and stupid, but as dudley was
the biggest ahe lot, he was the leader. the rest
of them were all quite happy to join in dudley's favorite sport:
harry hunting.
this ent as much time as possible out of the
house, wandering around and thinking about the end of the holidays,
where he could see a tiny ray of hope. wheember came he would
be going off to sedary sd, for the first time in his
life, he wouldh dudley. dudley had bee uncle
vernon's old private seltings. piers polkiss was going
there too. harry, oher hand, was going to stonewall high,
the local public school. dudley thought this was very funny.
”they stuff people's heads dowhe first day at
stonewall,” he told harry. ”waairs and practice?”
”no, thanks,” said harry. ”the poor toilet's never had anything
as horrible as your head down it -- it might be si he ran,
before dudley could work out what he'd said.
one day in july, auook dudley to london to buy his
smeltings uniform, leaving harry at mrs. figg's. mrs. figg wasn
't as bad as usual. it tur she'd br tripping
over os, and she dide as fond of them
as before. she let harry watch television and gave him a bit of
chocolate cake that tasted as though she'd had it for several years.
that evening, dudley paraded around the living room for the
family in his brand-new uniform. smeltings' boys wore maroon
tailce knickerbod flat straw hats called
boaters. they also obbly sticks, used f each
other while the teachers weren't looking. this osed to be
g for later life.
as he looked at dudley in his new knickerbo
said gruffly that it roudest moment of his life. aunt
petunia burst into tears and said she 't believe it was her
ickle dudleykins, he looked so handsome and grown-up. harry didn't
trust himself to speak. he thought twht already
have cra trying not to laugh.
there was a horrible smell iext m when
harry went i. it seemed to be a large
metal tub in the sio have a look. the tub was full of
what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water.
”what's this?” he asked auuightened as
they always did if he dared to ask a question.
”your new s,” she said.
harry looked in the bowl again.
”oh,” he said, ”i did had to be so wet.”
”dota be stupid,” s petunia. ”i'm dyeing some of
dudley's old things gray for you. it'll look just like everyone
else's when i've finished.”
harry seriously doubted this, but thought it best not to
argue. he sat dowable ao think about how
he was going to look on his first day at stonewall high -- like he
was wearing bits of old elephant skin, probably.
dudley and une in, both with wrinkled noses
beell from harry's new uniform. un opened
his neer as usual and dudley banged his smelting stick, which
he carried everywhere, oable.
they heard the ail slot and flop of letters on
the doormat.
”get the mail, dudley,” said un behind his paper.
”make harry get it.”
”get the mail, harry.”
”make dudley get it.”
”poke him with y stick, dudley.”
harry dodged the smelting stit to get the mail. three
things lay o: a post un's sister
marge, who was vag o, a brown envelope
that looked like a bill, aer for harry.
harry picked it up a, his heart twanging like a
giaio one, ever, in his whole life, had written to
him. who would? he had no friends, ives -- he didn't
belong to the library, so he'd rude notes asking for
books back. yet here it was, a letter, addressed so plainly there
o mistake:
mr. h. potter
the cupboard uhe
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