Book 1 HARRY POTTER and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 1 : THE BOY WHO LIVED

Book 1  HARRY POTTER and the Philosopher's Stone, Chapter 1 : THE BOY WHO LIVED

 

CHAPTER 1

THE BOY WHO LIVED

                Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you’d expect to be involved in anything strange or mysterious, because they just didn’t hold with such nonsense...

NUMBER FOUR, PRIVET DRIVE

               When Mr and Mrs Dursley woke up on the dull, grey Tuesday our story starts, there was nothing about the cloudy sky outside to suggest that strange and mysterious things would soon be happening all over the country...

SOMETHING PECULIAR IS HAPPENING

               A man appeared on the corner the cat had been watching, appeared so suddenly and silently you’d have thought he’d just popped out of the ground. The cat’s tail twitched and its eyes narrowed...

HARRY IS DELIVERED

               A low rumbling sound had broken the silence around them. It grew steadily louder as they looked up and down the street for some sign of a headlight; it swelled to a roar as they both looked up at the sky – and a huge motorbike fell out of the air and landed on the road in front of them...

THE BOY WHO LIVED

               He couldn’t know that at this very moment, people meeting in secret all over the country were holding up their glasses and saying in hushed voices: ‘To Harry Potter – the boy who lived!’