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chapter 3 the letters from no one The Escape of the Brazilian boa constrictor and Harry his longest ever punishment by the time he was allowed out of his cupboard again the summer holidays it started I'm doubly he broke in his new video camera crashed his remote control airplane and first time out on his racing bike knocked down old mrs. figg as she crossed privet drive on her crutches Kyrie was glad school was over but there's no escaping Dudley's gang who visited the house every single day is Dennis Malcolm and Gordon were all big and stupid but as Dudley was the biggest and stupidest of the lot he was the leader the rest of the mall close happy to join in Dudley's favorite sport Harry hunting this is why how we spend as much time as possible after the house wandering around and thinking about the end of the holidays by he could see a tiny Ray of Hope When September came you would be going off to secondary school and for the first time in his life he wouldn't be with Dudley WB next septa did Uncle Vernon's old private school smeltings is Pocus was going back to hurry on the and was going to Stonewall High the local public school Dudley thought this was very funny guy stuff people's heads down the toilet the first day at Stonewall he told Harry want to come upstairs and Pratt no thanks said hurry the poor toilets never had anything as horrible as your head down it it might be sick and then he ran before Dudley could work out what he said one day in July on petunia. Dublin to London to buy his smeltings uniform leaving Harriet mrs. figs mrs. figg wasn't as bad as usual it turned out she broken her leg tripping over one of her cats and she didn't seem quite as fond of The Miz before how we watch television and gave him a bit of chocolate cake that tasted as though she'd had it for several years evening W parade it around the living room for the family in his brand new uniform smeltings boys War maroon coach orange Knickerbockers and flat Straw Hat school botas they also carried No Bully Sticks used for hitting each other while the teachers weren't looking this was supposed to be good training for later life go to Dudley in his new Knickerbockers Uncle Vernon said gruffly that it was the proudest moment of his life Aunt Petunia burst into tears and said she couldn't believe it was her a cold. Lee can he looks so handsome and grown-up how are you trust himself to speak he thought two of his ribs might already have cracked from trying not to laugh that was a horrible smell in the kitchen the next morning when Harry went in for breakfast it seemed to be coming from a large metal tub in the sink he went to have a look the tub was full of what look like dirty rags swimming in gray water what's this they are start petunia her lips tighten this way always did if he dared to ask a question your new school uniform she said how he looked in the bowl again oh he said I didn't realize it had to be so wet don't be stupid snapped on petunia I'm dying some of Dudley's old things greatly for you that look just like everyone else is when I finished very seriously doubted this but thought it best not to argue he sat down at the table I tried not to 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 Uncle Vernon came in both with wrinkled nose is because of the smell from hair new uniform Uncle Vernon open this newspaper as usual I'm badly banged his smelting stick which he carried everywhere on the table they heard the click of the mail slot and slip of lettuce on the doormat get the mail. Uncle Vernon from behind his papers make Harry catch it with your smoking stick. I reach out to the smelting stick and went to get them three things like on the doormat the postcard from Uncle Vernon sister Marge who was vacationing on the Isle of Wight a brown envelope that look like a bill and a letter for Harry are we picked it up instead at his car playing like a giant elastic band no one ever in his whole life was written to him who would he had no friends no other relatives he didn't belong to the library so never even got rude notes asking for books back a letter addressed so plainly that can be no mistake mr. H Potter the cupboard Under the Stairs 4 privet Drive little whinging sorry the envelope was thick and heavy made of yellowish parchment and the address was written in emerald green ink there was no stamp turn on the envelope is hand trembling purple Wax Seal bearing a coat of arms a lion illegal a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter H hurry up running from the kitchen what are you doing four letter bombs chuckled at his own joke are we went back to the kitchen still staring at his letter he handed Uncle Vernon the bill and the postcard sent down and slowly began to open the yellow envelope Uncle Vernon Richtofen the bill snorted in disgust and flipped over the postcard to the informed Opportunity Center be submitted Harry Scott Kyrie was on the point of unfolding his letter which was written on the same heavy punishment is the envelope when it was Judge Sharpie out of his hand by Uncle Vernon that's mine said hurry trying to  it back to you near Vancouver and then shaking the lateral from with one hand and glancing at his face went from red to Green faster than a set of traffic lights and it didn't stop there within seconds it was the grayish white of old porridge pachulia he cost can be trying to grab the letter to read it but Uncle Vernon held it high out of his reach Aunt Petunia took it curiously and read the first line for a moment it looks as though she might faint she touched tomato choking noise oh my goodness they stared at each other seeming to have forgotten that Harry and Dudley was still in the room that he wasn't used to being ignored because his father is Chop Chop on the head with his smelting stick I want to read it it's mine out Uncle Vernon's stuffing the letter back inside this envelope Harry didn't move I want my 2 shorted out rolled ankle bone I need to both Harry and Dudley by the scruffs of their necks and threw them into the whole slamming the kitchen drawer behind them carry NW promptly had a furious but silent fight over who would listen to the keyhole Dudley 1 so hurry his is dangling from one of your lace knots on his stomach to listen to the crack between door and floor Vernon and petunia was saying in a quivering voice the address how could I possibly know where he sleep I watching the house watching spying might be following of Uncle Vernon wildly be right back tell them we what are we could see Uncle Vernon shiny black shoes pacing up and down the kitchen he said it best we won't do anything I'm not having one in the house but you didn't we swear when we took each stamp out that dangerous nonsense that evening when he got back from work I'm going and did something he'd never done before. did Harry in his cupboard where's my NECA said hi to me it was addressed to you by mistake said Uncle Vernon shorty I have burned it it was not a mistake said hurry angrily it had my cupboard on it silenced yelled Uncle Vernon in a couple of spiders fell from the ceiling he took a few deep breaths and then for his face into a smile which looks painful guess Harry about this covered your aunt and I have been thinking you're really getting a bit big for it we think it might be nice if you moved into Dudley's second bedroom why check Highway don't ask questions snapped his uncle take this stuff upstairs now what does this house had four bedrooms one for Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia one for the visitors usually uncle Conan system maje one where Dudley slept and one we're doubly kept all the toys and things that will be fit into his first bedroom we don't need to carry one trip upstairs to move everything from the cupboard to this room except on the bed instead around him maybe everything in here was broken the month old video camera was lying on top of a small working tank WW1 is driven over the next door neighbor's dog in the corner was Douglass first ever television that would you put his foot through when his favorite program has been canceled that was a large bird cage Richard once held a parrot that Dudley had swapped the school for a real air rifle which was up on the Shelf with the Enbrel been because Dudley Head Start on it other shows with full of books are the only things in the room that looked as though they'd never been touched from downstairs came the sound of Dudley bowling at his mother came in the I need that my team gator Harry side and stretched out on the bed yesterday he's a given anything to be up here today he'd rather be back in his cupboard with that letter sewn up here touted next morning at breakfast everyone was Robert quiet Dudley was in shock he screamed like his father with his smelting stick being sick on purpose kicked his mother and from his tortoise to the greenhouse roof and he still didn't have his room back area was thinking about this time yesterday and bitterly wishing he'd opened the letter in the holes Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia kept looking at each other doc Lee when the mail arrived Vernon to sing to be trying to be nice to Harry made Dudley go and get it they heard him banging things with his smelting stick all the way down the hole and then he's counted the number one mr. height the smallest bedroom four privet drive with a strangled cry Uncle Vernon it up from his seat and ran down the hall right behind Uncle tablet to the ground to get the letter from him which was Difficult by the fact that area grab Uncle Vernon around the neck from behind after a minute of confused fighting in which everyone got hit a lot by the smelting stick gasping for breath with Holly's letter clutch to send to your cupboard your bedroom Pee-Wee's at Harry just go Harry walked round and round his new room south of his cupboard and they seem to know he hadn't received his first letter surely that meant they try again and this time you'd make sure they didn't fail he had a plan the repaired alarm clock rang at 6 the next morning I returned it off quickly and dress silently he mustn't like the dursleys he stole downstairs without turning on any of the lights he was going to wait for the postman on the corner privet drive and get the letters for number for First his heart hammered as he crept across the dark hole towards the front door are we going to be at Detroit numb something big sushi on the doormat something alive light strips on upstairs and to his horror Harry realize that the big squishy something in his uncle's face Uncle Vernon has been lying at the foot of the front door in a sleeping bag clearly making sure that how we didn't do exactly what he's been trying to do this child you didn't hire me for about half an hour and then told him to go and make a cup of tea Berry shuffled miserably off into the kitchen by the time you got back the mail has arrived right into Uncle Vernon slap Harry could see three letters addressed in green ink I want but Uncle Vernon was tearing the letters into pieces before his eyes Uncle Vernon didn't go to work that day you stayed at home nailed up the mail slot see you explain to Aunt Petunia through a mouth full of nails if I can't pay for them they'll chop I'm not sure that'll work Vernon these people's minds work in strange ways pachulia they're not like you and me said Uncle Vernon trying to Knocking a nail with a piece of fruitcake on Juniata just brought him I'm Friday no less than 12 letters arrive for Harry as they couldn't go through the mail slot they had been pushed under the doors locked it through the side and a few even Force the small window in the downstairs bathroom Uncle Vernon stated home again after burning all the letters he got have a hammer and nails and boarded up the Cracks around the front and back doors so no one could go out he hummed go through the tulips is he work I jumped at small noises I'm Saturday things began to get out of hand 24 letters to how we found their way into the house rolled up and hitting inside each of the two eggs that they're very confused Milkman I've had it on petunia through the living room window why don't covalent and made serious telephone calls to the post office and the dairy trying to find someone to complain to Aunt Petunia shredded actors in her food processor on Earth wants to talk to you this badly Dudley off Harry in amazement on Sunday morning Uncle Vernon sat down with the was table looking tired and Rafael but happy no post on Sundays he reminded them cheerfully as he spread marmalade on his newspapers know. Something came whizzing down the kid chimney has he spoken caught him sharply on the back of the head next moment 13 or 14 letters came pelting out of the fireplace like bullets the dursleys. But have you left him to be a trying to catch one Uncle Vernon sees Tire around the waist and threw him into the hole when Aunt Petunia and Dudley had run out with their arms over their faces Uncle Vernon slam the door shut they could be able to still streaming into the room turn off the walls and floor that's it said Uncle Vernon trying to speak calmly but pulling great Tufts out of his moustache at the same time I want you all back here in 5 minutes ready to leave we going away just pack some clothes know I'll Givens he looks so dangerous with off his mustache missing but no one did you 10 minutes late to the hood range their way through the doors hammer in the car speeding towards the highway. Lee was sniffling in the backseat his father had hit him around the head for holding them up while he tried to pack his television vcr and computer in his sports bag they drove and they drove even opportunity I didn't ask where they were going every now and then Uncle Vernon would take a shop to drive in the opposite direction for a while I come up I come up he would mutter whenever he did this they didn't stop to eat or drink all day by Night full Dudley was Howlin he never had such a bad day in his life he was hungry he missed Five television programs he wanted to see never gone so long without blowing up an alien on his computer Uncle Vernon stop that last outside of gloomy looking Hotel on the outskirts of a big city Dudley and Harry shared a room with twin beds and damp musty sheets stop you snored. Have you stayed awake sitting on the windowsill staring down at the lights of passing cars and wondering they ate stale Corn Flakes and Colton tomatoes on toast for breakfast the next I had just finished when the owner of the hotel came over to that table has me but it's one of you mr. hatch Potter only about an Android that they eat at the front desk she holds up a letter so they could read the green and gold dress mr. H Potter room 17 rail View Hotel coke with are we made a grab for the letter but Uncle Vernon knocked his hand out of the way the woman stabbed them Vernon standing up quickly and swallowing from the dining room wouldn't it be better just to go home dear Aunt Petunia suggested timidly I was later but Uncle Vernon didn't seem to hear exactly what I was looking for none of them knew he drove them into the middle of a forest. Out looked around shook his head got back into the car and off they went again the same thing happened in the middle of a plowed field halfway across the suspension bridge top of a multi-level parking garage Daddy's Gone bad husband probably Austin Fortuna Deli later that afternoon Uncle Vernon parked at the coast lock them all inside the car and disappeared it started to rain rate drops beat on the roof of the car. Please sniveled he told his mother the great Humberto's on tonight I want to stay somewhere with a television Monday this reminded Harry of something if it was Monday and you could usually count on Dudley to know the days of the week because of Television then tomorrow Tuesday was Harry's 11th birthday days were never exactly fun last year the does Lisa giving him a coat hanger in a pair of Uncle Vernon's old  still do you want 11 everyday Uncle Vernon was back and he was smiling it was also carrying a long thin package I did not answer on petunia when she asked what he'd bought the perfect place he said tell him every want to help it was very cold outside the car Uncle Vernon was pointing it look like a large Rock weigh she touched On Top of the Rock was the most miserable Little Shack you could imagine one thing was certain there was no television in there home forecast for tonight said Uncle Vernon gleefully clapping his hands together and this gentleman has kindly agreed to lend us his bout a toothless old man came ambling up to them pointing with Robert Wicked grin I don't know Road boat bobbing in the iron-gray water below them I've already got some rest 74 Vernon Road it was freezing in about ICC spray and Rain crept down the next on a chilly wind with that face is after what seemed like hours they reached the rock where Uncle Vernon sliding let the way to the broken down house the inside was horrible it smells strongly of seaweed the wind whistles through the gaps in the wooden walls on the fireplace was dampened empty there were only two rooms Uncle Bernie's restaurant has turned out to be a bag of chips each and 4 bananas he tried to start a fire but the empty chip bags just smoked and shriveled up could turn with some of those letters know he said Chevrolet he was in a very good mood obviously he thought nobody stood a chance of reaching them here in a storm to deliver mail Harry privately agreed so the phone didn't cheer him up at all does Knightsville the promise storm blew up around them spray from the high waves splash of the walls of the heart with a fierce wind rattled the filthy windows on petunia found a few moldy blankets in the second predictably on the muffies and sofa she and Uncle Vernon went off to the lumpy bed next door but Harry was left to find the softest between floor he could and to curl up under the thinnest most ragged blanket the storm rage mode ferociously as the night went on Tyree couldn't sleep he shivered and turned over trying to get comfortable this stomach rumbling with Hunger Douglas knows with ground by the little rolls of Thunder. Started near midnight lighted I love Douglas watch which was dangling over the edge of the sofa on his fat wrists told Harry he be 11 in 10 minutes time delay and watched his birthday to Panera wondering if the police would remember at all wondering whether left Ryder was now 5 minutes to go Kyrie heard something Creek outside I hope the roof wasn't going to fall in Willow he might be warmer if it did four minutes to go maybe the house in privet Drive be so full of letters when they got back that he'd be able to steal one somehow 3 minutes ago was that in the sea slapping hard on The Rock black bat and 2 minutes to go what's that funny friendship what's the rock tumbling into the sea one minute to go and he'd be eleven thirty seconds 2010 nine maybe he wiped out just to annoy him three 2 1 sugared and how to reset bolt upright staring at the door someone was outside knocking to come in

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