough. So when Gallus says that he feels like he's missing a few body parts, the writers are referencing Apparition, which is only really talked about in the sixth book in the series, and only mentioned in book five.
I hope it makes more sense now.
Addendum: This phenomenon of body parts being left behind also has a name in both the books and films, that being "Splinching". In the films, it only occurs once, that being during The Deathly Hallows Part 1, when Ron gets injured and Hermione has to use Essence of Dittany to mend the wound.
In the books, Splinching is much more prevalent. In The Half-Blood Prince, students are given Ministry-approved Apparition lessons, and minor Splinching is a very common occurrence, with several students losing their eyebrows.
Ron in particular has a rough time with Splinching, as not only does it nearly kill him in The Deathly Hallows, but he also loses his fingernails in a later Apparition, when he leaves the group for a while.
That was a hilarious experience at the zoo. And just wait till his second year, Harry will find out talking to snakes isn't just ordinary wizardry. Fluttershy on the other hand would argue she talks to all animals, including snakes and wouldn't know what'd be so bad. But in Harry's case it's a lot more problematic.
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well yeah, but the snake clearly SPOKE
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Thanks my knowledge on Harry Potter isn’t that good. Back then most of the time I saw only half/some parts of the movies every time I see the reruns by accident. The only full movie I saw was Deadly Hallows 1 and 2, and I haven’t exactly read all the books. The last time I saw anything Harry Potter related was The Cursed Child.
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Happy to help.
Wait wait wait stop and rewind the mane six and young six speak Parseltunge?!
I would understand Fluttershy and maybe Osellus, Smolder and Spike but the rest of them should habe been hearing only hissing
It is here after a proper introduction does the story really pick up and only then do the girls and their friends realize they are not dealing with an ordinary English boy. At first everything seems normal enough: Harry Potter being a male version of Cinderella, cooking and cleaning for his nasty relatives while his cousin's birthday is under way. And unfortunately for Harry, and much to the chagrin of his new friends, he is made to go along for the trip to the zoo when initially the babysitter arranged for him was unavailable. And it is here we get an idea of the magic Harry has, that he alone doesn't even know about.
Now we've heard the questions over 'why' Twilight Sparkle didn't freak out over the snake, even though a user already answered that question involving the glass case (Thank you very much for doing this editor a favor). And true, the snakes the ponies and their friends know don't really talk (Except that one snake head from that three headed beasty) but given Fluttershy 'can' speak to animals it stands to reason that whatever a snake says would end with the hissing sound (So there's that).
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Yep. Things can only get better, and the next chapter is bound to be very interesting for our protagonists once they start getting a full understanding of their mission surrounding the boy.
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Who doesn't like the Dursleys? They are like the Wormwoods except much worse.
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Like we'd 'never' throw in a subtle hint about this? Mr. Enigma and I have the most fun with these parts.
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Hey it's all good. I was assigned as a Hufflepuff following a quiz (Even though I would've preferred a Gryffindor). But the shirt I got for a Hufflepuff was nice, and the filmed version of this play surrounding the Hufflepuffs wasn't bad either.
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Mr. Enigma and I are weighing our options around that part. But we do admit that it 'would' be a little funny.
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Yep
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I'm sure one of them might try, if not the whole cast. We'd just have to work this out.
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For once, I've got to agree with this guy. That was 'exactly' what Mr. Enigma and I intended to happen.
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Except that one snake head of that one monster Apple Bloom encountered when she tried to deliver Applejack's cart of pies herself, a duty Applejack herself neglected just to baby her sister like a second mother.
Please tell me you know what I'm talking about.
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Now 'that' I did not know about, least not that version of 'teleportation'. But now I know thanks to that little tidbit.
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Yeah, that will be a bit of an issue when we get to the 'Chamber of Secrets'. But we have loads of ideas we want to try for that movie.
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Dude... Fluttershy talks to 'animals' for a living, she even spoke to the snakes when Winter Wrap Up was commencing.
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No no I got that but shouldn't the others be concerned about the hissing coming from Harry
10571602
Who's to say that's what Fluttershy's friends heard?
That this was not just Harry Potter hearing the snake talk, but rather suppose Fluttershy did as well. After all, we 'all' wonder if Fluttershy can truly understand and translate the way animals speak even though it sounds like gibberish to normal ears. Think of this as a subtle means of having Fluttershy hearing the words spoken by a snake whom we never see again after this movie.
Does that answer your bloody question?
10571610
You know it actually does.
Thank you
WORST.PARENTS.EVER.
Great chapter overall! Keep it up!
The letter from hogwarts will be here soon!
10571560
Wow........ I'm...... honestly shocked that I'm teaching so many people about this. I won't lie, this is a weird feeling.
10571548
The Wormwoods! Yes, and Umbridge is Trunchbull!
What starts out as another sad day for Harry takes a 180-degree turn when a crystal disappears and reappears, and it seems Fluttershy isn't the only one who knows how to talk to animals. All this makes Twilight begin to add two and two and begin to see that this boy is not as normal (in a good way) as he seems.
Fans of this series (server included) know that this is only the beginning of the preparation of the true world in which they will live the most magical adventure of all.
Personally, I can't wait to see the reaction of the Dursleys when they see the protagonists , because more than one of them are going to want to put their hooves / claws on him .
And very good the romance between our pegasus and farmer pony, it was missed in the previous adventure.
10571978
And don't forget when dudley have a pig tail in your butt
10571894
Why? You never thought yourself as a teacher figure? More like that...
One kid at school who is purposely disruptive because they were board with the whole system and lack of challenge in the teaching methods... theoretically speaking?
10571909
That's right. Course we won't get to her cameo until we get to the third movie. But we do make a reference to her character during this story.
10572019
True. Wait, third? Umbridge shows up in the fifth
10571978
I wouldn't say it was 'missed' per say, it just wasn't the 'right mood' to incorporate that in.
And honestly, I wouldn't blame the group for wanting to get their hooves/claws on the Dursleys.
I see people treat a kid like that, I'd call the CPS.
10572023
I thought you were talking about the Trunchbull... technically the Trunch is 'Aunt Marge' who doesn't appear till the third feature. And I know this because Pam Ferris doesn't play Umbridge (That was Imelda Staunton, who did play Aunt Lucy in the 'Paddington' flicks).
10572034
Ah, and true, Trunchbull and Marge did get played by the same actress
(Conspiracy theory: Marge is the Trunchbull!)