“Get up! Get up, Harry!”
In the small house at number 4 Privet Drive, a woman's voice echoed through the early morning.
Petunia Dursley pounded on the door to the cupboard under the stairs, “It's Dudley's birthday today, get up and fry the bacon!”
Meanwhile, Harry Potter opened his eyes in bed. He turned on the light, illuminating his gaunt face, and a scar shaped like a lightning bolt was faintly visible amongst the tangled hair on his forehead.
“Coming, coming,” Harry Potter replied.
But suddenly, the stairs creaked. The early-rising, chubby Dudley jumped up and down on the stairs, laughing, deliberately kicking up dust. Harry Potter was covered in grime by the time he got down.
“Harry! Harry! My cousin, we're going to the zoo today! Ha ha ha.”
“But we're not taking you!” Dudley laughed as he ran down the stairs.
Harry Potter helplessly brushed the dust off his head. Since he had been adopted by Petunia Dursley, he had lived in that cupboard under the stairs, constantly accompanied by spiders and rats.
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“These people are outrageous, even if he's not their own son, how can they let their nephew live like this?”
Someone was already furious after reading the beginning.
【巫师】Ginny: “Harry Potter's family doesn't seem to be very kind to him...”
【龙族】Lu Ming Fei: “Sigh, every family has its own story…”
【龙族】Fenghuang: “To be fair, that lightning-shaped mark is pretty cool!”
【巫师】Ron: “It's the mark of Voldemort from the legend!”
【巫师】Luna: “The legendary Harry Potter is being raised in a Muggle family, and it seems like he's not doing very well.”
【巫师】Fred: “Good heavens, this is the legendary figure we've heard about, how did he end up like this?”
As everyone continued to read, they realized that it wasn't just not good, it was downright abusive, treating him like a servant.
Harry Potter was also curious about the scar on his forehead. He asked Petunia Dursley, and she told him it was from a car accident that killed his mother.
And the Dursleys gave him an order: “No questions asked.”
After getting up, Harry Potter quickly cleaned the first floor.
It took him less than three minutes. That was the Dursleys' demand for him: to clean the house every day.
Then he started frying the bacon.
Vernon Dursley coldly urged him, “Hurry, hurry!”
Harry Potter nervously placed the bacon on a plate and carried it to the dining table.
“Oh, happy birthday to my darling Dudley!” Petunia Dursley beamed. She was thin and had a long neck, twice as long as anyone else’s.
She always called her son, who was as strong as an ox, "darling," but in Harry Potter's eyes, he looked like a fat pig.
“Thirty-six presents! Two less than last year!” Dudley suddenly looked up at Petunia.
“Oh no, dear, Aunt Marge's gift is under the big package we got you,” Petunia said.
“Oh, so that’s, that’s, thirty, thirty-seven presents!”
“How about we buy you two more presents today?” Petunia said lovingly.
“Then thirty…”
“Thirty-nine presents, my little sweetheart.” Petunia smiled.
“Alright then.” Dudley only stopped sulking then.
“The little stinker is counting his gains, he’s just like me.” Vernon said proudly.
Just then, the phone rang.
Petunia Dursley answered it and then hung up with a grim face, “Bad news… Mrs. Figg broke her leg and can't pick up Harry?”
“What do we do! Let Marge take him?” Vernon frowned.
“No, you know Marge hates that boy! But we can't leave him alone, I'm afraid he'll wreck the place!” Petunia Dursley worried. “I think we can take him to the amusement park and leave him in the car.”
“I won’t wreck the place, I swear.” Harry Potter shook his head innocently, but they clearly didn’t care.
“Oh, my new car, I can't leave him in it.” Vernon Dursley said with disgust.
“Mommy, woooo! I, don't, want, him, to, go!” Dudley, seeing the situation was wrong, started wailing.
He hadn't cried in a long time, he'd even forgotten what tears looked like, but he knew that if he howled, his parents would always favor him.
“Oh, my little sweetheart!”
Before they could say anything, the doorbell rang. It was Dudley's friend's family.
Finally, Vernon had no choice but to take Harry with them, but he warned Harry: “I warn you, Harry Potter, better behave, or you'll be grounded for a week when we get back!”
At this moment.
A bunch of people on the public screen were spamming question marks.
【龙族】“?”
【巫师】“?”
【巫师】“???????”
【龙族】“Wait, isn't this literally being a servant? Hasn't slavery been abolished yet!”
【龙族】“Wait, my cleaning lady is treated ten times better than this.”
【巫师】“How come this whole family treats Harry Potter like he's a disaster? Even if he's not their son, they raised him, how can they be so cold?”
【龙族】Ronald Tang: “Damn, growing up in an orphanage would be better than this…”
【龙族】Lu Ming Fei: “Yeah… seeing this, I already feel the flimsy love from my uncle and aunt.”
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The Dursleys were looking grim.
“Fuck! Our family business is being broadcast to the whole world by this ghost thing!” Vernon growled furiously.
Anger made his face turn crimson.
Harry Potter was cringing, but his heart was filled with joy.
This is it, this is it, expose this family’s wickedness to the world.
Seeing all those messages on the public screen defending him.
Harry Potter's heartstrings were touched at this moment.
He'd never been supported, no, never even acknowledged by anyone like this, and now people from two worlds were standing up for him.
Harry Potter was so moved he almost wanted to cry.
Although the Dursleys were furious, there was nothing they could do.
They couldn't possibly fight back against billions of people.
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The scene continued to play, showing Harry Potter arriving at the zoo.
They were gathered outside a glass wall, watching a sleeping python inside.
“Wake it up!” Dudley yelled.
Vernon knocked on the glass, but to no avail. Dudley kept yelling, but the python remained asleep.
Finally, they gave up.
It was Harry Potter's first time at the zoo, and his first time seeing a real python.
He looked at the python in amazement.
He noticed that the python suddenly woke up and looked at him.
“I always run into people like them.” But suddenly, the python hissed, and Harry Potter actually understood.
“I understand, it must be quite frustrating, right? Where are you from?”
The python's tail tapped on the small sign below the glass wall.
“It’s from Brazil, right? It must be nice there? I've never been very far, the furthest I've been is school.” Harry Potter said with longing.
As the python was about to shake its head in reply.
Dudley suddenly came over to Harry and pushed him to the ground. Harry was shocked, looking at Dudley standing where he was, a cold gleam flashed in Harry Potter's eyes.
Dudley’s fat body was pressed against the glass, and he looked at the python with a gaping mouth.
Suddenly! The glass vanished!
Dudley lost his balance and fell straight in, landing with a thud.
The python quickly ran out, and as it left, it looked at Harry: “Thank you, I'm going to find my homeland.”
Petunia Dursley's face was twisted in terror as she screamed at Dudley, who was inside the glass wall: “Dudley!!"
Dudley also screamed in fear, but his voice was blocked by the glass wall.
“I saw him, I saw him talking to the snake just now!” Piers pointed at Harry Potter.
Vernon was so angry he couldn’t speak. Back at home, he said through gritted teeth, “Back, to, the, cupboard, stay, there, no, food!!!”