Chapter 03: The Letters From No One

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Chapter 3
The Letters from No One
Scholastic Press, US
Chapter starts on page 31
Summarized by Accio Padfoot
Project initiated and supervised by theclarebear


Main Events:
- Harry receives letters he is not allowed to read.
- Uncle Vernon takes the family on a trip to avoid postal deliveries to
Harry.

Characters Featured:
Harry, Dudley (Ickle Dudleykins), Uncle Vernon, Aunt Petunia

Characters mentioned:
Dudley's gang, including Piers Polkiss, Dennis, Malcolm, and Gordon, Mrs.Figg, Marge [Dursley], milkman, hotel owner, toothless old man (loaning the rowboat).

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Spells and Magic:

Magical Items/Creatures Featured or Mentioned:

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Summary:
Harry spends most of the summer avoiding Dudley and his gang, and looking forward to attending a different school than Dudley in the fall. Harry retrieves the mail one day to find that there is a letter for himself. He begins to open it, but Uncle Vernon snatches it away. Dudley and Harry are not allowed to know the contents, but Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia discuss it behind closed doors. Harry is allowed to move from his cupboard into Dudley's extra bedroom. More letters are delivered to the house, but Uncle Vernon keeps them all from Harry and destroys them. To avoid the post, Uncle Vernon packs them all into the car and takes them to a remote hotel. Letters arrive there for Harry as well. Uncle Vernon moves the family to a shack on a rock at sea. A storm rages around the tiny uncomfortable cabin. Harry realizes it will be his eleventh birthday soon. At precisely midnight, a jolting knock is heard at the door.

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Quotable Quotes:

- "What's this?" he asked Aunt Petunia. Her lips tightened as they always did if he dared to ask a question.
"Your new school uniform," she said. Harry looked in the bowl again.
"Oh," he said, "I didn't realize it had to be so wet."

- Later, when Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia tell Harry he can take Dudley's second bedroom, Harry asks why.
"Don't ask questions!" snapped his uncle.

- After letters to Harry are found in eggs delivered to the house:
"Who on earth wants to talk to you this badly?" Dudley asked Harry in amazement.

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