Harry Potter recalled his incident at the zoo in December 1992 to his friend Ron Weasley, after he officially discovered he was a Parselmouth after the Duelling Club. Soon after, the zoo director gave Mr and Mrs Dursley tea while asking for forgiveness. In anger, Harry made the glass of its cage vanish, unknowingly using underage magic. When Dudley and Piers saw the snake moving around, they rushed to the get to the cage, and Dudley pushed Harry out of the way. While at the zoo, they bought ice cream treats, saw a gorilla that reminded Harry of Dudley, ate at the zoo restaurant, and visited the reptile house.Īt first, Dudley found the place boring because none of the reptiles were moving around much, but when no one was watching, Harry discovered that he was able to speak to snakes when he realised a boa constrictor understood what he was saying. Vernon Dursley and Petunia Dursley took their son Dudley Dursley to this zoo for his eleventh birthday on 23 June 1991, along with his friend Piers Polkiss and, reluctantly, their nephew, Harry Potter.
