As he drove toward town he thought of nothing except a large order of drills he was hoping to get that day. Dursley gave himself a little shake and put the cat out of his mind. It was now reading the sign that said Privet Drive - no, looking at the sign cats couldn't read maps or signs. Dursley drove around the corner and up the road, he watched the cat in his mirror. What could he have been thinking of? It must have been a trick of the light. There was a tabby cat standing on the corner of Privet Drive, but there wasn't a map in sight. Dursley didn't realize what he had seen - then he jerked his head around to look again. It was on the corner of the street that he noticed the first sign of something peculiar - a cat reading a map. He got into his car and backed out of number four's drive. Dursley on the cheek, and tried to kiss Dudley good-bye but missed, because Dudley was now having a tantrum and throwing his cereal at the walls. Dursley picked up his briefcase, pecked Mrs. None of them noticed a large, tawny owl flutter past the window. Dursley gossiped away happily as she wrestled a screaming Dudley into his high chair. Dursley hummed as he picked out his most boring tie for work, and Mrs. Dursley woke up on the dull, gray 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. This boy was another good reason for keeping the Potters away they didn't want Dudley mixing with a child like that. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a small son, too, but they had never even seen him. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbors would say if the Potters arrived in the street. Dursley pretended she didn't have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. Dursley's sister, but they hadn't met for several years in fact, Mrs. They didn't think they could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters. The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that somebody would discover it. The Dursleys had a small son called Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy anywhere. 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. He was a big, beefy man with hardly any neck, although he did have a very large mustache. Dursley was the director of a firm called Grunnings, which made drills. 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. Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. With its message of hope, belonging, and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new listeners. Having now become classics of our time, the Harry Potter audiobooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism to listeners of all ages. Hagrid spirits him away to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, setting into motion an incredible adventure (Banks run by goblins! Enchanted train platforms! Invisibility Cloaks!) that listeners won’t ever forget. But nothing stops Rubeus Hagrid, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man, from kicking down the door and bursting in with astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard - and not only a wizard, he’s an incredibly famous wizard. Potter” and stamped shut with a purple wax seal, the peculiar envelopes are swiftly confiscated by his relentlessly cruel family. But then the letters start dropping on the doormat at Number Four, Privet Drive. Belittled by his pompous uncle and sniveling aunt (not to mention his absolute terror of a cousin, Dudley), Harry has resigned himself to a mediocre existence in the cupboard under the stairs. Orphaned as an infant, young Harry Potter has been living a less-than-fortunate life. The inimitable Jim Dale brings to life an entire cast of characters - from the pinched, nasal whine of Petunia Dursley to the shrill huff of the Sorting Hat to the earnest, wondrous voice of the boy wizard himself.
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