Chapter Three
Letters From No One
(Petunia walks through the door at home with Dudley in her arms. He is very dirty and smells awful. Petunia has her back of her head facing Dudley, not wanting to smell him. Vernon is behind them and pushes Harry through the door. He slams the door behind him and walks over to Harry. He grabs Harry's hair.)
Vernon:
What happen! Now I can't eat for a week!
(Harry thinks about this again and then realizes the pain Vernon is causing him.)
Harry:
I don't know!
(in a low voice)
It might have been that evil glare…
Vernon:
What?
Harry:
I don't know!! One minute the stable was there then it was gone. It was like magic.
Vernon:
You mean like one of those magicians? I love those! It's so cool the way they make the bunny come out of the hat. Wait a minute...
(He shoves Harry in his little room under the stairs and opens the vent.)
Vernon:
There's no such thing as magic!
(He slams the vent shut but Harry can still hear him talking.)
Hmm, I wonder if he can pull a bunny out...
(Vernon's voice fades away. We see an owl fly by with a letter in his claws, he drops it in the slot and lands.)
Owl:
Meow.
(Harry comes out of the kitchen and walks over to the front door to get the mail. He picks up the letters and lifts them up. We can see the last letter and it is from Hogwarts. He flips through the letters and he gets to the one from Hogwarts addressed to him. He looks around as if expecting to see someone behind him but no one is and keeps staring at the letter with a smile on his face. He walks back to the kitchen and hands the letters to Vernon except the on addressed to him. He walks to the other side of the table and Dudley stares at Harry with his letter. As he is opening it, Dudley snatches it and starts screaming.)
Dudley:
Harry got a letter!!
Harry:
That's mine! Give it back!!
(Dudley give Vernon the letter and Vernon looks at it. As soon as he turns it around an sees the Hogwarts everyone stares at Harry like he is some sort of freak. Another owl is flying with a letter and drops the letter into the slot and lands.)
Owl:
Meow.
(There are three letters on the floor and Vernon picks them up and tears them apart. Harry is down in his room playing with little figurines, one is a princess and one is a prince.)
Harry:
(as the princess)
Oh, I love you, Harry.
(as the prince)
I love you, too.
(He makes both of them kiss, but he is startled by a drilling noise. He opens his door slowly and sees Vernon drilling a piece of wood to the mail slot. He is laughing insanely.)
Vernon:
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!! No more mail!! Ha ha ha ha ha!!!
(We see an owl outside on the Dursley's car.)
Owls:
Meow. Meow. Meow.
(Another one lands on the car and the camera cuts back and we see two more owls on the car. We see Vernon coming out of his house and Petunia is seeing him off.)
Petunia:
Have a lovely day at the office, dear.
(She kisses him on both cheeks. When she moves so she can see the car the freezes. She stares at the owls. Vernon looks over at the owls, too.)
Vernon:
Look, Petunia, we have pets.
(Petunia clears her throat.)
Vernon:
Yes, right...SHOO!!!
(While Vernon is look at the owls Petunia looks down and sees letters. She taps Vernon on the shoulder but he is distracted by the owls.)
Vernon:
(in a low voice)
Pretty pretty owls...
(Petunia smacks Vernon on the head.)
Vernon:
Oh, yes.
(He looks down at the letters. Later, we see Vernon by the fire, burning the letters. Harry walks in and sees Vernon throwing letters in the fire. He gives Vernon an evil glare hoping that might do something, but sadly, no. After that we see Vernon sitting down, his hair is messed up. He looks like he's going insane.)
Vernon:
Fffffine day, Sunday.
(He blinks, but when he blinks he squeezes his eyes very tightly.)
Vernon:
I personally think it's the best day of the week. Why is that, Dudley?
(Dudley looks like he is feeding his mother...there's a shocker. He looks at his father and shrugs his shoulders. Harry speaks up.)
Harry:
Because there's no post on Sundays.
(Another evil glare at Vernon)
Vernon:
Good job, Harry! You get a cookie.
(Harry stares at Vernon who is eating his cookie.)
Vernon:
No post! Ha! Not one single letter! Not one!
(Harry hears meowing outside and looks out the window. There is a sea of owls outside, everywhere you can think of.)
No sir, not one blasted, single letter...
(A letter comes flying out of the fire place and smacks Vernon in the head. There is a low rumbling and Vernon stares at the fire place and tosses his cookie behind his shoulder as if it is good luck or something. He then covers his ears as if there is going to be some sonic blast. Everyone stares at the fire place and letters start pouring out of the fire place. Dudley jumps in his mother's lap crushing her.)
Dudley:
Mummy! Make it stop! Please!! Ahhhhh!!
(Everyone is terrified by this except for Harry, who seems to be enjoy it. He runs and jumps on the coffee table and starts jumping trying to catch one of the thousands of letters...(I don't understand why he doesn't just pick one up and run away...oh well.) He still can't catch a letter and keeps jumping up. Finally he catches one, but doesn't realize it for another 5 minutes. . then it clicks in his head. Everyone is still screaming as he tries to run away with it but Vernon is right behind him. He grabs Harry but Harry is kicking and screaming.)
Harry:
They are my letters!!! My letters!!! MINE MINE MINE!!!!!!!
(Vernon has Harry in his arms and is not letting go no matter how hard Harry kicks or screams.)
Vernon:
That's it! We are going somewhere far, far away! Where no one can find us!!! Where they...
(There are so many letters flying around that the letters have covered up his mouth. Dudley is very scared because he has now realized that these letters have done something to him.)
Dudley:
Daddy's gone mad, hasn't he?
(Petunia looks at Vernon like he has gone mad and is now ashamed of her husband.)
A/N: This is the end of Chapter Three: Letters From No One. The next one will be coming out shortly.