In fact, the only 1 ĬHAPTER ONEway he would be spotted was if his Uncle Vernon or Aunt Petuniastuck their heads out of the living room window and looked straightdown into the flower bed below. Harry Potter’s appearance did not endear him to the neighbors,who were the sort of people who thought scruffiness ought to be pun-ishable by law, but as he had hidden himself behind a large hydrangeabush this evening he was quite invisible to passersby. His jeans were torn and dirty, his T-shirt baggyand faded, and the soles of his trainers were peeling away from the up-pers. He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had thepinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in ashort space of time. Theonly person left outdoors was a teenage boy who was lying flat on hisback in a flower bed outside number four. Deprived of their usualcar-washing and lawn-mowing pursuits, the inhabitants of PrivetDrive had retreated into the shade of their cool houses, windowsthrown wide in the hope of tempting in a nonexistent breeze. Cars that were usually gleaming stood dusty in their drives andlawns that were once emerald green lay parched and yellowing the useof hosepipes had been banned due to drought.
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