[Music] a fantasy classic of Discovery and [Music] friendship written by JK rowy edited and narrated by Joshua [Music] cashill Harry Potter and the philosopher [Music] stone [Music] prologue [Music] Mr and Mrs dley live at number four Private Drive they are a perfectly normal family they do not like anything that is different or strange and they hate mysterious things most of all they prefer a life that is calm ordinary and with out any surprises Mr dersley is the director of a large company he is a very fat man with a very short neck he has a
large mustache Mrs dersley his wife is thin and has blonde hair her neck is extremely long she uses her long neck to look over the fence in her garden she likes to watch her neighbors she is a gossip the dleys have a young son his name is Dudley the dleys think Dudley is the perfect son the dersley have everything they want but they also have a secret Mrs M dersley has a sister her name is Mrs Potter but Mrs dersley pretends she does not have a sister she pretends she does not have a sister because
her sister does not live a normal ordinary life Mrs Potter and her husband are very strange and very different they are very undur like the dersley The Potters have a young son too but the dersley do not want their son Dudley to be around the Potter's son the dersley wake up one Tuesday morning it seems like a perfectly normal Tuesday morning but the day is about to change it is about to become very strange and mysterious the dersley hate strange and mysterious things while driving to work Mr dersley sees the first strange thing of the
day near his house he sees a cat reading a map or at least he thinks he sees a cat reading a map his eyes must be playing games with him later while he is waiting in traffic he notices many people wearing strange clothes they are wearing colorful cloaks and capes who wears colorful cloaks like that at this time of the year he thinks to himself it must be a stupid new fashion that the young people are following but he notices that some of the strange people are not young at all they are very old but
the traffic moves forward and Mr dersley forgets about all the strange people he sees his day at work is very normal he yells at many people he makes some important calls and then he decides to go across the street and have lunch when he is about about to enter his favorite Bakery to order a sandwich he notices another group of people dressed in strange clothes they are talking together in a group they seem very excited about something Mr dersley passes by them as he is leaving and this is what he hears The Potters you're right
that's what I heard too yes their son Harry Mr dersley cannot believe what he hears he becomes very scared he runs back to his office there are many people named Potter he thinks and he is not sure if his nephew is named Harry anyway he has never seen the boy he wants to call his wife but then he decides it is a bad idea he doesn't want to make his wife upset she always gets upset when she talks about her sister it is very difficult for Mr durle to concentrate at work when it is 5:00
p.m. he leaves work to go home as he is leaving his building he does not see the small man who is standing in front of him Mr dley walks right into him sorry says Mr dersley the man he walks into is a small old man wearing a violet cloak he does not seem angry at all that Mr dersley almost knocks him to the ground on the contrary he smiles a big smile and says in a very squeaky voice don't be sorry sir nothing could make me upset today be happy because you know who is gone
even Muggles like you sir should celebrate this is a happy happy day then the tiny old man hugs Mr dley and walks away Mr dersley has no idea what has just happened he does not know the old man and he does not know what a muggle is either Mr dersley is beginning to hate strange things even more Mr dersley drives home and is very surprised to see the same cat he saw earlier in the morning the cat is sitting on his garden wall looking at him Sho go away he yells at the cat the cat
does not move it just sits there on the wall looking at Mr dersley as he enters his house Mr dersley tries to act normal around his wife but it is quite difficult he and his wife and son have a normal ordinary dinner they put little Dudley to bed and Mr dersley has time to sit and watch the news on the TV what a strange thing bird watchers have noticed various strange Behavior by owls all over the country today owls are normally only active at night but today many owls have been seen flying in every direction
since this morning experts cannot explain this strange Behavior very very odd behavior indeed and now the weather with Jim is it going to rain hours later tonight well Ted answers the weatherman I certainly hope not but that is not the only strange thing happening today people from all over the country have been calling me and telling me they have been seeing falling stars thousands and thousands of shooting stars falling from the sky Mr dersley sits Frozen in his chair shooting stars all over Britain owls behaving strangely mysterious people wearing strange clothes and talk talking about
The Potters at that moment Mrs dersley comes into the living room with two cups of tea Mr dersley thinks he has no option he must say something to his wife uh petunia dear have you spoken to your sister recently as expected Mrs dersley looks shocked and angry remember she normally pretends she does not even have a sister no she says angrily why oh nothing just the strange things happening on the news owls shooting stars and there were funny looking people in town today I just thought maybe it had something to do with you know people
like her Mrs dur dley has an angry look on her face their son continues Mr dersley would be around Dudley's age now right what's his name again Howard isn't it his name is Harry what a nasty common name that is answers Mrs dersley of course Harry Mr dy's heart begins to beat very quickly yes I agree a terribly common name he does not say another word about the topic and they both go to bed while Mrs dersley is in the bathroom Mr dersley looks out the window into the front garden the cat is still there
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