文档介绍：Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
CHAPTER ONE
THE BOY WHO LIVED
Mr. and Mrs. Dursley, of number four, Privet
Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly
normal, thank you very much. 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.
Mr. Dursley was the director of a firm called
Grunnings, which made drills. He was a big, beefy
man with hardly any neck, although he did have a
very large mustache. Mrs. 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. The Dursleys had a small son called
Dudley and in their opinion there was no finer boy
anywhere.
The Dursleys had everything they wanted, but
they also had a secret, and their greatest fear was that
somebody would discover it. They didn't think they
could bear it if anyone found out about the Potters.
Mrs. Potter was Mrs. Dursley's sister, but they hadn't
met for several years; in fact, Mrs. 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. The Dursleys shuddered to think
what the neighbors would say if the Potters arrived in
the street. The Dursleys knew that the Potters had a
small son, too, but they had never even seen him. This
boy was another good reason for keeping the Potters
away; they didn't want Dudley mixing with a child
like that.
When Mr. 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. Mr. Dursley hummed as he picked out his
most boring tie for work, and Mrs. Dursley gossiped
away happily as she wrestled a screaming Dudley into
his high chair.
None of them noticed a large, tawny ow