This week I have begun reading the first out of J.K. Rowlings famous series Harry Potter. Although there will be no more books on this series I have always enjoyed watching the movies as a young kid. The book begins on Privet Drive in England which is homed to the Dursleys, a family of three in which the parents indulge in every wish their son Dudley asks for. The parents Vernon and Petunia Dursley are muggles meaning dirty blood, non magic type are the oddest of a family meaning they abhor the unordinary. On his way to work Vernon starts to realize the odd sense of the scene when he sees a cat reading a map and everyone dressed in robes, which he considered for the weird. We then find out that Lillian is the sister of Petunia and that her and James, her husband were both killed that night by Lord Voldemort. Their young son Harry was the only son that survived and earns the title "The Boy Who Lived."
The story really starts to explain itself in the ending of Chapter One, in the beginning all we were told was that there was a family who lived in England and they were very strange. You can get the sense that this book is going to have lots of unexpected and unexplained events in the story. For example the cat reading the map and all of a sudden transforms into a human, you never know what will happen. So far this book has been very intriguing and I am finding that it is very hard to put it down.
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