Harry Potter Collection

THE BOY WHO LIVED

THE VANASHIG GLASS

Harry Potter — the boy who lived!”

Hagrid’s bringing him.”

the bundle of blankets. Inside, just visible, was a

baby boy, fast asleep. Under a tuft of jet-black hair

over his forehead they could see a curiously shaped

cut, like a bolt of lightning.

big, beefy

man with hardly any neck, although he did have a

very large mustache. 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. The Dursleys had a small son

called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer

boy anywhere.

were proud to say that they were perfectly normal,

people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike. . . .

keeled over backward onto the floor.