C H A P T E R O N E
THE BOY WHO LIVED
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r . 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 .
Mr . Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings , which made drills . He was a big , beefy man with hardly any neck , although he did have a very large mustache . Mrs . Dursley was thin and blonde and had nearly twice the usual amount of neck , which came in very useful as she spent so much of her time craning over garden fences , spying on the neighbors . The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere .
The Dursleys had everything they wanted , but they also had a secret , and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it .
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