Always the tone of surprise CC #1 - Page 99

Originally posted by: Autumn_Rose

The way Dursleys try to butter up the Masons is hilarious 😂 🤣🤣

What kind of person buys this bullsh*t..

The scene has which a 90s vibe to it though.. which I love ❤️

Originally posted by: tournesol

It is funny how Petunia and Vernon keep feeding their already fat and spoilt child with food and ego. It never occured to them that Harry might also need some parental affection. I can't express how much I dislike the Dursleys for treating Harry this way. Also, I am exasperated as well as laugh at how the Dursley's react to please as a magic word. It never occured to them that 'please' might be a more powerful magic-word than maybe 'Avada kadavra', more powerful since please can win a place in people's hearts because they see how sincere one is. Avada, on the other hand, well, didn't Voldemort Avada Harry's parents and so many other people? Yet he was the most insecure wizard alive/dead (Like Schrodinger's cat. 😆 We have to wait till 'the box' opens in Book 4 🤦🏻‍♀️) So 'please' had more magic than 'Avada kadavra'.

And the Dursleys locked away all of Harry's belongings in their fear of his magical abilities. Harry was only a boy. I am so aghast of his treatment by them. It is interesting how both pureblood wizards and pureblood muggles have strong prejudices and a sense of superiority, and Harry is a victim of both kinds of people.

Wow, Rowling does a whole recap of Harry's first year in this chapter, 😆 maybe she did not expect people to read her earlier book.

Mr. Dursley is Harry's worst bully (after Voldemort maybe), for making Harry say repeatedly "I’ll be in my room, making no noise and pretending I’m not there." Harry was already sad thinking that nobody remembered his birthday as he received no letters or cards. He was even ready to see Draco Malfoy to get in touch with his wizard life. (Really, Harry? 🤦🏻‍♀️) Harry will soon discover how mistaken he was. Dobby was already keeping an eye on Harry from the hedges in the garden. So Harry doesn't get to see the Malfoys to feel like a wizard, but he gets to see their house-elf.

I don't think Dudley remembered Harry's birthday, he probably heard Harry sing 'happy birthday'.

Even I laughed out so much at Dudley's lame plan to impress Mr. Mason. He is very good at buttering people, after consuming so much butter himself. 😆

@Bold : Tia, I am just wondering, are you a Physics background student?

@Blue:🤣 Harry was just so desperate to enter Hogwarts again that he is even ready to meet Draco too. This is like when you face a worse situation/person in life, you try to compare it/him/her with a previously experienced worse situation/person & then you will suddenly feel that previously experienced worse situation/person was actually not that worse compared to your present worse situation. Similar situation happened with Harry too. Plus he never thought that his best friends (Ron & Hermione) won't remember him at least once during this whole holiday (though its not real, but telling it from Harry's frame of reference).This made him really crazy.

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Originally posted by: Interstellarr

Nice write up, Tia. You've covered all the points so well.

@Bold : Tia, I am just wondering, are you a Physics background student?

@Blue:🤣 Harry was just so desperate to enter Hogwarts again that he is even ready to meet Draco too. This is like when you face a worse situation/person in life, you try to compare it/him/her with a previously experienced worse situation/person & then you will suddenly feel that previously experienced worse situation/person was actually not that worse compared to your present worse situation. Similar situation happened with Harry too. Plus he never thought that his best friends (Ron & Hermione) won't remember him at least once during this whole holiday (though its not real, but telling it from Harry's frame of reference).This made him really crazy.

Harry was being typical Harry 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 Like Ron and Hermione would forget him after their crazy adventures, and risking their lives to save the Philosopher's stone, along with him. It just shows how frustrated Harry became living with the Dursleys. Not to mention, he got no owls to survive that trauma.

@Blue: Nope, 😆 not Physics. More like Math background. Also am no longer a student. I am assuming you are from Physics background, from your username. Is that right?

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Originally posted by: tournesol

Harry was being typical Harry 🤦🏻‍♀️🤣 Like Ron and Hermione would forget him after their crazy adventures, and risking their lives to save the Philosopher's stone, along with him. It just shows how frustrated Harry became living with the Dursleys. Not to mention, he got no owls to survive that trauma.

@Blue: Nope, 😆 not Physics. More like Math background. Also am no longer a student. I am assuming you are from Physics background, from your username. Is that right?

@Blue: Oh okay Tia, are you in MNC job currently? Maths has always been my favourite subject 😃 Actually your "Schrodinger's cat" reference made me think like that 😆😆 Yeah you guessed it right 😆 I am a Ph.d Research Scholar in Physics on the verge of submitting my thesis soon😃

Originally posted by: Interstellarr

@Bold: And Dumbledore kept him with these idiots!! How much I had always wished to see Harry living with his godfather, Sirius at Grimmauld Place forever, but JKR never fulfilled it 😔😔

@Blue: Oh okay Tia, are you in MNC job currently? Maths has always been my favourite subject 😃 Actually your "Schrodinger's cat" reference made me think like that 😆😆 Yeah you guessed it right 😆 I am a Ph.d Research Scholar in Physics on the verge of submitting my thesis soon😃

Even I wanted to see that, but I think Dumbledore wanted to keep Harry with the Dursleys due to a magic that will protect him from Voldemort outside school. While Harry did live with his godfather for a while, the circumstances were not at all normal. And then Harry had to lose his godfather as well. Sirius and Harry had such a special bond.

Wow, PhD in physics, that's so cool! 👌 All the best with your thesis writing. Yeah, I work for a company. And Physics was always my favorite during high school, then maths became my subject in college 😆

Originally posted by: tournesol

Even I wanted to see that, but I think Dumbledore wanted to keep Harry with the Dursleys due to a magic that will protect him from Voldemort outside school. While Harry did live with his godfather for a while, the circumstances were not at all normal. And then Harry had to lose his godfather as well. Sirius and Harry had such a special bond.

Wow, PhD in physics, that's so cool! 👌 All the best with your thesis writing. Yeah, I work for a company. And Physics was always my favorite during high school, then maths became my subject in college 😆

Thanks Tia ❤️

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