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When Dudley comes waddling over and wishes his cousin a happy birthday, mocking him for not receiving a party, Harry gets annoyed and scares him away by pretending to think out loud of a spell meant to make the bush bare, but Petunia comes out when Dudley calls for her and beats her nephew with a soapy frying pan. He stares into the hedge, and sits bolt upright when he sees a pair of enormous green eyes staring back at him among the leaves. While Uncle Vernon and his son Dudley are preparing to drive into town to buy dinner jackets, Harry goes out into the garden in order to stay out of his Aunt Petunia's way as she is cleaning, singing happy birthday to himself. The only unchangeable thing on the Dursley's schedule, however, is that Harry has to stay in his room for the night, making no noise and 'pretending he doesn't exist'. The Dursleys seem to have also forgotten his birthday, because they are too busy preparing for a dinner party meant for one of Uncle Vernon's clients, Mr Mason, from whom Vernon is hoping to get a huge order. Neither of them have written to him all summer, not even to send birthday wishes. On 31 July (Harry's twelfth birthday), Harry has never felt so lonely, for he misses Hogwarts and his best friends there, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger.

This does not go well for the bird, because every time she has become bored, her screech has rung throughout the house, causing an irritated Vernon to warn Harry that if he cannot control her, she will have to go. The Dursley's have however let him keep his pet snowy owl Hedwig, but have put a padded lock on her cage to keep her inside day and night to avoid suspicion from the neighbours. Harry begins to worry about what his teachers at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry will think if he heads back to them without back homework done, and whether or not he'll be banned from the Gryffindor House Quidditch team since he has not been able to practise. They have also banned Harry from saying words such as 'magic' in the house, as evident in Uncle Vernon's outburst about Harry saying 'say the magic word' (meaning 'please'). his wand, his broomstick, spellbooks, etc.) immediately after his arrival home. Over the summer, the Dursleys have become so fearful of Harry's new-found magical abilities that they have locked away all of Harry's magical supplies (e.g. Harry Potter has returned to the Dursleys for the summer holiday in mid- 1992, and things are very bad for him. Harry sitting on a bench, unaware of someone in the bushes Uncle Vernon: ' And you, boy?' Harry: ' I'll be in my room, making no noise and pretending I'm not there.' - Vernon Dursley and Harry Potter Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past reveals dark secrets? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects. But then the real trouble begins - something is attacking Hogwarts students, making them rigid like statues. For in Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girl's bathroom. But just as he is packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.Īnd strike it does. 'Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

#PS1 HAGRID AS SOON AS I HEARD DRIVER#

Harris’s blue Ford Anglia would become immortalised in Rowling’s fiction as Ron Weasley’s family car and he would be described in the dedication in her second book as 'getaway driver and foul weather friend'.Ĭover of the US edition, by Mary Grandpré He would park under the Severn Bridge and together the pair dreamed up better futures for each other. In 1982, he drew up outside the family home in his blue Ford Anglia and whisked Jo Rowling away from the grim stillness of Tutshill to the concerts and bars of Bristol. Harris, getaway driver and foul-weather friend'Įscape came in the form of a new pupil at Wydean Comprehensive, Sean Harris, who quickly became a firm friend. 6.3 Translations (cover based on Scholastic's).6.2 Translations (cover based on Bloomsbury's).3.16 Chapter 16: The Chamber of Secrets.

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