Back for another installment of  Wrock the Reread! In this chapter Harry visits a zoo for his cousins birthday and things go a little sideways. Featured bands include:  Kwikspell, Harry and the Potters, Hawthorn and Holly, Wrackspurts!, Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons, and Slytherin Soundtrack

Let me know if I missed any songs, or if you have any tunes that remind you of Harry sending a snake after his cousin! 

Chapter 2:  The Vanishing Glass

Ten years pass since the Dursleys have awoken to find Harry Potter lying on their doorstep, and Privet Drive and the Dursleys’ house has not changed since that day. The only difference is the vast number of pictures of Dudley Dursley throughout his life. There is no sign that Harry Potter lives there, however, in the Cupboard Under the Stairs, Harry sleeps. [“Out Through the Cupboard” by Kwikspell] Petunia comes to his door and wakes him with a shrill voice. Harry is trying to think about the dream he had been having. It was about a flying motorbike, and he thinks he has had the same dream before. Aunt Petunia tells him to make some bacon, as she wants everything perfect for Dudley’s 11th birthday. Harry dresses into a pair of Dudley’s old clothes, and goes into the kitchen, where the table is covered in Dudley’s presents.

Harry has jet-black hair and green eyes. His glasses are held together by tape because Dudley has smashed them so many times. The thing that distinguishes Harry from others the most is the lightning-shaped scar on his forehead. He often wonders how he got it and the Dursleys have told him that he got it from the car crash that killed Harry’s parents. Harry doesn’t know much more about the accident though because the Dursleys’ first rule is to not ask questions. Dudley comes in to the kitchen and begins to count his presents, only to find 37, which he angrily recalls is one fewer than the year before. Aunt Petunia states that they are going to buy him two new presents while they are out. Vernon tells Petunia that their neighbour Arabella Figg has broken her leg and cannot take care of Harry while they are at the zoo. They can’t think of anyone else who can take care of him, so Harry has to go with them.

Dudley is allowed to take a friend to the zoo and chooses his friend Piers Polkiss. Piers comes to the house with his mother. A half-hour later, Harry sits in the car with Dudley, Piers, Vernon and Petunia. On the way, a motorbike overtakes them and Vernon complains about them. Harry remarks that he had a dream about a flying motorbike once and Vernon snappily reminds him that motorbikes do not fly. Harry thinks about all the strange things that have happened to him: He once turned his teacher’s wig blue, jumped onto the school chimney, and grew all of his hair back the morning after a haircut.[“Haircut” by Harry and the Potters] At the zoo, Dudley and Piers find the animals boring.[“Knickerbocker Glory” by Hawthorn & Holly] Harry is left to watch a Boa constrictor as it sleeps and, when Dudley tries to make it move, it wakes up but still doesn’t move. The snake begins to move after Dudley and Piers slink away. Moments later, Harry speaks to the snake and finds that it miraculously understands him.[“Parseltongue 101? by Wrackspurts!] Piers calls Dudley and Vernon back to the snake’s exhibit upon realising that it is now moving. Dudley pushes Harry out of the way and presses his face against the glass. Harry becomes angry and somehow the glass vanishes and the snake gets out scaring Dudley and Piers. As the snake slithers away, Harry thinks that he hears it speak back to him. Uncle Vernon blames Harry for what happened and sends him to his cupboard –with no meals for a week as punishment.[“Under the Stairs” by Romilda Vane and the Chocolate Cauldrons /  “Not a Wizard” by Slytherin Soundtrack]