div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; clear: both; cursor: text; overflow: visible; position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: 'Segoe UI', 'Segoe UI Web', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif;"
p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"It started with hate./spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" It started with emptiness. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"The same darkness that he saw in Sirius Blacks eyes as he fell through the veil. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"First, Harry was angry, enraged at the world for everything it had taken from him. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"He would lay there fuming back at Privet Drive/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" staring at the boring muggle neighborhood/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;". /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Soon enough as the weeks went by and reality set in, the denial faded, and the tears came. Sirius Black, his godfather, his hope, was dead. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"It came in crashing waves of anguish/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" that haunted him throughout the nights. The Dursley's avoided him like the /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"plague/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;", Harry had this aura around him that stunk of suffering. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"He /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"couldn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" sleep and it /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"wasn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" the nightmares of Voldemort and his dark works that kept him awake. Sirius haunted him now, every time he closed his eyes Harry saw him falling through that damn veil. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"The look of shock, terror, and the brief glimpse of deat/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"h. He had gotten used to his routine of reliving it, he was almost comfortable with it. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Today though, things were different. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Harry /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"didn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" wake to the cackle of Bellatrix and the vision of his godfather, but rather the midday sunlight /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"sneaking through his window. Harry blinked once, then one more time/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;". He got out of bed slowly/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;", his body felt heavy and despite sleeping a long time he felt he /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"hadn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" slept at all. He ran his hands through his already messy hair/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" as he /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"located/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" his glasses./span /spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"He left the room and noticed how much cooler it was in the rest of the house. Harry frowned as he wandered downstairs. His stomach rumbled /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"but he /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"didn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" have much of an appetite. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"He went downstairs and passed Mrs. Dursley; she looked up from her reading to eye him. She looked at him with the usual /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"disdain, but there was this hint of something deeper in her gaze that Harry /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"couldn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" read./spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" The clock read twelve-thirty and Harry was confused at how he could sleep that long./span /spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;""You're not going anywhere, are you?" she asked haughtily. Harry honestly /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"didn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" know what the plan was, but he /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"didn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" want to be stuck in th/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"is house right now. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"He felt a sudden need to leave, a sudden urgency. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;""I am." Harry responded in a determined fashion, trying to stand a little taller to assert some sort of confidence he /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"didn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" have. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"She challenged him with her eyes, but he saw her gaze soften. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;""Don't anyone see you, not like that." She said with disgust, returning her attention to her book. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Harry looked down at himself, he had forgotten he /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"hadn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" changed into day clothes. He wore pajama bottoms and a sweat stained T-shirt from Dudley. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"He should /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"probably change/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;", but as soon as that thought came into his mind, he dismissed it. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"It's/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" not like he was going anywhere fancy, /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"pro/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"bably just/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" out for a walk. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Harry shoved his hands into his pajama pockets, stalking out of the house and into the open street. The sunlight almost blinded him, he /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"blinked away tears that formed. There were not as many kids playing in the street as he expected, but Harry supposed /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"a perfect little /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"neighborhood/span span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"wouldn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" want kids running around to muck it up. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Before Harry really knew where he was /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"going,/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" he ended /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"up /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"at a small, deserted playground/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;". /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"A/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"n old swing /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"sat there/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;", just /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"asking/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" him to place himself down on it./spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" Harry obliged. He took a deep breath as he sat there basking in the sun. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"He was so lost in the peace of it all, fin/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"ding peace from/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" the silence in his head, whic/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"h is /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"probabl/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"y wh/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"y/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" he /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"d/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"idn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" hear the approaching footsteps. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;""Oi, look who decided to show up on our /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"terf/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;", boys." A voice he knew too well. Harry's eyes flew open and as he was expecting Dudley Dursley /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"stood in front of him menacingly. He/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" had his boys with him, Piers and another one Harry /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"didn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" recognize. Harry's hand /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"immediately/span span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"grasped for his wand, only to realize he /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"hadn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" brought it. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"The single most important item in a /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"wizard's/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" life, and he had forgotten it. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Dudley's baseball cap was on backwards and Harry wondered if Dudley thought it made him look cooler, it /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"didn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"./spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" Thinking fast he shoved his hand into his pocket and held it there./span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;""C'mon, Dudley, don't be stupid." Harry tried to reason; his voice sounded tired even to himself. Dudley's eyes flashed down to Harry's /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"enclosed/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" fist in his pocket, and /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"there was fear there for a second. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"As if ashamed, Dudley stood straighter and wider. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;""You /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"can't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" do /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; background-repeat: repeat-x; background-position: left bottom; background-image: var(-urlSpellingErrorV2, ); border-bottom: 1px solid transparent;"nothin/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;", mate. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"You've/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" got rules to follow, don't cha?" Dudley said with a /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"vicious/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" grin. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Harry felt something stir and he knew if he had his wand /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"he'd/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" damn the consequences. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Maybe it/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" was good he /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"didn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;". /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Dudley was watching Harry like a fat cat watches a mouse, any second /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"he'd/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" strike. His cronies were circling like vultures and in an instant Harry knew he was fucked. /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"His eyes darted left in right before his hand slipped out from his pocket and he darted off. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Dudley wound up and punched Harry right in the gut, knocking the wind out of him. They let him fall to the ground in a heap. Harry had/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" always made sure Dudley /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"couldn't/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" hurt him, there was always a way to avoid Dudley's wrath, but now, as Dudley stood over him, it felt like some twisted destiny. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Harry coughed and spat, gasping for air, he felt bile rise in his throat as he tried to recover himself. Suddenly/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;", there was a knife at his side, Dudley was holding a knife to him. Harry felt panic overtake him, /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Dudl/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"ey was going to kill him. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;""Come here again, and your dead meat." Dudley whispered in Harry ear before standing up, pocketing the knife, and kicking Harry o/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"ne more time in his side. They walked off without even acknowledging Ha/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"rry again. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"The tears flowed onto the pavement, and he felt weak. Harry curled into a ball and cried. He cr/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"ied because he was tired of being alone, tired of being hurt, tired of bearing so much weight on his small shoulders. He cried so much he felt himself run ou/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"t of tears; he was left feeling this numbness that settled deep within and nestled in like it belonged. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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p class="Paragraph SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 10.6667px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space-collapse: preserve; vertical-align: baseline; font-kerning: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext;" xml:lang="EN-US"span class="TextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" lang="EN-US" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"span class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"Harry stood up, /spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"wiped/spanspan class="NormalTextRun SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" his eyes, and walked back to Privet Drive. /span/spanspan class="EOP SCXW172440628 BCX0" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.925px; font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, sans-serif;" data-ccp-props="{}" /span/p
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