Page | 4 Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - J.K. They pointed and gazed open-mouthed as owl after He didn’t see the owls swooping past inīroad daylight, though people down in the street did Have found it harder to concentrate on drills that Dursley always sat with his back to the window in Grunnings parking lot, his mind back on drills. Stunt - these people were obviously collecting for Dursley that this was probably some silly Man had to be older than he was, and wearing anĮmerald-green cloak! The nerve of him! But then it That a couple of them weren’t young at all why, that Steering wheel and his eyes fell on a huddle of these You saw on young people! He supposed this was some People who dressed in funny clothes - the getups There seemed to be a lot of strangely dressed peopleĪbout. Morning traffic jam, he couldn’t help noticing that Town he thought of nothing except a large order ofīut on the edge of town, drills were driven out of his Dursley gave himself a little shakeĪnd put the cat out of his mind. It was now reading the sign that said Privetĭrive - no, looking at the sign cats couldn’t read The corner and up the road, he watched the cat in his Page | 3 Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - J.K. WhatĬould he have been thinking of? It must have been a Of Privet Drive, but there wasn’t a map in sight. There was a tabby cat standing on the corner Had seen - then he jerked his head around to lookĪgain. It was on the corner of the street that he noticed theįirst sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a Tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, becauseĭudley was now having a tantrum and throwing hisĬereal at the walls. Dursley picked up hisīriefcase, pecked Mrs. None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter pastĪt half past eight, Mr. Gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming Mysterious things would soon be happening all over Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about theĬloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and Potters away they didn’t want Dudley mixing with a This boy was another good reason for keeping the
Small son, too, but they had never even seen him. What the neighbors would say if the Potters arrived in Good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it She didn’t have a sister, because her sister and her Page | 2 Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone - J.K. They didn’t think theyĬould bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but theyĪlso had a secret, and their greatest fear was that The Dursley s had a small sonĬalled Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer Much of her time craning over garden fences, spying Neck, which came in very useful as she spent so Dursley was thin andīlonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of
Man with hardly any neck, although he did have a Dursley was the director of a firm called Mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such They were the last people you’dĮxpect to be involved in anything strange or Were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters. This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below.