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It is immediately clear that Harry is unlike other boys, a fact not only known to Vernon and Petunia, but one they are uncomfortable with. The abusive Dursleys have treated him as little more than a slave, showing him no affection, or even the slightest respect. Despite this ill-treatment, however, Harry is neither timid nor bitter, and is generally cheerful and kind, unlike his cousin Dudley, who is being shaped into a cruel, egotistical bully by his parents' overindulgence, and whose name reflects his personality (a dud). Harry's early traits show the admirable attributes which are so vital to his destiny.
Harry's magical talents are seen burgeoning here, as he makes the glass partition at the zoo disappear and converses with the snake (the latter is explained more fully in this book's successor, ''[[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Chamber of Secrets|Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets]]''). The author has said that this uncontrolled magical ability is normal for wizard children who are still unable to control their powers. Like other Muggle-raised wizard children, Harry knows nothing about these talents, likely making their effect even more disturbing and potentially harmful to those around them. Strangely, however, Harry hardly seems frightened by these bizarre incidents, and only casually questions them. This suggests that he innately accepts magic, and perhaps has an unconscious awareness about his true wizard nature. His enforced isolation from the wizardly world and much of the muggle world also gives him little reference as to what is considered "normal", though this would probably change as he matured, eventually realizing he is quite different from other people
Harry has also started experiencing residual memories about his parents' deaths, though he was told they were killed in a car crash. The flying motorcycle in his dream is obviously the one [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rubeus Hagrid|Hagrid]] used to transport him to the Dursleys, and the green flash he recalls, though as yet unexplained, is also likely linked to those events. Harry will almost certainly experience more memories about that fateful night as he matures.
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The scene with the snake could foreshadow events in the next two chapters. Harry and the snake are both prisoners, cut off from the world they truly belong: Harry, stuck with the Dursleys, is isolated from the Wizarding world, just as the snake, captive in the zoo, is prevented from living in the Amazon jungle. Also, both having been raised away from their true homes, lack knowledge about their native worlds. Each in turn is released from their prison, and heads toward an unknown future, somehow believing that it must be better than what they are leaving behind.
We learn here about Harry's ability to speak to snakes, a fact that becomes important in future books. A wizard who is able to speak to snakes is called a [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Parselmouth|Parselmouth]], and the language itself is called [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Parseltongue|Parseltongue]]. Being Muggle-raised, Harry does not know just how rare this ability is, and is dismayed to learn that it is linked with the descendants of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Salazar Slytherin|Salazar Slytherin]], a wizard who is seen as an originator of the extremely prejudiced [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Magic/Pureblood|system of beliefs about Blood purity]]. It will be a plot point in two later books, also, that Harry is not conscious of whether he is speaking and hearing English or Parseltongue.
The speaking with snakes, and the disappearing glass, are only the latest manifestations of Harry's magical background; we have also, in this chapter, read about flying to a rooftop to avoid a beating from Dudley's gang, hair that grew back overnight, and a jumper (sweater) that shrunk impossibly when Aunt Petunia was trying to fit it onto Harry. While it seems that these early magical signs could be the trigger that puts [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Albus Dumbledore|Albus Dumbledore]]'s great plan into action, we must recall that Harry is about to turn 11. It is when magical children turn that age that they are invited to attend [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry|Hogwarts]], which they begin the September that follows their eleventh birthday. The author has stated that Hogwarts is the only Wizarding school in the United Kingdom, thus every magical child will receive the opportunity to attend when he or she reaches 11. Not all children do attend; some, like [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marvolo Gaunt|Marvolo Gaunt]], who we will meet later in the series, likely would never have entrusted the established school system with their children. Others may attend a school in another country. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Draco Malfoy|Draco Malfoy]], Harry's future nemesis, mentions that he almost went to [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Places/Durmstrang Institute|Durmstrang]], a school hidden somewhere in Eastern Europe, and a place Harry will likely wish Draco had attended.
It should be noted that Harry, in this chapter, produces the same effect as a Vanishing Spell, a spell that isn't taught until fifth year, and does so without a wand. Harry also demonstrates wandless magic in [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Prisoner of Azkaban/Chapter 2|''Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban'']] when [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Marge Dursley|Aunt Marge]] insults [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/James Potter|Harry's father]]. The common factor in these events, along with the earlier manifestations of magic, was that Harry was in a highly charged emotional state. From this, it is easy to infer that wandless magic is associated with strong emotional feelings.
As the story progresses, Harry's personal qualities, as well as his flaws, are continually seen as he matures into a young man. Whereas Harry develops into a well-rounded person, the Dursleys are always depicted as rather two-dimensional, uncaring, and unpleasant characters, whose faults are deliberately exaggerated in order to contrast Harry's good nature with the worst in human attributes.
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