The Boy Who Lived - The Basic
In this chapter, the boy who appears to have inadvertently saved the wizarding world from 11 years of hardship is left with the most gruesome, unexciting family who chose their "most boring ties" for work and delight in discovering exactly what Mrs Next Door gets up to.
"Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say they were perfectly normal, thank you very much."
Everything about the Dursley's lives seems 'perfect' - by their description anyways - until one day owls start flying during the day, cats start reading, and groups of people start wandering around wearing cloaks, and not a charity collection tin in sight!
Whispers of "the potters" are flying left right and centre, and Vernon Dursley is desperate to keep his wife, Petunia, deaf to them all because of an ancient family feud about her sister and "her kind".
By nightfall, Vernon has tiptoed his way to confirming that Harry Potter is indeed his nephew and is just about overcoming his struggle to get to sleep when Privet Drive get's a visit from a man the likes of which it's never seen before.
Albus Dumbledore reaks of magic, from his flowing white beard (conveniently tucked into his belt) to the way he manages to appear out of no where and control the street lights. Dumbledore greets the patient Professor McGongal, who has been sat, in feline form, on guard outside number four all day await Dumbledore's news.
But Dumbledore decides to take the conversation scene route, stopping off at sherbet lemons and ear muff before revealing what events have taken place over the last 24 hours which will change the fate of the wizarding world forever - or at least for the next 7 books.
If this chapter opened with a prime example of dull ordinarity it closes with no more than the polar opposite as a giant descends from the air on a flying motorbike and with him he brings the eponymous hero, the boy who lived, the chosen one, Harry James Potter.
More on this chapter can be found here.
This project will next be updated on Friday 8th August: The Vanishing Glass
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