The Twin Potters and the Philosopher's stone

A.N.: I don't own Harry Potter, J.K. Rowling does.

Full Summary: What would have changed in Harry's live if he had a twin sister, who also survived the killing curse? Would it have been easier? Or not? Might sound cliché but give it a chance.

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Rated: T

Genre: Adventure/ Drama

Pairing: Almost all cannon

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Chapter 2:

Adventures at the Zoo

The Wizardry World was able slowly rebuilt itself in the years followed by Voldemort's vanishing. Parents were glad to say that their children could finally grow up in a healthy world and even thought many Death Eaters escaped, everyone was happier and for the first time in a while, they felt safe. Ten years had passed and it looked like Voldemort was really gone, since there had been no sigh of him, and that was enough for most people to think that the war would remnant a painful memory for the rest of their lives. Everyday people would thank Harry and Jacqueline Potter. What people didn't know was that, both kids were still stuck at Number Four, Privet Drive. Both kids had to live with their muggles relatives that treated them like servants and that both kids have absolutely no idea that magic exists.

So when the clock ticked 5, a noisy alarm clock rang in the smallest bedroom in the Dursley's residence. Jacqueline, or Jackie as she preferred, Potter woke up immediately and jumped out of bed to wake her brother up.

"Harry, Harry" She knelt to the ground next to him. Her twin brother Harry Potter and her shared a bedroom, but it only has one bed so they take turns on who sleeps on the bed and who takes the old mat on the floor. Last night it had been her turn to take the bed. "Harry, Wake up" She shook Harry's arm, as he gradually opened his eyes and asked groggily

"What time is it?"

"Five in the morning, as always" Jackie said "We have to get up and cook the bloody breakfast. It's Dudley's birthday, we'll have to be double careful today"

Harry groaned "I hate his birthday. It's just an excuse for his parents to spoil him even more, as if that is possible"

Jackie nodded agreeing "I know, but we still have to make breakfast or we'll be stuck in the cupboard for a month" Harry grimaced, since they were young Aunt Petunia would lock them in the cupboard when they did something she judged wrong. The problem is that her judgment usually is unreasonable and completely unfair, since most of the time they get grounded is because of something Dudley has done, not them. And the other times, well, they're because of things they don't have control over.

Like the time when Dudley 'accidentally' broke the CD that Jackie spent one month working for the neighbour to buy, and then on the next morning he woke up with thousands of black dots all over his body. Or when Aunt Petunia tried to force an ugly orange jumper with yellow dots on Harry, but it started to get smaller and smaller until it could only fit a Barbie doll. There was also the time when Dudley's gang were chasing them at school, and had them trapped on a corner, they closed their eyes expecting the worst, but when they opened again they were at the school's rooftop. Strange things always happened around the Potter twins.

"C'mon" Jackie said as she stood up "Let's make the breakfast" She added as she raced out the door silently, careful not to wake her aunt and uncle. Sighing, Harry followed her. Downstairs they found a note from Aunt Petunia telling them she wanted them to prepare Dudley's favourite breakfast for his birthday 'Pancakes with chocolate syrup, orange juice, 10 cupcakes and fried eggs'

"No wonder he's so fat" Harry commented "Eating all of that just for breakfast"

"The one and only advantage of being starved from time to time" Jackie said as she took the ingredients she needed from the refrigerator. "You don't turn into a fat spoiled brat" Harry frowned again as he watched his sister, dressed in Dudley's old clothes. The Dursleys didn't bother buying Harry and Jackie clothes, so they both got stuck with Dudley old clothes. Which came out worst to Jackie since she's a girl, but is always dressed in old pants that look too big for her and t-shirts that are so large that sometimes look more like a dress. Harry's clothes were basically the same, adding the fact the Harry wears glasses and that at least his clothes are on the right sex.

"Are you going to help me or not?" Jackie snapped as Harry kept staring at her "Here" She handed him some bread "make some toasts for us, before Dudley wakes up" and maybe just to remind him of how hungry he was, his stomach grunted and Harry happily did what he was told.

An hour later, Dudley's breakfast was ready, Jackie and Harry had eaten and the kitchen table was full of presents. Thirty-six presents. But apparently that wasn't enough to Dudley, because when his mother told him that he sulked

"Thirty-six, that's two less than last year" He cried

"Oh, but you didn't count Aunt Marge's present, sweetie" Aunt Petunia told him "And we'll buy you two more presents at the zoo"

"So, I'll have…" Dudley struggled "I'll have thirty-thirty…"

"Thirty-nine, sweetuns" Aunt Petunia kissed his cheek. Jackie faked a gag in the corner as Harry tried not to laugh. Dudley, however, heard them and was about to complain about it to his mother when Uncle Vernon erupted into the kitchen

"Petunia, bad news" He said "Mrs. Figg can't take the kids. She stumbled on one of her cats and broke her leg…" He said. Harry made a face, Mrs. Figg is an old lady that lives two streets from their house, who takes care of him and Jackie when the Dursleys travel or need to go out without Harry and Jackie, which is almost always. Mrs. Figg is ok, she treats them well, but bores them to death as she insists on showing them the photos of her million cats. And neither Jackie or Harry are cat people, they're more of dog people.

"Oh, no" Aunt Petunia put her hand on her mouth "How about we leave them with your sister…"

"Don't be absurd. Marge hates the kids" Uncle Vernon told her "What about your friend Yvonne?"

"On vacation in Majorca" Aunt Petunia said

"We could just leave us here" Harry suggested praying they'd accept it. He and Jackie could steal some cookies, watch some TV and maybe even surf on Dudley's computer.

"There's no way I'm leaving you two alone here" Uncle Vernon grunted "You'll burn down the house and we'll just find the ashes when we come back"

"We won't" Jackie argued, but Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia ignored her

"We could leave them in the car…" Aunt Petunia said

"No, the car's new and I don't even want to think on what they'll do to it" Uncle Vernon was interrupted by Dudley's fake tears, which appeared every time he wanted something

"I don't want them to go" He yelled "They'll ruin my whole day"

"Don't worry Dinky Duddydums" Aunt Petunia took Dudley in her arms. "I won't let them spoil your special day" She assured him. Jackie rolled her eyes, Dudley hasn't cried for real in years, his tears are always fake. He just wants to get what he wants. But the tears faded immediately as the doorbell rang.

"They're here" Dudley said as he ran to the door. Every year on Dudley's birthday, his parents take him and a friend to an amusement park, a restaurant or any place Dudley would like to go. This year, he had chosen the zoo and his best friend Piers Polkiss would go with him. Piers's the one that usually holds people's arms behind their back as Dudley hit them.

Half an hour later, Harry and Jackie couldn't believe that they were actually sitting on the back of Uncle Vernon's car with Dudley and Piers. They were going to the zoo, since their Aunt and Uncle couldn't think of anything else to do with them. But, of course, before they entered the car Uncle Vernon had taken them aside and said

"Look, this is Dudley's special day and if you do anything funny you'll stay on that cupboard until Christmas" He warned. Harry and Jackie nodded not wanting to get on his bad side.

Surprisingly, the day went well. Jackie and Harry would always walk as far away as possible from Aunt Petunia, Uncle Vernon, Dudley and Piers but at the same time without losing sigh of them. They had eaten better than they had ever eaten on their whole lives and even got to finish Dudley's ice cream since on the middle of the first one, he had decided that he wanted another one and Uncle Vernon had to buy him the other. They also were able to have lemon drops given that the lady from the ice cream carriage had asked them what they wanted before they could walk away.

The animals were interesting as well. Dudley's favourite had been the gorillas and Harry understood why

"They're just like him" he told Jackie "The gorillas are just like Dudley, except they don't have a blond wig"

Jackie had laughed "Poor Gorillas!" She said sympathetic "Having to spend their lives looking like that"

Harry had liked the Lions "They're much better than gorillas" He said "They have courage to fight against what they don't like" He pondered as Jackie laughed "Since when you're a philosopher. Harry laughed as well. She was right, it was silly. But he still liked the Lions. Jackie on other hand was fascinated by the wolves. She loved their eyes and how they walked. She didn't know why but she loved them. She could spend the whole day staring at them. And that was why Harry had to literally drag her to the Reptile house.

The Reptile house was interesting. Jackie was the one who did not enjoy that.

"Ugh! I hate snakes" She told Harry as they watched Dudley hit the glass of a Boa Constrictor "They're so disgusting"

"It's ok" He said "Everybody's scared of something" Jackie rolled her eyes at him "Don't misunderstand me, I'm not scared of them, but I don't like them. They're, like I said, disgusting"

Harry gave her a 'Yeah, right' look but didn't say anything. He walked over to where Dudley had left, complaining about the boring snake. He stared at the snake, who suddenly opened it's eyes and looked at Harry, who suddenly felt sympathetic, he knew how it's annoying to have people nagging you all day. The snake glanced at Uncle Vernon and Dudley and winked at Harry. Harry blinked wondering if he was seeing things but winked back. The snake raised it's head so it was on the same level as Harry and said clearly 'I get that all the time'

"I know" Harry said "It must really be annoying" The snake nodded.

"Harry, who are you talking to?" Jackie asked coming from behind Harry.

"The snake" Harry said "It was telling me how it was really annoying people like Dudley nagging them all day" He explained. Jackie had a look on her face that said 'Oh God, he's finally cracked' but Harry ignored her and asked the snake

"Where are you from anyway?" The snake jabbed it's tail to the small sign next to the glass that read: 'Boa Constrictor, Brazil'

"Oh, Brazil" Harry said "Was it nice there?" He asked trying not to laugh at Jackie's shocked face. The snake jabbed it's tail again this time one the small sign on the glass that read: 'This specimen was bred in the zoo'

"Oh, so you've never been to Brazil?" Jackie said, deciding that if Harry could talk to snaked so could she. The snake shook it's head, but a sound behind them made all three of them jump in surprise. It was Dudley and Piers running at them, they pushed Harry and Jackie out of the way and exclaimed at the snake "Do it again! Do it again!"

Harry and Jackie both felt really angry but there was nothing they could do about it. What happened next was a surprise to everyone. One minute Piers and Dudley were leading against the glass and the other they had fallen inside the snake's tank while the snake slid through people's leg going to the exit it passed by Harry and Jackie and winked at them 'Brazil, Here I come… Thanksss, amigosss" It said.

The zoo director was stunned "But the glass… where did it go?" He kept saying as he made Aunt Petunia a strong sweet tea. He apologized a hundred million times. On car ride back home, Piers smirked at Harry and Jackie saying

"You two… you were talking to the snake, weren't you?" Uncle Vernon went pale

"What?!" He thundered

"Yes, they were talking to the snake" Piers repeated smugly. Thee next thing they knew was that when they got home Uncle Vernon's only words were

"Go. Cupboard. Now"

By the time they were allowed to leave their cupboard summer holidays had already started. And as Harry watched his sister cook for the Dursleys every morning, he hoped for a miracle, for a way of escaping. Somewhere where they could be happy. The little of hope he had left was because Dudley would go to Uncle Vernon's old private school while Jackie and Harry would go to public school. A change to get away from Dudley. They had been waiting for that all of their lives, because they knew that they don't need Dudley, Uncle Vernon or Aunt Petunia, all they need is each other.