The repaired alarm clock rang at six o’clock the next morning. Harry tur...
From downstairs came the sound of Dudley bawling at his mother: ‘I don’t...
That evening when he got back from work, Uncle Vernon did something he’d...
‘Who’d be writing to you?’ sneered Uncle Vernon, shaking the letter open...
The envelope was thick and heavy, made of yellowish parchment, and the a...
As he looked at Dudley in his new knickerbockers, Uncle Vernon said gruf...
Harry lay in his dark cupboard much later, wishing he had a watch. He di...
The keeper of the reptile house was in shock.‘But the glass,’ he kept sa...
The snake suddenly opened its beady eyes. Slowly, very slowly, it raised...