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levisie and maybe

even have a go on dudleys puter).

auuhough shed just swallowed a lemon.

”and e bad the house in ruins?” she snarled.

”i wont blow up the house,” said harry, but they werent

listening.

”i suppose we could take him to the zoo,” said auunia

slowly, ”... ahe car....”

”that cars new, hes not sitting in it alone....”

dudley began to cry loudly. in fact, he wasnt really g --

it had been years since hed really cried -- but he k if he

screwed up his fad wailed, his mive him anything

he wanted.

”dinky duddydums, dont cry, mummy wo him spoil your

special day!” she cried, flinging her arms around him.

”i... dont... want... him... t-t-to e!” dudley yelled

betweeend sobs. ”he al!” he

shot harry a nasty grin through the gap in his mothers arms.

just then, the d -- ”oh, good lord, theyre

here!” said auunia frantically -- aer, dudleys

best friend, piers polkiss, walked in with his mother. piers was

a sy boy with a face like a rat. he was usually the one who

held peoples arms behind their backs while dudley hit them. dudley

st to ce.

half an hour later, harry, who t believe his luck, was

sitting in the back of the dursleys car with piers and dudley,

ohe zoo for the first time in his life. his aunt and

unt beehink of ao do with him,

but before theyd left, un had taken harry aside.

”im warning you,” he had said, putting his large purple face

right up close to harrys, ”im warning you now, boy -- any funny

busihing at all -- and youll be in that

now until christmas.”

”im not going to do anything,” said harry, ”holy..

but un didnt believe him. no one ever did.

the problem was, strahings often happened around harry and

it was just he dursleys he didnt make them happen.

o petunia, tired ba the barbers

looking as though he had all, had taken a pair of kit

sd cut his hair so short he was almost bald except for

his bangs, which she left ”to hide that horrible scar.” dudley had

laughed himself silly at harry, who spent a sleepless night imagining

school the day, where he was already laughed at fy

d taped glasses. m, however, he had gotten

up to find his hair exactly as it had beeunia had

sheared it off he had been given a week in his cupboard for this,

even though he had tried to explain that he t explain how

it had grown back so quickly.

aime, auurying to forto a

revoltier of dudleys (brown uff balls) --

the harder she tried to pull it over his head, the smaller it seemed

to bee, until finally it might have fitted a ha

ly wouldnt fit harry. auu must have

shrunk in the wash and, to his great relief, harry wasnt punished.

oher hand, hed gotter

found on the roof of the school kits. dudleys gang had been

g him as usual when, as much to harrys surprise as anyone

elses, there he was sitting on the ey. the dursleys had

received a very aer from harrys headmistress telling them

harry had been g school buildings. but all hed tried to

do (as he shouted at uhrough the locked door of his

cupboard) behirash s outside the kit

doors. harry supposed that the wind must have caught him in mid-

jump.

but today, nothing was going t. it was even w

with dudley ao be spending the day somewhere that wasnt

school, his rs. figgs cabbage-smelling living room.

while he drove, unplai petunia. he liked

to plain about thi work, harry, the cil, harry,

the bank, and harry were just a few of his favorit