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Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.
was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar – a cat reading a map.
This man’s name was Albus Dumbledore.
‘Fancy seeing you here, Professor McGonagall.’
‘My dear Professor, I’ve never seen a cat sit so stiffly.’ ‘You’d be stiff if you’d been sitting on a brick wall all day,’ said Professor McGonagall.
‘We have much to be thankful for. Would you care for a sherbet lemon?’ ‘A what?’ ‘A sherbet lemon. They’re a kind of Muggle sweet I’m rather fond of.’
She eyed his cloak suddenly as though she thought he might be hiding Harry underneath it.
‘Hagrid’s bringing him.’ ‘You think it – wise – to trust Hagrid with something as important as this?’ ‘I would trust Hagrid with my life,’ said Dumbledore.
‘Young Sirius Black lent it me. I’ve got him, sir.’
‘To Harry Potter – the boy who lived!’
Harry was used to spiders, because the cupboard under the stairs was full of them, and that was where he slept.
Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel – Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig.
Mr H. Potter The Cupboard under the Stairs 4 Privet Drive Little Whinging Surrey
Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter ‘H’.
‘Daddy’s gone mad, hasn’t he?’ Dudley asked Aunt Petunia dully late that afternoon.
‘You are breaking and entering!’ ‘Ah, shut up, Dursley, yeh great prune,’
He reached over the back of the sofa, jerked the gun out of Uncle Vernon’s hands, bent it into a knot as easily as if it had been made of rubber, and threw it into a corner of the room.
Rubeus Hagrid, Keeper of Keys and Grounds at Hogwarts.’
‘Harry – yer a wizard.’
‘A Muggle,’ said Hagrid. ‘It’s what we call non-magic folk like them.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander
‘Welcome,’ said Hagrid, ‘to Diagon Alley.’
‘How often do you check to see if anyone’s inside?’ Harry asked. ‘About once every ten years,’ said Griphook, with a rather nasty grin.
‘I remember every wand I’ve ever sold, Mr Potter. Every single wand. It so happens that the phoenix whose tail feather is in your wand, gave another feather – just one other. It is very curious indeed that you should be destined for this wand when its brother – why, its brother gave you that scar.’ Harry swallowed.
Hagrid leant across the table. Behind the wild beard and eyebrows he wore a very kind smile.
Harry kept to his room, with his new owl for company. He had decided to call her Hedwig,
He cleared his throat to let them know he was there, and Dudley screamed and ran from the room.
‘Why are you going to London?’ Harry asked, trying to keep things friendly. ‘Taking Dudley to hospital,’ growled Uncle Vernon. ‘Got to have that ruddy tail removed before he goes to Smeltings.’ *
‘Fred, you next,’ the plump woman said. ‘I’m not Fred, I’m George,’ said the boy. ‘Honestly, woman, call yourself our mother? Can’t you tell I’m George?’ ‘Sorry, George, dear.’ ‘Only joking, I am Fred,’ said the boy,
A scarlet steam engine was waiting next to a platform packed with people. A sign overhead said Hogwarts Express,
‘Gran, I’ve lost my toad again.’ ‘Oh, Neville,’
‘Oh, are you a Prefect, Percy?’ said one of the twins, with an air of great surprise. ‘You should have said something, we had no idea.’ ‘Hang on, I think I remember him saying something about it,’ said the other twin. ‘Once –’ ‘Or twice –’ ‘A minute –’ ‘All summer –’ ‘Oh, shut up,’ said Percy the Prefect.
‘Now, you two – this year, you behave yourselves. If I get one more owl telling me you’ve – you’ve blown up a toilet or –’ ‘Blown up a toilet? We’ve never blown up a toilet.’
‘Don’t worry, ickle Ronniekins is safe with us.’ ‘Shut up,’ said Ron again.
‘We’ll send you a Hogwarts toilet seat.’ ‘George!’ ‘Only joking, Mum.’
The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts.
‘The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and Slytherin.
‘Hope to see you in Hufflepuff!’
You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true And unafraid of toil;
Neville had never been on a broomstick in his life, because his grandmother had never let him near one. Privately, Harry felt she’d had good reason, because Neville managed to have an extraordinary number of accidents even with both feet on the ground.
shall speak to Professor Dumbledore and see if we can’t bend the first-year rule. Heaven knows, we need a better team than last year. Flattened in that last match by Slytherin, I couldn’t look Severus Snape in the face for weeks …’
‘Your father would have been proud,’ she said. ‘He was an excellent Quidditch player himself.’
‘I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. We could all have been killed – or worse, expelled. Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going to bed.’
Now, the last member of the team is the Seeker. That’s you. And you don’t have to worry about the Quaffle or the Bludgers –’ ‘– unless they crack my head open.’ ‘Don’t worry, the Weasleys are more than a match for the Bludgers – I mean, they’re like a pair of human Bludgers themselves.’
On Hallowe’en morning they woke to the delicious smell of baking pumpkin wafting through the corridors.
‘And the Quaffle is taken immediately by Angelina Johnson of Gryffindor – what an excellent Chaser that girl is, and rather attractive, too –’ ‘JORDAN!’ ‘Sorry, Professor.’
‘So – after that obvious and disgusting bit of cheating –’ ‘Jordan!’ growled Professor McGonagall. ‘I mean, after that open and revolting foul –’ ‘Jordan, I’m warning you –’ ‘All right, all right. Flint nearly kills the Gryffindor Seeker, which could happen to anyone, I’m sure,
While the Gryffindor common room and the Great Hall had roaring fires,
‘Happy Christmas,’
