It was a normal day in the Dursley house, everyone was sitting around the table eating their breakfast when they heard the mail arriving.
Vernon turned to his son Dudley and said: "Go get the mail Dudley"
Dudley looked up from where he was stuffing his mouth with food and replied: "I don't want to, Make the freak get it"
Nodding in agreement with his son, Vernon turned to Harry and said: "Boy, get the mail"
Now Harry was used to doing pretty much all the chores, but it was only one week until he turned eleven and started secondary school, so he thought that he should try his luck on becoming more assertive and independent, "Make Dudley get it Uncle Vernon"
Turning red with anger at the fact that his freak of a nephew's replay, Vernon reached for Dudley Smelting stick and used it to whack Harry on the arm "I won't tolerate any cheek from you Boy, so you better go get the mail if you know what is best for you", satisfied with the way he handled the situation, Vernon got back to his breakfast sure that Harry will do as he was told.
Rubbing his arm, Harry got up from the breakfast table and head for the mat by the door where a stack of letters sat waiting for him to pick it up.
On his way back to the kitchen, Harry shuffled the letters, most of them were bills but there was a post card from Marge, Vernon's sister and a weird one.
The weird letter was written on a heavy paper, he recognized it from the one time a girl brought an antique book to class for Show and Tell: it was crème parchment. On the front the letter was sealed by a purple wax seal depicting a snake, a lion, a badger and a raven around a stylized H.
Turning the letter, he found that it was addressed to him, and the sender even knew that he lived in the cupboard under the stairs.
Thinking quickly, Harry hid the letter under his three sizes too big jumper and decided to read it later where there was no danger of it being taken from him, or of his Uncle seeing the address and thinking that he was blabbing to someone about his home life.