Chapter two-the vanishing glass

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Chapter 2 starts off by saying how everything’s stayed the same, but only pictures of Dudley show how times have changed. We are then formally introduced to Harry, and how everybody treats him. We’re told that it’s ‘Big D’s’ birthday, and what type of presents he’s got but never uses. We are then given a description of Harry.

Jo said in an interview that his eyes were going to be important to the story, yet we haven’t been given a reason. So what do you think the importance is?

Dudley comes into the room, is given a description, and then complains that there’s one less present then last year. Petunia answers a call, and comes back saying that Mrs Figg has broken her leg.

Has she or hasn’t she?

Harry then remembers that he hates going to her place, and that he was forced to look at her cats. Vernon and Petunia talk about what they should do with him, and conclude that they have to take him with them to the zoo. Vernon takes Harry and tells him that if anything should go wrong, then he takes all the blame. We are then told of Harry’s past experiences with the hair coming back after she cut it and that he was laughed at school for wearing sell taped glasses, and baggy old clothes. Also, the other experience of finding himself on the roof of the school after running from Dudley’s gang.

Where did he get his glasses from? Was the last experience Apparition or Levitation?

Whist in the car to the zoo, Harry tells everyone that he dreamed about a flying motorbike. This, of course, is from when Hagrid took him to the Dursley’s ten years ago. This gets Vernon mad, of course. When they arrive, they go around and see the animals. In the afternoon, they go to the reptile house, where they see a massive python. Dudley says that it’s boring and walks away. The snake looks at Harry and winks. Harry stares and for good reason. Snakes can’t wink because they don’t have eyelids, nor can they hear sounds unless they’re vibrations on the floor!

Do you think there is any reason for Jo to do this, except to introduce unknowingly us to Parseltounge?

Dudley pushes him out the way, and Harry unknowingly does a non-verbal Vanishing spell on the glass. This let’s the snake out and escape.

A possibility here, but could this snake be Nagini that we first see at the beginning of the forth book?

Once they get home, Vernon sends him to the cupboard for a week with no meals. We are then told that if Harry thinks long and hard, he can see a blinding flash of green light and his scare hurts a lot. The text then goes into what some of the former Order members do when they see him. Finally, it ends on a note that he had no friends because no-one wanted to get on the wrong side of Dudley’s gang.

(I hope this is ok, because this was done on very short notice, and I didn’t have a lot of time to do it in because I wanted it to put up as quickly as possible).