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bastilleee21 сентября 2025 г.«В общем, у мистера Дурсля было вполне нормальное, лишённое сов утро. Он накричал на пятерых подчинённых, сделал несколько важных звонков и несколько раз повысил голос на своих телефонных собеседников. Так что настроение у него было просто отличное»14
fru-n-quiz21 сентября 2025 г.The Dursleys really were astonishingly stupid about their son, Dudley; they had swallowed all his dim-witted lies about having tea with a different member of his gang every night of the summer holidays. Harry knew perfectly well that Dudley had not been to tea anywhere; he and his gang spent every evening vandalizing the play park, smoking on street corners, and throwing stones at passing cars and children. Harry had seen them at it during his evening walks around Little Whinging;12
fru-n-quiz21 сентября 2025 г.Harry had been waiting for this signal, he jumped to his feet, at the same time pulling from the waistband of his jeans a thin wooden wand as if he were unsheathing a sword.13
fru-n-quiz21 сентября 2025 г.“Why were you lurking under our window?”Читать далее
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“Listening to the news,” said Harry in a resigned voice.
His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage.
“Listening to the news! Again?”
“Well, it changes every day, you see,” said Harry.
“Don’t you be clever with me, boy! I want to know what you’re really up to —<…> You know perfectly well that your lot . . .”
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that your lot don’t get on our news!”
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The Dursleys goggled at him for a few seconds, then Aunt Petunia said, “You’re a nasty little liar. What are all those —” she too lowered her voice so that Harry had to lip-read the next word, “— owls — doing if they’re not bringing you news?”
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“The owls . . . aren’t bringing me news,” said Harry tonelessly.
“I don’t believe it,” said Aunt Petunia at once.
“No more do I,” said Uncle Vernon forcefully.
“We know you’re up to something funny,” said Aunt Petunia.
“We’re not stupid, you know,” said Uncle Vernon.
“Well, that’s news to me,” said Harry,14
fru-n-quiz21 сентября 2025 г.He walked on, hardly aware of the route he was taking, for he had pounded these streets so often lately that his feet carried him to his favorite haunts automatically. Every few steps he glanced back over his shoulder.15
fru-n-quiz21 сентября 2025 г.Perhaps he was so desperate for the tiniest sign of contact from the world to which he belonged that he was simply overreacting to perfectly ordinary noises.13
fru-n-quiz21 сентября 2025 г.“There’s a fair amount going on, we’ll tell you everything when we see you. . . .”112
fru-n-quiz21 сентября 2025 г.As far as Harry could tell from the vague hints in their letters, Hermione and Ron were in the same place, presumably at Ron’s parents’ house. He could hardly bear to think of the pair of them having fun at the Burrow when he was stuck in Privet Drive. In fact, he was so angry at them that he had thrown both their birthday presents of Honeydukes chocolates away unopened, though he had regretted this after eating the wilting salad Aunt Petunia had provided for dinner that night.Читать далее
And what were Ron and Hermione busy with? Why wasn’t he, Harry, busy?16
fru-n-quiz21 сентября 2025 г.Don’t think about that, Harry told himself sternly for the hundredth time that summer.14