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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="35ab8ee460c8f92d6a7136276e347383"Harry grunted in his sleep. He had been sitting here for four hours. He wanted to find the answer of a letter that had been sent four days ago. It's neat cursive writing was making easier to read:/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="6a5ae7b61f5cadae07ba83672a61f783"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Dear Harry/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="f00666aa1e2526fe4127fd48d0bf1630"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"I am coming to number four for picking you up, if you agree of course, to take you to the Burrow where you will spend your summer vacations at eleven PM. I want to tell you that I am coming with a friend and we have another stop before the Burrow. I will need your assistance. Please kindly do me the favor, it will be my pleasure./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7985e9411065274f9011088e50d373a7"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"My friend will surely be happy to meet you. He is a half-blood. And recently came to know he is a wizard. He is sixteen, your age, and is from the States. I want you guide him, even though his house may differ./em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="95896ab4cf33345c746f9227b9b55597"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Yours sincerely, Albus Dumbledore/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7f1503f825957854b6666c2be48fc0cf"Harry thinks it is a trap. Or a prank, or a joke from the Weasely Twins which they were famous for. It was too good to be true. He doesn't know why he had sent his answer as a yes. The last light died down and Harry woke up, as it was his alarm./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="b05b7e0899264e999d9dedeb2198c004"Harry, the boy and Dumbledore stood up, Dumbledore first. Dumbledore said, "I wish you let him be here for another summer before he comes of age." Figure out who is he. Yup, that's him, Harry. Aunt Petunia said, shaking, "No," Dumbledore said, "Sorry?" Aunt Petunia said, "He is a month younger than Dudders." The boy stifled a laugh. "And Dudders is not going to be of age till the year after the next." Dumbledore answered the un-questioned question, "Ah! But in the wizarding world, we come of age at the tender age of seventeen." With that the trio left a cursing Uncle Vernon, a shaking Petunia and a thoughtful Dudley, which is rare, who was thinking when his parents mistreated him./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="6a5ae7b61f5cadae07ba83672a61f783"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Dear Harry/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="f00666aa1e2526fe4127fd48d0bf1630"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"I am coming to number four for picking you up, if you agree of course, to take you to the Burrow where you will spend your summer vacations at eleven PM. I want to tell you that I am coming with a friend and we have another stop before the Burrow. I will need your assistance. Please kindly do me the favor, it will be my pleasure./em/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="95896ab4cf33345c746f9227b9b55597"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"Yours sincerely, Albus Dumbledore/em/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7f1503f825957854b6666c2be48fc0cf"Harry thinks it is a trap. Or a prank, or a joke from the Weasely Twins which they were famous for. It was too good to be true. He doesn't know why he had sent his answer as a yes. The last light died down and Harry woke up, as it was his alarm./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="b05b7e0899264e999d9dedeb2198c004"Harry, the boy and Dumbledore stood up, Dumbledore first. Dumbledore said, "I wish you let him be here for another summer before he comes of age." Figure out who is he. Yup, that's him, Harry. Aunt Petunia said, shaking, "No," Dumbledore said, "Sorry?" Aunt Petunia said, "He is a month younger than Dudders." The boy stifled a laugh. "And Dudders is not going to be of age till the year after the next." Dumbledore answered the un-questioned question, "Ah! But in the wizarding world, we come of age at the tender age of seventeen." With that the trio left a cursing Uncle Vernon, a shaking Petunia and a thoughtful Dudley, which is rare, who was thinking when his parents mistreated him./p
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