Harry tries to keep Dobby quiet while also being comforting. Then Harry asks Dobby to sit down, causing the house-elf to burst into very noisy tears, saying that he has never been asked to sit down by a wizard, like an equal. Harry tells Dobby that it’s not a great time for him to have a house-elf in his bedroom and asks why he is there. He identifies himself as Dobby the house-elf and wears an old pillowcase. The creature slips off the bed, bows to Harry, and says that he has wanted to meet Harry Potter for a long time. Harry hears the Masons arriving downstairs. He realizes that this must be who was watching him from the hedge that morning. Harry discovers a little creature with bat-like ears and large eyes sitting on his bed. When Harry turns to collapse on his bed he finds someone sitting on it. Uncle Vernon warns him again not to make a sound that night. She feeds him a small amount of bread and cheese and sends him upstairs. He enters the kitchen exhausted, smelling roast pork in the oven, and seeing Aunt Petunia’s elaborate pudding.
Harry thinks of the contrast between his fame at Hogwarts and his mistreatment at the Dursleys. When Harry pretends to cast a spell, Dudley tells on him, and Harry is punished with yard work, and no food until it is completed. Dudley is frightened but points out Harry’s powerlessness: his father has threatened to throw Harry out of the house, and Harry has nowhere else to go. In return, Harry claims to be planning to set the hedge on fire. Dudley interrupts the moment to taunt Harry about his lonely birthday. Voldemort was a ruin of his former self, but still determined to gain power, and terrifying.Īs Harry stares at the garden hedge, he finds that it’s staring back at him, with two enormous eyes. Harry thinks of his previous year at Hogwarts, when he narrowly escaped Lord Voldemort again. But he knows that he would get in trouble because underage wizards are not allowed to use magic outside of school. Harry has been tempted to use magic to unlock Hedwig’s cage so he can send letters to his friends. He misses his best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, who haven’t written to him all summer.
He sings “Happy Birthday” to himself and feels terribly lonely. Harry goes outside to keep out of his aunt’s way as she prepares for the party. He tells Harry to stay in his bedroom that night, making no noise. Uncle Vernon is focused on making possibly the largest deal of his career at a dinner party at their house that evening with Mr. The Dursleys have forgotten that today is Harry’s twelfth birthday. He started wizard school, where he was famous for having defeated Voldemort. Then, a year ago, Hogwarts wrote to Harry, and the truth came out. He didn’t know why, because his aunt and uncle hid his magical nature from him, along with the circumstances of his parents’ death. Harry kept making odd things happen without meaning to. Harry’s mother’s sister Petunia Dursley raised Harry along with her husband, Vernon. When Voldemort failed to kill Harry, his own powers were destroyed.
Harry’s parents died in the attack, but he escaped with only a lightning scar on his forehead. Harry was left on the Dursleys’ doorstep eleven years before, at the age of one, after surviving a curse from the greatest Dark sorcerer of all time: Lord Voldemort. Uncle Vernon padlocked Hedwig in her cage to stop her from carrying messages to Harry’s friends. They are what wizards call Muggles, meaning that they have no magical blood, and are ashamed to have a wizard in the family. The Durselys don’t care if Harry is prepared for his return to school in the fall. Uncle Vernon has locked up all of Harry’s magical supplies in a cupboard under the stairs. The Dursleys are unhappy to have him back. Harry is a wizard, home for the summer holidays after his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Uncle Vernon has forbidden the use of the word “magic” in his house, calling it Harry’s “abnormality.” When Dudley asks Harry to pass the frying pan, and Harry replies “You’ve forgotten the magic word,” meaning please, the Durselys overreact in fear. Their argument is interrupted by a belch from Dudley, the Dursley’s massive son, who is being overstuffed with bacon by his mother. Uncle Vernon refuses, implying that something bad would happen if Hedwig were let out, exchanging looks with his wife Petunia. Harry explains that Hedwig is bored and asks to let her fly outside at night. Dursley yells at Harry that if he can’t control his owl, she will have to go. Vernon Dursley woke up early at the hooting of Hedwig, his nephew Harry Potter’s pet owl. An argument breaks out over breakfast at number four, Privet Drive.
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