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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
CHAPTER ONE
THE BOY WHO LIVED
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say
that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.
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Harry
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Harry Potter
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They were the last
people you'd expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious,
because they just didn't hold with such nonsense.
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Potter
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Potter and
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Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made
drills.
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and
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and the
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He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did
have a very large mustache.
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the
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the Sorcerer
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Mrs. Dursley was thin and blonde and had
nearly twice the usual amount of neck, which came in very useful as she
spent so much of her time craning over garden fences, spying on the
neighbors.
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Sorcerer
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Sorcerer 's
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The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their
opinion there was no finer boy anywhere.
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's
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's Stone
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The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and
their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it.
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Stone
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Stone CHAPTER
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They didn't
think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters.
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CHAPTER
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CHAPTER ONE
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Mrs.
Potter was Mrs. Dursley's sister, but they hadn't met for several years;
in fact, Mrs. Dursley pretended she didn't have a sister, because her
sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was
possible to be.
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ONE
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ONE THE
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The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would
say if the Potters arrived in the street.
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THE
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THE BOY
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The Dursleys knew that the
Potters had a small son, too, but they had never even seen him.
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BOY
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BOY WHO
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This boy
was another good reason for keeping the Potters away; they didn't want
Dudley mixing with a child like that.
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WHO
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WHO LIVED
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When Mr. and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray Tuesday our story
starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that
strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the
country.
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LIVED
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LIVED Mr.
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Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for
work, and Mrs. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming
Dudley into his high chair.
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Mr.
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Mr. and
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None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window.
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and
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and Mrs.
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At half past eight, Mr. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs.
Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed,
because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the
walls.
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Mrs.
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Mrs. Dursley
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"Little tyke," chortled Mr. Dursley as he left the house.
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Dursley
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Dursley ,
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He got
into his car and backed out of number four's drive.
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,
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, of
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It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of
something peculiar -- a cat reading a map.
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of
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of number
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For a second, Mr. Dursley
didn't realize what he had seen -- then he jerked his head around to
look again.
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number
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number four
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There was a tabby cat standing on the corner of Privet
Drive, but there wasn't a map in sight.
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four
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four ,
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What could he have been thinking
of?
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,
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, Privet
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It must have been a trick of the light.
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Privet
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Privet Drive
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Mr. Dursley blinked and
stared at the cat.
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Drive
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Drive ,
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It stared back.
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,
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, were
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As Mr. Dursley drove around the
corner and up the road, he watched the cat in his mirror.
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were
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were proud
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It was now
reading the sign that said Privet Drive -- no, looking at the sign; cats
couldn't read maps or signs.
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proud
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proud to
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Mr. Dursley gave himself a little shake and
put the cat out of his mind.
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to
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to say
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As he drove toward town he thought of
nothing except a large order of drills he was hoping to get that day.
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say
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say that
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But on the edge of town, drills were driven out of his mind by something
else.
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that
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that they
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As he sat in the usual morning traffic jam, he couldn't help
noticing that there seemed to be a lot of strangely dressed people
about.
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they
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they were
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People in cloaks.
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were
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were perfectly
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Mr. Dursley couldn't bear people who dressed in
funny clothes -- the getups you saw on young people!
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perfectly
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perfectly normal
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He supposed this
was some stupid new fashion.
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normal
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normal ,
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He drummed his fingers on the steering
wheel and his eyes fell on a huddle of these weirdos standing quite
close by.
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,
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, thank
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They were whispering excitedly together.
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thank
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thank you
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Mr. Dursley was
enraged to see that a couple of them weren't young at all; why, that man
had to be older than he was, and wearing an emerald-green cloak!
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you
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you very
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The
nerve of him!
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very
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very much
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But then it struck Mr. Dursley that this was probably some
silly stunt -- these people were obviously collecting for something...
yes, that would be it.
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much
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much .
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The traffic moved on and a few minutes later, Mr.
Dursley arrived in the Grunnings parking lot, his mind back on drills.
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.
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. They
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Mr. Dursley always sat with his back to the window in his office on the
ninth floor.
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They
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They were
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If he hadn't, he might have found it harder to concentrate
on drills that morning.
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were
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were the
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He didn't see the owls swoop ing past in broad
daylight, though people down in the street did; they pointed and gazed
open- mouthed as owl after owl sped overhead.
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the
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the last
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Most of them had never
seen an owl even at nighttime.
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last
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last people
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Mr. Dursley, however, had a perfectly
normal, owl-free morning.
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people
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people you
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He yelled at five different people.
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you
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you 'd
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He made
several important telephone calls and shouted a bit more.
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'd
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'd expect
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He was in a
very good mood until lunchtime, when he thought he'd stretch his legs
and walk across the road to buy himself a bun from the bakery.
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expect
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expect to
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He'd forgotten all about the people in cloaks until he passed a group of
them next to the baker's.
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to
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to be
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He eyed them angrily as he passed.
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be
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be involved
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He didn't
know why, but they made him uneasy.
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involved
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involved in
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This bunch were whispering
excitedly, too, and he couldn't see a single collecting tin.
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in
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in anything
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It was on
his way back past them, clutching a large doughnut in a bag, that he
caught a few words of what they were saying.
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anything
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anything strange
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"The Potters, that's right, that's what I heard yes, their son, Harry"
Mr. Dursley stopped dead.
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strange
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strange or
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Fear flooded him.
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or
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or mysterious
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He looked back at the
whisperers as if he wanted to say something to them, but thought better
of it.
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mysterious
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mysterious ,
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He dashed back across the road, hurried up to his office, snapped at his
secretary not to disturb him, seized his telephone, and had almost
finished dialing his home number when he changed his mind.
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,
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, because
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He put the
receiver back down and stroked his mustache, thinking... no, he was
being stupid.
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because
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because they
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Potter wasn't such an unusual name.
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they
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they just
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He was sure there were
lots of people called Potter who had a son called Harry.
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just
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just did
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Come to think
of it, he wasn't even sure his nephew was called Harry.
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did
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did n't
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He'd never even
seen the boy.
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n't
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n't hold
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It might have been Harvey.
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hold
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hold with
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Or Harold.
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with
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with such
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There was no point
in worrying Mrs. Dursley; she always got so upset at any mention of her
sister.
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such
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such nonsense
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He didn't blame her -- if he'd had a sister like that... but all
the same, those people in cloaks...
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nonsense
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nonsense .
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He found it a lot harder to concentrate on drills that afternoon and
when he left the building at five o'clock, he was still so worried that
he walked straight into someone just outside the door.
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.
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. Mr.
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"Sorry," he grunted, as the tiny old man stumbled and almost fell.
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Mr.
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Mr. Dursley
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It
was a few seconds before Mr. Dursley realized that the man was wearing a
violet cloak.
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Dursley
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Dursley was
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He didn't seem at all upset at being almost knocked to the
ground.
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was
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was the
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On the contrary, his face split into a wide smile and he said in
a squeaky voice that made passersby stare, "Don't be sorry, my dear sir,
for nothing could upset me today!
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the
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the director
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Rejoice, for You-Know-Who has gone at
last!
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director
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director of
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Even Muggles like yourself should be celebrating, this happy,
happy day!"
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of
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of a
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And the old man hugged Mr. Dursley around the middle and walked off.
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a
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a firm
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Mr. Dursley stood rooted to the spot.
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firm
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firm called
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He had been hugged by a complete
stranger.
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called
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called Grunnings
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He also thought he had been called a Muggle, whatever that
was.
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Grunnings
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Grunnings ,
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He was rattled.
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,
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, which
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He hurried to his car and set off for home, hoping
he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he
didn't approve of imagination.
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which
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which made
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As he pulled into the driveway of number four, the first thing he saw --
and it didn't improve his mood -- was the tabby cat he'd spotted that
morning.
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made
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made drills
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It was now sitting on his garden wall.
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drills
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drills .
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He was sure it was the
same one; it had the same markings around its eyes.
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.
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. He
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"Shoo!"
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He
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He was
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said Mr. Dursley loudly.
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was
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was a
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The cat didn't move.
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a
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a big
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It just gave him a
stern look.
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big
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big ,
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Was this normal cat behavior?
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,
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, beefy
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Mr. Dursley wondered.
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beefy
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beefy man
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Trying
to pull himself together, he let himself into the house.
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man
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man with
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He was still
determined not to mention anything to his wife.
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with
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with hardly
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Mrs. Dursley had had a nice, normal day.
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hardly
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hardly any
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She told him over dinner all
about Mrs. Next Door's problems with her daughter and how Dudley had
learned a new word ("Won't!").
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any
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any neck
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Mr. Dursley tried to act normally.
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neck
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neck ,
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When
Dudley had been put to bed, he went into the living room in time to
catch the last report on the evening news:
"And finally, bird-watchers everywhere have reported that the nation's
owls have been behaving very unusually today.
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,
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, although
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Although owls normally
hunt at night and are hardly ever seen in daylight, there have been
hundreds of sightings of these birds flying in every direction since
sunrise.
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although
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although he
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Experts are unable to explain why the owls have suddenly
changed their sleeping pattern."
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he
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he did
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The newscaster allowed himself a grin.
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did
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did have
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"Most mysterious.
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have
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have a
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And now, over to Jim McGuffin with the weather.
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a
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a very
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Going
to be any more showers of owls tonight, Jim?"
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very
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very large
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