[HPforGrownups] Who is the boy?

[artsylynda at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 53969

Greicy:

> Has anyone noticed that the quote suggest that Harry, or whomever, 
> wasn't alone at first, but that he was left alone?  As if there was a 
> gathering outside and everyone decided to go inside.
> 
> "The only person left outside was a teenage boy who was lying flat on
> his back in a flowerbed outside number four." 
> 

the paragraph says the day is drawing to a close.  His being left alone 
outside to me means everyone else has gone in to dinner, TV, whatever 
*family* activities they choose.  Harry has no "family" activities to join 
in, so he's left alone outside -- he wouldn't want to join the Dursleys in 
any family activity even if they wanted him to.  At least that's how I read 
it.  I can see him stretched out there, gangly long legs and arms, hands 
behind his head, hair blowing around in the breeze, the red sunset reflected 
in his glasses, or maybe the first gleam of moonlight reflected there -- a 
peaceful scene until Aunt Petunia sees he's in the flowerbed!  Then again, 
maybe it's Ron and he apparated by accident and landed there??  heehee (yeah, 
I know underage wizards aren't supposed to apparate. . .)


Lynda 
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"Don't let  the Muggles get you down." Ron Weasley PoA


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