Who is the boy?

[siriuskase]

No: HPFGUIDX 54085

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, artsylynda at a... wrote:
> 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!

This is close to what I imagine.  This is a day when no one in there
right mind would want to be outside.  But Harry would rather be
outside than in the house with the Dursleys and whoever might be with
them.  Or maybe he was ordered to weed the gardens and would be
scolded if he went in before the job was done.  So he's taking a rest
or fainted.  Fainting would explain being in the flower bed instead of
the grass.  

  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. . .)
> 

Now I really like this idea, seems like something he would do.
> 
> Lynda 
> * * *
> "Don't let  the Muggles get you down." Ron Weasley PoA

sirius kase