Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling EPUB & PDF – eBook Details
- Authors: J.K. Rowling
- Publish Date: July 1, 2003
- Language: English
- Genre: Literature, Fiction, American Literature
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 5 MB
- Pages: 896
- Price: Free
- ASIN: 043935806X
DUDLEY DEMENTED
he hottest day of the summer so far was drawing to a close and T a
drowsy silence lay over the large, square houses of Privet Drive.
Cars that were usually gleaming stood dusty in their drives and
lawns that were once emerald green lay parched and yellowing; the
use of hosepipes had been banned due to drought.
Deprived of their
usual car-washing and lawn-mowing pursuits, the inhabitants of
Privet Drive had retreated into the shade of their cool houses,
windows thrown wide in the hope of tempting in a nonexistent
breeze.
The only person left outdoors was a teenage boy who was
lying flat on his back in a flower bed outside number four.
He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the
pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in
a short space of time. His jeans were torn and dirty, his T-shirt baggy
and faded, and the soles of his trainers were peeling away from the
uppers. 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 hydrangea bush this evening he was quite invisible to
passersby. In fact, the only
way he would be spotted was if his Uncle Vernon or Aunt Petunia
stuck their heads out of the living room window and looked straight
down into the flower bed below.
On the whole, Harry thought he was to be congratulated on his idea
of hiding here. He was not, perhaps, very comfortable lying on the
hot, hard earth, but on the other hand, nobody was glaring at him,
grinding their teeth so loudly that he could not hear the news, or
shooting nasty questions at him, as had happened every time he had
tried sitting down in the living room and watching television with
his aunt and uncle.
Almost as though this thought had fluttered through the open
window, Vernon Dursley, Harry’s uncle, suddenly spoke. “Glad to
see the boy’s stopped trying to butt in. Where is he anyway?”
“I don’t know,” said Aunt Petunia unconcernedly. “Not in the
house.”
Uncle Vernon grunted.
“Watching the news …” he said scathingly. “I’d like to know what
he’s real y up to. As if a normal boy cares what’s on the news —
Dudley hasn’t got a clue what’s going on, doubt he knows who the
Prime Minister is! Anyway, it’s not as if there’d be anything about
his lot on our news —”
“Vernon, shh!” said Aunt Petunia. “The window’s open!”
“Oh — yes — sorry, dear …”
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